February 02, 2016 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
Today Republicans voted for the 60th time to repeal Obamacare because, you know, if they do it enough times maybe somebody will slip up and vote wrong.
They repeat the same thing over and over just like the movie Groundhog Day. Except today really is groundhog day.
That’s a very cool scientific fact.
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One definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. R’s excel at that.
1Larry, you beat me to it. Over and over and OVER….
2This has really gotten to a point where it is looking and sounding like the religious liturgy seen in some really cheap horror movies of the past! Those movies have gone to wherever such films go when they die. There is hope . . .
3These asshats need to be voted out of office; they’ve obviously gone past their “Useful Service” applications.
Selling out to the Koch Bros makes them all Koch-Ho’s.
4Question for Republicans: why are you trying to kill off all everyone but the very rich?
5So boys and girls we have learned today that according to one sage or another, snacilbupeR are insane.
6It’s not just the futility and waste of time for these endless repetitions – it’s the missing effort that the House should be redirecting toward addressing the country’s real needs. There lies the Republican representatives’ irresponsibility to the American people.
7Ditto, UmptyDump, and that’s been going on for seven years at least. In the midst of two wars and the worst financial collapse since 1929, Mitch McConnell announced on the day of Obama’s first inauguration that the GOP’s #1 job would be making sure that Obama was a one-term president. And they couldn’t even do that. (And some people are still calling Obama “divisive” because “he wouldn’t work with the Republicans.”)
8UmptyDump, bingo! They’re wasting time with posturing. If it’s not the ACA, it’s Benghazi, or the IRS ‘scandal’ or their attacks on Planned Parenthood. Although that little punter from Bang ’em Young U was quite entertaining, when Cecile Richards handed him his head and tiny gohmerts in a neat little package.
9Ahhhhh…. Your tax dollars at work.
Y’know folks, maybe we all are a little bit insane. Too many Americans believe (I swear I don’t know why) that Republicans truly care about this country and all Americans. And they keep believing even though time and again Republicans willing show that they don’t care. And these people still keep voting for Republicans. If that’s not insanity I don’t know what is.
10JAKvirginia, as we navigate through the primaries in anticipation of the general election one ironic phenomena I’ve attempted to understand are the vote against their own interests voters.
Maybe you can help me parse this particular irony. A young well spoken, obviously well educated American of Iranian descent said she had always voted Democratic. But this year she is voting Republicon because of the abortion “issue.” Say wot??!! Is she unaware that abortion is not a requirement for pregnant women? And, is she totally oblivious to the ‘respect’ Donnie and the snacilbupeR are throwing her way?
Which leads to the other baffling category of “one issue” voters. Yeppers, that Pervangelist Ted Cruz is my guy. He promises to win the war on Christmas. Really? Vote for a putz that will win a non-existent war and start WWIII.
They make my head hurt.
11Anyone with even average intelligence has the ability to grasp how the RKlan operates and how contrary to their own interest voting for them is. We need to mount a psychological campaign to counteract the repug hypocrysy. Over and over again, even more times than they have tried to get rid of the ACA.
12Who among us would still have a job, if we repeated the same mistake 60 times while at work? 10 times? 5 times?
Then why do we keep these clowns on the payroll?
13PKM: “Maybe you can help me parse this particular irony.”
I’m not sure I can. There’s got to be a 12-Step program for people like us. If there isn’t, I’m changing my name to Alice and jumping down that rabbit hole. Anything’s better than this crazy.
14The main difference is that Groundhog Day had a happy ending when the selfish, arrogant hero re-assessed his life and priorities and dedicated himself to helping people.
15PKM, I have to admit that I am a single-issue voter, and that issue is the environment. At least Dems don’t think that’s a dirty word or another way to say “job-killer.” Fortunately the Dems also vote my way on women’s rights, guns, social justice, church and state, and other issues I care about.
“Good government values the future; bad government takes from it,” warns former Conservative MP and minister, David Willetts.
16The merciful thing is that Groundhog Day hero had a chance for re-do. There are more than one days in my life when, if I had a re-do opportunity–I would take it.
I can guess what I would have gained, but have no idea what I would have lost.
17A reporter on NPR also referred to this vote as akin to Ground Hog Day.
PKM- I heard a disaapointed woman interviewed last night on TRumps Ohio caucus loss, she said that “he’s the man that built the Towers in NY, and he was so mad with all the bodies he saw on the ground afterwards that HE built the memorial”. The reporter apparently was in disbelief of her comments that he barely could get out a correction. Or, on second thought maybe his hesitation was more that he realized the truth doesn’t matter to Trumpters.
18I wrote Ohio.
19Now I sound misinformed–Iowa!
20Rhea, having prioritized and sane issues is not the same as a “single issue” voter. Clean water, clean air and the host of good reasons to support preserving our environment is a complex issue, but certainly should be at the top of any true conservationists list. Preserving our planet is a necessity, not an issue.
Perhaps I should have been clearer about the one issue voters that frost my chaps. Meant people who are against LGBT rights for unknown reasons; except maybe an imaginary fear that they’ll be forced into a same sex marriage. Or, the forced birthers who go all snacilbupeR because what, some imaginary fear that abortion is mandatory and not a medical choice. Or, the math challenged voters who cannot comprehend the real benefits and fiscal conservatism in public education, judicial reform and universal health care.
In short that mentality that says “burn liberals at the stake, because they want me to have health care.”
21Jay, among the snacilbupeR voters Twin Towers is easily confused with Trump Towers. They’re like the co-worker who confuses hydrogen peroxide with hydrofluoric acid because both begin with the letter H; dangerous idiots.
maryelle suggested “mount a psychological campaign to counteract the repug hypocrisy.” I dunno. I’m open to any and all ideas to combat this colossal level of ignorance.
22Hahaha! 61st is a charm!
23But IS Groundhog Day a very cool scientific fact?
Did Jesus say so, is it it the Bible? Is it even in the Constitution?
And more important is it conducive to White Privilege?
Jay, don’t worry. I live in Alaska, and I can’t keep track of all those tiny little states you have down there in the south.
Iowa, Ohio, who can tell the difference?
New Hampshire and Vermont . . . probably the same state.
Illinois and Indiana . . . definitely the same state.
And out of courtesy to Juanita Jean, I won’t even mention the insanity of bragging when you are less than half the size of Alaska. Nope, won’t mention it. Not me. Too polite.
24slipstream, some of us can’t keep track of that tiny little population you have up there in the freezer. Just kidding. But no, Vermont and New Hampshire, though next to each other and even the same shape if you turn one upside down, are not close to being the same state. Vermont elected a socialist to the Senate, and NH would never, ever do that. And Ben and Jerry are not from New Hampshire.
25I gotta get ready for a writing session with a friend. Reading and writing are both skills that are easy to ignore or even forget, right up there with thinking.
26Here’s a trivia bit: you know that fancy paper that has a little pressed design, I think watermark, in a corner? There was a time that it was illegal and dangerous for people to read and write, esp. ones who made paper That is how watermarks came to be. It was a sneaky way to say “Hey, I’m still here, making paper and stirring things up and hope you are well also.” You suppose we’ll ever come to that point?
Isn’t it a re-re-re-re-repeat?
27My one issue (primary issue) is the Supreme Court. That’s why I’ll vote for whatever Democrat is the nominee.
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