The Message of Massachusetts

[Zeb_Carter]

The Message of Massachusetts
A crisis is a terrible thing to exploit.

Whether or not Republican Scott Brown wins today in Massachusetts, the special Senate election has already shaken up American politics. The close race to replace Ted Kennedy, liberalism's patron saint, shows that voters are rebelling even in the bluest of states against the last year's unbridled pursuit of partisan liberal governance.

 

[BOSTONFICTIONWRITER]

God help us all if air head Brown wins.

For those who don't have jobs now, for those who are collecting unemployment, for those who hope to live out the rest of their lives in peace on social security, forget about it if the Republicans get their hands on what you are entitled to.

People seem to forget that it was Bush and Cheney who ruined this country for 8 years. They are the war mongers. They allowed the banks to do whatever they wanted. The insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies are running scared. They are the ones who don't want the healthcare bill passed. They like things just the way they are now.

Now, they blame it all on Obama.

Unless you are a millionaire, you don't want to vote a Republican in for anything.

 

[Huckleman2000]

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Unless you are a millionaire, you don't want to vote a Republican in for anything.

Republicans count on the poor and middle class to vote against their own self-interest out of altruism, a quality the party's beneficiaries lack entirely.

 

[trysail]

...what you are entitled to....

The whole problem, in a nutshell.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Whew! It only took one year for America to beg Dubya to come back. Ouch.

 

[elfin_odalisque]

God help us all if air head Brown wins.

For those who don't have jobs now, for those who are collecting unemployment, for those who hope to live out the rest of their lives in peace on social security, forget about it if the Republicans get their hands on what you are entitled to.

People seem to forget that it was Bush and Cheney who ruined this country for 8 years. They are the war mongers. They allowed the banks to do whatever they wanted. The insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies are running scared. They are the ones who don't want the healthcare bill passed. They like things just the way they are now.

Now, they blame it all on Obama.

Unless you are a millionaire, you don't want to vote a Republican in for anything.

Idiot

Clinton launched the Fannie Mae debacle against Republican critics. The current healthcare proposals make Hillary Clinton look like Mother Theresa.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Whew! It only took one year for America to beg Dubya to come back. Ouch.

Stupid people most often become conservative.

 

[BOSTONFICTIONWRITER]

Idiot

Clinton launched the Fannie Mae debacle against Republican critics. The current healthcare proposals make Hillary Clinton look like Mother Theresa.

"Moron!"

It started even before that when Tricky Dickie established, guess what, HMO's.

Instead of having personal health care and doctors visiting us in our homes, we now have a medicine factory with doctors giving out prescriptions because they receive kick backs from the drug companies.

It starte when President Ronnie sent all of our good paying manufacturing jobs overseas and passed the free trade act.

Get your facts straight.

Republicans are for fat cat big businessmen and unless you are one of the privilaged, why would you give them your vote. Republicans don't give a fuck about you or me.

 

[sr71plt]

Is the Massachusett's election about liberal/conservative as much as it is a backlash against entrenched cronyism, something we've seen happening up and down the East Coast of late?

 

[oggbashan]

The message of Massachusetts? - Is probably that voters have very short memories and even shorter attention spans.

A year is a very short time for any politician anywhere to achieve substantial change from the status quo.

Whoever had won the Presidential election could only have started to change policies by the end of their first year.

The same will apply in the UK after our general election. Whoever wins is going to have to take some unpopular decisions and make real changes. The results won't be seen for several years.

Og

 

[Zeb_Carter]

The whole problem, in a nutshell.

Agreed. Entitlements are the bane of America.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Agreed. Entitlements are the bane of America.

Morons are the bane of America. Some morons are entitled and the rest of them think everyone else is entitled.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Morons are the bane of America. Some morons are entitled and the rest of them think everyone else is entitled.

Anyone who thinks they are entitled to something that is not their's to begin with is a moron. Politicians are morons. Professional politicians are huge morons. Moronism in America is one good reason for term limits in Congress.

 

[BabyxGirl]

The message in Massachusetts is: IF YOU YELL MISINFORMATION LOUD ENOUGH AND OFTEN ENOUGH PEOPLE WILL THINK IT IS THE TRUTH!

 

[Stella_Omega]

Anyone who thinks they are entitled to something that is not their's to begin with is a moron. Politicians are morons. Professional politicians are huge morons. Moronism in America is one good reason for term limits in Congress.

American morons are convinced that everyone else is stealing from them.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

American morons are convinced that everyone else is stealing from them.

Well when you have more hands in you pockets and wallet than carters (no relation) has little live pills that illusion just might be a reality.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Well when you have more hands in you pockets and wallet than carters (no relation) has little live pills that illusion just might be a reality.

Morons believe more in illusions than in reality.

 

[BabyxGirl]

Anyone who thinks they are entitled to something that is not their's to begin with is a moron. Politicians are morons. Professional politicians are huge morons. Moronism in America is one good reason for term limits in Congress.

There are term limits. Every 2 or 4 or 6 years, at the end of the term, the real morons chose to over look them and renew their right to "serve" themselves.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Morons believe more in illusions than in reality.

Point made: only morons believe in illusions and slight of hand, they don't see those magicians in Washington really stealing from them.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

There are term limits. Every 2 or 4 or 6 years, at the end of the term, the real morons chose to over look them and renew their right to "serve" themselves.

How true, but if those the morons really want were limited to two terms then the morons would be come self educated as to all the morons they elect. Soon they run out of self-serving morons and become smart enough to elect statesmen.

 

[JackLuis]

Morons believe more in illusions than in reality.

Morons believe Politicians.

They believe Bush was "Conservative", or that Obama is a fire breathing Liberal. Morons believe that the government worries about the "Greatest Good for the Greatest Number," Lieberman, et al proves this false.

 

[Pure]

background: some say the Reps are playing chess while the Dems are playing checkers.

IMPROVEMENT:


The Republicans are playing chess and the Democrats are in the nurse's office because once again they glued their balls to their thighs." ~Jon Stewart

 

[DeeZire]

The big problem in Mass is that the Dem candidate is an idiot. Reverse the roles: make the Dem candidate a charismatic ex-Playgirl model with a pickup truck, and the Con candidate an uptight white woman who disdains the idea of shaking hands in the rain in front of Fenway park, and you'd see Kennedy's seat remain in the D column. The D candidate was running 15 points ahead of the R until the D self-destructed.

That's what the pundits (and many folks around here) don't get about independents - they vote for the candidate, (or the candidate's hair,) not the party. Granted, there will be a backlash against Obama, since he is now saddled with Bush's mistakes, but to claim ideological superiority because of this backlash ignores the spectacular failure of the conservative agenda.

 

[JackLuis]

...but to claim ideological superiority because of this backlash ignores the spectacular failure of the conservative agenda.

Not to mention the failure of the D's to reveres the corporterization of America.

 

[rgraham666]

There are term limits. Every 2 or 4 or 6 years, at the end of the term, the real morons chose to over look them and renew their right to "serve" themselves.

To which I quote George Carlin.

"Now, there's one thing you might have noticed I don't complain about: politicians," he explained in a routine that challenged all the premises of today's half-a-loaf reformers. "Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky. They don't pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It's what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to get selfish, ignorant leaders. Term limits ain't going to do any good; you're just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So, maybe, maybe, maybe, it's not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here… like, the public. Yeah, the public sucks. There's a nice campaign slogan for somebody: "The Public Sucks. Fuck Hope."