“Our elected leaders don’t shove legislation down our throats that we, the majority, are against.”

Shouldn’t someone explain to Dana what a majority is? IIRC, Obama and the Democrats won handily in 2008 and before that in the 2006 mid-terms. Talk about being in a reality-free bubble! Sheesh.

Why didn’t democrats think of this first? We could have stayed home from the government for the eight Bush years. At least the four Cheney ones.

And isn’t “jeebus” technically a blasphemy?

Why always the throat-shoving with these people?

If Dana’s fucked-up notion of the definition of “majority” is any indication, her poor home-schooled kids are destined to score under 200 on the math portion of the SAT.

The only “majority” that Dana is part of is the majority of mentally ill,delusuional half-wits.

I would like to tell her (no comments on her blog, imagine that!) that WHEN YOU WRITE STUFF IN CAPITAL LETTERS, YOU SHOULD AT LEAST GET 3-LETTER WORDS RIGHT.

I don’t see why she’s complaining about the legislative process. Her majority can simply vote the Democrats out next year and undo the legislation she doesn’t like. Problem solved!

Heh, Dana must be the retarded one.

Ooh, I’m sorry. That was mean.

I meant fucked in the head.

Others beat me to it on the “majority” thing. Apparently if you are sufficiently heartfelt and/or angry about your position, that makes you the majority! Frickin’ awesome.

How convenient that she doesn’t have comments turned on.

Thank you for that illustration. Fargin hilarious.

I am guessing that Dana is in favor of teaching creationism in public schools and does not see the hypocrisy.

And reconciliation? Can you imagine? They actually want to pass legislation with only a majority! How socialist!

Of course she’s completely oblivious to the fact that Republicans shoved the Iraq War, tax cuts and Medicare D down progressive throats when they had the legislative majority. As far as I can see, if you corner wingnuts on this, they sputter something like “Well Democratic legislation is clearly unconstitutional and will turn America Islamofascistsocialistcommunist so it’s not the same. Also Acorn!”

Goose/Gander, can dish it out/can’t take it, various oxen being gored, shoe on other foot. Concepts unheard of by wingnuts.

But, hey, if they deprive their children of the pleasure of being lectured by the president about diligence and responsibility, I seriously doubt any lives will be changed. Unless some of the kids are left at home alone that day and take the opportunity to experiment with abusable substances or sex. Will there be a miniboom in births to teens in nine months from Obama’s speech?

cowalker,
You beat me to it. A quick google shows that under George W. Bush, Republicans managed to ram tax cuts, oil drilling, trade authority, and a lot more through reconciliation. IF (and that’s a big IF) the Dems actually have the balls to go all reconciliation on healthcare reform, this should be repeated over and over when the rethugs go batshit.

Not that HYPOCRISY is something that shames the rethugs.

Tbogg,
You keep talkin’ in Palinese and you just might get stuck in it, and then where will you be? Sounding like a stupid little twit, that’s where. Also.

That’s a big if considering that Ball-less Wonder Harry Reid is still sending mixed signals on what the final bill should contain. The latest gambit from the no-reform-at-any-cost crowd is the inclusion of a triggering mechanism (With a three year delay) that would revisit further reforms should the health care industry fail to meet some nebulous goals for improvement. Joe Lieberman, the oily, unctuous, little piece of shit, is foremost among those touting that one.

NO EAY, JOSÉ!

Fluoride! Vaccinations! Negroes! Jazz music! Also, HITLER!!!!

Three-toed sloths don’t read!

Now, doesn’t she look stupid.

The mentally-deranged leaders of our local Republican party managed to get our school district to declare that schools could opt to show the speech or not, and that if shown, the speech would not be mandatory attendance. Because, don’t you know, Barack Obama wants to indoctrinate your children.

Gah. This kind of stupid shit just sets me free.

Where do little racists come from? Big racists.

Once again, The Silent Majority won’t shut up.

Yeah, just like that rotten socialist GW Bush did when he used reconciliation to get his tax cuts for the rich through Congress!

Everyone good Republican knows that if we keep giving more and more money to the rich they’ll eventually start to drop it and stuff and then the rest of us can pick it up so that we’ll have money too!

Not to mention the verbal.

I think the whole “majority” thing is from their deep immersion in the writings of Henry David Thoreau, the original conservative wingnut — you know, the originator of all things conservative, like civil disobedience, rejection of materialism, environmentalism, abolitionism, etc.

So, I am sure this is their version of “Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one.” Unfortunately, they seem to have skipped over the “more right than his neighbors” part, seeing as how actually being right has never been a priority to them (obviously), and gone straight to the implied “one man is a majority” part.

Ergo, as long as there is still one wingnut standing, s/he is “a majority”.

Hey, nobody ever said they were deep thinkers — or even thinkers at all, for the most part.

Teabaggers are the majority because the teevee tells them so. Glenn Beck and Billo and Rush tell them so. All the red-faced angry teabaggers at the town hall events are the majority because they just are! The USA is a Christian Nation. Freedom of religion means you can be any religion you want as long as its Christian. Also. Too.

EssJay (#3)
Why always the throat-shoving with these people?
I keep asking myself this same question. And, understand, I am gay man asking this question, so it is possible, only hypothetically speaking, that something has been shoved down my throat, and possible, only possible, hypothetically speaking, that I might have enjoyed it. I have heard rumors that the same might be said for some heterosexual women, but Gary Bauers, and Lindsey Graham, and all the men at Concerned Women of America assure me that this simply isn’t true. Apparently, they merely tolerate it. And here is the point, I too, can tolerate having universal healthcare shoved down my throat. I will try to be brave, try not to choke, concentrate on relaxing my gag reflex, and hope for something transformative to happen. I like to think of myself as a brave little soldier. Somewhere between desire and fear we find inanity, and that, I believe, is “why all this thraot shoving with these people.” God love ‘em.

Why is the banner at Dana’s..ahem..blog a World War II era Japanese battle flag? This seems very un-Murican’. Dana, are you the daughter of Emperor Hirohito, or maybe, Tokyo Rose? Either way, I’m gonna need to see a birth certifiate. World Net Daily, get on this – you got my back right?

Blueberries for Sal! One Morning in Maine! Oh, thank you TBogg. These are seminal texts for my 1950s childhood – fall, winter, spring, in Vermont – summers in Maine – at Popham Beach. The illustrations are indelible. It was there that I enjoyed my first spliff with the seductive and unforgettable Jeanine Longeay from the Bay of Durfee (say it correctly and it rhymes) who was “five feet of heaven in a ponytail.” Still, I ended up queer. Must have been the smoke.

her poor home-schooled kids are destined to score under 200 on the math portion of the SAT.

When I first read that, I thought it said meth portion of the SAT and wondered if Dana would consider scoring 200 (Grams? Ounces? The mind reels, quite literally) to be a good thing or a bad thing.

Hon, Dana’s kids will be marked as “absent” from their SAT’s because they won’t understand the instructions that explain how to fill in the name and address bubbles.

Well now…let’s see…I know my schools will show the speech. If they didn’t, I think I’d keep my kid home to watch! They love the President and if he says, “study”….they’re going to study by golly.

Kids…I meant kids. Now show us the dogs, dammit!!!!!!!!

Yeah, bassets are badly needed this week. Double or triple the basset dose, TBogg. This right wing influenza is killing us this week.

Psst. TBogg. “about about personal responsibility”.

You might want to fix that in light of the subject of this post.

Host: How would a three-toed sloth say, “Good Evening?”
Cleese: It would say “Good Evening.”
H: Erm, but does a three-toed sloth ever say “Good Evening?”
C: No, they don’t, they’re dumb. They just walk right in and eat your slippers.
H: This lack of communication must be quite a problem for the sloths, I mean, if I may make a simple analogy, when you throw a stone into a bucket of water, the ripples spread outward.
C: Right, whereas when you throw a stone into a bucket of three-toed sloths, you don’t get any ripples at all, they just lie there shouting, “Please stop it.”
H: I thought you said they were dumb.
C: Yes, but they’re not that dumb.

Throat-shoving and ass-fucking (per Limbaugh).

Your post gave me my first laugh of the day. Thank you.

I am fresh out of snark, so I will just say that my impulse is to pull a Megan McArdle and smack this woman with a two-by-four.