And if you think a near doubling of the estimated cost since passage is impressive, just wait until the thing finally gets implemented!
Of course, on the glass-half-full side, free condoms / spermicidal sponges. So, you know — we’ll just call it even. Thanks, Dr Obama!
(h/t JD)
Everything we predicted has come true. Do we get any extra credit for that?
Nope, just a dead country.
ms. sandra fluke and her progg allies shouldn’t be allowed to change fluke to some other pronunciation. she’s both an odd occurrence and a parasite and her name as spelled represents that.
one small battle in the language wars
In other news, if you like your plan, you can keep it! And I promise not to come in your mouth!
Unpossible. Alex Knapp assured me it was going to save money. And provide more services. With ponies!
My next reading project is the legal aspects of secession. Anyone have a reading list already? I see this over on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Constitutional-History-Secession-Remington-Graham/dp/1589800664/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1331686543&sr=8-2
The government is going to be embedding those flower things in our palms pretty soon, aren’t they? Gotta control those health care costs somehow, right?
isn’t sandra fluke’s argument: the womyns are nymphomaniacs and need the big gov’t to protect them from the evil male oppressor? this shit is just progg tactics different day. and fluke you sandy.
Oh, you people, bitterly clinging to your words and your numbers.
go rick
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Tomorrow’s headlines will call for Gingrich to drop out because he’s splitting the vote.
Don’t worry. We’ll pay for it by selling our excess algae energy to China. Honest.
The Culture War survives for another week.
who started the “culture war”?
who decided that this ” culture” was “bad”?
Santorum had a great interview on Beck this morning. Santorum thinks a drawn out primary is better because it gives Obama less time to prepare. Santorum explained that there is no way the GOP candidate can outspend Obama, so a narrower election window probably works in favor of the GOP candidate.
I really like the fact that Santorum is unafraid to go on shows like Glenn Beck. Rick seems to have a pair to go with a spine, both of which is in desperate supply in the GOP.
Santorum thinks a drawn out primary is better because it gives Obama less time to prepare.
This only works if Santorum wins the nomination. Because I’m pretty sure they’ve been prepared to run against Romney for a long time.
Which is why the MSM has been pushing him on us.
What say you that if/when Romney wins, the subliminal attack on Mormanism will begin? Not overt. But little articles in Time. Showing that crappy John Travolta movie, etc.
What say you that if/when Romney wins, the subliminal attack on Mormanism will begin? Not overt. But little articles in Time. Showing that crappy John Travolta movie, etc.
It’s a mortal lock that the LDS will receive a full-frontal assault. Most Americans don’t have even a slight grasp of LDS origins and teachings, so it will be portrayed in the worst possible light, right down to the changing of teachings on polygamy and blacks in the priesthood (despite the fact Mitt’s father was a champion of the civil rights movement in the 60s). Lurid exposes on polygamy, the differences between LDS and creedal (Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant) Christianity, all done in the passive voice, but with the clear intent to slap on the label “Weirdo Cult–Beware!”
There will be subtle comparisons of Mitt’s flipfloppery with the LDS’ changes, and not-so-subtle accusations of racial animosity. Throw in the LDS’ role in fighting on behalf of Prop 8, and you’ll have the media hate choruses pouring culture war jet fuel on the bonfire. I hope the LDS is ready for that–the Mormons I know are good folks, and they don’t deserve the shit storm headed their way.
This is why I’ve always thought that the idea that Mitt gives the GOP the best chance to finesse culture war issues is delusional.
What has bothered me, Dale, is that this has been – imho – a set-up by the MSM. They have pushed him this entire time, knowing what they would do should he become the candidate.
They’ve got the “moderates” in their pocket (“he’s a Republican I can vote for) , who will – at the right point – be scared off by the stories they will then tell.
What has bothered me, Dale, is that this has been – imho – a set-up by the MSM. They have pushed him this entire time, knowing what they would do should he become the candidate.
They’ve got the “moderates” in their pocket (“he’s a Republican I can vote for) , who will – at the right point – be scared off by the stories they will then tell.
It’s pretty clear that the Obama playbook has been written with Romney in mind. There is ample evidence the Romney team is nowhere near as smart as it thinks it is, believing Mitt can run on the economy alone.
Yeah, it’ll be a gentlemanly race, on the ground of Romney’s choosing, unimpeded by lowblows from the Dems/media (but I repeat myself). Especially nothing about religion, because that’s not an issue. Because Mitt’s team says so. QED. It’s the combination of naivete’ and arrogance that leaves me speechless.
” Car in says March 14, 2012 at 7:39 am
What say you that if/when Romney wins, the subliminal attack on Mormanism will begin? Not overt. But little articles in Time. Showing that crappy John Travolta movie, etc. ”
Perhaps I am naive but I have two…er…three…no four problems with this:
1.) This is intended primarily to be a conservative (evangelical) voter suppression issue and I am an evangelical (Lutheran) and don’t care a bit if Romney is a Mormon. Newt’s a converted catholic. Santorum’s a catholic. Ron Paul is a Baptist. I am currently supporting Santorum. What I care about with Romney that he appears to be a moderate weathervane who dislikes his own party base and who has had at BEST very modest “success” in politics as a one term governor who ended a streak of four republican governors by not running again due to lack of support. I care that he prototyped Obamacare, won’t repudiate it even now, and for a while sold it as a decent national solution, and now says that he never did. These are all very bad signs. Romney is an attempt by the party leadership to bitch-slap the base and the tea party and pull the party leftward to where they think the new middle is or “should be”. I realize that Santorum and Newt are not model conservatives and both have records that place great doubt on their ability to represent the interests of the base. BUT I want to block the GOP leadership’s attempt to crown Romney after two primaries (one of which it runs out Romney did not win) with a lame prophecy that only he can beat Obama. OR I would like to force Romney to run to the right of where he is, and realize that the base he wants to lead will harry him if he lets them down.
2.) Reid is a Mormon. Huntsman was a Mormon who Obama tapped to be his Ambassador to China. Is Obama throwing Reid under the bus with his campaign?
3.) Mormonism >>> Jeremiah Wright, Trinity Church, and Chicago liberation theology. Making an issue of a weird religion would be a TRAGIC mistake for Obama.
4.) Obama has a record of routinely doing what is worst for most Americans. Going after Mormons as icky kooks will be met by salvos of “It’s the economy stupid” and “where’s that killer rabbit when you need him? “.
BTW I’m not saying that the democrats won’t try the “Mormons-ewww! How many wives do you have” card. I’m just saying that I don’t think it will suppress turn out in the general and that it will backfire on them.
I’ll wait in the comfy chair while you go out and come back in again.
“What say you that if/when Romney wins, the subliminal attack on Mormanism will begin? “
Also, when the inevitable Mormon attacks come, how far from the church will Romney distance himself?
Oh, wait, dumb question. The distance polls tell him of course!
“I’ll wait in the comfy chair while you go out and come back in again.”
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