How very sad

[babylonsister]

[sheshe2]

1. It is sad, babylonsister.

A party so hateful and blind that they would deny a healthy life to their fellow Americans.

[gademocrat7]

2. Tragic

The party of no is past it's sell by date.

[Thinkingabout]

3. I wonder if the GOP is aware there are many who votes against their best interest while

Pulling levers for the GOP. If I knew many of the people they are trying to prevent from getting health insurance and needs the services so they can live longer and continue to vote for the GOP may have their lives shortened early and votes will be lost for the GOP? It is sad.

[BlueEye]

4. Although I am in no way a conservative,

I admire the fact that some nations have at least reasonable conservative parties. They make a rational left-right discourse work.

America is not one of them. The GOP is a right wing extremist group, plain and simple. Their opposition is unprincipled and mindless at times, and only forwards a kleptocratic agenda. It's reprehensible.

[babylonsister]

6. The GOP wasn't always like this.

I don't know if there's a way back to semi-normalcy now with the teabaggers, who seem to be controlling the dialogue.

[1StrongBlackMan]

8. True ...

The GOP wasn't always like this.

But that was BtBG ... Before the Black Guy.

[babylonsister]

9. So he's still the President.

And as a 57-year old white woman, I say hallelujah for change, and this black man who is making a big fat freaking difference despite the naysayers.

[treestar]

17. Very true

I visited a friend in Australia who is for the Liberals there, Abbott and such, hated Julia Gillard. But she said she thought that if she lived in America, she'd be a Democrat. Conservatives in other countries are just conservative, not completely nuts. The Tea Party is an embarrassment!

[ColumbusLib]

5. Sad but very true

And an excellent sound byte!

[calimary]

7. Welcome to DU, ColumbusLib!

Glad you're here! I love this quote. And it just happens to be true. It's really difficult for me to try to wrap my brain around the idea of a whole party dedicated to the proposition that the poor and needy in this country can't be helped, won't be helped, and worst of all - shouldn't be helped. Honestly, W.T. F.??????? And we call ourselves a "Christian" nation???? I know the folks on that team certainly do. They walk around wearing the Bible like a kid wearing a big cardboard box painted up to look like a milk carton and held up by shoulder straps, for the school's Halloween parade. What the hell?????

Wonder what "Jesus" that is - that they're worshipping these days?

[baldguy]

10. You know what's even sadder?

We have people on DU saying that there's no difference between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.

[babylonsister]

15. Ignore them and believe what you believe. That is good enough. nt

[freshwest]

11. K&R. This will be their epitaph. n/t

[grantcart]

12. up until now I have had a difficult time explaining Republican policies

I told her years ago that on 1/1/14 we would finally get it.

Last year when they shut down the govenment (which collapsed our business) I exlained that the reason was that they wanted to take away our health care plan.

When our cards came on Monday I gave her hers and told her "keep it away from Republicans".

She spent all day NYD calling Thai friends around the country giving out the phone number (you can talk to a Thai speaker) so that they can get insurance, most will qualify for Medicaid, Many have Republican husbands and she told them to get it without tippping off their husbands.

For the first time Mrs grantcart understands Republican policy.

She doesn't, however, understand why.

All I could tell her is that the President is Black.

[babylonsister]

14. I get it. It is sweeping across the country now~

it can't be stopped!

[Cha]

13. The saddest of the Sad, babylonsistah :(

But, that's plutocratic, sociopathic, ayn rand philosophy for ya.

[bearssoapbox]

16. That's President Obama being diplomatic, polite and intelligent.

As always.

I, on the other hand don't have to be.

What it should read is;

"The only unifying principle in the Republican Party at the moment, and it has been since he was elected, is that they can't stand his black ass sitting in, what they consider a white man's chair, IN THEIR WHITE HOUSE!"

Their words and deeds are the proof.

I can't believe the President's patience.

But it is pretty cool the way he handles their bigotry, idiocy and hate by consistently making them look the fools that they are.

While the rethugs have hated spending resources on the poor, sick, elderly, disabled and otherwise disenfranchised people for years, his election as President brought everybody's bigotry and hate out into the open.

While that's a good thing...

I still don't have to be nice to the buttfaces.

[IrishAyes]

18. Well, the GOP does have a broader agenda than that!

They want us to starve and freeze to death in the dark.