Mind_your_head
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Tue Sep-15-09 02:04 AM
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My "pretty-well informed" REPUBLICAN brother didn't know what |
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"single-payer" meant when we talked about health-care/health-insurance :eyes: reform this past weekend. I had to TELL him what single-payer meant! This was a TOTALLY new term for him.
THAT told me that REPUBLICANS don't even have this on their 'radar-screen'....they have to go up the "edjumacation ladder". He wasn't necessarily against it, but being caught 'totally unaware' had to nominally fight against it, b/c *I* was the opponent....the little sister, "other guy"
There are a LOT of things that Dems & Repubs agree upon. MYH
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wroberts189
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Tue Sep-15-09 02:11 AM
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1. They ALWAYS have their facts wrong! |
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I buggers me to death. When you get into an argument over the facts .. there is no changing minds.
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Hawkeye-X
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Tue Sep-15-09 02:27 AM
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2. You can tell your brother that turning off the radio and listening to other people talk |
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in public. Encourage him to go out and just LISTEN.
He'll get a real better idea.
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pnwmom
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Tue Sep-15-09 03:25 AM
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3. So how did you explain it to him? n/t |
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Tue Sep-15-09 04:50 AM
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4. They have sucked up the willful misinformation pumped out by the |
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corporate republicon crony borg.
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WVRICK13
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Tue Sep-15-09 06:25 AM
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5. "Pretty-well informed" Republican |
Ruby the Liberal
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Tue Sep-15-09 08:34 AM
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6. What cracks me up is all of the 65+ crowd ranting at the teabagging events |
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Tue Sep-15-09 08:35 AM
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They thought they were "safe" from having to live under a Black President.
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Tue Sep-15-09 08:41 AM
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9. They're the ones who really piss me off. "I've got mine, you go drop dead," |
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must be their philosophy. :puke:
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FormerDittoHead
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Tue Sep-15-09 08:39 AM
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8. They usually claim they get their information "...from a variety of sources..." |
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Occasionally, they'll watch ABC nightly news, or Jon Stossel on 20/20 and because Rush told 'em, think that's the "left" side of the news...
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Tue Sep-15-09 08:48 AM
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10. Stossel is going to Faux news. Their various sources are Fox, worldnetdaily |
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Insight, Stormfront, Drudge, and freerepublic.
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renate
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Tue Sep-15-09 09:08 AM
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11. this is significant, I think |
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I can see how the term "single-payer" would be off-putting to someone who didn't take the two seconds necessary to think about it... we know how Republicans hate that dreaded word "PAYER."
Seriously... I wonder how much of this sturm und drang could have been avoided by a more artful choice of words on the Democrats' part. Sad that public policy should have to be treated like advertising, but I suppose that's nothing new. And I wonder whether it's too late to start using different words to describe the plan.
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