To my Republican Friends who are having legislation "shoved down their throats"

[ThomWV]

Its all the buzz, every Republican has it on their lips, "Democrats are shoving Health Care Reform down our throats". I've heard that phrase 100 times in the last 12 hours.

All I can recommend to my Republican friends who feel they are having health care 'shoved down their throats' is to follow the process to its logical end and 'blow it out their ass'.

[Bettie]

1. Hey, when the tax cut for the very wealthy came by

and was shoved down out throats, didn't these same people tell us to just suck it up and deal because THEY were the majority?

Hmmmmm....the hypocrisy burns as much as the stupid.

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. I'd prefer to tell them to "shove it up their ass"

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

10. Redundant.

[Lint Head]

3. They can have it shoved down their throats with....

some fava beans and a nice chianti.

[KharmaTrain]

4. "See And Say" Politics

It's amazing how many times one can point out how regimented the GOOP is in using talking points and the corporate media is caught using them. Jon Stewart has made a career out of this. Media Matters can't keep up with 'em. But they're so blantantly obvious.

BTW...that talking point is out of date..today's is how "ramrodding" HCR through reconciliation will be used "against" every Democrat this November...as if the GOOP believes its own talking point that a majority oppose reform.

[GoCubsGo]

11. "Ramrodding", eh?

Nice forced-sex connotations there. Great fodder for Jon Stewart.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. We had the PATRIOT ACT shoved up our asses.

That's how legislation is enacted I guess.

[bvar22]

18. We had the Patriot Act shoved up or asses AGAIN last week...

...this time by The Democrats.

[Echo In Light]

19. Sideways, no lube, no reach-around

[MadHound]

6. Does that same sentiment apply to your liberal friend who feel the same way?

Because frankly I don't like having a mandated monopoly, minus a public option, with bonus taxes on union health care plans and constraints on a woman's right to choose shoved down my throat.

[ThomWV]

8. Another point missed ....

It may come as a great surprise to you but the underling point of the post was to point out the scripted responses that are universally employed by both the Republican leadership and their minions and dupes. If you'd like to have another discussion about the importance of acceptance of majority rule in a democratic republic, then we can have that conversation too - just in another place.

[MadHound]

12. No, not missed at all,

I'm just asking a simple question, does that same sentiment apply to your liberal friends who feel that they're getting a mandated monopoly for the insurance companies, with bonus taxes and constraints on choice shoved down their throats.

What, can't answer a simple question? Or are you simply afraid to express how you really feel?

[ThomWV]

14. Yes, I feel exactly the same way about them.

But once again - you have missed the point.

[MadHound]

15. Thank you, I appreciate your honesty

Not the sentiment you expressed, but it is nice to see the bully boy contingent of the party actually express the contempt that they have for liberals in such an honest and open manner.

Now then, don't be surprised when your liberal and union friends refuse to vote for Democrats the next couple of election cycles. You don't want us, we don't need you.

And that my friend is something that you can also "blow out your ass".

[sendero]

7. Sorta like..

.. the Iraq war and the riduculous and ruinous Bush tax cuts?

What goes around comes around, elections have consequences, get over it.

Morons.

I'm actually against this bill but if it does pass I will take EXTREME PLEASURE in watching the GOP writhe in faux concern.

[spanone]

9. i'd rather shove it up their fucking asses

[rurallib]

13. scare tactic using homosexual imagery

what a surprise.
I have come to the conclusion that there is no low that goopers won't stoop to

[Bitwit1234]

16. With all the crap they are laying on the American Public

they'd all be in the bathroom for a month.

[drm604]

17. Elections have consequences.

Isn't that what they used to like to say? "Elections have consequences."

They'll just have to deal with those consequences. The Democrats are not shoving anything down anyone's throats. They are simply trying to do what they were elected to do, which includes stopping the insurance companies from shoving their prices and their rules down everyone's throats.

[bvar22]

20. Except that with this election, the "consequences" were supposed to be:

*A Public Option "like Medicare" for anyone who wanted it

*NO Individual Mandate

*Pay for it with a Tax Increase on the top 2%

*No de-funding of Medicare

If I had wanted the current HCR Bill (the Senate Bill repackaged with Obama's picture on the label) I would have voted for a Republican.

[drm604]

21. True enough,

but I was talking within the context of the Republican meme of having health care reform "shoved down our throats". They would be using that talking point regardless of what the Democrats were trying to pass.