Hear that sound? It's the sound of the right wing gearing up to go ape shit......

[Locut0s]

First let me say congrats my neighbours to the south for passing SOMETHING on this, sort of, historic day. Time will tell if it's historic good, or historic bad. It IS a HUGE win for the insurance industry yes and it's FAR FAR FAR FAAARRR from what they should have past but I'm hopping for all you guys that it helps more than it hurts. If it really does help to eliminate "preexisting conditions" and insures more people then maybe the good will outweigh the bad. Let's hope so anyway.

However I can already start hearing the sound of angry hooves pawing at the dirt. Took a quick look at free republic and they are all going ape shit about gearing up to fight this. You are going to have a long and very dirty road ahead just to get this into action I'm afraid. I can just see some of the disgusting shit the right is going to pull now. It's hilarious how the right yells "communism, socialism!" at a bill that will line the pockets of corporate execs with diamonds.

Just imagine how the right in the US would react if they actually managed to pass something that really DID help people. I think their head would literally explode.

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[Locut0s]

2. lol at the thought of impeachment...

Things that will get you impeached...

*Getting a blow job
*Passing legislation that may help people

Things that won't get you impeached

*Lying about the reason for starting a war
*Faking evidence to go to war
*Getting thousands of your own people killed in said war
*Destroying the economy
...

[Ysabela]

13. Don't forget about *2 terrorist strikes on US soil on their watch (9/11 & Anthrax)

[Enthusiast]

23. Nice post, Locut0s

[Fleshdancer]

30. you forgot the torture.

torture will definitely not get you impeached.

[lib_wit_it]

3. Oh, well try not to be so broken up over it. Do tell, how soon do you dare hope the Obama and Pelosi

ments might be accomplished, and just how huge of a Republican take-over are you hoping for?

[SDuderstadt]

5. WTF?

With all due respect, you don't know what the fuck you're talking about. Among other things, Pelosi cannot be impeached, either as a member of the House nor as Speaker. You should read the Constitution.

Section 4 - Disqualification

The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html#A1Sec2

Pelosi is not a "civil officer of the United States", dude. If the GOP were to get a "huge majority" in the House, they wouldn't need to "impeach" Pelosi since the majority party elects the Speaker anyhow, so your claim is a non-starter. Unless they can get 67 votes in the Senate, Obama's impeachment would go exactly nowhere, as the Constitution grants the Senate the "sole power to hear impeachments". Beyond that, why would the GOP want to make Biden President?

So much for stupid predictions. Do you read your posts before you hit send? I feel embarrassed for you.

[Swamp Rat]

7. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[SemiCharmedQuark]

8. Exhibit A

[RoyGBiv]

4. Ah, hell, they've been idling at ape shit ...

They're about to go plaid, I think ...

[pampango]

6. Thankfully, the teabaggers come out of this looking not only wacko, but wacko and ineffective.

If this bill had failed after the teabaggers' behavior and tactics, they would have been "successful" and empowered even more. Maybe their failure to "kill the bill" will hasten their demise.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

9. They would probably commit ritual mass suicide, but

they can't spell hara-kiri.

[NecklyTyler]

16. The Teabaggers just got informed that they are in the minority

The Teabaggers have just had their faces rubbed in minority status

[Xenotime]

19. They have show they can't do nothing with their voice.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

10. Why would they go ape shit? They got everything they wanted and still voted no.

[Ikonoklast]

12. That's your opinion, You are entitled to it.

If that was what they wanted all along, why wasn't it passed when they recently controlled all three branches of government?


And spending hundreds of millions to kill it.


Funny way to get what they wanted.


They will do everything in their power to undermine this law, just like they have tried to kill SS, lo these many years.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

29. They got the payoff to the insurance industry and get to tell people they voted no.

If it succeeds they'll say they really only had a problem with certain parts of it. Why did it take so long to pass now that we have all three branches? In my opinion it's people holding out for favors like Nelson.

[pampango]

17. So that's the framing now? "They got everything they wanted and still voted no."

I wondered how progressives who wanted to "kill the bill", as 100% of republicans while 100% of the Progressive Caucus voted for it, would frame agreeing with republicans and disagreeing with the progressive caucus. You may think "(t)hey got everything they wanted", but it is possible that they do not agree and wanted much more - like the status quo.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

27. The got a big payoff to the insurance industry and get to tell people they voted no.

[EFerrari]

28. That would be exactly right. It was like a ballet. n/t

[pampango]

34. Guess we can't accuse them of selling their votes to the highest bidder. They take the money and

vote the opposite way. Meanwhile Democrats DON'T get the "big payoff" and DO vote for the bill. (Or did we get a big payoff, too, but thought that meant we were supposed to vote for the bill?) We (including the entire progressive caucus) sold our votes for insurance company money, while the republicans get to keep the money and not vote for the bill, so that they can run against the bill (that the insurance industry paid us to vote for) in November, so that they can then "kill the bill".

The republicans got insurance company money to vote against bill, so that can run against it this fall. We either got insurance company money to vote for their bill or didn't get the same money the republicans did and voted for their bill anyway. (Either we sold our votes - shame on the progressive caucus who voted "YES" unanimously - or were stupid enough to vote for "their bill" without even getting the money that the republicans got for voting against it.)

That is one complicated scenario. It's not wonder I had a difficult time figuring it out. ;)

[EFerrari]

31. 100% of the Progressive Caucus went back on their word. That's sort of sad

but I don't blame them. They are politicians. I'm not a politician.

And FMD's point is that the Republicans did get everything they wanted, including a super special EO, and they STILL can get credit with their nutcase base for being against socialized medicine and death panels. It's a thing of beauty.

[Skittles]

11. If the bill firmly established that puppies and kittens are cute

they'd go ape shit

[Lasher]

14. Cue lazy 'news reporting'

All of America is ready to revolt, I tell ya! There's an enormous crowd down here right now and they're angry!

(Switch to old footage of Teabagger crowd that shows closups only so you can't tell there's only four of them)

[KharmaTrain]

15. You Can Only Go Apeshit For So Long...

Outrage and hate can be powerful tools if there's some objective for those emotions. In the past they were harnessed to win elections, that dog don't hunt these days and we'll see in November if there's any gas left in the GOOP tank. In the short-term, yes it will get ugly, but then what hasn't been ugly from that hive over the past 30 years? The saving grace is they're shouting from the outside and aren't stepping in the way of important things getting done.

We're already seeing that outrage splintering...the teabaggers are getting impatient with the RNC and "country club rushpublicans"...the monster Armey created is getting out of control and instead of challenging Democrats will shortly be going after rushpublicans who aren't "conservative" enough. Most of those rushpublican NO votes were out of fear not from conviction...the party has been so pulled off the abyss that any rational position is untenable.

Their problem is something I saw within the Democrats in the 70s and 80s...the internal fighting would fracture the party and saw the party lose more elections than it won. Eventually you get tired of losing...being frozen out and being played for fools. It may take another election or two, but the rushpublicans will have that "come to jesus" moment or they will become extinct. Last night was a nudge towards that moment.

[Wizard777]

18. They'll probably run out into the streets and start enacting scenes from Dawn of the Dead.

BRAINS! WE NEED BRAINS! The worst part is that everyone will be too busy saying, well no shit Sherlock! to realize the danger.

:wow: :hide: :scared:



:rofl:

[eShirl]

20. They will shit their pajamas in their impotent rage.

[Enthusiast]

24. LOL

That struck me funny.

[Philosoraptor]

21. I LOVE to hear the lamenting of the losers in the morning...

[Odin2005]

22. I find it unreal that these wackos are going nuts over this POS bill.

It's like they live in a totally different reality when up is down.

[jberryhill]

25. They Need To Go Full Birther

One and only one issue - Barack Obama is not a Natural Born Citizen.

They should really go all-in on that one.

[wtmusic]

26. Is it too early to speak of nationalizing private wealth, comrades?

:D

[pipi_k]

32. Probably. We might need to start small...

like forcing everyone to grow beets for the government.



:7

[Locut0s]

33. Eeww if it's forced labor for produce let's make it something that tastes good. I hate beets :-) nt