How in God's name have "the people spoken"??? What is this bizarre reference?

[jsmirman]

I'm baffled by this.

Are they referring to defeating Martha Coakley?

To some ridiculous polls?

To paid for mock gatherings by the tea-nutters?

They keep repeating this with such confidence, and yet, I must have missed that national vote.

[Political Heretic]

1. Why are polls ridiculous? Are they also ridiculous when they say what you want?

over 2/3s of Americans want a public option, and less than 50% support the Senate Bill.

The people HAVE spoken, and their representatives responded: Go fuck yourselves.

[jsmirman]

4. First of all

if you've had to say "less than 50%" I have to suspect that the polls you are looking towards left yes or no within the area covered by margin of error. Which means no answer wrt that part of things.

As to the second, I hope for a public option in the future, I'd prefer to have a public option now, but there is no way in hell that I wanted to see this not happen, that I wanted to lose this on this weekend.

I don't, btw, think that the Republicans are claiming that "the people have spoken" in the way you are talking about. :rofl:

[FrenchieCat]

2. elections don't count unless they happen in states where Republicans win.

We are all Massachussetians now!

[Submariner]

3. Nope

Massachusetts is Red Sox Nation. You all are Red Sox fans now!

Doncha feel great? :hide: :rofl:

[SeattleGirl]

5. Nooooooooooo!!!

I'm seceding right fucking now!

:rofl:

[FrenchieCat]

6. With my Son in Law Boston born and bred,

I was converted long ago.

[Sebastian Doyle]

10. All things considered, I'd probably rather have their baseball team

...than their corporate fellation health "care" system. :evilfrown:

[Submariner]

19. Ain't that the truth

The Romneycare scam wants me to pay the unaffordable $492 per month with a $4000 annual deductible. They can stuff that plan where the sun don't shine. I'll pay the $1012 tax fine, it's a heckuva lot cheaper.

[elizm]

7. The 'people' elected President Obama and a Dem Congress...

And they have delivered Health Care Reform as promised.

[Sebastian Doyle]

20. No they haven't

This is what Hillary promised. Which is why I didn't vote for her, and why she was not elected.

[high density]

8. The polls that say Americans don't like the strawman Obamacare killing grandma reform that the GOP

has created. But they do of course support the individual ideas once they are enumerated out.

[Phx_Dem]

9. It's absurd. Everyone knows teabaggers aren't humans.

[O is 44]

17. Have you noticed when Faux news or the Republicans

talk about them they always use the qualifier "real americans"? too much.

[Phx_Dem]

18. Yeah, the rest of us are commie-loving muslim facist socialists.

[AldebTX]

11. They Are Referring to the Ma. Election

I think the Repugs have jumped the shark on this. They may be re-energized by Scotty....but I think they are overestimating their brand.

[jsmirman]

14. I think that's what they mean. Which is hysterical

damn, who knew that the keys to the kingdom and a mandate over whatever the hell you want to have a mandate over were available so long as you could beat a dreary non-entity like Martha Coakley.

The fact that they don't understand how many other factors were involved in that election, including local predilections, shows that they don't understand correlation vs. causation.

The fact that they've extrapolated like this... well, I think Republicans seem to have a very flawed understanding of the concept of "sample size."

:rofl:

[jillan]

12. The people that work for the insurance companies, that's who they are protecting.

[saltpoint]

13. Well, you can't blame them for making such statements. After McCain

won the election, they have a right to expect . . .

Wait.

Nevermind.

[mopinko]

15. they are referring to their bought and paid for howling mobs.

they thought they could pass off these screaming neanderthals as the voice of the people.
well, it worked at the miami-dade county recount.

[salguine]

16. The People spoke, and they were promptly silenced and hustled out of the chamber so that

their elected representatives could get back to blowing health care industry lobbyists.