Congresswoman Wants to Kill the Phrase ‘Job Killing’
Despite the complete and thorough debunking of the media’s attempt to link common political discourse with the actions of a deranged lunatic in Tucson, one Congresswoman is taking politically correct rhetoric to ridiculous lows (h/t Michelle Malkin).
Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-ME) took to the Huffington Post to voice her opinion on the Gabrielle Giffords assassination attempt. She starts harmlessly enough admitting that, “We don’t know what prompted the shooter … to kill innocent people.” Even though we don’t know the motivation, Pingree says, it’s important “that we do everything we can to prevent it from happening again.”
Then, echoing the prevailing liberal sentiment, she offers the preventative solution – cranking down the rhetoric. The first step?
“A good place to start a more civil dialog would be for my Republican colleagues in the House to change the name of the bill they have introduced to repeal health care reform. The bill, titled the ‘Repeal the Job Killing Health Care Law Act,’ was set to come up for a vote this week, but in the wake of Gabby's shooting, it has been postponed at least until next week.”
She continues asking:
“…is it really necessary to put the word ‘killing’ in the title of a major piece of legislation?”
Is Pingree seriously suggesting that the phrase ‘job killing’ amounts to hate speech? Indeed, she is most certainly alluding to this conclusion.
“I work in a world of words - words that inspire, words that persuade and, increasingly, words that can send the message that it is acceptable to hate.”
The only way that ‘job killing’ amounts to a message of hate, is if she is referring to the biblical figure named Jōb. And even then, the Republicans would be trying to repeal the Jōb Killing bill.
The title of the piece itself shamelessly urges Pingree’s Republican colleagues to do this in Giffords name.
For Gabby's Sake, Republicans Should Change the Name of Their Health Care Repeal Bill
Nothing like exploiting a tragic crime in the name of hiding the reality behind the economic effects of the health care law. Further trying to take focus off of the law, a law that a plurality of Americans want repealed, she says that the debate is “a waste of time when we should be focusing on more pressing matters like the economy and the deficit”.
But including the phrase ‘job killing’ does emphasize the importance of the economy and the deficit. In fact, in a report titled, A REPORT ON THE ECONOMIC AND FISCAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT, the executive summary explicitly states that the health care law will achieve neither job creation nor deficit reduction. Therefore, removing the phrase would be deceptive and dishonest.
Politicians exploiting the Tucson shooting for political gain are deplorable. Politicians exploiting the shooting to censor certain words or phrases are simply ridiculous.
But then, when it comes to the ridiculous, liberals always make a killing.
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"For Gabby's sake"
Submitted by Texndoc on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 10:57pm.
"For Gabby's sake, just stop talking about having a re-vote on something we already voted on! "
Does anyone not remember how "MoveOn.org" got it's name? It worked very nicely for the libs in the past.
Isn't that
Submitted by shawn. on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 10:57pm.
.......Daves avatar?shawn,
Submitted by Dave. on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 1:13am.
LOL - Thanks fer noticing. :-)
-Dave
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We better remove guns from
Submitted by mostlymoderate on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 11:00pm.
We better remove guns from all movies too. We also remove "kills germs" and "kills bad breath" and "kills odors" from bottles of cleanser's.
No more "fights cavities" either!!!!!
Don't take this too lightly-
Submitted by bkeyser on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 10:59pm.
Don't take this too lightly- people like this woman successfully got the word "killing" removed from the phrase "baby killing" and got the whole thing changed to "Women's reproductive health."
YEah, no more aborting of
Submitted by mostlymoderate on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 11:02pm.
YEah, no more aborting of babies either! It makes human life look unimportant.
Hey, that's no fair! Rusty stole my avatar!
Submitted by Dave. on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 11:06pm.
LOL.
Damn, is nothing safe around here?
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Avatar
Submitted by Rusty Weiss on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 11:10pm.
I found that on Wikimedia Commons. Did you make that image?
I added the caption 'Dave's Avatar' on the image at my website. lol :)
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Rusty, I was just kidding
Submitted by Dave. on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 11:14pm.
Actually, a friend emailed that to me quite some time ago.
He said it fit me to a "T," so I started using it.
I have no clue who made it originally.
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Avatar
Submitted by Rusty Weiss on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 11:17pm.
lol
Well, now everyone over at my site knows it's your avatar.
By everyone I mean the two users that visit - my mother and my wife.
And my mother only goes there to call me names.
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Rusty,
Submitted by Dave. on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 11:34pm.
Hey, at least you have one more reader than I have.
But when I finish teaching my dog to read, I'll have two. :-)
-Dave
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Need to remove the eagle as
Submitted by mostlymoderate on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 11:06pm.
Need to remove the eagle as the national bird too. Too violent a predator. Maybe a dove?
How about a weasel.
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 6:47pm.
How about a weasel.
I would have bet the ranch the article was satirical...
Submitted by Jer on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 11:17pm.
and I would now be homeless. Absolutely absurd.
On a side note, I read the first five pages of comments, and the number of conservative commenters at HuffPo is astonishing. And absolutely no flaming. What a concept.
Jer
Jiminy H. Christmas!
Submitted by falcon on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 11:31pm.
Are these people truly drain-bamaged? Are they so out of touch with this little thing we call "reality" that they can, in all seriousness, make statements like this? And this person was ELECTED to represent her district? What does that say about the people who voted for her?
I am so incredibly, absolutely sick and tired of all this political correctness dreck that I am about ready to move to Bimini. Or Costa Rica. Or some place that doesn't have people, media, or PC bullcookies.
Conservatives, it is time to respond to these baseless, senseless allegations forcefully. No more "turn the other cheek." No more trying to work with these illegitimate sons and daughters of bottom feeders. No more trying to understand what drives these people. They are pure evil. There is no other way to put it. And evil must be fought and destroyed. No compromise. If that makes this "hate speech," then so be it. I hate evil. Otherwise, these people will win, even if they appear to lose. The "progressive" movement must be destroyed. And no longer will they smear my name and the names of all other law-abiding, God-fearing people in this country simply because we don't buy into their worldview.
As an aside, read the Ayn Rand book "Anthem." Incredibly appropriate for these times, and a scary look at where we might all be headed if we don't start fighting back now.
“I will not stand by and watch this great country destroy itself under mediocre leadership, that drifts from one crisis to the next, eroding our national will and purpose.” – Ronald Reagan, July 17, 1980.
Chellie Pingree, as I have
Submitted by celator on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 12:01am.
Chellie Pingree, as I have mentioned before, is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) group. She is one of about 70 members of the US Congress who are also members of DSA. Other members include: Jerrold Nadler, Luis Gutierrez, Melvin Watt, Maxine Waters, Hank Johnson, Steve Cohen,Barbara Lee, Robert Wexler, Linda Sanchez, Dennis Kucinich, Bernie Sanders, Emanuel Cleaver, John Conyers, Peter DeFazio, Barney Frank, Barbara Lee, John Lewis, Jerrold Nadler Charles Rangel, Jerrold Nadler, Mel Watt, Henry Waxman, etc. You get the picture on these birds.
http://www.patriotactionnetwork.com/profiles/blogs/democratic-socialists...
The DSA is, in their own words:
"The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is the largest socialist organization in the United States, and the principal U.S. affiliate of the Socialist International. DSA's members are building progressive movements for social change while establishing an openly socialist presence in American communities and politics."
http://www.dsausa.org/about/index.html
Pingree, at no time that I am aware of, informed the voters of the state of Maine that she was a socialist. The MSM locally never informed the voters that this was the case.
She's a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, which is an offshoot of the DSA.
A point of logic
Submitted by JakeMo on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 12:11am.
We're told that hearing "violent imagery" provokes crazed madmen to commit atrocities.
If the libs truly believe this, why do they keep repeating the "violent imagery"?
Do they expect us to believe that crazed madmen don't process the "violent imagery" if it's a second-hand account? They only act out when they hear the words from an original source?
Let's forgo the word KILL. Then our soldiers will no longer have
Submitted by Rush Fan on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 1:10am.
to kill our enemies. Rather than using the word "kill" we can substitute the word "interface." Rather than "killing the enemy", our soldiers are "interfacing with the enemy." That certainly sanitizes the act of killing.
Let's also eliminate the use of the word.......Oh, never mind! :-)
Language police making it hard to communicate
Submitted by JakeMo on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 1:28am.
You got me thinking of all the phrases we won't be able to say when liberals successfully eliminate words that connote violence from our lexicon:
etc., etc., etc.
Didn't Orwell have something to say about this?
JakeMo........Good job! Let me add a few to your list.
Submitted by Rush Fan on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 10:59am.
Some of these are a little more subtle, but are words that connote "negativity" Perhaps we should ban ALL words and use sign languageHigh gas prices are also
Submitted by Quasi-socialist on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 12:00pm.
"gouging". Libs want gas station owners shot!
desperation
Submitted by TerryWest on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 1:33am.
It's getting rather silly and desperate now as these people grasp for air bubbles and although the cover clause before slamming into the self serving political message is new (and they think improves their lead in to the same ol) it's still riding the back of this tragedy which is dispicable."Target" store chain next
Submitted by gregfahey on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 1:43am.
It's now at a point where the Target store chain will have to change it's name. Their logo encourages violence and in this day, the word "target" is just too sensitive a word to throw about.
Let's guess which politician will suggest it because apparently, all of them want a piece of this tragedy to get publicity.
This looks like a job for John Edwards
Submitted by JakeMo on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 1:58am.
I can just see the $ signs lighting up in the eyes of slip n' fall lawyers across the country.
"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, my client was run over in the parking lot of the Target store simply because shopping there made him a target. We demand that this greedy corporation dig deep into their pockets and compensate my client and myself for the suffering they caused with their violent sounding name."
Simple, remove Obama from
Submitted by Barack_must_go..... on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 6:34am.
Of course she ( a democrat ) does....
Doing so is quite simple, remove Obama from office and the murder ( of jobs ) spree in this country will end.
Obama and the liberals are the problem, not the solution. They latch on, for dear life, to anything that distracts the American people from this fact ( currently tragedy in Arizona ), simply because they ( libs ) know it's the truth.
America will not ACTUALLY begin to recover until we end Obama's all out assault on business in this country..........not one day before.
Barack_Must_Go.....
So it really was a good question
Submitted by Franksam on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 8:22am.
The shooter was not upset by Rush. He was concerned about government trying to control grammar. I guess Chellie missed his point.
I've got a better idea . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 10:33am.
. . . let's drop the title Representative since most of the members of the House are not.
Oh, that's good.....
Submitted by almostacowboy on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 12:29pm.
Very good.
You're Killing me, Larry!
Submitted by almostacowboy on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 12:28pm.
Or your mattress is FREEEEEEEEEEE!
Larry Miller - owner of Sit 'n' Sleep, "The Mattress Superstore"
Good one. Only those of us who live in Southern California
Submitted by Rush Fan on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 5:07pm.
would appreciate the Sit 'n' Sleep commercial. By the way, from what I've heard, Larry Miller is one of the good guys. I plan on buying my next mattress from him.