Daily Kos Week in Review: Ha Ha, You Tea Party Crazies Lost
The Supreme Court's decision on the Affordable Care Act went pretty much the left's way, so there was no mass meltdown or freakout on Daily Kos. Instead, Kossacks merely taunted and sneered at conservatives who were displeased with the SCOTUS ruling.
As usual, each headline is preceded by the blogger's name or pseudonym.
JeffLieber: Ha, ha, you Tea Party losers lost
...You created an entire movement of crazy people who wore Revolutionary costumes through 90 degree heat and 2 feet of snow. You ran TV ads and radio ads and internet ads and ads you shaved into the backside of your platypus. You bombarded your Senators and Congressmen and Attorneys General with misspelled emails and profane phone calls. You went to town halls and threatened to shoot people... even shoot the President of the United States. You blamed old people and poor people and brown people... and gays (cause why not, right). You worked yourselves into a rabid froth, then gloated and preened with your friends...
And...you lost...'cause the dude you were SURE was your guy...read the Constitution...
Kaili Joy Gray: The bishops' health-care ideas are sexist and anti-Christian
It's not just Republicans who are feeling really, really sad today that millions of Americans will continue to have health care. The Catholic bishops are, of course, also sad...
...Obamacare covers basic health care for women, which, according to the bishops, is unconstitutional and un-freedomy and un-Jesusy and ... uh ... well, ladies and their lady parts are just so icky, so let's not even talk about them, much less cover them in basic health care. Nope, let's just cover them up, period....
...[U]nlike Republicans, they don't favor a "let him die" health care plan. Just a "let her die" plan. Because that's what Jesus would do.
Verbalpaintball: Unlike the right, the left is polite
...On the way to a client meeting yesterday, a colleague of min[e] began railing about Obamacare...
Then, he put on the radio to and from the meeting...
Now, I've never spent too much time listening to [Limbaugh and Savage] because I can't disagree with their view on life more...Having to sit through their entire set, however, gave me a pretty solid understanding of why republicans are the way they are.
Both of of these guys spew hatred. Ugly, nasty, disrespectful, racist hatred...[T]here isn't a single word our side says that has the vitriol, foulness or pyrotechnics of these two.
Our side may portray their side as buffoons, but rarely do they attack in such a personal way. Our side at least maintains our politeness, even the most vocally aggressive of us (Alan Grayson)...
It occurs to me that it's less a case of ideology with republicans than it is venting their anger at the world around them. My colleague HATES Obama and the liberals at an explosive level - and it's clear to see what's fueling that.
These mouthpieces feed into the worst in people. They are the new Hitlers, and will say whatever works to get the response they seek. Screw the truth. It's a case they can't make...
Bill in Portland Maine: On health care, the GOP improvises a la MacGyver
...Rep. Issa nailed it [last Sunday] when he explained what would happen [to Obamacare] when the justices pull the sheet over the corpse (but refrain from putting pennies in its eyes because that would be wasteful government spending): "We'll have to say, 'What can we cobble together?'" And there you have 21st century America in a nutshell, thanks to the Puritan suicide squad known as the Republican party. We'll let the rest of the world do big and great things while we fiddle around with spit and baling twine "cobbling" things together...
glendenb: Modern conservatism = collective insanity
...Amidst the ruins of the Bush administrations, conservatives were neither chastised nor educated; the ascendant tea party was nothing more than an attempt to redeem conservatism itself. Faced with disaster in every direction, unable to admit the problem lies not in their stars but themselves, conservatives doubled down on their ideology and have engaged in an idelogical terror that would make Stalin or Chairman Mao proud.
The left - burdened by a connection to reality - has proven unable to deal with the right's lunacy and tantrums for the same reason a parent can't control a child's tantrum. Pushed bey0nd reason by the ever-unfolding disasters of the Bush presidency, and then the shock of losing to Barack Obama in 2008, conservatives collectively lost their minds and have spent years having a public fit...
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Comments
These morons should be very
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Sat, 06/30/2012 - 8:55am.
These morons should be very careful about what they wish for.
They've obviously never heard the old saying....
Submitted by Blonde on Sat, 06/30/2012 - 10:48am.
He who laughs last, laughs best. Also....Revenge is a dish best served cold.
Even our illustrious Rock Star, Ear Leader, got in on the conga line of insults and victory dancing....see #4 on the old Gaffe List.
I have a clue for them all. It'll be a BFD in November.
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Kos
Submitted by Jimbo on Sat, 06/30/2012 - 11:04am.
Actually, the country in its entirety lost. It's just the the Kos is too blind and self absorbed to realize it. I can't wait for the sitting on your ass and doing nothing tax kicks in. What will they say about that?
*BOL*
Submitted by BondPlainBond on Sat, 06/30/2012 - 4:47pm.
"Ear Leader"? FABULOUS!
&%$#@!
Submitted by Free Stinker on Sat, 06/30/2012 - 9:08am.
Oh goody, disqus is here. /sarc off
I knew I smelled FAIL somewhere. :-(
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
yeah..
Submitted by dmacleo on Sat, 06/30/2012 - 10:02am.
already bit me by replying in wrong spot :(
Don't worry. You'll grow to love it.
Submitted by almostacowboy on Sat, 06/30/2012 - 10:33am.
Now where have we heard that before?
we'll call it a tax :)
Submitted by dmacleo on Sat, 06/30/2012 - 11:25am.
cause with all the disqus fail to loads over last 2 days on multiple sites it sure is taxing.
We'll see
Submitted by nolefan2 on Sat, 06/30/2012 - 9:08am.
how the Daily Kos loons feel after the feds have interfered in their lives a little more.
Dont worry
Submitted by Boudin on Sat, 06/30/2012 - 9:19am.
It's the loons who the fed is trying to appease. Their voting bloc
I am a member...
Submitted by okiehawk44 on Sat, 06/30/2012 - 9:10am.
Tea Party activists tried and still try to warn all Americans of the dangers of just spending all the time and not worrying about it -- well we have been called racists, bigots, homophobes, old and in the way, stupid, uneducated, white, too white, all white, white on white, and many other things so we are used to the really smart [sic] people in America calling us names and you know what? WE ARE STILL CORRECT.
And all you under 40s out there who are going to have to pay for all this bs had really better think hard about what we -- as the ones in power -- are adding to your future misery. You had better start screaming now because in 25 years you will be alone and totally in debt without a good national future and none of us Tea Partiers will be around to help out.
this too shall pass
Submitted by MidAmerica on Sat, 06/30/2012 - 10:57am.
Just like the killing of osama which was supposed to guarantee obama's reelection this SC ruling will fade from memory for the unwashed masses. Why? Because the implimentation of many provisions will not take effect untill after the election so after a while interest in the subject will wane as a hot topic.
The election will always be about the economy. ....and obamacare is the largest tax increase in history.
Yogi Berra said it best
Submitted by Netstatter on Sat, 06/30/2012 - 11:03am.
It ain't over till its over.
November is coming.
Please explain
Submitted by Jimbo on Sat, 06/30/2012 - 11:06am.
I hope November sees the exit of every last rat in Washington. But please explain how November will solve the problem Roberts put in motion with his legal precedent?
Laws can be repealed
Submitted by CobraMan on Sat, 06/30/2012 - 11:28am.
Laws can be repealed just as easily as they are enacted. There's nothing the Supreme Court can do about it.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
Untrue
Submitted by Jimbo on Sat, 06/30/2012 - 4:12pm.
That is entirely untrue. The precedent the SCOTUS set this week regarding the government's ability to tax its subjects for inaction is here to stay. That's the problem with legal precedence, especially with the SCOTUS - you cant get rid of it. Not with the upcoming election or any other election for that matter.
It is true
Submitted by CobraMan on Sat, 06/30/2012 - 11:14pm.
It is true, many laws have been repealed. For example, Scott walker, and the Wisconsin legislature, just repealed the 2009 Equal Pay laws, despite that type law having "legal precedent" in many courts. As that law has been repealed, the courts can do nothing concerning it. The Court can't reinstate it, just as it can't overturn it. The law has been repealed, it no longer exists. No Court in the country has power over laws that no longer exist (although you'll have a hard time convincing the Supreme Court of that!).
And even constitutional amendments have been repealed. The repeal of Prohibition is a perfect example of that.
"Legal precedence" doesn't mean squat when it comes to legislation. That only applies to adjudication.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
You are still entirely incorrect.
Submitted by Jimbo on Sun, 07/01/2012 - 12:04am.
You are still incorrect.
The United States Supreme Court has deemed that it is constitutional and perfectly acceptable in this case and in any other case that comes down the pike, to tax the subjects of this country for inaction. Can Obamacare be combated? Perhaps, by cutting off the revenue stream in the form of "tax" it is collecting.
HOWEVER - when Congress decides to tax us for not wearing blue shirts on Tuesdays, it will be challenged back up the line to the SCOTUS, who will refer back to this ruling that says it is perfectly acceptable to tax people for deciding not to do something.
So, legal precedence, especially this one, does mean squat, and in fact will be something that will be a thorn in the side of the USSA for the rest of its existence or until a constitutional amendment is passed that says the US Government cannot tax its subjects for inactivity.
No, I'm still correct. Any law can be repealed.
Submitted by CobraMan on Sun, 07/01/2012 - 12:14pm.
No, I'm still correct, and you've just show me how:
"HOWEVER - when Congress decides to tax us for not wearing blue shirts on Tuesdays"
HOWEVER, When Congress decides later on to remove that tax, the Supreme Court will not be involved in any way whatsoever. That's my point, that any law that is enacted can be repealed. So, tell me again how important "legal president" is for repeals?
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
However
Submitted by Jimbo on Sun, 07/01/2012 - 12:43pm.
No one is arguing that a a law cannot be repealed. HOWEVER, a precedent cannot be repealed, which gives lawmakers the power to pass the blue shirt on Tuesday or pay a tax law. These types of future tyrannical laws would not come into existence and would not need to be repealed if the precedent had not been set.
I think Verbalpaintball must
Submitted by LinTaylor on Sat, 06/30/2012 - 11:24am.
I think Verbalpaintball must have come from some parallel dimension if s/he thinks that Liberals never resort to ad hominem personal attacks against Conservatives and aren't "vitriolic, foul or inflammatory".
Ahh, the folly of Youth
Submitted by CobraMan on Sat, 06/30/2012 - 11:26am.
I wonder if any of these Kos Kids even understand whats is occurring? After telling us, for years now, about how the insurance companies are screwing America, about how they are forcing medical costs to skyrocket, about how they treat people as policy numbers and not humans, the federal government has designed a national insurance policy extortion scheme (buy a policy or pay a fine? That's extortion!) and these idiots applaud!
They think they're being saved, but they're not. They're being fed to the one percenters, those fascist, rich, inhuman insurance corporations that they've been complaining about, feet first! All Hail The Wise and Powerful Obama! How's that hopey changey thing working out for you, you idiots?
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
Cobra..
Submitted by dyardley on Sat, 06/30/2012 - 12:10pm.
You are so right! I'm almost (but not quite) glad I won't be here to see it. My biggest regret is that my grandsons will. I grieve that they may never know how truly wonderful the United States of America was in the 'good ole days.' We have one chance left in November. If people don't wake up they will be forever paying (literally) for it. God Bless America!
Non Return Trajectory
Submitted by Jimbo on Sat, 06/30/2012 - 4:21pm.
I have heard "We have one more chance in November" every year since 2008. Yet here we are, fundamentally and permanently changing the relationship between our government and the people. n my opinion, we have passed the point of no return, and any action we take will just slow the slide to socialism. I do not think we are capable of stopping it, and certainly do not think it can be reversed.
1. It's AMERICA that
Submitted by clancie on Sat, 06/30/2012 - 12:00pm.
1. It's AMERICA that "lost"
2. The election is in Nov. Let's see who's laughing then.
Lost?
Submitted by GregE on Sat, 06/30/2012 - 12:50pm.
These morons think they live in a different country than we do? No, same country, idiots. If we lost, so did you. We're just not stupid enough to be cheering our own servitude.
Eff the Kosmanauts!!!
Submitted by bigdaddy on Sat, 06/30/2012 - 3:45pm.
Baracko's Obama"Non"Tax-Unaffordable-Healthcare-Plan has at least 21 new "Non" taxes and at least 12 of those "Non" taxes will impact households with less than $250K in income. At about 2014 the Koolaid guzzling Kos Kooks will be saying, "Wha Happen!"