GOP Failure Watch Part II

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  1. puttputtfc

    puttputtfc Member+

    Sep 7, 1999
    It wouldn't surprise me if Neymar spends time tapping his feet in airport stalls. Then we know he is a Reep.

    Auria, my post was poking fun at your Brazilian fandom and I am not calling you a whiner. Reading my post a few hours later I could see it as an unintended insult.
     
  2. HouseHead78

    HouseHead78 Member+

    Oct 17, 2006
    Austin, TX
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  3. Auriaprottu

    Auriaprottu Member+

    Atlanta Damn United
    Apr 1, 2002
    The back of the bus
    Club:
    Atlanta
    Nat'l Team:
    --other--
    Never a whiner, and no offense taken. But you can't poke fun at success- you can only tell yourself that's what you're doing :p
     
  4. tomwilhelm

    tomwilhelm Member+

    Dec 14, 2005
    Boston, MA, USA
    Club:
    Fulham FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  5. JohnR

    JohnR Member+

    Jun 23, 2000
    Chicago, IL
  6. HouseHead78

    HouseHead78 Member+

    Oct 17, 2006
    Austin, TX
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  7. American Brummie

    Jun 19, 2009
    There Be Dragons Here
    Club:
    Birmingham City FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  8. Dr. Wankler

    Dr. Wankler Member+

    May 2, 2001
    The Electric City
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
  9. dapip

    dapip Member+

    Sep 5, 2003
    South Florida
    Club:
    Millonarios Bogota
    Nat'l Team:
    Colombia
    You should patent the phrase:

    Reality-Based community
     
  10. minerva

    minerva Member+

    Apr 20, 2009
    Denver, CO
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I'm actually surprised as many as 27% support higher taxes on the rich, and only 13 and 15 respectively support big cuts to social security and medicare. the Repub talking heads and politicians better check with their base before they start yapping their flap. seems like the base thinks a little differently than the talking heads.
     
  11. tomwilhelm

    tomwilhelm Member+

    Dec 14, 2005
    Boston, MA, USA
    Club:
    Fulham FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    You just noticed this?
     
  12. American Brummie

    Jun 19, 2009
    There Be Dragons Here
    Club:
    Birmingham City FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    What this means, in all seriousness, is that they honestly believe if we cut our contribution to the UN we're in the clear. So I say we call them out on their bluff and withdraw from the UN during our next GOP administration. Or wait for them all to die.
     
  13. minerva

    minerva Member+

    Apr 20, 2009
    Denver, CO
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    well generally the base just spouts the talking points that come from the talking heads.
    but I guess when they're asked a direct question about things, and forced to think for themselves, lo and behold, they come up with a different answer!
     
  14. Yoshou

    Yoshou Fan of the CCL Champ

    May 12, 2009
    Seattle
    Club:
    Seattle Sounders
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    You just noticed this? :)

    Nothing different than a person on Medicare claiming they are opposed to government healthcare, or a Tea Partier on government assistance claiming the government needs to cut spending. :)
     
  15. minerva

    minerva Member+

    Apr 20, 2009
    Denver, CO
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    yeah, people want to cut spending, as long as it's not their program or job being cut. just like a defense industry worker who wants to cut social welfare programs. just basic self interest.
    along these lines, this is actually a facebook post on a picture about how Obama is fixing unemployment by allowing all these illegals to work here. and this was one of the responses posted:
    "YES, DEANNA, SOME OF THE FAULT LIES WITH THE EMPLOYERS, AND SOME WITH THE GOVERNMENT. WITH THE HIGH COST OF TAXES, INSURANCE REGULATIONS, ELECTRIC ETC. BUSINESSES TRY TO GET AWAY WITH WHAT THEY CAN. UNIONS ARE ALSO AT FAULT, DRIVING UP THE LABOR COSTS, AND DRIVING UP THE UNION DUES AT THE SAME TIME. HOW MANY TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS DO UNIONS SPEND ON POLITICAL DONATIONS, MONIES THAT WOULD BE BETTER SERVED GOING TO ITS MEMBERS. THEN THE FEDS HAVE TO TAKE A BLAME ALSO. IF THE BORDERS WERE MORE SECURE, IF THE PENALTIES WERE HIGHER, THE ILLEGALS WOULDN'T BE HERE TO BEGIN WITH. LET'S TRY AND FIX IT ALL SINCE ALL IS TO BLAME."
     
  16. ratdog

    ratdog Member+

    Mar 22, 2004
    In the doghouse
    Club:
    Chicago Red Stars
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    What is interesting is that Reeps and Independents are exact opposites on "Tax the rich" and "Do nothing".
     
  17. taosjohn

    taosjohn Member+

    Dec 23, 2004
    taos,nm
    Its not just the UN-- its all that federal funding to "the arts," all that foreign aid to France and New Zealand and North Korea, providing free lawyers to criminals, running prisons that could be more efficiently operated by Haliburton, delivering the mail, funding the national soccer teams...:barefoot:
     
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  18. HouseHead78

    HouseHead78 Member+

    Oct 17, 2006
    Austin, TX
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  19. taosjohn

    taosjohn Member+

    Dec 23, 2004
    taos,nm
    I knew I was forgetting something-- and they're in competition with actual job creators, too.:giggle:
     
  20. HerthaBerwyn

    HerthaBerwyn Member+

    May 24, 2003
    Chicago
    When it comes to the Bush tax-rebates expiring for the 1% "its only 700 Billion, which just wont solve things". When it comes to defunding NPR "20 million here, 20 million there, it all adds up, you know."
     
  21. YankBastard

    YankBastard Na Na Na Na NANANANAAA!

    Jun 18, 2005
    Estados Unidos
    Club:
    AS Roma
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  22. ceezmad

    ceezmad Member+

    Mar 4, 2010
    Chicago
    Club:
    Chicago Red Stars
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Full repeal of the tax cuts will boost revenues by 1.3-1.5 billion, that is a good amount, but just as the reps like cutting other peoples programs and not their own, you can see that the dems prefer raising taxes on other people.

    I say raise taxes only on people making more than me and cut all government programs that I do not use. :D; If I am going to be a hypocrite, may as well go full out.
     
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  23. Dr. Wankler

    Dr. Wankler Member+

    May 2, 2001
    The Electric City
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    "When 14-year-old boys sound exactly like you do and can produce radio shows and books and speeches that sound exactly like yours, maybe you should rethink the shit that comes out of your mouth."​

     
  24. JohnR

    JohnR Member+

    Jun 23, 2000
    Chicago, IL
    From Krugman's blog.

    It's a bit technical but that is the point -- that contrary to popular belief, many items that are considered to be debatable have been settled by science, but the Republicans reject the science. So the press and mass public, which can't be bothered with the technical details, incorrectly regards the item as being up for discussion.

    It's a big big political problem that one of two major parties frequently rejects observable facts, and yet its views are considered to be legitimate and as worthy of discussion as they views of those who adhere to observable facts.

     
  25. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States

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