Kenyan Father? Kind of an irrelevant, backhanded ad hominem aside, there, Bobby. But other than that, did anyone listen past the first minute of that response speech? (the primary document, mind you, not the myriad mess of analytical posturing that talks about everything not said rather than what was)
Please expound, Katie. Jindal = tool because...
Keep in mind it's intended to be the Republican riposte. Partisanship is not only expected, it's 100% necessary. What else but a partisan response to the largest, most audacious (and equally partisan) power grab by the federal government in American history. May I just say, Trillion with a T, and the mathematical impossibility of any person having even speed-read the sheer volume of pages of new law crammed through. Ignorance of the law is no excuse for the public, you see, but it's perfectly acceptable for Congress.
For any math-challenged economic liberals out there, here's some elementary division. There are 300 million Americans, roughly. A trillion dollars has 12 zeros, or $1,000,000,000,000. That's $3,333.33 avg. per American. Do you feel you're going to get a comparable return on your investment? Or maybe the folks who wrote it (who are not your elected officials but rather self-appointed self-advocates)? The winners this new year and for the four to come (with benefit payouts concentrated in a time span right before election time) are the lobbyists and special interests who just wrote themselves all pay raises, and the politicians who will yet again bolster their incumbency advantage by printing money to hand out.
Last term's Republicans started it, albeit in much smaller scale. So recently I've decided I basically hate everyone except Hamilton, Madison and Jay. I'm starting a Federalist-Whig-Bull Moose Party, anyone care to join?
Wait, my bad. You're probably calling him a tool for trashing El Rushbo? I needed to do more extensive YouTube research next time for sound-bites, I'm probably listening to all the wrong ones. Too much stuff happening politically nowadays. But still, Limbaugh is abrasive. I just never saw you as a Rush defender, though, Katie. Or am I looking at the wrong sound bites yet again? Why is Jindal a tool? I wanna know! Sorry for the preaching, Danae.
yep, I did listen to the whole thing, and while we will likely always need to agree to disagree on most things political, I wasn't really even referring to his rebuttal itself...
I was referring to his delivery style and person in general. I mostly just think he is a huge douchebag. it was his aw-shucks-folksy-opener combined with the continual awkward hand gestures and shrugging that did it for me. Any politician should be able to handle themselves much better in front of a camera. Thumbs down, says I.
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Kenyan Father? Kind of an irrelevant, backhanded ad hominem aside, there, Bobby. But other than that, did anyone listen past the first minute of that response speech? (the primary document, mind you, not the myriad mess of analytical posturing that talks about everything not said rather than what was)
Please expound, Katie. Jindal = tool because...
Keep in mind it's intended to be the Republican riposte. Partisanship is not only expected, it's 100% necessary. What else but a partisan response to the largest, most audacious (and equally partisan) power grab by the federal government in American history. May I just say, Trillion with a T, and the mathematical impossibility of any person having even speed-read the sheer volume of pages of new law crammed through. Ignorance of the law is no excuse for the public, you see, but it's perfectly acceptable for Congress.
For any math-challenged economic liberals out there, here's some elementary division. There are 300 million Americans, roughly. A trillion dollars has 12 zeros, or $1,000,000,000,000. That's $3,333.33 avg. per American. Do you feel you're going to get a comparable return on your investment? Or maybe the folks who wrote it (who are not your elected officials but rather self-appointed self-advocates)? The winners this new year and for the four to come (with benefit payouts concentrated in a time span right before election time) are the lobbyists and special interests who just wrote themselves all pay raises, and the politicians who will yet again bolster their incumbency advantage by printing money to hand out.
Last term's Republicans started it, albeit in much smaller scale. So recently I've decided I basically hate everyone except Hamilton, Madison and Jay. I'm starting a Federalist-Whig-Bull Moose Party, anyone care to join?
oh no... look what you unleashed Katie...
Wait, my bad. You're probably calling him a tool for trashing El Rushbo? I needed to do more extensive YouTube research next time for sound-bites, I'm probably listening to all the wrong ones. Too much stuff happening politically nowadays. But still, Limbaugh is abrasive. I just never saw you as a Rush defender, though, Katie. Or am I looking at the wrong sound bites yet again? Why is Jindal a tool? I wanna know! Sorry for the preaching, Danae.
yep, I did listen to the whole thing, and while we will likely always need to agree to disagree on most things political, I wasn't really even referring to his rebuttal itself...
I was referring to his delivery style and person in general. I mostly just think he is a huge douchebag. it was his aw-shucks-folksy-opener combined with the continual awkward hand gestures and shrugging that did it for me. Any politician should be able to handle themselves much better in front of a camera. Thumbs down, says I.
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