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Swifter
12/05/09

In reply to America's New Politics: Dildos, Mistresses, and Sex Hotlines for Uninsured Children
Congratulations, Foster, on your bi-partisanship. Also, I hear Republican sex toys will be all the rage this Christmas.
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ParahSalin
12/05/09

@Swifter: It will be fascinating to see if Republicans try to make this Max Baucus thing a huge deal, as was their wont in the past. By the way, he's a DINO - Democrat in name only. He's been bought and paid for by the insurance industry for years, and you deep thinkers are known for letting industries regulate themselves. It worked out so well with the banking and energy industries, I can't imagine it won't work out with the health insurance industry. Because in the long run we all know that businesses always do what's best for freedom, public health, economic security, and the little autistic Palin children.
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Swifter
12/05/09

@ParahSalin: Uh...I'm not a Republican. #labelfail
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fatmonalisa
12/05/09

@Swifter: Oh please they were all the rage last year. My rubber fist McCain is splendid!
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ParahSalin
12/05/09

@Swifter: Sure, neither is Glenn Beck. I don't doubt that you're just as much of an Independent as he is.
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Swifter
12/05/09

@ParahSalin: Whatever. My citizenship dues are paid in full, which is more than most of those jokers can claim.
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AzureTexan
12/05/09

In reply to America's New Politics: Dildos, Mistresses, and Sex Hotlines for Uninsured Children
Max Bacchus, one presumes.
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eatsshootsleaves
12/04/09

In reply to The Quiet Death of the Public Option
Haven't most actual experts on health policy agreed that higher subsidies are both more important and more effective than the toothless public option they were going to pass?
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Mediahohoho
12/04/09

In reply to Palin: Scared of Asians?
It's also highly possible that she couldn't stand the thought of being in a state populated almost exclusively by non-Americans with phony birth certificates.

Show us your real birth certificates, Hawaiians!
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mimigoliath
12/04/09

In reply to The Quiet Death of the Public Option
So being a moderate means not making policy decisions and just shaking your head saying "too changey."
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Mediahohoho
12/04/09

In reply to Palin: Scared of Asians?
...that or she wasn't considered hot there. Happens when you leave a state with a 6 to 1 male to female ratio and venture into a multi-ethnic paradise.

In other words, Alaska-hot but not Hawaii-hot.
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Smitros
12/04/09

In reply to Palin: Scared of Asians?
No Yelp party invite for her.
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Banjo-Sea Kitten
12/04/09

In reply to Palin: Scared of Asians?
Speaking of dads, my own wingnutty one (god bless him--he once told us kids that Bill Clinton had killed lots of people...) went to the Palin book signing in AZ and observed that only white people were there.

Also, when I expressed outrage that he went in the first place, he tried to hang up the phone on me.
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misslinda
12/04/09

@Banjo-Sea Kitten: He tried, but couldn't successfully hang up the phone? Sounds like you should get your dad a duck phone for Christmas.

(If you don't get the reference, please watch Jersey Shore. You will thank me later.)
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Banjo-Sea Kitten
12/04/09

@misslinda: he tried to abruptly end the conversation and hang up, so I changed the subject a bit and then softened my tirade. (This is the typical dance with him.)

I will try and catch JS.
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misslinda
12/04/09

@Banjo-Sea Kitten: Try very very hard. And sorry about your father. I'm sure as you got older you realized that Bill Clinton was a lover, not a fighter.
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Banjo-Sea Kitten
12/04/09

@misslinda: ah. We were already grown and debating him at a family gathering. You're always "the kids" with your parents I guess. (Yes, I still need lots of therapy when it comes to him.)

"lover"...hee hee. I love Bill even without the pun intended. :-)
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misslinda
12/04/09

In reply to Palin: Scared of Asians?
My racist sister-in-law and her also racist husband were stationed in Hawaii while in the navy and before my husband and I went on vacation there, they warned us that the locals were really nasty towards white people so other than the main tourist areas, it's a miserable place. Needless to say, the locals were perfectly lovely, and it was the military who were particularly nasty towards the locals. Funny how that got all twisted around in their heads.
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Spirit Fingers
12/04/09

In reply to Palin: Scared of Asians?
I'm thinking she glimpsed Obama in his home state and saw her future.
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Spirit Fingers
12/04/09

@Spirit Fingers: Also, first of the four colleges she attended... is really a joke that writes itself. Per usual when discussing La Palin.
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Tammany_Fall
12/04/09

@Spirit Fingers: Or she got offended when informed that the island she could see from her dorm room wasn't Japan.
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Spirit Fingers
12/04/09

@Tammany_Fall: Perhaps. I definitely don't think it was the affinity for Spam. I think she kinda lives there when making spam-dogs for the kiddies. She's yokel tough!
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Claire Buoyant
12/04/09

In reply to Palin: Scared of Asians?
They were a minority type thing and it wasn’t glamorous, so she came home.

And yokels from Wasilla are glamorous?
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Tammany_Fall
12/04/09

In reply to Palin: Scared of Asians?
And Hawaiians are of course REALLY from Africa, so she's right to be afraid.
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Trai_Dep
12/04/09

In reply to The Quiet Death of the Public Option
Some brave senator needs to attach a rider to the health care bill mandating that Congress health plans are voided for any congressmen voting against the Public Option.
Since Government-Paid Health care is such an abomination, of course.
I wouldn't mind seeing the same thing for Medicare recipients supporting plans to kill the Public Option, same rationale.
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sarrible
12/04/09

@Trai_Dep: I support this plan! And he's not a senator, but I think Alan Grayson is the man to do it.
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Trai_Dep
12/04/09

@sarrible: Senator Franken has already made the GOP senators sad by mocking them for their support for the Contractor-Rapist Protection Bill. It'd be great if he made them downright unhappy.
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sarrible
12/05/09

@Trai_Dep: God, I love that. It'll make my year if he gets up on the floor and tells the gentleman from Texas to pull up his big-boy pants and stop crying like a slapped child because votes have consequences.
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Botswana Meat Commission FC
12/04/09

In reply to The Quiet Death of the Public Option
The uncoupling of insurance from employment and some type of public option are absolutely INEVITABLE in the long term.

The only questions left are how we get from here to there. Getting those things will be a lot easier if we can get some kind of reform accomplished this year.

So don't go jumping off bridges just yet, libtards!
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Unsolicited Advice
12/04/09

In reply to The Quiet Death of the Public Option
Art of the possible my eye, Rahm. This is why you needed to go big, or go home. A psuedo-agency birthed out of a failure to realize a comprehensive state-run solution is exactly what everyone fears, the exact opposite of the transcendant social commitment to health care that a real reform would have represented. They should have dug in on a single-payer plan or done nothing; declaring victory over a private subsidy requiring that everyone pay for care will be as hollow as it gets.
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