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ProSense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-06-09 10:43 PM
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"They've become political terrorists'"

Tough Words

By Josh Marshall

From tomorrow's column by the Post's Steven Pearlstein ...

The recent attacks by Republican leaders and their ideological fellow-travelers on the effort to reform the health-care system have been so misleading, so disingenuous, that they could only spring from a cynical effort to gain partisan political advantage. By poisoning the political well, they've given up any pretense of being the loyal opposition. They've become political terrorists, willing to say or do anything to prevent the country from reaching a consensus on one of its most serious domestic problems.



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Jennicut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-06-09 10:45 PM
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1. "Political terrorist" sounds about right.
Terrorizing anyone who disagrees with them. Where is the right to free speech in that?
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BOG PERSON Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-06-09 10:47 PM
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2. I thought terrorism was already a political tactic?
Edited on Thu Aug-06-09 10:47 PM by BOG PERSON
What is political terrorism? Do they mean like nonviolent terrorism? Political scariness? Verbal abuse?
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BOG PERSON Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-06-09 10:51 PM
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3. And another thing:
What is so scandalous about a political party trying to gain partisan political advantage? That's how party politics works
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ProSense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-06-09 10:52 PM
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4. "What is so scandalous about a political party trying to gain partisan political advantage? "
Are you saying you advocate what these obvious lunatics are doing? That you can understand it?

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BOG PERSON Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 02:49 AM
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11. If you can't understand something without first truly believing in it
then you have a seriously impoverished imagination.
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BOG PERSON Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 02:52 AM
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12. .
Edited on Fri Aug-07-09 02:56 AM by BOG PERSON
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ProSense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 01:22 PM
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14. Clever
FAIL

I understand what it means to murder someone.

And for your information. Terrorism isn't a form of politics. No one, except you that is, responds to acts of terrorism as oh that's just politics.

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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-06-09 10:59 PM
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8. You need to do some reading on it and
get back here..because your questions sound a bit disingenous.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-06-09 10:54 PM
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5. THat's what we were saying on
Monday!
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daninthemoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-06-09 10:54 PM
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6. I've been reading a book about reconstruction, when a type of
humanitarian existed known as a "radical republican." They of course freed the slaves, but also built hospitals, schools and orphanages in north as well as south. they wrote laws for civil rights and equal opportunity. Their partners (and there were many who straddled both camps) were the republicans who got in bed with the growing railroad, power, and banks of the industrial revolution. Ovewr time, a very short period of time, this part of the republican party created and achieved tremendous power, and methods and practices to maintain power supplanted all social reform aspects of the party. Welcome to the 21st century legacy which now includes pharma and insurance masters along with banks, energy, and transportation.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-06-09 10:58 PM
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7. And, the corporatemedia is enabling them just like
they enabled bushcheney's March TO WAR ON IRAQ.
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Birthmark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-06-09 11:01 PM
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9. They are indeed terrorists under current law:
US Code 
TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 113B > § 2331
(5) the term “domestic terrorism” means activities that—
  (A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a
violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any
State;
  (B) appear to be intended—
    (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population;
    (ii) to influence the policy of a government by
intimidation or coercion; or
    (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass
destruction,               
     assassination, or kidnapping; and
  (C) occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of
the United States. 

http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00002331----000-.html
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Hamlette Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-06-09 11:02 PM
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10. wow, tough words indeed. Maybe treating town hall meetings like European soccer games
didn't work out so well for the GOP.

I can't figure it out. I have been appalled by the GOPs tactics since Reagan and it completely freaked me out that those tactics worked. Belittle people with education? Great. Turn the mentally ill out on to the streets? Great. Increase the debt and deficit by unheard of amounts? Great (this needs a footnote: as long as a Prez is a republican) Start a war in the wrong country? Wonderful! Turn a war hero into a coward while the other guy really IS a coward? Americans will buy into it! Go for it!

So, there is always this fear that "paling around with terrorists" will work, and mob scenes at town hall meetings will scare us into continuing to give the rich more money at the expense of the middle class and the poor.

Maybe it is not working.

I'm still holding my breath.
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 11:07 AM
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13. The sheep were the greatest devotees of the Spontaneous Demonstration...
...and if anyone complained (as a few animals sometimes did, when no pigs or dogs were near) that they wasted time and meant a lot of standing about in the cold, the sheep were sure to silence him with a tremendous bleating of "Four legs good, two legs bad!"
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