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jillan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-10 11:14 PM
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Wait just a minute - do I have this right? The Party that complains about frivolous lawsuits
are about to embark on non-stop frivolous lawsuits?

Republicans mobilize healthcare opposition
Conservatives plan procedural maneuvers to drag out the debate before the final bill is cleared in the Senate. A dozen states pledge to fight the bill in court.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-whats-next23-2010mar23,0,6089215.story

12 States to File Lawsuits to 'Protect Americans' from Health Care Bill
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2815938/12_states_to_file_lawsuits_to_protect.html

GOP state leaders vow to fight health-care legislation
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/22/AR2010032203561.html?hpid=topnews

I could post more...but you get the idea.

DO THEY EVEN HAVE A CLUE HOW HYPOCRITICAL THEY ARE????

:wtf: :silly: :crazy:
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vaberella Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-10 11:36 PM
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1. I can't waitfor this because it will bankrupt them. Which means less of their shitty commercials.
n/t
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csziggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-10 12:27 AM
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2. Those are state attorneys general threatening to sue
Edited on Tue Mar-23-10 12:28 AM by csziggy
One is here in Florida. I didn't think Bill McCollum was that whacko. Florida is in a big budget crunch - why is he wasting taxpayers' money fighting this?

I'll have to find out what the local OFA is doing to fight his idiocy!

Edited - what is right? "attorneys general" or "attorney generals"?
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jillan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-10 12:55 AM
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6. They are all working together - it's part of their 3 point plan.
Delay - lawsuits - repeal. The first link goes into it in more detail.
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joshcryer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-10 12:57 AM
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7. They'll fail.
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COLGATE4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-10 04:48 PM
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21. It's "Attorneys General" NT
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csziggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-10 05:22 PM
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23. Thanks - I get confused over that kind of noun. n/t
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joshcryer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-10 12:32 AM
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3. It's also going to backfire fucking big time. They are fucking idiots.
They don't learn. The American population is not stupid (for the most part), it's insulting to have something like this shoved down our throats on a daily basis.

Clinton, never forget.
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eridani Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-10 12:36 AM
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4. No state budget anywhere can afford this kind of bullshit n/t
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joshcryer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-10 12:38 AM
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5. The local news had a hard time finding someone to support Colorado suing.
They went around asking people and only one person said "well I hope they pull if off but now is not the time to be suing."

Our budget can't afford it. No state can, as you said.
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Bitwit1234 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-10 01:19 AM
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9. Since the Chamber of Commerce dropped it and won't support
the lawsuits, then who will pay for them. It is mostly red states who are almost bankrupt ranting and raging. If I were a person in one of those states I would raise the devil wasting our money. The lawyers and those that know said they can't win, because federal law supersedes state law. So what's the purpose. Do they think because the Supreme is republican they will flip and make state law ruler over federal law. I don't think they are that stupid.
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TexasObserver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-10 01:08 AM
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8. They run to the courthouse when they don't get their way.
After Bush v. Gore, why wouldn't they?
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Golden Raisin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-10 01:59 AM
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11. And are the first to
complain and pontificate about "activist" judges, frivolous lawsuits, and too many laws and regulations by government.
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jillan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-10 02:13 AM
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12. It's been sooo many years since I took Psych 101 - but what is that disorder called when you find
fault in others because you dislike that same trait about yourself?

Displacement? Projectile displacement? :) I can't remember!

Whatever it's called - the pigs suffer from it!
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Golden Raisin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-10 02:16 AM
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13. Projection.
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boomerbust Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-10 05:56 PM
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24. Projection
Plus a big heap of PARANOIA
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JoeyT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-10 01:20 AM
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10. They don't care how hypocritical they are.
It won't come back to haunt them. It's one of the advantages of leading nothing but idiots and crazy people. Consistency is for the other guys.
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pundaint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-10 02:22 AM
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14. I just wish there was a Party to represent the Peoples interests with such conviction.
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unblock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-10 05:55 AM
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15. of course they know how hypocritical they are. they also know how much it bothers us.
it simply bothers us a lot more than it bothers them.
they know we have a sense of fairness that they lack.
they view our sense of fairness as a weakness to be exploited.
they get theirs and then try to convince us that us getting ours would be unfair.
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jillan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-10 11:22 AM
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17. Well said! Especially the last sentence.
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Raine1967 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-10 04:53 PM
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22. I think that is the definition of Sociopathy.
I try not to devolve into hyperbole. But I think this is the very definition of it.
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quaker bill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-10 06:39 AM
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16. All of a sudden they love "activist judges"
Edited on Tue Mar-23-10 06:40 AM by quaker bill
I thought the idea was that these sorts of things were to be sorted out through elections and the political process. But now they would love them some law made from the bench of an "activist judge" to "thwart the will of the people".

What they did not imagine when they were saying that crap was that sooner or later they would lose an election or two. In particular, they did not know how soon it would happen.
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jillan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-10 11:23 AM
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18. HERE WE GO!! Tweety just announced.
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Abacus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-10 11:30 AM
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19. Yep; and the same ones fixated on tax dollar waste are vandalising offices... /nt
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Jeff In Milwaukee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-10 11:32 AM
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20. They're not being Hypocritical.....They're just being Ironic
Big difference. B-i-g Difference.

This is like performance art.
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jillan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-10 06:02 PM
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25. Thanks alot Jeff - now I've got that Alanis Morissette song stuck in my head.
"Isn't it Ironic?" :P
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Jeff In Milwaukee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-10 08:22 AM
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26. It beats nude images of Mitch McConnell giving a back rub to Newt Gingrich....
Oh, I just shouldn't have gone there, should I?
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