Comments on: Let Them Eat Teabags

By: googleboy

googleboy — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 22:58:33 +0000

‘an ambassador, a distinguished attorney and many others contemplating races.’

Is this a reference to the bush guy? radnofsky? the cowboy clown? the drug addled stripper enthusiast deli owner? just checking. Lifelong D here Mr. Smith. Just very sad about what you and your friends seem to have put together for us.

By: Glenn W. Smith

Glenn W. Smith — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:27:46 +0000

Damn good points you make, sir. Well put, too.

By: whiskeydent

whiskeydent — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:21:34 +0000

Somewhere (was it a bar or a blog?) I postulated that a political movement gets crazier as its ideas become more irrelevant. To my eyes, that seems to be what’s going on in the health care debate.

The Republican/Insurance Conglomerate has made conflicting arguments, lying arguments and a bunch of other unclassifiable wildass arguments. The media, gawd bless ‘em, has enabled them for the most part. Journalists like to think of themselves as thorough, fair-minded professionals; the ones covering the health care debate are merely rubberneckers at a car wreck.

But the biggest sin is that the media — and to some extent the Administration – has let the Republican/Insurance Conglomerate get away with attacking Obama’s plan without offering their own. It’s chickensh*t.

The fact is, the Republican/Insurance Conglomerate has no health care plan, at least not one that anyone has shown a lick of interest in. They’re irrelevent, which is why they have no choice but to hurl crap at the wall and hope something sticks.

I hope our President calls them out on it tonight. I hope he delivers a high, hard one back at them and then lays out a clear mission that even those cowering weasels in Congress cannot ignore.

Good show, Glenn.

By: Glenn W. Smith

Glenn W. Smith — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:04:50 +0000

Well now, since the GOP officeholders seem mired in self-absorbed confusion about what they want to be when they grow up, this is a odd question. We have the former Comptroller, the Mayor of Houston, an ambassador, a distinguished attorney and many others contemplating races. I’m happy with that. Oh, by the way, we don’t get in a room and pick candidates. We practice democracy.

By: googleboy

googleboy — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:49:47 +0000

who is to blame or this pathetic field of candidates? don’t you get to be in the room with matt angle when you decide this crap? just checking.

By: scott field

scott field — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:06:47 +0000

this is a very very sad name-caller, hoping to whip up the troops to support a figurehead who has vastly lost his support…except the diehards who have NOTHING TO LOSE by shouting for health insurance, at all costs, as written in that dispicable document. Get real, stop wasting our time with ridiculous verbage that is hating and name calling. Where are the true individuals with brains? get off the bus, it’s going off the cliff………unless you just wanna lean back and die.

By: Russell Higginbotham

Russell Higginbotham — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:41:54 +0000

“…going to extremes, exaggerating and insulting people who don’t see things the way you do.”

Cindy, that sounds suspiciously like the tactics that are being used by opponents of the President and his programs.

By: Don A.

Don A. — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:54:47 +0000

I will have to say that as a WASP farm boy born in Ft. Worth, I have lived here a lifetime with hope that our DFW “small town gone metro” community would someday become educated or at least try to improve itself beyond the hate left over from the civil rights movement. But that is just not happening. Today after forced early retirement at the age of 57, quite frankly, I give up. I plan to soon leave changing Texas and the world to our youth, as I have been a miserable failure at it with my own political activism. It is time for me to head to one of our southern neighbors who provide health care out of pocket costs often cheaper than the 20% deductible of what is left of my separation package plan, which will soon be ending to make matters even worse.

Best of luck Texas, from a native Texan of the 50′s. The large percentage of you have served as the perfect example and guidance to me of exactly what I have never wanted to be, well at least those of you who follow the likes of Mr. Bush & Mr. Chenney, their philosophies or the latest rant on Fox News. Love and good luck to those who have not and my God be with you.

By: Yolanda

Yolanda — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:42:39 +0000

Cindy,
Aren’t you “the pot calling the kettle black!” Republicans and neo-cons (another name for racists) have continually disagreed with intelligent discussion on ANY issue brought up by this administration! To you I say “you clearly have a penchant for going to extremes, exaggerating and insulting people who don’t see things the way you do.” Sound familiar? Add fear-mongering to your unintelligible rantings.

By: Stevie F.

Stevie F. — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:22:54 +0000

Partisanship has gone mad. Our Governor’s participation in the harsh and destructive rhetoric is disappointing. I know he’s busy bullying university regents, but I’d like to see him spend some time on getting the state government to function better.