Worth repeating. Republicans HATE the Government but DEMAND support when a crisis hits.

[DainBramaged]

And why isn't OUR noise machine (the one that squeaks like a mouse) reminding the public every minute in the Reich-wing media about these lying liars like Haley Barbour and Bobby Jindal, the same two who made headlines trashing the stimulus.


When the storm clears in November, maybe then we'll get an idea about how to push back against these fuckers. John McCain appears yet again on Meet The Press, and not a word from the Left.

I sit here and simply shake my head at the lost opportunities.

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. Absolutely true.

They trash government at every opportunity, then they're first in line with their grubby hands out.

[Ian David]

2. Here's what President Obama SHOULD do.

When The President declares a Federal Disaster Area someplace like Texas, he should fly down to that state and hold a press conference with the governor.

He should stand in front of the cameras with, for example, Gov. Perry.

"Mr. Governor, even though you said you wanted to SECEDE from the United States, will you support this generous aid from the people of America?"

[Triana]

3. Ditto teabaggers

Example:

My dufus teabagger BIL HATES 'socialism' - but you better bet your sweet pattootie he's out there getting in line for SSI and whatever else he can get. Talk about 'lazy'. This guy is a bullshitter duJour. Never worked a blue collar job a day in his life. Most days he didn't work at all, just surfed the net and bullshitted. Now he's 'disabled' (well, mentally, obviously) and he wants his social security and SSI. Even though he's now home every day, he lifts not a finger around the house, doesn't help with the grandkid, doesn't help with my elderly mother, and even though my sister takes care of everyone and keeps the house clean and it's killing her, he won't let her use HIS car to go anywhere. She has to use my mother's instead.

I haven't stirred the pot yet by asking about the social security and SSI: "but isn't that socialism?". Or, asking about the public schools they sent their kids to, and public roads they drive on, and the mail delivery they rely on. Isn't THAT "socialism" too?

What a jerk.

I am trying to keep my mouth shut for my sister's sake. Teabagging brain-dead fat-ass moron. Egh.

[dkf]

4. Do you think he shouldn't get social security and ssi?

[DainBramaged]

7. Do you? I think EVERYONE deserves SS and SSDI if they've paid into it

but I don't think hypocrites should be allowed to go unscathed in the political battles they create.

[dkf]

8. So you think he should get SSI for the rest of his life and simply be grateful?

I'm just trying to figure out what you think should be done here. If you think he is faking it that's not right either.

[Triana]

10. I think he ought to return the checks and walk his talk or STFU

That's what I think HE ought to do. He's a blazing hypocrite.

Of course he's entitled to it. But then SO is everyone else who has paid into it and gets it - but he has a problem with OTHER people getting it. It's only OK for HIM.

He's an idiot. Typical Republican/teabagger. (zero diff, IMO)

bytheway I'm sure you understood that but thanks for asking anyway.

[DainBramaged]

11. Did I voice my opinion as to whether or not he is faking it?

And why do I need to solve the problem, he isn't my relative.

[Triana]

9. I have no problem with him getting it. I have a problem with him grousing

that he doesn't want OTHER people to get it and if they do, it's "socialism". That's a typical Republican attitude: "I got mine f*ck you".

I don't appreciate it.

If he's going to grouse that it's SOCIALISM then maybe he ought to return the checks and WALK HIS TALK and refuse the money - either that or STFU.

[Javaman]

5. Reminds me of an old Ella Fitzgerald song...

"first you say you do and then you don't, then you say you will and then you won't, you're undecided now, so what are you going to do!".

LOL

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. It's incredible how their hypocrisies show up in a crisis.

[Uncle Joe]

12. What they really hate is Government which represents the best interests of the people, they love

government which believes in corporate supremacy over "We the people's" government and in turn over the American People.

They use the phrase of hating government; in general as a means to scapegoat or demonize it in order alienate the people from their true representatives, this serves to weaken the government and the people, which then allows the mega-corporations and oligarchs to fill the vacuum and dominate.

Thanks for the thread, DainBramaged.