Sunscreen, deck chairs, and political illiteracy - the Kill the Bill Rally in D.C.

The bad words (4.00 / 2)

Yeah, I hated to type out the word nigger and the word faggot. I went back on forth on it. But ultimately I chose not to use the socially acceptable euphemisms, because what was said, was said in the light of day right out in front of the Jesus most of these people invoked all day long, and it is they who don't deserve to have what they said euphemized and made safe for polite Sunday reading.  

It's not a particularly snappy signature, but here's what I think we need in the next NJ Democratic State Chair.  

---

by: Rosi Efthim @ Sun Mar 21, 2010 at 22:37:09 PM UTC

On MSNBC this morning (0.00 / 0)

The guest, author of a book drawing parallels between the civil rights movement and the battle for healthcare, was stymied when Scarborough feigned outrage at how anyone could compare the two. It was obvious in the context of the discussion that the author wanted to say what you said, but felt he could not say it on television.

Sometimes unvarnished truth speaks best for itself.

---

by: Jeff Gardner @ Mon Mar 22, 2010 at 17:34:32 PM UTC

[ Parent ]

Rosi, Joey - (4.00 / 1)

THANK YOU! This post is the reason I continute to read BlueJersey!

---

by: denniscmcgrath @ Sun Mar 21, 2010 at 22:44:32 PM UTC

Maryscott (4.00 / 1)

I see our fellow blogger Maryscott O'Connor, from My Left Wing posted here at Blue Jersey, turning the heat up on reform-perfectionists on our side of the aisle.

Read Maryscott here.


It's not a particularly snappy signature, but here's what I think we need in the next NJ Democratic State Chair.  

---

by: Rosi Efthim @ Sun Mar 21, 2010 at 22:45:16 PM UTC

But Why weren't you HERE? (1.50 / 2)

Stop Obama's Wars
https://secure2.convio.net/pep...

---

by: Winston Smith @ Sun Mar 21, 2010 at 22:54:23 PM UTC

Story of my life, Winston (4.00 / 1)

Wherever I am, somebody thinks I should have been somewhere else.

[sigh]

It's not a particularly snappy signature, but here's what I think we need in the next NJ Democratic State Chair.  

---

by: Rosi Efthim @ Sun Mar 21, 2010 at 23:03:38 PM UTC

[ Parent ]

kudos to you for going (0.00 / 0)

and being able to maintain your sanity--- I definitely could not when surrounded by teabaggers (like at Pallone's town hell meeting this summer).  Reports like this that expose them for the racists they are need to go viral.

I was in DC earlier this week for a school trip and we only saw a handful of them.  I personally did not get into it with any of them but someone in my group did.  He's about to lose his healthcare on his birthday (ages off his dad's plan).  They were in Washington all week.  

I'm hoping that after this bill passes the movement will go away but I am not optimistic on it.  

http://outspokenliberal.blogsp...

---

by: tabbycat31 @ Sun Mar 21, 2010 at 23:11:08 PM UTC

The ... horror ... (0.00 / 0)

Yeah, tabbycat, I understand.

I was at 2 Pallone health care town halls. Piscataway was bad. But Red Bank was a frickin' mob close to riot, and Pallone stood up there for 3 consecutive sessions of it in a large auditorium at capacity. There were times I thought I might be punched because I had a camera going the whole time. But I think I was more worried there because the crazy was confined in the four walls.

Outside in the sunshine, the same people looked sillier to me. Sadder and more vulnerable, too. They're laying their lives on the line to advocate against their own best interests. I cannot get over the number of people, clad in the colors of the flag, and completely unprotected if they should suddenly fall ill.

It's not a particularly snappy signature, but here's what I think we need in the next NJ Democratic State Chair.  

---

by: Rosi Efthim @ Sun Mar 21, 2010 at 23:39:00 PM UTC

[ Parent ]

I noticed that the teabaggers do what they're told (0.00 / 0)

and many of them do not realize that Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck's best interests are not their own.  Both of them are multimillionaires-- most of them are not (but think they'll become filthy rich).  

http://outspokenliberal.blogsp...

---

by: tabbycat31 @ Mon Mar 22, 2010 at 00:12:02 AM UTC

[ Parent ]

Sad, mad, concerned 'n terrified. (0.00 / 0)

Yeah, the regurgitation thing is alarming. As a partisan, it makes me contemptuous. But that's the easy gut-level response. Under that, it horrifies me that adults - you know, who can drive and everything - are this available to the intellectual control wielded by more cunning strategists.

It's not a particularly snappy signature, but here's what I think we need in the next NJ Democratic State Chair.  

---

by: Rosi Efthim @ Mon Mar 22, 2010 at 00:45:51 AM UTC

[ Parent ]

You're one courageous woman (0.00 / 0)

You have my deepest respect (well, you already did), Rosi, for wading into that crowd of ill-informed, bigoted, angry, and hard-hearted people. Judging from the venom coming from their mouths and the threats of violence on some of their signs, I'd fear finding myself surrounded by them.

---

by: Alex @ Sun Mar 21, 2010 at 23:25:58 PM UTC

Quoting G. Gordon Liddy: (0.00 / 0)

The trick is not minding.  

It's not a particularly snappy signature, but here's what I think we need in the next NJ Democratic State Chair.  

---

by: Rosi Efthim @ Mon Mar 22, 2010 at 02:02:38 AM UTC

[ Parent ]

This health bill... (0.00 / 0)

...is a watered down conservative piece of legislation.

Could you imagine a world 10 years after HR 676 goes into effect.

"My kid would have died from cancer had HR 676 not passed, but its still a socialistcommunistnaziobamarapistindonesiaracist law, and I wish I could go back to the old days of insurance denials for pre-existing conditions"

-Jordan O

http://pinelandsprogressive.blogspot.com

---

by: IndependentNJ @ Mon Mar 22, 2010 at 01:16:15 AM UTC

try and get the senate to pass HR 676 (0.00 / 0)

that's the bill I agree with too-- it's the perfect.  This bill is a step in the right direction.   We need to pass this, then work on Alan Grayson's public option bill (HR 4789)

Rush Holt told me this week that he thinks we will have single payer within 10 years.  He said Americans were stubborn and only after they realize their own mistakes will they adapt like the rest of the world.  

http://outspokenliberal.blogsp...

---

by: tabbycat31 @ Mon Mar 22, 2010 at 02:31:10 AM UTC

[ Parent ]

Politics ... (0.00 / 0)

is the art of the possible.

As much as that may make us want to hurl sofas through plate glass.  

It's not a particularly snappy signature, but here's what I think we need in the next NJ Democratic State Chair.  

---

by: Rosi Efthim @ Mon Mar 22, 2010 at 02:34:33 AM UTC

[ Parent ]

My Boy Went To Washington This Weekend (0.00 / 0)

...with his high school robotics team.

First he went to Richmond, VA, where the competition was held.

He saw the "Joker" poster down there, after getting off the train.   It was on a "gentleman's club."

He said the kids were all making fun of the teabaggers.

I told him to stay away from those people.   They're nuts, pure and simple.

---

by: NNadir @ Mon Mar 22, 2010 at 04:14:52 AM UTC

Good advice, NNadir. (0.00 / 0)

You know, one item of unmistakable weirdness yesterday was the sudden arrival by bus of a wild-eyed bunch of Boy Sprouts on class trip. They looked pretty rattled (arriving during the shouts of Obama! Show your face! inexplicably being yelled at the Rayburn House Office Building, which is not the end of the national Mall where the President could be found).


It's not a particularly snappy signature, but here's what I think we need in the next NJ Democratic State Chair.  

---

by: Rosi Efthim @ Mon Mar 22, 2010 at 04:31:11 AM UTC

[ Parent ]

Fantastic post (0.00 / 0)

5!

---

by: Jeff Gardner @ Mon Mar 22, 2010 at 17:30:32 PM UTC

Thanks. (0.00 / 0)

Do you have images of Glenn Beck, Palin, or McCain as "The Joker?"

Sustainability: Harnessing processes rather than consuming resources.

---

by: lfurman @ Mon Mar 22, 2010 at 17:57:55 PM UTC