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vienna · 10-01-13, 01:40 PM

On the local news here in Los Angeles, someone came up with a very clever analogy for the Far Right's attempt to stop ACA by shutting down the government: It's kind of like the last place team in the league trying to stop the World Series just because they didn't make it to the playoffs...

The Far Right's minions need to accept the fact neither Obama nor the Democrats soley passed the ACA; the law was passed by Congress and only could have done so with the complicity of both Dem and GOP members of both Houses. Obama din't pass the law: no President can pass a law, only Congress. The Dems in Congress didn't solely pass the law: they don't have the numbers just on their own to do so and were abetted by some GOP members. The Far Right also doesn't have anywhere near the numbers to overturn the law through the proscribed Consitutional i.e., legal means, and are now resorting to childish bullying tactics. They are an embarassment. And the whole idea of blacklisting by the extreme Right of any GOP Congressional member who does not toe the line is anti-thetical not only to the ideals of Constitutional, democratic processes, it reeks of power through extortion, or less delicately, racketeerism. If the only way the "ayatollahs" of the GOP Far Right can exert their influence is to blackmail their own membership, then the future of the Party is dim indeed. If the Party cannot sway opinion using reason or logic or decency and must bully it's way through, they will find themselves even further out of favor with the voting public than they are now. It is impossible to defeat your foe (Obama/Dems) when you hand to them a fully loaded weapon to use against you...

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vienna Navy Seal Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Anywhere but the here & now... Posts: 7,732 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	On the local news here in Los Angeles, someone came up with a very clever analogy for the Far Right's attempt to stop ACA by shutting down the government: It's kind of like the last place team in the league trying to stop the World Series just because they didn't make it to the playoffs... The Far Right's minions need to accept the fact neither Obama nor the Democrats soley passed the ACA; the law was passed by Congress and only could have done so with the complicity of both Dem and GOP members of both Houses. Obama din't pass the law: no President can pass a law, only Congress. The Dems in Congress didn't solely pass the law: they don't have the numbers just on their own to do so and were abetted by some GOP members. The Far Right also doesn't have anywhere near the numbers to overturn the law through the proscribed Consitutional i.e., legal means, and are now resorting to childish bullying tactics. They are an embarassment. And the whole idea of blacklisting by the extreme Right of any GOP Congressional member who does not toe the line is anti-thetical not only to the ideals of Constitutional, democratic processes, it reeks of power through extortion, or less delicately, racketeerism. If the only way the "ayatollahs" of the GOP Far Right can exert their influence is to blackmail their own membership, then the future of the Party is dim indeed. If the Party cannot sway opinion using reason or logic or decency and must bully it's way through, they will find themselves even further out of favor with the voting public than they are now. It is impossible to defeat your foe (Obama/Dems) when you hand to them a fully loaded weapon to use against you... <O> __________________ __________________________________________________ __ Last edited by vienna; 10-01-13 at 01:59 PM.