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" At the end of the day, the GOP is just a party full of loud, bigoted, pig-ignorant assholes"
From Brother Charles Pierce:
These are not people who can be cajoled or tricked or persuaded into doing the right thing ever. These are not people who can be compromised with. These are not people with whom you can have a "debate" in any meaningful sense. At the end of the day, the GOP is just a party full of loud, bigoted, pig-ignorant assholes, who have been gathered under one roof and weaponized with money and media because, as it turns out, there are just enough loud, bigoted, pig-ignorant assholes wandering the land to wreck the country if they all really put their backs into it.
And some really rich, really terrible people really, really want them to put their backs into it.
As one disreputable pundit has repeatedly pointed out, we have once again become a house divided against itself, and such a structure cannot stand.
http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-asshole-party.html
WASHINGTON -- It's not until you watch it happen close up that the way things do not get done in the World's Legislative Body becomes well and truly nauseating. This afternoon, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont brought forth a carefully crafted bill to provide $21 billion in new veterans benefits over the next decade. These included medical benefits, education benefits, and job-training. It contained 26 provisions that came from the Republican members of the Veterans Affairs Committee, which Sanders chairs. It was so wide-ranging that it contained a provision that would eliminate a rule prohibiting the Veterans Administration from covering in vitro fertilization on behalf of veterans whose wounds prevent them from conceiving a child in the usual manner. There was a time, and not so long ago, when both parties would fall all over themselves to help America's veterans. How many platitudes are we going to hear on the stump between now and November about America's Heroes and Our Wounded Warriors? This bill was a put up or shut up moment.
It failed.
Badly.
These are not people who can be cajoled or tricked or persuaded into doing the right thing ever. These are not people who can be compromised with. These are not people with whom you can have a "debate" in any meaningful sense. At the end of the day, the GOP is just a party full of loud, bigoted, pig-ignorant assholes, who have been gathered under one roof and weaponized with money and media because, as it turns out, there are just enough loud, bigoted, pig-ignorant assholes wandering the land to wreck the country if they all really put their backs into it.
And some really rich, really terrible people really, really want them to put their backs into it.
As one disreputable pundit has repeatedly pointed out, we have once again become a house divided against itself, and such a structure cannot stand.
http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-asshole-party.html
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...primarily for the misuse of the word: ''pig-ignorant'' assholes.
- Comparing Teapublicans to pigs is a slur against all porcines, everywhere! He was right about everything else, though......
an unbiased, independent and unconsolidated media. If the media told the unvarnished truth the American people would not put up with the people that are destroying this country from within.
Example: an AP headline yesterday: Senate Kills Veterans Benefits Bill. Really ??? No Shit ???
41 Republican Senators killed the bill.
The media is at the heart of the problem ! 
Mahalo Charlie Pierc, driftglass, whomever else, and phantom p!
