http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7523630BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-20-10 04:54 PM
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'I just want my country back,' the Brown voter said.
Edited on Wed Jan-20-10 04:54 PM by BurtWorm
The country that Bush-Cheney drove right into the sewer, he wants back. Because that's the only country the poor schmuck has ever known.
We're way beyond the decline of American civilization, folks.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2010/01/19/coakley_br...
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He identified himself as Mike Doherty, a heavy equipment operator from suburban Hanson. "I just want my country back," he said. "I want to see my legislation before my face -- not behind my back."
Like many in the crowd, Doherty called himself an independent (or "unenrolled," the technical term in Massachusetts) and said he'd only recently become involved in politics -- and even more recently with the Brown campaign. "I was tired of watching the liberals run roughshod over all of us," he said.
Doherty's presence, and the presence of a surprising number of other blue-collar and middle-class voters, spoke to a key cog in Brown's winning coalition.
In accumulating more than 1.1 million votes and defeating Martha Coakley by 5 points, he racked up the second-highest share of votes for a Republican Senate or gubernatorial candidate in Massachusetts since 1972. (Only Bill Weld, reelected with 71 percent in 1994, did better.) Returns suggest that Brown's victory was built on the increasingly tax-phobic bedroom community dwellers outside of Routes 128 and 495 (the two interstates that ring Boston) and on working-class voters in and around the state's small and midsize cities -- older, largely white places like Fitchburg and Brockton.
For Democrats outside Massachusetts, who must this fall defend suddenly vulnerable congressional majorities, the challenge now is to figure out how their party -- whose candidate led this race by 30 points just a few weeks ago -- could lose in such a reliably Democratic state. Was it just a complacent candidate who fell asleep at the switch (and then proved disastrously inept when she woke up)? Was it something particular to Massachusetts -- a rejection of the Democratic Party that has dominated Beacon Hill for decades? Or was it worse: an unmistakable sign that the nation's electorate is in revolt against the Democratic Party that now runs Washington.
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Let the elitism begin.
texastoast (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-20-10 04:56 PM
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1. They must be a different species
Unbelievable that they know so little.
Deep13 (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-20-10 04:58 PM
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2. What a ****ing idiot. nt
gmoney (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-20-10 04:59 PM
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4. You KNOW this guy stays up all night readin' thet thar Congressional Record...
and ever gol-durn paragraph of each bill in the House AND Senate.
Or not.
Initech (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-20-10 05:02 PM
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7. What happened to my skewl?????
MUAD_DIB (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-20-10 05:03 PM
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10. I want to see my legislation before my face -- not behind my back.
Edited on Wed Jan-20-10 05:03 PM by MUAD_DIB
What the **** does that mean? Does he understand that the whole health care bill has been in circulating in Congress for a few months now?
Does he understand the ****ing legislative process??!! Could he actually articulate it?
So now instead of legislation he will get "NO!"
"NO" on healthcare.
"NO" on fixing Wall Street.
"Yes" on tera.
Wow. This guy is just another "Joey" from the sticks.
Political Heretic (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-20-10 05:17 PM
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17. Excuse me but the legislation process was FULL of closed-door deals and secret meetings
Not open to the public and not at all transparent.
poverlay (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-20-10 05:46 PM
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27. Of course not. If the legislation isn't short enough to fit on a bumper sticker and simple enough
to grace a pre-school picture book it's all "back room deals" and "unwieldy behemoth, no transparency" liberal, socialist country stealing.
Every time I get one of those asinine "I want my country back" emails, I just reply: "NO".
Idiocrats...
gateley (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-20-10 05:04 PM
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11. "....from the Black guy." nt
Couldn`t forget the race card.
shawcomm (823 posts) Wed Jan-20-10 05:19 PM
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20. Yep, that's the hidden addendum
Ask Harry Reid or Bill Clinton...they know about those things.
Bluerthanblue (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-20-10 05:05 PM
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12. hmmm..... "my country"---
'I want'- 'me' 'my'....
yep, sounds like a real wonderful country to live in-
The me vs. the we.
I'll take the we anytime. A society of one isn't going to last or succeed.
From the gimme gimme gimme group no less.
proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-20-10 05:10 PM
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15. I made that same observation almost a year ago
I drove by one of their rallies and every sign had either ME or MY or I on it.
They are just selfish and painfully ignorant.
Yeah,bet they even scream about the tax on the Cadillac health plans the teachers unions have.
jpak (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-20-10 05:17 PM
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19. "I want my country back" - teabagger racist code-speak
yup!
Lurkers...if you have the balls do a DU search on that term,I dare you and then post it on that thread.
Seemed to be said a lot over the last 8-9 years.
Must be all of you are racists.
