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Friday, December 3rd, 2004Supporters of Kerry (or more likely haters of Bush) gathered for a their first group therapy session in Florida yesterday, and according to Boca Raton News they screamed “epithets at President Bush as they shared their emotions with licensed mental health counselors.”
The first of several free noontime therapy sessions at the American Health
Association in Boca Raton was designed to treat what mental health counselors have dubbed Post Election Selection Trauma (PEST). “If I had a cardboard cutout of President Bush, and these people wanted to throw darts at it, I would let them do it,” Robert J. Gordon, AHA executive director, told the Boca News after the session. “It’s no joke. People with PEST were traumatized by the election. If you even mention religion, their faces turn blister-red as they shout at Bush.”
Oh no! Not religion… Ahhhhhhhh! What a sad bunch. Post Election Selection Trauma? I guess that’s the new way to describe mental illness that can be blamed on the election. I keep thinking about what Kerry supporters and Bush haters would be doing today if Bush had lost. I imagine that if you multiplied the gloating I’ve done since November 2, you could increase that 10 fold, and it wouldn’t even come close to the kind of activity the Left would have been engaging following a Kerry victory.
Reading through this article, one thing is clear, Bush’s victory is not the cause of their mental instability. When you look at the things these anguished people lament about, they are regurgitations of Democratic talking points and Kerry campaign rhetoric.
- “I’m scared … Democracy is at stake and nobody is rising to protest this president.”
“I want to be a patriot, but it’s impossible to be a patriot in an immoral war.”
“Bush is breaking up marriages and dividing families by keeping our troops in Iraq.”
The meeting facilitator also said, “The media outlets, especially Rush Limbaugh and his ilk on talk radio, scare our patients to death.” One patient is reported to have that he thinks the country “is now run by fascists.” “Another felt personally threatened by the president’s love for big business. Many believe Bush is going to draft their grandchildren. The anxiety may not affect them every day, but it affects their energy level.”
Finally at the end of the article it is revealed that “many of the Kerry supporters had visited [the trauma specialist] for severe mental problems prior to the election.” So here we have people with a history of mental problems claiming to have a bogus condition called Post Election Selection Trauma and repeating arguments and accusations made by the Democrats.
Who made these wackos even worse?? John Kerry and the Democratic Party.
“That Thing” Called Marriage
Tuesday, November 30th, 2004I was amused at a recent rant over at Daily Kos which attacks the very popular position that gay couples should not be legally allowed to marry (Kos, of course ignores the fact that a sizeable percentage of people who are Democrats also are against gay marriage)…
He says:
Arguments against gay marriage are predicated entirely, 100 percent, on emotion.
That can be said of virtually every single argument made by Democrats when debating issues. Some I have previously written about.
And the vehicle for those emotional appeals are the word “marriage”. A mere semantic.
If semantics are not a big deal, what’s wrong with “civil unions”? For Kos, it seems that calling them “civil unions” isn’t good enough… The word “marriage” apparently is really important.
Kos later describes marriage as
that thing with a 50 percent success rate
Well, gee, if “that thing” doesn’t mean what it used because 50% of them end up in divorce, why does the gay lobby want it so badly? Kos wants to talk about emotional arguments, what does he think he and other people who agree with him are doing when they use the divorce rate as a means to sneer at the institution of marriage? It doesn’t make sense that they push so hard for marriage and at the same time justify their position by belittling it.
Kos’s biggest problem is that he seems to ignore the fact that being against gay marriage is not limited to conservatives or Republicans. Of course he knows this. You didn’t need to be an expert at math to understand the votes made in Georgia, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Utah, each of which easily passed a ban of same-sex marriage. Kos still presents it as a “conservative bigotted [sic] position” and completely ignores what could be as much as 25% of his own party that agrees that marriage should be between a man and a woman.
Of course, this is the reason why gay marriage advocates do not want the people to vote on this issue. They want judges to write – not interpret the law.
Recounting To Illegitimacy
Monday, November 29th, 2004According to the North County News, the Kerry-Edwards campaign’s involvement in the recount of vote in Ohio is increasing. The Kerry-Edwards campaign website even posted this note, asking for supporters to contribute to the campaigns General Election Legal and Accounting Compliance Fund:
The Federal Election Commission has just granted our request to raise funds now to cover recount expenses. Your contribution to Kerry-Edwards 2004 GELAC will provide the resources to make sure we are prepared to win the post election day battles.
The most interesting thing about this is the fact that for four years virtually everyone on the left and the Democratic Party used the circumstances of Bush’s victory in 2000 (his winning the electoral college vote, not the national popular vote) to label him an illegitimate President.
Today, the Democrats have focused all their energies and conspiracy theories to hold out hope that Bush’s victory in Ohio, much larger than his victory in Florida back in 2000, can be overturned. However, based on the number of votes at play, this could only give Kerry enough votes in the Electoral College to claim victory, but not the national popular vote. This would give Kerry an illegitimate victory by the standards they set for Bush four years ago.
Recount after recount after recount four years ago could not change the results in Florida. Do the Democrats and the Kerry-Edwards campaign really believe that the results of Ohio could be changed? My guess is probably not. Kerry supporters and Bush-haters on the other hand probably do to some degree.
Liberal bloggers certainly welcome the idea of the recounts, even with the zero-chance that the results of Ohio could be overturned. Why are the same people who were advocating abolishing the Electoral College now hoping to achieve a victory by the same means?
What could their justification be? Payback? A self-gratifying “Gotchya” moment? Would overturning Ohio suddenly mean Kerry has a mandate too?
Let’s stop pretending this has anything to do with “letting every vote count.” They want to challenge every rule and every ballot, and claim irregularities and injustice gave Ohio to Bush. Any sane person knows that the results are not going to change. Is this really about votes, or public opinion? If it’s about votes, then they are fighting a lost cause for a victory that they considered illegitimate not too long ago. If it is for public opinion, then they are only achieving further polarization of America, thus, the “divided America” they blamed on Bush would ultimately be the baby they raised and nurtured.
The American Taliban?
Monday, November 29th, 2004You can actually listen to his bigotry here.
In or Out of Kyoto, We Still Get Screwed
Saturday, November 27th, 2004Even Clinton new the Kyoto Protocol was not a good idea… Yet today, even though Bush stood his ground, we’re still going to pay a price for other countries signing on to the Kyoto Protocol. With Russia signing onto the treaty, it has enough votes to become “global law” on February 16, 2005.
Even without U.S. participation in the treaty, American firms face extra costs. Plants in Europe, Japan and Canada that are owned by U.S. firms will have to cut their global-warming emissions. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce estimates that Kyoto will cost American businesses with overseas operations billions of dollars.
Countries that have signed onto the Kyoto pact might decide to subsidize their own products or slap penalties on U.S. imports, says Tom Richichi, a lawyer at Beveridge & Diamond who advises companies and industries on the treaty.
The pact “may create economic distortion, and that distortion may work to the detriment of this country,” Richichi says.
I’m sure the left is very proud that they once again can contribute negatively to our economy. They essentially still get a victory, even if it’s not the one they had originally hoped for. If the Kyoto Protocol hurts our economy, Democrats can blame Bush, regardless of the fact that liberals/Democrats are the ones who blast Bush for getting us officially out of the flawed treaty. If our economy will be hurt just because of our plants in countries abiding by Kyoto regulations, imagine how bad things would be if we had ratified it and implemented the regulations here in our country.
There’s Always An Excuse
Wednesday, November 24th, 2004Senator-elect Barack Obama (D-IL) says that nationally his party doesn’t know what it stands for.
“We tend to talk more in policy terms and we’ve got our 10-point plans, but we don’t have a narrative, I think, of what it means to be a Democrat,” he tells The Early Show co-anchor Hannah Storm. Obama, keynote speaker at this year’s Democratic National Convention in Boston, was elected in November to the U.S. Senate.
“I think that if you ask the average person on the street: ‘What does it mean to be a Republican?’ - whether they agree with the Republicans or not, they have a clear sense of what the Republican Party stands for, and we’re going to have to, I think, do some intellectual work to make sure we understand what it means to be a Democrat.”
How sad… Besides the fact this is a lame excuse for losing the election, it seems like every time they lose they say they had problems getting their message out, defining what their message is, etc. etc. etc.
Can’t they just accept that a majority of people reject their message?
Out of Power, Democrats Desire “Bipartisanship”
Saturday, November 20th, 2004The Democratic Party, which wouldn’t know the real meaning of bipartisanship if it stared them in the face, are certainly bringing it up a lot now that they have suffered devastating loses in past elections.
Rallying a party stung by presidential and congressional losses, the incoming Senate Democratic leader reminded fellow lawmakers on Saturday of their shared commitment to help the nation.
In his party’s weekly radio address, Nevada Sen. Harry Reid struck a positive message of bipartisanship and determination.
“Americans are counting on their elected officials to be there for them, to pursue policies that will make it a little easier for them to realize their dreams,” he said.
Elevated to minority leader earlier this week, Reid succeeds South Dakota Sen. Tom Daschle, who lost his re-election bid on Nov. 2. Senate Democrats head into the new Congress with fewer seats - 44 - than at any time since the Great Depression.
If we learned anything from Bush’s first term, it is that Democrats talk “bipartisanship” but don’t walk it. Let’s stop pretending that Democrats really have the interests of America at heart. They are out of power - probably for many years to come, and their current “desire” for bipartisanship only exists as a desperate attempt to claim genuine interest in “working together” so they can accuse President Bush of failing to reach out to the minority party later on.
If the Democrats were in power today, you wouldn’t see them talking about bipartisanship, or even acting in a bipartisan way. They would be governing as if they had a mandate.
Bush is going to get things done for the good of the country. He’ll do that with or without the “help” of Democrats.
Don’t Let The Door Hit You On The Way Out
Saturday, November 6th, 2004I couldn’t help but enjoy this article…
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