"You, sir or madam, are an idiot."
No, I assure you I am not.
I am telling you like it is.
The Republican leadership has put the party into a jam dive this week over two extremely important life issues.
Terry Schiavo is the most obvious, the but the retreat on the nuclear option is the most serious.
Republicans like you seem to be putting your fingers in your ears and shouting "La la la, I can't hear you!", which at least is true: you're not hearing us.
The pro-lifers feel betrayed, our whole agenda coming apart in one week. The consequences of that for the whole Republican movement are disastrous. There is no victory for anybody if this nonsense continues. The Republican leadership has got to act, quickly, to stave off a crisis.
That's the way it is.
Calling me an idiot is not going to change the fact that that's the way it is.
Are all pro-lifers idiots for being horrified at Executive inaction, and horrified that the Republican Senators are waffling on the nuclear option?
What is idiotic about us?
This is a reasonable reaction to seeing people who have the power refuse to use it to carry out the agenda they were elected to carry out.
If it is unreasonable to demand that, fine, I'm an idiot.
A voting, contributing, party organizing idiot.
Along with a lot of other broken-hearted Christian pro-life idiots who have sweated blood for THIRTY YEARS to help get this party where it is, only to have it turn away from using its power to do right when in the clutch.
Yeah, we're all a bunch of idiot dumbasses.
Who needs us?
Nope. You are telling it like you FEEL it is.
Re the so-called nuclear option. Personally, I'd rather see them return to true filibusters. Bring in the cots and keep everyone in session until the filibuster is broken. That's the honest way to do it.
As for the rest of it, take a chill pill, because you are, indeed, being an idiot. Betrayed? The entire legislative and executive branches of both the Florida and federal governments has tried to accommodate you people. They have gone WAY beyond in an effort to accommodate your point of view.
You are now demanding that the President and/or the governor of Florida betray their oaths of office, initiate severe national and state constitutional crises, and break the law in order to accommodate you.
You hypocrites make me sick. Why Schiavo? Hmmm... Why aren't you similarly screaming about every single case like this in the nation? Never remove life support measures from anyone under any circumstances, no matter how cruel, how inhumane, how unmerciful it would be to leave them hooked up. Set yourselves up as the god you profess to speak for, and try to never let anyone die under any circumstances. Call in the National Guard every time someone pulls the plug or removes feeding tubes.
Heck, why stop with the National Guard?! As long as you're throwing away every shred of constitutional government, throw away Posse Comitatus and call in the army.
Better yet, call in the militia that keeps saying it's going to go protect our borders (but instead retreats like cowards to remote places). Get them to surround the hospice, put guns to the heads of the doctors, and put the feeding tube back in.
How dare you whine about feeling betrayed, you ungrateful twit. I didn't see the President of the United States and the Congress of the United States disrupt their entire schedules, fly back to Washington, pass emergency legislation (and spend a lot of taxpayers money in the process) to represent my views. They represented your views.