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Tom Harkin: The GOP doesn’t want us to pass this bill because they know America will love it
Hot Air ^ | March 4, 2010 | Allahpundit

Posted on 03/04/2010 3:18:06 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

I don’t even know where to start. Would it be too petty to note that he doesn’t seem to understand what “reverse psychology” is?

If the GOP truly feared the electoral consequences of passage — which, per every poll taken in the last six months, is simply insane to suggest — then a reverse-psychology strategy would be to make Democrats suspicious of passing it by encouraging them to do so, no?

That’s where the “reverse” part comes from — urging someone to act in the opposite way that you really want them to act.

If there’s any reverse psychology actually being practiced these days, which I doubt, it would be that the GOP secretly wants the Dems to pass this boondoggle because doing so might deliver Congress into their hands.

Beyond that, how might we apply this strategic logic to bills the Democrats opposed when the GOP was in the majority?

Did they block Bush’s stab at social security reform only because they feared it might work and would spur Republicans to new heights of popularity? Actually … that makes perfect sense.

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1 posted on 03/04/2010 3:18:06 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
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The GOP can’t stop the Dems from passing it. The Dems have all the votes they need.


2 posted on 03/04/2010 3:19:01 PM PST by kabar
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The polls say different, Tom. But who listens to the people, eh?


3 posted on 03/04/2010 3:19:40 PM PST by IronJack (=)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The horses rear hasn’t read the polls, hasn’t watched the videos of the Town Meetings, and he’s off his meds.


4 posted on 03/04/2010 3:19:51 PM PST by ExTexasRedhead (Clean the RAT/RINO Sewer in 2010 and 2012)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Living in Iowa, we all know that Tommy Bahama(he has two homes there) spews the same thing from his mouth as he does his alimentary canal exit port.


5 posted on 03/04/2010 3:20:53 PM PST by safetysign
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To: Free ThinkerNY
America loves it so much only 25% of the American people back it! Tom Harkin is delusional!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus

6 posted on 03/04/2010 3:21:22 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Shutup for Paul!


7 posted on 03/04/2010 3:21:33 PM PST by WOBBLY BOB (ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“I am not a Socialist”
“We can’t have an economic recovery without green jobs”
“We’ve got to burn this village to save it”
“Jumbo Shrimp”

Insanity.


8 posted on 03/04/2010 3:22:47 PM PST by jdsteel (CONGRESS: Take it again in twenty ten.)
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To: safetysign
It is time for you people to scrap this obsolescent wind bag.
9 posted on 03/04/2010 3:25:07 PM PST by DarthVader (Liberalism is the politics of EVIL whose time of judgment has come.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
I keep thinking it can’t get any more insane ... and then ... it does.
10 posted on 03/04/2010 3:26:56 PM PST by JustSurrounded (Want to see transformative? Pass the Enumerated Powers Act (H111-450, S111-1319))
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Yes, the American people will do a dance for joy to find out that their healthcare problems have been solved by... being forced with threat of jail to PURCHASE health insurance.


11 posted on 03/04/2010 3:28:05 PM PST by autumnraine (You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out!)
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The GOP should pass a battery-acid-enema bill because Tom Harkin would love it.


12 posted on 03/04/2010 3:29:11 PM PST by windsorknot (o o)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Yup,Americans are gonna love it.The most recent proof of that is that the voters of Massachusetts just sent a Republican who vowed to vote “nay” on HusseinCare to the US Senate.


13 posted on 03/04/2010 3:29:13 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Host The Beer Summit-->Win The Nobel Peace Prize!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
“Paternalism is the greatest despotism imaginable.” Harkin is one of those people in Washington that believes he knows what is best for all Americans. Every dictatorship that has ever existed has forced his beliefs on his subjects for their own good. Harkin is another despot among a whole host of despots in congress.
14 posted on 03/04/2010 3:31:22 PM PST by Nosterrex
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To: kabar
The Dems have all the votes they need.

The Dems have all the *members* they need.It's still by no means certain that they have all the *votes*.

15 posted on 03/04/2010 3:31:37 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Host The Beer Summit-->Win The Nobel Peace Prize!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Wonder which “America” Harkin is talking about?


16 posted on 03/04/2010 3:32:40 PM PST by browniexyz
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17 posted on 03/04/2010 3:38:36 PM PST by darkwing104 (Lets get dangerous)
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Tom Harkin: The GOP doesn’t want us to pass this bill because they know America will love it

What planet is he living on?

18 posted on 03/04/2010 3:38:46 PM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Tom Harkin was the kid in the classroom who would pass gas and start yelling, Ooooo, Who Did That? That’s how he got the nickname “Stinky Harkin.” Just my opinion.


19 posted on 03/04/2010 3:40:13 PM PST by drypowder
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20 posted on 03/04/2010 3:43:35 PM PST by MuttTheHoople (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9c/TeddyVWad.jpg)
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