If Dino Rossi is going to continue to drop hints that he’s considering a run for the U.S. Senate, then it’s time he started answering questions about where he stands on the hot button issues of the day. Like, does he pledge, if elected, to join his fellow Republicans in pushing for repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act?
Well Dino…? Do you?
Because if you don’t start addressing legitimate public policy issues, then questions about your character and shady business dealings are all voters will have to assess you as a candidate.
I’m just sayin’.
My guess is Rossi is for Legislation that is Constitutional, first & foremost.
Once that determination is made…
If it is Constitutional, Rossi would fight to repeal it.
If it’s not, he will fight for a cost-effective way to improve Health care that won’t cut current services or Medicare.
Rossi: “I’m not running on that issue….”
(At least, that’s what he said whenever he didn’t want to answer substantive questions during his last gubanatorial run).
Well fuck…
Where’s the Dino-Sore anyway?
Open letter to Republicans (found on Rosie O’Donnell’s blog):
We had eight years of Bush and Cheney, Now you get mad!?
You didn’t get mad when the SUPREME COURT STOPPED A LEGAL RECOUNT AND
APPOINTED A PRESIDENT.
You didn’t get mad when CHENEY ALLOWED ENERGY COMPANY OFFICIALS TO DICTATE
ENERGY POLICY.
You didn’t get mad when A COVERT CIA OPERATIVE GOT OUTED.
You didn’t get mad when THE PATRIOT ACT GOT PASSED.
You didn’t get mad when WE ILLEGALLY INVADED A COUNTRY THAT POSED NO THREAT TO US.
You didn’t get mad when WE SPENT OVER 600 BILLION(AND COUNTING) ON SAID ILLEGAL WAR.
You didn’t get mad when OVER 10 BILLION DOLLARS JUST DISAPPEARED IN IRAQ.
You didn’t get mad when YOU FOUND OUT WE WERE TORTURING PEOPLE.
You didn’t get mad when THE GOVERNMENT WAS ILLEGALLY WIRETAPPING AMERICANS.
You didn’t get mad when WE DIDN’T CATCH BIN LADEN.
You didn’t get mad when YOU SAW THE HORRIBLE CONDITIONS AT WALTER REED.
You didn’t get mad when WE LET A MAJOR US CITY, NEW ORLEANS, DROWN.
You didn’t get mad when WE GAVE A 900 BILLION TAX BREAK TO THE RICH.
You didn’t get mad when the DEFICIT HIT THE TRILLION DOLLAR MARK.
YOU FINALLY GOT MAD WHEN THE GOVERNMENT DECIDED THAT PEOPLE IN AMERICA DESERVED THE RIGHT TO SEE A DOCTOR IF THEY ARE SICK.
Yes, illegal wars, lies, corruption, torture, stealing your tax dollars to make the rich richer, are all okay with you, but helping other Americans…OH HELL NO.
…………………………………
Heh, heh, heh, good one Goldy.
Remember, Rossi will NOT run as a Republican. He is NOT a Republican. He is NOT a member of the Republican party. He just “prefers the GOP Party” (Grand Old Party Party).
ER. Rossi. Hint. Your Democratic opponents at LEAST have the minimal courage to ADMIT they’re Democrats. You could at LEAST have the balls to admit you’re a Republican and not try to HIDE behind off labels like GOP…and then only say you “prefer” it…not that you’re their candidate and a member of that political party. If you have to lie and hide your political affiliation and essentially “trick” people into voting for your, you’re a coward. Man up bitch.
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Nice grab. That letter really puts into context the vileness of the teabaggers. Given the horrible betrayals of the American people which occurred under the Bush Administration, without a peep from the teabaggers, racism is the only adequate explanation for the rage we are currently seeing on the right.
# 6 said:
“Your Democratic opponents at LEAST have the minimal courage to ADMIT they’re Democrats.”
Hey, I don’t belong to any organized political party. I’m a Democrat.
(apologies to Will Rogers)
After Patty wins by a million votes the GOPers will spend two million dollars on an election contest lawsuit.
@1 “My guess is Rossi is for Legislation that is Constitutional, first & foremost.”
So are we. In addition, I’m for constitutional government — you know, no black prisons, no torture, no detention without trial, no warrantless wiretapping of U.S. citizens who haven’t commited any crime, no arrests of people attending townhalls because of bumper stickers on their cars …
Hearing these guys quote the Constitution is fucking laughable.
@4 “You didn’t get mad when YOU FOUND OUT WE WERE TORTURING PEOPLE.”
I do believe that should read: “You didn’t get mad when WE FOUND OUT YOU WERE TORTURING PEOPLE.”
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There is more than a little irony in the Republicans’ sudden reverence for constitutional government, isn’t there? I’d laugh, but they are such pathetic hypocrites, I just can’t find the humor.
I want to know what Rossi’s position on hot, lesbian, S&M, acts is.
1 Cyn
Well, we don’t wait until decades-long and probably futile challenges are laughed out of court once and for all to implement our laws, so we’re getting started right now providing health insurance for millions more people and properly regulating the industry, thank you very much.
OK OK time to slap the conservatives around a bit.
Besides saying that HCR is “unconstitutional” can any conservative point to any Supreme Court decision that has set the legal precedent as to why this law is unconstituional?
This ought to be like Lost’s inability to provide any proof America was founded on Christian prinicples. Besides conjecture that is.
Are you not watching the news???
I agree they might have spent 2 million dollars of a lawsuit, but they already blew that money on lavish trips to Hawaii, limos, private jets and S&M Bondage Strip Clubs.
Hip Hop Mike “dat’s how we roll” Steal is breaking the RNC bank. And not a moment too son.
Whatever happened to the vaunted discipline of the Republicans under Gingrich and DeLay?
Ever since 2006 the Republicans have managed to fuck something up around election time that guarantees Dems win.
I don’t know what it is and it’s an open secret, but I admit I’m loving every second of the implosion.
Ya know, maybe there is a God after all and he’s finally sick and tired of his name being taken in vain by Republicans and he’s, you know, sticking the fickle finger of fate in the Republican’s eye until they learn not to take His name in vain.
Because most conservatives don’t realize that saying “God Damn it” isn’t all that there is to taking the Lord’s name in vain. So, too, is saying what He would want or do when what you are saying or doing is patently false. That’s your own vanity in speaking for God in His place.
GBS @ 16
Shame on you for challenging our wingies like that. They shouldn’t have to support their position with citation to actual precedent. You’re going to make their little heads explode.
Hmmmmm. . . 2 hours and not ONE fucking citation why the HCR LAW is unconstitutional??
Yep, that figures.
Want to know why nobody cited any case law?
Fox News hasn’t invented it yet.
He’d defer that question to his wife.
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Is she hot?
@21
Nobody knows, he keeps her tied up.
Dino only gets it up for sycophantic donors.
Still no case law citations from ANY conservative as to why the HCR LAW is unconstitutional?
Hmmm . . . very telling of how weak “bumper sticker” politics has become for the right.
The People, having been once bitten and now twice shy fully understand that right wing slogans are just that and not comprehensive thing and planning that addresses America’s complex challenges.
Any how. . . still waiting on your documentation as to the constitutionality of the new law.
24 hours + and still NOT ONE court case citation from a SINGLE conservative as to why HCR is unconstitutional.
Telling, very telling. If it were so obvious, if the conservatives were so right, if it were true, they’d be all over media spouting case law as to why it’s illegal.
The silence is deafening.
I went over to unSP today to see if any of the fucking ‘tard barges there happened to cite case law, nothing but an blather in an echo chamber.
Conservatives; Wrong side of history, wrong side of mainstream America, out of step with American values and tradition.
Hey GBS, it’s no surprise that they don’t cite any cases to support their crazy ideas. They’re following the case law-free precedent of the lawsuit itself (warning, it’s a PDF).
I’m no lawyer, but isn’t that a tad unusual?