Rep. Kaptur scolds GOP: ‘Democrat Party’ doesn’t exist.
Rep. Kaptur scolds GOP: ‘Democrat Party’ doesn’t exist.
During today’s House Budget Committee hearing, Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) repeatedly invoked the “Democrat Party” while questioning Office of Management and Budget director Peter Orszag. Immediately following Hensarling’s time, Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) took him to task for using the purposefully-disparaging moniker, reminding him that no such party exists:
I’d like to begin by saying to my colleague from Texas that there isn’t a single member on this side of the aisle that belongs to the “Democrat Party.” We belong to the Democratic Party. So the party you were referring to doesn’t even exist. And I would just appreciate the courtesy when you’re referring to our party, if you’re referring to the Democratic Party, to refer to it as such.
Watch it:
Last week, MSNBC host Chris Matthews took Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) for referring to the “Democrat Congress.” “Do we have to do this every night? Why do people talk like this?” Matthews asked with exasperation, adding, “Let’s just call people what they call themselves.”
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The Democratic party could start calling the GOP — the Republican’ts or better yet… the Republiwon’ts.
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:35 pmI doubt that I’d refer to the Republic Party, probably just the Dark Side party.
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:35 pmWho cares what these clowns say? What does their supreme leader El Rushbo say?
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:37 pmThe Sith?
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:37 pmIt’s nice that Democrats are finally beginning to call the other side on their petty childish digs.
It’s just embarrassing that a major political party in the greatest nation on the planet stoops to such infantile gestures.
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:42 pmThis, I believe, is part of the GOP’s attempt to say more nonsense in the same period of time by abbreviating the English language. They realized it wasn’t helping when they started to refer to Mitch McConnell as “McCon”.
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:43 pmdumbstruck Says:
Who cares what these clowns say? What does their supreme leader El Rushbo say?
That’s exactly where the term Democrat party came from.
¶ AIO
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:43 pmBTW, if we want to go tit-for-tat, I’d suggest a monker that is frequently seen here on TP:
Republicants.
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:43 pmI just wish I could sic my high school English teacher on these morons. She would bite their heads off for using a noun as an adjective.
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:43 pmWhen you’ve got nothing, you call people names. It’s so pathetically desperate.
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:43 pmSo the GOP strategy, after CPAC’s huddled conferences with a gastropod radio jock, a 13-year-old, and Skeletor’s sister, is reduced to disrupting class with annoying comments.
Impressive…
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:45 pmWords with more than two syllables are difficult to pronounce.
Four letter words suit them much better…Bush / Rush / Dick / Mitt.
Who said home school’n would be easy?
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:48 pmalphainfinityomega Says:
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Exactly!
And that’s who we need to tie it to.
Forget the rest of these clowns. They’re just parrots.
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:48 pmI think the Democratic members of Congress should start giving grammer lessons on the floor of the House. Then any Republican members who fail to grasp the basic concepts of the English language should be forced to stay after hours and diagram sentences on a blackboard for CSPAN.
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:52 pmGood to see this crap being confronted, for once. HERE, on the blogs, it is fine for us non-office holding bloggers to make fun of names and such. That is fine. But the LEADERS OF OUR NATION should be showing respect to each other. The republican’ts are acting like spoiled little schoolchildren who have been spanked for being bad, but refuse to accept it.
Grow up, or get the hell out of leadership roles, you pathetic Limbaugh-pandering chickenhawk pu$$ys.
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:57 pmI’m glad they use it – right away, you know exactly what kind of Republican you are dealing with.
One who is intelligent and thinks for themselves (very rare, indeed) or just another dipsh*t dittohead.
Once “Democrat Party” leaves their mouth, you know you can discount, ignore, ridicule, etc. anything that follows.
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:58 pmProud of their freedom
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:59 pmProud of their simple thinking
Proud to be puppets
The “P” is for petty.
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:00 pmThank you Marcy Kaptur!!!!! And Chris Matthews too!!! I was waiting when finally someone would take these GOPers to account for their disparaging references. I could have called the GOPers “RepubliCONs” but that would nave prudent, now would it?
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:00 pmlokidog, it is an incredible time-saver that way.
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:02 pm“Dipshit Dittohead” LOL! I’d love to see their faces if Rep. Kaptur referred to them like that on the Senate floor!
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:02 pmlokidog Says:
I’m glad they use it – right away, you know exactly what kind of Republican you are dealing with.
I agree! Like a skinhead wearing a swastika, it makes them easy to identify, and easy to discount.
PEACE
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:05 pmWhy the fuss?
Seriously, is there some veiled insult in using Democrat instead of Democratic? Aside from the grammatical error, the only possibility I can think of is the ‘rat’ at the end (which was used in republican attack ads in my home state a few years ago).
I’m a lifelong Democrat and am not trolling. I’d appreciate it if someone would fill me in.
If all you’re complaining about is grammar, don’t you think there are more important things upon which to focus? Grammar and usage errors run rampant in the USA. Why should that be a surprise to anyone?
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:06 pmIt is amazing that someone wrote “Democrat Party” on one of Ronnie Reagan’s cue cards, Limprod picked up on it and now the whole crew of mouth breathing frat boys thinks it’s cute. I don’t believe in trying to turn two wrongs into a right but perhaps the Dems should take Pete Sessions up on his invitation and start referring to the Republicans as The American Taliban Party.
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:06 pmOn the same Chris Matthews show, Barney Frank referred to Issa as a member of the “republicanistic” party.
I myself prefer “Rushpublican” — I think it points out very clearly who’s running that party…
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:06 pmWe’re the Democrat Party? How about this.
CONservatives
Mitch McCONnell
Tom Delay, the bug killer, sniffing De-CON, and, hopefully, soon to be CONvicted.
Duke Cunningham-CONvicted
Ted Stevens-CONvicted
Rep. Vitter-CONsorting with prostitutes
Rush Limbaugh-abuses Oxy-CONtin
Michelle Baughman-totally CONfused
I’m sure that there’s a pattern here somewhere. Can anyone see it. Please feel free to add to the list.
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:07 pmRTWL says:
lokidog, it is an incredible time-saver that way.
Ain’t it though? Personally, I’d be embarrassed, if I were on the right, to be so upfront with my ignorance and lack of intelligence, but hey….
conniptionfit Says:
Hell yeah! I promise to donate $1,000.00 to any congressperson’s favorite charity if they use it on the floor! LOL
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:08 pmfergus — you mean the Republiconvict party?
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:09 pmI’ve never really understood how demonstrating appallingly bad grammar is considered to be an insult to somebody else. If I called the GOP the “Republic” Party, would that be insulting to them, or would it just make me look like a fool?
That said — it’s apparent the wingnuts are determined to use their bad grammar as a pejorative, and it’s time to say that Congress isn’t the place for this kind of silliness. I mean, if playground taunts were permitted to frolic freely, what’s to stop anyone from addressing David Vitter as “SINator?”
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:09 pmsimple solution for simple minds…
tell the republics that the name has been changed to
the ‘Democratican Party’.
then the republics can shorten it appropriately…
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:09 pmThis site needs a preview option. It should have read:
Duke Cunningham-CONvicted
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:10 pmTed Stevens-CONvicted
i’m going for the ‘insult’, molly…
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:12 pmbut i don’t much care if i look like a fool either…
Dogfather, By Jove, I think you’ve got it!
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:12 pmNettles Says:
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shoeless Says:
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I think the Democratic members of Congress should start giving grammer lessons on the floor of the House. Then any Republican members who fail to grasp the basic concepts of the English language should be forced to stay after hours and diagram sentences on a blackboard for CSPAN.
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Grammer?
It’s GRAMMAR, moron.
I normally wouldn’t care about a simple spelling mistake, but coming from a pontificating horse’s ass, I couldn’t resist.
By the way Clueless, you had your noun/adjective high school English teacher theory (#11) bass-akwards as well:
The Democratic Party: Party is the noun, supported by the adjective (Democratic), not the other way around.
Think before you post as not doing so embarrasses your constituents.
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March 3rd, 2009 at 1:05 pm
Someone who supported the most unintelligible imbecile to ever occupy and foul the Oval Office , is calling someone else a “pontificating horse’s ass” , while prattling on about proper spelling and grammar ……Oh , the irony
Your job application for Department of Education head must have gotten lost during the last 8 years , along with those White House e-mails …………
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:13 pma0d7fzz Says:
Why the fuss?
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:06 pm
It’s not the words, it’s the intent behind them. All the sheep out there just lap up that shit, and view us as wimps because we never stand up for ourselves.
It doesn’t matter that it’s fairly ridiculous, we need to stop giving off the perception that we’re wimps by constantly taking the high road.
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:13 pmNo shit, Sherlock. shoeless was absolutely correct in pointing out the penchant of certain Republicans to use a NOUN (”Democrat”) as an ADJECTIVE (”Democrat Party”).
I normally wouldn’t care about a simple grammatical mistake, but coming from a pontificating horse’s ass, I couldn’t resist.
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:13 pmThat’s what I said dickwad. Democrat is a noun. Dumbass Republicans keep using it to support the noun “Party”. Do you say Democrat Party?
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:13 pmSorta hard to miss that these days most Republicans hate most Americans.
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:14 pmI think the term got came into wide use by the GOP during the Gingrich era. Personally I like the Republican’t party suggested above. That would yield the Republican’t Kantor.
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:17 pmmissmolly, I think the whole “issue” is a reflection of two elements that run deep in the Republican Party today.
One is a disdain for intellectual “elitism” (otherwise known as correct and efficient use of language, science, history, etc.). I think they figure that if they bait a Democrat into correcting their “slip of the tongue”, the Democrat will be the one to look foolish, for focusing on such a minor technicality. I trust they’re wrong about that.
The second is just simple childishness.
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:18 pmThis is really a psychological trait, most common in children and adolescents, but also in adults. People derive a brief “kick” or mental high, by observing another person’s annoyance at what they’ve said/done. I should know – I was an expert at it. It’s a tough habit to break.
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:18 pmshoeless Says:
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Nettles Says:
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By the way Clueless, you had your noun/adjective high school English teacher theory (#11) bass-akwards as well:
The Democratic Party: Party is the noun, supported by the adjective (Democratic), not the other way around.
That’s what I said dickwad. Democrat is a noun. Dumbass Republicans keep using it to support the noun “Party”. Do you say Democrat Party?
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Since my job involves grammar and editing, I took a second look at the original postings by by Nettles and Shoeless.
It seems to me that Nettles misunderstood: “Democrat” is the noun form, so the point Shoeless was making is that the noun form shouldn’t be used as an adjective.
Did I miss your point, Nettles?
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:19 pmZ!!! Hear! Hear!!
never let a cheapshot go unanswered.
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:19 pmAny time a republican refers to the democratic party as the democrat party I know their I.Q. is in the single digits.
Where did they find all of these neanderthals? No offense to cavemen.
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:20 pmLet’s start calling the Republicans “gop”. This was a coordinated & concerted effort by the Gopsters to trivialize & denegrate the Democrat”ic” party.
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:20 pmThis is part of the Limbaugh effect. Check his speech from the other night and also on his radio program.
He will never call them the Democratic party. He claims they are not “democratic”.
Just another proof point that the GOP follows Limbaugh’s lead like sheep.
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:22 pmfergus says:
you forgot to include; Scooter Libby-strong>CONvicted
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:22 pmHow about we change the Republican party name to “Ditto-cans”?
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:22 pmWell said, Ralph. The key point is they’re baiting us.
DON’T TAKE THE BAIT, PEOPLE!
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:22 pmMistress Z; you rock!
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:22 pmNettles obviously missed his own point.
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:23 pmNettles Says:
Think before you post as not doing so embarrasses your constituents.
You may want to do some thinking about the rules of punctuation, Mr. Safire.
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:23 pm“Conservatives” use the noun because they resent the implication that the other party is more democratic than the Republicans. They could just as easily use the noun “Democrats” but then they wouldn’t be taking digs at the opposition.
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:24 pmAny bets on how long it will take the republicans to complain that Rep Kaptur is being petty? I can see joe leiberman now, mournfully monologing about how, with all the problems facing the county, how can the democrat party be so petty as to waste time on this trivial subect.
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:24 pmWhy don’t we just start calling them dumbasses?
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:24 pmPatty Says:
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Since my job involves grammar and editing, I took a second look at the original postings by by Nettles and Shoeless.
It seems to me that Nettles misunderstood: “Democrat” is the noun form, so the point Shoeless was making is that the noun form shouldn’t be used as an adjective.
Did I miss your point, Nettles?
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Nutball doesn’t have a “point” ……He’s attempting to (incorrectly) critique the content of someone’s post while still being a supporter of the most incoherent imbecile to ever occupy the Oval Office ; that’s akin to the players on the Detroit Lions telling the Pittsburgh Steelers they don’t know much about the game of football……………
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:26 pmShoeless: Why don’t we just start calling them dumbasses?
That would be redundant — or at the very least, stating a given.
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:26 pmA few suggestions for the Democratic Party to start using for the hateful GOP-
Repukes party, Repukian party, Repubuscum party, Repubuphucks party, Republican’t party, Fascist Scum party, Brown Shirts party, Jack Boot party, Gross Old Pervert party, Greedy Old Prick party.
And all of them apply.
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:29 pmIt annoys me to no end. It is meant as an insult. Glad someone spoke up at last!
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:32 pmDo we have to have any more blatant proof that the Rusher is now the official source of all ‘intelligence’ coming from the Reich-wingers?
Limpballs/Coulergeist (R) 2012 ™
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:33 pmI can’t believe it!!!
The Democrats are finally growing a pair!!!
YOU GO GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:35 pmI hate to be a pontificating horses a$$, but what happened to Skittles?
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:35 pmHe came out swinging, got coldcocked, and disappeared?
Seems like if he were a true gentleman, he’d post an apology for misinterpreting what shoeless had intended.
Seems like.
I just adore…just adore this site. Especially the cute comments and the cuter names of the commentors. I really am one of you, and I’m proud of all of you. Keep the creativity flowing and I’ll keep reading and smiling in togetherhood.
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:39 pmI happen to know Hensarling personally from highschool. He is not stupid. He learned his trade working for Phil Gramm. His use of the “Democrat” idiocy is just playing to the Dumb and Dumber wing of his party (which appears to be the only wing left at this point).
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:41 pmRepugnats have the amazing ability of ignoring REALITY…
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:49 pmThe use of “Democrat Party” is a moniker that Republicans determined would be a useful veiled insult, focusing on the “rat” ending. I believe that Lee Atwater came up with this, sometime in the 1980s, before Limbaugh tried making it his own.
The “R” congressman that Rep. Kaptur called out probably did this deliberately, as the “Rs” discuss these matters (using language to demonize or insult) behind closed doors frequently.
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:49 pmThis is the same childish impulse which leads people to talk the “Repuglicans” on this message board. However, it is surprising to see that sort of thing on the floor of the United States House of Representatives. Rep. Kaptur is well within her rights to complain. In the past most Congresspeople tried to behave with decorum when within the chamber.
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:55 pmIn the USofA, there is only one party.
It is the Party of Privilege and Property.
It has two “right” wings: Dims (the right wing) and Pukes (the far-right wing).
The insults are window dressing, bright sparklies, to make you think there’s a difference.
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:56 pmI should have more careful. It was pretty stupid to allow a typo in this thread.
March 3rd, 2009 at 2:06 pma0d7fzz Says:
Well said, Ralph. The key point is they’re baiting us.
DON’T TAKE THE BAIT, PEOPLE!
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:22 pm
The definition of insanity is doing the same over and over, while expecting a different result.
We’ve gotten our sanity bock. Won’t you join us?
March 3rd, 2009 at 2:10 pmClassy apology, Nettles.
Does this mean you’re seeking to step up to become a sort of reasonable dissenter? We could use a few here.
March 3rd, 2009 at 2:11 pmJeebus, we’ve gotten our sanity BACK.
**eyes rolling**
March 3rd, 2009 at 2:14 pmThanks, Nettles.
March 3rd, 2009 at 2:33 pmLooking forward to reasoned discussions down the blog road.
Call them the Dittohead Party or the Publican Party…
March 3rd, 2009 at 2:36 pmThey ARE Democrats. (Proper nouns require capitalization, by the way.)
The issue, as explained above so many times, is that “Democrat” is a NOUN.
The adjectival form of that noun is “Democratic”.
Thus “Democratic Party” is correct. “Democrat Party” is not.
Understand now?
March 3rd, 2009 at 2:37 pmThank you, Marcy Kaptur and Chris Matthews.
Thank you for calling out the grammatically impaired republicans.
It’s one thing when repubs do it, just to get under Dem’s skin, but entirely another when the MSM joins in. They should know better than to use poor grammar as well as to unthinkingly hop on the repub bandwagon.
March 3rd, 2009 at 2:39 pmMalik Says:
Are they not democrats? Freakin’ crybabys!
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OK, one more time — from the top:
Not all words can work as more than one part of speech. Yes, it works for the word “Republican” — as in one can be a Republican, and one can belong to the Republican Party.
Such is not the case for the word “Democrat.” It is only a noun, not both a noun and an adjective. Thus, a Democrat is a member of the Democratic Party.
– kind of like the word “pleasant.” It’s an adjective. “Pleasure” is the noun. It’s been my pleasure being pleasant to you.
March 3rd, 2009 at 2:40 pmsouthrnbelle Says:
I can’t believe it!!!
The Democrats are finally growing a pair!!!
YOU GO GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!
JK’s subtle transformation. How predictably boring…
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:02 pmMalik is just a hit and runner like most of the pathetic trolls these days.
Nettles stepped up with a gracious apology – kudos to that.
Does this indicate that there is some sort of intraparty schism developing between the majority of R’s (dittoheads) and sensible R’s (any R frightened by the chance of the impending mid-term elections)?
File under: things that make you go “hmmmmmmmm…”
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:04 pmTweedster, I thought the same thing initially. But I think southernbelle just chose an unfortunate means of presentation.
She’s not really a JK clone.
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:05 pmralph the wonder llama Says:
Tweedster, I thought the same thing initially. But I think southernbelle just chose an unfortunate means of presentation.
She’s not really a JK clone.
I wonder what the breakdown really looks like: how many individual trolls and how many aliases?
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:15 pmARE YOU RETARDED?
That’s rhetorical Malik, we know the answer.
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:29 pmWhen Chris Mathews scolded Issa the other day Issa apologized and said he wouldn’t do it again. Maybe he should tell his friends.
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:31 pmIt’s not just a grammatical error—it’s flubbing a name they know. That’s just rude.
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:49 pmWhy don’t we just call the GOP the Epic Fail Party? Let a freshman D congressman say it, and when an R congressman demands that the speaker’s words be taken down, the D’s can just rip the R’s a new ass with the rule book every time they say “Democrat Party.”
March 3rd, 2009 at 4:27 pmOnce again, the socially and emotionally retarded party proving themselves via overt reactionary name calling.
These are really sick people who have been unleashed on a mission of sheer destruction by the big three; those who make money on the industrial side of the military/law enforcemnt, those who dig up the earth with little concern for human life and those who promote American inequality via financial greed. These people are a diseased infestation. They pass their mentally infected “fecal matter” via a belief system of superiority through religious indoctrination.
At this point, yeah…I think I’d rather be “red” than be a republican.
March 3rd, 2009 at 4:48 pmShe CARES?
PLEASE keep calling my party the wrong name.
I’d rather talk to your voters to explain you can’t get a simple name right.
When you claim offense, you encourage them. I wouldn’t mind so much but now we look like big crybabies “Ooo, mummy he called me a name!” Instead of just raising an eyebrow and asking, “You DO know my party’s name, right? Just checking.”
Then move on.
It’s very ODD they engage in this behavior. It’s elementary school baiting and Kaptur acted offended. Grow up, Kaptur. It’s beneath you to notice.
March 3rd, 2009 at 6:38 pmTime to start referring to Republicans as the Banana Republics. It’s what their governing philosophy leads to.
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AMcG773 Says:
When you’ve got nothing, you call people names. It’s so pathetically desperate.
lokidog Says:
“…or just another dipsh*t dittohead.”
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Oops. ;)
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:40 pmWait a minute are there dittoheads that aren’t dipshits?
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:43 pmWhy do we give these twits the satisfaction of noticing and replying to their childishness? It’s like feeding trolls; ignore them and they’ll probably get bored and wander away.
March 3rd, 2009 at 8:30 pmWow, reading a lot of the posts on this site reminds me of orwell’s animal farm. Lot’s of sheep here. Ya know, those sheep that stood there, grouped, stating, “two feet bad, four feet good.”
Anywho….It is the Democrat party. Ignoring the “mcgovern rule”–ya know, where the appointed superdelegates oppoint someone else instead of who the “democratics” voted for–the party votes for their leaders(s), no? Or did “Bush, Cheney and Halliburton” elect obama as the democrat candidate?
Ya’ll know when the democratics changed the democrat party to the democratic party dontcha? And why they did it?
Why do liberal/progressives constantly re-define words/meanings to make their ideology fit the reality of the world?
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:27 pmSeems like a lot of emotion here but nary a fact to be found.
Ummmmm……the term “democrat” party was coined by the “democratic” who founded the party.
But you did know that, right?
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:34 pmThis is funny…it’s about time the Dems put a stop to the idiotic and retarded attitudes that are displayed by the cows of the Republican Party…They act like childeren who are mentallly challenged and have no independent thought.
March 4th, 2009 at 1:53 amChowda, rule #1: While making typos on teh Internet is acceptable, making a blunder when lecturing people on their stupidity is a FAIL.
(you got the Orwell reference wrong.)
This whole ‘Democrat Party’ thing is an exercise in what’s called ‘phatic communication.’ Because there isn’t explicit hostile content, it’s hard to object to it (as opposed to ‘Dim-o-Crat’ or ‘Dhimmicrat’) but the act itself is one of aggression.
When I was in school, people used to call me ‘Berno’ (my middle name is Benno). There’s nothing at all demeaning about ‘Berno’ except that it is not my name.It was meant as an insult, and it was.
It really is a schoolyard thing–but it was also a demonstration of their control of the media. They were demonstrating that they were perpetuating this slight, and that the media would never step in to correct them. Ant it worked for over a decade.
Chris Matthews finally had enough the other night, because the little taunt was also a taunt at him. Bravo. He made it possible for others to do so.
And Bravo to Rep. Kaptur. Democrats now have the power to be just a little bit petty, to call for that little jab to stop.
And it can be used to illustrate a point better than most other ways: How can Republicans call for bipartisanship when they refuse to call the other party by their right name? Doesn’t this show that they haven’t moved one iota from their previous position, and expect absolutely all the motion to come from the other side?
The grammatical discussion is proper, but beside the point: it is the Democratic Party because we say it is. That is the fact that the Republicans are defying. There’s nothing wrong with the name Berno except that is not my name.
They no longer run the schoolyard.
March 4th, 2009 at 8:57 amWhile I think this paints the Democrats as thin skinned, using it as a cudgel to demonstrate a sense of hostility; the absence of bi-partisanship the public is longing for, is actually a pretty good idea.
Calling them out on immature pettiness is quite purposeful in this context, but the sense of emotional wounding is unhelpful.
March 4th, 2009 at 2:13 pmI really don’t care what these self-important infants want to call me, but the fact that they are attempting to offend me is important to point out.
More hate ….. ya’ll are gonna stroke out
March 5th, 2009 at 4:15 amgivemelibertyordeath Says:
More hate ….. ya’ll are gonna stroke out
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More STUPID. You are such a moron one day you will forget to breathe
March 23rd, 2009 at 9:32 am