I disagree Joe. I think backup tries. I sometimes find him pednatic and stubborn but always TRYING to have a conversation. I think we should encourage anything CLOSE to a reasonable conservative. The trolls need to go down in flames and anyone just regurgitating a rerun of the Rush Limbaugh show along with them but it is a good thing when we can find someone who at least TRIES to give us a reasoned, aligned with reality conservative viewpoint

ralph,

backup is the obnoxious a$$hole

you find at every party who drinks

too much, hits on your date and

worst of all, is in love with the sound

of his own voice and doesn’t know when

to shut up. voting him down is genuine

pleasure we’ve all waited a long time to do.

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In my opinion, he’s not a troll, although (as I’ve said before) he does have some trollish qualities that emerge when he’s pushed. I have no problem voting down comments that are obvious attempts to derail or distract, but I thought most of b-cup’s comments today were well-meaning, at least to start.

One more case for term limits.

Hopefully we will use it responsibly. I voted down B-Cup’s off topic posts in the hope that will help him learn how the play the game in an intelligent manner.

I will “vote-down” useless posts by attention seeking trolls and off-topic posts only. The others I will leave for us to debate.

July 14th, 2009 at 12:41 pm Vote Up | Vote Down | (5) | Report Abuse

Zooey, you know better than to expect an honest answer from b-cup!
Grasley seems to be suffering from some sort of dementia.
tony and lido

evangenital says:

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When will Grassley renounce his gold-plated “socialist” health-care policy, provided by the taxpayers?

Do you mean his public option?

where IS Keltoi these days?

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the new feature has

him a bit “down”.

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July 14th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
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And it would be clear grounds for an appeal.

However, we’re not talking about a judge at the district level. We’re talking about a judge at the highest level in the land. It’s not a matter of who has the stronger case. It’s whether the law itself is right or wrong.

There, inequity does matter. It’s entirely possible that some statute or law would present an undue financial burden to a poor person that would not affect a rich person. A judge with empathy may recognize this, whereas a purely impartial judge may not.

typical republican ignorant moronosity. The dolt doesn’t evening know what empathy means. Empathy of course has NOTHING to do with “personal politics – feelings and preferences” – it means merely to see things from another’s viewpoint – a capacity republicans are completely devoid of. Which of course would do not harm at all for a judge who needs to understand the information they recieve from both the victims and accused’s vantage.

b-cup’s comments should make a particularly interesting test of the new system.
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I agree with you whole-heartedly on that one. Backup makes for an interesting test subject, because he’s not really a troll.

Posters like backup and Keltoi (where IS Keltoi these days?) come here and post their somewhat conservative opinions in a relatively thoughtful manner. Unlike Mr. P or Trajan in their various guises who come here merely to disrupt and derail.

I’m interested to see if we are using our new toy to vanquish only the obvious troll-turds, or if we are using it to eradicate every last tinge of anybody we happen to disagree with.

I’m going to go with the former, myself. The Mr.P/Trajan posts I will vote down, since they are tiresome and never constructive. The spammers will get voted down by me AND flagged for abuse. But I believe posters like backup add some diversity to the conversation. Most of the time, anyway. Therefore, I’m not going to vote him out of existence unless he posts something I find offensive, or truly stupid on a juvenile level, or obviously troll-like in any other way.

Reading B-cups posts is nearly as painful as reading those of our resident Trolls. At least with the Trolls, you know whats coming.

July 14th, 2009 at 1:22 pm

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that will never happen.

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# 37 – backup says:

This comment has been voted down. Click to read.

Backup, you are going to have to change with the times and start posting responsibly.
BTW I wasn’t greedy and left the two other -9 comments alone so as to someone else feel the pleasure of removing one of Backups comments.

July 14th, 2009 at 1:17 pm

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propaganda is the chief crop and export

of backuplandia.

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