re: #47 Dark_Falcon

I’m going to say this and then leave: Republicans could not have “put this thing down” in 2009. If they’d ignored the anger at their town hall meetings or moved against it, those who did so would have been swept aside.

Oh my god. What unbelievable bullshit. You do realize that taking your words to their logical end, the GOP are nothing but craven, morally bankrupt cowards who are too scared or too corrupt to stand up to the drooling knuckle draggers. THAT’S WHAT THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO DO. At least if they have any balls or any principles at all rather than just whoring themselves out to the highest corporate bidder.

If you’re in office and your voter base starts saying irrational, stupid, irresponsible shit, you call them on it. You warn them away from that stuff, talk them down, etc. If it costs you your job, oh well. That’s the price of having some sort of conscience.

That you seem think this should be normal behavior is a problem, DF. A functional political party doesn’t run scared from their base and let them say insurrectionist shit. Only cowards do that.