The newest addition to the Bill of Rights: The Conservative Hissy Fit Exception
By John Amato Tuesday Jan 27, 2009 9:00amAn additional amendment has been added to the Bill of Rights.
It's called The Republican Hissy Fit Exception.
No matter what harm has been caused by the Republican party to our country and applies especially when they have been voted out of office because of that harm, any piece of Democratic legislation being discussed may be attacked with the intent of watering it down or destroying it completely (voided) at any time as long as one conservative in Congress has a hissy fit.
The traditional media must immediately validate their hissy fit by repeating said hissy fit talking points over and over again in print, on the Internets, on radio and on TV as many times as necessary to accomplish said goal of compromising the legislation that the hissy fit is applicable to.
False information is also allowed to be transmitted by the hissy fitter and the media in an effort to implement the Conservative Hissy Fit exception. An alternative name that may be used is the Republican Hissy Fit exception.
Many people feel that this amendment has been As Predictable As The Rising Sun.
This contraceptive thing is turning into the first hissy fit of the New Year and back in pre-post-partisan times, I'm sure we'd be seeing condom denouncements in speeches on the senate floor within days. But now that we've declared the culture war over and reached common ground with the social conservatives on the issue of "reducing unwanted pregnancies," I'm sure we can count on our new conservative allies to step up now and defend government spending for contraceptives.
But they'd better hurry. Some of their friends don't seem to have gotten the memo...read on.
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...but you left out "Doing the Google."
And get the hissyfit against us readers.
http://cabdrollery.blogspot.com/2009/01/acces...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ9INGwL1Ec
Hope to Cthulthu that the Dems use their majority to keep the hissy fitters in time-out.
I heard some Republican dingus on the radio this morning complaining that the Democrats are trying to use their increased majority to pass stuff without making concessions to the right. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Payback is a bitch, isn't it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2Je1CEPkUM
and I am not making a prediction on the timing...
but ultimately after additional elections, the electorate will ulitmately force the elevation of one of the minor parties to third party status...or a new third party will form. It has happened before in history, and we are on the way to its happening again.
"AAAAAGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" (People screaming running down the road!)
But, then, what would ever happen to our Beloved Democrats???
That nasty third party could actually (gasp) win! Like Jesse Ventura did in Minnesota!
What would they be called? The Modicrats? The Centpublicans?
the Progressive Party?
... Limbaugh described racism as? A minority whines until the majority makes concessions that aren't at all necessary, it's just so the babies will shut up.
Twisted facts, false equivalence, and obedient media parroting is what we get when we expect our elected leaders to tell us what's good for us, instead of the other way around.
and for that reason expect the media to help stir the pot at every opportunity, even if it means abandoning whatever journalistic integrity they have left.
Controversy brings them higher ratings. Vitriolic controversy is even better yet. Republicans know that and will play the media like a fiddle. The hissy fits will be front page.
I pity the poor parent who spent money sending his/her child to college to major in journalism. They deserve a refund immediately.
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with condom and other birth control measures is EXACTLY what is needed to reduce the need for abortions. Any damned fool knows that.
Oh, right, any damned fool doesn't count the really, really damned knuckle dragging fools called Republicans.
My mom, God rest her soul, had a clever and effective method for dealing with 6-year-old me whenever I pitched a hissy in public.
She ignored me.
And, she kept ignoring me until I stopped the hissy, then paid attention back to me.
After a while, in my 6-year-old brain, I realized "throw a hissy, no one cares. don't throw a hissy, you're now paid attention".
So, do you suppose Republican legislators are capable of responding like a 6-year-old would?
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And most 6 year olds play well with others.
The GOP's recent legacy:
9/11, Iraq, Torture, Katrina, Recession
Ignore them, they SUCK at governing!
They have yet to accept any responsibility the enormous load of shit they left for Progressives to clean up. We need to punish them by ignoring all but the most reasonable conservatives.
The Nation told them to fuck off in November.
Fuck these goddamn whiny little neo-con bitches!
When they had control, you couldn't dissent one bit...now that they're in an ever shrinkin minority, they all the sudden want to change the fuckin rules.
FUCK ALL THEM UN-AMERICAN ASSHOLES!!!!
Journalistic integrity
I'm honored to work with a number of reporters who hold themselves to pretty high standards.
The finger on the scale has always been ratings. News directors and executive producers will invariably flinch and jump through hoops if it involves ratings points. And then we have consultants who shop the same tired tropes around the country in a never-ending parade, trying to make things 'different' and more 'vital'.
What I'd like to know is who taught the recent spate of editors. I've seen stories on the network news that look like an 8th Grader playing around with iMovie did the cutting - that is, there's an abundance of wipes and SFX transitions, which aren't necessary and don't add to the story. I mean, come on, if your story is for s--t, slapping a couple of spiffy wipes on it isn't going to turn it into an Emmy-winning hard journalism piece.
A dissolve/wipe is to show a significant change in location (Washington, D.C. to Israel) or shift in time (arrest Monday, arraignment Thursday). That's it. Everything else can be done with straight cuts and standard framing.
The Republican Party and the corporate media have clearly staked out a position in favor of sexually transmitted diseases and forced pregnancy.
This comes as no surprise.
yes, its fun to accuse the GOP losers of throwing 'hissy fits', but while we're mocking them, we should notice that 1) they actually do it, and 2) it works. what we're calling a 'fit' here is just them getting angry, and letting it show!
we wonder why our own Dem leaders are more afraid to show anger than they are to show outright stupidity. well, this is a good illustration. I don't give a flaming crap if the Republicans complain and whine about bills they don't like. I don't give a fU-u-u-ck. what gets me is that Dems respond to this by 1) mockery (which is really just nervous discomfort at a display of emotion of which they are incapable) and then, subsequently 2) caving in.
Repugs get mad, Dems cave. happens every time. and we say we want anger and leadership from our Dem leaders, but we've elected people who think 'anger' is bad by definition and who have no intention of practicing 'leadership', because 'leading' is impolite, or not group-oriented, or what have you. we need to start seeking out angry people, specifically. we need a few people on our side who will do the right thing and throw a 'hissy fit' over something that God Damn Matters!!! like torture (where was the god-dam hissy fit there? oh, right, it was drowned out by the sound of House and Senate Dems giving their quiet acquiescence) and war and the destruction of our economy.
... isn't what I want.
I want leadership that can stick to their guns and dismantle opposition views by reason and fact. It's the art of rational discussion, which has been subsumed by this Survivor/vote-your-ass-off-the-island mentality.
The difference is the way it's covered by the media. Dems want to make an issue over something and the media invites a bunch of Republicans on to every program to pitch their side. Reps want to make something an issue and the media invites a bunch of Republicans on to every program to pitch their side. Actually I guess it's not covered differently. In each case the Republicans get to tell their side and the Democrats get screwed.
elections have consequences. you take a big dump on the constitution and you pay the price at the polls. nevermind the dems complicity and enabling. now, you have to deal with the popular rejection of rightwinginess. as, elections have consequences, just the same as misrule.
If Obama orders the reformation of the FCC, such that these propagandists may no longer lie, decieve, disinform, etc, all this tiresome BS can be put to rest with a quickness. Stopping the lying, centrally orchestrated propaganda would probably be a good item for the largest petition drive ever to bothe the FCC and the DoJ.
Who is Obama putting in charge of the FCC, anywise? I hope it isn't one of the telecom-types that his campaign took money from,
Americans have to get their heads out of their asses and start thinking. Idiots like Rush Limbaugh are popular only because there's a demographic that feels the issues are too complex, or that they haven't the time to learn the facts, so they'll line up at the trough.
Consequently, when pigs get fed slop, they get fat ... and then they get marched into the slaughterhouse and turned into bacon.
...but it is difficult to see how the FCC, regardless of who Obama names to be in charge, will be able to reign in the propaganda of the corporate-controlled media.
Think about the five major conglomerates that pump most of the "information" into the atmosphere: who controls them? What other industries are part of their holdings? Which of them have not been mostly supportive of the neo-con, Repug ideology? How much of the GDP do they control?
http://snipurl.com/am29f
If those fiends vote him as RNC Chairman(only token, as their custom), I'm going over to Indiana to run for the Grand Wizard of the Klan.
Now THAT I'd like to see.
Go Michael Steele!
Reminds me of that Chappelle show skit....
I tried to find it on youtube....to no avail.
You got to love it, the Repuglican party, headless and running around in circles.
Along with the 'hissy fit', here is the later part of that amendment:
"Resolved, if ANY Republican member of either the House of Representatives or the United States Senate throws a hissy fit regarding any subject they, their fellow colleagues and their staffs are immediately eligible to be the REPLACEMENTS for 1 hostage currently being held at Guantanamo Bay Prison. Transfer to said facility will be at the discretion of the president's children."
As my username suggests, the only place I have been able to find real news for the last DECADE is on Crooks and Liars or Google, lol. As a business professional, I know of no working environment that would tolerate 'Wwaaaaaambulance' behaviour. I hope more people wise up soon, and just maybe, the 'ratings' or whatever will start to effect our pathetic media!
We're only as successful as our laws allow. Like the extravagant Tax code, our laws often leave room for disagreement for one reason or another. That is unless, one has laws they believe supersede our current said Law(s). Human beings, Science, Facts and Laws, all related too our prosperity. Who ever heard of "DNA", truth will come in time, one way or the other...
This is what the people have to see John. This is exactly what shows voters how screwed up their elected official is. If only the tranquilized democratic leadership would go after them like this. They could destroy the brand in weeks showing the people that all their GOP will do is try to screw them if the people get a chance to speak. They could, if they wanted, ram any and all legislation to help the people of this country at a time when they need it most. They can embarrass and destroy anyone that stands up against them.
But will they? Or are they being paid for their absence?
The problem is the American people buy into this crap being spewed by these idiots. If society had a brain, we could have never ended up with a president named George W. Bush. The republican party knows exactly how to brainwash the public, and it is beginning now and won't stop until they are back in power.
One can either prevent the unwanted child by using contraception or abort the unwanted fetus. These "hissy fitters" can't have it both ways. It's one or the other.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0kJHQpvgB8
President Obama has removed the rubber from his stimulus package and is asking the Republicans if they would like him to spend it on facial improvements or sustenance needs.
Neither chestal nor genital?
I was trying to be subtle and it was hard covering all four possibilities.
the hair?
I hear it works wonders ;)
and read the 'Third Way' press realease. I am heartened to read that some evangelicals and some progressive leaders have hammered out a compromise, but the ending of one clause is disturbing,
"Protecting the rights of gay and lesbian people to earn a living by making it illegal to fire, refuse to hire, or refuse to promote employees based on sexual orientation so long as there is an exemption for faith-based employers."
Sounds too much like NIMBY to me.
Tax exempt, government funded but government policy and regulations don't apply.
One of those three must go.
is nothing new. You can look all the way back to 1933 to see how they bitch and moan when they're out of power. Our problem is we keep bringing them back, thinking they've learned something from their mistakes, but nooooo,same old, same old.
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