Why are you crying about it? That's what you voted for.

[Brewman_Jax]

It's short and to the point.
You can use this line on your freeper family members/friends/acquaintances when they start whining about how hard life has gotten for them. I used it on my freeper dad when he started whining about how his health care monthly payments went up fast; but he wouldn't vote for Kerry and the "dummycrats" because "they're gonna take away my guns!" (I can't remember the last time he went to the firing range. :eyes: )

It just sucks that those who didn't vote for Bush* have to suffer with them. :(

Just had to get this rant out in one of my rare forays in GD.

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[gratuitous]

1. Short and to the point indeed

Although to be scrupulously fair, the corrupt Bush administration does a first-rate job of saying one thing and doing something entirely different most of the time. People who don't pay very close attention have gotten the ridiculous impression that George W. Bush is a good Christian man, that his administration is bubbling over with integrity, and that we're kicking the unholy bejesus out of terrorism world-wide.

On those rare occasions when their words and deeds match up, it happens at such a quiet level that it's pretty easy to miss.

[Zenlitened]

3. Well, but people who don't pay very close attention...

... to electing the President of the United States of America!!! ... they don't get a lot of sympathy from me, either. :grr:

[Brewman_Jax]

4. On those rare occasions...

it's usually for something that benefits Bush's* friends and contributors, like the Social Security roadshow.

[whatever4]

2. Good one, too true

And as time goes on, it will only become more true.

What I especially enjoy is when the neocon supporters themselves get burned. The think they're safer, by playing along, when in all reality, being closer to the monsters is the most dangerous place. They realize HOW much they mean to these people TOO late. Neocons, you're all better targets just because you're accessible, easier to control, easier to bully. You didn't read the fine print. You backed the wrong horse.

Just like the whole friggin nation. Play with the bull, you get the horns. Agree to disadvantage someone, the next day it might be YOU. And as the old quote goes, who will be left to speak for YOU?

[Brewman_Jax]

6. Just like the infamous call to Jesse Helms on Larry King Live

you'd think that everyone would want to improve, not just keep "those people" down. :shrug:

[CrispyQ]

5. My mother whined about

"all the religion they are shoving down our throats." I had to bite my tongue & not go on a major rant. But I did ask her, "What did you expect? He courted the religious right during the campaign. Did you think he was just going to ignore their demands?" :wtf:

She is suffering buyer's remorse but says she still would not vote for Kerry or most Dems. Fine. Stay home from the polls, that's almost as good.

She has changed so much in the last 10 years. I have a hard time grasping that the open minded, generous spirited, warm hearted woman that raised me listens to Rush & O'Reily & voted for shrubbish.

[whatever4]

8. Gosh that is true, what people have become

I'm sorry you have to deal with that from your mom. I know there's quite a few folks I just can't talk to anymore. They have changed, been changed or allowed themselves to change. Mutate maybe.

Divide and conquer. Oldest trick in the book.

[Brewman_Jax]

9. It's gotta be difficult

dealing with your mother. I'd have given my father a break, 'cept that he's voted republican since Reagan. Then he had the nerve to complain about the tax breaks Reagan took away. :eyes: (Which wouldn't have mattered if he was ACTUALLY as rich as he thought he was. :crazy: )

He votes for them, and then wonders why they take the breaks away. :shrug:

[SpiralHawk]

7. How to Win Friends and Influence People

Not