EXCUSE ME WHILE I LAUGH RIGHT IN YOUR FACE....

[liberalitch]

That's what I would say to all of the farmers and rural poor who voted for the monkey king based on "his morality"

Oh,... "he'll do what jesus wants"... they said. Well you know that little rural clinic that saved your kid's finger.... kiss that goodbye.
Hey, and you remember when you equipment was busted and you got a no interest loan from the feds to fix it..... well bye, bye

Did jesus want him to hang you out to dry?
I think not

[GetTheRightVote]

1. I was born in Iowa, I feel badly for them but they did vote for *

I quess they should have known better but they let him get away with the lies about his religious beliefs so they will pay for it.

:kick:

[CTLawGuy]

37. Iowa...

they voted for Kerry before they voted against him.

[Debi]

46. Ha ha...

I voted against Kerry before I voted for him

(A Dean fan here.....I mean a Chairman Dean fan here!!!)

[Debi]

45. Not everyone in Iowa voted for Bush

and we're not all farmers either! :eyes:

[underpants]

2. I thought most of the cuts were towards big agribusiness

of course I am basing that solely on MSM reports on the box yesterday.

[blondeatlast]

8. Then it must be so...

:eyes:

[leesa]

12. Bush cut big business?? Not likely.

[underpants]

Yeah (along with StarWars) they propose this and it gets shot down

REAL quicklike and then W can run around claiming he tried to cut it while everyone should know that they are all still marching to the same tune.

[FreedomAngel82]

29. Bush cut out bigbusiness?

Yeah, right. He will have people on his butt so fast he'd be changing that really fast. I read about the cuts on Yahoo and don't remember reading about that.

[underpants]

53. I am saying that they will make it look like he was going to cut big bus.

and then it will never make it out of conference.

[Nederland]

47. That's true

The agro cuts don't effect anyone who received less than 250k in subsidies. Needless to say, that's not your average voter.

[baldguy]

3. Jesus wants you to go bankrupt,

loose your livelihood, your farm, your house & go on welfare.

Oh yeah, Jesus wants to end welfare too.

[cthrumatrix]

43. no - but the US media which thinks they are God...does

[Sydnie]

4. Unfortunately, the laughter will not last long

when you have to take out a loan to buy a box of cereal!

Food prices will skyrocket and before you know it, we will be back to waiting in line at the local "faith based charity" for a meal.

It's beginning to feel like a bad B movie from the 40s.

[sniffa]

5. turn to crime

[liberalitch]

7. Oh, believe me I know that....

The shit has thickened and the plot has hit the fan

[WLKjr]

41. The Grapes of Wrath will become a good......

REALITY TV SHOW, this time, the whole country stars in it.

[CWebster]

6. I'd laugh right along with you IF

we all weren't being dragged down as well.

[liberalitch]

9. We'll all HAVE to laugh....

to keep from cryin'

[in_cog_ni_to]

10. yup. When I saw a farmer being interviewed on the news

last night, he was whining about the chimp's subsidy cuts. For some reason I had no sympathy for him. He most likely voted for the asshole. This is going to open a LOT of eyes to what WE Dems were warning the sheeple about. A lot of them will have to suffer in order to learn a valuable lesson....NEVER, EVER, EVER TRUST REPUBLICANS. I don't feel ANY sympathy for any of them. This is what they wanted, apparently.

[kedrys]

15. I saw the same interview

Then I had a O'Lielly moment: "Shut up! SHUT UP! SHUT UP!!! You voted for the little bitch, no doubt, so SHUT UP and suffer with the rest of us, jackass!"

I really wonder who he voted for. That would have been relevant information to add to the news bite.

[Ian David]

16. The result of Bush's policies on farm subsidies and the environment

[Yuugal]

17. I feel some sympathy

They were cheated, hoodwinked, bamboozled. Its sad that our party didn't reach out to these people more. I won't fault them much for falling for Bushco's lies.......if they get off their asses now and help us fight this corporate monster before its too big for anyone to beat. If they continue to support a party that is clearly screwing them over then they deserve what they get.

[FreedomAngel82]

32. Sometimes people

keep loyal to their party no matter what. I think it's dangerous. I know there are a lot of neocons in republican clothing but there are still some good republicans out there. They are few in numbers now days though and they have totally been hijacked. Only thing is a lot of them don't know. My mayor is a real republican and he's done a lot for the enviornment and all that, so I always direct people to him and ask them to compare him to Bush and ask if Bush is really a republican or not. Hopefully things like this will help open people's eyes. Sometimes they have to have something happen to them personally before they'll believe us. Just like with 2000 and 2004 election fraud. I try to direct people to Greg Palast's film and I don't know if they ever watch it but maybe someone will.

[ewagner]

25. Recurring theme here

Every interview with every whinning farmer should end with the questions:

...And who did you vote for in the 2004 election?.....

on edit...we need just the right amount of scorn and empathy here....chide those who voted for Bush** for his "values" and then welcome them home...to the party they belong to........

[FreedomAngel82]

34. I like that idea

Use their values against Bush and what he's done. What kind of Christian man cuts from programs that help the poor?

[Nederland]

48. I have no sympathy for people

that received hundered of thousands in subsidies a year and then whine about it being taken away.

[heidiho]

11. I don't feel sorry for anyone anymore - Amerrica is getting

what it asked for by electing the Chimpanzee with no moral values or cares for anyone other than his rich GOP friends and cronies.

You had a choice and you chose the incompetent and uncaring moron.
Sorry for your coming losses but don't say we didn't tell you so.

[johncoby2]

13. Hey. Freedom isn't free. And now the farmers have to pay for it. eom

[madrchsod]

14. i guess it`s" bash the farmers day" here at du

now that`s really constructive isn`t it? let`s see hmmmm..i got it! let`s alienate people who we should be convincing to vote for democrats in the 2006 elections! now that`s a really brilliant idea isn`t it. makes me proud to be a democrat!

[sendero]

20. Oh not just the farmers...

.. but ANY IDIOT who voted for the Dim Son. Their stupidity has dragged America even further into the ditch and they richly deserve everything that is coming to them.

Too bad we all have to go along for the ride.

[CTyankee]

21. We are just so frustrated

and I think we want to take it out on people who voted for Bush. I don't have a particular reason to vent on farmers, but I have been waiting for a chance to say "I told you so" to Republican voters. I mean, where is the responsibility for doing this to the country? They should at least have the decency to apologize for having brought this disaster upon the country and the rest of the world for that matter. They should look at what they've done and feel ashamed.

[hector459]

24. Telling the truth about a situation isn't "bashing" anyone. We cannot

cower from telling the truth and making intelligent observations because someone calls it "bashing" or "smearing." Tell it like it is! We are big enough to take the consequences. Look at what not speaking up has gotten us: NOTHING!! What the fuck do we have to lose?

[sendero]

26. Exactly...

... all we heard in the week leading up to the Dem convention was hand-wringing about "Bush bashing, I hope they don't bash Bush". The powers that be in the party decided to stifle the bashing, just so the Repugs could spend their entire convention bashing us.

How many times does Lucy get to move the football at the last second before the pink tutu milktoast wussies running our party get a clue?

(Apologies to the younger folks who have no idea who Lucy is :))

We need a Truman to tell the truth, believe me, they'll think it's hell.

[PassingFair]

40. "We need a Truman to tell the truth"

We have one, his name is Howard Dean..

GIVE 'EM HELL, HOWARD!

[in_cog_ni_to]

44. I know who Lucy is and

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn that was funny! Thanks for the chuckle. :hi:

[ClassWarrior]

39. Well, the "LAUGHING IN YOUR FACE" part wasn't exactly...

...an intelligent observation, but apart from that your point is well-taken.

NGU.

[liberalitch]

30. I see your point... but damn it the "heartlanders" who voted for him...

put us in this mess.....
So they will have to suffer some ridicule before we welcome them back to true populism.
Besides they are the people who based their vote on things that were personal and then rubbed our noses in our loss... now its our turn!

Now this doesn't mean that I want anyone to lose their home, farm, job, healthcare, but that's going to happen in spite of what I did to stop it.... by voting for John Kerry.

.. and maybe if they had done the same it wouldn't BE happening
I'll be willing to bet that you will be hard pressed to find anyone who will admit that they voted for this clown come 2008.

OH.... they're gonna get fucked but not by me!

[BamaBecky]

18. We will all feel the pain - Bush is just getting started! n/t

[newportdadde]

19. Well my father is a rural farmer in Missouri ......

so I will have to talk to him and get his take on the cuts although I dont believe he used any of them anyways. He voted Democrat by the way his whole life.

Here is something I want to add. Many of the 'rural' counties like Cass County is MO aren't being decided by farmers, infact most of those farmers are gone or dying off because of high land prices.

Instead those elections are being decided by yuppies with dual incomes, often no children who come down and pay twice or 3 times what land is worth to have a little section of 40 acres and some horses. Those folks outnumber real farmers now in Cass county by a LARGE margin. I watched land go from 500/600 an acre to 1500-2000 in just 3 or 4 years, I'd imagine its even more now.

So although this county would be considered rural its not really rural farmers calling the shots anymore but your typical well to do freeper types trying to get farther away from crime(ie minorities etc).

[hector459]

22. This really screws the black family farmer. They never got what was owed

them from their liability suit for being cheated out of their original subsidies. Now they will for sure get nothing.

[Nederland]

49. Not really

How many black farmers received more than 250k in subsidy money? Not many I'd think...

[NewYorkerfromMass]

23. Bush to farmers:

SUCKERS!

Love to see that on a billboard out on the prairie.

[txaslftist]

27. I've got no sympathy for the farmers who will get cuts...

...first of all, the only farmers who will be affected are those who get more than $250,000.00 per year in subsidies. That pretty much keeps the "family farmer" we all envision in tall cotton. Secondly, federal price supports supply about half of the income for both sugar and cotton, but the cotton farmers and sugar farmers complain the loudest about "welfare queens" in the city, when they are, in fact on welfare. Finally, the surplus cotton and sugar on the market depresses the price for these goods in the "real market", causing farmers worldwide to be underpaid for these products (and causing Mexican cotton farmers to lay off workers, who then come here to work, for example).

If any other business couldn't make money without govt. assistance, it would simply go under. Why should farmers be any different?

[ArkDem]

54. Best post in the thread........................

[FreedomAngel82]

28. I do feel bad but

they do get what they voted for. And Jesus in Matthew 25 does talk about helping the poor and all. I guess Bush just skipped over that part. :grr: My great-grandma used to live on a farm but she died three or so years ago so I'm glad in a way she isn't around now to live through this nonsense.

[marcologico]

31. I heard he's also cutting veteran's health benefits

just in time, too!

[Mist]

33. My "compassion meter" doesn't extend to * voters n/t

[earth mom]

35. Won't be long now before * stabs everyone in the back but

his immediate family. But they have to put up with him which is punishment enough. LOL!

[spooked911]

36. my question is-- can we use this to win back the rural vote?

That's where we got killed in the last election.

[ClassWarrior]

38. YES, YES, YES!!

We need to start building those bridges NOW.

NGU.

[sarcasmo]

42. A good slap in the face to Jesusland.

[annabanana]

50. Watch "Red State Road Trip" Day 7

http://www.truthout.org/multimedia.htm

The guy "Rodriguez" will show you why some of them will NEVER make the connection.

[maxsolomon]

51. oh please

i don't know exactly who's getting cut, but farm subsidies are a huge piece of pork that needs cutting.

and i'm referring to any "farmer" who's name is archer, daniels, or midland & who picks up $3 million dolar checks, not ma and pa 40 acres & a mule..

[Lars39]

52. I hope you make sure they actually voted for bush

before laughing. There are two wonderfully blue counties in west TN that have a lot of family farms. These people are going to be hurting. A lot of these farms are supporting more than one family.