Does anyone else feel like they're waiting for a bioposy result?

[Armstead]

Just wondering.....

[Cassandra]

1. That's a good way to put it.

Particularly with the doctor looking at the paperwork and sighing periodically.

[kenny blankenship]

2. No, I felt like that waiting for Sen. Finance to finish raping healthcare into mandated insurance

This is nothing compared to that.

[Armstead]

5. Senator Finance will seem benevolent compared to a GOP Congress

[kenny blankenship]

15. No, it will be just a logical consequence and continuation of the same thing

I've had all this time to get used to the idea of an inevitable GOP resurgence, because I could see it happening in the larval stage.
Larva:

Fully pupated Imago, all oranged up and ready for the mating swarm:

[jgraz]

22. Bingo

With HCR, the Dems had a chance to hold Congress for the next 20 years. They're the ones handing the Speaker's gavel to Boner.

[Chulanowa]

32. Mating swarm?

Not with a face like that he won't.

[kenny blankenship]

34. You wouldn't believe

how successful a face like this can be on K Street.


If Tom Delay can get all that tail, an Orange Boner will not go lonely.
(Just to be clear, when I say "mating swarm" I don't mean circuit parties, I mean gangs of randy lobbyists, ie: the paying customers)

[intaglio]

40. If they found growths like this in your colon

Boy, would you be glad you had a biopsy!

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

3. Yup

.....although I'm not used to this many people cheerleading for it and saying "You're gonna die!"

[MBS]

4. apt metaphor. . : ( n/t

[Zoeisright]

6. No. I've waited for biopsy results and was much more scared then.

While this is scary, it's more irritating.

[City Lights]

9. Same here.

Plus, I haven't bought into the corporate media spin, so I'm not convinced the end is near.

[Armstead]

16. Yes a real biopsy is worse personally -- but this is bad as a collective biopsy

[RaleighNCDUer]

17. With me, it's the opposite.

With a biopsy, what is, is. With politics, what is does not HAVE to be. Everybody in the world thinking as clear-headedly as me won't change a biopsy result. The MSM may claim something to be inevitable, but I know, if people just used their common sense, it would not HAVE to be.

[Armstead]

21. A bipopsy CAN show something is benign. But the political results are beyond individual control

Yes we can be pro-active and do whatever is in our individual power to do -- vote early and often, volunteer, donate, etc.

But ultimately I can't determine the outcome nor can you. That's the comparison.

[Dawson Leery]

7. Yes.

[RKP5637]

8. Yep! n/t

[tjwash]

10. More like a stool sample reading

[JuniperLea]

11. THAT'S what this is!

I was trying to figure it out. Thanks!

I was just telling someone that I need to just let it go and get ready to rejoice! I relived my anticipation for the presidential election results. The polls were showing the race to be very tight... nail biting tight. I stocked up on snacks and beverages, cleaned the TV screen, put on my most comfortable sweatshirt, and poured the first of what I thought would be many, many glasses of rum and Coke, and plopped down in front of the television with remote, drink, and the first tray of snacks within arms reach. The dogs were fed... every detail figured out so there would be no interruptions for what I thought would be hours and hours of sweating pure blood.

The ice had no chance to melt, I'd taken maybe two sips... there was one bite out of my first hors d'oeuvres... and the Presidency of the United States of America had been called for Barack Obama!

I was elated, and pissed.

I expect to feel the same way tomorrow night. Reliving this experience was like taking a big ol' chill pill.

[Skink]

12. The results are it's speaker Boner.

Prognosis negative.

[bigwillq]

13. No

I would never compare election results to waiting for a biopsy. That's life and death, to me, much more important than the results of any election.

[Armstead]

19. As I noted above -- Yes a personal biopsy is worse personally but in social terms...

this is life or death for our country. (Maybe not incurable, but a Corporate Tea Party nation would be a serious catastrophe to the USA.)

[bigwillq]

23. The Tea Party will not take over this election

They may win a few seats but that's really it. I still don't think your analogy is appropriate.
2004, 2006 and 2008 were also so-called life and death for our country. We elected DEMS to the majority in two of those elections and look where that got us, another election that is life and death. Way to go.
I would rather have 100 republicans in the senate then myself or a friend or a family member get a positive biopsy result. Some things are much more important and meaningful than an election.

[Armstead]

35. If you took offense I apologize....It was a metaphor, but nationally, this is bad shit

Having been through this crap before (Nixon,Reagan Revolution, Bush 1, the 94 GOP Takeover,Bush 2) and seeing how much worse conditions are now -- This collection of assholes are going to do serious damage...The GOP Corporate Right Wing in charge is a social cancer, and our collective immune system is broken down from years of assault.

[damntexdem]

14. Or maybe like waiting for the cop to find the rape kit.

[Arugula Latte]

18. That's it!

I feel like I'd like to be put into a drug-induced coma for a few weeks.

[Solly Mack]

20. No. I've waited for biopsy results before. No comparison.

I voted 3 weeks ago. For me, it's a case of 'finally' (the day is here).

I'm neither excited nor worried. Just hopeful.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

24. I had a biopsy about a month ago. Politics didn't even get on the list of things I worried about.

If the antics of politicians ever get to that degree of importance you should develop other interests that are less dangerous to your state of mind.

[bigwillq]

29. Good post.

:thumbsup:

[4_TN_TITANS]

25. Good comparison...

We're waiting to see just how malignant the Tea Party cancer is.

[SlipperySlope]

Good analogy, but...

Who are they malignant too?

I just can't figure out what the Tea Party means to the future of the Republicans. I kind of look at it like a party in death throes, and the Tea Party is just some sort of strange spasm before it dies forever. Sort of like a bowel evacuation.

[librechik]

26. good analogy

not feeling good today--trying to avoid news sources, which is impossible in my job.

[Robyn66]

27. Biopsy result is a BIT over the top.

Cancer survivor here.....but I get the meaning. At least if things go bad we get to scream and yell starting Wednesday "WHY ISNT EVERYTHING FIXED YET?"

The bright side is, I personally think this will make 2012 easier. But I am not convinced this will be the bloodbath I keep hearing about. Polls dont count cell phones.

[Iwasthere]

31. Exactly!

The polls don't count cells, also the polls are being cherry picked. I have seen 'F**ker Chuck gleefully post 4 different polls in an example of his landslide belief.

[Brickbat]

28. No. I don't have enough energy to freak out at that level every two years. Life will go on either

way.

[bigwillq]

30. Good post.

:thumbsup:

I agree.

[Brickbat]

37. This kind of stressing, freaking out, winner-take-all attitude illustrates, to me, just how broken

our system really is, and how our political system focuses on the short-term getting in power and staying in power, rather than solving problems and making life better for all our people. It's so tiring and I'm very close to just saying "fuck it all" and focusing on my own little microcosm. Life is too short. And I hate to say this because for many, many years I was there on the front lines marching, protesting, rallying, calling, and supporting.

[Armstead]

39. Maybe I'm just burned out after watching this shit for over 40 years...But also because

I've seen the results so many times.

But's not merely a swing of the pendulum or short term irritant.

This nation has been going through a one-step-forward, two-steps-back downward slide for too long.

[Brickbat]

42. I'm very much burned out -- but have realized that no matter who wins, it's up to me to

keep my shit together. I was devastated after the 2000 and 2004 elections -- 2004 especially, as my family was involved very closely in a local race that had an ugly end. But I still had to get the kids to school and my ass washed and food on the table. It's going to be harder or easier depending on who wins, but I still have to get it done.

I realize that my take on things isn't necessarily the right way to go about it. Sometimes I feel like my activism is going into hibernation, and then when I've got nothing to lose I'll bust out as a badass revolutionary grandma. On the other hand, it's not very revolutionary to wait until you have nothing to lose.

[luvs2sing]

33. At the time you posted this, I WAS waiting for a biopsy result...

and had been waiting six days. Got the call ten minutes later - all clear! :woohoo: I can tell you there's no comparison whatsoever.

OTOH, just in case things went the other way and life got out of control, I made sure I voted BEFORE having the biopsy. :patriot:

[Armstead]

36. Congratulations -- as I said above, maybe my comparison was a little overblown

Neverthless I hope our national biopsy turns out as well.

[luvs2sing]

38. Indeed!

:toast:

[bigwillq]

41. Congrats!

:toast: :bounce:

[get the red out]

43. Excellent analogy

It feels something like that. But with everyone everywhere saying "YOU'RE GONNA DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!" over and over.

[CatWoman]

44. excellent analogy

:hi:

[trayfoot]

45. Yep!

[TheWebHead]

46. another analogy would be

that you're visiting your local congressperson attached to a ventilator