Mad Turtle Disease

[marmar]

http://www.salon.com/2013/03/15/mcconnell_at_cpac_repeal_obamacare_root_and_branch/

Showcasing a tall stack of papers that he said was the text of the Affordable Care Act, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told CPAC that “Obamacare should be repealed root and branch.”

He noted in the course of his speech that the Affordable Care Act only passed by one vote, with all Senate Republicans voting against it. “We’ll fight (Obamacare) and every other assault on liberty that the left throws at us, and restore the American ideal,” he said.

McConnell also criticized the media for covering internal Republican squabbles, saying “they love it when we take shots at each other. It gets more coverage than a D.C. snowstorm. But unity is strength.” He added: “We need all the constitutional conservatives we can get to fight the left.”
He continued that Democrats claim to be the party of the young and the party of the future, but “don’t tell me the Democrats are the party of the future when their ticket for 2016 is shaping up to look like a rerun of ‘The Golden Girls.’” Republicans have Rand Paul and Marco Rubio, he said, “the other guys, they’ve got Hillary and Joe Biden.”

“Here’s the dirty little secret about liberalism: It can’t last, it can’t work,” McConnell said.

[magellan]

1. “and restore the American ideal”

I had no idea that leaving people to die from treatable illness just because they can't afford health insurance was an American ideal.

Fucker.

[Angry Dragon]

2. The Tortoise is scum

He has never had a job that was not paid for by taxpayers
He has been in office long enough so we blame him for the ills of this country

[mfcorey1]

3. He represents one of the last of the Strom Thurmond rethuglicans. After Congress is purged of him

a few more of his cohorts, the people's business can proceed. The new teabaggers (few in number) will also be voted out.

[denverbill]

4. Actually, Mitch, liberalism always wins in the end.

We got rid of monarchy, we got rid of slavery, we got women the vote, we got universal education, we got kids out of coal mines, we got 40 hour work weeks, we got Social Security and Medicare.

Conservatives are working to undo every one of those things. Sometimes, they succeed. Mostly, they fail, because by and large, people want America to be a better place.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

5. It just takes conservatives about 10 years to wrap their heads around a liberal idea and either...

...accept its correctness or accept its inevitability.

[denverbill]

6. I'd give it more like 150 years. They are mostly over losing slavery by now.

I still see arguments from modern day conservatives that women shouldn't be able to vote and children allowed to work. And although not quite advocating slavery, they do say it wasn't all that bad and that it actually was beneficial to blacks.

[CosmicDustBunny]

7. Only the one on the right is "mad".

[Demoiselle]

8. Is that Churchy LaFemme? (On the left.)

If so, on behalf of Pogo lovers everywhere, I object. Churchy was a little dumb, but he wasn't mean.

[olddots]

9. if you looked like him

wouldn't you be a hate filled old turd too ? ( don't jump on me I'm funky looking too ) oh and Mitchell dear fascism can't last .

[11 Bravo]

10. He simply said "Obamacare should be repealed." "Root and branch" was his lunch order.