Health reform 'BFD:' The T-shirt: The Swamp
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Chicago Tribune
Posted April 1, 2010 12:30 PM
The Swamp

by Mark Silva

This probably wasn't what Vice President Joe Biden had in mind when he exclaimed, during a ceremony at the White House, that the historic healthcare legislation that President Barack Obama was signing is a really big deal -- or choice words to that effect.

But Organizing for America, the permanent Obama campaign BFD T shirt.jpghoused at the Democratic National Committee, figures there's gold in Biden's words.

"There are things that are a big deal -- birthdays, anniversaries, the NCAA Championship game,'' OFA says in the promotion of a new T-shirt line. "And then there are things that are a BFD, like delivering health insurance to 32 million Americans.''

They're asking for $25 for the party, which buys "a super-soft, fine jersey (men's) or baby rib (women's) cotton" keepsake of the healthcare fight.

Over at the Republican National Senatorial Commitee, they beat the DNC to the punch with a Biden-inspired fundraising appeal.

At the RNC, they're still trying to raise money to "fire Nancy Pelosi,'' the House speaker -- but no sign of any Pelosi T-shirts there yet. But they may want to throw in a mink stole for the top-level donation they're seeking to fight the Democrats in the 40 seats that they are targeting: $16,000. Or maybe a night out at Voyeur.

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THE TEABAGGERS HAVE ASSIMILATED THE REPUBLICANS - RESISTANCE IS FUTILE

In order to gain the political power they've enjoyed for decades, Republican moderates and fiscal conservatives made a pact with the devil (faux Christians, bigots, racists, sexists and misanthropes) to achieve the numbers they needed to defeat Democrats. They made a strategic decision to manipulate and exploit the ignorance, fears and hatreds of dysfunctional and vulnerable voters in order to win elections rather than lose them by being intellectually and morally honest.

Today, those who conspired with the devil are caught between wanting to disassociate themselves with and casting out the demons they empowered and the karmic reality that they don't have the numbers to hold on to or regain power without continuing to accept and "advocate" the immoral values, hypocrisies and corruptions that are dividing and destroying their party.

The survival of today's shrinking Republican Party is so dependent on extremism that they have no significant power left WITH or WITHOUT the support of America's increasingly pernicious lunatic fringe.

The idiom "caught between the devil and the deep blue sea" is appropriate as Republicans are facing the dilemma of choosing between two equally undesirable alternatives that both result in Republican impotence in mainstream American politics. They are suffering the consequences of their treachery.

Their irresponsible propping up of George W. Bush cost them their credibility, and the dysfunctions of teabaggers, birthers and deathers exacerbated by the irresponsible exhortations of Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck are costing them their viability.


For a fleeting moment, I thought that HHH had morphed into Osage, but then I saw the words "pernicious", "idiom",
"dilemma", "exacerbated ". These words would not be in the closed set of HHH's domain.


"a super-soft, fine jersey (men's) or baby rib (women's) cotton" keepsake of the healthcare fight. ~ M.S.
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I always dry my car after I wash it. No point in being half-a**ed about something as important as this. A "super-soft fine jersey", men,women, or baby cotton would probably do a very nice job. There's a "modicum" of good in everything. This is that proof.


GOP Generational Theft by Deception Axis of Evil Speaks! Blame it on the Boehner! Blame it on the Nookie! Just not us! Just not Richard! Just not Mitch! Blame it on Medicare Viagra for you and me! Just don't blame Richard! Just don't blame Cantor! Oh America lets! Oh America lets not! Spank me once! Spank me twice! Ooohlala that was sure nice! Oh America lets! Oh Sarah lets! Oh Mitt the Quit in a time of war Lets not! Blame it on the Nookie! Blame it on the Booty! Her lips, her thighs, just got all of so hypnotized! She's no Pelosi! McCain's no Reid! Spank me! Don't stop! Just don't speak! Spank me twice! Ooohlala that sure was nice! We'll see you at the GOP Hotel, Motel, Holiday INN!
Drink Vitter Juice! TAP TAP TAP! Drink TEA! Let's PARTAY! Reload! Take AIM! Just spank me! I've been a bad boy! Oh Senator David, lets! Oh Senator David lets not!


I'll take 57 of the "BFD" T-shirts !! After all, we want each state to receive their fair share. Way to go, President Obama and Vice-President Biden, keep it up, with the straight talk !! Leave the B.S. to the Republican-Libertarian-T.Bagger's goons squads and their Corporate sponsors.
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.


By the Dems posting here, I can see why their fellow associates want them to get some care, fast. Tomorrow may be too late.

As for the tee shirt, is this where we are going? It's going to be F this and F that. I can just see the liberal moms and dads wearing them while walking junior to school.


Free To Watch, you have taken this to where wise men would fear to tread. You are, nonetheless, dead-on. As an ex-teacher, I can tell ya that every bad idea in America manifests itself as a daily skirmish in the classroom. Libeals never stop waging war.


FITZ,

"I'll take 57 of the "BFD" T-shirts" - Spoken like a true liberal. A real American would say "buy" and not "take". Then again, you are liberal, you expect everything for free.

SUPPORT SMALLER GOV'T. REPEAL THE DEMOCRAT-SOCIALIST-FLATLINERS THIS FALL.


For those of you that think gov't run health care will give you the treatment you desire, look at this example of what gov't run housing can provide.

http://wcbstv.com/local/rowan.towers.27.2.1605265.html


"The permanent Obama campaign" - Isn't that redundant?


Django, the classroom in America has degenerated into a 12 year babysitting fiasco. You couldn't pay me enough to enter a classroom as an instructor, stay an ex-teacher. Let the liberals have to suffer through the quagmire of Political Correctness of their own creation.


Free to Watch, Absolutely. Teaching high school algebra and geometry was meant to be my lean times fall-back position. I only asked that my students be teach-able. That is asking far too much. Words cannot express the total abject “hopelessness” and futility of the whole set-up. I could write a book, but would have a hard time passing it off as a mediocre work of non-fiction. Public school is a near-perfect microcosm of failed Liberalism. Absolutely.



Cheap at half the price.


Those shirts, I mean.


Anyhow, since we have experts on education, please let us know your suggestions for improvement.



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