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After Obama's detailed and thoughtful speech I was very surprised how the Republican rebuttal has so little there there. It was all about saying nothing specific. What was she trying to sell? I couldn't tell from what she said.
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Freedom is being able to tell other people what to do.
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Rebuttals to the State of the Union address are always more fluff than substance.

The president was allowed to give a long speech highlighting his accomplishments and goals and the opponents naturally want to deflate it and cheerlead their own team.

Her response was the same as all rebuttals: A waste of time.
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Nicely done, but I wonder how many of the "kids" on this site will catch the Joplin reference. We're getting old, Dan. :-)
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@4 - I'm not all that young, and I got the reference. In fact, I now have that stuck in my head. In fact, could someone skilled with such things please give us the full lyrics to Me and Cathy McM?
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Do high school kids still listen to classic rock? My youth was certainly saturated with bands that had broken up or actually died before I ever heard them. Is that still a thing?
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@5

Given 80% of her speech was reciting her resume (leaving out the bits that both she and her husband have had paychecks and health care from the taxpayer their entire adult lives) Me & Cathy McMEEEEEEEE rhymes just fine.
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@4 I caught the Kris Kristofferson reference.

And The Simpsons.
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I don't think that healthcare reform has gone far enough... we're still at the whims of the insurers, who have proven time and time again they will find a way for douchetastical law skirting. However, one thing you CAN say for this law is you DO have a choice of insurers. You can choose to use your work plan, or if that blows goats, as many do, you can find a plan in the marketplace that you DO like. And odds are pretty good that you're gonna get some kind of a subsidy. Obamacare ain't perfect, but it would have saved my everloving ass in my college days when I waited out a kidney infection all weekend because I would be damned if I was gonna go to the ER without insurance and the free clinic was closed til Monday. Or my husband, who probably would have gotten his diabetes caught much sooner if he hadn't been on a bullshit plan offered by Securitas that basically was "you submit a claim, and we'll make it so fucking hard that you'll eventually be like 'fuck it' and pay the bill yourself."
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I kept waiting for her rebuttal to turn into a children's book reading. I wanted to see the drawings!
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CMR spent most of her growing up years in Canada, spent a year or so living with her family at a rented orchard in Kettle Falls and graduated from Pensacola Christian College, an unaccredited, fundamentalist college. More here: http://m.dailykos.com/story/2014/01/28/1…
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@10: I said I thought she was going to start baking a pie, and my mom said she was going to start picking apples.
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@5:

Wastin’ time in Canada, waitin’ for my turn
And time has faded out my GOP
Barack pissed the racists off, just before midterms,
And we rode them all the way to D.C.

I took out all our buzzwords, like a good Pollyanna
I was reading lines while Boehner pulled the strings, yeah
Teleprompter scrolling lines, I was holding’ Boehner’s hand in mine,
We blew every dog-whistle the R voters knew

Freedom’s just another word for choosin’ what I chose
Privilege, don’t mean nothing hon if it aint free, no no
And doing well was easy Lord, when you’re one of “those”
You know doing well was easy enough for me
Easy enough for me, I’m Cathy McMe!
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@13: well done!
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I am SOOOO very bored with the anti-abortion crowd. Who really don't care but it buys votes. If one is REALLY against abortion, then you should be in favor of better birth control, better sex ed (so people don't get into a bad situation in the first place, and yes, that includes abstinence training as in teaching girls to decline sex with their boyfriends assertively and nicely) and finally better wages for people so they don't need to make these hard choices. And maybe more encouragement of adoption. I am anti-abortion: I truly believe every child should be wanted and have the right to live. But I am also pro-choice, and I vote too!

And by the way, why are health insurers anti-abortion? If we aborted less than perfect kids, they wouldn't be financial burden on their parents that less than perfectly insured parents end up with. (Or on the insurance company for better insured people.) Oh, sorry! I forgot: Insurers get to charge a LOT for young women than may get pregnant.
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@13 FTW
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@6 I graduated high school ten years ago this spring, and my favorite bands were Pink Floyd, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Rush, Yes and ELO. They still are, actually. I can only hope the music of my parents' generation is still popular among kids today. I die a little inside when I hear Nirvana or Soundgarden on classic rock radio, because I just don't see how it is classic rock yet.
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In addition to two government health insurance policies, Congresswoman Mom also has a husband who retired early--very early--on a government pension so he can stay home and take care of the kiddos. Wait--shouldn't we be taking that government pension away? Well, even if we did, I expect to see her retired soon enough, raking in a fortune shaking down the government for billionaires.
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I am so bone weary of these assholes. Wake me when the revolution starts. I call dibs on manning the guillotine.
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@13 +1

Since McMorris-Rogers is a rising star in the GOP she should run against Patty Murray next time around. After she loses she can get a full time job with Fux Noise.
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@17: I think the official "classic rock" threshold is ten years and most Nirvana stuff is at 20+.
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I was under the impression The McMorris Rogers found out their son had Trisomy 21 after he was born. I suspect her special needs child's situation has worked out because she and her husband have enough money to pay for the hired help to care for him along with their free health are via Cathy's job. If young David were born to poor parents with not health care, I imagine he wouldn't be doing quite so well. Right?

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