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March 26, 2010 09:13 PM UTC
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Even if we have no idea what it means
“make noises like mating cats in the spring, followed by trying to cover your turd in the sandbox so no one will know where you’ve been”
For a while I thought she was using a big word that the typical moran would not understand.
but I like WritterWrocks’ definition better.
Am I the only one who had no idea what it meant?
What a great word, though. I’m determined to work it into a conversation now.
‘Cause that’s what my mom called me pretty much from the day I was born, except she pronounced it “obsteperous.”
She was going full rant on my brother one day because he had used some vulgarity in front of her, and she got so wound up that she shouted, “You’re the obscenest little turd I’ve ever met.” Instant loss of credibility; much laughter ensued.
(I obviously don’t take after my mother.) The only time I ever heard her curse and it was pretty mild, at that, it scared me so bad, I broke into tears.
My mom was fond of saying about a neighbor, “She wouldn’t say shit if she had a mouthful of it” and “She acts like if she said shit, her jaw would break.” My mom (and dad) didn’t have a problem saying pretty much anything, though I was nearly 30 when I first heard Mom say the F-word. We were walking downtown and somebody had written “Fuck the RTD” on a wall. She stopped and read it out loud. Her jaw didn’t break.
to use the word Obstreperous”:
“I was going to specialize as an Obstreperousitician in Med school, but opted for pathology instead.”
“Obstreperousaurus is most remarkable for its ability to crow loudly while failing to accomplish anything at all.”
“My Medieval Studies professor is the world’s foremost expert in Obstreperousology, which, as the counterpart of alchemy, was the less coveted art of turning gold into lead.”
Forget T-Rex.
Has been since 2006. Obstreperosaurus is king.
or what?
Now we can use it and be called “elitist.”
I read Murkowski’s remarks and thought of John Kerry.
At least we know that some Alaskan Republicans elected to statewide office care about education.
We seem to forget that Congress still exists now that health reform has passed. If we take only one thing from this battle, it’s how horribly our system is broken. It’s not just about how Republicans interact with a law that’s already passed but rather about how the two parties engage in discourse to make the best laws possible. HCR is far from the best bill possible, and I would hate to see our Congresspeople interact this way every time.
And I mean, suggestions about how to reach the goal you’ve identified (the two parties working together better)?
by pushing Congress to reinstate the cuts they made to Flex Spending Accounts.
FSAs are utilized by normal middle class families to pay for health care items and procedures using their own pre-tax dollars.
The health care bill cuts this program in half and bans the purchase of over the counter drugs.
Sad.
Answering the call for suggestions on how to move toward less partisan polarization with a random partisan shot was a little joke on your part, right?
Or just more proof of where the source of the problem is to be found?
As if any more proof were needed.
I’m serious. I think this is a bad part of the legislation that largely effects middle class families that are taking responsibility for their own health care needs.
And I think it’s worthy of fixing.
I don’t think any D’s believe the HC bill is perfect. This is a section that they could easily change and I would gladly give them praise.
But criticizing a specific provision in a bill that Democrats just passed without any Republican votes, and that Republicans are making death threats over, is not a response to the call for suggestions about how to reduce partisan polarization.
This is about getting people to the table, not what concession they should make once you get them there, even if it’s one that you think would be in the public interest. You answered a question about how to yoke the horse to the cart by putting the cart ahead of the horse.
that’s making death threats.
Literal death threats have been reported against Democratic members of congress by people who identify themselves as being opposed to the legislation they just passed, and figurative death threats have been made against Democratic members of congress by high ranking and prominent Republican leaders.
How sloppy of me to have abbreviated that to “Republicans are making death threats.”
suggestions to reduce polarization between opposing sides, in any context, is to offer to concede something that the other side wants, not to ask that they concede something that you want!
you have nothing to concede.
you’re kidding, right?
This isn’t a conversation about who does or doesn’t have anything to concede. This is a conversation about how to reduce polarization. You don’t reduce polarization by asking for concessions, but rather by offering them (sometimes in exchange for concessions in return). Stating that doesn’t mean that the person stating it doesn’t believe that his side has anything to concede, but rather that the person stating it knows what the topic of conversation is, and understands that “demand capitulation” rarely appears as a preferred tactic in textbooks on how to reduce tensions between opposing sides. Maybe you should write one of your own to fill in that inexplicable gap in the literature.
is to admit an imperfection and move to fix it.
So what imperfection would you like to admit to?
Okay, okay, I’ll throw you a bone: The Democratic Party needs to continue to reduce the amount of “class warfare” in the rhetoric of many of its members, and increase the amount of “how do we move in the direction of an optimal balance between maximum efficiency and maximimum fairness?”
See? Not so hard when you’re a reasonable person of good will.
What you meant is that one good way to reduce tensions is for the other side to admit to the imperfection that you point out to them, and move to fix it.
You still are having a lot of trouble with this concept: if you’re only demanding something of the opposition and not conceding something to the opposition, you’re not striving to reduce polarization.
only one of us is capable of following your advice about how to reduce tensions, and it wasn’t the one who was so generous as to offer it. Big surprise there, friend. As I said at the top of this thread, you seem intent on proving that Republicans are incapable of acting cooperatively (or even conceiving of what it would look like to do so), and, I must say, you’ve accomplished your task with admirable dispatch.
The Republican party could start by never using the “moving the goal post” strategy (I guess that’s a tactic, dunno) again. It is fundamental to the way they do bidness. If you could ever trust that they would honor a deal, it might be worth dealing with them.
If the mandate portion of the bill is struck down, does it necessarily take the whole bill with it?