Comments on: Buy What Democrats Say to Buy or GO TO JAIL

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:50:17 +0000

The difference between our conditions is that my conditions are based on what the right wing is actually saying, and your’s are ridiculous fantasies.

So yes, it’s still a deal.

By: Warner Todd Huston

Warner Todd Huston — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:12:20 +0000

LOL, deal. And I’ll concede that I was wrong when Obamacare cures cancer, where all of us will be the ideal weight and will live until we are each no less than 150, in perfect health of course. Oh, and when there’s a unicorn in the garage of the government provided mansion we all get from the beneficent Obammessiah and when we are all in that nirvana he promised us, I’ll publicly say you are the expert political analyst.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:18:23 +0000

I’m glad you have a sense of humor! But I wish you didn’t propagate the kind of extreme rhetoric that avoids the hard facts. It just makes politics much more ugly than it needs to be, and much less honest.

But anyway, after we get sent to jail for not buying insurance, illegal immigrants get federal subsidies to purchase insurance, and your grandma is killed because a death panel did her in, I’ll concede. Deal?

By: Warner Todd Huston

Warner Todd Huston — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:05:41 +0000

They’ll probably make me vote Democrat! LOL.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:17:51 +0000

When the world comes to an end after the enactment of health care reform legislation, I’ll check back in on you and see what kind of chains the overloads gave you to wear.

Hugs and kisses.

By: Warner Todd Huston

Warner Todd Huston — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:14:59 +0000

No, you live in a world where you spend all day whistling past the graveyard and looking at the world through those red colored glasses!

Sleep well.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:12:49 +0000

I live in reality, not the world of tortured logic.

Good night.

By: Warner Todd Huston

Warner Todd Huston — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:06:14 +0000

The Slaves were freed in 1865. They led a wondrous life for ever more because, heck, they were free, right? Sure a few southern states passed a law or two that sort of hindered them. But, gosh, there was no slippery slope that led to anything like wide=spread Jim Crow throughout the South… right?

Then there was that nice Hitler fellow who only passed a few laws to keep Jews in check, ya know? Heck, there was no slippery slope that would lead to anything like a “final solution,” eh? Good thing that never happened!

Oh, and those laws that outlawed certain drugs? Why, they didn’t lead to any wider crack down that resulted in any “war on drugs,” of course.

Oh, oh, and those few gun laws that first regulated guns? Remember how they never led to outright banning of them in cities all across America? That slippery slope could NEVER happen, right?

Try living in the real world instead of in that fantasy where your sterile Hahvard Debate club rules apply.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:59:31 +0000

Usually, if something sounds ridiculous and hard to believe it’s because it’s not true. To say that “in the future” we’ll be sending people to jail for failure to purchase insurance – especially when low income people will have expanded access to Medicaid and subsidies to purchase insurance on the individual market, plus a hardship exemption – is not an argument.

Even if your logic made any sense, slippery slope arguments are logical fallacies.

By: Warner Todd Huston

Warner Todd Huston — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:52:56 +0000

First of all, you cannot say that it is “simply not true.” That is a flat out lie. You do not know what eventuality may occur. The law is there and it WILL be used. I agree that it won’t likely be used much early on. But, history (even American history) proves that it WILL be used eventually and as time goes on it will be used increasingly.

Only a fool would believe otherwise with the entirety of human history to disabuse one of such foolishness.

But the issue is not whether it will be used. The issue is that the policies exist at all. This fact, the fact that they exist at all, is the issue. It marks the decline and death of America and the emergence of a fascist state.

“First they came for the Jews.” Is that “hyperbole,” to you as well?

Bury your head in the sand all you want. Reality won’t pass you by but will kick you in the rear.