Dear Republicans: You don't get to tell us how to act.

[Bouncy Ball]

Got it?

WE determine our behavior. Not you. We'll decide how we want to act. Democrats in Congress will decide how they want to act. You don't GET to decide that. You don't GET to dictate that. You don't HAVE that power. And sitting there on TV snarking that Democrats better "make nice" now just makes you look even more like the big, whiny, snively losers that you really are.

Who was telling you to "make nice" when you controlled Congress? OH THAT'S RIGHT, NO ONE. You know, when you were running roughshod over the American people, acting like kids in a candy store? Remember that?
YOU ARE THE LOSERS. You don't GET to dictate the terms.

Edited to add this: Republicans? Please put on your big girl panties and get over it.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

1. ITA, Bouncy Ball..

:kick: and R

[catzies]

2. Also called: YOU LOST. GET OVER IT.

Surely you remember when it was YOU saying that.

[moc]

3. Seriously.

How I wish Nancy Pelosi would announce that the president is "irrelevant".

She's too much of a lady, though.

Six years of being told that we're either with them or we're terrorists. :mad:

Karma's a bitch.

[Warren DeMontague]

6. Uh Huh. Didn't Dan Burton call Bill Clinton a "scumbag" on the floor of the House?

Now, they're all clutching their fucking crinoline doilies to their chests, saying "Good gracious! How did the discourse get so partisan and mean?

[Bouncy Ball]

9. Exactly.

Hello Republicans?

If you're wondering how things got so nasty, GO LOOK IN A MIRROR.

Thank you.

[Joe Chi Minh]

74. You should have said, "That is all." It always creases me up.

Some of you Americans have the drollest sense of humour!

[madmax]

21. OMG, are you kidding?

Dan Burton actually called the President of the U.S. a 'scumbag' on the Senate floor???!!! I hadn't heard that one. Man, I thought they were all about respecting the 'OFFICE' if not the man.

[Warren DeMontague]

29. I could have sworn it was on the House floor, but he definitely called

him a "Scumbag":

http://www.salon.com/news/1998/12/cov_22newsa.html

[kmla]

36. Yep. Dan the Subpoena Boy called President Clinton a scumbag on the House floor.

And, sadly enough, he is my representative.

*sigh*

[Joe Chi Minh]

73. Good one!

[Freedom_from_Chains]

7. I think Karma is great, particularly this year. n/t

[Warren DeMontague]

4. Right. They'll tell us how to act, what the election "means", everything.

Nice try, boyos. Relax. We've got the ball.

[VelmaD]

5. You know what else they don't get to do...

they don't get to decide why WE WON. I'm sick to fucking death of having to listen to rethug talking heads tell me why we won. THEY FUCKING LOST. They don't know jack shit.

[Warren DeMontague]

8. "Republicans Lost. Conservatism Didn't."

Oh yeah?

Nice try.

[Bouncy Ball]

10. OMG seriously? They're seriously saying that?

Well, at least they are acknowledging that those are two different things! LOL!

[Warren DeMontague]

28. Michelle Malkin said it, so you know someone else thought of it first.

http://michellemalkin.com/archives/006320.htm

[Coexist]

34. yes, that is their new meme

they are sad.

[Warren DeMontague]

56. Yeah. Now George Will is at it.

Rove's phone bill must be hitting the post-Katrina levels, when he was on the phone to every asshat rightwing pundit or media shill screaming "Blame Game! Blame Game! Blaaaaaaaaaaame Gaaaaame!"

[fooj]

86. I heard Tucker say it, too.

Do these assholes ever think for themselves?

[WinkyDink]

38. George Will's column today:

At least Republicans now know where the "Bridge to Nowhere" leads: to the political wilderness. But there are three reasons for conservatives to temper their despondency.

First, they were punished not for pursuing but for forgetting conservatism.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/08/AR2006110802081.html?nav=hcmodule

[Danascot]

87. Who cares what George Will thinks?

Nobody.

[JHB]

54. How many House & Senate seats does "conservatism" hold?

I don't recall seeing any "C"s next to peoples' names.

[elehhhhna]

79. Conservatism LOST when Bush was selected.

[DBoon]

98. Conservatism lost when Trent Lott took over Dole's job

The Republican Party has been run by thugs since the early 1990's

They can twist in the wind as far as I'm concerned

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

30. Yes, if their assessment included "well we did a shitty job and got tossed out", then

I might be a little more inclined to listen.

Strangely I've not heard this message from any Republican talking head. :shrug:

[Joe Chi Minh]

77. Strange, isn't it? So obvious, yet they fancy themselves to be

such masterminds!

[Joe Chi Minh]

75. Another spot-on observation. They're so shameless, their

presumption knows no bounds.

[Catherine Vincent]

11. Ya damn right!

[Bouncy Ball]

12. More:

You know what they've done? They have realized, every one of them, that they've set the NASTIEST TONE EVER in DC, they realize that they've pulled some of the nastiest, dirtiest, most underhanded shit EVER for the past six years and now they're HORRIBLY AFRAID it's all going to come back to bite them in the ass and hard.

They SET THAT TONE. THEY pissed in the pool. (And sorry, but crapped in it, too. A lot.) And now they're all standing on the side of it going "ewwww, that water's nasty!" Well, you know what? You're the ones who pissed and shat in it for six years. So you damn well better get in there and start cleaning that shit up.

By the way, where are the calls for Republicans to MAKE NICE and COOPERATE? Huh????

Fuck them. Their arrogance will be (and is already starting to be) their total downfall.

[gumby]

13. Telling Democrats how to act comes right after

they tell everyone what Democrats think. For years, right-wing talking heads have been creating the Liberal Bogeyman by telling their audiences what Democrats think. The Democrats themselves don't get to say what they think, the right-wingers decide what Democrats think and then rant and rave about how terrible Democratic thoughts are.

It looks like the rest of the country disagrees with them. They ARE the LOSERS. Too bad they won't loose their big, fat paychecks for their continual lying.

[July]

46. If they believe their own BS, I hope they keep doing this.

Keep telling us how we think and how we should act. We'll build our margins in the next election as the people notice how thoroughly clueless they are.

[roamer65]

14. They will be treated with respect...

as the MINORITY party. The American people want civility back to politics and we Democrats should bring it back for them. But the people also want the Rethugs relegated to minority status and they will learn their place in that status very quickly. We will chair the committees and they WILL play by the rules...period.

[Bouncy Ball]

15. THERE YOU GO.

THAT'S how to do it.

[Blue_In_AK]

That's exactly what I was saying to my husband last night...

We treat them with respect, but marginalize them, let them know that they're really not all that important anymore, but they can come along for the ride if they play nice. There is no need for us to sink to their former level. We're better than that.

[Blue_In_AK]

20. Delete - dupe

[Raksha]

94. Screw treating them with respect and civility.

A Freeper just told me on another board that Osama must be thrilled that the Democrats won. They'll get civility just as soon as they DESERVE it, which looks like it won't happen any time soon.

[Patchuli]

96. As if freepers know what Osama would think?

Asshats!

Hey, I think you can turn your flag rightside up again!! YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!:applause:

[Laelth]

45. Respect? Civility?

No thank you. They need to feel what it's like to be ignored, treated with disdain, made to hold hearings in the basement, and demonized by elected officials who should know better. If we don't let them know how this feels, they'll repeat the same totalitarian style of leadership next time they're in power.

No, civility and respect can return when they next come to power. They will have to bring it back. No way I'd counsel Democratic Party leaders to "play nice." For the good of America, it's time to play mean, like the Repukes do.

:mad:

-Laelth


Edit:Laelth--clarity.

[Raine]

92. Yeah, they can have respect

the same kind that they have shown to us for the last 6 years, I'm good with that. :evilgrin:

[DBoon]

99. Sure they'll have our respect

We will still expect them to raise their hand and ask permission before using the restroom.

They will get just the respect they deserve and no more.

[JHB]

57. Respect, but in a "speak softly and carry a big stick" sort of way...

There's a few parts of their coalition that could use a good (politically speaking) leg-breaking. (This means you, Grover!)

[Tarheel_Dem]

16. you are so right....

i broke my own rule this evening, i flipped on hannity & colmes, and hannity was grilling jesse jackson about john conyers' intentions re: impeachment. it was such a joke, hannity is trying to get any democrat to say that they intend to impeach the bastard. as far as i know, jesse jackson is not an elected official, and i'm sure john conyers doesn't consult with him on the subject of impeachment. i wish they would, however, i do realize that we have a lot more important things to do initially.

but fox anchors are still trying to scare their base with the threat of impeachment, and subpoenas flying all over D.C. the dems have earned the right, and the american electorate has given them a mandate & i hope they do us proud.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

32. Memo to Hannity: ELECTION IS OVER YOU FUCKING FUCK so you can

desist from continuing to scare your audience you FUCKING FUCK!

Ahem. That is all. Thank you.

[bpeale]

67. the best thing the dems can do

is starve faux news right out of business by not giving them ANY access. if it was me, OLBERMANN would be the only one getting access.

[Joe Chi Minh]

80. It's not "us having the ball, now", as Arian said. It's endeavouring

to inculcate into the very climate of the country a deep respect for the RULE OF LAW.

When the rulers behave criminally, as so many are latently predisposed to do, the effects of their crimes on the people and the country are so much vaster and more injurious than that of a common, street hood.

[pnwmom]

17. Why is the ultimate insult always to imply that someone

is sissy? "Please put on your big girl panties and get over it." You could have said "training pants" to make the same point in a gender neutral way.

Please put your brain into the 21st century. The Speaker of the House is a woman and it's about time.

[Bouncy Ball]

18. OMG it's JUST a saying.

Big girl panties, big boy panties. TAKE YOUR PICK.

Whatever you would LIKE to call them, THEY need to put them on, one leg at a time so they don't mess up, and get over it.

Edited to add: "training pants" is hurtful to children going through potty training. I'm trying to be a little *sensitive* here, do you mind?

[pnwmom]

23. Yeah right. Let's hope we don't have many DU'ers still

in potty training.

Although sometimes, I wonder . . .


:bounce:

[Toots]

41. It isn't just a saying no more than calling some one a "girlie man" is

It is sexist and has no place here.

[Bluebear]

64. I thought it just implied "be adults"

[Joe Chi Minh]

83. Unfortunately, you have to use insults that are "meaningful" to the

person being insulted. It will often be a meaningless, nonsensical, irrelevant, or at best neutral description to most even half mature human beings, but to them - no.

However, such expressions do have the unfortunate side-effect of reinforcing the disrespectful shallowness implicit in the expression, however jovially intended by the speaker. So I get your point.

[Habibi]

39. I dunno, I didn't read it as sexist, myself.

In fact, I like the confluence of "big girl panties" and "grownup."

*goes off to post this on another board, where I know it'll piss off some RWer*

edited: spelling boo-boo

[Raine]

93. Neither did I

and I'm a "big girl" it gave me a chuckle maybe I have really thick skin. :shrug:

[Cameron27]

19. Great OP

It's driving me nuts, finally turned off the news entirely.

[roamer65]

24. Senior Democrats know how to act...

...they've held these chairmanships before. They know how to do these jobs and did so for many years before 1994. These TV blowhards will just be ignored by the Senior Dems. I remember when Dingell, Rangel, Leahy and Levin held these jobs and they were good at it.

[AspenRose]

22. DAMN STRAIGHT

I'm sick of these people telling Democrats how they need to act :nuke:

[hwmnbn]

25. Send this to Rahm Emmanuel.....

before the "democrat party" gets emasculated by the RW spin machine.

[jgraz]

27. Please don't say "emasculated"...

it's insulting to people who have had their testicles forcibly removed...

Like the Republicans...

nevermind

[Viva_La_Revolution]

58. lol!

:spray:

[American Jesus]

31. Send it to Rahm and the DLC as a warning.

Taking down the Republicans was only step 1.

Eliminating the Republicans from our own party is step 2.

The DLC is finished. They do not determine even one FRACTION of this party's future.

Give me "conservative Democrats" "Moderates" or whatever, but keep the corporatist whores where they belong.

OUT of my party.

[Clark2008]

42. THANK YOU!

You understand the difference between a DLCer and a moderate/conservative Democrat!

One can be moderate or conservative and NOT be a corporate whore. I keep trying to tell that to people and I hope that more and more people begin to understand that.

BRAVO! :bounce:

[Individualist]

55. Hear, hear!

DLC is a cancer on the party. What I've said before bears repeating - the only thing worse than a neocon is a neocon enabler. My ignore list has grown because I put DLC cheerleaders on ignore. They have nothing but spin, snark and condescension, trying their damndest to convince liberals to move to the right, "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing".

[Maven]

26. THANK YOU.

Rec.

[The Backlash Cometh]

33. Love it!

[City Lights]

35. The same needs to be said about the corporate press hookers. eom

[SammyWinstonJack]

44. Especially them!

:applause:

[WinkyDink]

37. Get out of Nancy's House! Get out of Nancy's House!

Hee hee.

[hatrack]

40. It's like my favorite line from "American Beauty"

"I don't have to do anything you say ever again."

[seabeyond]

43. perfect example conventions. when i said fuck you... to telling us

media, repugs all sayig kerry better be nice, better not attack bush, american people dont want it. and if kerry attack policy he was picking on little ole wimpy wussy bushy

repug convention was mean spirited, ugly ugly ugly, raunchy and media patted them on the back for being tough and why the american people preferred them

fuck you.... on telling me what to do

[Generic Other]

47. They have some nerve

Losers don't dictate the conditions of surrender. Fuck them!

[evolved Anarchopunk]

48. Republicans are so angry, they are eager to boss Pelosi around,

but they have another thing comin' b/c she is strong-willed and persuasive. In all my classes, all I heard from my conservative peers was "Pelosi better do.." or "Pelosi is going to have to.." to which I responded (honestly) that she doesn't have to do a GODdamn thing she doesn't want to do. Let's remind Rethugs of this continually, like you have done here.

[porphyrian]

49. And minority factions of our party don't speak for all Democrats either, rahm. - n/t

[Swamp Rat]

50. IMPEACH BUSH NOW!!!

[Rob H.]

51. "Please put on your big girl panties and get over it."

:rofl:

Great post!

[grizmaster]

52. that's right repubs, get your own mandate

[Horse with no Name]

53. I WOULD LOVE to know where all the calls by the media

for partisanship was when they were bullying the Democrats around.
What they want is for us to play nice while Republicans continue their dirty tricks behind the scenes.
The ONLY lesson these folks learned was to do it where nobody can see it.
Make no mistake. It will only get uglier and uglier.
But it will be where nobody can see it.

[Raffi Ella]

59. Just want to add my GLEE to this thread.

To Freeps and all the crybabies out there:

FUCK YOuuuuuu!America has spoken and spoken loudly.Your NeoCon fascist theocratic Movement is DEAD.Sanity has been restored to our Government,the Grown Ups are back in charge.

WE WILL have investigations and if those investigations lead to charges against the (r)President we WILL Impeach the idiot.GET OVER IT.

IF you are willing to work with US we'll get along just fine,otherwise BE PREPARED for us to kick Ass and Take Names.

Play Time is OVER for the stupids of the NeoCon Movement.BACK TO REALITY.hahahah!YAY! YAY for AMERICA!!!!!!YAY for us the DEMOCRATS and SANE people around the nation!!!!YAY YAY YAY!



:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :headbang: :kick: :evilgrin: :7 :hi:

[lies and propaganda]

60. i just think of how they treated us for all these years

They can all kiss my fucking ass.

Ill never stoop to their level, I doubt it even possible. But civility is all their getting for a loooooong time.

[SoCalifer]

61. To be honest

I'd love to see their reaction if when it was their turn to speak we turned off their microphone and lights. And only allowed them to use the basement when they wanted to hold any special meeting.

[StaggerLee]

68. I had forgotten about that

Thanks for the reminder.

They've done so many underhanded things that it's difficult for me to keep straight.

[ComerPerro]

62. and they had the WH and both houses, and didn't get shit done

[Bridget Burke]

63. I remember a discussion on "civility" on CBS's "Sunday Morning"....

During the dark days between the Supreme Court's decision & Bush's Inauguration, a reporter (Lesley Stahl?) interviewed Clarence Thomas's wife. Mrs Thomas was so happy that the Republicans were going to restore maturity, civility & adult behavior to DC. Stahl just smiled & agreed with her.

Of course, Mrs Thomas was working for the Heritage Foundation, interviewing prospects for roles in Bush's regime. Did Stahl suggest a conflict of interest? After all, Mr Thomas had helped ensure there would BE a Bush regime. No!

Of course, the persecution of Clinton was not mentioned. The Republicans had always been above partisanship!

I really loved "Sunday Morning." I haven't watched it since.

[La_Fourmi_Rouge]

91. I hear you, Bridget!

I remember when the Pope went to Cuba, and Cokie Roberts was emoting all over the set like a schoolgirl on her first date, when she announced her big "get" - an interview with the Pontiff himself.

LESS than an hour later, she was canceling her flight to Cuba to look closely at the semen stains on Monica's blue dress.

Another big loser that needs rehabilitation after the last decade-and-a-half is Journalism. Keith Olbermann towers over the barren landscape of the MSM much like Cal Ripken towered over the desert that was major league baseball in 1994. Pygmies, All!

H.L. Mencken, where are you when we need you?

[Bluebear]

65. American beauty: "You don't get to tell me what to do, ever again!"

Love it BB!

[Generator]

66. That's right!

Osama Bin Laden's favorite party is in charge!

(GAWD, after treating US like scum, telling our reps to FUCK OFF in the senate, after calling us unpatriotic, terrorist appeasers, now shut up with telling us how to do things-you have no clue how deep and righteous our outrage at what YOUR shitty party has done to this country-and we don't even know-gulp-half the crap you've pulled, but we intend to find out and will not forget nor let the electorate forget how you've run roughshod over every civil liberty we hold dear)

[Joe Chi Minh]

84. I recently read Richard A Clarke's book, "Against All Enemies",

and found that every now and then he'd say something completely hilarious. Yet often he was just drily putting an action or words of theirs in a particular context that highlighted their madness.

[NegSpin]

69. Exactly

Republicans, shut up. You had your chance, you blew it.

[Arugula Latte]

70. Yes indeedy.

What you said ...

[mnhtnbb]

71. What's that saying-- something about "do unto others"?

Guess all those holier than thou Republicans forgot the part about "as you would have done unto you". If they get a little of their own back, well, I guess they were asking for it!

[Swamp Rat]

78. HA! We got Xtreme Jesus on OUR side now!

[butterfly77]

72. Damn skippy...

you tell them... AND REMEMBER REPUGS " YOU DON'T OWN THOSE SEATS WE DO"!

[Swamp Rat]

76. That's right!!! WE tell YOU how to act, fuckwads!!! Now roll over and pee on yourselves!

[Bunny]

82. I love you Swamp Rat!

That is just beautiful! :thumbsup:

[Raster]

95. Oh Swamp Rat....kkkarla is a thing of beauty!

[emdee]

81. "Big Girl Panties"!!!!

:yourock:



emdee:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

:kick:

[Joe Chi Minh]

85. Oh noooo. Remember, REAL MEN are Republicans... Ask

young Tucker Neilson. It's just that chickenhawks that they are, they pee their pants at the thought of serving their country in the military. But being REAL MEN, they are not conscientious objectors. Just cynical and cowardly exploiters, low-life parasites.

[mcg]

88. and we don't have to ACT like winners, we ARE winners!

In fact, it is the responsibility of our elected officials
to be the winners and govern our country!

[mvd]

89. Hear, here!

No more relegation to the basement for us. We tell the Repukes what to do.

[GreenPartyVoter]

90. AMEN!

[elehhhhna]

97. The DINOs are invited to STFU, as well.