My mother just sent me this

[redheadbaker]

With a note, "I know you agree with Obama, but just read this."

Not sure what I was supposed to get out of it.

www.humanevents.com/2013/10/09/obamas-dangerous-claim-to-executive-power/

I'm mobile and miss my physical keyboard!

[Velvetshady]

Oct 10, 2013 14:32:41 GMT -5 redheadbaker said:

With a note, "I know you agree with Obama, but just read this."

Not sure what I was supposed to get out of it.

www.humanevents.com/2013/10/09/obamas-dangerous-claim-to-executive-power/

I'm mobile and miss my physical keyboard!

That your mother is a TP nutjob?

[earlgreyhot]

My mom likes to send stuff like that to me every now and again. I just don't respond b/c it's not worth the stress. She's where I get my stubbornness, so it's really like just banging my head on a brick wall.

[redheadbaker]

Oct 10, 2013 14:37:50 GMT -5 earlgreyhot said:

My mom likes to send stuff like that to me every now and again. I just don't respond b/c it's not worth the stress. She's where I get my stubbornness, so it's really like just banging my head on a brick wall.

Sounds exactly like us.

I'm mobile and miss my physical keyboard!

[UMaineTeach]

Who is Obama, the 44th president, to demand more borrowing latitude than his 43 predecessors?

Who was Bush to demand more borrowing latitude than his 42 predecessors? the national debt has never gone down has it?? We hit a debt ceiling often right?

Not so. The health program the president is imposing on us is not the Affordable Care Act.

then what is it? They continue to make it sound like Obamacare is some kind of government insurance program to 'sign up for' and I can't say enough that IT'S NOT. You just have to get some damn insurance, no one gives a crap where it comes from or who's paying for it.

and that junk about the stimulus in '08-'09 - Bush did that, Obama just signed off on it.

[ringstrue]

Tell your mom that people who make their "national news" site with wordpress aren't as great or official as she's thinking they are.

[redheadbaker]

Oct 10, 2013 15:03:18 GMT -5 ringstrue said:

Tell your mom that people who make their "national news" site with wordpress aren't as great or official as she's thinking they are.

Oh, I'm not replying at all. I will not discuss politics with her. I almost burst into tears when she said if people want healthcare, they should get a job. Apparently forgetting that I HAD a job and no healthcare, since my employer didn't offer it.

I'm mobile and miss my physical keyboard!

[zelda25]

Oct 10, 2013 15:12:15 GMT -5 redheadbaker said:

Oct 10, 2013 15:03:18 GMT -5 ringstrue said:

Tell your mom that people who make their "national news" site with wordpress aren't as great or official as she's thinking they are.

Oh, I'm not replying at all. I will not discuss politics with her. I almost burst into tears when she said if people want healthcare, they should get a job. Apparently forgetting that I HAD a job and no healthcare, since my employer didn't offer it.

I'm mobile and miss my physical keyboard!

I've had this same conversation with my in-laws several times. It always ends the same way, with me reminding them that without the ACA, their own son will never have the option to work for a small business or his own business because his (repaired) heart condition renders him uninsurable.
*crickets*

[Deleted]

Oct 10, 2013 15:47:09 GMT -5 zelda25 said:

Oct 10, 2013 15:12:15 GMT -5 redheadbaker said:

Oh, I'm not replying at all. I will not discuss politics with her. I almost burst into tears when she said if people want healthcare, they should get a job. Apparently forgetting that I HAD a job and no healthcare, since my employer didn't offer it.

I'm mobile and miss my physical keyboard!

I've had this same conversation with my in-laws several times. It always ends the same way, with me reminding them that without the ACA, their own son will never have the option to work for a small business or his own business because his (repaired) heart condition renders him uninsurable.
*crickets*

Its a useless approach, all those facts and things. You might as well say "banana crickets lentils aeroplane there there boing". At least they might ask for an explanation then lol.

[StrawberryBlondie]

Oct 10, 2013 15:12:15 GMT -5 redheadbaker said:

Oct 10, 2013 15:03:18 GMT -5 ringstrue said:

Tell your mom that people who make their "national news" site with wordpress aren't as great or official as she's thinking they are.

Oh, I'm not replying at all. I will not discuss politics with her. I almost burst into tears when she said if people want healthcare, they should get a job. Apparently forgetting that I HAD a job and no healthcare, since my employer didn't offer it.

I'm mobile and miss my physical keyboard!

I always feel like a bitch in these threads because I wouldn't have tried to fight back tears in that scenario.

I mean, yea I get that respect your elders and stuff, some shit doesn't deserve silence. Parents or not.

Sent from my Nexus 7 using proboards

[IIOY]

Oct 10, 2013 15:12:15 GMT -5 redheadbaker said:

Oct 10, 2013 15:03:18 GMT -5 ringstrue said:

Tell your mom that people who make their "national news" site with wordpress aren't as great or official as she's thinking they are.

Oh, I'm not replying at all. I will not discuss politics with her. I almost burst into tears when she said if people want healthcare, they should get a job. Apparently forgetting that I HAD a job and no healthcare, since my employer didn't offer it.

This sounds so much like my FIL. He will be going off on something with no attention to who his audience is, and completely insult them without thinking about it. My father was a teacher/college professor and FIL once went on a rant about male teachers in front of him (male teachers need to get real jobs, FYI). He makes sexist comments in front of me all the time. When H yells at him, he has no clue how to respond. I honestly think that it borders on some sort of mental illness to be able to be a complete ass like that without regard for your audience.

[MrsAxilla]

What a poorly written article, not counting the logic failures. Not that any of it makes sense, but this part has me particularly confused: "The Supreme Court has ruled twice that presidents cannot delay, amend and repeal parts of laws." Yet Obama is dangerous because he refuses to negotiate with members of the House...who want him to delay, amend and/or repeal parts of the ACA. So what exactly is the author upset about?