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[url]http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57610788/employment-non-discrimination-act-enda-makes-progress-in-the-senate/[/url] [quote]With the support of every member of the Democratic caucus and some Republicans, the Senate on Monday voted to move forward with the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), a bill that would prohibit discrimination in the workplace on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. The bill is now all but sure to pass in the Senate, where a handful of Republicans voted Monday to proceed with the bill -- including one stalwart conservative, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah. Still, its fate in the Republican-led House is unclear. A spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Monday that the speaker opposes the legislation. The bill's supporters on Monday sounded optimistic that after a decades-long struggle, ENDA's time had come. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, called the bill's consideration "a huge step forward, one too long in coming."[/quote]
Can the GOP just die?
I know that the whole system in the United States is broken, but can we at least all agree that having Democrats in power over Republicans is the better deal? I try not to get heavily involved in economic policies because I haven't paid taxes yet and shouldn't really have a say on it until then, but the social policies the GOP pursues aren't just conservative, they are down-right recessive and it pisses me off to no end.
[QUOTE=Doctor Zedacon;42765998]Can the GOP just die?[/QUOTE] In a car fire, whilst burning alive?
C'mon Smurfy, it's not guaranteed to die in the house. Maybe some republicans have hearts?
[QUOTE=Draze;42766117]C'mon Smurfy, it's not guaranteed to die in the house. Maybe some republicans have hearts?[/QUOTE] Boehner doesn't support it so it will never come to a vote
[QUOTE=Mackalda2k6;42766044]I know that the whole system in the United States is broken, but can we at least all agree that having Democrats in power over Republicans is the better deal? I try not to get heavily involved in economic policies [B]because I haven't paid taxes yet...[/B][/QUOTE] It's okay, neither have most of the GOP.
[QUOTE=Doctor Zedacon;42765998]Can the GOP just die?[/QUOTE] [I]6 GOP senators back gay rights bill[/I] "God i wish the GOP would just die, [I]even the 6 that [B]supported my viewpoint and broke party lines[/B][/I]"
[QUOTE=S31-Syntax;42766155][I]6 GOP senators back gay rights bill[/I] "God i wish the GOP would just die, [I]even the 6 that [B]supported my viewpoint and broke party lines[/B][/I]"[/QUOTE] Their party will turn on them, absolutely.
[QUOTE=Jeep-Eep;42766170]Their party will turn on them, absolutely.[/QUOTE] Yeah, they probably will, whats your point?
[QUOTE=S31-Syntax;42766180]Yeah, they probably will, whats your point?[/QUOTE] The only decent repubs left are the ones that haven't had enough sense to jump ship.
[QUOTE=S31-Syntax;42766155][I]6 GOP senators back gay rights bill[/I] "God i wish the GOP would just die, [I]even the 6 that [B]supported my viewpoint and broke party lines[/B][/I]"[/QUOTE] Maybe they could form a party that supports fiscal conservatism without the absurd, occasionally theocratic social policy hangups the GOP has.
[QUOTE=Raidyr;42766205]Maybe they could form a party that supports fiscal conservatism without the absurd, occasionally theocratic social policy hangups the GOP has.[/QUOTE] So join the democrats and wait for the inevitable blue dog schism?
[QUOTE=Raidyr;42766205]Maybe they could form a party that supports fiscal conservatism without the absurd, occasionally theocratic social policy hangups the GOP has.[/QUOTE] And then they get third-partied, ignored, and the problem persists until the bigoted majority of the congressional GOP literally die of old age in several decades.
GOP is just getting extremist now because they think its the only way they can "Hold off" the democrats.
I wanna take this moment to point out that I've only heard the term "GOP" since Obama became president, and I know they're always talking about the Republican party when they use that term but I have no fucking idea what "GOP" means.
[QUOTE=Banned?;42766264]I wanna take this moment to point out that I've only heard the term "GOP" since Obama became president, and I know they're always talking about the Republican party when they use that term but I have no fucking idea what "GOP" means.[/QUOTE] "Grand Old Party"
[QUOTE=Banned?;42766264]I wanna take this moment to point out that I've only heard the term "GOP" since Obama became president, and I know they're always talking about the Republican party when they use that term but I have no fucking idea what "GOP" means.[/QUOTE] "Gathering of pigheads"
[QUOTE=S31-Syntax;42766180]Yeah, they probably will, whats your point?[/QUOTE] So they obviously aren't representing the ideals of the GOP. I'm also gonna go out on a limb here and assume that he wants the party itself, and not the members of the party, to die.
[QUOTE=Mackalda2k6;42766044]I know that the whole system in the United States is broken, but can we at least all agree that having Democrats in power over Republicans is the better deal? I try not to get heavily involved in economic policies because I haven't paid taxes yet and shouldn't really have a say on it until then, but the social policies the GOP pursues aren't just conservative, they are down-right recessive and it pisses me off to no end.[/QUOTE] [I]No[/I] the Democrats aren't perfect that means that both are just as bad as one another even though the Republicans are holding back (and in some cases trying to revert) civil rights, shutting down the government, rabidly blocking health care reform, bending over for companies, promoting fiscal policies that blatantly don't work (trickle down), and overall just being backwards assholes if I say that the Democrats are better that will make me a biased partisan SOCIALIST so THE TRUTH IS IN THE MIDDLE
[QUOTE=smurfy;42766130]Boehner doesn't support it so it will never come to a vote[/QUOTE]That and the ass-backward [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hastert_Rule]Hastert Rule[/url] which apparently can only be broken if we are on the verge of total global financial meltdown.
Why do they think it's okay to deny something that conflicts with their own [I]personal[/I] beliefs? In other words, there's no reason to deny it at all. Their whole attitude is childish as fuck. "I don't like these people, therefore I won't let this bill through." Selfish cunts, the lot of them. Good thing they're a dying breed.
You all think they're dying out but I still see young people my age preaching the same racist, bigoted rhetoric that party has been teaching for years. If you think that party is going to die easily you're blind.
[QUOTE=breakyourfac;42767955]You all think they're dying out but I still see young people my age preaching the same racist, bigoted rhetoric that party has been teaching for years. If you think that party is going to die easily you're blind.[/QUOTE] I had the biggest, angriest argument with a bunch of my other roommates about whether or not a woman is even mentally and physically capable of serving as a President, let alone a soldier or any other position of power. It basically turned into me and my three other roommates pounding our fifth roommate into the ground because he kept preaching that nobody that's actually in the military would trust a woman soldier, and that women weren't capable of leading a country. We listed a bunch of female leaders, like Merkel, the Iron Lady (Margaret Thatcher), and the Australian Prime Minister, but he just called us idiots and said those were "outliers". So fucking infuriating. He's so sexist it isn't even funny, and I wouldn't be surprised if he's ever said that directly to a womans face.
Yeah my brother is a staunch republican, he was literally advocating hitting women. Sexism is like the calling cards of republicans
[QUOTE=breakyourfac;42768626]Yeah my brother is a staunch republican, he was literally advocating hitting women. Sexism is like the calling cards of republicans[/QUOTE] Not that many 'progressives' are much better.
No dude he literally said "I wish it was back like it was in the 1950s again when women knew their place" and I was just standing there like :0
[QUOTE=breakyourfac;42768708]No dude he literally said "I wish it was back like it was in the 1950s again when women knew their place" and I was just standing there like :0[/QUOTE] Really only a difference in degree, often.
[QUOTE=Jeep-Eep;42766064]In a car fire, whilst burning alive?[/QUOTE] for someone who supposedly supports human rights and is against the death penalty, you're a massive fucking hypocrite even just joking that is really telling of a psycho [editline]s[/editline] yeah, don't even talk to me, just rate me and leave the thread
[QUOTE=Rofl_copter;42768921]for someone who supposedly supports human rights and is against the death penalty, you're a massive fucking hypocrite even just joking that is really telling of a psycho [editline]s[/editline] yeah, don't even talk to me, just rate me and leave the thread loser[/QUOTE] I think he meant that in a figurative way, continuing the spirit of the comment he replied to. I don't think he literally wishes that on anybody.
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