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Reid Compares Opponents of Health Care Reform to Supporters of Slavery

Conservatives express outrage over Reid slavery remarks -- yet routinely claim progressives enslaving America

Conservative media figures have attacked Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's (D-NV) remarks linking slavery to Republican opposition to health care reform legislation, but have routinely attacked progressives and the Obama administration for creating "slavery" and enslaving the public.

Conservatives frequently accuse Obama administration, progressives of creating "slavery"

For instance:

* Beck: Recipients of federal aid have been "taught to be slaves"

* Beck: Progressive policies create "slavery"; "slavery to government, welfare, affirmative action, regulation, control"

* After ranting about how "illegal immigration is modern-day slavery," Beck compares himself to Ben Franklin

* Beck says he can "make a case" Rathke brothers are "enslaving people through ACORN"

* Beck: "The government's irresponsible spending is turning us into slaves"

* Tax deduction change latest Obama proposal Beck claims "involves enslaving people"

* Beck: "You know what this president is doing right now? He is addicting this country to heroin -- the heroin that is government slavery."

* Beck says of stimulus package: "It is slavery"

* Beck again compares recovery bill to slavery

* On Fox, Forbes' Ozanian refers to Employee Free Choice Act as "pro-slavery bill"

* Breitbart's BigGovernment.com publishes blog post comparing health care reform proposal to slavery

* In rant on health care, Levin equated Senate Finance bill with "economic slavery"

* Limbaugh: Democratic Party "obsessed with your death," "party of abortion and euthanasia, slavery and not liberty"

* Limbaugh's guest host is latest radio host to compare current policies or proposals to slavery


Conservatives express outrage over Reid slavery remarks -- yet routinely claim progressives enslaving America | Media Matters for America

You seem to have confused historical slavery with political rhetoric.
 
Why does everyone always equate slavery with the plight of Africans in the new world?.....
It went on for thousands of years before Columbus got here....;)
 
health care reform is the first example which comes to mind

what reforms has the republican party offered up to improve access to healthcare for those who are now without it?

Quite frankly most of us don't consider the present bills being offered by this administration and this congress as improving access to healthcare. They force this on the country at their own peril.

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Health Care Reform
41% Favor Health Care Plan, 51% OpposeMonday, December 07, 2009 Email to a Friend ShareThisAdvertisement
The Senate worked through the weekend on its version of the national health care bill, with President Obama stopping by for a rare Sunday visit, but for the second week in a row, only 41% of U.S. voters favor the health care plan proposed by the president and congressional Democrats.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 51% oppose the plan. And as has been the case for months, the emotion’s on the sign of the naysayers: 40% Strongly Oppose the plan, while just 23% Strongly favor it.

Support for the president’s health care plan fell to 38%, its lowest ever, just before Thanksgiving. Followed by two weeks at 41%, this marks the lowest extended period of support for the plan yet. With the exception of a few days following nationally televised presidential appeals for the legislation, the number of voters opposed to the plan has always exceeded the number who favor it.

“This suggests that public opinion about the health care plan is hardening,” says Scott Rasmussen, president of Rasmussen Reports. “Despite the fact that most American believe our health care system needs major changes, most are opposed to what Congress is currently doing about it.”

Rasmussen Reports is continuing to track public opinion on the health care plan on a weekly basis, with updated findings released each Monday morning.

(Want a free daily e-mail update? If it's in the news, it's in our polls). Rasmussen Reports updates are also available on Twitter or Facebook.

The Senate is expected to take up the abortion issue as part of its health care debate this week. Earlier polling shows that 48% nationwide want abortion coverave banned in the health care bill, while just 13% want such coverage mandated in the legislation......
 
Why does everyone always equate slavery with the plight of Africans in the new world?.....
It went on for thousands of years before Columbus got here....;)

It continues in various parts of the world today.
 
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Someone tell Reid that it was the Republicans that freed the slaves.

His polls dwindling rapidly, his party trailing badly in the pre-2010 polls, old Harry looks like he wants to go out in a blaze of glory. Where'd I put my matchbox?

Democrats are bitter and desperate it appears.

For Reid to be trotting out these ridiculous comparisons, one has to think this bill is about to go under.

Which would be a good thing by the way.
 
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Liberals/Democrats still treat blacks as inferior,.....

Oh??? How many black Republicans are there in the U. S. Congress?
 
i can't stand reid
yes, he is a partisan democrat
he is also a crook

but that i agree with his comments regarding the republican partisanship and opposition to positive change for America's society in no way implies i defend reid or his ilk

So, you consider destroying the healthcare system of the United States to be "positive social change"! Doctors will retire early, young doctor prospects will pick more lucrative fields (if anything is lucrative after Obama is finished). Rationed medicine will not help the indigent - it will merely make it impossible for those who earn their keep in America to obtain adequate healthcare.

Hey Dems... whatever you do, don't upset the trial lawyers by digging into one of the leading accelerators of health care costs: frivolous lawsuits by trial lawyers!
 
Conservatives express outrage over Reid slavery remarks -- yet routinely claim progressives enslaving America

Conservative media figures have attacked Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's (D-NV) remarks linking slavery to Republican opposition to health care reform legislation, but have routinely attacked progressives and the Obama administration for creating "slavery" and enslaving the public.

Conservatives frequently accuse Obama administration, progressives of creating "slavery"

It's hell when the truth hurts... ain't it!
 
Senator Reid's analogy was horrible and misplaced. It is yet another example of the extreme rhetoric from all sides that has tarnished U.S. political discourse. The personalization, exaggeration, and demonization that substitutes for a rigorous and focused discussion on ideas and positions is not constructive.
 
Reid may have been making his point somewhat at the expense of his own party's historical leanings, and I have my doubts that he is ignorant of the history of slavery and politics in the USA.
Not defending him, just trying to take out some of the heated rhetoric.
Social change is, and will always be, hard to achieve...
 
It seems that the hyper-partisan hacks now use the Breaking News forum to post their partisan smear jobs as 'news'-worthy items.

Is any mod every going to do anything?

Something a senator said off the cuff or out of context is not 'news'. It's not even a story. It's just a quote.

The BN guidelines need to be reformed so we don't have to wade through this garbage.
 
It seems that the hyper-partisan hacks now use the Breaking News forum to post their partisan smear jobs as 'news'-worthy items.
:stop: You are among the worst of the partisans on this forum, and are wrong most of the time while doing it. I have already watched you condescend to a few posters on this forum and trying that same old "party switch" crap. I guess you must have missed the Robert Byrd N-word rant from only a few years ago, then the Harry Reid statement, and of course there is the race baiters from Jackson to Sharpton to Farrakhan to Obama, oh, and then there is that elitist attitude like you possess(which I can't figure out with your lack of critical thinking skills) that assumes that not only blacks can't do anything without gubment help, but neither can the "unwashed masses", face it, your little nutless wonder shot himself in the foot, and will probably be put to pasture because of his idiocy.

Something a senator said off the cuff or out of context is not 'news'. It's not even a story. It's just a quote.
I guess you don't understand the concept of an "out of context quote". There is NO contextual way this could have been less offensive.
 
It seems that the hyper-partisan hacks now use the Breaking News forum to post their partisan smear jobs as 'news'-worthy items.

Is any mod every going to do anything?

Something a senator said off the cuff or out of context is not 'news'. It's not even a story. It's just a quote.

The BN guidelines need to be reformed so we don't have to wade through this garbage.

I don't have a problem with this article. This wasn't "off the cuff" or "out of context." Reid is just your basic loose canon at this point and it's not the first time.
 
Reid may have been making his point somewhat at the expense of his own party's historical leanings, and I have my doubts that he is ignorant of the history of slavery and politics in the USA.
Not defending him, just trying to take out some of the heated rhetoric.
Social change is, and will always be, hard to achieve...

Especially when it's forced on an unwilling public. If you think this issue is bad for democrats just wait till we get to cap and trade. :mrgreen:


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Health Care Reform
41% Favor Health Care Plan, 51% Oppose
Monday, December 07, 2009 Email to a Friend ShareThisAdvertisement
The Senate worked through the weekend on its version of the national health care bill, with President Obama stopping by for a rare Sunday visit, but for the second week in a row, only 41% of U.S. voters favor the health care plan proposed by the president and congressional Democrats.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 51% oppose the plan. And as has been the case for months, the emotion’s on the sign of the naysayers: 40% Strongly Oppose the plan, while just 23% Strongly favor it.

Support for the president’s health care plan fell to 38%, its lowest ever, just before Thanksgiving. Followed by two weeks at 41%, this marks the lowest extended period of support for the plan yet. With the exception of a few days following nationally televised presidential appeals for the legislation, the number of voters opposed to the plan has always exceeded the number who favor it.

“This suggests that public opinion about the health care plan is hardening,” says Scott Rasmussen, president of Rasmussen Reports. “Despite the fact that most American believe our health care system needs major changes, most are opposed to what Congress is currently doing about it.” .....
 
the part about the republicans being partisan and opposed to positive social change
what's not to agree with?
1: That the GOP somehow has the corner on partisanship
2: That the 'social change' supported by the Dms/left is positive.
 
It seems that the hyper-partisan hacks now use the Breaking News forum to post their partisan smear jobs as 'news'-worthy items.

Is any mod every going to do anything?

Something a senator said off the cuff or out of context is not 'news'. It's not even a story. It's just a quote.

The BN guidelines need to be reformed so we don't have to wade through this garbage.
Repeat yourself much?
 
health care reform is the first example which comes to mind

what reforms has the republican party offered up to improve access to healthcare for those who are now without it?
False premise:
-That government-mandated 'change' in this regard is necessarily positive.
-That opposition to governmnt-mandated 'change' in this regard is necessarily negative

You're confusing 'positive' with 'what you want'.
 
It seems that the hyper-partisan hacks now use the Breaking News forum to post their partisan smear jobs as 'news'-worthy items.

This is breaking news. Republicans are asking the Senator either apologize or resign. And rightly so.

Is any mod every going to do anything?

Conspiracy no doubt.:cool:

Something a senator said off the cuff or out of context is not 'news'. It's not even a story. It's just a quote.

"A Senator", is the Majority leader in Congress and this follows much muud and unethical processes by the democratic Party leadership.

The BN guidelines need to be reformed so we don't have to wade through this garbage.

A recent member of DB, I would have enjoyed reading some of your anti-Bush rhetoric. What goes around....comes around.
 
I am surprised that people are still shocked by what politicians say. Can it really be that anyone is surprised by a politician of either party comparing their enemies to Nazis, slave owners,..... It is simple politics and always have been. What will be good for the human race and US politics is when stupid statements stop becoming the mainstream news and especially the big story of the day.
 
Someone tell Erod the Lincoln would not have been a Republican today.

Anyone who has ever taken a U.S. History class know that the parties have switch sides Left-Right over the years. The Republicans were the liberals and the Dems were the conservatives.

That is utter BS. Lincoln would support none of the nonsense your party is trying to do today. None of it.
 
That is utter BS. Lincoln would support none of the nonsense your party is trying to do today. None of it.

I would not go as far as to say "none," but Lincoln was indeed a fiscal conservative, though not very conservative socially. He certainly was not a radical slave opponent either, at least not in the Chase and Seward extremes.

But as the war continued he did indeed become much more progressive in his ideology, though not to the point I would call him a liberal. Perhaps a Moderate Republican.
 
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If Nevada keeps voting this turd in, it should be voted out of the Union.
 
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