I'm usually a pacifist but...

[hippywife]

this makes my fucking blood just boil! For those of you who missed the story on NPR's Morning Edition today where they talked to a round table of Iowa voters, please take a moment to listen to the comments of Republican voter, Gretchen Kaufman, at 2:40 in on this audio file on the discussion of healthcare.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16869086

What unfuckingbelievable arrogance!

I wrote NPR a comment on this and told them how horrified I was to the point of screaming in my car. I also said that if this woman calls herself a Christian, I hope her pastor heard her comments. She should be totally ashamed of herself! She can shove her "philosophical difference" straight up her fucking ass!

Edited for punctuation and addition of another F-bomb!!

[Adsos Letter]

1. I listened to that broadcast this morning...

...reminded me of the typical "I got mine and screw you" on just about any of the issues the participants discussed...

[hippywife]

2. Exactly!

I just couldn't even wrap my head around that whole diatribe of hers and that snotty tone of voice on top of it! My husband told me tonight he was also yelling in his truck on his way to work when he heard her.

[Whisp]

37. Corporate Christ!

don't turn the other cheek, turn them in!
Render unto Bush was is his... everything you own, including that cheap soul you have.
Walk on Blather.

[TheWraith]

3. Could somebody enlighten those of us who can't or don't want to listen? NT

[hippywife]

6. Well,

Ms. Kaufman who is single (gee, I wonder why?) and an editor is more concerned that the federal government will take away her right to eat transfats than she is with childred getting breakfast at school. She just plain doesn't think she should have to pay for that. You really do need to listen to it. I can't even begin to do this justice without hearing her voice. It's just fucking chilling!

[liberalmuse]

4. David Icke is certifiable, but the guy is right.

We share the planet with cold-blooded reptilians disguised as humans.

[walldude]

13. Reptilians disguised as humans? Paging Swamp Rat!

Paging Mr Rat, Mr Swamp.. Rat your photoshop skills are requested!

[JHB]

43. I find your sssssssssterotype highly offensssssssive

We cold-blooded reptiliansssss are too ssssslow in the morning to come up with sssssuch vilenesssssss.

[hippywife]

46. Puts me in mind of one of

John Prine's newer songs, "Some Humans Ain't Humans."

Some Humans Ain't Human
© John Prine

Mmmm Mmmm
Mmmm Mmmm
Mmmm Mmmm
Mmmm Mmmm

Some humans ain't human
Some people ain't kind
You open up their hearts
And here's what you'll find
A few frozen pizzas
Some ice cubes with hair
A broken Popsicle
You don't want to go there

Some humans ain't human
Though they walk like we do
They live and they breathe
Just to turn the old screw
They screw you when you're sleeping
They try to screw you blind
Some humans ain't human
Some people ain't kind

You might go to church
And sit down in a pew
Those humans who ain't human
Could be sittin' right next to you
They talk about your family
They talk about your clothes
When they don't know their own ass
From their own elbows

Jealousy and stupidity
Don't equal harmony
Jealousy and stupidity
Don't equal harmony

Mmmm Mmmm
Mmmm Mmmm
Mmmm Mmmm
Mmmm Mmmm

Spoken:
Have you ever noticed
When you're feeling really good
There's always a pigeon
That'll come shit on your hood

Or you're feeling your freedom
And the world's off your back
Some cowboy from Texas
Starts his own war in Iraq

Some humans ain't human
Some people ain't kind
They lie through their teeth
With their head up their behind
You open up their hearts
And here's what you'll find
Some humans ain't human
Some people ain't kind

Mmmm Mmmm
Mmmm Mmmm
Mmmm Mmmm
Mmmm Mmmm
Mmmm Mmmm
Mmmm Mmmm

[Buzz Clik]

5. Damn. She's quite the compassionate conservative.

I loved her bizarre segues -- equating health care to the NYC government declaring transfat are against policy. "I am single, I am self employed, I make a great deal of money through my own. hard. work. I don't want to pay for someone else's child to eat breakfast at school anymore."

Translation: I've got mine, fuck you.

[hippywife]

7. Can you even fucking believe that?

That is the most incredible piece of bullshit I have heard in ages and boy, haven't we all heard our share since 2000? Every time I think I've heard the worst of it, something like this crops up!

[Buzz Clik]

10. It wasn't just the words. You can hear Limbaugh bemoan the same shit every day. It was the passion.

Limbaugh snorts and oinks and rattles his papers and thumps his microphone. But we all know it's theater.

This woman was raging. The emotion was oozing from her pores.

[hippywife]

28. She must be one of his legion of

the willingly deceived. She has all the hallmarks.

[Buzz Clik]

34. Absolutely. But, being wealthy, she has benefited nicely from Dubya's reign.

[Postman]

18. "compassionate conservative" = oxymoron

like "Jumbo Shrimp" and "Plastic Glass"

[hippywife]

21. That's been well proven

these last seven years, hasn't it? Proven and well documented.

[LeftishBrit]

40. Wow, talk about selfish (but of course selfishness is often a big part of being RW!)

I wonder if she'll feel the same way when she has to give up her lucrative work to look after her elderly mother full-time without any help - or when she herself becomes old and sick and can't get any help - or when she catches some serious infection because lack of health-care has caused diseases to spread?

People like that aren't only selfish; they're totally short-sighted.

[hippywife]

41. Very good examples

of how this type of thinking will come around to bite us all in the butt one day.

Off to work for me. Everyone try to have a good day out there!

[Lautremont]

8. What a cow.

First she's all "It's this EMOTIONAL thing - it's bigger than that!" and then she's got a totally quavering voice when she talks about how much money she makes and how she doesn't want to pay for someone else's child to eat breakfast. She's got apparently two overwhelming emotions: greed and persecution. Well, those aren't emotions, but evidently they're all she's got.

And what the fuck is this about choice? Who's going to stop you from choosing your own doctors, "socialized" medicine or not? What incredible zombie puppets these people are.

[hippywife]

That was my other thought.

Like the insurance industry isn't controlling her choice and making her pay out the ass for the pleasure? I don't know which is worse, her arrogance, her lack of compassion, or her utter stupidity!! Ugh!!

[AlCzervik]

9. lucky for her she had parents that could afford her surgeries and oh my Gretchen

i would opt out of paying for anything for you and giving that money to feed breakfast to lower income children.

[hippywife]

17. Yep.

Lucky for her. Too bad it didn't teach her anything.

[AlCzervik]

11. and of course she's a Guiliani supporter!

[Postman]

12. Lucky for Gretchen that mommy and daddy were there to save her selfish ass.

What about those who are less fortunate you fuckwad?

What would you have done had mommy or daddy not been there?

[hippywife]

14. You really would have thought

that her experiences would have made her more empathetic, no? Well, apparently no it is!

[Adsos Letter]

15. because she has a resource to take care of HER needs...

[in_cog_ni_to]

16. "I do not want to pay for other people's children to eat breakfast at school anymore"

FUCKING HATEFUL, GREEDY WENCH! SO freakin' TYPICAL, isn't it? SURE, her parents found 3 doctors to operate on her....IN THE DAYS WHEN HEALTH CARE WAS AFFORABLE!!!!!! Man, I hate these people. It's all about THEM and to hell with those less fortunate. Fuckers.

[hippywife]

19. One of my comments to NPR

was to ask when will the haves understand that in order for us to do well as a country, we all must be able to do well?

[in_cog_ni_to]

22. "A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats"

When will those assholes ever figure that out?

[AlCzervik]

23. it's pretty simple, they don't want all boats lifted, "the world needs ditch diggers too Dear"

[jwirr]

32. There are two ways to get those ditch diggers: hers is to starve

them into submission. Mine is to pay them descent wages.

[AlCzervik]

33. she's on the starving them side.

[hippywife]

24. I'm afraid to learn

the answer to that question. If it ever happens, it will only be after a whole lot more really bad shit happening to those of us not so well off.

[JHB]

44. Maybe she should fully pay for the roads she drives to work...

...and not have the burden spread over the total population.

[hippywife]

20. Rec this up folks!

I'm pissed off and fired up! Everyone needs to see what it is we are fighting against!

[hippywife]

25. I hate to kick this myself but

just need one more rec to make the Greatest. People really need to hear this. Thanx! :hi:

[hippywife]

26. Thank you to whoever gave this that

fifth rec. Much appreciated. I'm sure the kids who will eat breakfast in their Head Start programs in the morning will appreciate it, too! :hi:

[AlCzervik]

27. someday those same kids my be taking care of her when she's old and sick

i'm sure they're already much better people than she'll ever be.

[NMMNG]

29. "I got mine, screw everybody else."

Classic Republicanism. :puke:

[hippywife]

31. Her words and her tone of voice

said it all! Thanx, Buffy!

Goodnight, all!

[hippywife]

30. I really, really gotta go to bed.

Major thanx to everyone who contributed to this thread and rec'd it up. Thinking like this is what is bringing this country down. No way thinking like this should be allowed to have an impact on all of our futures!

[patrice]

35. "...more than spectators at a car crash"

They're going to BE the "car crash".

[Riktor]

36. What really gets me...

... is the enormity of how many Iowans would benefit from a national health care program. The Republicans have hoodwinked the entire Midwest into voting against its own self-preservation, and have somehow successfully convinced millions of people that their dwindling job markets, high crime rates, and generally poor standard of living are due entirely to effete East and West Coast liberal snobs, as opposed to their very own Republican representatives, who have destroyed the American economy through reckless spending and deregulation.

It's fucking nuts, to put it lightly.

[Skittles]

38. doesn't speak highly of our educational system either

it would seem that people are not taught to think for themselves, to research what they hear or read

[hippywife]

39. What's even sadder is

that out here in the middle of the country, most of the Democratic leaders aren't any better on these issues. I heard our State House Rep. here in OK once refer to the bankruptcy bill and intelligent design as "East Coast, West Coast issues."

Out here, it seems party affiliation has little to do with voting against self-preservation so many times. In fact, they'll go so far as to believe that they are doing the right thing for their own preservation. Sad.

[conspirator]

42. I used to be a pacifist, not in nam of course... (Walter) nt

[shadowknows69]

45. Heh

I love Walter.