After Reform Passes


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A concern troll is someone who says they are simply "concerned" about some proposal or policy. So you take the concerns in good faith, address them & clarify the misunderstandings. Turns out, that doesn't help. They hate the policy anyway.


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[My .02: These are ongoing trends. Republican amnesia to the contrary, the trends didn't begin in January, 2009. However, Obama was elected to arrest these trends. The stimulus bill was signed 4 months ago; it wouldn't have halted this decade-long slide in that amount of time. But more needs to be done, quickly. < / personal opinion >]

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The Big Hate

Back in April, there was a huge fuss over an internal report by the Department of Homeland Security warning that current conditions resemble those in the early 1990s - a time marked by an upsurge of right-wing extremism that culminated in the Oklahoma City bombing.

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http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/grand-unified-scandal/

[...] Let’s say this slowly: the Bush administration wanted to use 9/11 as a pretext to invade Iraq, even though Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. So it tortured people to make them ( Read more... )

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