The Democratic Safe House

Lotta threads being shut down.

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If such people were amenable to facts, they would have gotten the point long ago...Whatever it is that is blocking the understanding of the "denialist", it is not access to facts or information. The blockage is most likely emotional, possibly based on fear, and one does not most effectively deal with emotional barriers by using facts as instruments of assault and battery. - Dan Murphy

H.R. 3962 passes the House! Party at my place! Woooo hooooo!!!

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It passed? Woo hoo!

Are there any more barriers before health care reform becomes law?
Ringo

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Whoohooo! I was worried....

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If such people were amenable to facts, they would have gotten the point long ago...Whatever it is that is blocking the understanding of the "denialist", it is not access to facts or information. The blockage is most likely emotional, possibly based on fear, and one does not most effectively deal with emotional barriers by using facts as instruments of assault and battery. - Dan Murphy

Well...not to be a buzzkill, but there are two big barriers:
1. The U.S. Senate
2. The inevitable conference committee

but let's not think about that now. Let's just bask for a moment in this initial victory.

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The title of this thread is wrong. It should be Democratic Safe House. Democrat is a noun. Democratic is an adjective. In the title, it is an adjective describing the Safe House, so the word should be Democratic. I realize there are a group of Republicans who childishly refuse to use that word to describe our party, but this is our safe house and it should be labelled correctly. I'd appreciate having that fixed.

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Originally Posted by elanor

The title of this thread is wrong. It should be Democratic Safe House. Democrat is a noun. Democratic is an adjective. In the title, it is an adjective describing the Safe House, so the word should be Democratic. I realize there are a group of Republicans who childishly refuse to use that word to describe our party, but this is our safe house and it should be labelled correctly. I'd appreciate having that fixed.

It has nothing to do with republicans not using the name correctly.

Democratic also refers to the type of government structure that we have. It was best to use Democrat so as to note who would be using the safehouse. The name doesn't describe the safe house, but defines who is using it.

For instance, I don't say my grandpa is a democratic. He is a democrat.

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Thank you for responding. I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you don't know that for decades conservative politicians, most notably Joseph McCarthy, have used Democrat as an adjective as a means to verbally slam our party. It was a way to insert political insult into the language used about us. It's become popular again in recent years and you'll find it used throughout conservative radio and tv programming. I'm posting a couple of links below just for some history on this.

Given that this site is overwhelmingly politically conservative and that it gets pretty contentious around here, it is difficult for me to believe that the title of this thread, though not originally insulting (again, benefit of the doubt) doesn't make conservatives snickering with pleasure at seeing a daily slam against the Democratic Party used as a banner over the one place that's supposed free from that.

Again, I respectfully request that you change the title.

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Here you go. Sorry. My phone's being fussy about changing screens in the middle of a post.

The “Ic” Factor : The New Yorker

GOP strategists christen "Democrat [sic] Party" -- and the media comply | Media Matters for America

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The name will stay the same. It's for Democrats, not Democratics.

I realize that there are some conservatives who use the term in a derogatory manner. The title of this thread is not being used in that manner. It is simply denoting that this safe house is for Democrats.

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