Challenge: list 3 things state Democrats have done wrong recently

[blankslate]

2)State Democrat wants employers to have access to employees facebook accounts.

Democrat Sen. Steve Hobbs of Lake Stevens, WA is sponsoring a bill that would allow bosses to seek employees Facebook passwords.

This ^

I'll add to that President Obama's expansion of the drone strike program.


Various Democratic members of the U.S. senate who expressed support for Keystone XL
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwo...-xl-pipeline-strategy-will-obama-reject-68152

 

[ichy]

They abolished the death penalty in Maryland

 

[Smoblikat]

1. NYC bans sodas over 16oz (i believe the supreme court used their brains and overturned this one)
2. NY confiscates "assault weapons"
3. Registering of firearms (multiple states)

Now if this was a list of what stupid shit our dictator has done it could go on forever......................

 

[sourn]

Looks at debt and gun control.

I think the better question is what these morons in power and that includes all of them have actually done right. Probably be a much much smaller list.

 

[Spungo]

3. Registering of firearms (multiple states)

That's done to make it harder for criminals to buy guns. Right now there is basically no law stopping criminals from buying guns. A background check might be needed for first purchase but there's nothing to prevent second sale.
Registration has worked very well for cars. A car found in a ditch somewhere with a dead body in the trunk can be traced back to who owned it last and where it came from.

That was probably why cars started to require registration. After a bunch of hit and run accidents or using cars at get away vehicles, someone thought it might be a good idea to register cars and put license plates on them.

 

[ivwshane]

1. NYC bans sodas over 16oz (i believe the supreme court used their brains and overturned this one)
2. NY confiscates "assault weapons"
3. Registering of firearms (multiple states)

Now if this was a list of what stupid shit our dictator has done it could go on forever......................

The soda one would be a good one. The gun confiscation is false and falls into the category of guns, which was already stated in this thread.

So by my count we have dems:
1) limiting gun rights
2) giving handouts/rights to homeless people
3) legislating behavior/creating a nanny state

Versus repubs:
1) making it harder for people to vote
2) restricting women's rights
3) restricting gay rights

 

[monovillage]

I've been a Democrat since I first started voting more than 40 years ago, yet I can almost always easily find at least 3 things in which I disagree with the (D)'s...and can almost always find at least 3 things in which I AGREE with the (R)'s...if I look hard enough.

Political right and wrong is usually more the perspective of the viewer...not what's actually right and wrong.
Myself, I wish our elected officials (on both sides) would spend more time running the country/states than playing party politics...the game of "GOTCHA!" is getting old...

This ^! Although i'm a Republican it isn't as if we don't come up with dumb ass stuff all the time too.

 

[BoomerD]

This ^! Although i'm a Republican it isn't as if we don't come up with dumb ass stuff all the time too.

Yeah, well...YOUR side's dumb ass stuff is just dumb...

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

The soda one would be a good one. The gun confiscation is false and falls into the category of guns, which was already stated in this thread.

So by my count we have dems:
1) limiting gun rights
2) giving handouts/rights to homeless people
3) legislating behavior/creating a nanny state

Versus repubs:
1) making it harder for people to vote
2) restricting women's rights
3) restricting gay rights

Well according to you the Republicans are doing what they're supposed to. That's how a democracy works after all right? Be proud.

 

[ivwshane]

Well according to you the Republicans are doing what they're supposed to. That's how a democracy works after all right? Be proud.

Disenfranchising voters is what they are supposed to do?

So long as people are able to vote they can try all the crazy things they want, people will either approve it or they won't. But when you manipulate the system so you don't have to listen to the people then we have a problem and that's why a lot of their bills get thrown out by the courts (regarding voter suppression, voter ID) and it's why the federal government has had to oversee any of their proposed voting changes.

Are democrats doing that? Or are they just putting up stupid bills?

Equivilence not found.

 

[nehalem256]

The soda one would be a good one. The gun confiscation is false and falls into the category of guns, which was already stated in this thread.

So by my count we have dems:
1) limiting gun rights
2) giving handouts/rights to homeless people
3) legislating behavior/creating a nanny state

Versus repubs:
1) making it harder for people to vote
2) restricting women's rights
3) restricting gay rights

Expect that

(1) Combating tax fraud is not making it harder to vote
(2) Allowing women to keep their extra rights is not restricting women's rights
(3) You do realize heterosexuals can engage in sodomy too right?

 

[ivwshane]

Expect that

(1) Combating tax fraud is not making it harder to vote
(2) Allowing women to keep their extra rights is not restricting women's rights
(3) You do realize heterosexuals can engage in sodomy too right?

Have you been following this thread? Because your post is stupid if you have.

 

[nehalem256]

Have you been following this thread? Because your post is stupid if you have.

Correcting you lies about what Republicans have done isn't stupid.

 

[Incorruptible]

Expect that

(1) Combating tax fraud is not making it harder to vote
(2) Allowing women to keep their extra rights is not restricting women's rights
(3) You do realize heterosexuals can engage in sodomy too right?

Good points.

The voting system needs to be strict to ensure that voters have confidence in the system otherwise why bother voting. And illegal immigrants shouldn't be voting.

Taxpayers shouldn't be paying for abortions, it is wrong to force taxpayers to pay for abortions when they oppose the practice. Most "Pro choice" people aren't actually pro choice since they are pro choice for abortion but not for free speech, guns or school vouchers.

The government has no right to get involved in marriage and private Churches cant be forced to marry anyone. Get the government out of marriage and it cant restrict peoples freedom the way its doing now by denying people the right to be together.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Disenfranchising voters is what they are supposed to do?

So long as people are able to vote they can try all the crazy things they want, people will either approve it or they won't. But when you manipulate the system so you don't have to listen to the people then we have a problem and that's why a lot of their bills get thrown out by the courts (regarding voter suppression, voter ID) and it's why the federal government has had to oversee any of their proposed voting changes.

Are democrats doing that? Or are they just putting up stupid bills?

Equivilence not found.

Equivalence not found indeed. People still vote although they need an iD which isn't that hard to get, yet no one here in NY were given a chance to have input or a choice at all regarding Cuomos law. Do you think that citizens taken away by Obamas actions will have s chance to vote? How do we challenge wiretapping in courts when we aren't allowed to investigate the issue? Yet any harm done gets a pass but having to get an obtainable ID? Better to be spirited away and locked up without legal protections. I don't think IDs will do much good but the hysteria around them isn't really well founded and the overwhelming majority will vote. Individual problems can be fixed and need to be but it's not like the government will be suddenly deprived of power or significantly altered.

Once people are elected we have no real say. The two parties survive unscathed by virtue of the fact they control the marketplace of ideas and you defend the Democrats no matter what they do. Yes the Republicans are as bad because they are the other side of the only political coin in circulation, but you don't see that because you see Republicans as bad and the Democrats as good and this system being the true will of the people. Abuses never happen, well not serious ones by Feinstein et al, because we all know they have to be slaves to our magical will.

Your blanket defense does not work.

 

[monovillage]

Here's a good one.

Leave it to my state of California to head off in radical and expensive directions. Legislation has been filed that would require group insurance to cover gay and lesbian infertility treatments just as they do heterosexual. But, as I note elsewhere, AB 460 isn’t limited to a finding of actual infertility. Nor does it require that gays and lesbians have tried to conceive or sire a child using heterosexual means, natural or artificial. Rather–as with heterosexual couples–merely the inability to get pregnant for a year while having active sexual relations is sufficient to demonstrate need for treatment, meaning if the bill becomes law, it would require insurance companies to pay for services such as artificial insemination, surrogacy, etc. for people who are actually fecund.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corne...uire-insurance-gay-infertility-wesley-j-smith