After Calling Liberal Activists “Retarded,” Rahm To Meet With Disabled Rights Activists Wednesday

Emanuel was at the time defending extreme right wing Democrats who have been bought and paid for by the insurance industry.
Next week, the House will vote to repeal the anti-trust exemption that health insurance companies have enjoyed for the last 65 years.
This will enable the government to at long last begin a long overdue investigation of price fixing and collusion in the health insurance industry.
It is important to note who is voting against this measure in both parties. Those are the people who we should vote against, whatever party they are.

Sorry, that was supposed to be 100%.

what do you expect from a slimball of the obama cabinet of corruption….this is everyday talk for them

The Power of Palin :)

I hear the word “retarded” being used in casual conversation more often these days. This trend needs to be nipped in the bud.

Anyone who thinks “ballet dancer” is an insult is pathetically insecure

“Emanuel allegedly (I use allegedly because it was done in private)….”
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The word “allegedly” has nothing to do with being said in private or public. Emanuel called called Special Olympics Chairman and CEO Timothy Shriver to apologize. Doesn’t that indicate there’s no “alleged” about it?

On an issue by issue basis, the Democratic party is now to the right of the average American. (Even if they have been trained to view “liberal” as a dirty word, just line up the public opinion stats on war, health care, and most issues across the board.) That puts it far to the right of the average rank-and-file Democrat, and to a liberal Democrat, the party leadership honestly look like rabid right wingers.
The only liberal agenda the Democrats in Washington are putting forward is the one in Glen Beck’s fever dreams.
So there’s something rather reasonable to what Emanuel said. Liberal Democrats could well be described as pathologically unintelligent (is that PC enough for ya?) because they are still Democrats.

extreme right wing Democrats
Posted by: Flash Override | Feb 2, 2010 8:47:55 PM
“extreme right wing Democrats”?
New talking point arrive in your Inbox?
Do you have an example?

There is a typo in this story. Please fix Shriver and four otheR advocates

This is off topic but in reference to the last comment, I’m curious what percentage of the population are progressives. I know it’s not large and I don’t understand why they think their policies should take priority over the opinion of the majority of Americans.

—The Special Olympics is DISPUTING the White House claim that its chairman, Tim Shriver, accepted Rahm Emanuel’s apology for calling liberals “retarded.”
Seeking to damp down the controversy over Rahm Emanuel’s reported, months-old use of the word, a White House official yesterday told me and other reporters that Emanuel had called Special Olympics Chairman Tim Shriver to apologize.
“The apology was accepted,” the official said yesterday.
The vice president for communications at the Special Olympics, Kirsten Seckler, told me that this account of the conversation is “INACCURATE.”
“TIM DIDN’T ACCEPT HIS APOLOGY,” she said. “Tim can’t do that. He can’t accept an apology on behalf of all people with disabilities.”
Shriver had simply said, she said, that he was willing to continue the conversation with the chief of staff.—(Politico)
The lesson as always, is that Liberals LIE.

1. There is nothing wrong with using this word as a slur. People with mental disabilities can accurately be described as “retarded” because their development is, in fact, retarded. If reality is too harsh for them, they can go live in fantasy land.
2. What that punk Rahm should be apologizing for is not caring about the base of the democratic party and wooing the center. He calls liberals names? Whose center-leaning, totally uninspired leadership resulted in the throngs of Obama’s former supporters feeling unmotivated to vote in 2010? oh, right, him.

After watching the piece about “retarded” I would like to add my two cents. My son has an IQ of 66 which is considered by some retarded. He drove truck over the road for twent years. Then locally. He worked for a construction company. His last job before he became disabled was for a towing and repair business for the big rigs. It ain’t what ya got. It’s what ya do with it. I never told him he was retarded until he was 46. He still refuses to accept it and that is fine with me.

Paula, I couldn’t agree more.
Palin and the rest of the PC police need to get a clue.
The irony of course, is that Emanuel was at the meeting pushing for the approach to health care rather than the advanced one.

After almost 40 years, and all the labels put on my daughter, I find retarded the most offensive.I often hear people joking calling another “retarded” They think this is funny,it is not. Do you think a parent of a handicapped child think’s it funny to hear children or adults calling each other retards? We as parents struggle to hekp our chldren be accepted by others.Our children,like yours just want to be loved and respond with unconditional love. I have watched other children stop and stare and my daughter speaking to them without any response from them. Maybe if Rahm had a Maybe if Rahm spent a day or so with parents of ahandicapped child he would think twice before opening his mouth. I invite him to contact me and come and see how I now watch my child live in a group home and the everyday situation we endure.Just because our children age they are still children and we watch others take care of them and watch they dont mistreat them,our jobs as parents of handicapped people dont end at the end of any day as long as they live and these rotten remarks are not appreciated.A phony apology,only because he was caught.Shame on you Rahm.

Interesting that Emanuel has not apologized to Liberal Democrats.
I guess we Liberal Democrats could be considered slow. We worked to get Obama elected and got no change and no hope. Meanwhile his staff treats us as a joke. It is clear that there is no place for progressives in the Democratic Party.
We finally have learned: So, Obama: don’t count on us in 2012.
A Republican might get elected, but at least they do as expected when they rob the American People.
Democrat Politicians are posers: Republican “I’ve got mine” politicians who claim they want change. So Republican, Democrat, NO DIFFERENCE. They both rip us off. They both consider us a joke. “The groundlings are grumbling. Who cares? Make them a promise and they will go away.”
Yes, we will go away in 2012. And may both Parties rot.