Comments on: Join The Coffee Party

By: kosmo

kosmo — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:34:09 +0000

Martin – An interesting thing about Iowa is that we have two long-serving Senators of the opposite party. Grassley has been in the Senate since 1981 and Harkin since 1985. Grassley actually replaced the father of our current governor. I’d be curious to see how common this is in other states.

Of course, a very large chunk of Iowa voters are unaffiliated, so one party can’t really rally against one of the incumbents to vote them out.

We also have a mix in the house, but that’s not unusual, as a lot of states vary demographically from one region to the next.
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By: poch

poch — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:10:54 +0000

I will advertise Coffee Party because the Tea Party attacks without being opposed and that annoys me.
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By: Martin Kelly

Martin Kelly — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:08:01 +0000

OK, I guess I am a little bit slow. Just thinking back to junior high school history, the original Tea Party was to through away Tea in protest of unreasonable taxation, not drinking Tea. Since I don’t drink Tea or Coffee I don’t get to join either group. I am a Coke, Pepsi and Dr. Pepper person so maybe that makes me more American.

Again going back to junior high school, but civics class, citizenship is based on location of birth (by the way this is only in the United States) or citizenship of your parents. Although I could be persuaded to support the conception thing, I think I would be uncofortable having witnesses.

Your elections sound at least a little fun. Here in Iowa, it is the same old standards. Every once in a while we get a greenie, but otherwise we are pretty boring. I guess I should be grateful.
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By: The Angry Squirrel

The Angry Squirrel — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:51:57 +0000

Well i am glad you liked where i went with the personhood thing, but it was more a play on that anyone would have to prove where conception took place and have witnesses sign the documentation of the act and then followup to see if conception took place to sign the “conception certificate” in order to be a citizen.
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By: Squeaky

Squeaky — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:48:06 +0000

Just to clarify for others, I’m part of the “nutjob right” you mention (more Libertarian but who’s counting).

I LOVE where you went here: “However the question I pose to them is if you are going to start declaring personhood begins at conception then that is where citizenship would also begin, right? So I guess we’ll have to start determining exactly where conception took place and if you don’t have proper documentation you are not a citizen?”

This should solve the problem of anchor babies! If you have illegal immigrants that have a baby here in Colorado, we should be able to draw the conclusion that we don’t KNOW where conception took place. Therefore, it would give me reasonable doubt as to their citizenship status. We could just deport the whole family eliminating the problem of separating families. We hear bleeding hearts whining about how bad it is that we send back an ILLEGAL father but the kids can stay. Well, this would definitely help keep the family together. I guess the bleeding heart conservatives in Colorado must have drawn that same analogy.

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