Comments on: The imaginary center http://amfreenet.com/2009/03/the-imaginary-center/ Real Americans - Common Sense for Freedom Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:10:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Mutnodjmet http://amfreenet.com/2009/03/the-imaginary-center/comment-page-1/#comment-510 Mutnodjmet Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:15:45 +0000 http://amfreenet.com/?p=840#comment-510 We CAN take advantage of the "centrist Democrats", too. Here is a little gem: http://hotair.com/archives/2009/03/05/three-dems-wavering-on-card-check-in-the-senate/ When I interviewed Senator Jim DeMint at CPAC, he predicted that Republicans could get three Democratic votes in the Senate to keep the most radical parts of Barack Obama’s agenda from succeeding. Greg Sargent at the Plum Line blog for the Washington Post says that the same three DeMint named may be shifting to support Card Check, one of the worst pieces of legislation on the Obama agenda. If so, the Republicans may not be able to block it: You know what to do: * Mary Landrieu (D-LA): 202-224-5824 * Blanche Lincoln (D-AR): 202-224-4843 * Mark Pryor (D-AR): 202-224-2353 And why not call the Porkulus Three as well? * Susan Collins: 202-224-2523 * Olympia Snowe: 202-224-5344 * Arlen Specter: 202-224-4254 Remember to be polite; the people that answer the phones are not political partisans but just working folk. We CAN take advantage of the “centrist Democrats”, too. Here is a little gem:

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/03/05/three-dems-wavering-on-card-check-in-the-senate/

When I interviewed Senator Jim DeMint at CPAC, he predicted that Republicans could get three Democratic votes in the Senate to keep the most radical parts of Barack Obama’s agenda from succeeding. Greg Sargent at the Plum Line blog for the Washington Post says that the same three DeMint named may be shifting to support Card Check, one of the worst pieces of legislation on the Obama agenda. If so, the Republicans may not be able to block it:

You know what to do:

* Mary Landrieu (D-LA): 202-224-5824
* Blanche Lincoln (D-AR): 202-224-4843
* Mark Pryor (D-AR): 202-224-2353

And why not call the Porkulus Three as well?

* Susan Collins: 202-224-2523
* Olympia Snowe: 202-224-5344
* Arlen Specter: 202-224-4254

Remember to be polite; the people that answer the phones are not political partisans but just working folk.

]]> By: Sally Morem http://amfreenet.com/2009/03/the-imaginary-center/comment-page-1/#comment-509 Sally Morem Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:21:26 +0000 http://amfreenet.com/?p=840#comment-509 There is a very odd brain condition that causes one to deny the existence of a portion of one's own visual field. I forget the name, but saw it on a science show on the working of the human brain. If certain neural connections are damaged, the patient can't see a portion of that visual field, and much like some special effects computer programs, the portion seen fills in the rest of the visual field, leaving everything else crowded off to the side. People with this condition, when asked to draw what they see, produce artwork that's extremely lopsided on their drawing paper. I think of leftist politicians and commentators as people with this condition. They can only see what is to the left on our more ordinary mental model of the American political spectrum. Their flawed mental model crowds the right, and even the center off the page, putting leftists in severe denial. Some leftists may genuinely believe the entire conservative movement is fake, just as those patients, when asked about what they don't see, deny its existence vociferously. There is a very odd brain condition that causes one to deny the existence of a portion of one’s own visual field. I forget the name, but saw it on a science show on the working of the human brain.

If certain neural connections are damaged, the patient can’t see a portion of that visual field, and much like some special effects computer programs, the portion seen fills in the rest of the visual field, leaving everything else crowded off to the side. People with this condition, when asked to draw what they see, produce artwork that’s extremely lopsided on their drawing paper.

I think of leftist politicians and commentators as people with this condition. They can only see what is to the left on our more ordinary mental model of the American political spectrum. Their flawed mental model crowds the right, and even the center off the page, putting leftists in severe denial.

Some leftists may genuinely believe the entire conservative movement is fake, just as those patients, when asked about what they don’t see, deny its existence vociferously.

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