Things i wish I didn't have to hear

It's a short list for now. I may add to at my leisure.

#1 - Emergency bills for war funding referred to as 'funding the troops'.
Because only a small fraction of that is actually funding the troops. It is a war funding bill so call it one. CNN did this repeatedly during the debate tonight. They also referred to the immigration bill as 'voting for the border fence'. Please stop oversimplifying, misrepresenting, and dumbing things down. Is it that much harder to say 'immigration bill that included a border fence provision'?

#2 - 'Supporting the troops'.
Everyone will say they do. Almost everyone actually does. Debating who does and who doesn't is useless. Try talking about how actual policies or proposals affect people in the military, and please stop using these didactic, intelligence insulting phrases.

#3 - 'Amnesty' as a dirty word in relation to immigration
The alternative is what, mass deportation of 12+ million? Death sentences to them all? Who do you think you're kidding? For the past few decades businesses got cheap labor, consumers got cheap prices, and gov't winked and looked the other way. One day white folks notice immigrants are living here and not commuting from Mexico every day and get scared, so we can solve it all by just kicking them out, right?
Last but not least, the word amnesty itself is getting a bad shake from this too, don't ruin such a good word with xenophobic innuendo.