(2009-02-03) — In announcing the appointment of Republican Sen. Judd Gregg (NH) as secretary of commerce, the White House today revealed it had begun implementing a buyout plan similar to the one General Motors extended to 62,000 hourly workers this week.
GM has offered $20,000 and a free car worth $25,000 to any hourly employee willing to leave the company payroll.
Sen. Gregg took the Obama buyout offer, trading in his elected post for an appointment as commerce secretary, a pay hike of about $20,000 and “a transportation package that rivals Tom Daschle’s” according to White House sources.
The Obama administration now stands ready to offer the same deal to any GOP Senator from a state with a Democrat governor.
Sen. Gregg made the move only on the condition that New Hampshire’s Gov. John Lynch would appoint a Republican to replace him. While conservatives expressed concern about whether the Democrat governor would keep his promise, Gov. Lynch’s office said today he has already left a message on the voicemail of Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA).
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1 camojack // Feb 3, 2009 at 7:34 pm
They’ll get that filibuster-proof majority by hook or by “crook”…
2 Harry Daschle // Feb 3, 2009 at 7:51 pm
No need to offer the R.I.N.O. replacement anything. IF Lynch keeps his word, (excuse me for laughing at the thought of a dem/lib keeping their word about ANYTHING lol), you can be sure the replacement will be a carbon copy of Lincoln Chaffe, Olympia Snow, or the R.I.N.O. Governor of California, that will vote with the libs.
Gee, I wonder if Obama picked this Republican because the Democrat Gov would get to pick his replacement?
And I was just beginning to believe Obama was trying to be non-partisan.
I still don’t know why Obama sent those Black Panthers over to talk to Dad last night, but Dad sure is walking funny today.
3 Darthmeister // Feb 3, 2009 at 8:14 pm
Ignore the man behind the curtain!
An Updated and Progressive 1040 Tax Form for Donks
… reporting certain income is optional if one meets the new IRS definition for “Democrat”.
4 Darthmeister // Feb 3, 2009 at 9:43 pm
The quote of 2009, 2010 and possibly beyond …
There are two kinds of people in the electorate: One. People who remember how horrible the Jimmy Carter years were. Two. People who are about to find out.
For America’s sake I hope this doesn’t prove to be true but I remember Mr. Jimmah getting off to a far better start. Already Tom Daschle has withdrawn his name and Obama is quoted as saying, “I screwed up.” Of course the barking moonbats will praise Mr. Obama for admitting he “screwed up.” Oh well.
5 Newsman // Feb 3, 2009 at 9:58 pm
“An Updated and Progressive 1040 Tax Form for Donks”
God help anyone trying to deal reasonably with you Darth.
Your mission in life seems to be how nasty you can be when you spend your time putting people down.
I hope, for their sake, you don’t have any kids as you are one hell of an example to live down to !
Scrappleface seems not to be a forum for satire as it is a place for people to be nasty to all others who do not agree with them !
Scott is the only one here who engages in wholesome satire. Most of the rest of you just specialize in seeing how well you can outdo each other in insulting people who don’t agree with you !
6 onlineanalyst // Feb 3, 2009 at 10:18 pm
This offer is now to be dubbed the “Baby, You Can Drive My Car Option”.
HotAir has two (actually several) good threads on the “Stimulus” bill. The interview with SC Gov. Mark Sanford demonstrates so much common sense in fiscal conservatism and sense of responsibility that it should be spread far and wide.
The other thread features how many Democrats are jumping Nancy Pelosi’s ship of legislation, especially in that her style of crafting bills in the House contradicts what our Founding Fathers had in mind regarding representative government. It appears that the nation does not care for San Francisco treats.
7 baragirl // Feb 3, 2009 at 10:24 pm
You mean Pelosironi OLA?I can tell you theydon’t taste like chicken.
8 MajorDomo // Feb 4, 2009 at 12:04 am
Well, heck, Obummer’s having so much trouble finding a competent Democrat who isn’t in danger of going to prison, he just had to start tapping Republican expertise. You didn’t think President Empty Suit could come up with any ideas himself, did you?
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By the way, what the heck is a “Chief Performance Officer”, and how much are we taxpayers paying him/her? Is this a “change we need”?
9 onlineanalyst // Feb 4, 2009 at 12:13 am
This Obama decision takes absolute gall:
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/02/obama-replaces-hail-to-chief-with.html
Where are his loyalties exactly? They certainly do not seem to be rooted in American traditions.
10 MajorDomo // Feb 4, 2009 at 1:20 am
Eighty-six days to go, and the shine is already wearing off! Where’s my “change”? It’s starting to look a lot like the Clinton administration, but with a darker complexion.
11 gafisher // Feb 4, 2009 at 5:43 am
MajorDomo Re#10, the change since the close of the honesty and optimism of the Bush Administration has been breathtaking. What we’re seeing now from the White House, in story after story, from the selling of Obama’s old Senate seat to the endless stream of tax-evasion scandals, fits the “change” motif only by relating it to the proverbial bad penny.
12 gafisher // Feb 4, 2009 at 5:47 am
“GM has offered … a free car worth $25,000 …”
Choice of a Toyota, a Honda or a Subaru.
13 gafisher // Feb 4, 2009 at 6:19 am
Following protests from more experienced Socialists, Presedent Obama has altered the proposed “Buy American” provisions of the Democrat “Stimulus Package.” Now expanded to include more Japanese Wagyu beef, Russian Sevruga caviar and Kenyan Nyama Choma, the provision has been retitled “Bye-Bye, Americans.“
14 Pseudo-Polymath » Blog Archive » Wednesday Highlights // Feb 4, 2009 at 9:14 am
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16 Darthmeister // Feb 4, 2009 at 10:06 am
So, shooting the messenger now, Newsman? Way to go. BTW, the stuff I engage in is magnitude of orders tamer than the shrill garbage that had previously been put out by the barking moonbats on your side of the aisle, Newsman, and I sure don’t remember you condemning them for their profane, lying conspiracy theories and calumnies against POTUS. You really do enjoy engaging in double-standards, dontya?
Oh, and here’s another one based on undeniable, videotaped TRUTH. Remember how Mr. Biden engaged in some disgraceful mockery of Chief Justice Roberts regarding the administering of the oath of office to Mr. Obama from memory (and funny thing, Newsman, I don’t remember you railing against Mr. Biden for his despicable partisan mockery of the good Chief Justice)? Well, Mr. Biden has proven once again that what goes around does indeed comes around (btw, Newsman, that’s all I’m doing, I’m being liberals worst nightmare because I’m merely being a mirror reflecting back attitudes that you and your liberal buddies have been engaging in the last seven years of your anti-Bush hatefest). Now get this, Mr. Biden flubbed administering the oath to Hillary and he did this WHILE LOOKING AT HIS CRIB NOTES! What a moron. Yes, what a moron because that is exactly what people like you and your liberal buddies would have said if George W., Dan Quayle or Ronald Reagan had made a similar gaffe. Admit it. Kind of tough taking your own medicine, eh, and you’re going to have four years of this and you can only thank yourselves for creating such a divisive climate that we’re actually having a little fun with while still taking the high road by not lying or using four letter words (as your side did with relish) or overinflating gaffes and honest mistakes .
That’s why I’m on record as saying how interesting it will be to watch you libs hate your way to national unity or hate your way to world peace. You should have previously thought about what your own attitudes and ad hominem attacks would produce when you had to have known righteous backlash was in the cards. Blame yourselves for first poisoning the pond because THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT YOU PEOPLE DID with your arrogant mendacity the last seven years.
And how dare you deny me a more sanitized means of taking the very hate you people have been spewing about conservatives and George W. and cramming right back down your throats. YOU’RE THE ONES who started all this partisan sniping and were far more profane about it than anything I’ve come up with so far. So save your manufactured outrage for the nutcases on your side of the aisle who are still engaging in their bile and venom as they rush to defend their messiah from the truth. BTW, if we can have our fun at the expense of liberals who so richly deserve every evil thing which comes their way, then who can we make fun of? At least our humor is based on truth and not some ginned up liberal media myth.
17 mindknumbed kid // Feb 4, 2009 at 11:22 am
You are wasting your breath Darth, one of the newsdud’s upcoming posts will be another rehash of his ignorance about Rush Limbaugh’s hope that Obama fails. His ability to understand is skewed so badly that he will still be partying when America hits the point of no return - which very well could be sometime in Obama’s first term. I’m fairly sure that our nation has already been given over to a reprobate mind by the Almighty One, so the point of no return I am referring to is purely secular, and you can bet your bottom dollar that our enemies will rejoice at that day even with Present-dent Obama in office.
18 Harry Daschle // Feb 4, 2009 at 11:52 am
News Alert:
newsman tries to remove mote from Darthmeister’s eye, while newsman’s BEAM in his eye, knocks his PC onto floor!
Hilarious film at 11.
Maybe newsboy is a comedy writer?
19 everthink // Feb 4, 2009 at 12:00 pm
There are two kinds of people in the electorate: One. People who remember how horrible the Jimmy Carter years were. Two. People who lived through the horror of the Dumbyah years.
The latter is exceeded only by the Hoover years!
Soon, there will be trials!
ET
Here’s the link (you will probably have to paste it into your browser)
http://gigapan.org/viewGigapanFullscreen.php?auth=033ef14483ee899496648c2b4b06233c
WV = summons suck - Hank, will the doctor let you leave?
20 everthink // Feb 4, 2009 at 12:08 pm
Newsman,
Can ‘t you see how they defend Evil!
The is nothing beneath these devils.
You must unsheathe your blade!
ET
21 R.A.M. // Feb 4, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Scott, BRILLIANT!!! I love the two key words in the title, “Obama Copies”. That says it all about Mr. empty suit. He has no new ideas, so he COPIES everything.
Unfortunately, the guy he copies most is Jimmy (Salmonella Peanut Butter) Carter! The inly difference is Obama has cute children!
I AM sorry, there is one other difference. You will NEVER see Obama, with a hammer in his hand, (now or after he leaves office), helping out his fellow man, or ANYONE but himself!
22 everthink // Feb 4, 2009 at 12:33 pm
MNK,
Your defense of Darthhank reveals your true faith!
Darthndumb,
“Remember how Mr. Biden engaged in some disgraceful mockery of Chief Justice Roberts …”
I think you must mean Vice President Biden!
No, do not! But I do remember his humorous quip. “”My memory is not as good as Justice Roberts, Chief Justice Roberts”. ”
Weren’t you the one was falsely accusing The President of screwing it up?
Come over here, I want to hit you with shoe, you lying dog!
ET
23 everthink // Feb 4, 2009 at 12:41 pm
“You will NEVER see Obama, with a hammer in his hand, (now or after he leaves office), helping out his fellow man, or ANYONE but himself!”
Actually, the day before his Inauguration he spent several hours at a youth shelter, serving food, painting, and with a hammer in his hand!!!
It was on TV. Just not Rush or Fox News.
Come over here, I want to hit you with shoe, you lying dog!
ET
24 R.A.M. // Feb 4, 2009 at 1:02 pm
AOL headline: “Obama warns of catastrophe if stimulus delayed (AP)’
ANYONE with a functioning brain knows if OBOMBA’s “Styie package” is shoved down our throats, THAT will cause the catastrophe!
ET: Put down the crack pipe, I said NOW or AFTER he leaves office, NOT before, when lying libs like Obama and yourself will do ANYTHING to get elected! One main trouble with libs is they take things that ARE NOT said, spin them, and then try to call the other guy a liar. Pitiful!!!
I will take my apoligy from you for saying I lied, when I did NOT, right after you learn how to spell-(”-Come over here, I want to hit you with shoe,-”)
Don’t you know drunks and druggies are only funny to other drunks and druggies?
25 R.A.M. // Feb 4, 2009 at 1:11 pm
PS: Ever notice how everstink has to sign each post with “ET”, even though the post starts with “everthink”?
Reminds me of the people who own vehicles that ALSO have to have a giant decal on the back window that ALSO says what the vehicle is’
I guess since they are too stupid to know what the vehicle is without the decal, they think everybody else is.
Believe me everstink, you don’t even need the FIRST moniker. After the first few spelling errors, lies, foolishness, and gibberish, we ALL know who the post is from!
26 everthink // Feb 4, 2009 at 1:17 pm
“(now or after he leaves office)” What? Two weeks ago is not “now”?
You “loophole lying dog”. (Of course, I mean that in a nice way.)
(â€â€“Come over here, I want to hit you with shoe,–â€)
Spelling? I spoke it in English as an Iraqi would speak! Can’t you see that, you dullard?
I hit you with shoe!
ET
27 mindknumbed kid // Feb 4, 2009 at 1:21 pm
photo op.
28 everthink // Feb 4, 2009 at 1:35 pm
“PS: Ever notice how everstink has to sign each post with “ETâ€, even though the post starts with “everthinkâ€?”
An observation that has been made several times. ET was first used derisively years ago by hwy93.
I liked it! Besides, a dull fellow like you might think himself clever by calling me “ET”. In addition, it also seems to bother the half-wits here.
ET
29 everthink // Feb 4, 2009 at 1:58 pm
RAM
Speaking of names, what’s with this “Republican Attack Machine” thing of yours?
Some attack machine! Maybe your should consider something more in keeping with your actual effect. Like Republican Spitball Attack, or Republican Annoyer, or even, Republican Minor Irritation.
I’m just axting,
ET
30 mindknumbed kid // Feb 4, 2009 at 2:07 pm
Scott - Call Orkin…
31 Newsman // Feb 4, 2009 at 2:33 pm
The evidence speaks for itself Darth! Just review your own messages - full of vile bile against anyone who dares to question or disgree with your views !
32 Left Coast-Right Mind // Feb 4, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Why was Obama painting with a hammer in his hand? Most people use a brush. I guess that’s more nuance that I just don’t understand.
Although I will disagree that we’ll never see Obama with a hammer in his hand, we will, it will just be accompanied by a sickle.
As a Californian, I’d like to publicly apologize for Squeaker of the House Nancy Pelosi saying, “Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package, 500 million Americans lose their jobs. ” I have no excuse.
33 Darthmeister // Feb 4, 2009 at 3:42 pm
Newsman, has your IQ just dropped to an all time low? I’ve already explained, I’m just a mirror reflecting back the same things you liberals have been pulling out of your playbook the last thirty years, and particularly in the last seven years. Go yell at yourself in a mirror because that’s exactly what you’re doing here you twit.
Conservatives in general, and conservative Christians in particular, have suffered the slings and arrows of liberal humanists/secularists/Demoncrats since the Reagan years. That’s about three decades of patience you didn’t deserve. We’ve been mocked, intellectual spit upon, called all kinds of names from “neanderthals” to “anarchronistic dinosaurs” to “racists” to “homophobes” to “sexists” blah, blah, blah ad nauseam.
Well guess what, Newsman? People like me have finally had it and are sick and tired of being your punching bags. So now we’ve decided to fight fire with fire (your fire, btw) and look how you howl like a wounded banshee! Is your skin really that thin, particularly in light of the decades of abuse you people have heaped upon those of us who most accurately reflect the founding values and political ideology of our Christian forefathers? Me thinks thou protesteth too much. If you’re really so offended why do you keep coming back here to whine? A sense of duty? A sick pathology that you harbor? Or maybe you enjoy being insulted with the truth? Is that it? Well, I’m more than happy to indulge this deep-seated illness that you have if it keeps you coming back for more.
For decades many of us here have patiently remonstrated with people like you … and we’ve reasoned and we’ve quoted from the historical record and we’ve produced video and audio documentation which proves our point time and time again, and yet you oh so “compassionate” and “open-minded” left-wing hacks still puke your hate on us. So, no more retreat, no more “turning the other cheek”, no more Mr. NiceGuy and no more door mat for the likes of you and the rest of you silly Marxist liars who think you’re soooooooo much smarter and better informed than the rest of us unwashed peons. And if you Obamatons want to take this to the streets, well be our guest, but you’ll receive no quarter from me and millions of other conservative patriots who have had enough of your lying pusallanimity that has justified your own hatred of conservatives, mocked traditional American values, and blamed/torn down this country in hopes of advancing your bankrupt political agenda.
And wonders of wonders, even now people like you aren’t happy with your hollow and hopefully short-lived political victory. Hence we’re still made to suffer your perpetual whining and self-righteous fingerpointing here at Scrappleface. Sheesh, deal with it, troll.
New topic for discussion:
Let’s see, Obama has been MOTUS for about two weeks and already there have been: 1)innocent civilians killed in Afghanistan and Iraq on his watch; 2) he’s reaffirmed warrantless FISA wiretaps through executive orders as an appropriate tool to keep track of Islamic terrorists; 3) through another executive order has expanded the CIA rendition program, 4) and has already been called arrogant by foreign powers who didn’t like his “pro-America” emphasis regarding foreign trade, national security and economic policies. So, by liberals’ own definition Mr. Obama is already a fascist war criminal and he’s yet to give his first State of the Union speech!
34 Darthmeister // Feb 4, 2009 at 3:54 pm
Thus Spaketh Pelosi: 500 million Americans will lose their jobs. Having thus embraced the liberal’s way of making their points about Republican leaders like George W., I’m forced to conclude Nancy Pelosi is a “chimp” and a “moron” who should get a refund from her university for the lousy education she received. All this time in the public’s eye and she still can’t get her facts straight. Can you imagine the howling by the liberal national socialist media if Dick Cheney had made a similar remark? This ranks right up there with Mr. Obama’s 57 states comment.
LC-RM … apology accepted. Don’t blame yourself for that which comes natural to liberal leaders. At least she’s getting a pass from the liberal media and this too will pass into oblivion since liberals will exercise the very nuance they deny conservatives and say she meant to say “500,000″ and it came out “500 million”. But you know the lefties would have never been so charitable toward George W. or any other Republican if that had “misspoken” in similar manner, hence their utter hypocrisy if they dare castigate us for having a little fun with Pelosi sticking her big fat liberal foot in her mouth.
BTW, if they can find a way to harness the power of eyeblinks, Ms. Pelosi could possibly power up an entire suburban neighborhood minute for minute.
35 Darthmeister // Feb 4, 2009 at 4:07 pm
BTW. If Sarah Palin had slipped up and said what Nancy Pelosi said, Democrats would have screeched how this was definitive proof that #$%^@ & ! Palin wasn’t ready for national politics. This is certainly not far-fetched since liberals were actually holding Sarah accountable for the things Tina Fey was saying while portraying Ms. Palin on SNL!
36 Left Coast-Right Mind // Feb 4, 2009 at 4:30 pm
On second thought, Nancy Pelosi’s claim of 500 million Americans losing their jobs every single month that a ‘recovery (whatever you do, don’t call it a ’stimulus’) package’ is not passed is not a case of misspeak at all. It was merely an exaggeration of the facts intended to illustrate and make clear to the American public just how dire the economic situation is. Kind of like how Obama exaggerated that 10,000 people died in a Kansas tornado. The final death toll was 12, but that isn’t a big enough number to describe just how powerful a tornado is, especially one that was spawned due to ‘anthropomorphic (whatever you do, don’t call it ‘man-made global warming’) climate change’. So a more suitable number, like say, 10,000, was needed to really drive the point home. See? It’s only being done for the benefit of the citizenry, so that we can see that all the problems we face are our own fault, and that the government needs to be granted the power necessary to fix the messes we’ve made.
37 gafisher // Feb 4, 2009 at 4:48 pm
Don’t be so hard on Nanny-P, LCRM; it was probably just a simple, common error like Geitner made on his income tax. Might be wise to recheck the number of zeroes in that “Stimulus Bill” though …
38 everthink // Feb 4, 2009 at 4:59 pm
LCRM,
“… spent several hours at a youth shelter, serving food, painting, and with a hammer in his hand!”
If you can’t understand that, then let’s just say he was going for a “planished” effect.
Say, what do you think,
“People like me have finally had it and are sick and tired of being your punching bags.”
Has Darthndumb finally fallen off the edge? Lord knows he’s been out there for a long time!
ET
39 everthink // Feb 4, 2009 at 5:09 pm
“… with Mr. Obama’s 57 states comment.” How many times have you, alone, posted this? Doesn’t this speak worse of you than him?
He misspoke this only once! He was referring to primary elections and caucuses!
You sad wort!
ET
40 everthink // Feb 4, 2009 at 5:48 pm
Back to 35,
Isn’t Sarah Palin, Tina Fey’s stage name?
An inquiring mind wants to know?
ET
41 R.A.M. // Feb 4, 2009 at 5:55 pm
everstink said: What? Two weeks ago is not “now�
What a maroon!
No, 2 weeks ago is not now, just as 2 days ago is not NOW, even though libs like to “round off” things especially when you are “rounding off” amounts in those tax forms!
Well, for the few libs that still file them!
42 JamesonLewis3rd // Feb 4, 2009 at 6:10 pm
It’s funny how the Leftists hate Tina Fey, isn’t it?
43 everthink // Feb 4, 2009 at 6:12 pm
“We’ve been mocked, intellectual spit upon, called all kinds of names from “neanderthals†to “anarchronistic dinosaurs†to “racists†to “homophobes†to “sexists†blah, blah, blah ad nauseam.”
Darth, I just want you to know, I have never called you “sexists”, and I have only used “blah, blah, blah ad nauseam”, when referencing your posts in particular.
ET
44 onlineanalyst // Feb 4, 2009 at 6:20 pm
R.A,M.: Rounding off and using fear tactics (”I’m here to save the planet!!!” Without the stimulus, 500,000 million jobs will be lost a month!!!”) appear to be the Nazi Porklouski’s M.O.
As far as Barack Alinksy is concerned, I guess that I am not the only one keeping score: http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZDEwNzk5ZGVhZjMxMzIxZGIyODBkNzA3NWNmZGU3Nzk=
With Nazi Porklouski’s accompaniment, the next time Barack Alinsky ste[s out of the White House pressure cooker to visit a public school, perhaps the two can read the incredible adventures of the stimulus bill, My Pet Stoat.
45 mindknumbed kid // Feb 4, 2009 at 6:56 pm
What is so unbelievable about the popularity of Present-dent Barack Obama is how openly and obviously following Alinski’s roadmap to the socialization of the nation formerly known as the USA, and people such as the trolls that leave droppings all over this site do not worry in the least about it. I guess BDS also affects your ability to see what anyone other than Bush is doing. Too bad he is back in Texas and out of the spotlight now, they are probably going crazy now trying to find something to feed it (BDS) with. As we travel down the Alinski Trail most of us here will do so with our eyes open, aware of what is taking place, unfortunately most of the people in this country have never heard of Saul Alinski and know nothing of his teaching and writings. Probably most “main stream” urinalists know as much or less than the populous of such things. One must assume that the Obamatons that make frequent appearances here and are thus aware of these things are in favor of the destruction of capitalism, and favor socialism. Of course you won’t hear them admit it, and you won’t even see them discuss such matters. I suspect they are still afraid to “come out of the closet”.
46 JamesonLewis3rd // Feb 4, 2009 at 7:01 pm
15 percent of all construction jobs created under the economic stimulus bill will go to illegal immigrants. Isn’t that wonderful?
47 mindknumbed kid // Feb 4, 2009 at 7:20 pm
Is that 15% of those jobs will go to known illegal immigrants? If so another 20% of them will probably be illegals who are “blending in” with the help of stolen identities. Liberals are so benevolent with other people’s property (money, jobs, etc.) but give little of their own property to charitable causes, and apparently even though it is very patriotic to pay taxes (the higher, the better) it appears as though many of them are not as patriotic as they claim. Just think, the (uninformed and undereducated) voters just gave those liberals charge of our national security, I wander how charitable they are going to be with it? Obama’s friendly chat with Mr. al last week may be indicative of the future of our national security. Liberals- giving us away in a “fair and equitable” manner to make the world like us…and feeling good about it!
48 everthink // Feb 4, 2009 at 7:30 pm
MNK,
When you say: “What is so unbelievable about the popularity of Present-dent Barack Obama is how openly and obviously following Alinski’s roadmap to the socialization of the nation…” Does this mean you have actually read something written by Saul Alinski?
If so, what was the name of the book, or other publication? If you have no first hand knowledge of Alinski’s writings, why do you not use quotation marks and citations?
Careful not to move out onto that edge Darthmeister has just vacated!!
ET
49 onlineanalyst // Feb 4, 2009 at 7:39 pm
For your edification, et:
http://fundamentaloption.blogspot.com/2008/11/how-it-was-done.html
50 onlineanalyst // Feb 4, 2009 at 7:57 pm
It’s a good thing that I saved this succinct posting from elsewhere, et, so that your education can continue.
OBLAHBLAH hasn’t had to be careful, because he’s sold everyone on the single word…â€CHANGEâ€
Do some background research on him, and he’s nothing less than emulating extreme leftist Saul Alinsky, but in OBLAHBLAH’s case, he’s on steroids. Alinsky was a Chicago organizer,that had strong ties with the Communist party U.S.A.. Sound familiar?
Here are Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals
Rule 1: Power is not only what you have, but what an opponent thinks you have. If your organization is small, hide your numbers in the dark and raise a din that will make everyone think you have many more people than you do.
Rule 2: Never go outside the experience of your people. The result is confusion, fear, and retreat.
Rule 3: Whenever possible, go outside the experience of an opponent. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.
Rule 4: Make opponents live up to their own book of rules. “You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.â€
Rule 5: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.
Rule 6: A good tactic is one your people enjoy. “If your people aren’t having a ball doing it, there is something very wrong with the tactic.â€
Rule 7: A tactic that drags on for too long becomes a drag. Commitment may become ritualistic as people turn to other issues.
Rule 8: Keep the pressure on. Use different tactics and actions and use all events of the period for your purpose. “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition. It is this that will cause the opposition to react to your advantage.â€
Rule 9: The threat is more terrifying than the thing itself. When Alinsky leaked word that large numbers of poor people were going to tie up the washrooms of O’Hare Airport, Chicago city authorities quickly agreed to act on a longstanding commitment to a ghetto organization. They imagined the mayhem as thousands of passengers poured off airplanes to discover every washroom occupied. Then they imagined the international embarrassment and the damage to the city’s reputation.
Rule 10: The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative. Avoid being trapped by an opponent or an interviewer who says, “Okay, what would you do?â€
Rule 11: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. Don’t try to attack20abstract corporations or bureaucracies. Identify a responsible individual. Ignore attempts to shift or spread the blame.
According to Alinsky, the main job of the organizer is to bait an opponent into reacting. “The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.â€
Obama, the “Community Organizer” has managed to incorporate many of these methods from his early days on through his campaign years. It’s too bad that he is personally unable to counteract Rule #5 because he sets himself up for ridicule more often than not.
He and Nancy Pelosi, as well as the attack dogs of the Dems-Carville and Begala- do a bang-up job with #11. You? Not so much…
51 R.A.M. // Feb 4, 2009 at 8:03 pm
JL3: Funny how the Dems think that Hispanic voters will continue to be happy to vote for them in the future.
Even the dumbest Dim Jackarse should know that the Hispanics will want people in government of their own race soon, and people like Pelosi, Reid, Kerry, Kennedy, etc will be out on their hindquarters!
Well, that is if Teddy lasts that long. He has an overdue appointment to explain some things to Mary Jo and GOD!
Glenn Beck seems to be the only one warning of the threat of Mexico’s total collapse. It will be ugly, and is coming SOON!
If you think the Hispanic gangs that are already here are bad, “you ain’t seen nothing yet!”
Obama will be hiding under his desk when it happens! I believe Michelle is more a man than he.
Actually, Michelle is more a man than MOST lib boys!
52 Fred Sinclair // Feb 4, 2009 at 8:14 pm
ola #44 - Mark Steyn (filling in for Rush today) kept using a figure from Nancy Pelosi about 500 million jobs being lost every month - even broke it down “That’s 125 million jobs a week”.
The last time I checked there’s only a tad over 300 million people in the entire United States (and that’s even including illegal aliens) so the figure you used in #44 of 500,000 million, that’s five hundred thousand million jobs being lost each month. I didn’t hear her - did she really use such a figure?
A man’s word is his worth and his worth is his word. I’ve heard that all of my life.
As for the usuper: The usurper said, “The greatest risk we can take is to continue the same old politics with the same old players.” Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, tax cheat; Tom Daschle, tax cheat; Linda Panetta the daughter of Leon Panetta, who was recently named to be the new CIA director. Linda is a supporter of all the anti-American regimes in this Hemisphere, Clinton Administration; Ron Emanuel, Clinton Administration; Robert Rice, Clinton Administration; Eric Holder, Clinton Administration; Carole Brauner, Clinton Administration; Susan Rice, Clinton Administration; Hillary Clinton, Clinton Administration.
Looks like his word is worth about as much as he is, eh?
53 Left Coast-Right Mind // Feb 4, 2009 at 8:34 pm
LCRM,
“… spent several hours at a youth shelter, serving food, painting, and with a hammer in his hand!â€
If you can’t understand that, then let’s just say he was going for a “planished†effect.
Want your goat back?
54 Fred Sinclair // Feb 4, 2009 at 8:36 pm
ola my #52 - I just reread my post and don’t like the way it came out. The line: “A man?s word is his worth and his worth is his word. I?ve heard that all of my life” is supposed to be attached to the following paragraph and was in reference to the usurper.
In no way was it intended to reflect on you or the preceding two paragraphs. My bad.
55 mindknumbed kid // Feb 4, 2009 at 8:45 pm
et - So Alinski was a committed capitalist? You did a great job of skirting the crux of my post. Reading Alinski types is akin to taking poison, how much I have read isn’t as relevant as to how much I understand what I have read. I take your response in #48 as a satement that you agree with his writings and are happy to see the destruction of capitalism here and around the world. Thank you for having enough guts to come out of the closet and declare your undying love for socialism!
56 Fred Sinclair // Feb 4, 2009 at 8:45 pm
When I put the apostrophes in my last post #54 they were in fact apostrophes, how they ended up printing as question marks, I have no idea…must be gremlins at work….sprites….or unemployed trolls, who knows or cares for that matter - not I, for sure.
57 Shelly // Feb 4, 2009 at 8:47 pm
Was he using the hammer to serve food or paint? I’ve never found a hammer particularly useful in either situation, but I guess it counts as “change.”
58 onlineanalyst // Feb 4, 2009 at 8:55 pm
Fred: You are correct about that job loss figure that Pelosi claimed. It’s 500 million.
The Linda Panetta tidbit that you cite is incorrect though. While that woman is, indeed, a supporter of anti-American groups, she is not the daughter of Leon Panetta. She has led people to think so, but I believe that he has only sons. Panetta has his own weaknesses as CIA director though, and the rank-and-file intelligence folks are none too happy with his appointment.
Hi, Shelly! How is your son doing? Is he still overseas?
59 RedPepper // Feb 4, 2009 at 8:58 pm
JL3 #46: Only 15% ?
Heck, these days, even sitting behind the Golden EIB Microphone is a Job That Americans Will No Longer Do !
/fortunately, I do enjoy Mark Steyn …
60 R.A.M. // Feb 4, 2009 at 9:53 pm
Sorry Fred, OLA is right. Leon has only three sons.
Sure not anything like Robbie, Chip, and Ernie from the 1960’s though. And Leon is no Fred McMurray, although he does remind me a little of the character McMurray played in “The Caine Mutiny”!
Actually MOST Dems are exactly like the Fred McMurray character, (Harry Reid comes quickly to mind along with Barney Frank). When Jose Ferrer throws his drink in Fred’s face and says, “If you want to do anything about this, I’ll be outside.” You KNOW the backstabbing, sniveling coward will NEVER step out that door!
61 everthink // Feb 4, 2009 at 10:13 pm
“et - So Alinski was a committed capitalist? You did a great job of skirting the crux of my post.”
I made no statement! I skirted nothing!
I did ask you a simple question! I will ask it again!
“… have actually read something written by Saul Alinski?”
ET
62 everthink // Feb 4, 2009 at 10:22 pm
RAM,
“Actually, Michelle is more a man than MOST lib boys!”
I told you: THE SHOWER WATER WAS COLD!
ET
63 mindknumbed kid // Feb 4, 2009 at 10:31 pm
Time to find a comfy spot to get a little shut eye. But before I go…
On second thought, I’m giving up on a parody I was trying to do to the tune of “White Rabbit” by Jefferson Airplane.
Maybe I can try it another day.
Good night all - Are there any World Famous Chocolate Chip Cookies in the cookie jar? I need a snack!
64 J. Cougar Melancholy // Feb 4, 2009 at 10:40 pm
McCain is taking the loss better than most of you and HE is there for Obama, ultimately. I suggest you do the same and fall in line with the senior Senaturtle.
And don’t be so pussimistic.
It’s tough to see the brave lib warrior Everthink single-handedly storm the pillboxes of ignorance in this room. And he’s doing it with a grace and fierce quickness not one of you can even dream of coming close to.
Feel the Steel!
65 Left Coast-Right Mind // Feb 4, 2009 at 11:05 pm
I suggest you do the same and fall in line with the senior Senaturtle.
Your prescription is lock-stepping? I thought such single-mindedness was abhorrent to so-called ‘free-thinkers’. Another example of two sets of rules? If it’s all the same to you, I’ll walk my own path, thank you very much.
I’m shocked, shocked I tell you at such a suggestion. Wait…no, I’m not.
66 everthink // Feb 4, 2009 at 11:30 pm
Aw, shucks Cougar!
It’s light work, I was just doing my job; besides Hank said almost the same thing yesterday. And, that RAM fella, who could ask for a better pal.
The only one who gives me fits, is that dang prettyold (She calls herself baragirl now).
You know, still in all, these people are so thick, sometimes I think it’s a lost cause here.
Yer ol’ pal,
ET
67 Fred Sinclair // Feb 5, 2009 at 3:53 am
ola #58 - I took this from P.U.M.A. Following is a c&p of their comment.
“Linda Panetta- Anti-Us Agitator, Leon Panetta- CIA Director Nominee… Is there anything wrong with this picture?
By PUMA Pundit • January 18, 2009
While I don’t think it is reasonable to expect Leon to control his grown daughter’s actions, I question the wisdom in appointing as the head of the
CIA a man who:
1) Has no intelligence background (although we’ve been informed he is a consumer of intelligence )
2) Has a daughter who is actively lecturing about the negative “implications of US foreign policy and the realities of war.†and who hangs out with enemies of the United States.
If Leon becomes the head of the CIA, what assurances if any can we get that Linda won’t have access to classified information which would then be passed on to the people she circulates with?
Incidentally, it is an open secret that the School of the Americas is a training ground for Pro-US military officers from the Western Hemisphere. Officers who go back to their countries upon completion of their studies and in many cases work closely with the CIA to promote US economic and diplomatic interests.
CAVEAT: Based on the reasearch we’ve done, it seems Linda is the daughter of Leon. She’s definitely given speaking engagements using that family history, there is however some controversy about her parentage, so till it’s conclusively proven that Leon is her father, take this one with a grain of salt.”
68 gafisher // Feb 5, 2009 at 7:29 am
LCRM Re#32: “Why was Obama painting with a hammer in his hand?”
There’s an old saying — “If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” Or, in another version, “If all you have is a tax increase, … etc.”
69 Fred Sinclair // Feb 5, 2009 at 8:16 am
FLIGHT 1549
I never thought I would enjoy watching news about a plane crash.
1st: No one died!
2nd The passengers standing on the wing appear to be walking on water!
3rd: It removed Obama from the headlines for 24 hours!
4th: No one in the government could take credit for the miracle!
And …
5th: It wasn’t George Bush’s fault!
WOW!
70 Newsman // Feb 5, 2009 at 9:29 am
Again darth, read your posts. Chuck a bluck full of nasty name calling, etc.
The evidence does speak for itself. You can’t speak decently to anyone who disagrees with you. You are complled to insult people calling them names and the liberal use of ridicule !
This just isn’t a place for reasonable discourse !
71 JamesonLewis3rd // Feb 5, 2009 at 9:41 am
I watched BHO’s speech at the Prayer Breakfast this morning—his ignorance of Scripture was palpable and embarrassing to me as a Christian—and scary to me as a citizen.
72 JamesonLewis3rd // Feb 5, 2009 at 10:16 am
I see where Goldman Sachs has decided to give their “stimulus” back to BHO. This is a good thing and an example that should be followed by all.
73 Left Coast-Right Mind // Feb 5, 2009 at 10:52 am
gafisher
Re: #68
I was feeling a song parody coming on. Either, “If Obama had a hammer, he’d hammer us into mourning…” or “Obama’s silver hammer came down *boom* on our heads…”.
JamesonLewis3rd
Re; #72
I see where Goldman Sachs has decided to give their “stimulus†back to BHO.
Good for them, since it’s sounding more and more like the strings attached to the bailout monies have morphed into nooses. I’ve been contemplating if/when
stimulus‘economic recovery’ checks would be sent out to the populace, running mine through a shredder and mailing the confetti back to the White House.74 onlineanalyst // Feb 5, 2009 at 11:16 am
50 De-stimulating Facts (or why this tub o’lard is nothing but a welfare program writ large. It does next to nothing to inject money into the market and grow the economy so that meaningful jobs and tax revenues can be created.)
Lock up your daughters. Lock up your sons. They will be in hock years before they enter the work force and long after they leave it.
Congressional wh*res are too cowardly to write appropriation bills for these favorite Alinsky-inspired programs, separate from this stimulus travesty, and the pressitutes are too incurious to probe too deeply.
Call, fax, or write to your Senators (and Representatives) to tell them that you oppose these stimulus boondoggles.
75 RedPepper // Feb 5, 2009 at 11:21 am
Obama has more problems than cruddy Cabinet nominations and a shaky stimulus bill.
Back on January 20th, at one of his Inauguration Balls, Barack was serenaded by Beyonce Knowles, performing At Last - Etta James’ signature song.
James, 71, was addressing an audience while on stage in Seattle last week …
“You guys know your President, right? The one with the big ears? He ain’t my President. He had that woman singing my song. She gonna get her [bleep!] whipped,” Etta told the crowd.
“She had no business up there singing on a big ol’ President day, singing my song that I’ve been singing forever.”
In Showbiz Spy.
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
Woe is O.
76 everthink // Feb 5, 2009 at 11:49 am
Heathcliff -“I see where Goldman Sachs has decided to give their “stimulus†back to BHO.”
Gertrude - “Good for them, since it’s sounding more and more like the strings attached to the bailout monies have morphed into nooses.”
Yeah! Dumbyah and Paulsen didn’t want no stinking strings. They gave money to friends to have “motivational vacations”, heck they didn’t even make you sign stuff.
Dumbyah would just look you in the eye and grin, then he handed you a “football”!
No questions, no strings, no paperwork to spoil the party. Isn’t that the Republican way, “social the debt, and capitalize the profit”
ET
77 everthink // Feb 5, 2009 at 11:52 am
Make that, “socialize the debt, and capitalize the profitâ€.
78 onlineanalyst // Feb 5, 2009 at 12:10 pm
Isn’t the continuation of TARP II and the creation of the “Stimulus Boondoggle” a “socializing of the debt” Pray tell, what jobs of consequence will be created with it? There will be no private capital freed to invest or save and no revenues created.
Seriously, et, do you and your buddies only react to our posts and do so with adolscent snark? Or can you offer an alternative interpretation of event supported by credible sources and facts? Have you ever read and understood the links that many of us provide, or is clinging to your ideology and (factually refuted) talking points the object of your game?
I’m giving you more credit for adulthood than your comments merit.
79 everthink // Feb 5, 2009 at 12:17 pm
What may seem an “adolscent snark” to the few, is sage wisdom to those who are not “ditto heads”.
ET
80 everthink // Feb 5, 2009 at 12:22 pm
AND isn’t the “adolscent snark†the object of most of the posts here!
ET
WV - president chowder = is back in Texas
81 everthink // Feb 5, 2009 at 12:34 pm
OLA,
I pretty much have my hands full plugging the drips here right now. But, I have often posted profound truths which have been the product of my own “Deep Thoughts”. Because “I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggoneit people just like me!”
ET
82 onlineanalyst // Feb 5, 2009 at 1:05 pm
I rest my case.
83 everthink // Feb 5, 2009 at 1:08 pm
Stand clear! Stand clear!
President Obama says it’s time for the Stimulus Package to launch. Democrats have responded all system are Go!
To any Republicans trying to hold the rocket down, brace yourselves and hold on tight!
ET
ET
84 upnorthlurkin // Feb 5, 2009 at 2:05 pm
1444 days, 22 hours, 55 minutes until we’re free again.
How anyone can celebrate the Communisation of America is beyond me… and yes, I know it’s not a real word.
85 everthink // Feb 5, 2009 at 2:07 pm
“GOP Rep: We Need Might A Taliban-Like “Insurgency”"
“In an interview with National Journal’s Hotline, Republican Rep. Pete Sessions of Texas suggested his party could follow the model of the Taliban in its legislative battles.
“Insurgency, we understand perhaps a little bit more because of the Taliban,” Sessions said. “And that is that they went about systematically understanding how to disrupt and change a person’s entire processes. And these Taliban — I’m not trying to say the Republican Party is the Taliban. No, that’s not what we’re saying. I’m saying an example of how you go about [sic] is to change a person from their messaging to their operations to their frontline message.â€
“Sessions said the “Taliban” approach was a reaction to a lack of bipartisan outreach from House Democrats.â€
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/05/gop-rep-we-need-might-an_n_164227.html
Way to go Repugs, you’ve already lost your car, so now put up the house! Just keep on “Doubling Down”! You’ll either become the Taliban, or some hateful relic in the history of American Politics!
ET
86 everthink // Feb 5, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Lurch,
“How anyone can celebrate the Communisation of America is beyond me… and yes, I know it’s not a real word.”
Try communization. If you insist on using such terms you might start by learning the spelling. Then go for the meaning!
Merriam-Webster.com
communization - One entry found.
Main Entry: com·mu·nize
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): com·mu·nized; com·mu·niz·ing
Etymology: back-formation from communization
Date: 1888
1 a: to make common b: to make into state-owned property
2: to subject to Communist principles of organization
ET
87 everthink // Feb 5, 2009 at 2:54 pm
OK, I’ll be leaving the batting cage for a little while, go ice your arms.
ET
88 R.A.M. // Feb 5, 2009 at 3:09 pm
newsboy sniveled: “This just isn’t a place for reasonable discourse !”
Gee hypocrite, we could be more like YOUR side with moveon.org or huffington post but, Scott won’t allow vulgar language or death threats here as YOUR side has done for the last 8 years.
Care for some cheese?
89 R.A.M. // Feb 5, 2009 at 3:13 pm
et: Are you sure you are not trying to leave the “batty cage”?
A “cage” is the perfect place for someone of your mindset!
Sorry, there I go incorrectly assuming you have a mind, (of your own), to use.
90 everthink // Feb 5, 2009 at 3:44 pm
RAM,
I guess you must think I can’t still hear you, don’t make me come back there.
You crackin’ about MoveOn? Don’t do that, man!
Those people are real Baad! They will getchew!
Later, loser!
ET
91 onlineanalyst // Feb 5, 2009 at 3:47 pm
The consensus appears to be that Obama is still in a campaign mode (for that’s pretty much the sum of his working experience) and that his editorial on behalf of passing the Porkopulous Bill is poorly written, especially for a college graduate, much less one touted as a brilliant scholar of Columbia and Harvard.
Will he follow F. Scott Fitzgerald and pen “The Crackup Papers: Part 2″ next?
92 Left Coast-Right Mind // Feb 5, 2009 at 3:48 pm
Gertrude - “Good for them, since it’s sounding more and more like the strings attached to the bailout monies have morphed into nooses.â€
Gee, and to think I matter so much to you that I get a nickname. I’m touched.
Since we’ve apparently reached a new level in our online, completely anonymous relationship, for future reference, just in case you feel so inclined to treat me as you have others on this board, I do not have a spouse for you to denigrate. My mother is still alive and well though, but if she proves too difficult a target, I may be persuaded to provide a list of family members with terminal afflictions for you to take a crack at, either that or the gravesite locations of my ancestry for you to visit with a full bladder.
93 onlineanalyst // Feb 5, 2009 at 4:03 pm
These yoyos don’t just use the sites you mention, R.A.M. They are big subscribers to the talking points of thinkprogress, commondreams, and talkingpoints memo.
BTW Calling, Dr. Dean! Dr. Dean! Where are you? Don’t you have a role in this administration? Will you take (Dr.) Daschle’s place now that even the NYT found him objectionable?
et: If you remember the Gertrude and Heathcliff schtick, you are older than I figured. Ergo, there is no excuse for your political naivete.
I must admit, though that your last several snarks have been rather humorous. See you in the bread lines. We can yuck it up there to pass the time. Then again, you may be engaged in one of those “shovel-ready jobs” that are all the rage since you do know how to shovel it.
94 Left Coast-Right Mind // Feb 5, 2009 at 4:08 pm
Global Warming
Leading U.S. Authority: Albert Arnold “Al” Gore, Jr.
Status: Much too important to waste time arguing about. Debate over. No new scientific study necessary. Legislation must be passed now to avoid catastrophe. Doubters are to be systematically destroyed by way of the media.
The U.S. Economy
Leading U.S. Authority: Barack Hussein Obama II
Status: Much too important to waste time arguing about. Debate over. No new economic study necessary. Legislation must be passed now to avoid catastrophe. Doubters are to be systematically destroyed by way of the media.
95 everthink // Feb 5, 2009 at 5:04 pm
My Dearest Gertrude,
Heathcliff & Gertrude were anthropomorphizations of two Pelicans that Red Skelton used to illustrate certain inane exchanges by humans. It seemed fitting in this case.
If you wish to register a protest I happen to have a 1-800 number I can give for that purpose.
I don’t think there will be a need to bring your mother into this, unless, of course, she wishes to share some silliness, like you.
As ever,
ET
96 R.A.M. // Feb 5, 2009 at 7:15 pm
et lied: “Heathcliff & Gertrude were anthropomorphizations of two Pelicans that Red Skelton used to illustrate certain inane exchanges by humans.”
Wrong as usual. Gertrude and Heathcliff were two SEAGULLS.
Don’t you ever tire of showing your ignorance here for everyone to see? You are as well informed as MOST of the Dems in Obama’s administration. Maybe he has a job for you, IF you are a big enough tax cheat to go along with the wrong information you spew.
97 R.A.M. // Feb 5, 2009 at 7:18 pm
I guess I should ask the trolls the “Judge Judy” line when they say ANYTHING. “Is that as true as everything else you have told me”?
98 everthink // Feb 5, 2009 at 8:19 pm
RAM,
My grandfather says he may have been incorrect when he told me they were Pelicans, he says maybe they were Seagulls after all.
Then, he told me to tell “Goofus”, even a broken watch is right twice a day!
He wants to know if you were in WWII too?
Then, he said to ask you how many times you have to get up at night.
You old guys, I’ll tell you …
ET
99 Left Coast-Right Mind // Feb 5, 2009 at 8:31 pm
I had no idea silliness was verboten under Herr everthink, since I see him spout multitudes of silly things quite regularly.
A rulebook would really help clear up all this confusion I’m having with who can do what.
100 gafisher // Feb 5, 2009 at 8:33 pm
Hey, somebody got hold of a way sekrit recording of the Prez practicing for his first
LiarsideI mean Fireside Chat [here].101 mindknumbed kid // Feb 5, 2009 at 9:01 pm
Unlike the troll,I haven’t read everything Saul has ever written, or sat at his feet as he taught. Not concerning myself as to what I have read as having been an actual excerpt of Saul’s writings, or commentary on his writings, I understand his response to what I have said about Alinski’s anti-capitalism views as saying that I am misinformed about those views. Now folks, if I am so far off in my understanding then I submit that when I did a 180 degree turn and called him a committed capitalist, the troll denied he was insinuating I was wrong. . .
What is clear is that when you read through Alinski’s Rules for Radicals, you see the troll has mastered the use of them, therefore I am assuming he has studied his writings extensively.
One thing I remember hearing or reading was the teaching to become like the people that you are trying to overcome, if they are Christians, then you must also be a Christian. (I only use quotation marks on something I know to be written verbatim, I am paraphrasing most of the time.) His claim as being a Christian is suspect, it does not appear to have any bearing on the positions and policies he endorses, I do not know of anyone of the regulars here that are openly supporting things that are clearly in violation of what we read in the Word of God.
So I restate my view that Obama is openly following that unpatriotic man’s teachings in an effort to move America from being a capitalist nation to a socialist nation. If the troll has some kind of argument to convince me, and the like minded folks here, as to how our views about this are wrong, then he should present them in an effort to persuade us. But he won’t, because he is the only student of Saul Alinsky that comes around these parts.
102 everthink // Feb 5, 2009 at 9:06 pm
Dear Gertude,
If that’s the only kind of cards you have, you just go right ahead and play ‘em. I’ll just snicker.
ET
103 everthink // Feb 5, 2009 at 9:08 pm
MNK,
You’re tryin’ to be so spiritual, you’re not much earthly good.
ET
104 mindknumbed kid // Feb 5, 2009 at 9:22 pm
It is also quite evident that the trolls also never follow any of the links provided which make the arguments for the positions/views we espouse.
They are, as we used to say on the farm, “worthless as teats on a boar”. Like all of the other morons@moveon.ugh, not good for a thing.
I could be wrong about this, but I believe that Present-dent Obama is a bit too proud, and will one day (maybe sooner, maybe a little later) be reproved by the Almighty Ruler of the Universe. The future can be quite uncertain for mere mortals, even very popular ones.
105 Left Coast-Right Mind // Feb 5, 2009 at 9:23 pm
Re: #102
C’mon…you give me a pet name, and then you misspell it? *sighs* I can see your heart just isn’t into it at all.
106 mindknumbed kid // Feb 5, 2009 at 9:26 pm
That is the most foolish statement men say, if you only understood…nice duck. It quacks loud and clear.
107 mindknumbed kid // Feb 5, 2009 at 9:30 pm
Funny, I didn’t think it would make that into a link.
108 mindknumbed kid // Feb 5, 2009 at 9:35 pm
LCRM - Well at least he didn’t/hasn’t called you “Gutrude”.
109 Newsman // Feb 5, 2009 at 10:19 pm
“…the trolls also never follow any of the links provided which make the arguments for the positions/views we espouse.”
Do you pay serious attention to people who insult you left and right and just call you vile names ?
For instance in the same post you say, “They are, as we used to say on the farm, “worthless as teats on a boarâ€. Like all of the other morons@moveon.ugh, not good for a thing.”
That is not a rational way to attempt to get people to give consideration to your point of view !
Suppose your wife, if you have one, constantly called you an idiot ! Would you give anything she had to say serious consideration ?
110 J. Cougar Melancholy // Feb 5, 2009 at 10:42 pm
Though the Bumpkin Regime is dead in Washington, it reigns supreme in Scrappleville. I can play along, since I’m from Central PA, where men are men, sheep are nervous, women are property and soup’s still a meal. Lord, mercy!
111 onlineanalyst // Feb 6, 2009 at 12:19 am
Stimulus! Because all economies have performance issues…
Reason has the funniest video takedown of the Obama Bamboozle Bill.
112 MajorDomo // Feb 6, 2009 at 12:35 am
Scott, can you collect all Evethink in a separate subfolder so that we don’t have to scroll so far? If and when we are ready for a laugh, we can open the Everhik folder. The rest of the time we quickly scroll on by.
113 JamesonLewis3rd // Feb 6, 2009 at 7:26 am
I sure appreciate that BHO’s first trip in “his new ’spiffy ride’” was to a 3-day bacchanalia.
I also appreciated the videos of him and the rest of his gang guzzling champagne and stuff at the luxurious resort.
114 RedPepper // Feb 6, 2009 at 8:43 am
Newsman #109: “Do you pay serious attention to people who insult you left and right and just call you vile names ?â€
Bingo !
I suggest you ponder those words, Newsman. That is a road that runs in both directions.
And, one last thing.
Once people stop listening, it’s usually pretty hard to get their attention.
FWIW.
115 everthink // Feb 6, 2009 at 8:44 am
MajorDomo,
I think your suggestion of “subfolders” is a great idea. How would you like your folder labeled? I could offer a couple of suggestions. But, maybe you might consider, if Scott were to do that, your folder might be passed over entirely.
ET
116 JamesonLewis3rd // Feb 6, 2009 at 9:14 am
Birds of a feather, eh?
117 everthink // Feb 6, 2009 at 9:27 am
Redstate.com
“The San Francisco Chronicle was tsking the fellow for being “concerned about increased taxes - but hasn’t paid his own income taxes.â€
http://www.redstate.com/warner_todd_huston/2009/02/06/the-man-the-left-wants-hanged-for-tax-cheating/
Is this Joe the Plumber?
ET
118 everthink // Feb 6, 2009 at 10:08 am
Newsman,
Perhaps it would help if you were to understand these people don’t want you here!
It is as though you are trying to integrate their lunch counter.
They are hostile toward your god, your values and your view of the individual relationship to the state.
They are not looking for answers, let alone any suggestions offered by left wing, godless, pinko, homosexual loving, white hating communists!
For the most part, any exchange of ideas will be used to expose your inherent moral inferiority.
You need not only to come to Jesus, but to accept the Conservative views written on the “Golden Tablets” and delivered to the Prophet Ronald in the presence of Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, and Sun Myung Moon.
These views are broadcast daily by El Rusbo, exalted be his obese, drug enhanced, name.
Do you even listen to him? Well, what do you expect!
ET
119 Left Coast-Right Mind // Feb 6, 2009 at 10:45 am
mindknumbed kid
Re: #108
I guess I should be thankful for small favors. But give it time, I’m sure he’ll get to it eventually.
120 everthink // Feb 6, 2009 at 10:50 am
Whasup Gertrude!
121 Left Coast-Right Mind // Feb 6, 2009 at 10:53 am
President Bill Clinton helping to celebrate Henry “Hammerin’ Hank” Aaron’s 75th Birthday:
“We’re a different country now,†Clinton said, noting the racist letters that Aaron received while chasing Ruth’s mark of 715 homers, some even threatening to kill the black man if he broke a white hero’s record.
Don’t let the Revs. Jackson and Sharpton see this, or we’ll see poor ol’ ‘Slick Willy’ being chased down with a helicopter, shot with a tranquilizer dart, netted (just like Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom) and brought back onto the reservation.
Don’t let the (half) black man in the White House fool you, we’re still all a bunch of full-on racists.
wv: female place - and speaking of Bill Clinton…
122 R.A.M. // Feb 6, 2009 at 11:57 am
EverTiresome muttered:
“RAM,
My grandfather says he may have been incorrect when he told me they were Pelicans, he says maybe they were Seagulls after all.
Then, he told me to tell “Goofusâ€, even a broken watch is right twice a day!
He wants to know if you were in WWII too?
Then, he said to ask you how many times you have to get up at night.
You old guys, I’ll tell you …
ET”
Just like a lib, they can NEVER admit when they are wrong, they just say, “-he MAY have been incorrect-”, or that a person who doesn’t pay over $140K in OWED taxes simply made an “error”, well IF they are a Dim-o-rat, that is.
What was that you “left-loons” said about Bush never admitting his errors? You people are thick as a brick!
BL31U: Where is your indignation for e.t. and Gramps for his name calling?
Oh, right, that is ONLY for us on the opposite side of the aisle.
et: Thanks for the broken watch analogy because it fits Dims to a “T”, (although being right twice a day may be stretching it a bit!)
I bet you got that one from “Gramps” too because I believe Ben Franklin first used it. Did “Gramps” know him?
No, I was not in WWII, mine was the Vietnam era. My war was the one that people like you, (and PROBABLY your parents), rallied against, and spit on us for doing our duty to our Country. No welcome home for us like the WWII Vets. Ask “Gramps” if he has respect for Vietnam era Vets, would you?
Also ask “Gramps” for me, if he EVER admits when he is wrong, or if it is YOU that feels that way, and where did you get it from? That and the OBVIOUS lack of respect for old people? (I am not just talking about me, YOU said, “-You old guys, I’ll tell you …
ET”)
Please ask “Gramps” if he is proud of you? If he says “Yes”, then I am sure he is also a lib and has learned no “Wisdom” over the years.
Here’s one for you, “The A.C.O.R.N. doesn’t fall far from the tree.” Or in your case words like “Sapling” and “tree hugger” should be in there somewhere.
123 R.A.M. // Feb 6, 2009 at 12:20 pm
What an embarrassment that “PRESENTdential Address” was last night!
P.U., did that stink! I thought this guy was supposed to “look Presidential”? Pelosi does a better job of addressing the public, (all 500 million of them), and that is NOT a compliment!
After OBOMBA’s little speech, I now feel much better having my taxes go to “Social Engineering”, abortions for the whole world, A.C.O.R.N., and all other lib cause’s now!—NOT!!!
If you have a DVR, you can run the speech on 4X and it then makes more sense. O,BOMBA’s head goes back and forth so fast, that it looks like a still photo of “Barry” with a face facing straight ahead, as well as to the right and to the left, which is EXACTLY who Mr. Articulate, “ummmmh-ahhhhm”, is trying to sate, -EVERYBODY at the same time.
Let’s just call him, President “Be all things to all people”.
Here’s a clue “Barry”, TRY to look more Presidential during your next “Hip-hop summit”, if you want America to take you seriously, OK?
124 everthink // Feb 6, 2009 at 12:20 pm
RAM,
What’s all the noise about? Don’t you think maybe your a little overwrought?
Of course they were Seagulls! YOU WERE RIGHT ABOUT THAT, AND I WAS WRONG!
My grandfather has been dead for many years! I am likely older than you, and certainly a lot wiser!
World War II veterans, didn’t qualify as Experts with an M16.
I served 3 years in the Army. Blacklion31U is may son!
Are you NUTS?
ET
125 Newsman // Feb 6, 2009 at 12:21 pm
Hey Redpepper !
Quote me where I have called anyone here a ‘vile name’ !!!!!
I will listen and consider your viewpoint if you will talk to me without insulting me and calling me names, etc. Ridiculing those who do not agree with you is not the way to go !
===============
I understand everthink !
126 everthink // Feb 6, 2009 at 12:34 pm
By the way big shot,
I qualified as Expert with an M1 rifle, Carbine, and five times with 45 cal Pistol, cruit!
ET
127 gafisher // Feb 6, 2009 at 12:40 pm
RAM Re#123, “Great Communicator” Barry Sotero is pretty good at “convincing” people who already agree with him, and then only when he sticks to insubstantial and transient concepts like “Hope” and “Change,” but his ego just can’t handle the fact that most Americans disagree with him on specifics.
128 R.A.M. // Feb 6, 2009 at 12:40 pm
LC-RM: #121, VERY GOOD point! If you read other blog and columns by black Americans, it is EASY to see where they are politically after only a few words.
The “race baiter blacks” say things like, “Oh you whities think since a black President was elected that we are supposed to forget slavery now?” Most then start the vulgar language and accuse all whites of owning trailers, and marrying their sisters.
Then you have great Americans like Thomas Sowell who are intelligent enough to see how the Dems have. (and ALWAYS will), hold his race down by giving “just enough” to the ones who don’t want to work, and think they are “owed” something. Dems actually do this to ALL races, but take advantage of the “victim mentality” of blacks for past injustices. They also do this for blacks and illegals more because they want their votes.
That is why it is hard to understand why a TRUE race baiter would be satisfied with “Barry”, who is as much white as he is black!
Probably why a “full blooded black” like Je$$e wanted to be Obama’s “Surgeon”?
The bottom line is, the “victim mentality” blacks will NEVER be satisfied until they have it ALL, just as their “masters” the Dimocratic Party, who want it all too!
129 R.A.M. // Feb 6, 2009 at 1:09 pm
The proof is here for all to see!
ever-fib(keeping it nice), squawked:
“RAM,
What’s all the noise about? Don’t you think maybe your a little overwrought?
Of course they were Seagulls! YOU WERE RIGHT ABOUT THAT, AND I WAS WRONG!
My grandfather has been dead for many years! I am likely older than you, and certainly a lot wiser!
World War II veterans, didn’t qualify as Experts with an M16.
I served 3 years in the Army. Blacklion31U is may son!
Are you NUTS?
ET”
What a NUT you are!
Your Grandfather has been dead for many years? Then how did he “ask” you to “ask” me questions? Is your daughter “Miss Cleo”?
Man, you say I am overwrought, YOU “ain’t gonna” last 4 years of defending Barry, it has only been 17 days and you’re falling apart!
I don’t know, (and don’t care), how old you are but, you certainly are NOT wiser when in the short space of this thread you tell such an obvious lie, (grandpa asked me—-grandpa’s been dead for years), and then think we would believe ANYTHING you have to say from here forward.
“Blacklion31U is may son!”
I wish you had not told me this, I now have LESS respect for him because he attacks me for name calling, but not your name calling, and NOW we know why!
Who is your june son, july son?
I certainly do not need someone like YOU to tell me about military weapons. They had just changed over from the M-14 to the M-16 when I attended BCT.
I do NOT believe you EVER served your Country in ANY form. As for the obvious lies you just told, I doubt I will respond to ANYTHING you, your boy, or your grandpa, (via seance), have to say to me again!
I WILL however continue to point out the OBVIOUS and CONSTANT lies your “messiah” Barry tells until he is impeached or removed as the Usurper he is!
130 everthink // Feb 6, 2009 at 1:10 pm
“Oh you whities think since a black President was elected that we are supposed to forget slavery now?â€
That has not been my experience!
Do you have the “Stars and Bars” on the hood of your pick-up?
Do you often wear your bed sheet and Pointy Hat out in public?
Did I ever mention Barack Obama is my distant cousin? I was hoping for a seat at the family table at one of those Inaugural feeds?
Sad to say, my family actually “owned” slaves.
ET
131 R.A.M. // Feb 6, 2009 at 1:16 pm
Obama approval rating was 55% yesterday, down almost 25 points after only 16 days of being PRESENTdent.
This was BEFORE that moronic partisan speech last night.
I can’t wait to see the new approval rating. “Barry” may end up in NEGATIVE approval ratings like Gov. Blago did!
Americans, (even the “thick”, partisan ones), are starting to see their children and grandchildrens future is being wasted in this criminal “Stimulus” bill!
Time to get out the “tar and feathers”!
132 everthink // Feb 6, 2009 at 1:22 pm
RAM,
You say: ” No, I was not in WWII, mine was the Vietnam era.”
Did you actually serve in Vietnam?
Were you a rifleman? I sure hope the military made the most of an “Expert” like you.
ET
133 everthink // Feb 6, 2009 at 1:29 pm
“I can’t wait to see the new approval rating. “Barry†may end up in NEGATIVE approval ratings like Gov. Blago did!”
Say, Stephan Foster, don’t hold your breath!
Besides, I think you have seen your last Republican President anyway!
ET
134 RedPepper // Feb 6, 2009 at 1:29 pm
Newsman #125: I have not accused you of calling anyone a vile name, Newsman.
On this thread, all I’ve seen from you is complaints.
If you think that I have called you, or anyone else, a vile name, feel free to point out exactly where I did that.
I have seen a huge amount of offensive behavior here. I don’t recall it being directed at you. Maybe I missed it.
I don’t remember you making any special efforts to set a more civil tone here, either. But hey! … maybe I missed it …
135 R.A.M. // Feb 6, 2009 at 1:45 pm
RAM said in#129:
“I do NOT believe you EVER served your Country in ANY form. As for the obvious lies you just told, I doubt I will respond to ANYTHING you, your boy, or your grandpa, (via seance), have to say to me again!“
I did write this in ENGLISH, didn’t I?
136 everthink // Feb 6, 2009 at 2:00 pm
RAM,
Don’t go away mad! Oh’ well, it’s one less thing.
Of course, this doesn’t mean I won’t continue to address you, and to comment on your ignorant posts.
ET
137 R.A.M. // Feb 6, 2009 at 2:19 pm
Here is a direct quote from Obama at his “prayer breakfast”:
“There is no God who condones taking the life of an innocent human being. This much we know.”
FINALLY!!! Obama admits he, (and the pro abortion libs), are not gods!
138 R.A.M. // Feb 6, 2009 at 2:25 pm
More on Obama’s “troll like” gibberish here: http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=88107
Looks like we are in for 4 years of ignoring requests to explain taking EVERY side of EVERY issue.
As with the trolls here, when caught in a lie, they simply ignore it. Time to ignore them.
139 MajorDomo // Feb 6, 2009 at 2:38 pm
Poor Obummer. The sun’s already going out on his administration. He’s finding that the office he holds imposes responsibilities far greater than he is capable of handling. Even with a congress stacked in his favor, he finds it necessary to lash out at his opposition. He would stifle all opposition if he could, since he doesn’t know how to handle it. He makes Dubya look like a genius. The Obummer Ecollapse has occurred, and in the gathering darkness, the wheels are coming off. I’m concerned, for most people in this situation would become unstable. Got change?
Well, when we are stymied and don’t know what to do next, and Bush can’t be blamed, let’s change the subject and do something that gives us a positive image. Like meeting with 911 victims; or something like that. Yeah, that’s the ticket! The public will forget all about that one TRILLION additional debt I’m piling on them.
140 JamesonLewis3rd // Feb 6, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Some say BHO is losing control.
I say when did he ever have any?
141 everthink // Feb 6, 2009 at 2:45 pm
RAM,
“There is no God who condones taking the life of an innocent human being. This much we know.â€
He has said similar things many times during the campaign. You just couldn’t hear him over the “Drill Baby Drill”chant, or maybe you wanted to hear “Joe the Plumber” rather than listen to Obama.
ET
142 everthink // Feb 6, 2009 at 2:54 pm
“He makes Dubya look like a genius.”
Nooo body, but nooo body, could make Dumbyah look like a genius, or even “Smarter Than A Fifth Grader”.
Just you watch! Looks like we may have two Repugs already!
ET
143 BlackLion31U // Feb 6, 2009 at 3:09 pm
RAM,
You’ve threatened to ignore us trolls so many times, I wish you would finally follow through. For you benefit though…Please ET stop calling RAM names. He did qualify expert ya know?
“There were more Marksman awards in my BCT class than Expert, but with you libs, you really don’t have to EARN anything now, do you?”
Really RAM? Seems to me that if the Army were giving away expert badges, toppling one of the worlds largest armys might have taken a little long than ONE HUNDRED HOURS!!!!
Were you one of the dudes who were given the choice; go to jail or go into the Army? That might explain the low level of achievement in your “BCT”. But like I said before, if that’s the highest award you got on that 214, I don’t want to go makin no fun of it. You keep rockin hard sniper guy.
Luv ya, mean it
144 R.A.M. // Feb 6, 2009 at 3:09 pm
It appears that the job OBOMBA is in, (and doing a MISERABLE job at), truly is “above his pay grade”!
While I laugh, it truly is sad for America and our children!
wv: Parry Neversink I think we should use this new name for the troll.
145 BlackLion31U // Feb 6, 2009 at 3:12 pm
By the way, did you ever make it to the combat zone or were they careful to limit your handling of a weapon to just “BCT”?
146 R.A.M. // Feb 6, 2009 at 3:13 pm
Post 143: The “holier than thou” mask comes off yet another lib.
Were you been BL, daddy just wake you up?
Son of Parry Neversink.
147 BlackLion31U // Feb 6, 2009 at 3:15 pm
If you did actually make it into combat, please tell me they gave you your full issue of rounds and you were’nt limited to one round to be kept in your breast pocket.
148 everthink // Feb 6, 2009 at 3:21 pm
“Were you been BL, daddy just wake you up?
He were talkin’ to grandpa, Goofus!
ET
149 R.A.M. // Feb 6, 2009 at 3:21 pm
#145, Do you mean like the combat Al Gore saw from behind his typewriter?
Funny how to a lib, you first have to have served, then if you served, it had to be in combat, then if you served in combat, you had to get a “Purple Heart”, then if you got a “Purple Heart”, (a REAL one not the fake ones like Kerry got), you STILL have to be a lib.
Glad to find out you are as worthless as your daddy and “gramps”.
Do you get asked questions by dead people like your dad everstink?
150 Just Ranting // Feb 6, 2009 at 3:24 pm
I’ve been Scrappling on this site for a number of years now. I used to be drawn to this site for Scott’s clever satire but also for the talented and often quite clever discourse of the Scrapplers who frequented the site. Lately the populace of Scrappledom seems far to eager to snipe at each other like the Bumpus hounds over a Christmas turkey leg.
There were times when denizens of Scrappledom put some thought into their discourse. How I miss the Great Santini’s song parodies, and Mr RWs’ stories from the farm and her take off on the Brair Rabbit tales.
Alas, we are left to pick through troll sniping so foul that it makes Rambutan’s screeds seem like the Lincoln/Douglas debates.
Regardless of where you stand on an issue please take some time to self edit. If your comment is a personal attack on another Scrappler please don’t bother to post it. It might make you feel better, but frankly, nobody else wants to read it. I’m sure Scott gets tired of having to edit tasteless comments as well. He has better things to do with his time.
151 R.A.M. // Feb 6, 2009 at 3:26 pm
He were talkin’ to grandpa, Goofus!
ET
Sorry, I was cleaning my M-16 A1, Doofus!
152 R.A.M. // Feb 6, 2009 at 3:29 pm
Just Ranting: Sorry, you are right. I will stop. Thank you for being the voice of reason.
153 RedPepper // Feb 6, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Just Ranting # 150: You know that something has gone terribly wrong when you find yourself getting nostalgic about Ranbutan !
154 Ms RightWing, Ink // Feb 6, 2009 at 4:50 pm
Just Ranting
I would love to go back to the day. I miss writing the Brer stories but this site has become a real place to be slapped around by those who feel like bellyaching about past presidents.
A little happiness goes a long way
155 JamesonLewis3rd // Feb 6, 2009 at 4:57 pm
Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you. ~~ 1John 3:13
They won’t let me have weapons. But that’s okay.
I’m well-armed.
Almighty God Himself has already prepared a victory banquet for me and the rest of the brethren—it’s a done deal. Hallelu Yah!
Matthew 6:25-34
156 JamesonLewis3rd // Feb 6, 2009 at 5:01 pm
“The whole point, Mr. President, is to enact tax cuts and spending measures that truly stimulate the economy,†McCain said. “There are billions and tens of billions of dollars in this bill which will have no effect within three, four, five or more years, or ever. Or ever.â€
157 JamesonLewis3rd // Feb 6, 2009 at 5:32 pm
According to Pelosi, the amount of borrowed money being flushed down the toilet is nowhere near astronomical enough.
Please, forgive the obsessive/compulsive, rapid-fire posting of comments.
158 everthink // Feb 6, 2009 at 6:07 pm
More than all else, the fine citizens of Scrappledom yearn to go back to the days before November 3rd. But, alas, we crude denizens will not allow them to languish in such a foolishness.
ET
159 everthink // Feb 6, 2009 at 6:12 pm
Dang it! I screwed it up again! Give the monkey a crayon!
ET
160 RedPepper // Feb 6, 2009 at 6:12 pm
JL3 #157: Right. What is the cure for a debt-induced financial crisis?
A. Even more debt!
Reminds me of the people who used to swear that you could cure a hangover with “the hair of the dog that bit you” … i.e. have another drink!
As I recall, it didn’t cure any hangovers, but it was a sure-fire way to stay drunk !
161 everthink // Feb 6, 2009 at 6:19 pm
RedPepper,
Ever heard of a back fire? It doesn’t have anything to do with economics, but then neither does booze.
ET
162 R.A.M. // Feb 6, 2009 at 6:45 pm
Officials say tentative stimulus deal reached (AP)
AP - Amid stunning new job losses and yet another bank failure, key senators and the White House reached tentative agreement Friday night on an economic stimulus measure at the heart of President Barack Obama’s recovery plan. Two officials said the emerging agreement was for a bill with a $780 billion price tag, but there was no immediate confirmation.
Apparently “Barry” has used his hypnotic powers on enough R.I.N.O.’s to get his partisan bill passed.
Good luck getting reelected morons!
Funny, I didn’t see any story in the A.P. about “Hussein” signing that Executive Order withdrawing charges against the mastermind of the U.S. Cole bombing.
We told you he was a MUSLIM!
http://www.blogrunner.com/snapshot/D/8/4/president_obama_likely_to_order_military_commission_charges_dropped_against_terrorist_suspect_alnashiri_friday/
163 RedPepper // Feb 6, 2009 at 6:55 pm
R.A.M. #162: O cannot possibly be a Muslim.
Muslims hate pork.
/s
164 BlackLion31U // Feb 6, 2009 at 6:58 pm
RAM, #151,
Takin’ all this stuff really personal aren’t you? What would you be cleaning an M16 for. We know you only got one round in yer pocket so why would it need cleaning.
165 BlackLion31U // Feb 6, 2009 at 7:05 pm
RAM,
Somehow I picture you as Larry the Cable Guy in “Delta Farce”. Am I close?
166 mindknumbed kid // Feb 6, 2009 at 8:21 pm
Here is my analysis of where Barry-O’s problems lie in regard to approval ratings. If John McCain had won the election conservatives such as ourselves would have been unenthusiastic, just as we would have been with Bush were it not for his handling of national security. Why? Because they are not conservatives! Who is it that Obama appeals to? The hard left moveon types and the tingly legged media. They are the only ones that are euphoric when it comes to him. Their expectations are for him to govern from the far left. As it becomes more and more apparent that he is not able to govern the way they are expecting him to govern, the euphoria will dwindle. I think though with McCain the conservatives had little or no expectation that he would do much that thrilled them, Obama on the other hand seems to have the hard lefties eagerly anticipating their vision of what “change” means. We are so polarized that it would take someone greater than Reagan to have and maintain unanimous approval over an extended period of time.
167 Left Coast-Right Mind // Feb 6, 2009 at 8:22 pm
On his second day in Washington, President-elect Obama met with his budget team and promised no earmarks will be in the stimulus plan.
“We are going to ban all earmarks — the process by which individual members insert pet projects without review,” he explained. “We will create an economic recovery oversight board made up of key administration officials and independent advisors to identify problems early and make sure we are doing all we can to solve it.”
$50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts
$380 million in the Senate bill for the Women, Infants and Children program
$300 million for grants to combat violence against women
$2 billion for federal child-care block grants
$6 billion for university building projects
$15 billion for boosting Pell Grant college scholarships
$4 billion for job-training programs, including $1.2 billion for “youths†up to the age of 24
$1 billion for community-development block grants
$4.2 billion for “neighborhood stabilization activitiesâ€
$650 million for digital-TV coupons; $90 million to educate “vulnerable populationsâ€
$15 billion for business-loss carry-backs
$145 billion for “Making Work Pay†tax credits
$83 billion for the earned income credit
$150 million for the Smithsonian
$34 million to renovate the Department of Commerce headquarters
$500 million for improvement projects for National Institutes of Health facilities
$44 million for repairs to Department of Agriculture headquarters
$350 million for Agriculture Department computers
$88 million to help move the Public Health Service into a new building
$448 million for constructing a new Homeland Security Department headquarters
$600 million to convert the federal auto fleet to hybrids
$450 million for NASA (carve-out for “climate-research missionsâ€)
$600 million for NOAA (carve-out for “climate modelingâ€)
$1 billion for the Census Burea
$89 billion for Medicaid
$30 billion for COBRA insurance extension
$36 billion for expanded unemployment benefits
$20 billion for food stamps
$4.5 billion for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
$850 million for Amtrak
$87 million for a polar icebreaking ship
$1.7 billion for the National Park System
$55 million for Historic Preservation Fund
$7.6 billion for “rural community advancement programsâ€
$150 million for agricultural-commodity purchases
$150 million for “producers of livestock, honeybees, and farm-raised fishâ€
$2 billion for renewable-energy research ($400 million for global-warming research)
$2 billion for a “clean coal†power plant in Illinois
$6.2 billion for the Weatherization Assistance Program
$3.5 billion for energy-efficiency and conservation block grants
$3.4 billion for the State Energy Program
$200 million for state and local electric-transport projects
$300 million for energy-efficient-appliance rebate programs
$400 million for hybrid cars for state and local governments
$1 billion for the manufacturing of advanced batteries
$1.5 billion for green-technology loan guarantees
$8 billion for innovative-technology loan-guarantee program
$2.4 billion for carbon-capture demonstration projects
$4.5 billion for electricity grid
$79 billion for State Fiscal Stabilization Fund
If my math is right, that’s $585,025,000,000 that is required to be approved immediately in order to keep our economy from collapsing beyond its ability to recover.
168 RedPepper // Feb 6, 2009 at 8:29 pm
Continuing his string of impressive personnel picks, Barack Obama has named Jeffrey Immelt to his new economic advisory board.
Yeah, that Jeffrey Immelt. The guy who did for G.E. stockholders what Bernard Madoff did for philanthropic investors!
This just gets better … and better … and …
169 R.A.M. // Feb 6, 2009 at 9:09 pm
Wow, not even the end of the 18th day of the Obooba residency, and his approval ratings have dropped lower than ANY President in history after the same period of time.
With the former lib losers Carter and Clinton, that is quite a feat!
It’s going to be fun watching his lib loon adorer’s here self implode!
Yeah Red Pepper, Immelt is a lot like Obama. He hated our troops so much, he continued to trade with Iran while they were sending weapons to kill our troops with until VERY recently, or maybe still does?
Has Obooba picked a Surgeon General yet? If not maybe he will pick “Tiller the baby killer”?
170 Left Coast-Right Mind // Feb 6, 2009 at 9:50 pm
So, applying the Dems economic stimulus plan to my own life, I’d need to max out all my credit cards, take a 2nd (and possibly 3rd) mortgage out on my house and as many lines of credit as I can get. Then use all that “money” to buy things that are completely worthless to my current personal situation. After doing that, I should be wealthy beyond imagination within a few short years.
Update:
Democratic leaders hail $780B stimulus deal
A group of Democratic and Republican senators reached a tentative agreement on Friday night for a roughly $780 billion economic stimulus package. As debate continued into the evening, Democratic leaders hailed the compromise, which trimmed the nearly $900 billion Senate bill, and credited the role played by GOP Sens. Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe and Arlen Specter.
As if we’re surprised about these three RINO’s. The hope now is that they (and any other “Republicans” that vote for it) are hung out to dry, then tossed out of office at their next election.
171 mindknumbed kid // Feb 6, 2009 at 10:10 pm
And these Washington creeps think they are superior to business leaders and dare to tell them how to run their companies…
172 R.A.M. // Feb 6, 2009 at 10:39 pm
LC-RM: It would have been 4 R.I.N.O.’s but, Lincoln Chafee was already booted by the voters in his State.
MKK: Obama ALSO had the audacity to “cap” bailout CEO’s salery at $500K. I would be fine with this if politicians would stop taking their automatic raises too, and if Obama would stop eating $100 a pound steak and turn that dang thermostat down!
Mine’s at 70 degrees and my gas bill I got today was for $341.00 for one month, for a two bedroom/ one bath house. That is the same as my half year property taxes!
I can’t afford to turn it up!
But, on the bright side, it was 52 degrees today, and forecast is for 40’s and 50’s the next 3 or 4 days.
That should get rid of even most of the piled up snow!
173 JamesonLewis3rd // Feb 6, 2009 at 10:40 pm
von Humboldt (seeing a newspaper containing slanderous falsehoods against Jefferson on the President’s desk) : Why do you not have the fellow hung who dares to write these abominable lies?
Jefferson : What! hang the guardians of the public morals? No, sir, — rather would I protect the spirit of freedom which dictates even that degree of abuse. Put that paper into your pocket, my good friend, carry it with you to Europe, and when you hear any one doubt the reality of American freedom, show them that paper, and tell them where you found it.
Humboldt : But is it not shocking that virtuous characters should be defamed?
Jefferson : Let their actions refute such libels. Believe me, virtue is not long darkened by the clouds of calumny; and the temporary pain which it causes is infinitely overweighed by the safety it insures against degeneracy in the principles and conduct of public functionaries. When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
174 JamesonLewis3rd // Feb 7, 2009 at 8:09 am
I see that BHO and his entourage were out clubbing again last night.
[ cut to crummy phone-cam video close-up of the POTUS slinging beads of sweat while he furiously plays the fiddle louder and louder ]
175 R.A.M. // Feb 7, 2009 at 11:06 am
Does anyone know if the three R.I.N.O. Senators that sold out to Obama, Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe and Arlen Specter, were part of the 6 Republican Senators who were wined and dined on Wagu steak and cocktails by the big “O”?
If America survives this “Stimulus pork bill”, I predict it will hurt America so bad that NONE of the morons that voted for it will EVER be re-elected to ANY office again!
Citizens should rise up and picket ALL of these politicans houses 24/7!
If libs can “camp out” and protest at politicians houses they don’t agree with, then so should we.
The left even goes so far as to scare women and children at their own homes and Church’s. When the right does it, they are usually subject to arrest.
176 R.A.M. // Feb 7, 2009 at 11:14 am
JL3: That is at least the second time in 18 days as Prez he has imbibed. I know he admitted to doing, “a little blow”, but it seems he is also a drunken lush.
How wonderful that the “Party Prez” can party like a college kid while our economy falls apart.
Isn’t it time for him to take another vacation? It has been almost a month since his last one.
This time the vacation site for “Hussein” will probably be Mecca.
177 gafisher // Feb 7, 2009 at 12:00 pm
R.A.M. Re#175: “I predict it will hurt America so bad that NONE of the morons that voted for it will EVER be re-elected to ANY office again!”
I remain unconvinced. With even one Republican on board the Bill will be called “Bipartisan.” When it fails, as even Congress’ own CBO predicts, Democrats will proclaim far and wide how the failure ensued only because, being “Bipartisan,” it was watered-down by the Republicans. The Fannie/Freddy debacle is just one of many past examples of this behavior.
God bless the House Republicans for standing tall; why the RNC doesn’t pull the Party credentials from RINOs is beyond me.
178 onlineanalyst // Feb 7, 2009 at 12:05 pm
Good day, comrades!
Dear Leader already has a three-day vacation lined up to be in Chicago for Presidents’ Weekend. He’ll be scouting for some waffles to accompany the pork in the Pelosi-Destroy-American-Capitalism Bill (written solely by her henchmen heading assorted House committees. Of course, this effort of crafting legislation flies in the face of representative government, but what is a serf to do when the State controls its citizens and their means of generating wealth?)
I guess that the First Family needs a break from all of the pressures of the fawning press. Air Force One is revved up and ready to send them to the Land of Neighborhood Peeps.
179 gafisher // Feb 7, 2009 at 12:19 pm
JL3 Re#173: “Let their actions refute such libels.”
I suspect one reason many on the left revere the name and a perception of Thomas Jefferson is that he predates the concept of the Große Lüge, Goebbels’ “Big Lie” strategy. Here’s a quote from the OSS’ profile of Goebbels’ boss; see if it fits anyone you can think of:
180 everthink // Feb 7, 2009 at 12:37 pm
I know! I know! I know!
Is it George W. (Dumbyah) Bush?
What did I win? Where can I pick up my prize?
ET
181 R.A.M. // Feb 7, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Check Scott out on the panel of PJTV. It is very good!
http://www.pjtv.com/?cmd=video&media-id=4593&video-id=1333&video-title=Ott%2C_Green%2C_and_Emmanuel%3A_Silencing_Rush%2C_O%27Reilly%2C_and_PTJV%3F_And_President_Obama%27s_Spending_Surge&series-name=PJTV_Daily_
If the link doesn’t work, go to http://www.pjtv.com and scroll down to Scott Ott.
182 everthink // Feb 7, 2009 at 1:04 pm
gafisher,
I bet you have whole library of Limbaugh podcasts,
so you can listen to him anytime you’re not posting some of his porky drug affected blather here.
ET
183 everthink // Feb 7, 2009 at 1:26 pm
RAM,
“Mine’s at 70 degrees and my gas bill I got today was for $341.00 for one month, for a two bedroom/ one bath house.”
Well, no wonder your always in such a snit! That’s three times my air conditioning cost, but then I do spend a lot of time at the pool ogling. (Well, what do you want from me, I am a Democrat, after all!)
President Obama plans to discard Count Cheney’s “Secret Energy Plan” in favor of a new Green Energy Plan. I believe there will also be relief for those who are hard pressed by the Bush Depression.
Democrats Feel Your Pain!
ET
184 Left Coast-Right Mind // Feb 7, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Fairness Doctrine
Conflict of interest? What conflict of interest? Just because Sen. Stabenow’s husband (Tom Athans) has been an instrumental figure in three liberal talk radio companies (Democracy Radio, Air America and TalkUSA) that couldn’t and can’t seem to compete in the free market, doesn’t mean that getting the government involved to “level the playing field” is the agenda.
Sounds a lot like the U.S. Post Office whining about how e-mail and instant messaging programs are negating the need for people to send letters to their friends and families, and that the solution is for the government to get involved and put a tax on every electronic communique in order to make it fair.
Whoops! I just posted on a blogsite. Got to put a nickel in the jar so I can help buy that $87 million polar ice-breaking ship that will stimulate the economy and sail to where there isn’t any ice to break because the poles are melting.
185 upnorthlurkin // Feb 7, 2009 at 1:38 pm
I see the scum from the bottom of the DU pond is still here polluting our pool….
Totally OT, from a grateful Iraqi physician, this made me smile. (Yup, from that unwinnable war l’il hussein never voted for or against since he wasn’t yet in the Senate.)
186 everthink // Feb 7, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Cheney In Slammer?
In March, voters in two Vermont towns — Marlboro and Brattleboro — passed symbolic articles seeking to arrest President Bush and Vice President Cheney if they ever came to their towns. These citizens may now get their chance. The American Museum of Fly Fishing in Manchester (approximately 50 miles from the two towns) was reportedly planning to honor Cheney at its annual dinner next month.
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/06/cheney-arrest-vermont/
187 everthink // Feb 7, 2009 at 2:48 pm
“Yup, from that unwinnable war l’il hussein never voted for or against since he wasn’t yet in the Senate.”
How can you say we won anything? What did the United States win? Look at the cost of our engagement! Largely, we had to pay starving Shiites to stop killing our troops and to fight Al Qaeda in Iraq, a group created because we invaded Iraq in the first place, then wait until we leave before killing the minority Sunnis!
Maybe, we should have just provided “footballs” of military aid to Iran directly, and kept our sons and daughters on the hunt for Osama.
The winner is Iran, and they wished to thank the “Great Satan”, but he left the White House before they had the chance. Then again, he wasn’t speaking to them anyway!
ET
188 JamesonLewis3rd // Feb 7, 2009 at 3:19 pm
The mention of the so-called “Fairness Doctrine” always reminds me of a psychotic mash-up of A Clockwork Orange and 1984 played out on the abandoned set of Metropolis.
189 Left Coast-Right Mind // Feb 7, 2009 at 3:49 pm
JamesonLewis3rd
Re: #188
Sorry to bring up such distasteful images. I just find it intriguing that the very same people who cry ‘fascism’ at the drop of a hat and duct tape their mouths shut in protest marches directed at Republicans and/or Conservatives are in favor of such governmental intrusion into speech. Apparently, only the ‘right’ speech needs to be stifled.
And if those on the left side of the aisle can’t get speech that agrees with their views from The New York Times, The LA Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The Seattle Times, The Denver Post, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, MSNBC, CNN, DemocratUnderground.com, DailyKos.com and other outlets in print, television and internet media, talk radio isn’t going to help much either.
190 everthink // Feb 7, 2009 at 4:28 pm
Of course I was referring to the “Mahdi Army”, lest you think I am a very old Senator from the west!
ET
191 JamesonLewis3rd // Feb 7, 2009 at 6:37 pm
Fourth-hand rumor: BHO idolator/spokeswoman, the renowned Leftist Cher, admitted to CNSNews.com that living under Republican rule almost “killed” her, and she does not understand why anyone would want to be a Republican.
The Bible explains it, concisely, down to the molecular level. Jeremiah 33:3.
192 everthink // Feb 7, 2009 at 7:05 pm
“The Bible explains it, concisely, down to the molecular level. Jeremiah 33:3.”
That verse has been called “God’s phone number”.
It tells Who holds the answer. It invites the seeker to ask for Divine guidance, and it promises God will answer. But, it does not explain anything, molecular level or not.
Unless, of course, you are saying Dumbyah is the Everlasting One. That’s not what you’re saying is it?
ET
193 Fred Sinclair // Feb 7, 2009 at 7:24 pm
I like Rush’s name for it -”Porkulus” My “senators” Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow, with the help of our Canadian Governor, Jennifer Granholm have remade Michigan into a shining example (model) of what they intend to help the usurper remake all of America into a new third world country.
Economically, Michigan now ranks #50 on the list of our 50 states. The good news is that the usurper’s popularity rating is dropping like a boat anchor, cut loose. There’s a chance (better than no chance at all) that the “Porkulus” bill will be defeated as many Democrat Senators are learning that a vote for the bill could be political suicide. They may be liberals but they’re not stupid - (Ronald Reagan said so).
194 Left Coast-Right Mind // Feb 7, 2009 at 7:55 pm
Biden Urges Passage of Stimulus Despite Voter Backlash
Vice President Joe Biden acknowledged today that Democrats could face political repercussions in 2010 for their support of the $900 billion economic stimulus package.
Wait wait wait…I thought this bill was what we need right now. How could there be any backlash?
“If we do everything right… there’s still a 30 percent chance we’re going to get it wrong.†- Vice President Joe Biden
If Joe keeps this up, he may not see the light of day again for a long, long time. This isn’t Texas Hold ‘Em…if/when we get a bad beat on that 30% and we’re ‘All-in’…there’s no coming back next year to try again.
But in the immortal words of Rep. David Obey (D - WI), “So what?”.
195 everthink // Feb 7, 2009 at 9:03 pm
From 911 to Iraq and Afghanistan, to Global Warming, Climate Change and Katrina , to Wall Street, Banking and Real Estate Values; Dumbyah has painted us into a corner at his every opportunity.
We did, at least, manage to keep Republicans from “privatizing Social Security!
Now, the “rubber stamp” party of Dumbyah wants to help with this financial crisis.
A. If we do nothing we will lose.
B. “If we do everything right… there’s still a 30 percent chance we’re going to get it wrong.†- Vice President Joe Biden
C. If Republicans are given a chance they’ll give us more of the same, because they believe the economy is “fundamentally sound”.
Forget them!
ET
196 MajorDomo // Feb 7, 2009 at 9:46 pm
Good advice, ET. Now take your own advice and scram. Repeating the same stuff over and over doesn’t work with thinking people here in scrappledom. Please! Take it somewhere else.
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Please! Take it somewhere else.
197 Left Coast-Right Mind // Feb 7, 2009 at 10:03 pm
Whew! What a night. Just got back from organizing my community by stapling ‘lost dog’ and ‘garage sale’ posters to telephone poles. That should cover the job requirements for my Presidential resumé when I run in 2012.
wv: $92,989 visit - the bill for inviting a few ‘friends’ over to the house for $100/lb. beef appetizers and a few cocktails.
198 Newsman // Feb 7, 2009 at 10:10 pm
“…thinking people here in scrappledom”
Really ??? Where ???
199 R.A.M. // Feb 7, 2009 at 10:31 pm
I really hate to think all Dimocrats are liars, (even if it always seems that way), so I got to thinking about ’speaker’ Pelosi’s comment about 500 million Americans losing their jobs. Maybe those “extra” 200 million Americans are in those other 7+ States O-BOOB-a spoke of?
I wonder what she pays for those red dresses of hers. Whatever it is, it is WAY too much!
She should have left them at the “Bunny Ranch”.
I am no longer a betting man, but if I was, I would bet this attack on Pigloser will be responded to with an attack on Sarah Palin now.
Libs are such copy cats. Or is that copy RATS?
200 R.A.M. // Feb 7, 2009 at 10:34 pm
Newsman // Feb 7, 2009 at 10:10 pm
“…thinking people here in scrappledomâ€
Really ??? Where ???
Well, don’t look in the mirror, you won’t find any there.
201 R.A.M. // Feb 7, 2009 at 11:13 pm
Read this part of the “Stimulus Bill” which will deny Christian students from using renovated buildings funded from the stimulus,
Thanks to those great “Christians” Obama and Pelosi’
For the children ‘Nan’, but only the secular ones-right?
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=88178
202 mindknumbed kid // Feb 8, 2009 at 12:17 am
Is the destruction of our nation a prerequisite for the establishment of a new and improved global government? If so, we are just about 75% there when this porkulus bill takes effect. Don’t worry, they can blame Bush.
203 everthink // Feb 8, 2009 at 12:28 am
Majordumo,
I was just trying to find away to speak to the Republican base in the way are accustomed.
“See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.” George W. Bush - May, 2005
ET
204 everthink // Feb 8, 2009 at 12:44 am
Somehow, you people here make me feel like a rodent in a Salmonella peanut butter plant!
ET
205 Fred Sinclair // Feb 8, 2009 at 1:25 am
My #193 - misquote on my part. Ronald Reagan didn’t say liberals weren’t stupid (they are) he said - corrected quote - “liberals aren’t ignorant, it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.”
So they aren’t ignorant - they’re learned. Sort of intelligently stupid. Yeah that works. Stupid on purpose; irrespective of the facts.
You’ve got to hand it to the libbers - I don’t think there is a single instance on record, where the libbers have ever allowed a hard fact to interfere with one of their pre conceived agendas. In that, at least they’re consistent.
The fact that by Mark Steyn’s figures (that I trust - he documents his figures) the Porkulous Bill contains 93% PORK and only 7% that might be considered “stimulous”.
There is nothing on planet earth that can compare with a dedicated Marxist who is determined to remake America into a Socialist State in the face of THE FACT that in spite of the many, many attempts, there is not even one single example where socialism has ever “worked” - excepting for short term at the point of a gun (which is their only reason to seek the outlawing of firearms). In Russia over 20 million citizens were murdered trying to implement Socialism.
But, in face of the facts, the intelligently stupid, continue in their quest for their impossible Utopia.
Sorry enough, it will eventually (sooner or later) come to Americans involving themselves in a modern day civil war. To stop them from converting America into a modern day U.S.S.R.
206 everthink // Feb 8, 2009 at 3:03 am
Well Fred,
It seems that the Bush Administration, a choice which Conservatives were willing to fix an election to put in office, surely has left this country in a mell of a hess.
At the very least, you folks certainly didn’t seem to make much of an effort to keep him from doing anything. If fact, to this day you will fight to your last illogical breath to defend his actions.
Now, you think you have a better idea. Well, the people have decided you don’t!
You can throw around all the hyperbole you like, but Clinton seems to have left America in much better shape, and the country has endured Conservative nonsense long enough.
“Sorry enough, it will eventually (sooner or later) come to Americans involving themselves in a modern day civil war.” God forbid such a thing, but should it come, Col. Custer you will be surprized at how many Indians there really are.
Mr. Wise Christian Patriot, you really need to quit inciting riot and insurrection!!
ET
207 JamesonLewis3rd // Feb 8, 2009 at 7:20 am
Call unto Me, and I do answer thee, yea, I declare to thee great and fenced things — thou hast not known them. ~~ Jeremiah 33:3
This “call,” if heartfelt, will direct the “caller” (in my original context, Pelosi) to the Bible, which, in fact, explains literally everything, concisely, down to the molecular level [and beyond].
208 gafisher // Feb 8, 2009 at 7:24 am
Like their messiah, the O-bots are still in “campaign mode,” trying to throw blame for Democrat failures everywhere else instead of stepping up to the plate and doing something to move the country forward.
Let’s see some Hope and Change instead of the continuous moaning over past losses.
209 gafisher // Feb 8, 2009 at 7:30 am
Re#204: “Somehow, you people here make me feel like a rodent in a Salmonella peanut butter plant!”
Good start! Only 11 steps to go!
210 Newsman // Feb 8, 2009 at 9:58 am
Absolutely mindknumbed kid. It was under GW’s watch of eight years that the country has gone to pot !
211 R.A.M. // Feb 8, 2009 at 12:14 pm
That’s nothing ’slanted’ newsman, in less than 3 weeks under Obama, America has gone to crack.
Scrapplers, I am starting a “Obama’s ignorant quotes” in honor of e.t.. Help me show him that Obama will soon pass GWB’s gaffs in only his first few months! Here is a start:
Obama told a Portland, Oregon crowd that Iran doesn’t “pose a serious threat to us†— cluelessly arguing that “tiny countries†with small defense budgets can’t do us harm — and then promptly flip-flopped the next day, claiming, “I’ve made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave.â€
Obama’s flipflops make John Kerry, and the Clintons look like Saints!
The ones that absolutely disgust me though are the ones when he “claims” to be a Christian and that he is against “the killing of innocent life”, then signs Executive Orders overturning bans on giving tax dollars to fund other nations abortions and to sign the Freedom of Choice Act making abortions legal for ANY REASON!
Pitiful!!! GOD has a place in hell for Obama, AND his defenders), unless they REPENT!
That is when you will experience real ‘Global Warming’!
PS: algore needs to be banned from ALL grade schools and to keep his lying mouth shut. That or sued for telling our children to not listen to their parents but only to him or other ‘misguided’ libs!
212 Newsman // Feb 8, 2009 at 1:03 pm
Gee RAM, you say “in less than 3 weeks under Obama, America has gone to crack.” I hadn’t noticed that all was so peachy keen under GWB’s eight years running the show, and neither did some 3000+ of our young men in Iraq now quite dead, nevermind the 30,000 plus now minus arms, legs and other bodily parts, all for the sake of WMDs that weren’t there and a countryside with no Al Quaeda to be found prior to GW’s “well planned” invasion. So well planned that some 4 plus years later the place still is all screwed up ! And zillions of our dollars have gone down an open muslim sewer.
Meanwhile things are going to pot in Afghanistan, which is where all our military effort should have been expended since the get go after 9/11 ! That is where the real enemy always has been located ! Now we are short of the military manpower that is really needed to do the job there ! And our equipment is falling apart. Nice show GW !
213 R.A.M. // Feb 8, 2009 at 1:18 pm
50 MILLION dead babies probably want to know why “Barry” wants even more of them dead newsman. They, (unlike our brave soldiers), didn’t sign up to risk their lives, like our troops did.
Why don’t people like YOU let our troops and the family’s of the ones who died fighting an enemy, (who’s side libs take), speak for them?
“Barry’s” not providing a VALID birth certificate can NOW be challenged in court since he is deploying more troops to Afghanistan. All it will take is any soldier, (ordered deployed by Barry,that now has standing), to ask he PROVE he is not a usurper.
Before, it was thrown out because of that reason.
Not anymore. Say goodbye to your idol/messiah!
214 R.A.M. // Feb 8, 2009 at 1:27 pm
Maybe you libs will come back, (after one of the terrorists that Obama releases then attacks America and kills hundreds, thousands, or God forbid, MILLIONS), and defend Barry/messiah then?
If ANY of you were actually in the military, was the oath you took to defend this Country, “Just Words”, (as Obama says), or is it that you are now on the “side of the world”, as REAL American Patriot’s suspect?
Nevermind, it is a trick question.
215 R.A.M. // Feb 8, 2009 at 1:33 pm
#204: PLEASE, -eat your fill!
216 onlineanalyst // Feb 8, 2009 at 2:32 pm
from The Foundry (Blog.Heritage.org)
” Defending his plan, Obama told Democrats: ‘(We) are not going to get relief by turning back to the same politicies that for the last eight years doubled the national debt and threw our economy into a tailspin.”… Seriously, where has Obama been th elast eight years?
“What does he think got us into this mess? Where does he think those deficits came from?…
“After eight years under President Bush, the federal government is taking in $400 billion more a year in revenue…
“In 2000 the federal government spent just $1.8 trillion. Now the CBO estimates that the feds will spend almost double that, $3,5 trillion, in 2009 (and that does not inclue Obama’s Trillion Dollar Debt Plan).
“Combining the increased $400 billion in revenue with the $1.7 trillion increase in spending, we see that the mountains of debt Obama is whining about inheriting all came from massive increases in federal spending.
“It was borrowing and spending that got us into this mess. Obama’s Trillion Dollar Debt Plan is not a ‘change from Bush; it is Bushonomics on steroids.”
***
I do not believe that you will find any conservative Republican who thought that Bush is/was fiscally conservative.
A huge portion of the budget grew in entitlement programs as Bush reached out in bipartisanship. The expansion of Medicare Part D and provisions in No Child Left Behind were the handiwork of Democrat imput, especially Ted Kennedy’s. Education, SCHIP programs, and veterans’ funding grew under Bush. However, because it did not mushroom as much as the Dems preferred, the party of perpetual whiners claimed that these were cuts.
Democrats took the majority in Congress since the 2006 elections. Congress controls the purse strings.
Now take a look at the point when the economy began to tank. Add in the overleveraged investment shenanigans with bundled mortgage packages, and the bubble was inevitably going to burst. Between the do-goodism of the Community Re-Investment Act (Thank you, Carter and Clinton) , the aggressiveness of ACORN in forcing banks to provide mortgages that at any sane time in the housing industry would have been redlined, and the crookedness of Raines, Gorelick, Frank, Dodd, and Johnston: Voila! Collapsed credit and economy.
The Obama-Pelosi-Reid Bill is not a stimulus bill. Very little is dedicated toward the creation of jobs, and many of those are time-limited. This Porkulous Pig Fest is political payback and income redistribution.
The money to pay for this nonsense will be borrowed (probably from China) so that the working poor will buy more junk (probably produced in China). The money given as rebates will not stimulate our economy to grow it through savings or investment. It will neither save nor create jobs. The poor do not create jobs.
More dollars will be printed; our currency will be inflated to the point of valuelessness.
Obama won the election. It’s time for him to man up and tune in to the wisdom of non-Keynesian economists and the lessons of history.
Japan learned them in the 1990s; FDR unnecessarily prolonged the Depression putting the Great in front of the word.
/Rant off
217 onlineanalyst // Feb 8, 2009 at 2:41 pm
Sorry to eat so much bandwidth, Scott. A check will be sent your way, valueless as it will soon become under Obamalooza Monopoly money.
I simply find Stuck of Stupid “visitors” here so tiresome, caught as they are in snark, insult, discredited talking points, and contentless and unsubstantiated remarks.
218 JamesonLewis3rd // Feb 8, 2009 at 3:02 pm
Leftist spokesperson for the Democrat party, Claire Shipman, has openly declared that BHO doesn’t care if the stimuli actually stimulates anything, as long as it continues to provide opportunities to pathologically dwell on the past.
But we already knew that.
219 Fred Sinclair // Feb 8, 2009 at 3:09 pm
ola #216 - Right on!!!
I can see as I scroll down that the “intelligently stupid (aka ‘libbers’ - aka ‘trolls’) are cluttering up ScrappleFace with what is no doubt their usual maggot infested garbage, vomiting forth from their ‘whited sepulcher’ persona. I’m so happy that I was able to break my once held habit of actually reading that filth.
I’ve often wondered why the libbers have that constant hungry look about them, coupled with a horrendously broken spirit and that twisted look about them that carries over into their writings. (sort of a perpetual wedgie from a three sizes too small thong.)
I think I’ve found the answer in the book of Proverbs:
Prov. 15:15 All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.
(hence the constant hungry look)
Prov. 17:22 A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. (Since a merry heart is unknown to them; therefore comes their broken spirit.)
Since they are the afflicted and all their days are evil (sort of like Saul, en route to Damascus) Jesus made himself real to Saul and reversed his life’s program, enough so that as the Apostle Paul, he ended up writing half of the New Testament. So perhaps we can pray for our trolls, that Jesus will make himself real to them.
Of course there are sure to be some among them who like the usurper will proclaim, “But I’m a Christian already and besides that, I’m a better Christian than all you red necked conservatives.” bearing in mind that followers of Jesus do not support and promote the murder of as yet unborn babies; nor do they support and promote the lifestyle of the homosexuals.
The usurper is busy doing everything he can to deceive as many as possible, carrying out the will of his father or in the words of Jesus himself, “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.” (John 8:44 KJV)
America s in the time of tribulation and the day of judgement awaits all who follow after satan and/or his legion of minions. There are those who regard God’s Word (The Bible) as something akin to the Grimm’s Fairy Tales. However on judgement day, all will be made clear and according to God’s word, burning with brimstone will not be my portion.
Rev. 18:23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.
Rev. 19:20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
220 onlineanalyst // Feb 8, 2009 at 5:15 pm
There is an excellent discussion by informed folks at this thread that explains how the declining jobs numbers are not just about layoffs but the hiring freezes currently in place.
Many businesses and corporations anticipating the measures taken by the Obama administration had to adjust for their bottom line in the first quarter. They are stymied and not too optimistic about hiring if capital is not freed up.
I’ve learned a lot from the commenters postingp who actually have to make business decisions, make payrolls, and meet increasingly draconian regulations. Our lawmakers, most of whom are lawyers rather than business people, could benefit from some real world experience.
221 R.A.M. // Feb 8, 2009 at 5:41 pm
OLA said: “Japan learned them in the 1990s; FDR unnecessarily prolonged the Depression putting the Great in front of the word.”
I understand Obama’s people have been in deep discussions about what to call the catastrophe he is about to cause. They first wanted to call “IT”, the “Greatest Depression”, but when reminded he, (Obama), will, no doubt, create MUCH bigger screw ups than this, they settled for, “Greater Depression”, and are saving “Greatest” for later!
BHO, will NEVER be an FDR, JFK, or a Ronald Reagan. In fact, Jimmy Carter should be very happy because, Obama will (no doubt) take the “Worst President of ALL Time” moniker away from that moron, and probably VERY soon!
When I saw Obama’s speech the other night, For the first time in my life, I was ashamed of who was leading my Country.
222 everthink // Feb 8, 2009 at 6:16 pm
RAM,
So, other than all that, how’s your day going?
You do get all worked up very easily, don’t you?
That’s not good for you. Why don’t you try to model your behavior after President Obama. He’s so cool under fire, isn’t he?
We Democrats won’t dance around the fire flagellating ourselves with every momentary twitch of Rush Limbaugh, but rather we will hold fast to what is good and true.
We know an idiot when we see one, we know a false prophet when he appears, we recognize the alcoholic personality, and those for whom reality has been altered by OxyContin. We offer comfort and support to these, we just don’t let them lead us into catastrophe.
Say, have you folks heard about the man you have chosen to be the new image of the Republican Party, Michael S. Steele? Wow, you guys sure know how to pick ‘em! Don’t you?
ET
223 everthink // Feb 8, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Say,
Can you all say “Nolo Contendere”. If not, maybe you should learn, because I bet a lot of Republicans will be using that word soon!
ET
224 everthink // Feb 8, 2009 at 6:34 pm
“For the first time in my life, I was ashamed of who was leading my Country.”
Likewise, I’m sure!!!!
ET
225 Newsman // Feb 8, 2009 at 7:55 pm
“For the first time in my life, I was ashamed of who was leading my Country.”
So RAMMO, what say ye to this ?
“[ "Those who presided over the last eight years -- the eight years that brought us to the point where we inherit trillions of dollars of deficit, an economy that's collapsing more rapidly than at any time in the last 50 years -- don't seem to me in a strong position to lecture about the lessons of history," Summers told ABC's "This Week." ] You are proud of these past eight years are ye Rammo????
So Sinclair baby how can you say trolls are saying “their usual maggot infested garbage, vomiting forth from their ‘whited sepulcher’ persona.”, when you assert that you are not reading that filth ?? Your words do not make sense ?? You only prove my point over and over and over ad infinitum.
George’s leadership in respect to the economy seems to be in the family DNA. The tail end of the old man’s reign found the economy in shambles and he didn’t know what to do about it then either !!!
Real proud about the past eight years are ye ??
So, we shall see. I do not assert that Obama and company know all the answers. There is much about this stimulus package that I don’t agree with. I think there is a degree of validity to the Republican criticism.
I do not think that the evidence shows that Obama is really listening to what some Republicans have to say.
I also do not approve of Obama loudly reminding the Republicans who won the election ! That is not a smart move on his part.
I will say that both sides seem to be having a ball throwing pork in the pie. A trait of both parties that I regard as the height of fiscal irresponsibility. Pork should be oulawed !
226 JamesonLewis3rd // Feb 8, 2009 at 8:18 pm
I suggest that citing the opinion of a Leftist politician as expressed to a subservient Leftist bootlicker as if said opinion were some irrefutable cosmic fact is problematic and, therefore, signifies unconditional surrender of the argument by the Leftist doing the aforementioned citing.
227 everthink // Feb 8, 2009 at 10:37 pm
“I suggest that citing the opinion of a Leftist politician as expressed to a subservient Leftist bootlicker as if said opinion were some irrefutable cosmic fact is problematic and, therefore, signifies unconditional surrender of the argument by the Leftist doing the aforementioned citing.”
Very impressive! Though it’s kind of like dressing a monkey up in a suit , isn’t it?
No, I am not making a crack about our former president! But, now that I think about it ….
ET
228 everthink // Feb 8, 2009 at 10:41 pm
Newsman,
“I also do not approve of Obama loudly reminding the Republicans who won the election ! That is not a smart move on his part.”
There’s a new sheriff in town!
ET
229 R.A.M. // Feb 9, 2009 at 1:16 am
The new sheriff Obama, reminds me of when Sheriff Andy Taylor left office and Barney “Obama” Fife tried to handle the job.
That episode was funny, the real life, “No experience Obama” is flat out dangerous to America!
In #227, I thought for a minute the racist that is hiding in most of you libs was about to emerge, (monkey in a suit), but that already happened in #222 with your comments about a good man, Michael Steele.
C’mon et, tell us just what it is about Michael Steele that would make you take cheap shots at the man?
No fair making stuff up, as your side almost always does.
Please point out something he has lied about-or a gaff, it doesn’t have to be as dumb as Obama’s many ones——we’re waiting.
We have a list of things Obama has lied about and you love him! At least our side can point to reasons why we don’t like your candidates, your side just hates because, well we are the other side!
Disgusting and quite pitiful.
PS: The analogy of Obama and Barney Fife has another similarity. Barney, (like Obama), strutted around acting and thinking he was “cool”, when BOTH look like fools, (to intelligent people), and BOTH screwed up most things, leaving others to fix the mess.
230 R.A.M. // Feb 9, 2009 at 1:20 am
et: I forgot to add that in that episode of Andy Griffith, Barney, (now played by Obama), realized in the end, the job of “new sheriff in town” was indeed, “above his paygrade”.
231 onlineanalyst // Feb 9, 2009 at 1:36 am
Great video reminder embedded here to those enamored with the Obama Marxist version of “social justice”: http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/02/022785.php?format=print
232 Fred Sinclair // Feb 9, 2009 at 2:55 am
I think this is a pretty neat story that bears retelling to both sides of the aisle.
A man came home from work late, tired and irritated, to find his 5-year old son waiting for him at the door.
SON: ‘Daddy, may I ask you a question?’
DAD: ‘Yeah sure, what it is?’ replied the man.
SON: ‘Daddy, how much do you make an hour?’
DAD: ‘That’s none of your business. Why do you ask such a thing?’ the man said angrily.
SON: ‘I just want to know. Please tell me, how much do you make an hour?’
DAD: ‘If you must know, I make $50 an hour.’
SON: ‘Oh,’ the little boy replied, with his head down.
SON: ‘Daddy, may I please borrow $25?’
The father was furious, ‘If the only reason you asked that is so you can borrow some money to buy a silly toy or some other nonsense, then you march yourself straight to your room and go to bed. Think about why you are being so selfish. I don’t work hard everyday for such childish frivolities.’ The little boy quietly went to his room and shut the door.
The man sat down and started to get even angrier about the little boys’ questions. How dare he ask such questions only to get some money?
After about an hour or so, the man had calmed down , and started to think: Maybe there was something he really needed to buy with that $25.00 and he really didn’t ask for money very often. The man went to the door of the little boy’s room and opened the door. ‘Are you asleep, son?’ He asked.
‘No daddy, I’m awake,’ replied the boy.
‘I’ve been thinking, maybe I was too hard on you earlier’ said the man. ‘It’s been a long day and I took out my aggravation on you. Here’s the $25 you asked for.’
The little boy sat straight up, smiling. ‘Oh, thank you daddy!’ He yelled. Then, reaching under his pillow he pulled out some crumpled up bills. The man saw that the boy already had money, started to get angry again.
The little boy slowly counted out his money, and then looked up at his father.
‘Why do you want more money if you already have some?’ the father grumbled.
Because I didn’t have enough, but now I do,’ the little boy replied. ‘Daddy, I have $50 now. Can I buy an hour of your time? Please come home early tomorrow. I would like to have dinner with you.’
The father was crushed. He put his arms around his little son, and he begged for his forgiveness.
It’s just a short reminder to all of you working so hard in life. We should not let time slip through our fingers without having spent some time with those who really matter to us, those close to our hearts. Do remember to share that $50 worth of your time with someone you love.
If we die tomorrow, the company that we are working for could easily replace us in a matter of hours.
But the family & friends we leave behind will feel the loss for the rest of their lives.
233 MajorDomo // Feb 9, 2009 at 10:19 am
Have you noticed it yet? The conspiracy Yes, the vast right-wing conspiracy to bring down the Obummer presidency. The Secretary of State is rumored to have broached the subject recently as she was returning the W keys to White House computers. “It’s a combination of things:, she said. “First it was the skyrocketing gasoline prices fostered by congressional undersight. Then it was the mortgage lending meltdown led by some congressmen. Then it was the attempted selling of a Senate seat by right-wing fundamentalists And now it’s an overt attack on the US interests in the middle east.” ABC, CBS, NBG, CNN, and the NYT picked up the lead: “It’s all a concerted attempt to reveal the President’s weakness and lack of leadereship ability” they reported in chorus. “What we need is a Russian Bailout, in which we give them $1 Billion dollars not to blockade our efforts in Afghanistan.” Stay tuned for more at eleven”
234 Darthmeister // Feb 9, 2009 at 10:50 am
S.C. Governor: “We’re getting closer to a savior-based economy.”
Heh! Obamanation in action!
Taxpayers risk $9.7 Trillion When Senate Votes on Bailout
Well, what’s a few hundred billion between comrades, right?
Islam Group Urges “Forest Fire Jihad”
Yogi Bear responds: “Keep in mind Islam is a Religion of Peace.” BTW, has anyone else noticed how the Arab street have been protesting those things done in the name of Islam/Mohammed/Koran? I’m sure devout mainstream Muslims everywhere will condemn these terrorist acts against trees and shubbery.
16 illegals sue Arizona rancher; Claim violation of rights as they crossed his land…
With the kind of judges Obama will be appointing I bet the illegals will eventually win.
235 onlineanalyst // Feb 9, 2009 at 11:41 am
Venezuela is on the brink of utter financial collapse, and what does Obama want to do to the US? Turn it into Chavez-land Norte. Utter fools! There are NO successful Marxist-Socialist societies extant.
236 everthink // Feb 9, 2009 at 11:57 am
“Taxpayers risk $9.7 Trillion When Senate Votes on Bailout
Well, what’s a few hundred billion between comrades, right”?
Darth,
That’s the money needed to try to fix the problems YOUR president made.
These are the financial cost of electing a Republican Chimp! You let him drive the car, now you are whining, us usual, of the cost of repairing YOUR damage!
So far, the Iraq War Blunder (or conspiracy) has cost the American Taxpayer $632,467,585,217.43! http://zfacts.com/p/447.html
Then there was the $700 billion Dumbyah sent Paulson to demand last fall. But, the New Bank Bailout Could Cost $2 Trillion!!!. This, and the unrestored destruction of new New Orleans, crumbling bridges, an outdated and inadequate electrical grid.
Please, Republican financial skills are limited to bilking the American taxpayer!
Even these poor souls here, are beginning to see that, they’re just in denial!
ET
237 everthink // Feb 9, 2009 at 12:06 pm
“Have you noticed it yet? The conspiracy Yes, the vast right-wing conspiracy to bring down the Obummer presidency.”
Please have at it! Only in your wildest dreams!
Maybe, you all might like to look at the Red State congressional vulnerabilities in 2012.
Republicans may soon be seen driving away in their Edsels.
ET
238 everthink // Feb 9, 2009 at 12:19 pm
and 2010!
239 everthink // Feb 9, 2009 at 12:23 pm
“Venezuela is on the brink of utter financial collapse, and what does Obama want to do to the US? Turn it into Chavez-land Norte.”
Or, maybe just to try to shorten the bread line you may soon be standing in!
ET
240 everthink // Feb 9, 2009 at 12:30 pm
“The new sheriff Obama, reminds me of when Sheriff Andy Taylor …”
Of course it does. I saw Dick Cheney in my toast this morning! I’ll just bet you see lots of things, don’t you?
ET
241 upnorthlurkin // Feb 9, 2009 at 1:02 pm
Did you see Dumbo bump his head getting into Marine One this morning?! I suppose he’ll have it redesigned. I guess that would stimulate someone’s economy…
242 upnorthlurkin // Feb 9, 2009 at 1:08 pm
Careful, you’re insulting Don Knotts by comparing him to L’il Hussein….but, lol, that is a perfect comparison….at least Barney had Sheriff Andy watching his back, making sure the damage was kept to a minimum! Just who has Barkey’s back?! Biden?!! Uff da!
243 RedPepper // Feb 9, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Newsman #225: Larry Summers Blames Bush!
Now, there’s a News item. What a surprise!
For several years now, one of the Dem’s main criticisms of Bush was that he was running up the deficit! Try squaring that criticism with the “stimulus package”. Some of these “Keynesians” argue that any spending will be stimulative - including throwing money out of helicopters (Google that phrase if you doubt me).
I have a very simple, straightforward criticism ; I am opposed to this nonsense because it won’t work. Lack of demand is not what’s wrong with the economy. What we lack is confidence. Throwing (borrowed) money at that problem won’t cure it.
244 upnorthlurkin // Feb 9, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Uh, oh…..Dumbo’s nose is growing….seems he fibbed to the good folks in Elkhart….he actually said, “there are no earmarks in the stimulus bill.”
Now help me out here…did he just misspeak (because of course he didn’t write this bill…Nazi Pulloutsi and Hairy Reed did) or is this another bald faced lie?!! I mean seriously, is there anything in the bill that is not an earmark?!!
245 R.A.M. // Feb 9, 2009 at 2:00 pm
upnorthlurkin re#41:
To be fair to Prez Moron, I guess we should give him credit for not trying to enter Marine One through the window, as he does at the White House.
NEWSFLASH:
Monday 02/09/09 01:33 PM EST
Obama Campaigns for Stimulus Support
AP: With a crucial Senate vote on the stimulus bill looming, President Barack Obama takes his case for its approval straight to the people. Campaigning in the Midwest, Obama says that if Congress doesn’t quickly pass the measure, the nation will slip into a crisis so deep that “we may be unable to reverse” it. The president will also hold a news conference tonight.
Hey President Moron, can’t you read the POLLS, (as you were able to BEFORE you were elected)? The MAJORITY of Americans don’t trust your “Stimulus Bill” and don’t trust YOU!
That sound in the background is “Barry’s” poll numbers dropping faster than any President in history.
Maybe “O” plans on using his hypnotic powers to convince America tonight? It only works on the weak minded, or those with no mind left, as proven by e.t.
O.T.: I wonder why Colin Powell has not been offered a Cabinet Post yet after being Barry’s lapdog before the election? Probably because Barry has no problem “throwing people under the bus” after he has “bled out” your usefulness to him?
“Enquiring minds” want to know , if Obama’s White House is still the “Plantation” and people like Eric Holder are Obama’s “slaves”?
Hey, Barry is only about 12% black, the rest is a mixture of Arab and white.
246 everthink // Feb 9, 2009 at 2:01 pm
“Did you see Dumbo bump his head getting into Marine One this morning?”
You duh man, Lurch!
No I didn’t see it, did you? Or, is this just something you heard over at the Cobra Kai Dojo.
Dude, I think you may have him on this one! Start the impeachment now! Oh, that’s right, you’re short some slugs.
ET
247 everthink // Feb 9, 2009 at 2:06 pm
RAM,
This Moron stuff ain’t gonna sell, but I really do enjoy watch you make a “tin horn” out of yourself!
Please, continue.
ET
248 everthink // Feb 9, 2009 at 2:24 pm
RAM,
“Enquiring minds†want to know , if Obama’s White House is still the “Plantation†and people like Eric Holder are Obama’s “slaves�
It looks like, sooner or later, you’re going to cross the line into racial “Hate Speech”. And, if you do, I should tell you, I’M going to contact the Justice Department, and see if I can’t arrange for you to meet a Federal Official!
ET
249 upnorthlurkin // Feb 9, 2009 at 2:53 pm
Hey all you geezer O-Bots - did you see (page 464 of Dumbo’s spending debacle) where you all have a duty to die?!! They’re slipping health care rationing into the stimulus bill where they’re counting on you not noticing it! According to the always revered Tom (what do you mean it’s not a free ride?!) Daschle, “Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with aging, instead of treating the problems…”
250 upnorthlurkin // Feb 9, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Somebody please get this empty suit a portable teleprompter….he just doesn’t make the grade without one…. either that or he bumped his head harder here than it appeared…uuhhh aahhhh….
251 gafisher // Feb 9, 2009 at 3:28 pm
unl Re#250: He’s starting to sound like HAL toward the end of the movie 2001.
“I can, uh, feel my memory going, uh, Dave …”
252 RedPepper // Feb 9, 2009 at 3:39 pm
upnorth #249: Health-care rationing? Just one element of the idea that we should become more like EUrope.
Here’s an essay by a European - touches on health care & other things. It’s at the Brussels Journal.
253 Left Coast-Right Mind // Feb 9, 2009 at 4:04 pm
So President Barack H-word Obama will be sitting down to give his first prime time interview tonight to discuss the ’stick-a-fork-in-us bill’. Has anyone confirmed if this interview is with an American television network? Maybe Mr. Al Jazeera will be getting their equal time (in the interests of fairness and all).
I’ve been pondering this whole debate over earmarks in the aforementioned bill. According to Obama, an earmark is “the process by which individual members insert pet projects without review.”. Now, this all hinges upon what your definition of “is” is, so there is a lot of wiggle room here. Either all the pork in this bill was inserted by committees and not “individual members” or the pork underwent some sort of “review” before inclusion into the bill. So, if either are true, then because Obama won the election, his definition of ‘earmarks’ can trump reality. With apologies to Mel Brooks, “it’s good to be da supreme overlord”.
And in other news, Obama seems to have trouble getting to places on time. Meetings, memo-signings, public appearances and so forth. Gotta love how the ‘objective’ media spins this one. Bush was always prompt to these sorts of things, making him bland. Obama, on the other hand, makes people wait for him, which makes him exciting. *eye roll* Good news is that no matter how late Obama himself is, his ears are always on time.
254 everthink // Feb 9, 2009 at 4:13 pm
“Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with aging, instead of treating the problems…â€.
What! Does this mean Medicare won’t pay for cosmetic surgery when I become a senior?
Actually, as I believe I’ve said, I’m often mistaken for George Clooney, and believe me, that can be annoying, what with autographing pictures and all! Maybe aging will finally provide some relief!
ET
255 upnorthlurkin // Feb 9, 2009 at 4:58 pm
Red, that article is quite chilling isn’t it?! Though, obviously to the Commies, er O-Bots, that’s what they’re aiming for….for America to become more french. I still can’t find an O-bot who can tell me just where Communism/Marxism/Socialism has been successful?! Anybody?!
The example of socialized or Euro medicine I heard was where a senior with macular degeneration had to actually wait until he went blind in one eye before he could be treated.
If Porkulous passes in its current form,there will be rationing. Remind me, did Barkey run on rationing?!! Seems to me he used that time worn Republicans will take away your Social Security…blah, blah, blah NOT I’m gonna ration your healthcare!!
256 upnorthlurkin // Feb 9, 2009 at 5:27 pm
Want to have a little fun?! (h/t MM) Check this out. Then go here and for $6.50 you can identify Barkey’s tax cheat on all the new money they print!! (You can put “O’s tax cheat” in size 18 font….still only $6.50!!)
257 JamesonLewis3rd // Feb 9, 2009 at 5:37 pm
I made an appointment for my mandatory lobotomy and I have my application in for one of the few available SG franchises, which is waiting for a permit to wend its way through the spaghetti-like corridors of various ministries. In return, the Ministry of Love has promised to think about allowing me to keep these ten-year old shoes I’m wearing; at least, for a little while.
258 everthink // Feb 9, 2009 at 6:27 pm
In your case, lobotomy is classified as Micro-Surgery.
ET
259 Darthmeister // Feb 9, 2009 at 7:00 pm
Buwahahahahaha, The Chosen One banged his head on Marine One! Can’t wait until the libtard media starts with the President Jerry Ford jokes. On second thought the national socialist media will do everything in its power to ignore this as much as possible. Of course it’s the fault of the helicopter manufacturers for not making the door bigger to accomodate the 6′1″ Obama. And given how the media is now making a big deal about Mr. Obama’s height, one has to wonder how the 6 foot tall Bush wasn’t bashing his head on Marine One every other day. From the photographs it looks like a 6 footer has to duck at least 4 inches to get through the door.
C’mon, admit it everstink and the rest of you trolls, if it had been George W. you would have howled non-stop for at least a week … make that a month. Oh, and cut the false humility, everstink, the least you can do is admit you helped pioneered the concept of do-it-youself lobotomies which is why you even mentioned them in the first place. I take it you were one of the first experiments?
And while we’re on the topic, isn’t it true your close relationship to Hannibal Lecter is something you normally refrain from mentioning, particularly when among those with more delicate sensibilities? A simply yes or no will do - we can handle the truth.
260 mindknumbed kid // Feb 9, 2009 at 7:22 pm
unl - I will answer your question for the O-bots who cannot.
“I still can’t find an O-bot who can tell me just where Communism/Marxism/Socialism has been successful?! Anybody?!
It is a smashing success in their IMAGINATIONS.
261 mindknumbed kid // Feb 9, 2009 at 7:29 pm
One good thing this Obama guy has already done as Present-dent…..expose how many lib-dem elitists cheat on their patriotic duty donations. Doesn’t that make them all look so much smaller these days?
262 R.A.M. // Feb 9, 2009 at 8:00 pm
How can libs NOT see that Obama is a MORON? He comes to Elkhart, Indiana, and promises them that jobs there will rebound IF they go for his “PLAN”. Yeah, 99% of the job losses there are in the R.V. industry. You just know that after the “Stimulus PORK Bill” passes, there will be a flood of people jumping in line to buy new R.V.’s! Again, -What a MORON!
Oh and, be careful what you say Scrapplers! et, and his lib buddies are out to do away with the “Freedom of speech” clause in the Constitution. Will it be before, or after they shove the “Fairness Doctrine” down America’s throat. They have to fit it in somewhere between that and “rigging” all those voting districts now that Barry and Rahm are in charge of the 2010 census.
Your “threat’s” really scare me libtard. If there was no precedent set when libs like you, spouted those SAME comments about Colin Powell, (before he “slinked over” to your side), and Condoleezza Rice, they are fair game towards your “puppy lover” Obama.
When you start making threats, then I KNOW I am getting to you. Thanks for being like Obama’s new government-TRANSPARENT. 
It’s a good thing Obama hit his head, and NOT his butt, or other libs like et might have been hurt, being so close to that part of his anatomy.
et,-did you hit your head?
263 MajorDomo // Feb 9, 2009 at 8:00 pm
“”What! Does this mean Medicare won’t pay for cosmetic surgery when I become a senior”
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No, everdumb, it means that IF you get to be a septuagenarian, and you get a serious ailment for which there is a cure, if the cost exceeds what obummer’s socialist crowd thinks the value of your life is, you won’t get ANY medical care (unless you pay for it yourself, mr rich liberal)
264 R.A.M. // Feb 9, 2009 at 8:04 pm
Sorry, got to go, et’s “puppy love” is on ALL the channel’s.
“Fear(FULL)less Leader” is about to “gibber”!
265 mindknumbed kid // Feb 9, 2009 at 8:07 pm
Carter laid the foundation to our current economic woes, BJ Clinton strengthened the foundation. With Democrats in power the last two years of Bush’s Presidency they worked to prevent any weakening of the foundation by the evil republicans. Now they have the whole show in their control and they are on the verge of plunging us into financial collapse. But all through out the years conservatives (not to be confused with or associated with republicans in name only) have been warning that we are on the wrong track. We have been ignored, and forced to take the lesser of two evils in an effort to prevent as much damage as possible. These are truths that the socialists trolls that leave droppings all over this site are not even able to entertain in their minds.
It seems inevitable, the unseeing populous’ desire is for this “change” that will not bring about anything positive to our lives as American citizens. Therefore, knowing full well that my God is in complete control there is nothing left to do but to get out of their way and watch solemnly as this nation succumbs to the forces of death. This nation has forsaken the “greater good” for their own selfish desires. The “stimulus bill” has not one grain of salt in it, with what will it preserve us?
266 R.A.M. // Feb 9, 2009 at 8:07 pm
MajorDomo, et, (and the ‘like’), think they get Medicare when they are a ‘Senior’ in high school, although not many make it that far.
267 Fred Sinclair // Feb 9, 2009 at 8:39 pm
unl#255 - ” I still can’t find an O-bot who can tell me just where Communism/Marxism/Socialism has been successful?! Anybody?!”
O.K. I’m an anybody - Communism/Marxism/Socialism are ALWAYS successful with the following caveat:
1st “They” successfully confiscate all of the people’s firearms.
2nd “They” possess all of the firearms
3rd They” have the “blue shirts” (to match the logo’s color) Civilian Security Force solidly in place to ‘enforce’ the usurper’s programs.
268 MajorDomo // Feb 9, 2009 at 8:42 pm
Yep. I am really concerned for my 40-something kids. They are already worrying about social security. Now the Damocrats are on a quest to refuse to pay for care that could save your life; and the older you get, the lower the dollar threshold of disbarment will get. Add to this the rumored (and I believe it) plan of the Obummers to terminate the Tricare program that sustains older military retirees. Yes, the Democrats are on an all-out attack on old folks. I wondered today as I saw a Obummer bumper sticker on a car driven by an aged citizen, what he’d think about all this…if he was paying attention.
269 R.A.M. // Feb 9, 2009 at 9:14 pm
AOL right now has a poll asking what do you think of Obama’s speech? Check it out before they change it, (IF they do). This is the “copy and paste”:
What did you think of Obama’s prime-time speech and press conference?
Thumbs up
Thumbs up
I didn’t watch
Vote
When Helen Thomas asked her question, I swear, I thought she was going to say at the end, “I just love that tie Barack! Give my love to Michelle!”
Don’t you just love that Huffington Post is now a “respected” new source in the “LIB House”. Where is the moveon.org correspondent?
Where was et, and will he be able to remove the slobber from his TV screen??
270 Left Coast-Right Mind // Feb 9, 2009 at 9:42 pm
Fred Sinclair
Re: #267
Your points 1 & 2 may be moot as in San Francisco, on a special 2005 ballot, a majority (57.8% Yes to 42.2% No) voted for the government to take away their handguns. Handgun owners were to surrender their firearms (unless it was part of their work) to local police authorities by a certain date, or be subject to civil and/or criminal penalties if they did not comply. Called Proposition H, it was later overturned in the San Francisco Superior Court on the grounds that it violated California state law. So, in at least one whacked-out part of the country there are people willing to voluntarily give up their 2nd Amendment right.
I cannot find reference to it, but there was a program on either the Discovery or History Channel about the Nazis rolling through Europe. Their forces would take over small villages in the countryside along their way, and basically suck the town dry of resources. While they were there, the German officers would command that the townspeople bring their guns to the town square and surrender them. The town elders would ask why, and the commander of the German forces would explain that the war was against the government of the country and not its people, and that they didn’t want anyone acting rashly, and that it was safer for everyone involved if the guns were handed over. The town elders agreed and the guns were given up. Next, the Nazis ordered that radios be brought to the town square and turned it. Again the elders would ask why, and the Nazi commander would explain that a lot of propaganda was being put out on the radio, that was untrue and the Germans didn’t want anyone hearing and believing the lies and getting the wrong idea about what was going on and doing something that would lead to themselves (or the Germans) getting hurt. The elders thought this was wise and ordered their people to surrender their radios. Next, was newspapers and magazines. The occupying Germans would keep demanding the townspeople to give up more and more things, and every time the town elders inquired, the commanders had a plausible explanation. Soon, when the Nazis asked for things, the elders stopped asking why; even when people of Jewish descent were asked to gather in the town square by the large transport trucks.
Magazines and Newspapers? Have pretty much sworn their fealty to the Democrat Party.
Firearm ownership? Under assault, and in some cases (as mentioned above) freely given up.
Radios? “Fairness” Doctrine. (would TV and internet be far behind?)
271 gafisher // Feb 9, 2009 at 10:33 pm
R.A.M. Re#269: “Where is the moveon.org correspondent?”
At NBC. And CBS. And ABC. And CNN. And …
wv - Second opaline - “I, uh, don’t think I, er, bumped it that hard, Doc; I’m getting a, uh, second opaline.” (Just for heaven’s sake don’t hand the “football” to Joe!)
272 gafisher // Feb 9, 2009 at 10:37 pm
LCRM Re#270: “So, in at least one whacked-out part of the country there are people willing to voluntarily give up …”
More accurately, the number of people willing to vote away their rights exceeded those sufficiently committed to vote for defending them.
273 everthink // Feb 9, 2009 at 10:49 pm
President Obama currently enjoys a 67% approval rating. Lets see, if he won election with 53.6%, then 13.4% of his current number must have voted for McCain. If that trend were to continue til 2010 how many Repugs would have to pack their carpet bags, and leave Washington.
If President Obama were to focus his popularity, on the states with contrarian senators, how many Republican Senators would that leave?
Of course, MNK, UNL and RAM will be excused, as usual. Now, the rest of you, take your time, I just know you can solve this problem!
ET
274 everthink // Feb 10, 2009 at 12:17 am
“C’mon, admit it everstink and the rest of you trolls, if it had been George W. you would have howled non-stop for at least a week … make that a month.”
He did! They showed it on television again today. I didn’t laugh then, or the first time I saw it.
In fact, I think Dumbyah filed a Workman’s Compensation claim, alleging permanent disability.
Tests, at first, indicated a permanent brain damage! Subsequent testing on Neal, and JEB revealed it was just a family characteristic, and he had probably had the same brain problem since birth.
You asked, now you know!
ET
275 Left Coast-Right Mind // Feb 10, 2009 at 2:39 am
After tonight’s performance, I can really see what Joe Biden meant by Obama being “articulate”. Whoa. I guess we shouldn’t be so rough on the President-in-training, after that nasty knock on his head, but wouldn’t it be easier if he could just put the answers into the teleprompter…it’d be easier for me to listen to him anyway.
What I learned from tonight’s…whatever that was:
Helen Thomas (who was the first to interview Mary Todd Lincoln after the assassination of her husband at Ford’s theater) believes that people who lop off the heads of other people on video and broadcast it to the world are “so-called terrorists”.
The Huffington Post is now a legitimate news source complete with fully-credentialed field staff. DailyKos and D.U. must not have had their applications clear in time.
Steroid use in baseball is at least as important as the current administration’s attempt to flush our economy further down the toilet.
Biden and his 30% failure prediction got tossed under the bus with the rest of the people that have become albatrosses to Obama’s Captain Stubing.
wv: The wreck (of the S.S. Obama) Gordon Lightfoot, eat your heart out.
276 JamesonLewis3rd // Feb 10, 2009 at 6:15 am
Yes. Democrat party poster child and spokesperson, the renowned Leftist Helen Thomas, seems perplexed with BHO’s inability to execute even the most basic duties of POTUS.
She should demand to see his Birth Certificate—now THAT would be an historic moment.
277 JamesonLewis3rd // Feb 10, 2009 at 6:38 am
It wasn’t that long ago (1976) when, in a parallel universe, the exquisite beauty of Democrat spokesperson, mastermind and political advisor Helen Thomas rivaled that of Sophia Loren.
278 onlineanalyst // Feb 10, 2009 at 6:39 am
Worth reprinting from HotAir after the presser:
What 0bama doesn’t seem to realize is that he owns everything now; the economy, the war, Iran, Russia, Venuzuela, China, etc. The ball is in his court now. He keeps pushing back to Bush and the republicans. That’s not going to work too much longer.
cjs1943 on February 9, 2009 at 11:35 PM
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/KA21Dj08.html
“From the day Obama was elected to 9:30am Tokyo time on Monday morning, the S&P 500 index has lost 17% of its value, after absorbing Obama’s proposed cabinet and hearing the gist of his economic stimulus plan. That can’t be blamed on Bush. It counts as the “Obama crashâ€. With the unprecedented power of his office, Obama inherits a commensurately high level of accountability. Unless he offers something radically different, the boomerang of expectations could flatten him faster and more thoroughly than the swift ascent of his star. People in power get blamed; people with absolute power get blamed absolutely. As the economy continues to deteriorate, there will be no one left standing to blame but Obama.â€
venividivici on February 9, 2009 at 11:49 PM
It’s worth repeating: Obama and his gal-pal Pelosi own it. Reid is just there to complete the troika of the destruction of this Republic.
279 egospeak // Feb 10, 2009 at 8:08 am
Re: 273
Neverthink, you’ll never make it as a statistician.
Did 100% of the eligible voters vote? If my memory serves me correctly less than 70% of eligible voters voted. That leaves more than 30% of eligible voters plus all those who are not eligible plus all those who are not registered.
Does that poll include only people who voted, or does it include people who are registered but didn’t vote, people who aren’t registered? What was the breakdown between republicans and democrats?
You’re an idiot.
Regards,
ps - I know you are older than I am and I’m 54. You better hope you don’t get ill in the coming years if the porkulus bill passes in its current form. You may/will be told to do your patriotic duty and die for the good of the country. Bring the good little lemming that you are I’m sure you will consider it an honor… even if your illness is curable, but expensive.
280 upnorthlurkin // Feb 10, 2009 at 8:26 am
I don’t know, Dumbo didn’t look like he was enjoying much of anything last night….I think he’s discovering running for president was a whole lot more fun than actually being president….it’s fun to watch when those puppet strings start to get tangled though……aahhhhh, uuhhhh….
Still waiting for that list of successful Communist/Socialist/Marxist countries…..
…crickets….
281 Darthmeister // Feb 10, 2009 at 9:04 am
Democrat Senator Proposes “Truth Commission”
What fascists! Yeah, the “truth” according to barking moonbats and Democrat socialists. The smell of revolution is in the air … thanks libs.
Can you imagine the outrage if any Republican had proposed such an idiotic, highly-politicized kangaroo court where any exculpatory evidence is studiously ignored? This is exactlythe kind of stuff raving lunatic commies engaged in with their ideological cleansing campaigns after they rolled into power. This is even more dangerous than the “Obama Truth Squads” during the presidential campaign.
Ironically, liberal socialist Democrats have become the very “McCarthyites” they’ve so long railed against!
282 Darthmeister // Feb 10, 2009 at 9:13 am
Actually, everstink, the latest Rasmussen Poll has Mr. Obama’s approval rating presently pegged at 58% … and dropping precipitously. The honeymoon is over and messiah he ain’t. Go worship somewhere else, your juvenile slobbering over your messiah is disturbing us adults.
From the NYT:
Many Democrats Are Dreaming of Sexual Liaisons with the President
Probably includes most of the trolls here.
283 Possumtrot // Feb 10, 2009 at 11:07 am
My password on this site is so old, it probably doesn’t fit the protocols of modern sign-in technology.
It still works, though.
I’m not tired of reading yet, but I’m losing heart for going one-on-one with Net trolls. You win, Everclear. Debate has become too tiresome to maintain.
At two minutes to eight o’clock EDT last night, I shouted to my significant other that the President of the United States desired to share a few words with her. She does not always understand the source of my crazed laughter, and was not amused. She has to work for a living. I’m looking to “stimulate” a few jobs by hiring some illegal aliens to push my wheelchair around.
I gave up being family-friendly at United Possums International. I am becoming more sour by the day, and figure children will learn to cuss soon enough. You’re welcome to post your obscenity-laden comments over there; I’ll just cuss back. I’m fed up with trying to reason with suicidal morons.
Not to be threatening or anything, but I’m looking forward to dancing in the ruins to a Blue Oyster Cult song and screaming “I told ya so!”
I was lied to last night as quickly as a politician’s lips can move. Tell me again what the chicken in my pot will taste like.
284 everthink // Feb 10, 2009 at 1:56 pm
Darth,
“the latest Rasmussen Poll has Mr. Obama’s approval rating presently pegged at 58%”
Crazy me, I used the 67% reported on MSM. Although they did seem to did fairly well in predicting the last national election outcome!
However, it is true they were significantly short on the Obama projection, and quite long on the Grumpy Old Man - Beaver Trapper estimate.
Maybe if you used the Drudge Poll your would be even happier!
ET
285 everthink // Feb 10, 2009 at 2:36 pm
egospeak,
Where have you been? You are among the brightest here, you shouldn’t hide your light under a bushel.
“Did 100% of the eligible voters vote? If my memory serves me correctly less than 70% of eligible voters voted.”
You correctly make this point once again! How do you recommend we do polling?
It is true my arithmetic and mathematics abilities are poor, and my spelling, punctuation, and grammar skills are indeed limited. Still it seems, I more often than not, manage to muddle into a conclusion that is superior to most here, with the possible exception of yourself.
I will make a prediction of my own, Barack Obama will live to become the standard by which all future presidents will be judged!
If I am correct, it shouldn’t be hard for you figure out my view of the future of those of your political persuasion.
And, Barack Obama is the sixth great grandson of my fifth great grandfather Judiah, though Ann Dunham’s line. I believe even the “servant holding” Judiah would have been exceedingly proud of this fine man.
But, of course, cousin Barack is no “muddler”!
ET
286 JamesonLewis3rd // Feb 10, 2009 at 3:15 pm
There are countless polls out there (which the Ultra-Liberal Democrat party mistakenly thinks it has suppressed through intimidation) that give BHO a 0.00% approval rating.
I know of a poll that shows, irrefutably, that BHO’s incessantly abysmal performance, flaunting his pseudo-elitist ineptitude as it does, is to blame for his plummeting popularity points.
287 R.A.M. // Feb 10, 2009 at 3:37 pm
Polls, “smolles”, MOST of the ones libs use are conducted like AOL’s last night. You could vote for “Thumbs up” for Obama’s speech, or second choice, “Thumbs up” for Obama’s speech, or “I didn’t watch”. Of course it was just an “oversight” or a mistake, like all those “dead votes” figured into the polls for how much Homer “D’oh” Obama won by. Libs love to take polls and canvas 70% Democrat respondents to 30% Republicans, and then say it was a “bipartisan” poll.
President Moron makes another “speech” to his choir of adoring media, they ask several softball questions, then like clockwork, the stock markets take yet another dive, KNOWING what is coming!
Here is a suggestion for the INTELLIGENT here, (not intended for back patting, foolish trolls). Buy as much gold, silver, and other precious metals as you can. President Goober is about to make all that “green paper” he is printing 24/7, and stocks and bonds about worthless as an “Obama kisser”.
I say ABOUT as worthless as an “Obama kisser”, becuase NOTHING can be that worthless!
288 Left Coast-Right Mind // Feb 10, 2009 at 3:50 pm
“I’ll take ‘American English’ for $800 Alex.”
“Answer. The most commonly used word on television in 2009.”
“What is ‘Uh’?”
“Correct.”
289 gafisher // Feb 10, 2009 at 4:48 pm
Re#285: “I will make a prediction of my own, Barack Obama will live to become the standard by which all future presidents will be judged!”
Yes, it’s likely he’ll replace Carter in the “Well, s/he’s better than …” role.
290 everthink // Feb 10, 2009 at 5:36 pm
“There are countless polls out there (which the Ultra-Liberal Democrat party mistakenly thinks it has suppressed through intimidation) that give BHO a 0.00% approval rating.”
Really a “0.00% approval rating.” Imagine that, after 2 Million people came to see his Inauguration less than three weeks ago.
I can’t bring my to believe this, can you?
Do anyone look in on you? Do you have a pet squirrel, or other rodent?
You do need to get out some.
ET
291 Fred Sinclair // Feb 10, 2009 at 6:19 pm
Poor man-child “the usurper” it seems that his very high approval rating has dropped to 58%, and is still dropping, while “he who must not be listened to” aka Rush Limbaugh is holding firm with an approval rating of 62%
Awhile back when President Bush was being beat up on for having an approval rating of only 27% while those doing the beating up (Congress) held an approval rating of 9%. There seems to be a pattern somewhere (3-1)
. Perhaps the libbers have overplayed their hand?
292 egospeak // Feb 10, 2009 at 7:34 pm
Re: 285
My recommendation would be that they stop polling altogether. I certainly don’t expect anybody to take my suggestion seriously, but I offer it nontheless.
I believe that there was a time when polling was done to judge or ascertain the public opinion or mood. Now, however, it seems that most polling is done to sway or push public opinion. In like manner with modern day “journalism” I believe polling has lost its integrity and has become little more than sounding boards, echo chambers and advocates for the dominant ideology. It has lost its soul.
As for getting the election right… well, even a blind squirrel finds a nut every so often.
Regards,
ps - It is my opinion, although I suspect it is shared by many, that the polling that isn’t done simply to support the dominant ideology, is done to let politicians know what they (politicians) believe.
293 everthink // Feb 11, 2009 at 12:44 am
Egospeak,
I understand your suspicion. It seems related to the whole MSM bias issue. I really don’t have any problem with the Rasmussen Poll, I just hate to yield in the slightest to the “Beetle-Headed Frog Bender”.
I think Fox News is baked, and so is MSNBC in the other direction. Of course, I agree with MSNBC, but truth be told, I too lean somewhat left myself. Do try not to be shocked by my admission.
I think the more the Republican Party moves to the right, the more everything not extreme right, appears left to the “hard core” here.
These folks seem to think they are the keepers of all that is good. Anyone who does not share their belief is evil, the “they are either with us or they are against us” attitude prevails through out the conservative movement.
By the same measure they insist that any position to the left of theirs is communist, or at least socialist. It really makes little difference which, because most of them don’t understand the difference anyway.
I also believe the religious differences here are a real problem for conservatives. For the most part, the only thing that binds these “Christians” is the abortion issue, if Roe v Wade were reversed, and the feminists, privacy and civil rights folks were to let them have there way, they would soon be killing each other. In fact, if these folks were honest these religious factions don’t respect each other anymore than they respect Democrats!
ET
294 Fred Sinclair // Feb 11, 2009 at 11:48 am
“….and to the Republic for which it stands….” Now at age 71, I’ve never, ever pledged allegiance to any form of Socialism. Snide politicians are attempting to surreptitiously insert their Socialist agenda in the dark recesses of this monstrous spending bill which is nothing more than the first steps toward full-on health care socialism. I do not want America to morph into another version of North Korea, North Viet Nam or Cuba!
Ronald Reagan did not become one of America’s greatest Presidents by way of a Socialist agenda. His re-election sweep of 49 of 50 states was based on his conservatism. The current stimulus bill is anything but a stimulus. Porkulus Bill would at least be an honest name for this abomination.
295 everthink // Feb 11, 2009 at 3:20 pm
‘Ronald Reagan did not become one of America’s greatest Presidents by way of a Socialist agenda.”
He certainly did not, but then he was not one of America’s greatest Presidents either!!
His “voodoo economics” called “Reaganomics” is principally to blame for the crisis facing America now!
Greed is not as much a worthy motivator of productivity, as it is an incentive to win at all cost, including cheating and stealing.
All those financial houses in trouble today, were able to do so as a result of the government deregulation advocated by Reagan!
Remember the S&L crisis and The Resolution Trust Corporation? How about “The Keating Five”? They all started as a result of the deregulation that allowed S&L’s to play banker!
And how about Iran Contra! Reagan seemed like a nice old misguided fellow, who took too many naps, and forgot who was the puppeteer in his administration!
Won the Cold War? Really, look again. The Soviet Union collapsed of it’s own weight, and because of a completely unworkable form of government and economic system.
Don’t try to “trickle down” on my leg and tell me it’s raining!
ET
296 Fred Sinclair // Feb 11, 2009 at 5:03 pm
Now ain’t dat jus speshule???
Media Ownership Reform Act (MORA)
The Media Ownership Reform Act seeks to restore integrity and diversity to America’s media system. The bill also reinstates the Fairness Doctrine to protect fairness and accuracy in journalism.
Amazingly the “Fairness Doctrine” bears exactly the same relationship to fairness that the “Stimulus Bill” bears to stimulus. ie: none
I read somewhere that 1.) You can fool all of the people some of the time. 2.) You can fool some of the people all of the time. 3.) But you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.
A basic truth and 58 million Americans, last Nov. 4th voted against Socialism in the form of a usurper who now occupies the “Oval Office”. To date I’ve not seen a valid original birth certificate - so this individual (1/12th African and 11/12th Caucasian, and Arab, most likely born in Kenya (as sworn to by his aunt who claims to have been present at his birth in Kenya).
But enough of the people were fooled that when his(? written by Nancy Pelosi) Stimulus Bill is passed into law, America will no longer be a Republic or even a Democracy, but a Socialist country spiraling down to take it’s place as a new third (3rd) world country - ala Cuba?
Perhaps as America is busily following after false gods. The Lord God sees us as a modern day Nineveh, but except for Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) and a rare few of his stripe, I don’t see a modern day Jonah on the horizon to call America to repent and turn from it’s wicked ways.
May God have mercy on America and “Come quickly Lord Jesus”.
297 Fred Sinclair // Feb 11, 2009 at 11:24 pm
c-a-t reminded me
Hab. 1:3 Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.
Hab. 1:4 Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.
Hab. 1:5 Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.
That’s about the sum of it. I can only hope and pray that I will be allowed to live long enough to witness what He has in store for “He, who is the absence of God” before and/or after he exits the Oval Office.
298 Fred Sinclair // Feb 12, 2009 at 12:48 pm
As long as we have our gun rights, we’ll have rights.
299 Fred Sinclair // Feb 12, 2009 at 8:48 pm
Every football team has their own special playbook, even “The Fighting Irish of Notre Dame” has one.
A melding of five playbooks? = B. Hussein Obama’s Playbook = Obama’s Dream for America???
1.) Karl Marx’s Playbook.
2.) Joseph Stalin’s Playbook
3.) Fidel Castro’s Playbook
4.) Robert Mugabe’s Playbook
5.) Hugo Chavez’s Playbook
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