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Wednesday, February 25, 2009 9:54 PM CST
LETTER: Republicans had chance to accept compromises

CONNIE MANES, Mattoon

Those that voted no on the Recovery and Reinvestment Bill sure are jumping to get their share of the dough. Those same Republicans that called this bill a mugging, it stinks and America’s worst days — are now making plans on how to spend it.

To Tim Johnson (R) who voted no for the bill, you said, “You don’t buy a whole cow to get the T-bone steak,” congressman, yes you do; unless of course, you compromise with the seller of the cow. Both parties could have gotten a piece of the cow if Republicans had been willing to compromise. Instead you acted as though you had won control last November.

I’m betting we’ll be reading soon how you fought for a part of the bill because it worked.

Four Republican state governors supported it out loud, a few have admitted they would have voted no but that they need the money so they’ll be glad to take it. According to the Republicans that voted for it in the Senate, other GOP members wanted to but couldn’t cross that picket line made by the GOP leadership. Hypocrites!

The Journal Gazette announced recently that Lake Land College had several projects available that they hope they could get funds for from the stimulus package. They claim over 200 jobs could be created. The paper also listed recently that IDOT wanted people to check out their website that listed road projects. They want our opinion.

This means jobs, folks, and it means that finally some of our badly needed infrastructure is going to be repaired. Instead of spending billions on infrastructure in other nations like Iraq and Afghanistan, we’re spending the money right here in America.

If the GOP truly felt this package was a mugging or America’s worst days — they would send the money back, be true conservatives you might say; but they won’t and we all know it. They, like others, want to get re-elected.

This response by the GOP (voting no, then asking for a share) is like a person watching a bank robber run out of the bank with his stolen money and then walking up to the robber’s getaway car and asking for a share of the stolen loot (just don’t tell anybody I asked for it).

If the stimulus helps the economy, give Democrats the credit – Republicans refused to accept any compromises that were given them.

CONNIE MANES

Mattoon

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Cognitus wrote on Feb 25, 2009 11:54 PM:

" I hear that Congrsssman Coburn (D,NC)
inserted a provision that any governor who accepted Stimulus money would have to PUBLICLY announce that they were taking it. He had heard that some Republican governors CLAIMED they would not take Stimulus money, but knowing some would take it and lie about it, added that provision in an EFFORT to keep them honest. "

red,white,blue wrote on Feb 26, 2009 7:29 AM:

" Not sure what your complaint is Connie unless it's just to rag on the Republicans. Oh wait, that's what you're doing, isn't it? There are no bigger hypocrites than Democrats who talk about the 'good' of the people but who figure the way to get the 'goodies' for themselves is to appeal to base instincts and buy people's support, leading to total government dependence and ensuring the vote of those who can't think for themselves. Oh, and like our congress people, you have probably not had time to read the bill so you can't explain how some of the provisions are going to stimulate the economy. You know, the pork.

That all said, I had intended to get on here to ask, in what is probably a futile attempt, a serious question. I would like for someone seriously to explain to me how spending 800 bilion here, 400 billion there and oh, over 600 billion in the future for health care is helping the economy. AS our president keeps reminding us he has inherited a huge deficit which is going to be made even bigger with all this spending. I would just like to hear how this is going to work. I'll try to sort through all the drek of how I'm too stupid to understand so you're not going to bother to the Bush rants about how it's all his fault to the Sarah Palin 'jokes' and see if someone can really explain this. Thank you. "

Tom Andres wrote on Feb 26, 2009 8:48 AM:

" red,white,blue: what's going on right now in Washington is NOT about fixing our economic woes. If that was the intent, Congress and Obama would simply step aside and allow private enterprise to work - just as it ALWAYS has.

What's going on in Washington is all about transferring all economic and social powers to a Central Committee. By the time this reorganization is completed, we'll be living in the United Socialist States of America. It's that simple. "

Harry Potter wrote on Feb 26, 2009 9:07 AM:

" She does know about international relations because she is right up there in Alaska, right next door to Russia." FOX News Channel's Steve Douchebag, gushing over Palin's qualifications, to which Jon Stewart quipped, "When you think about it, Alaska is also near the North Pole, so she must also be friends with Santa."

Dedicated to RWB.... "

father bob wrote on Feb 26, 2009 9:14 AM:

" red,white,blue wrote on Feb 26, 2009 7:29 AM:
" AS our president keeps reminding us he has inherited a huge deficit which is going to be made even bigger with all this spending. I would just like to hear how this is going to work."""""

you can bet he won't ship it anywhere on pallets. "

father bob wrote on Feb 26, 2009 9:21 AM:

" great letter connie....i've heard several GOP governors say they will accept all but the portion unemployment funding that their states have to match in order to be eligible. now they're even changing their tune on that. guess they failed to realize unemployed people vote too. "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Feb 26, 2009 10:34 AM:

" REPUBLICANS SHUT OUT OF STIMULUS CONFERENCE NEGOTIATIONS

Humanevents (Feb 11 2009) Republicans have caught the Democrats in a midnight "stimulus" power play that seeks to cut Republican conferees out of the House-Senate negotiations to resolve a final version of the Obama "stimulus" package. Staff members from the offices of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) met last night to put together the "stimulus" conference report.

The deal was Snowe's and Collins's, according to a Senate source. Sen. Specter, who had been in Harry Reid's office for an earlier meeting on the compromise, left at about 7 p.m. At 8:45 p.m., there was another meeting at which Sens. Snowe and Collins were the only Republicans present. They made the deal, and Specter signed on to it later. He had given an indication of the deal earlier that evening in an MSNBC interview.

No House Republicans were at either meeting. "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Feb 26, 2009 11:38 AM:

" Joe Biden, apparently unaware that FDR wasn't president when the stock market crashed in 1929 and that only experimental TV sets were in use at that time, says:

"When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened."

*rimshot!* (laughter and applause)

Dedicated to my special-needs friend, Harry Potter....... "

Becky wrote on Feb 26, 2009 11:48 AM:

" r,w,b says: There are no bigger hypocrites than Democrats who talk about the 'good' of the people but who figure the way to get the 'goodies' for themselves is to appeal to base instincts and buy people's support

Does that work the same way as Bush's stimulus checks? I'm sorta confused??? "

oldschool wrote on Feb 26, 2009 1:03 PM:

" "News Flash" Ms. Manes, the Republicans wern't involved in any discussions. End of story, but not my post....Ms. Manes I have read many of your letters in the paper and quite frankly....you scare the heck out of me...you always have. I respect your ability to opine, yet I'll never understand your point of view. Are you sure you like living in this country? What possibily keeps you wanting to live here? I sense a lot of pain, suffering and mistrust through your life. So Sorry, trust Obama will make it ALL better for you. "

Harry Potter wrote on Feb 26, 2009 1:56 PM:

" Does that work the same way as Bush's stimulus checks? I'm sorta confused???

Ouch! Granny gets a cyber wedgie. Painful... "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Feb 26, 2009 3:26 PM:

" DEMOCRATS KILL MCCAIN'S ALTERNATIVE STIMULUS PLAN

WASHINGTON (Feb 5 2009) The Senate has killed an alternative economic stimulus plan by Sen. John McCain that would have cut income and payroll taxes but spent far less than President Obama's plan.

McCain's plan would have cut the bottom two income tax brackets and lowered corporate income taxes. It also would have extended unemployment benefits and provide money to repair and replace military equipment worn out in Iraq and Afghanistan.

+++++++

This was the Democrats version of compromise....... "

warrior wrote on Feb 26, 2009 3:40 PM:

" Connie, why wouldn't the republican governors take the money that the democratic congress and prez voted for. Even though they didn't vote for it, they know that the taxpayers in their state will still have to pay it back, for like the next 20 years.
As far as IDOT goes, did you even happen to read that webpage?? 75% of the work is NORTH of Champaign. Also, what jobs are you talking about, Government jobs? Thats one of the reasons were in this mess, to many Government workers doing nothing sucking out of our wallets.
Did you know that in order for Illinois to get any of that stimulus money for their highways that IDOT will have to hire 50 or more people at a tune of 1.5 Million per year. One would think that we only need 2 or 3 people (IDOT Staff) standing around watching people work, not 5 or 6.
The only people that this stimulus will help is the UAW and other over priced union workers, financial institutions and of course all our Government Employees (Federal, State & Local) and Nancy's mice in California that got $30 million dollars. "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Feb 26, 2009 4:44 PM:

" THE 'STIMULUS' RUSE: DEMOCRAT REWARDS

pittsburghlive.com (Feb 1 2009)

There) are indications that Democrats are using the measure to bolster some of the very people who helped create the crisis and common lawbreakers.

-One provision would open the door to illegal aliens being given tax credits -- $500 per individual or $1,000 per couple. Even though "nonresident aliens" aren't said to be eligible, there's a loophole. Those who don't have Social Security numbers can use an alternative number.

-Then there's ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. Already funded with millions of dollars in taxpayer money -- and responsible for bullying the financial sector to give people mortgages who couldn't afford them -- ACORN could receive up to $5 billion more in public money. And the rules regarding the use of this money are even less rigorous than those received in past extortions.

This isn't a stimulus bill; this is a bill designed to reward illegality and thuggery, which just happens to be a very large part of the Democratic Party's base.

++++++++++

Do you folks feel "stimulated" so far? "

ed miller wrote on Feb 26, 2009 5:28 PM:

" Many of the the so-called stimulus comes with too many strings attached. Big Brother is forcing states to change their laws to accommodate the new socialist regime. For example, after the Fed money runs out, states must raise taxes on businesses to cover mandated new unemployment benefits. I know, Democrats just haven't gotten the fact that taxing businesses cause them to take their jobs elsewhere. "

Harry Potter wrote on Feb 26, 2009 5:56 PM:

" Aunt Dorthy whines because the Dems didn't go along with McCain's plan.

Would someone explain something to the cackling old biddy?

McCain lost the election. lol! "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Feb 26, 2009 6:23 PM:

" BLOGGERS AND UNIONS FORM GROUP TO PUSH DEMOCRATS TO THE LEFT

WASHINGTON: A group of liberal bloggers said it is teaming up with organized labor and MoveOn to form a political action committee that will seek to push the Democratic Party farther to the left.

Soliciting donations from their readers, the bloggers said they are planning to recruit liberal candidates for challenges against more centrist Democrats currently in Congress.

+++++++

The Revolution is coming folks. "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Feb 26, 2009 7:30 PM:

" Check this out folks,

Harry forgot to change his posting name back to "fatherbob" and accidentally posted to himself

+++++++++++++++

(Harry Potter wrote on Feb 26, 2009 6:09 PM:
" Wow, he shore does have a purdy mouf.

See what I mean, hp?")

++++++++++++++

BUSTED!

I told you Harry was really Fatherbob.

Read it here: http://tinyurl.com/d6sbek "

redwhiteblue wrote on Feb 26, 2009 8:06 PM:

red,white,blue wrote on Feb 26, 2009 8:13 PM:

" I purposely stayed off this blog all day just to see what answers I might get to the question I posed this morning. While no one seems to be really able to explain how all this spending is going to work (perhaps because there is no explanation?), I do see a lot of good responses to Ms. Manes. Especially concerning how Republicans were shut out of negotiations and talks about the so-called stimulus package. Thank you. Anybody else scared of the road we're going down? I sure am. "

Harry Potter wrote on Feb 26, 2009 8:17 PM:

" BUSTED!

I told you Harry was really Fatherbob.

Ever since Susan and I caught Blowdog posting as NeoCOn a while back he's been waiting in the bushes rubbing his little greasy paws together waiting for one of us to make an error. Yeah Cybil, my error really proves father bob and I are the same person, right BlowdogDemocrat/Stanley Stetson/NeoCon Academician/ Doh/ oldschool? (did I miss any?) hee hee... "

red,white,blue wrote on Feb 26, 2009 8:37 PM:

" Ms. Manes: How much chance did our defense secretary give our military families when he made the decision to change a many years policy (long before Bush) to not photograph caskets of our brave young men and women? From Military Families United:
Dear Military Families United Member and Supporter,

As many of you already know, Defense Secretary Robert Gates today announced that the current ban on the media photographing the transfer cases ceremony at Dover Air Force Base has been overturned. We at Military Families United are disappointed with this decision because we feel that the families of the fallen heroes were not consulted prior to announcing this unnecessary change in policy. Despite Sec. Gates saying that he received input from a number of sources, including all of the military services and the organizations representing military families, Military Families United, the largest military family organization, was not contacted or consulted.

This is unbelievable. Who should have more to say about this than the families themselves? "

red,white,blue wrote on Feb 26, 2009 8:47 PM:

" Here are some more 'compromises' the Obama administration wants us to accept since the president is a supporter of ACORN. Partial excerpt from Michelle Malkin's column:

But a closer look at ACORN's sob stories shows that the prototypical foreclosure "victims" don't deserve an ounce of sympathy -- or a cent of our money.

Earlier this week, ACORN activists broke into a foreclosed home in Baltimore. With a mob cheering and camera crew taping, Baltimore ACORN leader Louis Beverly busted a padlock and jimmied the door open at 315 South Ellwood Ave. The home once belonged to restaurant worker Donna Hanks, who assailed her evil bank for raising her mortgage by $300 and leaving her on the street. "This is our house now," Beverly declared with Hanks by his side at the break-in.

What ACORN didn't tell you: Hanks' house was sold in June 2008 for $192,000. She bought the two-story home in the summer of 2001 for $87,000. At some point during the next five years, she refinanced the original home loan for $270,000. Where did all that money go? (Hint: Think house-sized ATM.)

The property initially went into foreclosure proceedings in the spring of 2006. Hanks soon filed for bankruptcy and agreed to a Chapter 13 plan to pay back her bank and other creditors. In September 2006, the bankruptcy court ordered Hanks' employer to deduct $340/month from her salary to pay down the debt. Hanks did not comply with the legally binding plan. In December 2007, the loan servicer issued a notice of default on nearly $7,000 past due.

While she was reneging on her mortgage IOUs, she somehow managed to collect rent on her basement (for which she was taken to court) and rack up a criminal record on charges of theft and second-degree assault. The house was sold seven months ago after two years of court-negotiated attempts to allow Hanks to dig herself out of her debt hole.

Beverly, who claims to be a foreclosure victim himself, was charged with burglary for the break-in and released. He is literally a housing thug -- having been separately charged with second-degree assault and property destruction earlier this year; battery, assault, handgun possession and possession of a deadly weapon with intent to injure in 1992; and slapped with a peace order issued against him in 2006."

And these are the people that Obama has praised. "

The Question wrote on Feb 26, 2009 9:07 PM:

" You know TQ, even though you said to ignore him, I really can't passs this up. This is too much fun. Watch when I'm Susan. He be fit to be tied. hee hee... "

The Question wrote on Feb 26, 2009 10:22 PM:

" Very funny. Now I really am talking to myself. "

gringa wrote on Feb 26, 2009 11:04 PM:

" The Question wrote on Feb 26, 2009 9:07 PM:

" You know TQ, even though you said to ignore him, I really can't passs this up. This is too much fun. Watch when I'm Susan. He be fit to be tied. hee hee... "

Hmmm, you know, the only way the above post makes sense is if you assume that Harry intended to make this post and he didn't realize he was logged in as The Question. There, finally, proof positive: TQ is a double moniker for someone. Who could it be?

I don't think Susan poses as Harry. She simply doesn't have the smarts to do that. I maybe can see Susan posting as TQ or certainly father bob. Both of those characters are as dense as Susan is. But Susan posing as HP. No way. Hate to admit it, but Harry seems to be fairly intelligent - usually wrong-headed - but still, smart most of the time.

Yep, I can see where Susan and father bob and TQ could all come from the same brain, but ol Harry is a cut above those three. "

techman wrote on Feb 26, 2009 11:06 PM:

" I typical letter from a person on the public payroll. Hopefully you did not write this on your work terminal. I do have a question though, just who is going to support your job after your blessed democrats take all of the wealth from the productive people?
I find it amazing that the government is going to supervise the auto companies, yet they cannot control their own spending. They rail on the CEO's of businesses about private jets, yet they travel the world on government jets as if they own the place. Even at Connie's blessed EIU, the average CEO could probably find plenty of waste that could be eliminated without harming the instructional content.
Remember that the democrats have caused most of the problems by supporting programs which allow unqualified people to purchase homes and some silly rules that are affecting how banks are rated.
As far as the economy goes, this is the United States, the government could have stayed out of it and we would have recovered just fine. "

The Question wrote on Feb 27, 2009 7:38 AM:

" Hmmm, you know, the only way the above post makes sense is if you assume that Harry intended to make this post and he didn't realize he was logged in as The Question.
----
Actually, there's another way to make sense of it, gringa. Someone was posing as me in the 9:07 p.m. post.
I guess that's one of the reasons why I've never confused you with Sherlock Holmes. "

Becky wrote on Feb 27, 2009 7:44 AM:

" r,w,b said" "Especially concerning how Republicans were shut out of negotiations and talks about the so-called stimulus package. Thank you."

So that's why the funding for Futuregen is on it's way today? Oh wait.....yeah, the Republican's who were there wanted it out....my bad. "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Feb 27, 2009 8:14 AM:

" (gringa - "Yep, I can see where Susan and father bob and TQ could all come from the same brain, but ol Harry is a cut above those three.")

Last night, Harry inadvertently revealed that he is really fatherbob, gringa. Harry was clearly conversing with his other moniker "fatherbob" when he mistakenly posted:

"See what I mean, hp?" ....OOPS! LOL

I've always suspected that he was fatherbob, and if you observe you'll find that bobby pretty much shares Harry's snot-nosed school-yard humor.

Plus the fact that those two monikers engage in an inordinate amount of "back and forth" all of the time.

I don't think Susan has anything to do with any of this. Question (The Drama Queen) on the other hand, is a different matter. It's possible he was just blowing a smoke screen with his, OOPS-post, last night.

But of course, the obvious question is.....why?

The bottom line is this, gringa:

This incessant name-game-blame is way beyond old at this point. But Harry makes sure that it is brought up in just about every thread around here.

His motive is quite clear. Anyone can see that, Harry's had a difficult time winning any debates around here lately, so he uses the excuse that I (and a host of other bloggers) are playing the very name-game that he's hiding behind, in an attempt to re-direct the conversation away from any real debate.

It's sophomoric schoolyard behavior at it's best, and dishonest troll-like tactics, at it's most obvious.

In other words: typical Harry Potter............. "

Locke wrote on Feb 27, 2009 10:24 AM:

" It is I, the great and powerful Locke, who is both Cybil and Harry & Company. I have nothing better to do than argue with myself, claiming my other multiple identities of having multiple identities. I am he as you are she as we are all together. See how they run? "

The Question wrote on Feb 27, 2009 10:30 AM:

" The Senate voted Wednesday to bar federal regulators from reimposing the Fairness Doctrine, which would require balanced coverage of issues on public airwaves.
The pre-emptive strike against the Fairness Doctrine has been actively pushed by conservative radio talk show hosts.
The 87-11 vote added the measure as an amendment to a bill giving District of Columbia residents a vote in the Houses.
So all the Republican Chicken Littles can relax. Their hate-filled, lying, right-wing rants on talk radio and Fox News will continue unabated. "

father bob wrote on Feb 27, 2009 10:46 AM:

" TQ....speaking of their hatemongering leader, his hate induced rants are literally like those on adolf hitler. hitler was a great orator who knew how to use radio to spread his hate.

the present day republicans are akin to the nazi movement. there's too many similarities to think otherwise.

the political arena has gone from common, but courteous differences of opinion to literal hate....all brought on by the likes of rush limbaugh and karl rove.

when your leaders say they hope america fails, and preach that on a daily basis, the uneducated loyal followers fall right on lockstep with them. an angry, armed, hate-filled rightwing is on it's way, and could start a civil war before all is done. "

Harry Potter wrote on Feb 27, 2009 11:31 AM:

" (AP) President Barack Obama's former nominee to become commerce secretary, Sen. Judd Gregg, steered taxpayer money to his home state's redevelopment of a former Air Force base even as he and his brother engaged in real estate deals there, an Associated Press investigation found.

Gregg, R-N.H., personally has invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in Cyrus Gregg's office projects at the Pease International Tradeport, a Portsmouth business park built at the defunct Pease Air Force Base, once home to nuclear bombers. Judd Gregg has collected at least $240,017 to $651,801 from his investments there, Senate records show, while helping arrange at least $66 million in federal aid for the former base.

Hmmmmm....

What do you think about this one, ed? "

Harry Potter wrote on Feb 27, 2009 11:42 AM:

" No gringa, Blowdog is just upset that Susan, father bob, TQ and myself have all caught onto his act and have even been able to identify most of his other posting names, and he is merely trying to capitalize on an error on my part. Anyone with half a brain can see that. But I'm sure he will cackle on about it for weeks, and that's OK with me, because the more he does the sillier he looks, if that's possible. "

red,white,blue wrote on Feb 27, 2009 11:46 AM:

" Hate to burst your bubble, Becky (no I don't), but Durbin has been a huge backer of FutureGen. One of the few things I can give him credit for. It's in the package because of him and for no other reason. "

STINKY wrote on Feb 27, 2009 12:13 PM:

" Yo RW&B: It's called cash flow analysis. You spend money now in order to spend less in the future. "

STINKY wrote on Feb 27, 2009 12:21 PM:

" I wonder if one single event, person or body was responsible for economic slowdown? Judging by these comments, I think the answer is yes. Oh well, I figured there was many variables. "

The Question wrote on Feb 27, 2009 12:54 PM:

" David Michael Green has pointed out that the Republicans have one big problem -- the smart, charismatic President Obama --- and another, even bigger problem.
That would be the Republicans themselves.
Fielding laughable, pandering, sickening "leaders" like Palin and Jindal, the GOP is seen by the public as having wrecked the economy and then deliberately blocking its rescue.
"If Jindal could have looked smaller or more panderingly counterfeit to his viewers, I really don't know how," Green said. "If his party's rescue plan - 'Let's do nothing!' - could have smacked more of Herbert Hoover's massively popular 1932 platform, I really can't imagine it." "

The Question wrote on Feb 27, 2009 3:07 PM:

" Remember that sob story Jindal told in his big speech Tuesday -- the one about how during Katrina, he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with a sheriff who was fighting government bureaucracy to try to rescue stranded victims?
Oops. His spokeswoman has admitted he was lying.
After being confronted by journalists about factual discrepancies in Jindal's tale, his spokeswoman has admitted that Jindal actually "overheard" someone talking about the episode to someone else by phone "days later."
In other words, Jindal is just a bare-faced liar. No wonder Limbaugh loves him. "

NeoCon Academician wrote on Feb 27, 2009 9:50 PM:

" From the Christian Science Monitor online...The Tea Party Begins...

Several thousand neopatriots some shouting Give me liberty or give me death! took to the streets in over 30 US cities Friday, representing what some of them call the beginning of a new conservative counterculture in America.

The spark has been lit, says Ben Mihalski, a house husband from Cobb County, Ga., one of at least 300 protesters who gathered in a hefty downpour outside the Georgia Capitol on Friday to protest what they see as profligate spending by Washington.

Protesters with sign-slogans like Pillage and plunder: At least the Vikings did it openly fanned out across capitols and courthouses in cities from Nashville, Tenn., to Los Angeles, objecting to bailouts and policy changes since the inauguration of President Obama.

The Tea Party USA movement also added some symbolic flourish, vowing to gather tens of thousands of tea bags to be dumped on the floor of the US Congress. In Atlanta, the brand was Luzianne.

Take note Commander-n-Thief Obama along with your socialist scumbag cohorts... "

medic57 wrote on Feb 27, 2009 10:06 PM:

" If that was the intent, Congress and Obama would simply step aside and allow private enterprise to work - just as it ALWAYS has.

And just how good is that working right now, or in the last year or in the 1930's.

Don't forget, this new budget hasn't been passed yet, no money has been spent, and if they wanted to, the Republicans could fillibuster it and block it in the senate. Let's see how bad they want to block it. "

Cognitus wrote on Feb 27, 2009 11:57 PM:

" Andres:"" red,white,blue: what's going on right now in Washington is NOT about fixing our economic woes. If that was the intent, Congress and Obama would simply step aside and allow private enterprise to work - just as it ALWAYS has."

Well the recession has been going on since 2007 -- so tell me, oh wise man,
WHY HASN'T YOUR PRIVATE ENTERPRISE FIXED IT ALREADY??? SEEMS LIKE **YOU**
NEED TO GET OUT AND GIVE IT A SHOVE. "

Cognitus wrote on Feb 28, 2009 12:23 AM:

" RWBlue:"How much chance did our defense secretary give our military families when he made the decision to change a many years policy (long before Bush) to not photograph caskets of our brave young men and women?"

If you would spend a little time READING and less time WRITING you would know that Gates said EACH FAMILY will be asked whether they wish their member's casket to be seen or not.
GET IT??? EACH FAMILY WILL BE ASKED IN ADVANCE.

...always looking for something to b***** about and, unwilling or unable to read, just make it up....

Also you're wrong when you say LONG before Bush. The policy was established BY George H. W. Bush -- NOT "before Bush" -- to HIDE the number of fatalities in the Gulf War.
I do wish you would read before you
open your fly.... "

Rohn Gordon wrote on Feb 28, 2009 9:12 AM:

" The Question wrote on Feb 27, 2009 12:54 PM
That would be the Republicans themselves.
Fielding laughable, pandering, sickening "leaders" like Palin and Jindal,
Yes I agree with that. But I am sticking to my original thoughts on this one. I think the McCain and the Repubs did a pay to play thing in the presidential elections. In the way they "they KNEW after what people thought of Bush there was NO WAY a Repub could win. So instead of making McCain look like a looser, they picked Palin as the scapegoat. They KNEW she was stupid as the day is long. They KNEW of all of her baggage. McCain had nothing to loose. I am sure he was paid handsomely. Now they have ran the new moron out, Jindal, is ONLY a disguise. They are not going to show their Ace in the hole "UNTIL" they feel they have a chance of overtaking the Dems. Will it be 4 years or 8??? I don't know but you can BET there is one." And NO Harry its NOT Rush. LMAO "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Feb 28, 2009 9:53 AM:

" (Question - "Remember that sob story Jindal told in his big speech Tuesday -- the one about how during Katrina, he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with a sheriff who was fighting government bureaucracy to try to rescue stranded victims?
......In other words, Jindal is just a bare-faced liar.")

Uhm....no Drama Queen, I'm afraid your crap-as-usual, moonbat "news" source is lying as usual:

Here's a video: http://tinyurl.com/agbfdy

Direct from Jindals office, its archive video of none other than Sheriff Harry Lee (who passed away two years ago) standing right beside Jindal and endorsing Jindal for governor. Why? Because Jindal was so helpful and hands-on in using his congressional authority to assist the recovery effort after Katrina, which included ..... a personal visit to Lees office "the day after" the storm.
Sheriff Harry Lee: "I said 'Bobby, where'd this new equipment come from?...I want to thank somebody'; He said, 'I took care of it', he said 'Don't worry about it'."

Watch it and weep Drama Queen.

But hey, don't bother retracting your baseless Left-Wing lies and propaganda, just goosestep on by as if this video doesn't exist.

You know.....like you always do, Herr Goebbels ....... "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Feb 28, 2009 10:26 AM:

" OBAMA'S BUSH VINDICATION

WSJ (Feb 27 2009) But more important than Mr. Obamas implicit repudiation of his own positions as a candidate (and the implicit vindication of Mr. Bushs position, to say nothing of John McCain's) is his decision to maintain a sizable U.S. military presence in Iraq in the range of 35,000 to 50,000 troops past the August 2010 "withdrawal" date. That "transitional force" is roughly the size of the U.S. military presence in South Korea through the Cold War. And its mission, involving training of Iraqi forces, U.S. force protection and "targeted counterterrorism missions," largely describes what the U.S. is already doing in Iraq.....

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Geez, all you anti-war peace-loving Liberals; where's your outrage at this?

I guess 50,000 "Imperialistic" troops "illegally invading" and occupying Iraq to further "steal all of those poor brown-skinned people's oil" is a-okay all of a sudden, huh?

Oh and, I've got news for you Moonbats; if you really think we're leaving Iraq in 2011..... then I've got some really "effective" low income government subsidized housing projects for you on the South Side of Chicago that are in excellent shape; courtesy of one "community-organizer".

LOL..... "

Cognitus wrote on Feb 28, 2009 11:37 AM:

" Blue Dog:"Direct from Jindals office, its archive video of none other than Sheriff Harry Lee (who passed away two years ago) standing right beside Jindal and endorsing Jindal for governor."

BD, endorsing Jindal is a long way from the incident described above. Look for another example. "

The Question wrote on Feb 28, 2009 12:24 PM:

" Right-wing christians are supposedly horrified by the fact that Jesus was brutally tortured and executed. But they are just fine with torture as long as Fox News says its OK. They even think it's funny. "

The Question wrote on Feb 28, 2009 1:55 PM:

" The jig's up for the GOP. A New York Times/CBS News poll asked: Do you think [Republicans] opposed [the stimulus bill] mostly because they thought it would be bad for the economy or mostly for political reasons?
Sixty-three percent of respondents cited "political reasons" and only 29 percent believed the "not good for the economy" explanation from the Republicans. By a two-to-one margin, Americans no longer believe what Republicans say about their much-touted, much-betrayed "principles." "

The Question wrote on Feb 28, 2009 2:36 PM:

" By the way, the New Orleans Times-Picayune has complete details on Jindal's lies, if anyone's interested. "

Harry Potter wrote on Feb 28, 2009 3:30 PM:

" According to an AOL on line poll, 73% percent agree with the Obama's plan's for Iraq. "

The Question wrote on Feb 28, 2009 4:45 PM:

" Looks like the Stepford Mormon beats out the Winkin' Witch of Wasilla.
Mitt Romney won the Conservative Political Action Conference straw poll, earning the backing of 20 percent of the crowd. Following Romney, the next largest vote recipients included, Bobby Jindal with 14 percent of the vote, Ron Paul with 13 percent and Gov. Sarah Palin with 13 percent.
I've always said that Romney should be popular. He's been on every side of every issue. Being completely unprincipled can be a real advantage.
And I'm glad to see that Ron Paul, the only right-wing candidate who is honest, matched the brainless, babbling Moose Queen, despite her relentless build-up by the Republican propaganda machine. "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Feb 28, 2009 5:02 PM:

Harry Potter wrote on Feb 28, 2009 5:06 PM:

" ***Blowdog wedgie alert***

BD, endorsing Jindal is a long way from the incident described above. Look for another example. "

But he only uses "facts" to back up his claims. LOL! "

Harry Potter wrote on Feb 28, 2009 5:26 PM:

" I guess Cybildog doesn't understand the difference in combat troops and support troops.

I can't recall any complaints from the left side over having support troops in South Korea or Europe. If there was I must have missed it.

But I'm sure this will keep old Blowie busy for a while digging through old information on here. LOL! "

Harry Potter wrote on Feb 28, 2009 5:36 PM:

" WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Conservative activists on Saturday named former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney the winner of a poll for best 2012 GOP presidential candidate.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney won 20 percent of the vote in straw poll for presidential favorites.

The poll marked the third consecutive year Romney came out on top.

Wow, what happened to the new GOP Messiah Bobby Jindal or Sarah Failin for that matter? "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Feb 28, 2009 5:51 PM:

" I guess this guy's lying too, huh Cognitus?

Here's Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand, ONE OF MANY DEMOCRATS WHO CROSSED PARTY LINES TO SUPPORT JINDAL:

VIDEO: http://tinyurl.com/cneang

Tell me all of you Olbermann-Disciples, why did so many of these local Democrat officials cross party lines to endorse Bobby Jindal?

Like the 65-member Louisiana Sheriffs Association, who endorsed him for governor even though all but seven of them are Democrats, and even though they had endorsed his opponent four years earlier.

Were they all liars? "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Feb 28, 2009 8:21 PM:

" The Question wrote on Feb 28, 2009 12:24 PM:
" Right-wing christians are supposedly horrified by the fact that Jesus was brutally tortured and executed. But they are just fine with torture as long as Fox News says its OK. They even think it's funny. "

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I guess your news sources "The Huffington Post" and MSNBC didn't carry these little tidbits of Hope And Change huh, Drama Queen:

OBAMA'S CIA CHIEF OPEN TO TOUGHER METHODS IN SOME C.I.A. INTERRORGATION:

THE NEW YORK TIMES (Feb 2 2009) Leon E. Panetta, the White House pick to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, on Thursday left open the possibility that the agency could seek permission to use interrogation methods more aggressive than the limited menu that President Obama authorized under new rules issued last month.

OBAMA'S PENTAGON REVIEW: GITMO MEETS THE STANDARDS OF THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS

WASHINGTONPOST (Feb 21 2009)A Pentagon review of conditions at the Guantanamo Bay military prison has concluded that the treatment of detainees meets the requirements of the Geneva Conventions

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Now here's what I want you to do, Herr Goebbels; I want you to keep goosestepping by these pesky little facts as if they really don't exist.

Mkay, Drama Queen? "

The Question wrote on Feb 28, 2009 8:40 PM:

" Poor Republicans.
Americans identifying themselves as Democrats outnumber those who say they are Republicans by 10 percentage points, the largest gap in party identification in 24 years.
Poor, poor Republicans.
Those attending the annual Conservative Political Action Conference this week all agreed on one thing -- they don't want another George W. Bush, the disastrous, greedy, corrupt ape they foisted on this nation.
Poor. poor, poor Republicans. "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Feb 28, 2009 9:46 PM:

" (Cognitus - "BD, endorsing Jindal is a long way from the incident described above. Look for another example.")

Calling the deceased Sheriff Harry Lee a liar is a pathetic excuse for this blatant Left-wing lie, Cognitus. Look for a better spin. "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Feb 28, 2009 9:55 PM:

" (Harry - "I guess Cybildog doesn't understand the difference in combat troops and support troops.")

Apparently HarryTard can't read:

WSJ - .....And its mission, involving training of Iraqi forces, U.S. force protection and "targeted counterterrorism missions," largely describes what the U.S. is already doing in Iraq....

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Now then HarryTard, why don't you explain to all of us Obama's definition of combat troops versus support troops and then tell us how it all differs from the troops missions in the last two years.

This should be very informative...... "

medic57 wrote on Feb 28, 2009 11:30 PM:

" I see where the Governator said he will take the stimulus money the other Rep. Governors don't want. "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 1, 2009 6:59 AM:

" Ben Armbruster-

This is America; you do not get to hold people for five years without charges.
Today, a federal grand jury formally charged Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri the only enemy combatant held inside the United States with two counts of providing material support to al Qaeda. This afternoon, Fox News host Shepard Smith briefly veered off the Fox reservation and expressed outrage that al-Marri has been imprisoned for five years without any charges being filed against him:

SMITH: He has been held in a military prison for more than five years not Chris Wallace this next person. And he wasnt ever charged. Think about that. I mean just think about it fundamentally. You are held for five years in prison, and youre never charged! Oh well it was an al-Qaeda suspect, suspected al-Qaeda operative. Who cares who it is?! You dont get to this is America; you do not get to hold people for five years without actually, you do. But hes getting its day in court now.

Indeed, bringing charges against al-Marri in a civilian court represents an abrupt change in policy from the Bush administration which had argued that he could be held indefinitely without being charged. Attorney General Eric Holder said today that the indictment shows our resolve to protect the American people and prosecute alleged terrorists to the full extent of the law and that the Obama administration will hold accountable anyone who attempts to do harm to Americans, and we will do so in a manner consistent with our values.

Fox news getting indignant on this issue is sort of like the Republicans new found love for fiscal conservatism, after 8 years of spending like drunken sailors. "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 1, 2009 7:59 AM:

" For the last year or so, Glenn Beck has been attempting to peg Barack Obama and the Democrats as actual communists, and now he's going all out with, quite literally, a red scare segment on his show -- festooning his set with Soviet flag graphics, a "Comrade Update" logo and a Russian language crawl in the lower-third of the screen.

And the out of touch right wingers wonder why their message isn't selling. LOL! "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 1, 2009 8:08 AM:

" Unable to refute anything posted on this site sourcing The Huffington Post, poor Cybil is having to resort to his ongoing blather about an incident where they apologised for unknowingly ran a doctored video.

Oh yes, more of his "fact" based reporting.

Yes, I'm sure Huffington is the only information source out there that has ever had to run a retraction for going with misinformation. Of course Fox news or any of the Rupert Maddog Murdoch entities have ever had to run corrections, apologies or retractions, have they? LOL! "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 1, 2009 8:10 AM:

" BD, endorsing Jindal is a long way from the incident described above. Look for another example. "

Whoa! another "smackdown" for Cybil? "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 1, 2009 8:23 AM:

" Arianna Huffington: Sunday Roundup
When given the choice between having Barack Obama reach across the aisle to work with the GOP or pursue the policies he advanced during his campaign, a significant majority of Americans want him to stick to his guns (56 percent to 39 percent). And 79 percent of the public wants Republicans to drop the partisanship and work with Obama. No wonder Obama seems to be driving Republicans over the edge, with Tom DeLay calling the president's address to Congress "insane," John Bolton cracking jokes about the nuclear annihilation of Chicago, and Bobby Jindal using his time in the spotlight to rave -- inaccurately -- about wasteful "volcano monitoring" programs. You know times are tough for Republicans when the highlight of CPAC is a two-minute speech delivered by a 13-year old.

The GOP meltdown continues. Oh yeah, I hope they continue to spotlight Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Joe the Plumbers helper and that sort of ilk, in their downward spiral.

I can't remember who said it on here awhile back, but the first rule of getting yourself out of a hole is to stop digging. "

medic57 wrote on Mar 1, 2009 8:31 AM:

" The Question wrote on Feb 28, 2009 12:24 PM:

" Right-wing christians are supposedly horrified by the fact that Jesus was brutally tortured and executed. But they are just fine with torture as long as Fox News says its OK. They even think it's funny. "

The difference? Jesus foretold of his death, and, he let all of this happen to him , he could have stopped it at any time, he was God after all, he let it happen for me, and you. "

red,white,blue wrote on Mar 1, 2009 8:57 AM:

" To Cognitus: AS for my post (which was quoting someone from Military for Families United I believe) regarding the media being allowed to photograph caskets, the first stories out stated that the ban was being overturned. You are being disingenuous when you criticize my post as you have the advantage of later reports than I did at the time. Also, you state that I said the ban was in place long before Bush, I was wrong because it was the first President Bush. Again, parsing words as we all know George W. Bush was continually criticized for that ban on
the media as though he were the one who had initiated it. Your style of argument sounds suspiciously like the writer of this letter. "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 1, 2009 9:10 AM:

" First of all Harry, Shepard Smith is a Liberal, and is known for his Left-wing rants on the air.

And before you start to celebrate The Obama Administration's supposedly new-found legal-rights for terrorists- nonsense, you might want to ponder this little slice of reality:

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION MAINTAINS BUSH POSITION ON 'EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION'

ABCNEWS (Feb 9 2009) The Obama Administration today announced that it would keep the same position as the Bush Administration in the lawsuit Mohamed et al v Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc.

The case involves five men who claim to have been victims of extraordinary rendition -- including current Guantanamo detainee Binyam Mohamed, another plaintiff in jail in Egypt, one in jail in Morocco, and two now free....

Obama Justice Department spokesman Matt Miller said of the case, "It is the policy of this administration to invoke the state secrets privilege only when necessary and in the most appropriate cases, consistent with the United States Supreme Court's decision in Reynolds that the privilege not 'be lightly invoked.'"

The ACLU says the Obama administration reneged on civil liberties, offers "more of the same."

Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director of the ACLU said of the decision: "Eric Holders Justice Department stood up in court today and said that it would continue the Bush policy of invoking state secrets to hide the reprehensible history of torture, rendition and the most grievous human rights violations committed by the American government. This is not change. This is definitely more of the same. Candidate Obama ran on a platform that would reform the abuse of state secrets, but President Obama's Justice Department has disappointingly reneged on that important civil liberties issue. If this is a harbinger of things to come, it will be a long and arduous road to give us back an America we can be proud of again."

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Oh my, that's real Change-y isn't it!

But hey, Harry

I have an idea; Why don't you just pretend that this fact is entirely false....or better yet, just pretend it doesn't even exist and ignore it all together.

You know....like you always do......... "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 1, 2009 9:19 AM:

" I watched parts of the Limbaugh tirade at the Republican get together. It's not hard to see why our friend was advocating folks to watch it yesterday. Limbaugh did not dissapoint his fans. His speech was reminiscent of the long winded tirades of Adolph Hitler. Hate, derision and scorn for the current administration may play well with the radical element of the Republican party, and on this web site, but will it get the GOP back in power? I doubt it.

The GOP meltdown continues... "

out-there wrote on Mar 1, 2009 9:28 AM:

" Repub logic is to keep making the rich and corprate richer giving taxbreaks to the wealthy has done nothing for the middle class except send there jobs over sea. Repub have had there chance for many years of control of congress to run this country down no matter what party held the presidents
office.Now if the rich or corprate America want tax breaks they will have to create jobs here for the good of this country.what a shame for them!!!
The worst form of socialism is called
temporary job sevices.It has made employers unacountable and made the training of new employees a joke.
What is it called when a small group has control of most of the jobs in a comunity.
Mr McCain needs to retire back to his plantation the only people that him and his repub radicals,blow hole Rush
are fulling is themselves.
Instead of sabtoge they should be out looking for ways to create new jobs for the country. "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 1, 2009 9:37 AM:

" Those we like America folks at FOX News sure have a funny way of showing their esteem sometimes. Take, for example, Glenn Beck's February 20, 2009 show in which he did his darnedest to scare viewers into thinking that the country is on the road to Apocalypse. In a paranoid fantasy spun out over several segments, Beck and a series of guests set forth a number of dire worst-case scenarios for the United States in 2014. During each segment, Beck gave viewers the disclaimer that the apocalyptic visions he and his guests presented were not predictions of what would happen but merely what could happen. And yet Beck and his guests spoke as though the doomsday scenarios, including civil war, were a likelihood, if not a fait accompli.

Since joining Fox, Beck seems to have be given free reign to get even more far out with his delusional shows.

Oh yeah, as our friend Tommy says, thank God for Fox news. LOL! "

NeoCon Academician wrote on Mar 1, 2009 10:13 AM:

" NEW AMERICAN TEA PARTY

http://newamericanteaparty.com/

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
02/28/2009

St. Louis Tea Party

ST. LOUIS Critics of President Barack Obama's stimulus plan gathered beneath the Arch Friday to cheer speeches over a bullhorn and toss tea into the Mississippi River.

A few conservative activists organized and promoted the rally, with help from talk-radio hosts. Pleased with the turnout in 35-degree bluster, leaders said they had stolen a page from liberal tradition by taking to the streets with homemade signs.

"If I had known this many people would show up, I'd have charged admission," said Bill Hennessy of Ballwin, the lead organizer. "We'll do this every chance we get until Congress repeals the pork or we retire them from public life."

Hennessy estimated that more than 1,000 people showed up. There was no official count, but the crowd spilled across roughly one-fourth of the grand staircase from the Arch to Leonor K. Sullivan Boulevard. Former state Sen. John Loudon, R-Chesterfield, said, "We conservatives are usually pretty pathetic at making crowds. But this one's good."

A Chicago Tea Party'

February 24, 2009

Chicago's lakefront is the site of fireworks extravaganzas, sailing regattas and air and water shows. But come summer, if Rick Santelli has his way, it may host a political protest"a Chicago Tea Party," with angry Americans gathered on Lake Michigan, "dumping in some derivative securities."

Santelli, a CNBC television reporter, evoked pre-revolutionary Boston last week on-air from the Chicago Board of Trade. His high-decibel tirade ripped President Obama's mortgage relief plan. "The government is promoting bad behavior," he said, insisting the public should vote "to see if we really want to subsidize the losers' mortgages." This plan, Santelli ranted, reminded him of Cuba, which "used to have mansions and a relatively decent economy" until it "moved from the individual to the collective." "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 1, 2009 10:36 AM:

" out-there wrote on Mar 1, 2009 9:28 AM:

" Repub logic is to keep making the rich and corprate richer giving taxbreaks to the wealthy.....

Instead of sabtoge they should be out looking for ways to create new jobs for the country.

It's called the Reagan trickle "on" theory, out-there. The wealthy get all they want and they pass a few crumbs down to the peons. Study after study have shown the income gap in the country is widening.

They wealth of this country is getting into fewer and fewer family's hands each year.

A few more years of Republicans like Bush in control and we would be more even more like a south American economy than we are today.

The only solution to our problem, from the Republican side, is more tax cuts for the wealthy. We saw where that got us, didn't we? "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 1, 2009 10:42 AM:

" Wow, Cybil doesn't take her smackdowns very well, does she? Perhaps her tin foil hat is on too tight today. LOL! "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 1, 2009 11:02 AM:

" Appearing on Meet the Press, veteran Republican strategist Mike Murphy, no stranger to trying to drag his party away from certain ideologically-fervent posts, expressed fears about Limbaugh's ascendancy. "If we don't modernize conservatism," Murphy warned, "we are going to have a party of 25 percent of the vote going to Limbaugh rallies...we're going to be in permanent minority status."

The country is changing. Ronald Reagan won in 1980 with 51% of the vote. We all worship Ronald Reagan. But if that election had been held with the current demographics in America today, Ronald Reagan would have gotten 47 percent of the vote. The math is changing. Anglo vote is 74 percent now not 89. And if we don't modernize conservatism, we are going to have a party of 25 percent of the vote going to Limbaugh rallies, joining every applause line, ripping the furniture up, we're going to be in permanent minority status.

This guy actually gets it, it's a good thing for the Democratic party that rest of his party doesn't. Throwing Limbaugh like hissy fits, calling names and lying about the Obama administration seems to be what the majority of Republicans are all about these days, including those that continue to whine about Obama on this site. "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 1, 2009 11:30 AM:

" Speaking to Bob Schieffer on CBS's Face the Nation...

SCHIEFFER: We talked about Newt Gingrich a lot this morning and now you bring up Rush Limbaugh. Who do you think now speaks for the Republican Party?

EMANUEL: You just named him: it is Rush Limbaugh. He has laid out his vision, in my view. And he said it clearly. I compliment him for that. He's been very up front and I compliment him for that. He's not hiding. He's asked for President Obama and called for President Obama to fail. That's his view. And that's what he has enunciated. And whenever a Republican criticizes him, they have to run back and apologize to him and say they were misunderstood. He is the voice and the intellectual force and energy behind the Republican Party. He has been up front about what he views and hasn't stepped back from that, which is he hopes for failure. He said it and I compliment him for his honesty. But that's their philosophy that is enunciated by Rush Limbaugh and I think that's the wrong philosophy for America...

Oh yeah! Move over Jindal, you blew it, Rush Limbaugh is the new face of the Republican party. LOL! "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 1, 2009 11:33 AM:

" BD, endorsing Jindal is a long way from the incident described above. Look for another example. "

Blowdog is sort of like the old Timex commercials, he takes a lickin' and keep on tickin'....

You da man Doh! hee hee "

NeoCon Academician wrote on Mar 1, 2009 11:42 AM:

" US MISSILES SUSPECTED (some transparency) IN NORTHWEST PAKISTAN US

By ISHTIAQ MAHSUD and SHERIN ZADA

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan - A suspected U.S. missile killed seven people in a Taliban stronghold in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, officials said, while a hard-line cleric rattled peace efforts elsewhere by demanding the government launch Islamic courts within two weeks.
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Why is Obama attacking a country that's never attacked the US?

It's not like there's 17 UN sanction violations against a ruthless dictator there.

Pakistan is a nation with a democratically elected government, so the SCUMBAG-N-CHIEF OBAMA HAS THE BLOOD OF WOMEN, CHILDREN, AND INNOCENT VILLAGERS ON HIS HANDS. "

Locke wrote on Mar 1, 2009 1:06 PM:

" Some people want America to fail.

Some people claim the opposition worship's Stalin.

Some people claim doing more of the same will bring about different results -- tax breaks on the richest Americans.

Some people claim the opposition wants to hold back the people.

Some people claim the government is spending too much -- offering no realistic alternatives, hoping things will just get better.

Others believe it.

You got your right to have your own opinion, and you got the right to voice your delusional beliefs, but America spoke in November.

What do you want?

You want to work with the majority?

You want to work for compramise?

Or do you just want to throw a tantrum like a 12 year old, and run your party into oblivion?

Obama can't destroy an ideology; you can destroy your political party by playing partisan politics with the economy. "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 1, 2009 2:37 PM:

" I hadn't seen any pictures of Limbaugh for a while, and wow, is he ever getting obese. Those drugs he takes must be slowing down his metabolism. That along with all the greasy foods he probably eats have turned him into quite a disgusting spectacle. People having to actually look at him is probably what doomed his TV show. LOL! "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 1, 2009 2:40 PM:

" Rush Limbaugh's live address to CPAC will be televised on Fox News tomorrow at 5PM. Plan now to view this historic event. In addition, Rush will discuss the details of his arrest in Pittsburgh for solicitation of a male prostitute, and his other arrests for illegal drug use. Rush has requested that the audience refrain from asking about his arrest for attempting to smuggle Viagra through customs after his trip to the islands. Quite naturally, this is a little embarrassing or him and his all male group of traveling companions.

Thanks for the heads up, "Neo"... "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 1, 2009 4:08 PM:

" The Republican party is in total disarray. The only thing they have left is to continue their attack on President Obama. Obviously the party of no has no ideas to offer. As they grope around in the dark for the next four years, perhaps they will be able to put together something other than daily assault on the current administration. They offer nothing other than a retreat to their old failed policies of the last 8 years. Non government intervention and cutting taxes for the wealthy didn't work then, so why should it work now? Perhaps after a while they will finally realize that they lost not only the White House but both houses of congress as well, and by that, the country overwhelmingly said no to Republican politics. "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 1, 2009 4:14 PM:

" Pakistan is a nation with a democratically elected government, so the SCUMBAG-N-CHIEF OBAMA HAS THE BLOOD OF WOMEN, CHILDREN, AND INNOCENT VILLAGERS ON HIS HANDS.

After the hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians killed by Bush and Cheney policies, this one took a lot of nerve on your part to post, Cybil. Where was your concern and compassion a while back for those innocent Iraqi's? HYPOCRITE! "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 1, 2009 4:44 PM:

" OBAMA TO EXTEND IRAQ WITHDRAWAL TIMETABLE; 50,000 TROOPS TO STAY UNTIL THE END OF 2011

Oh dear oh dear.

Looks like Obama lied about getting all of those troops out of Iraq.

LOL "

NeoCon Academician wrote on Mar 1, 2009 6:38 PM:

" Obama will cause America to fail. He's alreeady started the failure as witnessed by the fall of the stock market.

Obama's people claim the opposition worship's Hitler, yet they are the one's being national socialists bailing out corporate, management, and union failures.

Obama's people claim going deeper indebtedness will bring about different results -- a prosperous America.

Obama's people claim's big government won't hold back the people.

Obama's people claim the government is not spending too much -- they offer socialist goverment indebtedness spending models from California, Illinois, Michigan, Kansas and elsewhere as "realistic" alternatives, to sound fiscal policies, hoping things will just get better.

Others don't believe it.

You have the right to have your own opinion, and you have the right to voice your delusional beliefs, and America was duped into their votes in November...showing that pandering, hand-outs, bailouts, and entitlements are a sure way to get votes.

What do you want?

You want to work with the minority?

You want to work for compromise?

Or do you just want to throw a tantrum like a 12 year old, and suppress opposition voices like with what's done in every other socialist country?

Obama won't destroy conserrvativism; it will only get stronger as a movement. You socialists, however, sure will destroy the American way of life by playing partisan politics with the economy. " "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 1, 2009 7:07 PM:

" Poor Blowdog, it's been pretty rough on him ever since his new Messiah, Bobby J totally blew his prime time debut.

I hope the GOP finds a new one for him pretty soon. I fear a complete meltdown is on the way if they don't come up with someone that can articulate a couple of sentences anything in front of a camera.

It's been a pretty rough road for Blowdog, first Sarah proved to be a blithering idiot, and now his Messiah blew his prime time shot. Hey, maybe that 13 year old kid who got to make a speech to the wacko element of the party will do. LOL! "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 1, 2009 7:12 PM:

" This is too much, Cybil...I mean Neocon talking about people throwing tantrums. That's all her posts are one hissy fit after another. "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 2, 2009 6:50 AM:

" Out of concern for "Neo's" emotional stability, I would advise him to avoid page A4 of the printed version of this paper today. "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 2, 2009 9:40 AM:

" So when did Limbaugh drop the comb over hair style? "

father bob wrote on Mar 2, 2009 10:00 AM:

" Kyls Earmark Hypocrisy: Requested $118 Million For Earmarks In Budget, But Railed Against Them In Stimulus

According to Taxpayers for Common Sense, Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) requested $118 million in earmarks in fiscal year 2008. On Fox News Sunday yesterday, host Chris Wallace pressed Kyl about his earmarks, saying it is an example of how Republicans have lost credibility on the issue of spending restraint. Who are you to lecture the Democrats on spending? asked Wallace.

Kyl deflected the question, saying that they werent earmarks because earmarks have a specific definition:

WALLACE: And were putting up on the screen, Senator, your earmarks, a long list of them, according to the Taxpayers for Common Sense, totaling $118 million.

Question I think its a fair one who are you to lecture the Democrats on spending?

KYL: Well, first of all, I dont see on the screen what youre talking about. I can defend everything that I have recommended in the budget, and I would suggest that theyre not earmarks under the definition, because we have a specific definition. "

Becky wrote on Mar 2, 2009 10:44 AM:

" "It's in the package because of him and for no other reason. "

r,w,b. I hate to burst your bubble (not really) but the funding for Futuregen was pulled from the stimulus bill because the Republican's wanted it out so Obama pulled it. So how could the republican's claim they had no say and were not there? Once again you listen to their lies and believe them. "

father bob wrote on Mar 2, 2009 11:58 AM:

" say it ain't so!!!.....

Limbaugh misquotes Constitution while arguing Obama policies are bastardization of Constitution. "

father bob wrote on Mar 2, 2009 12:01 PM:

" Harry Potter wrote on Mar 1, 2009 7:12 PM:
" This is too much, Cybil...I mean Neocon talking about people throwing tantrums. That's all her posts are one hissy fit after another. "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 2, 2009 6:50 AM:
" Out of concern for "Neo's" emotional stability, I would advise him to avoid page A4 of the printed version of this paper today. """""

HP....just think HOW SLOWLY the next 8 years will pass for them!!....ROFLMAO!! "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 2, 2009 12:41 PM:

" In his speech to the nutbag wing of his party, Limbaugh confused the Constitution with the Declaration of Independence. I have to wonder if our friend Cybil caught that little goof on the part of the drug addled Rushie. "

The Question wrote on Mar 2, 2009 3:56 PM:

" The porcine pundit prattles and pontificates on, Harry. He and his Dittoheads can't be bothered to know the difference between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. They have contempt for both documents, anyway, but just pay some shoddy lip service to them. "

NeoCon Academician wrote on Mar 2, 2009 4:03 PM:

" And the DOW drops again now to < 6800 due to the disastrous economic policies of the National Socialist Party (formerly known as democrats) leader, and Scumbag-N-Thief, Obama.

What's another $30 billion hand-out on top of the first $150 hand-out to those RICH NEW YORK DEMOCRATS at AIG, huh?

Maybe Obama should hire some more tax cheats for his dictatorship to devise further ways to ruin America's economy....

How about raising the minimum wage to say, $20 an hour, Scumbag-N-Thief Obama? That'll work...well...at least it will get some more votes for the Scumbag-N-Thief, now won't it?

It worked for your socialist brethren in Venezuela now, Hugo Chavez, didn't it Barry?!?!

Following Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Mussolini, Chavez, and Castro's playbooks... let's see, what do the National Socialists here need to do next....?

1) Take over private companies...did that....check

2) Nationalize the banking system...did that....check

3) Institute a command economy where party faithfuls get to re-distribute resources to their party followers rather than due to market supply and demand forces...did that...earmarks in progress....check

4) Silence opposition and opposition leaders...in progress with the Fairness Doctrine...assaulting Christians/Christian values just like with the Jews in 1930's Germany...check

5) Take away private ownership of firearms...in progress...check

6) Take money from the wealthy earners and re-distribute there wealth...to the indolent masses..in progress...check

7) Last step...repeal that 2 term limit "issue" and make Barry dictator-for-life....in progress

Well looks like we're there...

Welcome to the United Socialist States of America (USSA)!

Now all we need is a world war with other socialist countries and we'll be right back to 1941!

Happy days are truly here again!!!! "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 2, 2009 4:13 PM:

" Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele took umbrage Saturday night when CNN's D.L. Hughley referred to radio host Rush Limbaugh as "the de facto leader of the Republican party."

"No he's not. I'm the de facto leader of the Republican party," Steele said. The RNC chief went on to call Limbaugh, who that very day delivered the keynote address to the Conservative Political Action Conference, a mere "entertainer" whose show is "incendiary" and "ugly."
(translation: he's embarrassing decent Republicans)

On his radio show today, Limbaugh fired back, calling the RNC and Michael Steele "so-called Republicans" and saying that they "need a little leadership." (translation: they need me)

"So I am an entertainer and I have 20 million listeners because of my great song and dance routine," Limbaugh said. "Michael Steele, you are head of the Republican National Committee. You are not head of the Republican party. Tens of millions of conservatives and Republicans have nothing to do with the Republican National Committee...and when you call them asking for money, they hang up on you." (translation: Republicans are all talk but too cheap to give cash)

"I hope that changes," Limbaugh continued. "It's time, Mr. Steele, for you to go behind the scenes and start doing the work that you were elected to do instead of being some talking-head media star. (translation: the spotlight is mine, Steele)

I caught some of the Limbaugh show today, and I've never heard old pigboy more shrill. I had try hard to concentrate on my driving, it was so comical. Sort of reminded me of our little buddy Cybil when she gets caught posting as one of her crew members.

Check out the CNN video of Steele and Hughley on YouTube.

It gets better every day. It looks like Limbaugh is trying to push Steele out and establish himself head of the party.

Limbaugh also boasted today that a huge tiger had been released and the conservative movement was going to be loud.

Maybe Limbaugh will be Blowdogs new Messiah. LOL!

It will interesting to see if Steele does like so many on the Republican side do, and that is back down a kiss Limbaugh's ring, publicly. We'll see.... "

The Question wrote on Mar 2, 2009 4:32 PM:

" Chris Matthews just had on two Republicans -- Pat Buchanan and that Michael Smishsmash creep -- immediately followed by two more Republicans. That's how you can tell MSNBC is "liberal," I guess -- all those Republican guests flapping their lying yaps. "

The Question wrote on Mar 2, 2009 4:34 PM:

" Harry, by praising Limbaugh as the voice, energy and intellect of the GOP, Rahm Emanuel deliberately lit this fuse, then sat back with his popcorn to watch the resulting fireworks between Steele and the porcine pontiff.
Also, it enables Emanuel to hang whatever crazy, vicious thing Limbaugh says next right around the neck of the Republican Party, and leave it dangling there, stinking up the place. "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 2, 2009 4:39 PM:

" Hey Neo, how did you like todays Plug In feature? "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 2, 2009 4:50 PM:

" Funny that Cybil isn't crowing about Limbaugh's speech. After all he was on here hawking it a day or so ago. You would think after Jindal laid that egg the other day, he might be a bit more cautious.

The best part of both Limbaugh and Jindal's speeches are that they are in the can and will make for pretty good fodder the next election cycle.

Likewise, Steele's comments about pigboy will be sure to show up in the future. "

father bob wrote on Mar 2, 2009 4:54 PM:

" The Justice Department released nine legal opinions showing that, following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the Bush administration determined that certain constitutional rights would not apply during the coming fight. Within two weeks, government lawyers were already discussing ways to wiretap U.S. conversations without warrants.

The Bush administration eventually abandoned many of the legal conclusions, but the documents themselves had been closely held. By releasing them, President Barack Obama continued a house-cleaning of the previous administration's most contentious policies.

"Too often over the past decade, the fight against terrorism has been viewed as a zero-sum battle with our civil liberties," Attorney General Eric Holder said in a speech a few hours before the documents were released. "Not only is that school of thought misguided, I fear that in actuality it does more harm than good."

The Obama administration also acknowledged in court documents Monday that the CIA destroyed 92 videos of involving terror suspects, including interrogations _ far more than had been known. Congressional Democrats and other critics have charged that some of the harsh interrogation techniques amounted to torture, a contention President George W. Bush and other Bush officials rejected.

The new administration pledged on Monday to begin turning over documents related to the videos to a federal judge and to make as much information public as possible. "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 2, 2009 5:04 PM:

" Rahm Emanuel deliberately lit this fuse, then sat back with his popcorn to watch the resulting fireworks between Steele and the porcine pontiff.

Absolutely, TQ.

Emanuel outfoxed old pigboy on this one, by playing to his over sized ego, he got him to walk right into his trap.

Rush is not stupid, and has to realize what was done to him, so look out for a daily barrage of stuff on Emanuel. LOL! "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 2, 2009 5:11 PM:

" After ranting for a couple of hours about Steele, and probably realizing he'd been had, the following is Limbaugh's attempt at damage control:

RUSH: Hey, psst, folks, just a little secret between us. Don't tell anybody, all right? This is just between us. Don't tell the Drive-Bys. The Drive-Bys were tuning in for that because they've been asking me for quotes on this. So the way they're gonna interpret -- and really don't tell anybody, this is between us, because I don't want this getting out beyond the show -- the way they are going to interpret what I just did in response to Michael Steele is, "Oh, this is great, this is great! Emanuel's strategy is working great, the Republican Party and Limbaugh are splitting apart, there's a feud, there's infighting." They will miss the whole point, and even if there are any Drive-Bys listening while I tell them the real point, they will reject it because it doesn't fit their template. What happened starting Saturday -- actually, CPAC started on Thursday, but what culminated with my speech on Saturday at CPAC was the reawakening of a huge sleeping giant that is ready to rumble, and that is American conservatism, which is found in the Democrat Party, it's found among independents, and it's found in the Republican Party. "

father bob wrote on Mar 2, 2009 5:27 PM:

" poor rush and the rest of the 20% of america who are conservative republicans must have lived in a different dimension the past 8 years. their last 8 years were prosperous and full of grandeur. unfortunately the rest of us who think rationally see it for what it was....the ruination of the country. "

The Question wrote on Mar 2, 2009 5:32 PM:

" And when Republicans claim the porcine pontiff ISN'T their lord and master, Emanuel and the Democrats need only ask that they prove it by saying something critical about Limbaugh without immediately crawling to him to apologize. They'd sooner wet themselves in public than dare cross their High Pig. "

NeoCon Academician wrote on Mar 2, 2009 5:47 PM:

" Rush "The New Messiah' Limbaugh "

oldschool wrote on Mar 2, 2009 5:51 PM:

" Good point Rush......Even got Potter to quote ya on that one. Hello friend! "

Out-there wrote on Mar 2, 2009 6:37 PM:

" Republicans have been pushing socialism
in the country for years. Here are just a few of there socialist control
Values. dereagulation of banking industry so they could take avantage
of the loans in this country.and get rich doing it.What happen to the money Bush gave Wallstreet banks?Tax cuts for the wealthy so they could send our jobs over seas and yes Repub were in control when Nafta begain.
Temp services with links to unEmployment,Patriot act wire taping,
torture.
Isn't it a shame that for eight year
Bush would not admit that the economy
was in trouble until the last of his term.
Good way to make the rich, richer!!
Gas prices out of control,not a word from the Bush administration.
Repub control congress did nothing to check on the oil companys.Dem called them on the floor wanting to find answers'
Now that Dem are in control and trying to clean up the mess.
Repub are trying to blame them for socialism.
Rush cry baby who and Glen the I'm not
a expert Beck.
Radical red radio at it's finist. "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 2, 2009 7:16 PM:

" I see Politico is reporting that Steele did in fact kiss Limbaugh's big fat rear today. Wow, it looks like Emanuel's theory is confirmed about who really runs the Republican party.

A party that is being lead by a drug addicted drag queen will be fun to report on for the next 4 years. This guy has a closet full of skeletons, from his early "relationships" to his recent drug bust for trying to sneak Viagra through customs, it's gonna be a hoot! Get ready, Neo! "

ed miller wrote on Mar 2, 2009 7:31 PM:

" In one of his first acts in office as President, Barack Obama turned over the future of America to one of the least effective House Speakers in U.S. history. He allowed her compatriots to compile a wish list of pet projects under the guise of stimulating the economy, which she and her cronies in the Senate then rammed through Congress without any of them knowing fully what was inside using scare tactics and threatening doom if we didn't hurry up and approve her pork package.

After a three-day vacation less than one month into the job, Barack Obama signed this bill, the largest spending bill in world history, into law. . . without reading it.

Then President Obama placed Joe Biden in charge of this massive spending plan. This he did, even though his Senate peers thought so little of Biden's skills over the course of his 33-year Senate career that he was never given a leadership role not mandated by seniority.

Our new President taxes and spends, and the more taxing and spending he proposes, the more the economy nosedives. Investors have had NO confidence in anything he has done.

Mr. Obama has now issued the first budget he has ever proposed at any level of government. This budget is nothing more than another deficit-spending spree one so vast, so expansive, that its kind has been unseen since WWII.

Obama and his allies in Congress plan to continue raising taxes and increasing both government growth and power, during a time that both history and economics tells us government should be slashing expenses, lowering taxes, and removing obstacles that keep businesses from creating more jobs. Raising taxes on anyone during a recession is just ludicrous. That will result in LESS money in the economy.
Raising taxes on small businesses only results in more job losses or higher costs past onto consumers. In addition, his "green" energy proposal raises carbon costs instead of making the green energy cheaper. This will just result in higher energy costs for all of us, not the companies.

Our young and charismatic President, in his fresh and glowing glory, is trying to spend his way out of debt with one massive spending plan after another; even though history shows that is not the course to take.

But you can't make a nation's economy grow by taxing it into ruin, or spending it into oblivion, and it is madness to think otherwise.

So go on, keep ranting about Limbaugh and other TV commentators who have no say in our government and economy. Unfortunately, unlike TV, we can't change the channel and get a different government. "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 2, 2009 7:37 PM:

" I wonder if the good folks who published Al Franken's book "Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Liar" will reissue that best seller, now that Rush is going to officially be the head of the Republican Party. If I knew Blowdo.....oops I mean NeoCon's address, I would send him a copy. He and BBD, Doh, Stanley and oldschool could share it on one of these cold winter nights. wink wink... LOL! "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 2, 2009 7:42 PM:

" So go on, keep ranting about Limbaugh and other TV commentators who have no say in our government and economy. Unfortunately, unlike TV, we can't change the channel and get a different government. "

Want a little cheese with that whine, eddie?

And hey, we're just getting stated on the drag queen drug addict Limbaugh. "

The Question wrote on Mar 2, 2009 7:45 PM:

" Kiss the posterior of the porcine pontiff, Steele. Now there's away to really gag on some pork. "

The Question wrote on Mar 2, 2009 7:47 PM:

" The Republican Party -- change you can't believe in. "

ed miller wrote on Mar 2, 2009 8:00 PM:

" The Mike Malloy show contained a bit where someone dubbed over Governor Jindal with a voice acting like a computer tech from India. Just another example of the hypocrisy in the media. Racism is ok, if you are a liberal. Had this been Limbaugh, he would have been vilified immediately. "

The Question wrote on Mar 2, 2009 8:17 PM:

" Now, now, remember that Republicans are courageous, independent leaders and thinkers.
Pay no attention to the fact that they are crawling on their bleeding hands and knees to kiss Rush Limbaugh's behind. "

NeoCon Academician wrote on Mar 2, 2009 8:31 PM:

" With the abomination of tax-cheats, baby-killers, con-artists, gun-grabbers, and socialists running this Obamanation into the ground, people have to ask themselves, what would Reagan do?

Reagan would want:

RUSH LIMBAUGH, RUSH LIMBAUGH,
RUSH LIMBAUGH, RUSH LIMBAUGH,
RUSH LIMBAUGH, RUSH LIMBAUGH,
RUSH LIMBAUGH, RUSH LIMBAUGH,
RUSH LIMBAUGH, RUSH LIMBAUGH,
RUSH LIMBAUGH, RUSH LIMBAUGH,
RUSH LIMBAUGH, RUSH LIMBAUGH,
RUSH LIMBAUGH, RUSH LIMBAUGH,
RUSH LIMBAUGH, RUSH LIMBAUGH,
RUSH LIMBAUGH, RUSH LIMBAUGH,
RUSH LIMBAUGH, to watch the socialists whine and cry...

So blow the Shofar conservatives...it's time to awaken...and rise to action...oh yeah feel the thunder..... "

ed miller wrote on Mar 2, 2009 8:31 PM:

" Harry Potter wrote on Mar 2, 2009 7:42 PM:
" And hey, we're just getting stated on the drag queen drug addict Limbaugh. "

Thanks for reaffirming my point. Have at it. "

NeoCon Academician wrote on Mar 2, 2009 8:34 PM:

" L-I-M-B-A-U-G-H! L-I-M-B-A-U-G-H!
L-I-M-B-A-U-G-H! L-I-M-B-A-U-G-H!

Join in the chant...Join in the chant...

L-I-M-B-A-U-G-H! L-I-M-B-A-U-G-H!
L-I-M-B-A-U-G-H! L-I-M-B-A-U-G-H!

Join in the chant...Join in the chant...

L-I-M-B-A-U-G-H! L-I-M-B-A-U-G-H!
L-I-M-B-A-U-G-H! L-I-M-B-A-U-G-H! "

oldschool wrote on Mar 2, 2009 8:39 PM:

" Hey "out-there" you are indeed. Just wondering.....have any facts to back up your fairy-tale?.....Not opinions..FACTS....NOT MSNBC....FACTS.

I didn't think so....change is on the way....now, shut up and fork over the wallet. "

ed miller wrote on Mar 2, 2009 9:01 PM:

" Meltdown on MSNBC: The Leg Tingle Is Gone?

I can hardly believe what I'm watching on MSNBC right now. Chris Matthews is almost critical no, not even almost, he's flat-out critical of President Obama on the economic front. He mentions an earlier conversation with CNBC's manic stock analyst Jim Cramer and a University of Maryland professor (Peter Morici?) knocking Obama for several economic decisions that the stimulus bill needed more real infrastructure and less pork, that the housing bill isn't inspiring confidence and doesn't look like it will work, and that no one has faith in Tim Geithner's solution for the banks.

Howard Fineman of Newsweek says Obama has been "grim and a little distant at the same time . . . Tim Geithner hasn't inspired any confidence anywhere, as far as I can tell."

Matthews: "He seems like Barney Fife to me."

Eugene Robinson: "I actually referred to him as Doogie Howser, Treasury Secretary, and I think it's a little unfair." Much laughter ensues.

More Fineman: "Despite his high approval rating and obvious intellect and goodwill, he hasn't quite yet seemed to convey the sense that he knows the way forward and that he can get us there . . . I thought the first fifteen minutes of this show were devastating. Not that Jim Cramer is the only person they have to convince, but they have to convince people that they know what they're doing, that they're not just feeling their way forward." Robinson points out that they are feeling their way forward.

Matthews: "I thought 8,000 was the floor, and it looks like 6,000 is the floor. People are angry, I'm getting angry." "

out-there wrote on Mar 2, 2009 9:09 PM:

" Bush and his republican comrades have already cleaned the dust out of my wallet.
check out this site it will help pin point what bush has been doing to this country for almost 8 years.
Frontline/PBS/Bush's war "
let.
don't follow history much do you? "

NeoCon Academician wrote on Mar 2, 2009 9:44 PM:

" Ron Kirk, nominated as US Trade Representative in the Obama administration, owes an estimated $10000 in back taxes from earlier in the decade and has agreed........
_________________________-

It's getting so bad with Obama's cabinet picks owing taxes we hear Obama's thinking about appointing Rod Blagojevich to a cabinet position in his administration....it's not like he's doing anything right now...and he is a corrupt democrat party faithful.... "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 3, 2009 6:41 AM:

" ed miller wrote on Mar 2, 2009 8:00 PM:

" The Mike Malloy show contained a bit where someone dubbed over Governor Jindal with a voice acting like a computer tech from India. Just another example of the hypocrisy in the media. Racism is ok, if you are a liberal. Had this been Limbaugh, he would have been vilified immediately.

Apparently you don't listen to pigboy much eddie, he does that sort of thing on a regular basis. "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 3, 2009 7:21 AM:

" Reagan would want:

Huh? Rush Limbaugh?

This is nothing more than wishful thinking on the part of our friend NeoDog.

Somehow I doubt Ronald Reagan would cheer for an admitted illegal drug addict and suspected drag queen. I suspect, like Barry Goldwater before him, Reagan would be saddened to see his party being led by a morally corrupt boy chasing reprobate such as Limbaugh.

Limbaugh's rise to the top of the GOP is the best thing that could happen for the Democratic party.

The infighting in the GOP has just begun. The next several weeks should be interesting.

Old Rahm threw out the bait, waited a day or so and reeled old Pigboy in like a big old blubbering whale.

Emanuel is a political genius. "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 3, 2009 7:32 AM:

" Obama has miles to go in catching up with the number of aides who fled government under a cloud of corruption in the Reagan administration, Neo. "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 3, 2009 7:43 AM:

" The list of the most corrupt administrations have one thing in common, they are all Republican. Grant, Harding, Nixon and Reagan. We can now add another to the list: Bush junior....

Reagan still holds the record for out and out crooked aides even though he escaped personal responsibility for their dirty deeds. They didn't call him the Teflon president for nothing. "

The Question wrote on Mar 3, 2009 7:48 AM:

" Republicans are now being measured on their Rush Limbaugh "hang time" -- that is, how long it takes them to grovel and crawl to Limbaugh to beg his forgiveness after they say something that displeases the High Pig.
Here's how to calculate it, as a friend of mine noted. You don't start the "hang time" clock when the original anti-Rush statement is made. Instead, measure the time it takes for the offender to confess his sin once Limbaugh expresses his disapproval.
For example, Steele made his blasphemous comments on Saturday and apologized on Monday afternoon, for a hang time of about 42 hours. But Limbaugh waited until Monday to publicly humiliate Steele, so he could do it on his radio show. Steele apologized almost immediately, for a true hang time of three hours.
Republicans have learned to drop and lick those jackboots, quick march! "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 3, 2009 9:13 AM:

" From Media Matters:

On the September 22 broadcast of his syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh baselessly claimed that Sen. Barack Obama is "not black," and went on to ask: "Do you know he has not one shred of African-American blood?" Limbaugh continued: "He's Arab. You know, he's from Africa. He's from Arab parts of Africa. ... [H]e's not African-American. The last thing that he is is African-American."

Oh yeah, this is gonna be fun. "

The Question wrote on Mar 3, 2009 9:29 AM:

" By the way, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has more than $75 million worth of earmarks in the omnibus spending bill.
Let's hear another lecture from him about GOP "fiscal responsibility," if he can still talk with his mouth stuffed full of all that pork. "

The Question wrote on Mar 3, 2009 9:34 AM:

" This one, please:
Here's just how close we came to totalitarianism. The Bush Justice Department secretly gave the OK for the U.S. military to attack apartment buildings and office complexes inside the United States, deploy high-tech surveillance against U.S. citizens and potentially suspend First Amendment freedom-of-the-press rights in order to combat the terror threat, according to a memo released Monday. "

Cognitus wrote on Mar 3, 2009 9:40 AM:

" ed miller:"Our new President taxes and spends, and the more taxing and spending he proposes, the more the economy nosedives. Investors have had NO confidence in anything he has done."

Ed, sorry to tell you but the highest point in the Dow was the first week of October 2007. So your man "taxed and
spent" for a year and four months and
the market continued its plunge so it appears investers had no confidence in anything HE WAS DOING. "

Cognitus wrote on Mar 3, 2009 9:47 AM:

" NeoCon:" Obama will cause America to fail. He's alreeady started the failure as witnessed by the fall of the stock market."
I'll have to say it again for NeoCon's
benefit. Obama "started the failure"???
NeoCon, the high point of the Dow was in the first week of October, 2007. It has fallen steadily since that time. And who was president from October 2007 until Obama took over? Once the train has been running down the mountainside with the engineer asleep for over a year, it's rather hard to jump aboard and get it stopped. "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 3, 2009 9:51 AM:

" Republicans are now being measured on their Rush Limbaugh "hang time" --

Given Limbaugh's lack of testosterone and need for the little blue pill, perhaps the device used to measure the groveling coward's "hang time" should be called a limp-o-meter, TQ.

Remember when Bob Dole crawled on his knees for forgiveness after daring to criticise to High Pig? To see a genuine war hero like Dole kiss the rear of a draft dodging coward (4-f from a boil on his over sized rear) like Limbaugh was a sad day for the once proud Dole and the rest of America. "

The Question wrote on Mar 3, 2009 10:30 AM:

" Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty said the Republican Party has to move beyond just talking about Ronald Reagan.
"It would be as if Barack Obama was going around and constantly talking about Truman or LBJ. It's just become a reference point that isn't as relevant for young people," he said.
First things first. Maybe the Republicans could try to stop licking Rush Limbaugh's jackboots as a first step. "

father bob wrote on Mar 3, 2009 10:34 AM:

" Former UN Ambassador John Bolton believes the security of the United States is at dire risk under the Obama administration. And before a gathering of conservatives in Washington on Thursday morning, he suggested, as something of a joke, that President Barack Obama might learn a needed lesson if Chicago were destroyed by a nuclear bomb.

Appearing at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the nation's largest annual conference of conservative activists, Bolton, one of the hardest hardliners of the George W. Bush administration, spoke at length about Obama's naivet and how various nations Russia, North Korea, Iran will be exploiting the new president. "

oldschool wrote on Mar 3, 2009 10:50 AM:

" "out-there"....PBS ???

I asked for facts..not opinion

Try again.......don't drown in that kool-aid your addicted to "

sapient wrote on Mar 3, 2009 11:08 AM:

" You know what OBAMA stands for?
O one
B big
A a**
M mistake
A America "

even steven wrote on Mar 3, 2009 12:03 PM:

" Tax and spend, tax and spend... it's the same old Democrat swindle of taxing those who produce while using those tax dollars to buy the votes of people who don't. Obama in his first six weeks has spent more than the entire country has spent since it's inception. It's comical to hear the brain-washed, hateful little leftists complain about Bush's spending while gleefully eating up then regurgitating the foul pablum of socialism fed to them from Democrat propagandists posing as journalists. Sadly, these leftists are too myopic and stupid to even realize they are acting the part of the "useful idiot" and actually believe they are enlightened and intelligent. Just ask one of them. "

father bob wrote on Mar 3, 2009 12:08 PM:

" American International Group reported the worst-ever quarterly loss in U.S. corporate history.

s'pose having the whole country pizzed off had anything to do with it? "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 3, 2009 12:23 PM:

" GOOD NEWS: ANOTHER OBAMA APPOINTEE OWES BACK TAXES

AP WASHINGTON (March 2 2009) Ron Kirk, nominated as U.S. Trade Representative in the Obama administration, owes an estimated $10,000 in back taxes from earlier in the decade and has agreed to make his payments, the Senate Finance Committee said Monday.

+++++++

The Democorrupt Hypocrisy continues: again and again and again....... "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 3, 2009 12:30 PM:

" Congressional Quarterly reports that almost 50 members of the Democratic caucus may start blocking key points of the Barack Obama agenda. Not surprisingly, they hail from districts Obama failed to carry in 2008.

These Democrats have apparently remembered what Republicans seem to have forgotten: they have to get elected in 2010. "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 3, 2009 12:40 PM:

" THE OBAMA ECONOMY

As Dow keeps dropping, Obama running out of people to blame

WSJ (March 3 2009) As 2009 opened, three weeks before Barack Obama took office, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 9034 on January 2, its highest level since the autumn panic. Yesterday the Dow fell another 4.24% to 6763, for an overall decline of 25% in two months and to its lowest level since 1997. The dismaying message here is that President Obama's policies have become part of the economy's problem.

....Most of his "stimulus" spending was devoted to social programs, rather than public works, and nearly all of the tax cuts were devoted to income maintenance rather than to improving incentives to work or invest.

His Treasury has been making a similar mistake with its financial bailout plans. The banking system needs to work through its losses, and one necessary use of public capital is to assist in burning down those bad assets as fast as possible. Yet most of Team Obama's ministrations so far have gone toward triage and life support, rather than repair and recovery.

++++++++++++

Porkulus will be synonymous with Obama economics......... "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 3, 2009 12:48 PM:

" Just a reminder folks:

-We sent our troops to Iraq to do away with Saddam Husseins regime and they got the job done.

-We kept our troops in Iraq to help establish a sovereign government and they got the job done.

-We will leave the Iraqi people with a hard-earned opportunity to live a better life.

-This is what our troops achieved.

-This is the prospect that they have made possible.

Mission Accomplished! "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 3, 2009 3:24 PM:

" Hey kids!

Let's play REWIND! Shall we:

+++++++++++

"And, absolutely, we need earmark reform. And when I'm president, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely."

-Barry Hussein Obama at the first presidential debate, Sept. 26, 2008

+++++++++++

(crickets chirping)

*zwwzwt* *zwwzwt* *zwwzwt* "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 3, 2009 3:26 PM:

" Remember now kids:

ALL OBAMA PROMISES COME WITH EXPIRATION DATES AND CLARIFICATIONS:

++++++++++

OBAMA BANS EARMARKS FROM ECONOMIC PACKAGE

MSNBC (Jan 6 2009) WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama vowed Tuesday to bar lawmakers' pet projects from his massive economic stimulus plan and to bring unprecedented accountability to federal spending.

++++++++++

(crickets chirping)

*zwwzwt* *zwwzwt* *zwwzwt* "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 3, 2009 3:38 PM:

" Hey Obama-kids,

how many of you empty-headed lemmings remember this little gem?

++++++++

OBAMA SUPPORTS FISA LEGISLATION, ANGERING LEFT

WASHINGTON POST (Jun 20 2008) Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) today announced his support for a sweeping intelligence surveillance law that has been heavily denounced by the liberal activists who have fueled the financial engines of his presidential campaign.

In his most substantive break with the Democratic Party's base since becoming the presumptive nominee, Obama declared he will support the bill when it comes to a Senate vote, likely next week, despite misgivings about legal provisions for telecommunications corporations that cooperated with the Bush administration's warrantless surveillance program of suspected terrorists.

++++++++++

(crickets chirping)

*zwwzwt* *zwwzwt* *zwwzwt* "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 3, 2009 3:54 PM:

" GREAT NEWS!

OBAMA (THE ECONOMIC SAVIOR): Eh, I dont worry about the markets "day to day gyrations"

FOXBUSINESS - (March 3 2009) WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is comparing the stock market to the daily tracking polls used during campaigns, saying that paying too close attention to Wall Street's "fits and starts" could lead to bad long-term policy.

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*WHEW*

There now.

That should make you folks sleep a lot more soundly tonight. "

ed miller wrote on Mar 3, 2009 4:46 PM:

" I knew it.

Not ONE single post, defending the bloated tax and spend Obama regime. Plenty of Rush Limbaugh bashes, another lame attempt to blame Bush, some references to past GOP presidents. I guess that means everyone knows his policies are only making things worse. Investors obviously get it. His loyal sheep are only trying to take others down with the sinking ship. "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 3, 2009 4:59 PM:

" Wow, old Blowdogs is on full spin cycle now. LOL!

You da man Doh! "

62463 wrote on Mar 3, 2009 5:34 PM:

" i think we should take up a collection for NeoCon Academcian and get him out of this terrible country along with Rush and let them live in Iraq or Iran, evidently it is much nicer over there. "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 3, 2009 5:50 PM:

" WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's administration supports legislation recently introduced in the U.S. Congress to crack down on tax havens, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Tuesday.

"Let me just start by saying that we fully support the legislation you referred to championed by your colleagues on offshore tax centers, and we look forward to working with you as part of the broader effort to address international tax evasion and close the tax gap," Geithner told Rep. Lloyd Doggett, a Democrat from Texas who introduced the bill in the House of Representatives on Monday.

This is going to put the Republicans in an awkward position. Limpbaughs has no doubt issued an edict for all his faithful Republicans to not go along with the Dems on anything. This will give the appearance that the Republicans are supporting tax evaders. "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 3, 2009 5:53 PM:

NeoCon Academician wrote on Mar 3, 2009 5:57 PM:

" 62463 wrote on Mar 3, 2009 5:34 PM:

" i think we should take up a collection for NeoCon Academcian and get him out of this terrible country along with Rush and let them live in Iraq or Iran, evidently it is much nicer over there. "
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WOW 62463!

I'm really touched by the notion of your offer to take up that collection for me.....

I wouldn't, however, want you to break into your piggy-bank, food stamp allotment, farm subsidy payment, or un-employment benefits for the collection though...

But thanks for the offer...:-b ! "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 3, 2009 6:07 PM:

" ed miller wrote on Mar 3, 2009 4:46 PM:

" I knew it.

Not ONE single post, defending the bloated tax and spend Obama regime.

After all the space Blowdogs blathering nonsense took up, there probably wasn't any room left. Besides it's a lot more fun sticking pins in you wingnuts over your new leader. eddie. LOL!. "

NeoCon Academician wrote on Mar 3, 2009 6:25 PM:

" Cognitus wrote on Mar 3, 2009 9:47 AM:

"Obama "started the failure"???
NeoCon, the high point of the Dow was in the first week of October, 2007. It has fallen steadily since that time.
I'll have to say it again for NeoCon's
benefit. " NeoCon:" Obama will cause America to fail. He's alreeady started the failure as witnessed by the fall of the stock market."
I'll have to say it again for NeoCon's
benefit. Obama "started the failure"???
NeoCon, the high point of the Dow was in the first week of October, 2007. It has fallen steadily since that time. And who was president from October 2007 until Obama took over? Once the train has been running down the mountainside with the engineer asleep for over a year, it's rather hard to jump aboard and get it stopped. "

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Okay...so your remedial. Did you teach remedial math per chance?

The National Socialist Party, the party of your beloved messiah Obama, has controlled both the house and the senate since the 2006 elections. The stock market has trended downward since then, as you noted. Now' it has fallen precipitiously since your beloved messiah as high-jacked the office of the presidency.

Get the correlation (r = 0.9999) now?

Besides since when have you national socialists every worried about the facts?

But you know what?

Everything's cool as long as that kid of yours pays more taxes. "

The Question wrote on Mar 3, 2009 6:43 PM:

" Not ONE single post, defending the bloated tax and spend Obama regime.
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It is regrettable that that federal government has to spend this obscene amount of money in a probably futile attempt to save us from the consequences of the Republican free-market authorization of financial fraud on a scale of lawless greed unprecedented in human history, Ed.
Happy now? "

ed miller wrote on Mar 3, 2009 6:44 PM:

" Harry Potter wrote on Mar 3, 2009 5:50 PM:
" This will give the appearance that the Republicans are supporting tax evaders. "

How's that? Obama is the one who gives them cabinet positions. "

out-there wrote on Mar 3, 2009 6:49 PM:

" history time line can't be changed.
get use to it! The proof is there if you don't have your comrade red blinders on.truth hurts don't it
I would say get of your mind altering drugs so you can see clear. "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 3, 2009 7:55 PM:

" (Question - "It is regrettable that that federal government has to spend this obscene amount of money in a probably futile attempt to save us from the consequences of the Republican free-market authorization of financial fraud on a scale of lawless greed unprecedented in human history, Ed.
Happy now?")

Oh yes, of course.

Porkulus: Obama's Big Tax and Spend Government Stimulus Fraud certainly won't correct the Democrat Sub-Prime Mortgage corruption that brought the world economy to it's knees.

So why is ObamaMessiah passing this Liberal Bureaucratic Expansion Fraud?

In the words of Obama's Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel: "Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste"

Happy now Drama Queen? "

Locke wrote on Mar 3, 2009 7:55 PM:

" Not ONE single post, defending the bloated tax and spend Obama regime.

Funny, when it's a tax cut for 95% of Americans, it's a tax increase. When the wealthiest 5% get a tax cut, it is a tax cut.

Also funny, when a Democrat increases spending it's tax and spend. When it's a Republican who increases spending, it's call national defense.

Really all some are doing it reciting things they hear on TV and radio.

Tax and spend.

Maybe get an education and form your own ideas? Naw, that'd be too much work. "

ed miller wrote on Mar 3, 2009 8:32 PM:

" Ok Locke maybe I'm not as edumucated as you and shore can't cipher as well either, but here goes.

First off, why should anyone have to pay a larger percentage of their income than others? How is that fair? After Obama raises taxes on businesses and the carbon cap kicks in, who do you think is going to be hit by those costs? Industry will pass on the added costs to the consumers, so that $13 week will only go to pay for your utilities and gas. Sorry, do the math. How will he pay for his trillions in social programs ans cut taxes for 95% of us? Not gonna happen.

Some examples off the web:

A 63-year-old attorney based in Lafayette, La., who asked not to be named, told ABCNews.com that she plans to cut back on her business to get her annual income under the quarter million mark should the Obama tax plan be passed by Congress and become law. So far, Obamas tax plan is being looked at skeptically by both Democrats and Republicans and therefore may not pass at all.

But wait, theres more:

Dr. Sharon Poczatek, who runs her own dental practice in Boulder, Colo., said that she too is trying to figure out ways to get out of paying the taxes proposed in Obamas plan.

Ive put thought into how to get under $250,000, said Poczatek. It would mean working fewer days which means having fewer employees, seeing fewer patients and taking time off.

Generally it means being less productive, she said.

The motivation for a lot of people like me dentists, entrepreneurs, lawyers is that the more you work the more money you make, said Poczatek. But if Im going to be working just to give it back to the government its de-motivating and demoralizing.

Now thats going to help us get out of the recession! Punish hard-working professionals and convince them to cut back services for the rest of us. Great thinking Mr. President. Or, to paraphrase George W. Bush: Heck of a job, Barack!

When you punish the productive, you get less productivity. Obama is selling the mindset that high earners are bad Americans who should be treated as such.

Ill just add that to the extent the withdrawal of high-earners pushes markets down, it inflicts a lot of pain on non-rich demographics via declines in 401(k)and IRA accounts, etc. This is likely to lower satisfaction with Obama, too.

Maybe YOU need to get an education to learn the difference between Catfish Genome testing and stimulus money. "

NeoCon Academician wrote on Mar 3, 2009 8:34 PM:

" Maybe get an education and form your own ideas? Naw, that'd be too much work. "
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NOW THAT IS COMICAL...and out of the mouth of one of those "non-judgmental" liberals...

Saying "Maybe get an education and form your own ideas?" could be applied to you.... pompous snob... "

cd wrote on Mar 3, 2009 8:41 PM:

" Pop-in-Jay Locke is still bloviating?

After the Democrats complain about Bush's $1T budget, their solution is to DOUBLE it.

Obama should leave the Czars in Russia. Maybe that's a sign of the future...his calling certain individuals a 'Czar'....United Socialist States of America. "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 3, 2009 8:54 PM:

" OBAMA'S BUDGET: ALMOST $1 TRILLION IN NEW TAXES OVER NEXT 10 YEARS, STARTING 2011

ABCNEWS (Feb 20 2009)

President Obama's budget proposes $989 billion in new taxes over the course of the next 10 years, starting fiscal year 2011, most of which are tax increases on individuals.

1) On people making more than $250,000.

$338 billion - Bush tax cuts expire

$179 billlion - eliminate itemized deduction

$118 billion - capital gains tax hike

Total: $636 billion/10 years

2) Businesses:

$17 billion - Reinstate Superfund taxes

$24 billion - tax carried-interest as income

$5 billion - codify "economic substance doctrine"

$61 billion - repeal LIFO

$210 billion - international enforcement, reform deferral, other tax reform

$4 billion - information reporting for rental payments

$5.3 billion - excise tax on Gulf of Mexico oil and gas

$3.4 billion - repeal expensing of tangible drilling costs
$62 million - repeal deduction for tertiary injectants

$49 million - repeal passive loss exception for working interests in oil and natural gas properties

$13 billion - repeal manufacturing tax deduction for oil and natural gas companies

$1 billion - increase to 7 years geological and geophysical amortization period for independent producers

$882 million - eliminate advanced earned income tax credit

Total: $353 billion/10 years

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Well now, this will certainly stimulate job growth right? "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 3, 2009 10:19 PM:

" Capital-gains tax is crucial to the economy.

Bush lowered it in the midst of the last recession and the economic upheaval after 9/11 to prompt investors to put their money at risk. Obama's hike from 15% to 20% on capital-gains taxes assumes that people will invest and cash out in the same manner they do at 15%. They wont.

Raising the tax on investment gains will ensure that we see less investment at the very moment that we need MORE of investment.

Jobs get created by investors taking risks, and if the reward on risk taking becomes low enough, theyll sink their money into safer havens instead of building job-creating businesses. Increasing the tax will discourage investors and encourage them to shift money out before the hike.

Not only will the extra revenue vanish, but investment levels will drop, leading to job losses and less opportunity for American businesses. "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 3, 2009 10:26 PM:

" Obama will increase taxes on existing American oil production starting in 2011.

Do we have massive amounts of alternative energy capacity ready to replace the energy production and usage that this will discourage?

Uhm.....NOPE!

A growing economy has to have a reliable energy supply. Energy producers get hit on several fronts in Obama's plan, and those costs will either result in lower energy production or increased cost to the consumers. Anyone care to imagine the far reaching implications of this?

But hey, 95% of us will get a tax break to offset this......right Locke? "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 3, 2009 10:41 PM:

" Obama wants to cut spending from 26% of GDP to 22%, which is a worthy goal, but it should be lower than that.

HOWEVER, he plans to make those cuts primarily in defense, and specifically in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Iraq has settled down to the point where massive outlays should no longer be necessary and where costs should get budgeted normally, rather than as riders. Remember though, Obama plans to keep 50,000 troops in Iraq AT LEAST into 2011, and probably well beyond.

BUT Obama insisted that he would fight the war in Afghanistan more robustly than the Bush administration, claiming that we had taken our eyes off the ball there.

A question for Locke (The Corn Field Scholar) How does cutting the budget for the Afghanistan War make our effort there more robust?

Especially in light of this:

JACK MURTHA TO OBAMA: UM, WE NEED 600,000 TROOPS TO PACIFY AFGHANISTAN

AP (March 4 2009) The Pennsylvania Democrat, who chairs the powerful subcommittee that funds the military, said his figure was based on the countrys history of rigorous fighting and its size.

Murtha also said hes uncomfortable with President Barack Obama's decision to increase the number of troops in the country by 17,000 before a goal was clearly defined.

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Go ahead Locke, put that Corn Field A.S. degree of yours to work, and give us your ideas on this little pickle of a dilly. "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 4, 2009 6:30 AM:

" ed miller wrote on Mar 3, 2009 6:44 PM:

" Harry Potter wrote on Mar 3, 2009 5:50 PM:
" This will give the appearance that the Republicans are supporting tax evaders. "

How's that? Obama is the one who gives them cabinet positions. "

Perhaps you're right eddie, I may have been a bit hasty. So let's wait and see if this legislation comes up for a vote. If it does I'll remind you and you can spin way the Republicans objection to going after wealthy tax cheaters. How's that? "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 4, 2009 6:36 AM:

" It's good to see members of the Democratic party questioning the president. I think healthy debate is what's needed. We have all seen the results of 8 years of a party marching lock step with their leader.

So while the resident whiner on here attempts to use this as evidence that all's not well in paradise, let's hope it continues. "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 4, 2009 6:57 AM:

" I see Fox news is calling for an end to the Limbaugh/Steele controversy. The new Messiah of the GOP did the same thing on his show yesterday. He called it "old news". He seems a bit ungrateful, after all this controversy, along with his Hitler-style speech to the fringe element of his party, helped solidify his position as the "unofficial" head of the GOP.

After watching the wing nuts go ape over the Pigboy's speech, it's not hard to understand how Hitler took over Germany. The only thing missing was for the drooling crowd to fully extend their right arms and chant "Heil Limbaugh. "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 4, 2009 6:58 AM:

" So ObamaTards, I assume you all agree that Iraq has been an overall success, huh? "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 4, 2009 7:15 AM:

" The poll had bad news for the Republican opposition. By a margin of more than 2-1, Americans trust the Democratic Party over the Republicans to get the country out of the recession. Views of the GOP are near an all-time low. And more than half of all adults say that Republicans in Congress have opposed Mr. Obama's proposals more to gain political advantage, compared with 30% who say Republicans have done so because they are standing up for their principles.

WSJ-

Don't worry, now that the GOP has crowned their new Messiah Limbaugh, things have to get better for them. (they couldn't get worse).

Out of respect to the the new GOP Messiah, I really should minimize my remarks about his arrest for solicitation, numerous drugs busts and penchant for Larry Craig/Mark Foley style activities. Nah! "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 4, 2009 7:17 AM:

" And here's what Obama has planned for the coal industry-

In a January 2008 interview with The San Francisco Chronicle, the paper "conveniently omitted" this little gem:

OBAMA: "Let me sort of describe my overall policy.

What Ive said is that we would put a cap and trade system in place that is as aggressive, if not more aggressive, than anybody elses out there.

I was the first to call for a 100% auction on the cap and trade system, which means that every unit of carbon or greenhouse gases emitted would be charged to the polluter. That will create a market in which whatever technologies are out there that are being presented, whatever power plants that are being built, that they would have to meet the rigors of that market and the ratcheted down caps that are being placed, imposed every year.

So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; its just that it will bankrupt them because theyre going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas thats being emitted.

That will also generate billions of dollars that we can invest in solar, wind, biodiesel and other alternative energy approaches.

The only thing Ive said with respect to coal, I havent been some coal booster. What I have said is that for us to take coal off the table as a (sic) ideological matter as opposed to saying if technology allows us to use coal in a clean way, we should pursue it.

So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can.

Its just that it will bankrupt them."

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Uhm........anybody care to guess what this is going to do to home energy costs?

Oh but, we surely have some sort of magical "alternative green energy" ready to power our homes.......right?

Oh but hey! What am I thinking!

95% of us are getting a TAX BREAK! GOODIE!

I'm sure THAT will offset these skyrocketing energy prices!

*WHEW*........I was worried for a moment.

But then I just remembered "Hope And Change"!

Now I'm blissfully numb............. "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 4, 2009 7:57 AM:

" WASHINGTON The Senate voted overwhelmingly to preserve thousands of earmarks in a $410 billion spending bill on Tuesday, brushing aside Sen. John McCain's claim that President Barack Obama and Congress are merely conducting business as usual in a time of economic hardship.

McCain's attempt to strip out an estimated 8,500 earmarks failed on a vote of 63-32.

The Huffington Post-

63-32 huh? Hmmmm...I was sure there were more than 32 GOP Senators. Guess not.

And just in case anyone missed it, Bobbyboy Jindal (unceremoniously dumped former GOP Messiah) now says he will take 98% of the stimulus money appropriated for his state.

Sarah Palin appears to be judging the political impact before going public with her stance. Considering that the fall of oil prices has left her state in a dire financial situation, is there really any doubt on what she will do?

Anyone else find it ironic that the surge in oil prices catapulted her to the top, and that the drop in oil prices will likely spell her doom?

I predict Sarah will soon be reduced to a footnote in history and an interesting tidbit for future trivia buffs. "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 4, 2009 8:17 AM:

" By LAURA MECKLER
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama enjoys widespread backing from a frightened American public for his ambitious, front-loaded agenda, a new poll indicates.

He is more popular than ever, Americans are hopeful about his leadership, and opposition Republicans are getting drubbed in public opinion, the new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll suggests.

WSJ

Looks like Cybil is in a minority. Let's hope she and the new GOP Messiah, Rush, keep it up.

Every time Limpbaugh opens his mouth, Obama's poll numbers go up. Thanks Rush!

Watch for Rushie to do a show today "proving" that polls mean nothing. He usually does that when the polls go against him, but of course if they coincide with his ideas he uses them as "proof". Funny the ditto heads haven't picked up on that ploy.

Let's hope no one tells the Republicans that anointing Limpbaugh might have been a bad idea. LOL!

This gets better by the day. "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 4, 2009 8:23 AM:

" BEHOLD HARRY-SPIN!

(Harry - "If it does I'll remind you and you can spin way the Republicans objection to going after wealthy tax cheaters. How's that?")

Yeah Harry, that's REAL similar to placing TAX CHEATS in Federal Offices that CONTROL, SPEND, AND OVERSEE taxation. BRILLIANT COMPARISON!

(Harry - "It's good to see members of the Democratic party questioning the president. I think healthy debate is what's needed. We have all seen the results of 8 years of a party marching lock step with their leader.")

TRANSLATION TO HARRY POTTER SPIN:

Republican Party Dissent = Party Disaster and Evidence of Failed Ideology and Policies!

Democrat Party Dissent = Healthy debate!
Successful Party Ideology and Tremendously Successful Policies!

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Looks like Harry's got the ole TinFoil Beanie Propeller on Maximum Output Full-Spin this morning.

Welcome to Harry's World folks.

Harry's a prime example of the human brain infected by Modern Liberalism. "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 4, 2009 8:28 AM:

" So you would agree that Iraq is a success, huh Harry? "

Becky wrote on Mar 4, 2009 9:04 AM:

" Here's the "success" of Bush in Iraq.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Former U.S.-installed Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has denounced the policies of President George W. Bush as an "utter failure" that gave rise to the sectarian venom that ravaged his country.

Nuff said. "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 4, 2009 9:06 AM:

" I see Cybil has finally fessed up and admitted she was blissfully numb. She needs to tell us something we didn't already know. LOL! "

The Question wrote on Mar 4, 2009 10:28 AM:

" As Bob Herbert noted, after several years and several hundred billion, we have not broken the back of al-Qaida or the Taliban. We have not captured or killed Osama bin Laden. We don't even have an escalation strategy, much less an exit strategy. An honest assessment of the situation would lead inexorably to such terms as fiasco and quagmire. "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 4, 2009 10:42 AM:

" (Harry - "And more than half of all adults say that Republicans in Congress have opposed Mr. Obama's proposals more to gain political advantage, compared with 30% who say Republicans have done so because they are standing up for their principles.")

Okay.....

BUT

(Congressional Quarterly reports that almost 50 members of the Democratic caucus may start blocking key points of the Barack Obama agenda.)

Gee....I wonder what internal polling has these 50 Democrats OPPOSING THEIR OWN MESSIAH, WHO'S SUPPOSED TO BE MORE POPULAR THAN JESUS, LINCOLN, AND THE BEATLES ALL ROLLED INTO ONE?

That is a real head-scratcher, ain't it Harry........... "

even steven wrote on Mar 4, 2009 10:51 AM:

" Every time our Marxist President opens his mouth, the stock market goes down. Obama's an idiot when it comes to economics. "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 4, 2009 10:58 AM:

" Hey uhm Becky and Question?

My description of our success in Iraq came from Barrak Hussein Obama:

OBAMA (Feb 27, 2009): "And so I want to be very clear: We sent our troops to Iraq to do away with Saddam Husseins regime and you got the job done. We kept our troops in Iraq to help establish a sovereign government and you got the job done. And we will leave the Iraqi people with a hard-earned opportunity to live a better life that is your achievement; that is the prospect that you have made possible."

HERE'S MY FAVORITE PART, KIDS:

"Thanks in great measure to your service, the situation in Iraq has improved. Violence has been reduced substantially from the horrific sectarian killing of 2006 and 2007. Al Qaeda in Iraq has been dealt a serious blow by our troops and Iraqs Security Forces, and through our partnership with Sunni Arabs. The capacity of Iraqs Security Forces has improved, and Iraqs leaders have taken steps toward political accommodation. The relative peace and strong participation in Januarys provincial elections sent a powerful message to the world about how far Iraqis have come in pursuing their aspirations through a peaceful political process...."

Nuff said, Becks? "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 4, 2009 11:06 AM:

" Harry proves once again that he is completely incapable of defending any of Obama's lies, deceptions, and backtracks.

Harry just doesn't have the intelligence or the integrity to take such a stance.

But then, that's like saying water's wet. "

father bob wrote on Mar 4, 2009 11:44 AM:

" anyone who's proud of whats happened and the outcome of the iraq fiasco are unamerican fascists.....period. "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 4, 2009 11:57 AM:

" RUSH JOB: INSIDE DEMS' LIMBAUGH PLAN

POLITICO (March 4 2009) Top Democrats believe they have struck political gold by depicting Rush Limbaugh as the new face of the Republican Party, a full-scale effort first hatched by some of the most familiar names in politics and now being guided in part from inside the White House.

The strategy took shape after Democratic strategists Stanley Greenberg and James Carville included Limbaughs name in an October poll and learned their longtime tormentor was deeply unpopular with many Americans, especially younger voters. Then the conservative talk-radio host emerged as an unapologetic critic of Barack Obama shortly before his inauguration, when even many Republicans were showering him with praise.

Soon it clicked: Democrats realized they could roll out a new GOP bogeyman for the post-Bush era by turning to an old one in Limbaugh, a polarizing figure since he rose to prominence in the 1990s.

Limbaugh is embracing the line of attack, suggesting a certain symbiosis between him and his political adversaries.

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What a surprise, huh folks?

Just look at the Liberal responses on these pages to Obama's disastrous policies and his out-right lies.

Or more accurately: the Liberal NON-RESPONSES.

But hey, just watch Harry's "response" to this............... "

The Question wrote on Mar 4, 2009 12:02 PM:

" Rahm Emanuel's statement that Limbaugh is 'the voice and the energy' of the GOP was brilliant.
What is Limbaugh going to say to that? That he ISN'T the voice of the Republicans? Will the Republicans insist that Rush isn't really the voice of the GOP? Do they dare? No.
Therefore, whatever crazy, vicious thing Limbaugh says will now be OWNED by the GOP.
Emanuel has effectively defined the GOP has a party of obnoxious lunatics. "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 4, 2009 2:07 PM:

" It looks like Fox news is going after Obama's press secretary. They're probably just upset that the White House doesn't sent them talking point bulletins daily like the Bush/Cheney regime no doubt did. Poor FOX no longer gets preferential treatment. "

The Question wrote on Mar 4, 2009 2:29 PM:

" Limbaugh got another apology today on MSNBC.
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Our thanks to Lawrence O'Donnell, for being on the show this morning.
LAWRENCE O'DONNELL: Joe, I just want to apologize to Rush Limbaugh before I leave your show.
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Hold on, hold on. You're actually a Democrat, so you don't have to cower in the corner.
BRZEZINSKI: You may snicker.
O'DONNELL: You know, I once criticized Rush for attacking Michael J. Fox, but the more I think about it, I think Michael deserved it. "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 4, 2009 2:47 PM:

" Becky, please don't put a hole in his balloon. It's the only thing he has left in his defense of Bush. And please don't ask him about Bush's failure to get OBL. Remember him? He's the brother on one of the business partners of George Bush. LOL!

For those interested in such things, check out a new site called: I'm sorry Rush "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 4, 2009 2:53 PM:

" even steven wrote on Mar 4, 2009 10:51 AM:

" Every time our Marxist President opens his mouth, the stock market goes down.

And everytime the new Fascist Messiah, Limpbaughs opens his mouth, Obama's poll numbers go up.

Keep talking Rushie.... LOL! "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 4, 2009 3:03 PM:

" (father bob wrote on Mar 4, 2009 11:44 AM: " anyone who's proud of whats happened and the outcome of the iraq fiasco are unamerican fascists.....period.")

*cough* *cough*

Hey uhm.....bobby?

My Iraq Success post WAS A PARAPHRASE OF OBAMA'S SPEECH TO THE TROOPS 6 SHORT DAYS AGO.

ROFLMAO!

Can you believe these Libs, folks?

LOL! "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 4, 2009 3:09 PM:

" (Harry - "Becky, please don't put a hole in his balloon. It's the only thing he has left in his defense of Bush. And please don't ask him about Bush's failure to get OBL. Remember him? He's the brother on one of the business partners of George Bush. LOL!")

I was paraphrasing Obama's words on the success of Iraq, Harry.

BWAAAHAAHA!

And Obama has already echoed Bush's theme that he is not too concerned with capturing or killing Bin Laden- isolating him is good enough.

ROFLMAO!!

Keep up the good work Harry! You're making me look BRILLIANT! LOL! "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 4, 2009 3:23 PM:

" If there's any doubt that the GOP's own Paulie Walnuts is now firmly in command of the Party of Lincoln, the "breaking news" style coverage of Limbaugh's bellow-cose rant dispelled the notion. CNN, for one, went wide - with the kind of uninterrupted live footage usually reserved for Presidents and Popes, followed by a panel of analysts to weigh and consider the import of the speech to this republic of ours. There were other dancers on the stage, to be sure - including Ward Connerly, Ann Coulter, Phyllis Schlafly and Karl Rove - but only Limbaugh's hour-long ramble (he went over by 30 minutes) garnered opposition leader status. "As the movement searches for a front-and-center spokesman to provide inspiration and direction, Limbaugh's refusal to tilt toward the center may place him out front in a Republican Party already suffering from a disappearing moderate wing," wrote Tom Schaller in Salon.

No wonder Fox news and Limpbaugh wants this issue to go away. "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 4, 2009 3:28 PM:

" Quick Harry!

Get back to your Rush Limbaugh distraction!

Hurry now! Before too many people see that brilliant BEATDOWN I just threw on you! Dance Little Clown Dance!

ROFL!!!!! "

father bob wrote on Mar 4, 2009 3:37 PM:

" seems as though 6 of the top 10 earmarks were made by republicans. also republicans have intentionally combined earmarks to show a significantly and intentionally lower total of submitted....while the actual individual tags are:

677 democratic (50.29%)
669 republican (49.71%)

or dead even.... "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 4, 2009 3:39 PM:

" BARACK OBAMA: IT IS NO LONGER ESSENTIAL TO CAPTURE OR KILL OSAMA BIN LADEN

LONDON TIMES (Jan 15 2009) Barack Obama suggested last night that removing Osama bin Laden from the battlefield was no longer essential and that Americas security goals could be achieved merely by keeping al-Qaeda "on the run".

ANOTHER OBAMA PROMISE DOWN THE TUBES!

As recently as October 7, in a presidential debate, Mr Obama said: "We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al-Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority."

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LOL!! "

even steven wrote on Mar 4, 2009 3:40 PM:

" So, with all that's going on with the country, the twit in the Oval Office is worried about what some radio talk show host says? It's official. Obama is an idiot. "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 4, 2009 3:41 PM:

" I wear Cybil's constant attacks as a badge of honor. The personal attacks can mean only one thing. hee hee "

Becky wrote on Mar 4, 2009 3:53 PM:

" ." Al Qaeda in Iraq has been dealt a serious blow by our troops and Iraqs Security Forces, and through our partnership with Sunni Arabs"

Sure BD, we pay the Sunni not to kill our troops and Al Qaeda has moved to Pakistan where they're now tearing up that country. Oh yeah, heckofajob there Dubya. "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 4, 2009 3:59 PM:

" (father bob wrote on Mar 4, 2009 3:37 PM: "seems as though 6 of the top 10 earmarks were made by republicans. also republicans have intentionally combined earmarks to show a significantly and intentionally lower total of submitted....while the actual individual tags are:

677 democratic (50.29%)
669 republican (49.71%)

or dead even.... ")

*AHEM*

"And, absolutely, we need earmark reform. And when I'm president, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely."
-Barry Hussein Obama at the first presidential debate, Sept. 26, 2008

*AHEM*

OBAMA BANS EARMARKS FROM ECONOMIC PACKAGE

MSNBC (Jan 6 2009) WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama vowed Tuesday to bar lawmakers' pet projects from his massive economic stimulus plan and to bring unprecedented accountability to federal spending.

ROFLMAO!!!! "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 4, 2009 4:03 PM:

" (Becky wrote on Mar 4, 2009 3:53 PM:

" ." Al Qaeda in Iraq has been dealt a serious blow by our troops and Iraqs Security Forces, and through our partnership with Sunni Arabs"

Sure BD, we pay the Sunni not to kill our troops and Al Qaeda has moved to Pakistan where they're now tearing up that country. Oh yeah, heckofajob there Dubya.")

Uhm....Becky?

Those are OBAMA'S WORDS.

Are you saying OBAMA'S lying, Becks?

Oh and Al Qaeda's been in Pakistan long before we ever got there. LOL!!!! "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 4, 2009 4:07 PM:

" I wear Harry's school-girl tactic of avoiding my tough questions as a badge of honor in here.

I'm just too tough and far too intelligent for Harry, and he knows it.

His fearful actions speak volumes! LOL! "

NeoCon Academician wrote on Mar 4, 2009 4:17 PM:

" " seems as though 6 of the top 10 earmarks were made by republicans. also republicans have intentionally combined earmarks to show a significantly and intentionally lower total of submitted....while the actual individual tags are:

677 democratic (50.29%)
669 republican (49.71%)

or dead even.... "
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Let me write r-e-a-l slow so even you can understand this Father Bob.

Obama ran on a "no more business as usually with earmarks" platform. But now, with his first major pieces of legislation, low and behold, 9000 earmarks appear in the bill.

Boy that showed real chance by Obama, didn't it?

It's my humble view that using a weighted prioritization list against a cost-to-benefit ratio, just like what is done in business and industry, would be a much better way to add such projects of discretionary spending to legislation.

But what does somebody from Hicktown USA know? "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 4, 2009 4:49 PM:

" How stupid is the Obama Administration for using Rush Limbaugh as a sophomoric distraction for their disastrous economic policies?

This stupid:

RASMUSSEN

-Poll: Just 11% of Republicans say Rush is the GOPs leader

-Democrats, however, are closely divided 44% say Limbaugh is the Republican leader and 41% dont believe it.

-Among voters not affiliated with either of the major national parties, 27% say Limbaugh is the Republicans leader, while 58% say he is not and 15% are undecided.

+++++++++

The only morons who are buying this ruse is Obama's own lemmings.

But then, we already know that don't we. Just take a look around this site............. "

father bob wrote on Mar 4, 2009 4:51 PM:

" neo....you wouldn't know a ratio if you found it in your cornbread. "

father bob wrote on Mar 4, 2009 4:53 PM:

" oh....and it's 8570 earmarks to be exact....moron. "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 4, 2009 5:01 PM:

" Poor Cybil is allowing herself to get so worked up over all this that she's making her Neo persona sound more like her Blowdog persona everday. I think she might be getting confused.

Seriously, why are conservatives so angry?

You da man, Doh! LOL! "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 4, 2009 5:04 PM:

" Awwwww look at that, Neo.

FatherHarryBob's a tad cranky after I tricked him into criticizing Obama's speech about The tremendous success of the Iraq War. LOL! "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 4, 2009 5:11 PM:

" neo....you wouldn't know a ratio if you found it in your cornbread. "

Wow, another "smackdown" for Cybil's NeoCon. I'll bet all of Neo's pals like Tom A who sit around McDonald's all day long heard that one. "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 4, 2009 5:17 PM:

" A deal has been reached whereby Karl Rove will finally testify, under oath, before the House Judiciary Committee, according to chairman John Conyers' office.

Rove has long avoided and ignored subpoenas in the past by claiming executive privilege -- his deference now comes as a big victory for many Bush administration critics.

Huffington Post-

Part of the deal should have been that Rove gets strapped to a lie detector.

Is Cheney next? And do we have a extradition agreement with Dubai that would force Cheney back, if he goes into hiding? "

father bob wrote on Mar 4, 2009 5:24 PM:

" ooops, i forgot....... that was all done by 40 republican submissions and 67 democratic submissions. "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 4, 2009 5:39 PM:

" ABC News Rick Klein reports: Clearly enjoying the attention, radio host Rush Limbaugh today issued a debate challenge to President Obama, pitching the battle as one that will determine who will own the United States of America.

Blowdogs Messiah thinks this is professional wrestling, I guess. LOL! "

NeoCon Academician wrote on Mar 4, 2009 6:23 PM:

" father bob wrote on Mar 4, 2009 4:51 PM:

" neo....you wouldn't know a ratio if you found it in your cornbread. "

father bob wrote on Mar 4, 2009 4:53 PM:

" oh....and it's 8570 earmarks to be exact....moron. "
---------------------------

Wow....two stinging quips Father Bob.

Now go back to sleep in your tree, Goony Goo Goo. "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 4, 2009 6:41 PM:

" (Neo - "Wow....two stinging quips Father Bob. Now go back to sleep in your tree, Goony Goo Goo.")

ROFL!!

Thanks Neo, I just spit soda all over my keyboard....... "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 4, 2009 6:51 PM:

" GOODNEWS!

OBAMA ADVISORY PANEL: IRAN HAS ACCESS TO ENOUGH URAINIUM TO MAKE 50 NUKES

FOXNEWS (March 4 2009) Schneider warned that the fundamentalist Islamic regime in Tehran which has threatened to wipe Israel off the map and equipped and funded regional terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah has access to significant amounts of the raw fissile material that would be the core ingredient in such a nuclear arsenal.

++++++++++

Uhm.....does anybody remember this little Obama gem?

OBAMA (May 18 2008) "You know, Iran, they spend one-one hundredth of what we spend on the military. If Iran ever tried to pose a serious threat to us, they wouldn't stand a chance."

Gee.....I wonder if Obama has a contingency plan for a terrorist attack using Iranian nuclear devices inside the U.S.?

I wouldn't bet on it........... "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 4, 2009 6:59 PM:

" Don't look now folks, but Cybil's talking to herself again. She's been doing that a lot lately. "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 4, 2009 7:16 PM:

" It looks like Blowdogs Messiah, the overweight drug addicted boy chasing, Limpbaugh is taking a liking to the front page.

This is a gift that fell right into the Dems hands.

Yeah Neo, Reagan would be proud all right.

The rest of the Rush wannabes like the whiny little Sean Insannity are probably turning green with envy. And speaking of green with envy, did you catch the brilliant observation on A4 today, Neo?

Perhaps if you ever came up with anything that made sense, you might get a mention too. Kissing up to the Blowdog won't do it for you. "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 4, 2009 7:23 PM:

" Take a scan over this thread folks and count all the pesky facts that Harry has been too scared to answer.

Next thing you know he'll be spewing off about Granddaddy Bush marching in an SS uniform....and then of course Cheney in the grassy knoll....and naturally Karl Rove orchestrating a fake moon landing....depending on which frequency Harry's Tin Foil Beanie happens to be on tonight. LOL! "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 4, 2009 7:35 PM:

" From THE WASHINGTON POST (March 4 2009)

Our British cousins are getting the feeling that the new administration doesn't fancy them.

The murmurs began when President Obama returned to the British Embassy the Winston Churchill bust that had been displayed in the Oval Office since Tony Blair lent it to George W. Bush.

The fears intensified when press secretary Robert Gibbs, announcing British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's visit to the White House, demoted the Churchillian phrase "special relationship" to a mere "special partnership" across the Atlantic.

And the alarm bells really went off when Brown's entourage landed at Andrews Air Force Base on Monday night. Obama, breaking with precedent, wouldn't grant the prime minister the customary honor of standing beside him in front of the two nations' flags for the TV cameras.

++++++++

Real smooth Barry. Real smooth.

All of a sudden, the Brits miss Bush. "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 4, 2009 7:45 PM:

" From the I'm sorry Rush site (check it out):

Rush, Our Leader
Republicans who've dared to criticize Rush only to beg for his forgiveness:

RNC Chairman Michael Steele:

Rush is not the head of the Republican Party. He's an "entertainer" whose show is "incendiary" and "ugly."

I'm Sorry, Rush
"My intent was not to go after Rush - I have enormous respect for Rush Limbaugh..."

"I was maybe a little bit inarticulate... There was no attempt on my part to diminish his voice or his leadership."

"I went back at that tape and I realized words that I said werent what I was thinking..."

Congressman Phil Gingrey (R-GA):

"I mean, its easy if youre Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh or even sometimes Newt Gingrich to stand back and throw bricks. You don't have to try to do what's best for your people and your party. "

I'm Sorry, Rush
I clearly ended up putting my foot in my mouth on some of those comments and I just wanted to tell you, Rush, [...] that I regret those stupid comments.

Governor Mark Sanford (R-SC):

"Anybody who wants [President Obama] to fail is an idiot, because it means we're all in trouble..."

I'm Sorry, Rush
Sanfords Communications Director, said that "the governor was not referring to anyone" in particular.

Can it get any better? hee hee "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 4, 2009 8:05 PM:

" UH-OH: MR."THRILL UP MY LEG" SOUNDING FED UP WITH OBAMA'S EARMARK HYPOCRISY!

Chris Matthews: "Why not do what you promised to do? Go through it line by line."

Chris Matthews: "I thought 8,000 was the floor, and it looks like 6,000 is the floor. People are angry, I'm getting angry."

(Oh and, check this zinger out Harry ole boy)

Chris Matthews: "He seems like Barney Fife to me." LOL!

++++++++

Goodness. The honeymoon's ending much quicker than even *I* expected. And from the Liberal Holy Temple - MSNBC!

ROFLMAO! "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 4, 2009 8:14 PM:

" Did I happen to mention this?

"And, absolutely, we need earmark reform. And when I'm president, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely."
-Barry Hussein Obama at the first presidential debate, Sept. 26, 2008

*OBAMA LIE ALERT*

OBAMA BANS EARMARKS FROM ECONOMIC PACKAGE

MSNBC (Jan 6 2009) WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama vowed Tuesday to bar lawmakers' pet projects from his massive economic stimulus plan and to bring unprecedented accountability to federal spending.

*OBAMA LIE ALERT* "

ed miller wrote on Mar 4, 2009 8:37 PM:

" father bob wrote on Mar 4, 2009 3:37 PM:
" seems as though 6 of the top 10 earmarks were made by republicans."

Why does it matter what party made them? Vote the bums out of office. And if Obama signs an earmark laden bill, then his whole campaign was a lie as well, and he should be voted out too. "

NeoCon Academician wrote on Mar 4, 2009 8:49 PM:

" Perhaps if you ever came up with anything that made sense, you might get a mention too. Kissing up to the Blowdog won't do it for you. "
--------------------------------
Oooohhhhhh!.... you mean if I wrote at a third grade level I might get a mention in the opinion section....no thanks I'll pass

so n,o I didn't catch A4..sorry to burst your bubble...the paper, which my wife insists we keep for heaven only knows what reason....comes later and later... I hardly ever get to glare at it anymore...besides...all it is now is a forum for yocals to send their pictures into to say they've gotten their pictures into the paper.... "

ed miller wrote on Mar 4, 2009 8:51 PM:

" Obama's cultists are making much of the fact that Obama seeks to put Iraq War costs back into the regular budget. They hail this as an advance for transparency, accountability, and honesty.

That's a lie.

He wants to put the exceptional and temporary costs of the Iraq War into the regular budget so he can fraudulently claim $1.6 trillion in "savings" down the line.

In Related News... The United States has "cut" over $75 trillion from its budgets over the past 230 odd years by not fighting the British every year. "

NeoCon Academician wrote on Mar 4, 2009 8:59 PM:

" Obviously there's an issue with diphthongs on words.... "

oldschool wrote on Mar 4, 2009 9:38 PM:

" Good one "BlueDog"....Don't forget Potter and the rest of the loonies believe that Nixon had the CIA dope Elvis into an extremly difficult bowel movement Ah...the irony...Potter and The Q haven't had a bowel movement since the Carter years. I Love This Game!! "

oldschool wrote on Mar 4, 2009 9:40 PM:

" I stand corrected...Potter and The Q haven't had a bowel movement since FDR "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 4, 2009 9:43 PM:

" You know, it's interesting:

"And, absolutely, we need earmark reform. And when I'm president, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely."
-Barry Hussein Obama at the first presidential debate, Sept. 26, 2008

Given Obama's well documented love affair with cocaine, one would think he would still be eager to go through everything line by line............. "

oldschool wrote on Mar 4, 2009 9:44 PM:

" Sorry folks...another correction regarding Potter and The Q's bowel movements.....It's been brought to my attention that neither have had one ever !!! Turns out that they have suffered from "diarrhea" of the mouth all their life....go figure. "

oldschool wrote on Mar 4, 2009 9:46 PM:

" Breath mint Potter?? "

oldschool wrote on Mar 4, 2009 9:48 PM:

" I'm here all night....thank you !! "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 4, 2009 11:17 PM:

" old school,

ROFLMAO!!!!

I believe old school just administered the ~ATOMIC~ cyber wedgie to Harry and The Drama Queen. LOL! "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 5, 2009 6:02 AM:

" Leave it to our friend Cybil, the great orator, to turn to topic to bowel movements.

What's next, flatulence jokes?

I guess when your beloved political party gets rejected by the American public, sinks to the level of putting a drug addicted radio right wing gasbag in charge of their destiny, what else can you do? "

The Question wrote on Mar 5, 2009 6:16 AM:

" The real enemy of the ranting, talk radio-addled fringe group that now controls the Republican Party isn't the Democratic Party. It's civilization itself.
Openly or covertly, they regard free speech, reason, compassion, public education, civil rights, civil liberties and science as liberal vices to be eradicated. Truth, too. Hence the ease with which they lie.
They despise the Constitution and art, regarding both as subversive. Their porcine pontiff, Rush Limbaugh, doesn't even know the difference between the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
The very idea of torture appeals to them. They like it and defend it.
They worship, or pretend to worship, fundamentalist religion. It's so useful for manipulating the morons. They actually DO worship guns, money and fascist power, with all the fervor in their black little hearts. "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 5, 2009 6:23 AM:

" Oooohhhhhh!.... you mean if I wrote at a third grade level I might get a mention in the opinion section....no thanks I'll pass

I'm sure the your alter ego BBD will appreciate your remark, especially now that the local paper chose one of his posts to highlight today.

I hope this doesn't cause a cat fight between the two of you. LOL! "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 5, 2009 8:15 AM:

" DUELING DEMS HAVE OBAMA IN EARMARK JAM

POLITICO (March 5 2009)

.....The response from top Democrats on Capitol Hill has been unmistakable.

One Hill Democrat, firing a warning shot, suggested that the president ought not overlook his own stake in the omnibus bill namely, the more than $315 million in earmarks in the measure requested by Vice President Joe Biden, chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and Cabinet members while they were still in Congress last year.

++++++++++

REMEMBER OBAMA'S EMPTY PROMISES KIDS?

"And, absolutely, we need earmark reform. And when I'm president, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely."
-Barry Hussein Obama at the first presidential debate, Sept. 26, 2008

*OBAMA LIE ALERT*

OBAMA BANS EARMARKS FROM ECONOMIC PACKAGE

MSNBC (Jan 6 2009) WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama vowed Tuesday to bar lawmakers' pet projects from his massive economic stimulus plan and to bring unprecedented accountability to federal spending.

*OBAMA LIE ALERT*

I thought I should just remind all of you ObamaZombies about this.

You seem to have remarkably short memories, you know......... "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 5, 2009 8:47 AM:

" The "leader of the Republican Party" question has been thoroughly analyzed and debated. And after many days and many cable news roundelays, I think we can all agree that, yes, the GOP has been inextricably grasped within the meaty, sweaty mitts of that familiar planetoid of addiction, racism and self-indulgence known as Rush Limbaugh.

And that's just fine and dandy.

Bob Cesca-

Fox news may want this obsession with Limbaugh to end, but the GOP messiah is not about to step out of the limelight. The GOP willingly crawled into bed with this sleazebag. You folks in the GOP are stuck with this piece of human excrement. He's your's, like it or not. "

Rohn Gordon wrote on Mar 5, 2009 9:06 AM:

" OK I have a idea. Why don't we really find out who is the BEST debater and or prover of facts between Harry and BDD. It will be easy to do. Each will be allowed 10 questions and answers. Posted 1 at a time. In the post they will answer the question that was asked after the answer they will ask their own question. Put the answer first and question second on each post.
Do each of you accept this challenge?? "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 5, 2009 9:19 AM:

" (Rohn - "Do each of you accept this challenge??")

Sure.

That's what I've been doing all along. "

ed miller wrote on Mar 5, 2009 9:23 AM:

" BDD,

Your best bet is just to ignore Harry. He rants on here about Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, and Prescott Bush, and creating derogatory nicknames for all other posters among other insignificant posts just to get everyone riled up while he skirts the real issues plaguing our nation now. He is obviously starved for attention. His only option is to get people spun up to reply to his nonsense.

Since Bush and Cheney are gone, the Democratic party needs someone new to direct the liberal media to attack and it appears that they have selected Rush Limbaugh. I'm sure they hope the distraction will keep everyone from noticing how they bankrupt America, disguising their pork and social agenda as "stimulus" to save our economy. People need to wake up and notice that ensuing payments on the national debt will take up our ENTIRE GNP.

Obama is like a new electronic gadget. You spend a lot of money and it's neat at first, but you soon realize that it's no better than what you had in the first place. "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 5, 2009 9:30 AM:

" (Harry - "I'm sure the your alter ego BBD will appreciate your remark, especially now that the local paper chose one of his posts to highlight today.")

One of my posts made it in the paper, Harry?

Boy, the JG must really want me to subscribe to their Liberal Rag.

Which post was it? "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 5, 2009 9:35 AM:

" (Harry Potter - "What's next, flatulence jokes?")

Your posts ARE a flatulence joke, Harry. "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 5, 2009 9:42 AM:

" Excerpts from op ed piece in the WSJ from Peggy Noonan, Partisan Republican and former Reagan speech writer:

I think the president, politically, has three big things going for him as he faces this crisis.

First, legitimacy. Our last two presidents were haunted by the circumstances of their election, and significant swathes of the country never fully accepted them. George W. Bush had the cloud of the 2000 recount, and his loss that year of the popular vote; Bill Clinton won in 1992 with only 43% , in a three-man race in which the other two were, essentially, Republican. But no one doubts Mr. Obama's legitimacy. He won by seven points, with 53%. He's the first president without the illegitimacy cloud since Bush I.

Second, we're in the middle of an emergency. In times like this, Americans want their president to succeed. Politically the crisis works for Mr. Obama.

Third is an unspoken public sense that we cannot afford another failed presidency, that we just got through one and a second would be terrible. Americans know how much good a successful presidency does for us in the world, in the public mind. The last unalloyed, inarguable success was Reagan. We need another. Liberal? Conservative? That, to the great middle of America, would, at the moment, be secondary. They want successful. They want "That worked." They want the foreign visitor to say, "I like your president." They want to respond, "So do I."

Some Republicans actually get it. "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 5, 2009 10:11 AM:

" As a public service, I would like to remind all of you Republicans who have ever uttered bad thoughts about your new Messiah, Rush, here's a web site for your atonement: Imsorryrush.com

Since some of you seem to be obsessed with bowel movements, for some odd reason, this will no doubt be a cleansing experience for many of you. You might loose some weight and you will be able to sleep better at night knowing you have set things right with your Messiah. "

NeoCon Academician wrote on Mar 5, 2009 10:24 AM:

" Fox news may want this obsession with Limbaugh to end, but the GOP messiah is not about to step out of the limelight. The GOP willingly crawled into bed with this sleazebag. You folks in the GOP are stuck with this piece of human excrement. He's your's, like it or not.
--------------------

Oh Pleeeeezzz Potter....

Fox News WANTS the controversy to continue...

The only kind of bad publicity in this world is no publicity at all. The public antics of your loony liberal movie stars has proved this time and time again.

And Limbaugh is getting plenty of publicity thanks to you folks. So on behalf of the vast right wing conspiracy...thanks for helping out! Keep up the good work.....

The more you folks on the left try to paint him as this "Boogeyman" pariah....the more notoriety he gains.

The more notoriety Rush gains, the more people stop to listen to him to determine what all the controversy is about.

The more they listen in an effort to disabuse (sorry.. can't get away from the fancy words) the negativity said about him...the more opportunity, and likelihood, they end-up agreeing with what he's ranting about on the radio.

It's a formula Rush's used for years and thats why it's gained him a following of 20 million listeners.

As always, you liberals just don't get this....and that's the reason why liberal talk radio doesn't work..... "

oldschool wrote on Mar 5, 2009 10:32 AM:

" "Rohn"......I DO !!!...oops....I mean BDD does...I think...Wait,...what was the question again?...Oh yea...Potter and facts...hum...the two don't go together.

Breath mint ?? "

father bob wrote on Mar 5, 2009 11:09 AM:

" " the more than $315 million in earmarks in the measure requested by Vice President Joe Biden, chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and Cabinet members while they were still in Congress last year.""""

the BIG words here are "last year" as in this was all done last year. "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 5, 2009 11:23 AM:

" Your best bet is just to ignore Harry. He rants on here about Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, and Prescott Bush, and creating derogatory nicknames for all other posters among other insignificant posts just to get everyone riled up while he skirts the real issues plaguing our nation now. He is obviously starved for attention. His only option is to get people spun up to reply to his nonsense.

Just like you, he can't do it edna...oops I mean eddie. I push his button and he jumps. Just like you do when I push yours. push push .... hee hee "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 5, 2009 11:31 AM:

" DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

There's a reason White House aides have dubbed conservative radio ranter Rush Limbaugh the new face of the GOP - polls showed he's a big, fat target of opportunity.

I couldn't have said it better myself... "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 5, 2009 11:35 AM:

" Fox News WANTS the controversy to continue...

Oh really. Are you actually that stupid, Neo? "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 5, 2009 11:44 AM:

" (Fatherbob - "the BIG words here are "last year" as in this was all done last year.")

psssst. *hey bobby?*

*what year did obama say this?*

"And, absolutely, we need earmark reform. And when I'm president, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely."
-Barry Hussein Obama at the first presidential debate, Sept. 26, 2008

*OBAMA LIE ALERT*

+++++++++++

*uhm....bobby?, does obama's veto pen not work on last years earmarks?*

LOL......moron...... "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 5, 2009 11:58 AM:

" The more you folks on the left try to paint him as this "Boogeyman" pariah....the more notoriety he gains.

That's the idea, Einstein.

Sounds like you've been tuning in and are eating up Limpbaughs spin on the story, Neo.

The more notoriety he gets the more the MSM will focus on him. And the public will get to see what a loud mouth buffoon he really is. Challenging the president of the United states to a pro wrestling style debate was really impressive too, Neo.

That in itself was probably enough to show most folks what an idiot your new Messiah actually is.

Don't forget it was the MSM that exposed Sarah Palin for the ignoramus she really is. Or did you forget about her interviews?

So yes, by all means let's hope Fox is wrong and this story stays around for a while. "

The Question wrote on Mar 5, 2009 12:01 PM:

" Just like you, he can't do it edna...oops I mean eddie. I push his button and he jumps. Just like you do when I push yours. push push .... hee hee.
---
You're playing Rahm to their Limbaugh and Steele, Harry. Keep up the good work. Pavlov's blowdogs will keep barking. "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 5, 2009 12:09 PM:

" While The Obama Administration is desperately trying to distract America by targeting a radio talkshow host who is a non-elected private citizen, the daily headlines reveal why this neophyte President has to sink to such desperate Machiavellian chicanery.

One is hard pressed to recall an Administration that has been more incompetent in it's vetting process of cabinet appointments.
Democrat tax cheats and lobbyists are bad enough, but now we find that Obama's choice for National Intelligence Council, Charles "Chas" Freeman is likewise unfit for his appointment.
Not only does Freeman have connections to foreign governments and longstanding financial ties to the Saudis, it turns out he even complained that the Chinese didnt act quickly enough to oppress the Tiananmen Square protests.

This must be more of that much ballyhooed "Change" we've heard so much about from the hordes of Obama votaries who found it difficult to blink, much less think, when the teleprompter sophistries spewed forth from the sacred lips of their Snake-Oil Messiah. "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 5, 2009 12:48 PM:

" Dedicated to my adoring fan, NeoCon...

Well, I guess we all found out who the de facto leader of the Republican Remnant was this week, as RNC Chairman Michael Steele had to polish up his cue-ball head real special, get down on his rickety half-century old knees, and kiss the ring permanently wedged onto a certain popular persona's plump porcine, OxyContin-stained pinky. Yes indeedy, Mikey's middle-aged self-flagellation in front of Chief Waga-Waga El Rushbo of the El Conservo Tribe was immensely gratifying to Dittoheads and Long-haired, dope-smoking, maggot-infested, good time rock 'n roll plastic banana FM-types alike.

Its official, folks: the Redheaded Stepchild Party is now being led by a second-semester Southeast Missouri State University dropout whose mommy dearest claims he "flunked everything," including Modern Ballroom Dancing (especially shocking given his unique anti-svelte physique and solid ham-hock-thunder-thighed foundation). So Dumbo is now in charge of the elephants. Only his large goofy ears don't have the ability to fly--in fact they can barely hear due to his rabid consumption of pachyderm-sized portions of the ole Hillbilly Heroin. Yee-haw!

Huffington post blogger- "

The Question wrote on Mar 5, 2009 1:12 PM:

" Tennessee GOP Congressman Zach Wamp has noted that a lot of Americans just dont want health care, and that health care is just a "privilege," anyway.
"Listen, the 45 million people that don't have health insurance -- about half of them choose not to have health insurance," Wamp said, displaying his typical Republican brilliance. "Listen, health care is a privilege."
So stop thinking your family has a right to medical attention before you all die, you whining socialist losers. "

injustice85 wrote on Mar 5, 2009 1:28 PM:

" BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Feb 26, 2009 3:26 PM:

" DEMOCRATS KILL MCCAIN'S ALTERNATIVE STIMULUS PLAN

WASHINGTON (Feb 5 2009) The Senate has killed an alternative economic stimulus plan by Sen. John McCain that would have cut income and payroll taxes but spent far less than President Obama's plan.

McCain's plan would have cut the bottom two income tax brackets and lowered corporate income taxes. It also would have extended unemployment benefits and provide money to repair and replace military equipment worn out in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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This was the Democrats version of compromise....... "

Well for one we don't need more equipment in Iraq, it is time to be pulling equipment out, as for corporate income taxes I think not many feel pity for corporations who haven't been able to make good corporate decisions from the start, they don't deserve a break, as for Dr. Evil(McCain) he simply is trying to keep his name around and trying to pretend he can do it better and blah blah blah, I'll write you a stimulus plan and I guarantee you it'll be as useless as the dems or the reps. "

Rohn Gordon wrote on Mar 5, 2009 1:41 PM:

" I have one taker in BDD, ok Harry wanna try or not?? Harry if you accept please call a flip of heads or tails to see who asks the first question. "

father bob wrote on Mar 5, 2009 2:35 PM:

" CALABASAS, Calif. Fairly or not, Countrywide Financial and its top executives would be on most lists of those who share blame for the nations economic crisis. After all, the banking behemoth made risky loans to tens of thousands of Americans, helping set off a chain of events that has the economy staggering.

So it may come as a surprise that a dozen former top Countrywide executives now stand to make millions from the home mortgage mess.

Stanford L. Kurland, Countrywides former president, and his team have been buying up delinquent home mortgages that the government took over from other failed banks, sometimes for pennies on the dollar. They get a piece of what they can collect.

It has been very successful very strong, John Lawrence, the companys head of loan servicing, told Mr. Kurland one recent morning in a glass-walled boardroom here at PennyMacs spacious headquarters, opened last year in the same Los Angeles suburb where Countrywide once flourished. "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 5, 2009 2:49 PM:

" OBAMA'S SAFETY NET: THE TELEPROMPTER

POLITICO (March 5 2009) Obamas reliance on the teleprompter is unusual not only because he is famous for his oratory, but because no other president has used one so consistently and at so many events, large and small.

-After the teleprompter malfunctioned a few times last summer and Obama delivered some less-than-soaring speeches, reports surfaced that he was training to wean himself off of the device while on vacation in Hawaii. But no such luck.

-The presidents teleprompter also elicited some uncomfortable laughter after he announced Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius as his choice for Health and Human Services secretary. "Kathy," Obama said, turning the podium over to Sebelius, who waited at the microphone for an awkward few seconds while the teleprompters were lowered to the floor and the television cameras rolled.

-Obama has relied on a teleprompter through even the shortest announcements and when repeating the same lines on his economic stimulus plan that he's been saying for months whereas past presidents have mostly worked off of notes on the podium except during major speeches, such as the State of the Union.

-In a break from his routine, Obama did not use a teleprompter during his pre-Inauguration speech at a factory in Bedford Heights, Ohio and his delivery seemed to suffer. He paused too long at parts. He accentuated the wrong words. And overall he sounded hesitant and halting as he spoke from the prepared remarks on the podium.

-But be it extra precaution, style or a mental crutch, Obama has shown in the past that he needs the teleprompter. And while he still has his prepared remarks placed on the podium in a leather folder, the White House has shown no sign of trying to wean him off of it.

-"He uses them to death," a television crewmember who also covered the White House under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush said of the teleprompter. "The problem is, he never looks at you. Hes looking left, right, left, right not at the camera. Its almost like hes not making eye contact with the American people."

++++++++++++++

Obama is such an empty-suit, farce. He's nothing more than a puppet on a string for Soros and Emanuel, and with every passing day we see more and more evidence that The White House is clearly Above His Pay Grade. "

The Question wrote on Mar 5, 2009 2:49 PM:

" Right wingers have been instructed to call any mention of their embarrassment of a Supreme Leader, Rush Limbaugh, a "diversion."
Yes. Otherwise they'd be discussing the vital issues, like how well Bush's massive tax cuts for the rich have worked in creating this fundamentally sound economy and where President Obama's birth certificate is. "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 5, 2009 2:58 PM:

" (injustice85- "Well for one we don't need more equipment in Iraq, it is time to be pulling equipment out,")

Not when Obama's leaving 50,000 combat troops in Iraq well into 2011...and well beyond, I'll bet.

("as for corporate income taxes I think not many feel pity for corporations who haven't been able to make good corporate decisions from the start, they don't deserve a break,")

Raising taxes on corporations means higher prices for all of us. "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 5, 2009 3:20 PM:

" Left wingers have received their marching orders from their favorite Obama MoonBat sites (The Huffington Post, The Daily Kos, The Democrat Underground...etc) to continue their diversionary tactics by focusing the attention on Rush Limbaugh, an non-elected private citizen who happens to be the most successful radio host in the country.

This is their only hope of diverting the attention away from Obama's daily display of incompetent, corrupt, and inexperienced stumblings and bumblings.

What's next? Mail-order Portable Obama Talking-Points TelePrompters?

COMMERCIAL: "Now you too can spin on every side of any issue with your brand new ObamaPrompter!"

"Amaze your family and friends as you expound for hours and say virtually nothing!"

"Each ObamaPrompter Kit comes complete with professionally written 'uhms' 'ers' 'uhs' and scripted prompts to 'nod head in simulated deep thought'!"

"Yessss, now you too can make wild promises and statements, empty platitudes, and flat-out false statements!"

*WARNING* ALL SCRIPTS CONTAIN PROMISES THAT CARRY EXPIRATION DATES AND CLARIFICATIONS!

*for a complete list of clarifications please order additional script: number (L.I.E.86)*

~"Order yours TODAY!"~ "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 5, 2009 3:44 PM:

" AND NOW A SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM BARACK OBAMA'S TELEPROMPTER:

http://tinyurl.com/cskxoe

Go ahead......try not to laugh..... "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 5, 2009 3:48 PM:

" When the resident moron has to talk at length about Obama's use of a teleprompter, you know he getting pretty desperate for something to whine about.

And for his whining about McCain's stimulus plans....Uh..Hello...McCain lost the election. He's not running the government. Losers don't get to set policy.

Two more moronic posts from Aunt Dorothy that will surely change the course of history. LOL! "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 5, 2009 4:04 PM:

" (Harry Potter wrote on Mar 5, 2009 3:48 PM: " When BDD (the guy I'm too scared to debate) has to talk at length about Obama's use of a teleprompter, you know he getting pretty desperate for something to whine about.")

WOO-HOO I made Harry jump!

I push his button and he jumps.

push push .... hee hee... "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 5, 2009 4:04 PM:

" Breaking news

updated 11:49 a.m. CT, Thurs., March. 5, 2009
LONDON - Michael Jackson returned to the stage Thursday after eight years marked by more scandal than music-making and told a crowd of screaming fans that he would play a series of London concerts before retiring from public performance.

You have to wonder if Michael was encouraged by Rush's new appointment as Messiah of the GOP.

Will Larry Craig be the next one to reemerge from exile? "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 5, 2009 4:09 PM:

" And Harry's fascination with all things gay, continues...

No wonder Harry's a fwiend of Bawny Fwank's

hmmmmmmm........ "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 5, 2009 4:11 PM:

" More Bushisms:

"I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family." Greater Nashua, N.H., Jan. 27, 2000 "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 5, 2009 4:13 PM:

" More Bushisms:

"Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream." LaCrosse, Wis., Oct. 18, 2000 "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 5, 2009 4:18 PM:

" Thank God for Obama. He's bringing the long nightmare called Iraq to a close. Thank you Mr Commander in Chief. "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 5, 2009 4:21 PM:

" According to Obama's appointed tax cheat Timothy Geithner, oil and natural gas companies do not deserve tax breaks from the federal government because their businesses contribute to global warming. That's right .. our Treasury Tax Cheat believes in man-made global warming.

This TelePrompter Clown in the White House is going to cause energy prices to skyrocket. And this is going to hit the pocket of each and every one of us in more ways than one. "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 5, 2009 4:22 PM:

" RNC member calls on Steele to quit
By Reid Wilson
Posted: 03/05/09 09:44 AM [ET]
Michael Steele should resign as Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman, according to a committee member from North Carolina.

In an e-mail to fellow RNC members obtained by The Hill, Dr. Ada Fisher, North Carolina's national committeewoman, said Steele is "eroding confidence" in the GOP and that members of his transition team should encourage him to step aside. Fisher added Steele's personal e-mail address to the e-mail.

"I don't want to hear anymore [sic] language trying to be cool about the bling in the stimulus package or appealing to D.L. Hughley and blacks in a way that isn't going to win us any votes and makes us frankly appear to many blacks as quite foolish," Fisher wrote.

Huffington Post- (hee hee)

Looks like trouble on the homefront. More implosions for the troubled GOP? "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 5, 2009 4:30 PM:

" So where is that expensive wardrobe the RNC loaned to Palin and her brood? No one seems to know. No one at the RNC is talking.

A pair of her shoes wound up on E-bay and went for a little over 2 grand.

Hmmmm....didn't we hear Sarah bragging about selling stuff on E-Bay a while back? ... something stinks here. LOL!

Now that Rush is in charge, I'm sure he'll get to the bottom of the wardrobegate mess. "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 5, 2009 4:34 PM:

" BARRY OBAMA WITHOUT HIS SAFETY-NET TELEPROMPTER:

OBAMA: "Over the last 15 months, weve traveled to every corner of the United States. Ive now been in 57 states? I think one left to go." "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 5, 2009 4:39 PM:

" While trying to explaining why he was trailing Hillary Clinton in Kentucky, Obama's evil TelePrompter tricked Barry up on basic geography and told him that Arkansas was closer to Kentucky than Illinois:

OBAMA: "Sen. Clinton, I think, is much better known, coming from a nearby state of Arkansas. So its not surprising that she would have an advantage in some of those states in the middle."

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Oh that tricky TelePrompter!

And to do that to a Harvard Law Scholar.....

For shame! "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 5, 2009 4:40 PM:

" (CNN) -- As Democrats cast conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh as the de facto leader of the GOP, Republicans are decrying what they see as an orchestrated scheme designed to divert attention from the Democrats' spending proposals.

Radio host Rush Limbaugh has been vocal about his displeasure with President Obama's policies.

Democrats fired out two political e-mails about Limbaugh on Thursday morning, calling him the face of the GOP, and Republicans sent out one of their own, demanding that the White House "come clean" about and apologize for a "political attack game."

An e-mail sent on behalf of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee states: "Rush Limbaugh is the leading voice of the Republican Party. Make no mistake. When Rush says jump, congressional Republicans say how high?"

The committee says that while President Obama has reached out a hand to Republicans, the GOP has "preferred to kowtow to extremists like Limbaugh rather than accept the good faith outreach of our president."

What's this? Republicans decrying this "scheme". I though it was all part of a brilliant plan on the part of Limpbaughs. At least that's what Neo was trying to sell earlier today.

I guess maybe Neo was wrong, as usual. LOL! "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 5, 2009 4:43 PM:

" Just when you thought the Democrats had run out of ways to take on conservative talker Rush Limbaugh, another zany idea pops out. The latest: The Democratic National Committee is running a contest to find the best 10-word phrase to put on a billboard in Limbaugh's hometown of West Palm Beach, Fla. "We'll go through all of the slogans you submit, and the winner will have his or her submission appear on a billboard in Rush Limbaugh's hometown of West Palm Beach, Floridaand receive a free T-shirt featuring the winning slogan," says the DNC, which adds: "Please keep your suggestion to ten words or fewer."

Old Limpwristbaugh will be sputtering tomorrow. LOL! "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 5, 2009 4:45 PM:

" Sometimes Obama's TelePrompter gives Barry trouble with numbers.

Last year, on the anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march in Selma, Ala., Obama claimed his parents united as a direct result of the civil rights movement:

OBAMA: "There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Ala., because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born."

Obama's TelePrompter forgot to remind Barry that he was born in 1961.

The Selma march took place in 1965.

Fortunately Barry's spokesman's TelePrompter, later explained that Obama was: "speaking metaphorically about the civil-rights movement as a whole."

See that kids?

Even Obama's spokesman's TelePrompter comes with clarifications. "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 5, 2009 4:50 PM:

" Last year in Cape Girardeau, Mo., Obama's TelePrompter showed off it's knowledge of the war in Afghanistan by homing in on a lack of translators:

OBAMA: "We only have a certain number of them, and if they are all in Iraq, then its harder for us to use them in Afghanistan."

The TelePrompter forgot to tell Barry The real reason its "harder for us to use them" is that

in Afghanistan: Iraqis speak Arabic or Kurdish.

While the Afghanis speak Pashto, Farsi, or other non-Arabic languages.

Oh that darned TelePrompter........ "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 5, 2009 5:00 PM:

" Last year in Oregon, Obama (WITHOUT HIS TELEPROMPTER) pleaded ignorance of the decades-old, multibillion-dollar massive Hanford nuclear-waste cleanup:

OBAMA: "Here's something that you will rarely hear from a politician, and that is that I'm not familiar with the Hanford, uuuuhh, site, so I don't know exactly what's going on there."

(Applause.)

OBAMA: "Now, having said that, I promise you I'll learn about it by the time I leave here on the ride back to the airport."

Later Barry's TelePrompter reminded him that he's voted on at least one defense-authorization bill that addressed the "costs, schedules, and technical issues" dealing with the nation's most contaminated nuclear-waste site.

Oh my, Barry without his TelePrompter! "

ed miller wrote on Mar 5, 2009 5:47 PM:

" isn't it about time for another abortion letter? We haven't heard much from Susan lately. "

Rohn Gordon wrote on Mar 5, 2009 6:13 PM:

" Ok all Harry must not want the challenge of the debate with BDD. Weather it be that he KNOWS he cant win, is to COWARDLY to try or just plain don't want to is anyones guess. As for me I would lean in the direction of the first two. This was a PERFECT time for Harry to once and for all in front of everyone on this blog PROVE he was better than BDD. But again there was ONLY one such taker. So I guess we just wont know for sure. "

Rohn Gordon wrote on Mar 5, 2009 6:22 PM:

" LOL good one Ed "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 5, 2009 7:05 PM:

" Rohn Gordon wrote on Mar 5, 2009 6:13 PM:

" Ok all Harry must not want the challenge of the debate with BDD. Weather it be that he KNOWS he cant win, is to COWARDLY to try or just plain don't want to is anyones guess. As for me I would lean in the direction of the first two. This was a PERFECT time for Harry to once and for all in front of everyone on this blog PROVE he was better than BDD. But again there was ONLY one such taker. So I guess we just wont know for sure. "

Think what you want Rohn, I couldn't care less. I explained it to you once, but apparently it went over your head. Perhaps instead of trying to play playground monitor on here, you should concentrate on your reading comprehension skills. "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 5, 2009 7:11 PM:

" (Rohn - "Ok all Harry must not want the challenge of the debate with BDD. Weather it be that he KNOWS he cant win, is to COWARDLY")

Harry's too cowardly because he knows the facts are on my side Rohn. He hasn't forgotten the last time he challenged me; I humiliated him....several times in one debate. "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 5, 2009 7:24 PM:

" You have to wonder if George Bush had used a teleprompter more often he wouldn't have looked so stupid. Perhaps he was just too dumb to understand it's use. I doubt that it would have helped, but it might have eliminated some of his ridiculous gaffs. Of course he was good for the economy, as a host of comedians made their living making fun of the mush mouth Bush. Bush was a comedian's dream, and the jokes will continue on long after the stink he and old Babs made in the White House wears off. "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 5, 2009 7:36 PM:

" No wonder the White House is gleefully winking and nudging everyone in the direction of this Republican clown car of awfulness -- if not for the political advantage, for the sheer spectacle of watching the once mighty Republican Party effectively screwing itself. The Democrats, on one hand, appear to be busily going about the business of cleaning up the mess left behind by three decades of Reaganomics while, on the other the hand, the Republicans are duct-taping themselves to the ample bosom of the most self-satirical political sideshow geek in American media history, while also expecting this will help their electoral chances.

(The great) Huffington Post-

Oh yeah, it just gets better by the day. "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 5, 2009 7:46 PM:

" You put a spotlight on Harry's cowardice, Rohn.

And Harry reacted with his typical fear-based anger and resentment that we've all come to expect from him:

(Harry - "Think what you want Rohn, I couldn't care less. I explained it to you once, but apparently it went over your head. Perhaps instead of trying to play playground monitor on here, you should concentrate on your reading comprehension skills.")

Typical juvenile snot-nosed response from the resident troll, Harry Potter. "

The Question wrote on Mar 5, 2009 7:50 PM:

" You have to wonder if George Bush had used a teleprompter more often he wouldn't have looked so stupid. Perhaps he was just too dumb to understand it's use.
---
Well, the ape didn't need it in the presidential debate with Kerry, Harry. That's when he cheated with that bulging radio receiver device hidden under his suit jacket, remember? "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 5, 2009 7:53 PM:

" More Obama Administration incompetence.

GEITHNER'S CHOICE FOR DEPUTY SECRETARY WITHDRAWS (OOPS AGAIN!)

WASHINGTON (AP) (March 5 2009) -- Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's top pick to be his deputy withdrew from consideration Thursday, a setback for the agency as it confronts the worst financial crisis in decades. Annette Nazareth, a former senior staffer and commissioner with the Securities and Exchange Commission, withdrew after several interviews and vetting of her financial history, a person familiar with Nazareth's decision said.

+++++++++++

Obama's inexperience and incompetence strikes again.

Oh yeah, it just gets better by the day! "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 5, 2009 8:05 PM:

" SANJAY GUPTA OPS OUT AS OBAMA'S SURGEON GENERAL

(CNN) (March 5 2009) -- Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief medical correspondent, has withdrawn his name from consideration as surgeon general of the United States, an administration official said Thursday. "Sanjay Gupta was under serious consideration for the job of surgeon general," the official said in an e-mail. "He has removed himself from consideration to focus more on his medical career and his family. We know he will continue to serve and educate the public through his work with media and in the medical arena."

+++++++++

This is unbelievable!

Now people are turning down Obama's offers to work for him.

I've never seen an Administration this incompetent..... ever

Oh yeah, it just gets better by the day. "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 5, 2009 8:15 PM:

" Check out The Teleprompter King just two days ago trying to explain the market. It's painfully obvious that he is totally B.S.ing his way through this:

VIDEO http://tinyurl.com/a7snvv

OBAMA: "What you're now seeing is, profit and earning ratios are starting to get to the point where buying stocks is a potentially good deal if you've got a long term perspective on it,"

++++++++++

Profit and earning ratios?? What? Does he mean Price-to-Earning ratio?
He has no clue what he is even talking about, and he is in charge of fixing our economy! God help us.

Oh yeah, it just gets better by the day! "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 5, 2009 8:23 PM:

" I recall that comical bulge on Bush's back during the debate, but I don't remember what kind of excuse they came up to explain it. Funny how many passes the MSM gave old Bush, considering the right wingers whine all the time about how the MSM was so anti Bush. "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 5, 2009 8:26 PM:

" It looks like Cybil is stuck in teleprompter mode. He's even forgetting to post as Neo or oldschool tonight. Maybe later. LOL... "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 5, 2009 8:30 PM:

" Let's count Obama's Policy Czars, shall we:

-Health reform Czar

-Urban affairs Czar

-Energy and climate change Czar

-Car Czar

-AIDS Czar

-Drug Czar

and he just recently picked his VP Gaffe-O-Matic Joe Bien as the

-Stimulus Czar

So what's the big deal?

Czars are not accountable to Congress or to Cabinet officials and rarely testify before congressional committees. These Czar will not go through confirmation hearings, and they are not accountable to the public.

So why is Obama doing it?

Well Democrat Senator Byrd thinks that Obama's Administration is tying to accumulative more power through these Czars and assert more control.

This is in direct conflict with Obama's commitment to openness and transparency.

In other words: Another broken promise.

Oh yeah, it just gets better by the day! "

Rohn Gordon wrote on Mar 5, 2009 8:52 PM:

" Rohn Gordon wrote on Mar 5, 2009 9:06 AM:

" OK I have a idea. Why don't we really find out who is the BEST debater and or prover of facts between Harry and BDD. It will be easy to do. Each will be allowed 10 questions and answers. Posted 1 at a time. In the post they will answer the question that was asked after the answer they will ask their own question. Put the answer first and question second on each post.
Do each of you accept this challenge?? "
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Harry Potter wrote on Mar 5, 2009 9:42 AM:
Harry Potter wrote on Mar 5, 2009 10:11 AM:
Harry Potter wrote on Mar 5, 2009 11:23 AM:
Harry Potter wrote on Mar 5, 2009 11:31 AM:
Harry Potter wrote on Mar 5, 2009 11:35 AM:
Harry Potter wrote on Mar 5, 2009 11:58 AM:
Harry Potter wrote on Mar 5, 2009 12:48 PM:
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Rohn Gordon wrote on Mar 5, 2009 1:41 PM:

" I have one taker in BDD, ok Harry wanna try or not?? Harry if you accept please call a flip of heads or tails to see who asks the first question. "
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Harry Potter wrote on Mar 5, 2009 3:48 PM:
Harry Potter wrote on Mar 5, 2009 4:04 PM:
Harry Potter wrote on Mar 5, 2009 4:11 PM:
Harry Potter wrote on Mar 5, 2009 4:13 PM:
Harry Potter wrote on Mar 5, 2009 4:18 PM:
Harry Potter wrote on Mar 5, 2009 4:22 PM:
Harry Potter wrote on Mar 5, 2009 4:30 PM
Harry Potter wrote on Mar 5, 2009 4:40 PM
Harry Potter wrote on Mar 5, 2009 4:43 PM:
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Rohn Gordon wrote on Mar 5, 2009 6:13 PM:

" Ok all Harry must not want the challenge of the debate with BDD. Weather it be that he KNOWS he cant win, is to COWARDLY to try or just plain don't want to is anyones guess. As for me I would lean in the direction of the first two. This was a PERFECT time for Harry to once and for all in front of everyone on this blog PROVE he was better than BDD. But again there was ONLY one such taker. So I guess we just wont know for sure. "
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Harry Potter wrote on Mar 5, 2009 7:05 PM:

" Rohn Gordon wrote on Mar 5, 2009 6:13 PM:

" Ok all Harry must not want the challenge of the debate with BDD. Weather it be that he KNOWS he cant win, is to COWARDLY to try or just plain don't want to is anyones guess. As for me I would lean in the direction of the first two. This was a PERFECT time for Harry to once and for all in front of everyone on this blog PROVE he was better than BDD. But again there was ONLY one such taker. So I guess we just wont know for sure. "

Think what you want Rohn, I couldn't care less. I explained it to you once, but apparently it went over your head. Perhaps instead of trying to play playground monitor on here, you should concentrate on your reading comprehension skills. "
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Now HARRY I went back and read EVERY ONE of your posts. You did NOT explain NOTHING TO ME. So let me explain this to you and while YOU concentrate on your reading comprehension skills. Maybe you can answer this for EVERYONE on here. Either you are a bare faced LIER or posted it under a different name. I am leaning to the LIER. And undoubtedly a COWARD. "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 5, 2009 8:52 PM:

" Oh look I made Harry whimper and whine:

(Harry cries - "It looks like Cybil is stuck in teleprompter mode. He's even forgetting to post as Neo or oldschool tonight. Maybe later. LOL... ")

WOO-HOO I made Harry jump!

I push his button and he jumps.

push push .... hee hee...

That's my good little trained monkey. lol.... "

ed miller wrote on Mar 5, 2009 8:55 PM:

" Democrats and the liberal left seem to need a figure to concentrate their hat on. I finally remembered what this whole situation reminds me of, "1984" by George Orwell.

"The program of the Two Minutes Hate varied from day to day, but there was none in which Goldstein was not the principal figure. He was the primal traitor...All subsequent crimes against the Party, all treacheries, acts of sabotage, heresies, deviations, sprang directly out of his teaching. Somewhere or other he was still alive and hatching his conspiracies, perhaps somewhere beyond the sea, under the protection of his foreign paymasters perhaps even -- so it was occasionally rumoured in some hiding place in Oceania itself."

Orwell saw this coming. He illustrates how regimes with tentative hold over beleaguered populations deflect anger away from their own corruptions and mistakes with the deployment of a greatly embellished, even invented, external enemy. Look at Obama and His references to his "inherited" problem, to bankers, greedy Wall Street and his "predecessor" are all too common, not to mention Limbaugh and Hannity.

But Bush is gone now. And Obama has no specific "Goldstein" to whom he can shift blame and/or deflect attention. But, he still tries to use Bush when possible. For example, last Monday when the market really tanked, the talking heads on TV were starting to question which direction we were heading. How did Obama's administration respond? They release supposed secret Bush anti-terror memos. It was much ado over nothing, but who cares what the article actually said: It generated a nice headline -- "Obama releases secret Bush anti-terror memos" -- during a day the populace might have been thinking disloyal thoughts about their president's direction and we can't have that.

Jim Cramer, Rush Limbaugh, & Rick Santelli have all been singled out by President Obama's press shop in the course of less than two weeks. Why is this? They don't want you to realize that they have spent more in 2 months than Bush did in 8yrs, fighting two wars and dealing with Katrina.

Funny how we never heard this type of behavior out of the GOP. In fact, few assaults on those that were in the political opposition. Never once was Keith Olberman, Bill Mahr or a host of others called out from the White House Press Secretary's podium. In fact, they were mostly, if not completely ignored. But obviously the same can't be said of the Obama White House. With two wars and economic trouble, one would think the White House would have more important things to do. "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 5, 2009 9:14 PM:

" OMG!

Someone already had my idea of an ObamaPrompter. LOL

Check it out: http://tinyurl.com/ctd5x7

White House introduces the ObamaPrompTer.

and I dare you not to laugh...... "

Rotty wrote on Mar 5, 2009 9:17 PM:

" BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 5, 2009 3:44 PM:

"AND NOW A SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM BARACK OBAMA'S TELEPROMPTER:

http://tinyurl.com/cskxoe

Go ahead......try not to laugh..... "

.......

Thanks for the evening laugh, BDD, that was absolutely hillarious!
ROTFLMAO!

A definite keeper! "

ed miller wrote on Mar 5, 2009 9:24 PM:

" Did anyone notice Obama telling us to buy stock? He made reference to the Profit to Earnings Ratio of stocks. What exactly is that? That was not just a slip of the tongue but a worrisome confirmation of the suspicion that he is an empty suit floundering around in over his head.

It's becoming apparent that the man has never led so much as a Cub Scout troop. The Obama administration seems like a monument to incompetence. Consider the multiple appointment fiascos. Consider his treatment of Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the country that has been our staunchest ally. Consider, if you can stand it, the economy: That sucking sound from the U.S. stock market tells us what the market makes of Obamas plans to raise taxes on the evil rich, the middle class, and small businesses. It reminds us what the market thinks of his efforts to shove the coal industry into a death spiral with absurd cap-and-trade carbon emissions regulations. And thats all before breakfast, before he sets about wrecking the U.S. health care industry by turning it, too, over to a Washington bureaucracy because they are so efficient at running everything else. "

oldschool wrote on Mar 5, 2009 9:25 PM:

" Hi "Potter"...I was busy playing kill or be killed church volleyball tonite. Great fun, we won, very warm inside. I took a break because, as you well know, The "BlueDog" will never need my help in besting you. Unless of course...you want me to. I love ya man !!

Breath mint? "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 5, 2009 10:11 PM:

" Rohn, Ed, Rotty, and OldSchool, love your posts my friends.

Poor ole Hapless Harry just keeps bringing out the best in all of us.

Of course you know you're all really me now....right? Or at least..... that's how Harry will tell it.

ROFLMAO "

Rohn Gordon wrote on Mar 5, 2009 10:24 PM:

" Oldschool was that in Charleston?? At the school?? "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 6, 2009 7:49 AM:

" Now HARRY I went back and read EVERY ONE of your posts. You did NOT explain NOTHING TO ME. So let me explain this to you and while YOU concentrate on your reading comprehension skills. Maybe you can answer this for EVERYONE on here. Either you are a bare faced LIER or posted it under a different name. I am leaning to the LIER. And undoubtedly a COWARD. "

Normally, I skip past the comments from you but this one caught me eye, and you went to a lot of work, so I'll give you the courtesy of responding.

Apparently my response didn't get posted.

So I'll try to dummy it down and give you the reason one more time.

You can't debate a liar (note spelling) or a fool. Several of the regulars on here have taken the position that it's more fun to poke fun at the village idiot than to try to argue with someone who goes into automatic spin cycle on all comments, and has no idea of how to debate in the first place.

Now of course he thinks it's brilliance on his part, but many of us see through his smoke and mirrors. Apparently you don't, but that's OK because he thrives on adulation from the uninformed.

By the way if it makes you feel like a better person by calling me a liar and a coward, by all means go for it. I'm glad to play a small part in your self esteem. "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 6, 2009 11:03 AM:

" It stands to reason that if I'm such a liar, then Harry should have no problem exposing my lies.

But uhm.....he's had no such luck. In fact I've exposed his lies and false statements time and time again. And that's exactly why Harry's in no hurry to debate me anymore.

Harry would love nothing more than to "expose" my supposed "lies". He's tried in the past, and failed miserably.

But of course, true to form like the dishonest juvenile he is, Harry can always feign indignation by falsely claiming -

those grapes are "sour" anyway! "

oldschool wrote on Mar 6, 2009 12:17 PM:

" "Rohn" ...Yes it was , at Jefferson. Were you there? "

father bob wrote on Mar 6, 2009 2:37 PM:

" can't wait until rush has his stroke on the air!! "

redwhiteblue wrote on Mar 6, 2009 3:19 PM:

" ed miller wrote on Mar 5, 2009 8:55 PM

This post was absolutely brilliant and summed up what is happening regarding Rush now and the difference in how the Bush administration handled their critics (like grownups and not schoolyard bullies). This should have been a letter to the editor, Ed.

I am continually amused by those in the media on the left who now tell us that we must by all means support our president no matter what. Oddly they did not seem to find this important when Bush was president. And HP and TQ don't come back and tell me that Bush did not deserve to be supported and Obama does when you cannot and have yet to give concrete answers as to how what Obama is doing is going to help move this country forward and out of this recession. "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 7, 2009 6:13 AM:

" And HP and TQ don't come back and tell me that Bush did not deserve to be supported and Obama does when you cannot and have yet to give concrete answers as to how what Obama is doing is going to help move this country forward and out of this recession.

You might want to check out the article from CBS on line regarding the results of the stimulus deal in one city, RWB. I'm sure you will see it as socialism, but at least Obama is getting something going and not sticking his head in the sand like his predecessor did. As stories like this unfold, I wonder how you Obama bashers will react to good economic news? It will no doubt take some time, so in the mean time keep throwing your whiny little hissy fits. "

Harry Potter wrote on Mar 7, 2009 11:59 AM:

" And HP and TQ don't come back and tell me that Bush did not deserve to be supported and Obama does when you cannot and have yet to give concrete answers as to how what Obama is doing is going to help move this country forward and out of this recession.

We don't know if the stimulus package will work, RWB. The article I pointed out to you does seem to indicate a good possibility that it will. It's too soon to tell.

Now how about you explaining why the last eight years of deregulation and cutting taxes for the wealthy helped in any way?

If that had been the way to go, why did Bush initiate stimulus checks and putting billions into the private economy like he did in his last days in office?

The simple truth is that none of us know is this will work or not, and yes leaving things alone might have been the way to go, but the American public overwhelmingly rejected Republican ideas and put a Democrat in office. Therefore he has the responsibility to do what he thinks is right.

I know that the majority of the people in this country hope and pray he's right.

Wanting to see America fail seems rather unpatriotic to me. Yes, I know that Limbaugh and his cohorts are saying it's Obama socialists ideas they want to see fail, but you and I know they pray for his failure. Just look at the gleeful strutting we see on this very site at any misstep this current administration has made.

I see that as the difference is the Bush bashers and the Obama bashers. Most of us who went after Bush did so because of the war in Iraq, but I don't recall seeing or hearing anyone praying and hoping to see the war fail. Did you?

Most Democrats, including myself, agreed with his decision to go into Afghanistan. Bush had the support of this country after 9/11. Many of us saw his going into Iraq as wrongheaded. Personally I think Bush relied on his aides too much, and they all too often they gave him poor advice. I saw his refusal to pardon Libby, despite the pleas from Cheney, as a payback for this.

Unlike Bush, I think Obama is his own man, and will ultimately turn out the better leader.

Many prominent Republicans, granted the more extreme ones, have gone on record saying the want to see Obama fail, and I find his sad. "

cd wrote on Mar 7, 2009 1:15 PM:

" BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 5, 2009 8:30 PM:

" Let's count Obama's Policy Czars, shall we:

-Health reform Czar

-Urban affairs Czar

-Energy and climate change Czar

-Car Czar

-AIDS Czar

-Drug Czar

and he just recently picked his VP Gaffe-O-Matic Joe Bien as the

-Stimulus Czar
--------------
Another indication of where O-bam-a is taking the country.

Send the Czars back to Russia. "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 7, 2009 9:09 PM:

" (Harry - "We don't know if the stimulus package will work, RWB.")

It's been tried before with the New Deal in the 30's and in several countries since, all were failures. In the 90's it failed miserably in Japan and they never did recover fully. Keynesian Economics does not work. Keynes even admitted that the only way his plan could realistically work in a democracy was in the context of a unified War effort.

("Now how about you explaining why the last eight years of deregulation and cutting taxes for the wealthy helped in any way?")

The main culprit in the economic meltdown Harry, was the REGULATORY changes made in to the Community Reinvestment Act in 1995 by Bill Clinton and with the GSE sub-prime mortgage institutions: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
The problem was further magnified when Clinton encouraged all of these unstable loans to be released onto the world market as derivatives. As the much predicted problem worsened, congressional Democrats fought any and ALL efforts to INCREASE REGULATIONS on this reckless system. The heart of this problem was not deregulation, it was and is the present REGULATIONS.

And the Obama Administration has done nothing to correct this on-going disaster.

("Therefore he has the responsibility to do what he thinks is right.")

Obama's not doing what's right- he's doing what's politically advantageous. And he's doing it in the most cynical Machiavellian way possible.

Remember what Rahm Emanuel recently said about the economic meltdown- "Rule One: Never allow a crisis to go to waste. They are opportunities to do big things,"

("Most of us who went after Bush did so because of the war in Iraq, but I don't recall seeing or hearing anyone praying and hoping to see the war fail. Did you?")

The Iraq War still goes on, and contrary to his campaign promises, Obama is NOT removing the troops for years to come. He's simply renaming them "Non-Combat" even though their mission is exactly the same as it was under Bush.

So where's the outrage on the Left, Harry?

All of a sudden the Iraq War doesn't matter anymore, does it.

And you people didn't need to pray that the War would fail- oh no no Harry. You simply DEEMED it a failure early on.

Didn't I read endless posts from all you Liberals predicting utter failure for the Surge? Didn't I read countless statements disregarding ALL reports of success as mere Bush lies, Harry? Didn't I read your very own disparaging and rude comments towards General Petraeus?

Does the phrase "General Betray-us" ring a bell Harry?

("Unlike Bush, I think Obama is his own man, and will ultimately turn out the better leader.")

Read Obama's speech at Camp Lejeune from last week, Harry.

Read it slowly and carefully Harry. Obama not only contradicts all of his past oppositions on Iraq, he actually praises the overwhelming success of the Iraq War. He (unbelievably) exonerates Bush without mentioning Bush by name.

Obama: "And so I want to be very clear: We sent our troops to Iraq to do away with Saddam Husseins regime and you got the job done. We kept our troops in Iraq to help establish a sovereign government and you got the job done. And we will leave the Iraqi people with a hard-earned opportunity to live a better life that is your achievement; that is the prospect that you have made possible."

Kinda sounds like.....Bush....doesn't it Harry? "

injustice85 wrote on Mar 16, 2009 12:57 AM:

" BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 6, 2009 11:03 AM:

" It stands to reason that if I'm such a liar, then Harry should have no problem exposing my lies.

But uhm.....he's had no such luck. In fact I've exposed his lies and false statements time and time again. And that's exactly why Harry's in no hurry to debate me anymore.

Harry would love nothing more than to "expose" my supposed "lies". He's tried in the past, and failed miserably.

But of course, true to form like the dishonest juvenile he is, Harry can always feign indignation by falsely claiming -

those grapes are "sour" anyway! "

...pfff saying Harry won't debate you is a lie in it's own BBD, just look at all the other blogs you mindlessly waste space on, everyone of them has Harry on there exposing you quite clearly as the liar you are "

injustice85 wrote on Mar 16, 2009 12:59 AM:

" oldschool wrote on Mar 5, 2009 9:25 PM:

" Hi "Potter"...I was busy playing kill or be killed church volleyball tonite. Great fun, we won, very warm inside. I took a break because, as you well know, The "BlueDog" will never need my help in besting you. Unless of course...you want me to. I love ya man !!

Breath mint? "

...he clearly needs your help in establishing the truth though lol, let me guess is BBD your boss maybe lol ya know in that business she runs lol, maybe an old pupil lol "

injustice85 wrote on Mar 17, 2009 2:38 PM:

" BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 6, 2009 11:03 AM:

" It stands to reason that if I'm such a liar, then Harry should have no problem exposing my lies.

But uhm.....he's had no such luck. In fact I've exposed his lies and false statements time and time again. And that's exactly why Harry's in no hurry to debate me anymore.

Harry would love nothing more than to "expose" my supposed "lies". He's tried in the past, and failed miserably.

But of course, true to form like the dishonest juvenile he is, Harry can always feign indignation by falsely claiming -

those grapes are "sour" anyway! "

...sorry you didn't provide a name so we can check your police record out, at this point I think your developing quite a fascination for me, ya know if you don't want to "take the risk" you can always email me your name, I know you won't though because your yellow from head to toe "