Surprise! South isn’t like the rest of the country
Last week, Steve Benen of the Washington Monthly put together an interesting chart using results of a weekly nationwide Research 2000 poll. He took the question “Do you have a favorable view of the Republican Party?” and charted the results by region.
As the Cookie Monster might note, one of these regions is very much not like the other.
While public attitudes toward the GOP are largely positive here in the South, they are very much negative in the rest of the country. Just 7 percent of voters polled in the Northeast think favorably toward the Republican Party, and numbers in the Midwest (13 percent) and West (14 percent) aren’t much better.
Not surprisingly, charting favorability toward the Democrats would produce a mirror image of Benen’s chart. While just 41 percent of voters think favorably of Democrats, and 50 percent perceive it unfavorably, those national numbers vary widely by region. In the Northeast, 62 percent view the Democrats favorably, while just 20 percent do so in the South.
The poll was done for the liberal DailyKos site, which will no doubt taint it in the eyes of some. But the national numbers it produces track closely with other polls, suggesting that it is not an outlier. Nationally, Research 2000 put Barack Obama’s favorability rating at 54 percent, while the average of major polls at Pollster.com puts it at 53.6 percent. (Here in the South, Research 2000 put Obama’s favorability number at just 27 percent, with 67 percent viewing him unfavorably.)
The standard question of whether the country is headed in the right direction or is on the wrong track also suggests the Research 2000 findings are in the mainstream. Its results put the numbers at 40 percent right direction, 54 percent wrong track, while the poll average at Pollster puts it at 38.6 percent right direction, 54 percent wrong track. In other words, the poll “trues up” pretty well.
And yes, we here in the South are considerably more pessimistic about the country’s direction than our fellow Americans. Just 30 percent say we’re headed in the right direction, while 63 percent say we’re on the wrong track.
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Mrs. Godzilla
September 22nd, 2009
2:07 pm
How about some GOP “amnesty” for fines that are taxes on death panels to kill granny and force big insurance companies outa’ bidness causing us all to gay marry while fighting them over there so they don’t bring their WMDs over here?
Mrs. Godzilla
September 22nd, 2009
2:09 pm
oh and Muslim, muslim, muslim…..
Public Option's A Gol
September 22nd, 2009
2:10 pm
The penalty that Baucus wants you to pay is through the nose money not jail. Health care in prison systems is eggregiously crap.
If you want to watch us slam the Blue Dogs and Republicans live in Senate Finance including the liar Grandma Grassley and the lying Blue Dog Conrad, the insurance company whores on parade, you can watch on C-Span 2 or here. The Senate Finance Feed doesn’t work all the time. What’d you expect–it’s Baucus’ committee?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2005/04/12/VI2005041201139.html
I saw Grassley yammering on. For what Grassley understands about health care delivery, it could just as well be Britney Spears.
1/4 don’t have insurance in Hotlanta says AJC and it’s growing. Republozos say that’s great and keep it growning. They can’t afford it ‘because insurance companies have raised premiums out of their reach and their employers are dropping their insurance because it’s too high.
Repubozos say that’s good. Let ‘em die.
Normal
September 22nd, 2009
2:10 pm
Mrs. Godzilla
September 22nd, 2009
2:07 pm
Ma’am, you have a mean streak in you a mile wide…
Richard Dawson
September 22nd, 2009
2:12 pm
…this was our number one answer…
Survey SAYS: Majority of Southerners havent drank the ObamaAid.
Mrs. Godzilla
September 22nd, 2009
2:14 pm
Normal….
Gee thanks!
ANd Mr. G thinks I’m a pushover
USinUK
September 22nd, 2009
2:15 pm
Mrs. G –
you forgot abortion. also.
Public Option's A Gol
September 22nd, 2009
2:15 pm
I don’t see insurance company whore Kent Conrad addressing the fact that his beloved CBO announced a few days ago that his coop idea is complete BS and that coops are worthless. Funny how he has stopped using CBO charts now that CBO has rejected his idea as bogus and pointed out coops have been a complete failure in this country.
Funny how Baucus and Conrad don’t bring up this article that shows coops are complete failures and don’t impact premiums by the large boss hog monopoly insurance companies. But the progressives who represent places like NY will:
http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-HealthcareReform/idUSTRE58K3L920090921?
How many times could you fit the population of North Dakota into New York City? Or the population the Senate Finance Six losing power every second represent?
Taxpayer
September 22nd, 2009
2:16 pm
A fine is a ‘non-compliance fee’. Republicans don’t do taxes.
Public Option's A Gol
September 22nd, 2009
2:17 pm
A lot of surveys say the majority of southerners have the least education of any region in the US. Maybe they can’t read to understand what’s going on.
Disgusted
September 22nd, 2009
2:17 pm
And don’t forget your Right to Carry, Mrs. G.
Bosch
September 22nd, 2009
2:18 pm
Disgusted,
Carry what? A burden?
Mrs. Godzilla
September 22nd, 2009
2:19 pm
UsinUK
damn! Perfection eludes me! (by a few miles….)
Mrs. Godzilla
September 22nd, 2009
2:20 pm
RIP Co-ops
USinUK
September 22nd, 2009
2:21 pm
Mrs G –
but you’re thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis close!
Bosch
September 22nd, 2009
2:21 pm
A grudge?
Public Option's A Gol
September 22nd, 2009
2:22 pm
Other than telling each other what great studs and studesses they are, the Gang of Six neglects to say that they have come up with nothing, and Baucus’ bill is dead in the water–that they’ve taken the money from their insurance johns and are packed into the car squealing outta motel parking lot.
Apparently Orin Hatch hasn’t read any of the surveys where the overwhelming number of MDs want the public option.
More banal blather from someone who wants the status quo. Can’t possibly listen to any more.
Apparently ole Orin hasn’t read the Survey USA poll that 77% of Americans want a public option and a choice away from being gouged so much by private insurances companies that their employers are dropping their insurance in droves.
Atlanta is in a tie with Texas where 1/4 have no insurance in both places. And they’re both trying to secede from the US pushing the distorttion of the Tenth Amendment argument.
Scooter
September 22nd, 2009
2:23 pm
POAG,you is probly rite!
Kamchak
September 22nd, 2009
2:23 pm
USinUK
I had occasion to look up Brian Wesbury chief economist at First Trust and columnist at American Spectator and read through his predictions back to 2005. How can someone be so wrong and still keep such a prestigious job?
USinUK
September 22nd, 2009
2:29 pm
Kam –
“How can someone be so wrong and still keep such a prestigious job?”
ask Bill Kristol … maybe he can shed some light on that question …
The thing is that a number of people actually did say that there was going to be a recession – however, I can’t think of anyone who had even the remotest idea that it would be this bad …
in fact, back in the summer of 2007, I was at a conference where they were saying that there will always be a business cycle, but now, because of all the new forms of hedging, that all the downsides will be mitigated and recessions won’t be as deep or last as long …
oy.
AmVet
September 22nd, 2009
2:32 pm
Kamchak, the way all of those corporate criminals and their white collar suckers and grinners like the buffoons on MSNBC did. They all sang the same George of the Bungle tune – the economy is sound and everything’s rosy! Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
And then that major league arsewipe, DickHead Cheney had the cojones to look at the camera and say, “Don’t blame Bush. no one saw this coming.”
That man will forever go down in history as a bald-face liar, an incompetent scumbag of the nth degree and a deadly fool. (now ask me what I really think of him and his puppet GWB.)
How these men are not in prison is a testament to the unstoppable corruption of the Wall Street fascists that now own Washington DC.
Kamchak
September 22nd, 2009
2:32 pm
USinUK
oy indeed. Thanks.
USinUK
September 22nd, 2009
2:37 pm
Kam –
me, I thought it was interesting that Greenspan stepped down when he did … then, he became one of the first people to say that the US was heading into a recession …
did he know how bad it was going to be?? I doubt even he realized the extent to which the investment banks were exposed via the derivatives that he thought were the panacea to risk … but, I do think he knew that something bad was coming …
always keep your eyes on the yield curve … an inverted yield curve (where the short end is higher than the long end) always … ALWAYS … precedes a recession. when people say “but this time it’s different”, don’t listen to them – they’ve been wrong everytime they’ve said that.
(yield curve = yields on us treasuries … look at 3-month, 2- 5- 10- and 30-year yields … they’re published everyday in the business section)
AmVet
September 22nd, 2009
2:40 pm
Just listen to this buffoon that used to “advise” Saint Ronnie. Now there’s a trickle down your thighs economic model to follow!
Any bets that he didn’t pocket a bunch of dirty money before the shiite hit the fan a year ago?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/14/this-guy-predicted-the-fi_n_143965.html
AmVet
September 22nd, 2009
2:48 pm
One could argue that Reagan’s mindless and traitorous 11th Commandment has a great deal to do with the rampant corruption in the GOP and the enabling of the long-standing corporate crime wave.
Hypothetically, lets say there were a few members of the Republican Party with a brain and a soul.
Because of the Reagan Manifesto they didn’t dare speak of what they saw. That the imbeciles in charge of that party were steering the USS America towards the rocks. In foreign polciy, in domestic policy and in values.
So they ALL, except for a few outcasts and brave souls like Ron Paul and Chuck Hagel, said and did NOTHING.
Now the conned want us to believe their boys have any credibility or integrity???
No wonder they keep getting destroyed at the polls…
Scooter
September 22nd, 2009
2:54 pm
AmVet, I’m sure you will correct me if I am wrong but the buffoon as you call him seems to know what he is talking about.If I had known what he knew I could have saved a heck of a lot of money! ???????
md
September 22nd, 2009
2:55 pm
“Not surprisingly, charting favorability toward the Democrats would produce a mirror image of Benen’s chart.”
So, where’s the chart? Oh yea, agenda, agenda, agenda.
As for the current topic of the recession, its all about fundamentals. A baseball team can’t catch and throw, they lose. Derivatives based on unsound fundamentals (mortgage ratios), house of cards falls.
Doggone/GA
September 22nd, 2009
2:55 pm
“he became one of the first people to say that the US was heading into a recession …”
I’ve taken anything he says or does with a LARGE grain of salt, ever since he was so surprised at how well the economy did after the Clinton tax raises.
Kamchak
September 22nd, 2009
2:58 pm
USinUK
Funny you should mention inverted yield curve. Just a sample of his Monday morning outlooks:
Jan 16 2007 Don’t Worry About Inverted Yield Curve
May 14 2007 The Economic Rebound is Already Underway
Oct 1 2007 The Economy Is Not Landing, It’s Taking Off
Oct 8 2007 The Consumer Will Not Fade
AmVet
September 22nd, 2009
3:00 pm
“…seems to know what he is talking about.”
Scooter, please do expound.
Dusty
September 22nd, 2009
3:00 pm
Well, talk about much ado about nothing, this one takes the prize. Bookman wants to tell us the South isn’t like the rest of the country. Thank GOD for that.
Reading all the pointless negative comments from the “imports” who couldn’t wait to get to the South is laughable. They couldn’t wait to get here and now they want to change the South BACK to resemble the place they left.
Give it up, boys and girls. Just like Bookman, you ran down here for the best of everything. Now you sit here like a boll weavil in a cotton patch, determined to be the biggest loser of a grinch for all times.
Southerners are noted for their charm, civility and good manners. Indeed, dear folks, I will hold the door open when you want to leave. I will chip in on your airline ticket. I will help you get on the train. I’ll even give you a hug as you depart. I’ll sing a few lines of “Dixie” for you.
On the other hand, welcome South, BROTHER. Now act like one.
And so long, grouch. May your happiness be as big as your minute moments of lucidity. Au revoir!!
Mrs. Godzilla
September 22nd, 2009
3:02 pm
Now that’s southern hospitality!
I’ll pop for the juleps.
USinUK
September 22nd, 2009
3:03 pm
Scooter-puss …
the buffoon in question was Laffer (the other guy) — the one who was saying that “wealth” was growing, that everything was great.
Kam …
hahaha … was his october 15 2007 one “Clap if you believe” followed by his october 22 one “I think I can I think I can”
Bosch
September 22nd, 2009
3:03 pm
And I’ll make all the vegetables for the buffet: Macaroni and cheese, hashbrown casserole, broccoli casserole, and squash casserole – plus the green bean cooked to a mush with bacon and potatoes.
Oh boy!
Bosch
September 22nd, 2009
3:06 pm
And cheese grits, of course.
USinUK
September 22nd, 2009
3:08 pm
Bosch –
please-o-please-o-please to make some creamed spinach!!!!
I’ll make the pecan pie
Mrs. Godzilla
September 22nd, 2009
3:08 pm
Rachel Maddow…mint julep recipe
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30524940/
Mrs. Godzilla
September 22nd, 2009
3:09 pm
I do a pretty damn good calabash shrimp with cheses and bacon grits….
Bosch
September 22nd, 2009
3:09 pm
But that’s not a Southern vegetable. But, okay.
Bosch
September 22nd, 2009
3:11 pm
Mrs. G.,
Bacon is fine – it’s part vegetable in Southern cuisine, but the shrimp makes it more low country than Southern. Ya’ think? Oh, what the hell…..
Mrs. Godzilla
September 22nd, 2009
3:13 pm
Low country is southern …..ain’t it?
Just been to Calabash NC…..
Bosch
September 22nd, 2009
3:15 pm
Mrs. G.,
You’re right – it’s actually better than just plain old Southern.
and ohhh…..USinUK just had to go and mention pecan pie.
whistling dixie
September 22nd, 2009
3:15 pm
I note that Dusty seems to have her extra large granny bloomers in a wad this P.M.
Mrs. Godzilla
September 22nd, 2009
3:18 pm
NO COOL WHIP!
I’ll whip the heavy cream for that pecan pie…..
emeril
September 22nd, 2009
3:19 pm
I guess when there is nothing left to discuss the regulars turn to my area of expertise COOKING!
Wow….I’m impressed……………………..
USinUK
September 22nd, 2009
3:20 pm
Bosch –
if creamed spinach isn’t southern, then why is it in every southern cafe I’ve ever been to??? (right alongside creamed corn and grey-ish green beans)
and I make a killer pecan pie (the secret: more pecans)
stands for decibels
September 22nd, 2009
3:22 pm
I note that Dusty seems to have her extra large granny bloomers in a wad this P.M.
What, you don’t get all charmed as get-out when a born/bred type tells you how her fambly came and moved here and made the South a certain way and now nobody’s allowed to come in and change it, ever!
It’s so civil; so polite.
Doggone/GA
September 22nd, 2009
3:22 pm
“Well, talk about much ado about nothing, this one takes the prize. Bookman wants to tell us the South isn’t like the rest of the country”
In case you failed to notice, this is HIS blog. He want’s to comment…it’s his choice. YOU on the other hand DON’T have to come here and bitch about it. You don’t like it? Do your OWN BLOG.
Public Option's A Gol
September 22nd, 2009
3:24 pm
Massachusetts Senate approved replacing Kennedy. House has already. If final votes done tomorrow, Patrick could appoint his relacement as soon as tomorrow. That will give the Dems a Senator that can show up every day and vote on every issue.
That leaves Byrd who can’t show up every day.
Specter and Leiberman don’t count because they vote with Repubozos on every bill and are essentially Repubozos.
Mrs. Godzilla
September 22nd, 2009
3:24 pm
I see where we’re gonna get a temp in the MA senate seat afterall.
USinUK
September 22nd, 2009
3:24 pm
ooo … here’s a question for the class … is the Smith House still open up in Dahlonega??? ohmygod, some of the best fried chicken and creamed corn I’ve ever had. in my life. ever. and did I mention the biscuits and rolls???
USinUK
September 22nd, 2009
3:27 pm
Mrs. G –
do you think the other Senators are going to be like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NubcKsQTuNQ
stands for decibels
September 22nd, 2009
3:27 pm
Smith House still open, it would seem.
(I was just up in Dahlonega few weeks back, but don’t know that place. guess I should. next time.)
Public Option's A Gol
September 22nd, 2009
3:28 pm
Nothng like hypocrisy at its finest. AMA has a powerpoint on health reform while working quietly behind the scenes with insurance companies to kill it.
http://ow.ly/qyqP
Normal
September 22nd, 2009
3:28 pm
WHAT!!?? No Fried okra?
Mrs. Godzilla
September 22nd, 2009
3:30 pm
dB
try the smith house for sure! i can’t eat my money’s worth there, but Mr G takes up the slack.
then walk across the square to the candy shop on the corner and try some of the pralines…..
USinUK
September 22nd, 2009
3:31 pm
dB –
we went there every fall for Gold Rush Days when I was growing up … ohmygod … the fact that I’m still rhapsodizing about their food (mumble-mumble) years later should tell you how good it is …
Normal
September 22nd, 2009
3:34 pm
USinUK, The Smith House, yeppers! My wife and I go there for our bithdays and when I went to school there I hit the place every Sunday.
The whole thing was just two bucks then. I believe it’s up to around fifteen per plate now. If you had seen it in the sixties, you would think it was a five star restuarant now…BUT, it still has the best fried chicken…
Taxpayer
September 22nd, 2009
3:35 pm
I don’t think Dusty’s from these parts.
Public Option's A Gol
September 22nd, 2009
3:37 pm
When you have a governor who doesn’t know how to govern, and a legislature that doesn’t know how to govern you get this. Georgia becomes Little Katrinaville.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/23/us/23rain.html?hp
“A sewage treatment plant northwest of Atlanta flooded late Monday and into Tuesday, spewing sewage into the Chattahoochee River, which had already swollen to at least 12 feet over its minimum flood stage level.
“When you have a situation like that, there is very little that can be done,” said Janet Ward, the spokeswoman for Atlanta’s Department of Watershed, in an interview Tuesday morning. “We knew yesterday afternoon that things were getting serious and it wasn’t until last night that we realized that we would lose the plant. The plant is very close to the river.”
She added: “The primary and secondary treatment is very compromised, and a lot of sewage is going into the river.”
By 5 a.m. Tuesday, 17 bridges across the state were closed, along with sections of major interstate highways in the Atlanta area including I-20 and I-285.
The death toll rose to seven on Tuesday morning , according to Georgia’s office of emergency management. The body of 14-year-old Nicholas Osley was recovered from a cornfield flooded by the nearby Chattooga River in Trion, Ga., according to a spokeswoman for the Chattooga County Emergency Management Agency. On Monday, Mr. Osley and a friend had rushed to an abandoned car to rescue the occupant, not knowing the occupant had already escaped. Mr. Osley was swept away by the current, while his friend was rescued, the spokeswoman said.”
Scooter
September 22nd, 2009
3:40 pm
USinUK and AmVet,as usual I guess I am the buffoon here!
md
September 22nd, 2009
3:40 pm
“you have a governor who doesn’t know how to govern, and a legislature that doesn’t know how to govern you get this. Georgia becomes Little Katrinaville.”
What would you suggest – flush all the toilets up?
Public Option's A Gol
September 22nd, 2009
3:43 pm
Serial dog killer and dog torturer extrordinaire back on Twitter with 11,071 supporters of serail dog killing and mass dog torturing.
USA USA
Homeland Homeland
http://twitter.com/MV7isback
Bosch
September 22nd, 2009
3:46 pm
Definitely no Cool Whip – what is that crap anyway. And fried okra for Normal – and USinUK – okay, okay! Creamed Spinach.
And we used to eat at the Smith House all the time when I was a kid – well, you know how kids are – I thought it was all the time, which probably means I went there two or three times. Didn’t know it was still open though.
Scooter
September 22nd, 2009
3:46 pm
Where is the streak-o- lean and fried cabbage!
smithhouse
September 22nd, 2009
3:47 pm
Forget the fried chicken. Go with the Lutefisk.
Public Option's A Gol
September 22nd, 2009
3:51 pm
I’d suggest state codes for drains and pipes that mean something. Scores of cities have more rain than we’ve had and don’t flood. Seattle, Louisville, Chicago, Indianapolis, Philadelpia, Nashville, New York to name but a few.
If we had them, there wouldn’t be the tragic scene of a mobile home being washed away and a child being washed out of his father’s hands and drowned.
We have had a lot less rain than the above cities in any given week.
Lipton drinker
September 22nd, 2009
3:52 pm
Fellow Lipton drinkers. I know that we normally like to just take care of those like us but these are extraordinary times. We need to show others that are not like us that we are caring and generous during this, their time of need. So, reach out to those, normally no good, Luzianne drinkers and help them out in their time of need. Be charitable. And, remember, don’t tax you neighbor’s patience with comments about being prepared and self sufficient during these times. Wait a few days.
Mrs. Godzilla
September 22nd, 2009
3:54 pm
lutefisk……EEEEK!
Scooter
September 22nd, 2009
3:58 pm
uh oh, the blog has been invaded by a teabagger y’ll!
Hef
September 22nd, 2009
3:59 pm
Just a general question, Mass. must elect a successor to T.Kennedy or did they change the rules again?
Bosch
September 22nd, 2009
4:00 pm
Teabaggers…..EEEEEK!!
Public Option's A Gol
September 22nd, 2009
4:00 pm
President of the largest unions calls Baucus Bill BS–and it turns out surprise surprise that the people in the AFL-CIO are actually Americans living and working in the US
http://bit.ly/rGqiA
GOP Senator compares illegal immigrants seeking emergency health care to shoplifters: http://tinyurl.com/m8nle7
Mrs. Godzilla
September 22nd, 2009
4:00 pm
Hef
They changed the rules again.
The Gov gets to select a temp…..but there’s a special election in Dec or Jan…..
If it’s what Mass wants…it’s ok by me.
Hef
September 22nd, 2009
4:01 pm
Must admit I do enjoy Luzianne more than Lipton,bolder taste.
Public Option's A Gol
September 22nd, 2009
4:01 pm
Anti-reform group spends nearly $500,000 on “death star” ad targeting Rockefeller’s public option amendment: http://tinyurl.com/lgzn6b
Paul
September 22nd, 2009
4:02 pm
Enter your comments here
Paul
September 22nd, 2009
4:04 pm
Hey Bosch
I read “The South Isn’t Like the Rest of the Country” then I read your post of “And I’ll make all the vegetables for the buffet: Macaroni and cheese”
Vegetables = mac and cheese. Yup, all I need to know about how the South’s different!
I like it.
What didja think of Heroes?
md
September 22nd, 2009
4:04 pm
“a general question, Mass. must elect a successor to T.Kennedy or did they change the rules again?”
Yep, changed the rules again. Sounds like Chavez Syndrom.
Public Option's A Gol
September 22nd, 2009
4:08 pm
Baucus’ chief of staff have not run coops by CBO, because CBO and every other study of coops has said they’re worthless. No surprise there.
Bosch
September 22nd, 2009
4:08 pm
Paul,
Yeah, it always cracks me up to go to places like Cracker Barrel, macaroni and cheese is one of the vegetables. I think technically, not one of the “vegetables” listed on the Cracker Barrel menu is actually a vegetable.
I stopped watching Heroes last season. I got kind of sick of it – everyone died, then would come back and the time switching and I got confused.
Mrs. Godzilla
September 22nd, 2009
4:09 pm
the house and senate of a state (commonwealth) of it’s own free will
makes a choice to change how stuff is done…..Chavez Syndrome? OH NO!
It’s just plain commie pinko facist evil driven by Satan himself from beyond the grave!
just sayin’
Dusty
September 22nd, 2009
4:09 pm
Ah yes, now it is all clear. The starving invaders from the North just came here to EAT. And the poor souls forgot to exercise OFF that big ol’ overhang! But I will excuse these folks for wanting some good food. They needed something good.
I did the “academics” in Boston for a year or two and they fed me strange stuff like Indian pudding (cornmeal with sugar), lufefisk and finan haddie. You won’t believe what they can to to a poor fish up there. Then they served potatoes for BREAKFAST and never heard of grits! I understand their immigration completely.
But no, I don’t wear bloomers (but did wear a tidy swim suit last week). So don’t get your knickers in a wad, decibelle & bulbous.
TnGelding, this my part of the country, Georgia and South Carolina. They are absolutely the BEST with Arizona running third.
Wow, Doggone, I would never have guessed that this is Bookman’s blog. Now everybody can’t be his little toadie, like you. Even Bookman likes a little diversity. Maybe that is why I was “moderated” 13 times consecutively yesterday. Bookman said he was “Sorry”. Well, I knew that. But being forgiving as I am, I am here as the pleasant one today. Cheerup, honey. You,too, may be able to say something sweet. Give it a try.
Scooter
September 22nd, 2009
4:11 pm
I like “Texas Tea” it’s richer!
md
September 22nd, 2009
4:12 pm
“the house and senate of a state (commonwealth) of it’s own free will
makes a choice to change how stuff is done…..Chavez Syndrome? OH NO!”
One must look at why it was changed the first time to understand the Chavez Syndrom.
Hef
September 22nd, 2009
4:12 pm
Ms Godzilla-I agree it is they’re state,but is’nt it a little shady to change the rules the last couple of times(including this one) to favor one side?
Ronnie
September 22nd, 2009
4:13 pm
Eat your ketchup, except that Heinz stuff. It’s made by commie pinkos.
Public Option's A Gol
September 22nd, 2009
4:13 pm
In the Baucus plan, Americans between 200% and 300% of the poverty line would be paying 19-20% of their income to buy one of the cheaper plans confirmed this moment by CBO Doug Elmendorf. That would be good for making sure that 1/2 Atlantans don’t have health insurance if there is no public option choice.
How bout that Repubozos, ready to ante up 20% of your income in a forced crap plan? How does a choice of a public option look to ya now?
20% of your income for insurance that can charge and raise premiums at will and drop you when you get sick. Beautiful.
Scooter
September 22nd, 2009
4:15 pm
Hey Dusty,I still love you!
Hef
September 22nd, 2009
4:16 pm
md-Was the first change so Mitt would’nt be able to name a successor to Kerry?
MacroSoft
September 22nd, 2009
4:18 pm
So, the software has gone and made a moderate out of Dusty. Our latest offering, Indoctrination, Version 2.0.1, is working quite well. Bachmann will be pleased.
Kamchak
September 22nd, 2009
4:18 pm
Pommes frites—-not Southern
Freedom fries—–Southern
md
September 22nd, 2009
4:20 pm
“md-Was the first change so Mitt would’nt be able to name a successor to Kerry?”
Yep.
Pure corrupt politics at its finest. It doesn’t surprise me that Mrs G would agree, as she probably supports Chavez and his marxist buddies as well. No different than voting for handouts from other peoples taxes, sweet gig if one can get it.
Mrs. Godzilla
September 22nd, 2009
4:20 pm
Hef
Shady? No. All done out in the open.
Hypocritical, a bit, based on your political persuasion.
Legal. You betcha’.
It was after all Teddy, and most folks in MASS loved him and want
their voice heard on HCR.
and yes, we all know why it was changed the first time.
and because it was done legally they can do it whenever enough
of the people want them to.
and thats a good thing.
Mrs. Godzilla
September 22nd, 2009
4:26 pm
exceedingly, exceedingly
Hef
September 22nd, 2009
4:26 pm
Ms Godzilla-Honest answer that I can accept.As I said,it’s they’re state,if the PEOPLE are ok with it,that’s all that matters(legally speaking of course)
smithhouse
September 22nd, 2009
4:28 pm
I have a wonderful Lutefisk white gravy that you can put on just about anything.
Been selling it up in the Northeast for years. Those yankees put it on everything from oatmeal to buffalo wings.
md
September 22nd, 2009
4:30 pm
“and because it was done legally they can do it whenever enough
of the people want them to.
and thats a good thing.”
And where exactly does that differ with Mr. Chavez? He is essentially an elected dictator, and that is a good thing?
This type of politics is bad for a society, and if you can’t see that, then only time will tell. Constitution next? Then Bill of Rights? Where does it stop? (Hint, it won’t without revolution)
You're in the Armey Now
September 22nd, 2009
4:33 pm
Fellow, “I got mine-ers”, I need you to get out there in the streets with your signs and put up the good fight during these times because there is a lot of pressure coming from those people — you know the ones, the ones that want what don’t belong to them, what belongs to us — to take what belongs to us in the form of taxes to do things like re-build washed out roads and bridges and flooded houses and schools, especially in places like Cobb and Forsyth and Douglas and Gwinnett counties. We have to stand united in these times more than any other time otherwise how can those people learn to not be beggars. So, do you part to help them become independents. Just say NO.
Thank you.
Thank you very much,
Your friend,
Dick
Scooter
September 22nd, 2009
4:33 pm
smithhouse, too funny!