In NY’s 23rd, conservatives bag a GOP heretic in Scozzafava
Well, the conservatives went hunting for a Republican heretic in upstate New York, and it looks as though they’ve bagged one. This will be the occasion for a lot of celebration on the GOP right, but regardless of what happens Tuesday, I don’t think it bodes well for the GOP nationally.
No party gets bigger by getting smaller.
From the Watertown Daily News:
Dede Scozzafava, the Republican and Independence parties candidate, announced Saturday that she is suspending her campaign for the 23rd Congressional District and releasing all her supporters.
The state Assemblywoman has not thrown her support to either Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate, or Bill Owens, the Democratic candidate.
“Today, I again seek to act for the good of our community,” Ms. Scozzafava wrote in a letter to friends and supporters. “It is increasingly clear that pressure is mounting on many of my supporters to shift their support. Consequently, I hereby release those individuals who have endorsed and supported my campaign to transfer their support as they see fit to do so. I am and have always been a proud Republican. It is my hope that with my actions today, my party will emerge stronger and our district and our nation can take an important step towards restoring the enduring strength and economic prosperity that has defined us for generations.”
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Gov Option Done Deal!
November 1st, 2009
8:45 pm
During the Bush TARP the top 5 people were Goldman Sachs, one left Harvard. Paulson made something like 30 illegal calls to GS during the TARP bailouts.
Welcome to control of America by Wall Street–been goin’ on since you were a little girl.
RW-(the original)
November 1st, 2009
8:46 pm
Chadly MQ,
A Saint blowout.
/Which if form holds for my pro picks this weekend people should load up on the Falcons.
Midori
November 1st, 2009
8:49 pm
Doggone — you must excuse Marie.
Her wig is on too tight.
Gov Option Done Deal!
November 1st, 2009
8:51 pm
No the Civil war is alive and well. It’s being conducted by the Republican party currently. See NY23.
Taxpayer
November 1st, 2009
8:51 pm
@@,
Do you happen to know how many pension funds bought into those bonds from the likes of Goldman and others. Keep digging.
Gov Option Done Deal!
November 1st, 2009
8:52 pm
Your picks were probably pretty good this weekend, but a lot of people got burned in the Giants game.
Taxpayer
November 1st, 2009
8:53 pm
Martha White shall rise again.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: Ate Up With Envy mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
November 1st, 2009
8:55 pm
By the time of the 1790 census, 94 percent of the 698,000 U.S. slaves lived below the Mason-Dixon Line. They concentrated in the tobacco-growing region in the Chesapeake basin and in the rice-growing along the coast of Georgia and South Carolina. Having solved its slavery problem by a very gradual emancipation, and by aggressively proscribing the rights of its free black minority, the North was content.
DoggoneGA
November 1st, 2009
8:55 pm
“Her wig is on too tight”
I had an alternative post, maybe I should have just used them both! “When engaged in an argument with an idiot, it’s wise to be sure he is not engaged in doing the same” or, in other words, if you’re going to call someone a moron…better be sure the insults can’t be lobbed back!
I Report (-: You Whine )-: Ate Up With Envy mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
November 1st, 2009
8:56 pm
morons
josef nix
November 1st, 2009
8:56 pm
Doggone–
I do tend to agree with much of what you say.
@@
Well, maybe it did and maybe it didn’t. I have a Yankee friend who says there are two types of Southerners, the ante Bellum Southerner who doesn’t know a war has been fought and the post Bellum Southerner who doesn’t know it’s over.
I tend to be of the Cherokee General Stand Watie, I agree to stop fighting, not to surrender!
josef nix
November 1st, 2009
9:00 pm
Whiner–
A very gradual emancipation! Ha! They had sold them down the river, made their money back and were still carrying on the international slave trade enriching the New England shipping interest…
Taxpayer–
Martha White shall rise again! THAT’s good!
Bruno
November 1st, 2009
9:05 pm
Mama ocean hold me to you…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84L3y81TRzg
Taxpayer
November 1st, 2009
9:09 pm
Midori,
What the world needs now… are a few more cowboys.
josef nix
November 1st, 2009
9:16 pm
Too bad it’s not the whole thing…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRyIMqXA_o8
Midori
November 1st, 2009
9:18 pm
right now on History International: “Sherman’s March”
Midori
November 1st, 2009
9:20 pm
good one, Taxxie!!
bet you once drove a ‘57 Chevy!!
Angry Black Man
November 1st, 2009
9:21 pm
josef
Is that some of the new math that’s being taught in school? If 94 percent of slavery was in the South, how much was in the North? Zero!!
DoggoneGA
November 1st, 2009
9:23 pm
“right now on History International: “Sherman’s March””
I always judge shows like that on their willingness to tell the unvarnished truth..which few do. For Sherman’s March – if they don’t mention that it was, essentially, an economic attack…it’s varnishing the story.
josef nix
November 1st, 2009
9:26 pm
midori
Unmentionable’s got a d*amn fine cousin who’s one of these (not in the video..)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoifHe01Plk&feature=related
Midori
November 1st, 2009
9:27 pm
Doggone,
the devastating effect the march had on the economy is the focus of the program.
up until now, anyway…..
Taxpayer
November 1st, 2009
9:28 pm
bet you once drove a ‘57 Chevy!!
I better not go there. Suffice it to say that I have always been a firm believer in making love, not war.
Angry Black Man
November 1st, 2009
9:29 pm
Midori
I’ve seen that one. It shows Sherman’s complete march all the way back to Virginia. Also shows that the “emancipators” allowed slaves to drown on Sherman’s orders.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: Ate Up With Envy mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
November 1st, 2009
9:29 pm
Is that some of the new math that’s being taught in school? If 94 percent of slavery was in the South, how much was in the North? Zero!!
I knew I should have highlighted the date of the census taking, which was 1790, as a service to the slow among us.
I’m so sure the North slaved up right after their emancipation, yep.
~~~~~
Anybody else notice the Urinal’s desperate attempt to drum up voter turnout for Tuesday’s mayoral election? Every single solitary page of the napkin had a reference to the contest, even the classifieds.
The white woman frightens them.
Angry Black Man
November 1st, 2009
9:30 pm
It’s time for me to call it a night. I’ll catch up with everyone tomorrow.
josef nix
November 1st, 2009
9:32 pm
“Sherman’s March.” Saw the show. Didn’t much care for it.
ABM–yeah, sorta like the 3/5 compromise!
Want to watch some fun?:
REPARATIONS! SCR*W YOUR CROCODILE TEARS APOLIGIES!!!
DoggoneGA
November 1st, 2009
9:32 pm
“the devastating effect the march had on the economy is the focus of the program”
Sound like it might be good then! I’m listening to something about the solar system narrated by Alec Baldwin. Not really paying a lot of attention to it, but I could listen to that man read the phone book!
Taxpayer
November 1st, 2009
9:33 pm
Good night Angry Blackbelt Man. May the roundhouse force be with you.
Bruno
November 1st, 2009
9:34 pm
Nice 80s tune:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dphpDdfZUGw
@@
November 1st, 2009
9:35 pm
josef:
I’ve never been a history buff. The Civil War was but a blurb in California’s textbooks.
Gettysburg Address. North/Slavery/South. Lee surrendered to Grant at Appamattox. Some northerner shot Lincoln.
That pretty much summed it up.
DoggoneGA
November 1st, 2009
9:39 pm
“Some northerner shot Lincoln.
That pretty much summed it up”
Boothe was not a northerner. He was born in Maryland.
@@
November 1st, 2009
9:42 pm
Maryland is north of me now and was northeast of me when I lived in California, DoggoneIt.
Midori
November 1st, 2009
9:42 pm
as a matter of fact, the Boothe family was a prominent southern institution.
Boothe went over the edge over the proclamation.
Midori
November 1st, 2009
9:43 pm
Doggone,
I agree about Alec.
*swoon*
DoggoneGA
November 1st, 2009
9:45 pm
“Maryland is north of me now and was northeast of me when I lived in California, DoggoneIt”
Not good enough, the world doesn’t revolve around you..you know.
TGT
November 1st, 2009
9:51 pm
Barton continues:
Why was the Republican election victory a cause for secession? Because the Republican Party had been formed in May of 1854 on the almost singular issue of opposition to slavery (see WallBuilders’ work, American History in Black and White). Only six years later (in the election of 1860), voters gave Republicans control of the federal government, awarding them the presidency, the House, and the Senate.
The Republican agenda was clear, for every platform since its inception had boldly denounced slavery. In fact, when the U. S. Supreme Court delivered the 1857 Dred Scott ruling protecting slavery and declaring that Congress could not prohibit it even in federal territories, 10 the Republican platform strongly condemned that ruling and reaffirmed the right of Congress to ban slavery in the territories. But setting forth an opposite view, the Democrat platform praised the Dred Scott ruling and the continuation of slavery and also loudly denounced all anti-slavery and abolition efforts.”
josef nix
November 1st, 2009
9:53 pm
Like many Marylanders, the Boothe’s were probably more Southern than the folks from Georgia. He was pretty much the Tom Cruise of his day, incidentally…Marylanders had an axe to grind with Lincoln dating back to his and Butler’s actions during the early days of the secession crisis when the above mentioned outrages were the order of the day up to and including the arrest and detention of suspect members of the Maryland legislature…
@@
November 1st, 2009
9:53 pm
DoggoneIt, direction is relative to me. HECK! North Carolina is north of me. North Dakota is northwest of me.
I’m just not that into The Civil War. I’m not into reheated hash either.
Apologies to all you history buffs.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: Ate Up With Envy mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
November 1st, 2009
9:55 pm
-In a three way contest Doug Hoffman leads Bill Owens by 19 points. In a two way contest Hoffman leads Owens by 15 points. So the Dede Scozzafava withdrawal and endorsement will probably tighten the race some but not nearly enough.
-58% of Republicans think that Scozzafava’s a liberal and that was obviously before her endorsement today.-PPP
An obvious fact that eludes some liberal columnists.
DoggoneGA
November 1st, 2009
9:56 pm
“DoggoneIt, direction is relative to me”
Father or Mother?
DoggoneGA
November 1st, 2009
9:57 pm
“DoggoneIt”
BTW…is it spelling or reading comprehension that you failed?
@@
November 1st, 2009
10:01 pm
DoggoneIt, I call you DoggoneIt because it continues to irritate you.
I enjoy the power.
DoggoneGA
November 1st, 2009
10:06 pm
“I enjoy the power.”
I’m sure you do, but *I* have the power to deny you that pleasure.
@@
November 1st, 2009
10:08 pm
DoggoneIt, the only way you can deny is to quit complaining about it.
I am more than happy to grant you that freedom.
josef nix
November 1st, 2009
10:09 pm
@@
Apologies to history buffs accepted! BUT in our defense:
“Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”– Georges Santyana
“The past is not dead. It’s not even past.”–William Faulkner
“History for the masses is written by the victors.” Winston Churchill
Bruno
November 1st, 2009
10:12 pm
For @@:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqrMd5y7QXQ&feature=fvw
DoggoneGA
November 1st, 2009
10:17 pm
Josef…I like this one: “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme” Mark Twain
DoggoneGA
November 1st, 2009
10:18 pm
“the only way you can deny is to quit complaining about it.”
There’s at least 2 other ways.
AmVet
November 1st, 2009
10:20 pm
Bruno, another killer choice.You and I would have never made it as FM DJs, unless there was a station for deep cuts only…
I almost forgot how much I loved that debut album. And those two Wilson sisters were REAL easy on the eyes to boot…
If that was THE debut album of 1976, this one may have been it for 1977…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UQBxWtZacc
Taxpayer
November 1st, 2009
10:21 pm
“I enjoy the power.”
I think it is a character trait of the 17 percenters, DoggoneGA.
@@
November 1st, 2009
10:22 pm
josef:
I entered the topic with an “Oops! Sorry”. What more can I say? Except…
The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
Samuel Clemens – Following the Equator
DoggoneGA
November 1st, 2009
10:24 pm
“I think it is a character trait of the 17 percenters, DoggoneGA”
Yes, that and the black-and-white thinking that’s there’s ONLY one way to deal with it. Nuance and multiple-choice seems to be beyond a lot of them.
josef nix
November 1st, 2009
10:27 pm
@@
“By the Law of Periodical Repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again.”
–Samuel Clemens, “Letters from the Earth.”
Midori
November 1st, 2009
10:32 pm
Tax @ 10:41: *BAM!!!*
I Report (-: You Whine )-: Ate Up With Envy mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
November 1st, 2009
10:33 pm
History and democrat propaganda are two entirely different subjects.
josef nix
November 1st, 2009
10:34 pm
As much as I hate to, my own Appomattox is upon me, still stuck in (Daylight Savings) time…
@@
November 1st, 2009
10:35 pm
There’s at least 2 other ways.
“All right then, run, lady, and you keep on running. Buy yourself a bus ticket and disappear. Change your name, dye your hair, get lost – and then maybe, just maybe, you’re gonna be safe from me.” — Ben Quick in Long Hot Summer
Thank you again, Bruno.
josef:
It is not worthwhile to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man’s character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible. — Mark Twain in Eruption
Midori
November 1st, 2009
10:36 pm
As the great Stephen Colbert pondered: “truth has a well known liberal bias”
something for Marie to chew on. If she puts that cake down, that is.
Bruno
November 1st, 2009
10:42 pm
this one may have been it for 1977…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVu5kOirklM&feature=related
josef nix
November 1st, 2009
10:42 pm
@@
“Who says marriages are made in heaven?” Will Varner
“Well, hell wouldn’t have this one!” Ben Quick
“Long Hot Summer” Got both versions…and don’t know which I like best. In my top five of all time favorite films…
really, though, I gotta go…
Bruno
November 1st, 2009
10:48 pm
“Be cool or be cast out……”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LunOB0G1ZyY&feature=related
Bruno
November 1st, 2009
11:07 pm
“Makes you holler hi-dee-ho”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsNWlM3fWmI
@@
November 1st, 2009
11:10 pm
Woop…woop…woop…woop
Bruno
November 1st, 2009
11:39 pm
My Daddy said “You’re gonna drive me to drinkin’ if you don’t stop drivin’ that hot rod Lincoln”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id_tiUHnZ_8&feature=related
Dusty
November 1st, 2009
11:45 pm
Well, I ‘m sorry I got here late but might as well put in my 2 cents worth.
I REPORT is reporting history as it was taught to a majority of Americans( my opinion). My history books said that Lincoln brought about the Emancipation Proclamation, freed the slaves, did not want the Civil War or separation of the USA, and offered slaves the chance to return to Africa, the land from which they were taken. Some took the offer and started a country still viable in Africa.
Southern states demanded States Rights. They seceded when they could not secure them.
Slavery is an abomination but it was not uncommon in those days or in the last thousand years. It was an essential part of Southern economics. Cotton fields and rice patties needed labor. Just as some agricultural endeavors today need the labor of illegals, the South needed the slaves. And as josef has told us, there were some allegiances between the families of slave owners and their slaves that was not terminated even by war. Lincoln was gone by the end of the war and Reconstruction was a grinding misery placed upon white and black in the South. No one disputes that.
Do not take this as any approval of slavery. That is impossible. But there are many sides, many histories and many unknowns that can never be recorded and may change with each investigation.
Many people in this country must have had great respect for Lincoln. We would not have the marvelous Lincoln Memorial if they had thought differently. I wouldn’t see Lincoln on pennies every day. I would not see his marvelous yet simple speeches and letters.
Yes, the man was not perfect and neither was his administration. His General Sherman broke every law we have today about warfare such as burning the countryside throughout states as a military measure. I have never seen a monument to Sherman but Lincoln Memorial still stands.
I admire Lincoln for the many good thngs he did. Everytime I read the Gettysberg Addres as I enter the National Cemetery at Beaufort, I think again how much I appreciate him. The man had a heart.
Gov Option Done Deal!
November 2nd, 2009
1:46 am
What the world needs is legal representation in immigration jails before the abused prisoners are scattered into the boonies where they can’t get it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/02/nyregion/02detain.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print
“The new focus on Varick highlights the conflict between two forces: the administration’s plans to revamp detention, and current policies that feed the flow of detainees through the system as it is now. A disjointed mix of county jails and privately run prisons, where mistreatment and medical neglect have been widely documented, the detention network churns roughly 400,000 detainees through 32,000 beds each year.
“Any attempt to get support or services for them is stymied because you don’t know where they’re going to end up,” said Lynn M. Kelly, the director of the Justice Center.
When she asked that the lawyers’ letters of legal advice be forwarded to detainees who had been transferred from Varick, she said the warden balked, saying he had to consider the financial interests of his private shareholders: 1,200 members of a central Alaskan tribe whose dividends are linked to Varick’s profits under a $79 million, three-year federal contract.”
The 2nd circuit will have this warden’s ass on a pole.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: Ate Up With Envy mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
November 2nd, 2009
6:21 am
WASHINGTON — Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh warned in a TV interview of unprecedented “radical leadership” in the White House and called President Barack Obama a narcissist who is “immature, inexperienced, in over his head.” -Urinal
And?
Bud Wiser
November 2nd, 2009
7:06 am
I for one was glad to see that Obowo made sure that the terrorists at Gitmo all got their H1N1 vaccinations before the citizenry of America.
Apparently Obowo places their lives above pregnant women, children, and all other Americans who haven’t tossed bombs, set IED’s, blown up, stabbed, beheaded or other wise murdered our soldiers and citizens.
Sort of shows Obowo’s priorities, doesn’t it?
Impeach Obama.
Bud Wiser
November 2nd, 2009
7:15 am
WASHINGTON – The typical family would be spared higher taxes from the House Democratic plan to overhaul health care, and their low-income neighbors could come out ahead….Their wealthy counterparts, however, face big tax increases that could eventually hit future generations of taxpayers who are less wealthy….
House Democrats said they are proud that they found a way to finance the health care package largely from a tax on the wealthy…..
The new health care tax would come on top of other tax increases for the wealthy proposed by Obama……
Obama promised during the presidential campaign that he would not increase taxes on couples making less than $250,000. However, the health care bill would impose new taxes on people who don’t buy qualified health insurance, including those making less than $250,000 a year….
Ooops
Obowo really doesn’t means what he says, or keeps any promises at all (except taxing the hell out of everyone), does he?
Liar in Chief.
Impeach Obama.
I Report :-) You Whine :-( Ate Up With Envy mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
November 2nd, 2009
7:28 am
“We assumed she was a lot like other northeastern Republicans, similar to the [Susan] Collinses of the world,” says the aide. “We had no idea she was that far to the left until we started reading about her on the blogs. By then, given the way politics and this place [Capitol Hill] works, it was too late to turn back.”=AmSpec
Dr. Alan Phillips
November 2nd, 2009
7:57 am
Third-party candidates can add a real alternative for voters when they hold to conservative traditional constitutional values and become a choice not merely an echo. It should not take very long in these contests to determine the desires of most voters.
Now, in NY’s 23rd contest, we know beyond a shadow of doubt, Scozzafava was not a conservative Republican, just a liberal echo. Pro abortion, pro gay marriage, pro taxation, pro union open voting, pro increase in taxes and now one can add to her portfolio pro democrat Owens endorsement.
I remain amazed that several Republicans like Newt Gingrich supported Scozzafava until the very end. Rush Limbaugh was totally correct on his analysis of Scozzafava and her RINO label. He is also correct when he repeats on numerous occasions that for the Republicans to win they must abandon this moderate and bipartisan nonsense. We face a democrat, liberal, take no prisoners strategy. It’s time we proclaim our conservatism boldly and openly without apology or equivocation. Let us proudly defend,
A strong national defense,
An end to debt expansion and increased taxes.
A strong pro life and defense of traditional marriage act,
Continued proclamation of American freedom and individualism,
An effort to enforce the criminal laws already enacted,
An all out effort to promote the private sector and removal of unnecessary government regulations,
Greater promotion of individual freedom and small business entrepreneurship,
Promotion of a job creation and restoration program which minimizes corporate taxes and government controls,
Elimination of deceptive tax increases disguised as cap and trade legislation,
Elimination of unnecessary health reform proposals which can add trillions to the national debt long term,
The elimination of unconstitutional czars,
Elimination of illegal immigration and restoration of our borders,
Increased support for our military establishment and forces, and victory in military conflicts,
Renewed pride and support for the U.S. at home and abroad,
We need a renewal of conservative, constitutional principles of freedom and the pursuit of liberty and happiness. If we Republicans are to govern in the future it will only be with the consent of the American people, realizing we will make a life long commitment to conservatism. The Washington lobbyists must be replaced with the voices of average voters who want their country back. There can be no substitute for victory in 2010 and 2012.
Dr. Phillips
Normal
November 2nd, 2009
8:04 am
MR. PRESIDENT, BRING OUR TROOPS HOME NOW! THEY NEED TO COME HOME.
Normal
November 2nd, 2009
8:08 am
Scozzafava certainly sound like an excellent choice for New Yorks 23rd.
I wish I was living there to vote for her. The Republican Party need more like her. Then, perhaps, they could re-establish creditability with the moderate voting public.
Taxpayer
November 2nd, 2009
8:09 am
The 17 percenters think that more of the same of what they did to this nation is the answer. Why am I not surprised.
Normal
November 2nd, 2009
8:11 am
It’s really too bad that the “Conservative’s” chased her out. But, then again, it will be another win for the Democrats. There is just no figuring the Republican mind. Seems that their thinking process is mostly knee jerk. Weird.
RW-(the original)
November 2nd, 2009
8:15 am
sfb,
I quoted you in your entirety so I’m pretty sure my comment was at least as substantive as yours.
Later!
RW-(the original)
November 2nd, 2009
8:20 am
So the blog is just randomly eating comments now eh?
OK, sfb, you win. Next time I want to counter such a substantive argument as Sorry, the Middle Ages are thataway. I’ll give it more than the half second it deserves. And that was quoting your thoughts in their entirety by the way.
Later!
RW-(the original)
November 2nd, 2009
8:22 am
Oh well, maybe the AJC finally folded.
SOUTHERN ATL
November 2nd, 2009
8:23 am
Cheney’s FBI Interview: 72 Instances Of “Can’t Recall”
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
stands for decibels
November 2nd, 2009
8:29 am
If we Republicans are to govern in the future it will only be with the consent of the American people, realizing we will make a life long commitment to conservatism.
Sorry, the Middle Ages are thataway.
RW-(the original)
November 2nd, 2009
8:44 am
Sorry, the Middle Ages are thataway.
Yes, sfb, because freedom and liberty are just such quaint notions.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Happy Full Beaver Moon Day everyone. As you might expect I’m off to the forest.
Normal
November 2nd, 2009
8:45 am
Conservatism = Theocracy
Jimmy62
November 2nd, 2009
8:53 am
Any woman that favors the card check for unions is both not a Republican, and not in favor of freedom, for what is free about allowing people to force other people to unionize through intimidation?
The GOP is far better off favoring candidates that are actually opposed to the insane fiscal policies of the current administration. It’s not hard to find fiscal conservatives, but this lady was definitely not one. Appealing to populism these days means appealing to those who think our current economic policies don’t pass a simple test of logic, because they outweigh those who think what Obama is doing makes any sense.
Taxpayer
November 2nd, 2009
8:57 am
I heard a little blurb from Huckleberry, the blathering bassist of the 17 percent faith, proclaiming the evils of third-party candidates this morning. Of course, I’m sure he would be strumming a different off-key tune if that third-party candidate were taking votes away from someone other than a fellow 17 percenter.
stands for decibels
November 2nd, 2009
9:04 am
because freedom and liberty are just such quaint notions.
Well, tossing out “freedom and liberty” in lieu of pragmatic counter proposals (and more importantly, claiming that your opposition is devoutly opposed to the very idea of freedom and liberty) is looking pretty quaint these days, yes. But somehow I don’t think that’s what you meant.
Nothing Is Free
November 2nd, 2009
9:04 am
Taxpayer
You should take it easy on the independents. It’s the only chance any democrat has.
stands for decibels
November 2nd, 2009
9:07 am
Any woman that favors the card check for unions is both not a Republican, and not in favor of freedom
Card check /= forced membership, but thanks for playing.
and before you go on playing that tawdry anti-union card, I might remind you of this.
Americans Remain Broadly Supportive of Labor Unions
Americans remain broadly supportive of labor unions, as they have been over the past seven decades, including a 59% approval rating for unions in Gallup’s most recent update from August.
[...]
Americans have generally held a favorable view of unions for decades — with no less than 55% of Americans saying they approve of labor unions in Gallup polls conducted from 1936 to 2008.
Nothing Is Free
November 2nd, 2009
9:08 am
I wonder how NBC “REal” journalist feel when on the Meet The Press Lib love fest this Sunday, the Obama operative said:
“Even the FOX News Morning show is attacking the president. The Today Show doesn’t do that.”
Good little Today Show. (Patting them on their little pointed heads)
FOX should be good like all the other networks are.
LOL!!
Sorry about the laugh. Only the Republicans on here will get the joke.
Everyone have a great day.
Taxpayer
November 2nd, 2009
9:10 am
NIF,
You are in no position to utter a word to me.
Nothing Is Free
November 3rd, 2009
8:04 am
Taxpayer
You need to understand that I will call you on your bigotry and your hate filled posts every single time I feel it is needed.
If Jay wants to kick me off the blog for doing it, so be it, But you have absolutely no control over what I write. If I display the same bigoted tendencies that you display, I would expect you to call me on it.
This little tough stance you are taking means nothing. What would mean something is if you leave your bigotry at the door when you come here.