Newt stumbles, Obama surges and Ron Paul exposed
8:59 am December 27, 2011, by Jay
A handful of political developments to get us started in the last week of 2011:
Newt Gingrich — at this point a longtime resident of Virginia, not Georgia — has failed to qualify for the Republican ballot in his home state, which holds its primary on March 6. That’s important in purely practical terms, because Virginia is a big state with a lot of delegates, and because Gingrich was expected to do well there. Instead, only Mitt Romney and Ron Paul will appear on the ballot there, because they were the only ones to collect enough valid signatures.
The failure is also important as a symbol of the former speaker’s lack of discipline and competent leadership. He likes to talks a big game — he and his advisers have likened the ballot failure to the attack on Pearl Harbor — but grand rhetoric is no substitute for execution.
Gallup has confirmed what earlier polls have reported as well — President Obama is having a good holiday season. His job-approval rating of 47 percent is now higher than his disapproval rating of 45 percent. The test will come in trying to sustain that kind of support. Congress, in contrast, will end the year with an approval rating of 11 percent, which is really mind-boggling if you think about it. And what’s truly dismaying about that number is that it is so well-deserved.
With the Iowa caucuses exactly one week away, Ron Paul continues to do well in the polls. But with success comes greater scrutiny, and in Paul’s case it has focused on the contents of an “investment newsletter” that Paul produced and profited from back in the ’80s and ’90s. The publication — titled the “Ron Paul Investment Newsletter” or the “Ron Paul Survival Newsletter” — contains a series of racially biased attacks, whacked-out conspiracy theories and anti-gay rhetoric.
The newsletters were long been known, but have become more relevant as Paul attempts to break out of his cult-figure niche into the mainstream. Paul himself claims that he didn’t write the pieces published under his name, which a., I find difficult to believe and b., doesn’t matter even if it’s true. If you allow such pieces to be published under your name, for your own personal profit, they become your responsibility.
– Jay Bookman
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gm
December 27th, 2011
8:28 pm
Thanks President Obama for bringing our troops home for holidays and fighting for middle class””
Sean
December 27th, 2011
8:29 pm
How many of you Ron Paul bashers have even read his newsletters in question? Those statements are skewed…if you actually read what the newsletters say you’ll see that there are NO racist statements.
His statement on being able to recognize terrorists by their skin was actually him lamenting the fact that most people think that this is true. The MSM showed only the second half of a sentence! This is mass manipulation at it’s best
Mama Says
December 27th, 2011
8:29 pm
Sorry Josef,
U got me with the look beyond black and white logic when dealing with race. Isn’t that the very definition of racisim ?
By the way you condemned me for my post, I asked us to do exactly what you just asked for–to fix the problem
josef
December 27th, 2011
8:33 pm
Scooter
Hey, white boy! Good to see ya!
******
New reality show coming…Cajun Pawn Stars… yow!
josef
December 27th, 2011
8:35 pm
MAMA
How did I condemn you? All I wanted to know was why you’re locking it into black-white/white-black. Those among us who are neither have heard enough, already. Give somebody else the stage.
Rick
December 27th, 2011
8:35 pm
Newt is a college professor, or at least he was, right? Learning to follow instructions is a BIG part of the college learning experience, as well as learning how to “suck up” the punishment, when you have blown it. Suck it up, Newt! Man up to your mistake (miscalculations in Virginia) If you can’t do that, at least STOP the whining. You are 68, but from what we can see, you haven’t grow up yet. It is not too late, but you really have to want to change. REALLY want it?!!! Enough to change?
josef
December 27th, 2011
8:36 pm
Scout
THAT google was worth it! Thanks…
Mama Says
December 27th, 2011
8:37 pm
In many peoples eyes the only way to fix the race issue is for ALL whites to admit they are racist, apologize for their god given natural sin and give as much away as possible. While blacks, Hispanics and any other race which has been victimized by the like minded white people take that acknowledgement and revel in the fact that they were right, all whites are given a script when they are born and we all collaborate on the one goal we have in life, screwing all the brown skinned people.
Sorry, I didn’t get my manifesto when I was born, so I will never take your blame. I will be more than happy to help fix the issue if you can get off your high horse and stop acting completely innocent and pure of the blight brought upon all of us, known as eyesight and prejudice
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 27th, 2011
8:37 pm
Mama Says, not sure what you are trying to say. Perhaps you could be clearer. I frankly don’t care who you are or where you grew up. You can keep playing the white victim card all you want. If you grew up on the “wrong side of the tracks”, then you were the victim of poverty NOT race most likely. They are and remain to different problems which have some significant overlap but you are not a WHITE VICTIM of Racism, you are a victim of poverty who happens to be white. Can there be white victims of racism, yep! Can there be other races who are victims of racism, yep! Has racism ended? No it still exists and not just in a small minority, there are remanents of slavery and racism impacts that remain today.
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
December 27th, 2011
8:40 pm
well,my poker game got cancelled tonight so I thought I might drop in to see what was going on here and see that I can play the race card game instead.
Well, get with the program then. We’re way past the race card and on You-Know-Whats and condoms! I keep telling Jim Earl and Joe Bill this is a weird blog.
Recon 0311 2533
December 27th, 2011
8:44 pm
Latest Gallup polls have Obama desurging. Approve 46% Disapprove 48%. Oh well Jay’s trying but reality keeps getting in his way.
josef
December 27th, 2011
8:45 pm
good fight
And you’re falling into the same trap, with all due respect. Move beyond it and try to see that racism is there in all of us and if blacks and whites would shut up and listen to the browns, reds, and yellows they might, just might, be able to understand that…
And MAMA
I’m the first to jump when I hear Redneck, Cracker, Trailer Trash and what have you and piss my liberal peers off a’plenty when I do…
Mama Says
December 27th, 2011
8:49 pm
Good fight,
Why can’t anything be what it simply is ?
Jay posted on Paul’s news letters and the fact that racisim is alleaged .
The fact is that Paul simply speaking on the subject, like me tonite, is being condemned as racist because of what he said. Not the facts.
You want to cloud the issue with poverty issues and the like.
The fact is any leader of the civil rights movement will tell you that racisim is the cause of the gap in monetary equality and that a disproportionate amount of poor are black. That is why it matters where I grew up and why what I grew up with.
independent thinker
December 27th, 2011
8:49 pm
Soothsayer needs to stop drinking the Kool Aide and worshipping at the revisionist history of the almighty Saint Ronnie. Our attacks under Clinton and Bush II by terrorists can be traced to two disasters under the invincible chickenhawk president (made movies and never saw combat in WW II) also known as Saint Ronnie;
1. Merely blowing up Ghadaffis tent after Libya downed a Pan Am 747 killing hundreds of Americans.
2, Turning tail and fleeing Lebannon after over 150 marines were killed by Hezbollah and
3. Condemning Israel for blowing up our ally, Sadaam Hussein’s nuclear reactor.
So this is how a president shows military strength?
Oh i forgot he invaded Grenada – a country small enough to be overrun by a few troops of boy scouts with BB guns.
Kamchak
December 27th, 2011
8:53 pm
Soothsayer needs to stop drinking the Kool Aide…
What a dreadful and misused cliche.
You can only “drink the kool-aid” once.
Geez….
Mama Says
December 27th, 2011
8:55 pm
The fact that I asked for dialogue and have instantly been acussed of using the white victim card is what it is. A failure to address the real issue and a means by which those who are comfortable in their world of blame can snuggle up with each other and condem us all
Soothsayer
December 27th, 2011
8:55 pm
[T]he global systemic crisis [i]s a phenomenon characterizing the end of the world as we know it since 1945, marking the collapse of the American pillar on which this world order has rested for nearly seven decades. Since 2006, we had identified the period 2011-2013 as that during which the “Dollar Wall” on which the power of the United States sits would fall apart. Summer 2011, with the cut in the United States’ credit rating by S & P, marked an historic turning point and confirmed that the “impossible” (27) was indeed in the process of coming true.
[T]he 2012 election year, which opens against the backdrop of economic and social depression, complete paralysis of the federal system (29), strong rejection of the traditional two-party system and a growing questioning of the relevance of the Constitution, inaugurates a crucial period in the history of the United States. Over the next four years, the country will be subjected to political, economic, financial and social upheaval such as it has not known since the end of the Civil War which, by an accident of history, started exactly 150 years ago in 1861. During this period, the US will be simultaneously insolvent and ungovernable, turning that which was the “flagship” of the world in recent decades into a “drunken boat”.
The unstoppable US economic spiral : recession/depression/inflation
In fact, the United States ends 2011 in a state of weakness unmatched since the Civil War. They practice no significant leadership at international level. The confrontation between geopolitical blocs is sharpening and they find themselves confronted by almost all the world’s major players: China, Russia, Brazil (and in general almost all of South America) and now Euroland (30). Meanwhile, they cannot control unemployment where the true rate stagnates at around 20% against the backdrop of an unabated and unprecedented reduction in the labour force (which has now fallen to its 2001 level (31)).
Real estate, the foundation of US household wealth along with the stock market, continues to see prices drop year after year despite desperate attempts by the Fed (32) to facilitate lending to the economy through its zero interest rate policy. The stock market has resumed its downward path artificially interrupted by two Quantitative Easings in 2009 and 2010. US banks, whose balance sheets are much more heavily loaded with financial derivative products than their European counterparts (33), are dangerously approaching a new series of bankruptcies of which MF Global is a but a precursor, indicating the absence of procedural controls or alarms three years after the collapse of Wall Street in 2008 (34).
Poverty is gradually increasing in the country every day, where one in six Americans now depend on food stamps (35) and one in five children has experienced periods of living on the streets (36). Public services (education, social, police, highways…) have been significantly reduced across the country to avoid city, county, or state bankruptcies. The success with which the revolt of the middle class and the young (TP and OWS) has met is explained by these objective developments. And the coming years will see these trends get worse.
SMEs [Small- & medium-sized enterprises], households, local authorities (38), public services,… have no more “padding” to soften the blow of the recession into which the country has fallen again (39). We anticipated that 2012 would see a 30% drop in the Dollar against major world currencies. In this economy, which imports the bulk of its consumer goods, this will result in a corresponding decrease in US household purchasing power against a backdrop of double-digit inflation.
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article32204.html
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 27th, 2011
8:58 pm
The fact is any leader of the civil rights movement will tell you that racisim is the cause of the gap in monetary equality and that a disproportionate amount of poor are black.
Well if it be fact, then I am sure you can prove all of the claims in your statement. As for Paul, well I am certain that talking about how fleet of foot “they” can be is not at all racist
or perhaps an “non-racist” assumption that 95% of the black males in DC are semi-criminal or entirely criminal. 
josef
December 27th, 2011
9:01 pm
Mama.et al.
Okay, dialogue on racism…what are the top ten issues today in Indian country?
Kamchak
December 27th, 2011
9:03 pm
The fact that I asked for dialogue and have instantly been acussed of using the white victim card is what it is.
And it ain’t what it ain’t.
And repetition is repetition.
And tautology is saying the same thing but just using different words.
ODD OWL
December 27th, 2011
9:05 pm
The Republicans should spare themselves further embarrassment on the campaign trail and a surefire landslide defeat in the Presidential election. The Republicans should give some serious thought to not running any candidate in the Presidential election in 2012. They should allow president Barack “The Hawk” Obama to run unopposed.
getalife
December 27th, 2011
9:06 pm
“–Roubini 2012 Outlook: Nouriel Roubini says 2012 is going to be a bumpy year. “At this point, a eurozone recession is certain. While its depth and length cannot be predicted, a continued credit crunch, sovereign-debt problems, lack of competitiveness, and fiscal austerity imply a serious downturn. The US — growing at a snail’s pace since 2010 — faces considerable downside risks from the eurozone crisis. It must also contend with significant fiscal drag, ongoing deleveraging in the household sector (amid weak job creation, stagnant incomes, and persistent downward pressure on real estate and financial wealth), rising inequality, and political gridlock… Restoring robust growth is difficult enough without the ever-present specter of deleveraging and a severe shortage of policy ammunition. But that is the challenge that a fragile and unbalanced global economy faces in 2012.”
The EU and the gop are in the way of growth but we will make it past the w collapse.
Real Scootter
December 27th, 2011
9:09 pm
Cajun porn stars! You got to be kiddin, oh you said pawn,my bad
Hey Redneck,please let me know when a trailer comes up for rent in the park there but I can provide only small arms fire!
Soothsayer
December 27th, 2011
9:10 pm
Take a good look at this chart. In fact, save it to your favorites or bookmark it. This is an exceptional chart. Let me explain what you are looking at. The blue line is commodities (gold, silver, oil, soybeans, wheat, pork bellies, you name it.) the red line is the dollar. Notice how the two lines are almost mirror images of each other. Now look over at the far right side of the chart and tell me what you see. If you had to guess, what do you think might happen to the red line and what might happen to blue line? In fact, it’s already happening. The dollar is going down and commodities are going up.
josef
December 27th, 2011
9:10 pm
getalife
Hello, friend of the Red Man! You’ve done more than anybody else on the blog to undo the damage done to the First Nations… I hear they’re considering naming a wing of the school for you!
Mama Says
December 27th, 2011
9:10 pm
Good fight did you just ask me to prove factual what the allegations are of the civil rights leaders ?
Shouldn’t they be the ones to support their assumptions ?
As for fleet of foot, are we going back to jimmy the Greek or a conceptualized anticipation of a group who would be the enemy in a race war. I mean by definition Paul is talking about blacks since he is white, right ? Or would you like him to describe his side ( given he is white) .
If the subject is a race war I would hope the whites would be evaluated by the blacks.
Kamchak
December 27th, 2011
9:14 pm
Shouldn’t they be the ones to support their assumptions ?
Shouldn’t you be the one to prove they actually held those assumptions first?
josef
December 27th, 2011
9:14 pm
Scooter
Cajun porn stars? Google is your friend…
Recon 0311 2533
December 27th, 2011
9:15 pm
We can lament America’s failings and prophesize her demise but the turn around and restoration lies in ridding this nation of the far-left. The left as only a small minority has none the less been succeeding in destroying this country from within. Purging the left from society will unfortunately require the destruction of the Democratic Party that is now wholly owned by left wing radicals. Hopefully, we will see the peaceful beginning of the lefts end in the 012 national elections.
josef
December 27th, 2011
9:17 pm
Like I said, as long as it’s still mired in that paradigm, all we’re doing is spinning our wheels…and the direction this dialogue has gone is evidence thereof…
getalife
December 27th, 2011
9:17 pm
josef,
They built that school with my donations.
At least it was fun
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 27th, 2011
9:17 pm
josef, I would suspect much is life on the reservation for those that remain. Prejudice, poverty, lack of job opportunity, education and many of the problems associated with those issues.
josef
December 27th, 2011
9:18 pm
DEL
I’m far left. How do you propose to rid America of me?
Soothsayer
December 27th, 2011
9:18 pm
Del: you’re exactly right! We should round them up, gas them, and burn them in ovens!
Hey! What was that feller’s name what done that before?
getalife
December 27th, 2011
9:20 pm
All this doom and gloom of the demise of our great country is way premature.
The cons say they want to undo what the Obama administration did but that will bring us back to the collapse.
When will you cons leave la la land and live in the real world?
josef
December 27th, 2011
9:20 pm
An interesting read…
1- Fatherhood
2- Children of Alcoholics (COA)
3- Community Leadership
4- Domestic Violence
5- Drugs and Inhalants
6- Youth Suicide
7- Alcoholism
8- Parenting
9- Families
10- Intergenerational Trauma
http://www.whitebison.org/magazine/2005/volume6/no10.htm
Soothsayer
December 27th, 2011
9:23 pm
“All this doom and gloom of the demise of our great country is way premature.”
The rule of being a parasite is not killing the host. Unfortunately, Wall Street and the Corporatist/Fascist ruling elite have not learned this.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 27th, 2011
9:23 pm
Mama, again you are not being very coherent in your rant so difficult to follow your logic.
Now you made a claim that The fact is any leader of the civil rights movement will tell you that racisim is the cause of the gap in monetary equality and that a disproportionate amount of poor are black. and then you whine about being asked to prove that a leader of the civit rights movement has made that statement. Two components of your statement of “fact”…… 1. racism is THE cause of the gap in monetary [in]equaltiy. 2. a disproportionalt amount of the poor are black. As to item 1, I’ll settle for your proof that a leader of the civil rights movement actually “alleged” that racism is the cause.
Mama Says
December 27th, 2011
9:24 pm
Josef,
What was done to the native people is but the first act on a long list of injustice perpetrated by the U.S.
The problem one of reality. Historically around the world the weakest have lost. Be it on the playground or at war.
Once it is done there is little left to correct. Your people were wiped out, the blacks were brutalized, Irish were banished, Jews were targeted for extermination.
It has taken place inter race also. Light skinned blacks thought they were better than dark skinned, Cherokee was against Blackfoot.
White Germans were against white English. It is what it is.
The only way to overcome it is to teach that it is wrong. We teach by talking and saying what actually took place. Not by condemning the ancestors of those who perpetrated the deeds.
Not trying to argue just saying
Real Scootter
December 27th, 2011
9:25 pm
Dang josef,don’t make me go googling again. Whew
I learn more here than I want to learn.
josef
December 27th, 2011
9:26 pm
getalife
I know some would think I’m picking at you…but far from it. You’ve actually made the effort to know the people and to take your own just due (and I DO mean that) in bringing about that success you see every time you go there. And that it’s been fun is icing on the cake…
Recon 0311 2533
December 27th, 2011
9:27 pm
josef,
I’m not advocating getting rid of you or anyone else on a personal or collective basis, only your ideology that has been detrimental to this nation. You’re free to pursue life any way you wish you’re just not free to force your personal life beliefs on those who believe differently.
Nick UK expat in Singapore
December 27th, 2011
9:29 pm
The Day you get Ron Paul elected I will look at moving my production from Turkey to the US and emigrating myself. He has the potential to to be the greatest president of modern times. I have lived all over the world – South Africa with Mandela, Gorbachev in Russia, Thatcher in the UK, Reagan in the US, Clinton in the US (even!!). Ron Paul I hope will eclipse them all, he could be the great freedom fighter we havent had!
josef
December 27th, 2011
9:29 pm
MAMA
The Cherokee were against the Blackfoot? When, where?
That aside, you make a good point. That’s why I say, move beyond the black white/white black dichotomy…
Mama Says
December 27th, 2011
9:31 pm
Good fight,
If you cannot understand that I referenced a common allegation of the civil rights leaders as it lends itself to poverty you are living under a rock.
Turn on the Tv find Jessie or Al and wait 10 seconds they will tell you how and why blacks are poor and it will be linked to racisim—in their eyes, not mine. Your would therefore have to ask them to explain it and stop acting like I am the one who said it was fact. I referenced an allegation as it is made by black leaders, not me. How can I be expected to prove their fact ?
josef
December 27th, 2011
9:32 pm
DEL
“You’re free to pursue life any way you wish you’re just not free to force your personal life beliefs on those who believe differently”
Likewise, I’m sure.
NICK
Say what? I can see you’ve been around Earth, but what planet are you from? Ron Paul is a clear and present danger…
Mama Says
December 27th, 2011
9:35 pm
Josef,
How about Cherokee against Creek ? I don’t know. Point is it was Indian against indian
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 27th, 2011
9:39 pm
Mama, again, if all I have to do is “wait 10 seconds”, you should have no problem in finding a “leader” making that claim. Now be a good little poster and prove your claimed “facts” or just admit you are making them up, which reflects more on you. Simple request.
Kamchak
December 27th, 2011
9:39 pm
If you cannot understand that I referenced a common allegation of the civil rights leaders as it lends itself to poverty you are living under a rock.
If those “allegations” are as ubiquitous as you claim, then you should have no trouble providing quotes then, huh?
josef
December 27th, 2011
9:45 pm
Mama
I couldn’t resist! Cherokee and Creek? Which faction of which?
As I said, your point is valid…and once we move beyond black and white, we move into a whole new realm of sadly unexplored territory…let’s go there…
A dad
December 27th, 2011
10:02 pm
Dad’s baaaacccckkkkkkk. Mama, I got indoctrinated earlier about how some just keep egging you on. Yes, a lot of racism in the U.S is black/white, but there is more to it than just that.
JOsef – you’re librul? Had me fooled. You was asking some intelligent questions and acting all rational and such. Does this mean Dusty is conservative? (Dang, going ot have to buy new teeth and all).
Kamchak – yo just keep watching those chippendale dancers and leave the arguing to us.
Josef – I’ve eaten gator tail. And snake, insects, mudbugs, and even dog.
josef
December 27th, 2011
10:08 pm
Dad
Good to see you back! Yeah, I’m liberal and Dusty’s conservative…we does tangle from time to time…can get plumb nasty with each other.
I’ve eaten a lot of that, too…no dog that I know of…
womanforpaul
December 27th, 2011
10:13 pm
America Needs Ron Paul.
Ron Paul has had consistent policy positions from the start. The other candidates simply say what the voters want to hear. Ron Paul warned us about the housing bubble, the debt crisis, the collapse of the US dollar, the high employment and recessions; basically, the entire collapse of our economy. He is the only candidate who can get us out of our mess.
Ron Paul is a man who defends the constitution, civil liberties, peace and prosperity. Paul has the wisdom, foresight, honesty and integrity to be president.
Mitt Romney does not where he stands on any issue; Michelle Bachmann is just very angry; Rick Perry does not know very much; John Huntsman has worked for Democrats for many years; Rick Santorum is an extremist; and Newt Gingrich is philosophically unanchored, an unstable element, whom as Peggy Noonan, former Reagan speechwriter writes is a “human hand grenade who walks around with his hand on the pin, saying, Watch this!”.
America Needs Ron Paul.
Kamchak
December 27th, 2011
10:13 pm
Kamchak – yo just keep watching those chippendale dancers and leave the arguing to us.
You seem to be laboring under the misapprehension that I, 1) watch men dance 2) work for you, sport.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 27th, 2011
10:15 pm
Arguing? Merely naysaying and posting “facts” that are made up is not a substitution for argument. I’m sorry, did you sign up for the 10 minute session or the 5 minute?
Thulsa Doom
December 27th, 2011
10:19 pm
Dad,
You and I have returned just in time to see the specter of liberal ignorance raises its ugly head once again.
getalife
December 27th, 2011
10:27 pm
“Congress Really Is As Bad As You Think, Scholars Say”
http://www.npr.org/2011/12/27/144319863/congress-really-is-as-bad-as-you-think-scholars-say
Yeah con ignorance has nothing to do with it doomy.
getalife
December 27th, 2011
10:30 pm
We had a visit from the ron paul media crew.
He is a kook and will be gone after this cycle.
The man wears a permanent tin foil hat.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 27th, 2011
10:32 pm
Well I for one agree with Thelma….. the Spectre of his ignorance of liberals is confirmed whenever he raises his ugly head.
josef
December 27th, 2011
10:32 pm
Getalife
He’s bat shyt crazy…
Thulsa Doom
December 27th, 2011
10:34 pm
“Gallup has confirmed what earlier polls have reported as well — President Obama is having a good holiday season. His job-approval rating of 47 percent is now higher than his disapproval rating of 45 percent”
Speaking of approval ratings I do seem to remember Obama’s high approval ratings after UBL. A month later his approval ratings were back to their usual dismal numbers. I suspect folks are feeling charitable towards him round Christmas time. Lets see what his poll numbers look like say in mid February in the dead of winter. And as for Congress they’ve had low approval ratings for quite a while now.
getalife
December 27th, 2011
10:37 pm
josef,
He is but his fans will have bachmann to support after he is gone.
She will probably run a few more times.
Martin Williams
December 27th, 2011
10:37 pm
Jay, I had plenty of respect for Ron Paul until these articles came out. He is a closest racist and kept denying it. I also know that, we have plenty of Ron Pauls out their. He is the only politician that talks about spending in terms of defence spending and 98% of the politicians don’t even want to go there. Defence spending by United States is high time socialism truly mixed with capitalism. Ron Paul needs to accept the facts and apologize.
Thulsa Doom
December 27th, 2011
10:37 pm
keep up,
Stringing together one coherent, logical thought seems to be a herculean task for you. That’s no surprise of course but Doomy here to help. I got your back.
Kamchak
December 27th, 2011
10:43 pm
Stringing together one…
Too funny!
josef
December 27th, 2011
10:47 pm
Getalife
Bachman tickles me…Newt and Paul scare me, but for different reasons…Newt is an egomaniac, a Mussolini type. Paul? Well, I don’t want to go that far just now, but…
Thulsa Doom
December 27th, 2011
10:49 pm
Doomy ready for some bowling. Liberal pins line themselves up and I just knock em on down. I see I have at least 2 of my pins to play with.
td
December 27th, 2011
10:50 pm
getalife
December 27th, 2011
10:27 pm
You do realize there are two houses in Congress. One controlled by the Republicans and one by the Democrats. There has been 28 bills passed by the house that would help the economy that the Democrats (Harry Reid) will not even bring up for a vote. Meanwhile, the Senate has not even passed a budget in over 900 days.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 27th, 2011
10:51 pm
Oh no….thelma has started referring to himself in the 3d person again….. seems those psychological issues have not been addressed over the holidays. Good news though. The start of the new year means more insurance coverage for addressing those low esteem issues of the impersonal self-referrence. If they are denying you coverage Thelmy, “One call, that’s all’…….
josef
December 27th, 2011
10:54 pm
Good fight
We are not amused!
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 27th, 2011
10:56 pm
There has been 28 bills passed by the house that would help the economy that the Democrats (Harry Reid) will not even bring up for a vote
Nice talking point claim but again to become law a bill requires passage in both the Senate and the House and then the signature of the President. And just claiming a bill would “help” the economy does not make it so.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 27th, 2011
11:00 pm
oh no…. the josef (and pocket friend?) is not amused. The horror…..the horror.
Thulsa Doom
December 27th, 2011
11:01 pm
keep up,
Oh lawdy. And now you’re a psychologist on top of an ambulance chaser. Who knew? You’re about as smart as Stalin was compassionate. But keep setting yourself up keep. I loves my bowling.
getalife
December 27th, 2011
11:04 pm
td,
Yes, I watched the gop “work” on C-Span.
The gop pass ideological bills that they know have no chance to pass the senate.
It is the worst I have seen .
td
December 27th, 2011
11:04 pm
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 27th, 2011
10:56 pm
And when the Senate brings a bill to the floor, they usually add amendments and send it to conference or back to the house. Why has this Senate not done this? Maybe it is because the Dems strategy is to get nothing accomplished so that they run against the so called “do nothing Republicans”?
Thulsa Doom
December 27th, 2011
11:06 pm
“Nice talking point claim but again to become law a bill requires passage in both the Senate and the House and then the signature of the President”-keep
Oh noes. Someone stating the obvious as if were a newly discovered truth. It just doesn’t get any funnier.
“And just claiming a bill would “help” the economy does not make it so.”-keep
Well of course ma’am. The stimulus bill proved that point. Keep sho does like pointing out the obvious. For his next point of enlightenment he will point out that the sun rises in the east. Sheesh!
td
December 27th, 2011
11:08 pm
getalife
December 27th, 2011
11:04 pm
td,
Yes, I watched the gop “work” on C-Span.
The gop pass ideological bills that they know have no chance to pass the senate.
It is the worst I have seen .
Then why will not the Senate amend them and send them back to the House? I saw the same thing when the Dems controlled the House and the Republicans controlled the Senate and the Senate substituted an amendment and sent it back to them. What is the problem with the Senate?
getalife
December 27th, 2011
11:12 pm
td,
They can’t amend ideology silly.
It gets rejected quicker than the President budget .
Kamchak
December 27th, 2011
11:13 pm
What is the problem with the Senate?
Why do you consider it a “problem” when the Senate won’t touch crap?
Thulsa Doom
December 27th, 2011
11:13 pm
td,
Allow me to offer some sage advice on arguing with a liberal. Now of course I’m not saying this applies specifically to anyone that you are debating. I’m just sayin…
Never argue with an idiot. They’ll only drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
getalife
December 27th, 2011
11:15 pm
“Why do you consider it a “problem” when the Senate won’t touch crap?”
Exactly.
doomy,
You are credible on being an idiot .
Thulsa Doom
December 27th, 2011
11:19 pm
You are credible on being an idiot .- getalife
getalife,
Directly calling someone an idiot is a red card. Careful ma’am.
However, I feel you lack the competence to realize your inherent folly or the error of your ways. Being the nice guy that I am I simply corrected your folly. Your welcome
getalife
December 27th, 2011
11:23 pm
doomy,
Well, you are finally credible on something and thought you should be rewarded for that fact.
It is a first.
Thulsa Doom
December 27th, 2011
11:23 pm
“Why do you consider it a “problem” when the Senate won’t touch crap?”
Its always interesting to hear the libs criticize the Republican House for not passing “jobs bills” while completely ignoring the reckless behavior of the obstructionist senate. If only the libs could think logically and critically. If only…
Thulsa Doom
December 27th, 2011
11:25 pm
getalife,
I’m sorry I’ve ignored your posts to me the last several days. You’re generally just not worthy of a response and that’s why I’ve been ignoring your posts. However if you insist on being one of my bowling pins I will certainly accomodate you.
getalife
December 27th, 2011
11:26 pm
Lets take a look at the gop house “jobs bill”.
Nah, we know it is tax cuts and no regulations.
td
December 27th, 2011
11:26 pm
Thulsa Doom
December 27th, 2011
11:13 pm
Thank you for the advice. I have been around for a few years (on other blogs) and have argued with libs about different subjects. I refuse to stoop to the name calling level and if you happen to go to Gallaway’s blog you will see where I have been called every name in the book (It seems he does not have the same red card policy as Bookman). I will continue to make points of fact and hope that maybe they will get it one day and turn from the dark side of the force.
Kamchak
December 27th, 2011
11:27 pm
If only the libs could think logically and critically.
If only it was possible to “string[ing] together one.”
getalife
December 27th, 2011
11:27 pm
doomy.
Gutter balls is name calling.
You are bowling the same as your credibility.
Zero.
getalife
December 27th, 2011
11:30 pm
td,
Do you ever admit you are wrong after the facts prove you are wrong?
td
December 27th, 2011
11:30 pm
getalife
December 27th, 2011
11:26 pm
Lets take a look at the gop house “jobs bill”.
Nah, we know it is tax cuts and no regulations
Yes, less regulation and less taxes equal are growing a prosperous economy. Where as the Democratic alternative (more regulation and higher taxes) gotten us in three years?
BTW: What about the brilliant policy of stopping the production of domestic energy? The Keystone pipeline will produce 200,000 shovel ready jobs but the Dems do not want it. Why?
td
December 27th, 2011
11:32 pm
getalife
December 27th, 2011
11:30 pm
td,
Do you ever admit you are wrong after the facts prove you are wrong?
Where are any facts that have proven me wrong at?
Kamchak
December 27th, 2011
11:32 pm
Yes, less regulation and less taxes equal are growing a prosperous economy.
There’s your sign. Oy!
getalife
December 27th, 2011
11:33 pm
td,
So you are doomy.
I can tell by the con talking points.
Kamchak
December 27th, 2011
11:34 pm
Where are any facts that have proven me wrong at?
You can start with this statement: The Keystone pipeline will produce 200,000 shovel ready jobs
td
December 27th, 2011
11:37 pm
Kamchak
December 27th, 2011
11:34 pm
Well how many jobs will the Keystone pipeline produce?
td
December 27th, 2011
11:38 pm
getalife
December 27th, 2011
11:33 pm
And my conservative point of view is wrong how?
Thulsa Doom
December 27th, 2011
11:43 pm
Kamchak
December 27th, 2011
11:32 pm
“Yes, less regulation and less taxes equal are growing a prosperous economy.”
Economics history FAIL! Somehow or another kamchak’s mind seems to have never learned the reasons why a nascent country, in a mere 130 years or so became one of the most powerful nations on earth. And his mind doesn’t seem to understand that this rise to global economic superpower took place with little regulation and with no permanent income tax until 1913. Let me repeat that so that it sinks in. Between 1776 and 1913 when the permanent income tax was instituted the United States became a dominant global power. And we did it precisely because of a limited central govt, a low tax burden, and a very light regulatory environment. You would think libs would pick up a history book and read some basic history. You would think…
Kamchak
December 27th, 2011
11:48 pm
Well how many jobs will the Keystone pipeline produce?
We’ve already been through this.
Geez….
Thulsa Doom
December 27th, 2011
11:49 pm
“The Keystone pipeline will produce 200,000 shovel ready jobs but the Dems do not want it. Why?”
I dunno td. Bookman presented a study done by some liberal perfessor sitting on his ass in an ivory tower somewhere in the east trying to say the keystone project would actually end up costing jobs. And you know the libs. They’ll always take the word of a left wing lib perfesser sitting in an ivory tower with an agenda over the people that actually will be doing the hiring and actually providing the jobs.