‘Hard times, baby, hard times everywhere I go’
“People who don’t have money don’t understand the stress. Could you imagine what it’s like to say I got three kids in private school, I have to think about pulling them out? How do you do that?”
– Accountant Alan Dlugash, a specialist in financial planning for the wealthy, explaining the heart-rending consequences of reduced bonuses on Wall Street, where bonuses fell to levels last seen in 2008. This year, the average bonus has collapsed by 14 percent, to $121,150.
(Fortunately, the figure doesn’t include stock options or other unrealized, deferred compensation.)
For more on this calamity and its consequences — canceled trips to Aspen, a four-month rental of a summer home reduced to one month, etc. — see this.
– Jay Bookman
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0311/1811
February 29th, 2012
9:30 pm
Fred:
I thought you were better informed than that.
Fred ™
February 29th, 2012
9:31 pm
jm
February 29th, 2012
9:28 pm
“Maybe your pal Obama will let you ride on Air Force One……whoooo, wouldn’t that be fun…”
Obama sells that in his fundraising emails. Give $2 and win an hour with the President. Its like they’re raffling off America. Ridiculous in a way.
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Really? Prove it. Send me the email or admit to being the lying ass I think you are. Post it here.
Recon 0311 2533
February 29th, 2012
9:31 pm
“Give $2 and win an hour with the President. Its like they’re raffling off America. Ridiculous in a way.”
I heard it was with Michelle.
jm
February 29th, 2012
9:31 pm
Bro, I’m not saying unemployed people are lazy and not looking for work (though some, even many undoubtedly aren’t looking very hard)
The bigger issue is the huge number of people not paying their fair share of the freight to run our government. And when I note that, I’m referring to working people. Not the unemployed.
Billybob
February 29th, 2012
9:32 pm
history may repeat itself recon…….from now until 3 days before the election the media will tell everyone who will listen that obama will be re-elected and when they realize he will be beaten soundly, no thanks in part to the liberal leftist media, they will be silent……….that sounds like a great day for conservatives……..
Get Real
February 29th, 2012
9:33 pm
Jam…..not at all, I think Jay deserves to have a fun trip riding on a 747; he and Obama can practice writing love notes to each other….
JamVet - There are two types of Republicans, millionaires and suckers.
February 29th, 2012
9:33 pm
Wouldn’t ya know it? Somebody forgot about the (W)orst ever and replaced him with Carter.
Who has NEVER in any poll or ranking or list I have ever seen not been ranked above George of the Bungle.
Not one.
Fred ™
February 29th, 2012
9:33 pm
Recon 0311 2533
February 29th, 2012
9:31 pm
“Give $2 and win an hour with the President. Its like they’re raffling off America. Ridiculous in a way.”
I heard it was with Michelle.
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That is beyond tacky. Were I to say I thought it was with your wife I would be booted from here. What’s the difference?
I had really started to think you were a better man than that.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 29th, 2012
9:33 pm
Keep
Good one!
I had forgotten about The Crimson Permanent Assurance.
jm
February 29th, 2012
9:35 pm
Fred, I deleted all my Obama emails silly…… (I’m a Romney supporter, remember)
Fred, its a fact, get over it.
Recon 0311 2533
February 29th, 2012
9:35 pm
“I had really started to think you were a better man than that.”
Better men move on…I just have.
Brosephus™ - Ghosting in this mofo
February 29th, 2012
9:35 pm
The bigger issue is the huge number of people not paying their fair share of the freight to run our government.
That’s a load of cow dung too!! That whole not paying income tax crap is not even worth the oxygen used to spout it. If our budget was 80% funded through income taxes, you and every other conservative would have a valid point that nobody could argue otherwise. However, how can one argue about not having “skin” in the game when conservative legislators, candidates, and others are constantly yakking about lowering the rates even more. You can’t fuss about somebody not having skin in the game while you’re trying to lower yours at the same time. That’s the ultimate in hypocrisy.
jm
February 29th, 2012
9:36 pm
Update, February 22, 2012 at 2:23 p.m.: Rufus Gifford, National Finance Director of Obama for America, sent out a follow-up email this afternoon, writing, “You’d be crazy not to at least give this a shot.” He cites an example of a previous winner:
Consider this: A couple months ago, Scott, a firefighter and dad from Georgia, opened an email about having dinner with the President. He pitched in a few dollars to support the campaign, figuring “Why not?”
Weeks later, the President was offering him a french fry from across the table.
For a donation of $2 or less, supporters of President Obama could win dinner with their idol.
“Donate $2 or whatever you can today to be automatically entered for the chance to be my first dinner guest,” Obama states in a campaign fundraising note sent yesterday.
“These meals are one simple thing that sets this campaign apart,” the letter states. “The seats at our table don’t belong to any Washington lobbyist or powerful interest.”
Earlier this month, the president sat down for a $35,800-per-person dinner with his allies on Wall Street.
JamVet - There are two types of Republicans, millionaires and suckers.
February 29th, 2012
9:37 pm
Oh, I see. GR.
All of you cons seem so c0cksure that Barry is going down, but the thing that perplexes me is how NONE of you are going to make that easy money on those wagering sites where the Uppity Muslin, Socialist, Kenyan, Marxist, America-hating, Communist without a birth certificate is favored.
It reminds me of some old adage about putting your money where your mouth is.
jm
February 29th, 2012
9:38 pm
“You can’t fuss about somebody not having skin in the game while you’re trying to lower yours at the same time. ”
Bro, I’m for a flatter tax with fewer deductions. I don’t care, at the end of the day, if that means I pay more or less myself. Our tax code needs revamping and if we can have a flatter tax code with fewer deductions, I’m happy to pay my share.
Billybob
February 29th, 2012
9:39 pm
jay……your great words here……it’s like yelling fire in a crowded theatre but so transparently hollow at its core……..maybe i will coin that point in print…..your prose is almost like a second grade ‘oh yeah, well you’re ugly’ argument………..liberal ‘intellectual superiority’ revoked jaylo’…….
jm
February 29th, 2012
9:40 pm
ok, enough fun with the time suck
out.
Fred ™
February 29th, 2012
9:40 pm
Recon 0311 2533
February 29th, 2012
9:35 pm
“I had really started to think you were a better man than that.”
Better men move on…I just have.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Me too. I moved on to your wife…………
Now you will complain and I will get booted. But seriously what’s the difference? It’s ok for you to call the wife of the most powerful man in the world a whore? It gives you a sense of power? Not even a decent whore, but one who charges 2 dollars a pop. 1854 prices. That makes us as a Country look SO great.
Come on “marine” of the three, duty honor country, where is your honor? Where is your honor in our country?
Seriously, what is wrong with you people?
Fred ™
February 29th, 2012
9:42 pm
Del calls the Presidents wife a 2 dollar whore and I get scolded for posting the piss boy video. I am so lost……………..
jm
February 29th, 2012
9:42 pm
“what is wrong with you people?”
mirror mirror on the wall
-zip
Orange12
February 29th, 2012
9:42 pm
JV@9:37
He is going down. He’s pissed too many people off and that number rises everyday.
jm
February 29th, 2012
9:43 pm
“I am so lost……………..”
Glad you finally realized that.
ok really now. out.
JamVet - There are two types of Republicans, millionaires and suckers.
February 29th, 2012
9:43 pm
Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future. ~Jimmy Carter
Republicans don’t like people to talk about depressions. You can hardly blame them for that. You remember the old saying: Don’t talk about rope in the house where somebody has been hanged. ~Harry S. Truman
Fred ™
February 29th, 2012
9:43 pm
I need a bath just because I talked to you tonight Del. Praise Jesus and all that other stuff you folks say at church along with the President’s wife is a 2 dollar whore………
They BOTH suck
February 29th, 2012
9:43 pm
With all the hoopla around Obama’s apology, I wonder how many times Fox, the Mooonie Times, the WSJ, the right wing editorial writers and the talk show pundits have told their “flock” the following?
US President George W Bush has made a personal apology over the shooting of a Koran by an American soldier, the White House has confirmed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7410367.stm
Yet the mindless squawking continues on how Obama weekend the nation, blah, blah, blah…………………………
I’ve posted this one before, but some Doobie Bros are in order……… again
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7-BBADPAvE
They BOTH suck
February 29th, 2012
9:44 pm
“weakend”……… but you get the point
Brosephus™ - Ghosting in this mofo
February 29th, 2012
9:44 pm
jm
That, I can agree with somewhat. I don’t think a pure flat tax is beneficial to lower income workers. I have no problem with the progressive system we have now. I think there needs to be a recalculation of the brackets and reworking the size of them. Also, I could see lowering the rates in exchange for doing away with some of the deductions. However, I would not lower the rates to the point where we continually have to borrow money just to exist as a country.
Midori
February 29th, 2012
9:45 pm
Stocks fare better under Democrats
http://business.financialpost.com/2012/02/23/stocks-fare-better-under-democrats/
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 29th, 2012
9:45 pm
I am so lost……………..
Fred, the rule of thumb here is, the first lady is a public figure, so Jay lets attacks on public figures slide. You went after someone here, Jay doesn’t allow that.
Recon 0311 2533
February 29th, 2012
9:46 pm
Well the libs have been whipped in their own territory for the last several days. It’s even no longer a contest on this blog. Jay better re-access his topics. Taps
JamVet - There are two types of Republicans, millionaires and suckers.
February 29th, 2012
9:47 pm
12, and I think you are a bookie’s wet dream!
There is a new joke circulating: Poll Reveals GOP Nomination Now Two-Way Race Between Mitt Romney, Total Voter Apathy
I’ll do my part and vote against your Muslim bogeyman. But it won’t matter. Flip is gonna be the beneficiary of the second consecutive McCaining…
Brosephus™ - Ghosting in this mofo
February 29th, 2012
9:48 pm
And somebody else declares “victory” here as if this is some kind of contest.
sad..
Orange12
February 29th, 2012
9:50 pm
TBS@9:43
He started his term in office by apologizing to every scum country in the world about how the USA had done them wrong and how we were going to mind our Ps & Qs. Or don’t you remember?
Orange12
February 29th, 2012
9:52 pm
JV, the joke’s on you this Nov.
0311/1811
February 29th, 2012
9:52 pm
“What? We accidentally burned a Koran? I need to apologize for that !”
http://conservativedailynews.com/2012/02/another-apology/
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 29th, 2012
9:53 pm
He started his term in office by apologizing…
Aaaannnnndddd, I quit reading.
They BOTH suck
February 29th, 2012
9:53 pm
Orange
Spin all you like, but the facts are that many on the right have been crying about Obama issuing an apology, yet not a word that Bush did the same exact thing……..
That is called HYPOCRISY……… At minimum ignorance for running with the talking points without knowing or caring that the guy they probably voted did the same
But nice spin to bring in other issues……………
Billybob
February 29th, 2012
9:54 pm
when all the leftist democratic party’s leaders have left is class warfare and personal insults to try to incite reactions that they can exploit as extremism, it’s over……..uh-oh sorry moderate and conservative dems, looks like you have come to a crossroads and have a choice to make……….as a conservative i am confident that you will make that choice and grant obama’s wish, that if he didn’t fix the economy in 3 years he will be a one-termer, and vote for the republican candidate……….i concur recon…..
They BOTH suck
February 29th, 2012
9:56 pm
Read as Newts spins like a top…………………what a clown..
This from yesterday
BLITZER: So I just want to be precise. I can — I totally understand where you’re coming from as far as President Obama is concerned, apologizing now. But with hindsight, was it wrong for President Bush to apologize back in 2008?
GINGRICH: Look, I think we should always have respect for various religious documents. But I would also ask you, Wolf, why was it OK for the U.S. Army to burn bibles? I mean I don’t understand this one-sided nature that is always apologizing for Islam while it is dissing Christianity. And it was the U.S. Army policy to burn bibles in 2009. It wasn’t the Obama administration.
And I am just — I personally am — one of the reasons that I’m running for president is that I’m tired of the elite view in this country, you can do anything you want to to Judaism and Christianity, but you have to apologize for Islam as often as necessary and you can never stand up and just say that’s baloney.
JamVet - There are two types of Republicans, millionaires and suckers.
February 29th, 2012
9:56 pm
So, 12 is it gonna be Flip or a mystery candidate from a broken convention who takes the White House?
LOL.
The Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Rove/Rice debacle is still killing you guys. The American people may not like BHO much, but they damn sure aren’t gonna put another deadly and incompetent neo-con Bush administration right back in the West Wing.
But time will tell…
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 29th, 2012
9:57 pm
“class warfare”
“incite reactions”
“crossroads/choice”
Lotsa projection goin’ on there.
Just sayin’.
0311/1811
February 29th, 2012
9:58 pm
What is the definition of irony?
“Isn’t It Ironic? The food stamp program, part of the Department of Agriculture, is
pleased to be distributing the greatest amount of food stamps ever. Meanwhile, the
Park Service, also part of the Department of Agriculture, asks us, ‘Please do not
feed the animals because the animals may grow dependent and not learn to take
care of themselves.’ ”
Author Unknown
They BOTH suck
February 29th, 2012
9:59 pm
Scout in your quest to be “fair and balanced”………. I figured I would save you a post and help you out………. No problem. Glad I could assist
President Bush has apologized to Iraq’s prime minister for an American sniper’s shooting of a Quran, and the Iraqi government called on U.S. military commanders to educate their soldiers to respect local religious beliefs.
Bush’s spokeswoman said Tuesday that the president apologized during a videoconference Monday with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who told the president that the shooting of Islam’s holy book had disappointed and angered both the Iraqi people and their leaders.
“He apologized for that in the sense that he said that we take it very seriously,” White House press secretary Dana Perino said. “We are concerned about the reaction. We wanted them to know that the president knew that this was wrong.”
They BOTH suck
February 29th, 2012
10:01 pm
And to all a good night and an even better tomorrow
Peace
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 29th, 2012
10:01 pm
You
can always tell when it’s a cut and paste from a
chain email
because of the formatting
Mick
February 29th, 2012
10:02 pm
I’d like to get some of what del is trippin on, he’s gonzo out of it! Realistically, how do the repubs expect to win? They’ve alienated the women, scared the independents, tossed out the hispanics, I mean how many old male white farts are left to do the heavy lifting? I love the implosion, what a gas…
Orange12
February 29th, 2012
10:04 pm
TBS – Bush isn’t running for office, your point wont wash.
JV – Yes, we will see.
And that said. I have to get some sleep so I can make some nickles tomorrow. Remember libs, sombody loves ya, it just aint me!
JamVet - There are two types of Republicans, millionaires and suckers.
February 29th, 2012
10:05 pm
Scout, how did you really feel about Georgie French-kissing that Saudi prince?
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_I3Q1kT0tz2A/Sf_GIk0b6jI/AAAAAAAAC50/DGchXQwPHPc/s400/Bush_Prince_Abdullah_kiss_hold_hands.jpg
Mick,
Latins for Republicans – it’s like roaches for Raid. ~John Leguizamo
0311/1811
February 29th, 2012
10:09 pm
BOTH Suck:
The Korans in this case were being used to pass terrorist messages. Tough luck.
Keep Up--Te gusta losing woofinpoofs?
February 29th, 2012
10:10 pm
Hmmm…. I must be confused. Surely Ftroop Scout is not suggesting that people should be hunting like bears and predators. Something like this?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 29th, 2012
10:10 pm
“Wild Horses,
Couldn’t drag me away,
Wild, wild horses,
We’ll ride them someday”
– Thomas Jefferson
Billybob
February 29th, 2012
10:10 pm
tbs, i hear what you are saying, but i also talk to people from many nations who tell me they view obama as weak…..and every situation is different but this incident came about only after the koran was desecrated by prisoners and had to be confiscated………the burning was an unfortunate incident…. and they say they can not believe that the american public is falling for the class warfare and anti-capitalist mentality of barrack obama…….i have been told point blank that people from around the world have lost respect for americans and question the intelligence of the electorate and they question the culpability of the media in advocating a socialist as president……
Mick
February 29th, 2012
10:11 pm
jamvet
This election might be the chance to clear the decks, dem house, senate & presidency or as it will be known; nightmare on k street…
0311/1811
February 29th, 2012
10:12 pm
I heard today that there were 182 (yes …… 182) different federal agencies that in one way or another provided assistance to the poor. Each requires its own offices, employees, overlapping budgets and beauracracy.
Enough is enough.
TaxPayer
February 29th, 2012
10:12 pm
Scout, how did you really feel about Georgie French-kissing that Saudi prince?
Probably jealous.
Keep Up--Te gusta losing woofinpoofs?
February 29th, 2012
10:12 pm
i have been told point blank that people from around the world have lost respect for americans and question the intelligence of the electorate and they question the culpability of the media in advocating a socialist as president
Them conversations in the Whole Food lines can be deep.
0311/1811
February 29th, 2012
10:14 pm
Keep Up–Te gusta losing woofinpoofs? :
See my 10:12
Mick
February 29th, 2012
10:14 pm
billybob
I think you’ve got your presidents mixed up there, the previous guy was the least respected, most hated, perceived doofus that this great country has ever elected errr.. make that selected! Obama is considered a greek god compared to him and oh yeah, he got bin laden!!
0311/1811
February 29th, 2012
10:15 pm
Taxpayer:
Probably the same way Marines did when South Vietnamese troops tried to hold our hands. It was their “culture thing” but we didn’t like and soon they learned to knock it off.
Next quesstion.
0311/1811
February 29th, 2012
10:16 pm
Mick:
Many, many, many would disagree with you.
Obama: The Affirmative Action President
by Matt Patterson
(columnist – Washington Post, New York Post, San Francisco Examiner)
“Years from now, historians may regard the 2008 election of Barack Obama as
an inscrutable and disturbing phenomenon, a baffling breed of mass hysteria
akin perhaps to the witch craze of the Middle Ages. How, they will wonder,
did a man so devoid of professional accomplishment beguile so many into
thinking he could manage the world’s largest economy, direct the world’s
most powerful military, execute the world’s most consequential job?
Imagine a future historian examining Obama’s pre-presidential life: ushered
into and through the Ivy League despite unremarkable grades and test scores
along the way; a cushy non-job as a “community organizer”; a brief career
as a state legislator devoid of legislative achievement (and in fact nearly
devoid of his attention, so often did he vote “present”) ; and finally an
unaccomplished single term in the United States Senate, the entirety of
which was devoted to his presidential ambitions. He left no academic legacy
in academia, authored no signature legislation as a legislator.
And then there is the matter of his troubling associations: the
white-hating, America-loathing preacher who for decades served as Obama’s
“spiritual mentor”; a real-life, actual terrorist who served as Obama’s
colleague and political sponsor. It is easy to imagine a future historian
looking at it all and asking: how on Earth was such a man elected
president?
Not content to wait for history, the incomparable Norman Podhoretz
addressed the question recently in the Wall Street Journal:
To be sure, no white candidate who had close associations with an outspoken
hater of America like Jeremiah Wright and an unrepentant terrorist like
Bill Ayers, would have lasted a single day. But because Mr. Obama was
black, and therefore entitled in the eyes of liberaldom to have hung out
with protesters against various American injustices, even if they were a
bit extreme, he was given a pass.
Let that sink in: Obama was given a pass — held to a lower standard –
because of the color of his skin. Podhoretz continues:
And in any case, what did such ancient history matter when he was also so
articulate and elegant and (as he himself had said) “non-threatening,” all
of which gave him a fighting chance to become the first black president and
thereby to lay the curse of racism to rest?
Podhoretz puts his finger, I think, on the animating pulse of the Obama
phenomenon — affirmative action. Not in the legal sense, of course. But
certainly in the motivating sentiment behind all affirmative action laws
and regulations, which are designed primarily to make white people, and
especially white liberals, feel good about themselves.
Unfortunately, minorities often suffer so that whites can pat themselves on
the back. Liberals routinely admit minorities to schools for which they are
not qualified, yet take no responsibility for the inevitable poor
performance and high drop-out rates which follow. Liberals don’t care if
these minority students fail; liberals aren’t around to witness the
emotional devastation and deflated self esteem resulting from the racist
policy that is affirmative action. Yes, racist.
Holding someone to a separate standard merely because of the color of his
skin — that’s affirmative action in a nutshell, and if that isn’t racism,
then nothing is. And that is what America did to Obama.
True, Obama himself was never troubled by his lack of achievements, but why
would he be? As many have noted, Obama was told he was good enough for
Columbia despite undistinguished grades at Occidental; he was told he was
good enough for the US Senate despite a mediocre record in Illinois; he was
told he was good enough to be president despite no record at all in the
Senate. All his life, every step of the way, Obama was told he was good
enough for the next step, in spite of ample evidence to the contrary. What
could this breed if not the sort of empty narcissism on display every time
Obama speaks?
In 2008, many who agreed that he lacked executive qualifications
nonetheless raved about Obama’s oratory skills, intellect, and cool
character. Those people — conservatives included — ought now to be deeply
embarrassed. The man thinks and speaks in the hoariest of clichés, and
that’s when he has his teleprompter in front of him; when the prompter is
absent he can barely think or speak at all.***Not one original idea has
ever issued from his mouth — it’s all warmed-over Marxism of the kind that
has failed over and over again for 100 years.*
And what about his character? Obama is constantly blaming anything and
everything else for his troubles. Bush did it; it was bad luck; I inherited
this mess. It is embarrassing to see a president so willing to advertise
his own powerlessness, so comfortable with his own incompetence. But
really, what were we to expect? The man has never been responsible for
anything, so how do we expect him to act responsibly?
In short: our president is a small and small-minded man, with neither the
temperament nor the intellect to handle his job. *When you understand that,
and only when you understand that, will the current erosion of liberty and
prosperity make sense. It could not have gone otherwise with such a man in
the Oval Office.”
TaxPayer
February 29th, 2012
10:16 pm
The investigation’s other findings include:
* Some 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies work on programs related to counterterrorism, homeland security and intelligence in about 10,000 locations across the United States.
* An estimated 854,000 people, nearly 1.5 times as many people as live in Washington, D.C., hold top-secret security clearances.
* In Washington and the surrounding area, 33 building complexes for top-secret intelligence work are under construction or have been built since September 2001. Together they occupy the equivalent of almost three Pentagons or 22 U.S. Capitol buildings – about 17 million square feet of space.
* Many security and intelligence agencies do the same work, creating redundancy and waste. For example, 51 federal organizations and military commands, operating in 15 U.S. cities, track the flow of money to and from terrorist networks.
Enough is enough! Right Scout.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 29th, 2012
10:17 pm
See my 10:12
Oh good, the secret of box 23/26 is revealed.
Or is it the Lindbergh baby?
Who shot JR?
Keep Up--Te gusta losing woofinpoofs?
February 29th, 2012
10:18 pm
FTroop Scout….. well there you go. Outline your plan to restructure and submit it to the President…or even to the Republicans. I am sure you can tell us how to handle these issues….I mean the email you received did detail this, right?
TaxPayer
February 29th, 2012
10:20 pm
Scout,
You hooked up with that Alaskan racist birther yet. You two might just hit it off.
JamVet - There are two types of Republicans, millionaires and suckers.
February 29th, 2012
10:21 pm
Mick, not to the neo-cons, George W. Bush was a wonderful president. A fabulous success by every measure.
This is depth of denial the nation is dealing with…
The dismaying truth is that birtherism is part of a larger pattern of rejection of reality that has taken hold of intimidating segments of one of the two political parties that alternate in power in our governing institutions. It is akin to the view that global warming is a hoax, or that the budget can be balanced through spending cuts alone, or that contraception causes abortion, or that evolution is just another theory, on a par with the theory that the earth is six thousand years old. ~Hendrik Hertzberg
Keep Up--Te gusta losing woofinpoofs?
February 29th, 2012
10:21 pm
Oh my…. a long cut and paste… Scout, you may want to try this promo opening for your daily cut and paste show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ldAQ6Rh5ZI&feature=related
Oscar
February 29th, 2012
10:21 pm
Comments getting a little bit rough on here tonight. Save your energy, cons, you have about five more years to rant about Obama. You want to be able to make it through till 2016 don’t you.
TaxPayer
February 29th, 2012
10:24 pm
I see the Republicans are looking to pull the plug on funding for Scout’s federal pension. Bummer.
JamVet - There are two types of Republicans, millionaires and suckers.
February 29th, 2012
10:25 pm
Imagine that, Scout digging up some lunatic fringe commentator as representative of many, many, many people.
Too funny…
Mick
February 29th, 2012
10:25 pm
scout
Of course some people will disagree, that’s america, but the majority will come through for obama against the republican posers reaching for the brass ring. When bush was hated round the world, the cons said, we don’t care what the world thinks, well I did! Obama is viewed as a practical realist and admired, I’m comfortable with that. Just because you hate him, don’t expect the majority to be on your side. Remember, if it is true that 50% of people pay no income tax, do you really think that they will be voting republican?
0311/1811
February 29th, 2012
10:25 pm
Taxpayer:
You are correct …………. the amount “bloat and overlap” in all areas of the federal government is incredible. If you remember, Bush didn’t want a new DHS either but Congress panicked after 9/11 and forced the issue.
A totally new Congress is the only possibility of making such changes. But I don’t hold out much hope.
0311/1811
February 29th, 2012
10:27 pm
Mick:
1) I don’t hate him ………. I hate his policies.
2) Yes ……….. some of them are still patriotic and will do what’s best for the country.
Jm
February 29th, 2012
10:27 pm
Bro 9:44 agreed
Generalities are harder than specifics though, which is why congress is hung up
TaxPayer
February 29th, 2012
10:27 pm
Probably the same way Marines did when South Vietnamese troops tried to hold our hands. It was their “culture thing” but we didn’t like and soon they learned to knock it off.
Next quesstion.
Nope. Bush was definitely not pushing the prince away, Scout. You might want to get to work on that.
0311/1811
February 29th, 2012
10:27 pm
Mick:
………. and before you jump on the “patriotic thing” remember that Obama called Bush “unpatriotic” !
TaxPayer
February 29th, 2012
10:28 pm
Bush didn’t want
Bush never saw a spending or borrowing bill that he didn’t fall in love with.
0311/1811
February 29th, 2012
10:29 pm
TaxPayer:
I’d say John F. Kennedy’s sexploitation of a 19 year old White House intern is more interesting. Want to discuss that ?
bman
February 29th, 2012
10:29 pm
They publish articles like this to get people all riled up at the so-called rich. And when the story is told in this way, it works. But, it hardly represents everyone in the same salary range who have had some serious set-backs.
Then again, it does pale in comparison to those people who never had much to begin with and still lost what little they did have,
Jm
February 29th, 2012
10:30 pm
“Obama is viewed as a practical realist and admired” by a small insane minority.
There fixed that for you
Mick
February 29th, 2012
10:30 pm
scout
All I can say is brace yourself for four more years. I have no problem voting for obama, compared to romney, president obama now has the experience, intellect and cajones to stay president and keep us safe. Just had to throw that in…
Mick
February 29th, 2012
10:32 pm
jm
Go back to bed and say three hail mittsiahs…
getalife
February 29th, 2012
10:33 pm
Lazy welfare bums should stop whining and get back to work.
They have the media, congress and cons to help them and they still want more.
Keep Up--Te gusta losing woofinpoofs?
February 29th, 2012
10:33 pm
Scout is going to address that Mark Foley sexploitation and the long cover up by the Republicans?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 29th, 2012
10:34 pm
“I’d say David Vitter paying prostitutes to bed him while he’s wearing a diaper is the most interesting.”
– Thomas Jefferson
0311/1811
February 29th, 2012
10:35 pm
Mick:
It’s truly sad to see intelligent people like yourself naive enough to believe that ……….. but I would fight for your right to do so.
God bless !
JamVet - There are two types of Republicans, millionaires and suckers.
February 29th, 2012
10:35 pm
Poor neo-cons, still desperately clinging to the insane hope that they have a chance to take the White House back in November.
In comparison, John McCain looks like FDR compared to these four losers left standing…
0311/1811
February 29th, 2012
10:37 pm
Kammie:
I think what a President does on government time, on government property, with an employee under his chain of command, thirty years or so his younger is more important.
But that’s just me.
TaxPayer
February 29th, 2012
10:39 pm
TaxPayer:
I’d say John F. Kennedy’s sexploitation of a 19 year old White House intern is more interesting. Want to discuss that ?
How about Glenn Richardson’s ousting from the Georgia Congress and subsequent with the equally despicable Ralston. Nah. Bush’s obvious interest in Saudi princes is more interesting.
Mick
February 29th, 2012
10:39 pm
scout@10:35
Thanks, that truly is a classy statement…You’re a good man and I thank you for your service in that dark, damp, lonely hell hole on earth, you’ve earned your keep, stay healthy, wealthy and wise, in the end we are all just a bunch of bickering americans who have each others back…
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 29th, 2012
10:41 pm
But that’s just me.
You’re also a birther.
TaxPayer
February 29th, 2012
10:41 pm
Maybe jm will be happy with a tax cut funded by the Republican’s cuts to Scout’s pension.
Keep Up--Te gusta losing woofinpoofs?
February 29th, 2012
10:42 pm
Funny how it matters if you are the President (and those claims are made years after his death) and yet it does not matter if you apparently are a Presidential candidate and them women all must be lying about Mr. Cain…….. But then what causes you to wad up your panties is partisan based we all know, right Box 26?
Keep Up--Te gusta losing woofinpoofs?
February 29th, 2012
10:44 pm
Just like it matters if you are President but not if you are Speaker of the House…..
Mick
February 29th, 2012
10:46 pm
I can’t take it anymore and I’m tired as hell..nite all…
0311/1811
February 29th, 2012
10:47 pm
Mick:
I hear you and “roger that” ! Guys like you and I could sit down and get things done.
Most of the others on here aren’t worth my time but alas, I digress.
Signing off for the night.
Thulsa Doom
February 29th, 2012
10:48 pm
Thought I would take a break, get a good run in at the gym, and come back and see if the libs were able to get all the hate out of their system. Nope. Looks like they still got some hate left in the tank.
Thulsa Doom
February 29th, 2012
10:50 pm
Who the hell is David Vitter? Must be a man of very little importance. Is that all ya got?- George Washington.
Thulsa Doom
February 29th, 2012
10:53 pm
W french kissed a Saudi prince?
Libs always did like they ridiculously absurd exagerations. I am surprised however that Dan Rather wasn’t on that piece of bs like a fly on… well bs.
Don't Tread
February 29th, 2012
10:58 pm
I think Dan was busy figuring out Photoshop…
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 29th, 2012
11:01 pm
Who the hell is David Vitter?
W french kissed a Saudi prince?
“thelma can’t use the internet?”
– Thomas jefferson