Poor, poor pitiful and put-upon Wall Street…
I remember a time back in the early days of the Tea Party movement — maybe you do too — when anger at Wall Street and its overweening influence on Washington formed a central part of its critique of the American political scene.
Somewhere along the line, however, that anger and discontent disappeared. I suspect it happened when big money came along to co-opt the movement for its own purposes, making it inconvenient to rail at those who were now paying the movement’s bills. But a lingering memory of that not-too-distant history came to mind this morning as I read a piece at Politico headlined “Wall Street’s vote: Romney by a landslide”.
Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign and the super PAC supporting it are outraising Obama among financial-sector donors $37.1 million to $4.8 million.
Near the front of the pack are 19 Obama donors from 2008 who are giving big to Romney.
The 19 have already given $4.8 million to Romney’s presidential campaign and the super PAC supporting it through the end of April, according to a POLITICO analysis of Federal Election Commission filings. Four years ago, they gave Obama $213,700.
None of them has given a penny to the president’s reelection campaign or the super PAC supporting it.
None of that’s a surprise, of course. It’s been clear for quite a while that Wall Street money would weigh in heavily on behalf of Romney. But what I find more interesting is the sense of persecution that is apparently driving that decision.
For example, one of the donors quoted in the story is Ken Griffin, a Chicago hedge fund operator. Griffin is listed at No. 117 on the Forbes 400, with an estimated net worth of some $3 billion. Griffin has donated more than $1 million to Restore Our Future, the Romney SuperPAC, and another $1 million to American Crossroads, the SuperPAC run by Karl Rove. He has also contributed another $1.5 million to the supposedly grassroots “Americans for Prosperity” tea-party group heavily funded by the Koch brothers.
Recently, when asked in an interview with the Chicago Tribune whether the current system gives him and other deep-pocket contributors too much political influence, Griffin issued a strong no.
“I think they actually have an insufficient influence,” he said.
However, what really drew my attention was the explanation that Griffin offered Politico for his investment in politics:
“It is critical that the next president appreciates that America’s prosperity is driven by the innovation and hard work of the American worker, whose valiant efforts have, in recent years, been undermined by the oppressive weight of government intervention.”
I’d like to make three observations about that statement:
1.) Let me get this straight: Griffin is defending valiant American workers, the same workers whose jobs have been sent overseas and whose pension funds have been raided, the same workers who have been treated as so many disposable units of production by many on Wall Street? He’s doing it for the little people?
How touching.
2.) Griffin lives in and operates within a system that has rewarded him with riches and power far beyond any available in any previous era or in any other country. Yet somehow he has managed to convince himself that he and others like him are not being treated fairly and are somehow the oppressed victims in all this. In interviews, he has painted this country as a place that penalizes success and this economy as hogtied by regulation, oblivious to the fact that the best rebuttal to that argument is his own enormous wealth.
3.) “The oppressive weight of government intervention” that he complains about in fact saved the ungrateful Mr. Griffin and his $3 billion fortune at a time when massive irresponsibility within his industry threatened to bring the global financial structure tumbling down into a smoking ruin.
Griffin has said that his company took no direct money from the Wall Street bailout, and I’m sure that’s true. However, it is equally true that without the injection of $700 billion in taxpayer money through TARP, and without the direct, repeated, ongoing and massive intervention of the Federal Reserve, the market collapse of 2008 would have been impossible to halt and then later reverse, and much of his fortune would have disappeared.
As it was, Griffin’s reported net worth fell from an estimated $3.7 billion in October 2008 to $1.5 billion just six months later. And while I suspect that he likes to credit himself, the bold entrepreneur, for executing a turnaround in his fortunes, any contribution that he may have made through his no-doubt considerable intelligence and hard work was insignificant compared to the impact of TARP, QE 1, QE 2 and other interventions by the federal government.
I am sorry if Mr. Griffin feels unappreciated. It is unfortunate that he sees so many frustrating obstacles placed between himself and true success, whatever he deems that might be. It is regrettable that he believes he has less influence over American affairs than by right ought to have.
On the other hand, I know a lot of people who feel unappreciated, frustrated and unheard these days. And I think their reasons are better than his.
– Jay Bookman
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G Mare 71(PLEASE VOTE NO ON TSPLOST)
June 13th, 2012
8:59 pm
I am not touching that discussion. But here is another book I encourage everyone to buy, “Just Love,” by Sister Margaret Frawley, because it has just been CONDEMNED by the good ole boys in the Vatican. Ah, yes, those same ole boys who attempted to blight my young life are now going after the NUNS. I don’t care if you read it, please just buy it.
I am going to buy Jay’s if only because he writes about Oregon, where I grew up.
barking frog
June 13th, 2012
9:03 pm
The.hamsters are dismounting the wheels
but are still demanding to
be fed clothed and sheltered.
Soothsayer
June 13th, 2012
9:04 pm
“You don’t take drugs? What’s in that drink? Better living through chemistry, my friend. Total solitude? Sounds good to me, but there is such a thing as too much of a good thing…just sayin”
josef: agreed on the alcohol. Don’t take any other drugs of any kind.
Solitude has it’s own rewards: peace and peace of mind. I’ll explain it to you sometime. It has to do with women.
Don't Forget
June 13th, 2012
9:05 pm
Machines do so much of our work for us now that we don’t need as many workers.
Yeah, I’ve made that observation too. That’s why wages are so important. The only way you can get everybody working is if there’s a LOT of demand. Without disposable income amongst the masses, you’re not gonna be able to keep it going.
josef
June 13th, 2012
9:07 pm
DONT FORGET
@ 8:57
Really, we are not putting what’s going on in context, I think. Not since Gutenberg have we witnessed such a technological advancement making knowledge so accessible to so many. It brought about a sociological, political, economic, philosophical, etc. revolution which turned civilization on its ear. We’re there again. Me? I welcome it…sure, it’s going to have its rough spots and who knows how it will turn out, but I am enthralled to be here at its birth…
The BOTH suck
June 13th, 2012
9:08 pm
“One things for sure though, if we don’t do research we’ll never find the next breakthrough. Somebody else will.”
Not saying we need to be stagnant in any way when it comes to research. Just saying that it might be awhile before we see improvement across the board. We will certainly see it within certain industries and sectors within industries.
barking frog
June 13th, 2012
9:11 pm
1984 is arriving 30 years
late
josef
June 13th, 2012
9:11 pm
G-MARE
You sound like my Granddaddy–the highest recommendation a book could get on his list was for it to be “banned” by whoever…
Soothsayer
June 13th, 2012
9:11 pm
Marx introduced the concept of a “reserve army of labor,” i.e., unemployed workers that capital uses to suppress wages. With a reserve army of 1.35 billion workers in China, it’s unlikely that we are going to see any hiring of any significance in this country for the foreseeable future. The few workers who manage to keep their jobs will see their pay decline based on the threat of having their job shipped to China.
Unfortunately, by shipping all of these jobs to China and other countries, global capital has overlooked the paradox of globalization. The more jobs that are shipped to low-wage countries, the less aggregate demand in the World economy, which results in overcapacity (over supply).
barking frog
June 13th, 2012
9:12 pm
HWB’s New World Order.
josef
June 13th, 2012
9:23 pm
FROG
“HWB’s New World Order.”
That one scared the bee-jesus out of me. And then how rapidly we latched onto it with no question…
Don't Forget
June 13th, 2012
9:29 pm
josef
June 13th, 2012
9:07 pm
There’s no doubt about it. I used to be amazed at the changes my grandmother saw. Well the changes we’ve seen make her life look like a snails pace. Change brings challenges but I agree that it’s good.
Sooth, I wouldn’t get too excited about China. Their goal isn’t 1.3 billion people making $15 dollars a day. They have the enormous task of educating those people and they aren’t that far from maxing out at making lots of cheap stuff. Remember Japan after the war? It wasn’t until their “quality revolution” that they really stepped up and they did that by listening to American’s (Deming and Juran) that American business’s ignored. China also has an aging population so we have time to deal with them but we have to stay ahead in terms of technology and education.
barking frog
June 13th, 2012
9:29 pm
josef
it’s behind the Republican
push for a bigger military
and more “defense”
capability . we did not
seize the moment after
WWII and they see a new
opportunity. sampling the
water with independent
invasions may bring more
aggressive adventures.
Don't Forget
June 13th, 2012
9:32 pm
Sooth, I do agree with you about the demand problem though. But it will start affecting the developing countries soon if not already. With the American and European consumer’s running on empty, who are they gonna sell to?
Josef
June 13th, 2012
9:41 pm
Don’t Forget
I think of that, too. My own grandmother went from horse and buggy to Kitty Hawk to the moon.
FROG
Well, from fire and the club forward, it appears to be encoded in our DNA
barking frog
June 13th, 2012
9:42 pm
With bin Laden dead the
Russians are again our
nemesis and the Chinese..
cold wars are more profitable than hot wars
and fewer dead soldiers.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
June 13th, 2012
9:48 pm
This is it. We’re here. We’re not going anywhere. Get used to it. If anything, it’s going to get worse before it gets better.
Yep, since the late 70s when “Econ 101″ declared war on the middle class for the promise of phlogiston economics.
Maybe green technologies can drag us out of this.
Provided that we don’t ship the manufacturing jobs overseas — again.
G Mare 71(PLEASE VOTE NO ON TSPLOST)
June 13th, 2012
9:51 pm
Bman@8:07, what is disgusting is your comment. Sooth’s is too true & heartbreaking.
Brosephus™
June 13th, 2012
9:54 pm
“The thing about the housing boom that no one seem to mention is that without it, the entire Bush years were 2% growth at best, probably a little lower. There are some that are worried that we are in a “new normal” but I thinking it’s not new at all. This is the economy we’ve had for about a
decadegeneration or so and it was only masked by thehousing boom.different bubbles followed by jobless recoveries.”Thought I’d chime in on that one. You have the same opinion as I, but mine tends to think this has been going on for a much longer time.
——————-
Bruno @ 8:56
I’m on that boat with you on the service economy. I don’t think it will sustain this country. My biggest fear is that with the long term loss of manufacturing, we don’t have the knowledge base or capacity to enact emergency mass manufacturing on a scale that we did for WWII. I hope and pray we never have to mobilize in that manner, but that is one serious flaw in our national security plan that I think we have that nobody’s addressing. Add the fact that modern machinery takes a higher skill level and knowledge to manufacture, and we’ve set ourselves up for checkmate if anybody ever calls our bluff.
fair and balanced
June 13th, 2012
9:56 pm
Poor poor Newt did not get all that moolah the king of Bail Capital is now getting
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
June 13th, 2012
9:57 pm
G Mare 71
Ben got his first yellow card today.
That under bet of yours might serve you well.
G Mare 71(PLEASE VOTE NO ON TSPLOST)
June 13th, 2012
9:58 pm
Ah, undoubtedly a wise man, your grandfather, Josef.
Josef
June 13th, 2012
9:59 pm
Brosephus
@ 9:54
Yes, which is why I had to come down in favor of the auto industry bailout when philosophically it went against my grain something fierce
barking frog
June 13th, 2012
10:04 pm
josef
the auto bail out went
against GM’s grain too.
Obama kept them from
shedding the UAW and
pensions as the airlines
had done. they will do it
again.
Brosephus™
June 13th, 2012
10:06 pm
josef
I’d agree with that one too. Even with machines and computers doing a great deal of the work, you still have to have someone design, repair, and program them in order for them to work.
bman
June 13th, 2012
10:07 pm
“Bman@8:07, what is disgusting is your comment”
I’m certain you’re mistaking me for someone else. I have never made a comment to anyone, or about anything that would be considered “disgusting” by anyone.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
June 13th, 2012
10:13 pm
bman
June 13th, 2012
10:07 pm
“Bman@8:07, what is disgusting is your comment”
I’m certain you’re mistaking me for someone else. I have never made a comment to anyone, or about anything that would be considered “disgusting” by anyone.
Ruh, roh.
bman
June 13th, 2012
8:07 pm
Sooth .. .. That’s sort of disgusting. Don’t you think?
Don't Forget
June 13th, 2012
10:14 pm
My biggest fear is that with the long term loss of manufacturing, we don’t have the knowledge base or capacity to enact emergency mass manufacturing on a scale that we did for WWII.
Actually, when WWII started we had a LOT of closed factories from the depression that were refitted and reopened. The expertise was out of practice but eager to get back to work. But there are some manufacturer’s that are coming back to the US. Sooner or later it will rebound but I’m afraid we may be headed for another global recession based on collapse of global demand and when that happens the linear thinkers will have to shut up and start listening.
OBIWAN
June 13th, 2012
10:16 pm
I say we shoot all those Wall Street fat cats, burn their houses down, dismantle their businesses…Oh wait my 401K is MY retirement, what would happen to it… DOH
Jm-pass Tsplost unless you really love congestion
June 13th, 2012
10:28 pm
Jamie dimon is more of a leader than Obama could ever hope to be
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
June 13th, 2012
10:30 pm
Bloomberg trolls will never be anything more than a Bloomberg troll.
Just sayin’.
barking frog
June 13th, 2012
10:31 pm
Jm
if you have congestion
try mucinex not tsplost.
Jm-pass Tsplost unless you really love congestion
June 13th, 2012
10:31 pm
“just sayin”
Cheapest phrase around
I guess jay is a Bloomberg troll
barking frog
June 13th, 2012
10:33 pm
are there Bloomberg gnomes?
Jm-pass Tsplost unless you really love congestion
June 13th, 2012
10:34 pm
Frog
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
June 13th, 2012
10:34 pm
Cheapest phrase around
Nothing is cheaper than a Bloomberg troll.
Just sayin’.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
June 13th, 2012
10:35 pm
“Air Raid Pearl Harbor – This Is No Drill”
Headline: “Mandated defense cuts could lead to war, top US military official says”
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/06/13/top-us-military-official-defense-cuts-could-lead-to-war/#ixzz1xjOkpK6t
Brosephus™
June 13th, 2012
10:36 pm
DF
I wouldn’t get my hopes up when it comes to getting the linear thinkers to shut up and listen.
St Simons - he-ne-ha
June 13th, 2012
10:38 pm
jamie dimon led those oil futures right past $4/gal w/mama bush’s monay
you’re right on the tsplost and the budget cuts though, mon
kayaker 71
June 13th, 2012
10:40 pm
If it were not for Doomberg, we wouldn’t know how big a Coke that we are allowed to buy.
barking frog
June 13th, 2012
10:41 pm
do global thinkers use
circular logic ?
G Mare 71(PLEASE VOTE NO ON TSPLOST)
June 13th, 2012
10:44 pm
Thank you, Kam! I am a bit old, you know, but I thought I had that right. Oh, I SO want to say something back to bman, but, but, but, Yellow Card….
barking frog
June 13th, 2012
10:44 pm
Bloomberg may take very
small servings of coke.
Don't Forget
June 13th, 2012
10:45 pm
Bro, you’re probably right.
Don't Forget
June 13th, 2012
10:46 pm
For crying out loud kayaker, just buy 2 freakin cokes. It’s a stupid rule but sheesh…..
cloudodust
June 13th, 2012
10:49 pm
Libs: This is a preschool Aesop Fable. See if you can comprehend :
A Dog, to whom the butcher had thrown a bone, was hurrying home with his prize as fast as he could go. As he crossed a narrow footbridge, he happened to look down and saw himself reflected in the quiet water as if in a mirror. But the greedy Dog thought he saw a real Dog carrying a bone much bigger than his own.
If he had stopped to think he would have known better. But instead of thinking, he dropped his bone and sprang at the Dog in the river, only to find himself swimming for dear life to reach the shore. At last he managed to scramble out, and as he stood sadly thinking about the good bone he had lost, he realized what a stupid Dog he had been.
It is very foolish to be greedy.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
June 13th, 2012
10:51 pm
‘yaker can’t see the forest for what’s livin’ in the trees.
barking frog
June 13th, 2012
10:52 pm
Don’t Forget
very few people in New York
will figure that out especially
those who voted for
Bloomberg.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
June 13th, 2012
10:58 pm
It is very foolish to be greedy.
“Greed is good.”
—
Gordon GeckoMichael MilkenSee if you can comprehend
G Mare 71(PLEASE VOTE NO ON TSPLOST)
June 13th, 2012
11:03 pm
Okay, a little trip down technology memory lane: my mom remembered when the telephone came in and when the man delivered ice; I remember when we got our first tv; my children remember our first computers, and their children will not remember a time before a gazillion cable channels & unlimited Internet access.
Also have to say that I remember, when staying with my grandma in WV, hearing the clops of the horse on the cobblestone street as the milk man made his deliveries.
No, not saying things were better or worse then, just that some memories are worth keeping and sharing.
kayaker 71
June 13th, 2012
11:09 pm
Kamchak, 10:51
And it’s gettin’ worse.
Don't Forget
June 13th, 2012
11:19 pm
barking frog
June 13th, 2012
10:52 pm
Don’t Forget
very few people in New York
will figure that out especially
those who voted for
Bloomberg.
Well, considering he’s a 3 time republican mayor, I’m not gonna disagree.
ken
June 14th, 2012
12:51 am
Jay, does your pay check come from Cox, a billionaire ? Where does the Cox money go ? I’ll bet it’s not going to the community disorganizer this year !!
Shine
June 14th, 2012
4:26 am
Where can we send the poor bloke a donation to get him back on his feet?
martin the calvinist
June 14th, 2012
5:22 am
Good Grief Jay, why do you hate those who are wealthy? Are you mad that you don’t have what they do? Quit coveting their wealth. BTW, you are foolish if you think raising taxes on millionaires and billionaires is going to fix our budget crisis….
One more thing, Obama’s proposed tax rates on millionaires will hurt small businesses since most of them file their businesses income off of their personal social security number. Do you even realize what a minimum effective rate of 30% on small businesses will even do to them?
Joel Edge
June 14th, 2012
5:46 am
“I remember a time back in the early days of the Tea Party movement………… when anger at Wall Street and its overweening influence on Washington formed a central part of its critique of the American political scene.”
Sorry, I don’t, Jay. You’re thinking of OWS. As far I can remember the initial anger was Washington and the BAILING OUT of Wall Street. A little attempt at history rewriting there?
Stand Your Ground Task Force, With Questions Of Bias, Urged To Amend Law
June 14th, 2012
5:54 am
On Tuesday, during the first public meeting of the 19-member Task Force on Citizen Safety and Protection, convened by Gov. Rick Scott to examine Florida’s Stand Your Ground law, some on the panel did little to allay criticisms that it’s biased in its viewpoints.
When the members of the panel were announced in April, critics blasted the group as inherently biased and unfairly weighted with supporters of Scott, a Republican, and of the law itself, which gives people wide discretion in the use of deadly force. Four of the lawmakers on the panel either authored or voted for the law.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/13/trayvon-martins-parents-stand-your-ground_n_1594231.html
Normal Free...Pro Human Rights Thug...And liking it!
June 14th, 2012
6:33 am
I always wondered how that happened…
http://history.icanhascheezburger.com/2012/06/13/funny-pictures-history-thats-one-mystery-solved/
TaxPayer
June 14th, 2012
6:34 am
I’m glad to see the cons on here fighting for me some more tax cuts because I can always use more tax cuts. To start with, I need you cons to make sure I still get qualifying dividends and capital gains free of any federal tax. Of course if you want to raise the standard deduction, that would be good because I might try harder to make more so long as it is tax-free. Then, I really need you cons to work on the definition of qualifying dividends such that REITs are included. How am I supposed to believe you guys with your talk about helping us job creators help you if you make me pay taxes on my NLY dividends, for example. Come on! Give me a break! Also, I need you cons to get off your buttocks and get rid of the federal taxation of my pension income so I can afford to give you a tip the next time I dine out. Thanks so much.
Bud Wiser
June 14th, 2012
6:50 am
All I know is this: Our current president and Congress are a sad, pathetic joke, all of which need replaced this November.
A congressional committee (another word for dog and pony show) calls a bank executive up to testify abvout how his company lost @ $2 billion dollars of their money. Where did it go? Were poor people, minorities, widows and orphans needlessly and cruelly irreparably harmed by these losses? Oh the humanity, the humanity!!!
These idiots are parading private capital companies before their sycophant and drooling media to divert attention away from their own catastrophic failures.
Examples:
- The taxpayers are going to lose over $23 BILLION from the so-called auto company bailout, which in fact was nothing more than a propping up of union workers salaries and pensions. This money will NEVER be recouped.
- The taxpayers have already lost over $850 MILLION at that grand goose that laid the stinking green egg called Solyndra. This one falls directly at Obama’s feet. That money is also gone forever.
I could go one, but the point has been made. Our govt is a money disposal similar in style to a garbage disposal, only the wrong things are going down the drain; our cash versus the criminals that are stufing it down there.
But change is coming in November, and not the jingling kind this moron-in-chief is trying to leave us with.
President Romney.
November 2012.
Common Damn Sense isn't Very Common
June 14th, 2012
6:59 am
Normal you ain’t
Morning TP, now go get a job you evil rich guy LOL
Common Damn Sense isn't Very Common
June 14th, 2012
7:10 am
Some here want the USA to be more like China and India? WTF are they thinking?
http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/14/world/asia/india-female-infanticide/index.html?hpt=hp_c1
Normal Free...Pro Human Rights Thug...And liking it!
June 14th, 2012
7:11 am
But Common, it does explain the Platypus without using Darwinism…
godless heathen
June 14th, 2012
7:13 am
Happy Flag Day, people.
(That’s F L a g Day.)
Woody
June 14th, 2012
7:13 am
It’s time we brought an end to all of this job-killing Wall Street regulation, once and for all. We are turning our backs on these unsung heroes, who quietly go to work every day and, risking everything, toil thanklessly in the world’s financial workplaces. The work is long, dangerous, and stressful, but these loyal men and women enjoy the satisfaction of knowing their work is founded on centuries of America-bulding, going back to the real saviors of the American Revolution, the financiers of 1776. Now they brave not bullets and cannon shell, but ridicule and suspicion. That we thumb our noses at these, the finest America has to offer, is a calumnous tragedy of the highest order.
TaxPayer
June 14th, 2012
7:21 am
Common Sense,
Us job creators don’t work. We whine about how awful it is to have to pay for stuff, especially stuff that poor people need, like food and medicine and clothes and cardboard housing. Fortunately, cons have heard our whines and like to think that they can feel our pain so we let them since they are willing to give us even more tax cuts.
stands for decibels
June 14th, 2012
7:25 am
Mornin’.
“HWB’s New World Order.”
That one scared the bee-jesus out of me. And then how rapidly we latched onto it with no question…
This calls for some mornin’ music. Wakey wakey.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhthPDycHB0
stands for decibels
June 14th, 2012
7:26 am
Good Grief Jay, why do you hate those who are wealthy?
Good Grief rightwing trolls, why do you continue to assert irrelevant nonsense as if it were pertinent fact?
stands for decibels
June 14th, 2012
7:27 am
Now they brave not bullets and cannon shell, but ridicule and suspicion.
Yea verily. The skimmer class give so much, and ask so little.
stands for decibels
June 14th, 2012
7:28 am
WTF are they thinking?
They aren’t.
Common Damn Sense isn't Very Common
June 14th, 2012
7:28 am
Poor Grover
http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/13/avlon-jeb-bush-grover-norquist/index.html?hpt=hp_bn7
TaxPayer
June 14th, 2012
7:29 am
Let’s see, that was 1 trillion on Iraq versus 850 MILLION on Solyndra. Capitalizing MILLION helps make Iraq look a whole lot better, don’t it. What is that ratio. I’m thinkin’ something like 1,176 to 1. Then there’s AIG. Anyone remember how much of that company we own thanks to taxpayers covering their derivatives trades with Wall Street types. Wasn’t it something like 85 billion. Maybe I should capitalize billion.
I'm a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with...cause we're smart and they are not
June 14th, 2012
7:32 am
Out of nowhere, but reading headlines this morning read that CNN viewership continues to sink like a rock. Half gone since just last year………….I wish they would let me attend the meeting to help them………….” This garbage you peddle everyday is your problem. Most segments of the Obama base DOES NOT WATCH THE NEWS”…………..Want ratings up……….Drop the bias.
stands for decibels
June 14th, 2012
7:34 am
reading headlines this morning
You should try reading the accompanying stories sometime. People wouldn’t laugh at you so much.
TaxPayer
June 14th, 2012
7:35 am
“I bailed out the auto industry all by myself.” – Mittens
stands for decibels
June 14th, 2012
7:35 am
“Ima” appears to believe CNN is *left*-leaning, for those who are scratching their heads at his 7.32 nonsense.
I'm a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with...cause we're smart and they are not
June 14th, 2012
7:36 am
decibels…………..trust me, it’s the folks on the right who read this blog and laugh.
I'm a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with...cause we're smart and they are not
June 14th, 2012
7:38 am
I like the name Ima…………I had an aunt named that. Good Christian woman. Got fooled and voted for Carter. Repented that on her death bed.
stands for decibels
June 14th, 2012
7:38 am
the folks on the right who read this blog
All six of you?
Oh, and flaggy SHEETZ.
Jay
June 14th, 2012
7:38 am
sheets
stands for decibels
June 14th, 2012
7:39 am
Repented that on her death bed.
Realized all the resurrection and “only through Teh Chryst you gone go Hebbin!” crap wasn’t worth believing in? Takes guts.
Headin’ upstairs.
gm
June 14th, 2012
8:12 am
This is going to be great, Mitt is going take us back to the good old Bush years, less regulations, greed, I mean why not vote for the party that destroyed the economy? I can not wait untill Gordon Gekko (Willard) put some of these dumb Americans in the soup line, while he collect his billions from wall street.