Gov. Deal chooses party loyalty over Ga. citizenry
Gov. Nathan Deal faced a choice. He could choose to be loyal to his party’s political ideology, or he could choose to be loyal to some 650,000 of his fellow Georgians in need of health insurance.
He has chosen loyalty to party, declining to let Georgia participate in the expansion of Medicaid coverage offered through Obamacare. The result will be unnecessary illness, unnecessary pain and yes, unnecessary death. That may sound harsh, but it is also stark reality: When you deny health -care coverage to hundreds of thousands of people, as Deal has decided to do, those outcomes are inevitable.
There will be other consequences as well. The decision blocks an influx of billions and billions of federal health -care dollars — an estimated $14.5 billion between 2014 and 2019 alone — that would provoke significant job growth. Georgia taxpayers will be paying to fund that expanded coverage in other states, most of which will take it eagerly, but their governor has decided that they’ll get none of the benefits.
Turning that money away will also raise the risk of closure by rural hospitals, which are already struggling under the financial burden of providing so much care to the uninsured. (Last year, Georgia hospitals lost an estimated $1.5 billion caring for people without insurance, and rural residents are more likely to be uninsured than their urban and suburban counterparts.)
Medicaid expansion would have been a lifesaver to those hospitals and to the doctors who practice there, but that lifesaver has now been yanked away. That will have significant economic-development implications for Georgia beyond the immediate loss of federal dollars. The availability of modern health -care facilities is a prime consideration for any business or industry looking to relocate. As rural hospitals close and doctors leave, employers will leave as well, taking with them the last hope of prosperity for many small communities.
In announcing his decision at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Deal cited the potential cost to Georgia taxpayers, which his administration estimates at $4.5 billion over a 10-year period. However, independent cost estimates put the state’s share of expansion much lower. The Kaiser Family Foundation estimates it at $714 million for the first five years of the program, or roughly 0.17 percent of state GDP. The Urban Institute puts it at $716 million for the first six years.
However, as Tim Sweeney of the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute points out, even the governor’s figure of $4.5 billion “would represent only a 1.9 percent increase in total state spending.”
In assessing the costs, you also have to look at two other things: How great is the need for expanded health coverage in Georgia, and how much does the state already spend? Are we already spending as much if not more than other states?
Hardly. Georgia is 47th in state health spending per capita. It is 49th in the amount it spends per Medicaid patient. Twenty percent of our citizens are uninsured, the fifth-highest uninsured rate in the nation, and we stand at 39th in life expectancy. Yet according to the governor, we can’t afford to address any of those issues, even if it means a stronger state economy and better health care and longer lives for hundreds of thousands of Georgians.
We can, however, afford hundreds of millions of dollars to build a new Falcons stadium, not to mention billions of dollars in tax breaks to businesses. Priorities, you know.
– Jay Bookman
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Reagans ghost
August 31st, 2012
10:32 am
Choose party loyalty over It’s citizens? Boy, thank goodness no Dem has ever done that. I’m thinking right now of some Senators from moderate states who ( were bribed) to vote for Obamacare, something THEIR citizens were against. That’s just one that comes to mind. Maybe I’ll think of more.
Ewrin's cat
August 31st, 2012
10:33 am
TP – And what’s the breakeven in years for Georgia taxpayers before the cost of bringing those jobs to Georgia is paid for?
how the heck would I know?…Did I say I supported it?
I merely point out the catch-22 of bringing jobs to any region….pick your poison
TaxPayer
August 31st, 2012
10:33 am
The dem party is not only the party of handouts but the party of fear…. No way are your stats right Jay…
Feel free to provide your own version of reality… with linkee.
Ben
August 31st, 2012
10:33 am
I think experience tells us that when they government predicts something will cost X dollars, it’s going to cost at least 3X dollars by the end.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
August 31st, 2012
10:34 am
Wow, Romney is doing a fly-over to wave to the flood victims? Will Bush be on the plane too?
Jm
August 31st, 2012
10:34 am
DPOG re Reed for guv
I like reed
But it won’t happen in a million years
Georgia on my mind...
August 31st, 2012
10:34 am
Governor Nathan Deal’s Legislative Timeline WAR on the Middle Class
1. Change the guidelines for the college HOPE Scholarship.
2. Drastically reduce the amount of funds contributed to local governments for education
3. Place referendum on the November ballot to give his office more control over local school boards. (Wants to create more Charter Schools)
4. Refuse to expand Medicare amongst the poor and unemployed/under employed.
EJ Moosa
August 31st, 2012
10:35 am
“Bernanke dwelled on stagnation in the labor market, describing high unemployment as a “grave concern not only because of the enormous suffering and waste of human talent it entails, but also because persistently high levels of unemployment will wreak structural damage on our economy that could last for years.” Moreover, he said, “it is important to achieve further progress, particularly in the labor market.” ”
You know if we had REAL job creation, much of what you blog about would be a non-issue.
I told you about the problems we were going to be having headed into this election. You dismissed it.
Are you willing to finally acknowledge that the job market is a “grave concern”? Or must you wait until Obama is out of office to address this issue?
FrankLeeDarling
August 31st, 2012
10:35 am
Don’t forget the million dollar soap box derby track
Joseph
August 31st, 2012
10:35 am
Ben:
Obamacare comes to mind….
TaxPayer
August 31st, 2012
10:36 am
I merely point out the catch-22 of bringing jobs to any region….pick your poison
There’s no catch-22. We lose by accepting the corporation’s willingness to play off states against each other or we lose those particular jobs by not accepting. The money would be better spent on the healthcare. It funds jobs AND takes care of the sick that cannot afford care. A win-win for Georgia.
Williebkind
August 31st, 2012
10:36 am
” Many rural folks, and others as well, will vote against their best interests if a candidate just says those 4 things”
That is important to them. What is important to you, socialism? Communism? Where did the communists in this country go? It was not the conservative side of the house. Just a reminder there has NEVER been a successful communist regime.
DannyX
August 31st, 2012
10:37 am
Maybe Georgia should give Romneycare a chance!
Joseph
August 31st, 2012
10:37 am
Seems strange Hillary just happens to be on an Asian tour during the DNC. Lol.. I thought she was supposed to be well liked.
East Cobb RINO, Inc. (LLC)
August 31st, 2012
10:37 am
“Wow, Romney is doing a fly-over to wave to the flood victims? Will Bush be on the plane too?”
**********************
For 5 million dollars, he will land the plane and give you a Mitt 2012 towell.
Joseph
August 31st, 2012
10:38 am
Found out Oblama is going to El Paso to play golf while flood victims suffer….
Ronald Reagan Parkway
August 31st, 2012
10:38 am
Will these changes effect the ethic violations that are occurring in Gwinnett County at this time…the ones that are still under investigation??
Joseph
August 31st, 2012
10:39 am
DannyX:
It’s not what the folks want. If it was popular we sure would….
Reagans ghost
August 31st, 2012
10:40 am
Hillary is nobody’s fool That convention will be full of lies and hate…….She doesn’t want that Stench on her for future campaigns. And she doesn’t want to have to say things about him she doesn’t believe.
Oscar
August 31st, 2012
10:40 am
Don’t forget the million dollar soap box derby track
________
In the winter we can install snow machines and use it as a ski slope.
Joseph
August 31st, 2012
10:41 am
One huge difference between Romney and Oblama. Romney don’t shudder. Oblama can’t say a complete sentence without doing it. Wonder if it’s written on the Teleprompter like that?
DannyX
August 31st, 2012
10:41 am
“It’s not what the folks want.”
They don’t want Mitt’s crowning achievement? What about Romneycare’s $25 abortions?
Williebkind
August 31st, 2012
10:42 am
To all liberals:
Ignorance can be educated!
Crazy can be medicated!
But there is no cure for STUPID!
Oscar
August 31st, 2012
10:42 am
Reagans ghost
I think Hillary is out of politics for a while. Don’t see her in any future presidential campaigns at all.
May try to go back to the house or senate someday.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
August 31st, 2012
10:42 am
Seems like the President’s team has been doing a great deal in response to Isaac. http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/08/30/tracking-response-isaac
They BOTH suck
August 31st, 2012
10:44 am
ReagansGhost
USMC peddled that same tripe last night. You are a fool think that whether Obama wins or loses that there is much political gain from the right by saying Hillary was at the 2012 convention.
That is just asinine and stupid to even imply that
Reagans ghost
August 31st, 2012
10:44 am
I’ve been told by sources that when the Dem Convention ends that night, they are dropping condoms rather than balloons… Can anyone confirm?
Ronald Reagan Parkway
August 31st, 2012
10:44 am
One of the best school districts in the local area (Gwinnett) does not want Governor Deal’s referendum!!
http://www.peachpundit.com/2012/08/23/governor-deal-vs-the-gwinnett-chamber-of-commerce/
Lorman123
August 31st, 2012
10:44 am
Assuming Mitt Romney is elected and the ACA is gotten rid of, which he claims he intends to do, what becomes of the some the more popular features of the bill, such as coverage for pre-existing conditions and coverage for children on private insurance plans until age 26? If and when these so-called block grants are rolled out to the states as opposed to the Feds administering Medicare, who determines stateside who’s able to partake in the grant because we all know this block grant will not even cover existing Medicare recipients.
larry
August 31st, 2012
10:45 am
Ignorance can be educated!
Crazy can be medicated!
But there is no cure for STUPID!
After last night , Im not so sure about those first two.
Ronald Reagan Parkway
August 31st, 2012
10:45 am
Reagans Ghost where was George W. Bush during the RNC? Iraq maybe?
Heika
August 31st, 2012
10:45 am
I’m not reading any of the comments because I know what an utter craphouse you people probably built in response to Bookman. I used CommentBlocker to filter you all out so that I can read more sensible commentary on CreativeLoafing and SomethingAwful. Just thought I’d let you know.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
August 31st, 2012
10:45 am
But there is no cure for STUPID
Well thanks for that reminder on behalf of all libs and independents…. since there is no cure, do you have any suggestion what we do about Deal and the other republican leaders and their party. Is there a ribbon we should wear to find a cure?
DannyX
August 31st, 2012
10:45 am
“I’ve been told by sources that when the Dem Convention ends that night, they are dropping condoms rather than balloons”
I believe that is true. Much more affective than last nights aspirin drop.
East Cobb RINO, Inc. (LLC)
August 31st, 2012
10:47 am
Block grant is GOP code for we want a blank check from the feds to use however we see fit. Including using block grant money for general purpose expenses and not medical care.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
August 31st, 2012
10:47 am
Aspirin? I thought they were dropping anvils, Wile E. Coyote style. All them little umbrellas were cute.
DannyX
August 31st, 2012
10:48 am
“Much more affective than last nights aspirin drop.”
The aspirin should have been dropped after Eastwood’s speech.
Oscar
August 31st, 2012
10:49 am
Lorman123
_______
When Romney says he will exempt all states from the act, who knows what that means. It may mean just the medicare part.
Don’t see how the pre-existing provisions clauses and age 26 parts could be repealed other than by congress repealing the law.
Romney has been pretty vague on what he will do and what it will mean.
Ain't it Funny
August 31st, 2012
10:49 am
Joseph
August 31st, 2012
10:37 am
Seems strange Hillary just happens to be on an Asian tour during the DNC. Lol.. I thought she was supposed to be well liked.
_________________________________________________________________________________
So, do you find it strange that Bush, Cheney, Palin, etc was nowhere to be seen in Tampa? Or does that just work one way? I thought Palin was supposed to be well liked?
TaxPayer
August 31st, 2012
10:49 am
To all liberals:
Ignorance can be educated!
Crazy can be medicated!
But there is no cure for STUPID!
That’s no excuse not to at least try to help Republicans.
Brosephus™
August 31st, 2012
10:50 am
Ignorance can be educated!
And there is always the exception to the rule, and I accept your acknowedgment as that exception. See, you can call out some of these posters for crap that you can’t back up. I am not one of them. You spouted bs downstairs in my direction, and I called your bluff. Your inability to back up your bs is an open acknowledgement that you don’t have a friggin’ clue about anything you spout here.
Thomas Heyward Jr
August 31st, 2012
10:50 am
Staying away from State-influenced doctors in the pursuit of health will probably be as successful as staying away from State-influenced educators in the pursuit of knowlege.
Extremely successful.
.
The only thing that Deal has done right.
“Washington………Get thee behind me?”
Joseph
August 31st, 2012
10:51 am
Dems should really think about their convention. Oblama, Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Sandra Flunk, Nancy Pelosi, Harriot Reid.
That’s a stark difference from Romney, Ryan, Condi Rice, Marco Rubio, Suzanna Martinez, Mia Love, Aurter Davis.
No wonder dems are howling at the moon…
Ewrin's cat
August 31st, 2012
10:51 am
There’s no catch-22. We lose by accepting the corporation’s willingness to play off states against each other or we lose those particular jobs by not accepting. The money would be better spent on the healthcare. It funds jobs AND takes care of the sick that cannot afford care. A win-win for Georgia.
or we can deal with the reality of the situation…
larry
August 31st, 2012
10:52 am
HEADLINE: Sarah Palin’s contract may not get renewed at Fox.
Ut oh, that divorce is going to be messy.
I guess she’s lost her appeal .
They BOTH suck
August 31st, 2012
10:53 am
“I like reed
But it won’t happen in a million years”
You mean Lindsey Graham was not speaking about GA when he said we no longer have enough angry white guys?
j/k
Reagans ghost
August 31st, 2012
10:53 am
Lorman, I’m glad you ask that. As a conservative, there are parts of Obamacare that would be popular with anyone. The TWO biggest lies in the plan for most folks are
1. You can keep your same Doctor. Big lie.
2. Your rates will go down. Big lie
3. Well three. The total cost. CBO say’s it’s not even close, even giving back the 700+ billion from medicare.
We need reform, competition,and fraud cleaned up.
Do you know that All State and State Farm have dropped their Auto rates almost 40% since Progressive and Geico came on the scene. I wonder why? I guess they were just tired of making all that money.
Georgia on my mind...
August 31st, 2012
10:54 am
Joseph
August 31st, 2012
10:51 am
Aurter Davis.
You all own that one now!! Remember he got an old fashion beat down in the Bama and ran away to the Repub party!!
They BOTH suck
August 31st, 2012
10:54 am
Joseph
With all your daily crying, whining and moaning, tell us how that is translating on the EC level as of today.
Thanks
larry
August 31st, 2012
10:54 am
That’s a stark difference from Romney, Ryan, Condi Rice, Marco Rubio, Suzanna Martinez, Mia Love, Aurter Davis.
You forgot one. Clint and his chair.
Im pretty sure the Democrats are not going to have a 82 year-old actor arguing with a chair.
DannyX
August 31st, 2012
10:54 am
“I guess she’s lost her appeal”
Expect to see Palin in next season’s Celebrity Apprentice.
godless heathen
August 31st, 2012
10:55 am
what becomes of the some the more popular features of the bill, such as coverage for pre-existing conditions and coverage for children on private insurance plans until age 26?
25 year old children? They can get their own damn insurance.
Ronald Reagan Parkway
August 31st, 2012
10:55 am
We don’t need Nathan Deal’s crazy ideas to mess up the good schools we have in Gwinnett!!
Williebkind
August 31st, 2012
10:55 am
Well, Obama tried to build a business with government money (taxpayers money) and it failed. Obama tried again with shovel ready jobs and it failed. He did create some government jobs with high pay and benefits to supress small businesses. I will give him credit for that.
Thomas
August 31st, 2012
10:56 am
Bernake calls unemployment level a “grave concern”- a grave concern, yes a grave concern.
We need him on that wall- I mean printing press. Keep the mice going for 60 days and were cool.
Good work and good reading about a local story Mr. Bookman. Here is to the young men who stayed at PSU- what a travesty- I think we should all wish them much success this fall on the field.
TaxPayer
August 31st, 2012
10:56 am
or we can deal with the reality of the situation…
That Republicans just don’t care about anything other than their Randized selves. There’s no Dealing with that. I voted against Deal and the Republicans last time and I will do it again.
Ewrin's cat
August 31st, 2012
10:57 am
Expect to see Palin in next season’s Celebrity Apprentice.
I’m betting on “Real Housewives of the Tundra”
Reagans ghost
August 31st, 2012
10:58 am
I’ll man enough to admit this. Two biggest mistakes in 2008….1. John McCain..2 Sarah Palin. But in all honesty, don’t know if Regan could of beat Obama. It was a perfect storm.
Joseph
August 31st, 2012
10:58 am
Aint’t it Funny:
Plain is campaigning for candidates and was a pundit on many occasions. Bush and his daddy had a touching video tribute. Cheney can’t fly he just got a new heart twit.
Will Carter be at the DNC? I just don’t understand someone who is supposed to a major part of the Oblama administration won’t be there.
Ewrin's cat
August 31st, 2012
10:58 am
That Republicans just don’t care about anything other than their Randized selves. There’s no Dealing with that. I voted against Deal and the Republicans last time and I will do it again.
and you can continue to pretend that it makes a difference
Williebkind
August 31st, 2012
10:59 am
godless heathen
August 31st, 2012
10:55 am
It is typical of a liberal to pick and choose phrases and take them out of context. However, Mitt did say he would end Obama care and revisit some portions of it. You can get his speech online. Why dont you go read it and dont listen to the drive-bys for your information.
alittlecommonsense
August 31st, 2012
10:59 am
If a Republican governor sucks off the federal teat, Jay will call him a hypocrite. I believe he criticized Romney for that just a couple of days ago. If he doesn’t suck off the federal teat, Jay will say he is doing the wrong thing for his constituents. How do you win with Jay? Have a D behind your name. Otherwise you are wrong no matter what decision you make.
Jm
August 31st, 2012
10:59 am
Taxpayer 10:23
I would call it the carrot and sticks program
You get free healthcare
But, here’s what you have to do and what it covers or doesn’t
It covers
Preventive medicine
The young more fully than the old
Physical injuries
It wouldn’t cover
Preventable diseases which you failed to get preventable treatment for or assist in preventing
The requirement
You have to spend 45 minutes in a gym 5 days a week and clock three miles on the treadmill at least
Your food consumption grocery purchases through food stamps will be monitored and restricted: you get veggies and meat, that’s it
TaxPayer
August 31st, 2012
11:00 am
and you can continue to pretend that it makes a difference
Our constitutional rights do make a difference.
Joseph
August 31st, 2012
11:00 am
Larry:
Yeah the dems will probably trot out a hideous slug like Dan Savage…..
They BOTH suck
August 31st, 2012
11:01 am
Joseph
Problem is that you don’t understand a lot of things (you demonstrate that via your posts and previous suspensions from blogs), so why be concerned about Hillary?
Jack
August 31st, 2012
11:01 am
Health insurance is available to everyone. I’m not supposed to help pay premiums to cover illnesses caused by bad eating habits and bad hygiene. I see consumers spending $4.00 on gasoline and then $10.00 on lotto along with buying enough sweets to kill a horse. Self-caused diabetes and liver disease, single welfare mothers and drug addition are the causes for the medicaid short-fall. Obama wants to rob seniors’ medicare in order to fund the healthcare of ineffective, promiscuous parasites who spend a lifetime trying to game the system. So, vote for Obama; vote for a handout.
getalife
August 31st, 2012
11:02 am
Did we figure out who was in that chair in clint’s mind yet?
Williebkind
August 31st, 2012
11:03 am
Where is Obama golfing this weekend? He had the whole week off due to the convention. Has he visited New Orleans yet?
TaxPayer
August 31st, 2012
11:03 am
Jm,
Obesity, a lack of exercise and poor affordable food options are serious issues. A good wellness program is key to minimizing health problems in future years. It’s just one of the things wrong with our current system of healthcare.
Jm
August 31st, 2012
11:04 am
Tbs 10:53
no shortage in GA….
Brosephus™
August 31st, 2012
11:05 am
They BOTH @ 11:01
I posted another challenge to one of the conservazombie posters here downstairs. You know what the answer was, right?
larry
August 31st, 2012
11:05 am
Yeah the dems will probably trot out a hideous slug like Dan Savage…..
But i dont think he will argue with a chair.
What if that chair had talked back ?
They BOTH suck
August 31st, 2012
11:06 am
Jm
That one was too easy. I can only give myself a single. No extra bases due to lack of originality.
Ewrin's cat
August 31st, 2012
11:06 am
Our constitutional rights do make a difference.
who said anything about constitutional rights? Why do you continue to change the topic of the conversation?
Williebkind
August 31st, 2012
11:07 am
Jack
August 31st, 2012
11:01 am
I like it!
Jm
August 31st, 2012
11:07 am
Taxpayer agreed
That’s why I’m ok with free healthcare for the poor as long as it has the right combination of carrots and sticks
Most Medicaid money is spent (actually almost exclusively) on diabetes which costs a fortune. And is preventable (generally).
I would no longer cover diabetes for future beneficiaries, but you would get a gym membership and be required to use it to get healthcare and food stamps
TaxPayer
August 31st, 2012
11:09 am
who said anything about constitutional rights? Why do you continue to change the topic of the conversation?
I changed no topic. You claimed my vote would make no difference. I claim the constitution says otherwise.
They BOTH suck
August 31st, 2012
11:10 am
Jm
All seriuoness. I think Reed is ok, but in my opinion see the Mayors of San Antonio and Newark making a bigger splash on the state of national level than Reed.
And that is even with Booker getting chastised by DNC or whomever several months back
getalife
August 31st, 2012
11:11 am
So, the highlight of the gop convention was an actor talking to an empty chair.
larry
August 31st, 2012
11:12 am
Not a big suprise here, but most of the charter schools support come from out of state.
http://onlineathens.com/breaking-news/2012-08-31/out-state-donors-funding-charter-school-push
Willydoit?
August 31st, 2012
11:12 am
Bookman’s doom and gloom of anything Republican strikes again!
Georgia will be just fine!!
Maybe all the uninsured will move to the states that is participating in the expansion of Medicaid coverage, then the hospitals and doctors here in Georgia won’t have to write off all the deadbeats that don’t pay.
DannyX
August 31st, 2012
11:13 am
“So, the highlight of the gop convention was an actor talking to an empty chair.”
Reminds me of the last days of the Reagan Presidency.
Ewrin's cat
August 31st, 2012
11:14 am
I would no longer cover diabetes for future beneficiaries, but you would get a gym membership and be required to use it to get healthcare and food stamps
we can then limit their time as a car occupant, a bus occupant, and require everyone to wear rubber sole shoes, and outlaw stairs too
getalife
August 31st, 2012
11:14 am
“Reminds me of the last days of the Reagan Presidency”
I set it up and you knocked it out of the park..
larry
August 31st, 2012
11:15 am
So, the highlight of the gop convention was an actor talking to an empty chair.”
He wasnt simply talking to it, he was ARGUING with it.
What if that chair would have argued back?
Jm
August 31st, 2012
11:15 am
Tbs
I think Reed probably has a future in DC, but probably not as a politician
The ATL mayorship is generally a dead end track unless John Lewis up and quits (doubtful)
They BOTH suck
August 31st, 2012
11:16 am
Bro
It never crossed my mind in 2004 which of Bush’s cabinet members were going to be at the convention or not be.
It is just plain ass stupid of those bringing it up because they heard it on talk radio, Fox or read it somewhere.
It means absolutely nothing.
If Hillary runs for President, she will surely not be able to run from the Obama Administration as fast as the Republicans are still running from Bush. Saying she wasn’t at a convention, when all one as to say is that she was the Sec. of St makes no sense.
larry
August 31st, 2012
11:17 am
Enter your comments here
Williebkind
August 31st, 2012
11:17 am
“So, the highlight of the gop convention was an actor talking to an empty chair’
Did you see it or just listened to a drive-by who spewed it out and took off.
TaxPayer
August 31st, 2012
11:17 am
Jm,
Also, I would really love to be able to purchase an affordable catastrophic health insurance policy along with a wellness/managed care rider of sorts whose cost varied primarily as a function of such variables as one’s smoking history, Body Mass Index, etc.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
August 31st, 2012
11:18 am
Just because Hillary will not be physically at the DNC does not mean she may not make an “appearance” at some point… but really, this is all just more silliness from the conned.
Ewrin's cat
August 31st, 2012
11:20 am
I changed no topic. You claimed my vote would make no difference. I claim the constitution says otherwise.
No I said your vote against Deal has made no difference, and your future vote against an R Governor will make no difference in GA….you can choose to deal in reality or complain about it either way the situation/reality is the same
Jm
August 31st, 2012
11:20 am
Eastwood’s performance was bad only to those who love stagecraft and are addicted to low attention span TV and twitter
getalife
August 31st, 2012
11:20 am
Hillary is retiring but good to see the cons want her so bad.
Williebkind
August 31st, 2012
11:20 am
I turned the channel to CNN last night after the Romney speech and O M G! You would have thought Ben Stein was the speaker. I hope CNN fails, I really do.
They BOTH suck
August 31st, 2012
11:21 am
WillieB
Rush just called me and said to tell Willie to quit stealing his “driveby” line.
He said he appreciated that you are a loyal groupie and part of his “flock”, but would like you to come up with at least one original line. He is getting ticked that all you can do is mimic him and his talking points as if you were a macaw.
Not looking so good when he touts his audience as being smart.
And he said have a good weekend
larry
August 31st, 2012
11:21 am
If you see someone talking or arguing with a chair today, don’t fret.
They are just ” Eastwooding” .
Sad, just sad. Its taken a life of its own.
The chair has its own Twitter account.
JamVet
August 31st, 2012
11:21 am
The dem party is not only the party of handouts but the party of fear…
Yep, which is why virtually all of us frightened, parasitic Jews vote OVERWHELMINGLY against Republicans…
You figure it out and explain it to me, OK?
getalife
August 31st, 2012
11:23 am
wiilie.
cnn took a dive for the gop and did fail.