Jindal: GOP should ’stop being the stupid party’
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on Monday called on Republicans to “stop being the stupid party” and make a concerted effort to reach a broader swath of voters with an inclusive economic message that pre-empts efforts to caricature the GOP as the party of the rich….
“We’ve got to make sure that we are not the party of big business, big banks, big Wall Street bailouts, big corporate loopholes, big anything,” Jindal told POLITICO in a 45-minute telephone interview. “We cannot be, we must not be, the party that simply protects the rich so they get to keep their toys.”
He was just as blunt on how the GOP should speak to voters, criticizing his party for offending and speaking down to much of the electorate.
“It is no secret we had a number of Republicans damage our brand this year with offensive, bizarre comments — enough of that,” Jindal said. “It’s not going to be the last time anyone says something stupid within our party, but it can’t be tolerated within our party. We’ve also had enough of this dumbed-down conservatism. We need to stop being simplistic, we need to trust the intelligence of the American people and we need to stop insulting the intelligence of the voters.”
– Jay Bookman
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Erwin's cat
November 13th, 2012
10:28 am
Patrick – Hopefully “not being the stupid party” also includes embracing scientific certainties like Evolution and Climate Change.
both have a level of uncertainty
Oscar
November 13th, 2012
10:29 am
I’ve lost faith. Man oh man, it’s still wide open out there, and……..aww I don’t wanna talk about it.
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Hang on. It’s only Tuesday. Things will look better by Friday. And Saturday night all will be fine.
Thomas
November 13th, 2012
10:29 am
One last item before I go back to moving markets.
The libs should not get defensive about the term Socialism- laugh it off and rebut with a much needed period of Collaboration- ah the “Age of Collaboration” – the correct recipe engaging gov’t, the employer, and the employee. The RNC needs to back to the age of enlightenment and get back to us.
clem
November 13th, 2012
10:30 am
think jindal was speaking to most of the conservs on this site
Patrick
November 13th, 2012
10:30 am
“Patrick – Hopefully “not being the stupid party” also includes embracing scientific certainties like Evolution and Climate Change.
both have a level of uncertainty”
So does gravity but you don’t hear a lot of folks denying it on talk radio…
kayaker 71
November 13th, 2012
10:31 am
“When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing; when you see that money is flowing to those who deal not in goods but in favors; when you see that men get rich more easily by graft than by hard work and your laws no longer protect you against them, but protect them against you, you may know that your society is doomed”
Ayn Rand
They BOTH suck
November 13th, 2012
10:31 am
kayaker
One more on the election. I’m sure you remember 2000 when Gore won the popular vote. I’m confident that you didn’t discount Bush’s victory because he only won the Electoral College. And I’m “counting on it”.
Robert Lee - Cogito ergo zoom
November 13th, 2012
10:31 am
K71 10:24 Doesn;t that sound like what the Military Industrial complex has arranged for themselves right now? Ohh right, I forgot that business is always good and poor people are always bad.
Corbin Sharpe. I think, therefore I am...I think.
November 13th, 2012
10:32 am
Brosephus™
November 13th, 2012
10:22 am
STEVIE RAY
November 13th, 2012
10:32 am
Jindal is correct of course, what’s amazing is that despite the blatant failings as confirmed by Jindal, the GOP still go almost half the popular vote….
I guess this falls into the category of never letting a crisis go to waste..
The attached,in addition to be hiliarious, encapsulates the depths of our Jerry Springeresque environment..
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57548845-504083/holly-solomon-pregnant-arizona-wife-runs-over-husband-for-not-voting-in-presidential-election-police-say/
RB from Gwinnett
November 13th, 2012
10:32 am
“we need to trust the intelligence of the American people ”
There is no evidence of intelligence in an electorat who just re-elected this President. NONE.
Question for you libs if you care to answer. What message should the GOP stop sending to specific voter blocks as Jindal susggests? For example, what message should we start telling women? Hispanics? Blacks?
And do you believe if we tell them that, they’ll change their vote?
paulo977
November 13th, 2012
10:33 am
Brosephus …”One does not have to speak a lick of English to become a citizen of the United States. We do not have an official language..
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Of course not ….ask thew Brits why!!!!!!!!
Oscar
November 13th, 2012
10:33 am
Thomas
November 13th, 2012
10:29 am
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Socialism works well in the NFL. Falcons want more of it. State and private money to work together for a better future.
Erwin's cat
November 13th, 2012
10:34 am
So does gravity but you don’t hear a lot of folks denying it on talk radio
I don’t here them denying Lilliputians either…what’s your point?
Pandora
November 13th, 2012
10:35 am
As long as they have racist red-necks in the GOP Party, they will NOT stop saying stupid stuff. They are stupid.
Paul
November 13th, 2012
10:35 am
kayaker 71
The lead in that quote sounds like a liberal describing wealthy people who get rich off earning resources, the conclusion sounds like a conservative with another doomsday leap.
Oscar
November 13th, 2012
10:35 am
One does not have to speak a lick of English to become a citizen of the United States
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Of course not. Babies can’t talk and they are all citizens when they are born here.
ITS ALL BUSH"S FAULT
November 13th, 2012
10:35 am
Hey CONS it looks like the OBAMA ROPE – A – DOPE really did a number on the GOP….LOL
kayaker 71
November 13th, 2012
10:36 am
Ineptocracy……… A system of govt where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminished number of producers.
STEVIE RAY
November 13th, 2012
10:36 am
ERWIN
I don’t see a “reasonable doubt” surrounding evolution but I do see a “reasonable doubt” about the latter…the body of work relative to evolution is much more credible in terms of years of study. Climate change is definitely happening but the “reasonable doubt” applies to the significance, if any, to it being man-made or being part of a much larger cycle..
Brosephus™
November 13th, 2012
10:36 am
Mr. Sharpe
Hey, I love a good calzone too.
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what’s amazing is that despite the blatant failings as confirmed by Jindal, the GOP still go almost half the popular vote….
Nah, it’s not really amazing if you understand why. It could be that the GOP vote was not FOR the GOP, but rather it was AGAINST Obama.
DebbieDoRight - Math has a very strong anti-conservative bias
November 13th, 2012
10:37 am
When Martinez, Haley, Love, and other minority women spoke at the convention, media coverage on major networks switched to discussions of other *news* stories.
When you can NAME or count off the women/minorities/gays in your party — then that’s your sign that your party probably isn’t as diverse and inclusive as you think it is.
When Kerry Washington–closer to the 1% than any of those conservative women–delivered a long passionate whine about the status of women she received gushing praise.
Perhaps because, like Will Smith stated, she also doesn’t mind paying a little more if it means that it’ll help other americans out. What a lot of the conned fail to realize is that you have to have a strong middle class to ENHANCE the richest 1%.
Without buyers at WalMart, (a place where the rich don’t shop), you wouldn’t have a super rich Walton family; no matter how cheap the goods. Without people having enough money to AFFORD to go to the movies, (Kerry Washington); then people like HER wouldn’t be able to make a living.
It all flows together folks, you can’t have one without the other. Bain can outsource every American job to China and India, but when the products come back here to America to be sold, if americans don’t have the money to buy them, then all Bain did was for nothing. They got only half of what they wanted, they got the cheap labor, they produced cheaper goods, however now they don’t have anyone to buy them.
Give Jindal props for trying but he of all people should know it will not work.
Yes, good thing too. There are a LOT of smart people in America, (see Tuesday’s election); and not everyone is CONNED into believing what someone tells them.
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liberalextremist” DebbieDoRight – I would like to send you an e-hug for your 10:02 am comment.
Aw shucks!!
You really don’t want to give me a compliment, you have no idea the type of monster you’ll create!
getalife
November 13th, 2012
10:37 am
kay,
Good for you.
Stay the course.
paulo977
November 13th, 2012
10:38 am
RB ….”here is no evidence of intelligence in an electorat who just re-elected this President. NONE.
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We have learned a few things after that disastrous election of GW , haven’t we?…. Deal with it!
Logical Dude
November 13th, 2012
10:38 am
And why didn’t Jindal run for President again?
Probably because he felt the way the party was going, and knew he’d be unelectable *in the primaries*. So, now is a good time to come out and say it.
Republicans! Don’t be stupid!
Oscar
November 13th, 2012
10:38 am
When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing;
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In 1800 only rich white men could vote. Where did we go wrong?
Nero
November 13th, 2012
10:38 am
Jindal is absolutely right. Time for Republicans to stop being the party of stupid. Go over the cliff. Let sequestration happen. Spread the pain around to every one and reset the dynamic. Automatic tax increases across the board. Automatic spending cuts across the board. Tax the hell out of the rich. Make the leeches actually pay income tax. No more deductions period. Institute a national Sales tax for the sole purpose of reducing the debt.
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
November 13th, 2012
10:39 am
Cons, how do you curb the religious right which has seized your party’s brain and replaced it with their own?
Fred ™
November 13th, 2012
10:39 am
kayaker 71
November 13th, 2012
10:31 am
“When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing; when you see that money is flowing to those who deal not in goods but in favors; when you see that men get rich more easily by graft than by hard work and your laws no longer protect you against them, but protect them against you, you may know that your society is doomed”
Ayn Rand
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Great, we get a quote from an amped up neth ho. I wonder how high she was when she wrote that? How many days she had been shooting crank?
Why do you worship drug addicts Kayaker?
Paul
November 13th, 2012
10:39 am
“There is no evidence of intelligence in an electorat who just re-elected this President. NONE.”
Nothing like the guy who imports his water because the rest of the country is too blind to see fluoridation is a communist plot.
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Erwin’s cat
You may want to refresh your understanding of the scientific meaning of ‘theory’ before you go too far down that road.
They BOTH suck
November 13th, 2012
10:39 am
getalife @ 10:37
Exactly. No one would have “counted on it” to be any different.
Patrick
November 13th, 2012
10:40 am
Erwin–
“So does gravity but you don’t hear a lot of folks denying it on talk radio
I don’t here them denying Lilliputians either…what’s your point?”
I think you just proved it.
stands for decibels
November 13th, 2012
10:40 am
With a name like Schnatter, it has to be good?
His name will be “Schatter” to me, henceforth.
(And, as many have pointed out, if I’m going to have crappy pizza, there are any number of alternatives that aren’t publicly crapping on their own help.)
Robert Lee - Cogito ergo zoom
November 13th, 2012
10:40 am
How about acting like professionals when it comes to appointing any of Obama’s selections, instead of refusing to vote on them and leaving it in limbo. Maybe stop using filibusters to prevent anything from being accomplished. We Americans usually come together in times of crisis, and we expect the same of our politicians.
Joe Hussein Mama
November 13th, 2012
10:40 am
C. Sharpe — “Pizza? No thanks, but a good calzone I would sell my soul for… really drooling here…”
My local independent pizza shop will GLADLY make any pie into a calzone. With parmesan dusted on the outside and a cup of marinara for dipping.
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 13th, 2012
10:40 am
““we need to trust the intelligence of the American people ”
There is no evidence of intelligence in an electorat who just re-elected this President. NONE.”
awwwww … diddums … still smarting that your guy LOST BIG on election day??? not a squeker, a flippin LANDSLIDE.
“Question for you libs if you care to answer. What message should the GOP stop sending to specific voter blocks as Jindal susggests?”
I dunno … maybe not referring to poor people as “takers” might be a start
willie lynch
November 13th, 2012
10:40 am
It’s amazing to see the evolution of some who follow the Republican platform. The belief that they can all of a sudden attract a wider voting block by simply saying we need to rethink our immigration position is so ridiculous it not even laughable. In their epiphany they see the Latino voter as their saving grace. This may be so if the Latino voter see’s themselves as the usable pawn in the game and tries to leverage this position. But the Republicans are still playing a short game and don’t seem to realize that there are Latino women, Latino LGTB groups, and Black Latino’s. I have yet to hear any of them say they need to court the Black voter. Republicans are coming out of the woodwork to draw all of the similarities between them and the Latino voters, like they are both socially conservative and family oriented. How both are church going and hard working. Amazing!!!This mass thought conversion is incredible in that some of the conservatives who have had this epiphany are some of the biggest race pimps in the country. The shortsighted shift of policy that focuses on just one demographic to gain votes instead of a complete rethink of positioning will continue to alienate the voters they seek since the people they are after are not blind to the reasons they are being sought.
This is the arrogance of the white male. It also exposes the lack of long range vision they have for America. It say’s the only way we will survive is if we get this group on our side. There seems to be no thought in their grand idea that we must build a better more inclusive America for everyone.
A wise man once said “Time dictates the agenda and those who don’t know the time are surely lost.” My watch is working just fine.
STEVIE RAY
November 13th, 2012
10:40 am
kayaker 71
November 13th, 2012
10:36 am
Awesome, I have a new favorite word..Thanks..
For your reference:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/robert-samuelson-its-the-welfare-state-stupid/2012/11/11/e392868a-2ab0-11e2-bab2-eda299503684_story.html
stands for decibels
November 13th, 2012
10:41 am
“When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing
remind me again–what did the rich trust-fund d-bag you ran as President actually *produce*, again?
Joe Hussein Mama
November 13th, 2012
10:42 am
E. Cat — “I always said that the party “left me” years ago”
I think we are in much the same boat, though I perceive that I may have left more abruptly and with greater velocity than you did, sir.
clem
November 13th, 2012
10:42 am
oscar, good point. can you imagine what would happen on a team where the quarterback gets 25% of the income. ryan gets about 12% of the payroll of roughly 40+ players.
Paul
November 13th, 2012
10:42 am
Logical Dude
“And why didn’t Jindal run for President again? ”
I think it’d be rather entertaining to watch his own Party demand his birth certificate before they’d let him have a decent shot at the nomination.
stands for decibels
November 13th, 2012
10:43 am
There is no evidence of intelligence in an electorat who just re-elected this President. NONE.
Don’t you have some exploited help who need whipping, RB?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 13th, 2012
10:43 am
The liberal have the socialists…
There’s your sign.
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Mick
After that shellacking, I figured ol Reince woulda been held accountable.
Bull Moose
November 13th, 2012
10:43 am
Yes, I remember trying to drag us repubs into the 20th century, I pulled 23% of the vote and good ole’ Woodrow got elected-still smarting from that academic fraud. Unfortunately, Harding and Coolidge got elected and then all went to Hell.
Yep, history does repeat itself and it’s kind of interesting, I will be DEEEELIGHTED to see my Grand Old Party recapture the stature it once had, we shall see. Gotta go, Wodrow and I are going hunting,……hope he ducks…..heh, heh…..
getalife
November 13th, 2012
10:43 am
The right “lived in a bubble” (la la land) ignored facts and reality . They can’t tell right from wrong. They are self defeatists and brainwashed by rw media and racism.
They voted for a party that would raise their own taxes so the wealthy get another tax cut.
It does not get more ignorant than that.
STEVIE RAY
November 13th, 2012
10:44 am
BRO
Clearly it was to oust BO…but there is something to be said when almost 50% want him out…this whole political scene is SNAFU’ed…better yet FUBAR…yet entertaining..
Oscar
November 13th, 2012
10:44 am
Half of the American people are below average in intelligence.
Finished my coffee. Everyone have a good day. Selah.
kayaker 71
November 13th, 2012
10:45 am
“It is necessary for the individual to come to realize that his own ego is of no importance in comparison with the existence of is nation; that the position of the individual ego is conditioned soley by the nation as a whole…… that above all the unit of a nation’s spirit and will are far more than the freedom of spirit and the will of the individual. This state of mind, which subordinates the interests of the ego to the conservation of the community, is really the premise for every truly human culture…… we understand only the individual’s capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow man.
Adolf Hitler
Mein Kampf
1933
Nero
November 13th, 2012
10:45 am
Sequestration now! Let the leeches own it. Let the Republicans become the part of the no free rides. Press the reset button.
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 13th, 2012
10:46 am
kayaker – sharing your bedtime reading with the class again???
ITS ALL BUSH"S FAULT
November 13th, 2012
10:47 am
GOP stupid ? seriously? lol…
Joe Hussein Mama
November 13th, 2012
10:47 am
Paul — “On the rare occasions we eat pizza, it’s the same with us.”
We eat pizza perhaps once every 2-4 months, so when we do, we like for it to be quality stuff.
My wife prefers a veggie-heavy pie with a little pancetta or capicolla, and pesto for the sauce. I prefer something meaty with mushrooms, so we compromise and I get turkey sausage, ground turkey, mushrooms and extra soy cheese, all to keep the fat content down. And we get a seafood pie with shrimp, scallop and fontina (all three are small and not much is left over for the next day).
Try getting those from Papa John.
fedup
November 13th, 2012
10:47 am
USinUK and JHM make your own pizza from goat cheese and cream or any other sauce on pita or nan bread. Put in whatever your heart desires. I learned that from a local pizzaria.
STEVIE RAY
November 13th, 2012
10:48 am
JOE
The only difference between calzone and pizza is that the former is folded….and you get a little extra sauce….is almost like the way real pizza nuts fold slices of pizza length wise before devouring..
I’ve never met a pizza I couldn’t find something I like about…I live in NYC, spent time in Chicago and make my own dough for a pizza oven I bought second hand….no snobbery when it comes to any Italian goodies..
They BOTH suck
November 13th, 2012
10:48 am
kayaker
Didn’t you mention you were back and ready to go? Took you a week to come up with those quotes? Really?
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 13th, 2012
10:48 am
speaking of idiots on the right:
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/american-family-association-george-clooney-election-obama
(when asked why women voted overwhelmingly for Obama) ” These women were saying well ‘George Clooney loves President Obama,’ and a fair number of them I’m guessing said, ‘so I love President Obama,’ and the same thing with Sarah Jessica Parker.”
nope.
no idea why the majority of women distrust the right. no idea whatsoever.
ITS ALL BUSH"S FAULT
November 13th, 2012
10:48 am
Isn’t GA a red state ?
Patrick
November 13th, 2012
10:48 am
Kayaker–
So far this morning you have quoted Ayn Rand and Hitler.
I think I might see your problem…
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 13th, 2012
10:49 am
fedup – actually, the mister and I have “date night” when we make our own pizzas from scratch (including the dough) – it’s actually really easy -
monty
November 13th, 2012
10:49 am
I see they had 90% voter tournout in back precincts in Philly. Amazing. The election proved a couple of things.#1 It’s hard to defeat an incumbent. Done once I believe in the past 80 years or so. #2 Hard to beat the party giving out all the candy when all the sweet tooth addicts are all in the same party. #3 Romney ran a week campaign as far as getting the candy lovers to understand that candy is bad for you and that one day your teeth will rot out if you keep being dependent on it. #4 More candy dependent people just means more dependency on the candy company. A house of cards that eventually has to fall apart when you simply can’t afford to give away free candy. Enjoy it while you can.
Oh by the way did you see where all the doctors have taken to the streets in France protesting their govt pay? That govt ran healthcare system is a wonderful thing, coming to a nation near you. HArd to get a nation back to work when many of the small businesses will just cut hours or layoff workers to avoid Obama care. What a nightmare scenario. Sometimes you get what you wish for. Doesn’t mean it makes the nation any better though. Enjoy libs.
Joe Hussein Mama
November 13th, 2012
10:49 am
K71 — ““When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing; when you see that money is flowing to those who deal not in goods but in favors; when you see that men get rich more easily by graft than by hard work and your laws no longer protect you against them, but protect them against you, you may know that your society is doomed”
Dude, listen to yourself. You’re talking about Romney.
getalife
November 13th, 2012
10:49 am
kay,
hitler.
Perfect.
Don’t change a thing kay..
Paul
November 13th, 2012
10:50 am
JHM
Not even ten in the morning and my stomach’s rumbling!
Fred ™
November 13th, 2012
10:51 am
Here’s a good pizza recipe…… it would be even better if the damn communist who wrote it would have used AMERICAN measurements……….
http://redskitchendiaries.wordpress.com/2010/11/13/date-night-pizza/
RB from Gwinnett
November 13th, 2012
10:51 am
“remind me again–what did the rich trust-fund d-bag you ran as President actually *produce*, again?”
Seriously, if you still have to ask that question at this point, you need to stop getting your news from “Weekend Update” and MTV News.
Nero
November 13th, 2012
10:51 am
Sequestration. Dot it now!
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 13th, 2012
10:51 am
I see they had 90% voter tournout in back[sic] precincts in Philly.
drudgey spam.
STEVIE RAY
November 13th, 2012
10:52 am
All this blather about which party has the lower collective IQ is stunning…both cover wide demographics which offer similar amount of undeducation voters who vote with their incentives in mind…for the most part..
It’s cyclical..GOP and DEMS trade WH positions with enough consistency to indicate that the pendulum continues to swing back and forth..
Fred ™
November 13th, 2012
10:52 am
LOL USinUK, you were posting while i was getting the recipe. I posted it last night too………
getalife
November 13th, 2012
10:52 am
If you visit the local Italian restaurant, there are much better items to taste than pizza and calzones. That is snack food. Cheap and easy to make.
Brosephus™
November 13th, 2012
10:53 am
Clearly it was to oust BO…but there is something to be said when almost 50% want him out…
There is something to be said. We live in an instant gratification, instant result fueled society. We no longer want to wait for anything, even if it’s steadying our economy which has been getting more and more screwed up over the past 3 – 4 decades. We expect things to get better overnight. We’ve lost our individualism in that many people now simply listen to tv or radio and allow others to think for them without even doing basic research to separate truth from fiction.
Read DDR’s post @ 10:37 in regards to Wal Mart and stuff. Over the past 40 years, we have had numerous recessions followed by “jobless” recoveries. We’re so focused on getting $$$ back that nobody’s ever stopped to question why we continue to lose jobs and not replace them when we recover.
Our financial situation would benefit greatly if we first focused on serious job creation here at home. I’m not talking about minimum wage jobs frying chicken at Popeye’s either. We need manufacturing jobs where we build a tangible product that can be sold here at home and abroad. We need engineering jobs here at home to invent and design these products. Once we get more people working here at home with decent incomes, you have more revenues coming to the government without the need of tax increases. You also help put programs like Social Security onto firmer ground with the increased revenue. After that, then you start the budget cutting and tax code overhaul. However, if nobody on tv or radio says that, nobody will even consider it as an option.
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 13th, 2012
10:53 am
RB – 10:51 – actually, it’s a fair question – what DID he produce?
Paul
November 13th, 2012
10:54 am
Stevie Ray
So when I see how Brooklynites fold their pizza while eating it, they order pizza and eat a calzone, right?
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monty
Amazing how it never occurred to you the ‘black precincts in Philly’ were more engaged in their citizenship duties and more conscientious than were the nonblack precincts in Philly.
Joe Hussein Mama
November 13th, 2012
10:54 am
fedup — “USinUK and JHM make your own pizza from goat cheese and cream or any other sauce on pita or nan bread. Put in whatever your heart desires.”
When I do that, my wife gets in the way.
S. Ray — “I’ve never met a pizza I couldn’t find something I like about…I live in NYC, spent time in Chicago and make my own dough for a pizza oven I bought second hand….no snobbery when it comes to any Italian goodies..”
Word. The ideal is simply *fresh.* Whatever you’re putting on the pie, it just needs to be *fresh.*
stands for decibels
November 13th, 2012
10:54 am
Seriously, if you still have to ask that question at this point
I do, RB. I’m not aware of Mitt Romney having ever produced anything of tangible worth in his life.
And no, going around and swooping up companies and re-purposing bits and piece of them here and there is not “producing.”
(Contrast that to what his dad did for a living. If you need the bleedin’ obvious explained to you.)
Fred ™
November 13th, 2012
10:54 am
“If you visit the local Italian restaurant, there are much better items to taste than pizza and calzones. That is snack food. Cheap and easy to make.”
Try a Muffuletta.
Nero
November 13th, 2012
10:54 am
No more pretend negotiations. No more whistling past the graveyard. Let the automatic triggers happens and move on from there. Spread the pain around generously.
kayaker 71
November 13th, 2012
10:55 am
Patrick, 10:48,
So how about a quote from your favorite president…… “The fact that we are here today to debate America’s rising debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US govt can’t pay it’s own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our govt’s reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America’s dept weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that “the buck stops here”. Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and failure of leadership. America deserves better.”
Senator Bozo
March, 2006
Paul
November 13th, 2012
10:56 am
Nero
“Sequestration. Dot it now!”
Okay.
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…………………………sequestration…………………………
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Anything else you need help with this fine morning?
DebbieDoRight - Math has a very strong anti-conservative bias
November 13th, 2012
10:56 am
Patrick – Hopefully “not being the stupid party” also includes embracing scientific certainties like Evolution and Climate Change.
Cat: both have a level of uncertainty
Well Patrick, I see Cat blew that hope right outta the water!
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K71: Ineptocracy……… A system of govt where the blah, blah, blah, blah,…………..selves or succeed are rewarded with goods blah blah blah blah………..confiscated wealth blah blah blah ……..producers.
Republicocracy: A form of government where the members want to keep things as they are, or turn back time. They aren’t as eager for reform or change, and believe that the system shouldn’t be tinkered with, and that government should remain small and out of the picture, unless of course they need government to give them FEMA or to tell them what to do with their bodies, (See Terri Schiavo and Abortion Laws)
This makes the party appealing to some key groups who hold an interest in looking toward the past for inspiration to govern our country like:
** wealthier citizens who adore a time when the government freely allowed them to be wealthy without meddling in things like child labor, unfair hiring practices, dangerous work conditions and things such as fair pay for far work.
***Favors Christian religion ONLY, (all others need NOT apply), and values (e.g. anti-abortion, anti-homosexual, for prayer in schools and posting the Ten Com
barking frog
November 13th, 2012
10:56 am
JoeHusseinMama
I was a Republican until Nixon then a Democrat until Clinton and now an Independent.
Joe Hussein Mama
November 13th, 2012
10:56 am
RB — “Seriously, if you still have to ask that question at this point, you need to stop getting your news from “Weekend Update” and MTV News.”
What, can’t you just answer the question without being a Richard about it?
Oh, and I left you a love note a couple of floors down, RB.
http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2012/11/12/georgias-tom-price-a-central-figure-in-d-c-drama/?cp=9#comment-1148856
monty
November 13th, 2012
10:56 am
PAul-”Amazing how it never occurred to you the ‘black precincts in Philly’ were more engaged in their citizenship duties and more conscientious than were the nonblack precincts in Philly.”
Paul, keep believing that one. Goodness gracious!
Nero
November 13th, 2012
10:59 am
Paul,
go over the cliff
Nero
getalife
November 13th, 2012
10:59 am
You got whooped worse than last time but don’t change a thing cons.
You are beautiful just the way you are.
STEVIE RAY
November 13th, 2012
10:59 am
KAYAKER,
NO problem with Rand quote…she had some great things to say despite her ruinous “objectivism” that somehow went from fiction to an attempt to press on reality..
The reference to Hilter is mind-numbing…you may want to refer instead to Margaret Thatcher..you know..”the problem with socialism (or any welfare state like ours) is when you run out of other people’s money..”
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 13th, 2012
10:59 am
“What, can’t you just answer the question without being a Richard about it?”
exactly.
answer the question, RB.
what DID Mitt produce?
Patrick
November 13th, 2012
11:00 am
Kayaker–at least that quote is from this century–thanks.
Here is another one for you:
“There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it — that that’s an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what. … These are people who pay no income tax. … [M]y job is not to worry about those people. I’ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.”
Mitt Romney 2012
Fred ™
November 13th, 2012
11:00 am
Gee Monty, your republican stupidity was soundly by the American people and you are so butt hurt that your response is to double down on the stupid.
Keep it up pal, we see how that has worked so far. Just keep making your party the party of stupid………..
Nero
November 13th, 2012
11:00 am
getalife is right. Change the dynamic. Sequestration now! Make the leeches own it.
Joe Hussein Mama
November 13th, 2012
11:00 am
B. Frog — “JoeHusseinMama I was a Republican until Nixon then a Democrat until Clinton and now an Independent.”
You’re a bit older than me. My first vote was for Reagan, and I stuck with the GOP (except for Perot in 92 and Browne in 2000) until leaving around 2003.
It was the brand of intellectual, *thinking* conservatism espoused by men like William F. Buckley that first attracted me to the GOP, but they run people like that off now.
Paul
November 13th, 2012
11:00 am
monty
I don’t say this lightly
It beats the racist take on things.
“I see they had 90% voter tournout in back precincts in Philly. Amazing…#2 Hard to beat the party giving out all the candy when all the sweet tooth addicts are all in the same party.”
Really, I had no idea the Republican party was hard to beat because they were all for giving more to the richest sweet tooth addicts in the country.
STEVIE RAY
November 13th, 2012
11:02 am
JOE
Pizza…word!!!
Seems to me anything will taste better on a quality flat of dough…it’s all good..
willie lynch
November 13th, 2012
11:02 am
Brosephus™
November 13th, 2012
10:53 am
How do you create jobs that will allow people a living wage and the possibility of moving into the middle class? We will not be able to compete with China or India when it comes to wages. We haven’t been able to educate the American public on the jobs now being sourced through our prisons.
The system (Capitalism) is the problem. We’ve been told many times that it too has a limited life span but who’s listening?
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 13th, 2012
11:03 am
“you may want to refer instead to Margaret Thatcher..you know..”the problem with socialism (or any welfare state like ours) is when you run out of other people’s money..””
or you can always refer to Maggie and her “there is no such thing as society”
cuz that’s really worked out well, too.
RF
November 13th, 2012
11:03 am
Joe and USinUK: Mitt produced PROFIT, plain and simple. Sometimes good for companies and workers, sometimes bad. He sees things in black and white and is used to being the man in charge. His business acumen didn’t endear him as a candidate or abroad as a potential representative of the nation. All he was intended to be was Grover Norquist’s “pen” in the WH to sign the legislation Congress sent over. All he ever needed to produce was profit as a business man and a signature as president.
kayaker 71
November 13th, 2012
11:03 am
Patrick, 11:00,
Looks like Romney was spot on….. he just missed it by a few percent.
STEVIE RAY
November 13th, 2012
11:04 am
NERO
I couldn’t agree more about simply allowing the cliff to win..we need a wake up call and that may just do it…won’t happen…at the very least, they will figure a way to kick the can down several months or a year…too much of a threat to re-election with is the only incentive that matters to our elected self servers..
Paul
November 13th, 2012
11:04 am
Nero
Sorry. I think more of my country and my fellow citizens than that.