Jindal: GOP should ’stop being the stupid party’

Fred – if you want a truly tasty pizza experience – try making the dough out of ciabatta dough!

http://redskitchendiaries.wordpress.com/2012/10/07/ciabatta/

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Nero,

I am usually right and they will cut a deal

The cuts will have a trigger for when the economy can sustain the cuts.

Cutting in a bad economy puts us back to more layoffs and our economy needs spending right now not cuts.

Just the facts that work.

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RF — “Joe and USinUK: Mitt produced PROFIT, plain and simple.”

So does a bank robber.

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Kayaker–

“Patrick, 11:00,

Looks like Romney was spot on….. he just missed it by a few percent.”

I think that quote had quite a bit to do with the “few percent” of the votes that caused him to lose the election.

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USinUK: I THOUGHT I was going to get a kitchenaide mixer for my birthday and was going to make your Ciabatta bread when I did, but alas, I didn’t get it. I need to see if my neighbor has one………

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Paul,

that’s because you’re with the leeches…

sequestration is the reset that this country needs.

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Notes on the election.

Since the 1904 election Obama is one of 4 US presidents to win two
presidential elections by more than 50% of the popular vote cast.
Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Reagan & Obama. Rare company for a pinko
socialist islamic Kenyan with no birth certificate and a hang up on British colonialism.

Starting with Nixon in 1968 Republicans won the popular vote in 5 of 6 elections. The exception, Carter in 1976.

The Democrats then moved their party toward the center for the 1992 election.

Starting with Clinton in 1992 Democrats have now won the popular vote
in 5 of 6 elections. The exception being Bush in 2004.

Will the Republicans move their party toward the center? Or maybe more important will they “soften” their rhetoric?

If so, it will require not only the national party but the state parties to also join the move. It is hard to ask a Latino to vote for the Ryan Plan while telling them that their Tia Rosa must “self deport” or that Tio Miguel cannot pick watermelons in South Georgia.

It will be difficult to obtain the women’s vote by passing laws requiring vaginal insertions, saying that only some rapes are “legitimate” and calling women “sluts” when they testify before Congress on an issue.

Bottom line is you cannot call me worthless scum on Monday and expect me to vote for you on Tuesday. I would think that would be elementary politics.

And, no one has answered the big question. How in hell did the Republicans lose the election to an incumbent with the worse economy in over 80 years, the highest unemployment in over 80 years, with his Middle East policy in shambles and, if I may, he is black??????

Is it possible the Republican message is a generation out of date?

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Another favorite Hitler quote…..”By the skillful use of propaganda, one can make the people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise”.

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USNUK

I guess we all say things we regret but she is spot on about running out of other peoples money…if those on the left want to deny the trends…LIBS believe religiously in the credibility of man made climate change but remain in denial that we have become a welfare state…despite little evidence to the contrary for the latter…

I’m not sure there exists a solid example of a socialist model today that is successful by our standards…the one’s that allegedly work are restricted demographically and involve government decisions that would never fly here..

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““Joe and USinUK: Mitt produced PROFIT, plain and simple.””

and THAT is the problem with Republicans – people are second to profit.

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THIs past weekend the church I’m a member of had a feed the hungry project-gave away free hotdogs to everyone at a local park. We had many leftover(uncooked) hotdogs, so we gave the leftover ones(150 dogs) to a poor guy and his sister and as they didn’t have a vehicle I gave them a ride home. On the way to their house I said you’ve got alot of hotdogs there you might want to have a cookout and invite some neighbors over. This is what he said,”shoot, I can’t afford to feed the whole world.” Funny how this fundamental idea is engrained in even the poorest of the poor who are dependent on the govt. You just can’t afford to give everyone a free ride. I got mine. You get your’s. Not just a conservative idea, is it?

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kayaker

“See in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.”

GWB

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Speaking of Republican crazy…

Jim Galloway reported today that Georgia Senate majority leader Chip Rogers hosted a crazy Agenda 21 conspiracy meeting at the state capitol last month.

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No, just a realist. Not a leech like your kind.

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“Question for you libs if you care to answer. What message should the GOP stop sending to specific voter blocks as Jindal susggests?”

Answer: FIRST, when your defacto “speaker” calls a young woman a slut on National Radio, instead of cheering his words, denounce them.

Answer: SECONDLY, when one of your ilk are running for the highest office and goes on National television and says, “If the NAACP invited him to talk, he’d go there and talk about “why the African-American community should demand paychecks and not be satisfied with food stamps.” – denounce those comments.

Answer: THIRDLY, When someone in your party tell 1/10th of the populace to “self deport” — denounce those comments.

Answer: FOURTH, When your Congress has a chance to make history and uphold the Fair Pay For Women Act, don’t parade your 4 women party representatives in front of the cameras and tell them to say, “We don’t need this bill!! This is unnecessary!!”; while hundreds of thousands of women are working two jobs to make ends meet and STILL don’t make enough as their male counterpart. — denounce this sentiment that women are LESS than a man.

These are just for starters, I can think of millions more……………

Stands: remind me again–what did the rich trust-fund d-bag you ran as President actually *produce*, again?

Jobs. In Indian and China……….

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Stevie Ray – the problem is that Americans don’t realize the other half of the issue …

you have liberals with other people’s money … but the Tory’s in Maggie’s day propped up government by selling the family silver. Once they ran out of public entities to sell, they started having problems.

Mick – yes, people in the UK HATE Thatcher – I’m talking with the intensity of a thousand white-hot suns kind of hate. She destroyed the north of England by shutting down the mines AND the shipbuilding – without reinvesting and trying to prop up the area.

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“Better a recession than to continue on the path of the leech”

yay!!!!

I’ll play.

Define “leech” … who is a leech in your pov

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RB from Gwinnett…… I love your rationalizations really funny stuff……. thank you !!!!!……

So is comment intelligent ? ” Deficits don’t matter “

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How in hell did the Republicans lose the election to an incumbent with the worse economy in over 80 years, the highest unemployment in over 80 years, with his Middle East policy in shambles and, if I may, he is black??????

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWxztZs_atM

Not quite the same specific message applies to the GOP, but the overall theme does.

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More from the Thatcher era:

When they kick in your front door
How you gonna come?
With your hands behind your head
Or on the trigger of a gun?

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BRo @ 11:14

Spot on.

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Nero, welcome!

It is always good to get “new” bloggers here!

(LOL at you gutless name-changers who can’t even deal with one little electoral beat down!)

Methinks, Jindal was referring to you…

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On a totally different subject:

An Arizona woman, in despair at the re-election of Democratic President Barack Obama, ran down her husband with the family car in suburban Phoenix on Saturday because he failed to vote in the election, police said on Monday.
Holly Solomon, 28, was arrested after running over husband Daniel Solomon following a wild chase that left him pinned underneath the vehicle.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/13/15137488-police-arizona-woman-runs-down-husband-with-car-for-not-voting?lite

Anyone else think Republican women might be wound just a WEE bit too tight?

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Suck, 11:13,

“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and, eventually, they will believe it”.

Adolph Hitler

The real winner in this election is the main stream media. Like Bookman, so far up Bozo’s ass that they cannot see the light of day. They have abdicated their duty and responsibility to the American people. Their right to a free press and freedom of expression has with it, responsibilities. The American electorate has been let down….. in the worst way.

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“He looks just like Alfred E. Neuman and talks like Gomer Pyle.”

And that’s the only thing in any way entertaining about listening to him speak most of the time.

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kayaker 71

November 13th, 2012
11:10 am

Another favorite Hitler quote…..”By the skillful use of propaganda, one can make the people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise”.
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Oh your talk radio?FOX news god’s are masters of Dr. Goebbels use of propaganda. Just look in the mirror. Your ideas are based on lies and your philosophy has been soundly rejected, yet you are quoting the same lies that got you in this mess. You have been thoroughly brain washed.

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Jam,
I was looking at my keyboard to see if the “Z” key was close to the “N” key, thinking that Nero might have been Zero, but alas…

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How did repubs lose?

Nearly 50 million on food stamps. Obama scared everyone to death with his rhetoric,”take away” theme, abortions, free contraception, dope, throw grandma under the bus, homosexual marriage,Romney is a tax cheat and a murderer”and we could go all day. People bought it hook, line and sinker. A person will risk their life to stop some thief at night from “taking away” their 20 dollar water hose.

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“Anyone else think Republican women might be wound just a WEE bit too tight?”

not just the wimmen

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Maybe we should become the “Santa Claus” Party like the democrats. That way we could garner more votes from the “takers’ of society. Sorry you liberals don’t like that but it is true.

All you “Obamacare” voters notice what is beginning to happen? Business is beginning to let people go and to cut back on work hours of remaining employees in order to comply with the impending Obamacare rules. What voting block do you think will be hurt the most? The very people that voted this clown back into office. Sorry people, you cut your own throats.

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Politico reports that Romney and other cons were very dissatisfied with the polling company they hired
whose name was POS. I swear -you can’t make stuff like this up! Also their ORCA system for tracking actual votes and getting voters out completely failed. I guess having a businessman in charge did not help. Maybe it was because he did not outsource the work to the Chinese and others..

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Brosephus™

November 13th, 2012
10:26 am
however a true mandate is a 49/1 Reagan victory

Reagan had a mandate??? I guess that’s why he went spend happy and did all those tax increases and such. That second term unleashed the big government hounds and this country has never looked back.
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I like when people talk about mandates. 40% of the eligible voters did not vote while Obama won 30%. In other words more people did not vote than either candidate won. Comparing to Reagan to Obama Reagan won 58.8% to Obama’s 50.6%. Also Reagan won 18% over Mondale. Turnout was 53.1%. Obama won roughly 2% more than Romney.

The voters are very fickled so I think to believe you have a mandate is a mistake.

The year before Reagan took office spending was 21.7% by 1988 spending was at 21.3%. Revenues under Reagan in 1980 was 19 when he left was 18.2. All numbers are a precent of GDP. Reagan neither increase government or increase taxes. However, he did increase the deficit because he lowered taxes without any significant decrease in government spending.

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“Freaking awesome Paul. I’m still chuckling.”

Paul rawks

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WOW. now check out the stealth Republican’s…… They should have done what Obama did, and hire they guys from facebook.

A major source of Romney’s GOTV problems appears to have been the disastrous Project ORCA, an expensive technological undertaking that was supposed to provide the campaign with real-time poll monitoring that would allow Republicans to target GOTV efforts on Election Day.

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Bobby Jindel must be a “drum leader” for peace and justice.

Not familiar with the organizational hierarchy of a marching band are you? A “drum leader” is nothing more than the section leader of the drum line. The leader of the entire band is the “drum MAJOR”. There’s a big difference between those two titles. Either way, I don’t see Jindal even making the cut for either of those positions.

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“Maybe we should become the “Santa Claus” Party like the democrats.”

Lol! Repeating what crazy Rush Limbaugh just said. Republican crazies, you have your daily crazypoint.

What was Kayaker just saying about propaganda and the “mainstream” media!

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Good Old Maggie. Roger Waters loved her as well……

Brezhnev took Afghanistan.
Begin took Beirut.
Galtieri took the Union Jack.
And Maggie, over lunch one day,
Took a cruiser with all hands.
Apparently, to make him give it back

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR58Heh-STU

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What did Romney produce through his Bain Company?

“The firm was founded in 1984 by partners from the consulting firm Bain & Company. Since inception it has invested in or acquired hundreds of companies including AMC Entertainment, Aspen Education Group, Brookstone, Burger King, Burlington Coat Factory, Clear Channel Communications, Domino’s Pizza, DoubleClick, Dunkin’ Donuts, D&M Holdings, Guitar Center, Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), Sealy, The Sports Authority, Staples, Toys “R” Us, Warner Music Group and The Weather Channel.”

I know all you do nothing losers will complain he didn’t really do anything, but here’s the key to how this worked.

“Bain Capital was founded in 1984 by Bain & Company partners Mitt Romney, T. Coleman Andrews III, and Eric Kriss, after Bill Bain had offered Romney the chance to head a new venture that would invest in companies and apply Bain’s consulting techniques to improve operations.”

The part you mental midgets want to ignore is most or all of these companies were headed for failure if not purchased, repaired,or repurposed by Bain. This was not a corporate raider firm.

But ya’ll go on bashing them as if you have a dam clue how an actual business works. In fact, go bocott something in protest of people actually managing their own business.

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hmm. I haven’t really posted on Jay’s topic yet, got lost in the weeds responding to this or that comment.

Here’s what I think sane-sounding GOPers like Jindal ought to focus on. I’ll quote from the article:

“The Republican Party is going to fight for every single vote,” he said. “That means the 47 percent and the 53 percent, that means any other combination of numbers going up to 100 percent.”

He’s on to something, but he and others have to be far more explicit. For starters, own up to your own party’s leadership role in creating these tax policies you now pretend to decry. Nobody pointed a gun to your heads and made you vote aye for EITCs.

Second, own up to just how disgusting it is for Americans like me, who have been fortunate enough to have HAD an income tax liability every year of my working life, to hear less-well-off working Americans described as “moochers,” and derided by the latter-day Ayn Randians as being somehow dependent upon “producers”–as if the wealthiest Americans actually produce anything of value (many, perhaps most, do not).

And then, adjust your policies and messages accordingly. It really shouldn’t hurt a bit.

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Right on Bobby Jindal!

The anti-science, anti-choice, anti-gay, anti-Planned Parenthood, pro-stupidity, anit-progress GOP needs to go. And they need to take the Southern Baptists, the Assemblies of God, Tony Perkins, James Dobson, Donald Wildmon, Mike Huckabee, Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry and Rick Santorum with them.

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Keep swallowing every lie cons.

“The polls are wrong”.

“The polls oversampled Dems.”

Too funny.

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Joe, you and I can bring the country together over a cuban sandwich…Great place in St Augustiine, a classic (not sure-”Columbia”)?

@FR, absolutely YES and I’ve met a couple and it ain’t pretty….Then there is the Godzilla chick on the left, wound tight would be an understatement…..

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Moderate Line

You should talk to kayaker about the mandate thing. He’s the one who said Reagan had a mandate. I was simply addressing his quote.

As to Reagan, he had roughly the same number of federal employees in the 1980’s as we have now, yet Obama’s called a big government president. Federal employees made up 1% of the work force then vs .5% now. Reagan may have done good in some areas, but in other areas, he’s no different than any other president when it comes to “big government”. I don’t praise him as some kind of superhuman president, nor do I castigate him as a failure. He’s simply human, and he’s done pretty much the same thing that all other presidents have done.

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And we just keep hearing the same old lies from the same old people. They are just too stupid to realize those lies didn’t work BEFORE the election and they aren’t working now.

We REAL Americans are simply going about our business and rebuilding the Country that Republicans and George Bush tried to destroy.

There is a REASON Papa John’s is a DISTANCE third place in the pizza wars and his recent bad decision will drop him back further. He not only screwed his employees with his defeatist FOX crap, but he screwed all his franchisees and investors. But in true Republican Mitt Romney form, he will fill his pockets off the money stolen from others………….

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Don’t listen to that raghead, cons.

You’re doing jus fine. Don’t change a thang.

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Amen Governor!

Someone needs to recreate a party of fiscal sanity. Too many Americans seem to have forgotten nothing is free.

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In fact, Rush is right! You aren’t conservative enough.

Listen to him (like I needed to tell you that)

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Monty — “Yeh, just like some of you guys(girls) like what some foolish(R) senator hopeful said about women and abortion.”

What’s that? Republicans denounced Akin’s and Mourdock’s comments en masse, you say?

Speak up, man, I can’t hear your denials for all the Republicans shouting “slut” in here.

“Pot meet kettle.”

Not even close, monty.

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To avoid having committed political suicide, Jindal will today express to the media certain “code words,” thus assuring the bas that he’s still “one of them.”

Just as Romney did when he “moderated” during the closing days of his campaign: “I’m saying these things (wink, wink), so I can say I said them.”

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I don’t want to go all Peggy Noonan here, but I sense something brewing here, and that something is…conservative “entertainers” (Limbaugh, etc.), hard-line social conservatives, and the bigots in the GOP are about to get thrown under the bus by the party. It may cost them in the short-term, but better that than to become (remain?) a Southern and fly-over state only party. Of the ten states that Romney carried by the highest percentage, Alabama is the largest. Obama’s ten included California, New York and New Jersey.

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