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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Paul
November 13th, 2012
11:43 am
Sinkwich
“Jay and his habitat for hemp-hazed hippies are blogging about.”
” There haven’t been hippies in centuries. Are you freeze-dried or doing hard time? ”
(Corporal Stitch Jones in Heartbreak Ridge)
Personally, I’m betting Jones was right on both counts -
DannyX
November 13th, 2012
11:43 am
“Oh poor Danny!”
I’m not the one who was so embarrassed that I had to change my blog name.
RB from Gwinnett
November 13th, 2012
11:44 am
Gang, before you waste any time debating this little lying Joey HM, just know this is the mentality you’re dealing with.
“Joe Hussein Mama
November 12th, 2012
4:58 pm
Big difference between “taking somebody down” and ‘taking someone down a notch or two.”
Yea, BIG difference Joey…. Geez.
JamVet
November 13th, 2012
11:44 am
Long time lurker. New blogger.
That “explanation” is one of the funnier that I’ve seen lately.
Andy McCarthy, well played.
Your senseless1950s claptrap really worked out well for your stupid party last Tuesday!
Keep up the good work. And say hi to Alan West for us, OK?
Nero
November 13th, 2012
11:44 am
Thanks Fred. Come jump. Promise the fall won’t be too painful.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 13th, 2012
11:44 am
Deficit?
Which brings us to the economic level. The deficits that Bush ran up in the years in which the country was teetering on the verge of a serious recession had the beneficial effect of righting the economy. In that sense, deficits not only didn’t matter, but were a force for economic good.
Translation: IOKIYAR
Nero
November 13th, 2012
11:46 am
Do I need to show you my hall pass to HamVet?
Thulsa Doom
November 13th, 2012
11:46 am
I see that Jay has been feeding his minions some fresh raw red meat. They started foaming early today.
stands for decibels
November 13th, 2012
11:46 am
bring back ska.
ok then, just one more from that Second Wave:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTGemShG6Q0&feature=related
(I can quit any time, really I can.)
lovelyliz
November 13th, 2012
11:46 am
States With The Lowest Percentage Of College Degree Holders
West Virginia
Arkansas
Louisiana
Kentucky
Mississippi
Nevada
Oklahoma
Tennessee
Alabama
Texas
Indiana
New Mexico
Arizona
South Carolina
Idaho
Patrick
November 13th, 2012
11:47 am
Erwin–
“Paul and Stevie..and Patrick
I get it…I wasn’t the one who said CC and Evolution were scientific certainties…Just pointing out they both have a level of uncertainty which is much different than reasonable doubt…we can never know anything with complete certainty…and I am well aware of the pitfalls of “scientific theory” …just sayin’”
I’m good with that.
Thanks!
They BOTH suck
November 13th, 2012
11:47 am
kayaker
Not sure if you are aware of this but Book man is a left leaning Op Ed writer. The AJC also employs a right leaning Op Ed writer by the name of Kyle Wingfield. You might want to check him out sometime.
Along with the Bookman and Wingfield columns get this, if you can believe it (You might want to brace yourself), the AJC also runs columns from nationally syndicated left and right leaning Op Ed writers throughout the week, every week.
I knew it would be a shocker to you, but check them out when you have the time.
Welcome to the Occupation
November 13th, 2012
11:47 am
JamVet: “Keep up the good work. And say hi to Alan West for us, OK?”
Don’t joke too soon. There’s always room for another loon — in GOP fever swamp Georgia.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83765.html
http://blogs.ajc.com/political-insider-jim-galloway/2012/11/13/your-daily-jolt-an-invitation-to-allen-west-from-the-ga-gop/?cxntfid=blogs_political_insider_jim_galloway
Your daily jolt: An invitation to Allen West from the Ga. GOP
Though he has yet to concede, U.S. Rep. Allen West, a former Army lieutenant colonel and Republican firebrand, narrowly lost his re-election bid last week.
So what’s in the cards for the coastal Florida congressman after his lame-duck duties are done? Sue Everhart, chairman of the Georgia Republican party, said Monday she would love it if West, an Atlanta native and Grady High School grad, returned to his roots.
“I would be glad to have him come back to Georgia and at some point run here,” Everhart told my AJC colleague Daniel Malloy during a discussion about diversity within the Republican party. “I would certainly try to help him because he has done his job. The way he ran his race didn’t in any way interfere with the job he did. He ran as a Republican, a conservative Republican.”
Everhart called the one-term West “one of the finest congressmen this country’s ever had.”
Returns show that West’s Democratic challenger, Patrick Murphy, edged out the incumbent with a winning margin of less than 1 percent.
Brosephus™
November 13th, 2012
11:48 am
Fred @ 11:42
DebbieDoRight - Math has a very strong anti-conservative bias
November 13th, 2012
11:48 am
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?
They lost because they SCARED THE SANE PEOPLE. You start talking about letting rapists have custodial rights to children that you are FORCING women to have — that’s scary.
Give people some magic dust and say it’s math and that, “It didn’t work those other times, but THIS time it will!” — that’s scary.
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Paul: And I’m not a leech just ’cause I don’t pay rent ’cause my mom said it’s an advance on my inheritance.
Too funny!!
Its a damn shame though that Nero didn’t get the joke!
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Monty: 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…
Really? You couldn’t think of a better
liestory than that?!? I outdo that one:Last week, my church went to Whole Foods and bought up a lot of canned goods for the poor. We saw this woman who was _______________________ (enter race, ethnicity, and religious affiliation in blank), and she had on this expensive _______________________ (enter either jewelry or expensive shoes here); and was paying for her _______________ (enter steak or lobster here); with food stamps!!!
SEE! That’s how ya do it!
St Simons
November 13th, 2012
11:50 am
He’s not so much a raghead, as a turban-head.
Can’t get all these minorities straight, they all look alike to me.
See, if you want to speak to cons, we have to speak their language.
I mean if you gon talk to somebody from Austria,
you have speak Austrian, right?
If they’re from India, you have to speak Injun, -you get it….
JamVet
November 13th, 2012
11:50 am
“Fiscal cliff” is the new “Benghazi”, which was the new “entitlement society”, which was the new “long form birth certificate”, which was the new “socialism president” which was the new “moral equivalency” which was the new…
Republispeak really does crack me up…
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 13th, 2012
11:51 am
Well its clear that despite Jindal’s admonishment, many of the GOPper’s are not ready yet to give up their stupid. Can someone tell me where in this statement was the call to post rejected conned stupidity on Bookman’s website: “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.”
Stop insulting the intelligence of the non-conned on this blog too…..
Thulsa Doom
November 13th, 2012
11:51 am
Rb from gwinnet,
Little Joe is lying again. Reminds me of Rick in the movie Casablanca when told that there was gambling going on in his casino. “I’m shocked! Shocked I tell ya!”
Doggone/GA
November 13th, 2012
11:51 am
“Not only will we not be level for a while, but just like a canal lock, we will see a decline in our “level” as others rise to meet ”
And we’ll never ALL be “level” anyway. There’s always going to be some group that will do things for lower wages…because even low wages are more than they have currently.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 13th, 2012
11:52 am
SEE! That’s how ya do it!
You left out the x number of kids all wearing Air Jordan’s talking on their iphones, she went to the parking lot and got into her brand new Caddy with 40″ spinners, and most important of all — she bought PROM DRESSES with food stamps.
Nero
November 13th, 2012
11:53 am
Sequestration now!!
Ben
November 13th, 2012
11:53 am
He’s right. The Democrats are the party of big business and bailouts and protecting Wall Street. That’s if you go by their actual actions instead of the rhetoric.
The best cognitive dissonance is when lefties talk about how bad big business is, and then defend the stimulus (a giant giveaway from us to big business). Sorry, you can’t raise a hew and cry about protecting big business while supporting actions that protected big business far more than just about anything else ever.
The real party of stupid is the one that buys into that contradiction 100%. The Democratic Party.
Not that their aren’t plenty of fools in the GOP. If they’d stop pandering to social conservatives, and answer questions about abortion with stuff like, “Changes to our current abortion laws are not and will not be on my agenda” and get with the newer generation on gay marriage then they would dominate. But they are too stupid to see that. In the end ridiculous strawman arguments won this election for Obama, not anything the GOP actually planned to do. There was no war on women, it was made up by the left. Romney wasn’t going to try to change Roe v. Wade, and he never would have.
But the scare tactics from the left worked really well, their sheep believed every word.
JamVet
November 13th, 2012
11:55 am
Everhart called the one-term West “one of the finest congressmen this country’s ever had.”
Is finest congressmen now a euphemism for most disgusting lout?
Chuckle.
And yes, Welcome, the one and done buffoon would be another perfect fit in Georgia politics. He could be the mini-me version of Herman…
Fred ™
November 13th, 2012
11:55 am
OK dammit. I got a free pass on the dishes yesterday, I’m not wasting it. Time to get off my fat butt, do the dishes and make a killer meal. Heck, I think I’m even going to try make USinUK’s ciabatta bread. My neighbor said she has the kitchen aide and the dough hook. I’ve never made bread before.
Ya’ll have a nice day fighting like hell. Maybe one day the Repubs here will pull their head out of their butts long enough to get some oxygen and start thinking again……… if they don’t and the far left wingers get control we’ll REALLY be in trouble……..
getalife
November 13th, 2012
11:55 am
Reality is tough to face after ignoring it for a long time.
Every talking point you swallowed cons was the truth.
Carry on zombies.
Georgia, The " New Mississippi "
November 13th, 2012
11:55 am
Looks the GOP base has gotten over their election day loss. They are back to fight Barack Obama’s liberal socialist agenda and the Muslim Brotherhood. Pleaseeeeeeeee keep watching Fox News and drinking the Ru$h Limbaugh kool-aid.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 13th, 2012
11:56 am
The best cognitive dissonance is when people come here repeating the “sheep” meme.
Common Sense isn't very Common
November 13th, 2012
11:56 am
Cons can’t lead. They like it in the rear too much
RB from Gwinnett
November 13th, 2012
11:57 am
“Thanks for verifying for me that he produced nothing of tangible value, RB”
The truely sad thing is, people this ^^^^^ stupid are actually allowed to vote. Geez…
Do you suppose the 80,000+ employees of Staples agree there is no tangible value in their incomes? Idiot.
Regnad Kcin
November 13th, 2012
11:58 am
“Reminds me of Rick in the movie Casablanca when told that there was gambling going on in his casino. “I’m shocked! Shocked I tell ya!””
Thulsa – watch the movie again – it was the great Claude Rains that spoke the immortal line to which you refer.
getalife
November 13th, 2012
11:58 am
Funny how the rw media evolved into and “entertainment” and not news.
Joe Hussein Mama
November 13th, 2012
11:58 am
RB — “I know all you do nothing losers will complain he didn’t really do anything”
Dude, I own some Cisco stock, but that doesn’t mean that *I* produce routers.
Bain *invested* in Sealy. That doesn’t mean that Bain actually *made* mattresses. Try again.
“but here’s the key to how this worked.”
It’s simple investment, RB. Stop trying to make it some sort of Secret Blend of 11 Herbs and Spices.
“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.”
When the government bailed out GM, that was a bad thing. But when Bain bailed out Sealy, that was a good thing? And you wanted Romney to run the government the same way he ran Bain? I *do* wish you’d make your mind up, RB. (giggling)
“This was not a corporate raider firm.”
That’s *exactly* what it was. If Bain saw greater profit in dismantling a company in which it had invested and extracting the capital from the remains, then that’s what they did. There are numerous examples of Bain having done just that.
“But ya’ll go on bashing them as if you have a dam clue how an actual business works.”
Been there, done that, sold out to a larger competitor. What do you think *you* have to teach me there, Cowboy?
“In fact, go bocott something in protest of people actually managing their own business.”
No, I think I’ll stay right here and continue correcting you, RB. (laughing)
Thulsa Doom
November 13th, 2012
11:58 am
Nonsense. There is no food stamp or tanf card abuse. Tanf card abuse at six flags, casinos, strip clubs, and $100,000 at one liquor store in Albany never happened. It never happened tell ya.
kamchak's daughter
November 13th, 2012
11:58 am
Really.. a prom dress…NICE and economical, didn’t know Walmart carried prom dresses, well bust my britches, ya’ll are so helpful, ….MAMA, I need to go to Walmarts, chack the bus schedule and grap the stamps, well bust my brithces……… daddy, you should ahve told me earlier….
stands for decibels
November 13th, 2012
11:58 am
Cons can’t lead. They like it in the rear
not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 13th, 2012
11:58 am
The truely[sic] sad thing is, people this ^^^^^ stupid are actually allowed to vote. Geez…
Oh, the irony. Geez….
Peter
November 13th, 2012
11:59 am
Here is the future for the GOP Right Wingers……… They may come UN-glued after reading this and start bashing gays and women !
http://news.yahoo.com/interactive-political-demographics-melting-pot-12493498.html
Last January, at a conference of Hispanic conservatives in Florida, the former Republican Party chairman Ed Gillespie laid out the salient challenge facing his party in the clearest possible terms.
“In 2020,” Gillespie said, “if the Republican nominee for president gets the same percentage of the white, African-American, Hispanic and Asian-American vote that John McCain got in 2008, a Democrat will be elected to the White House by 14 percentage points.”
RB from Gwinnett
November 13th, 2012
11:59 am
DannyX, “I’m not the one who was so embarrassed that I had to change my blog name.”
Oh really? How many other names do you post under from your office at the AJC, DannyX?
Liberal Nightmare
November 13th, 2012
12:00 pm
Ah the same parasitic left wingers going on and on on a Bookman blog stealing from their employer instead of actually working. Would someone ever answer my original question? Do you slugs actually work or do you fit the stereotype left wing nutter like a glove? Is you goal in life to bash Fox news and scream the “they lie” mantra? It is so amusing to read the fringe side of reality posted on here and the all lefties screaming how intelligent they are…yet those same fringe intelligent lefties are resigned to blogging on Bookman everyday -hilarious.
Bask in the fact the idiot/parasite side is growing and won, your rewards will be……well stay tuned….
lefty_316
November 13th, 2012
12:00 pm
F. Sinkwich enough of the socialist crap. Do yourself a favor and go look up “socialism” in the dictionary. Then you will know that you CANNOT have a socialist system without the government nationalizing (confiscating) private businesses. Has that happened under Obama? NO. Has he taken steps to seize private businesses? NO.
Obama is an arrogant intellectual and a liberal democrat. That is what Obama is. He is NOT a socialist and he is NOT promoting socialism. No matter how often you blindly regurgitate the Tea Party socialism talking point that will not make it true.
DannyX
November 13th, 2012
12:01 pm
kamchak’s daughter, everyone knows that Whole Foods has the best prom dresses, and they give a 10% discount if you use food stamps.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 13th, 2012
12:01 pm
Thulsa – watch the movie again – it was the great Claude Rains that spoke the immortal line to which you refer.
Just joking/fooling card in 3…2…1….
Thulsa Doom
November 13th, 2012
12:02 pm
Rb from gwinnet,,
Never argue with an idiot. He’ll only drag you down to his level and then beat you with experience.
And that applies to several of the kooks.
godless heathen
November 13th, 2012
12:02 pm
if you gon talk to somebody from Austria,
you have speak Austrian, right?
I believe it’s the former Law Professor that is confused about the Austrian language.
http://youtu.be/9Bp5_E39yuc
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 13th, 2012
12:03 pm
Do you slugs actually work or do you fit the stereotype left wing nutter like a glove?
Will you ever stop beating your wife?
JamVet
November 13th, 2012
12:04 pm
The truely (sic) sad thing is, people this ^^^^^ stupid are actually allowed to vote.
Based on last week’s results, you might think about looking long and hard in a mirror.
But I get your point. It’s pretty obvious that you right wing fascists would LOVE to keep a whole bunch of American citizens from voting.
Good luck with that modern day Jim Crow endeavor…
STEVIE RAY
November 13th, 2012
12:04 pm
FRED/USNUK
Kick ass recipes…I’ve made the ciabatta bread before as it’s one of my favorites….the crispy contrast to airy innards is spectacular…they cost about $1.50 in store..I can make them in my pizza oven for well less than 50 cents….
The problem with my pizza oven is that it takes about 7 hours to get it to cooking temp…
I also take leftover dough and deep fry it for what we call pizza frittes…powdered sugar…sometimes stuff with chocolate but be prepared to change or at very least strain youre expensive peanut oil after using filling…
multiple degree man
November 13th, 2012
12:06 pm
@lovely liz, so how’s that english degree from north alabama working out for you?
Thulsa Doom
November 13th, 2012
12:06 pm
Reginald,
I got the person wrong as I suspected I might. Didn’t matter to me though. What mattered was conveying the message of mock surprise.
Joe Hussein Mama
November 13th, 2012
12:07 pm
RB — “Gang, before you waste any time debating this little lying Joey HM, just know this is the mentality you’re dealing with.”
Aww, aren’t you CUTE, RB!
How about we keep you honest and go to the tape instead? Wouldn’t want you to be dishonest and leave anything out that makes your fabrications look bad. (giggling)
http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2012/11/12/georgias-tom-price-a-central-figure-in-d-c-drama/?cp=6#comment-1148378
And folks will find plenty of additional fun reading earlier on that selfsame page.
BTW, did you come up with those freight figures I asked for? Or are your latest emotional pyrotechnics an admission that you can’t find facts to support your raging argument of yesterday?
Oh, and just so you know, I’m quite able to have *polite* discussions with quite a few folks on here with whom I disagree. It’s just you and a few other malcontents that don’t seem to be able to summon up that degree of civility and comportment.
But I’m here to help you, Punkin!
Georgia
November 13th, 2012
12:08 pm
My how the tone of the comments have changed here since Broadwell. It’s unhinged every single commenter, especially me. I feel liberated, somehow. I’ve already resigned from whatever post I do not hold. Now I just wanna go wild. Maybe have that second cup of coffee. Skip the blueberries and oatmeal and have sausage and eggs and toast with butter. OH!!! listen to this: the frozen, precooked Bob Evans sausage tastes BETTER BY FAR than the raw uncooked sausages. It has to do with the timing of the cooking and how quickly raw pork turns bitter. I never knew this till I saw it on Oz, or some other show.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 13th, 2012
12:08 pm
Uh, oh.
Papa Kyle came home next door and there’s gonna be hell to pay!
Thulsa Doom
November 13th, 2012
12:10 pm
I see that kamspam is still suffering from a case of larps ( Lame Ass Repetitive Post Syndrome ) NO Surprise there.
indigo
November 13th, 2012
12:10 pm
kayaker 71 – 49% of the people in this country simply do not want to live in a Bozo America”
Delta is ready when you and they are.
stands for decibels
November 13th, 2012
12:13 pm
The scene in question:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjbPi00k_ME
“Your winnings, sir.”
“Oh, thank you very much!”
Joe Hussein Mama
November 13th, 2012
12:13 pm
indigo — “Delta is ready when you and they are.”
One wonders how serious they are about their secession murmurings.
About as serious as the child who threatens to hold his breath if he doesn’t get the box of breakfast cereal he’s demanding, I’m guessing.
STEVIE RAY
November 13th, 2012
12:13 pm
Ben
November 13th, 2012
11:53 am
No small amount of truth to your comments..particularly the one about how the DEMS take just as much, if not a whole lot more from those they demonize…Wall Street, big banks, insurers and the like…all the phoney hysterical scare tactics used by both parties is of course silly but it is all the talking points most need to justify a vote either way..
getalife
November 13th, 2012
12:15 pm
Bro should see a long line of con self deportations instead of signing some silly petition to leave our country.
Get out cons.
Peter
November 13th, 2012
12:16 pm
Thulsa Doom…….. So it appears the Republican’s are not very good with technology ?
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.
RB from Gwinnett
November 13th, 2012
12:17 pm
Yea, littly lying Joey, we all believe Bain bought these failing companies and simply by having money, they all became successful. They were all very successful consultants before they purchased them, but I’m sure you’re right, they just gave them money and no advice.
You go with that little lying Joey.
STEVIE RAY
November 13th, 2012
12:17 pm
If you add up all the politicians, lobbyist, and the like, I submit that these folks pose a much bigger threat than bores…
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/wild-pigs-may-become-washingtons-next-big-pest/2012/11/12/03175e2e-130d-11e2-a16b-2c110031514a_story.html?hpid=z3
stands for decibels
November 13th, 2012
12:17 pm
Liberal Nightmare! Dude! long time no hear from you!
Seems like it was just seven, maybe eight days ago…
For the geographically challenged, Akron to Cleveland is blue Ohio and it ain’t looking good for the O-dumber. Surprisingly, the number of undecideds in the polls have dropped to below 2%. You’re toast libs. You won’t see this in the media, but stay tuned for Tuesday night. I’ll be around to rub it in…..
Well thanks for coming around to “rub it in!”
alex
November 13th, 2012
12:18 pm
right wing fascists and Jim Crowe, always good commentary from jamvet, he who delights in the deaths at the consulate….THE bigot of ALL bigots, Bigot-on oh “Jamvet”, Bigot-on !
blackbird13
November 13th, 2012
12:20 pm
I don’t want to get all Peggy Noonan here, but something is brewing, and that something is…conservative “entertainers” (Limbaugh, etc.), hard-line social conservatives, no compromise tea party types and the bigots in the GOP are about to get thrown under the bus by the party.
Citizen of the World
November 13th, 2012
12:20 pm
And by “trust the intelligence of the American voter” do they mean quit denying climate science and admit that the world is more than 6,000 years old?
stands for decibels
November 13th, 2012
12:22 pm
oh, how you did mesmerize us with your uncanny foresight, Liberal Nightmare…
You’re messiah is toast and they now are looking at alternatives that do not include Ohio – which ain’t happening. Stay tuned…I’ll be back to rub it in on Wednesday!
[...]
Lib-turds – up your crack buy at the corner today – it will mellow you into a non-rioting state of mind come Wednesday.
So *which* Wednesday was that supposed to be, again?
Regnad Kcin
November 13th, 2012
12:22 pm
“The scene in question:”
Thanks, sfd! Always worth seeing again!
STEVIE RAY
November 13th, 2012
12:23 pm
RB
You should take some time and examine Bains entire body of work including current portfolio as well as exited investments over the past 20 years or so…you characterization of these folks being evil, vultures couldn’t be more wrong….they had no more failed (via bankruptcy or divestitures) than companies in general…there is not evidence that any jobs were shipped to china during Romneys watch..they all have deals they regret and are not not-for-profits
I disagree with much of what Romney stood for…when it was possible to clarify, but damning PE’s utility in financial system as part of class warfare and character assasination, suggests you bought everything the DEMs sell…hook, line and sinker..
stands for decibels
November 13th, 2012
12:24 pm
I don’t want to get all Peggy Noonan here, but something is brewing
“Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.”
Banderson
November 13th, 2012
12:25 pm
Ben – While you say Romney wasn’t going to overturn Roe v Wade, we do have him on video stating that he’d appoint Supreme Court Justices who would overturn it, plus we know his party’s platform supported the Personhood amendment. So, there’s a fair amount of evidence that you’re wrong, or that you believe Romney was simply lying. Compare that to the right’s belief that Obama is going to take their guns, begin drone attacks in the US, take away their 401K’s, etc. These were things, among much more, that were being used by right wing media to frighten people to vote Republican. Was there ANY evidence to support these beliefs, or was it pulled out of someone’s rear? So, there’s your difference (or, at least, a difference) between parties.
Joe Hussein Mama
November 13th, 2012
12:25 pm
RB — “Yea, littly lying Joey”
If I ever *do* lie to you, I’ll be sure to let you know about it up front. You’re going to need that degree of explanation, because you’re clearly no good at distinguishing truth from falsity.
“we all believe Bain bought these failing companies and simply by having money, they all became successful.”
If you say so. I neither said nor thought any such thing, so if that’s what you believe, have at it.
“They were all very successful consultants before they purchased them”
Who? Bain? Or Sealy? (giggle)
“but I’m sure you’re right, they just gave them money and no advice.”
I neither said nor thought any such thing.
“You go with that little lying Joey.”
Why? I neither said it nor thought it. And the liar here is clearly you, RB.
RB from Gwinnett
November 13th, 2012
12:25 pm
Little lying Joey, “BTW, did you come up with those freight figures I asked for? ”
I do believe I asked you for the percentage of CNG/LP vs. diesel used to move freight long before you came back with your silly request. I still don’t have an answer for that, Joey. Do you really think anybody gives a crap about your requests such as that ^^^^ one when all you provide is piles of BS, a bunch of demands of others you are never willing to meet yourself, and are an arrogant jerk? Not likely little lying Joey.
Why don’t you humor us all and explain the difference between “taking somebody down” and ‘taking someone down a notch or two.”
Brosephus™
November 13th, 2012
12:27 pm
dB @ 12:17 and 12:22
You’re not playing fair… You’re not supposed to remember the jackassery and call them out on it. After midnight, the Etch-A-Sketch effect kicks in and it’s as though that was never said.]
STEVIE RAY
November 13th, 2012
12:27 pm
CITIZEN
Many folks feel the way I do…climate change certainly is occuring but there is reasonable doubt as to whether it is man-made..or if so, if anything can really be done..
Unlike climate change, an unimpeachable amount of data exists to render those subscribing to the 6000 year concept as the blind leading the blind..
stands for decibels
November 13th, 2012
12:28 pm
SR, holy crap.
rogue hunters who like the idea of having a tough, exotic animal to pursue have trapped wild pigs and transported them into the commonwealth for release. Some have brought the pigs from as far as the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina. Dye says that some people from other states “have come forward” about stocking these pigs in Virginia,
As someone fairly familiar with Rock Creek Park, that gives me the willies.
alex
November 13th, 2012
12:30 pm
lefty_316: your reading assignment is “too big to fail”…but your point about socialism is well taken . Also please refer to the Bankruptcy proceedings of GM, really let’s be fair the owners and bond holders may have a different interpretation than you. As for the liberal arrogance, have to agree with you,seen it many times in the academic world: combine intelligence+arrogance+narcissism and you have a volatile brew for ANYONE (dem or repub),….
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
November 13th, 2012
12:30 pm
Dang, Kyle is having to shut down posts on his blog. The tempers are flarin’.
Maybe folks should stop poking the Cons with that stick?
Banderson
November 13th, 2012
12:31 pm
Stevie Ray – Not saying that Bain is evil, but here’s an interesting article on one of their businesses and how it has possibly copied (to be determined in court) the design of American made tool and sent it to China for manufacture. The American designer is going to fight this in court, but, in the meantime, he’s having to lay off American workers. So, are they evil, or good, or just businessmen looking out for the bottom line?
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/09/business/popular-wrench-fights-a-chinese-rival.html/?pagewanted=all
JamVet
November 13th, 2012
12:31 pm
alex, I presume you think that Jindal wasn’t talking about you?
LOL.
“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.”
It will be interesting to see if Mr. Jindal follows his own advice or just continues to be the good little 11th Commandment Republican he has been heretofore.
“We’ve also had enough of this dumbed-down conservatism.”
Ya think? LOL!
“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.”
THAT is going to be like asking pigs to fly!
My prediction is that these losers are going to lurch……………. even farther to the right!
Which is not necessarily bad news.
Anything, that hastens the end of neoconservatism is only a good thing. Even if by the unwitting political suicide of it’s zealots…
Thulsa Doom
November 13th, 2012
12:32 pm
Joe mama and piles of crap? Sounds like Joe has enjoyed one too many a Cleveland steamer.
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
November 13th, 2012
12:33 pm
Is Benghazi coming back?
indigo
November 13th, 2012
12:35 pm
stands – 12:26
Phallic challenged hunters are a bedrock of the Tea Party Republicans. So, trapping wild pigs and transporting them elsewhere to hunt is just the sort of geek behaviour you’d expect from these yahoos.
alex
November 13th, 2012
12:35 pm
GREAT, more “pork” in DC…..pass the sauce…..
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 13th, 2012
12:35 pm
your reading assignment is “too big to fail”…
That would be hedge fund LTCM (Long Term Capital Management) bailed out by meth-head’s #1 randroid acolyte, Alan Greenspan.
Joe Hussein Mama
November 13th, 2012
12:35 pm
RB — “I do believe I asked you for the percentage of CNG/LP vs. diesel used to move freight long before you came back with your silly request.”
I do believe I clearly told you that I wasn’t MAKING that argument. And then I asked you to support the argument you WERE making.
“I still don’t have an answer for that, Joey.”
And I’m not a bit surprised. You’ll go on at length about others supposedly lying, but when you’re asked to put your cards on the table, suddenly you have to leave the game and go to the bathroom.
“Do you really think anybody gives a crap about your requests such as that ^^^^ one”
I don’t *care* what anyone else thinks. I’m asking *you* to support the argument *you* made yesterday. Now stop trying to put words in my mouth and get to work, RB.
“when all you provide is piles of BS, a bunch of demands of others you are never willing to meet yourself, and are an arrogant jerk?”
Boy, RB, that mirror sure is unkind to you. (giggling)
“Not likely little lying Joey.”
(waves box of Kleenex enticingly at RB) Here, kitty kitty kitty.
“Why don’t you humor us all and explain the difference between “taking somebody down” and ‘taking someone down a notch or two.”
I do believe I asked you for those national freight figures long before you came back with your silly request. (laughing, pointing)
stands for decibels
November 13th, 2012
12:36 pm
Kyle is having to shut down posts on his blog.
Jeez, just had a peek.
I’d only done an innocuous little drive-by (where I complimented Kyle on his rationality) this morning so it wasn’t me, honest.
stands for decibels
November 13th, 2012
12:37 pm
GREAT, more “pork” in DC…
(smacking forehead) I can’t believe I missed that one.
indigo
November 13th, 2012
12:37 pm
Joe – 12:13
And, their maturity level is about the same as these demanding children.
DebbieDoRight - Math has a very strong anti-conservative bias
November 13th, 2012
12:38 pm
Why would anyone say that JamVet delights in the death of anyone, let alone the ones at the consulate? That’s crazy…..
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kamchak’s daughter, everyone knows that Whole Foods has the best prom dresses, and they give a 10% discount if you use food stamps.
Heck on last tuesday Whole Foods is where I got all 10 of my ballots so that I could vote more than once. All i had to do was go there and say that I was recently deceased AND show them my dem card, (gotta show the dem card), and they gave me all those extra ballots!!
If i would’ve brought my neighbor’s mail and told them that I was actually Senor Rivera, and was an illegal who slipped past the border guards, I would’ve gotten TWENTY ballots!!!
that whole foods is something else!
RB from Gwinnett
November 13th, 2012
12:39 pm
Stevie, “suggests you bought everything the DEMs sell…hook, line and sinker..”
I think you have me confused with somebody else. I don’t buy any of the Dem’s crap and know well the value of PE’s. This whole war on producers is going to end up with us producing as much as most of europe at some point in the future. Think about it, libs. Outside of cars, what else comes from socialist europe?
Sounds like a bright future for us doesn’t it….
Lord Help Us
November 13th, 2012
12:40 pm
‘Outside of cars, what else comes from socialist europe?’
omfg…Jindal, here’s another one…
Joe Hussein Mama
November 13th, 2012
12:43 pm
RB — “Think about it, libs. Outside of cars, what else comes from socialist europe?”
Ice-queen Russian “brides,” still sticky from the postage stamps that were plastered all over them?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 13th, 2012
12:44 pm
Ice-queen Russian “brides,” still sticky from the postage stamps that were plastered all over them?
alex
November 13th, 2012
12:44 pm
Kamchak, no it would be the other investment banks that kicked in the cash, read the book, now ..randroid, meth-head, angry ramblings from….now get to the busstop, your daughter is waiting….
@Indigo, the bus awaits you also, (Phallic challenged…just where do you guys get this stuff….)
Jamvet, your simply an angry bigot,plain and simple…..nothing positive, angry ramblings-add something man-build up,give me a reference for your ramblings-please not U-tube, please…I am so happy that this election and the movement of the repubs will move this country out of the simplicity and ignorance of race, gender ,sexual orientation and the like!. No more quota’s,advancement on accomplishment…..the majesty of it all, nirvana…
alex
November 13th, 2012
12:45 pm
Da!!!
Lord Help Us
November 13th, 2012
12:46 pm
RB,
‘Europe in 2010 had a nominal GDP of $19.920 trillion…
Of the top 500 largest corporations measured by revenue (Fortune Global 500 in 2010), 184 have their headquarters in Europe. 161 are located in the EU, 15 in Switzerland, 6 in Russia, 1 in Turkey, 1 in Norway.
“The bulk of the population in Western Europe still enjoys the highest living standards in the world, and in the world’s history.”
Jindal was talking about you.
Moderate Line
November 13th, 2012
12:46 pm
Brosephus™
November 13th, 2012
11:37 am
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.
++++
I like and agree with your last statement. I personally like all the presidents. They all have flaws. I think they are all trying to do what they think is right even if I disagree with it. Politicians and the media are the ones that go on about mandates but I think people will turn quick. I am amazed at how well the Dems did in 2008 then 2010 the GOP did well and now again in 2012 the Dems do well. Politicians should make note of it.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 13th, 2012
12:46 pm
….now get to the busstop, your daughter is waiting….
Unmarried with no kids, sport.
Deposit another quarter and try again.
RB from Gwinnett
November 13th, 2012
12:47 pm
Little lying Joey says, “Bain *invested* in Sealy. That doesn’t mean that Bain actually *made* mattresses. Try again.”
RB says, ““we all believe Bain bought these failing companies and simply by having money, they all became successful.”
Little lying Joey says, “If you say so. I neither said nor thought any such thing,”
Well, gee, little lying Joey, why don’t you explain to us all how saying they only “invested” in Sealy wasn’t just giving them money and no advice? You clearly have absolutely no idea what Bain did or how they did it, but you go on spouting some more of your misguided lies about them as if you do.