For Republicans, some daunting numbers
You can lead an elephant to water but ...
Some numbers:
– Thirty-three U.S. Senate seats were up for grabs in the 2012 election. Democrats won 25 of those 33 seats.
– Mitt Romney is going to the White House today to have lunch, not to check out his new crib. And the main reason he will have to dine and dash is because American women rejected both his candidacy and his party, voting for Barack Obama by a margin of 55-44 percent. The gender differential in most down-ticket races was even larger.
– The Republican-run U.S. House has 19 major committees. Next year, it appears that all 19 will be chaired by white males.
– The current Republican House caucus includes 24 women. Next year, that number will drop to 19.
– In the last three presidential election cycles, Americans under 30 voted Democratic by an average of 60 percent. And lest Republicans try to comfort themselves with the argument that it’s nothing new, that young voters always vote Democratic, it simply is not true. In the previous eight election cycles, an average of just 46.5 percent of young people had voted for the Democrat.
What does it mean? Generally speaking, younger voters who cast repeated ballots for a particular party tend to form a lasting affiliation with that party.
– On Wednesday, House Speaker John Boehner reiterated his caucus’s strong opposition to raising taxes on the wealthy. Also on Wednesday, a new Washington Post poll was released reporting that just 37 percent of Americans agree with the position that Boehner and others have made the central focus of their party’s economic identity.
As longtime conservative Bruce Bartlett puts it in his much-cited piece for The American Conservative:
“At least a few conservatives now recognize that Republicans suffer for epistemic closure. They were genuinely shocked at Romney’s loss because they ignored every poll not produced by a right-wing pollster such as Rasmussen or approved by right-wing pundits such as the perpetually wrong Dick Morris. Living in the Fox News cocoon, most Republicans had no clue that they were losing or that their ideas were both stupid and politically unpopular.
I am disinclined to think that Republicans are yet ready for a serious questioning of their philosophy or strategy. They comfort themselves with the fact that they held the House (due to gerrymandering) and think that just improving their get-out-the-vote system and throwing a few bones to the Latino community will fix their problem. There appears to be no recognition that their defects are far, far deeper and will require serious introspection and rethinking of how Republicans can win going forward. The alternative is permanent loss of the White House and probably the Senate as well, which means they can only temporarily block Democratic initiatives and never advance their own.”
Political power ebbs and flows. It always has and always will. But it doesn’t just ebb and flow on its own. It fluctuates because losing parties take stock of why they’re losing and adapt to changing realities. If a political party not only refuses to adapt but makes a refusal to recognize changing realities a central part of its identity, ebb and flow can be delayed for a long, long time.
– Jay Bookman
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RB from Gwinnett
November 29th, 2012
5:03 pm
“The Kennedy’s individually and together did these things for America:”
Funny, they don’t seem to have ever helped enough “poor” people to have required a single one of their future generations to get a job…
How many “poor” people do you suppose could live a comfortable life at the Kennedy compound?
GT
November 29th, 2012
5:03 pm
RB from Gwinnett you are dead on, our church has been hijacked by an evil crowd that conduct the real church as a market place. People who want to control the world through the figure of Jesus. Not for the sake of God or Christ but for their own earthly accounting.
Joe Hussein Mama
November 29th, 2012
5:04 pm
RB — “Funny, I don’t ever remember Jesus telling anybody to steal from others, give it to the poor, and call it charity. Do you have a reference?”
If the church asks for 10% so they can help the needy, is that charity or theft?
And if you think the gubmint is stealing from you, then why do you let it go on? I think you should refuse to pay taxes and then stick to your guns, RB.
josef
November 29th, 2012
5:05 pm
DOGGONE
From earlier in the thread…is this the one you were talking about? Fascinating book this one…
http://www.amazon.com/Descent-Woman-Classic-Study-Evolution/dp/0285627007
Madge From Accounting
November 29th, 2012
5:05 pm
Funny, they don’t seem to have ever helped enough “poor” people to have required a single one of their future generations to get a job… How many “poor” people do you suppose could live a comfortable life at the Kennedy compound?
RB — I’m sorry. I had no idea my words fell upon the eyes of a fool. I will try to post “up” so that more upwardly thoughtful people can understand me and the short sighted can just scroll past.
Again, my apologies.
Madge From Accounting
November 29th, 2012
5:08 pm
Maria Shriver — Journalist
Teddy Kennedy — Senator
Enid Shriver — Founder and sponsor and First chairperson of Special Olympics
etc., etc., etc…………..
Madge From Accounting
November 29th, 2012
5:09 pm
People who want to control the world through the figure of Jesus. Not for the sake of God or Christ but for their own earthly accounting.
They are truly the ones that carry the “Mark of the Beast”.
josef
November 29th, 2012
5:09 pm
GT
I see what you are saying,,,it is a concept of honor and dignity. And I agree. However, my point, not so very well stated, I admit, was that no one human being is any more deserving than any other…to me, and I’m not implying that you were saying this, is that for some unknown reason we seem to think that those in public office or an assumed position of authority are any more deserving than the lowest amongst us…
DannyX
November 29th, 2012
5:10 pm
“Stealing is a crime, DannyX, whether you do it or you enable somebody else to do it (the IRS). Does it make you feel better knowing you’re abetting that theft to make you feel like YOU did something for the “poor”?”
WOW! Talk about deflection! RB you are now crowned the champion of deflection! You haven’t done a thing to make your case. Jesus’ whole life was tending to the poor and sick. He was not a fan of the rich at all. In fact you cannot find any quotes from him that praise the rich that you worship. You can find many quotes where he bashed the rich you worship.
Stop the deflection RB and post something good Jesus said about the rich. I’ll be waiting.
TaxPayer
November 29th, 2012
5:10 pm
I read somewhere that there is no mention of God in the GOP platform. Is that true! If so, then perhaps I have been too harsh in my calling them all a bunch of hypocrites. It could be that simply most of them are.
RB from Gwinnett
November 29th, 2012
5:13 pm
“NOBODY AND I MEAN NO ONE CHOOSES TO BE POOR YOU POMPOUS ASS.”
Would it be of any use to explain to this individual the difference between choosing to be poor and being poor because of the choices one has made? I didn’t think so either…
TaxPayer
November 29th, 2012
5:14 pm
If the church asks for 10% so they can help the needy, is that charity or theft?
As long as they’re just asking. At least that’s the impression I get after looking at Mitt’s one tax return that he shared.
Soothsayer
November 29th, 2012
5:15 pm
High-fructose corn syrup linked to diabetes
Countries that mix high-fructose corn syrup into processed foods and soft drinks have higher rates of diabetes than countries that don’t use the sweetener, a new study shows.
The researchers found that countries using high-fructose corn syrup had rates of diabetes that were about 20% higher than countries that didn’t mix the sweetener into foods. Those differences remained even after researchers took into account data for differences in body size, population, and wealth.
But couldn’t that mean that people in countries that used more high-fructose corn syrup were just eating more sugar or more total calories?
The researchers say no: There were no overall differences in total sugars or total calories between countries that did and didn’t use high-fructose corn syrup, suggesting that there’s an independent relationship between high-fructose corn syrup and diabetes.
Not to mention obesity.
Corbin Sharpe. I think, therefore I am...I think
November 29th, 2012
5:15 pm
Fresh from News Max…
Breaking from Newsmax.com
Howard Dean: Let’s Go Over the Fiscal Cliff
Going over the fiscal cliff may not be such a bad thing after all, former Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean claimed on Thursday.
He said ending the Bush-era tax breaks at the same time that $1.1 trillion is cut from the budget could be for the best in the long-term.
“We will get a lot more deficit reduction if we do the fiscal cliff,” the former Vermont governor said on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. “I actually think the markets will reward the fiscal cliff over a period.
“There will be some panic and some moaning and groaning, but the fiscal cliff is not a real cliff, it’s a slope, and you are going to get the biggest bang for the buck in terms of deficit reduction.”
Dean, who ran for the White House in 2004, said the economy will be able to withstand the effects of the cliff. “Yes, we will go into two quarters of recession,” he said.
“But we are in deep trouble here, somebody’s going to have to pay the bill and it is going to have to be all of us, and you get a much better tax bang if you go back to Bill Clinton’s tax rates.”
Despite his views, Dean said he believed the two parties in Washington will reach a deal to avoid the cliff.
“But the deal has to be the right deal,” he said. “And I still believe that it’s safer, if you’re on the progressive end of the political spectrum, to go over the fiscal cliff than it is to agree to some of the things they’re talking about.”
Dean said one of the advantages of going over the cliff would be that there would be some cuts in defense spending, which would not happen otherwise because “defense contractors are in practically every congressional district.”
He also said there would have to be some “cuts in human services,” which he didn’t like, but he accepted that “everyone is going to have to put something on the table here.”
Dean was adamant about one thing that should not be on the table: raising the Medicare-eligibility age, as that would make it virtually impossible for people aged 65 to 67 to get affordable health insurance. However, he said he had no objection to raising the retirement age when it came to Social Security.
And he said the other situation that must not be allowed to come to pass is an increase in tax rates now, with a promise of cuts to come. “This has to be a comprehensive package with spending cuts now — including entitlement cuts.”
Dean claimed that marginal tax rates have little to do with investment.
“If you go up to 70 percent, yeah, you’re talking some serious stuff that has something to do with investment, but what we’re talking about is a relatively minor adjustment from 35 percent to 39.6.”
© 2012 Newsmax. All rights reserved.
TaxPayer
November 29th, 2012
5:15 pm
Would it be of any use to explain to this individual
RB’s finally asking for help. Someone give the poor guy a hand.
GT
November 29th, 2012
5:17 pm
RB, Jesus said there will always be upon us the hungry and the poor. And I add the fools with ears that do not hear and eyes that do not see. And those not the hungry and poor will never see the door of heaven. I take Him at His word; He fights your battle for you. Never worry about being right or having people know you are right, He defines right not your persecutors.
CC
November 29th, 2012
5:19 pm
“What does it mean? Generally speaking, younger voters who cast repeated ballots for a particular party tend to form a lasting affiliation with that party.”
That “lasting affiliation” will last only until the government runs out of money to supply their freebies, the economy tanks even more and the unemployment rate goes from its current 16% to 21%. No money, no jobs and a terrible economy will bring those voters with their “lasting affiliation” with the democrat party back to their senses and the Republican Party.
It’s only a matter of time . . . and not very much time!
Oscar
November 29th, 2012
5:19 pm
That first cold snap is always very invigorating. Invigorating. It makes one vigorous. Very vigorous.
DannyX
November 29th, 2012
5:19 pm
Is this an example of the poor stealing from the rich, RB?
Walmart workers denied healthcare benefits while the top 6 Walmart executives make a combined 1.6 billion a year?
They BOTH suck
November 29th, 2012
5:19 pm
Corbin
Forget newsmax. World Net Daily (birther central) is where it is at. They really have some “good” articles.
Oscar
November 29th, 2012
5:20 pm
Is this an example of the poor stealing from the rich, RB?
____
Taxation is not the poor stealing from the rich. It’s the poor reclaiming what was stolen from them.
RB from Gwinnett
November 29th, 2012
5:20 pm
“Jesus’ whole life was tending to the poor and sick. He was not a fan of the rich at all. ”
No, Danny, Jesus’ whole life was tending to the LOST. While I agree he was no fan of the GREEDY, he didn’t hate the rich as you’d like to claim.
“If the church asks for 10%…” Do you know the difference between “asking” and “taking”? There’s your answer.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 29th, 2012
5:22 pm
RB’s finally asking for help. Someone give the poor guy a hand.
More than happy to oblige.
josef
November 29th, 2012
5:23 pm
RB
What is your interpretation of this from the Christ?
“Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s”
– Matthew 22:21).
GT
November 29th, 2012
5:23 pm
If you were really Christian you would claim you are stewards, not owners of this money. Now that is comedical.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 29th, 2012
5:25 pm
That “lasting affiliation” will last only until the government runs out of money to supply their freebies…
Aaannnnnnnnnnnnnnnddd, I quit reading.
Soothsayer
November 29th, 2012
5:26 pm
What “Free Trade” Actually Means
The theoretical definition of a “free market” is one in which every individual actor in the realm of exchange exists in a state of equality of opportunity; where all compete with one another to produce the best products at the cheapest prices for consumers, thus the most innovative and efficient producers succeed while others fail, unregulated – and unhelped – by the state. Within “free markets,” what we call “free trade agreements” are meant to reduce barriers such as tariffs, subsidies and regulations so that market “competitors” can freely move products and goods across borders and compete in an ever-expanding global “free market.”
The functional, or technical, definition of a “free market” is one in which the state regulates the market – the realm of economic exchange and activity – for the benefit of large transnational corporations and banks.
Barriers to profits, such as environmental, labor, safety and financial regulations, are dismantled. Meanwhile, subsidies and legal rights and protections are granted to major corporations, undermining competition and supporting monopolization. So while the rhetoric of “free markets” tends to be all about reducing state interference in the economy, in actuality state interference increases – but only for the benefit of large corporations and banks.
At the same time, state “interference” decreases in sectors that benefit the actual population, such as welfare, social services, pensions, healthcare, education, labor protections and so on. In the actual “free market,” these protections are dismantled, subjecting populations to “market discipline” quite unlike the large corporations and banks that receive direct protection against “market discipline.” The most obvious example of this is the post-2008 bank bailouts.
This is a great article that is worth your reading. I invite you to save it to your “favorites” or bookmark it and read it later. It really shows how the American public is getting screwed.
Madmax
November 29th, 2012
5:27 pm
Jay – The election is over, time to stop the campaign drivel. If we relied on your paintbrush, you would believe there are only about 10% of the population that believe in conservative values; last I looked at the results, I saw over 46% of the vote going towards the party of tired, old white dudes. All this election proved was that your guy was better at painting Romney and the Republicans as a party of tired angy old white dudes (and you had some help from some very stupid comments made by both Romney and a couple of the senate candidates too). Unless your party puts up another cool balck dude, you may lose enough of the “cool” to find that we really aren’t the party you so desparately want us to be. We probably are your neighborrs, your friends and the guy behind the counter. We may be white, black, brown, gay, etc. Time to start talking about relevant topics and stop the rehashing of the campaign BS. I’ve stopped coming over because what you say is not relevant.
They BOTH suck
November 29th, 2012
5:27 pm
josef @ 5:23
You beat me to it.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 29th, 2012
5:28 pm
I’ve stopped coming over because what you say is not relevant.
Available evidence suggests otherwise.
Joe Hussein Mama
November 29th, 2012
5:28 pm
RB — “Would it be of any use to explain to this individual the difference between choosing to be poor and being poor because of the choices one has made?”
No, but it’d be really neat for you to explain how you can tell the two kinds of poor folks apart. (giggling)
JamVet
November 29th, 2012
5:30 pm
Blessed are the cheesemakers.
And any other manufacturers of dairy products.
They BOTH suck
November 29th, 2012
5:30 pm
Madmax
And many of those same Democrat voters that some on the right love to demean fit the same descriptions as you depicted for Republican voters.
You are welcome.
Soothsayer
November 29th, 2012
5:30 pm
UN vote recognizes state of Palestine; US objects
The United Nations voted overwhelmingly Thursday to recognize a Palestinian state, a long-sought victory for the Palestinians but an embarrassing diplomatic defeat for the United States.
The resolution upgrading the Palestinians’ status to a nonmember observer state at the United Nations was approved by a more than two-thirds majority of the 193-member world body — a vote of 138-9, with 41 abstentions.
Will wonders never cease?
Union
November 29th, 2012
5:30 pm
@ dannyx..
“But even that won’t be enough to balance the budget next year. More bad assumptions – about how much the state could take from local redevelopment agencies, and about how much tax the newly enriched owners of Facebook would be paying the state – mean that there’s still a $2billion shortfall looming in the fiscal year that begins next July 1.
But that gap is tiny compared with the scope of the problem that legislators and the governor have been dealing with. And California’s usually sober legislative analyst has projected that in the year after next, a small surplus will sprout. And grow.
By 2018, the analyst says, current spending and revenue trends will combine to produce annual surpluses in the $9 billion range. And that’s after paying for caseload growth in health and public assistance programs, more inmates in the prison system and cost-of-living increases for the schools. In fact, the five-year estimate shows school funding growing by $13 billion even though enrollment will be essentially flat.”
by 2018.. it will be a surplus.. if they dont spend anymore.. if the collect the taxes they think they are.. lot of ifs…
btw..
“California raids special funds in attempt to fix budget
10 September 2012
The administration of California Governor Jerry Brown and the Democratic Party controlled legislature are intensifying the practice of raiding special funds, including some that provide vital services to Californians. The impact will be overwhelmingly felt among the working class and the poor.
For the past decade, and increasingly since the current financial crisis began in 2008, the California State Treasury has been heavily borrowing money from various special fund accounts to pay for schools, social services and prisons—programs and agencies that normally would have been paid for out of the state’s general fund through the collection of income taxes, sales and property taxes. The result is that the state now owes $4.3 billion to special fund accounts. This is more than five times the amount the state owed in 2008.”
this is addition to the massive pension bailout that is coming for california.. not to mention the healthcare costs for just retired state employees is billions.. but.. just sprinkle some of that obama dust on there and let someone else pay for it
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 29th, 2012
5:30 pm
No, but it’d be really neat for you to explain how you can tell the two kinds of poor folks apart.
There is a certain magic that exists in the checkout lines at Whole Foods.
Common Sense isn't very Common
November 29th, 2012
5:31 pm
Josef
You need to run in 2016. You would check all the boxes on requirements for the party
Common Sense isn't very Common
November 29th, 2012
5:33 pm
josef
Including the one that says oh crap what have we done.
josef
November 29th, 2012
5:33 pm
COMMON SENSE
And which party would that be?
Common Sense isn't very Common
November 29th, 2012
5:36 pm
Josef
Either That’s the great part LMAO
JamVet
November 29th, 2012
5:37 pm
http://blogs.ajc.com/mike-luckovich/files/2012/11/mike1129121.jpg
Peter
November 29th, 2012
5:39 pm
A typical person will look in the mirror when they screw up, and say.OK I made a mistake, how do i correct my mistake so i do not make the same mistake yet again……..
Why are the Republican’s unable to look in the mirror, and say Ok maybe we are out of the main stream of reality ?
josef
November 29th, 2012
5:39 pm
COMMON
Yeah, but the problem is that neither one wants me in their tent! And that’s a good thing…for them and me both! On that, we’re agreed…
Common Sense isn't very Common
November 29th, 2012
5:44 pm
The Delusional Lickspittle Party maybe?
EOI’s only allowed LOL
Common Sense isn't very Common
November 29th, 2012
5:45 pm
Oh and Bro as VP
Soothsayer
November 29th, 2012
5:47 pm
Hartsfield-Jackson officials investigating egging of Saints team bus
They may be heroes to Falcons fans, but the culprits responsible for egging the New Orleans Saints team bus Wednesday night could be in trouble with the law.
Now I promise you, me and ol’ Redneck didn’t have nothing to do with this!
josef
November 29th, 2012
5:49 pm
COMMON SENSE
That’s the Delusional Lickspittle Plantation Liberal Party…
I’ll go for Brosephus as VP and DDR as Attorney General…I’m thinking we need a new cabinet post, Secretary of Slave Owning Visionary Idealists…and we know who’s in the running for that one…which post are you interested in?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 29th, 2012
5:50 pm
Delusional Lickspittle Party?
Fred as Secretary of State.
Common Sense isn't very Common
November 29th, 2012
5:52 pm
Lots to choose from. Maybe we can bowwow Lindsey Graham’s BIG tent
josef
November 29th, 2012
5:52 pm
K’CHAK
I’ll go for that!
Corbin Sharpe. I think, therefore I am...I think
November 29th, 2012
5:52 pm
josef
November 29th, 2012
5:23 pm
Josef,
It means do your patriotic duty and pay your damned taxes.
Brosephus™: "Browning America Since 1973"
November 29th, 2012
5:53 pm
The Delusional Lickspittle Party maybe?
Oh and Bro as VP
I don’t think America is quite ready for that yet.
Common Sense isn't very Common
November 29th, 2012
5:53 pm
Fred as SOS hmmm.
Naw, too diplomatic
LOL
josef
November 29th, 2012
5:53 pm
COMMON SENSE
So, you’re for including light in the loafer’s pink elephants…
Common Sense isn't very Common
November 29th, 2012
5:54 pm
bowwow = borrow
F. Sinkwich
November 29th, 2012
5:55 pm
“President Obama´s second inaugural ceremony will be focused around the theme of “Faith in America´s Future,” congressional organizers announced Thursday. The inaugural program will pay tribute to the nation´s “perseverance and unity,” the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies said in a press release.”
Faith in America’s Future???
How ironic.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 29th, 2012
5:55 pm
They may be heroes to Falcons fans, but the culprits responsible for egging the New Orleans Saints team bus Wednesday night could be in trouble with the law.
Despicable.
Whoever did that should be thrown under the bus
Common Sense isn't very Common
November 29th, 2012
5:55 pm
Sure
It’s a mightly big tent we need for all the delusional lickspittles if this blog is any indication
josef
November 29th, 2012
5:56 pm
CORBIN
Sorta my take on it, too…
Common Sense isn't very Common
November 29th, 2012
5:57 pm
Bro
We could cut down on the protection when you were with him LOL
josef
November 29th, 2012
5:57 pm
COMMON SENSE
I thought your Freudian slip was showing…
Common Sense isn't very Common
November 29th, 2012
6:00 pm
LOL
Lack of typing skills, not all of us are published authors yanno
josef
November 29th, 2012
6:02 pm
COMMON SENSE
I was thinking of putting Brosephus in charge of health insurance reform…the SONS OF THE CONFEDERATE VETERANS plan…
BROSEPHUS
We need to get Attorney General nominee DDR to work on that…
Common Sense isn't very Common
November 29th, 2012
6:05 pm
Josef
Bro is too young for SONS OF THE CONFEDERATE VETERANS plan
He would gut the plan and leave us old folks on an iceberg
Nunna Yobinnes
November 29th, 2012
6:05 pm
Common Sense – I was just wondering if you were channeling Baba Wawa.
They BOTH suck
November 29th, 2012
6:05 pm
kam and jam
Go check out next door. Tibs is a paranoid riot.
Common Sense isn't very Common
November 29th, 2012
6:08 pm
Nunna Yobinnes
josef
November 29th, 2012
6:11 pm
COMMON SENSE
Yeah, maybe…but we could count on a HUGE donation from AETNA…
Nero
November 29th, 2012
6:12 pm
What’s up sport?!
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 29th, 2012
6:13 pm
BOTH
Rightwing Troll
November 29th, 2012
6:13 pm
“He won because his ground game was better. His political machine was better. That’s it, period.”
Actually he mostly won because you wingnuts and your representatives couldn’t keep their stinking pieholes shut for the last two weeks of the election. All your idiotic, hateful, wrongheaded, rantings lies and ill favored prognostications probably drove the proverbial nail in the coffin. You started out as angry loons and ended up as angry loons… just with less angry loon skin in the game.
Common Sense isn't very Common
November 29th, 2012
6:14 pm
Josef
speaking of delusional lickspittles
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 29th, 2012
6:14 pm
What’s up sport?!
The sky.
josef
November 29th, 2012
6:15 pm
COMMON SENSE
I know thass right!
Nero
November 29th, 2012
6:15 pm
What’s crackin’ sport?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 29th, 2012
6:16 pm
What’s up sport?!
Today’s DJIA
Nero
November 29th, 2012
6:17 pm
I think sport got her panties twisted again. You gonna hold a grudge sport?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 29th, 2012
6:17 pm
What’s up sport?!
Today’s NASDAQ index.
Common Sense isn't very Common
November 29th, 2012
6:18 pm
I nominate Kam as chief of health insurance reform…the SONS OF THE CONFEDERATE VETERANS plan
Rightwing Troll
November 29th, 2012
6:18 pm
Step out your front door, open those eyes you’ve squeezed so tightly shut, take your fingers out of your ears, and turn off faux news for god’s sake… and quit screaming lalalalalalalala… when anybody tries to tell you the truth about ANYTHING…things ARE better and getting better everyday. There’s new construction everywhere you look, this past “Black Friday” was a huge success, consumers are getting more confident, wallets are coming out, the cycle of recovery continues without you wingnuts… imagine how good it could be if you’d pitch in?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 29th, 2012
6:18 pm
What’s up sport?!
Today’s S&P 500 index.
Nero
November 29th, 2012
6:19 pm
What’s up sport?!
Sport’s blood pressure
Rightwing Troll
November 29th, 2012
6:19 pm
“What’s up sport?!”
Not gas prices…
Nero
November 29th, 2012
6:20 pm
C’mon sport! Don’t get mad. You have that wonderful big deck that you can relax on and sport ’til your heart’s content. Don’t be a bad sport.
Vast Right Wing Conspiracy (aka "Knuckle-Dragger")
November 29th, 2012
6:21 pm
Throwing in with the Democrats means aiding in the destruction of the country. Can’t be a part of that. Don’t want to have a conversation with George Washington in Heaven one day and have him say, “Why did you just let it go?”
Kudos to you folks on the election – you finally dumbed-down enough people and got enough illegal aliens or near-illegal aliens to vote for free stuff. Impressive. I personally did not think we were there yet, but we are. The prudent person will plan accordingly.
Nero
November 29th, 2012
6:22 pm
I nominate Kammie for Sports Minister.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 29th, 2012
6:22 pm
Not gas prices…
But…but…but…I was assured that it would be $6 a gallon by election day….
Nero
November 29th, 2012
6:23 pm
I don’t think sport likes me anymore. :/
Nero
November 29th, 2012
6:24 pm
Nobody said anything about gas prices sport. Stop grasping. Not very sportmanlike.
Brosephus™: "Browning America Since 1973"
November 29th, 2012
6:24 pm
We could cut down on the protection when you were with him LOL
That wouldn’t be the issue. I’d make Dick Cheney’s closed door quotes sound like he were the most pious man on Earth. I would have no problem at cussing out any of Congress who I felt deserved it. I’d probably sponsor weekly cuss-outs where people could cuss out the Congressperson of their choice in front of a national audience.
Brosephus™: "Browning America Since 1973"
November 29th, 2012
6:27 pm
josef
Speaking of Aetna, guess which health insurance provider will offer the most expensive policy after a 25% premium increase over 2012’s prices???
Soothsayer
November 29th, 2012
6:28 pm
It seems like that for some unknown reason, Right-wing bloggers have a fixation on Kamchak on this blog. Who was that other guy? And now, this Nero creep. Try posting something of substance for a change.
Nero
November 29th, 2012
6:29 pm
Sport come back!!! I miss you!!
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 29th, 2012
6:30 pm
Who was that other guy?
Ben “I Pee My Pants At The Word Socialism” Shockley.
They BOTH suck
November 29th, 2012
6:30 pm
Bro
As VP, you just can’t go shooting people in face while on a hunting trip.
Soothsayer
November 29th, 2012
6:30 pm
A little bird told me that Nero is none other than Tiberius in drag. Makes sense doesn’t it Nero = Tiberius — Roman emperors. The hate is the thing.
Corbin Sharpe. I think, therefore I am...I think
November 29th, 2012
6:31 pm
Sooth,
Nero shows up on the day crew too…calls us leeches there, sports here. I honestly think he’s trying to come out, but doesn’t quite know how…just supposin’
Nero
November 29th, 2012
6:31 pm
I’ll get to you in a second douchesayer. I’m trying to talk to Kam right now. She’s mad.
josef
November 29th, 2012
6:31 pm
COMMON
Oh, no…Kam doesn’t know the secret details…only Bro and I know that…!
Nero
November 29th, 2012
6:32 pm
No Corbin. Kam is the sport. You’re still a Boomer leech. Get it straight.