Jim DeMint, Tea Party champion, leaving Senate
South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint, probably the most influential Tea Party advocate in Congress, is resigning his seat to become head of the conservative Heritage Foundation.
DeMint’s term was to have expired in 2016. The vacancy will be filled through appointment by South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, with a special election held in 2014. That’s the same cycle in which South Carolina’s other senator, Lindsey Graham, will be seeking re-election, which makes it less likely that Graham will face a stern primary challenger.
– Jay Bookman
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Simple Truths
December 6th, 2012
10:40 am
First …
Simple Truths
December 6th, 2012
10:41 am
One less problem in Washington…
Fly-On-The-Wall
December 6th, 2012
10:41 am
Well, I guess there’s more money and influence at the Heritage Foundation then in the U.S. Senate.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 6th, 2012
10:42 am
Nothing could be finer that you leave for Carolina…..and stay there.
Fly-On-The-Wall
December 6th, 2012
10:42 am
I wish it meant one less problem but my guess would be that someone even more radically right then DeMint will be appointed and then later, elected.
Oops
December 6th, 2012
10:44 am
Can’t blame him
DC is completely loco
Though he has ironically decided to stay there
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 6th, 2012
10:47 am
Fly, it will be interesting to see who is nominated to fill the post. A more moderate Republican or a tea party fanatic. We’ll see where Nikki has decided to face her future in the GOP.
Gale
December 6th, 2012
10:47 am
Are we seeing the decline of the Tea Party’s 15 minutes of fame?
Oops
December 6th, 2012
10:48 am
Btw
I think liberal opinion writers at WaPo blaming Romney for the fiscal cliff is beyond silly
Fly-On-The-Wall
December 6th, 2012
10:48 am
Let’s start a rumor about it….DeMint was afraid that someone even more steeped in the Tea Party would challenge him in 2016 so he’s bailing out now while he can!
St Simons - he-ne-ha
December 6th, 2012
10:50 am
mon, they’re not even waiting for the Calendar.
Told you. You’ll listen to da indian one day, mon.
in a couple years, you won’t even recognize the place, heheh
Fly-On-The-Wall
December 6th, 2012
10:50 am
Keep,
I would really feel better about the future of the country if Nikki appoints someone more moderate than DeMint is now – like that’s not hard to do. Like you say, we’ll see how Nikki faces this challenge.
stands for decibels
December 6th, 2012
10:52 am
Just under seven months after Obama had been sworn in as President… well, let’s allow DeMint to speak for himself.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0709/Health_reform_foes_plan_Obamas_Waterloo.html
“Senators and Congressmen will come back in September afraid to vote against the American people,” DeMint predicted, adding that “this health care issue Is D-Day for freedom in America.”
“If we’re able to stop Obama on this it will be his Waterloo. It will break him,” he said.
Looks like someone got broken, and it wasn’t Obama.
Enjoy your dotage on Heritage’s payroll, Jim.
/drive-by
Robert Lee - Cogito ergo zoom
December 6th, 2012
10:52 am
The guys on Boortz’s show is claiming this is the best news EVER. Game changing! They want to put Tim Scott in Demint’s seat so they’ll have a conservative black guy to lead the charge….
Gosh, its keeps getting better and better….
oops
December 6th, 2012
10:52 am
http://www.autoblog.com/2012/12/06/calculating-the-cost-of-a-motorcycle-accident/
I prefer natural selection, the only tool ensuring the long term advancement of our species. Make helmets illegal.
skipper
December 6th, 2012
10:52 am
Congrats to all of Congress; both sides of the aisle! The approval rating is lower than a snake’s belly in a wagon-wheel rut! If Mitch McConnel is not there with his smugness on the screen, then John Kerry’s horse-head is there remind us why he, too, is a nut-case! Hey, fellow posters, is there any such thing as good old-fashioned common sense anywhere?????
fedup
December 6th, 2012
10:53 am
Please do not go. You the poster boy for the nutsos.
fedup
December 6th, 2012
10:57 am
Alan West move to SC. Fl is too liberal for you.
willie lynch
December 6th, 2012
10:57 am
I thought they were supposed to be a “Think Tank”. Isn’t Limbaugh a member?
Granny Godzilla
December 6th, 2012
10:57 am
Nikki’s not polling well at home…..making the choice all the more important for her.
She may well be damned if she does or damned if she doesn’t.
I think that’s just super.
oops
December 6th, 2012
10:59 am
http://www.economist.com/node/21562177
Nikki H.
December 6th, 2012
11:00 am
“This thing is golden.”
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St Simons - he-ne-ha
December 6th, 2012
11:00 am
for the casual observer, i hope this clarifies the credibiliteh of the
Heritage Foundation (snicker) –
Will the newsletter be printed in teabonics now?
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Joe Hussein Mama
December 6th, 2012
11:01 am
I think it’s obvious that Alvin Greene will have the last laugh.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Greene
Morality?
December 6th, 2012
11:02 am
Obama is the Herbert Hoover of 2013…….. hide the women and children. Fiscal cliff is nothing compared to the disaster approaching.
B. Thenet
December 6th, 2012
11:05 am
So when does the DeMint scandal break?
You don’t leave the Senate to run a conservative think tank to have more influence, how many people even knew the name of the head of the Heritage Foundation prior to today? DeMint is going to lose alot of his pull once he is out of office, I am sure he knows it.
There has to be more to this.
Morality?
December 6th, 2012
11:05 am
Going to Chick – Fil – A for lunch .. after that moving to my private island. Selah.
williebkind
December 6th, 2012
11:07 am
Yes, that was a good move for DeMint! Nikki will replace him with a new conservative hopefully younger and with little history that will feed the liberals’ piranha appetites.
Morality?
December 6th, 2012
11:07 am
Not that much more to this story – DeMint just getting off the train while it is still on the track. Wreck ahead.
STUPID LIBERAL
December 6th, 2012
11:08 am
Some Chicago lawmaker, was arrested for trying to take a handgun onto an airplane in Chicago. This lawmaker is an anti second amendment democrat. What a hypocrit, for voting against the second amendment. Why does he feel the need to be above the law that he helped to pass ? I am sure that our Lord and Master Obama will pardon him, since he is apart of the elite.
Brosephus™
December 6th, 2012
11:08 am
Oh well…
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oops
December 6th, 2012
11:08 am
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/06/us-usa-fiscal-demint-idUSBRE8B50W420121206
Brosephus™
December 6th, 2012
11:09 am
What a hypocrit, for voting against the second amendment.
He’s gotta be one old mofo if he voted agains the 2nd Amendment.
Just sayin’
jconservative
December 6th, 2012
11:09 am
I predict Haley will appoint a “caretaker” type who will not want to run, and then she run for the seat.
And get elected.
Fly-On-The-Wall
December 6th, 2012
11:09 am
Maybe DeMint has already told Nikki who she should put in his place and that was a given before he made his decision.
Morality?
December 6th, 2012
11:11 am
Proud of my Dawgs. Time for Falcons to show up and take care of business. Two more wins and they get a bye for the playoffs. PLAYOFFS! Ben waiting since 1966 for the Falcons to win a Super Bowl….. it’s time.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 6th, 2012
11:11 am
Oy vey, Stupid, do tell us how precisely a legislator “votes” against the second amendment which is part of the US Constitution and can only be changed by amending the constitution. Come on child, be precise and exhibit intelligence.
Fly-On-The-Wall
December 6th, 2012
11:11 am
jconservative – I agree, that is a more likely scenario.
Morality?
December 6th, 2012
11:12 am
Pray for Obama.
Jackie
December 6th, 2012
11:13 am
Would Gov. Haley (R-SC) appoint herself to the Senate seat?
All indications are that she will lose badly if she chooses to run for re-election.
Atlas Shrugging
December 6th, 2012
11:13 am
Let’s poll the DEM-wits and REP-ugants in the 98%, of which, 50% pay no income tax, and ask them if the rich should pay more taxes. As Barney Fife would say, suuuurrrrpise, suuuurrrrprise;the underachievers think the rich should pay more to help pay for their every increasing appetite for entitlements. I am blown away, who would have seen that coming. I thought that colege kids, blue hairs, union thugs/thugettes, wall street protesters, folks recieving welfare and food stamps, ie Obozo supporters would have said, please tax me more and let the rich slide. Lets go over the cliff and poll that same group to see if they think the rich are hurting more or less than their families. I bet we get another shocking poll result.
Erwin's cat
December 6th, 2012
11:14 am
Oh well…
x2
williebkind
December 6th, 2012
11:15 am
Morality?
December 6th, 2012
11:11 am
In total agreement!!!!
STUPID LIBERAL
December 6th, 2012
11:16 am
It is simple to vote against the second amendment. Once the city of Chicago passed legislation to prohibit gun ownership, those lawmakers who voted in favor of the legislation basically casted a vote against the second amendment. I know that I am a stupid liberal and all, but, I recall there being something that state, shall not be restricted ?
Brosephus™
December 6th, 2012
11:17 am
EC
Sounds like a Pats by 3 post if I ever read one.
St Simons - he-ne-ha
December 6th, 2012
11:18 am
Stephen Colbert is pretty conservative, Nikki. Watch his show.
Mark Sanford’s…um…not available…
King of Planet Kolob
December 6th, 2012
11:18 am
DeMint foresaw his own Waterloo with Obama’s re-election. One giant leap for America. Good riddance. As for those Senators buying into Glen Becks version of Agenda 21 and voting to embarrass themselves instead of Bob Dole….
straitroad
December 6th, 2012
11:18 am
Interesting numbers on taxes and the debt…
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ERP_2012_Complete.pdf
Check out page 411 and see how revenue increased after taxes were reduced during the Bush years. The level of taxation isn’t the problem. Spending is the issue our leadership needs to get under control. All of the talk about tax rates is purely for ginning up emotion and envy.
East Lake Ira
December 6th, 2012
11:19 am
Well the GOP is good at one thing only these days – destroying their public image. This will go a long way to making Heritage irrelevant.
Thanks GOP.
Keep up the good work.
bookman parrot
December 6th, 2012
11:19 am
toSimple Truths
December 6th, 2012
10:41 am
One less problem in Washington
I guess you view people that believe in fiscal responsibility as a problem. That is a shame for this country.
williebkind
December 6th, 2012
11:19 am
“Nikki’s not polling well at home…..making the choice all the more important for her.
She may well be damned if she does or damned if she doesn’t.
I think that’s just super.”
Now that is not how a progressive woman feels and talks about women. Dont lose your feminazi.
williebkind
December 6th, 2012
11:20 am
When my taxes go up what FREE STUFF do I get?
STUPID LIBERAL
December 6th, 2012
11:21 am
I am still waiting on my Obama Check
East Lake Ira
December 6th, 2012
11:21 am
Ezra Klein @ezraklein
To state the obvious, you don’t make Jim DeMint the head of your think tank in order to improve the quality of your scholarship.
https://twitter.com/ezraklein
Michael
December 6th, 2012
11:21 am
Why wouldn’t Nikki just appoint herself. Seems like it would be a step up. Otherwise she’ll have to run for the senate in 2014 against an incumbent.
oops
December 6th, 2012
11:22 am
http://www.politico.com/story/2012/12/jim-demint-retires-to-head-heritage-foundation-84687.html?hp=t1
James
December 6th, 2012
11:22 am
Maybe she will appoint a real sharp minded intellectual like Rep. Jim Clyburn.
the cat
December 6th, 2012
11:24 am
williebkind
December 6th, 2012
11:19 am
“Nikki’s not polling well at home…..making the choice all the more important for her.
She may well be damned if she does or damned if she doesn’t.
I think that’s just super.”
Now that is not how a progressive woman feels and talks about women. Dont lose your feminazi.
Um-Willieb-women have evolved. We can have different opinions about our sisters and their views and not blindly give them a pass just because they are female.
DUH.
williebkind
December 6th, 2012
11:24 am
I heard Sara Palin has converted over to the Democrats and is going to run for President.
STUPID LIBERAL
December 6th, 2012
11:26 am
Sara Palin is a dumb republican. I think she would make an intelligent Democrat.
williebkind
December 6th, 2012
11:27 am
“Um-Willieb-women have evolved. We can have different opinions about our sisters and their views and not blindly give them a pass just because they are female.”
So women have evolved, you mean liberal women have evolved into something that is predatory and not natural. You liberal evolved women attack conservative women just because they are conservative. You should have stayed a monkey.
stands for decibels
December 6th, 2012
11:29 am
You should have stayed a monkey.
Sigh. Is our children learning?
Oops
December 6th, 2012
11:29 am
Boehner throwing some elbows
STUPID LIBERAL
December 6th, 2012
11:30 am
I resent being called a monkey, that is so racist, I can not help but to blame Bush for it.
Redcoat
December 6th, 2012
11:30 am
Dems/Libs own it………they need to get on with it……vote their bills in……nothing really stopping them from it…….they know it, we know it……one more out of the way!
Joe Hussein Mama
December 6th, 2012
11:32 am
S. Democrat — “Sara Palin is a dumb republican. I think she would make an intelligent Democrat.”
Sorry, we only elect QUALIFIED women over here. That’s why there are so many more female Democratic lawmakers than female Republican ones.
STUPID LIBERAL
December 6th, 2012
11:33 am
Yes, Mrs. Nancy Pants is surely a QUALIFIED woman.
Paul
December 6th, 2012
11:34 am
Thanks for the good news, Jay. Much appreciated this morning.
DeMint’s like the guy who tried to hold onto his yellow ruled spreadsheet and his adding machine and railed against computers because “what if they made a mistake? You’d never know it…..” So instead of adapting, he left the company to go to work for The Buggywhip Institute.
DeMint at Heritage Foundation. And people really believe that place should still be called a ‘think’ tank?!!? Thanks for my second laugh of the day, Jay.
Granny Godzilla
December 6th, 2012
11:37 am
williebkind
December 6th, 2012
11:19 am
“Nikki’s not polling well at home…..making the choice all the more important for her.
She may well be damned if she does or damned if she doesn’t.
I think that’s just super.”
Now that is not how a progressive woman feels and talks about women. Dont lose
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.
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Good Lord…..You really are a burp and scratcher ain’t ya.
Best wear gloves while dragging those knuckles….
Whatever
December 6th, 2012
11:37 am
Joe,
I hope Cynthia McKinney isn’t included in your list of QUALIFIED female Democrats who have been elected…..
Don Abernethy
December 6th, 2012
11:39 am
Oh! If the liberal champion Obama would leave the White House!!!
Joe Hussein Mama
December 6th, 2012
11:40 am
Whatever — “Joe, I hope Cynthia McKinney isn’t included in your list of QUALIFIED female Democrats who have been elected…..”
If I were a Republican, I’d be asking myself why there are four elected female Democratic lawmakers for every ONE elected female Republican lawmaker, and then I’d STFU about Cynthia McKinney, because the GOP’s problem with women is a hell of a lot bigger than one person.
Thanks for playing.
Morality?
December 6th, 2012
11:40 am
Qualified for what? Nanny Pelosi couldn’t find her way home without a limo driver.
the cat
December 6th, 2012
11:40 am
Willieb-you are the one with th gorilla handle. Monkey yourself.
David Shivers
December 6th, 2012
11:41 am
Well, good-bye, Sen. Demented, and good riddance!
FrankLeeDarling
December 6th, 2012
11:41 am
Well now that Rove is toast .
Joe Hussein Mama
December 6th, 2012
11:43 am
“Morality” — “Qualified for what? Nanny Pelosi couldn’t find her way home without a limo driver.”
Yeah, you run with that in 2014 and 2016. See how well it works for you.
Morality?
December 6th, 2012
11:44 am
Progressive – translation – SOCIALIST
Paul
December 6th, 2012
11:44 am
Don Abernethy
Only in BizzaroLand does the winner leave.
Still fighting against the whole ‘democracy’ and ‘will of the majority’ idea, eh?
clem
December 6th, 2012
11:46 am
not normally that religious, but sweet Jesus. Now we can only hope we get someone that is not a nutbar though SC is full of them.
Morality?
December 6th, 2012
11:46 am
Nanny Pelosi won’t be around in 2016…… already taking her millions out of the U,S, banks and buying gold for the coming 2013 big “D”.
Joe Hussein Mama
December 6th, 2012
11:47 am
“Morality” — “Progressive – translation – SOCIALIST”
How *terrible* for you. Clearly you need to move to a nice libertarian country like Somalia where there won’t be an pesky gubmint to get in your way or tell you what to do.
Morality?
December 6th, 2012
11:47 am
Pray for Obama…… Pray for a miracle.
Brosephus™
December 6th, 2012
11:47 am
Oh! If the liberal champion Obama would leave the White House!!!
He will on the morning after Jan 19, 2017.
Joe Hussein Mama
December 6th, 2012
11:48 am
“Morality” — “Nanny Pelosi won’t be around in 2016…… already taking her millions out of the U,S, banks and buying gold for the coming 2013 big “D”.
Yawn.
You couldn’t predict the 2012 election, so why should anyone believe any other predictions you make?
DownInAlbany
December 6th, 2012
11:48 am
http://thehill.com/video/senate/271255-mcconnell-calls-for-vote-on-obamas-ridiculous-deficit-reduction-plan
But, it’s the mean old Republicans that are standing in the way?
Morality?
December 6th, 2012
11:49 am
Somalia – BLACK HAWK DOWN – not a gub’ment success story.
They BOTH suck
December 6th, 2012
11:52 am
Morality
Looking at it from your perspective, the Marine barracks in Lebanon wasn’t a “success story” either, so what is your point?
You like playing politics with the deaths of US servicemen?
Does that make you feel better about yourself?
Morality?
December 6th, 2012
11:52 am
I did not predict the 2012 election – obvious that the “checks in the mail crowd” was voting Obama. … I am not a Dem or a Repub…… I am a FISCAL conservative. Obama is a FISCAL liberal. No can vote for a fiscal disaster.
Mick
December 6th, 2012
11:53 am
bill orvis
Thank god the honorable barack obama was re-elected president of these united states. Once the democrats take back the house in 2014 and send the useless mitch mcconnell packing back to kentucky, the economy will be revving up just in time for the most honarable hillary clinton to take the reigns with a dem house, senate and three supreme court picks to boot!
America will be progressing quite nicely and even you will benefit from the rising tide. You can still hate her though, we wouldn’t expect anything less…
Joe Hussein Mama
December 6th, 2012
11:54 am
DIA — “But, it’s the mean old Republicans that are standing in the way?”
McConnell’s desperate to get the spotlight off Congressional Republicans’ refusal to vote on the measure under consideration in the House. The only way the GOP can do that is by putting something *else* up for a vote and putting other business on hold. That’s what McConnell is doing.
The GOP doesn’t *have* any competing proposals right now, so they’re trying to make Democratic proposals look foolish by attaching them to bills that have nothing whatsoever to do with them, then forcing a vote. Fortunately, McConnell’s tactic won’t work and will just serve to underline the dilatory, time-wasting tactics that GOP Congressmen and Senators are using right now.
Oops
December 6th, 2012
11:54 am
Obama is an obstructionist ideologue
Morality?
December 6th, 2012
11:54 am
SUCK – your left wing is showing.
Joe Hussein Mama
December 6th, 2012
11:54 am
“Morality” — “Somalia – BLACK HAWK DOWN – not a gub’ment success story.”
It was for the Somalis. So move there already.
Morality?
December 6th, 2012
11:56 am
If you want to thank God – start by spelling his name right – it’s God not god….. unless you are in to Greek mythology.
DownInAlbany
December 6th, 2012
11:57 am
Joe Hussein Mama
December 6th, 2012
11:54 am
DIA — “But, it’s the mean old Republicans that are standing in the way?”
McConnell’s desperate to get the spotlight off Congressional Republicans’ refusal to vote on the measure under consideration in the House. The only way the GOP can do that is by putting something *else* up for a vote and putting other business on hold. That’s what McConnell is doing.
The GOP doesn’t *have* any competing proposals right now, so they’re trying to make Democratic proposals look foolish by attaching them to bills that have nothing whatsoever to do with them, then forcing a vote. Fortunately, McConnell’s tactic won’t work and will just serve to underline the dilatory, time-wasting tactics that GOP Congressmen and Senators are using right now.
The Dem, Reps and Obama are all playing games. And, we are being played for fools! That’s the real truth! Honesty and integrity are lost on the entire bunch!
Joe Hussein Mama
December 6th, 2012
11:57 am
“Morality” — ” I am not a Dem or a Repub…… I am a FISCAL conservative.”
Who only complains about Democrats. We’ve been over this before.
“Obama is a FISCAL liberal.”
Obama’s plan = Reagan’s plan. Read up on “Prime The Pump” during the Reagan administration.
“No can vote for a fiscal disaster.”
We get it. You don’t like the President or his ideas. Message received. Go away and stop complaining now unless you have something of value to add to the conversation, please.
They BOTH suck
December 6th, 2012
11:57 am
Morality
Your ignorance is showing, but what is new.
But keep playing politics with the deaths of US servicemen.
Real classy.
clem
December 6th, 2012
11:57 am
oxymoron, Heritage think tank
Oops
December 6th, 2012
11:58 am
Maybe Obama will quit and run the Socialist party
Oh wait he already does
Morality?
December 6th, 2012
11:59 am
I wouldn’t lump all Somalis in with the criminals that murder innocent people – you insult the Somali people. I was here 1st – you move.
They BOTH suck
December 6th, 2012
11:59 am
DowninAlbany @ 11:57
I would agree to a certain extent.
Paul
December 6th, 2012
11:59 am
DownInAlbany
“But, it’s the mean old Republicans that are standing in the way?”
Okay, I’ll play.
Pres Obama ran on increasing the marginal rates for those making over $250k a year. He laid out specifics on what the percentage increases would be.
Republicans ran on cutting the deficit.
So okay…. what, specifically did Republicans propose to cut? (note: saying ‘we’ll cut a hundred million from… waste… and we’ll cut something…. from medicaid…. and we’ll cut… somewhere in Commerce’) is not exactly ’specific.’
Joe Hussein Mama
December 6th, 2012
12:00 pm
DIA — “The Dem, Reps and Obama are all playing games. And, we are being played for fools! That’s the real truth! Honesty and integrity are lost on the entire bunch!”
Did you bother to vote? Did you feel that way when you voted?
Daedalus
December 6th, 2012
12:00 pm
What a week: First Chip Rogers leaves the state senate for a made-up job with GBP and then Jim DeMint leaves the US Senate for a job at the reactionary-tank that is the Heritage Foundation.
Good for the state and the country; not so good for the Tea Party.
Morality?
December 6th, 2012
12:01 pm
Suck – you remind me of the 37 year old who still lives with mama and wets his bed. Guess I am profiling you?
Redcoat
December 6th, 2012
12:01 pm
Those who support and think government control is best, only assume they control the government……Dems/Libs own it, now get on with it!….They have successfully defined conservatism as evil. Let the redefining begin!
Oops
December 6th, 2012
12:01 pm
Obama is a cliff jumper
Cons should jump too
They BOTH suck
December 6th, 2012
12:01 pm
Morality
No, you are looking in the mirror
Goldie
December 6th, 2012
12:02 pm
Buh-bye Mr. Jerk!
receives several gov't checks....
December 6th, 2012
12:02 pm
Hey, I’m glad he’s gone! One less radical less gov’t type in the Senate. WE all KNOW the best solutions to all our problems are government solutions. They can create fairness in the tax code and create a fair economy for all Americans! Down w/ crony republicans!
Joe Hussein Mama
December 6th, 2012
12:03 pm
“Morality” — “I wouldn’t lump all Somalis in with the criminals that murder innocent people”
I’m pretty sure that Somalis didn’t like us being there. And since there was no Somali government to *invite* us in, any warlord with a gun was within his rights to take shots at us. That’s life in the US military.
” – you insult the Somali people.”
And you’re clueless and misinformed.
“I was here 1st – you move.”
No, I was here before you. Plus, I like it here and you don’t — so get out.
Morality?
December 6th, 2012
12:03 pm
Obama’s plan to save America? ????????????????
paulo911
December 6th, 2012
12:03 pm
JHM …”Sorry, we only elect QUALIFIED women over here. That’s why there are so many more female Democratic lawmakers than female Republican ones”
____________________________________________________
Wow …you mean we are not interested in those who see foreign countries from the back of their yards???
BW
December 6th, 2012
12:04 pm
And good riddance….go make your money like you wanted to in the first place
Joe Hussein Mama
December 6th, 2012
12:05 pm
paulo911 — “Wow …you mean we are not interested in those who see foreign countries from the back of their yards???”
Sometimes, I can see the moon from my porch. That means I haz astronautin’ experience.
williebkind
December 6th, 2012
12:05 pm
“How *terrible* for you. Clearly you need to move to a nice libertarian country like Somalia where there won’t be an pesky gubmint to get in your way or tell you what to do”
How about you moving to the west coast or north east coast or just north at that and be right at home. This is Ga., you know the red state.
receives several gov't checks....
December 6th, 2012
12:05 pm
Obama’s plan to save America is support the lower middle class! There are more of us than their are the rich! He will bring economic fairness to all!
Logical Dude
December 6th, 2012
12:06 pm
Nikki Halley nominates herself, and then moves to run for President in 2016.
One can hope, right?
Doggone/GA
December 6th, 2012
12:06 pm
“Wow …you mean we are not interested in those who see foreign countries from the back of their yards???”
You do realize Sarah Palin never said that, don’t you?
Morality?
December 6th, 2012
12:06 pm
Think I will stay – you leave.
Joe Hussein Mama
December 6th, 2012
12:06 pm
williebkind — “How about you moving to the west coast or north east coast or just north at that and be right at home. This is Ga., you know the red state.”
How about I stay riiiiiiiight here and help flip GA to blue next time around? This is the USA, you know — the Blue Country.
Morality?
December 6th, 2012
12:08 pm
economic fairness – A socialist’s opinion of fairness is – redistribution of the wealth from those that worked for it to those that voted Obama.
williebkind
December 6th, 2012
12:09 pm
“How about I stay riiiiiiiight here and help flip GA to blue next time around? This is the USA, you know — the Blue Country.”
Ok, stay, it is a free country so far! Blue country? Now that’s a hoot!
Common Sense isn't very Common
December 6th, 2012
12:09 pm
Bro
I heard Newt is moving to SC. Since he won the primary there he is a shoe in for office
Joe Hussein Mama
December 6th, 2012
12:09 pm
“Morality” — “Think I will stay”
It figures. All you have are whiny complaints and objections, and nothing worth contributing to the conversation. You clearly don’t like it here and clearly have no ideas for making anything better. So what’s your point? That you’re miserable and you want everyone else to be?
” – you leave.”
Nope. As a disabled US Army veteran, I *refuse* to leave *my* country. And if you hate it so much here, then get lost.
receives several gov't checks....
December 6th, 2012
12:09 pm
Georgia will be completely blue by 2016 when they discover the crony Republicans only care about their bosses and not average Americans! Obama will bring economic fairness to our country and we will be great again because all Americans will be treated fairly!
Crony Republicans only want to make themselves rich! That’s why the most wealthy politicans are Republicans!
Goldie
December 6th, 2012
12:09 pm
So when are you Cons who signed the secession petitions going to renounce your U.S. citizenship??? Time’s a-wasting for you to get going with that!
Morality?
December 6th, 2012
12:10 pm
If you are waiting for Georgia to turn Obama – better pull up a chair.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 6th, 2012
12:11 pm
You do realize Sarah Palin never said that, don’t you?
Well the woman who said it sure did talk like her and looked like her.
Joe Hussein Mama
December 6th, 2012
12:12 pm
williebkind — “Ok, stay, it is a free country so far! Blue country? Now that’s a hoot!”
We retained the White House.
We increased our lead in the Senate.
No sitting Democratic Congressman lost his or her seat. We picked up seats in the House. Plus, if you add up all the votes from all Congressional races across the country, FAR more votes were cast for Democrats than for Republicans.
Y’all got your butts handed to you AGAIN. And it is only going to get worse for you.
You live in a blue country whether you want to admit it to yourself or not.
Doggone/GA
December 6th, 2012
12:12 pm
“Well the woman who said it sure did talk like her and looked like her”
Yep, Tina Fey is a good actress and comedian!
Butch Cassidy (I)
December 6th, 2012
12:13 pm
Down in Albany – “But, it’s the mean old Republicans that are standing in the way?”
Apparently so. Just ask John Boehner and Ann Coulter.
DownInAlbany
December 6th, 2012
12:13 pm
Paul
December 6th, 2012
11:59 am
DownInAlbany
“But, it’s the mean old Republicans that are standing in the way?”
Okay, I’ll play.
Pres Obama ran on increasing the marginal rates for those making over $250k a year. He laid out specifics on what the percentage increases would be.
Republicans ran on cutting the deficit.
So okay…. what, specifically did Republicans propose to cut? (note: saying ‘we’ll cut a hundred million from… waste… and we’ll cut something…. from medicaid…. and we’ll cut… somewhere in Commerce’) is not exactly ’specific.’
I’ll turn that one around. What specifically have the Dems offered to cut? Same answer to your question…Nothing. It’s proven over and over again, taxing the “rich” is only a drop in the bucket.
Go ahead, tax ‘em. What next? It’s not going to accomplish anything except make the Obamabots feel that they are “paying their fair share.” It will do nothing to decrease the deficit or boost the economy.
williebkind
December 6th, 2012
12:13 pm
Morality?
December 6th, 2012
12:08 pm
I have worked all my life and at times had to use wild game and fish to supplement my food sources. Yet I go to the market and I see carts full of meat and breads paid for by swiping a card. Then add an insult and they pull out cash to buy tobacco and dog food.
receives several gov't checks....
December 6th, 2012
12:13 pm
morality? your name is hypocritical, so say you want morality? how is it moral when crony republicans allow corporate millionaires to oppress their employees with bad wages and benefits! Our federal gov’t is the only entity powerful enough to force corporations to either provide them for their employees or we can tax them fairly and let the fair wages and benefits be suplemented by our government!
nathan's political arsonist
December 6th, 2012
12:13 pm
turning out to be a great week- will the winner and now decrepit demint
DownInAlbany
December 6th, 2012
12:14 pm
Joe Hussein Mama
December 6th, 2012
12:00 pm
DIA — “The Dem, Reps and Obama are all playing games. And, we are being played for fools! That’s the real truth! Honesty and integrity are lost on the entire bunch!”
Did you bother to vote? Did you feel that way when you voted?
Yes and yes
Joe Hussein Mama
December 6th, 2012
12:14 pm
“Morality” — If you are waiting for Georgia to turn Obama – better pull up a chair.”
Foolish boy. Obama can’t run again.
And you’d better look at the Republican margins of victory in GA in the last few elections. They’re getting *tighter* and *tighter,* and it won’t be long until we crack off a couple more Southern states for our side. Alabama and Mississippi, as well as South Carolina, were just about competitive for the Democrats this time around. Next time, we’ll take one or more of them.
And Georgia? It’s just a matter of time.
Morality?
December 6th, 2012
12:15 pm
I love the USA . that’s why I did not vote Obama…….. FISCAL SOCIALIST. If you voted Obama – you are the one that hates the USA and voted against it’s FISCAL survival.
Joe Hussein Mama
December 6th, 2012
12:16 pm
DIA — “I’ll turn that one around. What specifically have the Dems offered to cut? Same answer to your question…Nothing.”
Wrong.
You pretty clearly don’t read, watch or listen to much news outside the Fox-o-sphere.
Joe Hussein Mama
December 6th, 2012
12:17 pm
DIA — “Yes and yes”
If that’s how you felt, then why did you vote? Or how did you justify voting, if you felt the folks in charge were so lousy?
Try It At Half Staff
December 6th, 2012
12:17 pm
http://truth-out.org/art/item/13171-the-pledge
DownInAlbany
December 6th, 2012
12:19 pm
Joe Hussein Mama
December 6th, 2012
12:16 pm
DIA — “I’ll turn that one around. What specifically have the Dems offered to cut? Same answer to your question…Nothing.”
Wrong.
You pretty clearly don’t read, watch or listen to much news outside the Fox-o-sphere.
Examples of Dem proposed cuts?
Drama aplenty as clock runs down to final episode of “The Fiscal Cliff” | Full Comment | National Post
December 6th, 2012
12:19 pm
[...] The anti-tax forces suffered a serious blow, however, when Jim DeMint, a South Carolina senator identified as “probably the most influential Tea Party advocate in Congress” said he was quitting his seat to [...]
the cat
December 6th, 2012
12:19 pm
Just how long are the losing republicans going to whineeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee?
Why don’t you all grow a pair and support our President?
You all sound very foolish which is why we are laughing at you.
Logical Dude
December 6th, 2012
12:20 pm
DownInalbany: Republicans ran on cutting the deficit.. . . I’ll turn that one around. What specifically have the Dems offered to cut?
Well, before you turn that one around, how about defending the Republican WHO RAN ON CUTTING SPENDING. Where? What?
Democrats ran on tax hikes for the wealthy and (probably some) said spending cuts as well. But come on, trying to turn that one around to “what did the dems try to cut” sounds like a cop-out argument.
Joe Hussein Mama
December 6th, 2012
12:20 pm
“Morality” — “I love the USA . that’s why I did not vote Obama…”
Fool.
“….. FISCAL SOCIALIST.”
You wouldn’t know socialism if it walked up to you and fastened itself to one of your man-boobs. There’s only one elected Socialist in all of Washington DC, and he’s not named Barack Obama.
“If you voted Obama – you are the one that hates the USA and voted against it’s FISCAL survival.”
Rejected. Ryan/Romney’s plan had deficits as far as the eye could see. The fact of the matter is that both Republicans and Democrats spend like drunken sailors on leave, but people like you ignorantly and mistakenly buy the bulldada that Democrats are worse about spending than Republicans are.
I *used* to be a Republican, and I believed the same crap. But the more I looked into things, the more I found out that the conservative economic arguments were total bulldada and lies.
tex
December 6th, 2012
12:20 pm
Shouldn’t someone be writing something about the human rights struggle going on in Egypt, and the tremendous apathy of the US pro government ‘left wing’ establishment with regard to supporting it?
DannyX
December 6th, 2012
12:21 pm
Jim DeMint the Tea Party darling is quitting the Senate so he can go work for the organization that gave us Obamacare!
Republicans are total nuts.
Logical Dude
December 6th, 2012
12:21 pm
(and DowninAlbany, I apologize if I misquoted who was saying what, I interpreted your post as you turning it around)
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
December 6th, 2012
12:22 pm
What rotten luck! The only real redneck left in the Senate and he up and quits. I was down in the dumps back when old Zell Miller left but DeMint come along and I said to myself, “Well at least we got somebody still there that will up and tell the libruls to kiss his a__.”
It’s a dark, dark day in politics.
STUPID LIBERAL
December 6th, 2012
12:23 pm
I will support the president once he sends me my Obama Check.
Morality?
December 6th, 2012
12:24 pm
2013 is approaching – you may receive several gub’ment checks in the mail TODAY. Who are you going to blame when that gub’ment check is DENIED at the bank? The Fed debt is $16,000,000,000,000 + and rising. The gub’ment credit card is MAXED out and your check will soon be denied. You get what you voted for. Good Luck.
philospher
December 6th, 2012
12:25 pm
I’m having some queasy feelings about this guy quitting the Senate. It smacks of political machinations. I’m guessing since the TP’ers couln’t make headway from the top-down, they’re planning a bottom-up manuever. Does anyone else wonder..especially when one of our resident looney senators quit this week, too. Something stinks…
Paul
December 6th, 2012
12:26 pm
DownInAlbany
“I’ll turn that one around. ”
Well of course you will, as you obviously know the Republicans, after all their months of rhetoric, have not proposed specific cuts in the amounts necessary to do the job, and instead want to have Democrats do it for them.
“What specifically have the Dems offered to cut? Same answer to your question…Nothing.”
One more time, DiA, Republicans ran on cutting the deficit. Your answer is evidence they have no idea how to do it.
” It’s proven over and over again, taxing the “rich” is only a drop in the bucket.”
Of course it won’t solve the deficit. Only Republicans ever said it would. I doubt you can find one Democrat who ever said ‘all we need to do is tax the rich and our fiscal problems will go away.”
You gotta stop believing your own propaganda, DiA. Or at least be aware of when Republicans say Democrats say stuff when it’s really Republicans saying it.
So… you haven’t go nothin’ on 1.6 Trillion in cuts, do ya?
Joe Hussein Mama
December 6th, 2012
12:27 pm
DIA — “Examples of Dem proposed cuts?
Democrats have been offering SPECIFIC cuts for over a year. Y’all just never hear about them.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/27/us/politics/debt-panel-democrats-offer-cuts.html?_r=0
Even now, Democrats are offering cuts (essentially low-hanging fruit) now, as well as more cuts next year, as we have a bit more time to ferret them out.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/dec2012/cuts-d03.shtml
The information’s there, DIA — if you go looking for it.
Joe Hussein Mama
December 6th, 2012
12:28 pm
“Morality” — “Who are you going to blame when that gub’ment check is DENIED at the bank?”
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
DownInAlbany
December 6th, 2012
12:29 pm
Paul, Obama also ran (the first time) on cutting the deficit by 1/2. How’d that work out? (answer, he basically doubled it). You keep believing his lies…
Paul
December 6th, 2012
12:30 pm
Hi Goldie!
“So when are you Cons who signed the secession petitions going to renounce your U.S. citizenship??? Time’s a-wasting for you to get going with that!”
Y’know, if J. Edgar Hoover were alive he’d have a file on each one of those secessionists and would have FBI agents investigating them as seditionists and traitors.
getalife
December 6th, 2012
12:30 pm
I did not see that coming but it is great news for our country.
Morality?
December 6th, 2012
12:31 pm
Obama is a SOCIALIST in sheep’s clothing. His mentors are socialists. His donors are socialists. He is from the SOCIALIST wing that now controls the Dem Party. Socialist Philosophy is “Redistribution of the Wealth” aka stealing from those that worked for it and giving it to those willing to sell their vote to Obama. Not all that voted for Obama are socialists but all socialists voted for Obama. Some are just NAIVE.
Butch Cassidy (I)
December 6th, 2012
12:31 pm
Down in Albany – “Obama also ran (the first time) on cutting the deficit by 1/2. How’d that work out?”
He got re-elected for a 2nd term.
Paul
December 6th, 2012
12:32 pm
DownInAlbany 12:29
You haven’t been around this blog long enough to know how pathetic a diversion instead of answering a question looks?
It’s okay, you can say it: “Republicans have not advanced specific cuts to reduce the deficit by the amounts they spoke of during the campaign.”
See? It’s easy.
Of course, then you can read Joe Hussein Mama’s links to educate yourself.
Joe Hussein Mama
December 6th, 2012
12:32 pm
DIA — “Paul, Obama also ran (the first time) on cutting the deficit by 1/2. How’d that work out? (answer, he basically doubled it). You keep believing his lies…”
You DO realize that he couldn’t have spent that money if the GOP-run House didn’t authorize it — DON’T you?
Joe Hussein Mama
December 6th, 2012
12:33 pm
“Morality” — “Obama is a SOCIALIST in sheep’s clothing. His mentors are socialists. His donors are socialists. He is from the SOCIALIST wing that now controls the Dem Party.”
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Morality?
December 6th, 2012
12:34 pm
Whaaaaaaaaaaa! Guess you are the one crying now that you understand what you voted for. Obama’s minister “G D America”……. sounds he really loves America alright.
DownInAlbany
December 6th, 2012
12:35 pm
Joe Hussein Mama
December 6th, 2012
12:27 pm
DIA — “Examples of Dem proposed cuts?
Democrats have been offering SPECIFIC cuts for over a year. Y’all just never hear about them.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/27/us/politics/debt-panel-democrats-offer-cuts.html?_r=0
Even now, Democrats are offering cuts (essentially low-hanging fruit) now, as well as more cuts next year, as we have a bit more time to ferret them out.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/dec2012/cuts-d03.shtml
The information’s there, DIA — if you go looking for it.
Straight from the NY Times and the World Socialist whatever. I can’t stop laughing! Now come the tears…from laughing so loud. I gotta go to the men’s room before I wet my pants! The World Socialist Web Site! dang, there goes the unabated laughter again!
GT
December 6th, 2012
12:35 pm
These guys are running for cover!
I would imagine the Heritage Foundation is having a case of the shorts about now. Pseudo intellectual is going out with polyester pants and sideburns. This is the crowd that first comes up with the answer and then back into it with the question. You see a lot of the dissipated, hair dyed, multi-married, still cheating thanks to modern medicine, titans of industry in their lobby.
The problem is the ones who still come back for more punishment are fewer and fewer so this group is going to have to rig up a new game to con these whackcos out of their money. You would have to be pretty desperate to let go of 4 more years of good employment for this albatross. I am sure we will hear more as whatever is closing in on DeMint is made known.
getalife
December 6th, 2012
12:36 pm
This one left a mark on our cons.
Morality?
December 6th, 2012
12:37 pm
Obama’s and Hairy Weed’s proposed cuts? The only one definite was to reduce the size of the military by as much as 1/3rd. Now you are going to ask me for a link – gave it to you several times – find it yourself.
Joe Hussein Mama
December 6th, 2012
12:38 pm
“Morality” — “Guess you are the one crying now that you understand what you voted for.”
Nope. That’s the sound of you crying, over and over, all day long on this blog. It’s all you have.
“Obama’s minister “G D America”……. sounds he really loves America alright.”
I’ll tell you right now — I’d have voted for a frickin’ WEREWOLF over any of those butt plugs, bone heads and abject morons the GOP put forward for nomination. The only ones of them worth listening to — Buddy Roemer and Jon Huntsman — were too damn reasonable for the rank-and-file GOP, and so they never stood a chance.
But you? Hell, you’d be happy with that Bachmann crazoid, or even Herman Cain.
STUPID LIBERAL
December 6th, 2012
12:38 pm
You did not earn your paycheck, it belongs to the Government.
Butch Cassidy (I)
December 6th, 2012
12:39 pm
I actually understand Down In Albanys angst. I’ve been there, the area around the Phoebe Putney Hospital is like a DMZ. Maybe DIA is angry about his poor choices that have kept him mired in that cess pool of a city.Who knows?
Brosephus™
December 6th, 2012
12:39 pm
NoCom
jewcowboy
December 6th, 2012
12:40 pm
As one of the most anti-gay legislators on the Hill, may the door hit him in the @ss and leave a mark as he departs.
Morality?
December 6th, 2012
12:40 pm
Not interested in voting for anyone that will increase this Fed debt – Dem or Repub. Bet my house against yours that the Fed debt won’t be ONE CENT less when Obama leaves office than it was when he got reelected. The odds of me winning that bet in Vegas – 100%.
Joe Hussein Mama
December 6th, 2012
12:42 pm
DIA — “Straight from the NY Times and the World Socialist whatever. I can’t stop laughing! Now come the tears…from laughing so loud. I gotta go to the men’s room before I wet my pants! The World Socialist Web Site! dang, there goes the unabated laughter again!”
You wanted examples, and I gave them to you. If you were a honest person who had any sort of character, then you’d admit that yes, the Democrats *have* made specific proposals. But no, you can’t bring yourself to do it.
So I guess we know what kind of people live Down In Albany. Dishonest people with no character, it would seem.
You want to know why I posted that link from the World Socialists? Because they’re COMPLAINING about some of the Democrats’ planned cuts. Do you think for a moment — if President Obama really *was* a Socialist — that they’d have anything negative to say about him or his budget plans?
So no problem, DIA. You just stay in your little corner of ignorance and come out to bark every once in a while.
DownInAlbany
December 6th, 2012
12:42 pm
Butch Cassidy (I)
December 6th, 2012
12:39 pm
I actually understand Down In Albanys angst. I’ve been there, the area around the Phoebe Putney Hospital is like a DMZ. Maybe DIA is angry about his poor choices that have kept him mired in that cess pool of a city.Who knows?
You’ll get no argument on that one, Butch.
STUPID LIBERAL
December 6th, 2012
12:42 pm
Morailty?
Obama will never leave office, he is going to become Sepreme Leader and lead us all into the promised land.
Joe Hussein Mama
December 6th, 2012
12:43 pm
“Morality” — “The odds of me winning that bet in Vegas – 100%.”
Vegas =/= Morality (laughing, pointing)
Morality?
December 6th, 2012
12:44 pm
Jay wouldn’t take me up on my bet either – any takers out there? Let’s get it in writing.
DebbieDoRight -- A Do Right Woman
December 6th, 2012
12:44 pm
Is DeMint the “You LIE!” guy?
the cat
December 6th, 2012
12:45 pm
Stephen Colbert has family in SC. I wish he would run for senate and then governor!!! I would move to SC to support him.
Ivan
December 6th, 2012
12:45 pm
“Sorry, we only elect QUALIFIED women over here. That’s why there are so many more female Democratic lawmakers than female Republican ones.”
Cynthia Mckinney says hi.
DannyX
December 6th, 2012
12:46 pm
“Obama is a SOCIALIST in sheep’s clothing.”
All hail the socialists, say the record profits.
Booooooo to Capitalism, says “This sucker could go down.”
Morality?
December 6th, 2012
12:46 pm
When it’s a lock it’s not immoral to bet on it. Besides I won a Rolex one time off of a pimp. Felt like I was doing the world a favor.
the cat
December 6th, 2012
12:46 pm
jewcowboy-I don’t need to remind you that usually the most homophobic are gay but not willing to come out.
Brosephus™
December 6th, 2012
12:47 pm
Not interested in voting for anyone that will increase this Fed debt – Dem or Repub. Bet my house against yours that the Fed debt won’t be ONE CENT less when Obama leaves office than it was when he got reelected. The odds of me winning that bet in Vegas – 100%.
I guess you’re throwing in the towel on ALL federal elections then, huh??? Have you honestly sat down and read the GOP’s idea of fiscal responsibility aka the “Ryan Budget Plan”? Did you not know that the fiscal responsible budget that the GOP voted for in lock step included a projected debt limit increase in excess ofn $23 Trillion in the next 10 years? Did you not know that same fiscally responsible budget plan would not produce a balanced budget until after the year 2030 or later? Yet, I bet you checked off every single (R) on the federal level in each election since that first budget plan was voted on years ago, didn’t you? The thing is, those of us who have looked at both sides for their “ideas” realize that there IS NO fiscal responsible plan out there.
Joe Hussein Mama
December 6th, 2012
12:48 pm
ivan — “Cynthia Mckinney says hi.”
Already asked and answered, Comrade.
DannyX
December 6th, 2012
12:48 pm
“Cynthia Mckinney says hi.”
Hillary says, “I’ll be living in the White House again.”
Morality?
December 6th, 2012
12:49 pm
There are plenty of corporate millionaires in the Dem party too….. and Obama is a member of the dreaded 1 %. If being rich is evil – you voted for evil.
Joe Hussein Mama
December 6th, 2012
12:49 pm
“Morality” — “When it’s a lock it’s not immoral to bet on it. Besides I won a Rolex one time off of a pimp. Felt like I was doing the world a favor.”
You seem to win an awful lot of things off pimps. Maybe a handle change is in order for you.
Oops
December 6th, 2012
12:49 pm
“Support our president
Code speak for “I want one party rule, my party”
emo
December 6th, 2012
12:50 pm
The collective IQ of the Senate just went up 10 points, while that of the Heritage Foundation dropped 50.
Paul
December 6th, 2012
12:50 pm
Down in Albany
“Straight from the NY Times and the World Socialist whatever. I can’t stop laughing!”
You really, really don’t understand the difference between a source and a secondary publisher, do you?
See, if the World Socialist Daily reprinted the Beatitudes or the Sermon on the Mount, you really, really shouldn’t announce to the world “what a bunch of cr@p!! What are those socialists at that rag trying to put over on us now?!!!?”
It’d make you look, well… foolish.
Joe Hussein Mama
December 6th, 2012
12:51 pm
“Morality” — “If being rich is evil”
Conservative trope. That notion didn’t come from liberals; it’s something conservatives made up and tried to attribute to us.
DannyX
December 6th, 2012
12:51 pm
“If being rich is evil ”
That is what Jesus seemed to be saying.
Paul
December 6th, 2012
12:53 pm
Morality?
“Obama’s and Hairy Weed’s proposed cuts? The only one definite was to reduce the size of the military by as much as 1/3rd.”
So if any other government department had doubled its budget in a few years you wouldn’t want to cut it?
Are you taking the position there are no significant savings to be had in Defense?
Joe Hussein Mama
December 6th, 2012
12:53 pm
Dead-threaded. Heading upstairs.
Jefferson
December 6th, 2012
12:53 pm
The court will be the next to get a little blue on them.
Morality?
December 6th, 2012
12:55 pm
Brosephus – common ground – that is what I have been saying – it will take a 3rd party that is not bought and sold – one that is loyal to the USA and is not a PARTY loyalist. Dems & Repubs at the top are more loyal to their party than the FISCAL survival of the USA. Today’s politicians number one objective is to get reelected. We need a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution and TERM LIMITS in Congress.
Brosephus™
December 6th, 2012
12:57 pm
Morality?
No disagreement with me on that one. I’m just hoping you’re not one of those claiming that Obama and the Dems are not fiscally responsible and then voting (R) because they claim to be so. If you’re not one of those, then my apologies for lumping you in with that group.
Phoenix98
December 6th, 2012
12:58 pm
As to the Second Amendment whatever happened to: “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” I’ve seen lots of infringement mostly from clowns like the one who boarded the plane or tried to. With 24 states, the last I knew of, with petitions signed by over 25,000 citizens for secession of each of these states I wonder if the fiscal cliff is the abyss the federal government will use to take their registration roles door to door.
deegee
December 6th, 2012
1:00 pm
Another senator turned lobbyist. At least the lobby is a little less relevant now than they were before the election. Putting Jim DeMint at the helm ensures that they will become even less relevant. Karl Rove and Dick Morris could probably use something to do.
Mick
December 6th, 2012
1:02 pm
That’s what really cracks me up, the ryan plan absolutely does not get us to fiscal responsibility but it does help the wealthy get…drum roll please…..more tax cuts!!! It just never ends…
Morality?
December 6th, 2012
1:04 pm
Paul that is the Dems proposal – definitely not mine. Sure there is wasteful spending in every department of the gub’ment – including the military – but 1/3rd cut to the military? NO. The problem is “wasteful” spending is a matter of opinion and whose lobbyists paid you off. TERM LIMITS for Congress to control wasteful spending. When you have a $16,000,000,000,000 + Fed debt – tax raises for the wealthy won’t even touch it. There aren’t any trillionaires out there. Freeze ALL gub’ment programs now – across the board. That would be a 1st step.
Paul
December 6th, 2012
1:10 pm
Morality?
I’ll stipulate it was a Democratic proposal. But when you write “Obama’s and Hairy Weed’s proposed cuts? The only one definite was to reduce the size of the military by as much as 1/3rd. Now you are going to ask me for a link – gave it to you several times – find it yourself.”
it comes across as if you’re ridiculing it.
Why not a 1/3 cut? It’d still put us in a position of spending more than many of the next-highest spenders combined. The late David Hackworth (USA – ret) who was the most highly decorated living officer, advocated a 50 percent cut, which he said would absolutely not imperil America’s security.
DownInAlbany
December 6th, 2012
1:11 pm
Paul
December 6th, 2012
12:50 pm
Down in Albany
“Straight from the NY Times and the World Socialist whatever. I can’t stop laughing!”
You really, really don’t understand the difference between a source and a secondary publisher, do you? Split hairs much?
See, if the World Socialist Daily reprinted the Beatitudes or the Sermon on the Mount, you really, really shouldn’t announce to the world “what a bunch of cr@p!! What are those socialists at that rag trying to put over on us now?!!!?” I don’t think we have to worry about WSD reprinting Bible verses, now do we?
It’d make you look, well… foolish.
About like how your looney tunes “answers” make you look?
Morality?
December 6th, 2012
1:11 pm
Brosephus – Obama is a FISCAL liberal, his party is FISCAL liberal …….. “W” was FISCAL liberal and his party voted for FISCAL liberal increases in gub’ment programs. Both are and have been fiscally irresponsible for years…… much of the voting public is FISCAL liberal. The bank bailout was and still is a disaster. The crooks are still in charge of the banks that got bailed out. I would have sold off the assets of the crooked banks to the banks that did not get in trouble with the “real estate” debacle and arrested the criminals running the crooked banks and confiscated their ill gotten gains. Instead we still have the crooks that got rich off of this disaster running the banks.
Morality?
December 6th, 2012
1:16 pm
Just what 1/3rd of the military do you want to cut? Like with the other gub’ment programs I wold freeze military spending at current levels to begin with but only if you (Dems) agree to freeze ALL other major gub’ment programs. I doubt if the Dems would even be willing to do that.
USA Patriot
December 6th, 2012
1:20 pm
Just a little Tax / Spending facts for the last 12 years:
(In Millions of Dollars)
Year Total
Receipts Outlays Surplus Tax Rev.% % > Rev
or Deficit Inc / Dec Spent
2000 2,025,191 1,788,950 236,241 10.82% -13.21%
2001 1,991,082 1,862,846 128,236 -1.68% -6.88%
2002 1,853,136 2,010,894 -157,758 -6.93% 7.85%
2003 1,782,314 2,159,899 -377,585 -3.82% 17.48%
2004 1,880,114 2,292,841 -412,727 5.49% 18.00%
2005 2,153,611 2,471,957 -318,346 14.55% 12.88%
2006 2,406,869 2,655,050 -248,181 11.76% 9.35%
2007 2,567,985 2,728,686 -160,701 6.69% 5.89%
2008 2,523,991 2,982,544 -458,553 -1.71% 15.37%
2009 2,104,989 3,517,677 -1,412,688 -16.60% 40.16%
2010 2,162,724 3,456,213 -1,293,489 2.74% 37.43%
2011 2,303,466 3,603,061 -1,299,595 6.51% 36.07%
2012 est. 2,468,599 3,795,547 -1,326,948 7. 17% 34.96%
When did the spending get out of control???
Paul
December 6th, 2012
1:22 pm
DownInAlbany
” Split hairs much?”
What you’re referring to is known as ’shooting the messenger.’ A person delivers bad news to the boss. The boss goes into a tirade and berates the guy who brought the news. Boss does not see that the person who reported to him is just repeating what happened elsewhere.
Of course, I also recognize saying ’splitting hairs much’ can also mean “I did not see I was confusing the message with the reporting agency but I don’t want to admit that so I’ll toss it back on the other guy and blame him for being picky.”
From the rest of your answer, I am forced to conclude you have neither the ability nor the desire to think.
Paul
December 6th, 2012
1:26 pm
Morality?
“Just what 1/3rd of the military do you want to cut?”
When Don Rumsfeld became SecDef under Bush he proposed cancelling all acquisition projects then underway, saying they took over a decade to develop, they were using outmoded technology and the threats they were designed to address were no longer in existence.
The top brass at the Pentagon and the defense corporations closed ranks against him. Weekly newsmags had headlines such as ‘Can Rumsfeld Survive?”
I think that’d be a good start.
We could also pull back from some of the 130 countries where we have a presence.
Those would set us on our way.
Sheets.
USA Patriot
December 6th, 2012
1:28 pm
Well that format got mucked up, here’s the link:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2013/assets/hist01z1.xls
DownInAlbany
December 6th, 2012
1:32 pm
Paul
December 6th, 2012
1:22 pm
DownInAlbany
From the rest of your answer, I am forced to conclude you have neither the ability nor the desire to think.
This from the guy that regurgitates from the World Socialist website. From you, I will wear that as a badge of courage!
williebkind
December 6th, 2012
2:27 pm
Joe Hussein Mama:
“Democrats on a special Congressional committee assigned to reduce the nation’s debt load on Wednesday made their first offer to Republicans based on earlier budget talks that ultimately collapsed.”
Joe, Joe, Joe, is this typical liberal comprehension. Today is Thursday they made their FIRST OFFER Wednesday. Then I realized I should stop reading. This is your website and thanks for the confirmation of how liberals have not done anything in four years.
Joe Hussein Mama
December 6th, 2012
2:30 pm
DIA — “This from the guy that regurgitates from the World Socialist website. From you, I will wear that as a badge of courage!”
Long story short, you got the answer to your question, but you haven’t got the stones to face it.
Joe Hussein Mama
December 6th, 2012
2:31 pm
williebkind — “Joe, Joe, Joe, is this typical liberal comprehension.”
Willie, this is typical Conservative illiteracy.
“Today is Thursday they made their FIRST OFFER Wednesday.”
Wrong. They made it OVER A YEAR AGO.
“Then I realized I should stop reading. This is your website and thanks for the confirmation of how liberals have not done anything in four years.”
Your failure to read and pay attention have been noted.
DebbieDoRight -- A Do Right Woman
December 6th, 2012
2:40 pm
“Obama’s minister “G D America”……. sounds he really loves America alright.”
OK let’s get this over and done with once and hopefully for all –
Excerpted background of Wright’s sermon (not just the part that made all of the conned so angry):
Governments – number one – Governments lie.
This Government lied about their belief that all men were created equal. The truth was they believe all White men were created equal. The truth is they did not believe that even White women were created equal, in creation nor in civilisation.
Governments fail.
The government in this text comprised of Caesar, Cornelius, Pontus Pilot – Pontius Pilate – the Roman government failed. The British government used to rule from east to west. The British government had a Union Jack. She colonised Kenya, Guana, Nigeria, Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad and Hong Kong. Her navies ruled the seven seas all the way down to the tip of Argentina in the Falklands, but the British failed.
The Russian government failed. The Japanese government failed. The German government failed. And the United States of America government, when it came to treating her citizens of Indian decent fairly, she failed.
She put them on reservations. When it came to treating her citizens of Japanese decent fairly, she failed. She put them in internment prison camps. When it came to treating her citizens of African decent fairly, America failed. She put them in chains. The government put them in slave quarters, put them on auction blocks, put them in cotton fields, put them in inferior schools, put them in substandard housing, put them in scientific experiments, put them in the lowest paying jobs, put them outside the equal protection of the law, kept them out of their racist bastions of higher education and locked them into position of hopelessness and helplessness.
The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law, and then wants us to sing “God Bless America.” No, no, no. Not “God Bless America”; God Damn America! That’s in the Bible, for killing innocent people. God Damn America for treating her citizen as less than human. God Damn America as long as she keeps trying to act like she is God and she is supreme!
redneckbluedog
December 6th, 2012
2:43 pm
I’ll bet they have some filth on him, and I’ll bet we’ll find out soon enough what it is….
williebkind
December 6th, 2012
2:45 pm
DebbieDoRight — A Do Right Woman
December 6th, 2012
2:40 pm
It was the declaration of independence that those white men declared that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator.
You accuse white men but I dont see any black men or any other men who have created such a great place. Only you liberals desire to change by calling it a living document so that you can have sex with anything.
redneckbluedog
December 6th, 2012
2:45 pm
Here’s how it’s going to go down: 1. We go over the fiscal cliff. 2. The House refuses to raise the debt ceiling, sending us into default. 3. The American economy crashes, until 2014 when the Democrats regain control of the House. 4. The Republicans never have another President, nor ever hold another majority again. E-V-E-R. 5. My guess is that they split in half, and the moderate Republicans like myself start a new party.
williebkind
December 6th, 2012
2:48 pm
redneckbluedog
December 6th, 2012
2:45 pm
If the economy collapses then there will be civil war. Because I will not give up my bread to feed a liberal.
Joe Hussein Mama
December 6th, 2012
3:30 pm
If you were hungry, I would help you without asking or caring what your politics were. But that just underlines the difference between someone like you and someone like me, willie.
HDB
December 6th, 2012
3:36 pm
williebkind
December 6th, 2012
2:45 pm
DebbieDoRight — A Do Right Woman
December 6th, 2012
2:40 pm
It was the declaration of independence that those white men declared that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator.
You accuse white men but I dont see any black men or any other men who have created such a great place. ”
Lest forget: Crispus Attucks…the FIRST person to DIE in the Revolutionary War; the Massachusetts 54th Regiment — the first all-black regiment in the Civil War; the Buffalo Sodliers, who helped develop the modern West; the Tuskegee Airmen; Ronald McNair, Guy Bluford, Mae Jemison; all of the black veterans who gave their LIVES in defense of this nation; Martin Luther King SR & Jr; Ralphe Bunche; Charles Drew, Edward Brooke, Shrley Chisholm……just to name a FEW!!
I see that you are historically CHALLENGED!!!
Tainted DeMinted Tea
December 6th, 2012
4:09 pm
BEFORE GOD GETS THE NEWS!
Go make your MILLIONS selling your POISINOUS TAINTED TEA.
Tainted DeMinted Tea
December 6th, 2012
4:15 pm
@williebkind
December 6th, 2012
2:48 pm
redneckbluedog
December 6th, 2012
2:45 pm
If the economy collapses then there will be civil war. Because I will not give up my bread to feed a liberal.
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YOU are another crazy person in the room.
WHO would accept bread from someone like you.
Just like CRAZY Jim DeMint selling TAINTED TEA.
WHO would risk eating YOUR MOLDY BREAD?
Tainted DeMinted Tea
December 6th, 2012
4:19 pm
@redneckbluedog
December 6th, 2012
2:45 pm
Here’s how it’s going to go down: 1. We go over the fiscal cliff. 2. The House refuses to raise the debt ceiling, sending us into default. 3. The American economy crashes, until 2014 when the Democrats regain control of the House. 4. The Republicans never have another President, nor ever hold another majority again. E-V-E-R. 5. My guess is that they split in half, and the moderate Republicans like myself start a new party.
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Start a new party?
Yeah right………
Starting a NEW PARTY OF CONS is like…….HERDING CATS
Tainted DeMinted Tea
December 6th, 2012
4:32 pm
@DebbieDoRight — A Do Right Woman
December 6th, 2012
2:40 pm
“Obama’s minister “G D America”……. sounds he really loves America alright.”
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I THOUGHT that horse was ALREADY DEAD.
WHY do unintelligent sadistic people keep BEATING THAT DEAD HORSE.
IT IS DEAD…….
redneckbluedog
December 6th, 2012
6:40 pm
williebkind
December 6th, 2012
2:48 pm
redneckbluedog
December 6th, 2012
2:45 pm
If the economy collapses then there will be civil war. Because I will not give up my bread to feed a liberal.
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Fortunately, the stupid will be the first casualties….Been nice knowing ya….
Musonda
December 6th, 2012
6:42 pm
“The vacancy will be filled through appointment by South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley,…”
Strom Thurmond was cryogenically preserved and is available for reappointment to the Senate.
Tainted DeMinted Tea...Tea Ya!
December 6th, 2012
7:03 pm
@Musonda
December 6th, 2012
6:42 pm
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PLEASE let sleeping DOGS lie.
Don’t WAKE the dogs.
DON’T let the dogs out……….
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