Speaker Tom Price? (Almost) certainly not
House Speaker Tom Price, R-Ga.?
Heaven help us, and the Republican Party, should that come to pass. Such a development would produce a mess that would make Congress of the last two years seem like a smoothly functioning machine by comparison.
Yet according to Robert Costa, writing in National Review:
“Should a debt deal go sour, the buzz is that Tom Price, a 58-year-old physician from Georgia, may challenge John Boehner for the speaker’s gavel.
“Price is the person we’re all watching,” says an aide close to House leadership. “We know he’s frustrated, but we don’t know much else.”
Would Price really make a bid to unseat Boehner? And if so, could he win? (In response to the Costa piece, Price’s spokesperson now says the congressman “is not running for speaker,” which is interesting for a couple of reasons. One is its use of present tense rather than future tense; i.e. “is not running” vs. “will not run.” Nobody suggested that he “is” running. And in an interview with Costa earlier, Price himself had apparently refused to confirm or deny a possible challenge. That would have been the time to stop the rumor dead, had he wanted to do so.)
As I noted in my previous post, former Speaker Newt Gingrich estimates that a budget deal will require 120-140 Democratic votes to pass the House. In other words, Gingrich believes that more than half the Republicans will buck their leadership and refuse to vote for a final deal, which strikes me as a pretty accurate assessment.
The question is, will that be enough? Will conservative congressional Republicans be satisfied by casting personal votes of “no” against tax hikes, even as the hikes themselves go on to become law with the help of GOP leadership? Or, driven by an apoplectic right-wing blogosphere and a media-entertainment industry that thrives on conflict, will they whip themselves into such a frenzy that they demand the head of the man who cut the deal? In this kind of environment, talk of a challenge to Boehner was inevitable, if for no other reason than to keep the speaker on a short leash.
It also makes sense that the talk would center around Price, a conservative who represents the same congressional district once represented by Gingrich. Last month, Price was defeated in his bid for a House leadership post, losing narrowly to a more moderate candidate tacitly backed by Boehner. But he remains ambitious, and is also eying a potential primary challenge to U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss in 2014.
Even if Price lost a challenge to Boehner, the effort itself would establish his conservative credentials to a larger audience and increase his stature for a run against Chambliss. In fact, with the impending departure of Jim DeMint from the Senate, challenging and losing to Boehner over an issue of principle might make Price the leading congressional champion of the Tea Party wing of the GOP. If conservative anger at Boehner gets strong enough, it’s hard to see a downside for Price trying to unseat him.
And if Price won? It would be almost suicidal for the Republicans. Throwing Boehner overboard would cement the party’s reputation as radical and uncompromising. The base might like that fine; the mainstream voter would not. In addition, Price is a pretty grim and confrontational personality, the sort that would not wear well in the public spotlight. If Boehner’s grip on power were seriously endangered, you would probably see Price nudged aside in favor of someone like Paul Ryan.
So yes, a challenge to Boehner by Price is feasible, depending on circumstances. A successful challenge by Price is much less feasible. And a challenge to Chambliss is the most feasible of all. Because clearly, this is a congressman who sees himself going places.
– Jay Bookman
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Ivan
December 10th, 2012
4:12 pm
“Ilove it when the little fellers try to act all grown up and sound like they know what they are talking about. When did Ipad start using a google OS? Oh wait. It didn’t. silly little guy.”
I love it that your shallow mind only thinks Google makes Operating Systems. Silly little girl.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
December 10th, 2012
4:12 pm
We need TERM LIMITS for Congress…
We already have TERM LIMITS, they’re called ELECTIONS.
Fred ™
December 10th, 2012
4:13 pm
Morality?
December 10th, 2012
4:10 pm
Test of the Emergency Alert System on Jay’s blog………. blahhhhhhhh – blahhhhhhh – blahhhhhhhh! When you hear this sound again you will know that Jay and Obama’s lemmings have gone over the cliff. This is only a test.
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And HERE is a perfect example of someone NOT an independent. Here is an example of a FOXBOT.
Morality?
December 10th, 2012
4:14 pm
I am from Georgia ….. if you don’t like it here Jay you are more than welcome to go where you will be comfortable. I will be happy to buy you a one way ticket to Vermont, Massachusetts, or D.C. – your choice.
Fred ™
December 10th, 2012
4:14 pm
josef: one or two it would seem. And thanks to them all.
josef
December 10th, 2012
4:15 pm
FRED
Everybody knows that the dead are a GOP demographic…Jeeze, Mate, you know that…
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
December 10th, 2012
4:15 pm
I am from Georgia ….. if you don’t like it here Jay you are more than welcome to go where you will be comfortable.
I was born on Peachtree Street, sport.
josef
December 10th, 2012
4:16 pm
FRED
I think there were at least four…
Fred ™
December 10th, 2012
4:16 pm
Ivan
December 10th, 2012
4:12 pm
“Ilove it when the little fellers try to act all grown up and sound like they know what they are talking about. When did Ipad start using a google OS? Oh wait. It didn’t. silly little guy.”
I love it that your shallow mind only thinks Google makes Operating Systems. Silly little girl.
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Oh so you have to call names and be insulting because you were WRONG? Fred is a girls name? Really? Are you THAT STUPID? Or are you being deliberately insulting? Come on now, man up and tell the truth.
Google just recently started making OS’s for pad and smart phones and that is EXACTLY what you meant and you were WRONG. You just aren’t enough of a man to admit it.
Nero
December 10th, 2012
4:19 pm
Price will not be Speaker, and there will be no compromise. The Republicans have caved but will not agree to a deal with hypothetical spending cuts. They’re gonna catch the blame regardless of which way it goes. Better to go off the Cliff with guaranteed tax increases and across the board spending cuts.
St Simons - aboriginal BOOTAKOOK 2014
December 10th, 2012
4:21 pm
‘I am from Georgia …..’
duuude, you don’t wanna go there…
Jay & people like him might be the last voice in the wilderness, the
voices that eventually saves Georgia from itself. And we will.
Morality?
December 10th, 2012
4:22 pm
Don’t watch or listen to ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, CNBC or FOX – they each have their own political agenda…… it’s all propaganda. GET my news from PBS TV ……… though supported by and run by the left – close as neutral as you can get from a TV station. There are two TV series I like “Criminal Minds” and “CSI Miami”.. Watch college football and the NFL (if the Falcons are playing) and the Braves if they have a decent team. Got bored with the NBA which seems to go year round but will pro
Fred ™
December 10th, 2012
4:22 pm
I’m hungry. I want Yaki Mandu and some fish soup over rice. Maybe some kimchee………
For those who don’t know what Yaki Mandu is: http://preview.tinyurl.com/a6zrbg5
Peadawg
December 10th, 2012
4:22 pm
“We need TERM LIMITS for Congress…”
AMEN! We need to keep these idiots from continually being voted into office despite their miserable records. Elections aren’t doing the trick b/c voters keep falling for the bs.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 10th, 2012
4:22 pm
Morality, I’ll be glad to take you up on your offer of taking a trip. Tell you what, you just sent me the money for a one way flight to Boston. I won’t even charge you for hotel and meals, or airport parking. You send the check to Jay made out to cash and put Keep inthe memo. Jay will let me know when he receives it.
josef
December 10th, 2012
4:22 pm
FRED
Prudence avec la langue que tu utilse…il est un אַסשאַט !
Regnad Kcin
December 10th, 2012
4:23 pm
Nero,
That was nearly thoughtful. Way to go, dude!
Regnad Kcin
December 10th, 2012
4:25 pm
un אַסשאַט
A derrierre derby?
Morality?
December 10th, 2012
4:25 pm
St Simoan – dude I go where I please……… and don’t be calling me dude – dude. Look up the term dude. That’s what you are – not me.
josef
December 10th, 2012
4:25 pm
Keep
“Jay will let me know when he receives it.”
Yeah, but don’t forget his 10% fee…
Nero
December 10th, 2012
4:27 pm
Peadawg,
Voters are just as much idiots as the morons they continually vote into office. Don’t blame the politicians. Blame the idiots who keep sending them there.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
December 10th, 2012
4:28 pm
… and don’t be calling me dude
Dudette then.
Nero
December 10th, 2012
4:30 pm
Ragnad,
You’ve confused me with Bookman. He’s the one you suck up to. Thanks anyway.
St Simons - aboriginal BOOTAKOOK 2014
December 10th, 2012
4:30 pm
i don’t know, dude. With my tribal hat & feathers I’m a pretty cool dude.
Not near as pretentiously cool as josef & those cheroquoi dudes
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 10th, 2012
4:33 pm
josef, you can join us for the trip.
No problem with the 10% fee but I suggest that Morality just double the amount and Jay and I split it. $450 for each person. Come on Morality. You offered the price of a one way trip and I am sure Jay would love to go back to Boston. I know I would. There are probably a few others who will go with us if we can agree on a place for lunch.
Peadawg
December 10th, 2012
4:34 pm
“Voters are just as much idiots as the morons they continually vote into office.”
I know.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 10th, 2012
4:34 pm
Now if more people take you up on the offer, you will have to pay the $450 for each.
You on for it Morality? Big shot
Erwin's cat
December 10th, 2012
4:35 pm
Maybe some kimchee………
maybe?
Morality?
December 10th, 2012
4:39 pm
Keep – Need to run a back ground check on you 1st to be sure you are real. Tell you what…… go ahead and send Jay on and I will wire the money after I get a contact number from the half way house Jay will be residing in. Only going to pay if he NEVER returns to Georgia. Tried to get Jay to take me up on a small bet that the Fed Debt won’t be ONE CENT lower when Obama leaves office than it is today – say my put up my house against his. Been waiting days now but Jay has not replied. Still the offer is on the table. No rush Jay – just let me know one day before Obama leaves office – bet will be good till then.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
December 10th, 2012
4:40 pm
Been waiting days now but Jay has not replied.
Not intended to be a factual statement.
skipper
December 10th, 2012
4:41 pm
Helluva choice lately………..we go from Pelosi (not good) to Boehner (not good) and now a loon is looking in. My usual question, to Jay and ALL: Is there anybody out there with common f*ckin sense that up for the job????? Both parties are too extreme..in opposite directions. Maybe we need to make Judge Joe Brown the dictator…….
Morality?
December 10th, 2012
4:42 pm
I need it done all legal like – you do understand that a ONE way trip means you agree NOT to ever return to Georgia? I got my $450 right here.
josef
December 10th, 2012
4:43 pm
Regnard
chapeau à cul?
Je ne suis pas sûr. Mais pour Fred, le mot “français” suffira! C’est une assez bonne insulte!
TaxPayer
December 10th, 2012
4:44 pm
Come to think of it, I should be asking any potential doctors to tell me where the science covering evolution and the Big Bang theory, etc., come from before I decide whether or not to trust him with my well being. I’ll leave the Paul Brouns of the world to treat folks like Scout, Sinkwich, et al. After all, any good Republican should know that all he needs is faith in his doctor’s skill set and he shall be saved.
Morality?
December 10th, 2012
4:44 pm
Kamchak – actually – this time is factual – I made this offer to him several weeks ago and I am still waiting for him to decide – said he would consider it. Be worth $450 to ship Jay off – but you – I don’t know.
Logical Dude
December 10th, 2012
4:46 pm
It’s okay if you call me Dude.
Morality?
December 10th, 2012
4:46 pm
I had 2 years of Frenchie in high school and two courses of Frenchie in college…… so Fermez La
Bouche!
Morality?
December 10th, 2012
4:47 pm
Dude Ranches are for Dudes…… gringo.
getalife
December 10th, 2012
4:47 pm
Weed is legal in Colorado today.
Free the weed and gay marriage cons.
Jay
December 10th, 2012
4:48 pm
“Tried to get Jay to take me up on a small bet that the Fed Debt won’t be ONE CENT lower when Obama leaves office than it is today – say my put up my house against his. Been waiting days now but Jay has not replied. Still the offer is on the table. No rush Jay – just let me know one day before Obama leaves office – bet will be good till then.”
I did reply, Morality. I said it was a ridiculously stupid bet to even offer, and that by offering it you showed a lack of comprehension about basic issues.
From a month ago:
http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2012/11/12/georgias-tom-price-a-central-figure-in-d-c-drama/?cp=all#comment-1148207
josef
December 10th, 2012
4:48 pm
He ne ha…
Yeah, but you gotta admit the Tsa-la-gi have got the rest beat when it comes to panache!
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
December 10th, 2012
4:48 pm
I made this offer to him several weeks ago…
Yep, I was here every time you made that offer.
That means I was also here when he responded to you, sport.
He explained that it was a sucker bet and he explained why.
Not his fault that you didn’t see it, sport.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 10th, 2012
4:50 pm
Morality, sorry pal, you are backpeddling and weaseling right now. You offered: I will be happy to buy you a one way ticket to Vermont, Massachusetts, or D.C. – your choice Nothing was said about moving, never returning, etc. You going to be a big boy and stick to your offer or you gonna be a weasel. My guess is that the full weasel is what you are doing.
Dave
December 10th, 2012
4:50 pm
Seriously? Tom Price as a problem. Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi…sorry but speaking as a fiscal conservative if the Republican Party is to be viable long term the answer is not to be Democrat lite. It is not compromise if you give the Democrats everything they want and get nothing in return. Perhaps it would be better in the long to to get leaders who will fight for fiscal principals and start to tell the story about what it really means to job growth, better wages, improved life for more Americans that the so called promises of the democratic party.
getalife
December 10th, 2012
4:53 pm
There are no leaders in the gop and the last cycle proved that fact.
The gop primary was a circus and flat out hilarious.
TaxPayer
December 10th, 2012
4:54 pm
Let’s look at the math, shall we, because even a Republican pollster would comprehend just how flawed your case really is:
Wait just one cotton pickin’ minute here. Republican pollsters are clearly not that smart. I believe some of them even still think Mitt won, based on their unskewed polls. Morality probably had numerous Republicans take him up on that bet.
josef
December 10th, 2012
4:56 pm
Morality.
Donc, va t’en. Con…
Doggone/GA
December 10th, 2012
4:56 pm
“Perhaps it would be better in the long to to get leaders who will fight for fiscal principals and start to tell the story about what it really means to job growth, better wages, improved life for more Americans that the so called promises of the democratic party”
I applaud your conservative sentiments…let us know when you can get the so-called “conservative” party to actually adopt them.
Morality?
December 10th, 2012
4:58 pm
Excuse me while I get some green tea and that cactus fruit.Spose to make you feel good and get rid of the free radicals (left or right wing) and the inflammation in your body (caused gub’ment idiocy). Work good too.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
December 10th, 2012
5:01 pm
Excuse me while I get some green tea and that cactus fruit
Does that make the crow go down easier?
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 10th, 2012
5:02 pm
Kam, it will help clean out his system. Seems he is so backed up he is full of shyte.
josef
December 10th, 2012
5:02 pm
Morality
La bouche? Fermez là, Mec!
indigo
December 10th, 2012
5:02 pm
Logic and common sense would dictate the Republicans will not damage themselves even more by electing Price as Speaker.
Unfortunately for the Republicans, logic and common sense have been in short supply for years now.
So, anything is possible.
Brosephus™
December 10th, 2012
5:03 pm
Jay 1
Morality? 0
getalife
December 10th, 2012
5:05 pm
morality?No.
You got owned.
Fred ™
December 10th, 2012
5:06 pm
Dude: an American English slang term for an individual. It typically applies to males, although the word can encompass all genders.
Wow, I fail to see the problem with “dude.” It’s not like he said dumb ass or anything. Dude is a perfectly acceptable and congenial term. How does one get uptight about that?
As to “the bet?” I mentioned the day it ws offered. Who would want to take you up on it? I’m sure Jay’s house is worth WAY more than your single wide trailer in Winder………
KAM are you in Georgia now or up in them thar hills?
indigo
December 10th, 2012
5:08 pm
Jay – 4:48 “ridiculously stupid”
I believe you threatened to kick me out of here if I used language like that again.
Oh well. I guess the rule here is “do as I say, not as I do”.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
December 10th, 2012
5:08 pm
Fred
I’m in the hills.
Probably come back to the ATL sometime this week.
Morality?
December 10th, 2012
5:10 pm
Playing Poker tonight with Terez (African American) and Jose (also called George/Mexican), Keaneu ( American Indian), Lee (white guy who won $20,000 in Vegas WPT 3 years ago) and several other buds. Even got a few ladies in there. Lots of fun- WPT tournament – not a cash game. Been playing with them 4 years now – every monday and wednesday night – and doesn’t cost a dime to get in. You are invited if you don’t talk politics. Got to be able to withstand an occasional drunk (maybe two or three at a time) and way to much nasty talk and on a rare occasion a bad sport that got beat by a one outer. Sign over the door “If you fight here banned for a year”. Nice place. If you are down here some time drop in.
Fred ™
December 10th, 2012
5:12 pm
Well Kam, since you are up in the hills I WAS going to offer to take you for a steak at Parkers on Ponce. ( http://parkersonponce.com/menu.html# ).
If you were here in Atlanta I would see if you wanted to go get a beer at Local 7 lol.
Doggone/GA
December 10th, 2012
5:12 pm
“I believe you threatened to kick me out of here if I used language like that again”
The operatvie word in that sentence is “AGAIN”
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 10th, 2012
5:12 pm
Weasel playing poker? Is that available on black velvet like them dogs?
Jay
December 10th, 2012
5:12 pm
Indigo, it appears that you and Fred are in a contest of sorts to see who can portray himself as the blog’s biggest victim of injustice.
Just a hint: There’s a difference between “that’s a stupid bet” and “you are stupid.”
Wait a minute
December 10th, 2012
5:15 pm
Let’s think about the other side of the coin. Will anyone be able to get 120-140 Dems to raise taxes on EVERYONE in order to get a deal done? We go over the cliff, everyone pays. I would think Repubs will only agree to a tax increase where everyone pays, and Dems will have to go along with it as you’ll have a hard core right that won’t raise anyone’s taxes, and you’ll have an equally idiotic liberal wing that thinks 1-2% of the population has a few hundred billion a year they have lying around to give to the government. We are stuck between a rock head and a hard head, so to speak (well, just squeezed in between equally imbecilic elected officials)
Morality?
December 10th, 2012
5:16 pm
No where near Winder. and spent time briefly in a single wide while in college. No privacy…. no insulation….. no stayed. Lived in Atlanta. From 7th to 12th grade and again after college for one year. Don’t like sitting in traffic moving at a snails pace. Still visit on occasion. Got a sister in Mayretta. I’m in SOUTH Georgia now. From one extreme to the other. Quiet here – real quiet.
Morality?
December 10th, 2012
5:18 pm
Weasel – thanks for the comp.
Jay
December 10th, 2012
5:18 pm
So Morality, no response?
Fred ™
December 10th, 2012
5:19 pm
morality (why did I think you added an extra l all this time): I tried Atl Poker club at the Wooden Nickle. I was doing very well. Then some stupid trailer trash tramp from Winder strong arms the dealer out of the game starts talking trash and insulting everyone. As you said, it’s free. I tossed my chips at her, the floor, ect, told her to…… well I can’t say that here. Haven’t played that amateur cheating crap since then. Have fun.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
December 10th, 2012
5:20 pm
Holy crap, Fred.
30 bucks for a rib eye?
I recognize that place, but it wasn’t Parker’s on Ponce when I last went in there for a drink. It was Mick’s, I believe.
Morality?
December 10th, 2012
5:20 pm
Time to get ready for a little hold ‘em…. see you fellow weasels around? Have a lovely day (smiley face patent applied for)
Morality?
December 10th, 2012
5:23 pm
Jay lives! Which comment do you wish for me to comment on mon amie?
Morality?
December 10th, 2012
5:25 pm
Forgive me Jay but I’ve got to get ready for poker but I will check back for your reply – and then try to respond in a timely manner.
Corbin Sharpe. I think, therefore I am...I think
December 10th, 2012
5:26 pm
Whupped ‘em again, Josie…er…Jay.
indigo
December 10th, 2012
5:26 pm
Jay
At no time have I ever referred to myself as a “victim” here.
I just don’t do too well if I feel I’m being singled out.
Hint – Telling someone “that’s a stupid thing you did” is a close first cousin to “you are stupid”.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
December 10th, 2012
5:27 pm
Jay lives! Which comment do you wish for me to comment on mon amie?
The one that is shaded in light blue.
Du-uh.
josef
December 10th, 2012
5:27 pm
IMAM
And you can call it “gypsy” jus’ so long’s you don’t capitalize it!
Fred ™
December 10th, 2012
5:27 pm
Jay
December 10th, 2012
5:12 pm
Indigo, it appears that you and Fred are in a contest of sorts to see who can portray himself as the blog’s biggest victim of injustice.
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Why you gotta lie Jay? I’m quite capable AND willing to handle insults and insulters myself. YOU however get your panties in a wad when I do. When I ask you to handle it, you are an ass about it quite frankly. Make up your mind please. I don’t need your poorly veiled insults more than I need indigo’s. it’s your blog, you want to be the bully boy then that’s your choice isn’t it. You want to ban me, that’s your choice. You ant to insult me and expect me to put up with it, wrong answer pal. Use the same standards for everyone.
However you were called out last night by several other IMPARTIAL folks on your actions towards me, so don’t blame me for that. I was at supper and having a family night. I went back about thirty minutes ago on someones advise and checked them out.
I can handle indigo, little Del and all the other small minded folks all by myself, I have my whole life. However, when I try NOT to do it myself, it seems you fell a need to threaten me or like just now, insult me. I’m nobodies damn “victim.” A victim is someone powerless over the course of their life and you talk to anyone who knows me and that sure as hell ain’t me.
I would politely invite you to BITE ME, but I’m not allowed to invite folks, make suppositions on the reasons for their irrational actions and posts, or even it may come to pass, speak out against being bullied. But I did speak out. Not a victim.
Have a great evening.
Morality?
December 10th, 2012
5:28 pm
Fred – We will treat you better at our poker club – regardless of your political faith. Every one has a right to their opinion – for now – in this great country.
indigo
December 10th, 2012
5:28 pm
Doggone/GA – 5:12
I must have missed the announcement here where you were appointed Jay’s offical spokesperson.
pogo
December 10th, 2012
5:31 pm
For the republicans, it is apparent from the last election that the time has come to let Obama and the leftists have their way and let the cards fall as they may. There is no way for the republicans to battle the un-ending entitlements that Obama has provided them which are just making people lazier and more dependent upon the government.Though Obama has no plan beyond “taxing the rich” for solving this country’s fiscal problems, it is time for conservatives to step aside and let him do his will because 51% of this country voted for him and apparently agree with this policies. Jay has spent many many hours supporting exactly that same belief and so have many of you so the ball is in your court now. Another words, the best advice to the republicans is do nothing; make no deal with Obama and when the time comes to vote on it the so-called “fiscal cliff” just vote “present”. That will place the entire future of what happens to this country and its children into the lap of Obama and his supporters. This is Obama’s economy now. As history has proven again and again, the ones that suffer the most from ill conceived leftist fiscal policies are the poor and the middle class and it is about to happen again. It was revealed that Google, a bigtime Obama supporter and whose CEO is a pretty much a resident at the Obama Whitehouse, is hiding billions in a taxfree offshore tax haven. How easy you liberal idiots are played for fools.
josef
December 10th, 2012
5:33 pm
JAY
“…comment on mon amie?”
Tu es UNE amie..les choses qu’on apprend ici… but, answer the pleasantry as Granny taught you…how are you?
Doggone/GA
December 10th, 2012
5:33 pm
“I must have missed the announcement here where you were appointed Jay’s offical spokesperson”
You must have also missed that this is an open forum and anyone can reply to any post they choose.
barking frog
December 10th, 2012
5:34 pm
pogo 5:31 o.k. that should work…
getalife
December 10th, 2012
5:37 pm
pogo,
Surrender?
Seriously?
What happened ?
josef
December 10th, 2012
5:38 pm
TORQUEMADA
“Indigo, it appears that you and Fred are in a contest of sorts to see who can portray himself as the blog’s biggest victim of injustice.”
D*mn, I thought you’d already given me the lifetime achievement award there…I guess that’s what happens when you rest on your laurels…I need to get hoppin given my competition…
getalife
December 10th, 2012
5:42 pm
pogo,
They gave w everything he wanted except for immigration and look what happened.
Your ideology failed and when the Dems win the house, our President will get everything he wants.
Morality?
December 10th, 2012
5:42 pm
Jay – I missed your reply earlier. My apologies. Not on here every day around the clock. Of course it is a sucker bet. I am very aware of that and what we are up against. I made a bet I can not lose and you know , as well as I, that the Fed Debt won’t be ONE CENT lower than it is today – at least not in your life time (say about 30 more years?). That was my point – Obama’s promises are false. He has no plan that is workable and neither do the Repubs. This situation was caused by the people that continue to vote for big gub’ment spending programs that are unfunded – or at least under funded. I am a FISCAL conservative. Voters don’t have the back bone to reduce the debt. That is why I am for TERM LIMITS on Congress (all parties) and for a Constitutional amendment to balance the budget – similar to what we have in Georgia. I didn’t vote for “W” or Obama – both Fiscal Liberals.
getalife
December 10th, 2012
5:44 pm
Why not go to a real casino and play real poker?
Morality?
December 10th, 2012
5:44 pm
Jay’s not going to take me up on my bet….. guess he doesn’t expect Obama to save America.
barking frog
December 10th, 2012
5:45 pm
getalife
Our President will get everything he wants in January when the
military begins to scream from sequestration if no deal is made.
josef
December 10th, 2012
5:46 pm
getalife
Yeah, and do like your and make your contribution to indemnities!
Kenya
December 10th, 2012
5:47 pm
I’m torn on the House speaker issue. I like the idea of having a(nother) Georgian in the job, but Boehner has a better tan.
barking frog
December 10th, 2012
5:47 pm
getalife 5:44
you need real money to play in a casino…
TM
December 10th, 2012
5:48 pm
Get=he already got everything and thanks to him I will start paying so you can have Obama care starting Jan 1. This is before the tax increase he now wants. Oh but no one wants to talk about that tax increase that was enacted when you were in charge
Morality?
December 10th, 2012
5:48 pm
Indigo – take a deep breath and let it go. Negative comments can’t hurt you unless you open your heart to them – consider where they come from….. ignore them and you will do find. Respond to hate with love.
getalife
December 10th, 2012
5:51 pm
“Obama to save America.”
He already did con.
frog,
I have not heard the military cry about cuts after they had a blank check for a decade. It amazes me to read the so called “fiscal cons” cheer leading the trillions wasted in the military and corporate welfare.
barking frog
December 10th, 2012
5:51 pm
The republicans should offer Pelosi the speakership job, after all
she passed mitt’s healthcare plan.
Morality?
December 10th, 2012
5:53 pm
I do play in casinos – not so much recently. Like Biloxi and Vegas….. but not the Indian casinos so much. I prefer black jack, baccarat and poker against someone besides the house – like hold ‘em or stud poker and Omaha. Betting against the house is for suckers. Slot machines are rigged.
Corbin Sharpe. I think, therefore I am...I think
December 10th, 2012
5:53 pm
Off topic, but I likes it!
Newsmax.com
Breaking from Newsmax.com
Poll: Majority Wants ‘Road to Citizenship’ for Immigrants
A sizeable majority of Americans – 62 percent – support allowing illegal and undocumented immigrants to earn citizenship, compared to 35 percent who are opposed, according to a poll from Politico/George Washington University.
Among Republicans, the idea receives plurality support, with 49 percent in favor and 45 percent opposed. Democrats favor the idea 74 percent to 24 percent. And among independents, 61 percent support it, while 35 percent are opposed.
The idea of allowing children of illegal or undocumented immigrants to stay here permanently, if they complete a college degree or serve in the military —part of the DREAM Act — receives an even stronger majority of 77 percent. Only 19 percent are opposed.
Some Americans apparently don’t feel President Barack Obama has gone far enough in easing immigration rules. A total of 48 percent disapprove of his immigration policy, and 45 percent approve.
Republican pollster Ed Goeas, who helped conduct the bipartisan survey, says Republicans shouldn’t view an immigration-reform bill as a cure-all. “Immigration just gets us a seat at the table. That maybe gets them to listen to us,” he said. “It does not get us votes.” In any case, “We need to do it because it’s the right thing to do, not to get a constituency,” Goeas said.
Meanwhile, Democratic pollster Celinda Lake, who also helped on the survey, said, “The public is there for immigration reform. The Republicans are marginalizing themselves and losing Latino voters, and their own base is not even with them.”
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getalife
December 10th, 2012
5:53 pm
TM,
What did you pay?