T.H.R.O. poster is an ancestor, and warning, for tea party
“I’M MAD AS HELL AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!”
That angry message in bold typeface; the glaring face of a retiree named Jack Gargan; his Jeffersonian list of grievances against Congress — it was all so familiar as I unrolled the poster, a relic from my childhood and the tea party’s ancestry.
Twenty years ago, Gargan used a series of newspaper ads to start a grassroots movement: T.H.R.O., or Throw the Hypocritical Rascals Out. I remember the bumper sticker on my dad’s Buick LeSabre, the related parody from Fox 97’s Shower Stall Singers: “(Those Congress Checks Are Bouncing Like a) Red Rubber Ball.”
I came across a poster print of the ad while helping my parents move houses recently. Reading the list of indictments Gargan made against Washington, I could only reflect that the tea party came into being because so little has changed:
“I’M APPALLED,” he wrote, “that Congress continues to hock the future of our children and grandchildren. Our national debt is now over 3 TRILLION dollars, and going higher by the minute. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!”
The debt has grown by $10 trillion since then; it rises by about $2 million a minute according to USDebtClock.org.
“I’M ANGRY that, after being told by the American public that their existing salary was already an overpayment on their abilities, [Congress] turned right around and arrogantly voted themselves the biggest raise in history!”
Since 1990, the salary of representatives has risen by 80 percent, and senators by 77 percent, to $174,000 a year.
“I’M LIVID when I recall how, in typically gutless congressional style, they let an ‘outside commission’ stick the younger American workers with a raise in Social Security taxes … knowing full well there will not be enough money to fund that same ‘baby-boom’ generation who will be footing most of the bill.”
The baby boomers are beginning to retire with Social Security afloat. But there is a change: Now Congress leaves it to the president to appoint a National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.
“I’M ENRAGED when I see money pouring in to incumbents from PACs, special interest groups who use their money to stifle public interest, to congressmen who will sell their soul for another term in office.”
Political action committees, or PACs, are still around. But the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance law pushed much of their “soft money” into 527 groups that campaign with still more opacity.
“I’M DISGUSTED at the number of shady dealings by members of Congress …. Something’s mighty wrong with the system when 98% of incumbents are re-elected. The other 2% don’t lose. They either go out feet first, or in total disgrace for conduct too embarrassing even for congressional standards!”
In 2008, about 94 percent of incumbents who sought re-election won. Gargan’s list goes on, but you get the idea.
Since 1990, control of Congress has gone from the Democrats to the GOP and back again. But the lesson of Gargan and T.H.R.O. isn’t partisan.
After backing Ross Perot in 1992, Gargan’s movement slowly fizzled out. The disengagement from those who thought like Gargan was costly. By the time they woke up in 2009, we were close to the brink.
Whatever happens this November, constant Gargan-esque vigilance will be needed afterward. Two more decades of neglect, and we’re Greece.
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wingnuts r hypocrites
July 31st, 2010
7:59 pm
Lil’ Barry I don’t read the blogs enough to know if you do. I hope you did, because that’s the biggest problem I see with conservatives; not their philosophy, their hypocrisy.
I fully expect most Democrats to offer nanny state solutions that do as much to disempower as empower, but looking at the nanny state solutions the Republicans offer, as well as the political cover they give to those who have violated the rule of law, makes a mockery of their philosophical high ground.
If Hannity were consistent, he would have rightly held both Congressman King and the Weiner to a commitment to read every bill they pass, but the fact that he gave King a free pass shows him to be no more than a partisan hack.
Mr. Nads
July 31st, 2010
8:01 pm
Then Kyle , answer me this..
The Tea Party is a good thing and the black panthers are trouble- RIGHT OR WRONG ??
I NEED AN ANSWER.
Grand Forks
July 31st, 2010
8:38 pm
“Grand Forks, yeah it is personal idiot! Go fork off!”
Wow, what an original comeback, retard.
tick…tick…tick….
Grand Forks
July 31st, 2010
8:39 pm
“went ballistic on the House floor Thursday over his Republican colleagues’ failure to pass”
Calhoun has the IQ of a carrot. Guess she doesn’t realize that the demotards could pass it without republicans.
wingnuts r hypocrites
July 31st, 2010
8:44 pm
Yet Grand Forks can give us no reason not to call people like Hannity partisan hacks when they will ask the Weiner to commit to reading every bill, but won’t ask the same thing of Congressman King when they are both on the same show at the same time.
T Knight
July 31st, 2010
8:44 pm
Phantom…….. Anger is not a blueprint for governance. It is, however, a very convenient stepladder for crooks, phonies, crackpots and tyrants to gain office.
…….and makes foolish uninformed people blindly vote for who their husband, wife, union representive, pastor, favorite actor, favorite muscian, tell them too.
In the end we the people get screwed.
both sides of the coin
July 31st, 2010
8:48 pm
The fact of the matter is both sides are putting political posturing ahead of the first responders; both sides. Anyone not willing to admit this is being intellectually dishonest.
Ayn Rant
July 31st, 2010
9:10 pm
Oops! Lii’ Barry, you fell for the promises and the “philosophies” of an air-head actor-President without reviewing his abilities and accomplishments.
Reagan increased the size of government, initiated peacetime deficit spending, and created the economic recession that swept the hapless Bush, Sr. from office at the end of his first term.
The Clinton administration reduced the size of government, moved millions of people off welfare into jobs, pulled the economy and the stock market up from gloom to boom, and brought the federal budget from deep deficit to burgeoning surplus.
Why do you defend the Reagan administration for doing the opposite of what you suggest, and condemn the Clinton adminstration for doing what you wanted done?
See, that’s the problem with many American voters. They’re suckers for inept politicians who say what they want to hear.
Government isn’t the problem; you are the problem with government!
Lil' Barry Bailout
July 31st, 2010
9:50 pm
On the contrary. Our President Reagan pulled the country out of the malaise and economic disaster of the late 70s. He rebuilt a decimated military. And he restored the confidence of Americans in their country. The economy went on to grow for most of the next twenty years thanks to Him.
Now, all that is water under the bridge. Now we have a $3.5 trillion dollar federal government budget and a $1.5 trillion deficit. Thousands of new IRS agents on the way. Thousands more new federal employees in other departments. Near 10% unemployment. Possibly a double-dip recession. I’m just a little more interested in the disaster we have in office now than anyone we’ve had in the past.
Lil' Barry Bailout
July 31st, 2010
10:34 pm
Regarding the vote on health care for 9/11 first responders that Democrats couldn’t pass through the House, where they have a huge majority (from Yahoo News):
At the heart of the debate was a procedural maneuver made by Democrats to suspend the rules before consideration of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act. The move allowed leadership to block potential GOP amendments to the measure.
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Hmmm, so it failed because the Democrats didn’t want to follow their own rules, so they could block any attempt at bipartisanship?
Why do Democrats hate 9/11 first responders?
both sides of the coin
July 31st, 2010
10:49 pm
“At the heart of the debate was a procedural maneuver made by Democrats to suspend the rules before consideration of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act. The move allowed leadership to block potential GOP amendments to the measure.”
Thank you for pointing out Lil Barry, how both sides played politics with the issue.
uno
July 31st, 2010
11:10 pm
Incredibly, Reagan was actually the head of the govenment when he said this “In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” As is their habit, the right is wrong again.
Don't forget
August 1st, 2010
9:40 am
both sides of the coin
July 31st, 2010
8:48 pm
The fact of the matter is both sides are putting political posturing ahead of the first responders; both sides. Anyone not willing to admit this is being intellectually dishonest.
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Actually the dispute involved a Republican attempt to add immigration provisions to the 9/11 relief fund bill. This is a maneuver that has been used by both parties for decades or more to either get unwarranted pork spending into bills or provisions that are either politically embarassing or politically objectionable to the party in power. It is the so called “poison pill” that allows the party out of power to either kill good legislation or enact bad legislation as a cost for getting something done. This “tacking on” of completely unrelated provisions is a major reason why we get so much pork and bad legislation from the congress. In my opinion, it would make a lot more sense to let the minority party have more input into what legislation is considered than to let them tack these items onto unrelated bills.
Don't forget
August 1st, 2010
10:52 am
Dave R.
August 1st, 2010
10:34 am
“but I am very unlikely to support a conservative politician or party because of their broad generalizations and rigid thinking.”
And yet you broadly generalize conservatives with this very statement . . .
Just sayin’.
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Ok, point taken. I should have mentioned the exceptions such as Lindsey Graham, Susan Collins, Olympia Snow and probably a handful more I haven’t thought of and it doesn’t apply to all voters or bloggers but as Bob Dylan sang “It doesn’t take a weatherman to know which way the wind blows”
Bu Bar
August 1st, 2010
11:02 am
The tea party is civilized , the black panthers is not.
Watch Fox News .
Hannity
Beck
O’Reilly
Dobbs
Covuto
Nuff Said……………………………….
songbird
August 1st, 2010
3:23 pm
Bu Bar – “The tea party is civilized, the black panthers is (are) not. Nice grammar on your part. Keep watching Fox News. Your have the IQ of a carrot. lol
Bama Kid
August 1st, 2010
5:24 pm
Go change you your diaper you pansey boy. Liberal is in everything you say. You look it too.
Grand Forks
August 1st, 2010
7:38 pm
“Nice grammar on your part.”
Then she wrote
“Your have the IQ of a carrot. lol”
Gotta love stupid people.
Lil' Barry Bailout
August 1st, 2010
7:45 pm
Don’t forget: Ok, point taken. I should have mentioned the exceptions such as Lindsey Graham, Susan Collins, Olympia Snow and probably a handful more
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You haven’t named any CONSERVATIVES yet.
TruthBe
August 1st, 2010
8:40 pm
Algonquin j.Calhoun, hey juicedrinker the truth hurts don’t it. I ‘ll say it again the preverted progressive liberal democrats are the main problem with America. That means you moron. Obama is the worst president America has ever had. And he still has two more years to destroy freedom and prosperity.
Michael Honohan
August 1st, 2010
9:08 pm
I am now appalled. Not by anything Jack had to say, but that someone would try to compare it to the Tea Party. I find the comparision a mere coincidence. The Tea Party, despite its claims, are part and parcel of the extreme right-wing of the Republican Party. Is there one Tea Party Independent? How about any fiscal conservative Democrat Tea Party Candidate? Google thinks not.
I was in Florida when Jack started. I was with the Reform Party and with the Libertarians before and after. The Tea Party is no Reform movement.
Let me tell about Reform Party people. We had no love for the Republicans. Many of us were so called Reagan Democrats. True reform knows no political parties. When Reagan made a start toward shrinking the size of the federal government, he called upon Peter Grace a DEMOCRAT! While the Reagan revolution did not see fruition in his time, much of the Contract in America was a good start. One little known fact. According to Trent Lott, Bill Clinton – A DEMOCRAT! – was a pro-active partner in not only implementing the legislation, according to Lott, he actually co-authored much of it. Then we go Bush/Cheney who spend like drunken soldiers and unlike Democrats, gave us nothing in return. Zero. Only two Presidents in my lifetime balanced a budget – both DEMOCRATS!. However, during the Bush 1 years, we saw no move on reform. Republicans always lie. After Perot failed to be elected, the Republicans, with their co-horts int the power sharing cabal, changed election laws to be sure it will never happen again.
Please do not mistake me. I am no fan of Democrats. But the do what they say they will do. Republicans lie about everything to get into office. They only delivery tax cuts to the rich. Hey Bush, what happened to all those jobs those tax cuts where suppose to create? Oh yeah, Mexico, South Korea, China, Saudi Arabia, India, Pakistan… Not to mention the 52,000 wealthy Americans the Swiss bankers have told us are hiding their money for the American People.
Love your Constitution? Our Founding Fathers? Read Hamilton’s 30th Federalist before you pretend that the People did not want taxes to pay for, and I quote Hamilton, ” liberal or enlarged plans of public good.” Don’t forget Hamilton was no socialist, but one of the founders of Wall Street and the American Banking system.
This Tea Party is like a fat man who eats at a buffet every day and never complains about the manager overcharging him. Then one day the fat guy is a little short of money and finds out the the money he has been overcharged is going to feed some poor black family. Now the fat guy is upset and wants “take back his buffet.”
Mean, angry, mostly white, moderately affluent Americans who hate anyone who is not them and cannot stand to see the governent spend money on anything THEY personally do not like. It is their ilk that edits NAACP videos to spawn more hate. Are they racists? Who knows. I do know that John Lewis is not Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson. Lewis is a very honorable man. If someone calls him a liar, I cannot believe it. If they are not racists, then they should publicly denounce the actions of one or two of their ranks instead of calling Lewis a liar. No, maybe they are racists since they chose to defraud us on the truth. $100,000 reward? Who had a camera trained one or two people who was NOT a tea party activist? Such utter fraud!
Anyhow, this is not the Reform Party and don’t buy the hype. They will put more “pro-life” candidates who will not stop abortion, they will elect more “fiscal conservatives” who will not balance the budget. Only an Independent or Libertarian would actually balance the budget. Maybe a rare Republican like Ron Paul. Ron Paul, now that is a REAL Tea Party guy. Funny how the “right” in the GOP only went 7% for him. Such fraud!
The US has the largest Air Force in the world. Who has the second largest? The US NAVY! We spend more than the next five countries COMBINED on “defense”. We not need another fighter jet. We need more air and battlefield drones. Yet Republicans are exactly what the last true Republican warned us about – they are supporters of the Military-Industrial Complex. And of course Eisenhower revived the American economy with the highest tax rate ever and largest public works project (read stimulus) every created – the Interstate Highway System – and the end we were the largest exanding economy in history. Of course the Tea Party would likely have prevented such a tax and spend Republican from ever getting that far.
To the Sarah Palin loving pro-goverment controlling our personal decisions crowd known as the Tea Party: I will put up my knowledge and love for the Constitution against any of you any time. Name the time and the place. And when you name Ross Perot, Bob Barr or Ron Paul as your national leader, I may take another look.
Michael Honohan
August 1st, 2010
9:12 pm
Oh, I just can’t quit today! Government schools? Many of the greatest minds in history received and American public education! The real Black Panthers -Oakland, CA, were quite civilized, organized, educated and compasionate. There “crime”? They chose to excercise THEIR
Michael Honohan
August 1st, 2010
9:13 pm
2ND Amendment rights to bear arms.
Michael Honohan
August 1st, 2010
9:19 pm
I would like to make every tea party member read and pass and exam on the Federalist Papers before they could open their mouth. I love free speech. I hate it when people abuse it by venturing opinions on which the know NOTHING about. Take Sen. Inhoe on global warming. Says the blizzards last winter proved global warming is a hoax. Funny. don’t blizzards have tons of snow? Is not snow water? Do not clouds form from evaporated water? Is not evaporation cause by warming of water? Where did Inhoe think all that came from? One degree of tempature increase equals millions of gallon of more evaporation. Hence, when the artic air mass descends an meet the warmed water vapor, you get blizzards. In other words, dumbasses, global warming means more violent winters. Duh.
Why do American revel in their ignorance?
Bu Bar
August 1st, 2010
9:35 pm
SONGBIRDIE — STICK YOUR HEAD UP YOUR ARSE AND HUMMMMMMMM , YOU TWIT.
Michael Honohan
August 1st, 2010
9:37 pm
Charles: The difference between liberals and progressives is the progressives believe we should pay as we go and not run up deficits or borrow to thing done. If you bothered to read, you would find the liberal democrats are not signficantly different the Hamiltons Federalist faction. But it was the same at the beginning. Jefferson railed against the Federalists and Hamilton in particular. Then a President, ruled as a Hamiltonian and rang up the national debt borrowing huge sums of money from the British at 6% interest to buy the Louisiana Purchace! Was Jefferson a hypocrite? Of course! Did he do the right thing. Also, yes!
The American conservartive is so unbelievably ignorant and obtuse
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Grand Forks: Grow up and stop being a baby. Political discourse is always rough. F**k the political correctness. Isn’t that for liberals pantywaists to begin with?
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Hillbilly Deluxe: Perot only seemed like a nut because the Republicrat Media establishement worked overtime to the cabal in place. The asked Perot what his plans were, rather than like a “normal” politician who thinks he has the answer to all our problem, Perot the “nuttiness” to point out the Washington had loads of plans that had gone through pilot programs and were proven to work and all we needed to do was put them work. They (meaning all of you) called him a fool. If Perot was president today, he would take that charter school in Harlem and put one in every urban center in America. But a Republiican would not lift a finger to help a poor negro. A rich one, oh yes! Well maybe not. They sure keep trying to get Michael Steele to sit his black ass in the back of the bus!
To all: Please do not bring Fox News into political discussion. Liberals do not bring up the Cartoon Network. What part of “entertainment” do you not understand? Then again, every since Bill Buckley died, the right-wing has not let a single intelligent conservative speak. Do any of you know who John E. Sununu was?
Lil' Barry Bailout
August 1st, 2010
10:10 pm
Michael Honohan: The difference between liberals and progressives is the progressives believe we should pay as we go and not run up deficits or borrow to thing done.
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Michael, I’m not sure how you differentiate between the liberals and progressives, but lately the DEMOCRATS have ignored “Paygo” any time they want to spend a big chunk of money.
I think the Tea Party came about because of the obscene increase in spending, deficits, and national debt that we’ve been racking up since the beginning of 2009. It’s out of control. If the objective is to blow up the economy and wreck the dollar, we’re making good progress in that direction. When the dollar is worthless, we’ll all be equal. Won’t that be great?
I don’t agree with a lot of what you have to say, but I appreciate your perspective, particularly bringing your knowledge of the Reform Party into the discussion.
ezra09
August 1st, 2010
10:17 pm
“Mean, angry, mostly white, moderately affluent Americans who hate anyone who is not them and cannot stand to see the governent spend money on anything THEY personally do not like”
You are a racist bigot!
ezra09
August 1st, 2010
10:23 pm
Michael Honohan
August 1st, 2010
9:37 pm
There is no difference between liberals and progressives. When the communist socialists are pointed out they change their names. Progressive liberals are the communist socialist with the same agenda but have changed their names to avoid political ruin. Personally I think a progressive liberal is trying to overthrow the government of the republic and should be tried for treason. There is no forgiveness for progressive liberals for they are the enemy within.
Grand Forks
August 1st, 2010
11:28 pm
“Grand Forks: Grow up and stop being a baby. Political discourse is always rough. F**k the political correctness. Isn’t that for liberals pantywaists to begin with?”
I’m not sure if you’ve been dropped on your head or you’re just flat out stupid. Probably both. As for your retarded comment, go sell stupid somewhere else, ma’am.
Grand Forks
August 1st, 2010
11:29 pm
“Please do not bring Fox News into political discussion.”
Make us.
Grand Forks
August 1st, 2010
11:31 pm
“The real Black Panthers -Oakland, CA, were quite civilized, organized, educated and compasionate. ”
Speaking of educated, you’re quite the bad speller. As for the black panthers, nah, they’re just a bunch of cop killing retards who blame their stupidity on white people.
Grand Forks
August 1st, 2010
11:32 pm
“Go change you your diaper you pansey boy. Liberal is in everything you say. You look it too.”
Interesting that several new retarded left wingers come out of the closet to post poorly structured sentences all while calling others names.
Liberalism=retardation
Grand forks exemplifies what Grand Forks vilifies
August 2nd, 2010
1:23 am
Petite Forks
“Wow, what an original comeback, retard.”
Wow, and what an original retort to a comeback Petite Forks
cuz
August 2nd, 2010
8:38 am
SO Kyle Wingfield dude………..it sounds like you LOVE the Brotha’zzz. You got some $3000 rims on yo $200 cadillac?
Overtaxed
August 2nd, 2010
9:21 am
Don’t forget: You’re just another liberal/democrat/progressive/facist moron. I love that you post a 10 year cost estimate for Medicare drugs that is five years old. The actual tally? $410B….$120B LESS than Bush said.
Not that I’m in favor of it; it still shouldn’t have happened. But look in the mirror of liberal history before you start throwing stones. We spend more on socialist entitlements due to Liberal Progressive Facist ideas BY FAR.
Grand Forks
August 2nd, 2010
9:42 am
HAHAHAHAHAH, democrats can’t stand Obozo.
Democrats Scatter Monday as Obama Comes to Town
ATLANTA — President Obama makes his first Atlanta appearance since his inauguration.
The President will fly into town Monday morning.
If you think this will be a time for Democrats running for office to rally around the chief executive- -you probably haven’t been following the campaigns this summer.
Former Governor Roy Barnes will not be available to meet Mr. Obama. The Democratic gubernatorial candidate will be somewhere in Georgia- – far from Atlanta.
http://www.11alive.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=148382&catid=40
Grand Forks
August 2nd, 2010
9:43 am
“Wow, and what an original retort to a comeback Petite Forks”
???????????????????
hotlanta
August 2nd, 2010
9:49 am
Will someome please answer my question as to why the media is not calling the white guy who released those classified a terrorist.
Michael Honohan
August 2nd, 2010
10:33 am
Grand Forks: Bad spelling? That is the best you can do?
ezra09: Yes, I am a racist! I hate all the members of the sub-human races. That includes people of such limiited intellectual ability that they can only throw around meaningless terms like communist and socialist. Meaningless because the USSR was never socialist. Socialism was used as propaganda for a totalitarian regime. Meaninless because if you had a brain and used it, you would have notice the economic indicator for the EU clearly show it was the so-called “free market” nations that brought down the economies of the social democracies in the EU. I laughed when I saw the charts because they appeared in the Wall Street Journal on the same pages as one of Rupert Mudock’s anti-socialism rants. Meaningless because the right-wing calls an American who want to collect taxes to spend on liberal and enlarge plans of government, whereas sensible, informed Americans call that person Alexander Hamilton who wrote the 30th Federalist on taxation.
hotlanta: a) who said the leaker was a white guy? b) a person who releases military secrets is a traitor, not a terrorist. Terrorist. Another meaningless term. In 1776, a person with no uniform hiding in the bushes shooting at marching troops representing the legal authority would have been branded a terrorist. We call that person a Minute Man, a patriot, a hero. Islamist suicide bombers do not deserve to be equated with such. I myself would have no compunction shooting any Wahabiist dead. I abhor all religious extremists. The difference between me and the rest of you cowards is I am not afraid to admit that our actions in the Middle East brought a share of this on our heads. Until we all man-up and face our ignorance and stupidity, we will be hated and wonder why.
Finally…I have to question my own sanity arguing with people so weak in their positions they have post anonymously. Seems like only Kyle and myself are the only ones here man enough to use their real names. The rest of you are no more than trolls. Your posts carry no more wait than a YouTube video. Frankly, I wouldn’t let you post that way. Our Founding Fathers, facing certain death if they failed, boldy signed their name to the Declaration of Indpendence. Worthless Americans today are cowards who likely would have ran at the first sight of a Red Coat. I talk candidly to a lot of our brave servicemen. Thankfully, they do not buy much of the rightwing BS. Part of their mission is to show America is not as stupid as the Fox News would have them think.
[Totatally irrelevant fact: Paul Revere did not shout "The British are coming!". They all still considered themselves British. He would have been shouting "The Regulars are coming!"]
Grand Forks
August 2nd, 2010
10:38 am
“Grand Forks: Bad spelling? That is the best you can do?”
No ma’am, I could hurl TONS of insults your way but I’d get banned.
Sucks to be you.
Michael Honohan
August 2nd, 2010
10:40 am
The worthless GOP, with no real answers to the problems they themselves created, work overtime day and night to be sure Obama is the scapegoat for everything (They actually started to blame Obama for the ecomonic woes a week before he was sworn in!) in the miind of the ignorant masses. Why would a sensible Democrat want to risk a Tea Party smear campaign? Frankly, I wish Sarah Palin was President now. A right-winger should be sitting in the scapegoat seat right now. But alas we may have a real American like John McCain if the far-right retards did not insist on one of thier own added to the ticket. Made me change my vote, plenty others too. Poor McCain. Poor America.
Grand Forks
August 2nd, 2010
10:40 am
“Seems like only Kyle and myself are the only ones here man enough to use their real names. ”
Honohan must be under the impression that I care.
“Yes, I am a racist! ”
Then don’t be surprised at the future insults coming your way, ma’am.
Grand Forks
August 2nd, 2010
10:42 am
“work overtime day and night to be sure Obama is the scapegoat for everything”
You’re either stupid or just stupid.
“if the far-right retards did not insist on one of thier own added to the ticket.”
Funny how you call other people retards and yet you can’t spell simple words like THEIR.
Michael Honohan
August 2nd, 2010
10:46 am
Grand Fork: Insults from anonymous trolls of obvious intellectual inferiority (if even better spellers) will not bother me. You seem to capable of little else than being a troll.
I spell just fine. I have far more important things to concern myself with. You obviously do not. Come on now, isn’t Rush or Glenn Beck on now? Leave the discourse to people who actually perform multi-sourced research to form an opinon.
Dan-O
August 2nd, 2010
10:54 am
Oh, my! Mr. Honohan speaks so passionately and makes a helluva lot of sense! I love it! Please, don’t stop!
Michael Honohan
August 2nd, 2010
10:55 am
Dude, you likely could not begin do what I do. (Try programming the Composite UI Application Block) It is wonderful that you havje the time to self-edit your worthless rants. Perfectly spelled meaningless tripe is still meaningless tripe. Or better expressed in your vernacular – a polished turd.
Here is your challenge for the day. Post something of substance supported by verifiable facts. No, wait take 2 days! Even 3 if you need to, but damn, pretend you have brain at least once in your life.
Dan-O
August 2nd, 2010
10:59 am
Why does the discourse have to include insults? Don’t they kinda get in the way of making it meaningful? Doesn’t that say something for those who hurl them?
Dan-O
August 2nd, 2010
11:01 am
Sorry, I’ll get better at this.
That last comment was for you, Grand Forks.
Michael Honohan
August 2nd, 2010
11:03 am
Dan-O: Not to dispute your contention here, but the greatest amount of vitriol in America politics was what (via proxies) hurled at Adams and Hamilton from Thomas Jefferson. Just goes with the territory. Now I am sure I could sit down with Thomas Friedman have a purely intellectual discussion. However, Glenn Beck or Rush would likely have me swearing like a sailor.