House GOP to focus on overregulation this fall
It appears that letter Speaker John Boehner sent to the White House last week foreshadowed part of the House GOP’s legislative agenda for this fall. From a National Journal report on a memo House Majority Leader Eric Cantor sent Monday to Republican members about tackling “10 job-destroying regulations”:
Cantor wrote that Republicans will kick off their efforts the week of September 12 by seeking to overrule a National Labor Relations Board ruling that restricts Boeing’s efforts to move an assembly line from unionized Washington state to South Carolina, a right-to-work state. Business leaders accuse the Obama administration of seeking to to help labor allies. Cantor noted that freshman Rep. Tim Scott, R-S.C., has introduced legislation to prevent NLRB from “restricting where an employer can create jobs in the United States.”
Other regulatory proposals or rules to be targeted in following weeks and months touch on Environmental Protection Agency standards for cross-state air pollution from power plants, boilers, coal ash in mining-heavy states, cement production, and farm dust; new ozone standards; greenhouse-gas performance standards; and some rules under the new health care law.
House Republicans have been attacking these kinds of regulations as executive-branch overreaches, and the idea that bureaucrats are clamping down on businesses during persistently high unemployment is likely to resonate with a lot of voters. It also plants a stake in the ground for Boehner and Cantor ahead of President Obama’s new jobs plan.
They aren’t running against him next year, but I would expect this to be a welcome fight among the Republicans who are running.
– By Kyle Wingfield
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ragnar danneskjold
August 30th, 2011
6:12 am
Good news, suggests that the Republican leadership is not as clueless as I feared. Wonder how the spendocrats will react.
DeborahinAthens
August 30th, 2011
6:21 am
Finally! All that money that the Koch brothers, the utilities, the mining companies, the pharmaceutical companies paid to get this field of Republicans elected is going to pay off. You think your kids have bad asthma now, wait until Southern Company doesn’t have to replace those pesky old scrubbers. They have been stalling and stalling, waiting and paying for representative after representative. I can’t wait until we have the first massive mining accident after the regulations are lifted. All the dummies that voted for these idiots will have no one to point to but themselves.
Joel Edge
August 30th, 2011
6:27 am
“President Obama’s new jobs plan.”
He’s got a plan? Who knew?
DeborahinAthens
August 30th, 2011
6:37 am
And before someone makes the “Clinton repealed Glass-Stegall” claim, let’s be very, very clear. Phil Gramm (spelling?) pushed the repeal though Congress late at night, and Clinton was told they would override his veto. That was one reason the bank meltdown occurred–banks couldn’t have made the “bets” they did if Glass-Stegall had been in place. Some of the secret deals made with Bush/Cheney in their Energy Conference (Ken Lay was one of the attendees) led to the deregulation of the energy business, enabling Enron, Mirant (subsidiary of Southern Company), etc. to trade energy, basically. Granted, Enron cooked their books, but the unregulated, unfettered greed led to that debacle. Corporations are not your friends, and to see them palling up with the Repugs to hold America hostage til they get what they want (lower our taxes and we’ll make jobs, remove the regulations and we’ll hire!) makes me want to puke. When the air quality in our cities is as bad as it is in China, our companies will be happy.
marko
August 30th, 2011
6:50 am
There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
Will Rogers
Kyle, how many times are you going to pee on that fence?
jconservative
August 30th, 2011
6:58 am
One of the fundamental duties of Congress is oversight of Executive Branch activity. That includes oversight of regulations. The House can investigate and pass bills to correct what they see as incorrect regulations. Then those corrections must pass the Senate with 60 votes and be signed by the president.
Of course this House is not opposed to passing a bill just to say they passed a bill, knowing it will never get through the Senate. It is another way to use taxpayer money to fund elections.
And oversight of the House and Senate is the duty of a free press.
Ronnie Raygun
August 30th, 2011
7:00 am
Why is it that Cons always claim that businesses can self regulate but people need their lives micromanaged by right-wing regulations? Oh yeah, that is the definition of fascism.
Sean Smith
August 30th, 2011
7:40 am
With 17 banks failures in Georgia out of 65 nationally I think Georgia needs some banking regulation. Of course thats not going to happen when you put the fox (Bankers) in charge of the hen house (Legislature).
Oh well its just going to cost the rest of us more money to cleanup the mess that greed and Georgia’s poorly regulated banking system has created.
Maybe the FDIC needs to stop insuring Georgia banks the same way car insurance companies cancel you when you get a few speeding tickets. Georgia banks have proven they cant be trusted.
Really?
August 30th, 2011
7:41 am
Wow Kyle! What a fine piece of journalism. It must have taken 20 minutes or less to write (more than have is a cut and paste). Watching Fox news the rest of the day must be a tough assignment. They pay you what for all this labor? Really? This is it? Really? Count yourself lucky to be employed. Don’t count yourself a journalist. You are, at best, a blog generator. Put that under your name on your calling card (if you have one). Really? That’s the best you can do again. Don’t strain yourself.
DebbieDoRight
August 30th, 2011
7:49 am
Great News Everyone!! Read the Cons lips:”No New Regulations!!” This is just terrific, now we can have more man-made disasters,(mines collapsing because of no regulation), more pollution, more strip mining, more drugs that don’t have to be over tested to see if they actually work, more wall street meltdowns (so that they can blame Fanny & Freddie not the Merrill Lynch’s of the world); and best of all we can now eat more tainted peanut butter from that cess pool plant in Georgia!!
What a GREAT idea cons! You put the “un” in Unbelievable!!
JDW
August 30th, 2011
7:51 am
I have no problem with regulatory review or streamlining. There is no doubt that we have many regulations that need work.
However my problem with the usual post Gingrich Repugnican attempts to do so is that they are typically driven by the philosophy that business is completely capable of regulating themselves. In fact the last Repugnican Administration put this very philosophy into place in the financial industry and we all saw how well that worked out.
As for the current effort, nothing but more grandstanding. They have no chance of gutting the regulatory framework and getting the Senate to go along. Once again, instead of spending time working to create solutions that will work and can be enacted, the Repugnicans choose to waste their time and our money by acting like spoiled children.
I'm Rick James Witch!
August 30th, 2011
7:51 am
Kyle — great article………..when you receive your 30 pieces of silver, it’s good to know that you’ve earned it by carrying the repug torch of stupidity all the way to the finish line.
Ayn Rant
August 30th, 2011
8:02 am
Just another useless round of political posturing by a bunch who caused the recession and have no ideas for cleaning up their mess!
The House GOP will focus on killing consumer protection, job safety, and environment protection; something Republican politicians have been trying since the end of WW1. They will pass a lot of irresponsible legislation that will, quite properly, die in the Senate.
The Obama administration, like previous administrations, simplifies and clarifies federal regulations on an on-going basis. The “over-regulation” that actually impedes enterprise is the tax requirements imposed on interstate commerce by excessive levels of government (federal, 50 states, and thousands of counties and cities). The sensible solution, used by other developed nations, is to have one taxing agency collecting the taxes and distributing the proceeds.
Congress needs to get serious about improving the business climate to promote investment in domestic consumer goods and exports. The judicial and patents mess alone is enough to discourage business investment in the US. Business disputes cannot be settled promptly and decisively. Frivolous complaints can cost an innocent defendant millions of dollars in lawyer fees. Judicial proceedings are distended and indecisive due to voluminous, complex, unclear, and unnecessary laws. Many bench vacancies are unfilled, awaiting congressional approval.
Congress needs to clean up the patents mess. Multitudinous, ill-considered, overly-broad, and distended patents confuse and discourage business expansion and start-ups. The Patents Office has a 4 year backlog of applications, which adds to the ineffectiveness, confusion, and litigation costs in protecting the rights to inventions and innovations.
Congress needs to ban specifically the monopolistic business practices of Big Business in order to open niches for small business and business expansion, especially for start-ups, which are the engines of innovation. Many market segments are dominated by a few Big Business rivals that stifle free enterprise. Monopolistic practices can be listed specifically; examples are bundling, selective pricing, pyramiding, false product differentiation, and false, misleading, and incomplete advertising.
There is much useful legislation needed to improve investment opportunities in America and create American jobs. The House GOP intends to hawk solutions to non-existent issues and side-step real issues.
carlosgvv
August 30th, 2011
8:09 am
Boehner’s letter is just the latest in an unrelenting attack on Business regulations. These attacks, which have been ordered by their corporate masters, will not stop untill we return to the days of laissez faire and business is free to cheat, gouge and abuse both their employees and the general public.
The Gramm Reaper
August 30th, 2011
8:46 am
I see Lehman Brothers is trying to work toward a resolution for settling up on its debt to all its creditors. It looks like most bond holders will get twenty cents on the dollar while many derivatives holders could get as much as twenty-eight cents on the dollar. If only we hadn’t had so many regulations in place, we wouldn’t have had this problem. Right Kyle. Darn that CRA.
The Gramm Reaper
August 30th, 2011
9:02 am
How many jobs we talking about here, Kyle. Can you quantify Cantor’s rhetoric for us. For example, if power plants do not have to worry about polluting neighboring states, does that create ten jobs, a hundred… and what sort of jobs are created… healthcare jobs to treat people for heavy metal exposure and inhalation of oxides of nitrogen and sulfer, etc. Help us understand how the Republican plans will make us all better off than we are today.
getalife
August 30th, 2011
9:06 am
Yay, the gop want another collapse.
Consumer protection are dirty words to the gop.
No jobs bills and they should be purged from office.
Worst house ever.
Lets give our great President a congress that are not horrible losers and will work with him like adults.
Epic failures as usual.
getalife
August 30th, 2011
9:12 am
Read my lips.
No new gop collapses.
Joe the Plutocrat
August 30th, 2011
9:24 am
jconservative, re: House and Senate oversight and free press; as the saying goes; how’s that working out for us? if we look at the “free presses” penchant for ordaining/dismissing candidates via the proverbial “top tier” coronations (see: Bachman, Perry, Romney, vis a cis Ron Paul, Gary Johnston, John Huntsman) at the POTUS level, why should Americans expect anything less at the House/Senate level. In addition, there is always the “vote the incumbents out” responsibility on the part of John Q. Public, but we both know that House/Senate is controlled by special interests, and a lobbyists “vote” trumps your vote or mine. or the vote of DebroahinAthens; which brings me to the repeal of Stegal-Glass. I agree, it is likely that a Clinton veto would have been overridden, but Clinton signed the bill into law. At the end of the day, it’s about principle, not politically expedient horse trading. or, in 2011, like Obama extending the Patriot Act or the Bush tax cuts. sometimes an executive has to make tough choices. the POTUS (and the Senate/House) invariably make “easy” choices (as directed by $$)
Joe the Plutocrat
August 30th, 2011
9:33 am
here’s a novel idea; if the “prosperity” we “enjoyed” during the 2000-2008 housing bubble, was caused by irresponsible deregulation (repeal of Glass-Steagal, passage of Commodities Futures Whatchamacallit Act) and the the subsequent TARP bailouts, $14.8 trillion national debt, and 10% unemployment are the result of the bubble bursting, perpetual (unrelgulated) was and the Bush tax cuts; what makes these dispsh*ts think the MORE deregulation, more tax cuts, and more DoD spending will “fix” the problem? the GOP’s petulance borders on treason.
Edward
August 30th, 2011
9:34 am
Great! Want to see what the GOP’s ideal “business environment” is without all those pesky regulations: look at China. No EPA, no FDA, no SEC, no FTC, no OSHA. It is a corporate paradise. Not so much for the citizens, though, but man, look at that economy grow! Who cares if children die of cancer before they finish preschool?
Aquagirl
August 30th, 2011
9:35 am
Awesome! Once we finish dismantling the EPA we can celebrate by setting fire to our rivers!
stevie ray
August 30th, 2011
9:47 am
Perhaps a moratorium on some of the new business regulations for a couple of years and see what is the outcome. The Boeing thing defies logic on many, many levels. Unions are on the ropes in terms of value added to GDP versus expense. Should consumers pay inflated prices to guarantee union entitlements? It’s interesting to note that Immelt who is on Obama’s job swat team, has moved 50% of GE employees (about 150,000) overseas in the past 10 years. Let’s ask him why? We do know GE is largest manufacturer of wind turbines and other “green” technology so examination of motives here may bear fruit.
Really?
August 30th, 2011
9:47 am
Ayn Rant
August 30th, 2011
8:02 am
Congress needs to clean up the patents mess. Multitudinous, ill-considered, overly-broad, and distended patents confuse and discourage business expansion and start-ups. The Patents Office has a 4 year backlog of applications, which adds to the ineffectiveness, confusion, and litigation costs in protecting the rights to inventions and innovations.
But Ayn, the Cons solution is less government and fewer regulations. Let’s cut the patent office budget so it takes 8 years instead of 4. No, better yet, let’s do away with patents altogether so that big business can use any technology without protecting the rights of the inventors. That will get our economy going!
UGA 1999
August 30th, 2011
9:53 am
Approval rating of 38% and falling fast! He may not make it to 2012! Fantastic!
stevie ray
August 30th, 2011
9:54 am
Edward, “children dying of cancer before finishing preschool”? Aquagirl “setting rivers on fire”? A bit dramatic and National Enquiresque wouldn’t you agree? It’s not like a law or regulation that is going to go unenforced like say….immigration or EPA waivers of oil well safety tags (see Horizon) to the extent taxpayers are estopped from enforcing. An audit of EPA et al may be in line at this point but anyone who thinks they can completely do away with any of these federal entities, regardless of consensus value, is nuts….
getalife
August 30th, 2011
10:06 am
In the ultimate act of hypocrisy , the gop want a raise on their salaries.
We should end this party like the whig party.
Mindless con zombies will vote for this party no matter what they do.
Never mind their approval rating are in the teens.
cons ignore this poll.
The Gramm Reaper
August 30th, 2011
10:06 am
Approval rating of 12 percent and falling fast. Who may not make it to 2012. Oh. That is Congress’s approval rating. It’s less than one-third of Obama’s approval rating.
Dirty Dawg
August 30th, 2011
10:07 am
Tell us Kyle are there any GOP/right-wing ‘talking points’ that you haven’t promoted here? What is it, go they pay you, and by ‘them’ I mean some greed-driven billionaire’s ‘foundation’, for each point you pass along? If you hadn’t noticed (and even if you have but don’t care) the GOP has devolved into the party of greed, prejudice and hate – shoot they might as well change the label to GHP, and you might as well change yours to Kyle Wingnut.
JF McNamara
August 30th, 2011
10:08 am
I’ll give it to the Republicans that they do a great job in the media. This is going to be a waste of time and a distraction though. They still haven’t cut spending, and wasting time on “over regulation” while they could be trying to fix social security isn’t what I want.
There’s generally a good reason for all of our current regulations, and those they want to do away with will obviously require a fight meaning they are probably valid. If they are not useful regulations, the Dems would just give in. I don’t think they want to fight for the sake of fighting.
UGA 1999
August 30th, 2011
10:14 am
Doesnt look good for Barack…..
http://www.gallup.com/home.aspx
getalife
August 30th, 2011
10:16 am
Actually, our President ordered a regulation report and he will end needless regulations,
The gop want to end the consumer protection regulations because they hate the American consumer for their wealthy donors.
They will vote yes to bail out the banks and corporate welfare only.
They laugh at mindless zombie cons for voting for them.
UGA 1999
August 30th, 2011
10:19 am
Getalife……First of all you should attempt to type in English. Second you should look at Barack’s approval ratings. There is no way he will win in 2012.
getalife
August 30th, 2011
10:20 am
ug,
The only poll that matters is this election.
The President will win easily and the gop house will be purged.
Deal with it sore loser.
Jefferson
August 30th, 2011
10:22 am
They, the GOP is wasting their time.
JDW
August 30th, 2011
10:26 am
@UGA1999…Yawn, call me in Nov. 2012 or better yet set an alert for when he eclipses Duhbya…he debuted that poll with a 25% approval rating and a staggering 70% disapproval.
getalife
August 30th, 2011
10:28 am
What is the gop congress approval rating?
There is your sign.
Worst house ever.
They are the best of the over reach.
Done.
UGA 1999
August 30th, 2011
10:35 am
There is also a VERY good chance that the GOP will take control of the Senate…..Thank GOD!
UGA 1999
August 30th, 2011
10:36 am
President Bush also had an approval rating of 90%……..very nice.
Fletch
August 30th, 2011
10:38 am
getalife, i don’t think you realize how hard it is going to be for Obama to win reelection. i really don’t think you get it. people are jumping ship on him in droves, his own people. we are in much worse shape than we were in 2008 and he is totally underclassed in how to deal with it. go back to the Bookman cheerleading camp. i really don’t think you are very bright.
UGA 1999
August 30th, 2011
10:38 am
Barack….worst president of all time! Experiment FAILED!
Aquagirl
August 30th, 2011
10:40 am
Aquagirl “setting rivers on fire”? A bit dramatic and National Enquiresque wouldn’t you agree?
Well, I never actually saw the Cuyahoga River when it was on fire, but I’m sure it was pretty dramatic. And it wasn’t just the National Enquirer covering the fires and alleging Bat Boy was the cause.
http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=1642
In some ways, the EPA, like vaccines, is a victim of its own success. People like you are clueless that others cleaned up the place before you arrived, and you set about trashing the h3ll out of everything. Fortunately there are people who aren’t proudly ignorant and trashy, you can count on them to be the adults.
Fletch
August 30th, 2011
10:44 am
getalife, there is no GOP approval rating…there is a congressional approval rating – not chamber specific either. i think it is you that is ignoring signs bubs. the dems have made all of this exponentially worse by adding 35% more debt and $114T in unfunded liabilities. i have no idea how any of you can actually think the dem way is sustainable or viable in any capacity. sorry the republicans are asking serious questions, challenging organized labor, recognizing limitations – what have the dems done to keep this from getting worse? obamacare? that elephant that will crush our economy starting in 2014? good luck.
UGA 1999
August 30th, 2011
10:46 am
Fletch…..AMEN!
JDW
August 30th, 2011
11:00 am
@Fletch…”there is no GOP approval rating”
Au contraire…lately Dems run 5 to 10 point higher than Repugs
http://www.pollingreport.com/cong_dem.htm or cong_rep.htm
UGA 1999
August 30th, 2011
11:02 am
JDW….must we remind you of what happened in the congress during the last election? I think not.
MarkV
August 30th, 2011
11:06 am
Fletch @10:44 am: “getalife, there is no GOP approval rating”
CNN Poll, August 5-7, 2011
The Republican party
Favorable: 33% Unfavorable: 59%
The Democratic Party
Favorable: 47% Unfavorable 47%
The Tea Party movement
Favorable: 31% Unfavorable 51%
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2011/images/08/09/poll.aug9.pdf
JDW
August 30th, 2011
11:08 am
@UGA1999…No I don’t need reminding. A bunch of small minded selfish people in a few districts convinced the voters that the “Tea Party” was a good idea. I a pretty sure that after the last several months that is a mistake that will not be repeated.
THE "REAL" TRUTH
August 30th, 2011
11:08 am
OVERREGULATION??!! Let’s see, Dubya DE-Regulated the Banking industry…FAIL!! The Insurance industry….FAIL!! Soften the regulations on several other key industries and they hauled a**, because they could.
Now they want to attack the NLRB. That way they can move it to a right to work state. Republican thinking, Republican policies….BAD FOR AMERICA.
UGA 1999
August 30th, 2011
11:12 am
JDW….”Small minded selfish people”? No we are not talking about Barack supporters here…..
SBinF
August 30th, 2011
11:13 am
So the GOP’s plan to create jobs is to lower taxes for the wealthy and end government regulations.
I don’t want to call them a one-trick pony, but isn’t this their solution to every problem the country faces?
THE "REAL" TRUTH
August 30th, 2011
11:13 am
Oh, and with regard to the President’s approval rating, only the GOP, whose approval ratings are not only in the gutter, but seeping father into the earth, could only find glee in the President’s approval rating falling below 50%.
Why not try DOING SOME DANG WORK for the people, instead of those that line your pockets for favors? I am still and will continue to be amazed at the stones these R’s have.
Kyle are you the R mouthpiece? Evidently….
Fletch
August 30th, 2011
11:14 am
MarkV – wow a CNN poll said that? NO WAY?!? Want me to send you a Fox News one and we can compare and contrast? I guarantee it will be a carbon copy…
jconservative
August 30th, 2011
11:15 am
Changing the subject:
(AP) The Pentagon has wasted more than $30 billion on contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan due to shoddy management and a lack of competition, an independent inquiry said.
Tens of billions of taxpayer dollars have been wasted through poor planning, vague and shifting requirements, inadequate competition, substandard contract management and oversight, lax accountability, weak inter-agency coordination, and subpar performance or outright misconduct by some contractors and federal employees,” the co-chairs of the panel, Christopher Shays and Michael Thibault, wrote in the Washington Post.
Moral of the story is that soldiers are trained to kill not manage billion dollar portfolios.
I'm Rick James Witch!
August 30th, 2011
11:16 am
Just in case they’re too “partisan” to read your link A.G.; I’ll highlite it here:
Because of this fire, Cleveland businesses became infamous for their pollution, a legacy of the city’s booming manufacturing days during the late 1800s and the early 1900s, when limited government controls existed to protect the environment. Even following World War II, Cleveland businesses, especially steel mills, routinely polluted the river. Cleveland and its residents also became the butt of jokes across the United States, despite the fact that city officials had authorized 100 million dollars to improve the Cuyahoga River’s water before the fire occurred. The fire also brought attention to other environmental problems across the country, helped spur the Environmental Movement, and helped lead to the passage of the Clean Water Act in 1972.
UGA 1999
August 30th, 2011
11:16 am
Can someone please tell me what Obama has done in his tenure that has helped with jobs and stimulated the economy…..come on guys, just one thing.
How about what has Barack done to help with bi-partasanship? Anything?
Fletch
August 30th, 2011
11:18 am
THE “REAL” TRUTH – who is pulling in more campaign contributions right now guy? I love how you say the repubs are getting their pockets lined when Obama is in bed with way more wealthy and nefarious orgs and people. What about the article snippet up top says “repubs are raking in money!” in your opinion? A company being able to set up shop wherever they want? Like in a free country? Why, besides doing union bidding, would NLRB be against this? Unions are cancer – ask Detriot.
UGA 1999
August 30th, 2011
11:18 am
Going once, going twice…..
I'm Rick James Witch!
August 30th, 2011
11:19 am
I don’t want to call them a one-trick pony, but isn’t this their solution to every problem the country faces?
So far their solution has worked to cure dandruff, the common cold, cancer, athlete’s foot, psoriasis, end world hunger, end wildlife destruction, AND create world peace.
You’re sneering at their super-duper-double-secret plan is due from your jealousy.
Steve
August 30th, 2011
11:22 am
The GOP deregulated banking and mortgage industry, cut taxes, spent like fools on wasted wars, and here we are – the great Recession. Yeah, Congress at 12% approval rating – go for more deregulating and more tax cuts for your wealthy. Americans have woken up to this nonsense.
Fletch
August 30th, 2011
11:22 am
SBinF – “So the GOP’s plan to create jobs is to lower taxes for the wealthy and end government regulations.”
NO – it is not RAISING taxes disproportionately on any segment of the population. Do you see the difference? We (the top 25% of earners) already pay 85% of all individual income tax revenue while 47% of the country pays absolutely nothing. Why is that such a hard thing to grasp. Look at it this way, take every dime that the 400 richest people in America have, it will pay off 1/32 of our national debt. That’s a solution?
UGA 1999
August 30th, 2011
11:23 am
Fletch….they will never get it. Their blind faith for Obama is ludacris.
Fletch
August 30th, 2011
11:25 am
UGA 1999 (HAHAHA!)
Also, still waiting for what Bush did specifically to trigger a global economic meltdown. A foreclosed ranch house in Tallahassee apparently made Italy and Greece go broke.
Fletch
August 30th, 2011
11:26 am
UGA 1999 – It really is, it is like the parent of a murderer you see in court “my son could NEVER do anything bad. he’s a good boy. he’s a good boy. he’s a good boy. he’s a good boy.”
BlueMoon
August 30th, 2011
11:28 am
So Libs are the bastion of free will, higher thought and better education? Have any of you libs looked at what you’re posting? Have you even thought about the hate you’re spewing? One question…do you honestly believe you’re better people for posting what you do?
Basically every lib post on here has been the same…we’re better,smarter and more educated. Why is that exactly? Because you’re speaking to a group of people that don’t believe in the same things you do? It’s a very small person that can’t discuss differences and can only trash people that think differently.
And in case some of you more “highly educated” people forgot…the Community Reinvestment Act signed into law by dems FORCED banks to give subprime loans to people who can’t afford them. If they didn’t they were sued. Medicare/Medicaid – another dem program that’s bankrupt. Social Security – dem program that is bankrupt. How much of other peoples money do you have to spend before you get your utopia?
getalife
August 30th, 2011
11:33 am
The gop voted to end Medicare in the hous and senate.
The gop wanted to default.
Their agenda is to default to end SS and Medicare.
So, any American receiving SS and Medicare that votes gop are committing economic suicide.
The American people are smarter than that.
Well except for the blind, partisan, zombie cons.
redneckbluedog
August 30th, 2011
11:35 am
We ought to go back to 2007 regulation levels….Then we can crash the economy ALL OVER AGAIN..!!!!
Deregulation, jobs, tax cuts, and spending cuts…TBAGS AIN’T GITTIN’ NO TRACTION…It won’t be long before we’re back to gay marriage, abortion, and gun issues……
getalife
August 30th, 2011
11:37 am
Watching the robot willard using teleprompters in his speech on CNN.
Attack him hypocrites.
indendent voter
August 30th, 2011
11:37 am
tax productive businesses .. give it to Deborah in Athens..
Obozononics
August 30th, 2011
11:38 am
DeborahinAthins;
Are all liberals too stupid to follow a simple point? When people are out of work why is Obozo and his idiot followers stopping people from getting jobs in South Carolina? Please explain the logic??? Several thousand permanent jobs are on hold because unions object, boy that makes no sense at all? What makes even less sense is the jump to conclusions that you have made, but this is hat liberals do, they jump to the wrong conclusions, based on no facts. So tell where does it say that they will not regulate pharmaceutical companies, or Southern Companies, or coal mines? That’s correct NO WHERE!!!
UGA 1999
August 30th, 2011
11:38 am
Getalife….I am surprised you can spell zombies. So what is your point? You have yet to make one.
UGA 1999
August 30th, 2011
11:39 am
Getalife…..i know you are not attacking someone for using a teleprompter? Have you seen your lord Obama give a speech lately?
getalife
August 30th, 2011
11:39 am
ug,
Can you read stupid?
UGA 1999
August 30th, 2011
11:40 am
getalife….personal attacks now? That is mature! hahah I love it.
getalife
August 30th, 2011
11:41 am
ug,
You attack our President for using teleprompters and willard is doing the same.
Be consistent and attack him with your silly insults.
Go for it hypocrite.
dixiedemons
August 30th, 2011
11:41 am
I hope they don’t use the Georgia- no regulation catch me if you can banking model.
UGA 1999
August 30th, 2011
11:42 am
Getalife….nope you stated that Willard was using a teleprompter. All I did was ask you if you have seen Barack give a speech lately? Assume much do ya?
UGA 1999
August 30th, 2011
11:43 am
Since when is Willard “our” president?
getalife
August 30th, 2011
11:43 am
ug,
You can’t see the hypocrisy.
willard teleprompter robot romney.
I did it for ya.
Obozononics
August 30th, 2011
11:43 am
DeborahinAthins;
I like how you forgot to mention that is was Clinton that made Enron possible, but don’t let the FACTS get in the way of your ignorance.
“Repugs to hold America hostage til they get what they want (lower our taxes and we’ll make jobs, remove the regulations and we’ll hire!)”
Tell me again how the regulations from NLRB have created and JOBS? Oh that’s correct they have BLOCKED several thousand jobs from South Carolina, so tell me again how these are good regulations?
getalife
August 30th, 2011
11:46 am
At least willard proposed cutting 400 billion on defense.
I think we should end the nation building in Iraq and Afghanistan and use those trillions to rebuild our country.
Road Scholar
August 30th, 2011
11:46 am
Republican motto: ” shoddy management ”
Ok lets end all regulations……but implement China’s enforcement…the death penalty for corporate executives who cause pollution, economic catastrophies, and environmental disasters. Now maybe these “Christian” business leaders will get religion! The ones who don’t cheat have nothing to fear!
UGA 1999
August 30th, 2011
11:47 am
The newscasters use them as well, are you going to attack them? Do you hold newscasters to the same standard as “our” president?
UGA 1999
August 30th, 2011
11:47 am
WOW getalife, we actually agree on something. Amazing.
getalife
August 30th, 2011
11:49 am
“Ok lets end all regulations……but implement China’s enforcement…the death penalty for corporate executives who cause pollution, economic catastrophies, and environmental disasters. Now maybe these “Christian” business leaders will get religion! The ones who don’t cheat have nothing to fear!”
That would be great but those people donate unlimited money to our pols so that will never happen.
Heck, they don’t even pay taxes.
UGA 1999
August 30th, 2011
11:50 am
Getalife…..Great! So now you are talking about the lower 50% of our economy that do not pay taxes…..great job!
Aquagirl
August 30th, 2011
11:51 am
Community Reinvestment Act signed into law by dems FORCED banks to give subprime loans to people who can’t afford them.
Oh, is THAT how Tom Graves and Chip Rodgers got their $2.2 million loan? You’d think they would have mentioned it in their 30+ pages of “We’re not responsible” legalese they filed with the court. Lord knows they used every other excuse in the book.
getalife
August 30th, 2011
11:51 am
The worst congress ever gave us a “super congress”.
That alone shows they failed to do their job.
Fire the gop.
UGA 1999
August 30th, 2011
11:52 am
Getalife….actually no, the worst president in history (B.O.) is what contributed to the super congress. Great work!
getalife
August 30th, 2011
11:52 am
ug,
You can’t read.
corporate silly.
UGA 1999
August 30th, 2011
11:53 am
Getalife…..”Silly”, are you in third grade?
Darwin
August 30th, 2011
11:53 am
So it’s regulations that are killing jobs? OK – let’s eliminate ALL regulations and we’ll have no unemployment. Right? And I’m sure there’s a large group here that would be in favor of that. Until the day comes that some evil corporation screws you over. Then, it’s “where’s the government?” Kind of reminds me of a big oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico a while back. Just think – all those LA Republicans looking for a “handout” from BP to pay for ruining their livelihood. And our big bad liberal president “strong arming” poor little BP. Keep voting this way you right wingers. In our Repub fantasy world, there will be no regulations. So, no payout you fishey people! Or anyone else.
Obozononics
August 30th, 2011
11:53 am
Fletch you are a wise person!
getalife
August 30th, 2011
11:54 am
ug,
I know.
You think your party is perfect.
You are one of those blind partisan zombies I am talking about.
Thanks for proving my point.
UGA 1999
August 30th, 2011
11:55 am
Getalife…..You think your party is perfect. Remind me again what is “my party”?
getalife
August 30th, 2011
11:58 am
Okay ug,
Tell me what the gop have done wrong.
Tiberius - Your lightning rod of hate!
August 30th, 2011
11:58 am
Well, I was going to post something like “Let the irrational “Republicans want to kill all regulations” responses begin”, but it appears that the unthinking and irrational went ahead without me.
UGA 1999
August 30th, 2011
11:59 am
Getalife…..”Tell me what the gop have done wrong”? I will once you learn how to use proper English.
getalife
August 30th, 2011
12:00 pm
ug,
Pathetic dodge,
Answer the question.
Man up son.
UGA 1999
August 30th, 2011
12:01 pm
Getalife……Since when does Dodge make a car called “Pathetic”?
Ebonics working for you well? Just asking.
getalife
August 30th, 2011
12:01 pm
Coward.
UGA 1999
August 30th, 2011
12:03 pm
Getalife…..you placed a period after the word “Coward”. Do you really think that is a sentence?
UGA 1999
August 30th, 2011
12:04 pm
Getalife shows the average IQ level of the Obama voter. We wonder why the country is in this mess?
Tiberius - Your lightning rod of hate!
August 30th, 2011
12:08 pm
So, you think that $1.75 TRILLION in costs to businesses isn’t keeping them from hiring?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703860104575508122499819564.html
Think again.
When your costs to comply are higher than your tax load, we’ve gone too far in regulating businesses.
UGA 1999
August 30th, 2011
12:08 pm
Ok guys have a great day. Unlike Obama’s reverend Mr. Wright, I say “God Bless America”! Have a great day.
Lil Bushie Bailout (Revised Upward)
August 30th, 2011
12:08 pm
Getalife….actually no, the worst president in history (B.O.) is what contributed to the super congress. Great work!
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Please. That made me laugh too hard. You must have missed Bushie’s extraordinary 8 years. Hw would tell you:
“They misunderestimated me.” –Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000
amy
August 30th, 2011
12:09 pm
UGA
Your party is in your head
snoqualmiefalls
August 30th, 2011
12:10 pm
No folks I don’t want clean air, clean water, no regulation of our food and on and on… Nope, we don’t need any regulations, just like Governor Goodhair suggests in his latest book.
What I like to tell people of this mindset? Move to Somolia… they have NO regulations, No laws and NO taxes… It’s a TeaParty wet dream!
Tiberius - Your lightning rod of hate!
August 30th, 2011
12:10 pm
UGA 1999, over at the Children’s Table, aka The Bookman Blog, we learned early on that you are wasting your time trying to get through to what little mind getaclue still has.
If you just ignore it, it’ll leave.
Otherwise, you’re just feeding the troll.
Tiberius - Your lightning rod of hate!
August 30th, 2011
12:15 pm
Annnnnnnd, thanks for playing the irrationality card, snoqualmiefalls.
Knew you could do it.
snoqualmiefalls
August 30th, 2011
12:17 pm
No more irrational than your typical Teahadist.
Darwin
August 30th, 2011
12:19 pm
What exactly is “overregulation?” Is that like “overpaid?”
roughrider
August 30th, 2011
12:22 pm
When Boehner and his cronies take a pay, benefit and staff cut, I will listen to his rhetoric.
Tiberius - Your lightning rod of hate!
August 30th, 2011
12:26 pm
“No more irrational than your typical Teahadist.”
Really?
Find me a national “Teahadist” that has called for the ending of all government regulations.
Just one.
JDW
August 30th, 2011
12:30 pm
@UGA1999…”Can someone please tell me what Obama has done in his tenure that has helped with jobs and stimulated the economy…..come on guys, just one thing.”
Improved monthly job creation performance from a net loss of 598,000 jobs in January of 2009 to a net positive of 117,000 last month. That would be a monthly improvement of 715,000 jobs. Any more “intelligent” questions?
Filter
August 30th, 2011
12:33 pm
This is not surprising. It’s amazing to me how people on the right want to act as if they are all such independent thinkers, dealing in reasoned original thought.
And yet you hear pretty much nothing about an issue until one day “bang” it’s everywhere. On the lips of Boortz, Hannity, Limbaugh, Levin, Boehner, Perry, etc., all at the same time saying the same thing, over and over and over and over………
Remember the NPR deal? No one makes more than a passing reference to it until one day the right decides it will be its latest distraction and then it’s all anyone is talking about.
I’ve got no problem with talking points or marching orders but for God’s sake just admit it. Your followers already buy everything you say and most of the rest of us see right through this charade.
Media bias indeed,
getalife
August 30th, 2011
12:40 pm
ug,
I asked you a simple question you would not answer.
If you cons want to debate the facts.
Bring it.
Tiberius - Your lightning rod of hate!
August 30th, 2011
12:42 pm
Filter, why is your diatribe, however wrongly it is asserted, limited to just “the right”?
And as to media bias, well . . .
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/Media-Bias-Is-Real-Finds-UCLA-6664.aspx
btw, his study received NO outside funding.
Lil' Barry Bailout (Revised Downward)
August 30th, 2011
12:50 pm
This focus on over-regulation seems counterproductive. Everyone knows companies are moving jobs offshore in search of MORE regulation. The Idiot Messiah is working overtime to fill the demand for more regulation here at home.
getalife
August 30th, 2011
12:52 pm
I think his report is full of cuts.
When was the last time they did a regulations report?
williebkind
August 30th, 2011
12:59 pm
getalife
August 30th, 2011
12:40 pm
“If you cons want to debate the facts.”
Ok but you will have to define “facts” before we begin! I dont think it has variant definitons but I know liberals have a different educated indoctinated source of what “is” is.
getalife
August 30th, 2011
12:59 pm
“Adios mofo’s” Perry
Tiberius - Your lightning rod of hate!
August 30th, 2011
1:01 pm
Here’s why the President’s regulations review will fail.
It is all being done INTERNALLY, with no business leaders involved. When you have the people whose very employment rests with the regulations they create / maintain, you have the fix guarding the hen house.
Yet another example of a lack of leadership and common-sense from this very clueless President.
jd
August 30th, 2011
1:01 pm
The history of de-regulation shows that after de-regulation come abuses and economic turmoil and higher prices — See Carter – Airline Dereg, Reagan – S&L De-reg, Junk bond de-reg and 1987 market crash, Energy de-reg – Enron, Nat Gas price hikes,, banking de-reg – mortgage fraud, derivatives, and 2008 Great recession…
snoqualmiefalls
August 30th, 2011
1:03 pm
Check out Rick Perry’s new book, where he advocates a suspension of regulations that are on the books.
As far as irrationality goes via the Tea Party, let us begin.. the President is not a christian, the President has Jews in the White house, the Presdient has the mind set of an African influenced by imperialism, the President is a socialist, the President is a communist, the President is a fascist, the President cannot possibly understand White American politics coming from his back round… got irrationality? why it’s right here in River City with the Tea Party.
BTW I have been invited to the old Confederacy, will be arriving soon… I look forward to the trip, I look forward to CRAZY that is known as South Carolina… too small for a country, too large for an insitution for the insane.
Lil Bushie Bailout (Revised Upward)
August 30th, 2011
1:04 pm
This focus on over-regulation seems counterproductive. Everyone knows companies are moving jobs offshore in search of even lower wages. The Teahadists and Contards is working overtime to make their base think they are doing something.
Charles
August 30th, 2011
1:05 pm
So a woman isn’t allow to decide what to do with her body; children are required to have schooling up to a certain age; and corporations can give as much as they want to candidates now, but heaven forbid we impose any regulations on businesses who have already proven they can’t be trusted to do the right thing without them.
Lil Bushie Bailout (Revised Upward)
August 30th, 2011
1:08 pm
Here’s why the President’s regulations review will fail.
It is all being done INTERNALLY, with no business leaders involved. When you have the people whose very employment rests with the regulations they create / maintain, you have the fix guarding the hen house.
Yet another example of a lack of leadership and common-sense from this very clueless President.
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Turn off Fox, Limbore, and Boar for a second, contard. Our President Obama is meeting with business leaders including Scott Davis from UPS. What did Scott say? Did he say that it was all Obama’s fault? Did he say regulations were stalling them investing their $5.6 billion? Why spoil the fun? Check out the Biz Beat for the answer, Contards.
Charles
August 30th, 2011
1:10 pm
A perfect example of how great dereg has worked right in Georgia is the deregulation of the natural gas industry in 1998. Tell me that your bills are cheaper, simpler to read, and that you get better customer service now that there are 10 gas marketers instead of just one.
Filter
August 30th, 2011
1:11 pm
Tiberious,
I know you think you’re the smartest guy in the room (or as you so arrogantly say “The Adult Table) so I’ll do my best to aspire to your lofty position.
I spend most of my work time on the road and I pretty much loathe music radio so I spend most of my time flipping talk radio stations. EVERY talk radio station I tune, no matter who the host may be says the same thing. You can’t escape the right wing sound machine. I put up with it mostly to stay on top of traffic (particularly important to me) and news but I find it amazing that as soon as one starts talking about something all of them start. It’s a 24 hour nonstop bash Obama fest and anyone who would vote for him is either stupid, misinformed or on the take. No one could possibly actually believe in the guy because…well you know…”everybody” knows he’s a ___________ (insert Marxist, idiot, Obozo, etc.)
As for media bias, go ahead and hang onto all the studies you want, I’m not going to spend the precious little time I have debating whether it exists. But from this POV it’s more about the victim mentality of the right than anything else.
War on Christmas anyone?
JDW
August 30th, 2011
1:12 pm
@Tiberus…”It is all being done INTERNALLY, with no business leaders involved. When you have the people whose very employment rests with the regulations they create / maintain, you have the fix guarding the hen house.”
Actually not true. This particular point is one of the items on the plate of Immelt and his team.
Tiberius - Your lightning rod of hate!
August 30th, 2011
1:12 pm
snoqualmiefalls, thanks for failing at your assigned task. Lots of rhetoric, but no proof whatsoever.
“Suspension” of regulations? Sorry, but that is not elimination, and it’s frankly a very smart idea (came up with that about 2 years ago myself) as a means of testing the theory of whether regulations are getting in the way on the economy.
Your other crap?
Which national “Teahadist” made any of those claims? Remember, your side has 9/11 truthers and “Bush stole the election” extremists as well.
Just Saying..
August 30th, 2011
1:13 pm
Riddle me this, please: Christian evangelicals believe God created this earth. The majority of these evangelicals are Republican. Republicans seem willing to support any effort that results in fouling/trashing God’s earth, as opposed to efforts to preserve/care for God’s earth. I really don’t get it. Seriously.
The GOP’s Fall Jobs Agenda: Roll Back Regulations and Taxes – The Atlantic | Political News Extra
August 30th, 2011
1:15 pm
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Jerome Horwitz
August 30th, 2011
1:18 pm
Have the solution to the debt crisis – eliminate the EPA and all enviromental regulations and withing the next 50 years the planet will be dead. End of problem. End of grandchildren.
Anyone who thinks business will act in the best interests of society should be banished to Love Canal. The nice chemical dump created by our friens at Union Carbide where a nice developer built some nice houses. Don’t think about the cancer cluster it created.
Tiberius - Your lightning rod of hate!
August 30th, 2011
1:21 pm
“Actually not true. This particular point is one of the items on the plate of Immelt and his team.”
Really, JDW?
Find Immelt or his Council in the loop on this effort:
“The President’s Executive Order on Improving and Streamlining Regulation by Independent Regulatory Agencies
July 11, 2011 at 06:28 PM EDT
Today, President Obama took the next step in his ambitious and unprecedentedly open process for streamlining, improving, and eliminating regulations – by issuing a new Executive Order asking the independent regulatory agencies, including the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Communications Commission, and the Securities and Exchange Commission, to take new steps to ensure smart, cost-effective regulations, designed to promote economic growth and job creation.
In a historic initiative, the President has requested the independent agencies to produce plans to reassess and to streamline their existing regulations, and to disclose those plans for public scrutiny. In addition, the President has asked the independent agencies to follow the cost-saving, burden-reducing principles in his January Executive Order on improving regulation.”
Tiberius - Your lightning rod of hate!
August 30th, 2011
1:23 pm
Annnnnnd, Just Sayin and Jerome, thanks for playing the irrational card this afternoon.
I needed the entertainment.
Tiberius - Your lightning rod of hate!
August 30th, 2011
1:25 pm
“As for media bias, go ahead and hang onto all the studies you want, I’m not going to spend the precious little time I have debating whether it exists, because I’ve been caught at making a fool of myself now that actual proof exists”.
Fixed your typo, Filter.
Just Saying..
August 30th, 2011
1:26 pm
Tiberius @ 1:23 pm:
Don’t get out much?
JDW
August 30th, 2011
1:29 pm
@Tiberius…then you call Immelt and tell him, because I sat through his presentation a couple of weeks ago where he went into some detail about this very point.
hatorade drinkers
August 30th, 2011
1:30 pm
I thought I was dumb, until I read Kyle’s daily blogs. I gladly hand over the title Kyle.
Tiberius - Your lightning rod of hate!
August 30th, 2011
1:36 pm
Yeah, someone who sits on an AJC columnists blog most of the day sat through a Jeff Imment presentation.
I’m buying that . . .
JDW
August 30th, 2011
1:38 pm
Buy what you want…some of us do get out and around.
Man Behind the Curtain
August 30th, 2011
1:41 pm
Scientists have found elevated levels of mercury in every watershed in Georgia. This is unacceptable. We need more regulations, and fewer loopholes, in order to put a stop to this. Installing required scrubbers in power plants creates jobs. Deregulation just maintains the bottom line.
Jerome Horwitz
August 30th, 2011
1:43 pm
And Tiberious – Thanks for playing the Moron card today.
Tiberius - Your lightning rod of hate!
August 30th, 2011
1:52 pm
Jerome and Just Sayin, as soon as you provide on shred of proof that Republicans / conservatives / Christians want to eliminate all regulations and foul the earth, come back here and provide the facts.
Otherwise, your irrational and inane comments are useless in intelligent discussion.
Filter
August 30th, 2011
1:54 pm
Tiberious,
My post needed no editing, unless it was done by an arrogant a@# like yourself. My point is that I am not going to spend my time arguing with you about your need for victimization. Your very name plays the victim card by assuming that your pronouncements are so deep, so incisive, so profound that they make you a lightning rod for hate. Media bias, much like the war on Christmas and all the other wedge issues the right like to bandy about exists, but mostly in the mind of those with a predilection for victimization or those who know that casting oneself as a victim will score political points.
Grow up and realize that there are those that disagree with you and that do have valid ideas that are contrary to your world view. Not parsing whether they are right or wrong, just that they are valid, particularly when it comes to opinion.
williebkind
August 30th, 2011
1:54 pm
It all about government control, the government can doi it better, the government can protect trees liberals spiked, the government know how to bring in new energy sources after starving an oil based enconomy for thirty years, the government can clean the air, the government can clean the water (where was the government during the gulf spill), and the government knows what rights and religiions you can have.
williebkind
August 30th, 2011
1:55 pm
Obama knows government!!
Filter
August 30th, 2011
1:55 pm
One other thing.
You like to boast about this being the “Adult Table” but then you pull the childish ploy of editing someone’s words to say what you would have them say.
Nice.
williebkind
August 30th, 2011
1:59 pm
“Media bias, much like the war on Christmas and all the other wedge issues the right like to bandy about exists, but mostly in the mind of those with a predilection for victimization or those who know that casting oneself as a victim will score political points”
That myfriend is a lie! There is media bias that helped get Obama elected and the atheists you dearly love attack Christmas and Christains at every opportunity. must I go on..
Tiberius - Your lightning rod of hate!
August 30th, 2011
2:03 pm
Filter, I have no problem with someone else’s opinion, as long as that opinion isn’t pulled out of their a$$.
Now, you can have all the opinions you wish to have, but at least have the intellectual honesty to have them based on facts, not a dismissal that things don’t exist just – because.
And you can try to foist your misguided opinions of my “need for victimization” to the dumb masses, but THIS individual who has never been victimized in his life because I won’t allow it is gonna tell you exactly where to go when you try it.
Got it, bub?
Lil' Barry Bailout (Revised Downward)
August 30th, 2011
2:03 pm
Lil’ Phony: “Everyone knows companies are moving jobs offshore in search of even lower wages.”
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Lil’ Phony is afraid a brown person might take his job away.
Just Saying..
August 30th, 2011
2:15 pm
Kyle:
“…GOP to focus on overregultion…”. Pejorative term, at all? Any chance the House GOP will focus on EPA regulations?
Lil Bushie Bailout (Revised Upward)
August 30th, 2011
2:17 pm
It’s Lil’ Bushie Bailout, you know the “Original Bailouter” or O.B., if you want to get gangster with it, with his $700 billion bailout plan. But I digress.
“Everyone knows companies are moving jobs offshore in search of even lower wages.”
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Lil’ Phony is afraid a brown person might take his job away.
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Nope, Contard. In the words of Bushie:
“I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe — I believe what I believe is right.” –Rome, Italy, July 22, 2001
Lil' Barry Bailout (Revised Downward)
August 30th, 2011
2:36 pm
Don’t be afraid of the brown man, Lil’ Phony. He has as much right to feed his family as you. Your entitlement mentality is disappointing.
Filter
August 30th, 2011
2:37 pm
Ohhhhh, I skeered now. I got it tough guy. Wanna play John Wayne now do you. Bully boys like you have no effect on me. I chalk it up to overcompensation.
I have my opinions, I am entitled to them, and I would wager that mine are worth them same as yours…nothing. As for facts, I suppose if all I had going on in life was to play pundit on a newspaper blog then I’d have the time to google and find someone to back up my worthless opinion just like you’ve got your slam dunk study to back up your worthless opinion.
And if you don’t want to be seen as a pathetic victim them stop playing one. Like I said before, look at your name. You assume hate….I suppose because you’re such a rebel. When in reality you’re just another blowhard bloviating on a blog and presupposing that every post MUST be posted simply so you can comment thereon.
What really is going to surprise you is that I’m actually Dan Rather, on this blog to bias against you, you poor little victim.
Tiberius - Your lightning rod of hate!
August 30th, 2011
2:41 pm
Dime store psycho-babble, Filter. Worth every penny, too.
Tiberius - Your lightning rod of hate!
August 30th, 2011
2:42 pm
“Any chance the House GOP will focus on EPA regulations?”
Are you saying that EPA regulations should be off the table?
Lil Bushie Bailout (Revised Upward)
August 30th, 2011
2:49 pm
Don’t be afraid of the brown man, Lil’ Phony. He has as much right to feed his family as you. Your entitlement mentality is disappointing.
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Nope, not afraid. But:
“See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.” –George W. Bush, Greece, N.Y., May 24, 2005 (Listen to audio)
Filter
August 30th, 2011
2:53 pm
Dime store truth. Hurts to look in the mirror.
Poor widdle Tiberious….so put upon.
Lil' Barry Bailout (Revised Downward)
August 30th, 2011
2:58 pm
Lil’ Phony, your Idiot Messiah told that one to a “corpseman” but couldn’t get a laugh out of him.
WAW
August 30th, 2011
3:03 pm
Vote republican = vote against yourself, your family, your mama and daddy and for the corporate bottom line (that’s all that matters)
Lil' Barry Bailout (Revised Downward)
August 30th, 2011
3:06 pm
The same idiots who think Republicans are “greedy” also think they vote against their own interests.
Lil Bushie Bailout (Revised Upward)
August 30th, 2011
3:12 pm
Lil’ Corny, your Idiot Messiah told that one to a shocked and mortified group in Greece, NY.
Keep on being a contard.
WAW
August 30th, 2011
3:15 pm
If the bottom line is all that matters to you, then have at it. It’s a free country – for now.
Lil Bushie Bailout (Revised Upward)
August 30th, 2011
3:16 pm
Intelligent people know that Republicans are “greedy”, and that they vote for their own interests.
Aww…that’s reads better.
WAW
August 30th, 2011
3:26 pm
If you talk to a Republican long enough (let them get through their coined phrases and standard talking points), all you need to find it one (1) point you can agree with them on and then ask, “What do you think about (insert a family issue, like taking care of grandma). From there, you will discover that most folks you vote Republican are just common folks who are on Social Security and Medicare (or mama and daddy and grandma are), who want their kids to have a chance to go to college (and not get killed in some Oil Company war), and would enjoy a day without input from their programmers (but they can’t resist the habit).
saywhat?
August 30th, 2011
5:01 pm
“I don’t want to call them a one-trick pony, but isn’t this their solution to every problem the country faces?”
“So far their solution has worked to cure dandruff, the common cold, cancer, athlete’s foot, psoriasis, end world hunger, end wildlife destruction, AND create world peace.
You’re sneering at their super-duper-double-secret plan is due from your jealousy.”
Its true. Tax cuts also cured my rectal itch. If only there had been more deregulation, I would have been able to crap skittles.
Junior Samples
August 30th, 2011
5:39 pm
Moving a Boeing a plant from one state to another is killing jobs? No, it’s just MOVING jobs. Spin it all you want…
Regarding anything related to the EPA, those regulations are in place for a reason. Some cities couldn’t see the sun due to air pollution. Rivers caught fire. But those corporations will behave this time, right?
Lil' Barry Bailout (Revised Downward)
August 31st, 2011
6:06 am
If you think Boeing isn’t considering moving new production offshore as a direct result of the Obozo administration’s hassling, then you’re probably a liberal fascist demitard. Pardon the triple redundancy.
Terry Jay
August 31st, 2011
10:13 am
Look at the latest polls. Even though most Americans are fed up with Congress as a whole, majority of voters blame the GOP for not working with the Democrats and the GOPs “my way or the highway” attitude. The Republicans have been in the minority in Washington more times then thay’ve been in the majority. I wonder why? I’m an independent voter and i will tell you that all of this GOP political posturing is not impressing me one bit. The Dems do it to, but the GOP takes the prize on this one. And then there is FOX brainwashing network that most conservatives get their info from and they should be shut down for retracting the truth out of their stories. If you do your homework like i do then you will see what i’m talking about.
Lil' Barry Bailout (Revised Downward)
August 31st, 2011
10:28 am
Here’s a poll for you: November 2010.
Lil' Bushie Bailout (Revised Upward)
August 31st, 2011
10:39 am
Here’s a poll for you: November 2010.
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Here’s a yawn for you.
Lil' Barry Bailout (Revised Downward)
August 31st, 2011
10:50 am
Your denial of reality is quite lame. You have my permission to construct your own if it helps you deal with the pain.
Nat Turner
August 31st, 2011
11:47 am
There is no pain. As for denial of reality, pot, have you met the kettle?
By the way, Americans are fickle. How quickly people have grown tired with the Tea Party! It will make 2012 that much sweeter, don’t you think? Silly Bush, he doesn’t think.
“I trust God speaks through me. Without that, I couldn’t do my job.” — Bush to a group of Amish he met with privately, July 9, 2004
Lil' Bushie Bailout (Revised Upwards)
August 31st, 2011
11:49 am
There is no pain. As for denial of reality, pot, have you met the kettle?
By the way, Americans are fickle. How quickly people have grown tired with the Tea Party! It will make 2012 that much sweeter, don’t you think? Silly Bush, he doesn’t think.
“I trust God speaks through me. Without that, I couldn’t do my job.” — Bush to a group of Amish he met with privately, July 9, 2004
Kyle Wingfield
August 31st, 2011
11:51 am
Oops — did Nat Turner, aka Huntsman’s No. 1 fan, just reveal him/herself as Lil’ Bushie Bailout?
Lil' Bushie Bailout (Revised Upwards)
August 31st, 2011
11:57 am
Lol…oh, Kyle. Nope. But I do agree with Nat.
Lil' Barry Bailout (Revised Downward)
August 31st, 2011
12:12 pm
ROFL. Isn’t it funny when sockpuppets forget to change their screen name?
Lil' Bushie Bailout (Revised Upwards)
August 31st, 2011
12:17 pm
Whatever, there is no sock puppet. It is still Lil’ Bushie.
Kyle Wingfield
August 31st, 2011
1:01 pm
Uh huh.
democracy rules
September 1st, 2011
12:05 am
the spendoctrats had no choice but to spend spend spend because of the republidiots.