The weekend before Nov. 6, what else would we talk about?
I may as well bow to the reality that y’all will spend the entire weekend talking about the election regardless of what topic I write about, so here it is: Your weekend-before-the-election open thread.
The rules still apply — it’s an open thread, not a no-holds-barred thread — but otherwise, have at it.
– By Kyle Wingfield
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mike
November 3rd, 2012
10:49 am
I can hardly wait for the GOP “clown show” of 2016. Hmmmmmh…let’s see. Who will they come up with this time around? Donald Combover? A certainty. Nutty Moonbase? 100% certainty. Sarah Snowbilli? Longshot. Ricky No Sex, Ever? 100 certainty. Huckleberry? Longshot. Marco Token Hispanic? Could be. Pizzaman? I don’t think so. Already “shot his wad.”
One way or the other, it promises to be a show like none on earth.
Rafe Hollister, suffering through Oblamer's ineptocracy
November 3rd, 2012
10:50 am
my previous post didn’t make it.
Here is the article, Mona Charen creates the Bill of Indictment.
.http://townhall.com/columnists/monacharen/2012/11/02/down_and_dirty
mike
November 3rd, 2012
10:53 am
I apologize to you cons. I left out the most important candidate from my list at 10:49. And that is Michele Corndog. You KNOW she’ll be there with bells on!
Rafe Hollister, suffering through Oblamer's ineptocracy
November 3rd, 2012
10:53 am
Mona’s column
You could, without stretching, make an aesthetic case for voting against Barack Obama. Leaving aside the hobbled economy, the promised second term “flexibility” with Putin, the job-diminishing Dodd/Frank act, the Benghazi debacle, the train wreck called Obamacare, the assault on the free exercise of religion, the pretense that the Lilly Ledbetter Act codified equal pay for equal work, the limp response to Iran’s nuclear threat, the many Solyndras, kicking Bowles/Simpson to the curb, the “free” contraceptives, the recommendation that Israel do some “serious self-reflection,” the preening over bin Laden’s assassination, the Bill Clinton ad saying Romney wouldn’t have approved the mission, the pretense that Gabby Giffords’ shooting should put us on the path to political civility, the savaging of Paul Ryan in a speech to which he had been specifically invited, and the fact that Obama didn’t know the number when David Letterman asked about how big the national debt has become — there are grounds for firing Obama that rest upon seemliness.
Rightwing Troll
November 3rd, 2012
10:55 am
Hey Andy… a wager on tuesday’s results??? Oh… wait… you welched on the last one… nevermind…
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
November 3rd, 2012
10:55 am
“Then, he can go back to what he does best: shipping jobs to China a la Sensata Technologies.”
Not in charge of Bain while that happened, but keep thinking that, mikey.
“He can go back to hiding his money in offshore accounts to evade paying taxes.”
If he’s “hiding” that money, how come YOU know about it?
“He can go back to not having to worry about releasing his tax returns.”
I don’t think he’s worried a single day about those tax returns or their release, because he just doesn’t care what you think about them, mikey.
Romney worries about the important stuff; creating jobs and getting this economy actually moving faster than an AmVet thought.
Obama worries about Big Bird, binders and whatever silliness of the week strikes him.
MarkV
November 3rd, 2012
10:56 am
Many of the cons (one in particular) must feel like a baby deprived of a pacifier when they cannot write “unemployment over 8%.”
Rightwing Troll
November 3rd, 2012
10:57 am
Good job Rafe… all the lies and BS in one paragraph…
bluecoat
November 3rd, 2012
10:58 am
From reading these post.I can tell no one has removed the rotten apple seed from cc,td,lil B.etal.
Aquagirl
November 3rd, 2012
10:58 am
Big frikkin’ deal. You’re supposed to praise people who perform their duties
Maybe folks here—including you, Tiberius—should follow that basic point of logic and decency instead of howling like banshees.
In other news, interesting couple of stories today concerning charter schools. First, they serve fewer low-income students than the systems that surround them. I am shocked–shocked, I tell you—that the main benefit of charter schools may not be rescuing poor noble folk. Second, Gov. Deal has made yet another questionable appointment to a state board. But I’m sure the new state charter board will be the shining exception to his usual pattern.
Rightwing Troll
November 3rd, 2012
10:58 am
“Many of the cons (one in particular) must feel like a baby deprived of a pacifier when they cannot write “unemployment over 8%.””
Based on their behavior of the last 4 years, they are babies deprived of their passies…
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
November 3rd, 2012
11:02 am
Maybe Aquagirl should learn the meaning of the term “howling like banshees” and not paint with such a broad brush.
But that would take a level of intelligence and discernment she doesn’t possess.
Rafe Hollister, suffering through Oblamer's ineptocracy
November 3rd, 2012
11:04 am
Christie praising Obama……… Nice job Brownie, sorry I mean Barry. What time is your flight to Las Vegas?
Rafe Hollister, suffering through Oblamer's ineptocracy
November 3rd, 2012
11:10 am
Great Job Barry…… At no time has our unemployment under Barry been lower than 7.8%, that is getting the job done for sure. You just can’t argue with a performance like that. Four more years and shucks we will probably be down in the high 6’s and only 19 million people will be looking for work or full time employment. What we need is more windmill and solar subsidies and porkulus 3. It is getting better. (sarcasm, for libs who don’t recognize it)
MarkV
November 3rd, 2012
11:14 am
Old version: “ X months of unemployment over 8%”
New version: “At no time has our unemployment under Barry been lower than 7.8%”
Just Saying..
November 3rd, 2012
11:16 am
“But that would take a level of intelligence and discernment she doesn’t possess.”
Actually, I find AG sends consistently witty and insightful posts. You, Tib…not so much.
Progressive Humanist
November 3rd, 2012
11:19 am
Obama’s was inaugurated on Jan. 20, 2009. His first full month in office was February 2009. The unemployment rate that month was 8.3%. It is now 7.9%. That is a decrease for you mathematically challenged conservatives out there. Even the dimmest Republicans (with the exception of Barry & Tiberius) would have to admit that when a president comes into office it takes some time for his policies to take effect on the economy at a macro level and that the numbers at the initial part of his term are residual effects of the previous administration. So how long should we give him until we expect his policies to influence the economy? A year? (unemployment = 9.8% in 2/2010) 10 months? (unemployment = 10% in 10/2009) 6 months? (unemployment = 9.5% in 6/2009) 3 months? (unemployment = 8.7% in 3/2009).
Any way you slice it, the unemployment rate has dropped considerably under Obama. And Obama has created more jobs in 4 years than Bush did in 8 years.
The Dow may have been at 14,000 at some point under Bush, right before he destroyed the economy. It was at 9000 and dropping when he left office (5000 points below where it is right now). And yes, the Dow is a partial indicator of the strength of the economy (and certainly affects my net worth).
But it doesn’t surprise me when criminal swindlers (Tib) are supporting a fellow swindler (Myth Romney).
Just Saying..
November 3rd, 2012
11:22 am
Rafe Hollister, suffering through Oblamer’s ineptocracy:November 3rd, 2012-10:50 am
my previous post didn’t make it.
Here is the article, Mona Charen creates the Bill of Indictment.
.http://townhall.com/columnists/monacharen/2012/11/02/down_and_dirty
I’m curious, Rafe. After all you’ve posted over the past several months, will Mona’s offering now change the outcome in Ga? In Ohio? Buck you up for Tuesday? Make you feel better on Wednesday?
Aquagirl
November 3rd, 2012
11:26 am
Actually, I find AG sends consistently witty and insightful posts.
Thank you. Although in Tiberius’s defense, I’d be less witty and insightful if I was posting 400 times a day or so.
bluecoat
November 3rd, 2012
11:26 am
Romney worked as a consultant with Bain.He would give wrong advice to these companies,fire as many employees as possible in the name of efficiency,find ways to reduce or beat the workers out of their retirementenc pension, then break the company with his high fees.Read March issue New Yorker mag.August issue vanity fair.Make slick willie look likke a lap dog.Plus taking a Cheat sheet along at the debates.
Just Saying..
November 3rd, 2012
11:27 am
QED…
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
November 3rd, 2012
11:36 am
“But it doesn’t surprise me when criminal swindlers (Tib)”
Care to backup that lie with some facts, Progressive Humanist?
Didn’t think so.
If you can’t get that right, why should we believe anything you post?
“Any way you slice it, the unemployment rate has dropped considerably under Obama.”
Partially true. The problem is that the 23 million Americans underemployed or who have just given up might disagree with your glowing assessment.
“And Obama has created more jobs in 4 years than Bush did in 8 years.”
Not even remotely true. Obama’s term has a net LOSS of jobs during his four years.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
November 3rd, 2012
11:38 am
“Actually, I find AG sends consistently witty and insightful posts.”
Just as I’m sure that you find up as down and black as white, Just Saying.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
November 3rd, 2012
11:40 am
“Although in Tiberius’s defense, I’d be less witty and insightful if I was posting 400 times a day or so.”
Another lie.
And not even close to an exaggeration, either.
Can you libs post anything without lying or without being stupendously wrong?
Callista Coiffure
November 3rd, 2012
11:44 am
I’ll be glad when this Romney creep goes ahead and loses the election. Then, the way will be paved for the only good and decent candidate to win in 2016 — my husband!
He’s in there practicing right now for his 2016 Presidential run. Listen:
“I am not a nut.” “I am not a nut.” “I am not a nut.” “I am not a nut.”
Dusty
November 3rd, 2012
11:44 am
Well, it is always nice to remember THE NATION’S DEBT
Martin Crutsinger AP wrote a ;piece about it in AJC Nov. 1 on page A2. Here are a few quotes from his piece “Debt limit will be hit in December, feds say”
“Treasury Assistant Secretary Matthew Rutherford said Treasury would employ the same types of procedures it has used previously to keep borrowing under the current debt limit of $16.39 trillion until Congress votes to increase the debt limit ceiling. The nation’s debt stands $16.16 trillion.”
and
“Lawmakers and the administration will also need to reach agreement on a budget reduction plan to avert tax increases and across the board spending cuts from taking effect in January. Economists have warned that if this so called fiscal cliff is not avoided, the adverse effects on the economy could push the country back into recession.”
and
“Treasury says it expects to borrow $342 billion during the January-March quarter of next year..”
Crutsinger also mentioned the ways Treasury will “get around” the debt ceiling so they can still borrow money.
It does look like our present $16.16 TRILLION DEBT will be even greater by the end of the year. Then the debt ceiling will be raised next year.
We definitely need some NEW fiscal management in this country. Romney knows how to do it as he already has the experience of doing it successfully.. . .
Just Saying..
November 3rd, 2012
11:50 am
“Can you libs post anything without lying or without being stupendously wrong?”
Uh, you know, Tib…That pretty well describes the Romney campaign strategy…
Just Saying..
November 3rd, 2012
11:55 am
“Callista Coiffure”
Fun-ney!
MarkV
November 3rd, 2012
11:59 am
Dusty@11:44 am
Dusty, and her favorite subject, the national debt.
“It does look like our present $16.16 TRILLION DEBT will be even greater by the end of the year. Then the debt ceiling will be raised next year.”
Very true.
“We definitely need some NEW fiscal management in this country. Romney knows how to do it…”
By giving a 20% overall tax cut (the infamous 4.8 trillion loss over 10 years) and spending the 2 trillion more on defense …
Lil' Barry Bailout - Vote American
November 3rd, 2012
12:06 pm
Obozo had four years to do something about the defict/debt and failed to do anything (other than massively increase it).
It is time for change.
Vote American.
Lil' Barry Bailout - Vote American
November 3rd, 2012
12:09 pm
How many times does Obozo have to lie to you chumps about doing anything about the deficit/debt before you realize he knows just how stupid and gullible you are.
Dusty
November 3rd, 2012
12:12 pm
Callista is a sister and a drudge from the daily Dems
She gets paid to pout and post these daily little gems.
How nice it would be if she could see
Her dimwittery is posted ignominiously!
Dusty
November 3rd, 2012
12:19 pm
Poor Mark V
I knew he’d arrive.
Oh that awful debt!.
He’s sure we can forget
And ask for more
LIke the four years before.
Callista Coiffure
November 3rd, 2012
12:20 pm
Dusty, what do you know. I bet you’ve never even SEEN the inside of a beauty salon!
Skip
November 3rd, 2012
12:22 pm
The con majority in the house for the last two years controls the checkbook. Cons own the deficit.
MarkV
November 3rd, 2012
12:29 pm
Dusty @12:19 pm
That dear Dusty,
Writing a poem to avoid reasoning.
Just Saying..
November 3rd, 2012
12:44 pm
Lil’ Barry Bailout – Vote American
November 3rd, 2012
12:06 pm-
“…Vote American.”
Barry, Americans will vote American. The question is, will you honor that result?
Lil' Barry Bailout -Vote American
November 3rd, 2012
12:59 pm
Well, JS, if that happens, Romney wins. You need to answer that question, not I.
MarkV
November 3rd, 2012
1:09 pm
Tiberius is here, of course, the King of Obnoxiousness.
(There is actually one person here, who exceeds Tiberius in obnoxiousness, you know who, but we should not discourage him, because I believe him to be a plant, someone placed here to discredit the conservatives and Republicans. He is doing a great job at that; keep it up, LBB!)
Dusty
November 3rd, 2012
1:12 pm
Dear Mark V
The reasoning in the poem,
Was just to get you going
And it worked!
Your thoughts are yours
and mine are mine
and never the twain shall meet
(if I may be so discreet!).
Just Saying..
November 3rd, 2012
1:19 pm
That’s easy, Barry. Of course I will. Mitt Romney is a good man, and a smart man. I do get a chuckle of the lies he told to get the GOP nomination. No question he would be a good President, and maybe the leader the Republican Party needs to rescue it from the current hostage takers. My principal worry is that crowd of Cheney worshipers who Romney has on his foreign policy team.
You’ve so boxed yourself in to a narrow ideology, that there’s little chance you could make a similar statement if the President is re-elected.
And Barry, the fact is, if Obama wins, it will be because Americans chose him, not Romney. Hard as it will be for some to swallow. Call it an inconvenient fact.
Dusty
November 3rd, 2012
1:21 pm
MarkV
You are really out of line now. Tiberiius is well read and one smart cookie. Obnoxious he aint!
Lil Barry is very clever and answers well the insults he receives. He does not like people who complain about our country or who make continual insults against President Bush.
They both go “over the line” sometimes. But…..so do you. .
Lil' Barry Bailout -Vote American
November 3rd, 2012
1:39 pm
Obozo will receive votes from Americans–those who don’t notice that their touchscreen vote for Romney came up Obozo. Every other vote will come from Democrats.
Lil' Barry Bailout -Vote American
November 3rd, 2012
1:41 pm
Thank you for the kind words, Dusty. You do demonstrate much skill with them in your prose and poetry!
Just Saying..
November 3rd, 2012
1:46 pm
You know, Barry, for most people facts get more milage than slurs.
You milage may vary…
PressReleaseWriter
November 3rd, 2012
1:52 pm
Looking forward to a long vacation after this election season in over. May post Best of the Best TV campaign ads on my website: http://pressreleasewriter.info/
press release writer
November 3rd, 2012
2:02 pm
Will be interesting to see what the final tab will be for all the media spots, and what percent of yearly revenues it represents for broadcasters. http://pressreleasewriter.info/
Lil' Barry Bailout -Vote American
November 3rd, 2012
2:12 pm
I post plenty of facts, JS. The receptacles are immune to them. Their support for their Idiot Messiah is faith-based.
Rafe Hollister, suffering through Oblamer's ineptocracy
November 3rd, 2012
2:13 pm
The Kyle Wingfield Poet Laurent, Dusty, has provided us some new material that will enlighten the dunderheads and encourage the enlightened and well read. Good job, Dusty!
Rafe Hollister, suffering through Oblamer's ineptocracy
November 3rd, 2012
2:14 pm
type Poet Laureate, it should say. We love you Dusty.