Mitt Romney promises big Georgia donors access to inaugural event
A fundraising email circulating out of Georgia is already promising big donors to a Mitt Romney “victory fund” that they will have special access to a “Presidential Inaugural retreat” after the candidate’s election in November.
The presumptive email was obtained by Buzzfeed, which said it originated with a “top Georgia supporter.” (We confirmed the contents independently). Romney will be in Atlanta on June 11 for a pair of fundraisers.
From the solicitation:
The legal maximum that an individual can donate to Romney Victory is $75,800. The campaign is asking people who are able to make a $50,000 contribution to do so today and become a “Founding Member” of Romney Victory. These donors will be invited to a special retreat with Governor Romney in late June in California and will have preferred status at the first Presidential Inaugural retreat as well as yet to be determined access at the Republican National Convention in Tampa in August.
As for our Georgia efforts, Governor Romney will be returning to Atlanta on June 11th to participate in two Romney Victory fundraising events.
The first will be a $1,000-a-head event, though a photo with Romney will cost you $10,000. The second, for $50,000 donors, is “a private dinner at a home in Buckhead” hosted by Tom Bell, Fred Cooper, Bernie Marcus and Jeffrey Sprecher.
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File the following under “Comments made by people you don’t control.” From rocker Ted Nugent, a Mitt Romney fan, per the Wall Street Journal:
”If Barack Obama becomes the president in November, again, I will be either be dead or in jail by this time next year.”
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On Saturday, in 13 congressional districts across the state, Georgia Democrats will select 72 people as delegates and alternates to this summer’s national convention in Charlotte. According to state chairman Mike Berlon, 400 have applied.
Republicans went through a similar process last Saturday. The state GOP has yet to release an official list, but several of the meetings were marked by clashes with Ron Paul supporters.
After the 14th Congressional District meeting in Dalton – Republicans realigned after redistricting – chairman Darrell “No Relation” Galloway said he found on the floor a copy of the slate of delegates that Paul supporters were attempting to push.
Paul supporters were advised to wear Barry Goldwater buttons and similar paraphernalia, so that they might recognize each other. At the bottom of the crib sheet: “Look for others wearing these, when in doubt vote with them!”
The chair of the Dalton convention, by the way, was former House speaker Glenn Richardson.
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State Sen. Nan Orrock of Atlanta says she has resigned from the American Legislative Exchange Council, a group that has been accused of being a front for conservative-endorsed legislation in state legislatures across the country. “Stand your ground” bills and such.
Orrock was the last Georgia Democrat with a membership in ALEC, but she says she had a good reason. She was a mole. From Orrock, via Better Georgia, the progressive group that drew attention to her membership:
“As a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council for several years, having joined ALEC with the primary goal of better understanding the corporate-dominated organization, I know first-hand that ALEC is not the innocuous organization it claims to be.
ALEC is underwritten by corporate dollars to push corporate financial interests that disadvantage middle-class and working families. This group enrolls state legislators to promote its radical legislation in state after state, creating the false illusion of public support for its dangerous agenda. ALEC promotes legislation that suppresses voter participation, undermines state budgets and services, and impedes democracy.
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The AJC’s Politifact Georgia today takes a look at state Sen. Josh McKoon’s allegation that the state does little to regulate the activities of lobbyists in the state Capitol.
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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80 comments Add your comment
Tom
April 17th, 2012
10:53 am
Jim, would love for you to do an exposé on all the violations perpetrated by Sahar Hekmati and her lackeys at the 13th District GOP Convention last weekend.
GaBlue
April 17th, 2012
10:53 am
Senator Orreck breaks it down. Will you listen? Or will you kowtow to your corporate masters who make sure that legislators represent them — NOT YOU? For those too lazy to click the link, Josh McKoon’s statement is true. There are no limits in Georgia on how much you can spend buying a legislator.
Hazel
April 17th, 2012
10:55 am
The three td posts together are perfect!
WOW
April 17th, 2012
10:56 am
Is Romney going to share what programs he plans to cut with this group of high dollar donors as well? Just wish he would share his plans with the rest of us…. but that may be asking too much
td
April 17th, 2012
11:00 am
WOW
April 17th, 2012
10:56 am
Obama has been in office for more then 3 years now and has not shared with the American people what he plans on cutting to balance the budget. When is he going to share?
Aaron Burr V Mexico
April 17th, 2012
11:05 am
I love how in the contard mind, sharing a budget is equal to sharing your tax returns.
Oh, and Obama HAS submitted a budget multiple times. You might not like it, Table, Diningroom but he has submitted one.
Romney has too though. Its called the Ryan budget.
Marlboro Man
April 17th, 2012
11:06 am
RIP Ted.
td
April 17th, 2012
11:14 am
Aaron Burr V Mexico
April 17th, 2012
11:05 am
Oh that is right. The Obama budget was rejected 414-0 in the House of Reps. Not one single Democratic vote (not even from the progressive or the CBC). His Budget last year was rejected 96-0 in the Senate. Either he is not being serious or is so radical that the radicals will not even support it?
DannyX
April 17th, 2012
11:17 am
“Oh that is right.”
So you were wrong yet again.
Ol' Timer
April 17th, 2012
11:20 am
Ted Nuggent dead or in jail would be fine with me, but we don’t need all the drama — just shut up and go kill an animal.
Bob Loblaw
April 17th, 2012
11:28 am
What a lame polifact! You have reported ad nauseum about GA’s lack of a gift ban for years and now you’re going to put it to the PoliFact test to see if you’ve been telling the truth? Or are you lobbing a softball up at yourself so you can knock it out of the park?
Going Right
April 17th, 2012
11:30 am
Pity the poor Democratic fundraisers! If BHO wins, will they be left out in the cold? Of course! It’s only the Republicans that treat their backers to lavish parties at the White House
td
April 17th, 2012
11:35 am
DannyX
April 17th, 2012
11:17 am
Can you really call it a budget when you can not even get a single vote from the Congressional Black Caucus of the progressive/socialist caucus?
WOW
April 17th, 2012
11:35 am
@ TD
The President has shown what his plans for balancing the budget are. They are clearly available on the White House website. Feel free to take a look. You may not like the plan, but they are there. Romney on the other hand wants to cut taxes even more, and then tells donors that he is not going to talk about what programs he wants to cut until he gets elected.
Going Right
April 17th, 2012
11:36 am
My continuing question:
If you vote Democrat in November, you are giving implied consent to the present Administration having to borrow (at present, but growing) more than 40 cents of every dollar spent in the 2013 Budget. Do you honestly believe that this will keep our Republic from going bankrupt? Oh, I forgot: The POTUS wants to exact a 30% surcharge on the wealthy to help balance the budget. It is estimated by the CBO to bring in about 47 billion dollars in 10 years. That’s a cool 4.7 billion per year. According to BHO’s 2012 budget of 3.9 trillion, the 4.6 billion per year will help the government by giving it an extra day to spend it. At 3.9 trillion, that’s only a tad under 4.7 billion spent PER HOUR!. Think about that.
td
April 17th, 2012
11:39 am
WOW
April 17th, 2012
11:35 am
And those plans were incorporated into a budget that was defeated 414-0. Do you think those plans are the right ones for the nation?
Jeff H.
April 17th, 2012
11:39 am
File the following under “Comments made by people you don’t control.” From rocker Ted Nugent, a Mitt Romney fan, per the Wall Street Journal:
”If Barack Obama becomes the president in November, again, I will be either be dead or in jail by this time next year.”
Nugent should be in jail for his crappy rock music, if nothing else.
GaBlue
April 17th, 2012
11:41 am
Going Right,
Bless your heart! How about this: How about the President and Congress just immediately fire 70% of all federal workers (including the military), and cut all safety net and welfare programs (including overpriced defense contractors) out of existence tomorrow!
Then you can recalculate your little “pennies per hour” numbers, take a deep breath, and watch your hands stop trembling. Everything will be GREAT then, right?
Right? So tell us, Dear: what exactly happens then to make everything right again? Show your work!
Aaron Burr V Mexico
April 17th, 2012
11:43 am
@TD – Only in the contard mind does a 410-0 rejection mean that the dem’s rejected it. Do you even have a mind? Guess what Table, Diningroom, that it was rejected so they could use parliamentary procedure to bring it back and discuss items from it. Duh.
Do you know ANYTHING about how our government works?
@Going Wrong – You have proven that you ignore answers to your questions in the past. So before I answer a question, I counter question, since you have nothing left in the credibility bank.
Do you SERIOUSLY expect us to believe that the Republican budget plan is actually more workable than the presidents or that your made up garbage that eliminating the Bush Tax Cuts for those making over $250000 a year will only raise $47 billion?
WOW
April 17th, 2012
11:44 am
TD:
That was a process vote, that the Republicans used to attempt (it didn’t work) to embarass the President and anyone who pays attention to congressional voting knows it. His proposal is a step in the right direction. I personally would go back to the Clinton era tax rates (where the budget was actually balanced). The drastic cuts that are in the Ryan budget will leave the economy in much worse shape than it is now. So yes the Obama budget is the better plan. We didn’t det this debt overnight and it won’t go away overnight.(and you conservatives certainly didn’t care about the debt under Regan, and the Bush’s)
sheepdawg
April 17th, 2012
11:48 am
hahahahahahahahah…..dreaming. but i do hate that ted nugget will be dead or in jail this time next year. wonder how he is so certain? hope he doesn’t plan on trying to take out our President with a bow and arrow
DeShaun Sanders
April 17th, 2012
11:53 am
Enter your comments here
Mark
April 17th, 2012
11:56 am
@ WOW
April 17th, 2012
11:44 am
TD doesn’t want to hear anything about the previous administration, when EVERYONE knows that GW got us in this financial mess in the first place.
Lakeisha Jackson
April 17th, 2012
11:58 am
I am certainly not a fan of Mitt Romney. But all of us who worked for President Obama’s campaign in 2008 were told that we would receive invitations to inaugural events in exchange for securing large donations. It’s politics.
td
April 17th, 2012
12:07 pm
More proof that Obama is a incompetent leader. Sonny told state employees to pay your state taxes or be fired.
http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/news/politics/sen-brown-bill-targets-tax-scofflaws-in-congress-20120413
td
April 17th, 2012
12:09 pm
Mark
April 17th, 2012
11:56 am
“everyone”
I think that should read when all the socialist.
Aaron Burr V Mexico
April 17th, 2012
12:10 pm
@Table, Diningroom – Notice how you don’t provide many many speeches by democrats rejecting the President’s budget (since they rejected it 410-0) and instead pick another subject. That is because your arguments, like most contard arguments, have no substance.
There ARE no Republican values.
And re: your link…yes, hypocrisy is bad. Now are you clamoring for Republican politicians to be randomly drug tested too?
Aaron Burr V Mexico
April 17th, 2012
12:11 pm
@Table, Diningroom
Re: Socialist. You keep using that word, but I don’t think it means what you think it means.
td
April 17th, 2012
12:16 pm
WOW
April 17th, 2012
11:44 am
“The drastic cuts that are in the Ryan budget”
Show us all some of those drastic cuts? Are you referring to the decrease or elimination in the projected growth of programs or can you actually show us where real money that is being paid by the government today will be cut in the future?
You libs like to scream that reductions in the projected growth are going to make children starve and old women having to choose between drugs and food.
Marlboro Man
April 17th, 2012
12:16 pm
The choice is pretty clear, a rich fellow owned by billionaires fighting for the rich or a man wanting to help Americans live a good life who cares about people more than money.
Aaron Burr V Mexico
April 17th, 2012
12:20 pm
@Table, Diningroom – Ignoring the laughable statement that there are no ‘cuts’ in the proposal, which there are, let us simply take at face value that cuts ‘in future growth’ which, due to inflation, actually means actual cuts.
You contards like to scream that taxes are theft, and then squeal like struck pigs as soon as you don’t get your Earned Benefits (ie ‘Entitlements’).
Much like your ‘response’ to Warren Buffet’s challenge, let’s put Contards on the Ryan Budget for benefits and the rest of us on the Obama budget. Let’s see who prospers.
zeke
April 17th, 2012
12:23 pm
http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/US-Economy/Pages/default.aspx
found this interesting though repubs will pooh pooh it. done by treasury and slanted in favor of obama, but it is revealing. probably more accurate than heritage or their ilk. with the scandals in govt (ie secret service, gsa, military) govt, all of govt ripe for cuts….but revenues do need to be adjusted. the bush/obama tax cuts were not economically justified and have spoiled folks. the american electorate the something for nothing crowd.
i know why repubs pushing for more gun freedoms given the growing wealth disparity….it’s going to really be ugly in a few years and this e pluribus unum will be tested like never before (except the civil war which some still fight)
zeke
April 17th, 2012
12:28 pm
td, restricting growth of budgets that generally are population driven are cuts to any rational person…..sure there is fat and we can become more efficient, but i did not see bush going after the fat that much. what washington needs is some party neutral cost accountants to swarm that city of another plantet washington dc and to really piss you repubs off go to the carter zero base budgeting….starting with congress & presidents office
Going Right
April 17th, 2012
12:29 pm
Aaron, etc: Post the question I did not answer (if it is within the limits of sanity) and I will be glad to address it. Try giving me a response to my forthright, simple question on borrowing money to finance a bloated budget. And try to stick with the question as it was presented, not go off on a tangent about the $250,000 earners, etc.
GABlue; As for you, first, I’m not your “Dear,” a$$hole. Furthermore, please copy and highlight the section of my blog that even comes near to asking that we (quote: …”just immediately fire 70% of all federal workers (including the military), and cut all safety net and welfare programs (including overpriced defense contractors) out of existence tomorrow!.
Here’s an idea: If we tax those who make $250,000/year at 100% of their earnings, it might balance the over-bloated BHO budget this coming year. Then, in the ensuing years, keep the 100% tax on those same folk; hmmmm. they chose not to make as much? Tax revenue down? Hmmm. Left with no incentive to work and earn money, those 400,000 or so have now become the “poor” and are now on the government dole. Look up the word “conundrum” in your dictionary and see what the result will be. The folks in Europe are licking their chops now…soon they will have beaten us at our own game because of voters like yourself.
honested
April 17th, 2012
12:32 pm
Mr. nugent should chose quickly and do the right thing.
Obama 2012!
Road Scholar
April 17th, 2012
12:38 pm
TD: When will the Repubs pay down their $5 Trillion debt they amassed during the Bush Presidency?
Attack Dog
April 17th, 2012
12:41 pm
Obama presents a plan, GOP add poison pill amendments, even they can’t stand, everybody votes against, and Dixiecrats claim it was a defeat for Obama. Smart, real smart.
zeke
April 17th, 2012
12:44 pm
bush caused more than 5 trillion , see my previous post and look at treasury slides….7 trillion thru 2011….w gave tax cuts, and started two wars and medicare d….all borrowed money…..remember how those wars were going to pay for themselves (at least iraq) and gas prices would be stable??? maybe they were partly correct gas under obama has not peaked to what it was when w was prez
Aaron Burr V Mexico
April 17th, 2012
12:46 pm
@Going Wrong – I did not say you ignored the questions, I said you ignore the answers. Exhibit A is the fact that you ignored what I just said. Exhibit B is Sandra Fluke.
You have learned a 1 note debating tactic which is to form a question and then say, “You ignored the question!” when no one response to you, but when someone DOES respond to you, you ignore their answer and posit either another question or simply ASK THE SAME QUESTION THAT WAS ALREADY ANSWERED AGAIN.
Thus, zero credibility in the the credibility bank.
Answer MY question first.
Aaron Burr V Mexico
April 17th, 2012
12:48 pm
The difference between a real person who is conservative vs a paid representative for ALEC or another contard think tank is that one is here to discuss and the other is here to simply present talking points and is paid by the post to meet their minimum quota.
Watch for the difference.
honested
April 17th, 2012
1:05 pm
Aaron……
The difference is astounding, but understandable.
With cons, if they don’t recite their canon talking points at least three times a day, the truth seeps through and they begin to QUESTION the approved thought.
MrLiberty
April 17th, 2012
1:11 pm
Shouldn’t he be checking with Ron Paul first to find out if even HE will be invited to Dr. Paul’s inauguration? I’m betting on a big NO.
td
April 17th, 2012
1:12 pm
All the problems will be solved in this country if we only increase taxes on the evil rich, so say the left. It does not matter that even if you taxed the top 1% at 100% then you still would not balance the budget much less pay off any debt. It does not matter that over 300,000 of the individual tax returns filed by the top 1% are actually small businesses. Just take the money is what of lib friends keep telling us.
Aaron Burr V Mexico
April 17th, 2012
1:18 pm
@Table, Diningroom – I have a friend who is very good at math who agrees with you. Unfortunately, that same friend thinks he is smarter than 97% of all scientists who believe in AGW.
If you eliminate the bush tax cuts, and eliminate the Bush wars, AND institute medical reform, you do, actually balance the budget.
Look at a chart about whether or not Republican or Democratic presidents run up the deficit. Notice who does it more. Trusting math from a Republican is a bit like trusting convicts to run the prison.
BY DEFINITION those who hate government cannot make it run efficiently.
Going Right
April 17th, 2012
1:18 pm
AARON… To ignore the answers is a fiction of your imagination. Simply to ignore is to read and disagree without note, e.g., your response to another blog (@12.10pm), “..There ARE no Republican values.” Most clear thinking folks would agree that this is a completely idiotic statement, without merit and one that cannot be substantiated. One of the reasons that BHO and his “Hope and Change” has changed the style and substance of present day discourse to one of bitterness and divide. I, as a die-hard conservative, felt that GWB had somewhat divided this country, but he looks like a choir boy compared to what your “Savior” has now – and – continues to have – accomplished in our great Republic.
ALEC caves on social issues, will ‘redouble’ on economic front | Political Insider
April 17th, 2012
1:22 pm
[...] On Tuesday, state Sen. Nan Orrock of Atlanta, the only Georgia Democratic lawmaker with membership in ALEC, announced she was quitting. She explained that she had only been a member to “better understand the corporate-dominated organization.” [...]
Attack Dog
April 17th, 2012
1:24 pm
Let’s see. The last BHO proposal would have cut the budget by $4 trillion, but the GOP refused because it had tax increases. Remember when Reid pushed the minimum from $250K to $1M, and the GOP still said No. Remember how the GOP tried to stir up that BHO’s budget cut Medicare and Mediaid, and then turn around and said that he wasn’t cutting spending. Dixiecrats chasing their tails.
Ol' Timer
April 17th, 2012
1:24 pm
The good folks of Georgia will have one helluva election night as they watch the Peach State vote overwhelmingly for Mitt Romney. But their heads will begin to explode when the returns show that the rest of the country has a different take on the political outcome and Obama wins by a comfortable margin.
Hopefully one day the working class stiffs in Georgia will have an epiphany. Maybe they’ll see that they have been voting to support corporate welfare and the interests of the plutocrats and against their own best interests.
Aaron Burr V Mexico
April 17th, 2012
1:25 pm
@Going Wrong – You don’t have values. You shift according to whatever your reality dictates as per fox news.
And, by the way, did you answer my question?
For that matter, point to anyone else’s question that YOU have answered.
MANY people besides me answered you re: Sandra Fluke. They weren’t ‘my imagination’ but well documented facts that you didn’t like.
Obama, btw, is not ‘my savior’ but, he doesn’t look like a ‘choir boy’ since last I checked, Obama hasn’t ordered water boarding which is, FYI a war crime.
Your ‘boy’ is a war criminal.
And a Republic is an invitation to Rule by Minority. Democracy all the way. Bribing 300 million is harder than bribing a few hundred to a few thousand.
Aaron Burr V Mexico
April 17th, 2012
1:27 pm
@Ol Timer – Scott Walker, one of the most radical governors in the country, is now at 50% in Wisconsin.
Snooki gets more press than most nobel prize winning scientists.
Moderates care more about being the Center of Attention than about helping the country.
This country is as dumb as a bag of hammers and is VERY likely to elect Romney and even if somehow Obama wins…so what? Without the constant threat of not being reelected and making his precious history books, he’s going to go RIGHT BACK to caving on anything the Republicans want…EVER.
Obama is a wimp.
Attack Dog
April 17th, 2012
1:31 pm
Will one of our smart Dixiecrats explain how cutting Romney’ short term capital gains creates jobs. The function is the result of gaming and market speculation.
RCShore
April 17th, 2012
1:36 pm
Mitt Romney has some problems… like the invention of the video camera and how everything he says is being recorded.
http://thedeathofirony.com/2012/04/17/mom-rom-com/
Diogenes
April 17th, 2012
1:40 pm
If you’re pleased with our nation’s current state and direction, either Obama or Romney will do. They’re interchangeable. If you miss our Constitutional rights, being admired and respected around the world, having a sound currency and economy, the only choice is Ron Paul.
Aaron Burr V Mexico
April 17th, 2012
1:41 pm
@RCShore – Romney is a product of his environment where the leadership of the LDS church has had the better pare of 160 years to say two totally incompatible things and have people forget and not care about it, even when it is well documented and written down.
Did you know Karl Rove used to live in Utah and quite clearly learned a lot from the LDS church?
Video cameras do not matter. What matters is ‘what is the shiny object of the month’ for the media and thus the cows to pay attention to.
And when you have $200 million, and will say or do ANYTHING to get elected, you can hire very creative people no ethics to help find something that will destroy your opponent.
str8t talk
April 17th, 2012
1:42 pm
Going Right,
During the GWB period, we felt “bitterness and divide”. Now that BHO is president, you feel “bitterness and divide”.
I think I like it better that you feel it than we feel it. We had our time in the wilderness, now it your turn.
Wallow in it
Aaron Burr V Mexico
April 17th, 2012
1:42 pm
@Diogenes – Ron Paul is a man of conviction.
A racist man of conviction, who is incapable of abstract thought regarding currency…but a man of conviction.
Oh, and a man of conviction who won’t be running 3rd party because his son is now part of the 1%.
No one has unlimited convictions, not even Ron Paul.
td
April 17th, 2012
1:51 pm
Aaron Burr V Mexico
April 17th, 2012
1:18 pm
“If you eliminate the bush tax cuts, and eliminate the Bush wars, AND institute medical reform, you do, actually balance the budget.”
Can you provide data to back up the thesis? You do realize that when you eliminate the Bush/Obama tax cuts then you are actually increasing taxes on all income groups? The whole “Bush wars” money is fudged and is really actual defense budget, so if you save that money then you are actually making deep cuts in defense? I have not seen any savings with Obamacare and have actually seen my insurance premiums rise by 45%. The CBO has increased the their estimates several times on the cost of Obamacare so I do not think the assumptions on savings can actually be realized.
WOW
April 17th, 2012
1:53 pm
This is for you guys who were advocating Alan West as VP. New polling shows how damaging he would be to Romney in Florida.
http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2012/04/obama-doing-well-in-florida.html
WOW
April 17th, 2012
1:55 pm
TD
I think you read enough to know that the largest portion of Obamacare will not be fully implemented until 2014, that is when the real cost savings will be seen.
honested
April 17th, 2012
1:57 pm
WOW,
SHHHHHH, I want them to put west on the ticket.
td
April 17th, 2012
1:57 pm
Attack Dog
April 17th, 2012
1:24 pm
Can you please name one time Carter that we have had a deal to raise taxes and cut spending that actual spending was cut for anything other then the military (Clinton’s peace dividend that actually gutted our on the ground intelligence capability )?
Every time there has been a deal the tax increases have gone into effect and the cuts never came. I am totally opposed to any tax increases until cuts go into effect for at least two years first.
td
April 17th, 2012
2:03 pm
WOW
April 17th, 2012
1:55 pm
Those are assumptions made in the legislation about “savings” that the CBO has been saying for months are not panning out. If the “savings” were actually going to happen then you would have one left economist after another coming forward with one article after another to turn the favor of the law into Obama’s favor. Where are those articles?
td
April 17th, 2012
2:05 pm
td
April 17th, 2012
1:57 pm
“name one time Carter”
Should read one time since Carter.
Aaron Burr V Mexico
April 17th, 2012
2:18 pm
@Table, Dining Room – I can. So can you. Its called Google. Now if you REALLY wanted this info, you could find it very easily. But, should I provide it, what gaurantee do I have you would accept it? After all, you just said you think that fixing the 30% rate would not balance the budget?
I am quite aware that eliminating the bush tax cuts will affect all classes. I am also aware that the so called ‘businesses’ in the upper 1% won’t be as affected as they like to squeal that they will. Also, quite frankly, since most of them are Republicans….I don’t care if they are.
Paying artificial logistics and ammo costs is not part of defense when one looks at the Bush wars. It is true that Obama DOES include them in his budget, but in Republican assaults on his budget, not being in Afghanistan until 2020 is ‘reducing defense.’
Also, quite frankly, we don’t need to be the world police. We can EASILY cut defense and still be quite secure.
And if you look at those same CBO projections, NOT having Obamacare is worse.
Ryan Care is much much worse.
Aaron Burr V Mexico
April 17th, 2012
2:23 pm
And for the record, since some ‘moderates’ like Obama Care, I’m in favor of Single Payer, which will save costs.
For profit insurance companies are artificial people that live on the blood of sick children.
Going Right
April 17th, 2012
3:15 pm
AARON.. You is some smart bird! I consulted 5 different dictionaries and have yet to locate any definition that comes close to a Republic being an (quote) “Invitation to Rule by Minority.”. Please tell me where you located that definition so I may be enlightened.
Having kept a copy of all blogs I have participated in for the pas 19-1/2 months, tell me which blog heading I participated in and what specific question I failed to answer. Mind you: As I said, some idiotic blather is better left unanswered so that the writer can be afforded his or her opportunity to show – without a doubt – that he or she know zilch about what he or she is talking about; you, dear fellow, or fella (feminine, if apropos), fall into that category.
As for the Sandra Fluke blog, I honestly don’t recall that one.I rand a query on my computer for all drives, Outlook Word docs, etc. and cannot come up with anything except the movie from Netflix.
After reading most of your writings here and other blogs, I am convinced that someone must have stepped in your d— when you were a child…what a terrible outlook on life you have. You are beyond argument or debate and should seek treatment for your virulent psyche and vacuous writings.
If my “boy” is a war criminal, you must be in the Marxist camp. Show me what he said, where he said, what he did to be crowned with your idiotic sobriquet and perhaps i may agree;
BTW, if you ever served in the military you may have a different outlook on ‘water boarding’ as a way to extract information from the enemy…especially those who seek to do harm to our men and wormen in uniform. I sure as hell wouldn’t espouse the theory of holding hands and singing “Kumbaya.”
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April 17th, 2012
3:22 pm
[...] On Tuesday, state Sen. Nan Orrock of Atlanta, the only Georgia Democratic lawmaker with membership in ALEC, announced she was quitting. She explained that she had only been a member to “better understand the corporate-dominated organization.” [...]
KID
April 17th, 2012
3:42 pm
Obama all the way back in 2012! Healthcare Reform now!
atllaw191
April 17th, 2012
3:43 pm
Nope, he’s not gonna share – he’s holding what he’s cutting (although MSNBC reported he’s slipped up and said he was cutting HUD and denegrating EDUCATION)…who knows – whatever floats his boat (er…yacht)…while the rest of us can remain without a home or knowledge! The WHOLE LOT OF THEM ARE GOING TO HELL – regardless of his MORMON cult (er…religion)!
Aaron Burr V Mexico
April 17th, 2012
3:58 pm
@Going Wrong – A democratic Republic has a limited representatives that are ‘democratically’ elected, thus narrowing the number of people who need to be bribed by special interests. When special interests can control a government by fiat, a tiny minority controls the government.
In the case of the United States, that also means the South rules by Filibuster.
re: Fluke – My apologies. It’s your ‘cousin’ UGA that asked that question. I’ll go back and ‘answer’ your question. What the hell.
re: War Criminal. OK mindless one, see if you can follow the math on this.
1) Japanese soldiers were prosecuted for war crimes for water boarding US soldiers in WW2.
2) There is no statute of limitations for war crimes.
3) Nuremberg established guilt of the commanders, not just the rank and file.
4) Bush is the commander and chief.
5) The US Signed the International Convention on Torture, Ratified by the US Senate and is international law and the law of the land. There are no exceptions in that treaty for ‘irregular combatants.”
6) Bush is ON RECORD as ordering waterboarding.
If you can’t follow that, I can use one syllable words for you.
Aaron Burr V Mexico
April 17th, 2012
4:01 pm
A: The size of the mess left behind by 8 years of failed regulation by Bush, and 8 years of the Fed and Clinton before that of insanely stupid and lax federal regulation + Supreme Court Precedent that makes anti trust almost impossible to enforce means a ‘too big to fail’ economy.
Obama is a wimp. Geitner is a monster, but the Republican alternatives were worse. We have to ‘borrow’ because ‘your boy’ and his secretary didn’t act ahead of time and also refused any form of accountability on TARP, which Obama then followed up with as well.
Its a Bush/Obama situation, and Romney won’t do any better. In fact, as a Vulture Capitalist, he’ll do worse.
Aaron Burr V Mexico
April 17th, 2012
4:02 pm
@Going Wrong – And as for my ‘male anatomy’ and argument….replace everything you said with your soul and brain and it is equally if not more applicable to you.
Secret Service intends to ‘follow up’ on Ted Nugent’s comments about Obama | Political Insider
April 17th, 2012
4:40 pm
[...] We told you this morning about the curious comment that rocker Ted Nugent, a Mitt Romney fan, made at an NRA convention in St. Louis: ”If Barack Obama becomes the president in November, again, I will be either be dead or in jail by this time next year.” [...]
zeke
April 17th, 2012
4:49 pm
aaron 1, going wrong 0
mccain was against waterboarding and was repub nominee for prez and a pow…i’d defer to senator mcnasty on this issue over some blogger
Going Right
April 17th, 2012
6:02 pm
AAron.. (QUOTE); “…When special interests can control a government by fiat, a tiny minority controls the government… Yep..that’s your old Messiah all right…rule by Fiat; “ Waterboarding by the Japs…, if that what you call that particular form of torture back then, however, this was done to the Muslim terrorists because they attacked a neutral site in THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, numbnuts! Not in Guadalcanal, Okinawa, Marshall Islands, etc.
-Argue your pitiful excuse for charging alledged war crimes of GWB by complaining to a War Crimes Tribunal (if you can get one), not me;
-I did the replacing as you requested. Know what? My body rejected the likenesses as “not in my anatomy.” Any other trials you’d like to suggest? Replace my brain with a diseased one? My psyche with that of a sore loser? Ad nauseum…
Finally, I wasn’t aware of your 200+ IQ and your capture of worrd news and situational understandings. I should apologize. Not often can I argue (no, not with a Marxist).
-I guess it’s back to “Your Weekly Reader” and the sandbox for you old soul.
-As for the rest of your rant (from a now diseased mind, like Jimmy Carter’s), please do use one-syllable words for me in futures postings. It helps pull my intellect back in time to understand what you’re trying to rant about,
Selah
Aaron Burr V. Mexico
April 17th, 2012
6:11 pm
@Going Right – Not ‘my messiah’ but your boy Bush that continued the Czars and put signing statements on all laws. Obama just took the ball and kept running.
Re: Waterboarding – I regard Republicans as terrorists in environmental matters. Does that mean you’re volunteering to be waterboarded when enough people agree with my view point?
Re: I did complain. They didn’t do anything. It was Obama’s first and biggest failure. But eventually the ICC will hear it, once the US has fallen more internationally.
Hopefully Obama will be prosecuted for failure to act too.
Re: Replacement….lol wot? You don’t even follow your own crazy insult trains very well. “Rubber and Glue, nyah nyah nyah!”
Jimmy Carter was a good man who had no spine. I assure you, I bite.
Secret Service intends to ‘follow up’ on Ted Nugent’s comments about Obama
April 17th, 2012
9:22 pm
[...] We told you this morning about the curious comment that rocker Ted Nugent, a Mitt Romney fan, made at an NRA convention in St. Louis: ”If Barack Obama becomes the president in November, again, I will be either be dead or in jail by this time next year.” [...]
zeke
April 18th, 2012
12:35 am
maybe they should ok waterboarding folks like nugent….freakin’ draft dodger pantywaist hiding behind his guns
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