Johnny Isakson: ‘Why put the markets in turmoil?’
U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson on Sunday declared himself willing to accept President Barack Obama’s offer of legislation to preserve middle class tax cuts as a last resort – and questioned why Congress was willing to toy with the nation’s 401(k)s.
From his appearance on ABC’s “This Week With George Stephanopoulos”:
Isakson:: “I felt like the House should have gone ahead and passed Speaker Boehner’s bill, because it addressed the subject and we’d still be in negotiation. And the president’s statement is right. No one wants taxes to go up on the middle class. I don’t want them to go up on anybody. But I’m not in the majority in the United State Senate and he’s the president of the United States. If we get down to the end of this year and the only choice we have is to save taxes going up on the middle class, then I would support that.
“But I wish we would have a comprehensive bill that dealt with spending, dealt with entitlements, and dealt with taxes altogether. That’s really what we ought to do.”
Stephanopoulos asked what he thought of the chances of a deal between now and the end of the year. Said Isakson:
”I sold houses for 33 years, George. I’m an eternal optimist, but time is running out. And the truth of the matter is, if we do fall off the cliff, after the president is inaugurated, he’ll come back, propose just what he proposed yesterday when leaving Washington, and we’ll end up adopting it. But why should we put the markets in such turmoil, and the people in such misunderstanding or lack of confidence? Why don’t we go ahead and act now?”
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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Bob Loblaw
December 23rd, 2012
9:44 pm
I’m sure the GOP base is just thrilled that those making $1M a year aren’t getting higher taxes on all money earned over the $1M mark.
Wait…that’s what the Speaker wanted? I thought it was just a tax on single families with family-owned businesses? Those rich people are job creators!!!
Thanks, Fox News.
Most of these TEA Party “republican” voters don’t realize there’s nobody in this tax bracket who would let them past the gates into their neighborhoods.
Voter
December 23rd, 2012
9:45 pm
Question – Didn’t Congress vote in and hussein obama sign the Budget Control Act of 2011? Why are the Democrats and hussein obama now complaining about the effects of the very bill they brought about? And why do they now blame congress and the GOP? Ironic
td
December 23rd, 2012
9:48 pm
Go ahead Johnny and vote to raise taxes and feel the pain from the people of this state that voted for you on the promise that you would not raise taxes.
td
December 23rd, 2012
9:51 pm
Bob Loblaw
December 23rd, 2012
9:44 pm
No my friend. It is the principle. We Republicans have a pledge from the people that we elect that they will not raise taxes. If we wanted taxes raised then we would vote for Democrats.
Rabbit
December 23rd, 2012
10:27 pm
The President has been the voice of reason. Sen. Johnny should have been more senatorial before the crunch time. maybe he could have led the successful passage of this bill. Now the republicans have backed up and stepped in it.
Rabbit
December 23rd, 2012
10:30 pm
Oh, and Mr. TD. The cliff dwellers won’t have raise taxes if we go over. They’ll just cut the middle class taxes that go up when the new year comes.
td
December 23rd, 2012
10:35 pm
Rabbit
December 23rd, 2012
10:30 pm
Yes that bill will have to come from the Republican controlled house. May or may happen but the Republican voters will insist and all tax cuts are back to the level as today or none will go back down and we blame Obama for not cutting taxes.
Cherokee
December 23rd, 2012
10:38 pm
and for about the hundredth time, td, as you know, it was the Republicans who set the tax cuts to expire.
Thanks Senator Isakson, but maybe you should have the courage to vote for the good of the country once in awhile, rather than cowering before the tea party loons.
GOP Millionaire Hind Kissers
December 23rd, 2012
10:38 pm
Yep, the right wing nuts have sworn to only tax working people, and to let the rich get richer while undermining America’s government and our principles of equality and fairness. Good Senator Isaacson gets it.
What’s new here? New is the fact that most Americans are tired of these GOP demagogues and their ignorant followers. Keep up the silly comments, conservatives. We voters can do math, and your kissing up to the rich says more about you than any plan for government budgets.
Can you even admit what the tax structure was when Reagan ruled the deficit busting budgets? And yes, Ronnie pinned an op-ed in the New York Times, no less, calling for an assault weapons ban.
I hope you Republican frauds don’t go after guns again like you have in the past: Reagan banned handgun carry as Governor, the Milford Act; Bush Sr. voted for the 1968 Gun Control Act as Texas Congressman, Mitt banned assault weapons while Governor or Massachusetts, and Newt and Bob Dole, as leaders of the House and Senate, passed the Assault Weapons Ban that Clinton signed—the point being that you right wingers are frauds and are easily played by your “leaders’. Suckers.
Cherokee
December 23rd, 2012
10:40 pm
“Republican voters will insist and all tax cuts are back to the level as today or none will go back down ”
So it’s better to not have any tax cuts at all than to approve them for 98% of Americans?
Weird…
OakhurstDawg
December 23rd, 2012
10:45 pm
@TD…not sure who you mean by “we the people”, but overwhelming majorities of Americans in poll after poll support raising taxes to help address the issue at hand. The state of denial that the GOP is in here is pretty stunning.
It’s all Isakson can do to actually keep from saying “The GOP is in a state of denial on raising taxes…the House in particular should remove its head from its rear.”
Jeez.
td
December 23rd, 2012
10:48 pm
GOP Millionaire Hind Kissers
December 23rd, 2012
10:38 pm
How much should be anyone’s “Fair Share”. The top 5% of income earners make 33% of all the money each year and pays 59% of all Federal income taxes. The top 5% is households making over $131,000 per year. Why do you call this amount “unfair”?
td
December 23rd, 2012
10:57 pm
OakhurstDawg
December 23rd, 2012
10:45 pm
What do the polls say about how to handle deficit reductions? I think when you add it together then the overwhelming majority of people want spending cuts at the 2 or 3 to 1 with tax increases.
I think most Republicans feel spending cuts first and then after they have taken effects tax increases would be OK to ONLY reduce the debt.
Marlboro Man
December 24th, 2012
6:39 am
As Meatloarf said, 2 out 3 ain’t bad. Suck it up, big spenders do your part and take one for the team.
DeborahinAthens
December 24th, 2012
7:05 am
The Repugs are willing to let the stock market go down 500-700 points as they were during the faux crisis of the Debt Ceiling mess, thereby wiping out trillions of dollars in assets. These are assets held in our 401(k)s, assets held by retirees who live off of theses assets. They are willing to do this to save a few thousand dollars a year in tax increases. They are doing this because of ideology. Now we need to think about this. What on Earth goes through their pathetic brains? td obviously has no invested assets, because he is willing to watch this chaos ensue. And, I suspect this is true of most Repugs in GA? Most are red-neck blue collar workers that continue to vote for Republicans who DO NOT have their best interests at heart. The Republicans invented the Fiscal Cliff to force themselves to fix our fiscal problems before December 31st. They have had over a year to get it done, and here we are today. We can thank Dubya the Dumb for this as well. if he had had the balls and brains to pass a permanent, intelligent tax plan, if he had raised taxes to pay for two insane wars, we would not be in this place today. It is a dark, sad day for this country, and the Republican “patriots” can pat themselves on the back for it. I give us six months before we are back in a recession should they nor fix this problem in the next five days. These bozos can’t even to t the toilet in five days.
dcb
December 24th, 2012
7:47 am
Perspetive, perspective, perspective. While I don’t understand the reluctance of the Dems and the President to address immediately the cutting spending issue instead of appealing to public sentiment by honing on on the “rising” of taxes on the “rich” using only their definition of the word, I am totally confused as to why no one plays up the fact that this is not a tax increase, its returning to the legally defined tax rates as in the law. Sure the amount any one citizen pays will go up, but like not receiving a bonus in your pay for the following year, it is not a penalty. You were lucky to have it in the first place. At a low-end figure of the savings you’ve had by the Bush tax-cut savings since ‘03 of $3,000 a year (as I’ve heard quoted frequently), you’re $30,000 to the good. That’s not only the glass of water half-filled, it is fact. Cherish it. Don’t buy the political hype. Suck it up. Get over the issue of taxes being collected once again before the Bush our news media now declares “everyone loved to hate” – led tax cut savings of ‘03.
jezel
December 24th, 2012
7:50 am
For this country to move on…the GOP must rid itself of the Tea Party element and re-establish the principles that the GOP has traditionally stood for.
America needs two viable parties to do business. Today there is only one. The other party is being held hostage by….
hiram
December 24th, 2012
7:54 am
DeborahinAthens
December 24th, 2012
7:05 am
” Most are red-neck blue collar workers that continue to vote for Republicans who DO NOT have their best interests at heart.”
Their lack of education is not lost on Republican strategists, who exploit it to the max. Scientific method is greek to them, so a radom sampling of 1 is just as valid as a sampling of 1,000,000 to justify something – and they don’t seem to have the ability to weigh issues – their right to own an assault rifle trumps having air to breath. As a result, the Republicans can assemble a platform, where 90% of it negatively impacts 99% of Republican voters, and they don’t know the difference. For example, you will go bankrupt if you get sick, and we will raise your taxes, but cut Mitt’s, and we will award defense contractors another 10 trillion dollars worth of contracts for needless airplanes, but you get to keep your assault rifle for personal protection. After analyzing the platform, their response is: YIPPEE, I GET TO KEEP MY ASSAULT RIFLE!!!
Jack ®
December 24th, 2012
8:07 am
I suppose it’s always been this way: people that have less want more and they want more even if someone else has to pay for it. What I have gained through my efforts didn’t come at someone else’s expense. And those that have more than me didn’t take it from me. Maybe I’m a “sucker” and maybe I’m in “denial”, but I won’t vote for a party that is trying to enforce “fairness” through programs that require me to pay for the lack of ambition and planning of others.
hiram
December 24th, 2012
8:10 am
@ Jack
You just made my point. I have heard that fox new’s nonsense talking point, verbatim, 10,000 times – 9000 from td.
Jack ®
December 24th, 2012
8:19 am
Maybe you spend too much time listening to Fox News, hiram.
Georgia , The "New Mississippi"
December 24th, 2012
8:28 am
It boggles the mind why GOP politicians sign pledges with people that do not live in their state and are not eligible to vote in the district they are suppose to represent. KKK politics.
Cherokee
December 24th, 2012
8:29 am
Jack are you really so naive that you think that there is no possibility that you or someone you love will catch a dreadful disease, or be severely injured in an accident, or lose your job, or have something else awful happen to you?
Sure there are some people whose ‘lack of ambition’ causes them to fail in life. But there are also lots of hard working people just like you who have terrible luck in life, and need some help.
And someday it might be you.
hiram
December 24th, 2012
8:31 am
@ Ga, the new Ms.
They do it because they don’t represent the people who elect them, and as I said before, they don’t know the difference. The world is abstract to most Republican voters – most of them still think it’s flat.
Rafe Hollister
December 24th, 2012
9:05 am
Does Johnny carry that white flag with him at all times, if so, maybe he is French.
I understand wealth envy, fairness, and blind faith in Barry, but how do people think that if we raise taxes on the top two percent, 80B dollars, that we are on the way to solving our economic problems. Much, much more needs to be done to get us on a track to financial solvency. Unfortunately Obama’s ideology first attitude is hampering any meaningful solutions. After three budgets that failed to even get any Democrat support, he needs to, for once in his life, put together a reasonable budget that increases revenue and makes significant REAL spending cuts. We have had it with the smoke and mirrors, cuts in future spending, charade.
Johnny is too old to grow a spine, so he needs to step down.
ChuckieCheese
December 24th, 2012
9:09 am
Voter
You are the voice of the past – of all things that need to fall by the political mudslinging wayside. Time to put the big boy pants on, get past the moronic pitiful attempts at insults, face reality and get over it.
Rafe Hollister
December 24th, 2012
9:13 am
You were lucky to have it in the first place.
dcb, so your lifestyle is based on luck, you are lucky to have a job and lucky to get paid. Not me, I earned everything I have and it belongs to me, not the government. I am willing to pay reasonable taxes, but there is a limit. It is time for the citizens to tell the government this is all you are going to get, learn to live on that amount, just like your boss tells you, when you ask for a raise.
Eddie Smith
December 24th, 2012
9:35 am
My Republican friends, who are very upset about tax cuts. Please remember what income bracket the President is proposing the tax hike. Most right winger are jumping up and down about the taxes, but the sad part is that 98% of the people crying about the tax rate hike. You don’t qualify for them. Please remember that the average solider salary is 30k a year for defending our country, they volunteer for this job, and it is a said day, when tose who can pay a little more and don’t serve are crying about a little more money. Those 47%er
honested
December 24th, 2012
9:56 am
We have over ten years of clear evidence that the tax cuts were a complete failure at spurring economic expansion.
End the failed experiment and return to a revenue policy that PRODUCES ECONOMIC EXPANSION.
Let the ’sequester’ produce the cuts in the most expensive military industrial complex in the universe. Otherwise, the cowards in the House will never stand up to their military funders.
Bill
December 24th, 2012
10:18 am
If uninformed voters had not blindly voted back into ofice the sociaist we have had for 4 years we wouldn’t be having this discussion. we would be moving forward instead of backward. Thanks to dumb demorats we live worse but it cost more.
td
December 24th, 2012
10:23 am
All these posts from the takers and not even one to address the facts I laid out at 10:38 last night. Do not let the FACTS get in the way of your wealth envy.
tireofit
December 24th, 2012
10:32 am
Cut the DOD funding 50%, it is time for the defense contractors to take a hit from their government welfare.
hiram
December 24th, 2012
10:34 am
The problem is the U.S. House of Reps(think Paul Broun), is elected by the most backward segment of the U.S. population, which enables a handful of super rich psychopaths to subvert the democratic process. Even is a Rep has enough sense to get in out of the rain, they either appease the psychopaths, or they will be replaced by an idiot in the next election. Either way, the country will remain in dead lock – the easily manipulated fools, who elect people like Pau Broun, aren’t getting any smarter.
td
December 24th, 2012
10:36 am
tireofit
December 24th, 2012
10:32 am
Cut the DOD funding 50%, it is time for the defense contractors to take a hit from their government welfare.
Yes, let us do away with the one actual thing the Federal government is suppose to do so that we can keep up the benefits to the moochers so that they do not have to work.
td
December 24th, 2012
10:38 am
hiram
December 24th, 2012
10:34 am
BS and you know it. It is the lowest educated and the one that make the least amount of money that voted for Obama. You know it and so does the entire nation.
tireofit
December 24th, 2012
10:45 am
The defense contractor are moochers and I don’t want my tax dollars going to them. Enough is enough.
td
December 24th, 2012
10:47 am
tireofit
December 24th, 2012
10:45 am
The defense contractor are moochers and I don’t want my tax dollars going to them. Enough is enough.
If the Federal Governments job is not to “provide of the common defense” then what is the job of the Federal government?
james
December 24th, 2012
10:48 am
I say lets go over the cliff so
the govenment has to cut spending. Taxes are going
up either way so lets at least get some benefit of less
government by going over the so called media based
cliff.. we will all survive… Merry Christmas….
Cliff Diver
December 24th, 2012
10:56 am
Geronimo!
Voter
December 24th, 2012
10:58 am
The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny, and it is useless for the innocent to try by reasoning to get justice, when the oppressor intends to be unjust.
Voter
December 24th, 2012
10:58 am
When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.”
– Dr. Adrian Rogers
Flying HIgh
December 24th, 2012
11:03 am
td: It is Christmas time. At least give it a good effort to be a LION Christian and not the Lying Christian you know yourself to be.
Aesop: If they allow you to get on the computer at the asylum today, don’t get too angry and get the blog shut down. Maybe they will let you loons watch “One Flew Over the CuckCoo’s Nest” if you are good.
hiram
December 24th, 2012
11:03 am
td
December 24th, 2012
10:38 am
hiram
December 24th, 2012
10:34 am
BS and you know it. It is the lowest educated and the one that make the least amount of money that voted for Obama. You know it and so does the entire nation.hiram
@cc/td
“Top Ten Best(and Worst) Educated States and How They Voted”
http://gizmodo.com/5959101/the-effect-of-education-in-the-presidential-election
tireofit
December 24th, 2012
11:07 am
Obama Wins 8 of the Nation’s 10 Wealthiest Counties:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/49726054/Obama_Wins_8_of_the_Nationrsquos_10_Wealthiest_Counties
liberalefty
December 24th, 2012
11:10 am
OBAMA got the sad angry REPUBS over a barrel and they know it.Once again the commnunity organizer beats the repubs like a drum…
liberalefty
December 24th, 2012
11:12 am
VOTER 10:58
nice FOX talking points…now go get a job
tireofit
December 24th, 2012
11:13 am
If your top concerns are guns and taxes on the wealthy you really need to do a gut check.
td
December 24th, 2012
11:20 am
hiram
December 24th, 2012
11:03 am
td
December 24th, 2012
10:38 am
hiram
December 24th, 2012
10:34 am
BS and you know it. It is the lowest educated and the one that make the least amount of money that voted for Obama. You know it and so does the entire nation.hiram
@cc/td
“Top Ten Best(and Worst) Educated States and How They Voted”
http://gizmodo.com/5959101/the-effect-of-education-in-the-presidential-election
Now let us take this math problem a little further and compare the standardized scores in the heavy Republican districts like East Cobb, North Fulton, Gwinn and Forsyth counties and compare them to Atlanta, South Dekalb, Clayton and Doughty counties. Could it be the children of Democratic voters drag the entire state down in Education scores and rank.
td
December 24th, 2012
11:25 am
tireofit
December 24th, 2012
11:13 am
If your top concerns are guns and taxes on the wealthy you really need to do a gut check.
So my top concerns should be on the people that chose not to get and education, chose to get pregnant when they are not married and do not have the necessary skill set to support a child, chose to abuse drugs and alcohol? Yes let us all concern ourselves with the moochers.
liberalefty
December 24th, 2012
11:25 am
I’m from KY. a state wher OBAMA lost big because poor whites who depend on government checks voted for ROMNEY. Eventhough these folks are poor they voted for a party who wants to make it harder for women to get afforable healthcare by closing planned parenthood, and the gop wants to stop OBAMACARE, which these poor people need because they already can’t afford to get sick. These people are easily duped because they are definitely voting against their interests. And to top it off they vote for a party who label them as “takers” and moochers..
Flying HIgh
December 24th, 2012
11:26 am
td
why did you not speak of the NA and South GA areas, which are also majority Republican voters?
You are a CINO: Christian In Name Only
hahahahahahah
td
December 24th, 2012
11:28 am
Georgia , The “New Mississippi”
December 24th, 2012
8:28 am
It boggles the mind why GOP politicians sign pledges with people that do not live in their state and are not eligible to vote in the district they are suppose to represent
More BS. The pledge is to the voters of their districts and if they do not sign it then we will not consider voting for them.
liberalefty
December 24th, 2012
11:28 am
td11:25
yeah we have a lot of moochers in eastern Kentucky hillbilly country…its been labeled the most toothless region in the country…they love the gop eventhough theyre moochers
yuzeyurbrane
December 24th, 2012
11:30 am
For what it’s worth department—I actually have a good number of Republican friends who have heretofore stuck with the anti-tax orthodoxy of the extreme right. As part of the round of holiday phone-calls among friends they have been consistently volunteering their unhappiness with the hardliners in their own party and the hope for a compromise over the fiscal cliff. I couldn’t agree more and suspect that Senator Isakson is seeing private polls which reflect the same. So mighty righties, get on board or be even further marginalized.
td
December 24th, 2012
11:31 am
Flying HIgh
December 24th, 2012
11:26 am
td
why did you not speak of the NA and South GA areas, which are also majority Republican voters?
You are a CINO: Christian In Name Only
hahahahahaha
The scores in Gilmer, Fannin, Walker, Catoosa, Union PIckens and the rest of the N GA mountains far outpace the scores in Clayton and Dekalb counties. Look it up.
td
December 24th, 2012
11:32 am
liberalefty
December 24th, 2012
11:28 am
td11:25
yeah we have a lot of moochers in eastern Kentucky hillbilly country…its been labeled the most toothless region in the country…they love the gop eventhough theyre moochers
I am talking about GA. and you are deflecting.
liberalefty
December 24th, 2012
11:34 am
too many poor moochers vote for the gop eventhough theyre ridiculed as takers..
Flying HIgh
December 24th, 2012
11:35 am
td
And they are better than the avg shown for the states listed by that other blogger?
Really
GA is low. You can play your cherry picking game take out what you want and GA for the most part still doesn’t add up. Only way it does is for you to cherry pick. Out of all the counties in GA, you have listed 6 or 7. Well you idioit, Republicans control and folks vote majority Repub in more than those 6 or 7 counties, but keep it up CINO
liberalefty
December 24th, 2012
11:36 am
td
i was only pointing out the moochers on the gop side…they voted for people who look at them as sh@t
Flying HIgh
December 24th, 2012
11:39 am
td
GA has a bunch of Republican voting moochers as well.
You just do not wish to admit it. But in the end it makes no difference, because they are still moochers whethter you acknowledge it ot not.
liberalefty
December 24th, 2012
11:39 am
the gop dont mind the poor takers and moochers who vote for them…
honested
December 24th, 2012
11:41 am
The ‘cliff’ was a republiclan invention, although they somehow thought they would win a glorious victory in the House, Senate and Presidency preventing it from occurring.
Well, there are not enough stupid voters left to give the republiclans all three branches of government and their numbers diminished in the House and Senate.
So, the ‘cliff’ of their invention will be the frame around the portrait of their failure at statecraft.
As they slowly slink into third party status.
NoMoreRawDeal
December 24th, 2012
11:43 am
Ah, the joys of modern political discourse:
Democrat: “You’re dumb.”
Republican: “No, YOU’RE dumb.”
You people, all rallying for your tribe no matter the facts. When the reality is the Democrats and Republicans are just two sides of the same coin.
Third Parties and Term Limits, all the way.
td
December 24th, 2012
11:43 am
Flying HIgh
December 24th, 2012
11:35 am
Point is if you take out the children of Democratic voters scores then the rest of the states scores would rank GA right in the middle in Education, even with the rural S. GA scores. Those are facts and they can not be disputed. Democratic voters (moochers) are a drag on society.
honested
December 24th, 2012
11:45 am
td,
How do the homeschooled and jeebus schooled fare when tested on evolutionary biology and earth sciences?
That’s why I can’t hire them.
td
December 24th, 2012
11:47 am
honested
December 24th, 2012
11:41 am
Just wait and see how hard to the right this country turns when the far left attempts to overplay its hand with the second Amendment debate that will be coming soon.
Flying HIgh
December 24th, 2012
11:48 am
td
Says in the middle, eventhough he doesn’t cite any evidence
And that “middle” still puts thaem behind how many BLUE STATES?
td
December 24th, 2012
11:48 am
honested
December 24th, 2012
11:45 am
td,
How do the homeschooled and jeebus schooled fare when tested on evolutionary biology and earth sciences?
That’s why I can’t hire them.
I do not remember seeing those two subjects come up on the SAT or the ACT?
NoMoreRawDeal
December 24th, 2012
11:48 am
And love the new argument you have now:
GOP voters are mostly moochers anyway. But since their moochers vote GOP while OUR moochers are not moochers but people with legitimate problems requiring government assistance and they vote for Democrats, then THEIR moochers must be ignorant jackwads.
Oh my God you people will talk yourselves into never-ending circles.
Flying HIgh
December 24th, 2012
11:51 am
td
What about the Democratic voters who are some of the highest earners in this state and whose kids go to some of the same schools, public and private, that the top Republican earners kids go?
Your sterotypes really only show your ignorance and hatred for people who do not think like you.
You are really one of the least Christian people on this blog. At least the ones who put it on their sleeve.
You CINO
liberalefty
December 24th, 2012
11:53 am
td 11:47
more of your dumb predictions? by the way who did u predict would win the presidency?
td
December 24th, 2012
11:53 am
Flying HIgh
December 24th, 2012
11:48 am
td
Says in the middle, eventhough he doesn’t cite any evidence
And that “middle” still puts thaem behind how many BLUE STATES?
As the states turn more and more right to work the more red they will become. The unions are the only group holding the Democratic party together.
honested
December 24th, 2012
11:55 am
td,
What is the relevance of your reference to those who ‘hold tightly to their god and guns’?
We are talking about adequate revenue collection from the appropriate sources…..
Coupled with adequate cuts to the rapacious MIC.
liberalefty
December 24th, 2012
11:55 am
thank god there wasnt enough moochers to put MITT in the whgitehouse
td
December 24th, 2012
11:56 am
liberalefty
December 24th, 2012
11:53 am
td 11:47
more of your dumb predictions? by the way who did u predict would win the presidency?
Wow I was wrong on one election. I can guarantee to that my voting record predicted more winners then your did.
honested
December 24th, 2012
11:56 am
td,
If you are unaware of questions relative to evolutionary biology or earth sciences on the SAT or ACT, then it proves you have no comprehension of education or higher education testing.
Hint, they don’t ask about how many ‘days’ it took to ‘create’ the universe.
liberalefty
December 24th, 2012
11:58 am
td
whose holding the republican party together but racist birthers, and dumb women who want the government to control their wombs.
honested
December 24th, 2012
11:59 am
td,
So as to your stellar prognostication record…..
How many House members did you predict would be added by the republiclans, and didn’t you suggest there would be a flip to a super majority in the Senate?
Flying HIgh
December 24th, 2012
12:00 pm
td
Yeah right. That’s why Republicans have lost 5 of the last 6 popular votes on the Presidential level and House voting had 1 million more votes than Republicans. If not for gerrymandering, the House would not have went Democrat, but surely more seats would have been lost by Repubs. Even some Republicans acknowledge that the Republican approach to the current demographic trends is a losing hand.
Since it is Christmas, try to be the Christian you claim you are, but do not demonstrate that well on the AJC blogs.
But say the course little prick. You are exactly what is needed for the big “turnaround” you are expecting for your party.
hahahahahahah
td
December 24th, 2012
12:04 pm
Flying HIgh
December 24th, 2012
12:00 pm
I just figured it out. You have recreated yourself again since your little rant the other night was even called out by progressives on the blog. You are still an American hating slim ball. Auntie.
Flying HIgh
December 24th, 2012
12:08 pm
td wants more of those jaysus rode a dinosaur schools…………..
And that Moses owned a pet T Rex
td: How is that fantasy land museum that some of you evangelicals call the “unintelligent design / creationism” meusem?
http://creationmuseum.org/
I bet it is full of laughs and humor.
Solomon is probably depicted riding on the back on a brontosaurus.
hiram
December 24th, 2012
12:10 pm
To all of us wasting brain waves arguing with td/cc, lest we forget, he founded the “Rush Limbaugh Listening Club” up at the Cobb County Junior College, and not only does he admit it, he’s proud of it – puts it on his resume.
td
December 24th, 2012
12:10 pm
Flying HIgh
December 24th, 2012
12:08 pm
Your hate for religion and America gives you away. Auntie slim ball.
Flying HIgh
December 24th, 2012
12:11 pm
td
Who? Are you paronoid from drinking to much Jaysus juice?
When did you serve td? Let me guess, never…
td
December 24th, 2012
12:12 pm
hiram
December 24th, 2012
12:10 pm
Please do not forget to put the fact that I was a founding member of the KSU young Republicans when you give my biography. You are just jealous that you have no real accomplishments to even have a bio.
td
December 24th, 2012
12:15 pm
Flying HIgh
December 24th, 2012
12:11 pm
td
Who? Are you paronoid from drinking to much Jaysus juice?
When did you serve td? Let me guess, never…
You know who Auntie slim ball.
Flying HIgh
December 24th, 2012
12:15 pm
hiram
One blogger posted awhile ago that he also had the responsiblity of making sure the radio was tuned to the right station when the meetings were held as well as calling Papa John’s to place the pizza order. He was one important little dude in that club.
hiram
December 24th, 2012
12:17 pm
td/cc
The definition of accomplishments is relative – Al-Qaeda considers flying passenger planes full of innocent passengers, an accomplishment..
Flying HIgh
December 24th, 2012
12:18 pm
td
Is going on his 10th year in a row as the #1 Rush jock sniffer. Rush send him a pair of briefs with his name on it every time td wins.
hahahahahahahha
Buckhead Boy
December 24th, 2012
12:19 pm
td: “Yes, let us do away with the one actual thing (defense) the Federal government is suppose to do so that we can keep up the benefits to the moochers so that they do not have to work.
I suppose that must be some federal government in an alternate reality, because our’s gives equal weight to the purposes of establishing justice, promoting the general welfare and insuring domestic tranquility. Furthermore, I seriously doubt that imposing a “Pax Americana” throughout the world is the intended meaning of “provide for the common defense” in our’s.
Auntie Christ
December 24th, 2012
12:26 pm
td
December 24th, 2012
12:04 pm
just figured it out. You have recreated yourself again since your little rant the other night was even called out by progressives on the blog. You are still an American hating slim ball. Auntie.
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Looks like my favorite monkey is throwing feces again to get any attention he can. You’re still a joke s td. We’re still laughing at you and your stupid predictions on the election, your stupid predictions on gun control legislation, your stupid rants about the stupid people like you who can’t see your 1850’s ideas, tho resurgent for about 15 minutes, are going right back into the figurative toilet where they belong. I would never change my moniker from Auntie Christ for no other reason than I know how it gets you self righteous, hypocritical faux christians into such a hissy. As much as we all love a good joke, give it a rest for a while, you’re a broken record of pox news rote speech, and it has gotten to the point where you aren’t as funny any more, it is more like we just feel so sorry for you. Except for the election predictions, I still laugh about that HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That was a scream!
Auntie Christ
December 24th, 2012
12:39 pm
s td loves America, it’s just those 350Million+ Americans that he hates. He’s a good christian, it’s just Christ’s teachings that he thinks are wrong. He’s a real patriot,but he just wants us to overthrow the government. He loves the bill of rights, that second amendment part, anyway, it’s just those other pesky 9 Amendments he hates. He loves democracy, as long as only republicans get to vote. Yep, that s td, a model of consistency and steadfast beliefs. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! He’s a riot alright!
RCB
December 24th, 2012
12:44 pm
@honested….. Obama (with Tim Geithner) created the term and plan “fiscal cliff.” Not republicans.
liberalefty
December 24th, 2012
12:44 pm
auntie christ 12:39
In other words TD thinks anyone who doesn’t think like him is Unamerican.
Don't Tread
December 24th, 2012
12:47 pm
If the government robs Peter to pay Paul, they can count on Paul’s support in the next election.
liberalefty
December 24th, 2012
12:49 pm
dont tread
wow nice bumper sticker, another FAUX NEWS bs talking point
liberalefty
December 24th, 2012
1:14 pm
Nobody loves this country more than TD. He never actually served in the military because he didnt love America THAT much, but like all uber patriotic chickenhawks, he won’t hesitate to send someone else to die, while he keeps America safe from behind his computer.
RCB
December 24th, 2012
1:18 pm
Some of you seem to be obsessed with Fox News. It’s not the only outlet for news, so feel free to change the channel. The antithesis of Fox is MSNBC, so you have a choice.
Voter
December 24th, 2012
1:33 pm
@liberallefty – 2 points. 1st- not FOX talking points, tyrant quote from an Aesop fable, The Wolf and the Lamb from decades ago and Dr. Adrian Rogers quote from 1984. it’s amazing how true they have become. Also, I am looking for a job, thanks. No unemployment thanks to the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act Bill of 2012. This bill didn’t create any jobs and kicked off people who were receiving some unemployment. That’s why the unemployment numbers look better. Get educated and informed.
Just dropping in
December 24th, 2012
2:14 pm
td
Wishing you and your mail order bride a Happy Kwanza and Winter Solstice
honested
December 24th, 2012
4:31 pm
Yes, td, although I missed it last Monday, Happy Saturnalia!
Debbie Dooley
December 24th, 2012
5:30 pm
It is because the Tea Party threatens the GOP congresspeople with Primary fights. Fire EVERY ONE of them….
Halftrack
December 24th, 2012
6:04 pm
Dear Johnny; your job is to look after Georgian first then the rest of the Americans. You are incorporated into 1/3 of the Government as an independent entity. Regardless of what the President says you can rightly oppose his policies and positions, especially when the end result is worse than the cure. A 16 Trillion dollar debt is not overcome by any tax increases. Spending is the problem. Let’s do some critical thinking on this matter and do some leadership things. We haven’t tried that in a long time. As Dr. Phil says where is our present thinking getting America and how is it working out for us?
Voter
December 24th, 2012
6:29 pm
@Halftrack – I agree. Spending is the problem. Unfortunately, the White House and the Democrats don’t want to do any spending cuts.
Again – “You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.”
― Adrian Rogers
tell the truth
December 24th, 2012
6:59 pm
Bob Loblaw How very principled of you all to want your way rather than consider any compromise that would be good for the entire USA. It is a sick picture of the way that your perverted minds work that you would think that way. Let me tell you that many of your Repuke brethren will be kicked out in states that are more reasonable unlike all the southern burn and slash states. You are a dying breed and don’t even realize it.
tell the truth
December 24th, 2012
7:07 pm
RCB There is no antithesis to Faux News – anywhere in the world except maybe in countries with dictators.
Voter
December 24th, 2012
7:45 pm
@tell the truth – not sure where you get your facts but FoxNews does very well in reporting the news unlike NBC, MSNBC, CNBC and other major media services. If the mainstream media did their job we would have answers to why Benghazi happened.
td
December 24th, 2012
10:02 pm
You libs should not be so bitter today. Remember some 2000 years ago tonight our Lord and savior came to us in the form of a human being to give all us sinners the opportunity for salvation!!!!! What a glorious thought we all have the chance to choice the right path in life. We do not have to be perfect, we do not have to live a perfect life, we do not have to pay and we really do not even have to work for salvation. All we have to do is believe. I pray all of you have accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior and if not it is never too late. Merry Christmas to all.
honested
December 24th, 2012
10:22 pm
td,
Or 2000 years ago, a son was born to a sad little hebrew girl that couldn’t bring herself to tell the truth as to who was the father of her child.
There have always been fools who will fall for anything!
Cherokee
December 24th, 2012
10:57 pm
td, Merry Christmas to you, but you cannot be a conservative and a disciple of Jesus Christ. To do that you would have to ignore much of His teaching, such as His admonition to turn the other cheek when you’re threatened, to also give your shirt to the thief who threatens to take your coat, as well as His comments about the responsbility of nations to care for the sick and the widows and the less fortunate.
All of those teachings are anathema to you – judging by your comments here – and most conservatives.
td
December 24th, 2012
11:20 pm
Cherokee
December 24th, 2012
10:57 pm
I guess you can not be a progressive and a disciple of Christ.
For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. 2 Thessalonians 3:10
Voter
December 24th, 2012
11:33 pm
@td – Well said. Merry Christmas
Voter
December 24th, 2012
11:33 pm
@honested – We’ll be praying for you.
Voter
December 24th, 2012
11:35 pm
@Cherokee – “but you cannot be a conservative and a disciple of Jesus Christ”. Disagree. I am a Christian as well as a conservative.
Voter
December 24th, 2012
11:37 pm
@Cherokee – also, people, whether Christian or not, do have opinions. Some are right and some are wrong. That does not change whether someone believes that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and our Savior.
innerjuju
December 25th, 2012
12:28 am
Congratulations, Senator Isakson, you just secured my vote during the next election. I’m looking to support those on both sides of the aisle that show leadership, moderation, and compromise. You have no idea how much hope you gave me in believing the American people might just be able to see themselves out of this mess. My hat is off to you, sir.