Cool down with a fan and iced tea
Thinking Right’s weekend free-for-all. Pick a topic:
- I agree with President Barack Obama. What? No lightning strikes me down? On his nomination of U.S. District Court Judge Beverly Martin to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, we are in agreement. She is, as he said, “a first rate jurist with unflagging integrity and evenhandedness.”
- More worries for taxpayers and their grandchildren: The government agency that pays the pensions of 44 million workers who were employed in failed businesses reports a deficit of $33.5 billion, triple the deficit reported six months ago.
- More worries, too, for the kiddies: By 2030, the number of U.S. residents over 65 will jump from 13 percent to 20 percent. The world’s elderly population is growing at twice the rate of the general population, reports the D.C.-based Center for Strategic and International Studies. Hide the piggy banks. Congress plans a stick-up.
- Change gushes through Washington and creeps through Georgia. But, still, it’s a grand day for education reform when the state’s Charter Schools Commission approves its first two schools — Ivy Preparatory Academy of Norcross and Charter Conservatory for Liberal Arts and Technology in Statesboro. The important new element is that both schools get state funds equal to the local share.
- In the spirit of good liberals everywhere in public office, eight members of Atlanta City Council agonize, wring their hands and “step up to the plate” to face the prospect that politicians want to spend $541 million and are $56 million shy. Cut? No. They raise taxes by an average of $240 per homeowner. And then and forever more, beg for a state bailout. It’s not their fault.
- Within hours of winning the Miss Georgia crown, Kristina Higgins of Duluth decided she’d rather teach special education. Admirable. But unfair to the second-place finisher, Emily Cook, who gets the hand-me-down crown. Some things in life can’t be anticipated. Winning a contest you’ve entered can be.
- President Obama may not have been too quick to react to the Russian invasion of the Republic of Georgia or the bogus election in Iran, but he’s on top of the situation in Honduras, where the elected president was deposed for trying to thwart the Constitution. He’s either a slow study or fast to firmness on international affairs that don’t much affect our national security.
- The reaction to the discrimination against firefighters who scored highest on promotion exams in New Haven, Conn., and then saw the city yank promotions because whites scored disproportionately higher, is as expected. It’s contained in one AJC headline: “Written tests may lose favor.” When test results don’t yield the results desired, get rid of them so the discrimination can be hidden. That’s the rule of bureaucrats and politicians who want to cheat legally.
- Bad news for conservatives. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pushed through a monstrosity of hidden taxes in the cap-and-trade legislation with the help of eight Republicans from blue states. In the Senate, the Dems are on the verge of having a filibuster-proof majority, with the arrival of comedian Al Franken from Minnesota. And, of course, they can always count on two or three Republican crossovers. Not good for containing the Obama over-reach.
- Some politicians are overexposed while in office. Former Gainesville Mayor Mark Musselwhite was overexposed after he left. A Department of Natural Resources ranger found him sitting naked in the summer heat at a Rabun County campsite. Ice tea and a funeral home fan would have been my recommendations.
- President Obama says the energy tax bill that passed the House with too little attention on the day that Michael Jackson died will cost the average American about the price of a postage stamp per day. Everybody who believes that has probably already spent the children’s inheritance on Billy Mays’ infomercials.
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Mid-South Philosopher
July 2nd, 2009
6:57 pm
So, it is true. Comedian Al Franken is really going to replace Norm Coleman as a U.S. Senator from Minnesota. Hum…a clown being replaced by a bigger clown, yet the Washington “Circus” continues. If we are lucky, someone will leave the lions’ cages doors open! Oops, my bad, there aren’t any lions in Washington anymore…just kitty cats!
1984
July 2nd, 2009
7:03 pm
Jim, enjoy the freedom while it lasts. As soon as Obama Hussein gets done destroying the US Constitution we’ll all be in re-education camps.
CHAINS YOU CAN BELIEVE IN! WOO HOO, PASS THE ICED TEA AND THE SHOT GUN.
stepchild
July 2nd, 2009
7:06 pm
Cynthia McKinney losing her seat: $125,000
Billy McKinney screaming “IT’S THE JEWS! J-E-W-S JEWS!” when describing why: $250,000
Cynthia McKinney whining about being in an Isreali jail for attempting to run a blockade to deliver supplies to Gaza: PRICELESS
AJC Management
July 2nd, 2009
7:53 pm
He’s either a slow study or fast to firmness on international affairs that don’t much affect our national security.
Obozo would never pass up a chance to flex his scrawny foreign policy muscles, especially with some tiny country that has no missiles to aim at us.
Not good for containing the Obama over-reach.
You seem to have forgotten about 2010, the midterm elections, opinion polls and the way liberals worship them.
When they get a look see at the numbers “cap and tax” and health care are garnering, you count on at least 10 democrats bailing on Obozo.
President Obama says the energy tax bill that passed the House with too little attention on the day that Michael Jackson died will cost the average American about the price of a postage stamp per day.
Obozo bin Biden also said if we passed Porkulus, the unemployment numbers would not go higher than 8%.
They are now at 9.4%
Government Motors and Chrysler’s sales numbers plummeted 30 some percent, again, what, how many billions did these clowns sink in them?
eewwww
1984
July 2nd, 2009
7:56 pm
AJC Management, correction. Unemployment is at 9.5%
Pubtards Continue to Lose
July 2nd, 2009
7:59 pm
Unlike Mary Staley who nominated herself for federal judge twice and whose only experience in a federal courtroom was the school field trip she took as a child, Beverly Martin has considerable federal litigation experience and judicial experience as a trial judge in NDG. Staley has none.
•More worries for taxpayers and their grandchildren: The government agency that pays the pensions of 44 million workers who were employed in failed businesses reports a deficit of $33.5 billion, triple the deficit reported six months ago.
This came from the Bush administration’s 96 months.
•President Obama may not have been too quick to react to the Russian invasion of the Republic of Georgia or the bogus election in Iran, but he’s on top of the situation in Honduras, where the elected president was deposed for trying to thwart the Constitution. He’s either a slow study or fast to firmness on international affairs that don’t much affect our national security.
And President Wooten’s precise reaction to Iran would be exactly what? Mouth off like Lindsay Graham? And Wooten’s explanation of why and how Bush let Iran and North Korea go nuclear by doing nothing and leaving zero CIA assets in Iran according to Bob Baer the CIA section chief in the Middle East for years is precisely what? That’s what I thought. All mud slinging but no plan.
The only move in Iran is to get CIA assets in and prod the work force to begin a work stoppage. Any Lindsay Grahamesque Trash talk doesn’t do a fooking thing and Wooten knows that.
You won’t see Woooten write a detailed Iran response prescription column the way he tries to write detailed articles on parenting or educational finance in Georgia because he doesn’t have a clue what to do in Iran or North Korea. Bush did nothing for 8 years and as in everyother field left Obama with nearly insoluble problems.
Wooten wants to fly a bomber into Iran perhaps and Bomb all the fundamentalists and spare the portion of the under 28 age group that is 60% of their population by dropping a fundamentalist specific nuclear bomb perhaps? Wooten wants to drop bunker bombs that will destroy their nuclear program in a place the size of Texas? What precisely is Wooten prepared to do in Iran? Wooten’s been totally quiet about his plan because he doesn’t have a clue. Last time I checked Honduras wasn’t allowed by Bush to go nuclear over 8 years, but Iran was.
Written tests are what Georgia school children can’t pass when compared to other states. Georgia is 47-49 since Wooten was in grade school. It never changes.
All we know about that opinion in the 2nd circuit is that it was decided by a panel with no judge signing it and an 8 sentence statement saying there would be no written opinion and that the vote upheld precedent in the 2nd circuit which is precisely what they are supposed to do. It’s impact on Sotomayor taking her seat at the private conference come October 19 is zip over zero. Her hearing will be a non event just as the ones for Alito and Roberts were.
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Sotamayor will say next to nothing and no one on SJC will be able to do a thing about it just as with Alito and Roberts. The hearings are dog and pony shows and a waste of time. Congratulations to the newest Senate Judiciary Committee member taking his seat on arguably the most powerful committee in the Senate, Senator Franken. The vote in the judiciary committee won’t be close either. Democrats have a dramatic 12-7 advantage in membership.
Independents poll in favor of Sotomayor. Those are one of the many groups that don’t vote Republican and help them lose.
Cap and Trade had over 100 Republitard pork pieces of crap in it. It was a crap bill and has nothing to do with the way Wooten portrays it listenining to Faux news and Mark Levin non-stop and then parotting what they say. Wooten has not read the bill which is a total joke becancause the Blue Dog Dems and Republicans ran it into the ground with their pork.
AJC Management
July 2nd, 2009
8:02 pm
In the stage-managed event, questions for Obama came from a live audience selected by the White House and the college, and from Internet questions chosen by the administration’s new-media team.
The president called randomly on three audience members. All turned out to be members of groups with close ties to his administration: the Service Employees International Union, Health Care for America Now, and Organizing for America, which is a part of the Democratic National Committee. White House officials said that was a coincidence.-Washington Post
Gee, if 72% of New York Times readers want government run health care, then why the propaganda show?
Can the libs not “afford” to let the truth get out?
AJC Management
July 2nd, 2009
8:02 pm
84- I stand corrected.
Pubtards Continue to Lose
July 2nd, 2009
8:02 pm
In Evansville, though, Palin concentrated on the task at hand: an emphatic defense of the anti-abortion cause. But in doing so she made a startling confession about what she thought when she learned she was pregnant at 43 with her youngest child, Trig, who arrived in April 2008, as the world now knows, with Down syndrome. “I had found out that I was pregnant while out of state first,” Palin told the crowd. “While out of state, there just for a fleeting moment, I thought, Nobody knows me here. Nobody would ever know. I thought, Wow, it is easy to think maybe of trying to change the circumstances and no one would know—no one would ever know. Then when my amniocentesis results came back, showing what they called abnormalities—oh, dear God—I knew, I had instantly an understanding, for that fleeting moment, why someone would believe it could seem possible to change those circumstances, just make it all go away, get some normalcy back in life.”
It is almost impossible not to be touched by the rawness of her confession, even if it is precisely this choice that Palin believes no other woman should ever have, not even in the case of rape or incest.
sharecropper
July 2nd, 2009
8:04 pm
Is it true that Jim Wooten is a communist?
1984
July 2nd, 2009
8:07 pm
Pubtards Continue to Lose is secretly in love with Sarah Palin and wishes he could become her thong.
Pubtards Continue to Lose
July 2nd, 2009
8:08 pm
She is definitely an untreated, and in all probability irreversible Borderline personality individual which is why Palin will not see the light of day outside of Alaska running for any office.
More than once in my travels in Alaska, people brought up, without prompting, the question of Palin’s extravagant self-regard. Several told me, independently of one another, that they had consulted the definition of “narcissistic personality disorder” in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders—“a pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy”—and thought it fit her perfectly. When Trig was born, Palin wrote an e-mail letter to friends and relatives, describing the belated news of her pregnancy and detailing Trig’s condition; she wrote the e-mail not in her own name but in God’s, and signed it “Trig’s Creator, Your Heavenly Father.”
1984
July 2nd, 2009
8:09 pm
Pubtards Continue to Lose also can not spell simple words correctly. Pubtards Continue to Lose lives in his mom’s trailer. Pubtards Continue to Lose cleans bed pans for a living.
AJC Management
July 2nd, 2009
8:15 pm
The libs exercise their Palin Derangement Syndromes, while we score points on their as-ses:
“June’s unemployment report shows a job loss of 467,000 and proves that the stimulus package is not a ‘Recovery Act,” said Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele. “With the unemployment rate now at 9.5% and continuing to rise, Americans need real solutions that help them find work – not bigger government, higher taxes, increased federal spending and an unsustainable national debt.”-WallStreetJournal
And how does Obozo make hisself useful?
President Obama called the job figures released today “sobering” but said he is “absolutely confident” that the country will recover from the recession and prosper over the longer term.
But he predicted that recovery will take a long time.
Oh, how sweet, we get to suffer for a long time, how about that?
Pubtards Continue to Lose
July 2nd, 2009
8:20 pm
Exactly why pubtards continue to lose:
Pubtards Continue to Lose also can not spell simple words correctly. Pubtards Continue to Lose lives in his mom’s trailer. Pubtards Continue to Lose cleans bed pans for a living.
Pubtards Continue to Lose
July 2nd, 2009
8:22 pm
The word is cannot not can not. LOL Typing and spelling are too different things, and this is a political blog. The problem for 1984 is that besidess being unemployed, it is uneducated and can not discuss a single political issue. This is representative of the bell shaped curve of the entire Republican voting base.
Pubtards Continue to Lose
July 2nd, 2009
8:24 pm
You suffer a long time economically because you lack education and the mutts in your party Greenspan, Gramm, and Bush’s administration ran the economy into the ground. Get used to it. It will take years to fix. McCain wanted to parrot Bush. He’ll never get that chance. Obama has eight years to try to fix the economy that Bush wrecked and Raegan started wrecking.
Obozo
July 2nd, 2009
8:29 pm
Greetings, fellow dimwits-
I am here today to reassure you that America will once again be prosperous, many, many, many years from now. This dynamic and powerful economy will survive me and my idiotic policies, although I’m not sure how. Until then, I intend to spend every last dollar that I can find, I don’t know exactly what it will be spent on, but rest assured, I will spend it. I know you ain’t gonna spend it cause you ain’t got no job, bwahaha.
Maybe if you promise to vote democrat, I will send you a whopping 300 bucks, how can you beat that?
Anyway, if you happen to get sick or injured, be sure to take a number and, we will get to you, uh, eventually. Unless you are too old.
So turn off your air conditioners, pick up your handheld fans and settle in for the night, comfortable in the knowledge that your federal bureaucracy has got you in it’s sights, er, on it’s mind, uh, whatever.
Allah Akbar!
Yes we can!
AJC Management
July 2nd, 2009
8:33 pm
Pubtard- I’m new to this blog, but are you like the token whiner here or what?
Freakenstein
July 2nd, 2009
8:39 pm
AJCM: yeah. Whaddup dude. It’s time to hammer down on the world of Obamabotism and the blatant destruction these jackals are bestowing upon this (perhaps once??) great nation of freedom. Independence from what again should we be celebrating??
AJC Management
July 2nd, 2009
8:53 pm
Are we expected to accept this as a consistent foreign policy? Even Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was reluctant to call the removal of President Manuel Zelaya a coup, if for no other reason than it would stop U.S. aid flowing to the impoverished Central American nation.
What the hell has the United States come to when Hillary Klinton is the voice of reason?
I pray for you America.
Pubtards Continue to Lose
July 2nd, 2009
8:59 pm
AJC Management– can you (valleygirl like like) discuss issues rather than other commenters or are you typical of why Republicans lose. If you want to debate an issue, go for it. If you want to jerk yourself off and sling mud, I’ll be making points about political or legal issues and reacting to the goofy ideas Wooten puts forth. An example is that after hours of listening to Faux, Rush, Mnark Levin Wooten gets paid to write trash about Iran and intimate that Obama hasn’t responded correctly. However, Wooten does not have the guts to write a column focused on Iran and detail what President Wooten would do precisely since Bush left us with no assets in Iran CIA wise and after 8 years of Bush allowed them and North Korea to become nuclear bomb capable. Iran may be centrifuge capable right now, but they will get the nuclear bomb and become a middle east threat.
Apparently, the party line from the pubtards is to speak up and tell Iran to go fook itself. That will have zero impact positively for the US, but will help the Islamic fundamentlists stoke anti US sentiment in a country where 60% of the population is under 28 and a large percentage of that hates the Ayatollah’ fundamentalist theocracy anyway.
If you want to tell me what your idea precisely is to improve health care, manage Iran and North Korea, why Obama’s appellate filings have been worse civil liberties wise than Bush (I have stated my analysis) go for it. Otherwise, if you want to focus on me you’re wasting your life. Tune into 24 hours of cable TV on the Michael Jackson will fight.
Pubtards Continue to Lose
July 2nd, 2009
9:04 pm
@ AJC Mgmt–
Hillary Clinton is a moron and Obama was dumb to appoint her. She has zero experience in foregign affairs and did nothing oln 3 Senate foreign relations subs constructive. She also lied about ducking fire in Kosovo. Quoting her is worthless. The deputies at state ike Mitchell and Holbrook shed more insighght when they cut a finger nail than Hillary has gained her whole life.
Do you have anything substantive to say about the details of a foreign policy issue other than to say you don’t like Obama’s approach lol to Honduras when Bush allowed North Korea and Iran to gain nuclear war capability and Russia to lose and sell nukes to non state terrorist free agents?
Howard
July 2nd, 2009
9:07 pm
Jim…Barack Obama and his brown shirts are deliberately slaughtering the economy and are loving the high unemployment, etc. Why? When people lose jobs, they lose medical insurance…therefore they fall in lockstep demanding the government pass national health care. If they can pass that disasterous cap-and-tax bill…fuel costs will go up so high, people will gladly step into the 4-wheel lawn mowers Obama wants everyone to drive and will scream for alternative fuels…instead of fossil fuels. Then this traitorous and evil man and his henchmen will have us where they want us…just like Europe. If the Republicans don’t grow a set and step up to this man and his idiot friends in the Democrat party…this country is finished.
Pubby tards lose everything they try
July 2nd, 2009
9:08 pm
Wingnuts here can only sling mud at commenters who make points they don’t like rather than discuss in detail what they would do about the issues. We know you want to piss on Obama 24X7. That’s a given. But it’s not going to help you get elected or any bill you want Congress to pass. If you want to play in the political game nationally, you need to come up with some ideas about what you’d do that’s better. Right now this country has handed your ass to you in Congress, the West Wing, and after two more appointments in the Supreme Court. Additionally Scalia is not going to last forever there.
Pubby tards lose everything they try
July 2nd, 2009
9:11 pm
@ Howard–
Bush must have loved the high unemployment because he created it and gave tax breaks to the very wealthy. Bush also must have loved economic chaos becaus TARP is owned by Bush and Goldman Sachs Paulson. Phil Gramm, and Greenspan both Republicans must have loved economic chaos because they made it. And for the majority of time Madoff was screwing dumb people, both billionaires like Zuckerman and pensioners who were too dumb to do due dilligence, a Republican SEC was jerking itself off.
1984
July 2nd, 2009
9:14 pm
Pubtards Continue to Lose can’t spell. She claims to be intelligent yet she can not spell simple words.
Examples: insighght is spelled insight.
1984
July 2nd, 2009
9:15 pm
Pubtards Continue to Lose, here are some more examples of your poor grammar skills.
screeming
halarious
becasuse”
dtefinitive
Pubby tards lose everything they try
July 2nd, 2009
9:15 pm
@AJC –
You’re praying to whom about what? You’re “praying” to some fictional entity that gives you comfort like guns and booze?
AJC Management
July 2nd, 2009
9:17 pm
Heh-
Apparently, the party line from the pubtards is to speak up and tell Iran to go fook itself.
Um, you may wanna check Obozo’s last response, unless “fook” means really, really “concerned.”
“Concerned” doesn’t seem to be helping much right now, well, not helping the protesters, I mean. It is helping the terrorists, however.
I myself, and there are ways you can check this, would have air dropped some heavy weapons in to the protesters to see what the Republican Guard thought of that, there were pictures early on of the goons from the Guard running from unarmed old women, just imagine if the old women would have been brandishing a Squad Automatic Weapons.
Protests work in America because we have become squishes, the Iranians don’t see things the Al Sharpton way.
If you want to tell me what your idea precisely is to improve health care
Gosh, considering that health care isn’t broken, how about we stick with what has been the best system in the world for the last 233 years?
manage North Korea
Shoot down their next missile on the launch pad, when it gets exactly ten feet in the air.
See what happens next.
why Obama’s appellate filings have been worse civil liberties wise than Bush (I have stated my analysis) go for it.
Equal justice under the law for all? No?
Pubby tards lose everything they try
July 2nd, 2009
9:19 pm
1984 I explained to your dumbass 5 times that I had a keyboard on a netbook that had no mechanism to modulate it. And instead of discussing an issue because your’e just too stupid, you have obsessed about the keyboard pretending I couldn’t spell words that a 5 year old spells when you knew they were typos. So I’ve put that problem to bed. I plugged in a keyboard I can control and damn–my spelling seems to have undergone a sea change and the typos vanished. You knew that, but anything form your pith brain to avoid discussing an issue right?
Pubby tards lose everything they try
July 2nd, 2009
9:21 pm
Or you can jerk yourself off until you die, 1984 and tell yourself that you’re a studhoss because you can spell
screeming
halarious
becasuse”
dtefinitive
and you’re convinced only you know how to spell those words.
What you haven’t been able to do though, is discuss an issue. Others can do that. Keyboards can be substituted and they have, but your moronic brain is the one you’ll die with.
AJC Management
July 2nd, 2009
9:22 pm
You’re praying to whom about what? You’re “praying” to some fictional entity that gives you comfort like guns and booze?
Actually, I don’t worship Obozo.
Thanks for asking.
You have heard of your Creator, haven’t you?
AJC Management
July 2nd, 2009
9:24 pm
Pubtard, look, google toolbar has spell check built into it.
http://tools.google.com/firefox/toolbar/FT5/intl/en/index.html
geez
Pubby tards lose everything they try
July 2nd, 2009
9:48 pm
AJC Management–
How many times does it take to chisel into a pithbrain? I know software infinitely better than you doand it’s not about spell check or the need for it. It’s about notebook and netbook keyboards who don’t have a touch modulation. Once you plug a keyboard in that you’re comfortable with, the typos vanish, and frankly I’m not bothering to spell check here. With a decent keyboard, their is rarely the need.
How many years before you are capable of discussing any political issue local or national. How ’bout that Obama replication of Bush fooking the populace as to civil liberties in court? Any ideas? Think Dawn Johnsen’ll neutralize Rahm and Craig when she’s confirmed in the next two weeks after the pubtards fail to hold her up? I heard Al Franken the newest member of Senate Judiciary has made that a top priority. But then you’d have to figure out who Dawn Johnsen is–that she blogged for 8 years about Bush being a moron, and that she and her fellow bloggers Marty Lederman from Georgetown and Dave Barron from Harvard (3 of the top constitutional law scholars in this country) will own OLC (you’d have to look up OLC just like Wooten and 1984) to join the discussion wouldn’t you?
Obama Tramples civil rights just like Boy Bush
Obama doesn’t want to release the Cheney interviews on leaking Valier Plame demanded in Emmet Sullivan’s courtroom today. Ole 1984 and Commie AJC will enlighten you on these issues because they’re on top of them like 3rd grade spellers.
Lilburn Observer
July 2nd, 2009
9:55 pm
Do you think we can convince the Israelis that we do not want McKinney back?? I’m sure they don’t want her either but what can we give them to keep her……..???
Base
July 2nd, 2009
9:58 pm
What will you do when the money losing AJC goes out of business?
AJC Management
July 2nd, 2009
10:01 pm
It’s about notebook and netbook keyboards who don’t have a touch modulation.
Or you could look for the little red underline before you hit “submit comment.”
Whatever.
How ’bout that Obama replication of Bush fooking the populace as to civil liberties in court? Any ideas?
Me, I’m thinking the economy might just be the bigger issue in the coming weeks but who knows, maybe my civil rights will get violated, I’ll be sure to let you know if they do.
Obama doesn’t want to release the Cheney interviews on leaking Valier Plame demanded in Emmet Sullivan’s courtroom today.
Yeah, maybe because Richard Armitage’s name is all over the “leak” and that wouldn’t be good for the moonbat propaganda.
I thought we were gonna debate?
Marcus Graham
July 2nd, 2009
10:23 pm
I er, I mean WE–me, Jim and Maria are going to the beach for the long weekend to discuss politics, family values and other stuff and sip tea!
Pubby tards lose everything they try
July 2nd, 2009
10:41 pm
“Me, I’m thinking the economy might just be the bigger issue in the coming weeks but who knows, maybe my civil rights will get violated, I’ll be sure to let you know if they do.”
Why didn’t you stop morons Bush and Paulson from throwing billions away with TARP?
Pubby tards lose everything they try
July 2nd, 2009
10:49 pm
“Me, I’m thinking the economy might just be the bigger issue in the coming weeks but who knows, maybe my civil rights will get violated, I’ll be sure to let you know if they do.”
Why didn’t you stop the Gramm-Leach-Biley Act from starting and causing the economy sheetstorm (spelled that way out of the quintessence of decency)?
Why didn’t you tell Greenspan who now admits he was a fool pushing deregulation and running the economy into the ground while collecting millions on a book as if he were a pundit before the crap hit the fan that the economy is now a big issue in the coming weeks.
Wake the hell up. The economy will be a huge problem for years. That’s Bush’s legacy. We could start by tying off the bleeders in Iraq and get the130,000 troops and 30-50,000mercanaries the hell out of there. If Cheney is that upset he can send his wingless turkey shooting butt over there and spell the 130,000 troops.
Iraq was never our problem. Iran was a problem and they went nuclear weapon under Bush. But hey we can yell that the Mullah’s are mean pricks for rigging an election of their puppet. We put no CIA assets in Iran for 8 years or damn few under Boy Bush but that was okay–look at Iran now.
We have ‘em just where Bush wants ‘em. We can send McCain and Graham in on a tank shaking their fists and telling them if they don’t redo the election and count each ballot we’ll nuke ‘em by August. That’s the ticket. Kick ass and take Ayatollah names. That’ll fix Iran.
Pubtards Continue to Lose
July 2nd, 2009
10:56 pm
Actually scootsie libby has his name all over the leak because he covered for Cheney and the little bald butterball Rove who wasn’t swaggering when he had his. ass hauled into the grand jury. It cost ole scootsie some of his daddy’s money until the completely vanished Tucker Carlson’s daddy wrote a check for ole scootsie.
Even the conservative D.C Circuit affirmed scootsie’s conviction until Bush kept the pansie out of prison.
Daniel Buck
July 2nd, 2009
11:02 pm
Even ten years ago, if I had suggested that the majority party’s proposed bill would be withheld from the minority party two hours from the vote — and then one copy was grudgingly provided, to be shared by all 435 Representatives , you would have looked at me like I was a crazy person…….
Well that’s exactly what happened this past Friday when Congress voted on and passed the infamous HR 2454 Cap and Trade/Carbon Emissions Bill. Final vote: 219 Yea, 212 Nay. A little after 3 am on that very same day a 300 page amendment was added to the original 900+ pages. This is the longest suicide note in history and will further hasten our downward economic spiral. The Senate looks to debate it this Fall where it will likely get nowhere. Friday’s vote may have been a gift to the POTUS for the upcoming UN meeting knowing there’s little chance of it getting thru the Senate. Before Friday’s vote I made my feelings known to our Democratic Congressman. I see he voted No but I’ve no idea what his real motivation was. Some that voted Yes received calls 20:1 urging a No vote and they still voted Yes.
This is about more than just higher electricity rates. It’s a massive redistribution of wealth, further limits our freedoms all under the guise of reducing an essential trace greenhouse gas, and does next to nil for energy independence. This Manmade Global Warming/Climate Change House Of Cards is tumbling down. Every week more and more new contrary evidence is seeing the light of day. The Mainstream Media won’t report it, but this vital information is getting out to those that want honest debate on this important issue.
Looking past the Senate this Fall we have the December Copenhagen UN meeting on a new Global Warming Treaty. Remember the Kyoto Treaty? Well you ain’t seen nothing yet. I shudder to think what the U.S. delegation would love to commit us to for years or decades forward. Lastly there’s the EPA waiting in the wings to regulate all things CO2. Just this past week a leaked string of internal EPA e-mails detailed suppression of evidence that undermines the CO2 argument.
Remember Friday’s vote, because if this horror show is implemented on the American public it will blow up in our face as it has in every country this has been tried. At what cost in dollars and individual freedoms? Mark your calendar in RED, because that is the path we are heading toward. Contact your Senators and ask them if they’re prepared to defend a Yes vote for this misguided Bill. Let them know a NO Vote will ensure your support next election cycle.
Pubtards Continue to Lose
July 2nd, 2009
11:12 pm
Mr. Buck you seem to have missed the 150 or so pieces of pork crap for pubtards in the albill and it didn’t seem to cross your brain that Iraq War levels of military spending will lead to far more job loss than Waxman-Markey, and have already.
You and your economic aficianados also failed to mention that the pubtards dived in and voted for TARP because they had thousands of shares of stock in the banks they voted to bail out.
Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) reported holdings between $100,000 and $250,000 in Key Bank ($2.5 billion from TARP). Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) claimed between $15,000 and $50,000 of stock in Capital One ($3.6 billion from TARP), and another $15,000 to $50,000 in JPMorgan Chase ($25 billion from TARP). The list goes on.
In all, at least 15 senators supporting TARP have benefited financially from the program — a number that’s likely to rise. Thirteen upper-chamber lawmakers have yet to submit their financial disclosures this year.
Daniel Buck
July 3rd, 2009
4:02 am
The science for AGW isn’t settled. For me it’s got nothing to do with one party or the other. What if this makes into law and the temperature trend stays flat or declines even though CO2 concentration has increased?
Northern Songs LTD
July 3rd, 2009
6:27 am
“AJC” is Andy, AKA “Whiner”, lurking here after being banned by Bookman
AJC Management
July 3rd, 2009
6:31 am
Why didn’t you stop morons Bush and Paulson from throwing billions away with TARP?
Aahhh, yes, a lib who thinks government spending is bad, cool.
Tard- You have heard of Geithner, you know, Obozo’s Treasury Secretary?
Unlike most other Obama Cabinet picks, Geithner is tied to the decisions made by both the outgoing and the incoming administrations. From his post at the New York Federal Reserve, he played a key role in government’s efforts to aid the struggling financial markets. His was a position the Obama team argues makes him uniquely qualified to head the Treasury Department.-Politico
I’m guessing that’s why Obozo picked the guy, cause he knew how to spend the trillions.
AJC Management
July 3rd, 2009
6:35 am
Oh look, every body, a turd blossom has sprouted up from this beautiful summer dawn, right at 6:27 am, festering and noxious in all of it’s “glory,” eewwww.
clyde
July 3rd, 2009
6:47 am
Good morning folk,
I hesitate to comment here for fear I won’t be able to pass the spelling test set forth by 1984.
The tax increase on homeowners was enacted to protect their own,Jim,the city employees that were being forced to take unpaid furloughs.Good job Shirley.Spend Spend Spend.
Quite a mess was made trying to promote a couple of probably deserving firefighters in Conneticut.Cynthia doesn’t want one that’s smart,just one that knows how to get her out of the building.That’ll turn out to be one of the ones who passed the test, I’m thinking.
I’ll side with Kristina,Jim.She indicates that after having won the piddling little beauty contest she has more important goals in life.
I wonder how many lives and how much energy could be saved if we all sat naked to counter the summer heat?It would sure cut down on laundry bills.
Wrong on Pelosi,Jim,she’s bad news for everyone.
1984
I’m waiting for my test results.How did I do?
DeborahinAthens
July 3rd, 2009
6:53 am
AJC Management, if you think health care isn’t broken, you are either a moron or…let’s face it, you’re a moron. Even the health insurance industry knows that it is broken. Because I have an insurance license, I have to take continuing education each year. This year, while taking the ethics exam, I came across an interesting paragraph that says (paraphrasing)…the reason there are so many regulatory agencies that oversee the practices of insurance companies is because the market system does not ensure that companies will “police” themselves. I am a capitalist, I am in the highest tax bracket. I have good health insurance. However, when I retire, because I am not a member of any union and my company does not pay for my insurance, I will have to pay for it myself. If I were to retire today, the costs would be over a thousand dollars a month (most people in this country cannot afford even $300/month!), but the costs, for family, is not the problem. Beause my husband has a pre-existing condition, we will not be able to get health insurance at all for him. I have worked hard my whole life. I have made all the “right” lifestyle decisions, and yet…here we are…what are my choices? There is no earthly reason why, in this country, we cannot have a single payer system. A system where everyone pays a fair share and your coverage goes with you, no matter whether you change jobs or if you lose your job. Premiums should be decided based on age groups. Ages 0-10, one premium. Ages 10-20, one premium, etc. etc. No insurance company should have the right to turn someone down because of a pre-existing condition. If you think that anyone in this country has a “choice” in their health care you are…a moron. Your health insurance company decides whom you can see. Sure, you can always pay out of pocket to keep your doctor, but then, why pay for health insurance in the first place? I voted against McCain because his only solution to the health care fiasco was to tax the health insurance premiums that corporations pay for their employees. If this were to happen, corporations would stop paying anything towards employees health insurance–which was why most large companies lobbied so heavily for McCain. So far, Obama has been fighting having to do this to pay for his system. I give him great credit for at least attempting to fix this badly broken system. So all of you nay-sayers. What solution would you have. And please do NOT say we have the best health care system in the world. If you believe that, you have not ever been seriously ill, or…you are a moron.
BitterEXdemocrackkk
July 3rd, 2009
6:56 am
STRIVE to be SMARTER than a VILE CORRUPT democrackkk*
*spelled with 3Ks to honor the democrat heritage as the ORIGINAL ‘party’ of SLAVERY, as they continue to ENSLAVE us daily.
Throughout history political assassinations have brought CHANGE. Who’s on YOUR list?
AJC Management
July 3rd, 2009
7:16 am
I have made all the “right” lifestyle decisions, and yet…here we are…what are my choices?
Make everybody else pay for it, of course.
Or you could move to Canada and die waiting on treatment, that’ll “solve” your problem.
What is it with these socialists?
AJC Management
July 3rd, 2009
7:22 am
Uh-oh, more trouble for Bwarney Fwank-
But the focus on subprimes ignores the widely available industry facts (reported by the Mortgage Bankers Association) that 51% of all foreclosed homes had prime loans, not subprime, and that the foreclosure rate for prime loans grew by 488% compared to a growth rate of 200% for subprime foreclosures.-Wall Street Journal
So much for that greedy lender canard.
Sharing the blame in the popular imagination are other loans where lenders were largely at fault — such as “liar loans,” where lenders never attempted to validate a borrower’s income or assets.
You had two choices, skip the check of the borrower’s financial history or get sued by the democrats for discrimination under the Community Reinvestment Act.
The whole entire financial crisis and coming depression, you can thank your nearest liberal democrat for that.
eewww
AJC Management
July 3rd, 2009
7:41 am
Around this time, Mr. Carlin and a colleague presented a 98-page analysis arguing the agency should take another look, as the science behind man-made global warming is inconclusive at best.
Unable to defend the EPA’s actions, the climate-change crew — , led by anonymous EPA officials — is doing what it does best: trashing Mr. Carlin as a “denier.” He is, we are told, “only” an economist (he in fact holds a degree in physics from CalTech). It wasn’t his “job” to look at this issue (he in fact works in an office tasked with “informing important policy decisions with sound economics and other sciences.”) His study was full of sham science. (The majority of it in fact references peer-reviewed studies.) Where’s Mr. Hansen and his defense of scientific freedom when you really need him?-WallStreetJournal
Gee, if the “science” is settled, why are so many scientists disagreeing with Team Obozo?
Bo Chambliss LOBBYIST
July 3rd, 2009
7:51 am
Saxby got over $2.5 million for his vote for TARP.. Never say Saxby doesn’t work for the money.
Churchill's MOM
July 3rd, 2009
8:09 am
Why do these liberals hate a real woman.
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – The National Society of Newspaper Columnists chose Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as the winner of its annual Sitting Duck Award, a tongue-in-cheek honor that pokes fun at the most ridiculed newsmakers in the United States.
Palin beat out Democrat Rod Blagojevich, the ousted former governor of Illinois allegedly caught trying to sell President Barack Obama’s Senate seat.
Blagojevich was the runner-up. Palin was noted for making headline after headline, month after month.
The selection was made last week at a conference in Ventura, Calif.
*****Handel 2010********Palin Sanford****************
AJC Management
July 3rd, 2009
8:26 am
Geez, the facebookman bloggers are still attacking me, I ain’t even over there.
How uncivil, eewwww.
AJC Management
July 3rd, 2009
8:52 am
Almost two years ago, I was lucky enough to tour Mount Vernon with a dozen people including him. (If I were David McCullough I would know the date and time. But I know the weather.) At the bottom of a stairway leading to the second floor, we chatted for a moment, and I asked him how he accounted in his imagination for the amazing fact of the genius cluster that founded our nation. How did so many gifted men, true geniuses, walk into history at the same time, in the same place, and come together to pursue so brilliantly a common endeavor? “I think it was providential,” he said, simply.-Peggy Noonan
And of course the corollary to this day and age is how we have so many dimwits coming together at the same time and same place as the Obozo White House?
Will we now get a Declaration of Dependence from our stooge socialist leadership?
AJC Management
July 3rd, 2009
9:08 am
Lincoln understood that if the American experiment of self-government were to succeed, the country must be saved on the basis of the Declaration of Independence. It was no accident that in the first sentence of the Gettysburg Address, he quoted the Declaration, reminding Americans that from the beginning the nation had been dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.-WallStreetJournal
Thank God that Lincoln was not a Republican from the current era, a party ate up with squish moderates that just want to be liked by the socialists and have not an ounce of courage.
The United States was born of men with grand ideals and the fortitude to risk all that they had for those ideals, and I am afraid we will die from a lack thereof.
1984
July 3rd, 2009
9:32 am
Pubby tards lose everything they try, no, you said that your intellect and grammar skills were far beyond mine. You said nothing of a keyboard problem. Dumbass.
DeborahinAthens, health care is broken due to dumbass lawyers and welfare babies who sue hospitals and doctors over and over again. Moron.
Freakenstein
July 3rd, 2009
9:41 am
“AJC Management, if you think health care isn’t broken, you are either a moron or…let’s face it, you’re a moron.” -DeborahinAthens
Libtard: if you think the GOVERNMENT can manage health care better than the private sector, then with all due respect, YOU are the moron. Have you ever been to a VA clinic? Oh, and how’s Medicare and Medicaid working out these days and finances (ie: our tax dollars)? I bet you voted for Obama (for change) didn’t ya?
Freakenstein
July 3rd, 2009
9:45 am
Yeah let’s keep the heat on the mindless mouth breathing libtards….
So, what does Manbearpig and the mindless hysterics on the crackpot left have to say about their beloved government censoring data on the junkass science of man made global warming? Uh huh….
EPA Officials Claim Agency Censored Climate Report
Agency denies reports of censorship, veteran officials state otherwise
Details of the Environmental Protection Agency’s efforts to censor and suppress several senior researchers over reports voicing skepticism on anthropogenic global warming (AGW) theory are drawing attention.
Alan Carlin authored a 98-page report urging caution before enacting potential carbon regulation. His report warned against making policy “decisions based on a scientific hypothesis that does not appear to explain most of the available data.” The report stated, “My personal view is that there is not currently any reason to regulate (carbon dioxide). There may be in the future. But global temperatures are roughly where they were in the mid-20th century. They’re not going up, and if anything they’re going down.”
Recently released emails from Al McGartland, an EPA administrator, to Carlin reveal a startling tale of bias and suppression. In the email McGartland writes, “The administrator and the administration has decided to move forward… and your comments do not help the legal or policy case for this decision.”
Carlin’s report was rejected and hushed away. Carlin, though, doesn’t blame McGartland. In an interview he states, “It was his view that he either lost his job or he got me working on something else. That was obviously coming from higher levels.”
Freakenstein
July 3rd, 2009
9:49 am
Hey, how many times did we hear the mindless, emotion-driven libtards whine about E.coli during the Bush administration? Well look what the jackal dragged in:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/29/US.beef.recall/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
My favorite comment there:
“She expressed concern that nearly seven months into the Obama administration, a key undersecretary position at the USDA has not been filled, which may be slowing the government’s ability to respond to such health threats.”
Ya think the media would have ignored this had it been Bush? WTF has The Teleprompter Administration been doing besides going around the country giving pseudo “Town Hall” meetings?
Tony Roberts
July 3rd, 2009
9:54 am
Jim, Thanks for getting it right on how funding “works” for schools approved by the Georgia Charter Schools Commission. The funding is indeed ALL state funds “equal to the local share” as you have correctly stated. It is a great victory for taxpaying parents who want and deserve choice for their childrens’ education without the inconvenience (and impossibility for many) of having to move or pay costly private tuition. We can always count on you to tell it like it is–while getting the facts right!
Freakenstein
July 3rd, 2009
9:54 am
Oh, and yes libtards, we already know that saying anything negative about The Messiah means we’re racist. Anywho, moving along………..
More brilliance from the libtard DNC media. This just happens to be from DNCNN:
http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/02/news/white_house_salaries.cnnw/
“WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Barack Obama’s White House staff appears to be safe from a tax increase, for now. The White House on Wednesday issued its annual report to Congress listing the salaries of all staff, revealing that everyone gets paid less than $200,000. During the election campaign, Obama promised no income tax increase for anyone making under $250,000.”
You know, an awful lot of private business owners earn more than a quarter mill – ya think they’ll continue to hire when their taxes go up? But, I digress here. Under this pathetic administration and the Nanny Pelosicrats, profits are evil and government ownership/control of companies is good. Fascist pigs.
Freakenstein
July 3rd, 2009
10:03 am
Who wants to place bets on when we’ll see 10% unemployment? Anyone remember when the Incompetent Administration’s Joe Biden said that we have seen the peak of unemployment at 8% and it won’t go higher? Where the hell is the media accountability??? I’ll create a side pool for some action on the mindless mouth breathing libtards who will continue to say “well Bush got us into this mess and it will take years to recover from”. Never mind the idiot Pelosicrats have been running Congress (for you idiotic Obamabots, CONGRESS authors and establishes policies in this nation, not the president) for TWO AND A HALF FREAKING YEARS. When, America, WHEN are you going to wake the hell up? But, you just have to love the way the DNC media libtards at CB.S. explained off the rising unemployment:
“The unemployment rate in June jumped to 9.5 percent, the highest since 1983, as 467,000 jobs were lost, yet the CBS Evening News managed to air a story that didn’t mention President Barack Obama or his “stimulus” bill while the NBC story only touched Obama’s policies by running a soundbite of the President defending the lack of positive impact so far from his policies: “It took years for us to get into this mess and it will take us more than a few months to turn it around.” CBS reporter Anthony Mason remarked: “Hopefully it’s a one-month blip.”
booger
July 3rd, 2009
10:04 am
The cost of Cap-and Trade may still be debatable but one thing is sure. Some people will not have to pay for it.
A brand new government entitlement program is buried on page 1193 of the bill. Basicaly anyone who makes up to 150% of poverty level will get a check from the government to reimburse any additionl cost they may see as a result of cap-and-trade. In addition to this [page 1209], earned income credits will be increased for many who reciece them now, and be indexed for the future.
HA Timberlake
July 3rd, 2009
10:06 am
Currently, the Republican Party has lost its principles, its intellectual and political reasons for existence and its support. It has become ineffective as a political vehicle. Its failure is especially distressing in the face of the proposed disasters being promoted by the Obama administration and Congress.
This current Republican malaise is easy to understand, but so far no spokesman for the Republican Party, except Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, seems willing to admit it, or to propose measures to correct it.
The problem is foreign policy. The Republican foreign policy is a continuation of the Bush neoconservative doctrine. This policy sanctions the use of American military resources to be used in American expeditions to force foreign governments to change their ruling regimes to those the U.S. government prefers. That preference is not just an American foreign policy that benefits U.S. interests. It is one that the rulers of the Israeli state constantly stress. It is clearly a case of an Israeli tail wagging the American dog. It is also a policy that the American taxpayer-voter is largely unaware of, and would oppose if he knew of its ramifications.
Republicans keep thumping their chests and claiming they are “conservatives” because they favor prayer in public schools, or are against abortion or against their “big government” free-spending Democratic associates now in Congress. Well, those liberals are there because the Bush neoconservative doctrine put them there. Nothing is going to get the liberal-statists out until Republican aspirants publicly reject that doctrine. Continuation of that policy means a costly, permanent, no-win “war” against an impossible enemy. American forces can win battles, but the guerilla insurgents simply withdraw, regroup and commit more terrorist acts. They do so because they resent Americans being on their soil, telling them how they ought to live, and even how they ought to want to live.
Meanwhile, we have Republican candidates “bravely” pledging that they won’t “cut and run” and will continue the “war on terror.” All of which means they would continue to spend trillions more taxpayer dollars chasing terrorist will o’ the wisps into any remote uninhabitable, intractable foreign country where the guerillas lead them. So as a policy, the Bush neoconservative doctrine is decidedly a case of unstable disequilibrium. It cannot promote the limited-government ideals of true conservatives.
If Republicans seriously want to win and preserve our constitutional heritage, they had better heed the Founding Fathers’ axiom of “no entangling alliances,” and develop a new foreign policy paradigm that takes U.S. forces out of all foreign countries, while maintaining a posture of vigilance and diplomatic pressure where needed. They also should adopt the economic axiom of free trade and commerce with all.
Those are the political and economic doctrines that made this country a refuge for the oppressed huddled masses of the rest of the world. Political candidates must constantly reaffirm them.
Freakenstein
July 3rd, 2009
10:15 am
“Currently, the Republican Party has lost its principles, its intellectual and political reasons for existence and its support. It has become ineffective as a political vehicle. Its failure is especially distressing in the face of the proposed disasters being promoted by the Obama administration and Congress.”
Very well said. No further evidence of that need be addressed than the 8 idiots who voted for the Dunce Cap & Traitor Bill.
“This current Republican malaise is easy to understand, but so far no spokesman for the Republican Party, except Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, seems willing to admit it, or to propose measures to correct it.”
Ron Paul is against US military projecting assets overseas (our military) in any manner. That in most real Conservative Republican columns marks him off the list as a viable and legit candidate for president. It’s a shame really, but America needs a strong military and the ability to knock dictatorships off the throne.
How do you like North Korea’s answer to the Obama Administration and plans for firing four missiles towards Hawaii on the 4th?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1193941/North-Korea-plan-missile-launch-Hawaii-Independence-Day.html
Talks? We should not be so strong handed in foreign diplomacy? Are you kidding me? JFK is rolling in his grave right now with these completely in-over-their-head Dimocrat incompetents running Washington these days.
Michael H. Smith
July 3rd, 2009
10:19 am
Obumer’s job approval rating now stands at - 2.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll
AmVet
July 3rd, 2009
10:30 am
Andy, I think you’re gonna fit in REAL well over here at your new home. (JB’s participants say hi and they miss ya.)
As you can see, the uncommonly sensible, profoundly rational and highly enlightened “dialogue” here is impressive. But then it is the bastion of real, true conservatives! (Who just happened to vote for, enable and support utterly non-conservative frauds and charlatans for the past several decades. Oops!)
All you’re gonna see here is facts, data, evidence and numbers to support cogent, well thought out right-wing positions.
And with your enthusiastic contributions (as well as those of another swell guy here, who like you changes nom de blogues like normal people do their socks) the place is likely to see “heights” only heretofore imagined.
But for gawd sakes man, don’t go sitting around naked at any campsites this weekend, K?
Freakenstein
July 3rd, 2009
10:43 am
As per usual, ShamVet shows up to give its little mindless mental contributions to the blog. Anywho….
That drooling “Fannie & Freddy Mac are not in trouble and don’t need more government regulation under the Bush Administration” slob Barney Frank wants to use TARP money for low income housing. Isn’t that special? For you short bus riding Obamabots, TARP is a government program to buy (”invest” in) troubled assets from banks (many of which loaned out to losers in Barney Frank & Co.’s wonderful “affordable housing” programs). These banks then in turn have to pay dividends to the government on any money made on said “investment.”
You just have to love it. Typical dysfunctional libtardism at its finest: have other people’s money, will spend.
http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/stock-market-news-story.aspx?storyid=200906301736dowjonesdjonline000622&title=us-rep-frank-bill-would-use-tarp-income-for-housing
retiredds
July 3rd, 2009
10:45 am
Dear Jim, twenty-five years ago when I was in the investment business we had many discussions about the possibility of the Social Security system going broke somewhere near 2040 if nothing was done to fix it. I hate to inform you but your little piece above is not new news. Congress has known this for decades. They are afraid to make the tough choices, which would have been much easier over the last 20 years to raise the threshold level, increase the payroll tax (anathema to the Republican Party). Jim we get what we pay for. Since taxes have been rolled back to a marginal average of 18% there is not enough revenue to sustain our wants. The piper will be paid either now or later. It’s the old saying, not enough revenue, no profit.
AJC Management
July 3rd, 2009
10:51 am
Oh good, my cult of trolls have followed me over.
The problem is foreign policy. The Republican foreign policy is a continuation of the Bush neoconservative doctrine.
HA- While I am not all enamored with the current state of the Republican party, I do tend to disagree with you on our foreign policy stance.
Right now the United States position is appeasement and coddling of terrorist states, unfortunately this is going to lead to a disaster. A major disaster.
And after that happens, and believe me I hope I am wrong, the United States will be a nation of neocons.
Bush was exactly right in his actions overseas, the world is a better place without Saddam Hussein, that is just an undeniable fact. And even better, now we have a freely elected democracy committed to protecting it’s people, something that is sorely lacking in the Middle East. And while this new nation of Iraq is in it’s infancy and faces many challenges, it will overcome Islamic fascism and set the example for the entire region.
Do you really think those protesters in Iran are not aware of the freedoms enjoyed by their neighbors in Iraq?
And would the world miss the mullahs if they were to get gone, in some fashion or another?
No, I do not advocate an invasion, see my earlier post. I think the Iranian people should be empowered enough to choose the direction of their own country.
They will never be able to do that if they are outgunned.
We would not have been able to either, in 1776, if we had not received assistance from the outside world.
AmVet
July 3rd, 2009
10:58 am
“Bad news for conservatives. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi yada yada yada…’
Mr. Wooten, I humbly submit that this should read:
“Bad news for conservatives. We’ve lost 63 out of 67 contested seats in the past two national elections. An astonishing, almost unimaginable 94% losing rate. And things don’t look much better for us coming down the pike.”
There, all better…
AJC Management
July 3rd, 2009
11:14 am
The stooge AJC just toes the Obozo lie-
Honduras may be hit with sanctions over coup
A top diplomat said Thursday he is heading to Honduras today to demand the return of the president toppled at gunpoint Sunday.-Urinal
Have a soft spot for tyranny, AJC?
deegee
July 3rd, 2009
11:17 am
No surprise, the naked ex-mayor was CWI. Had he not been roaming drunk and naked around the campground earlier in the day the police would never have been notified. He must be suffering from the self-destructive Sanford syndrome.
"Charles", The Original
July 3rd, 2009
11:21 am
There is more to be said about the consequences of enablers in the lives of Michael Jackson and Negroes throughout the United States. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, an Orthodox Jewish rabbi and friend of Michael Jackson said in substance, if anyone refused to be Michael Jackson’s enabler, he would become accusatory, defensive, and withdrawn. And throughout the years, the repetitive behavior caused the King of Pop to lose touch with reality and a spiritual connection to God Almighty. Consequently, at the end of his life, Jackson had inadvertently created a toxic environment composed of enablers. Michael Jackson had become a tortured soul.
For too long, white bureaucrats and politicians have been enablers of the so-called educated integrationist Negroes. Integrationist Negroes demonstrated for the right to have equal opportunity in white institutions while neglecting a sacred rite and responsibility to build black institutions for the survival of Negro children. And the more well meaning people like “Charles” the Original reminded the so-called educated integrationist Negroes of their sacred rite and responsibility to Negro children, the more they turned to their enablers. And the so-called educated integrationist Negroes became the more accusatory, defensive, and withdrawn. For over forty years, this repetitive behavior has caused integrationist Negroes to lose touch with reality and God Almighty. As we speak, distorted smiles are visible on the faces of integrationist Negroes from every walk of life. But trust me, resting underneath those twisted smiles are confused tortured souls.
I thank God that The U.S. Supreme Court refused to be enablers of the integrationist Negroes when they ruled that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision by a lower court that encouraged integrationist Negroes to avoid taking responsibility for failing the test but more importantly to neglect black institutions for black children. And hopefully from this point forward, bureaucrats and politicians will follow the example of the U.S. Supreme Court. By doing so, the results can be nothing else but positive for Negroes everywhere. At long last, the children of integrationist Negroes will have a fighting chance at regaining their balance on the dance floor of life and avoid suffering the pangs of an untimely death.
Required
July 3rd, 2009
11:22 am
Funny reference from Wooten regarding a slow presidential reaction during the Russia-Georgia conflict. The president then was Bush, who was on vacation at the Beijing Olympics, and stayed there throughout.
deegee
July 3rd, 2009
11:23 am
The anathema of the conservative right is the baby boom that is happening now among the young immigrant population. We could put our heads in the sand and deny the existence of a few million undocumented immigrants. Or we could bring them into the system and make them participants in the social security system as we have with every other immigrant group that made it to the U.S.
AJC Management
July 3rd, 2009
11:24 am
After all those billions and illegal government meddling, GM is still toast-
A lawyer for GM warned the court that the only alternative to GM’s plan would be a liquidation of the company’s assets that would have “horrific” consequences for everyone involved.
Attorney Harvey Miller said the government is committed to cutting off funding to GM if the sale is not approved by July 10.
But on Thursday, Michael Richman, an attorney for a trio of bondholders opposed to GM’s plan, told Gerber to “call the government’s bluff” and require GM to restructure itself under Chapter 11 instead of approving the quick sale of its assets. This would allow the bondholders to negotiate for more in exchange for the debt they hold, he said.-Urinal
Nice job, Obozo.
Freakenstein
July 3rd, 2009
11:27 am
“The anathema of the conservative right is the baby boom that is happening now among the young immigrant population. ”
Deeg: you missed a word, libtard: ILLEGAL immigrant population.
Freakenstein
July 3rd, 2009
11:29 am
“After all those billions and illegal government meddling, GM is still toast-”
AJCM: Chalk it up the expert libtards under the Teleprompter Administration anointing a “car czar” who knows about as much about the auto industry as, say, Algore (Manbearpig).
Required
July 3rd, 2009
11:30 am
President Cheney demanded that Russia’s actions would not go unpunished, so he stopped buying Stoli vodka. Had Georgian President Saakashvilli had a better foreign policy advisor than Randy Scheunemann (yes, John McCain’s foreign policy advisor) he’d have know not to play chess against Putin. So kids, you can all see why this is Obama’s fault.
Freakenstein
July 3rd, 2009
11:48 am
“Oh good, my cult of trolls have followed me over.”
Yeah, the mindless drooling modern left libtards have a way of stalking, don’t they? Kooks.
Moving along now, and speaking of mindless libtardism, RealClearPolitics pretty much lays it out on what the Dunce Cap & Traitor Bill will do to this nation. And to think all these mouth breathing trolls on the left stenching up this blog can do is bitch about Palin and Conservatives. UnFREAKINGbelievable. No, it IS believable in libtardland.
U.S. Will Suffer So Dems Can ‘Save the Planet’
By Jay Ambrose
The recently passed House bill on global warming is a 1,500-page political sucker punch that could give family finances a bloody nose and ultimately flatten the economy while proponents pretend it will save the planet. In and of itself, it won’t do an inch of good. Assume if you want that all the talk of unperturbed greenhouse gases finally frying us is true and that the bill would slowly reduce carbon emissions in the United States to roughly the level of 100 years ago. The impact of holding down an increase in world temperatures by the end of this century would still be something utterly unnoticeable.”
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/07/01/us_will_suffer_so_dems_can_save_the_planet_97264.html
deegee
July 3rd, 2009
12:11 pm
Legal or illegal, the conservative right is pissed off over the prospect that brown, black and yellow people could become the majority in the U.S.
Freakenstein
July 3rd, 2009
12:19 pm
“Legal or illegal, the conservative right is pissed off over the prospect that brown, black and yellow people could become the majority in the U.S.”
Drooler: perhaps you need to revisit history. Did we get “pissed” when Condi Rice was Secretary of State? Did we get “pissed” when Colin Powell ran Gulf War I? Did we get “pissed” over Clarence Thomas?
Answer: no, no, and no. But, and here’s the real kicker deeg, you libtards trashed two of those three Black people above just because they fell under the Bush administration. And a mindless, drooling libtard like you is going to attempt to project the argument that we Conservatives are against ILLEGAL immigration because of skin color? I’m sorry you idiot, but that dog just won’t take a dump. Moron.
MacArthur
July 3rd, 2009
12:19 pm
All-in-all, I’d rather be drunk.
Freakenstein
July 3rd, 2009
12:20 pm
Clarifying a comment of mine:
“just because they fell under the Bush administration”
Make that BOTH Bush administrations………..
Freakenstein
July 3rd, 2009
12:29 pm
I would like to thank little mindless libtard deegee for proving the mindless drivel “thought” process of liberalism. That said, Andrew Jackson was the Father of the Jackass Party (Dimocrats). How fitting.
Michael H. Smith
July 3rd, 2009
12:43 pm
Now about containing the
ObamaO’samer over-reach, Jim Wooten:Cybersecurity Plan to Involve NSA, Telecoms
DHS Officials Debating The Privacy Implications
The
ObamaO’samer administration will proceed with a Bush-era plan to use National Security Agency assistance in screening government computer traffic on private-sector networks, with AT&T as the likely test site, according to three current and former government officials.President
ObamaO’samer said in May that government efforts to protect computer systems from attack would not involve “monitoring private-sector networks or Internet traffic,” and Department of Homeland Security officials say the new program will scrutinize only data going to or from government systems.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/02/AR2009070202771.html?wpisrc=newsletter
So, liberals, you didn’t like that old Bush-era Patriot Act?
I mean, just saying…
Freakenstein
July 3rd, 2009
12:46 pm
Oh I’m sorry – and who could forget that Black man Michael Steele who’s the chairman of the GOP?
And here’s more irony for ya: it wasn’t a Republican that said “Obama wouldn’t be where he is if he were white.”
Any of you libtards wanna take a wag at who said that?
Freakenstein
July 3rd, 2009
12:48 pm
“So, liberals, you didn’t like that old Bush-era Patriot Act?”
Yeah, let me know when you hear a peep out of those mindless hypocritical moonbats about the illegal wiretapping they bitched about for 8 years under Bush:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2009%2F04%2F06%2FBARP16TJOQ.DTL&tsp=1
Michael H. Smith
July 3rd, 2009
12:58 pm
Um… make that “warrantless” domestic search and seizures or illegal wiretaps
We need a CHANGE from O’samer.
Just saying, YES WE CAN.
Ga Values
July 3rd, 2009
1:08 pm
HA Timberlake 10:06 am
I agree with you, we are wasting $3 Billion on Isreal, $2.2 Billion on Egypt and $1.7 Billion on Jordan each year and all they do is things that are not in our interest. Egypt claims to be a democracy but they could teach the Iranians a few things about rigging an election. If we cut this waste (money we are borrowing from China) in half we would have peace in the middle east the next week.
Freakenstein
July 3rd, 2009
1:15 pm
“I agree with you, we are wasting $3 Billion on Isreal”
Hey GA alleged Values: why don’t you ask Cynthia McKinney and her father how they feel about that right about now and get back with us, mmmkay?
Freakenstein
July 3rd, 2009
1:27 pm
Well don’t tell me a few “neocons” scared away the usual mindless libtard blog knuckle draggers now. Awe, are we a little too harsh for you pansies on the left?
getalife
July 3rd, 2009
1:27 pm
Hi Andy,
Why not praise obama for being cheney’s puppy and covering up his crimes?
Or continuing w’s policies like spying on Americans.
Come on Andy, just one time.
Freakenstein
July 3rd, 2009
1:51 pm
This is one of the bests posts ever:
“And now that we are on the eve of the greatest holiday for the US, why celebrate Independence Day? For what? What the hell “independence” do we have to celebrate anymore with the Dimlibs running Washington these days? “Independence” from the tyranny of government? “Independence” from the Nanny Pelosicrats nanny state? “Independence” from draconian imperial federal government global warming Dunce Cap & Traitor laws that will put limits on home ownership upgrades (yeah, have any of you mindless Obamabot numbnuts on the left even READ any of the bill)? “Independence” to choose your own private health care provider (eventually)? “Independence” to make your own decisions in life and buy what you want and make as much money as you want without having both confiscated for the “greater common good?” Maybe one of you mindless libtards out there can help us out here on what the hell it is exactly we are supposed to be celebrating these days, because between and under the (true) fascist Pelosicrats and The Teleprompter Administration, I can’t find a damn thing to be happy about on this all express runaway train to socialist hell. Yeah, how are you liking your “change” America?”
Interesting how no libtard addressed that.
Freakenstein
July 3rd, 2009
1:52 pm
“Why not praise obama for being cheney’s puppy and covering up his crimes?”
I have to give a hat tip to you Gitmolife… you always were a Shrillary supporter.