Please don’t come tax my co-cola
Thinking Right’s weekend free-for-all. Pick a topic:
- Holy cow! A deficit that’s more than the combined sum of all previous deficits since the founding of America, a deficit equal to three-fourths of the American economy? That’s what we have to look forward to over the next decade. After this administration’s tax collectors come for the rich, and find that insufficient, they’re coming for you. Bet on it. With that, everybody stands before the tax man as “the rich.”
- The absence of 73,800 people “missing” from Georgia’s year-ago labor force is described as an enigma. Here’s an often-overlooked fact: People are very good at determining what’s in their financial interest — and acting. They move. That’s how we filled Gwinnett, Forsyth and Cherokee in the ’80s and ’90s. Those reported “missing” from Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey turned up here.
- Twenty-five million dollars in scholarships to 25,000 kids. Even without his other good deeds, that’s not a bad life accomplishment for Chick-fil-A founder Truett Cathy.
- East Point’s getting it together. Officials have a plan for getting out of debt. And as another example of adults-in-charge, city council has adopted a policy that ends Councilman Clyde Mitchell’s practice of hiring off-duty city police officers for his private security firm. Truth is, no public official should be hiring anybody’s public employees for off-duty jobs.
- Public officials — U.S. Rep. Nathan Deal, in this instance — should never hold no-bid contracts with any federal, state, county or local government or authority. Deal and a partner are involved in a program supervised by the Georgia Department of Revenue that earned them $1.5 million between 2004 and 2008. The White Hat Award in this arrangement goes to state Revenue Commissioner Bart Graham, who tried to reform the system.
- An Atlanta man mowing his Kirkwood neighborhood lawn was shot three times by a man who demanded money. What do you suppose the odds are that the shooter had a license to carry the weapon — more or less than the odds of winning the lottery?
- Georgia’s only corn ethanol plant, First United Ethanol LLC of Camilla, could go bankrupt, the Atlanta Business Chronicle reports. I’ll never be convinced that putting food in the gas tank makes sense.
- Here’s the good news of privatization of government services: Fulton County has fired a company called Georgia House Arrest for failing to properly monitor a 17-year-old murder suspect who was then accused of committing other serious crimes. The company was fired for nonperformance. When’s the last time a group of people on the public payroll were fired for nonperformance? I can’t remember it happening, either.
- It would take some considerable gall for a group called the Southeastern Federal Power Customers, consisting of nearly two dozen electric membership cooperatives and municipal utilities, to sue to recover $59 million they contend they overpaid for power from Buford Dam because of water diverted for human consumption. They bought cheap power subsidized by the American taxpayer.
- Think the health care debate has divided America? You ain’t seen nothing yet. Wait until President Barack Obama’s administration, via a special prosecutor, starts to bring charges against members of the CIA for allegedly “torturing” suspected terrorists. This president cannot stand up to pressure from his party’s loony left to settle old scores with George W. Bush.
- Cash for Clunkers to be followed by Cash for More Energy Efficient Appliances? After subsidizing cars and appliances, the next round will be to subsidize tofu, bean sprouts and other foods that this government wants us to eat, with revenues to be derived from taxing what all newcomers to Georgia call “sodas,” but are more properly known as “soft drinks,” or among friends and family, “co-colas.”
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M10
August 27th, 2009
7:49 pm
Sodas, soft drinks, co-colas, pop – whatever you call them – currently are SUBSIDIZED by the US Govt. That’s right, currently, tax dollars are helping keep the price of these drinks down. Maybe we should start by removing these subsidies before we worry about taxing. I haven’t heard about government-mandated tofu and bean sprouts, but I’ve heard a lot of regular people talking about eating food produced by local farmers, who use the same sustainable methods my grandparents and great-grandparents used, and who don’t need barrels and barrels of oil to ship their fruit, veggies, meat, and dairy products half-way around the country (or world) to our towns.
Michael H. Smith
August 27th, 2009
8:10 pm
This president cannot stand up to pressure from his party’s loony left to settle old scores with George W. Bush.
What makes you so sure he is not a standing member amongst them, Mr. Wooten?
Jimbo
August 27th, 2009
8:14 pm
Holder’s attack on the CIA is a diversionary tactic to get media attention off the town halls and back on the vile Bushies although out of office for a year, are still getting blamed for everything from lack of rain to athlete’s foot. Holder, by the way, is the same guy who advocated pardoning the Puerto Rican loons who shot up the capitol building a few years back. Obama has proven very adept at making statements that run totally counter to what his minions are doing, then continuing to look the other way and even lie about it. This is just another blatant example. Anybody feeling voter’s remorse yet???
Algonquin J. Calhoun
August 27th, 2009
10:24 pm
George W. Bush is guilty of war crimes! He killed many thousands of people in Iraq and tortured thousands more. He should be, and will be, tried and punished!
Jill Allbrite
August 27th, 2009
10:34 pm
Give it a rest, Calhoun. You sound like a Southside Looney.
gunny y.
August 27th, 2009
11:22 pm
hush your face, algonquin.
Howard
August 27th, 2009
11:22 pm
Jim…to use an expression from Obama’s good friend, his mentor Reverend Wright…American’s chickens are indeed coming home to roost. The moronic voters of this country elected this fascist and his Chicago Mafia to run things…so what do you expect. Obama couldn’t have even obtained a security clearance with the government with a back ground check on who were his friends…yet this inexperienced, neophyte, left-wing, incompetent radical gets handed the keys to the White House. Hopefully what he and his Democrat brown shirts do to this country by 2010 or 2012 will lead people to finally get rid of the Democrat Party. Of course, the Republicans are just as bad…only they don’t hate the country as much as Democrats do. Know my definition of a liberal Democrat? A hypocritical busy body who knows the best way to spend your money and run your life!!
Old Timer
August 27th, 2009
11:27 pm
I don’t trust anything Obama and his looney cabinet do. Holder would not go after the the Black Panther group that harassed voters during the election at the voting place door, but he want to prosocute folks that keep us safe from those that want all of us dead including Obama’s workers. Obama and his group are on a different planet in thought. Folks it is scary.
Ward
August 28th, 2009
2:46 am
With each passing day, we get to see what happens when a man who’s never run anything, tries to run EVERYthing. And I’m certain he has no idea how far in over his head he really is. Flowery rhetoric will only get you so far, and his unimaginable deficits will be his undoing.
clyde
August 28th, 2009
3:43 am
Good morning Jim,
Huge deficits.I’ve told you I didn’t trust Obama.Soon it will overburden our fuel efficient cars just hauling the amount of worthless money it will take to fill the gas tank.
I don’t know where the 73,800 would move to.Back to the nothing they left before,maybe.
The members of East Point’s city council,minus Clyde Mitchell,will be getting a ticket a day from a disgruntled police force.
Deal’s deals.
I don’t think the shooter was licensed to carry,but don’t bet against him.A good lawyer,in front of a kindly Alabama jury ,could get him millions.
I’ve eaten corn and drank corn,but I haven’t driven around on it yet.
Once in a great while we fire an elected official for non performance,but not nearly often enough.
W.C.Fields had it right when he said not to drink any Dam water.That’s not exactly verbatim,by the way.
I can’t imagine the CIA torturing people.
I already have energy efficient appliances.I have them because I don’t like big power bills.Years ago I purchased a $24 energy monitoring meter that has saved me hundreds of dollars.
But I like tofu and bean sprouts.I have nothing against a good steak either.I don’t drink sodas or soft drinks or cocolas so I’m going to escape that tax just like I escape the tobacco tax.There are only two vehicles in my neighborhood that are more fuel efficient than my Ranger,so I pay less gas tax per mile driven.
One thing I don’t uunderstand though is after factoring in things like transportation,multiple handling and other cost contributing factors that local farmers don’t have,why do they charge me more than markets?
Michael H. Smith
August 28th, 2009
6:23 am
Quotes from: General Curtis Emerson Lemay
“Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you’re not a good soldier.”
“I think there are many times when it would be most efficient to use nuclear weapons. However, the public opinion in this country and throughout the world throw up their hands in horror when you mention nuclear weapons, just because of the propaganda that’s been fed to them.”
“If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.”
“Killing Japanese didn’t bother me very much at that time… I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.”
Comments from the late Robert McNamara:
Robert McNamara: I don’t fault Truman for dropping the nuclear bomb. The US-Japanese war was one of the most brutal wars in all of human history. Kamikaze pilots, suicide—unbelievable. What one can criticize is that the human race, prior to that time, and today, has not really grappled with what are called the rules of war. Was there a rule then that said you shouldn’t bomb, shouldn’t kill, shouldn’t burn to death 100,000 civilians in a night?
LeMay said if we’d lost the war, we’d all have been prosecuted as war criminals. And I think he’s right. He, and I’d say I, were behaving as war criminals. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral, if his side had lost. Well, what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?
BitterEXdemocrackkk
August 28th, 2009
6:33 am
How do we get RID of these NON elected, UNConstitutional Obama CZARs, now called advisors?
Some are AVOWED communists and have CRIMINAL backgrounds…they KILLED the CZARs in Russia…NOW is the time for ALL good men to come to the AID of their country! What will YOU do?
Michael H. Smith
August 28th, 2009
6:49 am
Can’t say at the moment how to get rid of Obumer’s Czars but people in this country sure have alot of questions that need answers immediately. As more information is coming to light that exposes those he has selected as advisers both he and they are becoming all the more questionable.
Will
August 28th, 2009
7:07 am
Two comments in regard to your column this morning:
1. President Bush was handed a federal budget with a surplus and, after his eight budgets (with more than 40,000 earmarks included) handed President Obama a budget with a $1,000,000,000,000,000 deficit. Funny how republicans, almost all of whom voted for each of these earmarked laden budgets, are now concerned about deficits.
2. Republican newspaper writers and radio entertainers scoff at torture tactics being little more than a slap on the wrist (the radio entertainer that is slightly obese and a recovering drug addict – never can remember his name) refers to these torture tactics as “hardball fraternity hazing”). My Congressman agrees. I asked him if these tactics are so effective, would he support the use of these torture tactics by American law enforcement agencies as an effective way of deterring crime in the United States.. He said he would not because these tactics would be a violation of Constitutional Bill of Rights protections. You know, the protection against “cruel and unusal” punishment!
I think I will defer to American war heroes such as Senator McCain in regard to moral legitimacy and effectiveness of torture. This American hero readily admits that, as a result of being tortured, he made false statements to the enemy.
Michael H. Smith
August 28th, 2009
7:22 am
Senator Chuck Schumer spoke out on the controversy over torture a while back in an interview on MSNBC: Senator Schumer said the officials who approved enhanced interrogation techniques should be investigated.
Senator Chuck Schumer (D) New York: I have some faith in Eric Holder and the Obama administration on this issue. The first day they said OK water-boarding is torture. We’re not going to torture and the most important thing they did is they extended the Army manual which isn’t bad…
That is Senator Schumer in the interview on MSNBC.
But back in 2004, Senator Schumer was telling an entirely different story. Senator Schumer then said that he and most of his colleagues would support the use of torture if it would save American lives.
Senator Chuck Schumer: If we knew that there was a nuclear bomb hidden in an American city, and we believed that some kind of torture, fairly severe, maybe, would give us a chance at finding that bomb before it went off, my guess is most Americans and most senators, maybe all, would say do what you have to do. So it is easy to sit back in the armchair and say that torture can never be used, but when you are in the foxhole it is a very different deal.
How soon the left wingers are willing to forget, Mr. Wooten: I mean, “When you are in the foxhole and not five years later doing an interview it really is a very different deal.”
"Charles", The Original
August 28th, 2009
8:23 am
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Derwin Brown (June 22, 1954 -December 15, 2000) was a police captain and the sheriff-elect of DeKalb County, Georgia, United States, who was assassinated on the evening of December 15, 2000.
Brown was a 23-year veteran of the DeKalb County Police Department when he was elected to the position of Sheriff on a platform of cleaning up the corruption and graft that had historically troubled the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office. Brown was shot in front of his home fifteen times with a TEC-9 handgun and died at the scene. Defeated incumbent, former DeKalb County Sheriff Sidney Dorsey was convicted of ordering Brown’s assassination. Details that came to light in the trial suggested that Dorsey ordered the killing in order to obstruct an expected probe into corruption occurring during his own tenure as sheriff.
The law firm of Casey Gilson Leibel P.C. filed suit on behalf of the Brown family against those involved in the killing. At trial, the family’s attorneys, Steve Leibel and George Schingler, showed the jury how Dorsey and his deputies conspired to assassinate Brown. Casey Gilson’s efforts resulted in a jury verdict of $776 million in favor of the Brown family. Although the family has thus far been unable to collect any of the judgement, the jury verdict was the largest in Georgia history.
The defense attorneys declined to actually appear on behalf of the defendants at trial; instead, having filed an interlocutory appeal on the issue of liability, they allowed the damages portion of the trial to go forward undefended. Their confidence was well-placed. The Georgia Court of Appeals ruled in Defendant’s favor on the issue of whether the State was immune from suit. Plaintiff appealed the ruling up to the Georgia Supreme Court, and that Court upheld the ruling. The United States Supreme Court denied cert on a subsequent appeal filed by Derwin Brown’s family.
After the verdict was rendered virtually uncollectible by the series of failed appeals, a bill was introduced into the Georgia House of Representatives seeking to compensate Derwin Brown’s family in an amount in excess of $300 million. The bill failed to obtain the necessary votes for passage…
From the desk of “Charles, The Original”, according to The Brown Family petition to Georgia House of Representatives written by Brandy Brown-Rhodes, her father was assassinated on his wife’s birthday. At the time he was in transition, and had not yet been sworn in as Sheriff; therefore he was left with no paycheck or insurance. Phyllis Brown, the wife of Sheriff Elect Derwin Brown, was left to have to beg the county to restore his position as Captain of the Dekalb County Police Department (that he was forced to resign from) so that she could receive his benefits.
After two years, she was finally awarded his pension and insurance benefit for $50,000 that of which she had to pay legal fees.
The moral of the story is it doesn’t matter who you are. When challenging “systems of corruption”, going after individual operatives within that system or the system is often futile and counter productive.
I encourage you to put on the whole armor of God that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Mike
August 28th, 2009
8:38 am
This president cannot stand up to pressure from his party’s loony left to settle old scores with George W. Bush.
It’s more about doing the right thing, the Bush administation reverted of barbaric acts under the stress of the moment. Criminal acts, and if we’re going to be ticketing j-walkers, this cannot go investigated. Let the cards lay where they fall.
Jackie
August 28th, 2009
8:51 am
@Charles
I am shocked and amazed that you would speak of the plight of these “Negroes.” The water must be bad?
findog
August 28th, 2009
8:56 am
Our taxes are too low.
Based on rosy scenarios that never materialized taxes were cut in 2001. Based on the voodoo economic principal of cutting taxes while increasing defense spending as revenue neutral in 2003 our government kept digging its hole to China, with Chinese funds. Now the party in power is incapable of balancing the budget through taxation through the haunting reminder of 1994 when they lost power based on the basic tax levies set in 1993. A level that did not harm the longest stretch of economic development the nation had ever known.
I would like someone in congress to come up with a minimum level of taxation from everyone, individual, business, or corporate that would fund our nation. Set that number at six, eight, ten, or what ever it would be and then reduce the staggered income rates to levels that would pay off the debt in 15 years.
We the people gave up a lot of tax deductions during the Reagan Administration based on a shared cost with corporate America. We the people without an army of lobbyists then watched congress insert breaks for one sector of the economy after another until the largest, most profitable companies pay less of a marginal rate in taxes than the average American family.
Road Scholar
August 28th, 2009
9:06 am
So, after subsidizing businesses, esp big business for 8 years, it is wrong to subsidize others? When will repubs realize you have to pay for services…they are not free.
"Charles", The Original
August 28th, 2009
9:07 am
Jackie,
I wouldn’t encourage others to put on the whole armor of God if I didn’t have it on. As a matter of fact, my prayer to God was to dress me from head to toes. I was afraid that I wouldn’t dress properly.
You know which side the so-called educated integrationist Negroes chose. What about you Jackie? Are you rolling with us or the devil?
"Charles", The Original
August 28th, 2009
9:13 am
Jackie,
It’s not God’s will that anyone should perish. That includes the so-called educated integrationist Negroes; but his will is that we should repent.
"Charles", The Original
August 28th, 2009
9:30 am
Jackie,
Repentance may prove difficult for many of us. Crazy Joe Lowery said that he wouldn’t return his Presidential Medal of Freedom under any circumstances.
The condition of the overwhelming majority of Negroes is worse than when we were in segregation. In lieu of that fact, if I were he, I would return my Presidential Medal of Freedom in a heart beat. But like the other so-called educated integrationist Negroes, Lowery may have been rewarded for delivering the masses of Negroes to the genocidal condition they face today.
"Charles", The Original
August 28th, 2009
9:42 am
Periodically, I listen to so-called Negro radio call in talk shows. Listen, after listening to twenty minutes of the garbage coming out of the mouths of parents and radio hosts, Negro children can’t be anything else other than crazy.
The reason other races of people don’t call Negro talk shows is obvious. It’s not racism. It’s impossible to communicate given that amount of abject ignorance and or insanity.
Other groups of people shouldn’t enable the so-called educated integrationist Negroes. They should force them to service the basic needs of their own people.
JackLeg
August 28th, 2009
9:46 am
Read my lies : There will be no new taxes on the middle class…. RLOL
William
August 28th, 2009
9:51 am
If you want to stop torture, bring back the draft. I sure would like to see the progressive liberal numbers rise in the military ranks. We all know they know better. They can do it better, right? Then Obama would not have to raise that huge civilian army and buy uniforms with tax dollars. Bring back the draft and put the liberals in the fox holes. It would better serve us all.
"Charles", The Original
August 28th, 2009
9:52 am
Jackie,
Just think about it. Some Negroes want to put other Negroes in prison for specified crimes and throw away the key. Guess what? The Negroes don’t have a jail or prison to house other Negroes. They plan on incarcerating other Negroes in prisons they didn’t build or control. And at the same time, they charge racism in the prison industrial complex of other people.
There is no doubt in my mind. The so-called educated integrationist Negroes are crazy.
TRUTH
August 28th, 2009
10:00 am
Ahhhh, like a cold refreshing drink, I have found a place where rednecks, ruffians, and Republicans gather to hate on the country and discuss other heartfelt topics reagarding their affinity for Nazism, Facism, and the sort. All the while not realizing (or purposefully) avoiding the fact that our President IS turning us around on the economy. He is reversing the alienation to the world that we had under Dubya. His intent on securing healthcare for ALL Americans, while bringing the insurance comapnies under control by offering a REAL choice. Yep, this IS the place for rednecks, ruffians, and Republicans to come, vent, and plot on how they’re going to steal the country back and reinstitute the demise of this country with their failed tactics, ideas, and LACK of a plan. You’ve tried to malign him with birth certicates, tea parties, Rushbo, Hannity, and media attacks. You’ve tried to attack his wife, his staff, and Democrats/Liberals at town halls. Why are you still failing? You rednecks, ruffians, and Republicans use lies, deceit, and outlandish comparisons. The country is no longer red. It is predominately blue, and the red pool has dwindled to those few states where that thinking is still considered fashionable. Funny those states are considered bottom feeders with those in them easily misled by the Republican party and their throng of (have I said this?) rednecks, ruffians, and liars. Can you get one fact straight? Can your ELECTED officials ANSWER a question without resorting to lies. Grandma? Vets (I take personal exception to that as I am one), the middle class, poor people?? What the heck are you people?? Oh, rednecks, ruffians, and Republicans….
Georgia. That last Bastion of Ignorance.
JLK
August 28th, 2009
10:00 am
Holy cow! A deficit that’s more than the combined sum of all previous deficits since the founding of America, a deficit equal to three-fourths of the American economy? Thank your Mr. Wooten, for your ongoing outrage about deficits that began in the Reagan years, eased up in the 90s, and returned when the Republicans blew it up again. You’re a ROCK.
Twenty-five million dollars in scholarships to 25,000 kids. Yay, Mr. Cathy! He understands that young people need edu-ma-catin’. Now if the rest of Georgia would clue in….
Georgia’s only corn ethanol plant, First United Ethanol LLC of Camilla, could go bankrupt, the Atlanta Business Chronicle reports. I’ll never be convinced that putting food in the gas tank makes sense. Unless it’s fresh from the garden, corn isn’t really good people food. In its processed form, its widespread over-consumption is one cause of diabetes, gastro-intestinal ailments, and thunder thighs.
When’s the last time a group of people on the public payroll were fired for nonperformance? November 4, 2008.
Think the health care debate has divided America? … Wait until President Barack Obama’s administration, via a special prosecutor, starts to bring charges against members of the CIA for allegedly “torturing” suspected terrorists.
You overestimate the selflessness of Americans. Unscrupulous health insurance tyrants have been ruining us for decades. We’re vested in this fight. Sadly, many Americans prefer not to think about the fact that torturing foreign prisoners increases the likelihood that our own brave under-paid, under-appreciated, over-worked soldiers will be treated thusly when captured by unfriendlies. Yes, best not to think about that.
….the next round will be to subsidize tofu, bean sprouts and other foods that this government wants us to eat, If this were actually true: Those B—tards! Trying to encourage a healthier populace that doesn’t require tens or hundreds of thousands of medical care each year for lifestyle- and diet-induced illness. WHERE DOES IT END?
booger
August 28th, 2009
10:00 am
Jim,
This deficit is before before health care reform and the rest of Obamas wish list of power grabs. Wait til the total is in. We are incurring debt which is absolutely unsustainable says Warren Buffet. Buffet, who supported Obama for president, now says we must either impose huge tax increases or print money just to pay the interest on our current debt. Either way it’s a horror for our economy.
TRUTH
August 28th, 2009
10:13 am
Hey Booger,
Allopw me to pick your nose…The Deficit wasn’t a deficit when President Clinton left office and Dubya and the ReThuglicans took over. President Obama had to right the ship first, which took money, then install a plan to keep you nitwits from jumping out of windows (a’la the Great Depression), which cost money. Yet you and the rest of your Genius Posse seem to think that President Obama amassed the huge deficit in just under 9 months. Heck my wife couldn’t spend a million in a year if she tried to buy every shoe in the country. Are you crazy, or are you and the rest of the RNC thinking that we are?
Facts. Believe em’.
Chris Broe
August 28th, 2009
10:15 am
Holy cows (in India) are upset with Chick Filet founder Truett Cathy’s policy of not letting people eat more chicken on Sunday (in America).
Every point Wooten made today reads like a xerox copy of the Republican Platform for the 2004 campaign to re-elect President Bush. We’re living the Bush legacy of war, tax folly, and don’t forget all those public speaking masterpieces.
Dandy Don
August 28th, 2009
10:17 am
Nathan Deal’s done.
Moonbat Patrol
August 28th, 2009
10:39 am
Did some neo-Marxist libdemwits here just have the gall to mention the deficits under Reagan and W? Here, allow me to help the mindless moonbatic trash out with some facts:
“WASHINGTON – In a chilling forecast, the White House is predicting a 10-year federal deficit of $9 trillion — more than the sum of all previous deficits since America’s founding. And it says by the next decade’s end the national debt will equal three-quarters of the entire U.S. economy.”
You dumbmAsses on the tard left need to shut your pie holes. NOW.
Regarding said dumbmAsses, how do you thirty percenters out there who love the job Obama & Pelosicrats are doing feel? Oh painless is waiting for you snot bags in 2010 and 2012.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/var/plain/storage/images/media/obama_index_graphics/august_2009/obama_index_august_28_2009/243590-1-eng-US/obama_index_august_28_2009.jpg
Gallup shows that 55% of Americans believe the economy is getting WORSE under the Obama/Pelosicrat administration. Aren’t you libtards just so glad that TRILLION DOLLAR “stiumuls” bill was passed immediately because it was such a crisis? What are we, approaching 11% unemployment figures soon? That idiot Biden said they needed immediate action for that “stimulus” bill so as to keep unemployment from going past EIGHT percent.
The Pelosicrat congressional approval rating is 31%, down from a high of 39% in March – before the Pelosicrats could show prove their incompetence and idiocy. But you chucklenuts on the mindless, drooling libtard left keep yammering about Bush. You morons are in trouble. Bigtime.
booger
August 28th, 2009
10:46 am
TRUTH,
Pick away, I’ll provide you a box of crackers. should make a great snack. Even die hard Bush haters have stopped trying to compare the Bush deficits to the current out of control spending spree. Also, as we have just seen this week, the longer this the current plans are studied, the more it looks as if they are grossly underestimated.
DemsRule
August 28th, 2009
10:46 am
The first thing to do is pass an 80% income tax and 95% estate tax so we can pay for health care and social security. Once a few years of that has drained the fat cats pockets, we can put a bounty on them! Now that’s a stimulus program that will work and be fun.
JF McNamara
August 28th, 2009
10:54 am
“After this administration’s tax collectors come for the rich, and find that insufficient, they’re coming for you. Bet on it. ”
I don’t mind paying for services. Both parties have run up a huge bill, and its not going to magically go away. If your personal household was in financial straights wouldn’t you use more of or try to generate more income to pay for your debts?
“This president cannot stand up to pressure from his party’s loony left to settle old scores with George W. Bush.”
If Bush had done the right thing, there would be no way to settle old scores or pressure the President. If he and his administration are found to have committed crimes, they should be prosecuted. Just because the motives are off base doesn’t mean that the “loony” left isn’t right in complaining about his criminality.
Dumocraps For Dumbo
August 28th, 2009
11:21 am
…The first thing to do is pass an 80% income tax and 95% estate tax so we can pay for health care and social security…. -DemsRule
Don’t you just love Dumocrap humor? But the real irony is the beauty that even the middle class will likely now see their taxes go up to pay for all of this Dumocrap out of control deficit spending. What, did you moronic Dumocraps think you could just tax the top 10% of this nation to pay for all your fairytale candyassed liberal draconia? Morons.
Dumocraps For Dumbo
August 28th, 2009
11:27 am
…If your personal household was in financial straights wouldn’t you use more of or try to generate more income to pay for your debts?….-JFMcNamara
Well that’s the problem, dipsht. You are taking away income from the people to pay for the incompetence of the government. Only the biggest morons believe that raising taxes will revive the economy [instead of, err, uhmmm, ******lowering spending*******].
So much for Obummer’s promise to cut taxes for 95% of the people in this nation, eh? I’ve lost count on how many campaign promises have been broken in just six months.
“When you elect clowns, don’t be surprised when a circus breaks out.”
Peter
August 28th, 2009
11:30 am
Loony is the word of the day I guess…….. There is none more Lonny than those who voted for the Criminals Bush and Cheney !
Peter
August 28th, 2009
11:32 am
Of course the loony Right and Jim will never talk about the Made up WAR in Iraq and the costs to our Country !
Dumocraps For Dumbo
August 28th, 2009
11:32 am
Don’t look now, but the Dumocraps are now drafting a bill that would allow the federal government to shut down your computer in the event of some national emergency. Can you imagine if the Bushies and Cheney had done this? Dumocrap heads would be exploding right after the mouth foaming. So the big question is, what do these morons running Washington deem as an “emergency?” Saying negative things about them on blogs? I wouldn’t put it past the same group of people who recently installed an email address on the official White House website to report anyone saying bad things about DumoCare.
“Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet.”
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10320096-38.html
retiredds
August 28th, 2009
11:32 am
Jim, it never ceases to amaze me how you conservatives consistently miss the mark. Yes, the deficits are huge, and everyone knows it. It appears that you and your “pseudo” conservative buddies decided to turn the other way when George W. ran up a 3 TRILLION deficit (which is part of the trillions in debt that is embedded in the current numbers – rather simple math if you take the time to run the numbers) during his term which included an expanding economy (contrary to prudent economic and fiscal policy). His team also forgot the maxim “you can’t have guns and butter”. But beyond the Bush years of neglect and failed policies on almost every front (one grand scheme was running the war off the books – I can explain that for you if you have the least bit of interest), the projected deficit is to cover decades of Americans living far beyond their means. The chickens are coming home to roost, Jim, just in case you and your conservative friends haven’t noticed.
So here’s a suggestion, let’s do what you and your conservative cronies propose – nothing. Let’s ask the Obama administration to pull back all the stimulus money and let the citizens fend for themselves. Let’s do nothing. And, if we do that would you and your conservative friends be willing to go around the country and explain to all the people why? Would you tell them that nothing was your answer to the worst economic scenario since the Great Depression? If your plan succeeds then you and your friends should take all the credit. But if your plan fails, be willing to take credit for that too. Come on Jim, don’t just be one who bad mouths this administration, stand up and be counted.
Peter
August 28th, 2009
11:33 am
Hey Jim..What is the Iraq War costing America ? The Loony Right won’t talk about that !
Dumocraps For Dumbo
August 28th, 2009
11:40 am
….It appears that you and your “pseudo” conservative buddies decided to turn the other way when George W. ran up a 3 TRILLION deficit…
What you moron Dumocrap liberals FAIL to do is break down how much of that went to national security spending, something the previous administration SEVERELY lacked doing and needed to be done. From the CIA on down.
But go ahead and ignore the above post referencing a ***nine trillion*** dollar deficit, not to mention the Dumocraps spending more in six months than in the previous six ***years*** of the Bushies. And yes, for you morons on the left, that includes the Iraq war, and something else you morons forget about: Katrina spending. You pinheads need to read more. You morons also conveniently forget the CBO keeps reminding the Dumocraps that the current spending levels cannot be sustained. What the hell planet do you people on the Dumocrap left come from?
“Mr. Obama cannot dismiss critics by pointing to President George W. Bush’s decision to run $2.9 trillion in deficits while fighting two wars and dealing with 9/11 and Katrina. Mr. Obama will surpass Mr. Bush’s eight-year total in his first 20 months and 11 days in office, adding $3.2 trillion to the national debt.”
Moonbat Patrol
August 28th, 2009
11:50 am
What is it with libdemwits and not paying their taxes? For them to have the AUDACITY to bespeak raising taxes on Americans is disgusting. Who other than Charlie Rangel, chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee – that establishes tax policy for you Obama voters.
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ASHINGTON — Rep. Charles Rangel failed to report as much as $1.3 million in outside income — including up to $1 million for a Harlem building sale — on financial-disclosure forms he filed between 2002 and 2006, according to newly amended records. The documents also show the embattled chairman of the Ways and Means Committee — who is being probed by the House Ethics Committee — failed to reveal a staggering $3 million in various business transactions over the same period.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/08282009/news/regionalnews/oops__charlie_forgot_this_1m_house_186849.htm
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You almost have to laugh at the libdemwits blindly supporting those hypocritical, blatantly arrogant people running Washington.
booger
August 28th, 2009
11:53 am
Peter,
The looney war you refer to will have cost 687 billion since its inception at the end of this fiscal year. That’s over 100 billion less than the stimulus package alone.
Moonbat Patrol
August 28th, 2009
11:56 am
“Let’s ask the Obama administration to pull back all the stimulus money and let the citizens fend for themselves”
That’s the problem, liberal genius. That money did NOT go to the citizens. It went to Obama cronies and select areas that voted for him. Try researching facts for a change. The rest of it hasn’t even been SPENT yet:
http://rutledgecapital.com/2009/06/03/how-much-of-the-stimulus-money-has-already-been-spent/
booger
August 28th, 2009
11:58 am
retiredds,
Had we done nothing to respond to the recession it is likely it would have ended sooner. This was the path Europe chose to take even after urging from Obama to follow our lead. They are now recovering more quickly than us, and France and Germany are both officially out of the recession.
Moonbat Patrol
August 28th, 2009
11:59 am
Booger – when dealing facts out to a mindless libdemwit on this blog, you will have more success pissing into the wind of a hurricane. It is evident from the posts here this morning they live in some alternative universe fantasyland. But, it is enjoyable watching them snarl and drool over a previous administration while kicking the can of this administration further down the road.
booger
August 28th, 2009
12:28 pm
Moonbat,
I know, I know. That’s why I seldom do this any more.
DemsRule
August 28th, 2009
12:34 pm
Rich corporations and evil capitalists have stolen from the people and now the people are going to get back what is rightfully theirs. The acceleration of the accumulation of wealth by the top few percent is the biggest criome of the Bush years. Pass confiscatory inheritance tax laws now.
ken
August 28th, 2009
12:43 pm
Mr. Calhuon, he kept your butt safe for 7 years. Now use your energy to pay off the 9 trillion debt. Enjoy your change.
booger
August 28th, 2009
12:55 pm
Demsrule,
So now success is a crime [I assume this is what you mean by criome]?
By the way any tax is confiscatory. Did you think it was voluntary?
Reform Will Happen
August 28th, 2009
12:55 pm
Bush did nothing to keep anyone safe. He endagered and killed hundreds of thousands including wasting 5000 soldiers lives.
Reform Will Happen
August 28th, 2009
12:57 pm
Bush has helped kill hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and displaced 3 million husbandless women and fatherless kids who can’t work anywhere.
The CIA investigation needs to imprison several Bush lawyers who broke the law and it will.
Moonbat Patrol
August 28th, 2009
1:01 pm
“He endagered and killed hundreds of thousands including wasting 5000 soldiers lives.”
Hey jackass libdemwit – take that up with the Democrats who authorized the use of military force to remove Saddam from power, Jerkacrat (hah – I like that!). Oh, and we have just had consecutive months of record high deaths in Afghanistan under your hero in chief. What, you think people aren’t paying attention numbnuts?
Moonbat Patrol
August 28th, 2009
1:06 pm
“The Obama White House announced Monday that the CIA will no longer interrogate suspected terrorists. Any and all interrogations will be conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation under the direct supervision of a member of the Obama Administration, although no one has been named “Interrogation Czar.” The move is part of the results of Attorney General Eric Holder’s announcement that he will appoint a prosecutor to investigate the CIA agents involved in interrogations investigated by the CIA’s Inspector General’s Office.”
The nation’s security now lay squarely in the hands of you libdemwits. You can’t blame a thing on the previous administration if some radical Islamic goon or group of them attack us again. It’s on you people now. And it sure is funny how the CIA is being investigated by the same man who let the New Black Panthers off scott free in PA for intimidating at polling places.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203550604574361071968458430.html
Even more ironic is that this CIA investigation is releasing information on said employees to the public. Yeah, the same moonbatic libdemwits that support this adminstration are the ones that pissed themselves over a CIA desk jockey name leak during the Bush years. Pathetic.
Reform Will Happen
August 28th, 2009
1:09 pm
Interrogation czaress will be unemployed Facebooktress and English as a 2nd language nitwit Palin.
Reform Will Happen
August 28th, 2009
1:10 pm
Get the US out of Iraq AND Afghanistan and put the money twoard a public option. Stop the domination of insurance companies who are killing millions and ruining medical care.
Reform Will Happen
August 28th, 2009
1:11 pm
Gotta go. Get your head on straight you whackjob wingnuts or move off the planet–best idea yet. You know how to do it fast.
Chris Broe
August 28th, 2009
1:11 pm
Hey, was the guy Cheney shot mowing grass at the time too?
Reform Will Happen
August 28th, 2009
1:13 pm
“Mom–?”
“Try again..”
“Mo– [sigh] Okay. ‘Northern Mama Bear Princess Hotter-Than-I Will-Ever-Be’, my period is la—”
“Pumice, or Rowboat, whichever one you are…can this wait until you daddy gets back from sno-karting? I’m kinda busy right now and —OMFG! Lindsay Lohan is SUCH a skank! Look at this! Awesome! I have to text Meg. LOL!”
“[sigh]”
“Chisel? Hon? Be a dear and go get mommy another Harvey Wallbanger. Daddy left a pitcher in the fridge.”
“I hate you and wish I had never been born.”
“Yeah, well get in line sister. Now chop-chop, I’m not getting any younger and that Wallbanger isn’t going to waltz in here by itself.”
cjamesatl
August 28th, 2009
1:18 pm
I believe the correct use of co-cola in the South is ‘pop’.
Eric
August 28th, 2009
1:26 pm
Considering the existing subsidies for the corn, beef, and dairy industries, subsidizing tofu and bean sprouts wouldn’t be a silly thing.
Modern agriculture is the process of turning oil into corn (transportation, tractor fuel + fertilizer), then corn into all of the foodstuffs on the American dinner table.
Americans eat what the government subsidizes, and the government subsidizes what ADM tells them too — any foodstuff derived from corn. Everything on the American table can be traced back to corn. Soft drinks (High Fructose Corn Syrup), sweet tea, beef and poultry are fed corn, tortillas, milk (cows fed corn).
There should be no surprise why the price of food spiked when the government was getting their corn-based ethanol program established. There were tortilla riots in Mexico due to the spike in the price of corn, the average man could not feed his family because Americans were putting corn into their gas tanks.
Just wait for a bad corn crop to spike the price of fuel, the cost of food, and the cost of transporting that food across the country.
Subsidizing local non-petroleum crops (organic and sustainable crops) would actually be less crazy than what we are doing today.
JF McNamara
August 28th, 2009
1:27 pm
“Well that’s the problem, dipsht. You are taking away income from the people to pay for the incompetence of the government. Only the biggest morons believe that raising taxes will revive the economy [instead of, err, uhmmm, ******lowering spending*******]. ”
There’s no need to name call as it takes away from legitimite points.
Your point makes no sense at all. The problem is the massive deficit and entitlements on the horizon not whatever you’re referring to. I agree that government incompetence played a role, primarily Bush, who gave tax cuts, kept the war budget off the books, and approved the prescription drug benefit wiping out Clinton’s surplus and skyrocketting the deficit. He, and numerous other Presidents, have failed to address social security, but whatever.
Regardless of who ran up the bill, someone has to pay for it and cutting spending won’t do it. 60% of our budget is medicare, social security, and defense. There’s no way you could cut enough to make up the difference.
Also, I didn’t say anything about reviving the economy which brings into question your reading comprehension.
JF McNamara
August 28th, 2009
1:30 pm
Dumocraps For Dumbo,
Oh yeah, here’s a link to the U.S. Budget. If you examine it, you’ll see that there’s really no way we can cut the spending without taking out essentials.
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy10/browse.html
retiredds
August 28th, 2009
1:32 pm
Domocraps for Dumbo, I want to thank you for calling me a moron. From you and your ilk I consider it a compliment.
dw
August 28th, 2009
1:41 pm
To Algonquin J. Calhoun,
I guess you are an accessory to the “crimes” then, as I assume you are a citizen of the U.S. and the U.S. committed these “crimes” to protect you from more terrorist attacks. If you are not a citizen, then please go home. You can’t reason with terrorists!!! We know you hate Bush. Get over it. Your wonderful BHO is now in office. Many think Bush is a patriot as he did his best to protect America and American lives. Just a matter of perspective and I know I won’t convince you or your clones. Please move to Iraq and help prevent any further “crimes”.
Reform Will Happen
August 28th, 2009
1:43 pm
Taxes won’t be raised on dimwits who are chained to Wooten’s blog comment section like McNamara and Joe the Plumber archetypes and the unemployed blogatrix facebooker Palin. They’ll be raised on people who make 250K per year and higher.
Reform Will Happen
August 28th, 2009
1:46 pm
There are a plethora of ways to cut spending. One is to revise Medicare Part D to allow competitive bidding for drugs the way Piedmont Hospital and Emory Healthcare do that the insurance company employees who masquerade as Repubo Congress people passed. Waxman is getting ready to do just that.’
Another is to get troops the hell out of Iraq and Afganistan completely now. 3 trillion and counting has been peed away in Iraq. 56000 plus another 56000 contractors are in Afghanistan now. Russia couldn’t do it with half a million total in Afghanistan. Shunt that money to a public option NOW.
Reform Will Happen
August 28th, 2009
1:49 pm
Nobel in Economics Joe Stiglitz’s book documents over 3 trillion spent in Iraq and growing. That’s the repubo waste. Get outta Iraq and Afghanistan and stop the financial and US soldier hemorrhage now.
DemsRule
August 28th, 2009
2:02 pm
Booger – A confiscatory tax is defined as one that is designed to punish certain behavior, particularly social injustices. The wealthy continually bribe elected officials to grant them special treatment, particularly tax breaks. This social injustice should be addressed by a confiscatory tax that takes back most or all of their ill-gotten gain and re-distributes it to the people from whence it came. BTW, defining ’success’ as accumulating wealth by doing whatever it takes is indicative of your ignorance and lack of social consciousness.
clyde
August 28th, 2009
2:16 pm
DemsRule,
That tax would be like the luxury tax that was slapped on the yachts of the rich a la Carter.That worked well.It pretty near wiped out the boat building industry in the U.S. and put countless boatbuilders out of work.It’s probably time to try that tax again.There won’t be any U.S.built boats for the rich to cavort around in.They’ll have to go to Canada and other places.That will correct a social injustice.
Hannibal Lechter
August 28th, 2009
2:21 pm
Some people in my neck of south Georgia called them sodie waters, or dranks.
Rebel Without a Pause
August 28th, 2009
2:42 pm
To M10..wrong answer buzzard breath..co-colas are not currently SUBSIDIZED..just the opposite. The prices are too high because of import quotas on sugar from other countries. The sugar farmers in the US are being SUBSIDIZED.
DemsRule
August 28th, 2009
2:46 pm
clyde – I was thinking more like a 90% inheritance tax, you know, the tax that made the insurance industry rich. That way we wouldn’t have these worthless inherited rich but stupid kids like Ted Kennedy and George Bush getting into politics and screwing up the country.
DemsRule
August 28th, 2009
2:52 pm
I know what you’re thinking, old man Joe earned that money by hard, if illegal work. Why shouldn’t he get to do whatever he wants with it? Well he can, as long as he’s alive. But Teddy never did anything to earn it either, he was just a beneficiary of an entitlement program for the rich. You despise what you love to call entitlement programs for the poor, who can actually use a little help, but you act like they’re some god-given birthright of the rich. I see it quite differently, as just another flaw of capitalism.
Dunwoody Mike
August 28th, 2009
3:08 pm
DemsRule…thank you for providing some sense on this board.
And to the rest of us here with an IQ higher than our shoe size…don’t even bother trying to convince people here. You could provide the Word of God, and they wouldn’t believe it unless it came from St. Rush of Oxycontin.
JF McNamara
August 28th, 2009
3:16 pm
Reform Will Happen,
I guess you’re a dimwit too since you’re chained on Wooten’s blog.
I was replying to Wooten saying:
“After this administration’s tax collectors come for the rich, and find that insufficient, they’re coming for you. Bet on it.”
To summarize, I was saying that I’m willing to pay my fair share to get the problems behind us and if that means higher taxes then so be it. Since he said “after the rich”, he means every tax payer. Was that simple enough for you?
booger
August 28th, 2009
3:37 pm
Dems Rule,
Sorry but what you defined is a punitive tax. There are many on the books. Confiscatory means the money is confiscated not given voluntarily.
Just for the record, I am not ignorant nor do I lack a social conscious.
I define success as someone who works hard to achieve something, takes risks, and succeeds. These are people who provide jobs, and pay the taxes for all the services the govt. provides.
Unlike you I will not resort to calling you names because I don’t know anything about you.
Moonbat Patrol
August 28th, 2009
3:48 pm
“Gotta go. Get your head on straight you whackjob wingnuts or move off the planet–best idea yet. You know how to do it fast.
Newsflash, libdemwit trash – we’re not going to “think” like you and we’re not going anywhere. Now you if you want to, you can start going house to house in this nation and round up we Conservatives and put us in concentration camps like good little eichmanns. But I’ve got a feeling you pathetics don’t really want to go down that road, so to speak.
Moving on, I’m sure just about everyone has heard about that 11 year old girl in California kidnapped in 1991. She resurfaced this week after living in a back yard tent, being a sex slave, and giving birth starting at age 13. Long story short, her captor was a convicted lifetime child molester dating back to the 1970s. He was out on “lifetime” parole. The district of where he was paroled is about 30 miles from downtown San Francisco, Nancy Pelosi’s territory and said territory of idiotic extreme liberalism. The area is notorious for letting dangerous criminals free all because of liberal judges and courts.
Another example of the idiocy of liberal feel-goodness is the release of that piece of pig excrement Libyan Pan Am bomber in Scotland. “Compassion” to a mindless liberal is dangerous for society.
But back to this blog, kindly note how no libdemwit here is challenging the record government spending by the pathetics running Washington. But, those are the same people who call town hall protesters nazi references (can you imagine the third in line to the presidency, Nanny Pelosi, falsely associating said protesters as wearing swastikas???). It seems more and more the libdemwits are becoming more shrill and more hateful. Sounds familiar, like 1930s Germany, doesn’t it?
“WASHINGTON—A key House liberal suggested Thursday that party moderates who’ve pushed for changes in health care legislation are “brain dead” and out for insurance company campaign donations. Moderate Blue Dog Democrats “just want to cause trouble,” said Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif., who heads the health subcommittee on the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee.”
Let the self induced implosion of these incompetent pathetics running our government begin!
booger
August 28th, 2009
3:52 pm
Reform…..,
60% of those evil people who make over $250,000 per year are small businesses. They are forced to file taxes as individuals and so the income of their business is taxed as if it is personal income. These are the people who Obama is counting on to restore our economy. In the last seven months they have been handed a tax increase, an increase in minimum wage, the potential for a cap-and-trade tax, and the potential of a health care penalty of 8%. This while people who know not one thing about business wonder why they don’t start hiring.
Jackie
August 28th, 2009
4:11 pm
@Charles
Outside your original post today, I disagree with your contentions!
Moonbat Patrol
August 28th, 2009
4:41 pm
Shocker: ABC and NBC won’t run critical ad on DemwitCare. Yes, the Demwit state controlled media on display at its finest. Of course, only Fox News reports it. They report, you libdemwits whine – and take a back seat to programming ratings that Fox News just flat out owns.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,543940,00.html
Moonbat Patrol
August 28th, 2009
4:49 pm
And when I say Fox News has major ownage over the pathetic DNC/state controlled broadcast media run by libdemwits, brother I’m not kidding:
“Posted on 27 August 2009 by Robert Seidman
Though a little scandal might alienate advertisers, it’s pure ratings gold. Last night Glenn Beck had over 3 million viewers at 5pm, second only to O’Reilly for the night. But, Beck had more 25-54 viewers than O’Reilly (888K to 876K). I don’t watch or really even care about the cable news wars, but still…wow. Even though Beck airs before primetime, when there are fewer people watching TV, he had the most 25-54 viewers in the cable news world for the night.”
http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/08/27/big-beck-goes-over-3-million-viewers-beats-oreilly-in-demo-cable-news-ratings-for-wednesday-august-26-2009/25541
Well hey, what about Chevez? Didn’t he give a book to Obama? Well that was a short lived love affair, wasn’t it? Now apparently Chevez, the hero of Jimmy Carter and Fidel Castro, had some choice words for our former community organizer caped hero in chief recently. Who would have thought Chevez is smarter than those 31% of Americans who think Obama and the libdemwitocrats are doing a great job running this nation? Who would have indeed….
CARACAS (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama is “lost in the Andromeda” galaxy on Latin American policy, his chief critic in the region, Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, said on Sunday, while demanding the closure of U.S. military bases.
Last week Obama said critics of U.S. involvement in Latin America who are now asking Washington to do more to restore the ousted president of Honduras “can’t have it both ways.”
“We are not asking you to intervene in Honduras, Obama. On the contrary, we are asking that “the empire” get its hands off Honduras and get its claws out of Latin America,” Chavez said in a rambling weekly television and radio show.
“President Obama is lost in the Andromeda Nebula, he has lost his bearings, he doesn’t get it,” he said.
clyde
August 28th, 2009
5:07 pm
Gordon Brown and Obama may also have a small problem over the Locherbie Bomber release.That’s a situation that is getting a lot of press in Europe and it may hit close to home.There is a possibility that the government of Britain will fall because of it and Obama may be involved.
Moonbat Patrol
August 28th, 2009
6:04 pm
“There is a possibility that the government of Britain will fall because of it and Obama may be involved.”
I wouldn’t put it past anything of this administration. Especially after learning that one of the co-writers of the stimulus bill is a former Bill Ayer’s Wunderground goon: Jeff Jones.
http://thespeechatimeforchoosing.blogspot.com/2009/08/shocker-domestic-terrorist-bill-ayers.html
(Yeah I can’t really find much info on this in the NYT or on PMSNBC or CNN for some reason)
And this is the so-called leadership that is in charge of this nation? AND has the gall to out CIA operatives under the guise of investigating terrorist interrogation techniques? Someone please tell me this is one big bad dream.
Watch them fall in 2010 and 2012. Hard.
DublDawg
August 28th, 2009
6:10 pm
The loss of 73,000 is a good start. If we are lucky enough to see the unemployment rate in metro Atlanta go to 20%, it may start to feel like home again after a few years.
The influx of all of the transplants from Ohio, Penn., NJ, NY and the other cesspool states is the worst thing that ever happened to Georgia. It is the worst thing that ever happened to Georgians.
JohnD
August 28th, 2009
6:40 pm
The jealousy just pours out of the posts by “Truth”, “Peter” and the rest of the Libs on this blog.
They want a 75% income tax and a 95% tax on estates. Obviously they are unable to support themselves and need “guvment” support.
How about just forcing the Obama administration to abide by the current law on income, property taxes and the millions upon millions the Dems and their supporters embezzled under Clinton? Oh, my fault Rahmster the Rat earned the right to evade property taxes in Chicago and the Fannie and Freddie officials who “cooked the books” EARNED their millions.
Why have “Peter” and “Truth” not demanded the Justice Department bring all those Dem crooks to court and face their peers? Obsessed with Bush and Cheney to the point they ignore crooks like themselves.
JohnD
August 28th, 2009
6:44 pm
Norcross, Georgia runs all traffic stops through ICE and as a result the illegals left town. Does not take much to run them off, maybe they will move in next door to Peter and Truth. Naaahhh, they would not live in such neighborhoods – too much crime and poverty.
Reform Will Happen
August 28th, 2009
7:11 pm
Norcross makes little difference in the multiple immigration problems which Repubos in Congress refused to face for generations. It’s a 3rd rail they’re all afraid to touch and like “just say no” to drugs, it’s not going to change.
JohnD
August 29th, 2009
9:55 am
“Reform will Happen”,
The actions by Norcross have created a safer and more livable environment for their citizens.
The Democrats controlled Congress for generations, not the Republicans.
Your hero, Teddy (Swimmer) Kennedy was the champion of immigration laws eliminating annual quotas and opening the borders.
Like most every Liberal you like to try and change history to suit your dreams.
clyde
August 29th, 2009
7:13 pm
I really don’t know what you call it when the Democrats have the majority in Congress,but I’m sure you can’t call what they do control.
DCB
August 30th, 2009
8:12 am
Liberal, Conservative, left-wingist, right-wingest, Republicans, Democrats — all labels, labels, labels. The truth is our opinions and emotions are controlled by the media. And the smart politician and political parties are those that manipulate the media the best. As of late, the Democrats and Obama’s team in particular, recognized the impact the use of technology, and the Internet in particular, would have as the new media source on the block. The fact that they already had a greater majority of the print and visual media in their pocket having admitted liberal leanings, has made the Franks, Reids, and Pelosis of this world not only acceptable, but in control. And no doubt, our president’s ability to ram virtually anything down American’s throats since he took office has been sold to the public as either “I’m from the government and I’m here to help you”, or “Bush’s fault.” We now see public opinion polls starting to reveal the public mood swinging back to the central – probably because some of the news media are now questioning in writing what they have been selling the public through their pass-through messages from the president. Is it too late? I have faith – I doubt it! Will there be a price to pay? You bet! But then I’m 68 years old and not the one who will bear the brunt of that price. It is interesting to watch the development of all this. I thought slick Willie and his team were good. But today’s administration and their lock on the media make both Clinton’s look like pikers.
Wrong Priorities
August 30th, 2009
12:04 pm
We need a President that wakes up every morning and asks himself this question:
What can I do today to keep American safe and get her Economy going again?
Our current president wakes up every day and asks himself: What can I do today to promote my personal agenda and make the Bush Adminstration look worse?
ralph
August 30th, 2009
4:07 pm
I finally get this. The Thinking Right comment section is a virtual therapy room where the right and left goes to liquor up and punch out their Obama/Bush aggressions without leaving the house and endangering the rest of us in the community. At the keyboard you can drive by, pound your fist on the car door, scream out some sort of 3rd grade trash talk, (dumocraps, nazi, dipsht, repooplicans, what have you,) then punch it squeeling out trailing a rebel yell to the end of the block.
Soon grogginess sets in, when the ensuing nap is over, its time for Hannity . And anyway, who can find the keys to the truck.
Thanks, Wooten. You provide a valuable public service.
EVIL REPUBLICANS TIME IS UP
August 30th, 2009
6:29 pm
DUMB POOR WHITE REPUBLICANS RATHER EVERYBODY STAY POOR AND UNEDUCATED,BECAUSE WE DONT WANT NO D@MN YANKEE TEACHINGS,LISTEN TO OTHER RICH WHITE REPUBLICANS THATS SELLING US OUT LIKE SUXBY SONNY PERDONT AND TOM AT ANY PRICE,STAY DRUNK AND A CHILD MOLESTER DURING THE WEEK,WHILE GOING TO CHURCH ON SUNDAY PRAISING JESUS!
EVIL REPUBLICANS TIME IS UP
August 30th, 2009
6:38 pm
WHERE ARE THE BROWN SHIRTS TO LOCK UP THESE REDNECK FAKE CHRISTIANS,WHO ARE PLAYING SAVED BY THE BLOOD OF CHRIST,YEAH MORE LIKE SATANS BLOOD,I SEE WHY SHERMAN HAD TO BURN DOWN ATLANTA,GA BECAUSE OF THE DEEP ROOTED EVIL THATS STILL BURNING WITHIN SATANS CHILDREN IN THE STATE OF GEORGIA,THE JOHNNY REB REDNECK!
JohnD
August 30th, 2009
6:44 pm
“Evil” clearly demonstrates the ignorance, racism, ignorance and class envy of the Liberals.