Did ACORN work in Afghanistan?
By Jim Wooten
Thinking Right’s weekend free-for-all. Pick a topic:
● No, it’s true that President Obama is not “ignoring calls for tort reform and changes in medical malpractice laws.” Trial lawyers are a key constituency of the Democratic Party, which largely explains why party leaders have chosen to ignore this potential cost savings.
Here, though, backed into a corner, the president proposes “demonstration projects.” Long, slow test runs on tort reform. Quick, radical remake for one-sixth of the nation’s economy.
● Anybody seen ACORN? The organization may be off to Afghanistan, where the main headline reports “Karzai’s vote lead clouded.” A smaller headline explains: “Fraud suspected in more than a quarter of all Afghan votes.”
● These are tough times for the left-leaning ACORN. Two independent investigators with hidden cameras, posing as a pimp and a prostitute, caught ACORN staffers giving advice on how to get housing help while skirting the law. The investigators pretended to have a scheme to bring underage girls from El Salvador for prostitution.
This is a group that helped elect Barack Obama, is widely accused of voter-registration fraud, and would have grown richer and more powerful off public money in this administration. It would have had a prominent role in the 2010 census before exposes caused the feds to sever the relationship.
● Maybe it’s just for a single day, but rejoice that the Standard Language of the South is back! This was the ajc.com headline over a story about an advocacy group’s push to impose a tax of one-cent per ounce on what the wire service reporter referred to as “sodas and other sweetened beverages”: “Group pushes tax on soft drinks.” Yes!
To transplants, they’re “sodas.” To native Southerners, they’re “soft drinks.” Note to transplants: Mess up traffic, not language.
● In Houston County, the District Attorney is filing charges against parents from other counties who enroll their children in Houston schools. Don’t put me on this jury. The money should follow the child and parents should be able to enroll their children in schools near where they work, near a caregiver or near any other more convenient place.
● Looking for a marriageable date? Hang out in Forsyth County. It ranks sixth nationally in the percentage of 25- to 34-year-olds earning more than $100,000 per year. Or better yet, go to the seat of all wealth in America: Government, Inc. Two suburbs of Washington rank first and second.
● You’re old Atlanta if you remember when the city’s mayoral race was the talk of metro Atlanta and even of Georgia. Now Dunwoody’s suburban neighbor prepares to pick a successor to Mayor Shirley Franklin and the candidates are almost as anonymous as those who vie to run the cities on the perimeter.
● Republicans missed a real opportunity when they came to power under the Gold Dome. More of them should have become the accountability and oversight watchdogs that State Rep. Jill Chambers of DeKalb County is with MARTA.
Before the GOP took possession of programs, they should have spent the hours in research that she has in trying to hold MARTA’s feet to the fire. She questions, for example, why MARTA plans to spend $492,000 over three years on consultants to lobby for more state money.
● An explanatory why-they-run headline: “City council candidate wants incumbent out.”
● The Joe Wilson flap, taken nuclear by former President Jimmy Carter and others on the left, is a reminder that liberals really do believe that they and their policy positions are morally superior. By demonizing opponents as racists, they claim quite sanctimoniously that those who oppose them have no legitimate basis for their arguments.
The race card is the liberals’ Saturday night special – a cheap weapon to pop off into a crowd they don’t like.
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So what?
September 17th, 2009
9:47 pm
You are the worst of the wrost. Are you suggesting tat Obama stole the election? Do not even start. You right wing, knee jerk conservatives know all about stealing elections. So if you want to go toe to toe BRING IT WOOTEN!
irishmafia
September 17th, 2009
10:59 pm
Don’t you just love it when ignorant liberals post their comments will bad grammar and spelling errors. Typical of the school dropouts that adore liberal causes. Hoping the government will take care of them
know the law
September 17th, 2009
11:05 pm
What the individuals at ACORN seemed to be doing on tape certainly appears unlawful…but if you are going to blame the entire organization let’s remember that if you want to punish lawbreakers, there are a few Republicans who have been patronizing prostitutes…so I guess that just proves the Republican party should be banned. As for voter fraud, there was NONE by ACORN. There were some voter registration issues…but registration is not voting and the laws in most states require the all registrations be turned in….even if Mickey Mouse registers. ACORN identified problems to state officials when they turned the registrations in but complied with law. Now if you want real voter fraud, try the Republicans who have been convicted of actual voter fraud….including the one who mysteriously died in a plane crash.
But you are right…there are absolutely no protesters (birthers, deathers or gun toting wingnuts) who are racist despite their signs and emails about Obama the Magic Negro, Hitler, monkeys, and worse. Let’s bring back that neutral Confederate flag added in the 1950’s. And the Georgia congressman who received a number of racial threats. Race did not enter into those. Damn those Democrats who are not part of the Moral Majority republicans.
Let’s stop with the denial, tell the racists that they may have a 1st amendment right but we dont have to tolerate their racism and lets actually focus on legitimate basis for arguments based in reality. No death panels or other lies. No “illegal aliens” lies. No fear-mongering. Try real debate of issues.
a-belle
September 17th, 2009
11:42 pm
Enter your comments here
@ irishmafia: Don’t you just love it when ignorant liberals post their comments will (WITH…not will) bad grammar and spelling errors.(question mark should go here…not period) Typical of the school dropouts that adore liberal causes. Hoping the government will take care of them (period should go here to indicate the end of a sentence)
I guess liberals aren’t the only people susceptible to grammatical errors. (IDIOT)
Chris Salzmann
September 18th, 2009
1:02 am
Jim Wooten ● Anybody seen ACORN? The organization may be off to Afghanistan, where the main headline reports “Karzai’s vote lead clouded.” A smaller headline explains: “Fraud suspected in more than a quarter of all Afghan votes.”
CHRIS SAYS: Jim, the Republican obsession with ACORN and voter fraud hinges on a mental disease. ACORN has had nothing to do with voter fraud and you know it. As you also well know, ACORN was the one that discovered those bogus voter registrations and was required, AS UNDER THE LAW, to turn them in to election officials who alone could make that determination, no matter, how obviously bogus these registrations were. This ACORN mania is simply catering to the lowest IQs in the GOP. But I wouldn’t have thought you were including yourself in that low achieving group.
Here’s a thought: if you Republicans are so concerned about fraud, why aren’t you asking why we went into Iraq in the first place, costing us thousands of American lives and over a trillion dollars? Especially important since every single reason we went into Iraq for turned out to be lie. That money could have bought and paid for a comprehensive US health care system for every single American. I don’t recall any Democrat standing up in Congress during any address by President Bush and calling him a liar each time he mentioned WMDs together with Iraq and 9/11 in one sentence.
Chris Salzmann
September 18th, 2009
1:17 am
irishmafia September 17th, 2009 10:59 pm SAID: Don’t you just love it when ignorant liberals post their comments will bad grammar and spelling errors. Typical of the school dropouts that adore liberal causes. Hoping the government will take care of them.
CHRIS SAYS: Actually, well documented studies have shown that the more educated you are, the more likely you are to be a liberal. Ignorant??? ROFLMAO. That coming from someone who probably wanted to see Sarah Palin in the White House as VP??? The very same people who consider “intellectual” a dirty word? Wondered why there is a correlation between low education standards in the states that consistently vote Republican versus the higher general standards of education in states that vote Democrat? Think about it: TX, GA, MS, TN, AL, SC. Now take a look at where all these states rank in general education, test scores, etc.
Michael H. Smith
September 18th, 2009
2:22 am
Gosh Jim, is lack of voter registration oversight considered “involvement” to the extent an organization would be subject to a fine under the law?
Guess it is. At least in the State of Washington where ACORN was fined $25,000 and ordered to improve its “oversight”, for of all things, the lack of “involvement” for having nothing to do with voter fraud.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/22/voter.fraud/
Raider
September 18th, 2009
3:46 am
Hey Jim, you forgot one – check this out!
Monday June 8th 2009 – Reuters
“OBAMA SPEEDS PROJECTS TO CREATE, SAVE 600,000 JOBS”
Washington, June 8 (reuters)
President Barack Obama said on monday accelerated stimulus spending would create or save 600,000 jobs over the next 100 days…
So let me get this straight, ok?
June 8th of 2009 and you go 100 days… that would take you up to… hmmmmmm… Sept. 16th 2009
What is todays date?
Its been 102 days!
WHERE ARE THOSE 600,000 CREATED JOBS!!!!!!!!!
I’ll tell you where they are – Obama has created a grand total of 6 jobs! Thats right, over 100 days (this summer) Obama has managed to create 6 CZAR jobs…. but wait…. I’m sorry, one got his @ss booted out by Glenn Beck… see Van Jones
WHEN ARE YOU LIBERALS GOING TO WAKE UP!
What are you waiting for and what is it going to take? Back on June 8th the unemployment rate was at 9.4% and as of right now its at 9.7% and going higher! I do not understand the mindset of you liberals. You are so blind and deaf-ear to this President that you are waiting for something good to happen so you can point your finger at us Republicans and say “See I told you so”
You are going to be disappointed because that moment is NEVER going to happen!
Look at what Jim wrote – look at what is happening to ACORN – and look at what I just said (BTW, nobody is reporting this in the news or at the White House)
Obama said he would create 600,000 jobs this summer… didn’t happen…. I wonder what Obama will say tomorrow? I can tell you one thing – its not going to happen!
EVIL REPUBLICANS TIME IS UP
September 18th, 2009
4:12 am
BOTTOMLINE REDNECKS WITH OR WITHOUT ACORN BARAK HUSSAIN OBAMA IS YOUR POTUS! TAKE THAT HICKS WHILE YOU PROTEST AT YOUR TEA PARTIES,WHERE WERE YOU NUT CASES WHEN THE REPUBLICANS WERE DESTROYING THE COUNTRY? REDNECK WHITES ARE NOTHING THAN A CIVIL WAR LOSING CROWD OF COWARDS!
EVIL REPUBLICANS TIME IS UP
September 18th, 2009
4:16 am
WHATS HAPPENING IS THAT THE REPUBLICANS TAX CUTS ARE STILL KICKING YOU DUMB REDNECKS IN THE BUTT,DID THOSE TAX CUTS DURING BUSH 8 YEARS HELP YOU POOR REDNECKS? HELL NO! YOU STUPID HICKS ARE STILL WITHOUT JOBS,AND IM GLAD,WHY DIDNT THESE SAME STUPID HICKS PROTEST BUSH TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH?
EVIL REPUBLICANS TIME IS UP
September 18th, 2009
4:19 am
DEMOCRAPS=THINK FOR YOURSELF
EVIL REPUBLICANS= LET SOMEONE ELSE THINK FOR YOU!
Bill
September 18th, 2009
4:55 am
Jim, I have to give it to you. You really bring out the best in people!!
clyde
September 18th, 2009
5:07 am
Good morning Jim,
Tort reform.That’s a license to steal.
The advice that ACORN hands out has been figured to be bogus also.It apparently doesn’t work as well as reputed.
Soft drinks.As opposed to Moonshine,which isn’t soft.Got it,Jim.
Just wondering how one plans for school size if school shopping is the vogue.
“Republicans missed a real opportunity when they came to power under the Gold Dome”.That has to be the understatement of the day.Oh,what could have been.
City Council candidate wants to be the incumbent.
It has been my thinking that the Democratic Party played the race card very well prior to the election by accusing anyone not supporting Obama as being racist.Now it seems that people that don’t agree with Obama are also racists.That’s not going to fly,Mr.Carter.”Wolf” has been cried too many times.
Gerald West
September 18th, 2009
6:27 am
Same old nonsense, day after day:”liberals” bad, “conservatives” good, black people and foreigners bad, arrogant white people good. Don’t you ever tire of yourself, Jim?
BitterEXdemocrackkk
September 18th, 2009
6:32 am
the democrat party IS the ORIGINAL ‘party’ of SLAVERY, as they continue to ENSLAVE us daily!
‘Lincoln FREED generations of slaves, Obama seeks to ENSLAVE generations of citizens’ …
catlady
September 18th, 2009
6:38 am
Okay, let the money follow the child. But it must be the same amount of money as the “natives” pay. So if the average spent in Houston County is $6000, but Fayette rounds up $9,000 per child, the parents have to pay the difference.
Ga Values
September 18th, 2009
7:01 am
Georgia passed medical tort reform several years ago. Have the premiums gone down? No the insurance companies increased their profits.
catlady
September 18th, 2009
7:02 am
Or, even better, let parents carry exactly their school taxes across county lines, and make up the difference to the other county. IF there is room for the kid, and IF the parents provide transportation. So if I pay $2200 in school taxes I can carry that with me to Forsyth, but I have to pony up the other $5500 it costs in school taxes on average in Forsyth. And then, the only school not at capacity is on the other side of the county and is their lowest performing school. Heck, maybe I should just buy/rent in Forsyth!
For a group that preaches personal responsibility and no government help, your stand sure seems duplitious.
EVIL REPUBLICANS TIME IS UP
September 18th, 2009
7:39 am
ALL OF THE EX EVIL DEMOCRAPS,BECAME EVIL REPUBLICANS,JUST BECAUSE YOU CHANGE PARTIES,YOU DONT CHANGE FROM BEING WICKED AND EVIL REDNECKS! THE GOP IS A PARTY FOR THE KLAN NEON-NAZIS AND SKINHEADS!
Tall
September 18th, 2009
8:00 am
Enter your comments here
WHATS HAPPENING IS THAT THE REPUBLICANS TAX CUTS ARE STILL KICKING YOU DUMB REDNECKS IN THE BUTT,DID THOSE TAX CUTS DURING BUSH 8 YEARS HELP YOU POOR REDNECKS? HELL NO! YOU STUPID HICKS ARE STILL WITHOUT JOBS,AND IM GLAD,WHY DIDNT THESE SAME STUPID HICKS PROTEST BUSH TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH?
You’e funny, do you know that?
"Charles", The Original
September 18th, 2009
8:11 am
There is no morally superior policy position held on this side of the tracks. The race card is introduced only when productive Americans have reservations about servicing the basic needs of the unproductive so-called educated integrationist Negroes etc at the expense of Americans. Just think about it. Where will the unproductive irresponsible so-called educated integrationist Negroes get food, clothing, shelter, employment, education, and healthcare if productive Americans refuse to take on that responsibility?
Negroes have been taught for fifty years the advantages of accusing responsible productive Americans of racism. They’ve learned if you demonize, degrade, dehumanize, and insult productive Americans by speciously charging them with racism, they will automatically be offended much like the unproductive so-called educated integrationist Negroes when called the N word. The coast becomes clear to address the response to being highly offended as if it were actual racism. It’s impossible for anyone to distinguish between the two. And the past fifty years have shown that productive Americans will relent on any position they hold to be near and dear to heart if the charge of racism rears its ugly head.
The unproductive so-called educated integrationist Negroes don’t use the race card against people they dislike. It’s quite the contrary in most instances e.g. if you want to date inviting, pretty, and intelligent American girls, tell them how racist one of her fellow Americans is. And as evidence, accuse another inviting, pretty, and intelligent American girl of dating almost everyone in high school except you know who. And at some point in the conversation, ask her for a date. Her subconscious mind will warn her that she runs the risk of being demonized, charged with racism, if she rejects the invitation. So undoubtedly, her answer will be, “yes we can”.
It is demonizing, degrading, dehumanizing, insulting, and immoral to charge Americans with racism. The word should be relegated to the dustbins of history, just like the N word. And as Negroes are chastised for referring to other Negroes as the N word, white people who enable the unproductive so-called educated integrationist Negroes should be chastised for referring to other white people as racist.
No thinking person can deny that the position I hold is fair and balanced.
Tom
September 18th, 2009
8:15 am
‘To native Southerners, they’re “soft drinks.”’ Growing up in Macon, we more often referred to them all collectively as ‘cokes’.
Tall
September 18th, 2009
8:25 am
Enter your comments here
Here’s a thought: if you Republicans are so concerned about fraud, why aren’t you asking why we went into Iraq in the first place, costing us thousands of American lives and over a trillion dollars? Especially important since every single reason we went into Iraq for turned out to be lie. That money could have bought and paid for a comprehensive US health care system for every single American. I don’t recall any Democrat standing up in Congress during any address by President Bush and calling him a liar each time he mentioned WMDs together with Iraq and 9/11 in one sentence.”
Using that smug intellect of yours, what do think the situation would be like if we didn’t go into Iraq?
Would we still have the “no flyover zone” that Bill Clinton did not address? Would our friends in Paris, Frankfurt, Moscow and Bejing still be trading food for oil? Do you think Iranian operatives would have secured access to Iraqi oil by now? None of that cash would have reached al-Qaida or Hamas, or would it?
Tea
September 18th, 2009
8:26 am
You can thank ACORN for making the Oakland City neighborhood of Atlanta a safer neighborhood – one with fewer abandonded homes which were once locations for crime, rape and drug dealing, one where the cops are more willing to patrol because of less criminal activity and more community involvement. I know this because my daughter is an ACORN organizer and helped dozens of honest citizens of Oakland City get organized and start to reclaiom their neighborhood. Anyone who wants to can look at the unparallelled humanitarian accomplishments of ACORN over the last 40 years. ACORN is unfortunately being made to look bad for the sake of political bickering. In reality, no one on this blog knows a damn thing about ACORN and every one of you are aware of it, so stop trashing an organization you have no first hand knowledge about.
GEORGE AMERICAN
September 18th, 2009
8:29 am
EVIL REPUBLICANS TIME IS DOWN,
CORRUPT ACORN AND ILLEGAL MUSLIM BORAK INSANE OBUMBLER SHOW HOW CROOKED THE UNIONS AND THE URBAN SCUM BAGS WHO ARE STEALING TAX DOLLARS ARE.
WHY DON’T THESE LAZY CROOKED SCUM QUIT SUCKING OFF THE GOVERNMENT TEAT AND GO GET A JOB!!!
OH, I KNOW WHY. THE POST OFFICE AIN’T HIRING AND THEIR TO STUPID TO GET A JOBS IN THE REAL WORLD!!!!
Tall
September 18th, 2009
8:39 am
“Anyone who wants to can look at the unparallelled humanitarian accomplishments of ACORN over the last 40 years.”
You can start listing them, if you wish.
mike
September 18th, 2009
8:45 am
Calm down Evil, you are gonna explode. Interesting how pissed off guys like Evil get. I guess it is the internal conflict they feel when they defend their sides position, because deep down they know how morally wrong it is. Take your prozac Evil, and lay down for a few minutes. Next November you will really be a mess.
TRUTH
September 18th, 2009
8:55 am
Let’s see…. Dubya’s brother was Gubnor of Flawitta. No…he wern’t an ACORN, but, HE WUZ ReThuglican. Lessee, Darf Cheney, that gangsta of Tawture, wern’t ACORN, HE WUZ ReThuglican!! Sunny Purdoo, Gubna of Jawja, who got ghost when we couln’t get gas for the tracta, wern’t no ACORN eitha, He’s a ReThuglican, too!! Hell, theys a ton of them good ole’ boys!! ReThuglicans rule. Oh, by the way, y’all, if Jimbo is tryin’ to tie ACORN to the massive amounts of votes that fella who won the Whites House up in the Nawth, the President of these here United States, why that’s just plain crazy, don’t y’all think?? With all them good ole’ boys out there, don’t y’all think they wuz more of us’n than them’n? Heck, even a mule knows when he’s been licked, that’s why he’s a pullin’ that wagon. Face it boys n gurls, we got licked. Let’s give that fella up in the Whites House a chance. We would have spected’ it if we’d hadda won. Didn’t y’all’s mammas n daddy’s teach y’all ’bout fair is fair? Heck, forgot ’bout Dubya, Dick, n’ Sunny, and the rest of them boys….
Dunwoody Mike
September 18th, 2009
8:56 am
Ah, the canard of tort reform again. Anybody who thinks tort reform is the primary cure to out health coverage ills should check out Texas, where tort reform has NOT significantly reduced insurance costs.
F. Sinkwich
September 18th, 2009
9:04 am
“Anyone who wants to can look at the unparallelled humanitarian accomplishments of ACORN over the last 40 years.”
I’ll start the list!
1) ………..
I’ll get back to you.
King Beef
September 18th, 2009
9:06 am
It irks me when I hear uninformed closet Klu Kluxers talk about the government taking care of liberals. Well explain how HB, KBR Bechtel etc. can profit off of no bid contracts and that is okay. When I last checked that was taxpayer money that was being pillaged. It’s okay for money grabbing corporations to feed at the public trough but it’s not okay for a mother with children that has fallen on hard times not to expect help from the government? I don’t get it. You right wign Klu Kluxers are against abortion and when the child arrives you are against everything that will help it. Love the fetus but hate the baby.
You blast Jimmy Carter for what is obvious but you hail Glenn Beck as a hero when he calls the President a rascist. Wooten where was you disgust when that air bag made that comment about the President? That’s what I thought, lets stir the pot so some sick and demented ponsi can try an ASSASSINATE THE PRESIDENT. That the real agenda of the right wing Klu KLuxers.
JF McNamara
September 18th, 2009
9:07 am
I’ve posted what Carter actually said below. Notice that he did not call all those who oppose Obama racist. He was talking specifically of the “fringe element of demonstrators” and “people who are guilty of that kind of personal attack against Obama”.
He also said and “overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity” is racist. Notice the word intensely because its important.
That’s the Republican (and Democrat for that matter) mantra. Raise ire and hope nobody actually reads what was said. If you’re not part of the fringe movement, Carter didn’t call you racist. Let’s move on.
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“When a radical fringe element of demonstrators and others begin to attack the president of the United States as an animal or as a reincarnation of Adolf Hitler or when they wave signs in the air that said we should have buried Obama with Kennedy, those kinds of things are beyond the bounds,” the Democrat who served from 1977-1981 told students at Emory University.
“I think people who are guilty of that kind of personal attack against Obama have been influenced to a major degree by a belief that he should not be president because he happens to be African American.”
“It’s a racist attitude, and my hope is and my expectation is that in the future both Democratic leaders and Republican leaders will take the initiative in condemning that kind of unprecedented attack on the president of the United States,” Carter said.
“I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he’s African-American,” Carter told “NBC Nightly News.”
s
September 18th, 2009
9:11 am
If Ms Chambers was truly a good representative of the people, she would respond to e-mails from her constituents!
Jack
September 18th, 2009
9:32 am
Looks like the AJC finally became aware of ACORN. Like most liberal rags, they had hopes that it would just go away.
Big Bucks GOP doing the Lords work
September 18th, 2009
9:34 am
About 40 percent of all U.S. junk bonds outstanding in late 2008 will
likely default by 2013 as government support ends and a wall of debt
comes due, Bank of America-Merrill Lynch said in a report
Big Bucks GOP doing the Lords work
September 18th, 2009
9:35 am
Is irrational exuberance back in the markets? Evidence abounds that it
may be,
Chris Salzmann
September 18th, 2009
9:35 am
Tall September 18th, 2009 8:25 am SAID: Using that smug intellect of yours, what do think the situation would be like if we didn’t go into Iraq? Would we still have the “no flyover zone” that Bill Clinton did not address? Would our friends in Paris, Frankfurt, Moscow and Bejing still be trading food for oil? Do you think Iranian operatives would have secured access to Iraqi oil by now? None of that cash would have reached al-Qaida or Hamas, or would it?
CHRIS SAYS: Tall, none of the things you list were directly effecting the security of the United States. We went into Iraq because we were told Iraq was a clear and present danger to the security of the United States, right? If I recall, we were told that the reason we went into Iraq was Iraq & 9/11 and WMDs. I guess those reasons didn’t pan out so now we’re trying to come up with new ones. Your point of Iraq and Hamas? Hamas was never a threat to this country? Iraqi links to Al-Qaeda? Those were refuted long ago along with those links of Iraq and 9/11. Iranian operatives in Iraq? Did we get rid of them? Last I checked, Iraq is now brimming with Iranian influence since we removed Saddam Hussein and the Sunni power structure and replaced it with a Shiite government. For those uninformed, the Iranians are Shiite Muslims too. We handed Iraq to Iran on a platter and added their nemesis’s head to sweeten the deal.
Big Bucks GOP doing the Lords work
September 18th, 2009
9:36 am
The Montauk, N.Y., beach house of the convicted swindler financier
Bernard L. Madoff has been sold for more than the $8.75 million asking
price, the listing agent said Thursday.
RetiredSoldier
September 18th, 2009
9:57 am
Come on folks, all of you defending ACORN, haven’t you watched the news? Your friends in Congress have kicked ACORN to the curb. Both houses have voted to defund them. Might Congress be ahead of the American people? You make the call.
Chris Salzmann
September 18th, 2009
10:02 am
Jim Wooten: ● The Joe Wilson flap, taken nuclear by former President Jimmy Carter and others on the left, is a reminder that liberals really do believe that they and their policy positions are morally superior. By demonizing opponents as racists, they claim quite sanctimoniously that those who oppose them have no legitimate basis for their arguments.
The race card is the liberals’ Saturday night special – a cheap weapon to pop off into a crowd they don’t like.
CHRIS SAYS: Jim, I live in the South too and I know pretty well that the fact that Obama is Black makes a lot of people uncomfortable. In the defense of the South, I can say that I’m sure this discomfort is not restricted here. The demographics of this country are changing and changing fast. In another 25 to 30 years, this is going to be a minority-majority country and many folks like you are uncomfortable with that fact.
The inescapable fact is having an intelligent, well-spoken and charismatic President (who happens to be Black) just drives conservatives insane. I personally have come across many folks who find this very unsettling because it rocks their mindset that whites are somehow superior to everyone else. Many pretty much admitted this fact to me. They realized that the country is changing and they are not comfortable with this change.
Tea
September 18th, 2009
10:03 am
“Come on folks, all of you defending ACORN, haven’t you watched the news? Your friends in Congress have kicked ACORN to the curb. Both houses have voted to defund them. Might Congress be ahead of the American people? You make the call.”
I guess I’m still thinking for myself, thank you “Retired Soldier”.
Chris Salzmann
September 18th, 2009
10:14 am
Tea September 18th, 2009 10:03 am SAID: “Come on folks, all of you defending ACORN, haven’t you watched the news? Your friends in Congress have kicked ACORN to the curb. Both houses have voted to defund them. Might Congress be ahead of the American people? You make the call.”ents here
CHRIS SAYS: Congress dropped their funding because it was the path of least resistance. Isn’t that the path politicians usually take? What I find interesting is that when people in established power structures break the law or bend the rules, we always hear about how “we should not generalize” or “isolated cases” and that “these are a few bad apples”.Take a look around you and you know exactly what I mean.
Steven Daedalus
September 18th, 2009
10:37 am
Every Republican I know would steal the pennies off a dead mans eyes, and yet they complain about perhaps a thousand votes in a national election,where was all this complaining during the greatest poltical heist in American history, Bush’s blantant thievary.
Cutty
September 18th, 2009
10:43 am
Sure Wooten, let’s address tort reform. Say a Dr. cut off your arm instead of taking your tonsils out. We’ll give you $250,000 for your suffering. Free enterprise at its best. Maximize the profits, minimize the losses. Gotta love this country.
RetiredSoldier
September 18th, 2009
10:52 am
What’s your point Chris? There are many examples of “bad actors”. ACORN is certainly one of them. We should be glad when Congress gets something right, as unusual as that is.
Jason Davis
September 18th, 2009
12:28 pm
Conservatives dont exist. Republicans are a bunch of worthless, lying and self-serving politicians who dont give a crap about real fiscal conservatism. People making less that $500,000 a year who vote for them are friggin idots. We are broke. Too many jobs are gone. The top 1% of Americans have the same wealth as the other 90% because dumb ass Republicans screw the middle class and run up our national debt to $11 trillion with their tax cuts and lack of true fiscal constraint.
griftdrift
September 18th, 2009
12:47 pm
Jury nullification = common sense conservatism. Okaaaaaaay
Ray Pugh
September 18th, 2009
12:58 pm
Wooten,
Have any of the tort reform measures passed in states like Texas and Georgia done anything to bring down the cost of healthcare? Lawsuits only represent 2-5% of the total cost of health care in this country.
RetiredSoldier
September 18th, 2009
1:08 pm
Jason-
I am a conservative republican, I agree the last time we had control republicans were very poor stewards and ran up a huge debt. Not as big a debt as democrats wanted, but way to large. The debt republicans incured is nothing compared to what Obama is doing now. Latest news, Obama wants government contol, not government backing, of student loans.
We need to do two things and it will solve the spending problem and the job loss problem. First a constitutional amendment to blance the budget which Congress must adhere to unless a national emergency is declared by act of Congress with a 3/4 vote of both houses.
Second, we should adopt the Fair Tax. Jobs will pour into America and monies come back from off shore accounts to America and solve our unemployment problem. Remember, money goes where it is treated best. With the Fair Tax, that is here.
JD
September 18th, 2009
1:09 pm
Steven Doofusdalus now has an uninformed pal in Jason Davis.
To charge the Republicans with being the BIG spenders is pure nonsense. The Liberal Left Democrats have spent more in the last year than the Republican Congress did in the prior 8 years.
HOUSING MESS – Maxine Watters, Barney Frank and Chuckie Schumer handed us that one by allowing their friends at Freddie and Fannie to cook the books and steal hundreds of millions of dollars. They went after Tyco and Enron for accounting fraud but not Obama’s pals. Why not?
IRAQ – Take a trip through history to the Clinton years and read the comments of most every Democrat with regard to Iraq. WMD threat and a potential threat to the US and our allies is flowing from them at every opportunity. Do you Liberal wackos not realize every comment is now on tape and on the internet? If Bush lied then H Clinton, B Clinton, Schumer, Kennedy, Kerry and all the rest lied.
Obama has lied his entire life but what excuse do you others have?