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DEL.ICIO.USObama shows no sign of taking it slow
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Barack Obama ran on a platform of change, a rather vague theme that left many legitimately asking just what kind of change he had in mind. Last night, in a discussion sponsored by The Wall Street Journal, we got some early clues about what’s coming. Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s White House chief of staff, suggested the administration will seek change on a large scale across a range of issues.
“What used to be long-term problems — be they in the health care area, energy area, education area, fiscal area, tax area, regulatory reform area — things that we had postponed for too long and were long term, are now immediate and must be dealt with,” Emanuel said. “This crisis provides us with the opportunity to do things we could not do before.”
With Obama still two months from taking office, details are still sketchy. But the ambitious tone of the administration is already pretty clear, and it presents Republicans with a dilemma about how to respond.
Conceivably, they could argue that big changes aren’t really needed, but I don’t think that’s going to get them very far with the American public right now. In the latest Gallup poll, only 13 percent of those polled said they’re satisfied with the country’s direction, while 84 percent said they were dissatisfied. Those are pretty damning numbers.
The better alternative would be to accept the need for large-scale change but offer a competing GOP vision of what such changes should be. I don’t see any evidence that Republican leaders are prepared to engage on that level. Their only remaining option would be to simply oppose ideas suggested by Obama without offering alternatives of their own, an approach that casts them as mere obstacles to change and guarantees they get steamrolled.
In other words, Emanuel and Obama are correct to see a great political opportunity to transform this country and finally address issues too long delayed.
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By Mrs. Godzilla
November 19, 2008 1:14 PM | Link to this
I just helped Obama speed things up a bit.
Proudly voted for Jim Martin.
Shootin’ for the verrry sexy 60!
DAMN THE TORPEDOES! FULL SPEED AHEAD!
By Joey
November 19, 2008 1:16 PM | Link to this
Recognizing that I did not vote for Obama/Biden and I will undoubtably be in opposition to much, most or all of his efforts:
Obama should not “take it slow”. To accomplish whatever it is that he really wants to accomplish, his best opportunity is the first few months.
Supporters will quickly begin to backup if their issue is not amoung the highest priorities.
By mm
November 19, 2008 1:21 PM | Link to this
It would be easy for Dems to lock out the Republicans like the Republicans locked out the Dems 8 years ago. They ignored them in committee, ignored them on the floor. Bush wouldn’t even invite them to the White House.
Yes, it would be nice if the Dems did the same thing. But they won’t. They are going to try to work with wingnuts.
And mark my word, the Republicans are going to fight tooth and nail against anything and everything the Dems try to do.
But this time, the wingnuts are outnumbered. And the wingnuts will pay dearly again in 2010 for their obstructionist behavior.
By Swami Dave
November 19, 2008 1:27 PM | Link to this
Personally, I would argue that Republicans should define and articulate their own vision. There are a number of areas that do (and have for some time) needed addressing: energy, tax reform, fiscal policy, review of regulatory policy to promote growth and opportunity.
Frankly, if I disagree with the action that you propose to take, then it is only intellectually honest for me to come to the table with an alternative.
-Swami Dave
By AJC/DNC Management
November 19, 2008 1:33 PM | Link to this
Transform this country into what?
By mm
November 19, 2008 1:35 PM | Link to this
Joey,
I know you wingnuts believe what Rush, Sean, and the others are telling you about the voters quickly souring on Obama and asking for a recall. It’s not going to happen. America is in this for 4 years, and hopefully 8.
By News Flash
November 19, 2008 1:37 PM | Link to this
Breaking News! Al Sharpton is calling for the immediate firing of Al Qaeda’s number two man in charge. Says he is outraged that he would call the President elect a “house negroe”. Sharpton, along with Jesse Jackson and Malik Shabazz plan to march on Al Qaeda this weekend!
By RealityKing
November 19, 2008 1:43 PM | Link to this
Go bye unity, hello mandated socialism..
By DB, Gwinnettian
November 19, 2008 1:46 PM | Link to this
I would like to see them leapfrog from the hybrid healthcare insurance system proposed by Obama during the campaign to a single-payer plan, and include whatever it would cost to make the current players walk away without too much griping. (Obviously, there’d be worker displacement, since only a small percentage of those who’d administered private insurance programs could be hired to work for the federal program—and that has to be accounted for honestly.)
I suspect we could cost-justify it; furthermore, Obama already acknowledged in a primary debate that a single payer plan would be the most efficient way to go, even though that wasn’t what he was proposing at the time.
If ever there was a time to push it through, this would be the time to do it.
By G
November 19, 2008 1:46 PM | Link to this
We need:
A public works initiative to rebuild our roads, schools and power grid. Bottom-up economics if there ever was one. The money can be found where they found the $700 billion to bail out Wall Street. Rural voters will fall in love with the Obama Administration when jobs and new infrastructure come their way.
Hold Rove, Cheney, Bush et. al., responsible for their crimes. At least Rove should be in jail. No Administration should get away with what they did to the Constitution.
Green jobs initiative including the Auto Industry. Refit and reopen the closed plants at GM, Ford, and Chrysler.
Get out of Iraq.
Hurry!
By Slick
November 19, 2008 1:50 PM | Link to this
AJC/DNC MANAGEMENT
Transforming the USA into a BETTER COUNTRY. And polls show that there is great need for improvement after 8 years of mismanagement and failed policies by the Bush Administration and its wingnut supporters.
By RealityKing
November 19, 2008 2:05 PM | Link to this
Emanuel: Bad Cop
Obama: Good Cop Wow! Could there be a clearer example of old dirty style Chicago politics come to Washington?? Not to mention that 1/3 of the cabinet are lobbyists and a full ¾‘s Clintonians kickbacks. My God! Even Sandy(pants stuffing) Berger is on the Obama team!!
So much for Obama promises to change Washington..
By @@
November 19, 2008 2:22 PM | Link to this
Gallup PO poll: When given a choice about how government should address the numerous economic difficulties facing today’s consumer, Americans overwhelmingly — by 84% to 13% — prefer that the government focus on improving overall economic conditions and the jobs situation in the United States as opposed to taking steps to distribute wealth more evenly among Americans.
Let Obama and the dems try to implement their wealth redistribution policy and see what happens.
There are plans in the works to initiate a national movement on behalf of the 84%. A movement that will ABSOLUTELY place such a financial burden on his administration and liberals that their only recourse will be to regroup and rethink.
The bailouts have already cost us too much. Enough is enough!
DO NOT ATTEMPT TO ADD INSULT TO INJURY!!!!!!
By You read it here
November 19, 2008 2:25 PM | Link to this
Obama doesn’t really care what anyone thinks. He only needs people as a means to an end.
If the Republicans can be useful – and they toe the line he will draw – he will let them stay and pretend they are accomplishing something. He will even sing their praises as good little bi-partisans. The press will sing his praises for reaching out to his foes.
Same goes for the members of his own party, the military, business leaders, the press, the increasingly narrowly defined middle-class, etc, etc, etc.
Step out of line though, or make yourself inconvenient and you will end up like all the others he has shed along the way, for example, Wright, Ayers, the Chicago Machine, his grandmother.
He won’t do it heavy-handedly though. See how he has snared the Clintons. Don’t they look foolish? They don’t even realize it. Even if he doesn’t hire Hillary, he will have marginalized them permanently.
He has already turned over 50 million citizens into sheep.
How long can the rest of us last?
By mm
November 19, 2008 2:27 PM | Link to this
RealityKing,
Hey. I’ve got a great idea. Instead of Obama picking people for his cabinet that are experienced in the areas they are appointed to, why doesn’t Obama just pick a bunch of his friends that don’t know shinola about the area they are appointed to.
You know, just like Bush did.
By "The Corporal"
November 19, 2008 2:30 PM | Link to this
Barack Obama ran on a platform of change, a rather vague theme that left many legitimately asking just what kind of change he had in mind.
Jay: Amazing that I never saw you express that opinion during the campaign. Could your journalistic bias be coming back to haunt you?
To Mrs. G.
DAMN THE TORPEDOES! FULL SPEED AHEAD!
Mighty bold words for someone who has never been there.
By Mrs. Godzilla
November 19, 2008 2:38 PM | Link to this
*corporal
Mighty bold words for anyone.
Universal soldier or not……
By "The Corporal"
November 19, 2008 2:41 PM | Link to this
To Mrs. G.
Seriously, to me it’s like someone wearing unathorized medals.
By Mrs. Godzilla
November 19, 2008 2:46 PM | Link to this
Corporal
That’s an issue YOU will have to deal with dude.
By "The Corporal"
November 19, 2008 2:50 PM | Link to this
To Mrs. G.
True, but it doesn’t change the old addage:
Some do and those who can’t talk.
By Doggone/GA
November 19, 2008 2:54 PM | Link to this
“Some do and those who can’t talk”
And you do you’re share of talking, don’t you?
By Mrs. Godzilla
November 19, 2008 2:57 PM | Link to this
corporal
had an Episiotomy lately?
By getalife
November 19, 2008 2:57 PM | Link to this
Go for it!.
Lets call him “R”.
By RealityKing
November 19, 2008 2:59 PM | Link to this
Tom Daschle for HHS!? The only Senate majority leader in a last century to be voted out of office by his own constituents Tom Daschle??
Apparently the Democratic party is completely devoid of new blood and is having to resort to exhuming old dogs as position fillers.
By Wyld Byll Hyltnyr
November 19, 2008 3:16 PM | Link to this
Gotta disagree, Jay. Just as we saw with “don’t axes, don’t tell”, it appears that BO has neither the conviction nor the stones to make a decision, even when it rewards an irreplaceable part of his core constituency. Just as Nancy Filatio and the Dem Congress wouldn’t approve the TARP without “cover” which resulted in the effective failure of Wachovia at a great cost to normal Americans. Looks like the next four years are going to be a lot of hemming, hawing, and trying to avoid accountablity. If its the right thing to do, make the call and move on. To paraphrase a great American and (true) transformational political figure: Extremism in doing that which is correct is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
By RW-(the original)
November 19, 2008 3:16 PM | Link to this
How long has Daschle been away from Alston and Bird where he lobbied on behalf of health care issues?
Change!
What a crock.
By Soixante huitard
November 19, 2008 3:36 PM | Link to this
Hey Wyld Byll, aren’t you the guy who said the same thing yesterday about him not ‘having the stones’ to make hard decisions?
As I pointed out, you’re basically repeating the mistake of Hillary Clinton and many others. Politicians rarely come any shrewder than Mr. Obama. So I’d shelve my “ain’t got the stones” rhetoric for a bit — you might just be surprised at what this quintessential Chicago pol has the stomach for.
Extremism in doing that which is correct is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue
What, are you a Leninist, like me? :-)
By @@
November 19, 2008 3:51 PM | Link to this
Finally, a liberal that goes by the name of Soix supports what I’ve long suspected.
Obama is both A POLITICIAN and A SHREWD ONE at that.
A political machine from the dirtiest of politics, CHICAGO.
The kinda change that only a dem could believe in.
By @@
November 19, 2008 3:55 PM | Link to this
Something else Soix needs to remember.
It was independents that put your “esteemed” Senator over the top. They, and a few disenchanted Republicans.
I can’t help but think they’re looking on and saying WTH?
By Woolman
November 19, 2008 3:58 PM | Link to this
Mr. Bookman:
You seem to have an “in” with the new administration. In stead of dreaming up new windmills to challenge, why don’t they work on righting the confidence of the stock market, which is punishing every one’s IRA, 401K, pension plans, etc. by its constant drops. The market seems to have no confidence in the President -Elect. It has been hammered alost every day with triple digit losses since his election..yet he has made no effort to address this at all. Today it’s down almost 400 points due to “concerns over the auto industry”. The country and its millions of every day citizens are having their lives ruined by these markets. He must do something quickly or we will all be on welfare.
By AJC/DNC Management
November 19, 2008 3:59 PM | Link to this
Wow, Oblahmi is “transforming” us already-
Dow Plunges 400 Points, S&P 500 Skids to 5-Year Low- AP
By NRB
November 19, 2008 4:09 PM | Link to this
Real change, Jay?
How about the Fair Tax?
How about eliminating Social Security, which is a scam?
How about cutting the size of government by 90%?
That’s REAL change. Not the garbage that Oblahma wants to do.
By tcoach
November 19, 2008 4:12 PM | Link to this
Woolman, The economy is a good thing for Obama. It allows him to persuade public opinion, through the public’s pocket book.
What better could he ask for than to be able to put his liberal policies into action.
Think back, who seemed to want a financial collapse more during the campaigns.
By cubalibre
November 19, 2008 4:16 PM | Link to this
OK, GOPers. Stop squalling like a bunch of scalded dogs about Obama’s appointment of former Clinton administrations officials, and how you’re outraged that these picks aren’t the “change” he campaigned on. I don’t recall any of you having a problem with Dubya installing so many of his Daddy’s leftovers & other assorted cronies to the highest offices in his cabinet, so your affecting such high dudgeon on this subject just makes you look silly.
By Mrs. Godzilla
November 19, 2008 4:18 PM | Link to this
OH YES ….THE OBAMA Recession Theme
WE don’t need no stinkin’ recession!
Did ya’ll forget…Your guy told us this was a “mental” recession and we were a “nation of whiners”
Y’all just crack me up.
Mental whiners…..
By Abomi Nation
November 19, 2008 4:22 PM | Link to this
That’s just something AJC.
I guess the smart investors in the Bush years were the ones that put all their money into savings accounts. Yep, .50% is better than the negative stock market.
Bush Stock Market now minus 2650
……and counting
But not too fast………Some stocks will rise greatly in the near future. Companies that use a lot of energy are now seeing unimaginable savings. The lower energy prices should have the impact of a huge economical stimulus plan.
Unfortunately for Republicans the effects of lower energy costs will start to show as Obama takes office. LOL. Obama is going to get all the credit. This of course will lead to his massive reelection landslide victory.
Such bad timing Republicans.
Get ready for the Obama bull market. BUY NOW.
By Republicans Killed America
November 19, 2008 4:22 PM | Link to this
I see Corporal and @@ are talking up a storm today. They must have lost another chunk in the stock market or lost their jobs or something comparable. They need to back away from the keyboards for a while.
By Mrs. Godzilla
November 19, 2008 4:27 PM | Link to this
mental whiners…..still laughing
By AmVet
November 19, 2008 4:29 PM | Link to this
…and a few disenchanted Republicans…
FEW????
A few hundred thousand or more (of the saner ones).
What a laugh riot.
Dow Plunges 400 Points…
Damn, Andy beat me to the punch!
I was going to proffer that it was due to that accident on I-20 West just before Conyers.
Granted I’m no economist like him or Rush.
But I still plan on doing MUCH chuckling at the nonsense I read here…
By Republicans Killed America
November 19, 2008 4:34 PM | Link to this
I think the stock market plunged today because of all that cold air that came down from Canada. It put a freeze on everything except the cost to heat our homes.
By Dusty
November 19, 2008 4:36 PM | Link to this
Would you folks mind waiting until Obama is president? That would be nice.
At the rate he is going, Obama will have brought back every ousted Washington Democrat to “serve”, named every hospital and Doctor as US HEALTHCARE, left Iraq to rot and discharged all those in the military, set up one million “home guard units”, closed banks as not needed while he spreads the wealth. Your new neighbors will be from Guantanamo. ALL THAT BEFORE HIS INAUGURATION.
Democrats won’t notice as they will still be throwing rocks at Bush. Republicans won’t notice as they will be counting their numbers in Congress. Only the three Libertarians in the country will object. They will say he did not start Fair Tax.
Yep, gonna be a long FOUR years.
By Joey
November 19, 2008 4:39 PM | Link to this
mm (1:35): Apparently it is you, not I, who listens to Rush, Sean and others, since it is you who know exactly what they are telling listeners.
By @@
November 19, 2008 4:45 PM | Link to this
I see Corporal and @@ are talking up a storm today. They must have lost another chunk in the stock market or lost their jobs or something comparable.
RKA:
Although my husband and I had hoped to ride it out, we pulled most, not all, of our money out ahead of the big decline. My job’s solid. When we renew our contracts for next year, I’m offering my services for free. Wanna get in line for those handouts Obama will be offering.
All sorts of creative methods I can use to get mine.
You won’t mind paying will you? or are you planning on being at the front of the line?
I’ll see ‘ya there!
By Soixante huitard
November 19, 2008 4:46 PM | Link to this
Management gloats: Dow Plunges 400 Points, S&P 500 Skids to 5-Year Low- AP.
Am I supposed to care?
By "The Corporal"
November 19, 2008 4:52 PM | Link to this
To Mrs. G.
Oh, and I thought we were talking about combat experience since you brought up the torpedoes ….. but then excuse you for changing the subject.
By Soixante huitard
November 19, 2008 4:52 PM | Link to this
Finally, a liberal that goes by the name of Soix supports what I’ve long suspected.
We’re all ‘liberals* here. I, however, am a Leftist. A’hem.
To @@’s: Something else Soix needs to remember.
It was independents that put your “esteemed” Senator over the top.
Definition of “independent”: A tool in the hands of the politically shrewd.
By @@
November 19, 2008 4:56 PM | Link to this
A tool in the hands of the politically shrewd.
Only for one go round Soix. They’re fickle that way.
And btw, they’ll not be appreciatin’ you including them in the box of dull, demwitted tools.
By getalife
November 19, 2008 5:00 PM | Link to this
McCain wins Missouri.
Congress reelects their failed leaders.
Dow drop to 7000 with at least 4000 more to go.
Funny question about their jets in the hearings. CEO’s will not change.
What a mess.
By leni
November 19, 2008 5:06 PM | Link to this
If universal single payer etc health care guarantees immediate airlift to Duke for all who suffer brain malignancy and performance of necessary surgery by top docs (ala treatment of the senate’s cowardly lion) then it’s not too bad, but if anything less, it’s Animal Farm.
By Mrs. Godzilla
November 19, 2008 5:06 PM | Link to this
corporal
Sweetie….you were talking about those who cannot do, teach…remember?
Let me try and explain the segue….slowly….
We get the impression that you think that having been a member of the armed services, with really and truly combat experience (oh my!) that you are somehow superior to the rest of us, we think that’s pretty funny.
You compare my using the Farrugut quote to something out of Operation Stolen Valor.
I’m just wondering if you have ever had an episiotomy…?
I’m pretty sure the answer is no….but you may be more unique than any of us can guess.
Using your logic, sans episiotomy your opinions on womens issues require a discount.
Understand?
By GodHatesTrash
November 19, 2008 5:12 PM | Link to this
Corporat, it looks like Ms. G. has your number, girlfriend…
Still LOL Ms. G.
By Soixante huitard
November 19, 2008 5:15 PM | Link to this
And btw, they’ll not be appreciatin’ you including them in the box of dull, demwitted tools.
I wouldn’t necessarily call them dull and dimwitted. Some are probably smarter than they know.
By Soixante huitard
November 19, 2008 5:24 PM | Link to this
A tool in the hands of the politically shrewd.
Only for one go round Soix. They’re fickle that way.
Prob’ly right.
Still - a go round lasts about 8, and that’s long enough for the terms of the debate — independent and all the rest of the lexicon — to be reshaped.
By AJC/DNC Management
November 19, 2008 5:33 PM | Link to this
By Abomi Nation November 19, 2008 4:22 PM Some stocks will rise greatly in the near future. Companies that use a lot of energy are now seeing unimaginable savings. The lower energy prices should have the impact of a huge economical stimulus plan.
Ablahmi: The Oblahma/KKKlinton Team is scheming a tax on “carbon.”
That means, early next spring, gasoline will blow right by 4 bucks a gallon on it’s way up to 8 or 10.
Then the Oblahma Depression will kick in, big time.
Why do you think us capitalists are selling our assets now?
By @@
November 19, 2008 5:36 PM | Link to this
Hold on a minute Soix.
8 you say?
Incoming Republicans during mid-terms could go a long way.
Make it 2
Years that is. Then he’s hamstrung.
Sho ‘nuff, PrezE Obama’s off and runnin’, jay.
President-Elect Obama Lays Out Pro-Gay Agenda
Expand hate-crimes legislation (which would create a new category of crime for actions said to be motivated by bias toward a person’s actual or perceived “sexual orientation” and “gender identity.” Sexual-orientation hate-crimes laws have been used to prosecute speech in the U.S. and abroad).
Support the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (which would create special rights based on an employee’s actual or perceived sexual orientation and could force Christian employers to hire against their religious beliefs).
Oppose a federal marriage-protection amendment.
Repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (which would open the door to forcing all 50 states to recognize same-sex “marriage”).
Expand gay adoption (which would leave vulnerable children without either a mom or a dad).
Repeal the so-called “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy (which would jeopardize military readiness by allowing open homosexuality in the armed forces).
Those are the proposals with their possible unintended consequences.
One man’s rights can very quickly find their way into infringing on another’s.
By Wyld Byll Hyltnyr
November 19, 2008 5:40 PM | Link to this
Hey, Soixante huitard, Yes, I am the same person who said the same thing yesterday about him not ‘having the stones’ to make hard decisions?
Ross Perot, a truly great American, used to ask the rhetorical question, “Are you going to talk about it, or are you going to do something about it?” And that is the great question with B0. To borrow from BO (actually from Duvall Patrick, but BO was the lesser plagiarist on the ticket), “Just words?” Well so far, yes as he won’t even take the action necessary to take the position of “don’t axes, don’t tell” that his core constituents crave ever bit as deeply as they crave a hot beef injection.
Methinks, that after one year the BO sugar high will have worn off and we’ll know just how bad things will get when POTUS has contracted poll paralysis. Just words?
By Republicans Killed America
November 19, 2008 5:44 PM | Link to this
@@,
Just noticing a lot of whining from folks such as you who make claims of being in such good shape. What’s the problem. Do you just enjoy complaining and whining every time something doesn’t go your way or when it does go your way or what. Did Senator Gramm have you pegged or what.
By Wyld Byll Hyltnyr
November 19, 2008 5:46 PM | Link to this
Soixante huitard, almost forgot to mention, it looks like the stock market has a great deal of confidence in a BO presidency. What are we are 18% or so since BO came to reside in the office of the President-Elect. Just words?
By Republicans Killed America
November 19, 2008 5:50 PM | Link to this
A tax on *carbon! Oh My GOD. Us carbon-based life forms are gonna have to start paying taxes! What is this world coming to. It’s the end of times, I say. The silicon-based life forms will control everything since they won’t be taxed. We are DOOMED!
By AJC/DNC Management
November 19, 2008 5:55 PM | Link to this
Still no word on thee Bruno as the pear shaped world Ambassador from thee trailer parks of Arkkkansas, you’re telling me the libs have never before done a background criminal check on her “husband?”
Wasn’t he like the top dog for a time?
Check out thee announcement that the Duh Report has inside information on-
Due to some questionable activities in the former President’s recent past, thee Magnificent Oblahmi Administration, Blessings be to Allah, has decided to rescind our offer to Bruno.
bwa.
By Republicans Killed America
November 19, 2008 6:00 PM | Link to this
This just in. Pear-shaped trumps prick-shaped in a nationwide survey. When asked “why”, those surveyed simply responded with, “Well, DUH!”
By @@
November 19, 2008 6:01 PM | Link to this
RKA:
Just noticing a lot of whining from folks such as you who make claims of being in such good shape.
No doubt, I could always be in better shape financially. Who couldn’t or wouldn’t hope to be. Let’s just say I won’t really be in need of PrezE Obama’s redistributive wealth but I’d be a fool not to take what’s been offered.
Your perception that I’m somehow whining could not be more wrong. I never whine. I see all of life’s occurrences as a challenge to be met or overcome. I work with little ones who inspire me to do just that five days of every work week.
Through them I am truly blessed.
By Booger
November 19, 2008 6:02 PM | Link to this
It’s simple-minded to think of the stock market as a gauge of confidence in a president or president-elect. It’s an indicator of confidence in the nation’s economy, and that’s a much bigger and more complex matter.
At best, you could state that the market reflects how well a president’s economic policies have worked. Investors do not attempt to price stocks based on how well a future president’s policies may work sometime in the future.
By Frederick Douglass
November 19, 2008 6:25 PM | Link to this
Really, can you say simple minded without thinking Republican?
By Republicans Killed America
November 19, 2008 6:49 PM | Link to this
@@,
First of all, what wealth are you planning on standing in line for. In case you have not noticed, there is none that you stand in line for. Perhaps you are thinking that there will be an abundance of new jobs soon and everyone will get to go out and earn their own wealth. Is that it. Are you talking about standing in the unemployment line and waiting for a good paying job. Second, try treating life as an adventure — something to look forward to and enjoy every single day and what life has to offer. Contrary to some beliefs, we only get one life so make the most of it. A challenge implies that there is always some hardship to overcome and that makes living sound unpleasant.
By RB from Gwinnett
November 19, 2008 8:23 PM | Link to this
Does anyone else wonder if these libs understand that if you create jobs in the government sector rebuilding roads, etc, that the money to pay their salaries and for the trucks they drive has to come from the private sector providing tax dollars? I really don’t think they do. I think they think the government just prints more money or something.
Corporal, from your comment earlier today. I wonder if Jay knows what might happen to his employer if the red state they serve gets wind of the fact they’re now sensoring Christians opinions out of their blogs. They’re already down 13.5% with their current approach to customer service. Maybe next year they can drop another 50+% of their customers in this Bible belt state.
But why should Jay worry? He can easily find a job at one of the many liberal biased newspapers that isn’t losing it’s readership (and revenues). If he could only find one….
By Obama The Marxist
November 19, 2008 9:06 PM | Link to this
Obama, the lying changer-changes back to crooked Clinton admin:
Judicial Watch Statement on Obama’s Selection of Clinton Impeachment Lawyer Greg Craig to Serve as White House Counsel Contact: Press Office 202-646-5188
Washington, DC — November 18, 2008 Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton issued the following statement today in response to Barack Obama’s decision to hire Clinton impeachment lawyer and controversial Washington, DC, attorney Greg Craig as White House Counsel.
“It is disturbing that Barack Obama will allow Bill Clinton’s impeachment lawyer Greg Craig to serve as his White House Counsel. Many thought Barack Obama had beaten the Clinton political machine. Instead, he appears to have embraced it. Given his defense of Bill Clinton’s lies and obstruction of justice, what sort of legal advice will Mr. Craig give to President Obama? Will it all depend on what the meaning of ‘is’ is?
“Not only did Greg Craig defend the worst of the worst of the Clinton scandals but he also defended the violent government raid that delivered Elian Gonzalez back to Castro’s Cuba. In fact, we believe that Greg was working with communist Cuban government during the Elian affair. Greg Craig is the wrong lawyer to serve as White House Counsel in the Obama White House.
“Barack Obama’s White House personnel decisions show that he doesn’t seem to care about government integrity.”
http://judicialwatch.org
By "The Corporal"
November 19, 2008 10:02 PM | Link to this
To Mrs. G.
But Ma’am, thou dost confuse the issues. I never said teach in this blog (see 2:50pm). I said talk meaning the subject at hand - combat.
1) Superior to you? No.
2) More knowledgeable on every issue? No.
3) More experienced and knowledgeable on combat issues? Yes.
4) Have I ever had an episiotomy. No.
5) Have I ever caused a few? Probably … :o)