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By Democrat Entitlement Party

August 2, 2008 4:15 PM | Link to this

Once upon a time, on a farm in Virginia , there was a little red hen who scratched about the barnyard until she uncovered quite a few grains of wheat.

She called all of her Democrat neighbors together and said, ‘If we plant this wheat, we shall have bread to eat. Who will help me plant it?’

‘Not I,’ said the cow.

‘Not I,’ said the duck.

‘Not I,’ said the pig.

‘Not I,’ said the goose.

‘Then I will do it by myself,’ said the little red hen, and so she did. The wheat grew very tall and ripened into golden grain.

‘Who will help me reap my wheat?’ asked the little red hen.

‘Not I,’ said the duck.

‘Out of my classification,’ said the pig.

‘I ‘d lose my seniority,’ said the cow.

‘I’d lose my unemployment compensation,’ said the goose.

‘Then I will do it by myself,’ said the little red hen, and so she did.

At last it came time to bake the bread.

‘Who will help me bake the bread?’ asked the little red hen.

‘That would be overtime for me,’ said the cow.

‘I’d lose my welfare benefits,’ said the duck.

‘I’m a dropout and never learned how,’ said the pig.

‘If I’m to be the only helper, that’s discrimination,’ said the goose.

‘Then I will do it by myself,’ said the little red hen.

She baked five loaves and held them up for all of her neighbors to see. They wanted some and, in fact, demanded a share. But the little red hen said, ‘No, I shall eat all five loaves.’

‘Excess profits!’ cried the cow. (Nancy Pelosi)

‘Capitalist leech!’ screamed the duck. (Barbara Boxer)

‘I demand equal rights!’ yelled the goose. (Jesse Jackson) The pig just grunted in disdain. (Ted Kennedy)

And they all painted ‘Unfair!’ picket signs and marched around and around the little red hen, shouting obscenities.

Then the Farmer Obama came. He said to the little red hen, ‘You must not be so greedy.’

‘But I earned the bread,’ said the little red hen.

‘Exactly,’ said Barack the farmer. ‘That is what makes our free enterprise system so wonderful. Anyone in the barnyard can earn as much as he wants. But under our modern government regulations, the productive workers must divide the fruits of their labor with those who are lazy and idle.’

And they all lived happily ever after, including the little red hen, who smiled and clucked, ‘I am grateful, for now I truly understand.’

But her neighbors became quite disappointed in her. She never again baked bread because she joined the ‘party’ and got her bread free. And all the Democrats smiled. ‘Fairness’ had been established.

Individual initiative had died, but nobody noticed; perhaps no one cared…so long as there was free bread that ‘the rich’ were paying for.

EPILOGUE

Bill Clinton is getting $12 million for his memoirs.

Hillary got $8 million for hers.

That’s $20 million for the memories from two people, who for eight years, repeatedly testified, under oath, that they couldn’t remember anything.

IS THIS A GREAT BARNYARD OR WHAT?

By Ga Values

August 2, 2008 4:28 PM | Link to this

Chambliss continues criticism Lawmaker says sugar refinery whistleblower is ‘on the hook’ Associated Press Saturday, August 02, 20084 WASHINGTON —- Sen. Saxby Chambliss — already facing heat for sharply questioning a whistleblower in a fatal sugar refinery accident outside Savannah — toughened his criticism by saying the employee is “on the hook” for the February explosion that killed 13 workers.

Associated Press Saxby Chambliss: Georgia senator has criticized a sugar refinery worker for not doing more before the blast that killed 13. Click photo for optionsAsked about the issue in the Capitol on Friday, the Georgia Republican suggested that the whistleblower is trying to deflect from his own failure to act by accusing Imperial Sugar Co. executives of resisting safety warnings about the company’s plant in Port Wentworth, Ga.

Mr. Chambliss said if vice president of operations Graham H. Graham knew the plant was so dangerous, he should have pressed more urgently.

“My question is if it was that bad, and you thought somebody was fixing to get killed, why in the world weren’t you more forceful?” he said. “Why didn’t he really do something? Because … as a result of his failure to do something, a serious accident did happen, in my opinion.”

“This guy Graham knows he’s on the hook,” Mr. Chambliss added.

Mr. Chambliss, who works closely with the sugar industry as the top-ranking Republican on the Senate Agriculture Committee, insists he is not trying to defend Imperial, which is among the largest U.S. sugar producers.

But his comments are the latest in which he has focused on Mr. Graham as a culprit instead of the company, despite a recent government investigation that accused Imperial of willfully and egregiously violating dozens of safety standards.

Mr. Graham’s supporters emphasize that Mr. Graham had worked at Imperial for just three months before the accident.

Mr. Graham’s attorney, Philip Hilder, called Mr. Chambliss’ criticism “absolutely nonsensical.”

“That plant has existed for some 90 years before Mr. Graham came,” Mr. Hilder said. “He was diligent in addressing the problems and got pushback from upper management, and for the senator … to suggest that he joined the company just a matter of weeks before the explosion and that fault lies with him — even though he saw the problem and tried to rectify it — is just the height of irresponsibility.”

Mr. Hilder and others had accused Mr. Chambliss of doing the company’s bidding Tuesday when he sharply questioned Mr. Graham at a Senate hearing. Mr. Chambliss’ questions raised eyebrows, because no one aside from Imperial had publicly doubted Mr. Graham’s claims. That includes Mr. Chambliss’ fellow Georgia Republican Johnny Isakson. The two rarely split, but Mr. Isakson says he has full faith in Mr. Graham’s account.

Some of Mr. Chambliss’ questions at the hearing were similar to a line of questioning that Imperial had suggested to lawmakers, but Mr. Chambliss said Friday he never saw any questions suggested by Imperial.

Mr. Chambliss also said he has not been influenced by any lobbyists for the Sugar Land, Texas-based company or by his son, Bo. The younger Mr. Chambliss is an in-house Washington lobbyist for the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, which also is represented by an outside firm that lobbies for Imperial Suga

By Bad S Mitten

August 2, 2008 5:45 PM | Link to this

Blabber at 4:15, quit hogging all the posting space, you pig.

By Aaron Burr V. Mexico

August 2, 2008 11:19 PM | Link to this

Oh story time?

OK.

Once upon a time there was a fairy called the Market Fairy, and there was a group of very gullible people called the Redumblican Market Fairy Party and they believed that if they clapped their hands, that the Market Fairy would solve all of their problems, so they took the perfectly functional government and gave it to the Market Fairy to solve the problem.

So they gave Medicine to the Market Fairy and clapped their hands and believed.

And all of them but a few had magical Insurance, and they were fine, so they didn’t care. But there were one or two who had no insurance at all.

“Just ignore them” said the Market Fairy, “They’re lazy and don’t work.” And so the Redumblicans called them Demoncrats and didn’t care about their fellow Redumblicans any more.

And then they had to fight a war with a group of people. No one was quite sure why they had to fight the war. Some people said it was because they had nasty weapons. And some people said that they were holding criminals. And some people said it was because one of them frowned and stuck their tounge out at the Market Fairy.

And they all closed their eyes and clapped their hands and believed in the Market Fairy

And the Market Fairy took all their money and gave them pop guns, which didn’t help very much against the dynamite that was being used against them. A lot of the Redumblicans were blown up, but unfortunately a lot of other innocent people that the Redumblicans had convinced to go along with them got blown up as well, but the Market Fairy and her good friends, the Fairys of the Black River got very very rich.

And you might think that the Redumblicans might have gotten a clue that the Market Fairy was messing with them at this point, but they weren’t quite done.

Two kings came into the land, one was young and handsome and charismatic. And one was one of the Redumblicans that had been fooled by the Market Fairy and had fought against her. He had tried to convince the Redumblicans that while the Market was a good thing, the Market Fairy kept screwing it up, but the Redumblicans didn’t like him, and ignored him and didn’t talk to him and didn’t let him play in any of the Redumblican games.

And the Redumblincan king was sad, so he stopped talking about the bad things that the Market Fairy was doing until finally he just said all of the same things that all of the Redumblicans were doing, and so the Redumblicans pretended to like him again. Only they really didn’t but they pretended to, because they liked him better than the Smart Handsome King.

And the Redumblicans began to shout as long and as loud as they could, making it hard for anyone around them to do anything. And some people began to believe the Redumblicans, but a lot of people were smart and didn’t want to listen to the Redumblicans any more because they remembered all those people the Redumblicans had gotten blown up by dynamite.

So how does the story end?

No one knows. Some people say that the Redumblican king won they day and conquored the land and that the Market Fairy convinced them that their houses were actually bad and that they should burn them down.

And some say that the people of the land realized that the Redumblicans were dumb and didn’t listen to them and choose the handsome and wise king.

But what probably happened was that they chose the handsome, strong and wise king and the Redumblicans shouted so loud that no one could do anything and the handsome wise king kept trying to make them happy and compromise with them and the market fairy so in the end you couldn’t tell the difference between the Redumblicans and the Demoncrats.

But I prefer the ending that says that everyone stopped being Redumblicans, but that’s probably just a fairy tale.

By DaninMacon

August 2, 2008 11:23 PM | Link to this

Bill Clinton said that Obama’s campaign was a fairy tale didn’t he?

By Aaron Burr V. Mexico

August 2, 2008 11:58 PM | Link to this

Ah yes, I recall the story of the Boy Who Couldn’t Keep It In His Pants.

By Kathy

August 3, 2008 8:56 AM | Link to this

I watched the questioning if Graham Graham by Senator Chambliss. Chambliss seemed like a hired gun, while Graham appeared to be very forthright.

By TW

August 3, 2008 7:35 PM | Link to this

More shocking than any of this is the idea that Saxby does more than drink liqour and play golf with our tax dollars.

By Believer

August 3, 2008 8:01 PM | Link to this

Republicans deserve Saxby. I hope that guy at the sugar plant that Saxby attacked comes back to haunt him for years to come. I want to know why Saxby and his band of Republicans have not strengthened the EPA, OSHA, and FDA over the years instead of tearing them down to the point where they are worthless shells with fancy names. Saxby and the Republicans are the ones that deserve to be on trial.

By Ga Values

August 4, 2008 6:19 AM | Link to this

Why is Saxby keeping Ted Steven’s $15,000.00 gift?? He likes money & Ted’s ethics.