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DEL.ICIO.USBipartisanship shines in effort on budget cap
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Amid the cynicism that smothers Washington and the gamesmanship that erupts under the Gold Dome, the occasional nugget surfaces, inspiring hope that this adventure in democracy can work.
As it surfaced last week in the Georgia state Senate, the whole process, revolutionary as it was, took barely seven minutes. As is usually the case, however, the more telling story is the one that preceded it.
For the record, the event was Senate passage of a proposed constitutional amendment, the Taxpayer Protection Amendment of 2007, to cap the growth of state spending. When its sponsor, state Sen. Chip Rogers (R-Woodstock), brought it to the floor on Valentine’s Day, it failed. He asked for reconsideration. When he brought it back last week, it passed 44-6, well above the two-thirds a proposed constitutional amendment requires.
Before the tax-and-spenders leap from tall buildings, feeling their lives doomed by limitations imposed on their favorite exercise — using other people’s money to fund their agendas — compassion compels me to coax them from the ledge. The proposed amendment is not that onerous, nor is it inflexible, nor is it the end of the Era of Big Government. It’s simply a device that informs politicians — and taxpayers — that spending is occurring beyond the rate of inflation and population growth.
The real story here is Chip Rogers’ enormous skill in finding compromise without consenting to poison pills or to neutering language or amendments that move him off target. Sometimes, as clever lawyers and legislators know, changing three or four words can gut a bill or turn it into something entirely different.
Rogers not only compromises when necessary to advance an important idea, but he accommodates in good faith, even to the point of strengthening the opponents’ hand — something State Sen. Tim Golden (D-Valdosta) noted in reflecting on the negotiation that led to passage of Senate Resolution 20. As an example, Rogers’ language specified that when the economy turned down, legislators could spend a sum equal to that appropriated in any of the three prior years. The intent is to keep them from getting boxed in by economic cycles.
That concerned Golden and other Democrats. “We talked about the three prior budget years,” says Golden. “He said, ‘let’s just take any prior year,’ which gave us another level of comfort.” Rogers agreed, too, to another concern of the fiscally conservative Democrats, that excess revenues be pumped into reserves until they reached 10 percent of the prior year’s budget, another protection against downturns. On next year’s $20 billion budget, the reserve would be $2 billion. It’s now 4.26 percent, or about $693.5 million, and can go up to 10 percent, something that a number of influential legislators support, including House Ways and Means Chairman Larry O’Neal (R-Warner Robins). For most of its existence, the reserve fund was considered full at 3 percent, though a governor at his discretion could increase that to 5 percent.
Golden, and other Democrats who include Doug Stoner of Smyrna and George Hooks of Americus, argued, too, that the first priority for excess revenues should be to fund student enrollment growth, a sum that this year amounts to about $167 million. Rogers readily agreed — and he agreed, too, to give the General Assembly power to declare a financial emergency and, after reserves were exhausted, to waive the spending cap.
The good-faith negotiation that led to a bipartisan compromise on an important issue is noteworthy. For one, it demonstrates that the two parties can work together in good conscience on serious matters. And it is the beginning, I believe, of something that’s important to having a competitive two-party political system in Georgia.
Democrats have a serious problem in attracting mainstream white Georgians, a problem worsened by the national party’s continued pull to the left by its antiwar fringe. In June, voters in the 10th Congressional District will elect a successor to the late U.S. Rep. Charlie Norwood. The district stretches from Augusta to Eatonton to the North Carolina line. No known Democrat has a prayer in the district because the party is incapable of pulling more than about a quarter of the white vote in an 85 percent white district.
The way to be competitive is to move into the mainstream while avoiding having some of its shriller liberal voices dominate — and define — the Democratic Party in Georgia.
The effort by Golden, Stoner and Hooks begins that journey.
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By WootenDull
March 25, 2007 8:03 AM | Link to this
The Atlanta Urinal, carrying the water for the democrat party:
GONZALES AND U.S. ATTORNEYS’ FIRINGS: STUPID QUESTIONS INCREASE!!- Conflicting statements!!!!- “I did not recommend him, I did not suggest him, there was no nepotism involved — I didn’t have the authority,” Plame said in testimony before the House.
Ooops, I got my conflicting statements crossed up, I pulled that one^^ out of the “No Pinko Worry” file.
Hey at least your partisan hack MoveOn article got to the heart of the matter, inadvertantly:
{{{Bush accused Democrats of attempting to “waste time and provoke an unnecessary confrontation” by seeking sworn testimony from White House aides about the dismissals.}}}
Let’s give them the confrontation that they desire, in spades:
Lock the Plame bitc-h up now!
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{{{Urinal- N.Y. cops kept eye on activists: Surveillance done before convention.}}}
They stopped us from killing the president!! How dare they!!
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The candy as-s pinko liberals, either making “news” out of nothing or showing their stunted mental capacity: {{{ The following are The American War Library’s best extimates on friendly fire casualties (both fatal and non-fatal) based on historic War Dept, Dept of the Navy and Dept of Defense casualty reports detailing various battle reports.- World War 2 – 21%}}} 21% of 280,000 soldiers killed died from friendly fire. That’s 60,000 for you jackleg anti Americans that can’t multiply. Combat is not like the gay bathhouse y,all, which is the only experience you liberals have to compare with, it’s confusing, swift and terrible.
Accidents happen.
Pi-ss off.
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Queen Pinko let’s loose with the brilliance: {{{ Whitehead didn’t give any examples of voting by illegal immigrants because he can’t cite any. Said Thomas Patterson, an expert on elections at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center: “If you are an illegal immigrant, the last thing you want to do is show up at a polling place… . We have enough trouble getting people to vote when they’re eligible. The idea that people are going to stick their necks out and get [a] penalty stretches the imagination.”}}} Well, no kidding, Sherlock, we weren’t talking about hispanics: {{{From Holland to Detroit, votes were cast by 132 dead people; Detroit’s voting records are riddled with inaccuracies, casting doubt on elections’ integrity …}}}
{{{Vote fraud and voter registration fraud were significant problems in at least a dozen states around the county. Vote fraud is a reality in America that occurred not only in large battleground states like Wisconsin but in places like Alabama and Kentucky. The record indicates that in 2004, voter registration fraud was mainly the work of so-called “nonpartisan” groups such as Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) and NAACP National Voter Fund. Examples include}}}
Protecting the right to vote illegally, eh, Cynthia?
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By WootenDull
March 25, 2007 8:15 AM | Link to this
Let’s try #3 one more time:
A Defense Department inspector general’s report Monday is expected to recommend that nine officers, including up to four generals, be held accountable for missteps in the aftermath of the friendly fire death in Afghanistan in 2004 of Army Ranger and former football star Pat Tillman.
The candy as-s pinko liberals, either making “news” out of nothing or showing their stunted mental capacity:
{{{The following are The American War Library’s best extimates on friendly fire casualties (both fatal and non-fatal) based on historic War Dept, Dept of the Navy and Dept of Defense casualty reports detailing various battle reports.- World War 2 – 21%}}}
21% of 280,000 soldiers killed died from friendly fire.
That’s 60,000 for you jackleg anti Americans that can’t multiply.
Combat is not like the gay bathhouse y,all, which is the only experience you liberals have to compare with, it’s confusing, swift and terrible.
Accidents happen.
Pi-ss off.
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By CJ
March 25, 2007 8:22 AM | Link to this
In high school civics class, we learned that in both the General Assembly and Congress, a bill becomes law first with a majority vote in both houses and, subsequently, an executive signature (i.e. Governor or President). If the executive vetoes the bill, then the veto can be overridden by a super-majority (two-thirds) vote in both houses to become law.
On the other hand, under the anti-democratic “Taxpayer Protection Amendment Act of 2007”, our state legislature would not even be allowed to introduce certain types of legislation without first getting permission from the Governor (via his declaration of an emergency) – even if they had to the votes to override a promised veto. That’s not a democracy; that’s a dictatorship.
In addition, under this proposed Amendment, if the Governor did grace our legislature with his grant of permission to introduce such legislation, it couldn’t pass with a simple majority. It would require a super-majority — in both houses. That means that one-third of one-half of the state legislature could prevent a bill, already approved by Herr Perdue, from being passed.
I don’t care if we’re talking about allowing consumers to buy a six-pack on Sundays, funding children’s health insurance or education, criminal sentencing, transportation funding or any other kind of legislation that our elected representatives might choose to consider. We, the voters, would be insane to approve any amendment, under any circumstances, that gives the Governor the power to decide which bills the legislature can and can’t consider. Nor should we give our representatives the power to stop legislation when their view makes up less than one-third of one out of two legislative chambers.
Taxpayer Protection Amendment Act? Authoritarianism Establishment Act would be more accurate.
By Dennis
March 25, 2007 9:31 AM | Link to this
Financially responsible people usually have some savings. I have no problem with Georgia having some savings “just in case”. I have no problem with Georgia living within its budget.
But I think its a little hypocritical of Mr. Wooten to extole that virtue for the state of Georgia to have financial reserves, but not the federal government and the George W. Bush administration.
If I recall correctly, Mr. Wooten has championed every tax break Bush has pushed. And now, because of those tax breaks and overspending, especially on an unnecessary war, the nation is in a deep financial hole and borrowing more and more money from foreign interest everyday.
It will be fun to watch and see in the future which political party decides that any financial reserves Georgia has established needs to be “returned to the taxpayer” and not spent on some some “special interest” like “funding student enrollment growth”.
You don’t have to be a blind conservative not to see it, just an ignorant one to deny it.
By Markus
March 25, 2007 9:57 AM | Link to this
Dennis, in your so typical liberal drivel about Bush wild spending, you forgot to mention blindly shelling out our money to Katrina “victims,” cleaning up after 4 hurricanes in 2005, Kennedy’s No Child Left Behind, and other traditional “liberal” causes. If you’re going to talk about Bush spending, don’t be a halfass. At least be totally honest and make him look like the liberal Democrat he’s been acting like.
I know it’s really hard for you Iraqiphobe liberals to comprehend that there are other things going on out there than a war in Iraq, but at least TRY to act like you mental minions on the left know that. Just think, if Saddam had done what he promised to do for twelve years and seventeen UN resolutions after Gulf War I, his @ss would have never been thrown out of power.
Tax cuts, BTW, work. Even the last great Democrat, JFK, knew that. When you put money in the pockets of people who make this economy run (that means not to line the pockets of those losers in Midtown who buy lotto tickets and booze). Bush’s tax cuts have reduced the budget deficit by nearly 1/3 and that is AFTER all his social spending like a demoncat as well as Iraq and Afghanistan funding. But I know I’m wasting time talking to a narrow brick wall of liberal ideology here that sits under a tin foil roof.
By Politics Aside
March 25, 2007 10:29 AM | Link to this
Renegade Republican Guard sailors in high speed boats captured 15 cruiseship passengers who had fallen from their cabin balconies in the straits of hormuz purportedly in Iranian Territorial Waters early Sunday. A British Diplomat issued a strongly worded protest and labeled Iranian President Ahminijihad as a sushi-stealing, shark-bait-foiling piece of chum-scum.
By Markus
March 25, 2007 10:38 AM | Link to this
A Meet The Depressed idea of a fair and balanced discussion panel: Dick “our troops are Nazis” Tuban Durbin and RINO Arlen Spector.
BTW, does anyone remember the mainstream media having these many orgasms and prying into the details of the DA firings when Clintoon did it to all 93 of his right before Whitewater? Me neither.
By getalife
March 25, 2007 10:50 AM | Link to this
Its the lying coverups stupid!
Our goverment has no credibilty. Period.
Geez.
By Markus
March 25, 2007 11:07 AM | Link to this
All you brilliant demoncat liberal ladies and girly boys feeling good in your cute little eco-friendly wussy Prius need to rise and shine. That’s right sleeping beauties. Take that beauty eye cover off. Put your hair in a bun. Throw on some jammies for Sunday lounging. Grab a bagel and some strawberry-flavored cream cheese and get your lavender-flavored tea ready for this news:
The Toyota Prius costs more to the environment than a Hummer.
Do I need to repeat that limpwristed liberal sleeping beauties?
The Toyota Prius costs more to the environment than a Hummer.
Need proof? Ok, there was a study done on the total cost of a Prius from the first metal stamp in the factory to the battery disposal in the scrap yard and everything inbetween including ownership costs of fuel. The same was done for a Hummer. Here’s the link sleeping beauties.
http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?page=article&Article_ID=14304
Isn’t that just like an idiot liberal. DO it because it FEELS good. Never mind those pesky little details called FACTS. So suit up liberal ladies and smell your own poots. You don’t stink because you drive a Prius or you think they’re cool and the “in” thing to have with Gorebotism. Sick liberals.
By time for the truth
March 25, 2007 11:15 AM | Link to this
I see aborted foreskin is compulsively puking up more of its execrable utterly unfunny attempts at humour @10.29am under YAAWWWWWWNNNN yet another witless turdbrained phoney id.
GFY aborted foreskin!!
getamaggotbrain … STFU!! Far left greaseball lying losers like you are cowardly scum who have NO business being in these United States!!
By fletch
March 25, 2007 11:18 AM | Link to this
Who farted? Nobody, that’s just gotnobrain yammering on about some bs.
By getalife
March 25, 2007 11:21 AM | Link to this
Ah, the illegal escaped mental patient, time for the turd has come to spew his hatred.
Back to England wanker.
“Traitors don’t get to question my patriotism. What could be less patriotic than constantly screwing things up for America.”
Spying on Americans, lying to Americans, stealing from Americans and killing of Americans is not patriotic.
It is criminal, wingnuts support criminals.
By time for the truth
March 25, 2007 11:39 AM | Link to this
goading far leftist greaseball scum like U maggotbrain is fabulous fun!!
maher is a sick and twisted Bush hating traitor … leftist vermin like you and the butch diikes of code pink should be rounded up and deported!!
America should be cleansed of ALL leftist scum!!
By Markus
March 25, 2007 11:47 AM | Link to this
Iran just keeps escalating things. Now they are going to try the Brits for “spying.” Oh sure, in broad daylight in open water. What the hell were they spying on, Iranian mackrel?
I hope for Iran’s sake they are just flexing some muscle. Putting these troops to death will most certainly be an act of war that cannot go without a swift and heavy-handed retribution.
“Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, who warned last week that Tehran would take “illegal actions” if necessary to maintain its right to develop a nuclear programme.”
Keep it up AHCKmadinejad & Co. Eventually someone will be taking you bastards down a few pegs. BIGTIME.
By getalife
March 25, 2007 11:48 AM | Link to this
Flush the turd.
By Mark
March 25, 2007 11:49 AM | Link to this
Jim, your love affair with Chip Rogers continues in such an unrequited way. When are you going to take that step and show true conservative values by divorcing your wife and marrying Chip? He might even take off the robe and hood for your marriage ceremony.
By Dennis
March 25, 2007 12:22 PM | Link to this
By Markus March 25, 2007 9:57 AM “Dennis, in your so typical liberal drivel about Bush wild spending, you forgot to mention….”
I wouldn’t want the folks to think there’s another Markus on here.
You don’t have to be a blind conservative not to see it, just an ignorant one to deny it.
By For the Record ...
March 25, 2007 12:27 PM | Link to this
Andi, while you and your vitriol-spewing cohorts were up early to MAKE SURE YOU WERE THE VERY FIRST POST ON WOOTEN’S BLOG (because that is so very important), I was running the inaugural ING Marathon and Half Marathon, on my gorgeous intown streets, along side 15,000 of my closest friends. I bet, what … maybe 20% of them might still support Dubya. (Contrary to popular opinion, soundness of mind and soundness of body are positively correlated.)
Andi, Markus, Dusty, TFTT, Danish, RW, et. al — no sh!t folks — you really have to get into distance running.
Your souls are in dire need of a free and easy breath.
By WootenDull
March 25, 2007 12:30 PM | Link to this
Referring to them as “insurgents”, the site concluded: “If it is proven that they deliberately entered Iranian territory, they will be charged with espionage. If that is proven, they can expect a very serious penalty since according to Iranian law, espionage is one of the most serious offences.”
I wonder if this dic-khead knows that his allies in America, the candy as-s pinko liberals, think “insurgents” are the good guys.
Hasn’t he been watching PMSNBC?
Dearest Great Britian: Do not even think for a moment that we have forgotten the help you provided us in removing the enemy of the world Saddam Hussein and also remember that we owe you for your vigilance to our cause.
What a perfect opportunity it would be to call us on our help by your country declaring complete and total war upon the rogue Islamic Republic of Iran.
Isn’t it damn lucky that we have troops and aircraft carriers right there in the neighborhood?
F them up.
We got your back.
USAUSAUSAUSAUSAUSAUSAUSAUSA.
By Politics Aside
March 25, 2007 12:43 PM | Link to this
What is it with all these man-overboards on cruiseships lately? And how did they survive? Alone at sea at night is the worst case scenario ever devised by nature, yet three people have survived it in two weeks. How could it even be possible to fall off of a cruise ship? Where’s the supervision? Where’s the guard rails? Where’s the safety netting? Where’s Shamu? What are the odds?
I wonder how long it takes to sober up after you experience a drunken swan dive into the drink in the gulf of mexico? Maybe that’s how the people survived: they were drunk, and didn’t panic. These latest people saved were found at night with searchlights. How is that even possible? The gulf is huge. People are little. Sharks are big. Teeth are sharp. Jellyfish sting. I dont get it. Those are the luckiest three peoples of all time. Imagine telling your coworkers you fell off the cruise ship. What a story! You could milk that for years. You’d be invited to all the best parties! These people have it made now. Katie Courik is sure to give them air time. They can sell t shirts, books, videos. They’ll make a movie about it for sure.
I once dropped the soap in the shower and tried to sell that story to hollywood but so far, no takers. The lights went off in my bathroom once when I was taking a bath, but that story only filled a half page and doesn’t really make a good book yet.
Geronimo!!
By @@
March 25, 2007 12:52 PM | Link to this
Jim:
Maybe Golden, Stoner and Hooks should travel to D.C. and show the Democratic congress how it’s done. Any decent and intelligent American should be able to look at Democrats’ actions and see them as nothing more than ambitious political hacks who have lost site of the true enemy.
“The sweeteners in this bill are political bribery,” said Representative Sam Johnson, Republican of Texas, who was a prisoner of war in Vietnam and who delivered an emotional speech to conclude the Republican side of the debate.
They behave like “children” in a political playpen.
Discouraging and disgusting.
By time for the truth
March 25, 2007 1:11 PM | Link to this
Flush the turd.
WOW … now the greaseball maggot brain is admitting he hates his mother!! And I had kind of thought you were actually an oedipu$$y maggot brain!! (gedditt??)
Its long past time for a sensible carpet bombing of Tehran’s top political targets. Hopefully with a huge braying herd of appeasing donkeybrained far leftist so called ‘human shields’ from moveyourbowels.org
By getalife
March 25, 2007 1:23 PM | Link to this
Damn, the turd will not flush.
Must be stopped up so use the plunger to get this wanker to flush back to England.
P-iss off.
By Mike Toreno
March 25, 2007 1:31 PM | Link to this
“Democrats have a serious problem in attracting mainstream white Georgians, a problem worsened by the national party’s continued pull to the left by its antiwar fringe.”
We do not actually care. The “antiwar fringe” consists of 70% of all Americans. We would rather accede to the wishes of the great majority of Americans than cater to “mainstream white Georgians” - that is, sheet-wearing white racists. We won in 2006 by clearing out a lot of so-called “moderate” Republicans in places like New England, and we will continue to win across the country not by catering to the kind of shiftless, worthless losers who made Georgia the squalid hole that it is, but by ignoring them in favor of the great majority of productive Americans.
By time for the truth
March 25, 2007 1:34 PM | Link to this
Damn, the turd will not flush.
Oh dear - our resident coprophagic greaseball maggotbrain is busy trying to kill its parents again - is it true Cuban greaseball that if you had a sh!t there’d be NOTHING LEFT???
Now we all know that maggotbrain is a snivelling yellowbellied greaseball queer Cuban marxist sailor boy … however maggotbrain cannot ever be buried at sea because treasonous hate America sh!t floats!!
Death to liberalism!! huge I hate sphincter kissing liberals smirk
By WootenDull
March 25, 2007 1:37 PM | Link to this
{{{By For the Record … March 25, 2007 12:27 PM Andi, while you and your vitriol-spewing cohorts were up early to MAKE SURE YOU WERE THE VERY FIRST POST ON WOOTEN’S BLOG (because that is so very important), I was running the inaugural ING Marathon and Half Marathon, on my gorgeous intown streets, along side 15,000 of my closest friends.}}}
Gosh, I’m so impwessed, uwe and err ittle gay fwiends got up erlwie dis morning, gee, just eeemagine.
It probably surprised the sh-it out of you to see the sun rise up in the sky, didn’t it?
Maybe you’ll beat me to the first post next weekend, huh, erlwie riser?
BTW, why don’t you venture out of your bubble to Cobb County with those Kerry Edwards stickers and see if you can find some Bush supporters?
Bomb Iran Now!
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By JD
March 25, 2007 1:52 PM | Link to this
The “antiwar fringe” consists of 70% of all Americans.
Mighty Mikey, if you really believe that, why don’t you use a search engine and find a poll out there on how many Americans want an immediate withdrawal of the troops from Iraq like right now. Hey lookie here what I found Mighty Mikey - http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/20/mccain-false-timetable/
We won in 2006 by clearing out a lot of so-called “moderate” Republicans in places like New England
Wrongo. You didn’t win on anything Mighty Mikey anymore than you ran on anything Mighty Mikey. The republicans lost their ways and the dems took full advantage as they should have done. Incidentally Joe Lieberman, a pro-war Democrat, easily won his incumbent run against an anti war liberal. I thought you said everyone in New England was anti Iraq war Mighty Mikey?
Please keep hating other Americans Mighty Mikey. You perverts on the hollow left will eventually be buried.
By JD
March 25, 2007 1:57 PM | Link to this
Here’s the origin of the link on immediate Iraqi withdrawal opinions Mighty Mikey. I’d sure hate for you to miss it. http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/23/lamont-withdrawal-iraq/
By RW-(the original)
March 25, 2007 2:05 PM | Link to this
Why would somebody run a marathon and a half marathon?
Or even stranger why would they do that and then saddle up to their computer sometime before 12:27 to take shots at people that weren’t even posting here?
In case anyone is interested the winner crossed the finish line at about 9:30AM. This wanker didn’t run the marathon anymore than Manuel Uribe did.
By getalife
March 25, 2007 2:08 PM | Link to this
Stop hitting on me turd.
Try glory hole Doom.
Geez.
By Me
March 25, 2007 2:12 PM | Link to this
If you have 15,000 close friends can you name them all?
By War W******* for Bush
March 25, 2007 2:39 PM | Link to this
Slime for the truth must be done shagging his dogs, finally.
What a moron.
By Reality Check
March 25, 2007 2:48 PM | Link to this
New Pew Reasearch poll.
50% of all Americans now identify themselves as Democrats.
35% indentify as Republicans.
My how things change. Incompetent Republican leadership will do that.
You moron Repubs are in denial.
By Dusty
March 25, 2007 3:49 PM | Link to this
WHAT, Jim Wooten??? Bipartisanship between Democrats and Republicans? Surely you jest!!
Yes, I know. Only state government, but that does “shine”. It shows what is possible(and wasn’t a misprint, huh??).
Do you think this “surge” might reach Washinton? Nawww!! I do like possiblilites but not much of a believer in miracles.
A litle “walking on water” in D.C. would be wondrous. Looks like Georgia’s politicians might have to show Congress how to reach out in the long forgotten practice of bipartisanship.
By time for the truth
March 25, 2007 4:07 PM | Link to this
the only “hitting” on you anyone should ever do maggot brain is with a baseball bat … smirk
and NO maggot brain, that’s not any kind of a threat - just a witty, clever play on words!!
Slime for the truth must be done shagging his dogs, finally.
NOPE … aint never met your betch of a mother … muthaf**
It sure is fun posting just occasionally at the usual level of aborted foreskin, NAMBLA and our resident Cuban greaseball traitor!!
By getalife
March 25, 2007 4:21 PM | Link to this
OMG, call the FBI.
Geez.
Clever, no.
Insane, yes.
By Republican For Impeachment Org
March 25, 2007 4:21 PM | Link to this
Great post Dusty! In fact there is bi-partisanship happening in the US Congress. Great news!!!!
This is Republican Chuck Hagle today calling for the impeachment of Bush:
“Any president who says, I don’t care, or I will not respond to what the people of this country are saying about Iraq or anything else, or I don’t care what the Congress does, I am going to proceed — if a president really believes that, then there are — what I was pointing out, there are ways to deal with that,” said Hagel.
By getalife
March 25, 2007 4:26 PM | Link to this
Yes, if the hate party wants to try to get relected they will vote to impeach w.
w is begging for them to impeach.
He knows he has screwed up big time.
If he was a man instead of a coward, he would resign.
cheney too but we know they are not men.
Once a coward, always a coward.
By getalife
March 25, 2007 4:33 PM | Link to this
My stupidity is superceded only by my propensity for same sex relationships.
By jm
March 25, 2007 4:34 PM | Link to this
Markus@9:57 - W’s father had a phrase used for using “tax cuts” to raise revenue, “voodoo economics”. Just look at the increase in the nations debt under the two biggest proponents of this theory, President Reagan and President George W. Bush. It took this administration almost six years to reach the level of revenue raised as when they took office. How much as the debt increased in that time? A good argument can be made that cheap credit from Japan, China, Saudi Arabia and other countries deserve more credit for the economy than the tax cuts this administration enacted.
Regarding Mr. Wooten’s article, just another pass the buck bill by the general assembly. They want all the perks of their office without any of the responsibility.
By Candy As-s democrats For Abandoning The Troops
March 25, 2007 4:35 PM | Link to this
{{{GOP Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a frequent critic of the war, stopped short of calling for Bush’s impeachment. But he made clear that some lawmakers viewed that as an option should Bush choose to push ahead despite public sentiment against the war.}}}
Losing the vote in the Senate ain’t good enough for Hagel, now he wants to talk impeachment?
This may come as a surprise to you candy as-ses but having to lavish pork on certain Senators and Representatives to get their votes does not constitute the “will of the people.”
And there ain’t 70% of America in MoveOn.org either.
Kiss our as-ses, we are going to win the war in Iraq, there is nothing, nothing that you traitorous liberals can do about it.
The Iraqi’s are not going to be enslaved by religious fanatics, Iraq is not going to be a terrorists haven, we are not going to Al Qaeda the victory over America that they and you degenerate liberals pukes want to give them so bad.
Tough titty.
Lock the Plame bitc-h up now!
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By getalife
March 25, 2007 4:37 PM | Link to this
Stop wanking Andy.
By getalife
March 25, 2007 4:39 PM | Link to this
Stop wanking Andy and let me jack you off once in a while.
By Markus
March 25, 2007 4:39 PM | Link to this
Well it looks like our resident liberal tub of sheet ID buttbandit got caught in yet another LIE. The “Running Girlie Man.”
LMFAO. Once again the disease of liberalism exposes itself in all the glory to see. Emotionalize first and work out the facts and details later. WTF is WRONG with these sickassed people?
Kindly note how not ONE RAT has challenged the findings of the Hummer vs. Gorebotulism Prius challenge on environazism.
Sickassed liberals.
By getalife
March 25, 2007 4:41 PM | Link to this
Geez.
By WootenDull
March 25, 2007 4:41 PM | Link to this
gitmo: Clue- Whomever jacked your name at 4:33 was a candy as-s pinko liberal.
How do I know this, you ask?
Because they brought up homosexual relationships between two men, that’s a dead giveaway, it’s what liberals spend all their time thinking about.
Next time a wanker shows up, if you aren’t the wanker that is, check and see if I’m wrong.
Lock the Plame bitc-h up now!
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By Markus
March 25, 2007 4:42 PM | Link to this
getalife,
What about me? I thought I was the only one you jacked off? Just for that, no more blow jobs for you!
By getalife
March 25, 2007 4:46 PM | Link to this
I’m sorry Markus. I’ll make it up to you with a golden shower, how’s that?
By Markus
March 25, 2007 4:49 PM | Link to this
Yaaaaay!!!
By Dusty
March 25, 2007 4:53 PM | Link to this
Repub’ for Impeach..
I’ll swap you Hegle for Lieberman. That will help a little. I want bipartisanship not a riot.
Somebody might get carried away and say “Impeach Pelosi” over pork.
It would be very nice if ALL could remember our troops and stop acting like gang members on a rumble. If Congressmen start showing up with overall tatoos, then I know the gang mentality is still there.
Oh I’m sorry. Didn’t know you had tatoos. Figures though. Impeach Bush. Ha! And wave the flag (a white one) and tell the terrorists when to mark their calendars for our departure!
Bipartisanship!! Don’t you love it? Anyway, Chaney would make a great president,… when Bush leaves in 2008, of course.
By Markus
March 25, 2007 4:55 PM | Link to this
Hey Sh!tmolife, err ID buttbandit err whoever you are this hour…
Care to take the Priwus vs. Hummer challenge on environazism?
Nah, didn’t think you wanted to go there you filthy worthless liberal maggot.
You disgusting pro-islamofascist terrorism RAT vermin on the neocommunist left make me sick.
Just keep jacking IDs maggot. It’s what you do best.
By Republicans For Impeachment Org
March 25, 2007 4:56 PM | Link to this
Dusty, more evidence that there is bi-partisanship in the US Congress.
A lot of Republican Senators are speaking out about that lying POS Gonzales.
Thank God there is bi-partisanship in Washington. There are many Republicans who still stand up for the American way.
God bless you Dusty. Together we can take this country back. God bless America!
By Candy As-s democrats For Abandoning The Troops
March 25, 2007 5:00 PM | Link to this
The impact is striking: According to Iraqi military spokesman Brig. Gen. Qassim Atta al-Mussawi, in the first month of the Baghdad Security Plan, while the number of car-bomb incidents was at an all-time high, murders were down 75 percent, the number of terrorists killed was up 80 percent, and the number of terrorists arrested was up 1,000 percent. (U.S. military deaths were down 20 percent.)
So, of course, our candy as-s liberal democrat is against the surge.
They want more dead Iraqis, more dead Americans, more suicide bombers roaming free, it improves their chances for the White House in 08.
Which is all that matters to them.
America be damned.
Lock the Plame bitc-h up now!
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By getalife
March 25, 2007 5:01 PM | Link to this
Sigh.
GFYPOS macaca.
By getalife
March 25, 2007 5:11 PM | Link to this
“With U.S. attack helicopters buzzing overhead, gunmen and Iraqi security forces clashed Sunday in a Sunni area in central Baghdad, and police said at least two people were killed in fighting in the neighborhood’s narrow streets and alleys.
The clashes broke out a day after at least 74 people were killed or found dead in Iraq — 47 in suicide bombings — one of the deadliest days since a U.S.-Iraqi security sweep began in Baghdad on Feb. 14.
Suspected Shiite militants attacked a Sunni mosque on Sunday in apparent retaliation for one of those attacks — a suicide truck bombing against a Shiite mosque that killed 11 people in Haswa, 30 miles south of Baghdad. The explosion on Sunday blew a hole in the roof of the mosque’s minaret but caused no injuries.”
The disaster continues with no end in sight.
Mr. Murtha has been and is right about Iraq.
By Dusty
March 25, 2007 5:16 PM | Link to this
Repubs for Impeach..
You have forgotten a good old Americanism that is still true: People are innocent until proven guilty.
There is NO guilty indictment against AG Gonzalez.
I have never given up this country. It is still mine. Speak for yourself.
I think that calling yourself a Republican is a bit of a stretch. Time to ‘fess up. You’re a liberal!!
By Markus
March 25, 2007 5:26 PM | Link to this
No, I didn’t think you wanted to go there, Craponlife. Worthless liberal maggot. You just keep exposing the disease of liberalism on this blog and we’ll take care of the rest, K?
By Republicans For Impeachment Org
March 25, 2007 5:27 PM | Link to this
My bad Dusty, you don’t really want bi-partisanship do you? You want one party rule. Don’t you? You are more of a China/communist type of person. Oh well, thats ok this is a free country, God bless you all the same.
God Bless America.
By Markus
March 25, 2007 5:33 PM | Link to this
This, from a member of the Party Of The Permanently Miserable who’s not happy enough that the RAT pack is in control of Congress.
“You want one party rule. Don’t you? You are more of a China/communist type of person.”
Absolutely LAUGHABLE.
By Candy As-s democrats For Abandoning The Troops
March 25, 2007 5:34 PM | Link to this
{{{By getalife March 25, 2007 5:11 PM The clashes broke out a day after at least 74 people were killed or found dead in Iraq — 47 in suicide bombings — one of the deadliest days since a U.S.-Iraqi security sweep began in Baghdad on Feb. 14.}}}
The terrorists murder innocent people in Iraq and getalife pimps for them in America.
Just as effective as a suicide bomber.
Helping evil people get thier jollies.
Lock the Plame bitc-h up now!
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By Dusty
March 25, 2007 5:36 PM | Link to this
Getalife,
Why don’t you and Mr. Murtha follow his plan and station yourselves in Okinawa? I believe that is where he expects the next terrorist attack. He wants to move our troops there, an almost deserted island.
Yes, getalife, destroy our enemies with weapons of cigar smoke and scrambled brains. That will do it. (And psstt—please tell Murtha we are no longer fighting Japanese in the Pacific. Maybe he forgot.)
By Republicans For Impeachment Org
March 25, 2007 5:43 PM | Link to this
I’m just a very concerned American. A Republican at that. Its scary that 50% of the American people now consider themselves Democrats vs. 35% Republican. If us Republicans show some cajones and impeach Bush we will have a chance in ‘08.
We need balance. Cagel and Thompson ‘08!
God Bless America!! and God Bless you too Markus.
By Markus
March 25, 2007 5:50 PM | Link to this
“I’m just a very concerned American. A Republican at that. Its scary that 50% of the American people now consider themselves Democrats vs. 35% Republican. If us Republicans show some cajones and impeach Bush we will have a chance in ‘08.”
If no further proof of the disease of liberalism needs to be found, this post is it. Not even girlie man enough to stand up for what she believes in and has to pawn off some pseudo-con ID.
So sad, but OH so revealing and entertaining from the mind of the dementia of liberalism.
By Dusty
March 25, 2007 5:51 PM | Link to this
Repubs for Impeach,
Bipartisanship does not mean to wipe out the Republican Party and start over with only Democrats.
The prefix bi means two, and partisan means a member of a party or a cause. In other words, it takes two to tango. Got it?
Me a Chinese type communist person? As Marcus said ABSOLUTELY laughable!
You better watch out! I may give you my unforgetable Kung Fu chop!
By Markus
March 25, 2007 5:53 PM | Link to this
Don’t worry Gitmo, your ilk is continuing to non-breed their sick selves right out of existence. Keep up the good WORK. RATs.
By Markus
March 25, 2007 5:55 PM | Link to this
ID bandit Gitmo the Running Girlie Man liar liberal!
Too, TOO rich.
By getalife
March 25, 2007 6:00 PM | Link to this
Ya’ll still believe anything they spew is laughable.
Geez.
By Before The Elections I Was "Against" Pork!
March 25, 2007 6:02 PM | Link to this
{{{Michael Arcuri (NY-24)}}}
Crossed off of MyDD list of Iraq vote “saboteurs.”
Why? Cause he voted for the supplemental. It took pork to get his vote.
Congressman Michael Arcuri, the newly elected U.S. Representative from the 24th District of New York, has recently been recognized by the fiscally conservative Democratic Blue Dog Coalition. March 13 - Arcuri Named “Blue Dog of the Week”
Look at the pork o meter at their webpage, maybe they should change the caption to “how much the national debt has increased since Pelosi went vote shopping.”
Nah, they’ll just keep lying to their suckers and idiots of the democrat party.
Lock the Plame bitc-h up now!
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By MCI
March 25, 2007 6:03 PM | Link to this
Markus, anyone that blogs all day on weekends is in dire need of a life.
By Republicans For Impeachment Org
March 25, 2007 6:09 PM | Link to this
I’m sorry if it shatters your world Markus- that a Republican is actually fed up with Bush and his lies. Hagel would bring real values back to the White House. Values that have been sorely missing for 14 years now. Lies from Rove and Co. Lies to go to war. Lies to get Christian Conservative like myself to vote for him. Lies from the AG. Lies Lies Lies. Its time to impeach, then set up for ‘08.
Oh and Dusty, please don’t use violence, its no way to get your point accross. God Bless Everyone.
By Buy Danish
March 25, 2007 6:10 PM | Link to this
Here’s a nice human interest story from Iraq. Emphasis on the word “human”. You Libs want to cut and run at a set deadline and leave people like this to the mercy of wolves.
Holiday Brings Life Back to Park
The money quote -
“I long for the security of those days but dreaded Saddam’s government so much,” Zuhair said…It’s all about give and take, and the current situation, as dreadful as it may seem, can’t last forever.”
If the wankers really cared about “peace” they would give the surge a chance.
By Markus
March 25, 2007 6:30 PM | Link to this
Gitmo, et. al. aliases, please do not insult the intelligence of thinking (Right) people on this blog. Your shenanigans have been exposed and you are clearly busted, AGAIN. You have no credibility here (not that you ever really did with your constant One Jackass post link of Crooks ‘n Liars). Blow it out your @ss.
BTW, my rejection of your sick liberal neoStalinist terrorist appeasement viewpoints is nothing personal. It’s just politics, that’s all. Just like your Hero Howie Screams said HERE.
By Markus
March 25, 2007 7:00 PM | Link to this
Has anyone in the Bush administration been prosecuted for outing a CIA covert operative yet? What’s that demoncat liberals? Speak UP liberal girlie boys, I can’t HEAR you. SAY IT. SAY IT!
no?
Ok, just checking in.
By candide
March 26, 2007 9:17 AM | Link to this
It is not the leftist pull in the national Democratic Party which prevents white Georgians from voting Democratic. It is the continuing domination of this state by the old southern Democrats AKA Republicans now. Nothing has changed but the labels.
By JP
March 26, 2007 9:37 AM | Link to this
Markus, entertaining rant about the Prius that you linked to. Nowhere on that page does the author observe that by simply making the battery production more efficient, there won’t be a problem competing with the Hummer.
“New Pew Reasearch poll. 50% of all Americans now identify themselves as Democrats. 35% identify as Republicans.”
Ha!! Not in Georgia! We refuse to be fed up with this lousy administration!
By Truthsayer
March 26, 2007 11:31 AM | Link to this
JP - While I don’t have a problem believing the poll you just cited, I think that it is significant that the number of people who identify themselves as Republicans has not declined. It seems to be a TEMPORARY movement of independents to the Democrat column. It will be temporary as the Democrats will inevitably betray themselves as the watery-spined, big government, big brother, appeasing socialists they truly are. As the Democrat race for President heats up and they move further and further to the left in order to attract votes from the “base” they will alienate those in the “middle” on whom they depend for victory. This will be just like 1972 or 1980!
By JP
March 26, 2007 1:21 PM | Link to this
Truthsayer, you could be right but: since the majority is in favor of pulling troops at this point, I am willing to wait that out and see. Republicans have shown themselves to be misleading corruption-prone war-mongers who can’t manage natural disasters or foreign policy disasters. Do you think that’s more attractive? I don’t.
By Ted P
March 26, 2007 1:43 PM | Link to this
What amazes me is that an article about local politicians that are working well together some how some illiterate liberal can try to make it about warmonger republicans? Lest the liberal left wing nut forget that the democrats voted for the war before they realized that we would go to war. Who is misleading and corrupt? If you believe that the democrats are not, then you are more naive that a newborn child.
By TW
March 26, 2007 2:14 PM | Link to this
The $74 million going to the peanut gang is just as vital to our national security as is the Iraq war. The GOP is just ticked they’re not getting their usual cut.
By get real
March 27, 2007 4:21 PM | Link to this
I can admit that reasonable people can disagree about whether the Iraq invasion was justified. Obviously, JW can’t. To assert that Democrats have a political problem b/c the antiwar fringe is pulling the party leftward? Do you know what a “poll” is? Can you understand one? You can call a duck a “fringe”, that doesn’t make it so. Even in the early days, as I recall, about 65% of American’s agreed with the war. 35% of America isn’t a fringe. Religous conservatives aren’t 35%. Would you call them a fringe?