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DEL.ICIO.USGOP’s bizarre budget flop goes down in history
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
If Republicans were dedicated to giving voters reason to throw them out of office, they succeed marvelously in this year’s legislative session.
Even granting newcomers a learning curve, this session of the Georgia General Assembly will go down as one of the most bizarre in modern times. It was, to borrow a lobbyist’s phrase, “chaos in search of frenzy.” There were no winners — except, perhaps, Democrats who as the minority party are achieving something that has eluded them for the past decade or more. That remarkable achievement is either the imposed or the self-regulated silencing of the fringe rhetoric that made the Georgia party indistinguishable from its national leadership.
To their credit, they’ve largely kept their mouths shut when they should, appeared reasonable when necessary, and have generally avoided missteps.
Pray tell, then, what were Republicans thinking?
Minutes after the Georgia House overrode Gov. Sonny Perdue’s veto of the supplemental budget by a surprisingly large and bipartisan margin, 163-5, the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, Rep. Ben Harbin (R-Evans), said of Perdue: “If he had been involved three or four weeks ago, we would not be at this point.”
On the evening of the 39th day of a 40-day session, Perdue vetoed the budget that fleshes out spending for the current year, the one that provides money to local school systems according to final enrollment numbers. That budget also, this year, provided $142 million in tax relief to property owners. “I’m afraid politics got in the way of doing the right thing,” Perdue said in vetoing the bill. “I believe the House and Senate got into a bit of a brawl and realized too late that they were nearly out of time and had to come up with a compromise quickly. … Unfortunately the late-night quick fix they came up with was the wrong solution for Georgia.”
It did not, he argued, provide enough money for various programs.
Within hours, in dramatic fashion, the House — Democrats and Republicans alike — overrode the veto. It was one of those rare moments in legislative proceedings where principle triumphs. House Minority Leader DuBose Porter (D-Dublin) reminded legislators that until 1966 the governor chose the speaker and committee chairmen. Former Gov. Lester Maddox gave up that power in return for the governorship after a write-in campaign kept either Maddox or Republican Bo Callaway from winning a majority, thereby throwing the decision to the House.
Leaders of both parties argued that the independence of the House required the veto override.
On important occasions in times of stress, a hush does fall over legislative bodies, members become attentive, and speakers are rarely more eloquent than when arguing in defense of principle. The Huose override came quickly and decisively.
Who wins? Nobody. Certainly not Richardson or other House leaders, who did the right thing in returning excess money to taxpayers, though they framed it as a dare. Certainly not Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle or other Senate leaders, who also did the right thing in stripping “pork” from the House appropriations bill, but in a way that came across as political opportunism and the far too early start to the 2010 gubernatorial campaign.
Certainly not, either, the governor, who intervened far too late in a way that failed to distinguish himself from his Democratic predecessors, blaming legislators for providing too little money for this and that.
“This was not a matter of miscommunication,” said Harbin later. “There was no communication. Nobody has ever communicated ‘we want to go another way.’”
So we have here two budgets, one the supplemental for the current year and another a $20.2 billion budget for next year that involves spending $1.6 billion more. Neither is austere. Neither, with the exception of a tax rebate, would represent any important distinction between this party and the last one in power. And even the property tax rebates, while symbolically important, come with new borrowings — meaning, of course, that cash out is replaced by debt.
We have, too, the party in power that professes conservatism as its foundation. If conservatives agree on principles, then surely they can agree on pork, on borrowing, or spending limits, and on giving back to taxpayers the excess inappropriately collected.
They can, yes. If they talk. And if they leave ambitions for higher office out of the public’s business.
Who won this year? Nobody, except perhaps the not-seen and not-heard Democrats.
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By WootenDull
April 22, 2007 8:01 AM | Link to this
Kudos AJC:
A PATH TO PEACE By Moni Basu The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 04/22/07 Mohammed was the first sheik in eastern Ramadi to turn against insurgents linked to al-Qaida in Mesopotamia. Today, he is part of a burgeoning movement of powerful Sunni tribal leaders who might have tacitly supported al-Qaida in the past but are fed up with the extreme violence. More than 40 sheiks have joined in a united front against both the insurgency —- which they say uses Islam as the rationale for slaughtering women and children —- and a perceived threat from Shiite Iran to the east. And they are cooperating with the Americans.
You beat me to the punch this morning.
By WootenDull
April 22, 2007 8:02 AM | Link to this
{{{Earlier this month, the “surge” was beginning visibly to work. Al Qaeda fought back, with massive slaughter of civilians, whose purpose was in part to undercut support for the war against al Qaeda on the home front. Harry Reid followed script. Now we are at a moment of truth. There is McCain’s way, a way of difficulty and honor. There is Reid’s way, a way of political expediency and dishonor. McCain may lose the political battle at home, and the U.S. may ultimately lose in Iraq. But some of us will always be proud, at this moment of choice, to have stood with McCain, and our soldiers, and our country.}}}
I’ll be the first to admit, I would never vote for John McCain, even if he was the last RINO on Earth, but you got to respect the courage and conviction the guy shows for his beliefs and his country.
He didn’t cowardly check the polls, that much is obvious.
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Even though this is an unlucky day—Friday the 13th—we do not experience a single attack on our convoy. The only violence the entire day occurs when a rocket lands on the other side of the Euphrates River without hurting anyone. The previous week, Ramadi saw a much-publicized attack—a suicide bomber drove a truck filled with explosives and chlorine gas into a police checkpoint, killing 12 people (not the 27 or more cited in most news accounts). But such violence has become the exception; it used to be the norm. Ramadi, which used to see 20 to 25 attacks a day, now sees an average of 2 to 4 a day—and falling. Entire days go by without a single attack. By the time I visited, no U.S. soldier had been killed in the town for weeks.
This^^ is a good long, comprehensive read about reality.
You libs are going to lose in Iraq just as sure as Al Qaeda is.
And your archenemy America is going to win.
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The biggest non story in history:
{{{Gunman used eBay to buy ammo clips-Urinal}}}
Ten round clips, yaaawwwwnnnn.
Ebay will cave, they are weak and stupid anyway, and it still doesn’t make a damn bit of difference to anything.
Demagogues.
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Taranto doesn’t work Sunday, so:
Bottom Stories of the Day:
{{{Prince called critical of U.S.- Jordanian authorities on Saturday confiscated a videotape of an Al-Jazeera interview with the country’s former crown prince in which the broadcaster said the prince called U.S. policies in the Mideast “destructive.”}}}
{{{* Pushing guns for all students cartoonish idea*, Queen Pinko, Urinal- Kids love superheroes because they’re invincible, brave, all-powerful. Children can suspend disbelief to look up in the sky for Superman or around the corner for Wonder Woman. Teenagers are enamored of a TV series called “Heroes,” which revolves around young people with, you guessed it, superpowers. (WTF is she talking about?)}}}
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By WootenDull
April 22, 2007 8:02 AM | Link to this
Sunday Morning Steyn:
But you can’t do that at Virginia Tech. Instead, the administration has created a “Gun-Free School Zone.” Or, to be more accurate, they’ve created a sign that says “Gun-Free School Zone.” And, like a loopy medieval sultan, they thought that simply declaring it to be so would make it so. The “gun-free zone” turned out to be a fraud — not just because there were at least two guns on the campus last Monday, but in the more important sense that the college was promoting to its students a profoundly deluded view of the world.
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By jbmlaw
April 22, 2007 8:35 AM | Link to this
Good morning all. I agree with my friend WootenDull on every aspect of his analysis of Mr. McCain. I mildly disagree with Jim’s thesis this morning. The taxpayers of Georgia got a comparatively pork-free budget, and a tax reduction. If the three participants - gov, Senate, and House - did not play nice with each other in accomplishing the budget, that’s not a big issue for me. On my way to church, have a good day.
By @@
April 22, 2007 8:54 AM | Link to this
Hezbollah, Hamas, Al Qaeda, and now Chavez….
Although the favoured blueprint for the scheme is the Paris Commune of 1871, under which socialism briefly reigned in the French capital, critics say it is more reminiscent of “mini-Soviets”, which will be used to monopolise Venezuelan local politics.
Emilio Grateron, an opposition councillor from the rich Chacao area, claimed that communal councils which did not toe the Chávez line were usually denied permission to set up. “When we went to the ministry to set them up, they asked us our political affiliation. When they saw we’re not Chavistas they didn’t say no, but flooded us with requests until you feel like giving up,” he said.
Luis Enrique Lander, a sociologist at the Central University of Venezuela, said that some official regulatory committee members were pushing for “non-Chavista” groups to be denied acceptance and funding.
Ironically the new communal council in Catia has been devoting its energy to fighting the expansion of the nearby Fabricio Ojeda industrial complex, which is built with state oil money and which the Chávez administration portrays as an example of its new socialist co-operative model. Local residents are sceptical of promises to resettle them in better conditions.
Wise up people. Placing your hopes and dreams on government to rescue you is a dangerous game.
Venezuelan buffoon, political opportunist, or a Dictator in the making, using “the tools” he created to reign supreme.
By @@
April 22, 2007 8:56 AM | Link to this
Hezbollah, Hamas, Al Qaeda, and now Chavez….
Although the favoured blueprint for the scheme is the Paris Commune of 1871, under which socialism briefly reigned in the French capital, critics say it is more reminiscent of “mini-Soviets”, which will be used to monopolise Venezuelan local politics.
Emilio Grateron, an opposition councillor from the rich Chacao area, claimed that communal councils which did not toe the Chávez line were usually denied permission to set up. “When we went to the ministry to set them up, they asked us our political affiliation. When they saw we’re not Chavistas they didn’t say no, but flooded us with requests until you feel like giving up,” he said.
Luis Enrique Lander, a sociologist at the Central University of Venezuela, said that some official regulatory committee members were pushing for “non-Chavista” groups to be denied acceptance and funding.
Ironically the new communal council in Catia has been devoting its energy to fighting the expansion of the nearby Fabricio Ojeda industrial complex, which is built with state oil money and which the Chávez administration portrays as an example of its new socialist co-operative model. Local residents are sceptical of promises to resettle them in better conditions.
Wise up people. Placing your hopes and dreams on government to rescue you is a dangerous game.
Venezuelan buffoon, political opportunist, or a Dictator in the making, using “the tools” he created to reign supreme.
By PoFo
April 22, 2007 9:13 AM | Link to this
Sunni Tribal leaders, fed up with extreme violence (and now actually condemning Al Queda and the sunni insurgency), are being targeting by the NRA for being wussies about gun control. The NRA is designing Swift Boat style ads to complicate reelection chances (and ceremonial blood oaths) for the sunni leaders. Here’s an excerpt from a pre-release: “First these sunni girly-men were for the insurgency. Then, they were against it. and when they were for it, none of them killed nearly as many civilians or coalition forces as they claimed, nor did most of them ever make it as far a anwar province. In fact most of them have never even slaughtered a kurd… AND they all threw away their purple goat-hearts awards during a kneel-in protest in Sadr City last month….”
McCain. “We’re all bozos on this bus”.
Cynthia McKinney’s article today pointed out the real issue about guns on college campuses: accidental discharges would kill far more each year than crazed students. Guns are time bombs, set to go off at any moment, especially when they’re “unloaded”, or “only kept for protection”.
I hope Wootendull has many guns around him, “unloaded”, and “kept for protection” against all the big bad guys out there lined up waiting to ambush him.
Arming Americans: The sure way to slaughter on a scale with traffic fatalities. People would shoot each other over perceived danger. “I thought he was reaching for his gun tucked in his pants! How was I to know he was scratching his gonads? That confounded early morning groin-itch fools me every time. But what if it had been Osama Bin Laden? You’d be thanking me, no?”
The sheer ignorance and presumptuosness of Wootendull is very unsettling. Buy another pistola, dull, you’re a real bushwacker, aint ja, JosieWalesDull!
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By PoFo
April 22, 2007 9:19 AM | Link to this
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By getalife
April 22, 2007 9:34 AM | Link to this
Jim seems upset.
Do you remember my idea for Bill touring the world?
The next President should send Bill to tour the world to apologize for the w disaster.
By PoFo
April 22, 2007 9:36 AM | Link to this
Fiscally Responsible Government
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By Buy Danish
April 22, 2007 9:59 AM | Link to this
Getafact,
Here is the link to CDC numbers I quoted yesterday for out of wedlock birth data by race.
Please note that my original post I linked to this but the unreliable AJC server lost the post. As I was running out the door I did not have the time to dig the link up and repost it.
The reality is that, unlike you, I use factual data to back up my statements, and you are foolish to imply that I “lie” when I provide statistical data.
If you knew anything about anything you’d have known already that my numbers were correct anyway as they have been repeated ad nauseum in discussions on this topic, in every conceivable media outlet.
By getalife
April 22, 2007 10:02 AM | Link to this
“Car bombers kill 13 in Baghdad police station blasts:
Two suicide car bombers attacked a police station Sunday in western Baghdad, killing at least 13 people and wounding 82, police said. Said one man: “All our belongings and money were smashed and are gone. What kind of life is this? Where is the government?”” CNN.
The government is getting bombed and hiding.
There is not one troop or a escalation of thousands of troops that can stop this civil war.
To think otherwise like Andy is idiotic but hey, how many times has he been right about anything?
Zero.
By getalife
April 22, 2007 10:07 AM | Link to this
BD,
I will not engage in racial arguments.
By getalife
April 22, 2007 10:14 AM | Link to this
“CNN’s march to war likely had to do with TV ratings Knowing that a full-blown war would lead to a TV ratings bonanza, CNN was willing to overlook the faulty evidence in the lead up to the Iraq invasion.” CNN
Please stop with the liberal media crap.
It is corporate media helping the corporate w-hores.
I see macaca has cut and run.
He is tired of getting his a-ss kicked.
Bwhahahahahaha!
By getalife
April 22, 2007 10:22 AM | Link to this
And of course, the corporate w-hores have Faux News
I yield the floor.
By Mid-South Philosopher
April 22, 2007 10:29 AM | Link to this
Good morning, Jim,
I am a bit surprised at the tone of the Comments this morning.
Jim’s column centers on the gross ineptness of the Georgia General Assembly. The Comments responses center on the continued gross ineptness of the Bush Administration’s prosecution of the “occupation” in Iraq.
We complain a lot about the shortcomings of our national government. With respect to Iraq, given the narrow margin of control of the Congress by the Democrats, we are stuck in that pit of mire until the Democrats take the White House in the 2008 Election (God help us).
The real governmental abuse, too often as in the case here in Georgia, comes from the state level. I plan to help send some of the Republicans home come November 2008. The only problem is that we can only replace them, largely, with Democrats!
A politican, by whatever named called (Democratic or Republican), emits a bad odor upon entering a room.
By Buy Danish
April 22, 2007 10:33 AM | Link to this
Getaclue,
You are as slippery and useless as a slug. If you “won’t engage in racial arguments” why did you complain that I hadn’t supplied a link to my original post?
Now, since you can’t possibly deny that you won’t engage in Iraq War arguments, here’s something that has a special delivery stamp on it just for you and your comrades:
End the war - Right message sent to the wrong address
…I see and hear some people who think the solution is to end the war from our end and I can’t find an argument more naďve than this—I’ve seen enough wars in my life that I can’t remember a day when there was peace and I hate wars more than they can imagine. But we didn’t start his war; it’s the terrorists who started this war against life.//Instead of telling us to stop fighting back, I’d like to see some people stand up and protest the crimes of the terrorists and tell them to stop the killing and destruction…turn the stop-the-war campaign against the terrorists, is that too much to ask for?//Tell the criminals to stop killing us and stop attacking the people who are risking their lives fighting for liberty and equality. We’re not asking the media and the stop-the-war crowd to carry arms and shoot the terrorists; we just want them to stop shooting at us.BINGO.
By Buy Danish
April 22, 2007 10:36 AM | Link to this
MidSouth Phony,
Few things smell worse than hypocrisy.
By getalife
April 22, 2007 10:37 AM | Link to this
Well Mid-South,
I have no dog in the GA. debate but do enjoy your posts.
I think Bill Clinton’s world tour to try to apoligize for crap like this is a great idea.
“There are many Americans who question what we are so much hated around the world. Maybe, it is because people all over the world have met the likes of Dana Rohrabacher, Congressman with the big mouth. The latest flap that came from his flapping lips is this quote: “I HOPE IT’S YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS THAT DIE”The recipients of his diatribe? Members of the European Union Parliament. The embarrassment? Every American’s.”
I think the tone of my arguments relates to the wingnut hatred.
Do onto others…………………….
It seems to be all they understand so we have to stoop to their level.
By getalife
April 22, 2007 10:41 AM | Link to this
Also, I believe the Dems are the lesser of two evils because the gop does not even bother to hide their love of corporations anymore.
At least the Dems try to hide it.
By candide
April 22, 2007 11:22 AM | Link to this
Listen, this is not the first time that redneck Georgia legislators have behaved like the dunces they are.
By candide
April 22, 2007 11:23 AM | Link to this
Listen, this is not the first time that redneck Georgia legislators have behaved like the dunces they are.
By crooked richard
April 22, 2007 11:46 AM | Link to this
candide, are you goth?
By getalife
April 22, 2007 12:06 PM | Link to this
George Tenet should give every penny of profit to the wounded troops, hang his head in shame, and apologize to the nation. He won’t do this. This is not the way of the courtier, the sycophant, or the profiteer.
Geez.
By @@
April 22, 2007 12:24 PM | Link to this
There should be a check for mental illness before someone buys a gun, or blogs. If the states shared info with the feds, then we’d all have been spared buy danish’s sick rants and foamed droolings, and the va tech massacre. It’s really a shame that students in virginia, and readers of this blog have to share in the carnage and tragedy. As long as buy danish and her gaggle of warped, twisted, and criminally-insane hatemongeres are allowed free access to guns or keyboards, then the country suffers, and the terrorists win.
“Enemies of the people, traitors, and fifth column losers like buy danish need to be exterminated like the vermin they are”. (Don Imus, on blogging hate speak and radio vitriole during his apology to the rutgers team.)
God Bless America (and save us from the ill willed Buy Danish and her ilk.
By getalife
April 22, 2007 12:25 PM | Link to this
God help America.
By getalife
April 22, 2007 12:29 PM | Link to this
When Harry Reid was fighting for more body armor, more armored vehicles for the troops, and was opposed by George Bush and Dick Cheney, who do you believe was right?
Who really supports the troops?
By Buy Danish
April 22, 2007 12:46 PM | Link to this
Getalie,
I anyone should share their book tour profits and hang their heads in shame, Bill Clinton’s name immediately comes to mind.
Nickjacker posing as @@ at 12:24,
What’s it like living the life of a fraud and a coward?
Over and out for the weekend.
By Getawipe
April 22, 2007 12:46 PM | Link to this
The troops support the troops.
Support the troops is a slogan. It has no meaning. I support the troops, yet I’ve never even seen a troop. I havent given money, other than taxes. I havent applauded, or yelled “good job”, at them, cause I’ve never seen them. Support the troops? That’s your idea of being a patriot? Do nothing and say, “Support the Troops”?
Sunshine Patriots. All of you. You couldn’t support an athelete.
Buy a gun, buy danish. Buy a gun. Clean it everyday. Be sure it’s unloaded. Tell people you bought your gun for protection. Tell them it’s not loaded when you proudly show them it.
Buy a gun, Dye Brainless. Buy a gun.
By Mark Potts
April 22, 2007 12:56 PM | Link to this
I see Ben Harbin made sure he got $550,000 for one of his pet pork projects in Augusta, but forget about Peachcare, funding for Trauma Centers, adequately funding schools, etc. What kind of Conservative is Harbin? Seems to me he is playing the same political games the Dems did. The GOP has shown they are just as addicted to Pork Barrel spending as The Dems.. and to heck with the necessities. Luckily, Casey Cagle stood by principle, and hopefully the Senate will keep the pork out of thye budget that Ben Harbin put in.. like his pet project The Golf Hall of Fame.. which has already wasted over $18 mill in state taxpayer money.
By getalife
April 22, 2007 1:02 PM | Link to this
Well, I have told them great job at several airports and shook their hands.
Under equipped, for or five tours, in a civil war with no plan is not supporting the troops.
They did their job, their leaders failed them.
By WootenDull
April 22, 2007 1:03 PM | Link to this
{{{By getalife April 22, 2007 10:02 AM “Car bombers kill 13 in Baghdad police station blasts: Two suicide car bombers attacked a police station Sunday in western Baghdad, killing at least 13 people and wounding 82, police said. Said one man: “All our belongings and money were smashed and are gone. What kind of life is this? Where is the government?”” CNN. The government is getting bombed and hiding. To think otherwise like Andy is idiotic but hey, how many times has he been right about anything? Zero.}}}
I’m actually kind of glad you brought this point up, gitmo.
1) When the best you can do against your enemy on the battlefield is send your soldiers on suicide missions, bagging 13 innocent civilians, I’m not sure if I’d be using the phrase “civil war.”
2) For some reason, I remember a real recent domestic suicide mission that took more than thirteen innocent victims, are you suggesting we cut and run from Virginia Tech?
3) Why would we quit Iraq because of a few Cho’s? Are you a coward? Shouldn’t normal, functioning human beings want to kill terrorists before they murder more innocent civilians? Are you inhuman?
4) Do you even realize anymore that you are gloating over the murder of women and children so that you can flame the President of the United States?
Any more points of discussion you’d like to share with us?
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By getalife
April 22, 2007 1:12 PM | Link to this
Yes, I rise to speak about Andy’s insane post.
I know the wingnuts use the wingnut Cho as a talking point and consider it absurd.
There is no comparison of the wingnut Cho massacre and w’s Iraq massacre.
Not even close but after reading the crap Steyn, Maulkin and Derbys-hit spewed, I can see Andy as part of that disgusting mindset.
God help America.
I yield the floor.
By getalife
April 22, 2007 1:41 PM | Link to this
Bizarre indeed Jim
God help America.
By jm
April 22, 2007 1:43 PM | Link to this
I am surprised that Mr. Wooten actually expected the state legislature to accomplish anything or for Sonny to provide leadership. Each member needs all forty days they are in session for sound bites and to cozy up to lobbyists to make sure they remain in power or to position themselves for their next office. That leaves no time for them to do their actual jobs. Oh and that will of the people drivel, that is only for marketing purposes. It is the will of the “monied” people and corporations, that is all that matters.
By getalife
April 22, 2007 2:12 PM | Link to this
So, CNN puts Ted Nugent on to argue to kill everybody.
“Of course, the one time the U.S. government tried to put a rifle in ole Teddy’s hands, he quickly enrolled in a community college and took a student deferment. This was back in the late 60s, when Nugent was a young guitar-player out of Detroit. He never made the rice paddies of Vietnam, but he did brag to the Detroit Free Press: “… if I would have gone over there, I’d have been killed, or I’d have killed all the Hippies in the foxholes. I would have killed everybody.”
Funny how brave they are until they defer for fighting for their country. Sure you would Ted, sure you would.
They do love to run that ignorant mouth.
By Satch
April 22, 2007 2:19 PM | Link to this
getalife-
You do a p!ss poor job of yielding the floor.
By getalife
April 22, 2007 2:22 PM | Link to this
Sorry, I yield the floor to the distinguished gentle person “Satch”.
By WootenDull
April 22, 2007 2:30 PM | Link to this
gitmo: Cho blamed America for problems that he was having with his own defective mind.
Just like you do.
That dude was a learned pinko®, a practicing, licensed liberal, you own his as-s.
Maybe if you libs had set the example of how to man up and take charge of your own life, instead of caving into to fake and contrived boogey men, this whole tragedy could have been avoided.
We will never know.
Yet you work on the next one.
get a pair.
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By getalife
April 22, 2007 2:35 PM | Link to this
May I suggest an absence of a quorum.
The clerk will call the roll.
Mr. “getalife”.
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By Markus
April 22, 2007 2:51 PM | Link to this
“I see macaca has cut and run. He is tired of getting his a-ss kicked.”
What are you queefing about now, liberal queefstain craponlife? You couldn’t handle my links and ran like a the blogp^ssy you are and just called them lies. Yesterday you b!tched up a storm because I was hanging around, and today I miss half a day because I played tennis (6-4, 7-6 (8-6), 6-3 __> Markus’ smackdown). Then I grilled a surf-n-turn of filet mignon and lobster. I suppose grilling a farter cow helped with my carbon dating… or radio footprint monitoring, or some liberal sh!t like that.
Anyway queefbag, can you PUH-leeze make up your flucking mind on me coming or going on this blog as well as if Wooten’s blog is NOT read by anyone and he needs to retire or that I post here and EVERYONE reads it?
Thanks, jackal wannabe jackass.
BTW queefstain: male tennis players haven’t worn “short and tight” shorts since Agassi beat Conners in the US open in September of 1988. Also, nobody uses wooden rackets anymore. Just thought I’d help you out some, you diseased liberal monkeybat.
By Markus
April 22, 2007 2:53 PM | Link to this
Correction: that’s “Connors” not “Conners.”
By getalife
April 22, 2007 2:56 PM | Link to this
What purpose does the not so distinguished wingnut, Mr. macaca rise?
By getalife
April 22, 2007 3:04 PM | Link to this
May I suggest an absence of a quorum.
The clerk will call the roll.
Mr. “getalife”.
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By Markus
April 22, 2007 3:05 PM | Link to this
What did you accomplish today besides wasting time on a blog, craponlife? What did you accomplish last week? Last month? Last YEAR? (Are we making sense of why I’ll call you craponlife from now on, queefbag?).
By getalife
April 22, 2007 3:07 PM | Link to this
What purpose does the not so distinguished wingnut, Mr. macaca rise?
By getalife
April 22, 2007 3:15 PM | Link to this
As Speaker of this blog,
I rise to inform the wingnuts on the other side of the aisle, that there are no personal attacks allowed.
It is not about me, me, me.
Do you have a point of order wingnut macaca?
By Markus
April 22, 2007 3:16 PM | Link to this
Most brilliant liberal internet queef quote of the day:
“Throughout most of human history men have been armed, but with swords not guns,” Paglia observes.
No sh!t. Men were mounting horses throughout most of history too and not F/A-18 Superhornets and whatnot. Or 4,500-lb SUVS if the candyassed liberal was complaining about what civilians can get their hands on.
RIP Blue Angel #6 LT CDR Kevin Davis. May God bless you and your family. I had the pleasure of seeing you perform at Dobbins one year ago next weekend.
By getalife
April 22, 2007 3:18 PM | Link to this
May I suggest an absence of a quorum.
The clerk will call the roll.
Mr. “getalife”.
Geeeeeeeeez.
By Markus
April 22, 2007 3:28 PM | Link to this
Wrong link. LT CDR Kevin Davis again here.
Puss@ssed liberals need not show up.
By getalife
April 22, 2007 3:33 PM | Link to this
I rise to debate this:
BAGHDAD, April 20 — American military commanders in Baghdad are trying a radical new strategy to quell the widening sectarian violence by building a 12-foot-high, three-mile-long wall separating a historic Sunni enclave from Shiite neighborhoods.
Soldiers in the Adhamiya district of northern Baghdad, a Sunni Arab stronghold, began construction of the wall last week and expect to finish it within a month. Iraqi Army soldiers would then control movement through a few checkpoints. The wall has already drawn intense criticism from residents of the neighborhood, who say that it will increase sectarian tensions and that it is part of a plan by the Shiite-led Iraqi government to box in the minority Sunnis.
A doctor in Adhamiya, Abu Hassan, said the wall would transform the residents into caged animals.
“It’s unbelievable that they treat us in such an inhumane manner,” he said in a telephone interview. “They’re trying to isolate us from other parts of Baghdad. The hatred will be much greater between the two sects.”
President Bush, tear down this wall.
By getalife
April 22, 2007 3:44 PM | Link to this
I will argue that we have picked sides with the majority in their civil war.
What will the other Sunni countries in the region do to help the Sunnis?
Have we allied with Iran now?
What is the plan.
By Markus
April 22, 2007 3:45 PM | Link to this
Someone told me it was “Earth Day” today. Well let’s see. I grilled a steak that used to fart which contributes to global warming yet used charcoal to do it which also contributes to global warming. So I guess I’m even steven on the global walarmist carbon dating… err radio footprint mold… or some liberal sh!t like that. Yep, did my bit.
By Markus
April 22, 2007 3:50 PM | Link to this
Cheryl Crawfish… err Crowe snaps at Rove. WTF is up with all these liberal Hollywood-head and musical freaks of nature? Who TF do they think they are? GOD? Well according to Howie Scream Dean, I guess so.
Lance couldn’t have dumped this hysterical b!tch too soon. Oh yeah, and I told a friend to not buy a Subaru because they use that liberal skank’s music in the commercials (no, I just made that up… that would be the mentality of a stupid liberal b!tching about ads on an AM talk radio show).
By WootenDull
April 22, 2007 3:53 PM | Link to this
Didn’t you just know there had to be a catch?:
{{{But here’s the caveat: In the study, the youngsters polled had gone through abstinence-education programs when they were 11 or 12. Five years later — during which time they had no abstinence education — they were polled.}}}
Ever wonder why a lib doesn’t want abstinence to work?
Isn’t that just sick?
Cowards.
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By Markus
April 22, 2007 3:55 PM | Link to this
Only the hysterical liberal demoncats at A.B.S. would “Ammo” include empty clips. Next up in diseased liberal candyassed monkeyland, expended shells are weapons. God help this spineless nation.
By Satch
April 22, 2007 3:57 PM | Link to this
You’re the Speaker of the blog because everybody else hasalife.
By Markus
April 22, 2007 4:06 PM | Link to this
Ok, I can’t take it anymore. The Science Channel and Tom Brokaw and man-made global walarmism is getting nausiating. If I do a massive burnout in a friend’s Corvette Z06 in an empty corporate parking lot on Sunday, have I helped the environment by getting rid of rubber without a landfill or have I hindered it by burning it?
By WootenDull
April 22, 2007 4:09 PM | Link to this
{{{By getalife April 22, 2007 3:33 PM A doctor in Adhamiya, Abu Hassan, said the wall would transform the residents into caged animals.}}}
I believe that when you send your children to suicide bomb your neighbors, you’ve already made the leap to “caged animals.”
This as-shole, who’s whining propaganda gitmo has sucked up like a Dyson Animal™, is probably p** cause he can’t get at the necks of those infidels anymore.
Well, boo hoo hoo.
Cowards.
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By Markus
April 22, 2007 4:11 PM | Link to this
Easy there Satch. Easy, killer. Go easy on craponlife. That thing thinks it’s changing viewpoints out there. Really. Just let it think… just let it think…
By Midori
April 22, 2007 4:45 PM | Link to this
Gonzales feeding tube removed, GOP urges quick intervention
Following his disastrous appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Alberto Gonzales’ wife, Rebecca Turner Gonzales, has decided to remove the feeding tube that has been keeping the Attorney General alive for the past ten years.
“We have always held out hope that Alberto will someday achieve normal brain function,” said Mrs. Gonzales in a written statement. “But after Thursday, it has become clear that there can be no recovery from his current vegetative state.”
Congressional Republicans responded quickly to this news, introducing “Alberto’s Law”, which would prohibit the removal of any life support device even in cases of gross incompetence and extreme toadying.
Speaking from his home in Tennessee, physician and former GOP Senator Bill Frist offered his own diagnosis. “I have reviewed the video footage of Thursday’s hearing,” said Frist, “and in my medical opinion it is clear that Alberto does exhibit some limited mental activity. With the right treatment, it’s possible that, someday, he may even be able to understand and respond to questions.”
While Democrats maintained that this is a private matter for the Gonzales family, Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman(I) immediately declared his support for the legislation and called on news outlets to dramatically increase their coverage of his statements on the issue.
For its part, the White House continues its unqualified support for Gonzales. “The president has no plans to ask for his resignation, ” said White House Deputy Press Secretary Dana Perino. “We remain confident that death will in no way reduce Judge Gonzales’ effectiveness as Attorney General.”
By Markus
April 22, 2007 4:50 PM | Link to this
Well we knew it was bound to happen. Dumb SOB’s on the jackassed left are calling for removal of guns from America’s civilians. Ok, let’s forget that anyone can hide guns anywhere from backyard buried vaults to secret car/truck compartments. Let’s forget that the REALITY is that guns will NEVER be removed from society any more than illegal drugs. Let’s just see a pro-ditch gun link and pro-keep gun link.
The first is pro-ditch by a UCLA professor (what the hell else) and former LA Slimes editorial page editor (what the hell else like Cynthia Tucker). The second is from Mr. Wango Tango himlself Ted Nugent. A no frills, in your face, take no limpwristed liberal bullsnot manly man America’s man.
Qeefer
Nugent
By Markus
April 22, 2007 4:56 PM | Link to this
Dammitt.. Nugent again.
By Markus
April 22, 2007 4:58 PM | Link to this
One more time.
By Markus
April 22, 2007 5:04 PM | Link to this
“The U.S. Constitution does guarantee the right to bear arms. It was penned over 200 hundred years ago in a much different world. When was the last time a person with a flat tire on the freeway was required to subsistence hunt until help arrived? While I believe that most persons (including myself) can responsibly own a gun, I would freely give up that right to keep guns out of those that do not.”
This nation is in deep sheet people. Listening to pansieassed liberals like this ball-less queefbag is as disgusting as it is alarming. Only government schools could produce a limpwristed liberal puss like that.
By RW-(the original)
April 22, 2007 5:11 PM | Link to this
Where do you suppose the idiot parrot plagiarized that 4:55 from? As lame as that attempt at satire is, it’s still six paragraphs longer than any thought that seeps out of mindless Midori.
By WootenDull
April 22, 2007 5:11 PM | Link to this
Even in the World Capital of Cowardice, the home of the weak and spineless, the land of the surrender monkey (narrowly ahead of the US Senate,) the libs are getting voted out of office:
Centre-right Nicolas Sarkozy will meet Socialist Segolene Royal in the run-off of France’s presidential election on 6 May, according to initial results. Mr Sarkozy, a former interior minister, came first with 30%, ahead of Ms Royal, who is bidding to be France’s first woman president, on about 25%.
How about that, a wingnut running France.
They could bomb terrorists indiscriminately, no one would ever say a word to them.
We could turn this war on terror over to them, the libs would sit in silent awe as the French invaded Iran, Pakistan and any other lunatic country caught enslaving it’s population.
Good deal.
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By RW-(the original)
April 22, 2007 5:15 PM | Link to this
Excuse me 4:45.
By getalife
April 22, 2007 5:15 PM | Link to this
Welcome to the wingnut jungle Midori.
Well, so much for the wall
Mute point.
By Markus
April 22, 2007 5:21 PM | Link to this
Communist News Network:
“Right-wing candidate Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist rival Segolene Royal will face each other.”
Exhibit #1247b of liberals touting “right wing” while ignorning “left wing” and using some other plug in it’s place. This time, it’s “socialist.” Anyone ever seen the mainstream media say something like “Conservative candidate challenges left-wing rival.”? Me neither. For the record, these are French white flag waving politicians. The woman doesn’t look too bad for a frog. I wonder if her arm pits are shaven.
By getalife
April 22, 2007 5:22 PM | Link to this
“In the northern Iraq attack, armed men stopped the bus as it was carrying workers from a textile factory in Mosul to their hometown of Bashika, which has a mixed population of Christians and Yazidis _ a primarily Kurdish sect that worships an angel figure considered to be the devil by some Muslims ad Christians.”
Geez.
By getalife
April 22, 2007 5:31 PM | Link to this
I see Ghetto Newt who gave us the “war czar” has joined the cult.
“Gingrich blames “Liberalism” for Va Tech Killings”
Cho spewed about Moses and Jesus. He played the victim and blamed others for his actions.
This is full blown wingnut.
Nuff said.
By Markus
April 22, 2007 5:33 PM | Link to this
“He played the victim and blamed others for his actions.”
Just like worthless gutter trash liberals who vote RAT.
By WootenDull
April 22, 2007 5:37 PM | Link to this
{{{By Markus April 22, 2007 5:21 PM For the record, these are French white flag waving politicians.}}}
Markus: Au contraire, when the beeb tags you with the “right” label it means that you are predisposed to bombing your enemies instead of surrendering to them:
Mr. Sarkozy’s admiration and knowledge of the United States appear confined to its economic growth rate. He opposes Turkish membership in the European Union in the most intolerant terms: “If you let 100 million Turkish Muslims come in, what will come of it?” And his Gaullism is tainted by a weakness for rightist catchwords — “nation” and “identity,” not to mention “scum” when referring to rioting minority youths — with which he hopes to outflank Mr. Le Pen.
Anyone that uses the S word and doesn’t spend the rest of his career apologizing for it, is a Man, unlike any liberal in America.
We will be a welcome addition to the global war for oil, hahaha, or whatever those in the fever swamp call defending ourselves from terrorists.
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By WootenDull
April 22, 2007 5:41 PM | Link to this
Pardon Moi:
He will be a welcome addition to the global war for oil, hahaha, or whatever those in the fever swamp call defending ourselves from terrorists.
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By getalife
April 22, 2007 5:42 PM | Link to this
Check this out Midori
By Markus
April 22, 2007 5:43 PM | Link to this
Ah so, WD. Well France had better wake the hell up. 30% unemployment rate amongst muslim “youths?” The hell are they doing with their time? The rest of Europe seems like a lost cause.
By Markus
April 22, 2007 5:45 PM | Link to this
Yes, all bow to craponlife’s one God link, C&L. Snap that pinko thong, craponlife. Zombie.
By getalife
April 22, 2007 5:46 PM | Link to this
I see Andy loves France now and wants them to have their first woman leader.
You flip flopped on Hillary too?
Great idea to have Bill tour the world with his rock star status don’t ya think?
By Markus
April 22, 2007 5:47 PM | Link to this
Let the record show that Markus has accomplished more today in the real world than craponlife. Just like every other day.
By Markus
April 22, 2007 5:48 PM | Link to this
“I see Andy loves France now and wants them to have their first woman leader. You flip flopped on Hillary too?”
Hillary’s no woman, pig.
By WootenDull
April 22, 2007 5:49 PM | Link to this
Speaking of RINO’s:
The governor of Anbar province, al-Qaeda’s base in Iraq, agreed that security had improved recently but raised concerns that his province still gets almost no assistance from the central government in Baghdad. That has left citizens in his province without jobs, electricity and potable water, even as open sewers spill filth into the streets.-Chuck Hagel
3 months ago this lib was whining that Anbar was lost to Al Qaeda and now, after Al Qaeda is defeated, he is whining that the sewers don’t work.
Do something about it Coward.
Fund the troops, fund their mission, shut the F up, and let the Men do their jobs.
You carry your as-s back and sit with our sisters, the democrats.
Punk mofo.
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By getalife
April 22, 2007 5:54 PM | Link to this
Petraeus: “Iraq will have to ‘learn to live with attacks’”
Brilliant.
Geez.
By Markus
April 22, 2007 5:55 PM | Link to this
Slimes:
“2008 Democrats Propose a Ceiling on Bush Tax Cuts”
This is news to the Slimes? Must be a slow news weekend. Yeah that’s right you neoStalinist jackasses, run the economy right into the crapper and blame Bush. God knows I’ll scale back my purchases BIGTIME if you Aholes do it. I won’t be alone either, dirty RATs. We’ll see if your beloved bottom 50% can pull us through.
By Markus
April 22, 2007 6:00 PM | Link to this
Everyone who thinks craponlife is the slightest bit interesting, witty, humorous, or has any other positive attribute to contribute to this blog, please raise your hand and say OY!
Anybody?
Anyone?
Hello?
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By RW-(the original)
April 22, 2007 6:17 PM | Link to this
Markus,
As moonbats go getalife has a few things going for him. I realize that’s not saying much, but at least he drinks good liquor and smokes fine cigars.
By Markus
April 22, 2007 6:26 PM | Link to this
Actually RW, I’d say craponlife drinks some very BAD liqour. What a quack. Yesterday questioning being called a “liberal” took the cake.
By RW-(the original)
April 22, 2007 6:42 PM | Link to this
Markus,
Good point. He probably drinks fermented Louisiana swamp water after it’s been in his bong for about a brick of cheap Mexican, but he claims to drink fine liquor and smoke good cigars.