Thinking Right

By harold

July 6, 2007 8:27 AM | Link to this

Harold still aint sure why we aint swimming in indoor pools of free Coca Cola with free air conditioning from Georgia Power after all the subsidizing we did to get them where they are today

Why subsidize businesses? They NEVER return the favor.

By harold

July 6, 2007 8:34 AM | Link to this

aint that frenchie president a conserative? seems harold remembers somebody around here yapping about how even the french elected a conservative

By jbmlaw

July 6, 2007 8:39 AM | Link to this

Good morning all. I’m playing a 1970 recording of Bizet’s Carmen on my mp3 at this moment, but Jim’s opening note displaces that music with the Al Yankovic classic recording, “I’m a Genius in France.” I’ll bypass the subsequent Austin Powers joke.

I have to admit that I had given little consideration to the wants and needs of “progressive” SurrenderCrats like Johnson and McDermott this week – it is so much easier to celebrate all that is good and worthwhile in our country on the 4th of July week.

Mr. Wooten, I respectfully suggest you cut out the pc crap – call the foreign physicians in your note what they really are, “Islamists.” We need not limit Buddhist physicians, or Jewish physicians, or Taoist physicians – just Moslem physicians. The physician-ness is not what makes them evil.

Bottled tea is sui generis – I don’t think any rational soul compares that to real tea.

By R.J.

July 6, 2007 8:40 AM | Link to this

“Good choice. France awards its Legion of Honor to Barbra Streisand. “You are the America that we love,” said French President Nicolas Sarkozy.”

If Jim Wooten wants to hate all things French, then he’s welcome to. But I, for one, am glad to have them as our military ally in both the Balkans and Afghanistan. I’m also glad to have them as a member of NATO.

By the way — the World Health Organization ranks France’s health care system as number one in the world (we’re number 37). Maybe we could learn a thing or two from them.

Their feelings about Barbara Streisand notwithstanding (I never thought to ask), but I’ve met a lot of French people, and the ones I’ve known through the years were actually very nice.

(Note: Isn’t Sarkozy the guy that Jim Wooten recently commended the French for electing? Apparently, it doesn’t take much to loose Mr. Wooten’s respect.)

By harold

July 6, 2007 8:41 AM | Link to this

Harold reckons everbody else got runned off. Good that makes it easier to achieve the ultimate plan:

No Cars on Peachtree by July 4, 2012!

By jbmlaw

July 6, 2007 8:44 AM | Link to this

Dear Harold @ 8:34, you credit the French mind with greater powers of discernment than is valid. Until the French elected their version of a “conservative,” they were inclined to condemn all Americans. Even if they err in their judgment of what is a worthwhile American, we can credit them with a change in attitude.

By Jack knife

July 6, 2007 8:50 AM | Link to this

Harold, let me help you out here friend. A French “conservative” is a moderate democrat here. A French “liberal” is a full blown Marxist here. You just can’t compare everything as equalities when dealing with foreign nations and making comparisons. You’d probably like their mandatory 34 hour work weeks, available paid family leave for months, unrelenting government meddling in corporate affairs, and the 9% unemployment that comes along with all the above for us too, wouldn’t you?

By Redneck Convert

July 6, 2007 8:50 AM | Link to this

If you can’t be happy without money, you won’t be happy with it.

Well, I want everybody that is unhappy with all the money they got from the big tax cut to send it to me, to see if I can be happy with it. That includes bigshot lawyers like jbmlaw and business owners like Van. I figure I been waiting about six years for the money to trickle on down to me, and it don’t look like they got enough of it yet to turn any loose.

Up here at the trailer we don’t worry about GA Power bills. We just run the line from the power pole to the trailer and get rid of the middle man. Its called Private Enterprize. Same with cable TV. I figure if the cos. can rip us off legal-like we can rip them off too.

I don’t recall seeing anything from Sister Dusty yesterday. Must have had too many PBRs while firing up the grill for the big lynching party on the 4th. Too bad this GodHatesTrash guy had to spill the beans about her weight and fambly relations.

Glad to see Captain Freedom is back from a stretch in the pen. He really socks it to the libruls. Well, I’ll close now. Markus is probly barreling down I-75 on the way home in his 18 wheeler and he’ll be winding up on this blog soon. Won’t nobody get a word in then.

By Craig also

July 6, 2007 8:50 AM | Link to this

If not for the French, Mr. law, you’d still be a subject of the Queen. The constant whining about them by righties is tiring.

By jbmlaw

July 6, 2007 8:51 AM | Link to this

Dear Mr. Wooten, one additional observation, the “London” company selling the tea business is selling an American company it purchased a few years ago – repatriating a non-English entity. Guess they are telling us what they think about American liquid cuisine.

By Jim's a Cherry Picker

July 6, 2007 8:55 AM | Link to this

Hi Jim,

Some good Cherry Picking today. Especially on Gore’s boy.

I really like Lex’s quote…that’s about right…but it’t ain’t America. This is America Jim: “SHOW ME THE MONEY”.

Phil Kent can shove it. Nothing like a small-time has-been trying to spin, spin, spin for a lost cause.

Babs can shove it too. She’s a joke. She can take Jane with. They’re both distractions.

With regards to classes of villans that should be pursued to the ends of the earth…how about those villans who blow up buildings? How about Osama?

Shouldn’t we be pursuing Osama to the “ends of the earth”?

By CJ

July 6, 2007 9:16 AM | Link to this

“We can place any environmental, social and regulatory burden on local governments and the private sector to achieve any objective we want — affordable housing, purer air and water, fuller employment and minimum wages — so long as we realize the costs are passed on to consumers. Georgia Power Co. is asking for a 7 percent increase in the monthly bill next year, or about $6.67 on the average user. Half the spending is for upgraded environmental controls at its coal-fired plants. We demand, they provide. Pay the man.”

Atlanta’s poor air quality can, quite literally, kill. Even at very low levels, smog can burn people’s lungs and make their airways inflamed, red and swollen; this can cause chest pain and hacking coughs. In some cases, it can also cause permanent lung damage. Smog is bad for healthy adults-but it puts children, with their young, developing lungs, at particular risk. For people with chronic respiratory diseases like emphysema, smog pollution can even be fatal.

I never understood why Jim Wooten and others believe that it’s okay for The Southern Company (parent of Georgia Power) to make bigger profits and rate-payers to save money at the expense of those who literally suffer because of smog.

Pain and suffering aside, I also never understood how Mr. Wooten and others of like-mind can call themselves conservatives while ignoring our fundamental economic need to eliminate “externalities” (i.e. external costs to a transaction passed on to households and/or taxpayers who aren’t party to the transaction). An example of an externality is health care expenses incurred by taxpayers and/or households with children suffering from asthma as a result of smog. Such externalities are actually an impediment to free markets. There’s nothing conservative about benefiting from an economic transaction while passing some of the cost of that transaction to random outside parties.

It’s appropriate that we should pay, via higher electricity rates, for clean air. If all goes as planned, the result will be that our health and the health of our loved ones will be better, health care costs of families and taxpayers arising out of smog will be reduced or eliminated, and the entire cost of the transaction (the sale and purchase of electricity) will be borne entirely by the parties to the transaction. That’s a trade-off I can live with — literally.

By Rob

July 6, 2007 9:17 AM | Link to this

If not for the French, Mr. law, you’d still be a subject of the Queen. The constant whining about them by righties is tiring. - Craig also, you left out the part where the French agreed to assist us solely because they were at war with the Queen. You know, that old ‘an enemy of my enemy is my friend’ thing? The French haven’t done anything for us since, irrespective of us giving them major assistance twice in the 20th Century. The constant whining for six years about Bush by you lefties gets tiring too.

By Rod

July 6, 2007 9:22 AM | Link to this

My oh my, how Jim is falling.

He points out how Congress’ approval rating is 25% - and brags about how that’s lower than Bush. Jim is actually bragging that Bush has a 30% approval rating? Shameful.

You’re pathetic when you use Gore’s son as a political weapon. Grow a set of balls, Jim.

By Jim's a Cherry Picker

July 6, 2007 9:28 AM | Link to this

CJ!

My Man!

Externalities!

How about life cycle costs? Like the cost to state and local governments of treating all those tobacco-ravaged old people? The companies get all the profit, but the locals get all the external costs.

Can anyone think of any others? I’ve got a bunch but don’t want to hog them all up.

By saywhat?

July 6, 2007 9:34 AM | Link to this

JBMlaw, Don’t forget to add Pete Domenici to your evergrowing list of SurrenderCrats in the US Senate.

As for Phil Kent, we can of course assume that super-rich right wing foundations haven’t done anything to undermine America. (PNAC anyone?) The guy is clearly a partisan hack.

Democratic do-nothing house? Its amazing how in 6 months, Jim can forget the last 2 years, where his precious republican congress couldn’t even pass a budget, and had to let the following Democratic congress do their work for them.Of course with all the republican obstructionists in the Senate, and Mr. “look, I found my veto pen” in the White House, anything the House passes will have trouble making it into law anyway.

By Lauren

July 6, 2007 9:37 AM | Link to this

“Far too little research and reporting has gone into examining the role of foundations in framing public policy issues and in influencing legislation. Kudos then to fellow conservative Phil Kent, whose new book, “Foundations of Betrayal: How the Liberal Super-Rich Undermine America,” makes the case that, as he writes, thousands of them “doggedly fund their own ideological objectives in myriad ways that harm the United States” while ignoring medical and educational needs.”

Did Phil Kent happen to mention Richard Mellon Scaife in his book about rich people who use their money to doggedly pursue ideological objectives? You remember him don’t you? The guy who created and funded the Arkansas Project — a fund established specifically to prevent, then end Bill Clinton’s presidency. I think most would agree that this was money well spent (not).

Did Mr. Kent happen to mention Rupert Murdoch in his book? What about Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell or the good Reverend Sun Myung Moon? Any mention of the Heritage Foundation, Newt Gingrich’s now defunct GOPAC or Tom Delay’s political action committee that was used (allegedly) illegally in Texas to launder corporate money to influence elections?

Oh that’s right — this silly book was written by a “conservative” — so of course, a double-standard is applied.

By getalife

July 6, 2007 9:42 AM | Link to this

Thanks Jim for this excellent news:

“U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson, a DeKalb County Democrat, signs on to impeach President Bush.

Yes!

By Jim's a Cherry Picker

July 6, 2007 9:42 AM | Link to this

Jim,

Man! You’re really taking a beating today!

I hope you have something fun and relaxing planned for your weekend.

Maybe you and Kelly McCutchen can get together and discuss some blue sky stuff like digging traffic tunnels under the city, or privatizing the police.

I’m sure you’d enjoy that.

By Dusty

July 6, 2007 9:43 AM | Link to this

Oh good!! Jim Wooten came out this morning firing away. I love it. Liberals are so sneaky. Look at “letters” this morning. Dem headquarters sent out a “call” and they all jumped to. You would think Libby was “Americas Most Wanted” and Bush pardoned him. And I won’t mention a former Dem president on whom the liberals have now placed a halo. The sweetest, most loving husband a girl could want when she’s trying to get in the White House again.

Well, anyway, I see RedNeck has come out from hiding behind his trailer. He wanted to welcome the return of Captain Freedom. Both will soon be starring in Michael Moore’s new movie”PHONY”. Inbetween they will be “stand-in” for Moore’s super frog physique, both having robbed the beer truck too much.

But I’d better run. MidSouth will be here soon to tell us that Democrats are finer than silk and Republicans lower than mud. He’s a nice guy, just a bit misguided. You know. A Democrat!!

By oldpunk

July 6, 2007 9:44 AM | Link to this

All right! We can whale on the Bush twins again! Maybe they can go to rehab with Gore’s kid.

Make up your mind about the Democratic Congress, Jim. Of course they can’t get anything done - Republicans are filibustering everything. Seems just a while ago you thought that was bad.

For the power surcharge, every time a business gets tax breaks, that costs others money as well. Jim gets behind eliminating corporate welfare!

And for the Katrina ripoffs, please mention the Bush administration’s built-in ripoffs of you and me for their corporate buddies. Almost as bad as what they did in Iraq moneywise.

By Jim's a Cherry Picker

July 6, 2007 9:52 AM | Link to this

Dusty,

Actually, Libby is just a distraction. Osama is “America’s Most Wanted”.

But evidently Bush is more tied up with protecting himself and his cronies to get busy on that.

What’s it been? Six years?

We took down Hitler faster than that. And with a “soft on defense” Democrat in the White House to boot…go figure.

By jm

July 6, 2007 9:53 AM | Link to this

On the off chance that W is actually impeached, I wonder how Cheney will handle the demotion to President.

By GrayGayGeek

July 6, 2007 10:07 AM | Link to this

jm @ 9:53

That’s why the order should be to impeach Cheney first, then have the Senate and/or House keep the nominee for V.P. tied up with filibusters until King George can be impeached as well.

If the Retreaticans despise the existence of Speaker Pelosi, think of how they’ll react to President Pelosi.

By Dusty

July 6, 2007 10:10 AM | Link to this

oldpunk 9:44

Senility is no excuse.

The Bush girls were not going 100 mph in marijuana laden car like Gore’s son who has been in rehab before. Didn’t your mother tell you that it is not nice to try and tell “fibs” about someone’s family? I guess not.

What filibuster in Congress? Democrats are making a mess without any help from Republicans.

You don’t bother much with facts, do you? Better describe “corporate welfare” specifically. I’m sure Jim would like some factual information so he can write an expose’.

So you don’t want any government help when your city is flooded? Katrina ripoffs involved everybody from local contractors in NO to motels in Atlanta. Such a huge immediate surge of help to New Orleans came with a lot of hitches. It wasn’t supposed to reward anyone but those in trouble. Crooks came like buzzards at roadkill. Better to blame the lack of honesty on predators than the government trying to help. Don’t know how you pin that down to “corporate buddies”. Sounds more like the Dem Syndrome, the main symptom being an effort to blame “everything” on President Bush.

By harold

July 6, 2007 10:10 AM | Link to this

cheney would not become president. he is in the legislative branch remember?

By catlady

July 6, 2007 10:11 AM | Link to this

On the off chance that W is actually impeached, I wonder how Cheney will handle the demotion to President.

From All-Powerful Omnipresent God to President. What a let-down.

By getalife

July 6, 2007 10:25 AM | Link to this

Jeb’s daughter and Rush are two people Jim will not write about with drug problems.

The problems with America, Republicans

By E. Cox

July 6, 2007 10:25 AM | Link to this

“Be thankful for small favors: “We don’t have quite enough votes to get done everything we want,” says U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) of the Democratic do-nothing House.”

Mr. Wooten,

Your comment about the Democratic do-nothing House makes no sense. If the President vetoes a bill, as he did with the bill containing benchmarks for Iraq and the bill funding embryonic stem cell research, there’s nothing the Democrats can do without more votes from the GOP to override those bills.

If the Democrats pass a bill to increase the minimum wage, an important priority to most Americans, and the president signs it (as he did), but the mainstream media fails to cover it, the Democrats can’t be held responsible for that (although they need to work harder at communicating such accomplishments).

If the Democrats seek to eliminate taxpayer subsidies of oil companies and the Republican in the Senate threaten to filibuster, there’s nothing Democrats can do until we have more Democrats in the Senate.

If Democrats pass bills to implement the 9/11 recommendations or to reduce Medicare drug prices and the Senate minority promises to filibuster while the President promises to veto — what can we do until we get more Democrats?

If the Democratic Senate passes a bill to raise fuel standards, close the SUV loophole and allow cheaper drugs to be imported from Canada (likely to pass in the House), and the mainstream media doesn’t report it — again — who’s fault is that?

McDermott was right when he said, “We don’t have quite enough votes to get done everything we want.” Hopefully, after the ‘08 elections, we’ll be able to make some progress.

By Curious Observer

July 6, 2007 10:25 AM | Link to this

You won’t see a pardon of Scooter Libby until the Bush administration is heading out the White House door. The reason? A pardon now would force Libby to sing like a canary, because he couldn’t plead the 5th amendment. The brilliantly conceived commutation keeps Libby silent about the participation of Cheney and others in the outing of Valerie Plame.

This insidious scheme is what differentiates Clinton’s infamous pardon of Marc Rich from Bush’s commutation of Scooter Libby’s sentence. At least Clinton did it for the campaign contributions, not to keep Rich silent. Neither act is commendable, but let’s not equate them.

By Adam

July 6, 2007 10:30 AM | Link to this

A quote from Hank Johnson’s website regarding his reasons for running for Congress:

*Johnson said he decided to run because he viewed McKinney as “ineffective” and “divisive.” Johnson credits his win to the voters’ desire to elect a representative who offered “solutions, not politics.”

“I think a lot of people felt that it was a new day for politics in the 4th District,” Johnson said. “One of unity, one of bringing people together and representing disparate interests.”*

Oh well, I guess Hank, feeling ignored in his first term, needed something to get his name in the paper and decided to fall back on the old tried and true. Sorry Hank, you don’t have the charisma to top Cynthia. Try slugging a cop, maybe that will help bring back the old spirit of the 4th District and inspire your constituents.

By Longshanks Wooten

July 6, 2007 10:30 AM | Link to this

The problem with the Democratic Party is that it’s filled with Democrats. I think it’s time to resurrect an old custom: Prima Noctes. On the first night of any democratic congress, we’ll bend all the democrats over and have our way without the courtesy gel. If we can’t GET them out of this country, we’ll breed them out!

By Lenny

July 6, 2007 10:31 AM | Link to this

“U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson, a DeKalb County Democrat, signs on to impeach President Bush.”

That’s great news.

Bush, Cheney and Gonzalez should be impeached for election tampering, misleading the public to start a war and maintain support for that war, endangering our troops by refusing to comply with the Geneva conventions, illegally spying on Americans without a warrant, ignoring Constitutional duties to enforce all laws, whether they agree with them or not, refusing to comply with Open Record (“transparency”) laws in areas that have nothing to do with national security, and outing a covert CIA operative (and possibly other operatives she had worked with in the past).

Let the impeachment hearings begin!

By Dusty

July 6, 2007 10:33 AM | Link to this

Oh my, Democrats are here hallucinating again this morning.

Impeach Bush? Impreach Cheney? What a joke. Another wild goose chase from the Delusive Democrats trying to keep from doing real business.

Approval of Demo Directed Congress may soon drop to ZERO. Maybe we should impeach the so called Dem leaders of Congress who can’t lead.

I noticed that Harold is losing his err “wheels”. Cherry Picker falls from his ladder. What next in these rants? Another investigation? How about…. CIA janitor suspect in outing Valerie Plame so Fitzgerald needs another two years even though the case is solved before it starts?

Please, Democrats, stop the entertainment and get down to business. We have a war going on, in case you haven’t noticed, and it would be nice if you SUPPORTED THE USA, SUPPORTED THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF, AND THE TROOPS for a change. Thank you!!

By harold

July 6, 2007 10:38 AM | Link to this

harold aint no democrat. good lord what is it about stupid republicans that makes them think anybody waht aint a republican has to ben a democrat??? it just aint so yall. democrats are equally as useless and selfish and corrupted as republicans. teh whole government needs did away with. harold is for the north american union to be ruled by canadians.

By getalife

July 6, 2007 10:39 AM | Link to this

I think the cons who love cons do not understand the role of the CIA to find the next 9/11.

Do they think they will put their lives on the line to be outed by w?

Do the cons hate the CIA like they do liberals?

The mind set of the cons is unbelievable.

Soft on crime, national security and traitors.

Why in the world would anybody vote for cons?

Geez.

By Jim's a Cherry Picker

July 6, 2007 10:42 AM | Link to this

Dusty,

Please, Dusty, stop the entertainment and get down to business. We have a fake war going and in case you haven’t noticed it’s distracting you from the real target.

Six years. No Osama.

By squid pro quo

July 6, 2007 10:42 AM | Link to this

Dream on Lenny. Even Obama says no to impeachment. Only the lower life forms in the Democrat congress are supporting impeachment. As Zell said, that dog won’t hunt. I thought Bush was stupid. How could he mislead Congress into supporting a war? I thought Democrats were the smartest people in the world to have one put over on them. Election tampering? Black helicopters too!

By Jackie

July 6, 2007 10:43 AM | Link to this

The Repubs are trying to mitigate the expected electoral pounding in 2008. Notice how the Repubs are trying to back away from the Iraq debacle, especially those that are in political trouble. At least 6 Repub Senators and 6 that have implied they will support the measure to stop the war. Hopefully, those same “towers of courage” will see the light and begin impeachment proceedings against Cheyney and Bush. The US House of Reps are deemed to be non-significant, but, the Repubs are terrified that they elections will be a tidal wave of rejection. If not significant, why the concern?

By Jim

July 6, 2007 10:46 AM | Link to this

“A “greenie” possessing marijuana and prescription drugs of unknown origin who is speeding down the highway at 100 miles an hour in a statement car for the environmentally conscious, a Toyota Prius, need not be too concerned about global warming as a threat to life. But a lad such as Al Gore III clearly needs help more than he needs criticism.”

Isn’t Jim Wooten contradicting himself here? First he sarcastically calls Al Gore III a “greenie” and refers to the car he drives as a “statement car”, then implies that this is not the time to criticize the young man.

Take the opportunity to get your digs in first, then express sympathy. Well done.

By Dennis

July 6, 2007 10:48 AM | Link to this

Mr. Wooten writes, ” Coca-Cola, located in the iced-tea capital of the world, considers a bid for Snapple, an iced-tea brand owned by a London company.”

This kind of move is nothing new on the part of Coca-Cola. In the 50’s there were four drinks (all GOOD, chocolate, grape, orange and grapefruit) put out by a company by the name of Birley’s. Coca-Cola couldn’t beat them, so bought them out.

And to make a big switch here; the Wall Street Journal apparently wasn’t conservative enough for Rupert Murdock.

Give it a year at most, watch the quiet ousting and exit of the present top executive, editorial and journalists and expect more slanted, FOX type news.

Moderately conservative Americans will pay a big price for this too - they just don’t know it yet.

Hell, who knows, this may be just the conservative opportunity Jim Wooten’s been waiting for all of his life.

You don’t have to be a blind conservative not to see it, just an ignorant one to deny it.

By KEEP ON ENDLESSLY WHINING ABOUT SCOOTER'S PARDON ALL YOU SAD LEFTIST TURDS

July 6, 2007 10:49 AM | Link to this

The ONLY worth while technological achievement the snail and cheese eating surrender monkeys across the English Channel ever invented was the guillotine - and the arrogant cheeky gallic bastards then had the cheek to stop using it!!!

The fawning hate America frogs should have imprisoned for life Streisand’s huge Pinocchio like shrill caterwauling nose on the Maginot Line -another massive frog military success. We English once spent over a hundred years fighting the sodding french - and we should never have stopped!!!

At least the tree hugging frogs have had the sense to plant trees in Gay Paris (gedditt??) for a while now. Clearly the trees on the Champs Elysees were only planted so the German Army could march in the shade.

The alBore’s pathetic worthless spoiled brat pot head pixie demon seed needs to spend at least 31 months in jail, thereby beating Scooter’s unjust sentence. Happily he can’t get his vainglorious Billy Liar global whining nutjob pappy to buy yet another library slush fund Klinton pardon to get him out. At least alBore jr was driving the car of choice for smug, self absorbed eco whacko wankers. So clearly this preppy little tool was only being partly hypocritical - i.e. recklessly speeding/recklessly burning up petrol in a 40/50 mpg car.

Wasn’t the junkie alBore brat carrying WITHOUT a prescription some of the same drugs Rush had an actual PRESCRIPTION for? Doubtless the leftist vermin on here and nationally will excoriate the albore brat the same way they endlessly sneered at Rush for an addiction to painkillers for his severe back pain??!!

I see (Mental Health) care in the community in GA still isn’t working - as inbred rednekkk’s slightly educated treasonous alter ego L Cpl Syphilis has at long been puked up by the state mental hospital after its longest yet emergency sectioning. Funny how its always lefties who irrationally hate America and lash out at their mother country!! Did you actually manage to complete your intermediate cross burning workshop that I read about on here yesterday inbred?

Maybe Barak the “I’m all ears”- and almost as thick as J Conyers - magic negro can clone its AfriKan elephant ears and raise campaign funds selling huge hand held dingy white fans to its idiot pandering supporters sweltering in the summer heat waiting in vain to hear about just one actual political achievment its managed - other than being a half black shrill cut and run far leftist!!.

By WJP

July 6, 2007 10:51 AM | Link to this

Jim Wooten wrote, “Two classes of villains should be pursued to the ends of the earth at whatever expense. One is adults who don’t support their children. The other is people who exploit tragedies.”

I agree. Jim Wooten should be fired for exploiting the tragic personal issues within the Gore family in his comment above regarding Al Gore III.

By getalife

July 6, 2007 10:59 AM | Link to this

“To lead this nation to a responsibility era, a president himself must be responsible. And so, when I
put my hand on the Bible, I will swear to not only uphold the laws of our land, I will swear to uphold the honor and dignity of the office to which I have been elected, so help me God. Our country is ready
for high standards and new leaders … An era of tarnished ideals is giving way to a responsibility era.”
— Dubya, swearing to his God that he won’t break any laws”

And the cons cheer on the crimes . I thought they were religious. Hello, 10 Commandments.

Hypocrites.

He will break more laws until he is stopped.

Geez, again why in the world anybody vote for a con?

By Adam

July 6, 2007 11:00 AM | Link to this

Dennis

So THAT’S what happened to Birley’s. Man, I loved those drinks but I don’t remember the grapefruit though. Non carbonated, clear bottles, my favorites!!

Now there’s a clear example of externalities that CJ@9:16 was talking about. We’re all still suffering from that one.

By Dennis

July 6, 2007 11:02 AM | Link to this

The remarks by “By WJP July 6, 2007 10:51 AM.”, are correct. Nor has Wooten ever bewailed the griefs the Bush administration has caused the Iraqi people.

I guess that isn’t the kind of thing a real conservative is supposed to do.

But he goes to church and sings, “Jesus loves the little children, red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in His sight.”

You don’t have to be a blind conservative not to see it, just an ignorant one to deny it.

By Rush's doctor

July 6, 2007 11:03 AM | Link to this

Yes, I wrote Rush a prescription for oxy-C’s.. twice… for 20 tablets each. He consumed THOUSANDS he obtained without a prescription (Remember when he weant deaf? OD on the Oxy-C and you will too), but really that’s okay, as long as he makes it on the air to spew hate every day and pays my jacked up fees, I’m okay with whatever he does. By the way, he was caught coming back from the Dominican Republic, the primo vacation spot for gay pedophiles, with a Viagra ‘script that was NOT his. Jim Wooten never wrote about THAT because Jim Wooten enjoys trips to DR himself once or twice a year, often sharing a suite with his favorite English blogger. You don’t REALLY think he was in CUBA for a whole week, do you?

By Economics for Voters

July 6, 2007 11:05 AM | Link to this

Great posts about externalities at 9:16.

Every American should familiarize themselves with the fundamentals of economics. Some great books on the subject include “Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science” and “The Undercover Economists”.

A word of caution — don’t take everything these guys say as scripture — think for yourself.

That said, these books are very educational, entertaining, and will give you a lot to think about.

By JD

July 6, 2007 11:07 AM | Link to this

Dennis the Dolt is back. Coca Cola is the villain because, according to Dennis, the owners of Birley’s sold their souls, and the business, just for a little money.

Spoken like a true Democrat who has supped at the public trough his entire life. Government is great and business and individuals are bad according to Dennis. Be a lemming - Join the Democrat Party!

You do not have to be an envy-filled Liberal to understand his thoughts, but it sure helps.

By KEEP ON ENDLESSLY WHINING ABOUT SCOOTER'S PARDON ALL YOU SAD LEFTIST TURDS

July 6, 2007 11:08 AM | Link to this

Isn’t Jim Wooten contradicting himself here?

NOPE … he’s just fairly politely, and undeniably effortlessly, winding up pathetic leftist morons like your criminally obtuse self!!!

you have to be a brain dead leftist wanker not to see it … right dennis?

snigger snirk snigger

By Dennis

July 6, 2007 11:09 AM | Link to this

By Adam July 6, 2007 11:00 AM “So THAT’S what happened to Birley’s. Man, I loved those drinks but I don’t remember the grapefruit though. Non carbonated, clear bottles, my favorites!!”

I had forgotton the “non carbonated” part. They were GREAT. Especially a cold grapefruit on a hot summer day!

Even an ignorant conservative couldn’t deny it.

By KEEP ON ENDLESSLY WHINING ABOUT SCOOTER'S PARDON ALL YOU SAD LEFTIST TURDS

July 6, 2007 11:17 AM | Link to this

I see I very predicktably, very swiftly and quite effortlessly goaded one of the resident homo-queeralicious dogturds into puking up a magical unhinged homo hissy fit in (implicit because there is no actual legitimate) defence of the pathetic hypocritical alBore junkie brat!!!

well done indeed mister dogsqueeze … that was very nearly enormously amusing.

how was your blind date with Liberace’s corpse last night - everything Mrs Oedipus-NAMBLA delightedly told you it would be?

By harold

July 6, 2007 11:17 AM | Link to this

neither limbaugh nor the gore boy should get in any troubles over their drugs. who cares what they do to themselves. not our problem. all drug laws should be abolished. the FDA should be abolished too.

however, if the gore boy was driving high like the Big Guy’s boy allegedly did while alledgely murdering other road users, well that’s a problem. driving should be abolished. the gore boy should be able to take the train as high as a kite whenever he wants

By Dennis

July 6, 2007 11:23 AM | Link to this

By JD July 6, 2007 11:07 AM “Dennis the Dolt is back. Coca Cola is the villain because, according to Dennis, the owners of Birley’s sold their souls, and the business, just for a little money.”

Oh, my goodness, JD. On the one hand you conservatives say that competition is good for business, yet here you are admiting that Coca-Cola couldn’t match a little competition.

Maybe “big bidness” isn’t so smart after all.

Years ago, there were a lot of mom and pop grocery stores and gas stations. But, big oil couldn’t stand the competition, bought them all out, and THAT is one of the reasons you’re paying more for the gas to fill your car. You’re wrong if you think that the prices you now pay all have to do with Iraq and, an increase in oil prices throughout the world.

You don’t have to be a blind conservative not to see it, just an ignorant one to deny it.

By Dustbuster

July 6, 2007 11:23 AM | Link to this

Thank you, Dusty for reminding us that we are a nation at war. While the Wooten klan was waving their flags and passionately blogging their patriotism, we Americans triumphed on July 4th, 2007 under a patriotic red, white and blue backdrop. An American hero named Joey Chestnut consumed 66 hot dogs in 12 minutes thereby defeating the foreign invaders in our great nation. God bless America. May freedom from foreign aggression reign.

By DJ

July 6, 2007 11:24 AM | Link to this

EVERYBODY should sign on to impeach SHRUB, particularly the “apologize for anything and everything any republicans ever do” right-wingers who are responsible for this historic tragedy.

SHRUB is a national disgrace and a national response to kick him to the curb MIGHT (only might) help to restore some of the US’s credibility around the world, where they all hate Shrub too.

PS - I think it’s fair to blame everything on the republicans lately, considering they have been “running things” (into the ground) for the past six years and doing everything they can to keep the democrats from having ANYTHING to do with any decisions or input in Washington (anyone remember the anti-citizen bulls#hit called a “super majority”?? what a bunch of crap). the Republicans refused to let the democrats have any input for the last six years so the republicans alone get 100% of the blame (and there is a LOT to pass blame on, for anyone who pays attention to the actual news, instead of these “full of themselves” pundits like Jim “which republican’s a## can i kiss next?” Wooton and his #1 loverboy JBLAW. Karma is a b***.

By @@

July 6, 2007 11:28 AM | Link to this

Oh no Jim, I see you are in need of a translator. Allow me…

To Barbra: “You are the America that we love”

Sincerely,

/Sarc/Uzi

Here in America I’ve learned the nuanced language of the Democrats. Let me demonstrate…

To voters:

“You are the America that we love.”

Translation:

We want to get in your pants er…pockets.

You really have to know what the definition of love is/was.

Do you see the difference Jim?

By harold

July 6, 2007 11:29 AM | Link to this

the problem with impeachment is there has to be an articulable crime

they may well be common criminals, but as of yet nobody can catch them

By KEEP ON ENDLESSLY WHINING ABOUT SCOOTER'S PARDON ALL YOU SAD LEFTIST TURDS

July 6, 2007 11:31 AM | Link to this

I think that instead of having this worthless nauseating mindless execrable global whining puke musik concert this weekend we sensible and selfless conservatives should throw a huge lets really help mankind global acid party in every town/city around the world where there are liberals and multi-story carparks. give the smelly hippy liberals as much acid as they can freeload and then once they’re partying like cut and run dervishes on the TOP floor of the multi-story carpark we should play them some extra loud hippy music and tell them repeatedly they can fly … and then watch ALL the fab fun as they find out they cant!!

UP UP AND AWAY … IN MY BEAUTIFUL HIPPY BALLOON

By getalife

July 6, 2007 11:40 AM | Link to this

“What sacrifices have you and your friends made, Mr. Bush? As Keith Olberman said, he has ceased to be the president.”

They profit and not sacrificed a damn thing in the lie of the Iraq occupation.

The worst and most pathetic of Americans.

Geez, cons.

By Bush is Above the Law

July 6, 2007 11:40 AM | Link to this

So you people whining about “law” and “liberty” can just SUCK it. Dusty, jmblaw, Jim Wooten and I don’t care what you think America is supposed to be about. You can suck it. Fascism RULES and there’s nothing you little sucklings can do about it!!! We win! We win! You suck!

Breaking news:

CINCINNATI - A federal appeals court on Friday ordered the dismissal of a lawsuit challenging President Bush’s domestic spying program, saying the plaintiffs had no standing to sue.

In a 2-1 decision, two Republican appointees on the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against allowing the lawsuit. A Democratic appointee judge disagreed, saying it was clear to him that the post-9/11 warrantless surveillance program aimed at uncovering terrorist activity violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978.

Although the Bush administration said in January the program is now overseen by a special federal intelligence court, opponents said that without a court order, the president could resume the spying outside judicial authority at any time.

The ruling Friday vacates an order by a U.S. District Court in Detroit last August that found the surveillance unconstitutional, violating rights to privacy and free speech and the separation of powers.

U.S. Circuit Judge Julia Smith Gibbons, one of the two Republican appointees who ruled against the plaintiffs, said they failed to show they were subject to the surveillance and therefore do not have standing for their claims.

U.S. Circuit Judge Ronald Lee Gilman, a Democratic appointee, disagreed, saying he felt the plaintiffs were within their rights to sue and that it was clear to him that the surveillance program violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978.

Although the Bush administration said in January the program is now overseen by a special federal intelligence court, opponents said that without a court order, the president could resume the spying outside judicial authority at any time.

The American Civil Liberties Union led the suit on behalf of other groups including lawyers, journalists and scholars it says have been handicapped in doing their jobs by the government monitoring.

Other groups have filed challenges to the program in other courts; this case has proceeded the furthest. The case will be sent back to the judge in Michigan for dismissal.

By Seth

July 6, 2007 11:46 AM | Link to this

“Jim” @ 10:46 - Take the opportunity to get your digs in first, then express sympathy. Well done.

Well at least Jim Wooten has the class to express sympathy for his political foes and their offspring unlike you vicious people on the left who pour gasoline in the wound of your foes and their offspring and light it. You leftist hypocrites have no class.

By TeaLover

July 6, 2007 11:50 AM | Link to this

How do you suppose the concept of sweet tea started?

Perhaps several years’ supply stored in the hot humid south caused deterioration of quality perhaps, turning it very bitter? (In pre-refrigeration and a slower global economy days, of course).

Result? Let’s add tons of sugar/cane syrup to soften it up and make it drinkable.

And of course ruining the great taste of tea for generations to come.

By jbmlaw wannabe

July 6, 2007 12:14 PM | Link to this

Dear CJ @ 9:16, Welcome back. Your comments are always thought-provoking. Unfortunately, your position on externalities contradicts the writings of Thomas Sowell. According to St. Sowell, the private market will address any and all externalities. For example, if one family, due to smog, incurs additional medical expenses to care for a child who suffers from asthma, another family might have their medical expenses reduced as a result of an elderly parent dying prematurely (even better if the parent leaves a large inheritance). So as you can see, some externalities arising out of pollution are negative (higher medical expenses) and others are positive (lower medical expenses and a large inheritance). Externalities will always cancel each other out in the private marketplace, and government intervention is, therefore, unnecessary.

Dear Dusty @ 10:33, I’ll never grow tired of reading your repetitive posts admonishing others to support this commander-in-chief, regardless of how little he supports us. You’re a patriot’s patriot, and I admire you greatly.

Dear K.O.E.W.A.S.P.A.Y.S.L.T. @ 11:17, My compliments. If only I had the capacity for such incisive commentary.

By georgia 74

July 6, 2007 12:25 PM | Link to this

Did it ever cross your mind that Congress’s approval rating is so low is that it is almost 50% Republican?

By Dusty

July 6, 2007 12:28 PM | Link to this

Arguments getting weak here.

Libs getting tired of “explaing” Libby’s extenuated conviction, started as a trial for “outing” but turned into a two year conviction of memory loss (“blocking justice”). Bush has a taste for justice and commuted the comic carryings-on.

Cherry Picker isn’t even original enough to use his own words. Has to take mine and do the “twist”, (an old liberal dance step). Use your own lines, Cherie!

And an exciting revolution over tea. Another Boston tea party? Cane syrup in tea? Never heard of it. Oh well. I like mine with a little lemon. No sugar. I guess conservatives just like things straight and pure. Yep!

By @@

July 6, 2007 12:28 PM | Link to this

Lex Luger Jim? Upon first glance I kept thinking “Superman”?

Not too bad for a wrestler whose greatest bulk isn’t found between his ears.

His philosophy kind of puts me in mind of a quote I’ve heard.

“When going after Moby Dick, bring along the tartare sauce.”

OR….there’s the one about Luck.

Don’t wait on it to find you. “Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.”

Life’s little lessons…

Learn ‘em and live ‘em.

By jbmlaw wannabe

July 6, 2007 12:33 PM | Link to this

Dear CJ @ 9:16, I couldn’t help but wonder if your disrespectful questioning of the scripture of the Oracle Thomas Sowell has something to do with the fact that he is a darkie.

By Dusty

July 6, 2007 12:42 PM | Link to this

jbmlaw wannabe@12:14,

Is Michael Moore stil recruiting here today for his new movie “PHONY”? We’ve got yet another one.

Sorry, bub, you’ll never be a match for jbmlaw. You may “wannabe” but you haven’t got the “stuff” or the savvy.

You need to go back to headquarters to get a new “line”.

By KEEP ON ENDLESSLY WHINING ABOUT SCOOTER'S PARDON ALL YOU SAD LEFTIST TURDS

July 6, 2007 12:42 PM | Link to this

JBMhomoGROUPIE

Cheers for the richly deserved kind words, it was wonderfully generous of you to so nobly publicly validate my rather restrained, sparkling sardonic excoriation of the resident anal queer obsessed leftist dogturd. keep up the groupie like fawning - but NO more physical stalking of jbm or or you’ll have to be chemically castrated again at Emory.

I suggest that you try dabbing those pesky queeralicious bathhouse piles with some liquid oxygen, Mrs Oedipus-NAMBLA swears it works for her every time.

By Thos Paine

July 6, 2007 12:43 PM | Link to this

How does Wooten still have job? He does nothing but lead the ignorant to illogical conclusions, propagate deceit, and defend an ill-conceived movement that is wholly antithetical to the very principles on which we base our national pride.

We want to read something inspiring, insightful, perhaps enlightening. Our tolerance for fear mongering, pandering, and thinly veiled bigotry is at an end.

Fire this man.

By Foghat

July 6, 2007 12:46 PM | Link to this

“Jim Wooten should be fired for exploiting the tragic personal issues within the Gore family in his comment above regarding Al Gore III.” — WJP 10:51

That’s original. Looking for a weak excuse to get rid of Wooten and yet another Conservative voice there, WJP? Sure you are. Then by the same sword so should all those Oped columnists in the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Miami Herald, Orlando Sentinel, Chicago Tribune, and LA Times be fired for comments made about the Bush twins. I don’t think the Bush twins were ever a threat to the public for what they did, irrespective that that happens on college campuses around the country. I do however find a danger in driving on public highways at 100mph in an exploding battery on wheels with pot and illegal prescription drugs. That’s not the first time Barney Oldfield has been caught doing at least 100mph on our highways either. Don’t hand me that nonsense about Gore not being in the White House as an excuse to not bring attention to his son. The man is more of an influence globally, albeit fraudulently, now than he ever was as vice president. I will say this though — at least Gore III didn’t drive around the Capitol drunk at 2am and crash. This is one of the many definitions of leftist hypocrisy — they can rabidly attack their political foes, but you dare not say anything about them. They’ve got nothing on Fred Thompson and go after his son on lobbying, while totally ignoring what Harry Reid did for his son on lobbying. The hypocrisy reeks like low tide in the Chesapeake.

By Shut Opposing Speech Down

July 6, 2007 12:50 PM | Link to this

Thos Paine, what are you so afraid of little man? Thoughts that don’t coincide with yours? It’s always easy to say bigot to someone who you don’t agree with in the hopes of shutting them up, isn’t it? Perhaps Cuba is more to your one-way frame of mindset, nutter boy.

By Jim's a Cherry Picker

July 6, 2007 12:57 PM | Link to this

Dusty,

Ok, here are my own words:

George Bush hasn’t found Osama yet. After six years. No Osama. Billions and billions and billions of dollars wasted. No Osama.

Where’s Osama Dusty? Is Bush gonna pardon him?

Jbm,

So people have to get sick or die for the market to take care of externalities? Is that compassionate conservatism?

I hate to dig on someone who looks as bookish as Sowell, but he’s as bad as Wooten…shoving square pegs into round holes and saying that the hole is the wrong shape. The market won’t take care of externalities because there is no incentive to do so. Why should Coke lift a finger to do anything about the amount of garbage it is contributing to the waste stream? It shouldn’t…that’s someone else’s problem. And so long as folks like yourself are out there whining about what a pain recycling is, Coke has fantastic cover to sit back and…do nothing. Nada.

Let me know what Sowell and Phil Kent have to say about companies hiding behind their privately funded interest groups as a means of distracting the public away from externalities like millions of pounds of rubbish flowing into and filling up publically funded landfills.

By jbmlaw

July 6, 2007 1:00 PM | Link to this

Dear Craig also @ 8:50, I would respectfully suggest that all of the good French were killed off by Robespierre, shortly after our revolution ended. (Yes, I am being funny. Two of my favorite movies are French, Le Grand Blond Avec Une Chaussure Noire and Fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain.)

Dear say what @ 9:34, the correct term for Mr. Domenici is RINO; you may appreciate Joe Lieberman’s essay in today’s WSJ, urging military action against Iran, except that I suspect you really would not. Your last paragraph, blaming the prior Republican control of the House for its current unprecedented low ratings, sounded like a classic baseball joke, I think it may have been Lefty Gomez’s line– “they got it so screwed up nobody can fix it!” Seriously, though, Kim Strassel has a great essay in the WSJ editorial page today, outlining the self-inflicted wounds of the Democrat, excuse me, SurrendarCrat leadership, at http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/kstrasselpw/?id=110010303

Dear Dusty @ 10:33, all of the meaningless investigations sought by our leftist, excuse me, “progressive” friends have only a single purpose – full employment for under-worked attorneys. Every dollar they spend on one of the fruitcake investigations ensures at least two will be spent defending – diverting more of our precious resources flushed into the holes so favored by our progressive friends.

Dear TFTT @ 10:49, that is your best new name yet. Funny rant, too, my compliments.

Dear jbmlaw wannabe @ 12:14, well said, I could not say it better. You show some promise, kid. Now that you are thinking intelligently, we’ll ease you into the battle against the surrendarcrats.

By J

July 6, 2007 1:02 PM | Link to this

Thos - I think you misunderstand the Wootster. He’s amongst that breed of 3rd-rate conservative commentators who are clamoring to be the next Hannity.

Or, as Stalin used to put it, “useful idiots”. He’s sort of like the AJC’s Todor Zhikov.

PS - Dusty, with all due apologies to the mentally handicapped, you, Ma’am, are a retard.

By J

July 6, 2007 1:03 PM | Link to this

Thos - I think you misunderstand the Wootster. He’s amongst that breed of 3rd-rate conservative commentators who are clamoring to be the next Hannity.

Or, as Stalin used to put it, “useful idiots”. He’s sort of like the AJC’s Todor Zhikov.

PS - Dusty, with all due apologies to the mentally handicapped, you, Ma’am, are a retard. Learn the difference between a commutation and a pardon.

By jbmlaw

July 6, 2007 1:06 PM | Link to this

Dear jacp @ 12:57, what the heck are you talking about? Are you imagining conversations again?

By KEEP ON ENDLESSLY WHINING ABOUT SCOOTER'S PARDON ALL YOU SAD LEFTIST OBSESSIVE TURDS

July 6, 2007 1:06 PM | Link to this

cheers jbm and the decidedly effete jbm wannabe for the wise, kind words.

By Jim Wooten

July 6, 2007 1:07 PM | Link to this

Note to all:

Hank Johnson’s office corrects me. He’s signed on to impeach Vice President Cheney, not Bush. My mistake.

By @@

July 6, 2007 1:08 PM | Link to this

I’m taking a leisurely stroll through your column today Jim.

Waiting on a call from my daughter in the U.K.. Cambridge University’s most recently installed three day genius. After her brief education there, it’s off to Scotland and the English countryside.

Anyhoo…

How the Liberal Super-Rich Undermine America,” makes the case that, as he writes, thousands of them “doggedly fund their own ideological objectives in myriad ways that harm the United States” while ignoring medical and educational needs.

Let me get this straight Jim.

Are you saying that the Democrats/liberal Super-Rich have tools (foundations?) at their disposal?

I believe it…

Would those foundations be “a cornerstone” or a “footing”?

tools can be useful when applied properly, but I steadfastly refuse to be the victim of them. It’s clear that there are liberals out there who not only want, but need a hammer & sicle to do THEIR work.

A little bump on the head; cut ‘em off at the knees and the Democrats have themselves some mental midgets to throw around.

The Democrat’s “mental midgets” UNDER CONSTRUCTION.

By jbmlaw

July 6, 2007 1:15 PM | Link to this

Dear Jim Wooten @ 1:07, thanks for the clarification. When I go loon spotting, I hate to confuse the species

By jbmlaw

July 6, 2007 1:17 PM | Link to this

Dear @@ @ 1:08, my heartiest congratulations to your daughter on her achievement. You are deservedly proud.

By Jim's a Cherry Picker

July 6, 2007 1:18 PM | Link to this

Jbm,

My bad. Jbmlaw Wannabe referenced Sowell @ 12:14.

By @@

July 6, 2007 1:19 PM | Link to this

Whoops!

“We don’t have quite enough votes to get done everything we want,” says U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) of the Democratic do-nothing House.

So in other words “They (Ds) can’t bring others on board with their ideas?”

“They (Ds) don’t have the ability for compromise?”

Sounds like excuses to me.

My gawd, what miserable failures the Ds are.

By getalife

July 6, 2007 1:22 PM | Link to this

Jim,

cheney is the president.

He learned a lot from Nixon and took it to a whole new level.

At least you have one politician reading your incorrect drivel but unlike most wingnut pundits, you admitted your mistake.

GFY (good for you).

Geez.

By @@

July 6, 2007 1:25 PM | Link to this

jbmlaw @ 1:17:

Thanks. She gets class credits and a European Vacation.

At orientation for her trip, it was painfully obvious to all of us, including her, that this was a money-making venture for the university she attends here in the states.

Our “little moderate conservative” can’t be fooled.

She wanted the experience, and she’s worked hard to earn it.

By GrayGayGeek

July 6, 2007 1:29 PM | Link to this

getalife @ 1:22

Jim may have admitted his mistake, but if you’ll notice, his original post back up at the top is