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DEL.ICIO.USGOP, especially Richardson, at high risk in the House
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Whether Glenn Richardson’s tenure as speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives is in its final year depends.
It depends on his pursuit of the GREAT tax swap — some property tax relief for a new tax on services in return.
It depends on his handling of the effort to oust the chairman of the Georgia Department of Transportation board, former state Rep. Mike Evans of Cumming.
And it depends on his handling of the effort to override Gov. Sonny Perdue’s vetoes of a dozen bills passed by the General Assembly last year. All dozen were overridden last week with just 12 to 15 dissenters, but Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle declared the Senate “will not be in a real big hurry” to get to the overrides anytime soon.
This is an important session for Republicans. People are beginning to notice how they run Georgia. A repeat of last session’s personality-driven vituperation might set the stage for an election-year disaster. The GOP won’t lose control of the House or Senate, but the result of another exhausting year of bickering does make it more likely that some incumbents will walk away — life’s too short — or that they’ll draw primary challenges.
The GREAT plan is ideal for cultivating potential challengers. For Republican legislators, it’s a loser either way. Vote in favor and the hordes of interest groups and individuals lined up in opposition will find the challengers. Vote against and the opponent will come from those who think their property taxes are too high and that illegal immigrants and others are escaping the fair-share taxation they’d get with an expanded sales tax. Either way, incumbents lose.
It’s not surprising that the speaker lacks the votes to pass it. The effort to oust Evans is another move that has the potential to ricochet. Evans was among those who supported Gena Abraham as the Department of Transportation commissioner last October.
He and Raybon Anderson of Statesboro, who represents the 12th Congressional District on the DOT board and who also supported Abraham, are up for re-election. Each member of the House and Senate who serves any portion of a congressional district has a vote. It’s ordinarily done by secret ballot. In the Evans race, Richardson wants open voting.
Strip away Richardson’s, Perdue’s and Cagle’s personalties — impossible to do, probably — but even without the pettiness and gamesmanship, there are reasonable disagreements about separation of power and about the roles and authority of the House, Senate and executive branch in both the veto-override attempts and in the DOT board contest.
House Transportation Committee Chairman Vance Smith Jr. of Pine Mountain was the other candidate for DOT commissioner.
Seventeen House members and seven senators from the 9th Congressional district (23 Republicans and one Democrat) will decide Evans’ fate. Since the House has the numbers, the DOT board is the one place where the House is supreme — in theory, at least. Abraham was the governor’s choice — thus bringing Georgia to this “Sopranos” storyline moment.
Evans is a solid fiscal conservative who, with a few others on the board, represents precisely the kind of fact-driven, results-oriented policy-makers that conservatives need to plant throughout state government.
The engineer-trained Abraham is too, the mold-breaker who shows great promise of being able to manage an agency in transition.
Turning the ship of state is a long process. Throwing out those with the ability to lead the change makes no sense.
Putting 17 House members on the line is a chance to “win,” but it is likely to be a pyrrhic victory. Besides, Richardson could lose.
The Senate certainly should, on principle, pick some issue and override the governor’s veto. But that really is something Cagle and Richardson should have worked out well before opening day.
The session is high-risk for all Republicans — but especially for Richardson.
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By Luckoduh
January 19, 2008 8:04 AM | Link to this
The Urinal has the bad news from Iraq:
{{{{Gunmen from the messianic Shiite Soldiers of Heaven cult attacked police and worshippers preparing Friday for the Shiite holiday of Ashoura, prompting fierce clashes in Basra and Nasiriyah that left nearly 50 people dead.-Urinal}}}}
And The Duh Report brings you the good news that should have went with the Urinal story, if the AJC weren’t such practioners of yellow diaper journalism:
{{{{These terrorist groups have opened fire randomly on citizens and Shiite mourners and we are about to eliminate or arrest them,» the governor said. Basra police chief Maj. Gen. Abdul-Jalil Khalaf said those killed included two policemen, five gunmen and two civilians, including a 10-year-old boy and a woman doctor. He also said six police were wounded and 30 militants were detained, including 22 who were wounded. Khalaf said the leader of the group in Basra, whom he identified as Abu Mustafa al-Ansari, was among those who died. Police said 21 members of the group were detained.}}}}
That was easy to find and seems like an important part of the story, don’t it?
Iraqi police, without the assistance of U.S. soldiers on the ground, practically wiped out a group of terrorists that had randomly attacked innocent civilians.
The POS Urinal story accomplishes two of their wormy anti American goals 1) To make the Iraqi police look helpless to stop the terrorists, 2) to arbitrarily add “50 people dead” to their body count, which brings their total up to 700,050, or some ridiculous number like that, I think.
Why do you lie like that, Atlanta Journal Constitution?
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Another pointless Urinal anti Iraq story:
{{{{A powerful Shiite politician accused the Iraqi government and legislators of allowing “personal whims” to delay national unity.-Urinal}}}}
Almost like the democrat majority Congress of the United States, isn’t it?
And here I thought the Iraqis didn’t care about national unity?
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{{{{Russian President Vladimir Putin moved to redraw Europe’s energy map on Friday, winning Bulgaria’s support for an ambitious gas pipeline that would boost Moscow’s control over supplies to the West.-Urinal}}}}
The west being the Euroweinies, the United States does not get natural gas fron Russia.
Why the play on words, AJC?
And while we are on the subject, both Russia and Chine have forecasted economic growth rates of around 7% this year, which will dwarf the U.S. growth rate of 2%.
How many environmental terrorists do you reckon there are in Russia whining about “caribou” and “an ecological holocaust,” well, I mean, how many haven’t been shot to death or put in a concentration camp yet.
No, the Rooskies don’t cripple themselves with lunacy, like we do, they just go out and drill for what they need, a rather sound, simple policy if you ask me.
Think about that the next time you hear some pinko whining about the economy.
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{{{{Between 50 and 60 Islamic insurgents died Friday when they attacked a fort in the Pakistani village of Ladha near the Afghan border with small-arms fire and rockets, a military statement said. Security forces repelled the attack…..A manhunt was under way after two Sunni extremists awaiting execution for a 2004 attack on a procession that killed 42 Shiites escaped from a heavily guarded prison in the southwestern city of Quetta —- adding to growing uncertainty in the country.-Urinal}}}}
Yeah, “growing uncertainty” about how much longer al Qaeda has before they get their as-s totally booted out of Pakinstan.
{{{{CIA: Tribal leader behind Bhutto killing: Extremist has ties to al-Qaida-Urinal}}}}
The “torturers” of the CIA, that eerie shadow group that has the nerve to protect U.S. national security.
Who would ever believe them, why, they are for the United States, right AJC?
And sure enough, here’s the Urinal editorializing in the same “news” story:
{{{{Mehsud has denied involvement in her death.-Urinal}}}}
Always looking out for al Qaeda, eh, AJC?
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Ahhhh, let us for a moment fondly, or is it fondling, remember the “good” old days:
{{{{By the time poor old Dick Morris, disgraced presidential pollster and now a sex-addiction treatment survivor, justified Mr Ku Klux Klintoon’s behaviour by suggesting that it was all because of the First Lady’s alleged lesbianism, this seemed one of the less ludicrous Ku Klux defence strategies.}}}}
{{{{On Tuesday, as Miss Lewinsky left Washington, Charlie Trie showed up and was promptly arrested. He’s one of those shadowy Orientals whose illegal campaign contributions put most Americans to sleep. But his presence on the evening news was reassuring: back to the old scandals; business as usual.}}}}
By Politics Aside
January 19, 2008 8:14 AM | Link to this
“People are beginning to notice how they run Georgia.” That says it all.
By catlady
January 19, 2008 8:14 AM | Link to this
People HAVE noticed: the Republicans are no better AT ALL than the Democrats in controlling spending. In addition, the Republicans are constantly claiming moral superiorilty, which makes their multiple failures even more repugnant. If you are going to claim the moral high road, you’d better be able to walk it. Republicans in this state want the same high spending lifestyle, they just want to change who the money is spent on!
By Luckoduh
January 19, 2008 8:39 AM | Link to this
Two Urinals in one:
{{{{ECONOMIC STIMULUS: Bush says fast ‘shot’ can revive economy: $150 billion in tax relief? President, Democrats agree on need for haste, but details may be divisive….The Democrats also are calling for other types of aid, such as temporary increases in food stamps, unemployment benefits and job training programs.-Urinal}}}}
Sounds like a 150 billion dollar tax cut no matter which way you look at it, the only decision being who gets the money, right?
{{{{Bush stimulus plan bombs on Wall Street-Urinal}}}}
My goodness, these politically biased hacks at the Atlanta Journal Constitution are truly basing their opinionated “news” stories on their readership being a bunch of ignorant mouth breathers.
They think you can’t comprehend two different stories in the same “business” section, that you are too stupid figure out on your own that this stimulus package is a bipartisan effort and not just a Bushie initiative.
Their own story shows that Bush and Congress have been working together the whole time, for once.
AJC, do you think the many blacks that live in the Atlanta metro area and read your “news” paper are a bunch of clueless dolts?
Or are you claiming that description for liberals in general?
{{{{There was an education gap, too. College graduates voted for Mr. Obama 39 percent to 34 percent; Mrs. Ku Klux Klinton won among those who had never attended college, 43 percent to 35 percent.}}}}
The less educated you are, the more likely you are to voye for Ku Klux.
Maybe you have a valid point here, AJC.
By Politics Aside
January 19, 2008 8:47 AM | Link to this
Excellent insight, catlady, (rowrr), but also notice how much Wooten packs into that sentence. “People are beginning to notice..” He’s saying nobody really paid attention to the assembly before. Why is that? Because try reading a report about the assembly’s business. Journalists make it awkward on purpose so nobody is the wiser.
By catlady
January 19, 2008 8:48 AM | Link to this
Republicans in this state want the same high spending lifestyle, they just want to change on whom the money is spent! (sorry, grammar police) The difference, in current practice, is in who is deemed “worthy” of the benefits.
By Politics Aside
January 19, 2008 9:00 AM | Link to this
Another excellent point, catlady, (rowrr). Yes, the repudlickans are corrupt, and greedy, but they support the troops, so what is everybody shouting 4?
By Shar
January 19, 2008 9:11 AM | Link to this
Mr. Wooten, thanks for the insider view of Statehouse relations, and how far the current leadership, particularly the Speaker, will go to get their own way. Based on last year and the run up to this Session, I fear that the personal dynamic between Messrs. Purdue, Cagle and Richardson will seriously handicap efforts to move forward on State business or long term policy development, much as it began to do in the last Session. My hope is that Governor Purdue will bestir himself to lead rather than reign and that the defeat of the GREAT plan and backlash from his bullying over Mr. Evans’ re-election will make the Speaker see the fault in his tactics. And don’t the Democrats have some more productive role to play than sitting around smirking at the Republican’s folly?
By Craig
January 19, 2008 9:11 AM | Link to this
My Senator, Chip Rogers, is one of the prime supporters of the GlennTax. And he will not be dissuaded - “property is sacred!”. I hate property taxes too. But I think when people realize that the Republican alternative is to tax every sale, every service, every day, they will despise Republicans even more.
The solution is not tinkering with the tax code - it’s spending efficiently and transparently.
By Dusty
January 19, 2008 9:12 AM | Link to this
If Democrats become the “power” in Georgia’s government nothing will ever get done. The Dems will be investigating everything as far back as 1776.
In the US Congress, Waxman(D) starts every day by saying “I am going to demand an investigation into THAT!”. Nancy Pelosi(D) then nods and whispers sweetly and Harry Reid(D) starts whining. Then upright, uptight Kennedy(D) thunders about lost morals and ethics! Lost! Lost!
So Jim is right. Republicans better get busy in Georgia or the whiners and “investigators” will take over here. Fishing will be evil and praying for rain even worse and the sky is falling. That’s the Democratic Way. Let’s hope it melts away like the snow & sleet.
By jbmlaw
January 19, 2008 9:18 AM | Link to this
Dear Catlady @ 8:14, good morning, and you have 90% of Jim’s point. The remaining 10%, which Jim left unstated for obvious reasons, is that conservatives do control spending, and these Republicans are not conservatives.
Dear Luckoduh @ 8:39, you similarly report the substantial truth, if I may add a couple of points. The great pall hanging over the market is the democrat-promised end of the Bush tax cuts, which were so beneficial for capital formation. The end of tax cuts will effectively impose the largest tax increase in the history of the world, and the market wisely anticipates the likely effect throughout the economy. The market’s fear is accurately reflected in the first Bush+Congress proposal, is that the good “capital formation” tax cuts will be replaced by inflationary- and needless- consumer spending stimulus tax cuts. Moderates and leftists are not smart enough to understand it; conservatives innately do.
By Glenn
January 19, 2008 9:37 AM | Link to this
Jim,
Yes, Richardson’s toast. For verily I say unto thee: Live by the wet noodle, die by the wet noodle.
How that for a Wootenism?
Luckoduh,
Nods, as ever. “Yellow diaper journalism” is deathless, but in the present case of the DNC-AJC, don’t you think it’s more akin to waving the bloody shirt, with what passes for reportage on Iraq?
By Glenn
January 19, 2008 9:46 AM | Link to this
Dust,
Mornin’. In fact, Mr. Waxman begins each day in prayer. Kindly refrain from aksing me how I happen to know that without my ever having joined him, but suffice it to say that if a person can start the day in prayer and end it as Henry Waxman, then Huckabee supporters ought to look their Razorback Praying Mantis in the mandible.
Huckabee detractors already do so.
By Glenn
January 19, 2008 9:51 AM | Link to this
“…[-y],”
(Need caffeine.)
By Profit
January 19, 2008 9:54 AM | Link to this
So the Democrats want to deny the 800 dollar rebate to those of us who make over 150 K per year: WELL BE AWARE DUMMYCRATS, WE WILL RETALIATE. I have a maid service that I can cancel, a yard service that I can cancel, and I can remove the one third of my wealth that is still in dollars denominated assets out of the country. I can move my wealth to places you do not like, such as Russia’s Lukoil and Gazprom, PetroChina, Brazil’s PBR, and Argentia’s PZE, and Inia’s child sweat shops. Cheat me, and I fire the very workers you are trying to help. So DUMMYCRATS, just STFU, and pay me the same as you are paying the rest of America, or ELSE.
By Glenn
January 19, 2008 9:59 AM | Link to this
catlady @ 8:48, I suspect that your claim is largely true: that GA GOP voters want the same level of government expenditures spent differently. However, some of us want, and even work toward, an objective no Democrat dare set: more effective services for less.
By Luckoduh
January 19, 2008 10:01 AM | Link to this
{{{{By jbmlaw January 19, 2008 9:18 AM Dear Luckoduh @ 8:39, you similarly report the substantial truth, if I may add a couple of points. The great pall hanging over the market is the democrat-promised end of the Bush tax cuts, which were so beneficial for capital formation. The end of tax cuts will effectively impose the largest tax increase in the history of the world, and the market wisely anticipates the likely effect throughout the economy.}}}}
jbmlaw: This is the Wall Street Journal’s exact take on that very same subject:
{{{{One problem with the increasingly “temporary” nature of the Bush tax cuts is that they are beginning to introduce new political risk into economic decisions. Though they expire in 2010, everyone understands that a new President and Congress could act to raise taxes as soon as next year. Mr. Bernanke could have educated the public about this business expectations problem, but then Democrats would have been upset.}}}}
Add to that very real factor to the lib media’s constant whining and negativity about the economy, and we could have an “artificial” recession on our hands.
Nothing would make the democrats happier, being the power hungry lushes that they are.
It’s the old Vietnam analogy, born again in pinkoville, we had to destroy the village in order to save it, hahaha.
And it doesn’t take very much to realize how silly the lib whining really is.
Take for instance the occasional poster to this blog, N-GA. He has supposedly, according to him, achieved the American dream, retired at 50 with millions of dollars in the bank, a house nestled in the beautiful, sleepy North Georgia Mountains, surrounded by a postcard setting of forest and stream.
And all he does is whine.
Think back to 30 or 40 years ago, the same house would not have had natural gas and would have been lucky to have electricity or indoor plumbing.
N-GA’s dad was probably too busy chopping down the neighboring forest for firewood to whine about his circumstances.
These liberals nowadays are a bunch of spoiled, unabashed whiners on a never ending crying jag because their health care costs “too much.”
And they are on a guilt tripping crusade against the very industry and technologies that brought them such a fat life of luxury.
It’s bizarre to say the least.
I have no sympathy for them, they should really try manning up, make an attempt at unas-sing that overstuffed leather lounger that they lie in, if they think things are so bad.
Like our forefathers did.
Come on, Fred.
By Redneck Convert
January 19, 2008 10:03 AM | Link to this
Well, I’m all bamboozled about how the godly Republicans are fighting each other. I thought that was what the librul Democrats done. The House wants to overturn a whole bunch of old Sonnys vetos and the Senate won’t take up the overturns and the godly Rep. Richardson wants to get rid of property taxes and some people don’t like it and so nothing is getting done.
Anyhow, I’m just going to go by what jbmlaw says. If he says get rid of property taxes and put sales tax on everything, a poor person like me for sure is going to get the shaft. And if he says not keeping the tax cuts will be the biggest tax increase in the world, then I know the tax cuts were the biggest tax cuts in the world for people like him and not for me.
Anyhow, looks like Sister Dusty woke up with another hangover. She’s mad at everybody. The woman just can’t hold her booze.
And I finally figured out why this Duh shows up on this blog on weekends. The reason is because the Luckovich blog gets closed and he’s like a guy with a bad case of the runs that has to go someplace so he goes here.
Well, I’m mad myself. Me and Joe Bill and my buddy Jim Earl made sleds out of some planks last night and was ready to go sledding this a.m. Then I get up this a.m. and looked out and there ain’t a speck of snow and it looks like the weather people have lied as bad as the AJC does about our godly Republican canadates. I’m just disgusted. Meanwhile the missus is roaring mad about the mess we made and we’re stuck with a bunch of planks on runners.
Have a better day than I’m having everybody.
By Fletcher
January 19, 2008 10:08 AM | Link to this
Fine. Be that way, Profitis. Just not PetroChina, please. Even the name itself is the worst concentration of evil since Max Heiliger.
By Dusty
January 19, 2008 10:15 AM | Link to this
Glenn@9:51
Wooooo…I hope you are now fully invigorated with caffeine as I am full of questions. Waxman?? When, how, what??? Confess now. How DID you know?
Ah well. I won’t mention who I think is “standing in the need of prayer” as that old hymn goes. Some lib will get all upset.
Jim seems to think that some of our Georgia Republicans could stand a little “redemption”. I think I shall read his piece again just to get it all straight. Who’s in and who’t out or maybe I will settle for another cup of coffee.
By Profit
January 19, 2008 10:18 AM | Link to this
Ah luv petrochina, it sends chills of fear and loathing down the spines of DUMMYCRATS everywhere. Gazprom is a close second, without their gas, France and England freeze in winter. Oh, how they will pay me…..
By Dusty
January 19, 2008 10:24 AM | Link to this
Actually, RedNeck, booze is not a factor in the winter of my discontent. It is you undercover and uncovered libs that shade the sun. One look at Waxman will do it.
Now be a good boy and build a fire with those planks. You are going to need it after a few trips to your outdoor “facility” behind the trailer.
By Profit
January 19, 2008 10:37 AM | Link to this
Get back to the lab Dusty the Lab Tech, you have dusting to do! Ah want those samples run now, not next week, you lazy bum.
By @@
January 19, 2008 10:40 AM | Link to this
I should probably be more interested in Georgia politics Jim, but I’m just not. Compared to geopolitical strategies, the state legislature’s seem petty and non-productive.
I did like the Sopranos reference. I’ve got a visual of the legislators enjoying a deep ego massage while the taxpayers are searching for quarters to put in the Magic Fingers machine at the Super 8 Motel.
Oh well….
By Fletcher
January 19, 2008 10:54 AM | Link to this
Got nothing against them Ruskies, though I do wish George’s friend Poot-Poot would develop on his face some mysterious flesh-eating disease that turns him an ashen green and registers inexplicably on a Geiger Counter. But other than that no animus.
It’s like Ginsburg sed. It’s them Chinamen. You know better than I what the junta does with PetroChi Yen. So, all those birds you’re killing with one stone, Blofeld, make sure none of em comes home to roost.
By Dusty
January 19, 2008 11:03 AM | Link to this
Dear Profit the imaginary millionaire who is going to win the lottery next week,
You and Deegee should have told me earlier that my degree in biology and two years post grad work meant NOTHING. If I had only known!
Now ol’ Pro, please use Madame Lazonga’s Tea Leaf Labatorium when you go for your meth rehab. Or…I will be glad to do some research to see if the meth has altered your genes (as if we didn’t know already.) Hang in there, buddy.
By OneForTheRoad
January 19, 2008 11:07 AM | Link to this
A little public debate amongst our politicians is actually rather stimulating. I especially like it when Richardson throws a temper tantrum, and Cagle sends a mouthpiece out in public to try and egg him on. All the while good old boy Perdue just sits back and deliberates — I think I’ve got my retirement package all taken care of. Let’s see, tax-free land, lots of “fuel” for the next generation of ethanol, tax-free senior income.
By getalife
January 19, 2008 11:14 AM | Link to this
I see the AJC has endorsed Obama.
I have been asking Obama supporters what is Obama going to do with the profitable corporate industry with con hacks like Jim, Rush, Hannity, fixed noise, Broder, all the RW media, etc… that divide this country? No answer to this simple question.
Somebody needs to ask Obama this simple question. Too bad the AJC did not.
Anyhoo, big election day today. Lets see how the people vote.
By Glenn
January 19, 2008 11:15 AM | Link to this
Dusty,
No big deal on the Waxman thing. A long time ago I was an officer of the legislature of which he was a member before he bailed to DC to lick his wounds. He made an enormously bold and complicated play for the Speakership, only to be blocked long enough for my boss, a dark horse, to run up the middle and take that office for 15 years. It was a David v. Goliath thing, only with a lot more than slingshots. People are still talking about the last minute-and-a-half of that Fourth Quarter. At one point in the Great Speaker Fight, Waxman was caught off guard because he was busy with morning prayers (he’s a devout Orthodox Jew).
The man’s a scoundrel, obviously, but an extraordinarily able one, and it took the best minds in California to stop him from running that state. He’d make a good replacement for Pelosi. Speaking of which, I was wrong in predicting that she’d be ousted by her own Caucus by now.
By Profit
January 19, 2008 11:16 AM | Link to this
Right Fletch, SPECTRE LIVES; Where is that Darn white cat?
By getalife
January 19, 2008 11:44 AM | Link to this
I will go out on a limb here and say Clinton will win my home State of Nevada because Obama praised Reagan over President Clinton and Gomer wins SC for trashing the Constitution and waving the Confederate flag getting the ignorant wingnut base vote.
Shazam!
By Curious Observer
January 19, 2008 11:46 AM | Link to this
Other than wondering how Dusty got through a college and two years of post-graduate work with a gnat’s brain, I find nothing stimulating about today’s discussion.
So how is Richardson in any trouble? He has about four million redneck voters who will go for anything with an R after its name. Ditto for Sonny and Casey. All of them subscribe to the same mindless creed: cut taxes for the wealthy and shift them to the poorer people. Minimize distributions to the people who are likely to be Democrats or the spawn of Democrats. Fund stupid endeavors like the Go Fish program, while balking at full funding of PeachCare. And if all else fails, then pray for what is needed, rather than planning for it.
I don’t give a flying f**k about the petty power struggles in the legislature. Just let them select the dumbest, butt-lickingest flunkies to run the state agencies. Georgia has transformed the process to an art.
By OneForTheRoad
January 19, 2008 11:59 AM | Link to this
Curious Observer @11:46,
It sounds like you have the Georgia Republicans pretty much figured out. In my county, a Democrat switched parties right before the election and got elected. Pathetic.
By Glenn
January 19, 2008 12:03 PM | Link to this
If you’re gonna hurl the daily dose at Dusty just because it’s a slow day, the GET OFF MY BRIDGE!
Oh. Well, maybe this’ll liven the converse. It’s still sinking in what a real mensch W. is to propose tax cuts as the substance of his stimulus package. If Richardson and his leadership had that kind of courage of that kind of conviction, they’d not touch the tax structure until they’d first trimmed the fat, then shaved the bone, and then figured out how to put more flesh onto government services with the resultant skeleton.
But instead they are too dumb even to know how valid their own rhetoric is. And Richardson’s too dumb not to lord his office over his own leadership and chairs. And they’re too unimaginative to come up with ways to do more with less, and too cowardly to try.
All in all, a legislative worthy of a Banana Republic. Real Pikers.
Long Live the California Republic!
[Rudy 08]
P.S. OK, so I threw in that last part just to shake things up a little.
By Waste of time
January 19, 2008 12:16 PM | Link to this
Silly me for thinking I might actually be able to read some intelligent discourse on the issue at hand, which happens to be Richardson’s ego and how it’s impeding the ability to get anything productive done. This blog is nothing but a echo chamber full of angry, vindictive, arrogant and childish people congratulating each other for being so much smarter than liberals and the only ones who know the real truth. Enjoy your march to political oblivion, folks. The tide is turning and people like you are about to relegated to the dustbin of history. Your only voice will be pathetic blogs like this.
Don’t even both attacking me. I’m logging off to go work on my taxes and clean out the basement. The rest of you might do well do something productive with your time also.
By Profit
January 19, 2008 12:16 PM | Link to this
An undergrad degree in biology is pretty useless, it is just a stepping stone to med, dental, or other professional school. Lab Tech sounds about right for a holder of that degree. Did your two years of post grad work result in a Master degree, or did you just waste your time and money taking classes, and fail to earn that Masters?
By OneForTheRoad
January 19, 2008 12:19 PM | Link to this
We need to have Governor swap programs. Arnold should trade places with Sonny.
By Glenn
January 19, 2008 12:21 PM | Link to this
That’s funny, Waste of Flesh; I thought I’d addressed that very topic just before you failed to do so.
By ron
January 19, 2008 12:23 PM | Link to this
Hello Jim, Never in a hundred years would I have guessed the AJC would endorse Obama.—clunk—-falls off chair laughing at own sick joke.
By Curious Observer
January 19, 2008 12:27 PM | Link to this
Profit @12:16,
Note she did not say graduate work. She said post-graduate work. My guess is that she found herself unemployable as a biology major and then went to a vocational school for a couple of years to earn an associate’s degree in a trade.
By @@
January 19, 2008 12:37 PM | Link to this
Well at least we know one HUGE AmVet who’s a “Waste of Our Time”.
Don’t even both attacking me.
Quit telling everybody what to do and how much more intelligent you are as a liberal (which you repeatedly have claimed NOT to be).
Silly me for thinking I might actually be able to read some intelligent discourse on the issue at hand, which happens to be Richardson’s ego and how it’s impeding the ability to get anything productive done. This blog is nothing but a echo chamber full of angry, vindictive, arrogant and childish people congratulating each other for being so much smarter than liberals and the only ones who know the real truth.
By: @@ (A conservative) I’ve got a visual of the legislators enjoying a deep ego massage while the taxpayers are searching for quarters to put in the Magic Fingers machine at the Super 8 Motel.
Relegated yourself to the basement with that one, didn’t ‘ya?
Why don’t you try reading beyond your own crap once in awhile.
By OneForTheRoad
January 19, 2008 12:38 PM | Link to this
A true Christian conservative simply would not be able to behave as Richardson, Cagle, Perdue, etc. Therefore, one may deduce that they could be well disguised Democrats or Republicans of the Dollar Denomination.
By Glenn
January 19, 2008 12:50 PM | Link to this
@@,
That guy who shares my crush on you, he’s not a liberal; he’s a classical Cynic. A rather sophisticated school, no?
He’s wrong to think that we preen ourselves for being smarter than liberals, though. We’re smarter than most conservatives, too. Witness Speaker Richardson, who consistently demonstrates his ignorance of the meaning of even the most (necessarily) basic words he uses to describe himself and his aims.
By Luckoduh
January 19, 2008 12:54 PM | Link to this
My, isn’t “man made global warming just so lovely today in Atlanta?
If this keeps up, Blockbuster will be able to move Inconvenient Truth from the documentary section over to the comedy rack.
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{{{{Partisan tempers flared when Rep. Suckie Face Waxman, California Democrat, called Richard Viguerie, the direct-mail pioneer and conservative stalwart, to testify this week before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The subject was and is fair game if the allegations are true: claims of excessive administrative costs and inflated salaries at the San Diego-based charity Help Hospitalized Veterans, with which Mr. Viguerie is a direct-mail partner. But if the point of such a hearing was to show the truth of these accusations — and to judge by their harsh words, committee members surely seemed to believe them — it failed.}}}}
{{{{At least the partisan flare-up was entertaining. “I am here today at your so-called “invitation,’” Mr. Viguerie began his testimony. “I must say, this is the first invitation I’ve ever received from members of Congress that wasn’t for one of your fundraising events.” Touche.}}}}
Bwa.
By Glenn
January 19, 2008 1:06 PM | Link to this
@@,
A retraction. You’re right. It was AmVet, not PoFo as I’d thought. Not nuanced enough. Oh well. Blew it again…
I like your Magic Fingers allusion, and not just because it appeals to the fantasist within. When I worked for a legislature, with the exception of a few penurious fiscal conservatives the members answered to your description exactly. They preferred no analysis, less they be scared by facts into feeling guilty about the frequent counterproductivity and sheer stupid waste of their constant programmatic showboating at taxpayer expense. The two parties were dissimilar only in the content of their brainless and profligate showboating.
They behaved this way through wrenching recessions, a couple of world-class industrial collapses (military industrial & .com), a $30 billion energy crisis, a $40 billion backlog in unmet classroom need, 9/11, at least two FBI dragnets, the Unabomber, and myriad natural disasters. They simply know no other way.
And that’s why it’s not hyperbolic to point out that Glenn Richardson is an idiot.
By getalife
January 19, 2008 1:07 PM | Link to this
AP calls Nevada for willard the flip flopper.
By getalife
January 19, 2008 1:43 PM | Link to this
Nixon part II
Sure, vote gop for more of this illegal activity.
By @@
January 19, 2008 1:48 PM | Link to this
Glenn:
I’m a cynic only when it comes to government and liberals. Those too eager to invest in government beg for inefficiency while claiming that their personal assets are such already.
The government’s stop-gap (play on words there) solutions serve noone but the political powers that be—I realize that. I have to make a choice though. The party that wants to waste less of my money is the party I’ll go with until something better comes along.
An individual’s drive to accomplish puts him or her on the road to success in spite of what jalopy the government tries to sell us.
I’m an optimist Glenn. I allow noone or no thing to throw up a detour in the path of my destination. I was smart enough to put a road-side emergency kit in the trunk of my vehicle. I’m a cautious driver, I am…
By TW
January 19, 2008 1:54 PM | Link to this
Nothing on here but GOP trolls. This thing is going to bottom out, and all of these ‘rationizations’ to save it do nothing but slow down the inevitable. Until the virus within the GOP dies, the conservative voice will continue to fall on deaf ears. Let it happen…set yourself free…liberal trolls…
By Glenn
January 19, 2008 1:54 PM | Link to this
get,
Do you actually believe that Democrats aren’t given to the same kind of conduct, and worse? If you want purity in this election, waste your vote on the Green Party. You’re a greenie anyway, just too deep in the closet to come out and be openly who you really are.
Own it, get. Own it.
By Luckoduh
January 19, 2008 2:10 PM | Link to this
Ahhh, “man made global warming” has struck the Midwest too:
{{{{In northwestern Wisconsin, the forecast high is 5 below zero in some areas for both Saturday and Sunday. For Saturday night, the overnight air temperatures – not wind chills, but air temperatures – are expected to drop to 25 below in that area.}}}}
{{{{The cold will make for a difficult game for both players and spectators when the Green Bay Packers play the New York Giants at Lambeau Field.}}}}
{{{{At Minneapolis’ Crystal Airport, the temperature at 6:15 a.m. was 14 below zero. The forecast high for Minneapolis on Saturday is 2 below zero, on Sunday 0 degrees, CBS station WCCO-TV reported.}}}}
~~~~~
Geez, what a whiner:
{{{{There is this whole business of the new politics. Well I got a taste of the new politics today. We need a new politics where we all love each other. You’ve heard all that. There’s a radio ad up in the northern part of Nevada telling Republicans that they ought to just register as Democrats for a day so they can beat Ku Klux and go out and be Republicans next week and vote in the primary. Doesn’t sound like the new politics to me.}}}}
{{{{Today when my daughter and I were wandering through the hotel, and all these culinary workers were mobbing us telling us they didn’t care what the union told them to do, they were gonna caucus for Ku Klux.}}}}
{{{{There was a representative of the organization following along behind us going up to everybody who said that, saying ‘if you’re not gonna vote for our guy were gonna give you a schedule tomorrow so you can’t be there.’ So, is this the new politics? I haven’t seen anything like that in America in 35 years. So I will say it again – they think they’re better than you.}}}}
Big fat red faced Billy Klux.
Wwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
{{{{“This is ludicrous,” Culinary Workers political director Pilar Weiss told Politico. She said the union is “aware that some workers aren’t going to vote our way” and doesn’t engage in intimidation.}}}}
{{{{“The fact that they lost a lawsuit aimed at suppressing workers’ votes, and that now they’re trying to hold on to these baseless claims is ridiculous,” she said.}}}}
Bwa.
By getalife
January 19, 2008 2:13 PM | Link to this
Glenn,
I do support green energy to boost the economy and create jobs.
w is worse than Nixon.
Own that.
By getalife
January 19, 2008 2:20 PM | Link to this
Wow, Ron Paul will get second or third beating rudy, gomer and lazy fred.
Bwa.
By OneForTheRoad
January 19, 2008 2:30 PM | Link to this
RON PAUL
for Governor of Georgia
By Blue Blood
January 19, 2008 2:37 PM | Link to this
Bill Campbell
for Governor of Georgia
By catlady
January 19, 2008 2:39 PM | Link to this
jbmlaw: Actually, I think an important part of what Mr. Wooten says is that “people are beginning to notice”. Pretty sad, huh? Sort of High Time, don’t you think? Nobody can say we are slow to catch on here in Georgia! It has been (how many?) years that the Republicans have been in power and are continuing down the path set forth by those “villainous” Democrats? In fact, the path is deeper and wider (and more filled with excrement) than ever before! So much for being saved by the “enlightened ones”!
On the national level, how much more honeymoon do the Democrats get? Peloisi et al were going to fix things that the Republicans had made a mess of, but so far I don’t see much happening there, either! Moo! Follow the bell-cow.
We say we are noticing it (except for the “my party at any cost”—literally—zombies who don’t care about anything except whether it is a D or an R) but I don’t see that ANYONE in power is paying attention and taking it seriously. Why worry? The taxpayers will pick up the tab for whatever it is. I like the Far Side comic that has a group of sheep milling around and one stands up and says, “Hey! We don’t have to be just SHEEP”!
When will people of intelligence and reason THINK? I guess now that folks are NOTICING it, maybe the next step will be THINKING and DOING…. Nah. Whether you are a D or an R, it is back to business as usual. Just direct those payments to another mailbox.
By Jackie
January 19, 2008 2:45 PM | Link to this
ANOTHER growing scandal for Dubya. Magically, more than 436 days of e-mail are “missing” from the backup. The Congress made a law that Dubya signed indicating there should be open records and those records should be maintained indefinitely. It is amazing that those missing e-mails begin about the time of the Valerie Plame incident. Has the technology being used failed so miserably that e-mail backups fall of hard disks? Maybe the dog ate them!
By Dusty
January 19, 2008 3:03 PM | Link to this
Well, Glenn, it is nice to read your posts.
Interesting info about Waxman. Our good Jewish doctor has been an essential part of our large family for many years. I hold Jews in high regard because of him. But Waxman??
Well, not to judge but obviously, from your reports, Waxman has been an eager beaver politician for some time. You’ve got some real crazies in California, Boxer for one. But none of them can outdo our own Cynthia McKinney.
Curious Observer & Profit,
I haven’t had anyone as interested in my education since I filled out mu first job application. Not one of them thought Boston University was a trade school.
But do tell us about YOUR education. What Clown School for busybodies was that?? Come on, “Fess up.” Nobody is really interested but tell us anyway.
By Disgusted
January 19, 2008 3:26 PM | Link to this
Far too many Republicans on this blog. Time to frighten some of them away:
HILLARY
By Blue Blood
January 19, 2008 3:29 PM | Link to this
Whole lot of shoutin’ goin’ on
“The room at Caesars Palace has absolutely erupted into dueling sides of Clinton shouters versus Obama shouters”
By Dusty
January 19, 2008 3:31 PM | Link to this
Jackie,
But, of course, President Bush has been busy destroying hard discs while holding conferences in the Mid East with world leaders. Poor hallucinating liberals!! Bush isn’t thinking about “your” conspiracy discs!!
I was just wondering. Have the Clintons released the White House records of their time there?
By Dusty
January 19, 2008 3:35 PM | Link to this
Disgusted 3:26
It won’t work. The Clintons have already scared us to death and we(R) got over it.
By getalife
January 19, 2008 3:38 PM | Link to this
Great Dem battle in Nevada, looks like Clinton will win.
Ron Paul battles McInsane for second.
By Midori
January 19, 2008 3:42 PM | Link to this
Dusty,
some things never change. you’re still the same drooling idiot you were in 2007.
Can you for once in your pathetic life deal with the “here and now”???
What has Bush and his criminals have anything whatsoever to do with the Clinton’s records? Hasn’t the Clinton presidency been investigated to death? To a tune of over $70 million dollars? Yet you drag that tired old cliche out to defend your pompous, greedy, underhanded, incompetent, liar of a ‘president’.
That’s why your team will lose, and continue to lose. You’re all just a bunch of finger pointing liars and jerks.
By @@
January 19, 2008 3:46 PM | Link to this
I couldn’t help but giggle when I saw this one:
Recently, Arab newspapers have published a series of cartoon tackling environmental issues such as pollution, deforestation, and littering. Saudi newspapers, especially the daily ‘Okaz, have shown particular sensitivity to environmental matters.
Surely they aren’t talking about forests in Saudi Arabia. Kinda sounds to me like they’re biting their nose off to spite their face.
The Knows Nose!…or would it be the Nose Knows?
Odd…
By Blue Blood
January 19, 2008 3:47 PM | Link to this
Midori, please write in ALL CAPS.
It works much better.
By Luckoduh
January 19, 2008 3:58 PM | Link to this
Now the Ku Klux Kampaign can move on to South Carolina and whine about “voter fraud” or some other make believe issue so that they can gin up their dimwit supporters.
It looks like the uneducated came out to the polls strong in Nevada, haha.
John Edwards could do both Americas a big favor by getting the F out of the race and swinging his supporters over to the honest, uncorrupted campaign of….Obama.
I guess we can wait for him to lose his as-s in S.C.
By Profit
January 19, 2008 3:59 PM | Link to this
Yo @@ and ilk, there ain’t any forests in israel either, so there.
By getalife
January 19, 2008 4:01 PM | Link to this
The Clintons will win and the karma for those like crusty the clown will be beautiful.
Good times ahead.
By deegee
January 19, 2008 4:04 PM | Link to this
Anything that Chip Rogers endorses is suspect. He’s another guy with GREAT plans for himself. Last year that guy demagogued the illegal immigration issue in order to pass “tough” laws through the Georgia legislature with no consideration given to whether they were necessary. He didn’t even think far enough ahead to put some form of measurement into the legislation to see if what he did is effective. A year after Georgia “got tough” on illegal aliens all they have to show for it is one more public assistance application denied in 2007 than in 2006.
By Luckoduh
January 19, 2008 4:09 PM | Link to this
And to think, we have 45 more states that we get to watch with wonder as a big fat pampered white bigot from ArKKKansas plays the victim to a…..black man.
Hit don’t git no better than this, do hit?
So liberalism has now come full circle, so much for “equal opportunity,” no, we are back to it’s Southern democrat roots, will they honor the bygone era by setting some crosses alight?
Maybe they could send Robert Byrd out on his horsey, complete with his pointy little cap, to ride on to the next KKKlintoon rally?
Lovin it.
By getalife
January 19, 2008 4:12 PM | Link to this
Clinton wins Nevada!
Yahoo!
By getalife
January 19, 2008 4:16 PM | Link to this
lazy fred drops out.
Bwa.
By Luckoduh
January 19, 2008 4:26 PM | Link to this
{{{{We expect to do well today and a win in Nevada for Obama would be a significant upset. As University of Nevada Reno Political Science professor put it – “If she loses Nevada, it’s not just a loss. It’s a collapse.”}}}}
{{{{Our hope is that today’s caucus comes off without a hitch and as many people as possible participate, however we remain concerned that the tactics of the Ku Klux Kampaign and their allies in recent days have confused voters and could lower participation.}}}}
{{{{And now, according to Jon Ralston, allies of the KKKlinton Kampaign may be planning to challenge voters at the at-large precincts. It is a sad day when Democrats start trying to suppress the vote of other Democrats.}}}}
{{{{Beginning with the lawsuit filed by their allies to suppress turnout among union members, the Ku Klux Kampaign has been engaged in a systematic effort to discredit the process – a process which was pushed, developed, and approved by their supporters at the Democratic National Committee and in Nevada. It wasn’t until Obama began gaining strength in a state they expected to win by at least 20 points that they began their attempts to delegitimize the process.}}}}
{{{{Former President Klux said that this caucus “was not like an election” and that it disenfranchised voters. Even though the lawsuit was rejected as completely meritless by a federal judge, we remain concerned that the specter of the lawsuit has confused voters and threatens turnout at the at-large precincts, which may have been the intent of the Ku Klux allies all along.}}}}
{{{{The Ku Klux Kampaign has also repeated the efforts it made in the closing days of the New Hampshire primary by launching knowingly false attacks on Barack’s opposition to Yucca, his 100-percent pro-choice rating, and position on Social Security. There have been push polls and robocalls pushing these false attacks.}}}}
{{{{And just last night, former President Klux made two false and outrageous allegations, distorting a radio ad that does not even mention Senator Ku Klux and accusing the Culinary workers, whose support both KKKlintoons furiously sought, of engaging in deliberate voter suppression.}}}}
{{{{The conduct of the Ku Klux Kampaign in recent weeks essentially makes the case for why we need Barack Obama – it’s the same old-style say anything or do anything to win, divisive attacks that have prevented progress in this country for so long.}}}}
Bwa.
By Glenn
January 19, 2008 4:27 PM | Link to this
Expect Thompson to drop out, but who says he’s done it?
By @@
January 19, 2008 4:27 PM | Link to this
YoYo Profit:
Yo @@ and ilk, there ain’t any forests in israel either, so there.
I’m surrounded by trees, but I can still see the forest in Israel.
Say what you will about Rudy, but the guy seems to be enjoying every minute of his Florida campaign.
The energy at Giuliani’s Florida events is completely different from that in New Hampshire, the last state in which he really campaigned. Here, people laugh at his jokes. They applaud when he talks tough on terror. They bring dog-eared copies of his book, “Leadership,” for him to sign. They ask his advice on Manhattan restaurants and Broadway plays (“‘Wicked’ is wonderful,” he advises). Even Giuliani’s staff—who were markedly dour in the Granite State—are giddy and beaming down here, and not just because it’s 30 degrees warmer.
Who wouldn’t love a statement like that Wicked is wonderful?
I like that!
Rudy (08)
By Jackie
January 19, 2008 4:28 PM | Link to this
@Dusty,
Dubya held conferences in the Mideast to proclaim the Iranian Navy in their two-man speedboats were “harassing” our frigates and destroyers; the propaganda was laid out further to say that he was for a two-state solution in the Israeli/Palestenian conflict, yet, proposed nothing to begin the process but said “I am for a two state solution.” Did you notice the Israelis sealed off the Gaza strip, not allowing food, water and other human essentials into the world’s largest prison of 1.5 million people. Yes, you can use whatever logic you choose to justify what these criminals are doing; you can go back to the Clinton administration and say “they did not release any documentation” , in direct contravention of what Kenneth Starr said; you can continue to have this psycho-babble about Dubya and your loyalty to this criminal regime all you want; you still do not have facts to bolster your argument. To give you an idea of what world leaders think of Dubya, Canada has told its diplomats to be aware of the torture being used by the USA against people and has registered a diplomatic protest against this country for its refusal to give documentation about the detention, rendention and torture of a Canadian citizen in a Syrian prison for more than a year, without charges. It turns out the USA had the wrong name, therefore, the wrong person, yet they refuse to admit they made a mistake. Enough of the discussion when this man is literally hated by the rest of the world, except of course Israel. What do you offer as rebuttal to this “allegations?” Please do not offer further sophomoric proselytizing.
By getalife
January 19, 2008 4:29 PM | Link to this
Dear duh,
Why are you such a loser like lazy fred?
Stop with the kkk crap racist.
It is pathetic.
By getalife
January 19, 2008 4:38 PM | Link to this
Funny, how the voting machines in SC do not work.
Just another fine example of gop incompetence.
Morons.
By Glenn
January 19, 2008 4:42 PM | Link to this
@@,
Glad to hear it. Never thought you were other than an Optimist. Guess I think that the best should be; should, for both rational and moral reasons. I can’t quite swing it myself, but I’m trying—-or at least I’m trying to fend off cynicism, while meanwhile the blogs are full of tender-minded young naifs who wish to feign that from which I flee.
I’d meant to tease PetitFors for his Cynicism, as I thought you were calling him a Dem in drag as GOP. But I was mistaken in thinking that the fitful hissyone was PoFo, as you were right I think: it was AmVet before his first serving of Menudo.
Sometimes I skim your stuff too cursorily. A mistake. It’s layered.
getalife,
If George W. Bush is worse than Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton is worse than Ozzy Osborn.
Spotted on a blog last week:
WORSHIP HILLARY!
[Rudy 08]
By getalife
January 19, 2008 4:50 PM | Link to this
Looking at a Florida wingnut holding up a sign, “Congrats Rohney” on CNN.
How pathetic.
This guy is like a robot and not very excited about his victory.
By OneForTheRoad
January 19, 2008 4:51 PM | Link to this
RON PAUL for President
MIKE HUCKABEE for Governor of Georgia
Who’s Bill Campbell?
By getalife
January 19, 2008 4:52 PM | Link to this
duh,
The reason I support Clinton is because she is in favor of gay marriage.
Keep hope alive.
getalife and Sen.Craig in ‘08!
By getalife
January 19, 2008 4:54 PM | Link to this
Yes Glenn,
They are both very popular rock stars but after the Clintons clean up w’s mess and get our country back on the right track, the Clintons will be worshipped.
By getalife
January 19, 2008 5:01 PM | Link to this
Hey Glenn,
Do what I do:
“Stand by your man. Make him bend you over. Let him know that you’re just one man”.
“Stand by your man.”
By Luckoduh
January 19, 2008 5:01 PM | Link to this
Oh, so getalife thinks the Ku Klux Klintons aren’t racists eh?:
The Obama campaign has released a recording (mp3) it says came from a Nevadan’s answering machine of an anonymous robocall that criticizes Obama for taking money from special interests while repeating, four times, his rarely used middle name: “Hussein.”
{{{{“I’m calling with some important information about Barack Hussein Obama,” the call begins, before saying that “Barack Hussein Obama says he doesn’t take money from Washington lobbyists or special interest groups but the record is clear that he does.”}}}}
{{{{After mentioning his full name once more, the call concludes:}}}}
{{{{“You just can’t take a chance on Barack Hussein Obama.”}}}}
Now that is “pathetic.”
By getalife
January 19, 2008 5:01 PM | Link to this
Later fred, I will miss the wife
Bwa.
By OneForTheRoad
January 19, 2008 5:09 PM | Link to this
Wow. I never knew there were so many pathetic things. Very enlightening.
McKinney for Governor of Georgia
Who’s Bill Campbell?
Ron Paul for President
Mike Huckabee for Governor of California
Arnold in 2012
By Glenn
January 19, 2008 5:14 PM | Link to this
Car dealer from OC. Newport Beach his base, so Frank Jr. to Dutch’s Chairman of the Board. Trojan, which puts him in the local mafia. Also an accountant with a jurisprudential brain, though not an atty. Very lucid, polite, quietly gutsy. Should be a fiscal chair as soon as seniority will allow. Interestingly, fights OC’s xenophobia when it goes over the top. Family guy. No whiff of trouble. Even that rarest, a reputable car dealer. (Perhaps Netanyahu once worked for him.) Was one of the point people for negotiating CA’s $110+ B budget. Naturally thrifty, without being nutty. A humble, & therefore quick, study. Discreet enough to sit on Intel. Oversight. Knows nothing of foreign affairs. Yet.
By getalife
January 19, 2008 5:16 PM | Link to this
“You must not know ‘bout me, you must know ‘bout me.”
Anal sex is the future!
Bwa.
By @@
January 19, 2008 5:18 PM | Link to this
Granted, my greatest personal challenge is understanding global economics—that’s why I save as much money as I can and spend it wisely always. For those of you who do understand global economics, you may enjoy this article from Stratfor. I couldn’t link directly to, but can take you through a back door.
Stratfor pulls no punches when it comes to mistakes made by this administration but yet they sometimes hint to his status as “Mister Misunderestimated.”
Geopolitical Weekly Annual Forecast 2008: Beyond the Jihadist War
Kewl!
By getalife
January 19, 2008 5:21 PM | Link to this
Quit ganking pf.
gay wanker.
By Dusty
January 19, 2008 5:22 PM | Link to this
Jackie,@4:28
Blind hatred has caused you to lose your reason.
Did you think the speedboat running to the Cole was only provocative or did the deaths of many American sailors not bother you? The only difference in that story and the Iranian incident is….the Iranians decided to turn around and run. Do you want to wait until our ships are blown to bits and then decide what others have in mind?
You refer to the Gaza strip which the Israelis gave to Palestine. Now the Palestinians are shooting rockets at Israel’s towns every day from GAZA. What is your suggestion for putting a stop to that? Blockades or bombings or let such action continue? Or run like a good liberal?
Canada can have terrorists in their country just like we can. I don’t turn against my country because one mistake is made, if it was a mistake and if it was torture. And the world has not turned against us. With millions of illegal people already here and millions more trying to get here, I would not call that a sign of dislike.
Stop reading the terrorist information you pass on to us. It is definitely against the USA. Even a lib like you ought to recognize that.
By OneForTheRoad
January 19, 2008 5:24 PM | Link to this
Oh. THAT Bill Campbell.
By @@
January 19, 2008 5:25 PM | Link to this
Whoopsee! Allow me to make that more clear:
they sometimes hint to his (Bush’s) status as “Mister Misunderestimated.”
By getalife
January 19, 2008 5:26 PM | Link to this
It is an unfortunate middle name duh like willard.
Obama did one too talking about suppressing votes in Spanish.
It failed but lets use his unity message and support President Clinton when she wins.
Deal?
By getalife
January 19, 2008 5:28 PM | Link to this
For your education:
Proponents of same-sex marriage often use the term “equal marriage” to stress that they seek equality as opposed to special rights;[2] the term “equal marriage” has also been used by feminists to describe any marriage, regardless of the sex of the partners, in which the partners have equal status within the marriage.[3] Opponents argue that equating same-sex and opposite-sex marriage changes the meaning of marriage and its traditions.[4] Some opponents use the term “homosexual marriage”, and surveys have suggested that the word “homosexual” is more stigmatizing than the word “gay”.[5] Some publications that oppose same-sex marriage put the word marriage in scare quotes when referring to it. Notable publications that practice this are The Washington Times and LifeSite. Cliff Kincaid, a writer for the American conservative-based media watchdog group Accuracy in Media, agrees with this method arguing that “marriage” is a word that same-sex couples merely want to apply to themselves, but have no legal ability to do so in most states.[6] Same-sex marriage supporters argue that it is editorializing and implying inferiority, and point out that the quotes are even used when referring to same-sex marriages in locations where it is legal.
Bwa.
By getalife
January 19, 2008 5:28 PM | Link to this
Go ahead pf.
It makes you feel better.
By deegee
January 19, 2008 5:31 PM | Link to this
Who the hell but Dusty thinks that W participates in meetings when he goes overseas? W has photo ops when he goes overseas. His staff participates in the meetings. Just like his staff made sure that incriminating emails were destroyed. Even his own party won’t let W share a stage with a serious candidate for president. W is the Ted Baxter of modern day politics.
By getalife
January 19, 2008 5:31 PM | Link to this
Let’s define who I am:
Homosexuality can refer to both attraction or sexual behavior between organisms of the same sex, or to a sexual orientation. When describing the latter, it refers to enduring sexual and romantic attraction towards those of the same sex, but not necessarily to sexual behavior.[1] Homosexuality is contrasted with heterosexuality (attraction, behavior, or orientation between opposite sexes), bisexuality (both sexes), and asexuality (neither sex).
Etymologically, the word homosexual is a Greek and Latin hybrid with homos (often confused with the later Latin meaning of “man”, as in homo sapiens) deriving from the Greek word for same, thus connoting sexual acts and affections between members of the same sex, including lesbianism.[2][3] In the English-speaking world, the term gay had been used within the subculture for decades before becoming popularized by the gay rights movement in the 1970s.[citation needed] In a narrow sense, gay refers to male homosexuality, but it often is used in its broadest sense, especially in media headlines and reports, to refer to homosexuality in general. Lesbian, however, always denotes female homosexuality.
Homosexual behavior occurs among numerous animals other than humans, particularly among social animals.
Geez.
By @@
January 19, 2008 5:34 PM | Link to this
Hey, I just noticed that link took you to the Navy Seals site—covert operatives. You libs can’t “out” it without disparaging some of the best among our military. Even if you use the comparison “trained seals”, you’d have to admit highly.
Either way…..I win.
Go ahead….make my day.
By getalife
January 19, 2008 5:35 PM | Link to this
To pf,
Many people who feel attracted to members of their own sex have a so-called “coming out” at some point in their lives. Generally, coming out is described in three phases. The first phase is the phase of “knowing oneself,” and the realization or decision emerges that one is open to same-sex relations. This is often described as an internal coming out. The second phase involves one’s decision to come out to others, e.g. family, friends, and/or colleagues. This occurs with many people as early as age 11, but others do not clarify their sexual orientation until age 40 or older. The third phase more generally involves living openly as an LGBT person.[57] In the United States today, people often come out during high school or college age. At this age, they may not trust or ask for help from others, especially when their orientation is not accepted in society. Sometimes their own parents are not even informed.
Outing is the practice of publicly revealing the sexual orientation of a closeted person.[58] Notable politicians, celebrities, military service people, and clergy members have been outed, with motives ranging from malice to political or moral beliefs. Many commentators oppose the practice altogether,[59] while some encourage outing public figures who use their positions of influence to harm other gay people.
My life.
Take that ganker.
By Camus
January 19, 2008 5:38 PM | Link to this
Hi Glenn,
Well, even though Romney proved today that he could be elected in a landslide to become President of the United States of Utavada, the big story today has to be how well Nevada went for Rudy. He really gave Duncan Hunter a thrashing, and he didn’t even try. Just imagine how well he will do if he ever actually contests a primary or caucus.
Feel the Rudymentum!!!
By OneForTheRoad
January 19, 2008 5:46 PM | Link to this
Clinton or Huckabee. They’re both so good. Why should we have to choose? Why?
By Dusty
January 19, 2008 5:54 PM | Link to this
Deegee,@5:31
Please send me the photo op of Bush destroying or even mentioning hard discs while in the Middle East. I’d like to see that.
Your liberal imagination loves to run wild over the President of the USA. Did you know he has something more to do than disprove all the conspiracies liberals cook up almost every day?
Go talk to Waxman. He will put your “conspiracy” on tomorrow’s list of investigations which are about as important as his grocery list.
By Luckoduh
January 19, 2008 5:59 PM | Link to this
Dusty and Waxman are fraternal twins separated at birth. Henry was the cute one.
And I too am sorry to see Lazy Fred go. I liked his wife’s fine assets, the Thompson Twins.
By @@
January 19, 2008 6:02 PM | Link to this
Poor Getalife. PoliFore seems to have a different method for taking out his frustrations on you.
You? he seems to LOVE.
Me? he despises. I think it’s because I’m a woman and
YOU ARE A MAN.
I hate it for you…really I do.
I’d run interference for you PoliFore seems very focused on the end-game.
By Glenn
January 19, 2008 6:05 PM | Link to this
I know, I know. It’s so hard. I mean, Bill is so much like Marjoe Gortner, while Mike’s got that Gantry thing down cold.
Decisions, decisions.
Bill, I think. He’s Robt. Preston to Mike’s Burt Lancaster. More fun.
By Glenn
January 19, 2008 6:06 PM | Link to this
Camus,
You really don’t know what you’re talking about. But I promise not to ram it down your throat as Florida approaches.
By Luckoduh
January 20, 2008 8:04 AM | Link to this
al-Gitmo: Yeah, maybe the man that I know would have been the best for America lost but when it comes down to the end of the day at least I’m not backing a candidate that called Martin Luther King a shoeshine boy.
Like you are.
Bwa.
{{{{By getalife January 19, 2008 5:01 PM Later fred, I will miss the wife}}}}
I know, it’s nice to see you libs admitting that the only women you can sport are a bunch of fat, baggy, screeching old hags.
Men loving freaks.
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And here comes Queen Pinko, backing up everything I said about democrats being nothing but a bunch of lying, race hating bigots:
{{{{Take the current Democratic primary. Greenwald and colleagues modified the Implicit Association Test to search for unconscious biases among Democratic voters. When asked who they planned to cast ballots for, a sample of voters reported strong support for Obama, who held a 42 percent to 34 percent lead over Hillary Clinton among the sample, with John Edwards coming in at 12. But when the same people took the Implicit Association Test, measuring their unconscious preferences, Clinton was “the runaway winner,” favored by 48 percent of them, and Obama was dead last, with 25 percent. Edwards was favored by 27 percent, according to the researchers.-Cynthia Tucker, Urinal}}}}
{{{{That’s not a condemnation, not a presumption of malicious bigotry. It’s just an acknowledgment of the peculiar burdens of humanity, especially in these United States. Assumptions about race and ethnicity are so deeply embedded in our culture that we can hardly help noticing skin color.-Urinal}}}}
Oh, please.
What we have here is God hating heathen judging the whole entire United States based upon her inner bigotry.
Speak for yourself, Cynthia, or are you?
Maybe if you degenerate liberals didn’t view other women as a slab of meat put solely on this Earth for your selfish pleasure, maybe if you libs didn’t use race baiting as a substitute for honest effort, maybe if you libs didn’t run a “news” paper that employs hate speech against the opinions of the people you disagree with, maybe if you didn’t protect every scumbag that does bring discredit to their race, maybe then you could get past your bigotry, get past the stereotypes and “politically correct” language that you created,” and you could start seeing the human being that lives in every one of us, regardless of our outward appearance.
I can’t believe she said that, these libs have instituted freaking rules and policies on how to “act” around other human beings, rules that reinforce the very bigotry that she whines about today.
Heal thyself, “physician.”
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Speaking of hate language:
{{{{Americans love to boil over big oil- Today bookshop shelves are crammed with tomes denouncing the Bush oil dynasty, or predicting that America’s dependence on oil will bring environmental Armageddon.}}}} Big oil, an industry that makes 8% profits versus Hollywood and Lawyers and all the libs making 35%, an industry that is overwhelmed with liberal democrat regulations the costs of which get passed along to the consumer, an industry that has it’s products saddled with a 48 cent per gallon federal tax, an industry that is forced by the federal government to blend corn into it’s product in turn raising food prices, an industry that is being blamed for a fake scare mongering junk science because they provide a product to people like the Atlanta Journal Constitution and al-Gore using massive amounts of energy to print and deliver this very “news” paper that they are using to whine about “big oil.”
You are sick in the head, AJC.
How many trees get chopped down every day to print this paper, Urinal? How many millions of gallons of gasoline do you figure gets burnt up to haul those trees, to run those massive printing presses, to deliver this crying rag, do your reporters walk around the country? Do you work and live in a pop up tent and burn animal dung to stay warm? Grow your own food, do ya?
Stupid, simple, ignorant, guilt tripping, mouth breathing, busy bodies STFU, and lead by example you sick little freaks.
Sick, filthy little immature wretches “protesting” against the very industry and technologies that have advance their comfortable, fat little lives to the point of idleness, giving them time to whine about the whole freaking world.
They have absolutely no clue about what a short, brutal life people lived before big oil made everything so easy and convenient.
POS. (-;
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And congratulations to John McCain, who has finally, after all these years, done something good for the Republican party.
Got rid of Hickabee for us.
To this we owe you…..something.
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And what does it say of South Carolina, having an ex senator like Misses Edwards and voting 30% for freaking Hickabee, is it no surprise that they spawned someone like finchie?
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Geez, the Washington Post must not have gotten the democrat memo on Iraq:
{{{{The legislation is one of half a dozen key political “benchmarks” we have expected Iraqi leaders to address. Others are hydrocarbon legislation; a provincial powers act; a law to facilitate the next round of local elections; a process for holding a referendum on the political future of Kirkuk, the disputed northern oil city; and a better process for purging sectarian extremists from positions of government authority. Apart from de-Baathification reform, major steps have been taken only on the last of these. But there has been real progress on other important matters, including Baghdad’s sharing of oil revenue with the provinces, even without a hydrocarbon law; the hiring of Sunni volunteers into the security forces and the civilian arms of government; and improvements in the legal system, such as more trained judges and fewer indefinite detentions of prisoners. Iraq’s political glass remains more empty than full, but trends are clearly in the right direction.}}}}
{{{{Some in Washington are already calling for a commitment to additional reductions, resulting in force levels below pre-surge levels, even before we have finished the current drawdown. Such calls are unwise. America has made this mistake in Iraq before. It is inappropriate to try to evaluate the possibility of reductions beyond pre-surge levels before we have had time to examine the situation after the completion of that drawdown.}}}}
{{{{The strain on the U.S. military is great. But sustaining 15 brigades in Iraq for six to 12 more months will not break the military. Reducing forces in Iraq too rapidly, however, even by one or two brigades, might seriously jeopardize the tenuous success we are seeing. We should not take that risk.}}}}
It’s getting kinda hard to sweep under the rug, ain’t it?
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Look at the Urinal and DOT try to forecast the weather just a few hours into the future, and yes, they got it wrong:
{{{{The beauty of a snowstorm on the city’s day off took on the menacing threat of treacherous roads and black ice. Black ice was expected to become a greater concern as temperatures fell, DOT spokesman Paul Marshall said.}}}}
Uh, no ice.
These^^ are the same people that tell us the debate over “man made global warming” is settled.
By the way, how many of you pinkos found out that the Toyota Prius will spin like a top when it encounters a minor slick spot, whereas gigantic 4 wheel drive pick up trucks just walk on by?
You libs better pray for “global warming” if you’re gonna drive around in shoeboxes.
By DawgBite
January 20, 2008 8:18 AM | Link to this
Luckoduh, you could have said all of the above dumb sh%t in 2 sentences or less. Spare us your ignorance please.
By DawgBite
January 20, 2008 8:18 AM | Link to this
Luckoduh, you could have said all of the above dumb sh%t in 2 sentences or less. Spare us your ignorance please.
By catlady
January 20, 2008 9:48 AM | Link to this
W is the Ted Baxter of modern day politics. Very apt, deegee. However, I think ole Ted had more going for him. Limited in IQ and a pompous jackazz, yes, but not hurtful. Actually treated others kindly. So, while there are some similarities, there are some important differences. Before the Judgement Throne, guess who is more likely to get the nod for Heaven?
By JB
January 20, 2008 11:39 AM | Link to this
What does that make you ‘catlady’? The ‘Corky’ of the blogs? (as in Corky the retarded kid).
By GaLiberal
January 20, 2008 12:16 PM | Link to this
Moron Jim says: This is an important session for Republicans. People are beginning to notice how they run Georgia.
For once, Moron Jim speaks the truth. The Rethuglicons have run the state into the ground. They have passed laws that are anti-family, anti-consumer, and anti-society. They now allow people to carry guns into city and county parks overriding local laws. Now they want to extend that to state parks, sports stadiums, and even churches. They want to run all ‘illegal immigrants’ out of the state despite they have children that are legal US citizens breaking up families. They passed draconian sex offender laws that entrap teenagers for consensual behavior and punish them with outrageous prison sentences. They want to run all the sex offenders out too despite that many were caught by these draconian sex offender laws. They changed to allocation formula so as to funnel even more gas tax money from metro Atlanta to the rest of Georgia. So while Vidalia gets a multi-million dollar bypass to alleviate ‘rush hour’ delays in the downtown area, metro Atlanta chokes in more smog, wastes more gas, and takes longer to get home. The Rethuglicons conned people into voting for them with the promise of better living through lower taxes and less government. Rethuglicon control of the state has cost you more money than any tax cut, increased government, and made your lives harder.
When you vote Rethuglicon, you vote against your own best interests. And Georgia is living proof.
By GaLiberal
January 20, 2008 12:25 PM | Link to this
Why is it that Lukoduh and his boot-lickers post these insane rants that are way off topic? Because they have nothing else to say or nothing better to do with their time. Don’t bother to read what they write as it will give an embolism or hemorrhoid or something equally nasty.
When you vote Rethuglicon, you vote against your own best interests. And Lukoduh is living proof.
By JB
January 20, 2008 12:38 PM | Link to this
GaLiberal, I don’t as much vote FOR the “Ruthuglicons” as you so eloquently put it, as I do againt the “Dumbassocrats”. Frankly, neither choice is too encouraging.
By JohnnyComeLately
January 20, 2008 12:43 PM | Link to this
GaLiberal, It’s funny that YOU of all people talk about others licking boots. If the Democrats had balls, you’d be the first in line to suck them dry.
By aldread
January 20, 2008 1:06 PM | Link to this
Luckoduh,
Re:
By the way, how many of you pinkos found out that the Toyota Prius will spin like a top when it encounters a minor slick spot, whereas gigantic 4 wheel drive pick up trucks just walk on by?
I drive a Camry, I made a conscious decision to safe a lot of money, and traded off some of the safety factor. Just like your criminal Bush administration decided to do when they initially decided not to armor the vehicles used by our forces in Iraq.
The difference is, my decision affected MY LIFE, not that of other peoples children.
By the way, do yo ever notice those all those SUV rollover accidents? That’s not so safe either, is it?
Re-read your posts, you sound like a lunatic.
By Tom
January 20, 2008 2:05 PM | Link to this
Hey GaLiberal, Re:”They want to run all ‘illegal immigrants’ out of the state despite they have children that are legal US citizens breaking up families”
Guess what. If we take your thinking, why send criminals to prison for fear of breaking up a family? Same difference you idiot.
By Democrat National Committee
January 20, 2008 2:43 PM | Link to this
Geez, do you dimwits realize there is a new blog discussion?
How far back in the archives do I have to check for all the wormy little comments addressed to me?
{{{{By GaLiberal January 20, 2008 12:25 PM Why is it that Lukoduh and his boot-lickers post these insane rants that are way off topic? Because they have nothing else to say or nothing better to do with their time. Don’t bother to read what they write as it will give an embolism or hemorrhoid or something equally nasty. When you vote Rethuglicon, you vote against your own best interests. And Lukoduh is living proof.}}}}
Yes, whining in a day old blog is so much more of a powerful message than anything I have ever posted and proves without a doubt that liberals are the World Champion Cry Babies and will leave no comment unwhined at.
{{{{By aldread January 20, 2008 1:06 PM I drive a Camry, I made a conscious decision to safe a lot of money, and traded off some of the safety factor. The difference is, my decision affected MY LIFE, not that of other peoples children.}}}}
I commend your decision to consciously risk dying a stupid flaming death at the hands of some dimwit on a cellphone but, if you don’t mind, let me make my own choice in the matter.
This is America, Land of the Free, after all.
{{{{By the way, do yo ever notice those all those SUV rollover accidents? That’s not so safe either, is it?}}}}
That’s old news, my man, they used to make them top heavy with a narrow wheel base and, like that wasn’t enough, threw in self destructing tires on top of that.
That was like fifteen years ago.
They have gotten smarter since then.
Believe me, I was sandwiched by two semis and drove home, I know of what I speak.
By DJ
January 21, 2008 9:33 AM | Link to this
hey LUCKODUH - are you employed? You seem to have way too much free time. Why don’t you get your own’ blog instead of hijaking this one every day for your own self-serving agenda? Plus - you are, what everyone at the cocktail party politely calls you (behind your back) long-winded. Maybe let other people have something to say once in a while. Even JBMLaw isn’t that self-absorbed. Jut a thought.
By The Race
January 21, 2008 10:00 AM | Link to this
Ask yourself: would you vote for MLK on Super Tuesday?
Just as we had to be told how to act by MLK in the 60’s, we must now unchain our destiny and let justice guide our vote.
We’re like little children who didn’t know any better till MLK spoke to us. You see, our better angels weren’t enough. Now we must rely on our best angels, and discard the ones who compromised our past.
Better isn’t best.
vote the dream