Thinking Right

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

January 16, 2009 8:49 AM | Link to this

Good morning all. I agree with the governor’s logic on “FDA” approval. Of course my cure is the opposite, I would shut down the worthless Federal bureaucracy, and all of its related Federal spawn, that kills more Americans each year than all other American government entities combined.

The leftist view of power plants would compel the regulated companies to fund everything with leverage, leaving the shareholders vulnerable to market exigencies without any compensation for the risk.

Anyone stupid enough to build a Center in the ghetto knowingly accepts the risks therein. The problem is that a symbolic structure, built in a partiular location for no more substantial reason than symbolism, does not draw any substantial thought on risks on the front end.

I suppose any mention of legislature and Underground warns us that silly season has arrived.

I agree that allowing judges the power to quash down mortgages is a stupid idea. That will assure a collapse of markets for funding mortgages. I guess the leftists are planning to ramp up FNMA and FHLMC, since they didn’t learn anything last year. Seem like one of our leftist friends said something the other day about doing the same thing repeatedly in expectation of different results. She was right, although not in the mindless example she recited then.

I disagree on enrollment ceilings. The right way to enforce quotas is to use the market mechanism, price, rather than the arbitrary whims of an admissions educrat,

Death tax is a potential wedge issue for republicans, as all surveys show black voters think there is something unfair about re-taxing assets that accrue after taxes. Leftists, of course, just look for pots of money to steal and spend on their hair-brained schemes.

Susan Crawford demonstrates the importance of having Congress do the legislating rather than leftist judges. Not that Congress is much more competent, but at least we can throw those idiots out of office, a la Max Cleland.

The “culture of corruption” has been defined down – we now call it “the Chicago Way” or “Democrats on parade.”

By DB, Gwinnettian

January 16, 2009 8:49 AM | Link to this

As I laid eyes on that multiple-choice question amidst your column this morning, for a moment I was afraid they’d allowed Thomas Oliver to write editorials again.

Fortunately, they’ve kept him neutered and posting pablum in the Business pages, which is basically Oliver’s karma for having supporting stupid conservative policies that wrecked our economy all those years.

As for the Wooten’s multiple choice question itself, this might be a good time to note that whenever conservatives try to get inside the heads of liberals, they always get it wrong. Probably because conservatives make such an effort to gate themselves off from anything that resembles dissenting opinion, they really haven’t a clue as to how a majority of Americans these days really tick. Well, keep working on that. One day America might become sufficiently frightened to allow Republicans keys to the executive washroom again, and perhaps you won’t screw things up so badly then.

By get out much?

January 16, 2009 8:49 AM | Link to this

Mr. Wooten, if a lawsuit is truly frivilous, then it has no merit. In which case, the judge should dismiss the case. If the case goes to trial, it must mean that there is merit and therefore, it is not frivilous.

As for “new” definitions of torture, those came from W and his cronies. Nice to know that waterboarding is now “approved” treatment according to the United States government. Must be comforting to our troops to know that if captured, they can be waterboarded because the Bush Justice Department does not consider it torture, in spite of what that “quaint” document (the Geneva Convention) states.

Actually Mr. Wooten, I prefer the term “Paris Hilton Tax” to death tax.

By Bob Hess

January 16, 2009 8:56 AM | Link to this

I wrote my congressman about putting Congress on a pay for performance salary for congress & this was my responce. Guess who I won’t be voting for next time.

“Dear Mr. Heiss: Thank you for contacting me to express your opposition to proposals increasing the salary of Congressional Representatives. I appreciate hearing from you.

“Let me say right up front: The 111th Congress has not voted to give itself a pay raise. The adjustment in salary for Members of Congress to which you refer follows a mandate by the Ethics Act of 1989. This mandate prohibits Members from adjusting their own salaries and receiving outside income and instead ties Congressional salaries to the Employment Cost Index (ECI).

“That said, I understand and share your frustration with Congress. The beauty of our representative democracy is that it allows those who are being taxed, namely the voters, to oppose the re-election of any Member. Thus, better than capping congressional salaries, voters have the power to completely eliminate the salary of their Federal representatives by voting them out of office if they feel that their interests are not adequately represented. Sincerely, John Linder, Member of Congress”

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

January 16, 2009 8:56 AM | Link to this

Dear get out @ 8:49, we would all agree that al Qaeda ought to sign the Geneval protocols, to embrace the protections therein. Of course that may conflict with their policy of chopping off heads.

By Mid-South Philosopher

January 16, 2009 8:56 AM | Link to this

Good morning, Jim.

The election of Barack “Barry” Obama not withstanding, taxes are going to rise for everyone in the next year. Whether it is by the liberally controlled Congress allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire, whether it is by “Silly” Sonny allowing the homestead exemptions to go away, whether it is by the cowardly county commissions and city councils increasing taxes via the “backdoor” of “reassessment”, or whether it is by legislative bodies enacting new taxes on sin, recreation, or the silliness of tobacco addiction, we are all going to pay more.

How would it be, if we had a National Credit Amnesty? The way it would work is that on a given day, all real property that a person possesses (lawfully) would become that person’s. All bank accounts, cash, and personal wealth in the name of every citizen would remain her or his. All credit card accounts would be declared “paid” and CLOSED! All debts to any citizen of the United States owed by any citizen of the United States would be declared “paid.” All loans and installment accounts would be declared “paid” and those accounts CLOSED. All utility bills, government taxes due at that time, and other fees would be declared “up-to-date.” Everyone would start out with zero-based credit. In effect, the country would begin over, again.

Foolish idea?…probably, but, then, Congress has a way of embracing foolish ideas…they enact them into law…like the 850 billion dollar bail-out!

What’s the us3!?!

By Patty

January 16, 2009 9:00 AM | Link to this

AS someone who ‘watched’ the approval process of between drug companies and the FDA, it would be nuts to disallow product-liablity claims in state court. Anyone in medical reserach knows that the FDA gives approval on new medications to the highest bidder. And with just 20 regulators to oversee over 2000 studies a year(New York Times, Sept 28, 2007,) the possibility for a medication disaster is very real.

Instead, overhaul the system—get rid of the fat cats at the FDA pocketing money at the expense of the American consumer. Make it illegal for doctors to receive kickbacks for prescribing a particular drug and cap the amount research doctors can collect per patient on drug studies.

By Ga Values

January 16, 2009 9:02 AM | Link to this

“Letting bankruptcy judges rewrite home mortgages, as Democrats in Congress propose, means simply that the risk that a mortgage contract can be altered will be written into everybody’s loan as fees and higher interest rates. Congress loves to hide the cost of its social programs in the private sector and in your household budget.”

If the banks had done their job of properly underwriting these loans we would not need TARP. The bank/credit card industry wrote the last bankrupcy law to shield themselves from bad decisions on their part. I want to see some bankers to the prec walk.

By songbird

January 16, 2009 9:09 AM | Link to this

Ragner - you obviously have never been to the Carter Center and know nothing of the area around it. It’s Inman Park with many homes costing more than a $1MM. It’s anything but a ghetto as you called it.

Kids from middle and upper income homes commit crimes too, not just ghetto kids.

Sometimes your comments are intelligent and on point, but this comment just showed your ignorance.

By Confused

January 16, 2009 9:13 AM | Link to this

I want to see some bankers to the prec walk.

What does that mean? Does it mean, “I want to see some bankers DO the PERP walk?”

That’s all I can figure.

By Peter

January 16, 2009 9:15 AM | Link to this

Gotta love Republican Jim………

No problem here with paying higher rates for nuclear power plant construction before the facilities are finished. Georgia Power wants to build two reactors at Plant Vogtle near Augusta and to charge customers $1.6 billion of its $6.4 billion share-cost before they’re finished. We need the power. We’ll pay ultimately anyway. Why wait?

Spend Spend Spend…….doesn’t matter who’s money it is……..

Jim has never talked about alternative power………..not feasible since his Buddies won’t get rich bilking Georgians……and of course there is NEVER talk about spending to make Georgia homes more energy efficient from an individual home owners point of view.

YUP Jim, like most Republican’s are for taking your money, no matter how is effects you !

Of course Jim would have us pay $4.00 at the pump today…..why not we will have to pay that someday…..Right Jim !

By get out much?

January 16, 2009 9:16 AM | Link to this

rag@8:56 - maybe some of us like to hold ourselves to a better standard than what Al Qaeda does. BTW, the US did sign the Geneva Protocols, and as such, we should abide by them rather than use legalese to try and get out of our obligations.

By songbird

January 16, 2009 9:17 AM | Link to this

Ragner - you obviously have never been to the Carter Center and know nothing of the area around it. It’s Inman Park with many homes costing more than a $1MM. It’s anything but a ghetto as you called it.

Kids from middle and upper income homes commit crimes too, not just ghetto kids.

Sometimes your comments are intelligent and on point, but this comment just showed your ignorance.

By Peter

January 16, 2009 9:24 AM | Link to this

Hey…..By Ragnar Danneskjöld ….something has to be built, to be considered a Ghetto……

Your sense of community is really appalling, and your sense of compassion even less.

Please don’t say you go to church on Sunday, that would be very Hypocritical.

By Saxby Chambliss LOBBYIST best friend

January 16, 2009 9:25 AM | Link to this

I am mad as hell, no banker gave me anything for my vote so I voted against the second half of the TARP. Being part of the minority party is no fun.

By Tom

January 16, 2009 9:27 AM | Link to this

C’mon, songbird, you know that jbmlaw/Ragweed would never sully himself by visiting any neighborhood which might entail actual contact with minorities of any sort, for whom he has nothing but contempt and vitriol.

But of course he will immediately jump back in with a variation on the theme “some of my best friends are black,” replete with references to Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Clarence Thomas, etc. It’s comically predictable.

By gafarmer

January 16, 2009 9:27 AM | Link to this

$1000 bikes? Must have a second seat and security area for the secret service agent that must accompany either Carter on their jaunts.

Carter is one of the best ex-presidents but his dementia is beginning to screw up that image. Chase the criminals because they stole property, not because they stole from the Carters.

By Shawny

January 16, 2009 9:32 AM | Link to this

Bookman is censoring me, I guess. See if Wooten will allow this post about the extreme amount of CO2 as a result of next week’s festivities…

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By CommunistAJC

January 16, 2009 9:34 AM | Link to this

Six months ago the dems, including Hussein Obama, said that we Bush failed in the war on terror because he did not kill Osama Bin Laden. I have come to the conclusion that all democrat voters were duped by this inexperienced empty suit we will soon call president.

THIS IS MORE LIBERAL HYPOCRISY AT IT’S BEST.

We no longer need to kill Bin Laden, claims Barack Obama

By Daily Mail Reporter

Barack Obama has claimed it is no longer necessary to kill Osama Bin Laden to win the war against al-Qaeda.

In an unprecedented departure from the current wanted ‘dead or alive policy,’ the U.S. President-Elect said that simply keeping bin Laden holed up in a cave was enough to keep America safe.

‘My preference obviously would be to capture or kill him,’ he said.

‘But if we have so tightened his noose that he’s in a cave somewhere and can’t even communicate with his operatives then we will meet our goal of protecting America.

‘I think that we have to so weaken (his) infrastructure that, whether he is technically alive or not, he is so pinned down that he cannot function.

‘I’m confident that we can keep them on the run and ensure that they cannot train terrorists to attack our homeland.

Mr Obama’s comments mark a significant move away from the policy pursued by President Bush since the al-Qaeda attacks of September 11 and which he himself endorsed during the election campaign.

In a presidential debate in October, he said: ‘We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al-Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority.’

Mr Obama’s comments, made in an interview with CBS, came in the wake of a new audio message purporting to be from the al-Qaeda leader.

In it, bin Laden apparently calls for a holy war over the Israeli offensive in Gaza.

He also discussed Obama and said the new U.S. president would inherit the ‘heavy legacy’ of a long guerrilla war that would widen to more fronts, according to internet terrorism monitor SITE Intelligence Group.

Al-Qaeda was willing to fight ‘for seven more years, and seven more after that, then seven more…we are on the way to opening new fronts,’ he said.

‘(Muslims must) join hands with the mujahedeen to continue the jihad against the enemy, to continue bleeding them.

‘The question is, can America continue the war against us for several more decades? The reports and signs show us otherwise.’

The U.S. government dismissed the message, claiming Bin Laden was not a threat to Mr Obama’s inauguration, which takes place on Tuesday.

‘It appears this tape demonstrates his isolation and continued attempts to remain relevant at a time when al Qaeda’s ideology, mission, and agenda are being questioned and challenged throughout the world,’ White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe said.

He said it also looked like a fund-raising effort.

The inauguration is expected to draw record crowds of 1.5 million or more to the U.S. capital next week for three days of festivities.

Tens of thousands of police and U.S. troops will take part in an unprecedented security effort.

Asked if the tape represented a threat to the inauguration, FBI spokesman Richard Kolko said, ‘We have no specific or credible threat to the inauguration.’

Bin Laden is currently believed to be holed up in caves somewhere in the Pakistan-Afghanistan border area.

Intelligence agencies say even if al Qaeda’s central leadership has been weakened, its violent intentions make the militant group dangerous.

By Abomi Nation

January 16, 2009 9:49 AM | Link to this

Lol!! Jim writes about the Carter’s thousand dollar bike theft but again is silent over the multi-million dollar Cobb Energy theft of Cobb EMC!! To the liberal this crime would warrant at least a mention. What would a conservative do? Choose one.

1) Blame a local majority Black Administration for the theft of a twelve dollar skateboard.

2) Create a new federal program to provide Cobb Energy executives with billions and billions for free or low-cost loans.

3) Create new federal counseling and treatment program for greedy executives.

4) All of the above.

By Saxby Chambliss LOBBYIST best friend

January 16, 2009 9:55 AM | Link to this

Citigroup and Bank of America, two of the nation’s biggest banks, unveiled multibillion dollar losses on Friday as they struggled to stay afloat.

In announcing its $8.29 billion loss for the fourth quarter, Citigroup confirmed that it would split into two entities, Citicorp and Citi Holdings. It also signaled that changes in its board were in the offing.

Bank of America posted a $1.79 billion loss, just hours after the government agreed early Friday to provide an additional $20 billion infusion of capital into the bank and to cover the bulk of up to $118 billion in losses, largely arising from the bank’s shotgun purchase of Merrill Lynch.

Underlining the depth of the problems that have emerged from its acquisition of Merrill Lynch, Bank of America said Merrill had a fourth-quarter net loss of $15.31 billion, or $9.62 per diluted share, “driven by severe capital markets dislocations,” before the acquisition was completed.

By Saxby Chambliss LOBBYIST best friend

January 16, 2009 9:57 AM | Link to this

Morgan Stanley and Citigroup plan to pull out clients’ money from a nearly $8 billion fund run by Swiss banking giant Union Bancaire Privee, after learning that it was exposed to Bernard L. Madoff’s operations,

By Mark

January 16, 2009 10:01 AM | Link to this

Come on Jim, didn’t we vote out knee-jerk, polarizing, myth regurgitating conservatism in November? It’s the same philosophy that got us into the state and national mess we are currently confronted with. Time to come up with conservative ideas that are constructive, workable, and reflective of the multicultural society we live in.

By Saxby Chambliss LOBBYIST best friend

January 16, 2009 10:01 AM | Link to this

Wall Street’s employment tsunami, most recently swamping Citibank, is also undermining the island of Manhattan’s 443 million square foot office market, threatening to drag rents down 35 percent from a second quarter 2008 high.

By Saxby Chambliss LOBBYIST best friend

January 16, 2009 10:03 AM | Link to this

The losses at banks like Citigroup and Bank of America have become so large that they make it almost mathematically impossible for the government to inject enough capital without taking a majority stake or at least squeezing out existing shareholders.

By Saxby Chambliss LOBBYIST best friend

January 16, 2009 10:07 AM | Link to this

Charter Communications said that it would miss about $74 million on interest payments due Thursday, and that it had a 30-day grace period to meet those debt obligations.

By Saxby Chambliss LOBBYIST best friend

January 16, 2009 10:07 AM | Link to this

The American International Group, the insurance company, is giving executives and employees at least $619 million in retention pay, $150 million more than previously disclosed.

By Peyton Walters

January 16, 2009 10:10 AM | Link to this

Jim, you are a South Georgia guy. Explain to Steve Visser and Kathy Jeffcoats why Gray is in Middle Georgia and not South Georgia.

By Peter

January 16, 2009 10:17 AM | Link to this

Poor……By CommunistAJC ………. complaining about the Democrats……..

Sit on the sideline kiddo an watch as America get REPAIRED after the RAPING it Got for the last 8 rears !

George Bush a leader with real experience……….HA HA HA……Yes at bilking America and killing it’s hope !

By the Devil You Say

January 16, 2009 10:20 AM | Link to this

Saxby - You sure have your facts right, but you certainly don’t have them right about the good Senator. Rents and real estate prices in places like NYC and Atlanta have been inflated for years and have actually been a huge drag on the markets. This recession is actually an example of markets starting to right themselves. What BO is proposing will only prolong the agony indefinetely, just like FDR did during the 1930s. When FDR became President in 1933 the unemployment rate was 25%. In 1940 it was still over 20%. His own treasury secretary even admitted that the whole New Deal Program of high taxes on the rich and government infrastucture programs was a failure. We already have the highest corporate tax rates in the world and the ‘rich’ pay 97% of the individual income taxes. If you want less of something, you tax it. So Obama must want less inovation, creation of wealth and less productivity. Socialism didn’t work in Eastern Europe and it won’t work here either!

By Stating the Obvious

January 16, 2009 10:23 AM | Link to this

Mr. Wooten seems unusually bitter and sarcastic today, even for Mr. Wooten. Still, he holds true to his usual mantra: Taxes and laws are good if rich corporate executives will be the beneficiaries. Taxes and laws are bad if they benefit or protect the Mr. living-paycheck-to-paycheck Joe the average citizen.

Born to a rich daddy? NO TAXES on the money you didn’t work for. You hit the jackpot TWICE, so you must deserve it! We can take it out of the working stiff’s pockets instead. But if working stiff wins the lottery, he’ll cough up a big chunk of THAT money he didn’t work for! Who the heck does he think he IS, anyway?

Maimed by a drug that should never have been on the market, prescribed by a doctor who got paid by the drug company? TOO BAD! It’s your own fault! No recourse for YOU, dipsquirt! Not another dime for regulatory! We need ALL your dimes to give away to the power company, but don’t think we’ll regulate them either! The bluish-glow and extra toes on your baby look like progress to me! Too bad he won’t live to be five, but that’s the “free market” way, and I approve.

By findog

January 16, 2009 10:24 AM | Link to this

As I was saying just the other day…

Our Governor lining up for another corporate give away, this is not newsworthy…

Why not have the state give Vogtle the 1.6B? There is no assurance that the plant will ever go online, or in the near future, or that I will not relocate to a wind farm state. Why must I pay for an investment by a company?

Wrong on the bicycles: register all bicycles and attach odometers. That way we can track their ownership and give everyone a tax break for the miles they peddle a year. As the cycles in question were not properly secured the center has opened themselves up to a lawsuit by the crack head who could have made something of him/herself had that last free high not been there [sorry Ragnar but the lawyer joke just will not stay still in my head].

First, A – if we include the city’s troubles as an election issue

The mistake has been out of the bag for some time with second mortgages

The Chancellor will then argue to get as much HOPE money as he does now serving fewer students, never, ever trust our Board of Reagents

Torture: lookout math, science, and engineering professors – your next

Fascination is that you take the complex and measure it by the simple. Ask any Guardsman or Reservist about their tax filings when dealing with overseas deployments where the rules change. The thing is they guy wasn’t assessed a penalty so therefore it probably was an innocent mistake.

By AmVet

January 16, 2009 10:27 AM | Link to this

Hey! I’ve got an idea!

Lets gut consumer protection laws, remove public disclosure and take away the people’s right to sue irresponsible, harmful corporations altogether! That should help profits!

Then lets assure that people with more than a hangnail can’t be insured! That should help profits!

Then lets give the patriotic corporations lots of BIG subsidies to move jobs overseas! That should help profits!

Then lets take the federal cop off of the beat and allow the gangster capitalists, I mean free markets, to police themselves! That should help profits!

Then after they perform the final siege in the corporate destruction of capitalism, lets give the swindlers and crooks TONS of bailout money (OUR money) with yet more no strings attached or a method to prevent it from happening again! That should help profits!

Oh wait…

FOUR MORE DAYS! FOUR MORE DAYS! FOUR MORE DAYS! FOUR MORE DAYS!

By Political Foreskin

January 16, 2009 10:31 AM | Link to this

Your failure is your problem. Conservative Grim Reaper Labeling of High School Students. (Failure? at 16?) This is why conservatism is DOA.

Financial advice and tax consultation from Wooten? Wooten is the Ludlow of journalists. Ludlow has picked more bottoms than a lint-obsessed bed-pan nurse. He’s been wrong for over a year now, and with his credibility went the bull market. This is why conservatism is DOA.

Failure to provide a new toothbrush is torture? You’ll wonder where the yellow journalism went when you brush off our lame president. This is why conservatism is like gum disease.

By deegee

January 16, 2009 10:37 AM | Link to this

Congress’ proposal to write down the mortgage principal in order to stem the high rate of foreclosures seems to be the most effective way of solving the foreclosure problem. After all, home prices have declined in value approximately 15% - 20% over the last year, depending on geography. The reason the initial TARP approach of buying toxic assets didn’t work is that there was no way to assign a price to the assets. If you can keep people from defaulting by assigning a lower, more realistic loan value then it might stop the hemorrhaging. Assuming that the fallout from this banking crisis will reshape the way in which risk is managed in the future, I don’t think that the measures taken now will influence the way in which mortgages are priced.

Now, if we could only get our local tax assessors to decrease the FMV of our homes commensurate to the decrease in home values. Dream on.

By Political Foreskin

January 16, 2009 10:45 AM | Link to this

Wooten would pursue the stolen bike bandits. Why not do what Pee Wee Herman did when his bike was stolen? Wooten’s blog: it’s only a movie, it’s only a movie.

By Art

January 16, 2009 10:56 AM | Link to this

Then cap interest rates Jim! DUUUUHHHH! And while you’re at it go back to the time when a 20% down payment was required and money in savings was viewed as a sign of financial responsibility. But wait. That would never work. Developers could never sell all those houses with the overinflated prices and bankers couldn’t give dumbazz loans that pad the bottom line now could they?

By Political Foreskin

January 16, 2009 11:00 AM | Link to this

The ponzi schemes, enron, the derogatory derivatives, and every bit of detail about the conservatives at every level in business, only support our fears about conservatism: in God they trust, but they steal and lie about it cause how else can they get ahead?

We’ve been at the mercy of moral clarity. Hows that working out for us?

By skeeter

January 16, 2009 11:03 AM | Link to this

It’s a little disingenuous to lure us into your column sounding like a local George Will only to have you turn into Ann Coulter with your comments on the bike thefts. Stick with Will and you’re worth reading. You don’t have the legs for Coulter.

By ron

January 16, 2009 11:05 AM | Link to this

Good morning,—-Loser pay to eliminate frivilous lawsuits? Yes.—Limited lawsuits? No. I know too much about corporatons to fall for that one.

Build nukes,pay now,pay later and pay in the meantime.Build them

The Carter’s won’t be using the bikes anymore and the giver knows a lot more about crack than I do.

None of the above.

Bankruptcy judges are there for a purpose.If you don’t like it,change the syatem.

There will be a plethora of new ways to increase taxes in the near future.Chill out and just record them to see how innovative they are.They’re inevitable.

Some of Obama’s appointees are having problems.Had I had those same problems I know what would have already happened to me.I once did a misinterpretation of an expense account on my taxes,a simple not knowing on my part.For that $180 mistake on my filing,I paid dearly.And I paid now.The Treasury appointee will be treated far differently.

By findog

January 16, 2009 11:09 AM | Link to this

AmVet @10:27

You on to something, our corporate master’s envy China’s growth so the solution is to copy their business ethincs…

By Stating the Obvious

January 16, 2009 11:09 AM | Link to this

Um… how is having a LESS educated populace going to help Georgia’s economy? I mean, with whom would we actually be competitive, then?

And while it’s true that many young people are not ideally “college material” as you put it (how very ELITIST of you Mr. Wooten!), having non-collegiate options for these young people to learn techincial, vocational, and business skills has enormous potential to positively affect our economy in years to come. These options are now quite scarce. You don’t want to spend your tax dollars on education, but without decent wages for average citizens, looks like the state’s tax burden will remain on the shoulders of your privileged country club buddies. Fortunately they had the foresight to purchase legislators who keep their loopholes both wide and well-lubricated, and provide avenues for the rich to collect state monies while small entrepreneurs go under in droves. Well done, Mr. Wooten. You are a valuable mouthpiece, indeed. Too bad you’ll never really be one of them, just their tool.

By Dusty

January 16, 2009 11:21 AM | Link to this

Oh my goodness,

Somebody spread the word to liberals that Jim Wooten was having a BIG barbeque today. So they all packed up their dirty laundry as their donation and headed to the picnic. Then they found out that the only “pork” being given out was in Congress. The crying and wailing and protests rang out that Jim was giving only HIS SENSIBLLE OPINION.

What a blow to liberals! No handouts and no party! What kind of place is this?? There should be free healthcare, unfettered mortgages to fine homes, fantastic foodstamps, college for the incompetents, and blind allegiance to King Demo and higher taxes to pay for handouts. If your dad made a bundle and up and died, his money belongs to the COMMUNE. Woohoo!! Liberals have spoken.

Poor babies! Today is not even Friday the 13TH!! But LIBS cry anyway. Please pass the kleenex for these helpless brothers and sisters.

By Copyleft

January 16, 2009 11:25 AM | Link to this

Crying, Dusty? You must be joking. We’re ECSTATIC that the failed idiot is on his way out and we’re going to usher in a new era of intelligent, liberal government on Tuesday.

Visualize this for the coming years: http://tinyurl.com/96rw8m

By mm

January 16, 2009 11:27 AM | Link to this

Shawny at 9:32,

Only an idiot would write an article that stupid. Only a bigger idiot would post it on a blog.

If all of these people attending the inauguration were to stay home they would probably be using more energy (lights, TV’s) than they would standing in the cold. Or they could be driving around, etc.

I didn’t see anyone complaining about the New Year’s celebration in New York City.

Sometimes you wingnuts scare me with your lack of intelligence.

By Political Foreskin

January 16, 2009 11:30 AM | Link to this

LOL dusteroo. How will the democratic party ever survive satirical outbursts like that? You’ve fooled them again, Dooderpooteroo.

Bush has handed the country over to Obama in the same condition the Confederacy handed over the south to Lincoln.

Obama’s ability to repair this nation is shackled by an opaque moral clarity.

Moral Clarity in the Decade of Consequence: The Bush Years.

By zeke

January 16, 2009 11:32 AM | Link to this

Way to go Jim! You are on the mark and correct with all these statements! Too bad the ajc cannot remove those liberal nuts and replace them with more that have a correct mindset and opinion relative to the actual American citizens who strive to better themselves and in turn the economy and the country! Maybe then they can attract more readers and not have to continuously cut back because of lost business and revenue!

By Peter

January 16, 2009 11:35 AM | Link to this

Hey Dusty……Kind of cold for a BBQ……… Never figured out the weather I guess.

The hand outs are Republican’s waiting to start another war for Profit.

It would be nice if (1) ONE Republican had some sympathy for a poor cold person today……..But hey that is NOT in the Republican Ideology…..you can’t make money that way….But guys like By Ragnar Danneskjöld , and By CommunistAJC , would put a poor person on the street today to make a few bucks !

By Diogenes

January 16, 2009 11:37 AM | Link to this

Good morning, Jim.

I see that you support Purdue’s asinine suggestion that we reduce consumer protections in the State of Georgia on the faint hope that we might attract new biotechnological companies. I would suggest that the two are not connected and that the laws of the state need to provide the consumer with strong product liability protections. I guess it shouldn’t surprise me that you have no compassion for the citizens of Georgia, but it does.

By Dusty

January 16, 2009 11:40 AM | Link to this

Suuuuurrrreeee Copyleft,

We ALL anxiously await this new era of intelligent liberal government like we anxiously await the next tsunami to arise.

Of course the assurances of Petty Pelosi, Raunchy Reid, Woeful Waxman, Fearful Franks, Shameful Schumer, Dubious Durban and Baleful Boxer all make us feel SO MUCH BETTER. Yep, live it up, honey bear. Enjoy the party while you can.

By AF

January 16, 2009 11:44 AM | Link to this

“When the federal Food and Drug Administration, as the final authority on the safety of drugs and medical devices, grants approval, it should mean something.”

Indeed, it should. But, under Bush, it means nothing, since the FDA makes decisions based on political expediency rather than science.

Even if the FDA is cleaned up, I don’t think it is safe to free drug companies from liability. Drug companies lie, evade, avoid publishing studies that show adverse effects of drugs, they push drug use for treatment of illnesses or groups that were not tested. They subvert scientific study itself, by hiring writers to pen documents other doctors put their name to. And, no one stops them.

There is no real risk avoidance to limit drug makers from shinanigans if a drug company can make $5 billion in profits while “risking” a billion dollars in potential law suits.

Tell you what, Jim. Make it criminal for leaders of a drug company to lie, evade, avoid, sell drugs for groups or illnesses not tested, to recklessly endanger the public, and maybe we can stop law suits. Maybe, drug lords will stop their misbehavior if they face long jail terms, just as the “drug lords” in illicit drug cartels do. But, be prepared to exhort political leaders to investigate and try those at the top of drug companies and actually impose long jail terms.

It doesn’t work, Jim. Our political leaders are bought by drug company donations to political campaigns. They will never enforce real penalties. Until they do, the only recourse drug company victims have is to sue them.

By AF

January 16, 2009 11:49 AM | Link to this

“When the federal Food and Drug Administration, as the final authority on the safety of drugs and medical devices, grants approval, it should mean something.”

Indeed, it should. But, under Bush, it means nothing, since the FDA makes decisions based on political expediency rather than science.

Even if the FDA is cleaned up, I don’t think it is safe to free drug companies from liability. Drug companies lie, evade, avoid publishing studies that show adverse effects of drugs, they push drug use for treatment of illnesses or groups that were not tested. They subvert scientific study itself, by hiring writers to pen documents other doctors put their name to. And, no one stops them.

There is no real risk avoidance to limit drug makers from shinanigans if a drug company can make $5 billion in profits while “risking” a billion dollars in potential law suits.

Tell you what, Jim. Make it criminal for leaders of a drug company to lie, evade, avoid, sell drugs for groups or illnesses not tested, to recklessly endanger the public, and maybe we can stop law suits. Maybe, drug lords will stop their misbehavior if they face long jail terms, just as the “drug lords” in illicit drug cartels do. But, be prepared to exhort political leaders to investigate and try those at the top of drug companies and actually impose long jail terms.

It doesn’t work, Jim. Our political leaders are bought by drug company donations to political campaigns. They will never enforce real penalties. Until they do, the only recourse drug company victims have is to sue them.

By getalife

January 16, 2009 11:50 AM | Link to this

“Nearly 50 years ago, another Republican president said farewell to the nation with a warning about the growing strength of the ties between the military and corporations. Eisenhower said:

Now this conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence — economic, political, even spiritual — is felt in every city, every Statehouse, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet, we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources, and livelihood are all involved. So is the very structure of our society.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.”

Jim, dusty and their ilk cheered on the destruction of our country and called it patriotic.

Shame on them.

By AmVet

January 16, 2009 11:53 AM | Link to this

Pofo,

This little slice of virtual heaven reminds me more of Caddyshack II.

Just like the original but without Bill Murray, Ted Knight, Rodney Dangerfield or any comedy.

Jimbo’s cast?

Raggie Esquire as the whining, non-comedic comedian Jackie Mason.

Dusters as the whining, WAY over the hill, hagged out Dyan Cannon.

And an assortment of the regular Reich-wing flame throwers here, doing cameos as a whining, disturbing, decidedly unhumorous Robert Stack.

You know, perhaps I’ve been a tad harsh on BushCo the Puppet. After all, he is merely the chief symptom and not the cause of this social disease of fake conservatism.

Will the whining neoliths ever manup, grow up and move on (dot org) from this repudiated, awful ideology of incompetence and intolerance? Reading the likes of the remaining lunatic fringe here, not likely, which bodes well for America.

But perhaps the Young Republicans at UGA have a new Master Plan. (They will however, keep many of their basic precepts - they want you to be afraid. VERY afraid…)

96 hours and ten minutes…

By AmVet

January 16, 2009 11:55 AM | Link to this

AF, all that science stuff is for losers and wimps.

Real men need read only Ayn Rand and the Bible…

By Dusty

January 16, 2009 12:01 PM | Link to this

Dear PoFo the Proliferous, 11:30

You see through a glass darkly

Then comes face to face.

Your opaque moral clarity is absentia dementia in abundance.

The South did rise again and probably so did the fine Mr. Lincoln. His moral clarity was abundant while the SingeEm Sherman was a singular war crimes provider.

But let us not become historical nor hysterical with PoFo pyrotechnics. The party and the lib populace are making merry for the forthcoming Robin Hood Hussein Enhancements. The BIG QUESTION: when will the big fat budget-buster checks for econ rehab start to come??? Next week??

By Vick

January 16, 2009 12:02 PM | Link to this

Your crass dismissal of the Carter’s bike theft perfectly reflects your editorial board’s COMPLETE lack of disregard to the MAJOR crime issues facing this city.

Maybe if you got off the snarky train for just a minute and helped to address the larger crime problem in our city there wouldn’t be a larger crime problem. But just like the rest of your USELESS colleagues, you ignore the real problem of crime in this city. You are such a tool and of course I would NEVER expect you to speak about anything you couldn’t belittle as “liberal whining.” Well I got NEWS for you… CRIME AFFECTS US ALL — conservatives and liberal a like.

By DDT

January 16, 2009 12:04 PM | Link to this

By Peter

January 16, 2009 11:35 AM | Link to this

Hey Dusty……Kind of cold for a BBQ……… Never figured out the weather I guess.

Pretty typical for Dusty, Peter. Dusty is the Peg Bundy of blogging.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

January 16, 2009 12:07 PM | Link to this

Dear PoFo @ 11:00, good morning, but “The ponzi schemes, enron, the derogatory derivatives..” All of those are marks of leftists. By “ponzi schemes” I assume you are talking about the leftist who fleeced other leftists for $50 billion recently, and not social security (a different Ponzi scheme.) As to Enron’s bizarre trading scheme, is it not a fact that their only economist is a leftist columnist for the NY Times now and recently was awared a Nobel prize (and lately don’t those only go to leftists?) The derivatives - that was conceived by the old Wall Street securities brokers, and all of those are leftist aren’t they, and facilitated by FNMA and FHLMC abuse of taxpayer guarantees, all protected from oversight by Congressional leftists? I don’t mind accepting blame for the sins of conservatives, mostly attributable to compromise with leftists, but I reject those charges that more appropriately belong with your side.

By Dusty

January 16, 2009 12:09 PM | Link to this

Dear AmVet,

I don’t believe you have been keeping your appointments at the VA hospital. It is beginning to show only too clearly. The fact that you are blind to all USA accomplishments in the last eight years is most telling. And…the hate keeps bubbling up.

Now take your meds and stop copying that KOS column. You don’t need any more poison. It permeates your productions already.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

January 16, 2009 12:12 PM | Link to this

Dear Peter @ 11:35, perhaps you will join my campaign to accelerate global warming. You leftists are killing people.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

January 16, 2009 12:18 PM | Link to this

Dear AF @ various times, FDA is a Rube Goldberg design, that ensures life-saving drugs and devices are slow to market, but otherwise ineffective in preventing dangerous drugs and devices. In a rational world you eliminate the bottleneck, and allow the courts to sort it out. Otherwise FDA becomes a subsidy of the pharmaceutical industry.

By Dusty

January 16, 2009 12:21 PM | Link to this

Dear Peter,

I believe that you really care about “poor folks” so I don’t mind too much your “misunderstandings”.

But…it is never too cold for a bar-b-que. Some red hot coals would feel good today.

And—pay no attention to DDT. He was outlawed long ago for making bird eggs fragile and other crimes. And I can’t be Peg Bundy ‘cause i don’t have red hair. So there!

Have fun in Washington!! Hip hip and hustle!!

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

January 16, 2009 12:27 PM | Link to this

Another note on the “culture of corruption,” what is the party affiliation of Racine mayor Gary Becker? Inquiring minds want to know, but the news articles do not say.

By Dusty

January 16, 2009 12:29 PM | Link to this

getalife,11:50

You spilt your milk and called it ilk.

Patriotism comes from the heart. That’s why conservatives have it.

Libs will banish Valentine’s day. Too patriotic. No handouts. You’ll see.

By AmVet

January 16, 2009 12:31 PM | Link to this

DAGNABBIT!

I was hoping (beyond hope) that one of the neoliths would actually respond with something humorous or at least with a scintilla of wit.

Alas. All I get is the yellow journalist’s head brown-noser, Dusters and her Goebbelsesque upchuck. What a predictable letdown.

Well until then, it looks like I won’t have to rethink my observation that the Republitoadies should avoid, at all costs, comedy, as well as all post-WW II musical and cultural references.

The only thing that will save these conservofrauds is to belatedly accept the Age of Reason. And their god simply will have none of that.

Man-induced global warming - it’s not just for realists anymore…

By Copyleft

January 16, 2009 12:38 PM | Link to this

“Patriotism comes from the heart. That’s why conservatives talk about it, and liberals actually have it.”

Fixed that for you, Dusty. I know how these little details overwhelm you at times.

By fervor

January 16, 2009 12:50 PM | Link to this

Has anyone noticed how Wooten has transformed from a chest humping demagogue to an angry, whiny old man? As nearly all of his predictions, edicts and pronouncements in the last 8 years have been proven wrong — except in this backwards a* state — his opinions sink further into the realm of obscurity. Where he once aroused anger, he now only amuses.

By Sam T.

January 16, 2009 12:50 PM | Link to this

By Dusty

January 16, 2009 12:29 PM | Link to this

getalife,11:50

You spilt your milk and called it ilk.

Patriotism comes from the heart. That’s why conservatives have it.

Yeah, they have it alright. As long as being patriotic doesn’t actually require them to serve.

By ron

January 16, 2009 12:52 PM | Link to this

On a coolFriday afternoon a flagon of mulled cider seems to be in order.I’ll have to see if I have any irons in the fire.

By TG12

January 16, 2009 1:02 PM | Link to this

You know what’s going to be real sweet? The Dimwitocrats not being able to blame Bush & Cheney for anything. So, they want to let all the terrorists go free because waterboarding is now deemed “torture” by the new AG. To quote Nicolson’s Joker character in the 1989 Batman movie - and the only Batman movie worth a damn: “wait until they get a load of me….oooo….ohhhhhh…ooooooooo.” That will be the terrorists released under apologist liberalism.

But we shall not stop there. Remember all those libdems bicthing about federal government spending by Republicans and how it would ruin us and our grandchildren would be paying for their “irresponsibility?” Well look what the rats dragged out now: deficits, devalued dollar, and a lack of foreign investment in our debts is no longer important!

So, let’s see…………

We have a President Elect who has never run anything, not even a corner store. Don’t tell me he ran his campaign, because he didn’t, he showed up and gave speeches. The candidate doesn’t have time to run the campaign.

We have a Vice President Elect who thinks FDR was President and America had TV when the stock market crashed in 1929, (Herbert Hoover was in office and Television didn’t become widely used until the ‘50’s), he is also well known for his plagiarism in the late ’80s.

We have a Secretary of State nominee, who has never run anything, not even a corner store. Her claim to fame is that she is the wife of a former President, who had sex in the Oval Office, disgraced the Presidency and was impeached.

We have a CIA Director nominee who has never worked in the intelligence field and is expected to take over during the most dangerous times we have ever faced.

We have a Democrat Governor of Illinois who is the process of being impeached for trying to sell the Senate seat of the now President Elect. At the same time, the Democrat Senate is about to approve the person this Governor named as a replacement for that senate seat.

Now we have someone that is expected to replace Hillary Clinton as the new Senator from New York, who has never held office, has never run anything, not even a corner store, and whose only claim to fame is that she is worth over 100 million dollars and her father was President and was assassinated 45 years ago.

Finally, though I don’t think that this is the end, we have a nominee for Treasury Secretary who doesn’t pay his taxes, and the disgraced Bill Richardson who bowed out because of his investigation.

Oh, this is really upbeat. Only someone with their head firmly where the sun doesn’t shine could think this is a positive situation.

Not sure I like the ‘Change’.

“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to learn that there are other views.” —- William F. Buckley

By TG12

January 16, 2009 1:09 PM | Link to this

Post thought for another point of ‘change’ in views by dimlibs: suddenly now that Rangel wants a draft, they sit by and say nothing. Remember all that self deification they did - totally uncalled for by the way - that Bush & Cheney would re-institute the draft?

Patriotism comes from the heart. That’s why conservatives have it. Yeah, they have it alright. As long as being patriotic doesn’t actually require them to serve.

You mean like you libdems in Washington and on blogs who have never run a business yet they and you think they and you know enough to know how much said businesses should take in profits? By the way, if not serving was good enough for Reid, Pelosi, and Obama, then you dimlibs have no say in the matter, hypocrite.

Did they ever catch that feces slinging monkey in Florida? And what was Al Franken doing down there anyway?

By Copyleft

January 16, 2009 1:24 PM | Link to this

Wow.. you can tell a right-winger’s mind has fractured when he responds to a post about patriotism with babble about the dangers of setting economic policy that affects business! Only in the deluded, fact-free fascist brain does business equate to national service. (chuckle)

The fascists have gone completely unhinged, and I’m enjoying the show! Monday and Tuesday will be even better.

By ron

January 16, 2009 1:31 PM | Link to this

On a certain day in the not too distant future,Roland Burris will be as qualified for the Presidency as the current President elect.

By TG12

January 16, 2009 1:31 PM | Link to this

“Wow.. you can tell a right-winger’s mind has fractured when he responds to a post about patriotism with babble about the dangers of setting economic policy that affects business! “

Guess you missed this part, genius libdim:

By the way, if not serving was good enough for Reid, Pelosi, and Obama, then you dimlibs have no say in the matter, hypocrite.

You libdims only read what you want to read, don’t you? Besides, SOMEONE has to run businesses in this nation, idiot.

Yes, and it’s going to be nice to do the mud slinging. However, unlike you left wing stalinist wannabe libdims, we won’t be wishing and trying for this new administration to fail.

No other comments on my other comments, eh genius? That’s what I thought, libdim.

By TG12

January 16, 2009 1:37 PM | Link to this

Anyone from a group of mindless idiots who want to shove the lie of man-induced global warming - or is it CLIMATE CHANGE NOW??? - down our throats and not listening to dissenting opinion on it who call others ‘fascists’ is the real Friday Folly Moonbat of the day.

Enjoy the show indeed.

By Political Foreskin

January 16, 2009 1:44 PM | Link to this

Say no more, TG12, you had us at “libdim”.

There’s no comeback to you nailing us with a bullseye like that. I guess we are dim, and most of us are libs, yeah, libdim just takes us out, I dont even know why we bother playing out the Obama adminstration after your 1:31.

We’re sorry we forced you to be mean, kind sir. Is it too late to take our votes back?

moron

By Liberal White Chick

January 16, 2009 1:49 PM | Link to this

Political Foreskin, I think I’m in love with you.

By DFG

January 16, 2009 1:49 PM | Link to this

TG12=another low IQ cretin. Or it just a plain POS?

By GM

January 16, 2009 1:51 PM | Link to this

Fortunately for us you don’t run a business, huh TG12. You sound like a raving lunatic.

By dog catcher

January 16, 2009 1:52 PM | Link to this

did anyone hear that the obamas are going to get a dog?

either an iranian water dog or a snickerdoodle.

they will name it pofo.

By Liberal White Chick

January 16, 2009 1:53 PM | Link to this

Political Foreskin, I think I’m in love with you.

By HaHa

January 16, 2009 1:54 PM | Link to this

Damn you’re funny TG12. You play the village idiot with great ability. Congrats!

By AmVet

January 16, 2009 1:59 PM | Link to this

For the life of me I just cannot understand why all of those innumerable scientists and climatological experts, working independently of each other, believe these liberal liars (who are only interested in destroying the American economy, or what’s left of it) instead of the mountains of scientific data, evidence and facts gathered over many years that are at hand.

Quite an enigma. Almost unexplainable.

Damn that Ptolemy, Copernicus, Galileo, Magellan and Darwin!

They have screwed up everything!

By Political Foreskin

January 16, 2009 2:06 PM | Link to this

LWC: Do you have an older sister for me? Oh wait, you meant me.

Nevermind.

By Dusty

January 16, 2009 2:24 PM | Link to this

TG12@ 1:02

You came on a bit strong there but you surely did get the qualifications of the Obama “staff” accurately.

But have a little sympathy for Roland Burris who was chosen to take Obama’s senate seat by Gov. Blago. That poor Burris wouldn’t get elected to be dogcatcher if it were done by vote. He tried for the senate in ‘84 and LOST. He tried for governor of Illinois in ‘94 and LOST. He tried for mayor of Chicago in ‘95 and LOST.

So Blago did a big favor for his Demo friend Burris and GAVE him a seat in the US Senate. Who said libs did not believe in Santa Claus?? All Blago needs is a white beard and a red suit. Unfortunately he may get only a black and white striped one.

Obama has done some gift wrapping himself. Tom Daschle couldn’t get relected in his home state so Obama brought him back to Washington as Sec. of Something or other. Doesn’t matter. Get those Dems back to Washington. Evidently there is a shortage of smart, talented, honest, tax-paying Democrats. Obama can’t seem to find them. It’s like finding needles in a political haystack.

By @@

January 16, 2009 2:44 PM | Link to this

FDA? While I’m an advocate for tort reform, I’m more into the holistic method without the benefit of Federally Delivered Aids. You are what you eat, I always say.

Nuclear Power Plants? I’m reluctant to enter into an open-ended contract with anybody, Jim.

When it comes to reviving their nuclear power plants, the green wienies over in Europe are screaming “Cap It” regardless of the Putin goin’ on. I, on the other hand, say “Cap It” (the cost to me) and then we’ll talk.

Stolen bicycles? Sounds like the liberal giver turned conservative. Must have reached the age of 40.

Bankruptcy and Morgages? And when we start hearing the moanin’ and ah-groanin’ about the unfairness of it all, we’ll be lookin’ up another fanny.

Limiting enrollment? An unforeseen problem would be….again….the fairness thingy ‘cause this: A ceiling on public enrollment based on merit is an idea worth exploring. will receive no meritorious awards from the liberal perspective.

Freezing and that’s a tax increase? The porkchops can always be found under the popsicles.

Acceptable torture? Odd! I find what Ms. Crawford defines as acceptable to be extreme torture. Do not drown my voice with loudly proclaimed political piccolos! Do not restrain me with loony legislation! Do not frost my chops by confiscating without asking first!

The CoC disappeared? I beg to differ, Jim. He’ll be standing tall and erect on Tuesday proclaiming “Yes I can!”

He’s no longer into the campaign orgies.

By Political Foreskin

January 16, 2009 2:53 PM | Link to this

CNN just reported that a tugboat made an emergency mooring at LaGuardia Airport in New York City after it sailed through an especially thick gob of raw sewage on the Hudson River. The pod of whales didn’t help either, nor did the irate baby seals who attacked the propellers after it saw the sarah palin sticker on the poop deck.

By Jay

January 16, 2009 3:11 PM | Link to this

So now, political considerations mean we can’t even acknowledge torture, even when we tried other people for in in WW2. The Politically Correct crown passes from the left to the right.

By Jay

January 16, 2009 3:11 PM | Link to this

So now, political considerations mean we can’t even acknowledge torture, even when we tried other people for it in WW2. The Politically Correct crown passes from the left to the right.

By @@

January 16, 2009 3:25 PM | Link to this

Has anyone noticed how Wooten has transformed from a chest humping demagogue to an angry, whiny old man?

fervor:

It’s interesting that you perceive Jim that way. I’m seeing him as the same guy who has maintained his wit and sarcasm throughout the entire process. When you’ve got it, you’ve got it. Don’t waste it on anger. It is what it is……

When, like you, ownership is dependent on external factors, there’s a tendency to project out of resentment, retaliation if you will.

Now Bookman? He’s a whole different topic. In many ways, he appears to be suffering from buyer’s remorse. Can’t say as I blame him though. He seems a lot smarter than you — more self-confident.

By Dusty

January 16, 2009 3:26 PM | Link to this

No No Po Fo @2:53

It was the wild goose flock of Dems that flew into Washington after starving for honesty in Chicago. They hit the jet lag circulated by the Low Level Clint’o’copters and were sucked in by Gore-Kerry gyration aftershocks..

ObamaCharmer is trying to resurrect the garroted geese but the flock replacemnts are in worse shape than the losers. The goosey goners keep honking for CHANGE but all they get is small change and lead nickles.

It will take more than a village to save this flock. They elected the fox to run the hen house and then asked “What’s for dinner?”

By Political Foreskin

January 16, 2009 3:44 PM | Link to this

Good one, dusteroo! LOL

@@ wrote that she is what she eats. Does that make her an oscar meyer weener? Watch Andy reach for that one!

Wow, a rare double hit on two scarfers.

bwa

By DebbieDoRight

January 16, 2009 3:54 PM | Link to this

Whew!! For a minute there I thought that Wooten had lost his vitrolic edge!! Glad to see that Wooten won’t change anything anytime soon, (except his dementia meds). Thata boy Woot, stay on the Reich side!!!

By @@

January 16, 2009 4:12 PM | Link to this

(((Does that make her an oscar meyer weener?)))

PoliFore, you disappoint me. I lay before you a vast smorgasbord of possibilities and you come to me with a weiner?

Not one of your better days, is it?

By Political Foreskin

January 16, 2009 4:25 PM | Link to this

knew you’d swing at it, fatfat. I made it especially stupid because I have a bet with ragnar about how gullible you are and how you swing at everything no matter how pathetic the comment….

and you fell for it! WHat a fallguy! What a dope! WHat a maroon!

Nyuck corkle snibble snort

By @@

January 16, 2009 4:38 PM | Link to this

Try again PoliFore. I’ll help………

‘Twas —->I<—-that said —->YOU<—-(the you being THEY) are what you/they eat.

Who is the “they” PoliFore?

Go back up and read the whole comment again and then ascertain what they are due to what they eat.

There’s more, but you’re likely gonna miss it.

You REALLY ARE off your game today!

BTW, I saw where Bookman pulled all your posts last night after you namejacked him. Shame on you buddy! You’re such a bad, bad blogger…..

By ron

January 16, 2009 5:12 PM | Link to this

Who’s this Bookman?

By Headslap Spit Take

January 16, 2009 5:21 PM | Link to this

Hard to decide who is the biggest dweeb loser here…Ragnar and his self-satisfied pseudo intellectual onanism or PoFo’s patting himself on the back for his blogging prowess. Let’s just call it a tie for first place in the Wanker Derby, with Dusty bringing up her rear.

By Dusty

January 16, 2009 5:47 PM | Link to this

Awwww…I never win anything.

And what is a “wanker”? Sounds like something for which a liberal would need anti-biotics.

Do you have a twin brother, PoFo? He doesn’t have your talent.

By GOP

January 16, 2009 6:04 PM | Link to this

Reagan faced an economic crisis most similar in magnitude to today’s. Unemployment was a nasty 7% and climbing fast. Inflation had been running at 12.5%. Interest rates in the high teens crippled residential real estate and business investment. The stock market had been in a rut since 1966. The cost of the cure was high. The Fed tightened the screws on credit, pushing the economy into the worst recession since the 1930s. Despite stimulus from deep cuts in tax rates and a military buildup, output still took a nosedive… down 5%-6% in back-to-back quarters. Joblessness hit almost 11% in late 1982. Tax receipts fell but not spending, producing a modern record deficit…6% of GDP. In short, Reagan inherited a sick economy that worsened before recovering. But recovery did come…in the middle of his first term…and voters credited Reagan with playing a key role in bringing it about, gratefully reelecting him in 1984.