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DEL.ICIO.USTaxes require a goal besides spending them
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Levying a sales tax on food could be OK with me. So, too, could a legislative decision to take back the property tax relief grants that save homeowners $200 to $300 per year.
They were gimmicks that served the temporary purpose of making an incumbent governor (Zell Miller and Roy Barnes) look good, same as the $100 gift cards for school supplies that Gov. Sonny Perdue begat. They’re not particularly useful tax policy. They don’t entice individuals to do anything that serves the common good that they wouldn’t do otherwise.
They’re gimmicks that have a single, overriding virtue. They keep politicians from spending two sums: $428 million per year, the amount returned to homeowners in property tax relief; and almost $1 billion, the amount that would otherwise be collected on food. You spend it. They don’t. Without compelling arguments to the contrary, that’s reason enough to preserve both. They discipline the undisciplined.
Legislation now before the General Assembly would make the grants conditional. You’d get them when state revenues grow “by 3 percent plus the percent change in the rate of economic inflation on individual taxpayers as determined under the Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers.”
Here I stumble.
Legislators have declined to accept for themselves and their heirs any spending cap, no matter how elastic. A version of a proposed constitutional amendment offered by state Sen. Chip Rogers (R-Woodstock), now Senate majority leader, did pass that chamber, but it never got to the floor of the House. It would have held state spending to that of any previous year plus growth in the state’s population and the rate of state government inflation.
There was nothing draconian about it. It was really just a disciplining tool that, with considerable flexibility, accepted for themselves what they may be about to ask voters to apply to local governments with a 3 percent cap on assessments.
Rather than relying on assessment creep to generate higher revenues, county commissioners would have to take an actual, before-the-cameras vote to increase the millage. That’s truth in governing. Commendable. But what’s good for locals should be good for state officials, too.
On Friday, the House did vote 117-55 to make the $428 million in grants conditional after July 1. Based on current economic conditions, they’d not be funded next year or probably the year after. Or maybe never more after the cycle is broken, since they’re discretionary. As noted by the bill’s sponsor, state Rep. Larry O’Neal (R-Bonaire), revenue increases since 1999 would not have reached that threshold in 2002 and 2003.
The grants are popular, but legislators argue that the grants promote overspending by the locals who add $200 to $300 per homeowner into their budgets knowing that the state will pick up the tab. The state really has no obligation to provide the grants, except that it collects one-quarter of one mill in property taxes from every county — something that it should stop immediately.
The only reason for continuing it is that it allowed a once-powerful political group — local tax commissioners and their staffs — to join the State Employees Retirement System when other local employees couldn’t. The logic was that the quarter-mill made them agents of the state.
They now can collect benefits from the state and from counties for the same day of work. State Revenue Commissioner Bart Graham told budget-writers last month that some retired commissioners draw $13,000 per month just from the state’s system, plus additional unknown sums from local systems.
Conservatives do need to sit down and decide what they want tax policy to achieve or to encourage — and then design the system to do it. Want to draw new business to Georgia? Eliminate the corporate income tax. Want to spread the burden to those who are not paying income tax? Raise the sales tax and exempt working people from paying income tax on the first $50,000 of earnings.
The trick here is not to turn for guidance to those in the bureaucracy, in academia and in advocacy organizations who believe that ease of collecting lots of revenue is the top priority. If the expert’s first recommendation is to extend the sales tax to services, fire him and move on.
It’s OK by me to return a sales tax to groceries. It’s OK, too, to stiff us homeowners. But come with something else that achieves some desirable purpose. Don’t just take our money to spend it with no end purpose or discipline.
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By Churchill's MOM
January 31, 2009 8:17 AM | Link to this
These Liberals are already after our next President.
Alaska lawmakers question Sarah Palin’s focus Published: 1/31/09, 8:05 AM EDT By ANNE SUTTON JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - Driving home at night from her Capitol office, the leader of Alaska’s House Democrats often passes the governor’s white-columned mansion and wonders why more lights aren’t on.
Rep. Beth Kerttula assumes Gov. Sarah Palin is out of town, though Palin’s staffers say so far their boss has been there for most of the legislative session that began Jan. 20.
It’s a small matter, but it’s part of the buzz around the Capitol among lawmakers who are seeing less of their governor than in years past and wondering what it means in the wake of a Republican vice presidential run that brought Palin global fame and notoriety.
They’re accustomed to spotting her striding past, using two BlackBerries, stopping to chat in the hallway or inviting reporters into her office while she prepares for a speech.
Palin insists her focus is still on Alaska.
“I swore to steadfastly and doggedly guard the interests of this great state like a grizzly with cubs,” she said in her State of the State address two days after the session began. “We’ve got to fight for each other, not against, and not let external sensationalized distractions draw us off course.”
Some say she appears more tense than the vice presidential candidate who delivered sly jokes and incendiary speeches to packed rallies across the Lower 48.
“Not so sparky,” said Sen. Bert Stedman, R-Sitka, who wonders if the distractions of her newfound celebrity will keep Palin from devoting her full attention to Alaska’s looming budget shortfall.
Others grumble that she didn’t seem to reach out to the nearly 60 lawmakers assembled before her.
“I think her speech was not directed to us but right over our heads to a national audience,” said Rep. David Guttenberg, D-Fairbanks, who remembers a much different Palin from just six months ago.
“There were days when she walked around the building with (her daughter) Piper, handing out bagels. I think those days are gone,” he added.
Speculation that Palin is positioning herself for a presidential run in 2012 was fueled by news that she formed a political action committee.
“The half-life of political celebrity is really quite short, so she has to make a move,” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
Some pundits say Palin should go after U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s seat in 2010, but Sabato doubts Palin would win that contest.
He said she would do better by running for re-election and launching a White House bid during a second term as governor. She’ll have to prove that she’s engaged and energized over Alaska issues, though.
“If she gives any indication that she’s bored, she will literally get herself in trouble with what would otherwise be a slam dunk re-election,” Sabato said.
Some Alaska lawmakers say Palin already has proved she’s engaged.
“So far, I’ve seen the governor deliver her energy package, she delivered her budget on time and she met with the majority caucus,” said Sen. Gene Therriault, R-North Pole. “I’ve not seen or heard anyone come up with anything the executive is supposed to be doing that she has not done. It appears to me she’s back on the job full-time.”
Palin’s spokesman says her press office continues to receive hundreds of media requests for interviews, most of which she turns down. She has yet to hold a press conference at the Capitol this year.
However, just a few days ago, she walked out of the mansion after meeting with majority lawmakers and took reporters’ questions. She greeted the small group with a cheerful, “Hi guys,” then she addressed the issue of her priorities.
“I’m sure legislators know I am the governor of Alaska, and this is first and foremost on my mind and my agenda. Any travel or meeting or participation outside of Alaska will only be if it’s good for Alaska,” she said.
Juneau Democrat Kim Elton, a member of the Senate’s ruling coalition of Republicans and Democrats, predicts Palin will be tested this session.
“Is she going to have a legislative agenda that speaks to a national base, or is she going to have a legislative base that speaks to Alaska’s future?” he asked. “I’m not sure it’s easy to answer at this time, but I can assure you people will be watching very closely.”
House Speaker Mike Chenault, R-Nikiski, said he wants the governor to keep the lines of communications open. Then he won’t be worried that travel and political organizing will detract from her state job.
“What the governor does is of her own concern as long as she’s here to address the Legislature during the session and as long as her administration is engaged,” Chenault said. “If it doesn’t interfere with running the state government, I’m fine with it.”
By deegee
January 31, 2009 8:28 AM | Link to this
Sarah Palin rubbing shoulders today with the Washington Elite.
“The Alfalfa Club dinner is part of a series of high-wattage events including the Gridiron, the Washington White House Correspondents dinner, and the Radio and Television Correspondents Association dinner; but it is the most sought-after ticket of the season because it gives members an audience with a collection of super power brokers including Joe Biden, Michael Bloomberg, Vernon Jordan and 400 other guests—members of the Cabinet and Supreme Court, major politicians past and present, the Joint Chiefs of Staff plus what remains of the Masters of the Universe—to schmooze with each other and exchange a handshake, or wave, with the president and first lady, who almost always attend. Wannabees are still clawing for invites to meet the Obamas tomorrow.
Although the list is never revealed until the night of the party, this year Sarah Palin is on the roster (everyone is buzzing about whom she will sit next to), as is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, and Obama chum and advisor Valerie Jarrett. Also on the list: Henry Kravis, Rupert Murdoch, Warren Buffett, and George and Barbara Bush.”
By Redneck Convert
January 31, 2009 8:58 AM | Link to this
Well, I don’t know why Wooten’s wasting our time on something like taxes when My Republican Party went and named one of Those People to lead it. When I first heard a new leader was elected I was pretty worked up and excited. I was already seeing the day when God would be back in the White House. Then I seen the guy on TV. Yup, blacker than the ace of spades. Us rednecks spend all these years coming up with ways to keep Those People in their place and here our party went and named one to lead us. That settles it. I’m switching to Libraritarian along with Raghead. The Republicans might gain 15 or 20 more votes from Those People, but they’ll lose alot more of us godly Americans. We went and joined the party to get rid of these equal rights laws and they turn around and betray us.
So they are getting rid of the state help with property taxes. I guess that means I’ll have to come up with $55 instead of $50 when it comes time to pay the taxes on the trailer. That’s about one and a half cans of Skoal. Dirty state politicans. They are too chicken just to come right out and raise taxes so they’ll let the county do it for them. You’ll see me voting Libraritarian next election. Course, I don’t know if I can rant as long as Raghead, but I’ll be putting in my two cents worth, that’s for sure. And we’ll both be screaming about the Capital Gains Tax.
Wooten don’t say if this Alfalfa dinner will be on TV, he don’t even mention it at all, but I sure would like to see Sarah again. It was nice to have a redneck on the ballot last year and I miss seeing her. Far as I’m concerned, the rest of them don’t have to bother showing up. Maybe she’ll switch parties too.
Have a good weekend everybody.
By Wait, never mind
January 31, 2009 9:03 AM | Link to this
Why is this Redneck fellow speculating on whether Sarah Palin is going to switch panties?
Oh, wait, never mind…..
By catlady
January 31, 2009 9:14 AM | Link to this
The name of today’s blog would make a good country song.
By spazzstick
January 31, 2009 9:54 AM | Link to this
Why is that redneck feller stuck in the 1960s? Liberals are so cute when they dress themselves up in their little skirts and come out of the powder room trying to pass, aren’t they?
Let’s see what the week past has brought us in excitement!
“CADIZ, Ky. - Hundreds of thousands of ice storm victims hunkered down in frigid homes and shelters Thursday, expecting to spend at least a week without power and waiting in long lines to buy generators, firewood, groceries and bottled water.”
WTF!!! Where was OBAMA??? PEOPLE ARE DYING!!! How come he didn’t send in NG troops? Is it because none are left and they are all over in the Afghanistan upscale? How come the Obama Administration didn’t do more to get those people out of there? WHERE THE HELL IS FEMA??? HOW COME THERE’S NO OUTRAGE BY THE DNC LIB MEDIA??? IS IT BECAUSE THESE WERE MOSTLY WHITE PEOPLE???
(That was sarcasm for you slow wit Obama voters).
Next up, The Algoracle, Mr. Stiff himself, slobbered and dribbled in front of a full Democrat run congress on his global warming/climate change/as the climate changes again insert new name here . Yep, global warming is now climate change as we all freeze our collectiveassesoff. Priceless:
“Mon Jan 26 2009 17:59:26 ET”
“Al Gore is scheduled before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday morning to once again testify on the ‘urgent need’ to combat global warming. But Mother Nature seems ready to freeze the proceedings. ‘I can’t imagine the Democrats would want to showcase Mr. Gore and his new findings on global warming as a winter storm rages outside,’ a Republican lawmaker emailed the DRUDGE REPORT. “And if the ice really piles up, it will not be safe to travel.’”
Of course, the real story this week has been the House Republicans giving their input to the Democrats on the stimulus package with a big fat egg (l’oeuf, or zero in French for you Obama voters who have never set foot on a tennis court). Let’s take a quick shake at some of what we have in this fine specimen of liberalism spending taxpayer dollars and some various blogger comments from other forums on them - we never get to see opinions of bloggers much from the DNC lib media, do we? Maybe this is why:
$335M for STD prevention - pads the pockets of the democrat/liberal friendly organization Planned Parenthood.
$400M for global warming research - helps the government come up with new ways of controlling our lives based on a fabricated “climate crisis” and the anti-business, anti-personal freedom legislation to combat it.
$4B for ACORN, community organizers - helps the democrats get more votes by registering the homeless multiple times and encouraging them to vote democrat to get freebies and government hand outs.
$25M for a new ATV track – This is nothing more than a localized, pork barrel spending project that should not be funded at the national level. This is pandering to the population in a very small area of the country.
$6B to weatherize low income housing - This money will be spent on HUD (housing and urban development) houses, these are occupied by people that effectively live on the state as it is. More welfare which does not encourage people to better themselves and further cements a lower class of people that make a living from entitlement programs paid for by leeching off the more productive members of society. But hey they typically vote democrat so why not right?
$1B for AMTRACK - Why are we propping up a failed business that has never been profitable on its own? Funding jobs with public money does not create jobs, it takes money out of the private sector. This is money that successful private industry could be using to pay wages and actually be doing something productive.
$15B to increase the pell grant - Giving away free (or newly printed and unbacked) money so people can go to college in inflated tuition costs. If the universities administration sees that everyone is getting a $2000 grant to help pay for school expect a $2000 increase in tuition and fees the following year. Loans are available if you don’t have the money as most don’t. Paying for it yourself also motivates you to work harder. That’s how I did it. But, I’m no Obama voter.
$3B to the nation science foundation - More pandering to special interest groups.
$900M for flu prevention - This is ridiculous. How many long term jobs are you going to get out of this? If you want to help the economy with $900M dollars why not give it to an entrepreneur to start a new company or an existing one to expand their current business? That would make jobs that last for the foreseeable future. This is just going to waste more money and have no real effect on the economy.
$650M for DTV coupons - How long have they been advertising the DTV switch? Why are we wasting $650 million tax payer dollars to buy more DTV converters from China so that people that want to use their 20 year old TV can keep watching the price is right? I say you’ve had your warning, you didn’t get in line for the first free ones, too bad. I’ve got my two already, one for a TV for the pontoon boat and another for the TV for my truck tailgating. The ironic thing is the very people these coupons are targeted at are too damned lazy to send in for them.
I live to draw the ire of liberal democrats. Time will tell if I succeeded here. But I’m certainly not done.
By REPUBLICANS EVIL TIME IS UP
January 31, 2009 10:56 AM | Link to this
HIP HIP HOORAY THE REDNECK CONVERT IS LEAVING THE NEO-NAZI PARTY HE AND RAGNAR,LIKE THE TITLE SAYS REPUBLICANS EVIL TIME IS UP,HOW FITTING IS IT THAT YOUR NEO-NAZI PARTY HAS PICK A GOOD BLACK GUY TO TRY TO OFF SET BARAK OBAMA BEING A BLACK PRESIDENT,GOOD THAT YOU RAT BACK STABBING COWARD GOP SHIP JUMPING CIVILWAR LOSING SUCKERS.
ITS A GOOD DAY WHEN RACIST REDNECKS FEEL THAT THEIR DIXIE POWER IS BEING TAKIN AWAY,BUT DIXIE BEEN LOST LONG TIME AGO,BUT YOU FOOLS KEEP TRYING TO RELIVE THE PAST OF THE CONFAGDERATES WHO GOT THEIR A$$ HANDED TO THEM BY THEM DA@N YANKEES.
P.S.FROM THE SOUTHERN YANKEE GO DEMOCRATS DOWN WITH THE GOP!
By Conservative Pros and Cons
January 31, 2009 10:59 AM | Link to this
Bush has pre-emptively pardoned Rove, and Harriet Meirs. Congress hasn’t even started any motions yet and Bush has…..HARRIET MEIRS? Rove, AND Harriet Meirs? Why did he leave out the Peanut Butter Corporation that’s been poisoning us? Rove and Harriet Miers? That’s like Dick Clark pardoning the Jonas Brothers for Puberty, and then throwing in the Olsen Twins for shaving. isn’t it?
Those Octuplets cost 3 million dollars to birth. (new bailout targets?) I dont know nuthin bout birthin no babies, but these eight preemies have already cost more than the gitmo releasees. Five of the eight have demanded asylum and two have been spotted in sleeper cells.
Waterboarding them is out because they all came out in body-temperature bathtub water.
By spazzstick
January 31, 2009 11:12 AM | Link to this
Goodness. Attention Mommiecrat: can you please take your little diaper soiling liberal dhimicrat to the powder room for a change please and keep the keyboard away from the little tyke (and the caps lock OFF)? Geeze.
Back to the adult room, do you think nepotism and taxpayer dollars would go ignored IF REPUBLICANS DID IT??? Methinks not. Once again hypocrisy and a DNC lib media protection program at it’s finest. By the way, if any of you do NOT see real danger in a full Democrat Washington and a main stream media backing them up, then do some research on Pravda in communist Russia.
“A top House Republican is demanding an investigation into whether the more than $2 billion for national parks in the House stimulus package is proper in light of the fact that the chief lobbyist for the National Parks Conservation Association is the son of House Appropriations Committee Chairman David R. Obey.”
“NPCA is a major player in advocating for national parks funding, and its senior vice president for government affairs is Craig Obey, son of the Wisconsin Democrat who has long been his party’s top Appropriations Committee member.”
“The money included in the stimulus bill that passed Mr. Obey’s committee - $2.25 billion - was about equal to the National Park Service’s total yearly budget, and would be a staggering increase and almost three times the $802 million that the Senate Appropriations Committee approved for park spending in its stimulus bill.”
By ron
January 31, 2009 11:13 AM | Link to this
Dear Redneck, Not only is the Alfalfa Dinner not televised,there are no reporters allowed to view the proceedings.This is a night when politicians are allowed to let down there hair and try to be real folk.Only amongst them selves though.
Also,Redneck,what’re we going to do if they start taxing wives by the pound?Have you thought about that?Your’s would be worth about $40 after a trip to Ryan’s.God I love that girl.
Tax Groceries?No thanks Jim.Goods and service tax is all right by me. I have to eat.
Florida once suspended the sales tax on boat repairs and expanded the boat repair business exponentially.
Obama is contemplating taxing luxury boats again.The last time that was tried it destroyed the East coast boat building business.It will again.A lot of people were jobless because of a tax in that instance.
Suspend corporate taxes to lure business into the state?It will work and create jobs,but all in all corporations are bad neighbors.Chech out Peanut Corp in Blakely for an example.
By Jim Cricket
January 31, 2009 11:23 AM | Link to this
zzzzz
By spazzstick
January 31, 2009 11:27 AM | Link to this
“Florida once suspended the sales tax on boat repairs and expanded the boat repair business exponentially. Obama is contemplating taxing luxury boats again.The last time that was tried it destroyed the East coast boat building business. It will again.”
Hey ron, you have to understand the mindset of liberalism. Liberals (‘scuze me, PROGRESSIVES) don’t really “think” like you and I do. They emotionalize their way through life. In their simplistic minds, boat=wealth and therefore is not fair to own. I too remember the impact the luxo tax on yacht makers like Hatteras in North Carolina had. The geniuses behind it didn’t think about the lost jobs from lost sales. I for one, no matter HOW much money I have, would NEVER buy a new US-made luxury item with a socialist wealth-hate tax applied to it. I’d buy used or buy out of the country and keep it parked there. To hell with ‘em.
By Churchill's MOM
January 31, 2009 11:56 AM | Link to this
“Also,Redneck,what’re we going to do if they start taxing wives by the pound?Have you thought about that?Your’s would be worth about $40 after a trip to Ryan’s.God I love that girl.”
How about Dusty’s Husband?
By Jim Cricket
January 31, 2009 11:56 AM | Link to this
Bush has pre-emptively pardoned Rove, and Harriet Meirs. Congress hasn’t even started any motions yet and Bush has…..HARRIET MEIRS? Rove, AND Harriet Meirs? Why did he leave out the Peanut Butter Corporation that’s been poisoning us? Rove and Harriet Miers? That’s like Dick Clark pardoning the Jonas Brothers for Puberty, and then throwing in the Olsen Twins for shaving. isn’t it?
Those Octuplets cost 3 million dollars to birth. (new bailout targets?) I dont know nuthin bout birthin no babies, but these eight preemies have already cost more than the gitmo releasees. Five of the eight have demanded asylum and two have been spotted in sleeper cells.
Waterboarding them is out because they all came out in body-temperature bathtub water.
There is a controversy brewing about the ethics of fertility drugs. This whole thing is such an abuse of Lamaze Class, you know what I say to you this day? These Eight babies will be forced into years of yoga and pilates classes, and then probably pole-dancing class; who knows. Who cares?
I care. I’ve seen more consideration given to the prospect of litters of tiny little baby bunnies being born, without the benefit of no lamaze class, or nuthin.
You folks are gonna overpopulate this country and then the democrats will really take over, and we’ll all be finished.
Just have sex the normal way and sit down. No, lay down, or is it bend over, kneel, genuflect, and wiggle? No, it’s stand up and find a kitchen counter. Someone get the Kama Sutra guy on the phone.
By spazzstick
January 31, 2009 11:56 AM | Link to this
“Pelosi dismisses need for bipartisanship”
“By Jared Allen” “Posted: 01/29/09 12:35 PM [ET]”
“House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she didn’t come to Washington to be “bipartisan”, one day after shuttling through an $819 economic stimulus bill without a single Republican vote.”
Yeah. Uhm, NO SH!T. We already knew that. Once again we see something - a comment - from a liberal Democrat in Washington which went ignored that otherwise would have been SPLASH FRONT PAGE NEWS had a Republican said those words.
By fed up
January 31, 2009 12:08 PM | Link to this
I see the eliminating the property tax relief grants as BS. There is no way I buy that the govt cannot find some wasted $$ in their budgets. To take away the the tax relief is a slap in every homeowner’s face. Why should only the homeowners make up this shortfall? We (individuals) have to follow a budget and get rid of wasteful spending when things are tight. We don’t have anyone to tax to come up with extra/more money. With so many people barely able to pay their mortgages as it is with layoffs etc. the answer the govt has is to make it tougher.
By spazzstick
January 31, 2009 12:13 PM | Link to this
Now here’s a four letter word you haven’t heard about in a while - or heard the Obama administration talk about. I wonder why? From Jihadwatch.org:
“The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has cut off contacts with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) amid mounting concern about the Muslim advocacy group’s roots in a Hamas-support network, the Investigative Project on Terrorism has learned.”
“The decision to end contacts with CAIR was made quietly last summer as federal prosecutors prepared for a second trial of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), an Islamic charity accused of providing money and political support to the terrorist group Hamas, according to people with knowledge of the matter.”
“CAIR and its chairman emeritus, Omar Ahmad, were named un-indicted co-conspirators in the HLF case. Both Ahmad and CAIR’s current national executive director, Nihad Awad, were revealed on government wiretaps as having been active participants in early Hamas-related organizational meetings in the United States. During testimony, FBI agent Lara Burns described CAIR as a front organization.”
“Hamas is a US-designated foreign terrorist organization, and it’s been illegal since 1995 to provide support to it within the United States.”
Meh, there’s those pesky wiretaps again……….
By Coolguy
January 31, 2009 12:13 PM | Link to this
But Lipzschpew, the libs have been using that complaint for eight years, “If a Democrat has said or did that, the Repudlickans woulda been up in arms!”
I dont mind a leech or a hack, I honestly dont. It’s a cut-rate loser parrot guy I mind.
Try thinking for yourself. Dont read so much or listen to talk radio so much. Why do you think they call them ditto heads?
You’re gonna be fine. Maybe you could start a club that wears cool t-shirts that say, “I voted for Palin and all I got was this lousy t-shirt”.
coolguy.
By Coolguy
January 31, 2009 12:32 PM | Link to this
“…here I stumble….”
That’s not where you stumbled, Mr. Wooten. How about this: “…accepted for themselves what they were about to ask voters to apply to local governments….”
How can you live with yourself after writing a phrase like that? Shame sir. Shame.
ISAIDSHAME!
By spazzstick
January 31, 2009 12:33 PM | Link to this
Ah yes, we have a winner! Listen to this highly intelligent, original thinking liberal dhimicrat:
“Dont [sic] read so much or listen to talk radio so much. Why do you think they call them ditto heads?”
Everything I posted was already said by Rush. Ain’t that cool, guy? I surmise when you have no retort, just have a bad case of liberal diarrhea of the mouth and default to “you are just stating what Limbaugh said.” Sheer genius! Moron.
And this wretched example of liberalism also brought up lousy t-shirts. Isn’t that special? Let’s see what the libs at CNN, you know, that “no bias, no bull” media outlet have to do about t-shirts:
“Earlier this week, WebNewser wrote about ABC and NBC releasing Inauguration-related DVDs in March.”
“Now CNN.com is getting in the Inauguration memorabilia game, with an entire section of CNN.com headlining a t-shirt with the tagline: “Obama raises hand, lifts a nation.”
SPEAK FOR YOURSELF, CNN, you partisan DNC media hacks.
By Coolguy
January 31, 2009 12:43 PM | Link to this
Well, I never!
By Coolguy
January 31, 2009 12:46 PM | Link to this
Bush has pre-emptively pardoned Rove, and Harriet Meirs. Congress hasn’t even started any motions yet and Bush has…..HARRIET MEIRS? Rove, AND Harriet Meirs? Why did he leave out the Peanut Butter Corporation that’s been poisoning us? Rove and Harriet Miers? That’s like Dick Clark pardoning the Jonas Brothers for Puberty, and then throwing in the Olsen Twins for shaving. isn’t it?
Those Octuplets cost 3 million dollars to birth. (new bailout targets?) I dont know nuthin bout birthin no babies, but these eight preemies have already cost more than the gitmo releasees. Five of the eight have demanded asylum and two have been spotted in sleeper cells.
Waterboarding them is out because they all came out in body-temperature bathtub water.
There is a controversy brewing about the ethics of fertility drugs. This whole thing is such an abuse of Lamaze Class, you know what I say to you this day? These Eight babies will be forced into years of yoga and pilates classes, and then probably pole-dancing class; who knows. Who cares?
I care. I’ve seen more consideration given to the prospect of litters of tiny little baby bunnies being born, without the benefit of no lamaze class, or nuthin.
You folks are gonna overpopulate this country and then the democrats will really take over, and we’ll all be finished.
Just have sex the normal way and sit down. No, lay down, or is it bend over, kneel, genuflect, and wiggle? No, it’s stand up and find a kitchen counter. Someone get the Kama Sutra guy on the phone.
By spazzstick
January 31, 2009 12:53 PM | Link to this
Okay okay okay, one more before I go and let the bedwetting leftists poot their views here since they all think this is a freaking LIB blog or something. (Useful idiots)
This one is on Tom Daschle’s dollar, so to speak. Again, where is the DNC liberal media who left no stone unturned during the Bush administration? And once again, you tell me why we should NOT be concerned about a DNC media in bed with the full Democrat Washington:
“Mr. Daschle also didn’t report $83,333 in consulting income in 2007.”
“The Senate Finance Committee Report also notes that during the vetting process, President Obama’s Transition Team “identified certain donations that did not qualify as charitable deductions because they were not paid to qualifying organizations. Daschle adjusted his contribution deductions on his amended returns for 2005, 2006 and 2007 to remove these amounts and add additional contributions.” This adjustment meant a reduction in the amount he contributed to charitable foundations of $14,963 from 2005 through 2007.”
“With the unreported income from the use of a car service in the amounts of $73,031 in 2005, $89,129 in 2006 and $93,096 in 2007; the unreported consulting income of $83,333 in 2007; and the adjusted reductions in charitable contributions, Daschle adds a total of $353,552 in additional income and reduced donations, meaning an additional tax payment of $128,203, in addition to $11,964 in interest.”
“On January 2 of this year, Daschle filed amended tax returns to pay the $140,167 in unpaid taxes.”
“The Finance Committee staff still is reviewing whether travel and entertainment services provided Tom and Linda Daschle by EduCap, Inc., Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation, Academy Achievement, and Loan to Learn should be reported as income. Earlier this month, the Wall Street Journal reported that Daschle made use of the jet belonging to EduCap, a non-profit student loan organization.”
“The timing of these revelations smacks of “clever” Obama administration news management that I believe would have brought howls of outrage from establishment media if it had occurred during the previous administration:”
The car and driver item that was trotted out first, while admittedly large, can be (and was) framed as somewhat understandable (poor guy, “he thought it was a gift”).
The charitable deductions problem, while smaller, could also be more embarrassing, especially if we ever get to learn the identities of the organizations that really weren’t qualifying charities.
Given that there are four separate different organizations that provided “travel and entertainment services” to the Daschles, there may be a web of relationships that, if uncovered, might reveal conflicts of interest.
By Gman
January 31, 2009 1:11 PM | Link to this
Saw this over at the Huffington Blog: “Bush has pre-emptively pardoned Rove, and Harriet Meirs. Congress hasn’t even started any motions yet and Bush has…..HARRIET MEIRS? Rove, AND Harriet Meirs? Why did he leave out the Peanut Butter Corporation that’s been poisoning us? Rove and Harriet Miers? That’s like Dick Clark pardoning the Jonas Brothers for Puberty, and then throwing in the Olsen Twins for shaving. isn’t it?
Those Octuplets cost 3 million dollars to birth. (new bailout targets?) I dont know nuthin bout birthin no babies, but these eight preemies have already cost more than the gitmo releasees. Five of the eight have demanded asylum and two have been spotted in sleeper cells.
Waterboarding them is out because they all came out in body-temperature bathtub water.
There is a controversy brewing about the ethics of fertility drugs. This whole thing is such an abuse of Lamaze Class, you know what I say to you this day? These Eight babies will be forced into years of yoga and pilates classes, and then probably pole-dancing class; who knows. Who cares?
I care. I’ve seen more consideration given to the prospect of litters of tiny little baby bunnies being born, without the benefit of no lamaze class, or nuthin.
You folks are gonna overpopulate this country and then the democrats will really take over, and we’ll all be finished.
Just have sex the normal way and sit down. No, lay down, or is it bend over, kneel, genuflect, and wiggle? No, it’s stand up and find a kitchen counter. Someone get the Kama Sutra guy on the phone.”
Pofo is a hack.
By Redneck Convert
January 31, 2009 1:12 PM | Link to this
Well, I might of knowed I would catch a bunch of guff after I posted this a.m. And this ron is still after the missus. He needs to be the first one fixed when we get the snip squad going.
I see this woman with six kids done had eight more all at the same time. We already pay welfare to support her and now we’ll pay more to support her and 14 kids. The Drs. that helped her get all the new kids need to get the Death Penalty. And you might of knowed it: she’s one of Those People! If this keeps going Those People will make up about 80% of all the people in the U.S. of A.
Talk about taxes! Any more like this woman and we’ll be paying twice as much. I ain’t going to worry about another 5 bucks in property taxes when we got Drs. making women have eight kids all at once. I’m with this @@. We need to nip all this You Know What in the bud. Let’s put some money in the stimulation bill for snipping women like that.
I’m good and mad and I know it’s the PBR kicking in. But I can’t hardly help it. The shock of seeing one of Those People elected the leader of the Republican Party is just too much.
By Gman
January 31, 2009 1:39 PM | Link to this
Well, we might have knowed that you would post the guff against yourself using an alias, like you believe you’re fooling anyone, which you’re not, because you hack other troll’s stylings and their lexiconic slang all day long like the cut-rate leech you truly are, but get this, “….all i knowed is what i knowed and i dontz knowed dat…..I SAID all i knowed is what i knowed and i dontz knowed dat……I SAID ALL I KNOWED IS WHAT I KNOWED AND I DONTZ KNOWED DAT!!!!!!!!!!
Gee, you didn’t mention a double wide or a freight train or a pick up in your last post, Sniffneck, do you think Jeff Foxworthy is dissappointed?
lose it but dont use it.
please. (moron.)
By Gspot
January 31, 2009 3:13 PM | Link to this
BAGHDAD - Iraqis held their most peaceful election since the fall of Saddam Hussein on Saturday, and voting for provincial councils ended without a single major attack reported anywhere in the country. “No security breaches took place during the election. Things went as we planned and as we hoped,” Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Mohammed al-Askary said.
Mark these words: $500 says the Democrats in congress, the ones who did everything within their power to undermine “Bush’s War” will accept credit for success in Iraq over the next few years (Dick Dirtbin’s comments on our soldiers comparing them to Nazis, Soviet gulags goons, and Cambodian Pol Pot runners immediately come to mind).
By ron
January 31, 2009 4:00 PM | Link to this
I’ll hold my comments on Iraq until I find out who was elected and in which direcrtion the country’s going.After a quiet election,I hold a little hope.
Seems I may be a little greener than I realized.Seems that the scotch whiskey distillers are going to burn their spent mash to generate electricity and they’re going to run their pot ale through an evaporation process and sell the remains as fertilizer.I know it’s a long way from Islay to where the generating station is located,but toasters and tv’s will run better on electricty generated by Laphroaig mash.I may step up my usage if the need for more power is there.
Obama’s cabinet is filing up with tax cheats.Do you suppose there’s a subtle message hidden in his agenda for the rest of us?Take your own tax cut?Take what you need to get through the coming months?I somwhow doubt it,but it sounded good.
By @@
January 31, 2009 4:49 PM | Link to this
Jim, I’ve always said I’d have a better chance of beating the politician’s “tax wrap” closer to home.
Should’a put the cap on. Political “bad hair” days can prove to be unsightly.
By spazzstick
January 31, 2009 5:55 PM | Link to this
“Obama’s cabinet is filing up with tax cheats. Do you suppose there’s a subtle message hidden in his agenda for the rest of us?”
Ron - yes: just switch to Democrat and it will be okay. With a (D) next to your name, you are the Lord Of The Ring get a free pass from the DNC lib media, fellow Democrats, a stupid and ignorant voter constituency, and the fairy freaking godmother.
Speaking of, Bruce Springsteen says he wants to “inspire” people at the half time show. Gee. I’m touched all over. What’s he going to give inspiration about? How great it is to be dependent on government and how great America is because a socialist is now in the White House?
By REPUBLICANS EVIL TIME IS UP
February 1, 2009 8:25 AM | Link to this
ITS FUNNY HOW YOU REDNECKS DIDNT COMPLAIN ABOUT YOUR TAX DOLLARS BEING WASTED BY A GOP SORRY DEVILWORSHIPPING EX-PRESIDENT BUSH,NOR DID YOU STUPID HICKS COMPLAIN WHEN THE GOP HAD GAS AT 4.00 A GALLON,NOR DID YOU FAKE WHITE CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS COMPLAIN AGAINST A GAY REPUBLICAN SENATOR FROM IDAHO WHO WAS TAPPING FEET IN BATHROOM FOR GAY SEX,NOR DID YOU PUNK REDNECKS COMPLAIN ABOUT THE FLORIDA GOP SENATOR WHO WAS HAVING GAY RELATIONSHIPS WITH HIS MALE STAFFERS.
YOU ALL DIDNT COMPLAIN WHEN THE GOP LEAD CONGRESS DIDNT GET THE TROOPS ALL THEIR NEEDED EQUIPMENT,BUT YOU COWARDS ALWAYS SCREAM SUPPORT THE TROOPS AND THE WAR ON TERRORISM,BUT THE GEORGIA REDNECK TALKS THE TALK BUT DONT WALK THE WALK,NEO-NAZI GOP WHITEMEN ARE EVIL TO THEIR OWN FAMILIES,LOOK AT HOW TOM PRICE,PHIL GINGREY,SUXBY SHAMELESS,JOHNNY ISKISON AND BUSH SENT YOUR JOBS TO MEXICO AND INDIA SO IM GLAD THAT THE EVIL GOP SOLD OUT THE RACIST REDNECK GEORGIA CRACKER.
By Tom Terrific
February 1, 2009 9:10 AM | Link to this
Bush jumped the shark with the Harriet Meirs nomination for supreme court, and now he’s pre-emptively pardoned her. He should pardon the supreme court for his presidency. He should pardon America for blinking after 911.
Bush should pardon Blackwater, and Rush Limbaugh. Bush should pardon Katrina. Bush should pardon his mother and his father; his grandfathers and grandmothers, his great grandfathers and great grandmothers, his great, great grand fathers and his great, great grand mothers, his great, great, great grand fathers and his great, great, great grand mothers, his great, great, great, great grand fathers and his great, great, great, great grandmothers, his great, great, great, great, great grandfathers and his great, great, great, great, great grandmothers…..
By ron
February 1, 2009 9:11 AM | Link to this
Good morning,Looks as if I’ll be the first sane person to post here this morning.I’ll apologize in advance should someone appear between me and Republican’s Evil Time is Up.
Not much about the trends in the Iraq election yet.407 different parties ran candidates.That’s showing interest,at least.
Little dribbles out about last night’s Alfalfa Dinner.More will emerge in the coming days.
The mother of the latest litter is vying for a $2 million spot on Oprah.Was this the origional reason for the 8 kids?Quite maternal,ain’t she?
The glacier on the side of Mt.Redoubt is melting at an alarming rate.Could this be the proof Al Gore is looking for?The smoking gun?Why don’t you walk up the side of the mountain ,Al, and investigate?Wait until things start shaking in good shape before you leave though,you want to be sure.
Judd Gregg.Is he going into Obama’s cabinet and give the Dems an explosoin proof majority in the senate?If this works,Obama may pick a couple more Republicans to assist him.
Obama won’t pick Republican Governors, though.What’s with those guys? Not a fiscal conservative among them.
Employment in the Federal governmenrt is growing.It may get big enough to singlehandedly quash the recession by employing everyone.Novel approach.A GDP of nothing.All the government would have to do is print money to pay for imports.Sort of like what it’s doing now.
By ron
February 1, 2009 9:15 AM | Link to this
retardo-rama
By ron
February 1, 2009 9:20 AM | Link to this
Please let me retract my apology.I obviously had no idea of what was coming.
By ron
February 1, 2009 9:29 AM | Link to this
Sorry.Not me at 0915.
By snagglepus
February 1, 2009 9:31 AM | Link to this
A sure fire way to get your post passed over by others is to post in all caps, you bigoted satan worshipping, Rev. Wright wannabe POS. Rot in hell, boy. Hell-boy. Hellboy. Wasnt that a movie? lol
By Bill Shipp
February 1, 2009 9:42 AM | Link to this
Anyone who thought Democrats and Republicans in Washington would join hands and skip into the sunset together on the Yellow Brick Road must have been dreaming. Bipartisanship is like a unicorn or Shangri-La. It doesn’t exist, no matter what you read or see on TV.
President Obama discovered that the hard way last week. After making several concessions to Republicans on the gargantuan stimulus bill, the president watched unsmilingly as every single House Republican voted against his measure, which passed anyway.
The House vote was not the only evidence that two-party cooperation is an idea whose time has not come in Washington - or Atlanta, either.
Republicans saw a potential major issue in voting “no” on big spending, regardless of how the money is to be used. The GOP may be on to something. After all, the elephants just have suffered a historic defeat at the polls partly because they ran up a multitrillion-dollar national debt, which contributed to the near-collapse of the economy.
Two or four years from now, the House Republicans who turned their backs on the currently planned Democratic spending spree may prove to be right. The massive shot of green stimulant into the worn-out economic system may prove to be too little, too late.
Back in Georgia, Republican 11th District Congressman Phil Gingrey groveled at the feet of the nation’s right-wing talk show hosts. Gingrey apologized so profusely to Rush Limbaugh that one would have thought Limbaugh suddenly had become the unfettered emperor of the GOP.
Come to think of it, maybe he does wear the elephant crown.
Gingrey also sent “I’m sorry” messages to Sean Hannity and Newt Gingrich. Seems Gingrey let his mouth outrun his brain a few days ago when he said on national TV that the talking heads knew how to talk the talk but not walk the walk.
► There was one more clue the GOP believes it can bounce back without diving into bed with the donkeys.
The Georgia legislature is considering a measure to allow Georgia Power to collect at least $1.5 billion from its customers to build a nuclear power plant. The power company wants to start collecting the money for the facility six years before the plant begins generating power.
Except for the usual consumer-and-conservation crowd, hardly anyone uttered a critical word about the layaway nuclear power plan.
In the old days when Republicans and Democrats competed for the statehouse, no corporation - except one misled gas company - had the chutzpah to ask customers to pay for energy plants still on the drawing boards. Georgia Power lobbyists, historically among the most knowledgeable in the business, must feel the GOP is going to be in the driver’s seat for a long, long time. Otherwise, they never would have dared ask the legislature to let the company’s customers pay years ahead for the new reactors.
By the way, the Public Service Commission, usually charged with policing utility rates, was left out in the cold on the proposed nuclear deal.
► The early direction of the gubernatorial winds may tell us something about the future of the Grand Old Party.
With Election Day for our next governor still nearly two years away, seven Republicans (at last count) have announced that they are running. Only two Democrats have so indicated to date.
The Democrats’ top star, former Gov. Roy Barnes, won’t say whether he plans to get into the contest.
The December runoff election between Republican incumbent U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss and Jim Martin, D-Atlanta, may have dampened Democratic enthusiasm for trying another comeback. Chambliss won the runoff by a landslide.
In the general election, Obama came close (within 5 percent) of gaining Georgia, but, in the end, the Peach State was one of the states that turned its back on the new president. Our GOP delegation also voted en masse against Obama’s economic bailout bill.
Georgia is hardly a weather vane of national political sentiments, but our Republican brain trust may have a good sense for the future of their party. That is why Georgia soon may be better known as the Land of No rather than the Peach State.
By Gspot
February 1, 2009 9:47 AM | Link to this
The Republicans have their chance to flex a little muscle and give Mr. Tax Cheat II in Obama’s new administration, Tom Daschle, serious problems. But it appears they may just act like the idiot pansies they’ve been since 2006 and cave. What are these pinheads thinking, that Democrats actually will like them for being nice or something? I can sure as hell tell you if the tables were reversed, the Democrats would be saying NO! to a Republican in the same boat - hell if anything they’d make something up or hire some WaPo news ferret to dig up something from the guy’s childhood to make him look bad. I don’t remember one single Bush cabinet appointee in his entire 8 years that wasn’t run through the wringer under a minority Democrat congress. Anyway, here’s to these pansies continuing to sit on the sidelines while they watch Democrats destroy what’s left of our nation……………
“With President Obama and Senate Democrats rallying behind Tom Daschle after Friday’s revelations of back tax troubles, Republican senators faced a difficult choice—whether to support the Cabinet nomination of a former member of their exclusive club, or strike a clean shot at the new Democratic president.”
“If this were anyone else, I don’t think there would be any question that [the nomination] would not make it out of the committee,” said a top Senate GOP aide, referring to Daschle’s 18 years of Senate service, including stints as both majority and minority leader. “But he’s a former majority leader, which means a lot to these guys.”
By Glenn
February 1, 2009 10:00 AM | Link to this
As for Jim’s topic, I think a lot of the problem lies within the mentality of legislators. For them legislating is a sport of kings, a precondition of which is the expenditure of whollotta monay. The conservative freshmen from both parties may come in with notions of fiscal discipline, but the idealists soon are disabused of such abstractions in the face of such realities as chairing a committee, getting elected by one’s peers to a leadership position, or having bacon to boast in the mailers to constituents. The moral and political strength in fiscal discpline is lost. It’s for suckers.
By ron
February 1, 2009 10:18 AM | Link to this
Dear Glenn @ 10:00—-Sport of Kings is right.I’ve been watching with interest a scene being played out in the British House of Lords,where certain members have been almost openly trading changes in commerce laws for a fee of £5000 per day.At the moment heads are rolling,but it does give an insight into the thought process of legislators.
By Glenn
February 1, 2009 10:36 AM | Link to this
That’s sad news from Britain, ron. Too bad the Peers didn’t stick (as it were) with Polo, or Grand Prix racing. Instead, a traffic in tax moneys. “Where else”, they’re ad-line goes, “can your ‘M’ be transformed into a ‘B’?”
And of course with thinking like that, the “T” is the next order of the day — or O.B.E., as the case may be.
By Sure
February 1, 2009 10:38 AM | Link to this
Iraq banned Blackwater. They be comin’ here now.
Hannity, Oreily, and Rush Limbaugh will play a part in this migration of Blackwater Mercenaries into our hearths.
America is about to be invaded. By an army. Like the Hessians.
What America needs is a new George Washington (D- North America-Liberty Lover- Justice Provider)
By Glenn
February 1, 2009 10:54 AM | Link to this
Sorry. The thing that drives me battiest about iPhones is that, too often, Cupertino wants to correct “they’re” with “their” and vice versa. To stop them you have to stop the flow, reverse, correct, and proceed to the exact last key-position before Apple got into your face. It’s like the days of WordStar, when it was still necessary for anyone engaged in “word processing” to have also a certain command of programming. Like an extortion: “You don’t want us to put this comma in an insaneley inappropriate place? Well then Screw You until you prove to us that, to move a comma on our majestic state-of-the-art program, you have mastered in all humility the eight keystrokes, in order, necessary to do so…”
By Hambone
February 1, 2009 11:21 AM | Link to this
What America needs is a new George Washington (D- North America
Must be an ignorant Obama voter that made that comment. Let’s see what Washington was:
“Washington was not a member of any political party and hoped that they would not be formed, fearing conflict and stagnation.”
Besides. Washington actually respected dissent and other opinions, unlike liberal Democrats who want to cease and desist any conflict of opinion of theirs like from Rush Limbaugh. Their hatred of anything Conservative/Republican is well known, from Howard Dean’s comment “I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for” on down to hate filled Daily Kos and Wooten lib bloggers.
So, in equating Washington with Democrats of today, you fail. TWICE.
By ron
February 1, 2009 11:53 AM | Link to this
Dear Glenn,——-The thing that bothers me most about iphones and other hand held devices is that people actually believe they need one to exist.It does not amaze me that every control freak in America has one to dictate to someone on the other end of the line just how their day is to be conducted.
By REPUBLICANS EVIL TIME IS UP
February 1, 2009 12:11 PM | Link to this
TO THE SOUTHERN SO-CALLED PATRIOT,REMEMBER THAT GEORGE WASHINGTON WAS A YANKEE AND HIS ARMY WAS FELLOW YANKEES AND NOT COWARD DIXIE LOVING TRAITORS LIKE YOUR SELVES,SOUTHERN WHITE MEN ARE NOT PATRIOTS THEY ARE SELLOUT ALL TALK YELLOWBELLY CHICKENHAWKS,REAL PATRIOTS FIGHT FOR WHATS RIGHT AND GOOD OF GOD AND COUNTRY,YOU EVIL WHITEMEN IN THE SOUTH FIGHT FOR EVIL AND THE GOOD FOR ONLY YOU AND NOT COUNTRY,LOOK AT HOW THE WHITEMEN IN THE SOUTH THAT TRY TO KEEP THE SOUTH BACKWARDS,YOUR EDUCATION SPEAKS FOR ITSELF,50TH IN THE NATION,THAT MEAN YOU ARE BOTTOM OF THE BARROW.
LOOK AT THE STATE OF GEORGIA IN THE RURAL AREAS THEY TRY TO KEEP THE GOOD JOBS AWAY BECAUSE FOR THE SOUTHERN WHITEMAN HE WANTS TO KEEP EVERYBODY POOR,YOU ALL SUPPORT RAISING TAXES TO SEND 10 BILLION A MONTH TO IRAQ,BUT YOU STUPID HICKS DONT WANT 1 BILLION SPENT HERE IN AMERICA FOR AMERICANS,BUT YOU FAKES SPEAK OF COUNTRY FIRST,BUT ITS YOU REDNECKS THATS SELLING THE COUNTRY OUT!
By Sure
February 1, 2009 12:24 PM | Link to this
Cnn just reported that a restaurant menroom’s toilet was shot accidently by a patron who dropped his pistol as he pulled up his pants. The toilet was still flushable but responsible medics put it out of it’s misery by dropping in a cherry bomb and flushing one final time……. rotor rooter did an autopsy and found forensics that indicate no foul play……
Now where is the restaurant going to get it’s coffee water? I guess they’ll have to close.
The think about toilets is that they start decaying from the moment of death and the stench, well, you’ve all experienced it in gas stations and airports…..oh the porcelainity
By Glenn
February 1, 2009 12:53 PM | Link to this
ron @ 11:53:
I quite agree.
By Dhimmicrats for Change
February 1, 2009 12:56 PM | Link to this
Trolls. No feeding the trolls!
Now, who among Conservatives said that Obama’s outreach to Iran would be seen as a weakness? Just about EVERY SINGLE ONE. But, don’t take our word for it. Straight from Satan’s mouth, or from the poster @ 8:25 & 12:11 — take your pick:
Iran says Obama’s offer to talk shows US failure
Jan 31 08:16 AM US/Eastern
US President Barack Obama’s offer to talk to Iran shows that America’s policy of “domination” has failed, the government spokesman said on Saturday.
“This request means Western ideology has become passive, that capitalist thought and the system of domination have failed,” Gholam Hossein Elham was quoted as saying by the Mehr news agency.
“Negotiation is secondary, the main issue is that there is no way but for (the United States) to change,” he added.
After nearly three decades of severed ties, Obama said shortly after taking office this month that he is willing to extend a diplomatic hand to Tehran if the Islamic republic is ready to “unclench its fist”.
In response, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad launched a fresh tirade against the United States, demanding an apology for its “crimes” against Iran and saying he expected “deep and fundamental” change from Obama.
(Maybe if we all turn Muslim and towards Sharia Law, we’ll all be able to get along like the useful idiot liberals want us all to)
By ron
February 1, 2009 1:17 PM | Link to this
Dear Sure @12:24——An update.A funeral was held for the the departed john in the establishment where it died,complete with mourners,flowers and obituary,which in part said something like;It was survived by it’s friends,the urinal and the vanity.Just thought you’d like to know.It died from a single shot form a dropped Kahr .40 caliber pistol.
By Dusty
February 1, 2009 1:38 PM | Link to this
Well, a thought or two on today’s contributions.
Jim Wooten: How about us paying off state debt with our taxes? Some part of our country should be out of debt.
Bill Shipp: Why are you putting your liberal column on a conservative blog?
PoFo known today as Tom Terrific: We’ll forgive YOU if you promise to be real QUIET.
Gspot: Keep Daschle out of the Cabinet. The people of his state did not want him in Washington and I don’t either. He’s another Reid and one is too many.
RedNeck Convert: So you are going to be a Libertarian? Good! No more undercover lib posts, I assume.
Dhimicrats: What do you think Obama’s next move to Iran will be after Ahmajinejad snapped at his hand? Tea and crumpets?
Churchill’s Mom: Go bake a cake. Haven’t the Dems stopped paying you people?
Ron: You mean the British politicians are playing “Blago”?
Glenn at ten: Are you saying that politicians like to spend our tax money? I’dda never guessed.
By Dusty
February 1, 2009 1:45 PM | Link to this
ron,@1:17
Good one!!
From what I have learned in a household of fine gentlemen is that their aim is terrible and their ability to lower a commode seat has not improved since the Jurassic Age. That “john” probably deserved to be shot.
By ron
February 1, 2009 3:03 PM | Link to this
Dear Dusty,——-You’re just agin men,Dusty,just dead set against us a s a species.I’ll have you know that many of us old married geezers are are as housebroke as a fine pup.I once saw a sign in a washroom that said,”Our aim is to please,you aim too please”.Since that day,I’ve always been a marksman.
By Glenn
February 1, 2009 4:45 PM | Link to this
Hi, Dusty. Yeah, I figgered that would surprise you something awesome. But seriously, such as you and I should go into greater detail as to why they transgress so. What, exactly, are their motives, which the dynamics of the decent neighbors we elect again and again to become spending perverts?
By Sam
February 1, 2009 5:02 PM | Link to this
Example of Liberal Hypocracy:
The Left laments the relative “poor” quality of healthcare despite the fact that we spend more than any other country and yet, we rate only in the middle of the rankings. So, everyone wants to totally revamp the American medical system that has brought so many innovations and advances.
In 2006, the U.S. spent $10,800 per public shcool student compared to an avg of $6500 for the rest of the developed nations, and yet again, we rate in the middle of the rankings. Where is the howling from the left to totally revamp the “failing” education system? All they want to do is throw more money at it and think it will solve the problem.
By Glenn
February 1, 2009 5:20 PM | Link to this
Yes, indeed, Sam, and if we keep trying the way we’re going, we could get poorer still. Yunno?
By Glenn
February 1, 2009 5:32 PM | Link to this
What precisely, does anyone suggest more money for schoolng will fix?