Thinking Right

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

February 12, 2009 8:26 AM | Link to this

Good morning all. I’m sure I’ll vote for Sen. Isakson, unless someone runs against him. I will agree with our genial host, that the good senator passed the threshold stupidity test offered by the President (although 61 other senators failed it, including three other republicans.) I give the good senator a D- for his performance here, passing, but barely. The good senator’s housing tax credit was surely designed to mop up surplus housing by giving poor folks a government incentive to acquire a first home (isn’t that the operating theory behind FNMA, FHLMC, and other misguided Federal problem children?) However, we do not rate proposed screwing with the free market on the basis of intentions, and the economic dislocation caused by the new tax sop is unjustifiable. Just quit picking at it and it will get better.

Only a democrat would think that shooting $100 bills out of a helicopter would stimulate the US economy. And, of course, that is the entire intellectual foundation behind the “stimulus” bill. To repeat the great line by Harvard economist Robert Barro yesterday, “There’s a big difference between tax rate changes and things that look just like throwing money at people. Tax rate changes have actual incentive effects. And we have some experience with those actually working.” My ranking of the stimulus choices (talking about economic policy here, not the “stimulus” political choices:

(1) long-term tax cuts for the productive economy (not the consumptive economy), as the recovery would start nearly immediately;

(2) do nothing, as the recovery would start by the end of the year (depending on what new tax stupidity the Pelosicrats launch – our rankings are ceteris paribus);

(3) Obamanomics, as that will delay the recovery until not sooner than the end of 2010. The president’s plan leaves too many people suffering for too long.

Dr. Sowell wrote a short argument yesterday parallel to Jim’s excellent essay on the new “dishonesty” in Washington: “The great sense of urgency of the Obama administration to get legislation to authorize slow-moving spending projects may seem inconsistent. But the urgency is real, even if the reasons given are not. The worse case scenario for the administration would be to have the economy begin to recover on its own before this massive spending bill is passed, reducing their chances of creating the kind of politically directed economy they want.”

Puzzler of the day: Truly corrupt judges are rare. I looked at 15 online articles about the corruption convictions of two Wilkes-Barre judges, Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan, and I have not yet seen an article to tell me their political orientation. Even the AJC article is silent. I know that section of the world votes democrat 2:1. My own history tells me that corrupt judges, rare though they are, are democrats, but has anyone seen any article anywhere to tell us whether these two crooks are democrats? Whenever there is a MSM news article about a corrupt republican, the party affiliation is always prominently mentioned, but I cannot find a single article that identifies the party of these two guys. Is it safe to assume the crooks are democrats since the articles do not identify them otherwise?

By Churchill's MOM

February 12, 2009 8:29 AM | Link to this

Jim, your link from the home page is screwed up…

By Ga Values

February 12, 2009 8:33 AM | Link to this

Johnny the SOCIALIST’s $34,000,000,000.00 taxpayer rip off should be known as the “Flip this house to your Brother bill”. It was as bad as anything that Pelosi thought up. I will NOT be voting for this SOCIALIST

By Peanut Man

February 12, 2009 8:41 AM | Link to this

How much money did Saxby Chambliss get from Peanut Corporation of America? What did they get for it?

By Where did the Money Go?

February 12, 2009 8:48 AM | Link to this

Defense contractors blamed for waste, fraud and abuse — and even for some civilian casualties in Iraq — are now facing a new Congress intent on cleaning up the mess.

The contractors are contrite about their mistakes, making the case that not all of them are created evil.

“We have millions of transactions every year that work,” said Alan Chvotkin, a senior vice president for the Professional Services Council, a contractors trade group. But missteps by KBR, Blackwater USA and Hurricane Katrina contractors stand out, he said.

“We’re colored by the failures,” he said.

Congress already is engaging on the issue.

The bipartisan Commission on Wartime Contracting, pushed into law by Democratic Sens. Jim Webb of Virginia and Claire McCaskill of Missouri, recently held its first hearing. And the Senate Homeland Security Committee has launched an ad hoc subcommittee on contracting oversight, under the direction of McCaskill, a former state auditor who has made contracting accountability one of her trademark issues.

During the commission’s hearing, Webb acknowledged that contractors do important work but said the Pentagon has leaned too heavily on them.

“Contrary to popular mythology, the extended reliance on wartime support contractors does not always save money,” Webb said. “It’s not always the most cost-effective solution. It’s simply been the easiest solution sometimes.”

But solving perennial problems with government purchasing is far easier said than done.

Claude Bolton, a former Army weapons buyer who now works for the Defense Acquisition University, told a contracting panel sponsored by Arnold & Palmer this week that he’s skeptical about real change. For decades, commissions have studied what’s wrong with defense contracting, he said, noting: “The recommendations are always right, and they’re always the same.”

But in the case of Iraq, the sheer number of contractors — tapped to fill out the ranks of an all-volunteer military — creates an image problem.

“I’m worried we’re going to have 30,000 troops in Iraq and 100,000 contractors,” McCaskill told Defense Secretary Robert Gates during a recent appearance before the Senate Armed Services Committee.

But McCaskill’s nightmare may be reality — one that’s not at all out of place, Chvotkin said.

Even if the number of logistics contractors decreases with the number of combat troops, a large number will remain in Iraq for reconstruction and community development work, he said.

And those contractors will require security, so expect private security contractors to remain there, too, Chvotkin said.

But he understands the incidents that created the impression: waste in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and the 2007 incident in Baghdad in which Blackwater security guards shot and killed some civilians while protecting a convoy.

As a result, Iraq has pulled the company’s license to operate.

And the State Department, which has used Blackwater to protect its diplomats, does not plan to renew the current contract that runs out this spring, according to spokesman Andy Laine. The department also uses two other companies for private security work: DynCorp and Triple Canopy. And the department hasn’t yet decided who will do the work Blackwater used to do, he said.

That could wind up a sticky issue for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. As a Democratic presidential candidate, she vowed to slash the government contracting ranks. But as the secretary of state, she’ll still continue to use private security contractors.

For now, the ban on Blackwater applies only to contractors inside Iraq. Whether the company will continue to operate elsewhere will be determined, Laine said.

Regulation attempts

Congress, led by Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.), has sought to draw better boundaries for security contractors, asking the Defense Department to clarify what is — and what is not — an “inherently governmental” activity as a step toward barring contractors from performing quasi-combat missions.

But that’s a debate Chvotkin doesn’t want to entertain at all.

He’s prone to reframe the question and kick it back to the military, saying it needs to decide how it derives the mix of active duty, National Guard and contractors it needs in war zones.

Chvotkin is trying to show members of Congress that contractors represent jobs, even for some of their constituents. And he’s trying to repair the contractors’ tarnished image by having them acknowledge their missteps.

“Government contractors need to get real comfortable with accountability,” said Michael Robinson, senior vice president of Levick Strategic Communications.

They’ll need to talk about their commitment to openness and do so in an ethical way, Robinson said, adding that change was likely to come regardless of who took the White House. Both President Barack Obama and his Republican campaign rival, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), had vowed to tighten contracting practices.

Where contractors win

Still, life might not be so bad for contractors, whose ranks expanded under the Bush administration.

Former Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.) pointed out that Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) — who, as chairman of the House Government Oversight Committee, had led numerous inquiries into KBR, the company overseeing a multibillion-dollar Army logistics contract — has moved on to chair the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

And according to Davis, McCaskill’s inquiries will help feed the Democrats’ anti-war base and will highlight two or three examples of waste without instituting any real substantive outcome.

The real boon to contractors and to Republicans, Davis said, is the $800 billion-plus economic stimulus package that Congress is finishing.

“That work cannot possibly be done in house,” Davis said.

By Redneck Convert

February 12, 2009 9:00 AM | Link to this

Well, in no time flat I had the tires on the trailer wheels and the Ford F-450 backed up and was ready to roll out of Simpsons Trailer Park if somebody spotted a tornado last night. But like everything else it was all a big lie by the librul media. Anyhow, it’s good to know my house ain’t stuck in one place and can be moved anywheres I want to go.

I’m mighty proud of old Johnny for sticking to his guns. He might could of voted for the stimulation bill if the libruls had of kept the tax credit for a new house in it, but in the end he lined up with the other godly Republicans against this pork. Johnny never said if buying a new trailer would count for the credit but I expect it would.

You got to admire old Johnny. He could of called hisself John. But that sounds kind of Northren. So he calls hisself Johnny so us rednecks will know he’s one of us.

Raghead makes a good point and he’s give us our Talking Points just in case the stimulation bill does work. We can say the economy was going to pick up anyway and the stimulation just slowed it down. And in case the economy stays in the dumps, we can say it’s all Obama’s fault and we need to cut taxes on the rich again to get Trickle Down going. Either way us rednecks win.

Have a good day everybody.

By happy to oblige, Ragnar

February 12, 2009 9:00 AM | Link to this

HAZLETON JUSTICE SEEKS JUDGE POST Times Leader, The (Wilkes Barre, PA) - Sunday, February 28, 1993 Author: DIONNE PEEPLES-SALAH; Times Leader Staff Writer

WILKES-BARRE — Hazleton District Justice Michael Conahan , 41, cq said integrity and independence are important qualities of any judge. If elected as Luzerne County Judge he said he will work hard to uphold them.

Amid a crowd of family and friends, Conahan , a Democrat , announced Saturday that he would seek election to the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas.

JUDGE HOPEFUL CIAVARELLA STRESSES COURT EXPERIENCE Times Leader, The (Wilkes Barre, PA) - Friday, April 7, 1995 Author: JIM VAN NOSTRAND; Times Leader Staff Writer WILKES-BARRE — Mark Ciavarella Jr . won’t need any on-the-job training to be a Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas judge, he said Thursday.

Nineteen years as a local attorney and 132 trials, mostly civil cases, have given him the experience and temperament required to wear a judge’s robes, he said.

“I believe I can make an impact and a difference,” Ciavarella told The Times Leader’s Editorial Board. “I’m not going to need someone to teach me to be a judge.”

Ciavarella , 44, of Wilkes-Barre, is running against attorneys Joseph Giovannini, Joseph Yeager and Thomas Cometa for the seat now held by Luzerne County Judge Gifford Cappellini.

The job pays more than $93,000 a year, counting recent cost-of-living increases. The term is 10 years.

Cappellini will step down in December when he reaches the mandatory retirement age of 70. He can still serve as a senior judge.

A registered Democrat , Ciavarella has cross-filed on the Democratic and Republican tickets for the May 16 primary. His opponents cross-filed as well

In Pennsylvania elections, judicial candidates can cross-file under both parties, and at least Judge Ciavarella did, but both men are registered to vote as Democrats.

By Ragnar's Research Asst.

February 12, 2009 9:32 AM | Link to this

HAZLETON JUSTICE SEEKS JUDGE POST Times Leader, The (Wilkes Barre, PA) - Sunday, February 28, 1993 Author: DIONNE PEEPLES-SALAH; Times Leader Staff Writer

WILKES-BARRE — Hazleton District Justice Michael Conahan , 41, cq said integrity and independence are important qualities of any judge. If elected as Luzerne County Judge he said he will work hard to uphold them.

Amid a crowd of family and friends, Conahan , a Democrat , announced Saturday that he would seek election to the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas.

JUDGE HOPEFUL CIAVARELLA STRESSES COURT EXPERIENCE Times Leader, The (Wilkes Barre, PA) - Friday, April 7, 1995 Author: JIM VAN NOSTRAND; Times Leader Staff Writer WILKES-BARRE — Mark Ciavarella Jr . won’t need any on-the-job training to be a Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas judge, he said Thursday.

Nineteen years as a local attorney and 132 trials, mostly civil cases, have given him the experience and temperament required to wear a judge’s robes, he said.

“I believe I can make an impact and a difference,” Ciavarella told The Times Leader’s Editorial Board. “I’m not going to need someone to teach me to be a judge.”

Ciavarella , 44, of Wilkes-Barre, is running against attorneys Joseph Giovannini, Joseph Yeager and Thomas Cometa for the seat now held by Luzerne County Judge Gifford Cappellini.

The job pays more than $93,000 a year, counting recent cost-of-living increases. The term is 10 years.

Cappellini will step down in December when he reaches the mandatory retirement age of 70. He can still serve as a senior judge.

A registered Democrat , Ciavarella has cross-filed on the Democratic and Republican tickets for the May 16 primary. His opponents cross-filed as well

In Pennsylvania elections, judicial candidates can cross-file under both parties, and at least Judge Ciavarella did, but both men are registered to vote as Democrats.

You’re welcome.

By Ragnar's Research Asst.

February 12, 2009 9:37 AM | Link to this

Working double time.;-P

By Bo Chambliss LOBBYIST

February 12, 2009 9:37 AM | Link to this

I might get laid off, well there are worse jobs than being Saxby’s caddy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/12/business/12ethanol.html?_r=1&hp

By The Conservative

February 12, 2009 9:45 AM | Link to this

Good Job, Wooten! It had everything but the carrier deck. The 15,000 dollar doleout spears a data point about the new conservative platform: incentives, not socialism. Incentives! Wooten recklessly begins to campaign on a derivative of an economic panacea based on a crude understanding of Bottoms in the Bizarro World. ” Incentives? That sounds like it matches personal responsibility! We think, liberals feel! A stimulus package should be used to encourage the umbrella of trust that banks rely on! Somebody get Pain on the phone. :”

A dead cat doesn’t bounce. It flips.

By Ga Values

February 12, 2009 9:45 AM | Link to this

Bo Chambliss LOBBYIST 9:37 AM

Looks like your Father’s Ethanol program is working as well as Johnny’s “flip this house” program.

“The ethanol industry is on its back despite the billions of dollars they have gotten in taxpayer assistance, and a guaranteed market,” said Amy Myers Jaffe, an energy analyst at Rice University.

By Dutchman

February 12, 2009 9:46 AM | Link to this

Watching the Congressional hearings with the BIG banking houses - I was shocked to see Congress telling the banks to clean up their act. Congress?? When will Congress clean up its act and get their collective heads out of their collective butts.

I guess the oversight by Franks and Dodd and the Freddie and Fannie debacles were just too much for the banks.

By Jesse McNulty

February 12, 2009 9:49 AM | Link to this

The senator loses no matter what happens now.

He decided not to act, so if the economy gets worse its on him. He could have worked with other GOP members to help fix the root cause of the problem here.

At least the Dems are trying to fix the problem. Nice Job senator, thanks for adding this amendment getting the market excited (people were moving close dates, new buyers were contacting Agents) and then letting it fall apart cause you did not want to work with others.

If the GOP strategy is to stonewall and not try to fix anything they will be in even worse shape in 2 years.

By Jim Galloway

February 12, 2009 9:49 AM | Link to this

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

This was posted a few minutes ago on The Caucus, the political blog operated by the New York Times:

…We’re told that the homebuyers’ amendment approved by a bipartisan voice vote last week may be out already. Republican Senator Johnny Isakson of Georgia proposed a $15,000 tax credit for buyers of new homes within a year or so of the bill taking effect. Initially, the cost was estimated at $18.5 billion, but has now been recalculated by the Congressional Budget Office at about $35.5 billion.

That’s far more than the estimated $2.6 billion estimate for a provision in the House bill that would provide a $7,500 refundable tax credit for first-time homebuyers through July 1, 2009. Under the House plan, individual homebuyers earning up $75,000 and couples earning up to $150,000 would qualify. A reduced credit would be available for those individuals earning up to $95,000 and couples up to $170,000.

By Ragingmod

February 12, 2009 9:51 AM | Link to this

Let me get this straight - when Bush and Paulson declare an emergency need for a Wall Street bailout to the tune of $750 Billion - Saxby and Isakson fall in line and Vote YES.

When economist & Obama declare the economy is headed for a catastrophe, and the Senate proposes $790 billion to go to states, cities and counties across the country - Saxby and Isakson vote NO!

Well, they think they are playing a smart political game, but a YES to bailing out wall street vs. a NO to bailout Main Street is going to be great political fodder for anyone willing to throw it. WAKE UP DEMS!

Not to mention the hypocrisy of Isakson’s Real Estate amendment adding 35 billion to the “Too expensive” bill - voting NO while knowing it will pass anyway. Politics as Usual - I’m disgusted

By Davo

February 12, 2009 9:54 AM | Link to this

He’s not getting my vote. I’ve seen a complete lack of conservative legislation from this guy. He voted to bailout those banksters at the fed and that’s a deal breaker for me. The $15k subsidy is further proof that he’s abandoning conservative principles. I’m not going to give him any credit for this vote as well…it was politically a no-brainer.

Might as well get used to the fact that the socialists are indeed in charge of the economy if this is the best the ‘conservatives’ can muster.

By Big Bucks GOP

February 12, 2009 9:59 AM | Link to this

Halliburton and Kellogg Brown & Root have agreed to pay $579 million in fines related to allegations of foreign bribery, the biggest fines ever paid by U.S. companies in a foreign corruption case, federal authorities and the companies said yesterday.

By The Conservative

February 12, 2009 10:01 AM | Link to this

Dutchman, if finding the idiot was the object of democracy, then we’d be in the promised land MLK saw from the mountaintop. Your comment was relevant today as it was 10K year ago. That’s what’s wrong with it. You’re just a cliche data point that fell somewhere in the middle of the spectrum of whatever it is I’m measuring, Sir. You’re nowhere. You’re a real nowhere man sitting in his nowhere land making all his nowhere plans for nobody. dang dang dang dangdang……how does it go? Dammit. I always forget the lyrics. I hate myself. I hate you. Wooten stinks. The AJC stinks. Nuke Iran!!!!

Jklol

By Big Bucks GOP

February 12, 2009 10:02 AM | Link to this

Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, told CNBC in a documentary to be shown Thursday night that he did not fully understand the scope of the subprime mortgage market until well into 2005 and could not make sense of the complex derivative products created out of mortgages.

“So everybody in retrospect now knows that that boom was developing under the markets for quite a period of time, but nobody knew it,” Mr. Greenspan told CNBC’s David Faber. “In 2004, there was just no credible information on that. It wasn’t until we got well into 2005 that the first inklings that that was developing was emerging,” he said.

By Big Bucks GOP

February 12, 2009 10:04 AM | Link to this

On a day the chief executives of eight large banks were questioned about their industry’s excesses on Capitol Hill, Andrew M. Cuomo, the attorney general of New York State, raised hackles by disclosing that Merrill Lynch paid out bonuses of more than $1 million to nearly 700 employees.

By Big Bucks GOP

February 12, 2009 10:06 AM | Link to this

Harvard University’s endowment cut 67 percent of its holdings in United States stocks in the fourth quarter, amid big losses in equity markets.

By Big Bucks GOP

February 12, 2009 10:07 AM | Link to this

On Dec. 10, the day before Bernard L. Madoff was arrested, his wife, Ruth, withdrew $10 million from a brokerage firm partly owned by her husband, according a state regulatory complaint filed in Boston.

By Big Bucks GOP

February 12, 2009 10:08 AM | Link to this

Foundations that lost billions of dollars investing with Bernard L. Madoff have another reason to fret: they could be socked with sizable fines for failing to exercise sound judgment.

By catlady

February 12, 2009 10:08 AM | Link to this

Saxby has been the pits for years but Isakson did have some credibility until the last few months. If those who blindly vote for anyone with an R beside their names ever see what these men have done TO us (not FOR us), they might begin looking at ideas in less of a black (dem) or white (repub) way, and evaluate the ideas on their actual merits. Until that day, Georgia will remain at the bottom, and a source of amusement and derision for most of the rest of the country (thank God for Alabama).

By fed up

February 12, 2009 10:11 AM | Link to this

The GOP didn’t participate because it’s all a crock. Yes they voted for the TARP last year, a big mistake but instead of making another mistake they voted against this cr(#. I think the “tax cuts” amount to approximately $13.00 per week. WOW!!! That’s going to stimulate the economy.
It’s a big joke that Congress is lashing out at the banks…not that they don’t need it but whose lashing out at Congress for their behavior. They should all be out on their A*******es, on both sides of the aisle.
In a couple of years (if not sooner) we will see that this government growth package did nothing but hurt us.

By FaceIt

February 12, 2009 10:16 AM | Link to this

Big Bucks GOP, Bush Called For Reform of Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac 17 Times in 2008 Alone… Dems Ignored Warnings

He began calling for reform in 2001. He hit the decks every year thereafter excluding 2006.

His mission wasn’t accomplished because the dems were deaf.

Fannie and Freddie, at the root of the subprime crisis.

By The Conservative

February 12, 2009 10:35 AM | Link to this

Is there a precedent for this 100% GOP secession against the stimulus package? 100%! (Give or take a mean standard deviation.) sic

Has this ever happened even once, the Whiskey Rebellion doesn’t count because they were only dressed up like Indians (and they were drunk). hic

100% is momentous. Something momentous is happening that is Peculiarly American today. America is defining itself, through it’s people, through the minds and hearts of you and me, and we want justice. The sheer sweat of 300 million Americans is a worthy institution. The act of being an American is a sacred right. That’s why the price of freedom is death. Lets enjoy it if it has been so dearly bought. 911 is a number. We are the people.

The GOP is finished. Every single American is now weighing whether they understand the motivation that 100% of the GOP seceded under. The GOP raised their flag on this stimulus bill. They must feel like the crew of the USS Enterprise when, although damaged, they were sent into battle without proper repairs to the platform. The GOP is the new jihad.

The war is on! Only yesterday, when a Vietnamese Diplomat saw McCain’s Donald Trump tie, he drew a cross in the sand.

By The Conservative

February 12, 2009 10:37 AM | Link to this

Good Job, Wooten! It had everything but the carrier deck. The 15,000 dollar doleout spears a data point about the new conservative platform: incentives, not socialism. Incentives! Wooten recklessly begins to campaign on a derivative of an economic panacea based on a crude understanding of Bottoms in the Bizarro World. ” Incentives? That sounds like it matches personal responsibility! We think, liberals feel! A stimulus package should be used to encourage the umbrella of trust that banks rely on! Somebody get Pain on the phone. :”

A dead cat doesn’t bounce. It flips.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

February 12, 2009 10:53 AM | Link to this

Great news, the stimulus worked. Retail sales rose 1% in January. But wait, the stock market has fallen another 400 points. Wonder what is the drag on the economy. Oh, the “stimulus” is not law yet, and the economy is recovering on its own, and the market thinks the “stimulus” will do damage.

By fed up

February 12, 2009 11:05 AM | Link to this

the conservative HUH?

By Big Bucks GOP

February 12, 2009 11:11 AM | Link to this

Salaries for TARP officials..just abour right for Willy Sutton.

http://money.cnn.com/news/specials/storysupplement/ceopay/

By Dusty's Husband

February 12, 2009 11:16 AM | Link to this

The Conservative 10:37 AM

You just won the “Raghead Award for Not Letting the Facts Get in the Way” award.

By Cleopatronize

February 12, 2009 11:22 AM | Link to this

I’m waiting for the stamp that shows Brad Pit aging backwards. Which Brad Pit do you like? The old, wrinkled one, or the menopausal weird one, or the mid-life crisis erect one, or the unhappily married young, dashing one? Ask Angelina which Brad she prefers. Ask Jen if her favorite is the so-thirsty-he forgets-to-test-his water supply Brad Pitt. He crossed the line with Jen. We are witnessing a woman scorned, and what a woman to scorn. Jen. Amazing prowess. The stance. The hair! Watch her walk. OMG.

Brad Pit is a better man than me.

By JLK

February 12, 2009 11:27 AM | Link to this

Senator Isakson’s people are always very polite and eloquent when responding that the Senator does not give a rat’s fuzzy a$$ what I think. (This was also true when he was my Congressman.) You see, if you don’t have lots of money to promise for campaign donations, (or attach a check directly to your correspondence), or a congregation, civic group, private company, or large set of rich and influential friends to deliver at election time, then the good Senator DOES NOT GIVE A FLIP about you, your problems, your future, or the well-being of your children or your community.

Ask not for whom the Senator serves. It ain’t you.

By Cleopatronize

February 12, 2009 11:27 AM | Link to this

That was a tone poem, or better put, a prayer. This new president has convinced me that I couldn’t be president even I was black. Rushannity has succeeded in alerting my daughter about the confederate flag bumper sticker on pickup trucks. The Era of the Ditto is upon us again.

The GOP seceded, in essense. all of them. Has this ever happened before? The entire GOP? Every man woman and metrosexual in the Grand Old Party? Not a neh. We know where not to look for the Knights who say Neh, neh? NEHHHH!

I happen to love every single knight who would or could say neh. It is our duty to defend the bridge where none shall pass. Too bad we can only spare one knight per bridge…..

By fed up

February 12, 2009 11:46 AM | Link to this

JLK I think you just described about everyone else in Congress too.

By Cleopatronize

February 12, 2009 12:11 PM | Link to this

Here’s a story about my very fine mouse.

There were two mouse-clicks. One tried to get into Bookman’s new chatroom and gave up. He had been banned from the other older, more easily foiled chatroom. The other mouse had been banned too, but he didn’t give up. He kept clicking and clicking until he had turned Bookman’s chatroom into cheese, and walked right into the job of the new conservative writer at the AJC.

I’m that second mouse.

By Jake

February 12, 2009 12:23 PM | Link to this

He just confirmed his position as a member of the party of the rich. The Dems supported the Republican foreign policy and indirectly their economic policy with almost universal support of the Patriot act. But when it came time for the Repubs to stand up for the Dem social agenda and the little guys they once again voted their constituency. Big mistake.

By Cleopatronize

February 12, 2009 12:49 PM | Link to this

The mistake is egregious. They are in a posture that they cant take back and say, “I was taken out of context”. They are all photo-oping their own ticket to Palookaville.

All that’s left is the scapegoat. The finger pointing starts soon. Who will Rushannity throw under the bus when they’re all bozos on that bus?

Sen Craig! Did he resign yet? How did he vote? Is this his revival? His comeback? “I stood with the GOP”. Notice he didn’t say he sat with the GOP.

Written on the mensroom walls: what if your life is a leaky toilet and nobody ever jiggles your handle?

By David S

February 12, 2009 12:56 PM | Link to this

So what does that say for the scoundrel Chambliss? And what does it say for the spineless and unprincipled republicans who voted for him despite his support of the first taxpayer giveaway to the banks.

The calls were coming into his office running at least 50 to 1 against the bailout, he could easily have voted against it and it still would have passed, but he just gave his middle finger to every person who opposed the legislation and voted for it. Then, being good little obedient and unprincipled republicans, the rank and file sent him back for another term of failure and dishonor.

Yes, Martin was a socialist hack, but what kind of message does it send to anyone when they can stab you in the back and you still vote for them??? Will this party every get back on track? Certainly not if they think that marketing is more important than principles when it comes to picking candidates.

God this country needs another viable political party. Thankfully the republicans and democrats have already passed enough laws to make that an impossibility. Israel had 12 political parties getting votes in their election the other day. And they call us FREE!

By SWGA

February 12, 2009 1:04 PM | Link to this

“So congratulate Isakson. He made the right choice for the country and for his political future in Georgia.”

Jim— We sent Johnny there to make the right choice for his political future in Georgia? His decisions should not be made based on getting reelected. He should make the right decision for the people of Georgia! I think he did this time, however, too often politicians make decisions based on what it will do for them, not what it will do for the people they represent.

By Cleopatronize

February 12, 2009 1:11 PM | Link to this

Ragmop. Good one.

By grandstand

February 12, 2009 1:17 PM | Link to this

Ah yes. What’s a day on this blog without some whineyassed libtard moonbat bichin’ about Rush/Hannity.

Now for the important stuff:

GEE THANKS FOR THAT EXTRA $13 A WEEK I’LL BE GETTING DEMOCRATS.

“Officials estimated it would mean about $13 a week more in people’s paychecks this year when withholding tables are adjusted in late spring. Next year, the measure could yield workers about $8 a week. Critics say that’s unlikely to do much to boost consumption.”

Who the hell are the geniuses behind that? I can save $13 extra a week without even blinking. Exactly how in the hell is this going to stimulate the economy? Bush gave me back UP FRONT $300, $500, and $600 if I remember correctly on three separate stimulus tax programs (that the libtards biched about - also if I remember correctly). This is one of the bullsqueeze ideas that the libtards are going to double our national debt over in the hopes people will spend more? Pathetic.

Speaking of that mindlessness, this must be that “bipartisanship” the Pelosi libtards have been bragging about lately:

Republicans Shut Out of Stimulus Conference Negotiations by Connie Hair 02/11/2009

“Republicans have caught the Democrats in a midnight “stimulus” power play that seeks to cut Republican conferees out of the House-Senate negotiations to resolve a final version of the Obama “stimulus” package. Staff members from the offices of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) met last night to put together the “stimulus” conference report.”

“They intend to attempt to shove this $1.3 trillion spending bill through in the dead of the night without Republican input so floor action can take place in both chambers on Thursday.”

Laughable. I’d sure as hell hate to see partisanship by the libtards. Yeah, we know what you moonbats say: “well Republicans wouldn’t have voted for it anyway.” That’s entirely NOT the point. Besides, wasn’t it the libtards, and especially SHREAKING SHRILLARY who were screaming that questioning governing policy IS BEING PATRIOTIC??? Hypocrite alert.

The “stimulus” spending bill will be close to 1.2 trillion for starters and not one single libtard is questioning it. Do you think if this were five years ago with Republican domination in Washington doing this that the same libtards would just sit by silently like they are now? Like hell and they know it. At least the Republicans showed disgust with their own party of spending like libtards.

By Jane

February 12, 2009 1:20 PM | Link to this

Let me get this straight - when Bush and Paulson declare an emergency need for a Wall Street bailout to the tune of $750 Billion - Saxby and Isakson fall in line and Vote YES. When economist & Obama declare the economy is headed for a catastrophe, and the Senate proposes $790 billion to go to states, cities and counties across the country - Saxby and Isakson vote NO! Well, they think they are playing a smart political game, but a YES to bailing out wall street vs. a NO to bailout Main Street is going to be great political fodder for anyone willing to throw it. WAKE UP DEMS!

Not to mention the hypocrisy of Isakson’s Real Estate amendment tacking on $35 billion bill to help an industry that over-built and now we’re now all suffering for it. What’s another $35 billion to the “Too expensive” bill - voting NO knowing it will pass anyway. Politics as Usual - I’m disgusted.

By Cleopatronize

February 12, 2009 1:20 PM | Link to this

Can you feel this new era? America on it’s economic knees as it recoils in the wake of the lingering stench of Cheney and Bush.

Wooten’s article today is written like it’s one of the last from the old era, when a unfairly-reasoned stance could pass for cutting edge conservatism.

You’re fired, Wooten.

Love, America

By America First

February 12, 2009 1:25 PM | Link to this

Let’s not forget that Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isaakson supported John McCain’s failed amendment (65-31 on Weds. night) to STRIP all Buy-America-Only provisions from the stimulus bill!!! Outrageous!! Shame on you Saxby and Chambliss!!! This stimulus bill is supposed to jump-start the American economy and prime the American economic pump. How is the expenditure of stimulus monies to foreign countries helping America. Tell that to unemployed Georgians.

By Chris Broe

February 12, 2009 1:28 PM | Link to this

I am the new conservative writer for the AJC.

By David S

February 12, 2009 1:34 PM | Link to this

SWGA - the only reason Isakson voted against it is because it didn’t contain enough pork to support the houseing inductry (former real estate executive and serious campaign donation recipient). Johnny doesn’t have any more principles than anyone else in Washington (Ron Paul excepted). He had to resign himself to voting against it this time. The next pork filled bailour will certainly get his vote. As I noted before, he doesn’t need to worry about this future political career. The unprincipled members of the republican party faithful will happily vote his back.

Come on, lets review the arguments that will be made:

“Sure Isakson sold us out and flushed our tax money and our economy down a rathole just to line his own pockets and the pockets of his real estate and developer friends…but look at the alternative, he’s a Socialist and if Obama gets a majority, there is nothing stopping him.”

“You’re right…Mr. Democrat would be worse. This isn’t the time to stand on principles. What would that ever get us (except maybe better candidates)?

By Icarus

February 12, 2009 1:47 PM | Link to this

GA Values keeps spewing the DNC talking point that “economist”/NYT hack Paul Krugman is promoting by labeling the only actual market incentive in this bill as the “flip the house to your brother” incentive.

They don’t bother to let the facts get in the way of their spin, as usual.

Anyone taking this credit must hold the home for 2 years. Thus, no “flip”.

And the purchase can not be made from a family member. Thus, no “brother”.

But the Democrats can rest easy. They’ve stripped the only part of this $800 Billion “holiday tree” bill (can’t call it a Christmas tree bill now, can we?) that was designed to hit the root of the problem.

No wonder the market is cratering on news of this “deal”.

By BS Aplenty

February 12, 2009 1:58 PM | Link to this

I believe the Dems have mistaken their current “fiscal stimulus” for the pay-to-play “physical stimulus” indulged in by such luminaries as former NY Governor Eliot Spitzer. Apparently, in both cases, overpaying for the results is a well-understood concept. This appropriation bill reflects all those time honored lessons. Well done, Dems.

On the subject of subterfuge, the Obama Administration gets serious about nationalizing healthcare by inserting funding for Phase I of its plan in the current stimulus bill. Spending $185 billion additional dollars on federal healthcare wasn’t about generating new jobs but was about sending the opening appropriations bill for Nationalized Healthcare under the public radar. Ann Coulter’s essay outlines the essential elements of Obama’s healthcare shell game. You’ll notice that, in the end, the federal government may override your private doctor’s decisions.

So, yes, commend our Georgia Senators and Congressmen like Johnny. They had to slog through 800 pages of this cryptic sleight-of-hand to ferret out the true intent of Obama’s stimulus bill. Even Mr. Bipartisanship himself, John McCain, couldn’t see the bill as anything but what it is: a pork-barrel spending rabbit masking the first phase in the federal governments takeover of the healthcare industry.

By Davdi S

February 12, 2009 1:59 PM | Link to this

You can’t print your way to prosperity.

You can’t spend your way to prosperity.

Government HAS NO MONEY EXCEPT WHAT THEY STEAL FROM THE PRODUCTIVE SECTOR OR DEVALUE THROUGH PRINTING PRESS INFLATION.

You cannot repeal the laws of economics no matter how popular a president you are, or how many votes you can get on your bill.

The stock market is tanking and americans are opposed to this farse because it wont work and the reasons why it won’t work are not political but grounded in solid economics.

www.mises.org and www.lewrockwell.com www.campaignforliberty.com if you want to work toward a better future.

By Chris Broe

February 12, 2009 1:59 PM | Link to this

Am I the Charles Sumner of this new conservative era? Have I been caned senseless on the ground floor of our new conservative platform by traditional conservatives? Will I act as a guardian against the old conservative power base until I am overthrown and lose everything to a new national resolve against civil rights?

It’s worth the risk. The old republican guard is slowly accepting their fate as lame ducks. Obama must have held up a mirror against the GOP spell/curse and clobbered the entire crowd. They’re not defying any lobby just yet, but more than ever, they are dependent upon the kindness of others. This is dangerous because only the Saudis can still hold a majority vote for some ungodly foreign adventure, whatever they decide it may be. We have to get Cheney to tell us who the bad guys are here. If he’s a patriot, he’ll tell us. If not, he wont.

The GOP: They’re cringed, unhinged and on a binge.

By CommunistAJC

February 12, 2009 2:01 PM | Link to this

Wooten, why does Bookman get a spiffy looking blog and you have to settle for this?

By Jim Wooten

February 12, 2009 2:08 PM | Link to this

Communist@2:01: A spiffy looking blog is in my future, too.

By Regina

February 12, 2009 2:10 PM | Link to this

Wal-Mart mulls IT outsourcing

BANGALORE: WAL-Mart, the world’s biggest retailer, which until now has been dependent on its in-house information technology division, is evaluating a business process outsourcing (BPO) contract worth around $300- $500 million, as it seeks to outsource non-core processes of procurement, merchandising , finance, accounting and payroll.

IBM, TCS, WNS and Wipro are exploring this opportunity, people familiar with Wal-Mart’s outsourcing decision told ET on conditions of anonymity. Despite becoming such a case study for global retail, Wal-Mart had not yet looked at BPO or IT outsourcing,” he said. However, the current economic challenges are making the retailer seek more cost saving options including outsourcing of non-core processes.”

This year will see many new outsourcers such as Wal-Mart and Sony offshore work to India, as traditional customers such as Citibank and GE take more time for awarding new contracts. “We expect Wal-Mart to structure these BPO contracts within 2-3 months, top officials at the retailer are currently in discussions,” said an outsourcing expert familiar with the development. He also requested anonymity. He added that the retailer wants to support its local and global supply chain by outsourcing to India.

While Wal-Mart officials could not respond to an email query sent by ET on Monday, a fact sheet available on the company’s website provided details about Wal-Mart’s future IT outsourcing from India. “Wal-Mart will expand staffing of certain elements of IT application maintenance and development with some of India’s leading information technology firms,” the company said in a statement. “India is one of several countries that the company is targeting as part of its remote sourcing model for IT activities. “

US companies such as Wal-Mart, GE apart from many other financial institutions have slashed over 500,000 jobs last month alone. By cutting down these local jobs, these companies are expected to outsource their back-office work to vendors in locations such as India, where these could be executed at almost half of the US costs. UK’s biggest retailer Tesco, for instance, saves over $60 million every year by sending IT projects to India.

According to Forrester Research, the US will have a 34% share of the global market for IT services and outsourcing in 2009 and 2010, just ahead of Western and Central Europe at 27% and Asia Pacific at 23% for 2009.

“A review of the top 15 country markets for IT goods and services shows the US on top with $573 billion in purchases of IT goods and services in 2009, with China moving into second place at $143 billion,” Forrester analyst Andrew H Bartels said in his January report.

By Regina

February 12, 2009 2:15 PM | Link to this

Wal-Mart mulls IT outsourcing

BANGALORE: WAL-Mart, the world’s biggest retailer, which until now has been dependent on its in-house information technology division, is evaluating a business process outsourcing (BPO) contract worth around $300- $500 million, as it seeks to outsource non-core processes of procurement, merchandising , finance, accounting and payroll.

IBM, TCS, WNS and Wipro are exploring this opportunity, people familiar with Wal-Mart’s outsourcing decision told ET on conditions of anonymity. Despite becoming such a case study for global retail, Wal-Mart had not yet looked at BPO or IT outsourcing,” he said. However, the current economic challenges are making the retailer seek more cost saving options including outsourcing of non-core processes.”

This year will see many new outsourcers such as Wal-Mart and Sony offshore work to India, as traditional customers such as Citibank and GE take more time for awarding new contracts. “We expect Wal-Mart to structure these BPO contracts within 2-3 months, top officials at the retailer are currently in discussions,” said an outsourcing expert familiar with the development. He also requested anonymity. He added that the retailer wants to support its local and global supply chain by outsourcing to India.

While Wal-Mart officials could not respond to an email query sent by ET on Monday, a fact sheet available on the company’s website provided details about Wal-Mart’s future IT outsourcing from India. “Wal-Mart will expand staffing of certain elements of IT application maintenance and development with some of India’s leading information technology firms,” the company said in a statement. “India is one of several countries that the company is targeting as part of its remote sourcing model for IT activities. “

US companies such as Wal-Mart, GE apart from many other financial institutions have slashed over 500,000 jobs last month alone. By cutting down these local jobs, these companies are expected to outsource their back-office work to vendors in locations such as India, where these could be executed at almost half of the US costs. UK’s biggest retailer Tesco, for instance, saves over $60 million every year by sending IT projects to India.

According to Forrester Research, the US will have a 34% share of the global market for IT services and outsourcing in 2009 and 2010, just ahead of Western and Central Europe at 27% and Asia Pacific at 23% for 2009.

“A review of the top 15 country markets for IT goods and services shows the US on top with $573 billion in purchases of IT goods and services in 2009, with China moving into second place at $143 billion,” Forrester analyst Andrew H Bartels said in his January report.

By Peter

February 12, 2009 2:17 PM | Link to this

HA HA HA Jim…Pretty funny stuff…….

“Had he agreed to support the pent-up demands of Democrats who’d had their spending ambitions partially checked for eight years”

Wow………Bush never ever had his spending AMBITIONS Checked did he….. Trillions for a WAR, COST PLUS CONTRACTS, and Millions given to Corporate executives that raped, and ruined their own companies.

What is the current deficit JIM ?????????

Looking at the current deficit……… well……. you have a ton of GALL saying the Democrat’s want to spend some money !

HA HA HA…….. your a funny guy Jim……. SPIN baby SPIN !!!!!

By Ga Values

February 12, 2009 2:17 PM | Link to this

Icarus 1:47 PM

The Democrats loved Johnny the Socialist $35,000,000,000.00 “flip my Brother’s house” add on. It was the Moderate Republicans that killed it.. Johnny needs to resign from the Republican party and officially join the Socialist or Democratic Party, He sure is NOT a CONSERVATIVE Republican.

By Jocro

February 12, 2009 2:32 PM | Link to this

Wow! You mean if he had backed the stimulus then some other conservative dimwit would have to take his place? You’re right I’m not familiar with the workings of the Georgia mind. But then I’m a damned yankee and we can’t seem to keep one foot in the nineteenth century, the way you fellas can. What a great pity it was that you didn’t manage to win the Civil War. I know I would be much better off if you had.

By Peter

February 12, 2009 2:37 PM | Link to this

Hey…………

By FaceIt

February 12, 2009 10:16 AM | Link to this

Big Bucks GOP, Bush Called For Reform of Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac 17 Times in 2008 Alone… Dems Ignored Warnings

He began calling for reform in 2001. He hit the decks every year thereafter excluding 2006.

His mission wasn’t accomplished because the dems were deaf.

Fannie and Freddie, at the root of the subprime crisis. ……….

Funny you should bring this up…….. I guess further investigation will tell you a GOP lead Consulting group hired by Freddy, and Fannie……Killed the bill……..

Here you go…… stop spinning it will make you dizzy……..

Posted Oct 20, 2008

WASHINGTON – Freddie Mac secretly paid a Republican consulting firm $2 million to kill legislation that would have regulated and trimmed the mortgage finance giant and its sister company, Fannie Mae, three years before the government took control to prevent their collapse.

In the cross hairs of the campaign carried out by DCI of Washington were Republican senators and a regulatory overhaul bill sponsored by Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb. DCI’s chief executive is Doug Goodyear, whom John McCain’s campaign later hired to manage the GOP convention in September.

Freddie Mac’s payments to DCI began shortly after the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee sent Hagel’s bill to the then GOP-run Senate on July 28, 2005. All GOP members of the committee supported it; all Democrats opposed it.

HA HA HA…….Just like JIM today …….Spin, SPIN, SPIN…….

By Me

February 12, 2009 2:48 PM | Link to this

You should be good conservatives and refuse the money the economic stimulus may bring to this state of GA! Send the money back!

By Me

February 12, 2009 2:51 PM | Link to this

You should be good conservatives and refuse the money the economic stimulus may bring to this state of GA! Send the money back!

By Chris Broe

February 12, 2009 2:51 PM | Link to this

Lincoln was the first RINO.

By Gregg

February 12, 2009 3:03 PM | Link to this

I maybe mistaken but didn’t we just go through 8 years of tax cuts and where has that gotten us. We haven’t been in the new administration for 2 months and yet there is outrage. This mess was brewing for years and where was the outrage then. With all of the young vets dying or getting little to no help once we leave the service where is your outrage for us. You pin all the blame on the Democrats yet what have the Republicans do but make their wallets heavier. Some of the stuff I read here baffles me because most of these commentors already have their minds made up for us to fail. there is no need for bi-partainship because most or the far right or far left do not want it. you prefer to keep the country segregated just to say I told you so. It is ironic most of the people are not looking at the trends in how many young kids are now joining the military because of the change in leadership at the top. You miss everything because it doesn’t look or talk like you. Look at this guys credentials compared to every other president on any side and say he doesn’t match up besides him being Black. Most of you would rather have Mrs. Palin in their but what or who is she really. I am a Republican that really wants to see change not only in attitudes but in everything we do so much so I was willing to die to liberate another so they can feel as free as we do.

By Steven Daedalus

February 12, 2009 3:09 PM | Link to this

Gregg, Don’t get logical or truthful, you’ll never make it in this blog. You have to be a lying Republican doofus. Shape up man!

By Icarus

February 12, 2009 3:12 PM | Link to this

GA Values:

How is this a “flip my brother’s house bill” if you’re not allowed to flip the house, nor allowed to buy one from your brother?

Spin baby, Spin.

By Marvelous Marvin Waggler

February 12, 2009 3:13 PM | Link to this

“U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson won his 2010 reelection campaign on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2009, the day the House and Senate struck a deal on a $789 billion “economic stimulus” bill .”

Just can’t help yourself, can you, Jim? This looks very similar to the certainty you displayed in your bet with Bookman the day McCain announced Palin as his running mate. We all know how that panned out.

By Chris Broe

February 12, 2009 3:15 PM | Link to this

Americans: Trying to sell Patriotism for soup is the new Deal or No Deal. We still have Liberty and Justice on the board. But the GOP already picked the constitution so that there’s no chance that it’s in our briefcase. Still, Justice and Liberty costs alot of money. So….America……deal……or no deal?

By David S

February 12, 2009 3:20 PM | Link to this

The root of this entire problem is the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913. Since then both Republican and Democratic administrations and Congresses have taken advantage of the easy money and inflationary policies that its existence has enabled. At every step, the bankers have slowly transferred the wealth of this nation from the middle and lower class to the rich. The only difference in administrations has been where the government debt spending has gone. All of it has been bad for this nation, and all of it has fundamentally undermined YOUR liberty and YOUR freedom. It doesn’t matter what political party has conned you into voting for its candidates. You have been shafted by them both equally.

The sooner you get this through your thick heads the sooner we can change the system, throw these bums out, and restore our liberty.

Ron Paul currently has a bill before congress to abolish the Federal Reserve. It is HR2755. Please contact your congressman and urge their co-sponsorship and support of the bill. When Hank Johnson wrote to me in response to my email, he actually referred to the Fed as another agency of the government. What an idiot. The Fed is supposed to be independent and not an organ of the government. See, even our elected reps are ignorant of what the Fed does. Go to YouTube and search on the Federal Reserve.

This is not about left or right folks. This is about YOU versus the STATE. It always has been. The whole party system is just a charade to keep you thinking you have a choice. You can see that there is really no choice at all. No matter who gets elected, you loose.

And correctly put Chris Broe, Lincoln was the first Fascist. That he was a republican only shows why the republican party is truly such a mess. At least the Democratic party can look back to folks like Jefferson as their roots. How they got so messed up in the 20th century is a mystery, but that’s what we have to live with and oppose.

By Dave

February 12, 2009 3:42 PM | Link to this

David S - the “democratic party can look to Jefferson for their roots” what are you smoking? I guess you’ve never actually read anything Mr. Jefferso wrote, have you?

By Ga Values

February 12, 2009 3:47 PM | Link to this

Icarus 3:12 PM

Who are you going to trust a Nobel winning economics professor or a BIG SPENDING, BIG GOVERNMENT, PRO AMNESTY SOCIALIST who is owned by special? I know Johnny personally and doubt that he knows what was in his taxpayer ripoff. You do know that he voted for the $1,000,000,000,000.00 Wall Street Bailout (TARP) without even reading it?

By Ga Values

February 12, 2009 3:50 PM | Link to this

left out interest.

Icarus 3:12 PM

Who are you going to trust a Nobel winning economics professor or a BIG SPENDING, BIG GOVERNMENT, PRO AMNESTY SOCIALIST who is owned by special interest? I know Johnny personally and doubt that he knows what was in his taxpayer ripoff. You do know that he voted for the $1,000,000,000,000.00 Wall Street Bailout (TARP) without even reading it?

By GA VALUES

February 12, 2009 4:01 PM | Link to this

“Single Payer” health insurance? Don’t think so, Jim - do you even understand what that means? Nobody is proposing such a thing. If we do get some kind of universal health coverage, it will be based on our present system - if you can call it a system.

By Dusty

February 12, 2009 4:09 PM | Link to this

Happy Birthday, Abraham Lincoln. You did good.

Maybe PoFo or Glenn will write an outstanding ode for this day.

Thank you, Johnny Isakson. You did good too.

The Stimulus package..written by Hootie and the Blowfish…..boo hoo!!

By Jim Jr.

February 12, 2009 4:12 PM | Link to this

Who cares about what the Republicans do - vanishing species!

By Dusty

February 12, 2009 4:29 PM | Link to this

JUNIOR @4:12

Republicans a vanishing species! You wish!! We are now known as the Tsunami Surge Against Socialism.

Grab your waterwings, Junior. You are in for a ride. Get ready for the BIG ONE!

Here’s a clue: NEXT ELECTION TIME!

By Ga Values

February 12, 2009 4:32 PM | Link to this

GA VALUES 4:01 PM

I did not know that..thanks..Dusty is after your body.

By Dusty

February 12, 2009 4:41 PM | Link to this

Ga Values and your twin twerp GA VALUES 4:32

There’s a lot you don’t know, just like your tweedle-dems and tweedle-dumbs in Congress. That is the only “body” I’m after, the one lead by the brain dead in Washington.

By SaveOurRepublic

February 12, 2009 4:48 PM | Link to this

Davdi S @ 13:59 - Very good, valid points (& references/links)!

Be ye not deceived by RINO Johnny “Isakscum’s” not supporting this latest (taxpayer funded) bailout. He was fully behind the banking bailout (to serve his ma$ters of the Central Banking Cartel). In addition, he initially supported the Kennedy amnesty legislation before the uproar from GA voters forced his about-face. JohnnyRINO is just another phoney DC (neo)”conservative” faithfully executing the agenda of the Globalist Elite.

http://www.anu.org

By Dusty

February 12, 2009 5:12 PM | Link to this

SaveOur Republic @4:48

Oh that is SO CUTE!!! “Isakscum”!!

Oh, let us commence with more name calling!! Let’s see: OBAMA the Snake Charmer (D), REIDy Greedy (D), PattyCake PELOSI (D), BIDEN’n’Blowing (D), Spanky FRANK-ie (D), Woeful WAXMAN(D), Spider WEBB(D),Stupor SHUMER (D), Bulldog BOXER (D).

More fun!! Let us have a contest!

By Barbarosa

February 12, 2009 5:28 PM | Link to this

OBAMA the Snake Charmer (D)

Well, I guess Dusty has answered the question of whether she would support our president no matter who was elected. A real life niece of her Uncle Sam? Nah.

By just me

February 12, 2009 5:48 PM | Link to this

A HOUSING INCENTIVE WHEN BANKS ARE LENDING FOR MORTGAGES? BRILLIANT! I WOULDN’T HAVE VOTED FOR IT EITHER.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

February 12, 2009 5:49 PM | Link to this

Dear Barbarosa @ 5:28, you understand that only leftists are cultists. Dusty and I support polices, where appropriate, and oppose them, where appropriate. We do not support or oppose people - that is the failing of the cultists. And that is why Obamanomics has no policy underpinning, but only personality.

By just me

February 12, 2009 5:51 PM | Link to this

A HOUSING INCENTIVE WHEN BANKS ARE LENDING FOR MORTGAGES? BRILLIANT! I WOULDN’T HAVE VOTED FOR IT EITHER.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

February 12, 2009 5:58 PM | Link to this

Dear just @ 5:51, you guys are slow learners - “government market incentives,” i.e., FNMA and FHLMC and unlimited taxpayer funding, are what cause the mess. A smarter move would be to simply keep the government away from the economy, but the controllers would never have that.

By SaveOurRepublic

February 12, 2009 6:00 PM | Link to this

Dusty @ 17:12 - Did you forget I’m your friendly neighborhood John Birch Society paleocon? ;-) I despise the Marxist Dems as much as the phoney (neo)”conservative” RINOs! How’s about “Bacrock Obuma” for DNC monnikers?

By Mike

February 13, 2009 10:05 AM | Link to this

We can debate the virtues (or lack thereof) of the current stimulus bill, but where were Isakson and the Republicans when the national debt exploded from 4 trillion to 10 trillion ON THEIR WATCH!. Where were Johnny’s no votes on THOSE budgets?

Sure Johnny can vote no now when it doesn’t mean anything, but his votes for the past eight years have left us in such a terrible position financially he should be fired and replaced by a real Republican with principles.

By David S

February 13, 2009 10:31 AM | Link to this

Dave - in reference to your commnets about my comments on Democratic party roots, what I meant was that when the Republican party looks back to its roots, the only example they find is Lincoln, a murdering scoundrel who saw government money and power as a mechanism to line the pockets of his friends in manufacturaing and the railroad industry. Even further back through the Whigs and the Federalists, you still find examples that favored a strong central government and other things completely contrary to the essense of the constitution.

The Democratic party on the other hand can trace back to Jefferson who at least set a wonderful example and the parties that evolved from his original Republican-Democratic party still kept solid american values of small government, states rights, freedom, liberty and such up until (and I thought I made this clear in my comments) the jerks in the 20th century twisted his party all to hell and turned it into the horrible thing it is today.

No, today’s party looks nothing like Jefferson’s, but at least they can look back and see a great example of what to do right. The republicans have never had a good example to look to (except Ron Paul) and they want nothing to do with his kind of principled leadership.

Thought I made it clear. sorry.

By Tomhere

February 13, 2009 11:35 AM | Link to this

Johnny Isakson - AMERICAN TALIBAN.

The GOAL of the GOP TALIBAN INSURGENCY: 1. The economic ruin of the U.S.A. 2. The overthrow of Obama. 3. The fall of the U.S.A.

PARTY FIRST! COUNTRY LAST! THE NEW AMERICAN GOP TALIBAN!

By SaveOurRepublic

February 13, 2009 11:47 AM | Link to this

Tomhere @ 11:35 (2/13) - More like the Globalist Elite (who control their puppets in the DNC & GOP “leadership”) have enabled this economic “crisis” to dismantle the American middle class & expedite the downfall of the Republic to implement the North American Union (NAU/SPP)…which will ultimately interlock with other NGOs (UN, EU, AU, etc.).

http://www.stopthenorthamericanunion.com

By Romola Eaton

February 13, 2009 11:59 AM | Link to this

Until Isackson and Chambliss are defeated, Georgia will not be served well by their Senators. They are too wrapped up in their own business dealings to think about their constitutents. Soon we will realize that neither Senator gives a rats tail about their constituents.

By davidlachnicht

February 13, 2009 12:02 PM | Link to this

Not thrilled with either Johnny or Saxby lately. Neither is reliable as a Conservative.