Thinking Right

By Curious Observer

February 21, 2009 8:11 AM | Link to this

Fear not. The top issue may be transportation, but nothing will get done about it. The urban and suburban activists will sue to stop any project, and after two or three years they will get the price they demand for their property, crying about the environment all the way to the bank. In the end, we may see an expressway to Unadilla, but there’ll be nothing to relieve actual traffic congestion.

By Buzz G

February 21, 2009 8:13 AM | Link to this

The Northern Arc should have been built a decade ago. But the NIMBYs came crawling out from under their rocks and stopped the whole thing. Maybe we now have the leadership necessary to stand up to these people and get this thing built finally. Without a Northern Arc further develplement will be crippled. Quality of life has already deteriorated because of the parking lot the the northern end of I285 has become.

By ron

February 21, 2009 8:29 AM | Link to this

Good morning all.In 2010 there will be a new set of Republican values that will be hammered out by the RNC sometime before that date and these new values will figure high in the 2010 Gubernatorial races across the country.In Georgia,transportation and education along with other issues will merely be a part of the new Republican deal.They will play second fiddle to some as yet unidentified credo.That’s scene one.

Scene two is;”I told you so”.The stimulus ,by then will be either a defined success or failure and if the latter,the Republicans need only stand on the stump and scream,”We didn’t vote for it,See we knew it would fail”.Election of Republicans will be automatic.

If ,onthe other hand,the stimulus somehow doesn’t get in the way and the economy actually starts to recover,Republicans need not even run for dog catcher.

In 2010,it will be the economy that’s the driving force behind the elections.

I see that Redneck has mounted another unprovoked attack on my stellar reputation and deemed me a cheapskate.I resent that because of the fact that I don’t skate.I hope Sunday sales pass and Georgians develop such a craving for beer that he has to make two Sunday deliveries and misses all the NASCAR races.So there.

By Chris Broe

February 21, 2009 8:33 AM | Link to this

Well, one things for sure: Our beloved GYNO, (Governor in name only), couldn’t get an arc built if they found the final digit for PY (3.141…..infinity, man).

That’s for sure. That’s for dang sure.

Are U sure you got the acronym NYMBI correct, Buzz G?

By Chris Broe

February 21, 2009 8:47 AM | Link to this

It’s good that our incumbent GYNO (Governor in Name Only) is practicing his love for Georgia, though.

Practice, Practice, Practice.

Practice makes perfect.

By Glenn

February 21, 2009 9:04 AM | Link to this

“Education governors” by the dozen? Oh goodie! Can I be one too?

I like your observation, Mr. Wooten, that DOT is not the problem. Indeed I suspect that many who work there, especially the engineers, are hugely frustrated.

For 30 years my impression has been that Georgia’s astounding incompetence in ground transportation is due to some scary vestige of county cronyism. Never once, stuck in gridlock, did I allow myself to blame things on DOT. No, the Bubbas did it every time.

GA Got 2 Many Damn Counties

By Ga Values

February 21, 2009 9:14 AM | Link to this

Gov. Sonny Perdue, Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle and House Speaker Glenn Richardson, if anyone expects these 3 to do anything for the taxpayer they are crazy. I am sure that Sonny will accidently own property in the way of every road. I never thought it was possible to do worse that the Democratic run government but these 3 have proven me wrong. Wonder if there is a connection between Richardson’s Ga power Mistress and the taxpayer being shafted by Georgia Power?

By Churchill's MOM

February 21, 2009 9:17 AM | Link to this

What a mess but the real estate developers will solve it with our money, of course they will make a big profit.

By Big Bucks GOP

February 21, 2009 9:46 AM | Link to this

A former legislative aide to Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) was accused yesterday of accepting more than $25,000 worth of meals and event tickets from disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff in exchange for helping his clients.

Ann M. Copland, 52, was charged in U.S. District Court in Washington with one count of conspiracy to commit honest-services fraud. The charge came in a criminal information, a document typically filed by prosecutors when a defendant has agreed to plead guilty.

Prosecutors alleged that Copland, who worked for Cochran for 29 years until last year, used her position to try to persuade unidentified members of the legislative and executive branches to take actions, including “inserting, protecting, removing” items in spending bills. At the time, Cochran was a powerful member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, where he is now the ranking Republican.

By shortcircuit

February 21, 2009 10:08 AM | Link to this

The GDOT is a mess. We needed a trafic light timing changed at a busy intersection. We were told they did not have money in their budget for gas to send anyone untill July. Theie engineers [get this now] we sitting around taking training but could not leave the office ecause they did not have any money for gas.. The head man said he had to cancel a trip to the big city to save enough gas to drive to our town [20 miles]. Is this pathectic or what? PS I offered him $5 for gas money but he would not take it. If this is all over the stste how many people are sitting around doing nothing at the DOT? So much for serving the people of Ga.

By Stop Global Whining

February 21, 2009 10:09 AM | Link to this

Saturday Follies………….

The media is whining about home prices continuing to decline. What they continue to forget is that home prices were way overinflated to begin with. The days of buying a home with a cheap mortgage and flipping it in a few years and making tens of thousands if not a hundred or more grand are gone sweethearts. Top that off with easy loans that even a hairy ape could get, and you have a market way overdue for a correction. A lot of defaulted home owners out there had no business getting a mortgage in the first place – and that fact has nothing to do with job loss for you bedwetting libtards out there. Some people should have stayed in the rental market.

Speaking of hairy apes, it is apparent that the usual race wh0re suspects are still up in arms about that New York Post cartoon that some perceive as a racist shot at President Obama. It is clearly evident that cartoon was in no means whatsoever directed at Obama. It was merely a combination of two big stories folded into one: the ridiculous stimulus bill and an ape that ran amok and about killed someone before being shot by cops. Ignorance in America is bliss, and it is apparent that a lot of those libtards who voted for Obama are ignorant from head to toe. The cartoon caption said “…write the stimulus…” WRITE the stimulus. Anyone who knows Civics 101 knows that the president cannot WRITE any bill. That is the job of CONGRESS. The president either signs it or vetoes it. But when you have the usual suspect race wh0res like Jesse & Al trotting out the race cart and propping up some twisted and contorted stretch of reference to a racist shot at Obama, said ignorant people don’t really care about facts and the truth.

Now on to more important news, we are starting to see what kind of people make up Obama’s cabinet. First up is the genius transportation secretary Ray LaHood. This assclown wants to tax motorists based on miles they drive vs. how much gas they buy (that means the gas tax at the pumps for you Obama voters). But yesterday Obama rejected that idea. Of course when called on his idea being rejected, said assclown retorted that he was only speaking in “general terms.” What? How “general” is the idea of TAXING BY THE FREAKING MILE? Got GPS chip for your Obama government? For the record, LaHood is a Republican.

And more from Obama’s first month in office:

February 20, 2009

BY FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter/fspielman@suntimes.com

“Chicago has yet to recoup the $1.74 million cost of President Obama’s victory celebration in Grant Park — despite a burgeoning $50.5 million budget shortfall that threatens more layoffs and union concessions.”

“The Democratic National Committee has not yet paid us,” Peter Scales, a spokesman for the city’s Office of Budget and Management, said Thursday after questions from the Chicago Sun-Times. “We’re reaching out to them this week.”

Yeah, I’m sure that money will be paid back lickity split and unions, the bastion of the libtard left, won’t get in the way AT ALL.

By Glenn

February 21, 2009 10:14 AM | Link to this

GA Values:

Please, just as a favor henceforth, misspell the bastid’s name as “Cagel”. He deserves nothing less for his Eleventh-Hour tanking of the bill that would have had education dollars following the sought-after, long hoped-for actual f*** EDUCATING.

By Glenn

February 21, 2009 10:18 AM | Link to this

GA Values:

Please, just as a favor henceforth, misspell the bastid’s name as “Cagel”. He deserves nothing less for his Eleventh-Hour tanking of the bill that would have had education dollars following the sought-after, long hoped-for actual f*** EDUCATING.

By Stop Global Whining

February 21, 2009 10:28 AM | Link to this

Is it just me, or is some libtard posting about neocon scandals while we are being SCAMMED by libtards in Washington via some BS “stimulus” bill JUST a little bit shallow minded and nonsensical? Idiot.

Well, I suppose if we are going to go down that road recently:

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration and the new Congress are quickly handing over to Republicans the same “culture of corruption” issue that Democrats used so effectively against the GOP before coming to power.

Freshman Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill., is only the latest embarrassment.

Senate Democrats accepted Burris because they believed what he told them: He was clean. Burris now admits he tried to raise money for Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who authorities say sought to sell President Barack Obama’s former Senate seat.

“The story seems to be changing day by day,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Wednesday.

The political mess for the Democratic Party, however, isn’t Burris’ conduct alone; it’s the pattern that has developed so quickly over the past few months.

_The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., is the subject of a House ethics investigation. It’s partly focused on his fundraising practices for a college center in his name, his ownership financing of a resort property in the Dominican Republic and his financial disclosure reports.

_Federal agents raided two Pennsylvania defense contractors that were provided millions of dollars in federal funding by Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., chairman of the House Appropriations defense subcommittee.

_Blagojevich was arrested Dec. 9 on federal charges, including allegations he schemed to sell the Senate seat to the highest bidder.

_Tom Daschle, the former Senate majority leader from South Dakota, abandoned his bid to become health and human services secretary and the administration’s point man on reforming health care; and Nancy Killefer stepped down from a newly created position charged with eliminating inefficient government programs.

Both Daschle and Killefer had tax problems, and Daschle also faced potential conflicts of interest related to working with health care interests.

_Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was confirmed after revealing he had tax troubles.

_Obama’s initial choice for commerce secretary, Bill Richardson, stepped aside due to a grand jury investigation into a state contract awarded to his political donors.

_While the Senate voted overwhelmingly to confirm William Lynn as deputy defense secretary, Obama had to waive his ethics regulations to place the former defense lobbyist in charge of day-to-day operations at the Pentagon.

By Stop Global Whining

February 21, 2009 10:40 AM | Link to this

OH yeah, there’s more for the libtards. Man the hypocrisy stories just keep adding up, don’t they? I’m just shocked the AP is actually doing it’s job and reporting negatives during an Obama presidency. Hey, remember all that libtard whining about how Bush didn’t immediately give everyone in NoLA post Katrina a few hundred G’s to rebuild? Well, it’s amazing what happens and the tone change when you get Democrats in charge in Washington when the government handout plate is passed around:

WASHINGTON (AP) — The economic stimulus signed by President Barack Obama will spread billions of dollars across the country to spruce up aging roads and bridges. But there’s not a dime specifically dedicated to fixing leftover damage from Hurricane Katrina.

And there’s no outrage about it.

Democrats who routinely criticized President George W. Bush for not sending more money to the Gulf Coast appear to be giving Obama the benefit of the doubt in his first major spending initiative. Even the Gulf’s fiercest advocates say they’re happy with the stimulus package, and their states have enough money for now to address their needs.

“I’m not saying there won’t be a need in the future, but right now the focus is not on more money, it’s on using what we have,” said Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., who has criticized Democrats and Republicans alike over Katrina funding.

It’s a significant change in tone from the Bush years, when any perceived slight of Katrina victims was met with charges that the Republican president who bungled the initial response to the disaster continued to callously ignore the Gulf’s needs years later.

There was hardly a complaint as Obama and other Democratic leaders pieced together the package. Members of the all-Democratic Congressional Black Caucus, who have called Bush’s Katrina funding a moral failure, said they were thrilled with the stimulus. Landrieu won several provisions that do not allocate new money but are aimed at cutting through red tape to free up existing funds.

“I think people looked at how generous Congress has been in the past,” said Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee. “(The states) have to demonstrate that they can be good custodians of the money.”

Thompson and others say new funding wasn’t necessary in the stimulus largely because billions of federal dollars remain bogged down in bureaucracy or tied up in planning. As a result, they said, Katrina funding doesn’t fit with the quick-spending purpose of the stimulus bill, which is aimed at kick-starting the economy.

Ironically, Bush made similar arguments in recent years as Gulf advocates latched on to nearly any legislation they could find to pursue reconstruction money. For example, he routinely argued that Katrina funding didn’t belong in war spending bills and that new funding wasn’t urgent because unspent billions were already in the pipeline.

By Chris Broe

February 21, 2009 10:45 AM | Link to this

Anybody see what happened to poor Zsa Zsa Gabor? She lost all of her millions (ten) to Maddoff and is actually in danger of losing her home and her Rolls. She trusted her husband, an actual prince (bwa) who trusted Madoff, who made off with all their “hard earned” dough.

I’ve always insisted that as Zsa Zsa goes, so goes the country. Is my instinct fine-tuned or what? If a country doesn’t protect it’s goddesses, then it wont protect it’s John Doe’s, and if it doesn’t protect it’s John Doe’s, then it wont protect it’s John Deere’s and then we may as well write our economy a Dear John letter. (I got my first C in Logic in college)

I propose a Zsa Zsa bailout. Lets ensure she keeps her Rolls and Mansion, (but leaves her Prince).

If not, we’re finished.

By @@

February 21, 2009 10:47 AM | Link to this

Not to worry, Jim, Obama has this one under control as well. /sarc/

In a meeting with mayors this week, and a meeting with Governors next week, Obama has warned them that he will call them out on any wasteful spending of the “stimulus” dollars.

The mayors have already said, and the governors are likely to repeat…..”Don’t worry, our constituents will let us know before you do.”

Just how naive is our young prez?

Who’s gonna define waste when each and every one of us has a different definition of what can be found in its constitution?

Garbage in……garbage out.

By Stop Global Whining

February 21, 2009 10:52 AM | Link to this

All left wing liberal Democrat moonbats who do NOT believe that there will be massive locailzed FRAUD and corruption over OUR money being passed out like free crack from this ape-inspired “stimulus” bill please sign in at Window #3 and take your medicine.

WASHINGTON: (AP) Republicans are preparing to pounce on any wasteful spending in the $787 billion stimulus package as they refocus their criticisms of a measure whose success could hurt their 2010 election prospects.

President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats also promise rigorous oversight, including a new Web site to help people track various projects funded by the massive bill. But the two parties will reap different political rewards if they find waste or abuse, which is virtually inevitable when the government tries to spend so much money so fast, authorities say.

Democrats want the plan to unfold as smoothly as possible, because voters see it as the product of their party and Obama. Congressional Republicans, however, opposed the bill almost unanimously, and any embarrassing examples of misused funds or other shortcomings will let them say, “I told you so.”

House Republicans are setting up “a stimulus-watch program” that will allow watchdog groups and private citizens to report findings as contractors and agencies start spending billions of dollars on roads, schools, renewable energy projects and other initiatives, said House Republican Whip Eric Cantor.

“We’ll be taking a look in detail” and “really providing accountability and transparency,” Cantor said in an interview Wednesday.

Okay…………

I’ve got $500 that says that ANY questioning by this watchdog group of wasting money/fraud/corruption in a “disadvantaged” neighborhood will be labeled as hate and racist speech. Any takers?

The libtards are so predictable.

By Glenn

February 21, 2009 10:56 AM | Link to this

Or let’s just call the Lt. Governor “Klegel”, because that’s how venal he actually is, that he would sell out a generation of other people’s children just to best the sitting Governor and make his cheap claim.

Truth is, Atlanta’s so corrupt that the mere effort to alleviate congestion costs money. It goes like this: “You wanna bring coherence to our pathways? Here’s what it’s going to cost you. …” and so forth.

Just imagine how screwed are children in the schools entrusted to the great State of Georgia.

By Chris Broe

February 21, 2009 10:59 AM | Link to this

Maybe if Perdue pretends not to want any stimulus money, he’ll get Wooten’s vote for prez in 2012! (Wooten can pick candidates with the best of them. Palin is our veep, right? If McCain hadn’t picked Palin, then we could have a black president……nah.

Watch every single one of those GOP governors help themselves to the stimulus money, (burp) , people.

GOP: Burp for the burbs. (burp)

By Stop Global Whining

February 21, 2009 10:59 AM | Link to this

Uh oh. I see a potential racist comment in my last post! Quick I’d better change it!

“All left wing liberal Democrat moonbats who do NOT believe that there will be massive locailzed FRAUD and corruption over OUR money being passed out like free crack from this ape-inspired “stimulus” bill please sign in at Window #3 and take your medicine.”

CONGRESS are the apes. Oh, and for those still frothing over the NY Post cartoon, a chimpanzee (remember “chimp in chief” Bush references as a monkey from the libtards?) is an APE, not a MONKEY.

By Stop Global Whining

February 21, 2009 11:07 AM | Link to this

So, what the hell are we supposed to do down the road, stop breathing? More idiocy from the Obama administration. Forget outdoor grilling and indoor fireplace burning down the road too. This is what happens when a stupid mindless majority elects a full libtard Democrat Washington. For now, it’s industry. But those who don’t believe Obama’s EPA goons will be coming to a neighborhood near you in the near future, please sign in at Window #7 and take your medicine.

WASHINGTON: (AP) The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to act for the first time to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that scientists blame for the warming of the planet, according to top Obama administration officials.

The decision, which most likely would play out in stages over a period of months, would have a profound impact on transportation, manufacturing costs and how utilities generate power. It could accelerate the progress of energy and climate change legislation in Congress and form a basis for the United States’ negotiating position at United Nations climate talks set for December in Copenhagen.

By Stop Global Whining

February 21, 2009 11:34 AM | Link to this

Read on for more Obama/Pelosi idiocy on that Dear Leader of ours and the “stimulus” package and tax cuts:

(AP) updated 25 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - The notoriously slow Congress passed the $787 billion economic stimulus package in a matter of weeks. President Barack Obama signed it into law less than one month into his presidency.

So, just how soon will Americans start reaping the benefits of tax cuts in it?

By April 1, according to the president. “Never before in our history has a tax cut taken effect faster or gone to so many hardworking Americans,” Obama said Saturday in his weekly radio and Internet address.

He said the Treasury Department has begun directing employers to reduce the amount of taxes withheld from people’s paychecks in accordance with the new law, and that in six weeks, a typical family will start taking home at least $65 more every month.

Okay……….

According to my math, you “families” out there in Georgia had better enjoy that extra $2.14 a day you’ll be getting under this full Demo brilliance. If you are a family of four, that’s about $.53 for each of you every day. Keep that in mind when shopping for groceries, Mom. You just MIGHT be able to upgrade to Kroger’s “Private Selection” brand at the grocery store on your twice a week visit.

By Chris Broe

February 21, 2009 12:01 PM | Link to this

People who pretend to know the differences between apes and monkeys are usually the ones throwing all the feces on blogs.

Bush couldn’t be a monkey because monkeys have tails.

By Stop Global Whining

February 21, 2009 12:17 PM | Link to this

Ah. Thanks for the enlightenment, Chris Broe, aka PoFo.

One can also make the assumption that those who chastise those who know the difference between apes and monkeys are too cowardly to address the “feces” that’s been thrown on blogs, specifically this one, like some big overgrown baby that can’t wipe himself and wants to cry at what’s seen instead of address it, and then call it “feces.” Asshat libtard.

By Chris Broe

February 21, 2009 12:38 PM | Link to this

I should have predicted that the mere mention of throwing feces would be fighting words to you. After all, it does have a serious place in monkey culture, tail or no tail. I apologize to you and your ancestors for my shortcomings in evolutionary tells.

Fun exchange, but I have to go visit my wife in hospice now. She seems to be rallying.

By catlady

February 21, 2009 1:08 PM | Link to this

Top issue will be tranportation? I think not. What will Gina do?

Our “leaders” would sell their grandmothers’ souls to solidify their power and make a profit. Follow the money!

By Jackie

February 21, 2009 1:46 PM | Link to this

@By Stop Global Whining

“Speaking of hairy apes, it is apparent that the usual race wh0re suspects are still up in arms about that New York Post cartoon that some perceive as a racist shot at President Obama. It is clearly evident that cartoon was in no means whatsoever directed at Obama. It was merely a combination of two big stories folded into one: the ridiculous stimulus bill and an ape that ran amok and about killed someone before being shot by cops.”

One would have to be a mental retard - like the above comment - to believe that the writer and of and believer in a clear blatant and overt racist comment like the above as brand it as a “joke” is preposterous.

Apparently you want everyone to believe that what you write is gospel and your comments were purely altruistic?

I can say that you and your comments are just what Mr. Holder said, you are a coward because you do not have the gonads to face up to your perceived racial superiority.

I think your attitude is lower than whale gravy. By the way, I was just kidding.

By Bemused, more than ever

February 21, 2009 1:57 PM | Link to this

The necessary transportation planning for Georgia cannot be conducted by this governor and this legislature, because, like Jmblaw and his merry band of intellectually juvenile Randians, they have no concept of the public good.

Georgia has the second most number of counties in the nation, second to Texas, which is far larger geographically. And god knows how many ridiculous municipalities we have. Until there is genuine regional cooperation in land use planning, local governmental perogatives will render regional transportation planning ineffective. But, of course, the same Jmblaw, right-wing, local-control geniuses are angling for more cities, counties, and municipalities, like Milton County, and Dunwoody … until, taken to the extreme, we will return to the Middle Ages, where you pay with your life to walk down my dirt path.

But, of course, it is what the state deserves, with Glenn “pick-the-judge-to-seal-my-divorce-records” Richarson, and Sunny Bubba “a-vote-on-Sunday-wine-sales-will-send-you-to-Jesus-hell” Purdue, and Karen “your-crippled-mother-can’t-vote-because-she-can’t-drive” Handel. The good news is that demographics and natural selection will render this latest set of fools and scoundrels obsolete, and we will have intelligent, progressive policies in Georgia starting with, let’s say, 2012.

And you can take that to the (nationalized) bank! Adios, Mr. Wooten …

By Stop Global Whining

February 21, 2009 2:50 PM | Link to this

Ah, leave it to Jackie to do the inevitable from a libtard:

“One would have to be a mental retard - like the above comment - to believe that the writer and of and believer in a clear blatant and overt racist comment like the above as brand it as a “joke” is preposterous.”

You wanna run that by us again Jackie?

“Apparently you want everyone to believe that what you write is gospel and your comments were purely altruistic?”

I’m just reporting the news, moonbat. You don’t like it, then go read the New York Slimes and stick your head in the sand.

“I can say that you and your comments are just what Mr. Holder said, you are a coward because you do not have the gonads to face up to your perceived racial superiority.”

Look, libtard: a cartoon was portrayed and some (note NOT ALL) of you libtard left wing moonbat racemongers out there want to insinuate something that is TOTALLY not there.

But I suppose that’s beside the point. You libtards trashed Conservative blacks like Clarence Thomas and called him an Uncle Tom (at the nicest) and even Condi Rice as Aunt Jemima (again, at the nicest) just because she was associated with the Bush Administration. That does not even preclude that one of your libtard Democrat heroes, Geraldine Ferraro, said this about Obama: “he would not be where he was if he were white.” And you moonbats said NOTHING.

Now you tell me sweet cheeks, WHY should we give a DAMN what you libtards think about a cartoon - OR OTHERWISE - which has NOTHING to do with race?

By who dat e-ah?

February 21, 2009 2:55 PM | Link to this

once again it looks like some lonesome dem dove has nothing better to do than spend her weekends wrapped up in her blog world.

sad. so sad.

By Stop Global Whining

February 21, 2009 2:57 PM | Link to this

By the way, Jackie, I was just kidding. Ha ha. That was funny wasn’t it.

Chris Broe the PoFoe: (GET IT??) I thought all you libtards said we all originated from monkeys and there has been some big brew ha ha going on about evolution vs. creation. So, why are you using evolution in an attempt to insult my ancestry that you believe in? What useful libtards………..

By Glenn

February 21, 2009 3:02 PM | Link to this

By the way, Roland Burris is a perjuror and the Press is just afraid to say so because he’s Black. Call me particular, but personally I disapprove of perjury regardless of its provenance.

But then I’m old fashioned that way, whereas the Atlanta Journal Constitution is so chickenshit.

By Bemused, more than ever

February 21, 2009 3:06 PM | Link to this

Just out of curiosity:

Other that screaming “socialism!” and the obligatory “cut-taxes-on-the-uber-mensch-Howard-Roarks”, do the far-right wingnuts who post here have any specific economic prescriptions to ameliorate the recession?

Dusty, my gal: do you have any economic ideas?

Your friend,

Still Bemused …

By findog

February 21, 2009 3:08 PM | Link to this

Dear Jim,

Nice to see in print that the DOT is not the problem. The Stalinist power grab for new centralized control will undoubtedly reduce our congestion relief bang for the buck as politics will outweigh cost benefit analysis everyday.

Buzz G, NIMBY and a dark horse candidate that that would promise anything, flag vote, to anyone to get elected killed the northern arc, which should be enough for anyone to fight this change.

I think Sonny is just legacy shopping for another area he can totally destroy.

By Glenn

February 21, 2009 3:12 PM | Link to this

PoFo I’m glad your wife is rallying.

All my best, sincerely.

By Stop Global Whining

February 21, 2009 3:18 PM | Link to this

Oh I see. I had to AGAIN re-read my comment and see where Jackie is coming from. Okay. Let’s break this down for Jackie the libtard racemonger again on my 10:09AM. We have to explain things, because JUST like that cartoon, libtards just aren’t the sharpest tools in the shed and sometimes you have to slow your thinking down to keep up with them (think about that one):

“The media is whining about home prices continuing to decline. What they continue to forget is that home prices were way overinflated to begin with. The days of buying a home with a cheap mortgage and flipping it in a few years and making tens of thousands if not a hundred or more grand are gone sweethearts. Top that off with easy loans that even a hairy ape could get, and you have a market way overdue for a correction. A lot of defaulted home owners out there had no business getting a mortgage in the first place – and that fact has nothing to do with job loss for you bedwetting libtards out there. Some people should have stayed in the rental market.”

“Speaking of hairy apes, it is apparent that the usual race wh0re suspects are still up in arms about that New York Post cartoon that some perceive as a racist shot at President Obama. It is clearly evident that cartoon was in no means whatsoever directed at Obama. It was merely a combination of two big stories folded into one: the ridiculous stimulus bill and an ape that ran amok and about killed someone before being shot by cops. Ignorance in America is bliss, and it is apparent that a lot of those libtards who voted for Obama are ignorant from head to toe. The cartoon caption said “…write the stimulus…” WRITE the stimulus. Anyone who knows Civics 101 knows that the president cannot WRITE any bill. That is the job of CONGRESS. The president either signs it or vetoes it. But when you have the usual suspect race wh0res like Jesse & Al trotting out the race cart and propping up some twisted and contorted stretch of reference to a racist shot at Obama, said ignorant people don’t really care about facts and the truth.”

Kindly note that Jackie nor anyone else has ever addressed the fact that CONGRESS “writes” the bills.

That’s okay Jackie, we know you left wing liberal moonbats have a hard time understanding ANYTHING, let alone someone’s intentions, so don’t let your emotions get the best of you beyond a typical mindless American liberal, okay?

By Stop Global Whining

February 21, 2009 3:26 PM | Link to this

“Other that screaming “socialism!” and the obligatory “cut-taxes-on-the-uber-mensch-Howard-Roarks”, do the far-right wingnuts who post here have any specific economic prescriptions to ameliorate the recession?”

Funny you ask that question, Bemused. Because we “wingnuts” listened to you uber-moonbat far left wing neo-Stalinists bich about the Bush administration for EIGHT YEARS and never offer any alternatives during that period, and you can bet your sweetass that includes no less than THREE tax cuts that you people biched about.

Shoe’s on the other foot now dude. Get used to the negatives.

BTW: the top 25% pay 80% of all federal income tax. Guess where tax cuts are going to go without being Marxist income redistribution of wealth?

By Glenn

February 21, 2009 3:30 PM | Link to this

Yeah, Bemused, speaking solely for this particular Right-Wing homicidal maniac, I’d say that you can’t go wrong by cutting your stupid Liberal SPENDING.

Does that answer your question, Mr. Attitude?

By Stop Global Whining

February 21, 2009 3:46 PM | Link to this

RIP Socks, the White House cat. I remember clearly how the lib DNC media fell over themselves when a useless, lazy cat was named as the First Pet for the first time in White House history under the Clintons.

“Former First Cat Socks, one of the world’s most famous felines, died Friday at the age of 20 after battling throat cancer since November. A stray cat rescued by the Clinton’s daughter, Chelsea, Socks lived in the governor’s mansion in Arkansas and later moved with the family to the White House.”

“Socks brought much happiness to Chelsea and us over the years, and enjoyment to kids and cat lovers everywhere,” the Clintons said in a statement, released first to PEOPLE.COM. “We’re grateful for those memories, and we especially want to thank our good friend, Betty Currie, for taking such loving care of Socks for so many years.”

The media fawning then is not unlike today when you have this person selected as a homecoming queen. Ah, liberalism - I just feel so warm and fuzzy all over, don’t you? ($250 says this post will be labeled as “hate speech” by the libtards).

Drag queen becomes homecoming queen

FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) - George Mason University senior Ryan Allen dresses in drag and doesn’t mind being called a queen — homecoming queen, to be exact.

Allen, who is gay and performs in drag at nightclubs in the region, said he entered the homecoming contest as a joke, competing as Reann Ballslee, his drag queen persona.

But he considers the victory one of his happiest moments and proof that the suburban Washington, D.C., school famous for its run to the Final Four a few years back celebrates its diverse student body.

By Road Scholar

February 21, 2009 4:25 PM | Link to this

Isn’t it interesting that Wooten has laid out arguments for both points of view, and the Conservatives can’t stay on subject. It’s Transportaion folks. Fiddle while Georgia burns! This has been the Repub way,making much about nothing; ignoring the major decisions. This shift of power is the most ludicrous thing that Sonny has proposed, even past Go Fish!

The present election process of the Board of Transportation is fine. It is who they, the legislators, are electing and how they are doing their job! Define the desired traits, responiblities and actions for the Board member, such as review, and ensure transparency of project evaluations and selection. And then get out of the way of the hired professional planners and engineers to implement the plan.

Where is Sonny’s professional engineers license? Cerified Planner certificate? Hell, where is there evidence that he has made any one major decision right?!? (Except for his tax breaks and ensuring the roads are widened next to his property). Another attempt to grab more power…if we let him.

By atlin83

February 21, 2009 4:43 PM | Link to this

just had to fan a few flames…

i have absolutely no sympathy for anyone who complains about the deterioration of their “quality of life” because they have to sit in traffic for a few extra minutes each day. however, i have ample sympathy for those who complain about their quality of life - my neighborhood (midtown) has been gutted over the past decades to facilitate interstate expansions and 9-to-5 suburban workers. i can only cross the connector once every 5-10 blocks. my bus and rail service has been decimated because this state prefers to spend its money on far less economically efficient single-user car commuting habits. entire blocks of my neighborhood sit useless for the majority of the day.

Georgia’s far more interested in pandering to the wasteful, money-sucking suburbs than promoting a efficient, sustainable way of life. It’s going to cost all of us further deterioration in our quality of life, and it’s going to continue to drain the state budget. If you want your money going towards more road expansion, have fun taxing yourself - and the state - into the ground.

By Stop Global Whining

February 21, 2009 5:00 PM | Link to this

“Georgia’s far more interested in pandering to the wasteful, money-sucking suburbs than promoting a efficient, sustainable way of life.”

I agree atlin83. Just look at all the empty MARTA buses 7x18 in and around the northern burbs of from Roswell to Alpharetta. Your tax dollars hard at work BTW.

By Stop Global Whining

February 21, 2009 5:49 PM | Link to this

Oh, and atlin83, not everybody in this nation wants to live in a downtown communal area like a bunch of lemmings (who obviously mostly vote Democrat). Some people like to breathe cleaner air, drink cleaner water, own land, and grow a garden in their back yards. Liberals have a hard time understanding that.

By Bill Shipp

February 22, 2009 8:19 AM | Link to this

What a waste! Johnny Isakson has announced his intention to run for a second term in the U.S. Senate. He should be re-elected without much trouble. Instead of going for the Senate again, however, he ought to run for governor.

Georgia doesn’t need another robot Republican to represent us in Washington. We desperately need an experienced and talented hand to take control of the governor’s office in 2011, and start playing catch-up with the remainder of the country. The Peach State has been in a steep decline on a number of fronts for eight years.

Now we’re caught up in the global recession and suffering all sorts of complicated economic problems. Georgia needs a really smart guy to get us out of the ditch.

That would be Isakson, Georgia’s most skilled (and probably most sensible) active politician. Although he is a pioneer Georgia Republican, he generally eschews the nut brigade and marches mostly to a more moderate drum. Unlike Georgia’s senior senator, Saxby Chambliss, Isakson is not considered just another Republican lemming willing to jump over a cliff rather than depart one iota from the GOP’s agenda.

The reason for Isakson’s decision to return to D.C. puzzles some. As far as the political eye can see, the Grand Old Party will be the minority opposition in Congress. That means Isakson’s duties for the next six years will consist mostly of speeding up constituents’ passport applications and smoothing out Social Security problems. Isakson will not be a national player. He will not be a committee chairman, unless he’s named to raise cash to try to resuscitate the national Republican Party.

In his home state, Isakson has played a major role in working out big issues. The first time I saw Isakson in the Georgia Capitol, he was in a meeting with Speaker Tom Murphy’s Democratic leaders, bulldozing a legislative obstacle. Compromise is Isakson’s bag. In Georgia, he knows how to make a deal to get things done.

In Washington, I’m not so sure. When he stepped up in the Senate to offer a worthwhile amendment to the economic stimulus bill, Democrats shrugged him off. Back in Georgia, some of Isakson’s followers appeared startled the Democrats would treat Johnny so cavalierly.

What did they expect? This isn’t ring-around-the-rosy. Isakson had opposed President Obama’s stimulus package and voted against it. He is firmly on record as being against most of Obama’s big initiatives. His stances might be applauded around Powder Springs and Odum, but in Washington he has succeeded only in making Obama’s nascent enemy list. The White House is not likely to offer him a Cabinet post.

When he is re-elected, Isakson will have nothing but a bleak six-year term ahead, one without rank or much power and influence. But as Georgia’s governor for four or eight years, he could leave behind a legacy as the Great Rebuilder - the governor who came to the rescue.

Isakson understands Georgia’s problems and knows how to solve them. He served as chairman of the state school board while then-soon-to-be-convicted thief Linda Schrenko was superintendent of Georgia’s schools. The Department of Education escaped real damage during Schrenko’s dizzy reign because Chairman Johnny took care of business.

He knows how to get roads built and fixed, and why the state needs a comprehensive water-usage plan. He comprehends the vast complexities of Medicaid, the state-federal health care plan for the indigent. He understands the importance of good schools and colleges.

Looking over the growing roster of Democrats and Republicans expressing an interest in running for governor, it’s easy to see Johnny could be elected without much fuss. Not one gubernatorial wannabe comes close to his stature.

Switching to the governor’s race would round out Isakson’s career with a grand finale. Running and winning the Senate probably means little more than Johnny settling for early retirement and spending six more years in Washington.

By Redneck Convert

February 22, 2009 8:29 AM | Link to this

Well, I might of knowed it would turn cold on a day when me and Jim Earl and Joe Bill were headed down to Countryland Golf Club to get a round in. I had a new t-shirt out and my best blue jeans, but it looks like those plans are out now. I guess it’s NASCAR, beer and pork rinds for me today.

I don’t know why people are fussing about roads and such when this Obama has decided to let My President’s tax cuts expire and raise taxes on the rich. It’s just about the end of any hope for this country. What with people like Raghead and AJC Commie/Mgt. having to cut back on on country clubs and such, we can say goodbye to Trickle Down. The rest of us can stop holding out our hand waiting for the big boys to spend some of that money on things we do. I’ve been waiting 8 yrs. for Trickle Down to work and just when it’s ready to we get a big tax raise on the rich. This Obama is a Commie.

I see this ron can’t let a chance go by to slam me. If he would stop making eyes at the missus I wouldn’t have to put him down so much. The guy’s just a old dog.

Well, it’s about time to go down to the Church of Holiness to listen to the Rev. Postlewaite tell us again how this country is going to the dogs under the librul Democrats. I wish he would let the Rev. Jim Bob Buice preach once in a while but the state won’t let the Rev. Jim Bob around kids. Maybe we could make the church Adults Only. Let the kids go out and play while church is going on. They ain’t old enough to sin and need preaching anyway. Have a good Sabbath everybody. I hope you stocked up on beer yesterday because you won’t be buying it today and scoffing at my religion.

By Big Bucks GOP

February 22, 2009 8:32 AM | Link to this

Why don’t we have a real Republican Governor? Our’s has his hand out with a “What’s in it for me?” attitude.

“South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, who says he’ll reject federal unemployment cash and funding for green buildings in the stimulus, is taking a victory lap at the Republican Governor’s Association dinner tonight, Politico’s Charles Mahtesian reports.

“I think Republican governors are doing what should have been done by the United States Congress,” said Sanford, speaking to a crowd that included 16 of 22 GOP governors — but not ardently pro-stimulus Arnold.

Four of the governors have said they’ll reject parts of the stimulus.

Sanford, who is locked in a battle with House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) over the South Carolina cash — referred to Minority Leader John Boehner as “a hero” for mustering unanimous House opposition to the package.”

By ron

February 22, 2009 8:47 AM | Link to this

Good morning all,I have been reading excerpts about the President for the last couple of days. So far he’s more popular than Jesus and Mahatma Ghandi combined.That’s quite an accomplishment. He’s spending money like a drunken sailor.$787 billion on spendulus and as yet uncounted billions in other ventures yet to be named. He’s going to halve the deficit by the end of his term.That’s an accomplshment that will rank right up there with walking on water. He’s completely mesmorized Canadians with a 7 hour visit.They’d give him the country if he stayed overnight.

Now—-Starting sometime in 2010 there is going to be a tax increase to put all previous tax increases to shame.To halve the deficit he’s going to have to claw back a big pile of money from you and me,so hang onto any cash you may get from spendulus because you’re going to need it.The Bush tax cuts will be gone the way of high buckle shoes and the rich will be stuffing money into offshore accounts like squirrels storing nuts for a long winter.

Congress,by all accounts,is completely out of the picture.I guess this is a one person government.Note the signing of the spendulus bill in Colorado.Outside Washington.Government for the People in the People’s back yard.Guaranteed to boost popularity.Maybe ire congress a little.?

By Jim Jr.

February 22, 2009 8:51 AM | Link to this

Who cares about Republicans any more?

Three to 1 edge in new voter registration for Democrats. Two to 4 more Senate seats in 2010. Complete and pretty much non reversible majority in all 3 chambers. Republicans whimper and fade into oblivion.

By catlady

February 22, 2009 9:00 AM | Link to this

Isakson would be a same old, same old governor. He might not jump like a lemming, but he totters to the edge and falls over. Look at his flip flops on immigration. I don’t credit him with much of anything, except doing a little better keeping his mouth shut and not blatantly playing golf instead of representing Georgia.

Mark Sanford of SC pulled a Phil Gingrey. He eschews the stimulus money EXCEPT the part he wants. All talk. At least he didn’t have to kiss Limbaugh’s feet.

By Ga Values

February 22, 2009 9:02 AM | Link to this

Bill Shipp 8:19 AM

Is Johnny the SOCIALIST less bad than the 2 RINOs that are running of Governor? Probably but I will not vote for this big spending, big government socialist for anything. How can a state this large not produce anyone worth voting for?

By heathsayer

February 22, 2009 9:47 AM | Link to this

By Jim Jr. February 22, 2009 8:51 AM Who cares about Republicans any more?

Well obviously you do, you leftist liberal dhimmicrat. Why else are you posting on a Conservative blog? If we are so irrelevant then go away and post nonsense on Huff & Puff or something with the other tired samo-samo leftist liberal dhimmicrats. It’s just like you tired libs to constantly belly ache over Rush saying he’s irrelevant - well if he’s so irrelevant, then why are you spoon fed jackals on the left constantly bringing him up? You people on the loon left really need to listen to yourselves sometime and your silliness that would give the playground argument of a five year old serious competition..

By Daedalus

February 22, 2009 10:01 AM | Link to this

After seven years of non-leadership on transportation issues Sonny now says we need a new transportation planning agency that is controlled by three politicians with zero knowledge of transportation planning, funding or infrastructure.

Please. Sounds like another ploy to grab tax money from metro Atlanta and spend it on road projects in South Georgia and other reliably republican areas.

There is simply zero leadership from these three clowns (Cagle, Perdue and Richardson) on transportation — which is desperately needed in metro Atlanta. GOP Nimby’s from the northern suburbs killed the outer perimeter. No one in the GOP majority wants to fund transit — especially if it conects to Atlanta or MARTA. GDOT is basket case (so much for republican stewardship for the last seven years)

Unless we get a governor from metro Atlanta who is dedicated to solving traffic congestion — and working with democrats and yes, black people, there will never be progress on transportation in metro Atlanta.

So, ENJOY YOUR CAR! Because you will be sitting in traffic for the rest of your life.

By heathsayer

February 22, 2009 10:02 AM | Link to this

Good point, ron. POTUS says he will cut the deficit by raising taxes on those evil rich people [those earning more than $250k) who obviously steal from the poor - another Christ like miracle if you ask me - taking from someone who has nothing. But we won’t split hairs over that one. What will be really interesting is how he’s going to do it by raising taxes on just 3% of the US taxpayers.

By heathsayer

February 22, 2009 10:11 AM | Link to this

“How can a state this large not produce anyone worth voting for?”

That is an outstanding question, GA Values. I ask myself that every year when I look at how much income tax I paid to the state when I do my taxes. It’s rather depressing, really. But it still beats living up in some northern state run by a bunch of hard left liberals where I’d be taxed into oblivion with NOTHING to show for it except a ratty car torn up from the roads up there.

By heathsayer

February 22, 2009 10:17 AM | Link to this

You know, listening to the liberals on this blog whine about Sonny and sending money to red parts of this state (IE: outside of ATL) while ATL is left out in the cold is rather funny. Funny in an ironic kind of way. Look what the AJC dragged out, and let’s see one of you liberals defend this:

Atlanta could lose $11.3 million in jobs funding

Federal grant mishandled, audit alleges

By JEREMY REDMON The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Sunday, February 22, 2009

Atlanta might have to forfeit $11.3 million for allegedly mishandling federal grant money intended to help people find jobs, even as the city grapples with a budget crisis in the midst of a crippling recession.

The Atlanta Workforce Development Agency spent that amount issuing contracts without competitive bids, making questionable expenditures and supplying services to ineligible recipients, according to an audit by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of the Inspector General.

The audit recommends that the Labor Department seek to recover $11.3 million in federal Welfare-to-Work and Workforce Investment Act funds that were supposed to pay for job training and placement services. Douglas F. Small, a deputy assistant secretary for the Labor Department, said his department will make a decision about that recommendation by March 15.

Deborah Lum, the Atlanta agency’s executive director, said in a written response to the auditors that she strongly disagrees with their findings.

She issued a statement by e-mail in response to requests for an interview by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

“The city is confident that we provided sufficient financial controls and systems to plan, measure, implement and evaluate federal grant-funded programs,” Lum said in her statement. “There is no final decision from the Department of Labor yet, and we will continue to work with them until a final decision is made.”

By Chris Broe

February 22, 2009 10:23 AM | Link to this

The economic recovery act. Good Idea?

Obama could choose to do nothing. Maybe just by “Kudlowing” (declaring a bottom at each point in the graph) some sort of placebo effect will bring us out of this. Maybe market forces themselves are a panacea and laissez faire is the proper fiscal and monetary policy.

Notice how close to “coddling trolls” the word “Kudlowing” is?

Blogfather to the parsimonious GOP Governors: “leave the con. take the clamolas.”.

By AmVet

February 22, 2009 11:32 AM | Link to this

Jim Jr.,

It would appear you are dead on about the Old White Guy Party. Their future is abysmally bleak. I’d say forty years of fake conservatism is enough. And apparently the majority of voters in this country agree.

The combined score of the past two national elections?

61 - 4.

Ouch!! That’s gotta hurt the neo-cons feelings just a little, doncha think?

Until the lunatic fringe figures out that their message is generally repugnant to moderates, independents, progressive thinking and/or young voters the anti-Darwin “faithful”, and their increasingly irrelevant political ideology, are staring extinction right in the face.

Which is, of course, even more great news for the nation.

And I believe Mr Shipp is also correct about Johnny “Who?” Isakson.

Infinitely better than our other neo-con socialist, Suxtobeus, he is nonetheless a total non-entity outside of the Moron Belt. As guv, at least one might think his accomplishments would be more than simply getting the traitors their flag back, praying for rain on the capitol steps and implementing that critical Go Fish campaign…

By heathsayer

February 22, 2009 11:57 AM | Link to this

Nope. I didn’t expect some liberal dhimmicrat leftist to defend how ATL (run by said people) wasted federal dollars on job grants. Oh golly, we should just rush and send in more of our money to ATL for infrastructure and transportation now, shouldn’t we? Oh man, can you imagine that giant sucking sound of a trillion dollars going to infrastructure upgrades in locales around this nation like ATL? Sure, that money will be well managed and spent. Sometimes you have to wonder if the left wing libs in this nation really believe what they preach and think.

In any event, everyone note in the media how since Chandra Levy’s case has made it back to the headlines, most media outlets refuse to even mention dhimmicrat Gary Condit’s affair with here that cost him his House seat in California. For the ones that do, they do not mention his political affiliation. Sure. And we should all be at peace knowing that Condit were a Republican, no mention of his political affiliation would be mentioned either.

By the way, with all the left wing liberal dhimmicrats out there and on these blogs constantly harping that the GOP is dead and all that, why do they continue to be on said conservative blogs defecating their nonsense? That’s just the way they think. They are truly the most vitriolic full of hate people for those who don’t share their philosophies. One would think that said hatemongers of the modern left would be happy with a full dhimmicrat Washington, but no. The Miserable Party has to continue to preach intolerance and wishes of extinction for those who do not share their thoughts, beliefs, and values. No, it’s not surprising in the least.

By heathsayer

February 22, 2009 12:03 PM | Link to this

Let’s see how great this majority is who voted for Obama. Let’s see what their priorities are:

SUN-TIMES STAFF

“ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Americans named President Obama as their No. 1 hero, followed by Jesus Christ and Martin Luther King, in a new Harris poll.

Others in the top 10, in descending order, were Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Abraham Lincoln, John McCain, John F. Kennedy, Chesley Sullenberger and Mother Teresa.”

Well, I suppose we will no longer have to hear the mantra of liberals claiming that neo-cons are false Christians as their beliefs let children and adults die in the streets. We’re ALL false Christians now.

By heathsayer

February 22, 2009 12:10 PM | Link to this

Another funny thing to watch with the Miserable Party and it’s hate filled liberal minions is how they no longer have Bush & Cheney to kick around and instead are now completely focused on Rushannity & Faux News. From that pos Keith Olberman on that non-watched MNSBC station to CNN and all three networks, it seems as though not a night goes by without some turd slinging at anyone on the Right. Hey, I thought all these people said the Right, the GOP, Rush, et. al. were all just irrelevant and nearly extinct now? Maybe I’m missing something, but if that were the case, why focus so much time and energy on them?

By AmVet

February 22, 2009 12:24 PM | Link to this

heathsayer, glad you enjoy reading my posts.

From what I can glean of yours, you seem very, very angry.

Why?

BTW, would you like to make some predictions about the upcoming elections in 2010 and 2012? All, in good fun, of course…

By heathsayer

February 22, 2009 1:01 PM | Link to this

Note how the liberals can’t answer why the infatuation and constant beratement of Conservatives if we are so extinct. Again, no surprises there. But for some amusement, check out some of Ann Coulter’s exchange with the View’s Joy Behar who was filling in for Larry King on Thursday night. This is priceless………..

BEHAR: Is there anything you like about Obama?

COULTER: Yes.

BEHAR: Oh, wow!

Like what?

COULTER: He — he was totally playing the “Daily Kos” kids for fools on national security. He’s basically continued Bush’s terrorism policies. Guantanamo is not getting shut down. We’re not pulling out of Iraq…

BEHAR: So what do you think about this stimulus bill?

Do you think that…

COULTER: I think it’s a disaster.

BEHAR: You think it’s a disaster.

COULTER: It’s the Reward Failure Act of 2009. I mean it’s not — I like the title and so did most Americans. Support for it went from about 80 percent when people only knew the title to about 37 percent as people would find out more and more about it — stimulative of big huge government programs. It rewards failure.

And who’s going to be left holding the bag?

BEHAR: Let’s say it does really work.

COULTER: It can’t.

BEHAR: What if it does really great?

How do you know?

You don’t know that.

COULTER: Because massive socialism has never worked. I mean, Argentina tried it. Japan tried it. They have higher I.Q.s than we do. You can’t borrow a trillion dollars. We don’t have a trillion dollars. You know what that means, Joy?

That means you either are here in hock to China.

BEHAR: Who…

COULTER: And there is definitely massive inflation, because you start printing money. That means any dollar you have today will be worth 50 cents in a few years.

BEHAR: A lot of people are very masochistic and they’ll listen to Rush Limbaugh.

COULTER: You’re saying that his 20 million listeners hate him and disagree with him?

BEHAR: No, not all. But not everybody agrees with him.

COULTER: If you’re describing someone as extreme, I think it can’t be someone who is massively popular with — with the American people. I mean that’s — that’s dead down the center.

BEHAR: OK.

All right, let me ask you something else. Now you — now, one of the…

COULTER: Do you listen to Rush, by the way?

BEHAR: I used to work with him. I was on the same station.

COULTER: But you don’t listen to him?

BEHAR: No.

COULTER: Well, OK.

Then how can you even describe him as extreme?

We could interview one of the 20 million people who listen to him everyday.

BEHAR: But I’m not that into somebody who filibusters like that. I like a conversation.

COULTER: You don’t listen to him. How do you know he filibusters?

BEHAR: Yes. You’ve said — this is a quote: “The media really wanted to screw Obama, but only in the sense that they wanted to have sex with him.”

COULTER: Right.

BEHAR: Now, what does that mean?

Did you want to have sex with George Bush?

What are you talking about?

They wanted to have sex with him?

Does Morley Safer want to have sex with Obama?

COULTER: Probably.

(LAUGHTER)

BEHAR: I mean come on.

COULTER: Probably. And I know Chris Matthews does.

BEHAR: Well, what kind of men do you like?

COULTER: I like men, i.e. conservatives. I don’t want them checking with the U.N. to get, you know, a resolution before making a move.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By Chris Broe

February 22, 2009 1:31 PM | Link to this

Ann Coulter is funny. (and hot!) Joy Behar is funny. (and fat!)

Ann’s smart because even though the GOP #’s are down, there’s still a market for her schtick. A big market.

Arnold Schwartzenegger said he’d take any stimulus money the other Governors turn down. Lovin’ Arnold today.

Blogfather to parsimonious GOP governors: “Leave the Con…..Take the Clamolas.”

By heathsayer

February 22, 2009 5:19 PM | Link to this

So, there are still no comments from the liberals on why they continue to waste time lambasting Conservatives and waste time on Conservative blogs telling Conservatives why they are nearly extinct (as if we give a damn what they think anyway). Now on to more productive issues, it appears the Obama administration is already ruffling the feathers of a nation. Remember how the liberal dhimmicrats said that Bush did nothing but p.o. other nations? Well, here’s nation #1 that is spouting off - and Obama has only been in office one month.

ZURICH, Feb 21 - The Swiss People’s Party called on Saturday for retaliation against the United States over a U.S. tax probe into the country’s biggest bank UBS that threatens prized banking secrecy.

The populist SVP, the country’s biggest party, said Switzerland should not take in any detainees from the U.S. prison for terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, which the Swiss government said last month it could consider to help shut the camp down.

Switzerland should also reconsider its policy of representing the United States in countries where it has no diplomatic presence, the parliamentary SVP said in a statement.

WOW.