Thinking Right

By Davo

March 4, 2009 8:38 AM | Link to this

I would rather the legislature spend it’s time on something more pressing, like how our state will weather this enduring drought and the coming economic meltdown.

By Bill Shipp

March 4, 2009 8:43 AM | Link to this

Want a formula for winning elections in the South? Fear + Hate - Transparency and Realism = Victory.

Candidates for governor and other high offices in the Old South typically won elections by scaring the daylights out of the white majority. The Talmadges, Herman and Gene, crisscrossed Georgia warning that Yankee carpetbaggers and homegrown blacks were working to destroy “our way of life.” They were masters at turning out the trembling white vote. Forget that life at the time was characterized by poverty, illiteracy, malnourishment and corrupt government.

In his last statewide radio speech in 1948, former Gov. Gene Talmadge talked for more than 20 minutes and never mentioned Georgia needed better schools, better highways, more jobs and a vision for improving the general well-being. Instead, old Gene spoke about the threat to racial segregation laws.

The Talmadges’ racial playbook was so successful that even progressive politicians used it to gain an edge for victory. The good-guy candidates for governor (Carl Sanders, Ernie Vandiver, Ellis Arnall) would begin almost every stump speech with a renewed promise they could not keep: to maintain a successful legal defense of racial segregation.

When fear and loathing of black people finally wore thin (and Sen. Herman Talmadge won an award from Morris Brown College for helping blacks), political consultants searched out new boogeymen. Communists, gays, women preachers, some college professors, Mexicans and Asians all worked just fine as shadow enemies to get out the votes. Of course, fear of blacks continued (and continues) to be a successful tactic.

Lately, the Southern-centered national Republican Party has turned to another old standby for spooking voters: socialism. One can seldom pick up a newspaper or listen to one’s favorite radio nut without being subjected to a tirade against the evils of socialism, with Democrats portrayed as its main promoter. We’re not talking about Russian communism or Marxism here. We’re speaking of socialism; think Sweden and Denmark and even Israel.

Looking to re-energize American Republicanism, the new GOP warns darkly of socialized medicine, socialized banks, socialized manufacturing, etc. The fear of socialism apparently is working, because more and more self-proclaimed conservative leaders are using the term to turn voters against Obama and breathe life into zombified elephants. The bad news for Republican chieftains is that socialism has already established a firm beachhead.

Where were you in 1934 when the Social Security Act was signed? Now that was genuine socialism, but it was just the beginning. Medicare, Medicaid and the entire defense industry were fine examples of socialism at work. So were the old and orderly EMCs and TVA, the GI Bill and the Federal Housing Administration. The farm subsidy program, which made our governor and many other farmers rich, could have flowed from the pen of the late socialist leader Norman Thomas. It was (and remains) pure socialism.

More than 70 years ago, President Franklin D. Roosevelt singled out the South for special attention and federal economic aid. Early in his administration, FDR declared the region had been neglected and exploited and needed significant federal help. The former Confederacy received federal assistance, though not nearly enough. Hardly anybody of note charged FDR was turning Dixie red. Instead, the South moved slowly to near the front of the line in national growth. FDR, a New York blueblood, became a Southern idol.

The antisocialist movement was replaced in the 1950s by anticommunism, and then more recently by the twin fears of terrorism and fundamentalist Islam. Now we’re headed back toward alarm at onrushing socialism and perhaps of Barack Obama, renamed Chairman Obama, Comrade Barack and, of course, the Antichrist.

Today’s fresh Republican orators conveniently forget to tell us that the renewed fear of socialism developed from the GOP’s irresponsible federal budgets that ran up a trillion-dollar tab in less than six years - and then the Republicans called on the Red Chinese to help pay it.

But if we’re supposed to be scared of socialism, it’s not because of anything new. Socialist-type policies have supported large elements of our new way of life for decades now - with virtually everyone’s consent and to most people’s benefit. More terror is struck in our hearts by the persistent fearmongering of domestic politicians than by the policies against which they inveigh. If “terrorism” means actions designed to

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

March 4, 2009 8:43 AM | Link to this

Good morning all. For those who champion dishonest elections, any requirement of eligibility is too much. I support the proposed change in law.

My only reservation is that the law may be perceived as anti-Hispanic, which it plainly is not. I suspect our immigrant friends are more likely than native-borns to have readily available reasonable proof of eligibility, given the atmosphere of hostility that greets them most days.

More than the “proof of eligibility” the new law would require of vote registrants, I am curious what checks are performed by our diligent elections bureaucracy. In a rational world we would require applicant disclosure of tax identification numbers, to conduct the same eligibility checks that we require of private employers. I would hope that the verified identities are run through an FBI check, to ensure absence of disqualifying criminal conviction. So far as that goes, I wonder whether there is ever a subsequent verification, to ensure that a once eligible voter remains eligible. That would seemingly require nothing more than comparison of two databases, a purely-electronic scrub.

The topic seemingly would integrate nicely into a discussion of what republicans need to do in the area of “outreach,” but I suppose I should leave that for another day. So let the gripes begin. I am with our host on this one.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

March 4, 2009 8:54 AM | Link to this

Dear Bill @ 8:43, you opened the door, so let’s talk about campaigns of fear. After eight years of leftist whining about a failed presidency, I suppose we are all amused to watch a truly failed leftist-presidency less than six weeks in power. You whine about name-calling, attempting to avoid any substantial discussion of the policies and practices of The Empty Suit. He is the chief fear-mongerer. As is always the case with leftists, every alleged sin of the opposition is phony, but is a real reflection of what the leftists are doing.

What do you make of the “head of the Republican party,” Rush Limbaugh, as anointed by The Empty Suit? Because of his history of difficulties managing his girth, I am loathe to use the term “sacred cow,” but Limbaugh now approaches such standing among conservatives, as the current generation’s Reagan. For The Empty Suit, he is the “as everyone knows” voice of evil and dumbness.

No, I don’t agree with every position of Rush, but then I don’t agree with every position of anyone. That diversity of thought is what distinguishes conservatives from our lock-step leftist friends. Perhaps the better question is, “would I vote for Rush?” Short answer, “yes,” for almost position, against almost anyone. His instincts are good, his mind is sharp, his beliefs and positions are reliable. While he does not suffer fools gladly, he has a rollicking sense of humor, a sharp contrast to our current President.

I listened to Michael Medved on the drive home yesterday as he offered a discussion of Rush’s role in the party, and among conservatives generally. Medved himself is another excellent talent, unfortunately somewhat obscured by the glow around Rush. Medved playfully observed that Rush resides in West Palm Beach, and that Florida has a republican senate vacancy arising in 2010, and that the leading republican candidate now is wishy-washy Charlie Crist. Congress could balance the budget by selling tickets to allow us to watch Limbaugh filibustering.

Medved’s more substantial question was on the need for the party both to reaffirm its traditional conservatism and to reach out to a broader potential constituency. Today’s WSJ publishes a poll that offers republicans a potential wedge, that 59% of the American public believes the “stimulus” will help little or nothing long term. Surely that poll reflects that normal Americans are not as stupid on economics as are the congressional democrats.

Mr. Newt has previously argued the “return to our values” point, and Magna Sarah famously and recently advocated a need to “walk the walk.” So we are broadly in agreement to disregard the wishy-washy urging to be more like democrats in our outlook. Thus the more difficult question of “outreach.”

In the 2008 election John McCain outpolled Barack Obama by 12 points among white people – a landslide by any measure – and yet lost the election by six points. Republicans do badly among black voters, Hispanic voters, Jewish voters, non-religious voters, and, to a lesser extent, homosexual voters. Mainstream conservatism has something substantial to offer to each of those constituencies.

Yet, to even ask the question begs the answer – conservatives do not view people as blocs, or elements of special interest groups. Our essential “value,” of minimizing government’s footprint generally found on the neck of the citizenry, should appeal to all. Black folks are not inherently cap and trade enviro-nazis, and Jewish people do not favor sending $800 million of taxpayer monies to Hamas. Hispanics are family-oriented, hard-working, and religious – if you did not know better you’d say they are naturally republicans. We emphasize freedom for all, and mock the value of bureaucrats’s decision-making. Perhaps the democrat economy – obviously a disaster in the making – will be sufficient to bring us together, to the side of decency.

By Big Spender GOP

March 4, 2009 8:56 AM | Link to this

Sen. Mike Johanns (R-Neb.) underwent surgery on Monday to remove the lower lobe of his left lung — and doctors believe that a suspicious spot they found contained “no cancer,” his office reported.

“Sen. Johanns is in recovery after three hours of surgery today,” his spokeswoman said. “Doctors have indicated they found no cancer. They removed the lower lobe of Sen. Johanns’ left lung as a cautionary step. The senator is resting comfortably and hopes to leave the hospital sometime tomorrow.”

His office said his future medical course is yet to be determined but predicted he could be back on the job in 10 days.

Johanns, 58, is a former governor and U.S. agriculture secretary.

Republicans Blasted Omnibus, Gobbled Earmarks

During the debate over the $410 billion omnibus, Texas Rep. Pete Sessions, the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, rose in opposition, accusing the House Democratic leadership of trying to “bulldoze” massive spending bills through the chamber.

“How can the president take my Democrat colleagues seriously when they spend another $410 billion after the $792 billion stimulus? There is nothing fiscally responsible regarding designating $1.2 trillion in spending in just two weeks.”

What Sessions didn’t reveal on the floor: As he was voting no, he was quietly steering $21.4 million in earmarks to his district, much of it to Houston-area medical research facilities.

Sessions spokeswoman Emily Davis said her boss backs earmark reforms but “stands behind his requests, which primarily reflect the infrastructure and research priorities of his district, and stands against the bloated, wasteful and duplicative spending included in the Democrats’ recent ‘stimulus’ and omnibus spending bills.”

Other GOP no-voters who scored big earmarks, according to an analysis of data from the group Taxpayers for Common Sense:

• Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-Calif.), ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee — $35.7 million. Before the vote, Lewis said: “Enough is enough. We’ve got to get a handle on this or we’re going to destroy our economy.” * Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-N.J.) — $173.4 million. “I rise in opposition to this omnibus appropriations bill for many reasons, not the least of which is that this bill adds even more spending on top of the stimulus package that we just passed.”

• Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.) — $13.2 million.

• Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas) — $64.6 million. “It is spending we do not have…”

Spokeswoman Megan Mitchell says Culberson’s “answer for spending requests is always ‘no’ unless the project is cost effective and serves a legitimate government purpose, which is why he rejected more than $338 million in project requests that were brought to his office. Congressman Culberson does support medical and scientific research projects along with critical infrastructure and flood control projects.”

By ron

March 4, 2009 8:57 AM | Link to this

Good morning,Republicans have a knack for alienating voters that knows no bounds.This item,as I have stated before,irritates me to no end.It irritates me to the point where I won’t vote for a Rebublican candidate no matter what he stands for.I will support them,I will tell others that their vote should go Republican but I will never vote for one myself.I’ll vote for a Democrat first.I absolutely loathe the idea of proving to others who I am.

The Republican Party is in disarray.It didn’t get that way because of ineligible voters.It arrived at disarray because of it’s own failings.Until Republicans ralize this they are going to fail.True conservative Republicans are actually a small political party.They need all the help they can get to swing an election.The Supreme court helps in some cases.

As an independent,I voted for your boy,Bush, on two occasions.I was a fool for doing so.I now doubt that either Gore nor Kerry could have botched things up any worse.

The current mess we’re in,with Obama,is the direct outcome of Republican failed policies,not ACORN,or any other nut you care to bring up.Failed Republican policies.Remember that.

Right now,the spokesmanship for the Republican Party is divided between Steele and Limbaugh.There’s a problem that needs correcting.I know that conservatives don’t need a leader,as such,they’re capable of leading themselves,but they do need to present some sort of united front to the public just for appearance sake.

Whining about proving citizenship is preaching to the choir.It’s going to alienate the congregation.

By Big Bucks GOP

March 4, 2009 9:08 AM | Link to this

Fairly or not, Countrywide Financial and its top executives would be on most lists of those who share blame for the nation’s economic crisis. After all, the banking behemoth made risky loans to tens of thousands of Americans, helping set off a chain of events that has the economy staggering.

So it may come as a surprise that a dozen former top Countrywide executives now stand to make millions from the home mortgage mess.

Stanford L. Kurland, Countrywide’s former president, and his team at PennyMac have been buying up delinquent home mortgages that the government took over from other failed banks, sometimes for pennies on the dollar. They get a piece of what they can collect.

Mr. Kurland has raised hundreds of millions of dollars from big players like BlackRock, the investment manager, to finance his start-up. Having sold off close to $200 million in stock before leaving Countrywide, he has also put up some of his own cash.

While some critics are distressed that Mr. Kurland and his team are back in business, the executives say that PennyMac’s operations serve as a model for how the government, working with banks, can help stabilize the housing market and lead the nation out of the recession.

By Big Spender GOP

March 4, 2009 9:11 AM | Link to this

Taxpayers for Common Sense, a government spending watchdog, has released its breakdown of the biggest earmarkers.

Not surprisingly, former Appropriations Committee Chairman Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) tops the list.

Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), the ranking member of the Finance Committee and the Senate’s highest-profile critic of the bank bailouts, snagged the No. 2 spot, representing one of the nation’s poorest states — and a state where even the smallest tax hikes have to be submitted to a public vote. Missouri Sen. Kit Bond, a senior Republican on the Appropriations Committee’s transportation and housing subcommittee, was the third-largest recipient of earmarks.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) brought home around $26.6 million — only about half the bacon delivered to Kentucky by Republican leader Mitch McConnell.

Following are the top 20 Senate earmark recipients — 12 Democrats, 8 Republicans.

Tauscher Tackles ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

Rep. Ellen Tauscher, a moderate Bay Area Democrat, has reintroduced a bill that scraps the Clinton administration’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy in the military and would allow gays and lesbians to serve openly.

President Barack Obama has said he supports rolling back the policy, but the question is when he’ll push forward — or if the House will stick to his as-yet-unannounced political timetable on the bill.

By Redneck Convert

March 4, 2009 9:14 AM | Link to this

Well, I reckon we still got the Northren agitaters coming down here and stirring up Those People and the Mexicans, trying to ruin our good Southren way of life. You can’t hardly vote any more without being in a line of about 500 of them waiting to vote for socialism and picking the pocket of us good, God-fearing Southren white people. They won’t even let us give reading tests no more to weed out the dummies that got no business voting.

I say if they’re going to be allowed to vote make them show all kind of ID and strip them buck-nekkid if you have to to show they’re real Americans and not some illegal that wants to mooch off of us God-fearing Southren white people.

You can’t say we didn’t warn you about what would happen when the U. S. of A. passed all these equal rights laws. Even in GA old man McCain barely squeaked by this Obama last election. The reason is because Those People and the Mexicans kept showing up at the polls. Use to be we could kind of stand in front of a polling place and look mean and scare off that kind of trash. You could even burn a cross on one of their yards just to remind them they need to stay in their place. Now they made it all illegal.

On Fox News last night they said the Mexicans was the fasting growing race in America. They breed like rabbits like Those People, only more of them are married when they have kids, I guess. What we need is to start a snip squad to cut down on the numbers.

Until then I reckon a godly Republican legislater is about the only help we’re going to get to keep us from turning into a Northren state. We can’t keep them all from voting but we sure can make it alot harder. Like making them show proof of birth here and two or three other kinds of ID. By the time we’re finished with them they’ll be too tired or scared to vote and just head home.

That’s my opinion and it’s very true. Have a good day everybody.

By Big Bucks GOP

March 4, 2009 9:18 AM | Link to this

Documents released Tuesday provide new evidence that UBS sought ways to circumvent Internal Revenue Service rules to help wealthy Americans set up secret offshore entities and insurance plans to evade taxes.

UBS’s chief financial officer of global wealth management and business banking, Mark Branson, is scheduled to testify Wednesday before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.

By Big Bucks GOP

March 4, 2009 9:21 AM | Link to this

In a year when Merrill Lynch saw its net loss hit $27.6 billion, eleven of the bank’s top executives received more than $10 million in cash and stock,

By Big Bucks GOP

March 4, 2009 9:22 AM | Link to this

Standard & Poor’s cut its credit rating on Bank of America to A from A+ on Tuesday afternoon, citing the weak economy and warning that its Merrill Lynch and Countrywide Financial units were likely to continue to weigh on the bank’s earnings.

By findog

March 4, 2009 9:24 AM | Link to this

Dear Jim,

At some point people have to accept that voting, while being a right, is also a privilege. It is like a driver’s license in that you have to prove some things to get it; you also can lose that privilege if you break the law. It is the height of the nanny state that people would argue that proving you have a constitutional right to vote is too much to ask. Requiring the state to prove a negative to deny your voter registration is simply stupid. We have cheapened the vote, through motor voter registration and other reduction in the individual’s effort required, to the extent that soon one day a future voter registration application will have to be prepared with the social security card data at time of birth or the hospital will lose all federal and state funding.

By Big Bucks GOP

March 4, 2009 9:24 AM | Link to this

MGM Mirage, the gambling company owned by billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian, said Tuesday that it may default on its debt amid development of its biggest casino project ever, the $8.6 billion CityCenter in Las Vegas.

By Big Bucks GOP

March 4, 2009 9:26 AM | Link to this

Warren E. Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway reduced staffing last year in half of its nearly 80 operating units, and said more job cuts were coming in an economy unlikely to recover before 2010.

By Big Bucks GOP

March 4, 2009 9:29 AM | Link to this

As the hedge fund industry continues to grapple with investor withdrawals, AQR Capital Management is looking at new ways to reach out to new investors, including by setting up an arbitrage-based mutual fund.

By Big Bucks GOP

March 4, 2009 9:31 AM | Link to this

The chairman of the Federal Reserve on Tuesday tacitly endorsed President Obama’s call for huge increases in spending and trillion-dollar deficits over the next couple of years, saying the economic crisis required aggressive action.

He also testified that nothing in the recent financial crisis had made him more angry than the debacle at American International Group, whose financial products division he likened to a hedge fund.

By Big Bucks GOP

March 4, 2009 9:33 AM | Link to this

The American International Group is keeping the spin machine employed with four public relations firms on its payroll, an expense that Breakingviews says may not be received kindly by legislators.

By Big Bucks GOP

March 4, 2009 9:34 AM | Link to this

Masonite International, a long-troubled door and fiberboard maker owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, said Tuesday that it plans to file for bankruptcy as part of a debt-restructuring plan.

By Big Bucks GOP

March 4, 2009 9:35 AM | Link to this

Standard & Poor’s said the number of companies poised for a credit downgrade in February was 977, the highest level ever recorded.

By findog

March 4, 2009 9:36 AM | Link to this

If not for the fear of big brother a national id card would solve this and a plethora of other identity issues including eligibility for employment problem employers face.

By Road Scholar

March 4, 2009 9:43 AM | Link to this

RD: From your blog:” His instincts are good, his mind is sharp, his beliefs and positions are reliable. While he does not suffer fools gladly, he has a rollicking sense of humor, a sharp contrast to our current President.”

Please, pray tell, tell me who is he accountable to? A rollicking sense of humor is hardley a requirement for leading our nation! While I agree that he is “reliable”, how does he represent ALL American’s? How would he represent ALL Americans?

I guess his divisiveness, lack of compassion, and inability to listen are his greatest attributes. These are only overshadowed by his rudeness.

By Sharecropper

March 4, 2009 10:08 AM | Link to this

Are Georgians just destined to be, and determined to be, crackers? Is Wooten? Has he ever crossed the state line?

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

March 4, 2009 10:20 AM | Link to this

Dear Road @ 9:43, “Please, pray tell, tell me who is he accountable to?” I suspect you are unfamiliar with private enterprise – your question suggests same. One who performs daily on the high wire that is the market learns quickly to whom he is accountable. Rush, as with any in the public eye, is only as good as his last broadcast.

As to your suggestion “that a rollicking sense of humor is hardly a requirement for leading a nation,” you err. Every competent president had a well-developed sense of humor; every incompetent president lacked a sense of humor, except Harding. Any humorless leader is a threat to all in his way. Quite the contrary, sense of humor is a threshold competency, and the absence of same is the most disturbing element of Obama’s persona.

We would agree that Rush does not represent ALL Americans, no more than Obama represents all Americans. Rush represents well those who appreciate freedom from government diktat. Obama, in contrast, represents only those who would control the lives of their fellow citizens.

As to divisiveness, we would agree that the leftists would compel lockstep obedience. Rush, as with any intelligent conservative, favors the messy cacophony that is democracy at its best. As with all leftists, you confuse “compassion” with government theft; compassion arises from charity, not compulsion. Rush does suffer an inability to listen, and as with most compassionate leftists you mock his deafness, but that is not rude from your perspective is it?

By Tony

March 4, 2009 10:26 AM | Link to this

So true Wooten. Those who aren’t honest have been exposed by ACORN’S actions. Those who are honest have been tainted by ACORN’s actions.

A community organizer does not a good president make. They mishandle everything they touch.

By Hillbilly Deluxe

March 4, 2009 10:34 AM | Link to this

I don’t really understand the uproar over voter ID. Up here in the hills I’ve been asked to show photo ID for over 20 years. The person asking for the ID usually asks about my family as well, since we’ve lived side by side for generations.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

March 4, 2009 10:42 AM | Link to this

Dear Road @ 9:43, you inspire a funny idea: “A rollicking sense of humor is hardley a requirement for leading our nation!” I try to imagine a standup routine for Hugo Chavez or Vladmir Putin. Funny dictators. Now that I think about it, though, seems like Monty Python had a similar riff, a game show where the contestants included Mao, Fidel, Karl Marx, and Lenin.

By Dutchman

March 4, 2009 10:44 AM | Link to this

Hmm, Lets use an old ACLU argument.

If you have nothing to hide, nothing to be ashamed of, why not provide proof of citizenship?

What is the big deal?

By Chris Broe

March 4, 2009 10:46 AM | Link to this

Conservatism remains dead. Undefined. Unrefined. Rush is the new Bush. Smart-mobbing a Nobama rally with bellowing dittos is the new grassroots campaign. Respectfully respectable Republican audiences are the exception. Become a volunteer. Bellow.

The GOP still hasn’t hit the bottom where most of the once-was-lost get now-I’m-found. Don’t worry. They will stumble across some truth about themselves upon which they can rebound. I give Republicans these words. “Obama’s Stimulus Package is inflationary.” I said that out of pity, and the next thing I know Warren Buffet is saying it, and now the bush base is saying “You had me at inflation” to every Conservative who bellows it.

I am an accountant. Our economic is bottoming out. Why? T’was Surety what kilted the Feast.. Accounting is an art, and when the books are painted like a Picasso, then Surety is in the disjointed eye of the debt-holder.

We have to understand the nature of accounting’s artistic side to understand why we print our money now with dead president body paint. I dont know what that means. Now I want my mommy.

The Republican South will rise again!

By Dusty

March 4, 2009 10:47 AM | Link to this

Once again, folks, Jim Wooten makes a sensible writing that voters should meet the legal requirements to vote. That is such a simple premise. Why throw shadows on it? Be law abiding!

But we get Bill Shipp, a journalist by profession and a Democrat by choice, bringing up Talmadge and Rush and wondering why we don’t like socialism. Does Shipp not have a paying job anymore?

Then comes our pseudo-simpleton and liberal RedNeck trying to make the South look like the LeBreyer Tar Pits in American politics. The only thing he is good for is a ploy of repetitious racial lies as jokes. That is his liberal contribution.

Then Big Bucks GOP tries to replace the former nuisance IN THE NEWS who turned out to be the liberal Mrs. Godzilla. She posted Lib News which pestered more often than a big bunch of sand gnats. Pesticide is needed for copycat repeaters of the news. Opinion?

Ron declares his independence while watching Obama trying to make the USA the last Titanic. Even the mildest Republican can do better than that, ron. But if you did not like Bush, you may love Obama in his eloquent empty suit, the man of charisma if nothing else.

Thanks always to Ragnar who brings another voice of reason to this blog. I have to take a big breath when I start reading but it is always sense and sensibilities (if Jane Austen will forgive me for using one of her titles).

Well, I must get ready for Lenten services. Always good for the soul.

By deegee

March 4, 2009 11:01 AM | Link to this

I don’t think that anyone has proven yet that fraudulent voter registrations are directly proportional to fraudulent votes. I believe that there is a greater chance that a person that has more than one residence is likely to vote more than once by registering in different jurisdictions. I have personal knowledge in my own family where grandma and grandpa were transported from their primary residence in Texas to Louisiana to vote in the presidential election. They figured that their republican vote would have more impact in Louisiana than in Texas. They railed against ACORN and voter fraud all last year. The hypocrisy just amazes me.

By Dusty

March 4, 2009 11:04 AM | Link to this

Will someone please tie PoFo BroeBroe to the ground before he floats off into space? He has started early this morning. He can gush and gurgle at these starting hours, even a bit euphoniously!!

Farewell…

By Chris Broe

March 4, 2009 11:17 AM | Link to this

” Republicans believe their candidates are disadvantaged by fraudulent voting and have begun to tighten the law. Democrats prefer universal eligibility for adults and same-day registration and voting. That would permit them to rent a fleet of vans on election day and sweep the streets for potential voters.”

A slave’s sales receipt could have served as a voter ID for our Founding Father’s first quorum. Property determined eligibility.

Voter ID: Conservatives want to get back in the driver’s seat of the Cash Cab. Liberals don’t need no stinking taxis when they can carpool to polls.

You have to forgive my friend Wooten, he’s merely throwing everything he every spun against the wall to see if anything sticks. I think he needs to reblog that bit about black babies and single parent homes.

I do miss it, though: Red State Talking points with punch. Southern Slogans with legs. Unspoken common sense of a majority crouching behind a flag or hiding in a church.

Conservatism, we hardly knew ye.

Why talking points matter: As accomplished a gunman as Palin was, she could never shoot any holes in the democratic platform. Indeed, in that sense, she couldn’t hit the broadside of a barn.

By mel

March 4, 2009 11:17 AM | Link to this

First, you can’t use a drivers license as proof of citizenship to vote because any resident can get one, resident and citizen are two different things. It takes years of residency to qualify to apply for naturalization (aka citizenship), so a license won’t quality. I’d really like someone to tell me how many “residents” (not American born) go to vote? The assumption that all those “illegals” are out there voting is nuts.

To the person talking about people who are voting ELIGIBLE to be in a database, wouldn’t your idea eliminate many of the people who likely support your position if the criteria became too strict? If you’re a taxpaying citizen, you should be able to vote. Sounds like ‘poll tax’ without the ‘tax’.

By MamaS

March 4, 2009 11:22 AM | Link to this

SHOW ME THE BALLOT!! SHOW ME THE BALLOT!! Lots of talk, talk, talk about cheating in the voting booth. Show me where one county found ONE ballot that was fraudulently cast by a dead person, or a person voted twice or an illegal alien voted. It would be front page news on the AJC and I haven’t seen it! As for the Republicans wanting to guarantee the “sanctity of the vote” —- why did I get three letters from the Republican National Committee of Florida offering to register me in Dade County if I would just sign the enclosed pre-stamped postcard? I have never lived, worked, or owned property in Florida. I have never even visited in Dade County. I did not sign the cards, but I wonder if I voted in Florida anyway?

By yankee

March 4, 2009 11:23 AM | Link to this

And nobody should have to show a ticket to get into a NASCAR race, it’s the same as calling them cheats.

By Will

March 4, 2009 11:28 AM | Link to this

Would the last republican forced to apologize to the on-elected leader of the party (the radio entertainer named Limbaugh) please turn out the lights!

Do you recall Father Coughlin, the fascist radio entertainer from the 1930s? Not a dime’s worth of difference between him and Limbaugh other than Limbaugh is more entertaining.

By marty

March 4, 2009 11:30 AM | Link to this

politicians debating whether it is fraud or suppression has eroded the country’s confidence in the system. the solution is simple — A NATIONAL VOTER REGISTRATION # that remains with the voter regardless of where they move. the only way this can be accomplished is through a federal registration policy, not a local policy. when the 2010 census is taken, registration can be implemented. the problem now becomes obama’s recent move to place the census under the control of this administration. once an ACORN always an ACORN. can the doofus, obama get anything right? HELL NO!

he’s a control freak leftist determined to destroy in advance.

IDIOT! the guy is a freakin IDIOT!!! A NIGHTMARE COME TRUE!!!

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

March 4, 2009 12:42 PM | Link to this

Dear Will @ 11:28, your note reminds me that the 1930s also featured a national socialist leader who sought to bring his country together by strict regulation of the private sector. Also had a clever idea for an internal security force that he funded well. And restrictions on free speech. He also demonized the most prominent spokesmen against him. What was his name?

By Gage

March 4, 2009 12:49 PM | Link to this

ACORN. Of course. What else is new? Everyone knows that Dimocrats get their power from cheaters, criminals, and liars - like illegal immigrant voters, convicted felon voters, and those who vote twice, once for themselves and another time with their dead grandmother’s utility bill still in her name. It will come as no shock when left wing moonbat blocking of any illegal immigrant voting legislation is even thought up, let alone put on paper.

Now if you want to see an example of an Obama voter’s mentality, get a load of this story. Oh, and expect to see more of this kind of BS:

“FORT PIERCE, Fla. - Authorities say a Florida woman called 911 three times after McDonald’s employees told her they were out of Chicken McNuggets.”

“A police report says 27-year-old Fort Pierce resident Latreasa L. Goodman told authorities she paid for a 10-piece last week but was later informed the restaurant had run out.”

“She says she was refused a refund and told all sales were final. A cashier told police she offered Goodman a larger portion of different food for the same price, but Goodman became irate.”

Unbelievable. Clogging up the 911 system for artery clogging crap. What they should do with the ho is force her to eat about 4 dozen of the junk, and if she doesn’t finish, shove the rest down her gullet manually.

Then of course we have the mindless liberal Dummycrats whose infatuation with Rush has escalated to the point of making him as the lead GOP person. I’m sorry, didn’t those JACKASSES tell us that Rush was irrelevant after the November election? Are ALL these people on the loon left INSANE? GOD how pathetic. Yes, they are all certifiably insane and should be sent packing to the loony farm in 2010 and 2012.

“Top Democrats believe they have struck political gold by depicting Rush Limbaugh as the new face of the Republican Party, a full-scale effort first hatched by some of the most familiar names in politics and now being guided in part from inside the White House.”

“The strategy took shape after Democratic strategists Stanley Greenberg and James Carville included Limbaugh’s name in an October poll and learned their longtime tormentor was deeply unpopular with many Americans, especially younger voters. Then the conservative talk-radio host emerged as an unapologetic critic of Barack Obama shortly before his inauguration, when even many Republicans were showering him with praise.”

By Sharecropper

March 4, 2009 12:49 PM | Link to this

NASCAR

By Sharecropper

March 4, 2009 12:53 PM | Link to this

NASCAR and tickets? Omigod. Equate that to Wooten=Limbaugh. The Limbo Party continues to prove that no matter how low they go, they can always go lower, and people like Wooten help them. God, I love it. Limbaugh and Sean Hannity as the intellectual cornerstone of the Republican Party. Add Coulter into that mix and you guys on the loony fringe are in hog heaven. Losers, all of you.

By Chris Broe

March 4, 2009 12:55 PM | Link to this

Obama to America: “Deal, or No Deal?”

America to Obama: We’ll answer you……right after this.

Me to fellow Twitterers: Get a load of Rush and his Bellow Ditto-ers.

Me to the Market: We’re just misunderstood. We’re a good country.

Me to Lincoln: Nobody died in vain.

Maybe the chick filet cows should demand healthcare. We live in a world where India’s Sacred Cow could start a jihad over the ” Eat More Chicken Billboard” Sacred Cows can spell better than that. Cows are treated the same way the Geico Caveman is. What’s next, the E-trade baby ET? (ET didn’t just phone home. He was twittering his followers to planet earth. Run for your lives!)

Our Health care system is broken. What should be RX inspired search and destroy missions has evolved into islands of vainglorious magazine culture. The doctors are good. The hospitals exemplary. The problem lies in the diagnostic liability, which only inspires isolated risk derivatives with no shared liabilities;.and that’s why all the various functions of search and destroy act like our CIA and FBI did before 911: Disinformation and miscommunication. The corrupt derivatives of the risk inherent in any diagnosis can warp the intel and kill a patient, unwittingly, like the rest of the collateral damage capitalism inflicts on healthcare.

The very act of taking the hypocratic oath means you have to pay yourself first.

RX industry to America: Patient, heal thyself.

By Gage

March 4, 2009 12:55 PM | Link to this

To answer MamaBS:

“how me where one county found ONE ballot that was fraudulently cast by a dead person, or a person voted twice or an illegal alien voted.”

Idiot libtard. You don’t honestly believe that someone will come forward and admit they voted more than once, do you?

From Politico.com:

Although the organization prides itself for its registration efforts, it also has a long history of scandal. In the state of Missouri in 1986, 12 ACORN members were convicted of voter fraud. But that case was not an isolated incident in the state. In December 2004, in St. Louis, six volunteers pleaded guilty of dozens of election law violations for filling out registration cards with names of dead people and other bogus information. Authorities launched an earlier investigation after noticing that among the new voters was longtime St. Louis alderman Albert “Red” Villa, who died in 1990. The volunteers worked for “Operation Big Vote” — a branch of ACORN — in St. Louis.

On February 10, 2005, Nonaresa Montgomery, a paid worker who ran Operation Big Vote during the run-up to the 2001 mayoral primary, was found guilty of vote fraud. Montgomery hired about 30 workers to do fraudulent voter-registration canvassing. Instead of knocking on doors, the volunteers sat at a St. Louis fast food restaurant and wrote out names and information from an outdated voter list. About 1,500 fraudulent voter registration cards were turned in.

In October 2006, St. Louis election officials discovered at least 1,492 “potentially fraudulent” voter registration cards. They were all turned in by ACORN volunteers.

In November 2006, 20,000 to 35,000 questionable voter registration forms were turned in by ACORN officials in Missouri. Most all of these were from St. Louis and Kansas City areas, where ACORN purportedly sought to help empower the “disenfranchised” minorities living there. But the ACORN workers weren’t just told to register new voters. The workers admitted on camera that they were coached to tell registrants to vote for Democrat Claire McCaskill.

In 2007, in Kansas City, Missouri, four ACORN employees were indicted for fraud. In April of this year eight ACORN employees in St. Louis city and county pleaded guilty to federal election fraud for submitting bogus voter registrations.

And, that was just Missouri.

This year there have been several accusations of fraud against ACORN. Over a dozen states are investigating the organization already. Here is a complete list of the ongoing investigations:

North Carolina — State Board of Elections officials have found at least 100 voter registration forms with the same names over and over again. The forms were turned in by ACORN. Officials sent about 30 applications to the state Board of Elections for possible fraud investigation.

Ohio — The New York Post reported that a Cleveland man said he was given cash and cigarettes by aggressive ACORN activists in exchange for registering an astonishing 72 times. The complaints have sparked an investigation by election officials into the organization, whose political wing has supported Barack Obama. Witnesses have already been subpoenaed to testify against the organization.

Nevada — Authorities raided the headquarters of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now on Tuesday October 7, 2008, after a month-long investigation. The fraudulent voter registrations included the Dallas Cowboys starting line-up.

Indiana — More than 2,000 voter registration forms filed in northern Indiana’s Lake County filled out by ACORN employees turned out to be bogus. Officials also stopped processing a stack of about 5,000 applications delivered just before the October 6 registration deadline after the first 2,100 turned out to be phony.

Connecticut — Officials are looking into a complaint alleging ACORN submitted fraudulent voter registration cards in Bridgeport. In one instance, an official said a card was filled out for a 7-year-old girl, whose age was listed as 27. 8,000 cards were submitted in Bridgeport.

Missouri — The Kansas City election board is reporting 100 duplicate applications and 280 with fake information. Acorn officials agreed that at least 4% of their registrations were bogus. Governor Matt Blunt condemned the attempts by ACORN to commit voter fraud.

Pennsylvania — Officials are investigating suspicious or incomplete registration forms submitted by ACORN. 252,595 voter registrations were submitted in Philadelphia. Remarkably, 57,435 were rejected — most of them submitted by ACORN.

Wisconsin — In Milwaukee ACORN improperly used felons as registration workers. Additionally, its workers are among 49 cases of bad registrations sent to authorities for possible charges, as first reported by the Journal Sentinel.

Florida — The Pinellas County Elections supervisor says his office has received around 35 voter registrations that appear to be bogus. There is also a question of 30,000 felons who are registered illegally to vote. Their connections with ACORN are not yet clear.

Texas — Of the 30,000 registration cards ACORN turned in, Harris County tax assessor Paul Bettencourt says just more than 20,000 are valid. And just look at some of the places ACORN was finding those voters. A church just next door is the address for around 150 people. More than 250 people claim a homeless outreach center as their home address. Some listed a county mental health facility as their home and one person even wrote down the Harris County jail at the sheriff’s office.

Michigan — ACORN in Detroit is being investigated after several municipal clerks reported fraudulent and duplicate voter registration applications coming through. The clerk interviewed said the fraud appears to be widespread.

New Mexico – The Bernalillo County clerk has notified prosecutors that some 1,100 fraudulent voter registration cards were turned in by ACORN.

That’s not all. So far this year at least 14 states have started investigations against ACORN. Talk about a culture of corruption. It is so bad that Representatives of Congress have asked for the Justice Department to investigate, and GOP presidential candidate John McCain is bringing it up in his stump speeches. The Obama camp is stealthily altering its “Fight the Smears” website to distance themselves from the organization — quite a challenge considering how close their candidate’s association has been with the group.

The liberal vs. conservative, voter fraud vs. voter intimidation debate will no doubt continue after this election. But this year, with the assistance of scandal-plagued ACORN, it appears that — so far — the voter fraud side is winning.

By Jackie

March 4, 2009 12:59 PM | Link to this

The Repubs have trotted out one of their favorite truisms; the citizens are not voting GOP therefore, THEY(those people) must be cheating.

Our economic pants are falling down around our ankles, due to the policies and practices of the Repubs, starting with Ronnie Reagan and exacerbated by Dubya. Yet, these folks have NOT produced one cast ballot that was proven to be fraudulent.

You must give the Repubs credit, they are adept at maintaining their “talking points” because they are without ideas and policies to help the masses.

The Repubs are meet the criteria that James Brown used for one of his songs, “Talking Loud and Saying Nuthin’.”

By Churchill's MOM

March 4, 2009 1:12 PM | Link to this

More of the Madoff story from yesterday. These people remind me so much of my sister’s Augusta friends.

http://www.vanityfair.com:80/politics/features/2009/04/madoff200904

By Dogstarr

March 4, 2009 1:15 PM | Link to this

Once again our Georgia legislators do their best to embarrass our state, of course it’s par for the course when you are morally and intellectually bankrupt (as well as financially, at this point). Try to understand that racism, sexism and even patriotism to some extent, are intellectual creations of an overclass that benefits from dividing the working class over nonsense that helps keep them from questioning the larger picture that truly effects their well being.

Until we have 100% public financing of campaigns we can’t possibly expect anything approaching real representation. I think the Democrats have more of an interest in improving things at this point, as the Rebublican’t party wants any plan to fail to try to dupe The People into voting for them in 2010, but partisanship is just a brand of the same ignorance of the real issues that face our country.

With the clear connection between having the most money and winning an election, we can’t get our supposed leaders to think clearly about the right thing to do, they have to weigh every vote against how it will effect their contributions.

The idea that banking should be a bloated for profit industry is a fallacy, makes far more sense to streamline the banking industry, as well as health care so that we can actually build a stronger and better society for everyone and not just keep building the wealth of those who already have more than they can possibly spend in 100 lifetimes.

We already have nationalized Military, Police, Fire and Rescue, Highway/Transportation system, Schools and much more, none of these things are perfect, but they work better than having only private companies running all these things, a lot less expensive too.

If private companies want to keep running some banks in direct competition with one run by the Government, they’ll have to stay lean, if they can’t compete with what a Bank Of The American People would be able offer, I guess that would be because too many folks were trying to pad their pockets, rather than run a lean company…it shouldn’t be like it is, take from the People through taxes and keep being greedy, we all know that’s what got us into this mess and it needs to end before our economy is sucked into their Swiss Bank Accounts.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

March 4, 2009 1:19 PM | Link to this

Our leftist friends will be proud to hear that Rush Limbaugh has offered to debate Obama one on one, party leader to party leader, on ideology and policy, for the full three hours of his radio show. Now the champion of the leftists will have the chance to rid the country of that troublesome priest once and for all. All Obama has to do is win the debate. Rush even offered to send his jet to pick up the president, so the taxpayers won’t have to pay for it.

By obama consumer

March 4, 2009 1:24 PM | Link to this

ashamed to admit it but i want a refund on my misplaced vote. i don’t have a receipt so i’m screwed.

what the hell was i thinking?

By @@

March 4, 2009 1:37 PM | Link to this

I have to agree with somebody ^^^ up there (too tired to go looking) who said the census “taking” would have been a great opportunity to initiate government registration but as it is now…..what with Obama taking the responsibility of the census from The Commerce Department, and putting it under the administration, the opportunity that anything could be “fair and just” was lost.

I cannot put my finger on it, but everything Obama does suffers from lousy timing.

It’s uncanny! Unless, of course, he truly thinks of himself as Superman. If he does, we had better arm ourselves with kryptonite.

Personally, I’ve found that everything he does has been severely punishing.

By Jason

March 4, 2009 1:53 PM | Link to this

Notwithstanding my support of stricter immigration policy, I find it hypocritical of fiscal conservatives to condone—or at least ignore—the hiring of illegal aliens for cheap, no-strings-attached labor, while at the same time condemning said aliens’ attempts to vote in U.S. elections. Businesses that skirt employment laws are just as culpable as foreigners who skirt election laws.

By jeanie195

March 4, 2009 1:56 PM | Link to this

Fantastic article!!! As one of the pro-Photo ID activists in Minnesota, I know the horrible mess we are in with our U.S.Senate election. By now the ballots are so confused and incorrectly counted that no one knows who won. It is literally impossible to know!!!

In Minnesota you can same-day register to vote with a phone bill. No photo-ID required. And in Minnesota (only place in the country or the world) one can register by having someone vouch for you living in the precinct. No ID required. So you have the just registered with a phone bill voter turn around and vouch for someone.

Most vouching is orchstrated by the Democrat Party. People call in and are told to wait at the polling place and someone “in a red sweater” or whatever will meet them to vouch for them.

By ljskdfv

March 4, 2009 2:02 PM | Link to this

mr. shipp - it is like the democrat playbook ; get out your base by any means possible

By @@

March 4, 2009 2:18 PM | Link to this

Jason:

There’s been a crackdown on employers who hire illegals. Know who’s hollering foul?

Liberals in sanctuary cities. In a way, it’s kinda like they don’t mind seeing illegals exploited.

Having said that, I agree with you about companies that hire illegals.

If illegals are voting (not sure they are) it would be a conundrum for them. Do they vote for the party that supports the businesses who support their (the illegals’) livelihood or the party that seeks to destroy the businesses but would prefer they be put on welfare to garner their votes.

I grew up among a predominantly hispanic culture. I assume they were legal. I found them to be hard-working, family-oriented, devout Catholics and in many instances, the most prosperous in the community. I guess that would make them conservatives from the liberal perspective.

With what’s going on down in Mexico, with the drug wars and whatnot, too many of the criminal element are making their way through. The image projects badly on all. It’s unfortunate, but true just the same.

As ACORN taints, so do the bad seeds which never grow to be mighty oaks. A fertile seed cannot or will not grow under the shade of government.

By deegee

March 4, 2009 2:27 PM | Link to this

Rush Limbaugh has to be the most pompous, arrogant azzhole in the entertainment industry. I have tried to listen to that guy but he goes on forever talking about himself and where he went over the weekend and who he saw and what he did and blah, blah, blah. Who in the hell is interested in that BS besides a bunch of shut-ins that can only imagine what it’s like to have a life? His political rants are designed to make his audience feel like they are a member of an exclusive, enlightened club. He’s playing these poor chumps like Madoff. Look at me, I listen to the Excellence in Broadcasting network. I get it. I am a member of the club, I’m a dittohead. It’s an honor to speak with El-Rushbo. Bless you, my child of grace. Geez, what a blowhard.

By Jacque

March 4, 2009 2:40 PM | Link to this

The only large-scale “voter fraud” in Georgia, following Jim Crow, was absentee balloting. So I guess, without reading the details, that the intelligence-at-work in this “voter protection” has some provision for a politically balanced or proven-to-be neutral party flying about at their own expense (you know how the voter-protestors hate government spending) to all parts of the world so that those abroad who wish to vote may be properly sworn and identified and their ballots escorted by equally neutral armed guards back to their respective voting places. OR have the voter-protectors (it is not intended to sound like condoms) just outlawed absentee ballots to prevent another occurrence of voter fraud? OR could it be that this so-called protection is the real voter fraud?

By @@

March 4, 2009 2:43 PM | Link to this

deegee:

Jim’s column is about voter registration.

Why go off on a rant about Rush Limbaugh?

Are you lost?

The “Rush Obsession” is over at Bookman’s. He afflicted with it.

By deegee

March 4, 2009 2:44 PM | Link to this

@@, there hasn’t been a crackdown on employers that hire illegals, the crackdown is on the workers. They are rounded up, jailed, deported and separated from their families. The employers may experience a temporary disruption while they hire replacement workers but their business goes on as usual. Those that are protesting are not in favor of exploiting illegal immigrants. They are rallying in favor of comprehensive immigration reform that distinguishes criminals from the hard working immigrants with whom you are familiar. As long as the republican party refuses to make the distinction they will lose the support of the immigrant community, and more specifically, hispanics.

By Redneck Convert

March 4, 2009 3:02 PM | Link to this

Well, I’m on a break and just wanted you all to know it’s Peanut Butter Day down at the statehouse. I hope you can all drop in and sample what us good rednecks can do with some peanuts. Have a good day everybody.

By deegee

March 4, 2009 3:11 PM | Link to this

Yes, @@ you are right. I already gave my opinion on voter registration fraud and expressed that my own republican family was guilty of the only case of actual voter fraud that I know of. Please forgive me for reacting to Ragnar’s post @1:19. I really didn’t mean it, I don’t know what got into me, really. I know how Michael Steele and Phil Gingrey must feel.

By Redneck Convert

March 4, 2009 4:01 PM | Link to this

Well, if this deegee really wants to make a apology to @@ he can get some good practice at http://www.imsorryrush.com. The lousy libruls made it up. You can act like Gingrey and Steele just by picking out the words. It would be funny if it didn’t sound just like them.

By Dusty

March 4, 2009 4:38 PM | Link to this

Now we are in big trouble. RedNeck Convert (3:02) is down at the Statehouse. Oh no! If he is down there he might be in POLITICS!! Man the lifeboats!!

By Chris Broe

March 4, 2009 4:42 PM | Link to this

A Critical Glance at National Healthcare: The problem lies in the diagnostic liability, which only inspires isolated risk derivatives with no shared liabilities;.and that’s why all the various functions of search and destroy act like our CIA and FBI did before 911: Disinformation and miscommunication. You cant purposefully misspell acronyms and then expect anyone to understand your diagnosis. Memorizing the Latin names of all the bones in a frog is about as sophisticated as you get when it comes to interns. In a hospital, people, we are on our own. I’ll translate Doctor into legal-eze 4U: The rosetta (gall)stone is being passed to a new generation……Most Americans don’t know the Latin names of all the bones in a frog’s body, we barely understand what Vente means. The corrupt derivatives of the risk inherent in any diagnosis can warp the intel and kill a patient, unwittingly, like the rest of the collateral damage capitalism inflicts on Healthcare.

The very act of taking the Hippocratic oath means you have to pay yourself first. Doctors would be better positioned to save patients if they were unencumbered by the risk derivatives. It’s time for national health care. Lets give RX to our sick. Like I demand that Rush Limbaugh be bailed out with a federal RX for Oxycontin. The man needs it. Moe, Larry, the Cheese!. Rush is the new Curly. Give that man some Limburger, and Viagra, and Rx on the stimulus package’s dime. Lets give Obama’s healthcare plan the stress test.

We love you Rush Limbaugh! But you are a Curly-American. (That’s why we love U).

RX industry to America: Patient, heal thyself.

By deegee

March 4, 2009 4:58 PM | Link to this

You go to the doc in the box for flu symptoms. They give you an EKG because your chest hurts. The EKG shows that you have a slow heart rate so they recommend that you go to the emergency room right away. The ER gives you $2K worth of diagnosis and treatment and lets you know that your slow heart rate is due to the fact that you exercise regularly and are in good physical condition. Then you don’t feel so bad about having the flu. You happily retrieve your $4.00 anitibiotic prescription at Kroger. Great system.

By B. Frank

March 5, 2009 8:27 AM | Link to this

Dipgee: If you don’t like this nation’s health care, all 84% of us that are a part of it on a regular basis through a paid insurance plan, then go move to Canada and see what a wonderful system they have in health care. Good luck waiting in line behind some no-life loser (like you lib nitwits on this blog telling conservatives they and their ideas are dead) with a sore thumb while you are bleeding from an ulcer and keeled over in pain. Do idiots like you on the left honestly believe a gov’t run health care system for ALL will be better than what we have now?

Speaking of idiots, it appears that Obama is now telling Americans that they should get out and go buy stocks! Yes, this is the same Obama who wants to tax the hell out of Wall Street, corporations, and investors who live off investing for others. Yes, the is the same Obama who said that everything is going to hell in the economy and it will get worse and there’s nothing we can do about it.

Liberals are certifiably INSANE.

By Chris Broe

March 5, 2009 8:37 AM | Link to this

This Octuplet woman has only given birth to 8 babies in the last 100 days? She’s as useless as Obama and his 8 trillion dollar baby bailout thing. Their both nanny and ninny state democrats.

‘muff said

By @@

March 5, 2009 8:48 AM | Link to this

deegee:

You were wrong yesterday when you said there hasn’t been a crackdown on companies who hire illegals. Here’s just a few for your review:

@ insidelocalnews.com — Riverside company fined $20.7 million for employing illegal immigrants

In Nevada — McDonald’s franchise fined one million dollars for employing illegal immigrants

@ npr — A fence-building company in Southern California agrees to pay nearly $5 million in fines for hiring illegal immigrants. Two executives from the company may also serve jail time. The Golden State Fence Company’s work includes some of the border fence between San Diego and Mexico.

Maybe you can be right another day.

For some reason, Jim’s site wouldn’t take the links but they’re easy enough to find if you’re interested.

Off to work.

By zeke

March 5, 2009 9:23 AM | Link to this

EXACTLY! That is why we should all raise pure hell until the subsidy for acorn is stripped from the so called stimulus bill! Obama supporting his vote buying cohorts is criminal! This should be a reason for impeachment! Same with the ridiculous new union forming scheme he wants to install to reward his union buddies!

By REPUBLICANS EVIL TIME IS UP

March 5, 2009 9:42 AM | Link to this

TO THE STUPID DIXIE NEO-NAZI DEVIL WORSHIPERS WHO ARE COMPLAINING NOW THAT OBAMA IS TRYING TO FIX WHAT THE EVIL GOP PUT US IN.

ITS LIKE THESE STUPID DIXIE LOVERS ARE GLAD THAT BUSH AND THE NEO-NAZIS SENT AWAY ALL THE 15.00 TO 20.00 A HOUR JOBS OVERSEAS AND THESE SAME HICKS ARE HAPPY WITH THE NEW 10.00 A HOUR KIA PLANT JOB IN COLUMBUS,GA.

YOU FOOLS LIKE JIMBO HERE ARE MAD THAT PEOPLE OF COLOR ARE NOT GOING FOR THE GOP LIES AND PROPAGANDA THATS WHY THEY ASK FOR STRICT ID LAWS DEALING WITH VOTING BECAUSE THE RACIST WHITES ARE NOW OUTNUMBERED!