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It's very very funny to see just how well he presses ALL the buttons for the small-minded.
Y2
9:11:15 AM
1/22/09

Just got to thinking about the line of succession;
Obama
Biden
Pelosi

Kind of a sick feeling. We have got to keep this guy healthy. Sure hope those Secret Service agents are as good as they are suppose to be.
NoProb
9:35:31 AM
1/22/09

Get yourself a barf bag.
MarkO
9:38:46 AM
1/22/09

Better yet, aim fur yer keyboard!
roseymonster
9:47:56 AM
1/22/09

Gee, you mean you are allowed to have opinions and express them here but I shouldn't.
NoProb
9:53:27 AM
1/22/09

Why should you not?
MarkO
10:25:38 AM
1/22/09


Yeah I posted a pic of the garbage the democrats left yesterday, and of course, only crickets from the liberals here.
Mutt
1:56:43 PM
1/22/09

I noticed you got no response about the Democrat Black Preacher's very racist comment either, from the hypocrites.
Stovie
1:59:14 PM
1/22/09

Someone better call the Wah-bulance!
VioLiN
3:53:09 PM
1/22/09

kleetn
4:00:34 PM
1/22/09

hypocrites?
Look who shows up!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Stovie
4:12:29 PM
1/22/09

Stovie, put the mirror down and take your meds.
kleetn
4:26:22 PM
1/22/09

I'm truly amazed that we are not hearing how much better things would be under a President Palid/McPain. Oh crap. That's right. They lost. How soon I forgot.
Geobeet
4:43:14 PM
1/22/09

This 'editor biz' just isn't working out for you, is it geo?
Stovie
4:51:09 PM
1/22/09

"The dead-enders are still with us, those remnants of the defeated regimes who'll go on fighting long after their cause is lost."

- Donald Rumsfeld, August 25, 2003
VioLiN
4:57:21 PM
1/22/09

Someone better call the Wah-bulance!
Stovie
5:09:57 PM
1/22/09

"This 'editor biz' just isn't working out for you, is it geo?”
Stovie


I'm still employed Bubba. What about you?
Geobeet
5:14:29 PM
1/22/09

Stovie
5:24:06 PM
1/22/09

Nigal
6:34:20 PM
1/22/09

*GRIN*
Stovie
6:37:06 PM
1/22/09

Man, I hope the 'TT' pendulum's motion doesn't continue it's eight year period.
salebored
9:18:35 PM
1/22/09

Speaking of colossal right wing douchebags who got their guts stomped out in the last election, where's the unprovoked provoking provoker these days? Did all those bum checks finally catch up with him?
roseymonster
10:09:21 PM
1/22/09

Ixnay on the arge-say!
Nigal
3:03:04 AM
1/23/09


Silence is Golden.
VioLiN
5:15:48 AM
1/23/09

LOL...Ya Gotta Love Facts

We are living in a historical moment that in some ways represents uncharted territory. In other respects, however, the current moment is a return to a simpler and clearer past, when the hallmark of conservatism was opposition to extravagant spending boondoggles proposed by liberals. For a variety of reasons the fiscal battle lines have been blurred in recent years, but these days we are back to the paradigm that held sway decades ago.

Yesterday, Minority Leader John Boehner sent out an email on the House Democrats' ridiculous $825 billion "stimulus" bill. It is worth reproducing in its entirety:

A Dozen Fun Facts About the House Democrats' Massive Spending Bill

1. The House Democrats' bill will cost each and every household $6,700 additional debt, paid for by our children and grandchildren.

2. The total cost of this one piece of legislation is almost as much as the annual discretionary budget for the entire federal government.

3. President-elect Obama has said that his proposed stimulus legislation will create or save three million jobs. This means that this legislation will spend about $275,000 per job. The average household income in the U.S. is $50,000 a year.

4. The House Democrats' bill provides enough spending - $825 billion - to give every man, woman, and child in America $2,700.

5. $825 billion is enough to give every person living in poverty in the U.S. $22,000.

6. $825 billion is enough to give every person in Ohio $72,000.

7. Although the House Democrats' proposal has been billed as a transportation and infrastructure investment package, in actuality only $30 billion of the bill - or three percent - is for road and highway spending. A recent study from the Congressional Budget Office said that only 25 percent of infrastructure dollars can be spent in the first year, making the one year total less than $7 billion for infrastructure.

8. Much of the funding within the House Democrats' proposal will go to programs that already have large, unexpended balances. For example, the bill provides $1 billion for Community Development Block Grants (CDBG), which already have $16 billion on hand. And, this year, Congress has plans to rescind $9 billion in highway funding that the states have not yet used.

9. In 1993, the unemployment rate was virtually the same as the rate today (around seven percent). Yet, then-President Clinton's proposed stimulus legislation ONLY contained $16 billion in spending.

10. Here are just a few of the programs and projects that have been included in the House Democrats' proposal:

· $650 million for digital TV coupons.
· $6 billion for colleges/universities - many which have billion dollar endowments.
· $166 billion in direct aid to states - many of which have failed to budget wisely.
· $50 million in funding for the National Endowment of the Arts.
· $44 million for repairs to U.S. Department of Agriculture headquarters.
· $200 million for the National Mall, including grass planting.
· $400 million for "National Treasures."

11. Almost one-third of the so called tax relief in the House Democrats' bill is spending in disguise, meaning that true tax relief makes up only 24 percent of the total package - not the 40 percent that President-elect Obama had requested.

12. $825 billion is just the beginning - many Capitol Hill Democrats want to spend even more taxpayer dollars on their "stimulus" plan.


Why is it the Marxists on here are crooning left and right about an unproven "Global Warming Disaster" that MAY hit in 20 years but just want to totally ignore a budget disaster that will hit in the next few years?
theXL400
7:09:19 AM
1/23/09

Ixnay on the arge-say!”
Nigal
3:03:04 AM
1/23/09


LMAO
The Dutchess of Road Kill
7:19:43 AM
1/23/09

heh heh heh, XL said Boehner.
kleetn
7:39:05 AM
1/23/09

".....a budget disaster that will hit in the next few years?"

Somebody here is ignoring a budget disaster that has already hit and is a result of the disastrous administration that has been hitting us for the last eight years.

Calling The Man From Planet X.........
MarkO
7:47:42 AM
1/23/09

The world will be around to warm, but the US economy my not have printing presses in 20 years. And, at present unemployment, we won't have any firepersons-won't be anyone else to fire.

YesDork, yes!
salebored
7:54:53 AM
1/23/09

MarkO
10:00:03 AM
1/23/09

Here we go....
* $850 billion destimulus package -- I refuse to call this a stimulus. The idea here is that if the government spends and borrows and prints nearly $1 trillion we all get jobs and get rich. It’s the Bolivia economic model. Probability of passage 80%

* Forced union rules -- Get rid of secret ballots for elections to unionize factories and plants. So much for democracy. This is the payback for the $400 million the union bosses spent to elect Democrats. Probability of passage 50%

* Hillary Health Care – Obama wants a new version of government run health care. And why not? Socialized health care has worked so well in Canada and the U.K. Just don’t get sick. – Probability of passage 50%

* Cap and trade energy tax – This is the mother of all tax hikes, $1.2 trillion over the next decade. The greenies and their patron saint Al Gore are drooling for this new tax because it will cripple American industry and our manufacturing capacity. Good bye jobs but this is the price we pay for our environmental crimes of the last half-century. Probability of passage 50%

* Soak the rich -- Mr. Obama wants to raise the income tax, the capital gains tax, the dividend tax, and the payroll tax. That’s all. But only the rich – that is people who create jobs, take risks, start businesses, work hard, etc. – will pay. So half of all income taxes will be paid by 1% of Americans. Yes, that’s fair. Probability of passage 50%.

* Don’t drill, don’t drill, don’t drill. Barack Obama is likely to seek a law reinstating bans on offshore drilling for oil and gas in the outer continental shelf, Alaska, and in the oil shale rich states out west. Wow, that’s a great way to create jobs! And a great way to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. NOT! Probability of passage 75%

* Fairness doctrine -- To make sure all of this liberal big government agenda isn't derailed by the likes of Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, the Democrats want to pass the "Fairness doctrine," to make sure that they get equal time on the radio and TV. Have these people ever heard of NPR and Katie Couric? Probability of passage 50%

Yikes! That’s a big dosage of economic cyanide the left wants America to swallow. If this whole agenda goes through, in 2009 the federal budget will run the budget deficit to $2.2 trillion -- in a single year. That's more borrowing in twelve months than the federal government did in 200 years!

BRILLIANT! Blame it all on W!
stratd00d
10:52:34 AM
1/23/09

All I wanna know is am I gettin' a check? And when?
Nigal
11:04:45 AM
1/23/09

I want my retirement fund bailed out.
NoProb
11:11:57 AM
1/23/09









kleetn
1:31:01 PM
1/23/09

Nigal from what I am hearing if you earn of $65K you are out of luck.
theXL400
1:34:44 PM
1/23/09

No need to listen to Limbaugh.

Thanks, Dood.
MarkO
1:45:01 PM
1/23/09

Stovie
5:22:25 PM
1/23/09

concder
Look what we have wrought. We've elected Obama and sent the right wing spin machine into overdrive. Have you no humanity America? No sense of human decency? No concern for the downtrodden messes?
Geobeet
6:47:28 PM
1/23/09

concder?

Editor needed!
*GRIN*
Stovie
7:01:40 PM
1/23/09


last edited: 1/23/09 6:45:34 PM
nimrod
7:06:40 PM
1/23/09

Stovie
10:45:15 AM
1/27/09

AH yes....Imagine in say 1944 a Republican Candidate for President telling survivors of Pearl Harbor...we will make nice with the Fascists (Germans and Japanese)....LOL.
theXL400
12:56:02 PM
1/27/09

Naysayers meeting
Try to be more out of touch
Like true patriots
Dunadan
3:57:24 PM
1/27/09

Stovie
7:23:41 PM
1/27/09

I am SHOCKED that the libbies who were wetting their pants over the Patriot Act and the NSA monitoring calls outside the US (tip here the Constitution does not extend outside US borders) are as quiet as church mice over this little attack on the first amendment. I would think that people who could create rights out of thin air woudl be jumping to shut down this assault.

But then they were overjoyed at the McCain-Feingold attack on free speech.

Stalinists are always quick to assault and slow to defend.
theXL400
6:00:03 AM
1/28/09

LOL. it took Obama less than a week to pick up an INTERN!!!!

theXL400
6:29:15 AM
1/28/09

Remember the laugh at Bush and the locked door

theXL400
12:21:02 PM
1/28/09


OKAY...Change has now been defined...it means the Dems get to turn the pork over to their friends.....
Or as George Orwell so pefectly predicted in "Animal Farm"

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
theXL400
11:14:27 AM
1/29/09

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