if we lot can’t be kind, but Justice Ginsberg is undergoing surgery for pancreatic cancer, which, to speak in the vernacular of the peasantry, is a bitch. So, best wishes to Justice Ginsberg.
And if anybody thinks that’s in any way satisfying, a) fuck off and b) consider the likely replacements.
Of course, cancer is even more tragic when it strikes the young.
I know what you’re thinking. “Did he fire six shots or only five?” Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you’ve got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?
There had always been an England.
Leon panetta is Italian for “lion sandwich.”
Etta pans bouncy, not my president. (h/t Big Hollywood)
Obama cleans up Washington one nominee at a time, lien on me edition
Eeewww. Pancreatic cancer is nasty indeed. Best wishes for a smooth road forward. Oh, and Bernadine Dohrn. Or Glenda Hatchett. Or Oprah.
Best wishes to her & her family.
I’m not a big fan of her rulings, as she tends to want to make decisions based upon “world opinion” rather than strict constructionism, but my desire for her and others that I don’t agree with is that they retire and live out long lives doing other things that make them happy and fulfilled. Best wishes for her and her family.
Best wishes to her and hers of course.
The additional problem is that she will probably have to resign for health reasons. Pancreatic cancer isn’t something you work around. Can Obama take the strain of pushing his Spendulus Bill AND a SCOTUS battle simultaneously?
Best wishes to her and her family.
On the replacement, I’m sure Bobby Rush will come forward to demand that her spot be filled by another woman.
PanCan is indeed nasty, and likely fatal. Good luck to her.
She won’t be able to continue to serve; and I’m sorry for her and her family.
I have no idea who would be on O’s short list. I can’t imagine a replacement who could have less partisanship or less strict respect of the constitution, but sink me if O won’t find such a one.
Or maybe this is Hillary’s big chance. Which would be something of an improvement.
Nobody should have to go out like that.
I hates cancer, I just lost a brother-in-law to it.
Alla best to Justice Ginsberg, may she return to full health.
There are some rare varieties of pancreatic cancer that aren’t fast killers; I think Steve Jobs had one variety like that. Here’s hoping she does, too.
I read somewhere that she and Scalia always spend New Years Eve together watching TV. No idea where I read it, though.
It sucks to be mortal. Here’s hoping she recovers fully.
#11 – pancreatic cancer killed my grandfather. The only blessing in his case was the rapidity of demise.
Even despite the closer attention to her health in her case that could optimize outcome, she’s unlikely to have one of the survivable forms at her age.
You know, Dan, you can break these up into multiple posts. I don’t see what the other links have to do with SCOTUS or Justice Ginsberg.
Sorry, Techie. It’s a links round-up kind of thing.
I thought that the second one made for a sad kind of contrast, considering how it wasn’t much of a big deal, apparently.
One name I’m seeing kicked around is that of Elena Kagan (the Harvard Law dean).
Having lost one of my uncles to pancreatic cancer last year I can attest to just how quickly it can cause a seemingly robust and healthy individual to wither and expire…
Here’s hoping the doctors caught it early enough to prevent Justice Ginsberg from sharing his fate…
I wish her a speedy and full recovery
I lost my mother to pancreatic cancer in 2002. She died one year to the day from when she was diagnosed. I know she was in a lot of pain, but she was a woman every bit as stoic and tough as those in Dan’s “England” link. She spent a lot of time around her grandkids up to the last three weeks or so, and still looked good. That last year was a gift.
I hope Justice Ginsberg retires as soon as possible from the Court and spends her remaining time with those who delight in her company. I pray for her recovery or, should this not be God’s will, her vitality and lucidity for as long as possible to enjoy her family and they her presence.
I say let Reid pass the bill if he has the votes…
Let them Own! it…
I agree with Bob. Let them pass this piece of crap. It can be all theirs. And any Republican that votes for it should be booted out ASAP.
Baracky’s phony-assed stimulus is not the action real Americans need and even the stupid socialist Washington Post says it’s a plan only a confused dipshit could have come up with.
It’s a jihad world after all,
It’s a jihad world after all,
It’s a jihad world after all,
It’s a jihad, jihad world!
I found the part that said
especially informative
[The president dismissed calls by Republicans for more tax cuts to be included in the stimulus plan.
“Those ideas have been tested and they have failed,†said Obama today as he addressed Department of Energy employees at their headquarters in Washington. “The scale and scope of this plan is the right one.â€Â]
Didn’t this asshole campaign on “Giving 95% of Americans a tax cut”, or did I just imagine that part?
OT/This just in:
BILL PRESS: Yeah, I mean look: They have a right to say that. They’ve got a right to express that. But, they should not be the only voices heard. So, is it time to bring back the Fairness Doctrine?
SENATOR DEBBIE STABENOW (D-MI): I think it’s absolutely time to pass a standard. Now, whether it’s called the Fairness Standard, whether it’s called something else – I absolutely think it’s time to be bringing accountability to the airwaves. I mean, our new president has talked rightly about accountability and transparency. You know, that we all have to step up and be responsible. And, I think in this case, there needs to be some accountability and standards put in place.
BILL PRESS: Can we count on you to push for some hearings in the United States Senate this year, to bring these owners in and hold them accountable?
SENATOR DEBBIE STABENOW (D-MI): I have already had some discussions with colleagues and, you know, I feel like that’s gonna happen. Yep.
Is this a trick question? What battle? With the Dem majority and a few *cough* Republicans *cough* McCain* in the Senate, Barry could nominate Bill Ayers and he’d get the gig.
Best wishes for Justice Ginsberg, anyway.
Carin’s post translated:
Rush shall pay dearly for his insolence to The One Lightworker.
Oh, that Barack Obama! I wasn’t sure.
Techie – they’re going to bring those radio station owners in and HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE. They’re not gonna go after Rush, just the station owners who buy his product. Will they fall like a house of cards?
I mean, a battle with Rush? They’d have no chance.
You imagined it. Obama has always said tax cuts fail. It’s not your money, after all. It’s not your labor. It’s the governments, to do with as they please.
I think Geddy Lee could take them all on, solo. If Neal Peart pitched in, it’d be carnage.
What?
Let’s face it, if they cannot control the narrative everywhere, they know they will, in the long run, be defeated. At least until they have co-opted about 10% more of the population.
Except for politicians. “Accountability” and “standards” are not to be applied to, for example, web pages that collect credit card information for campaign donations. Political speech? Sure!
I’m sure Neal Peart would go all Ayn Rand on their asses, Slart.
Ayep. They’ll have “community standards boards” that let stations know if they’re programming is acceptable.
It’d be interesting to see their reactions if an “urban” station lost its license after it was found to be acting against the community interests. I have a feeling there will be some very odd exceptions to whatever “standards” and “accountability” they develop.
I swear, I’m gonna devote the next few years of my life to making sure loses her next election; 2012. I’ve got a bit of time.
She’s an idiot.
I think our Lightworker should appoint himself to SCOTUS if the opening should arise. It would get him out of the White House, and He is after all a brilliant Constitutional scholar-type guy. Plus it would help Him with that consolidation of power dealio that socialist people like so much.
I gotta go work out before I blow an artery.
And, I think in this case, there needs to be some accountability and standards put in place.
Translated: “We will regulate what othres can say about us, because we are liberal Democrats and fear the liberty of others.”
This is curious in that satellite radio and HD AM and FM have made programming all the available air time a real problem. I mean, for example, local off-air (free) HD TV. Maybe twenty channel and subchannel combinations, with most rerunning Charlie’s Angels and crap like that. Available air time on HD radio is the same. Rush could probably buy air time in most major markets on HD subchannels that sound better than the main channel of the licensee, and perhaps pocket more income as a result of the switch. Within a few months Rush fans would either have HD radio boxes, or tuners, or they’d have internet streaming audio receivers…this attempt by liberal Democrats to suppress free political speech will fail.
You read my mind Dan. I don’t mind who replaces that awful woman, as long as it’s not an another affirmative action darkie, or God forbid – an Irish Papist.
BTW: SecLabor nominee’s husband just paid 16 years worth of back taxes. Whoops, guess he forgot.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-02-05-solis-husband-taxes_N.htm
Who the hell is running this Administration?!?!?!
Geezer — any over-the-air transmission will likely come under whatever “standards” they impose. It’ll be cable or internet that’s left, and I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if they do their damnedest to bring some “accountability” there as well.
Moby in aisle 40!
I dunno. In smaller markets, localism is doomed. Not enough revenue to keep them afloat locally without inclusion in the national advertising buys. And that’s pretty much across the AM-FM-TV board. A 100 KW FM station has a heck of a power bill no matter where they are. There are some in communities of less than 100,000 and those will be hurtin’ for certain.
So if O! wants massive media failure they can go ahead. Doesn’t make me want to watch or listen to the survivors. My car CD player is great and even play MP3 CDs. Fine if they carry Rush, not so hot if they worshipped The One. They really need to think about that one. In some places the Rush carrier also owns stations with alternatives. They may all go under.
The fact that they have no legal jurisdiction to regulate cable or internet content will not matter to them, of course. It’ll be for The Children™ or something like that.
New Gallup numbers out. Seems only ~38% want the Spendulus bill passed in it’s current form. (To be fair, ~37% responded “Pass with major alterations”, whatever those might be)
Does that make them the 38percenters?
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And if anybody thinks that’s in any way satisfying, a) fuck off and b) consider the likely replacements.
You read my mind Dan. I don’t mind who replaces that awful woman, as long as it’s not an another affirmative action darkie, or God forbid – an Irish Papist.”
Nice try, thor.
Now go take your meds and have a nice long nap.
“Lion Meat Panini” is something Stouffer’s should look into. Or mebbe Hot Pocketsâ„¢.
Did you see any action?
Did you make any friends?
Of course, I also wish Justie Ginsberg well, though I sincerely doubt she reads Protein Wisdom. I’m more interested (because I’m clueless about liberal jurists) who many of you think would be on the short for the One to put onto the court. I think its almost a given one of the elder justices will either die or retire in the next 4 years and while I know it was a major campaign theme, I’ve heard very few names bandied about besides the Harvard dean and (/scowls) Hillary Clinton.
Thoughts (as a sympathy card at PW seems kinda wasted since no lib will believe repubs can possibly be sympathetic to a dying person- we’re bad bad people, dont ya know).
“I’m more interested (because I’m clueless about liberal jurists) who many of you think would be on the short for the One to put onto the court.”
Someone who owes back taxes.
I don’t think anyone associated with this Administration pays taxes.
I think our Lightworker should appoint himself to SCOTUS if the opening should arise. It would get him out of the White House….
I think you should have finished that thought a little more thoroughly before proceeding.
I’m just sayin’.
I don’t think anyone associated with this Administration pays taxes.
Taxes are for darkworkers.
“There’s no way anyone can spend $800 to $900 billion quickly without waste and boondoggles. It comes with the Keynesian territory. This is an emergency; the normal rules do not apply.”
From: http://www.newsweek.com/id/183204
Would this be considered the politics of fear? Could our fears be used against us? What about “talking down the economy”?
Early opportunity to appoint Bill Clinton to the court, he’s been sucking up for something high power and UN SG was out of the question. Then Hillary appoints the O!Messiah in 8 years and her successor appoints her. Full house the bad guys win the pot that we will no longer have to piss in.
And I hope Nishi is off reading Jerry Pournelle these days:
The debate on the “Stimulus” bill goes on. It is the largest spending bill in the history of the world. It is also clear that whatever this is, it is not an economic stimulus package; it’s not going to rescue the economy, and it’s not really anything like the WPA which at least produced buildings and roads and trails and some long term infrastructure changes.
Were it confined to buying products, building roads, it might make sense; but this isn’t sensible at all. When Paulson proposed a $750 billion buyout of toxic assets as an emergency measure it might or might not have made sense if done quickly; but this doesn’t do that. This seems like a long wish list of projects that many think would be very nice, but which we never could have afforded when we were prosperous, leavened with some projects that seem ludicrous on their face; and none of it looks to be geared to retiring the toxic packages that caused the problems in the first place.
These so-called “polls” are all liberal MSM constructs. We need only to refer to the most recent election for proof of their vile fallacies.
It really is one of those things that takes your breath away. We’ve got people who lectured us about how paying exorbitant taxes is “patriotic” who failed to pay their own taxes. We’ve got people who attacked an average Joe (heh) for a grand or two in owed taxes making excuses for folks who owed into the six figures, for folks who signed a paper acknowledging they owed certain taxes, and then simply “forgot” to pay them.
HE PLAYED ON OUR FEARS!!!!! — Al Gore
The new style he brings … “Screw up” is the new black I guess? He’s just so wonderful.
“Comment by cockslapper2000 on 2/5 @ 3:31 pm #
New Gallup numbers out. Seems only ~38% want the Spendulus bill passed in it’s current form. (To be fair, ~37% responded “Pass with major alterationsâ€Â, whatever those might be)
These so-called “polls†are all liberal MSM constructs. We need only to refer to the most recent election for proof of their vile fallacies.”
Good one, thor.
Mheh.
Now shut up.
to making sure loses her next election; 2012
I’d be careful what you wish for Carin.
I was just reading that Ron Paul is now now Texas’ most powerful politician, and after him, they got nothing.
oh. Kay Bailey should do fine if she runs for Governor. Don’t worry about Texas. It’s in pretty good shape. You should worry more about California and New York and Michigan I think. Bless their hearts. They had no idea this self-governance thing would involve math. It’s not fair not fair not fair I think but in the end that doesn’t help much.
Why would the Lightbringer need to step down as POTUS to join the Court. Quite frankly, if anyone can straddle two branches of government like a colloses, its Messiahbama.
Imagine the conversation with CJ Roberts. “Well Roberts I understand you’re chief justice but I’m the president so I’ll write the opinion. Or somebody from my staff will. Maybe that kid that molested the blowup doll of Hillary Clinton”.
I was just reading that the parsnip is considered the asshole of root vegetables. Coincindence?
Alphie, it’s a good thing both Carin and Sen. Stabenow (D-MI) are from Michigan then, isn’t it.
Face it, it’s a Vetting train wreck.
Fully ONE QUARTER of The Lightworker’s nominees to his cabinet have tax issues. That’s not even counting Richardson and Killener. His AG helped get Marc Rich and some FALN terrorist pardoned, and his SecState is married to a walking pile of “Conflict of Interest” issues.
What about all the experience? All that executive ability? This was funny for the first week, now I’m just getting more worried.
You’re totally oblivious to your own idiocy. It’s why you’re fun to torment.
Stabenow is challenged. I’m glad she’s not on our team cause she’s even dumber than… who was that one that was so astoundingly dumb? oh. Lincoln Chafee. Stabenow is even dumber than Lincoln Chafee. That’s just appallingly stupid. If the Fairness Doctrine got passed I’d have to say in fairness, Debbie can outwit icecubes and occasionally even several species of otter.
“I’m glad she’s not on our team cause she’s even dumber than… who was that one that was so astoundingly dumb?”
Nancy Pelosi. Hands down winner.
Here’s the article for y’all:
The most visible Texas politician in American right now is Ron Paul. Ron. Frickin. Paul. Jesus.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-02-04/the-death-of-texas-power/
*giggle*
I do so hope the Dims try the Fairness Doctrine. Begging even.
Oh wait, the pencil-pushing hatchet man he wants to head the CIA took in something like ~$700k in speaking fees, with several of the payments coming from businesses getting federal bailout money. Now, thats CHANGE I can believe in.
Don’t worry, none of them are in the intelligence sector, because Panetta has never been in the intelligence field before. I feel safer all ready.
On a more serious note, when you’re living in a little country, as indeed we are, where your pezzydent’s spokesperson feels compelled to say that “The White House believes that if you owe taxes you should pay them,” as indeed he did, that is NOT a good sign. It is not a hopey sign. It is not a changey sign. It is a dirty socialist no-experience-having dipshit is in your White House sign what means your little country is in no small amount of trouble really.
You have to realize, we are expected to believe he is talking about the effect of tax cuts on the country. He isn’t. What he is actually saying is tax cuts have been tried and “failed” (to advance the objectives of the Progressive/Socialist elite of the Democratic Party). “The scale and scope of this plan is the right one” (to advance those objectives).
You can’t understand the play without the proper dictionary. None of the top Democrats speak “our” English. It’s a Newspeak version.
But, it’s all cool, as long as paralphie gets to giggle on some message board, it doesn’t matter what happens. I mean, who cares what happens? Obama could apoint Charles Manson as the SecEducation and “he’d be making the right people mad”.
Question: How many people fudge their taxes this year based on the “Everyone else is doing it. I just wanted to be popular” principle? Cause it’s starting to look pretty tempting………..
According to my late Father-in-law who had to deal with her years ago, backstabbing is her specialty. Makes her a good Party leader it does.
A little country? I’m intrigued HF. In what sense?
Do you mean something along the lines of the Old South?
is there any democrat in washington that isn’t a tax cheat? ’cause that is going to be the short list.
Is there any
democratpolitician in washington that isn’t a tax cheat? ’cause that is going to be the short list.Mojo,
Here’s the video to go with that lyric you cited…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyoknbvXlwM
It rawks…
Thanks for refreshing my memory..
“You’re totally oblivious to your own idiocy. It’s why you’re fun to torment.”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!!~!
You, torment ME?
What was that unmedicated 3 paragraph street corner screech you put up attacking little ol’ me?
A little thin-skinned there, hor, and it shows in your desperation and your incoherance.
Poor, pitiful troll, screeching “LOOK AT MEEEEEE LOOK AT MEEEEE DADDY!!!”
ROTFLMAO at your idiocy.
*giggle*
THE MARK OF THE CAT GROOMER!!!!!
“Comment by cockslapper2000 on 2/5 @ 4:22 pm #
On a more serious note, when you’re living in a little country
A little country? I’m intrigued HF. In what sense?
Do you mean something along the lines of the Old South?”
Change the uername in your browser, hor, the “joke” is over.
Moron.
“Comment by cockslapper2000 on 2/5 @ 4:30 pm #
Is there any democrat politician in washington that isn’t a tax cheat? ’cause that is going to be the short list.”
Just dimocrats, thor, just dimocrats.
Moron.
Snippy, that was one of the most irrelevant articles ever. What it has to do with the Fairness doctrine … you should be so proud of your party. Go ahead, defend it. Tell us why it’s a great idea. Explain to us why radio station owners need to go to Washington and justify their programing.
Come on Thor, you too. Support your Party! Tell us why the fairness doctrine/localism needs to be enacted. Get on Debby’s side! Sure, she’s so ugly her husband got caught with a hooker, but that shouldn’t bug you.
Haha, Carin,
The Dems just bring up the Fairness Doctrine to yank the right wing extremists chains.
Works, dontit?
Sooooo, Stabenow is lying? But, don’t change the subject. Tell me why it’s a good idea. It’s your parties dealo. Go ahead. What do you think of it?
To be honest, Carin, I have no idea what it is.
I just know you guys start flinging poo all over the place whenever anyone brings it up.
Ease your mind, it will never pass.
There you go using that work “think” again, Carin…
Hi retardo. No, the swirling voices in your head aren’t actually mine; they’re your own mimetic projected characterizations.
Those aren’t my posts either. You’re a dopey, uneducated asshole. Deal.Cry.FuckOff.I’mBusy.
Snippy, I’m bothered by the mere fact that anyone outisde of a fringe organization would support such a thing. And, that one of my state’s senators is on board?
And, you are lying, right? You don’t know what it is?
He’s just a simple cat herder. Why would he be aware of one of the major 1st Amendment issues of the past 50 years?
(Hint: because he’s an agent provocateur)
Carin, do yourself a favor and stop trying to impart meaning on the troll-bot’s words. Lies, truth — these terms don’t even apply to the spewing’s of this poor, lost soul. It just makes noise. It cannot deceive, nor can it inspire, any more than an AM radio tuned to white noise.
If only it had an “off” switch. Or an auxiliary input that let it play decent stuff off my wife’s iPod…
pesky apostrophes…
Le Sigh.
I am not thor. I only point this out to prove how linear and predictable certain schools of thought have become.
Remember when you thought I was meya? Good times.
I haven’t bothered looking in to it.
No, carin, I don’t know what it is.
Why does it get you guys all hot and bothered?
It’s above your paygrade.
I went to school with him. His mother made great souvlaki.
“Hi retardo. No, the swirling voices in your head aren’t actually mine”
Plagiarism…..only the kewl kids do it.
Retard.
“Those aren’t my posts either.”
Sure thing, hor, what ever you say.
“You’re a dopey, uneducated asshole.”
Coming from you, that’s a compliment.
“Deal.Cry.FuckOff.I’mBusy.”
Busy? is time for your daily “yankee-my-wankee” already?
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Comment by cockslapper2000 on 2/5 @ 5:21 pm #
Le Sigh.
I am not thor. I only point this out to prove how linear and predictable certain schools of thought have become.
Remember when you thought I was meya? Good times.”
No, no I don’t thor, because even meya is infinitely smarter than you.
N. O’Brain – Now would be good time to understand and practise the Rule of Holes.
Next up, thor going “LePant LePant LePant” as he plays “rubbin’ the nubbin”
I understand that you’re an asshole.
Does that count?
What does it mean when I see five straight unanswered comments by No Brain?
Lonely, little guy?
*group hug*
*group hug*
THE MARK OF THE CAT GROOMER!!!!!
If only it had an “off†switch.
It does.
Geez, Thor and Parsnip really don’t want you guys discussing the stimulus package, do they?
*group hug*
away with your collectivist arms
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Comment by cockslapper2000 on 2/5 @ 5:50 pm #
Hot Air:
John Murtha is an ex-Marine.
N. O’Brain on January 27, 2009 at 11:32 AM
See what I did there?”
You posted a fact.
And…..what?
Or cabinet positions either.
Funny how that goes.
Oh, wait, I’m going to do a google search on “asshole”.
BRB.
I hear the stimulus package is going to pass the Senate tomorrow, nan.
And then it’s allllllll yours Parsnip. Happy trails.
I thought that it was supposed to be tonight.
After all, IT’S AN EMERGENCY!!! THE NORMAL RULES DON’T APPLY.
At this point, I think the Senate leadership is trying to get it officially over the $10e12 mark, for the shear hell of it.
So much for using a “scalpel to trim the budget”, we elected Joe Frakkin’ Isuzu.
Oooo, this is fun:
“CBO: Obama stimulus harmful over long haul
President Obama’s economic recovery package will actually hurt the economy more in the long run than if he were to do nothing, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday.”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/04/cbo-obama-stimulus-harmful-over-long-haul/
Desperate times call for desperate measures, Techie.
You guys will end up thanking Obama for saving America.
Maybe you’ll even vote for him next time around.
NOB — I suspect the Obamatons see that as a feature, not a bug.
“You guys will end up thanking Obama for saving America.”
By canceling oil and gas leases?
No, carin, I don’t know what it is.
Why does it get you guys all hot and bothered?
Because so many “liberals” seem to think it’s a great idea. Because it would mean the death of democracy. With the Alinsky-types in power, and no venue for conservative thought … the sky’s the limit.
Desperate times call for desperate measures, Techie.
And, the ends justify the means, right?
“Comment by parsnip on 2/5 @ 6:04 pm #
Desperate times call for desperate measures, Techie.”
Just as long as the mesures don’t work. Right, alpo?
Geez, Carin, you guys certainly are full of yourselves, aren’t you?
Rush polls seven points lower than Rev. Jeremiah “God Damn America†Wright and eight points below former Weather Underground domestic terrorist William Ayers.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-02-04/america-to-rush-drop-dead/
Why on earth would the Democrats want to take Limabugh, the blustering buffoon, off the air?
He’s single-handedly destroying the Republican party for them.
“And, the ends justify the means, right?”
Does anyone else smell the taint of fascism rising from our trolls?
“Comment by parsnip on 2/5 @ 6:20 pm #
Geez, Carin, you guys certainly are full of yourselves, aren’t you?”
Yeah. we called Obama “The Lightbringer”.
Oh.
Wait.
No we didn’t.
My favorite part was when the House Republicans looked at Nancy and Baracky’s “stimulus” bill and laughed and laughed and said oh. You’re serious?
Oh, as for “they don’t mean it”:
“Do you personally support revival of the ‘Fairness Doctrine?’†I asked.
“Yes,†the speaker [Pelosi] replied, without hesitation
Last July.
Let’s be honest guys, $800 billion isn’t going to make or break the American economy, and the Republican party is responsible for racking up every single penny of America’s current $10 trillion debt.
So why the phony lurch to “fiscal conservatism” now?
Is it because you know you are powerless to stop Obama gutting 8 years of “conservative” policies and you need some kind of phony victory to keep you sane?
Comment by parsnip on 2/5 @ 6:29 pm #
So, you disagree with OMB?
Why?
“and the Republican party is responsible for racking up every single penny of America’s current $10 trillion debt.”
SanFranNan”500 million Americans will lose their jobs” Pelosi has been in control since 2006.
I have for years. The stench has gotten stronger since November, though — their apparent disbelief that we didn’t just disappear was a telling clue.
Republicans controlled Congress for, what, 12 years out of the last 75?
Which branch of government controls the purse?
I believe that would be the legislative branch, Rob, and it’s a good thing too. Baracky has never managed anything with a budget before. And he hasn’t exactly been competent with his staffing management duties, has he? No. Sort of a trainwreck. The less poor bumbling Baracky is responsible for the better off everyone’s gonna be I think.
It only took those twin fiscal morons Reagan and tiny Bush to rack up the $10 trillion in dedt, Rob,
Before Reagan, paying down the debt had been a bi-partisan mission.
Now it’s just a Democratic one.
No worries, I don’t see the Republicans winning back the White House any time soon.
Now it’s just a Democratic one.
Well, expanding government is going to do wonders for paying down that debt.
Comment by parsnip on 2/5 @ 6:42 pm #
So, do you disagree with OMB?
Why?
Baracky’s wallowing in debt like a little piggy and he’s only been there a couple weeks. It’s kinda hard to know what that’s about given that he’s unable to state a cogent rationale for why he wants to spend a trillion nonexistent dollars on random stupid shit. He’s something of megalomaniac nutcase I think. Either that or he just doesn’t have the slightest clue what he’s doing. Or both.
Defends on what his goal was. If he wanted to fall on his ass and show what a light-weight he is, he’s been a stunning success.
I do find all the tax liens and “oversights” particularly delicious irony, considering the Joe the Plumber debacle.
I’m sure Obama will trim things up when the economy gets going again, Carin.
Here’s a chart that shows Reagan/Bush I took the federal debt from $1 trillion to $5 trillion and Bush II took it from $6 trillion to $10+ trillion:
http://www.cedarcomm.com/~stevelm1/usdebt.htm
Just so you guys know why real Americans are laughing at you when you talk about “fiscal responsibility.”
You mean, he’ll cut programs? Reduce the size of government? Has that ever happened?
NG voted for Baracky and already she says she has a very strong suspicion that he might could be a dumbass.
Comment by parsnip on 2/5 @ 6:51 pm #
“CBO, the official scorekeepers for legislation, said the House and Senate bills will help in the short term but result in so much government debt that within a few years they would crowd out private investment, actually leading to a lower Gross Domestic Product over the next 10 years than if the government had done nothing. ”
Do you disagree with this assessment?
If so, why?
N. O’Brain – The OMB has denied issuing a report. You can look it up using the Google.
Another particularly chuckle-worthy thought: Obama’s “leadership” has consisted of just whining. A leader would be ahead of the pack, rather than just reactive.
Here’s a chart showing pirates help prevent global warming, tuberhead.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:FSM_Pirates.png
and then there is this for you
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/3/5414660_8716bf615a.jpg
NOB made a mis-statement. It was the CBO, as he stated in his original comment.
If you need a report to know that Baracky’s “stimulus” is a big marxist redistributionist joke then I really don’t know how you navigate through your day really. I know it’s a big big big complicated world but Baracky’s not that complex. Two words. Marxist dipshit.
N. O’Brain – The OMB has denied issuing a report. You can look it up using the Google.
CBO is a completely different agency from OMB, troll.
We used to have three branches of government, remember? CBO is legislative, OMB is executive.
You can look it up using the Google
You mean this Google?
oh. #150 was my helpful comment for Mr. btas. Crap. It’s raining.
Ah, I see. btas is trying to make hay from a slip of the fingers.
Naturally, it doesn’t bother addressing the fact that the CBO has said that the porkulus will harm the economy.
Oopsy, sorry for the minor mistake.
It’s not like I didn’t pay my taxes or something.
Oh.
Wait.
HUFPO and TAP.
Nice company you keep.
So congress is passing a trillion dollar bill without any analysis or study?
is O! sort of like a Secret Santa?
We did not issue any report, any analysis or any study,†a CBO aide told the Huffington Post.
Oh, a CBO “aide” said that.
Maybe he should fill Barky’s “aides” in, because they seem to think there was such a study.
Obama’s aides said the CBO study was only a partial look at the overall package, and took issue with its conclusion that the total size would top one trillion dollars once interest repayments were factored in.
I think the package needs work, let’s just be honest about it.
Yes, let’s. So who’s lying here? Obama’s “aides”, the CBO “aide”, or the Huffington Post.
Hmmmm.
Oooo, even more fun:
“Sunlight Before Signing: Too often bills are rushed through Congress and to the president before the public has the opportunity to review them. As president, Obama will not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five days.”
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/ethics/
via patterico…..
And, yes, that web link does say “ethics”.
how’s come we need a stimulus bill that pays for ice breakers if AlGore said that the ice will gone in June?
is O! sort of like a Secret Santa?
More like Pac Man Jones at a Vegas strip club.
Well, btas?
HuffPo (quoting “aide”) says there was no study.
Obama’s guys say there was one.
One of these people is lying (possibly more, of course).
Who is it?
My Page Name
Where was that? I must have missed it.
You were the guy who was so insistent on the honesty thing, right?
Buh-bye.
For those interested in real honesty, rather than HuffPo flavor, you can see video of Robert Sunshine, acting director of the Congressional Budget Office, delivering his report to Congress here.
the masses must save the messiah?
WTF is it with lefties and their inability to follow fucking links?
Yeah, but this is an emergency. If there is time to comment, it won’t pass.
It’s not inability, Rob. It’s mendacity.
Brought to you by the same folks who got us suckered into Iraq by that evil moron Bush, because they didn’t have time to read the resolution.
We’ve got to pass this toxic turd now.
Rob, they’re elaborate bots. That’s my operating theory.
We need to start coming up with excuses for when this thing doesn’t fix the economy.
I’ll start: Bush didn’t pay the electric bill and it was too dark to read.
No no no Mark, just say
BOOOOOSSSSSHHHH!!!!!!
No, the excuse will be “Those evil Republicans didn’t let us spend ENOUGH of the money. $1.6 trillon dollars would have fixed everything in a fortnight.”
The facts do indeed have an unfair Democratic bias.
You can accept them and work to win back a majority of Americans.
Or, you can just pull the cocoon tighter.
Tell me a story, uncle Rush.
One where the “conservatives” actually practice what they preach.
Facts are unbiased, tuber.
Answer the question, alfie.
Why are y’all bothering?
Did alphie “answer the question” yesterday? How about the day before that? Last week?
What was the definition of insanity again?
Sorry, I was rudely interrupted.
Per Spies, Brigands, and Pirates link:
It was, in fact, a partial look. It was a brief, limited exercise that was leaked for political purposes.
It doesn’t mean jack-squat unless your a lying, ideological hack.
So, it never existed then?
And we’ll just run the largest spending bill in human history through Congress without either budget office issuing a report on it?
Strange days, indeed.
“It doesn’t mean jack-squat unless your a lying, ideological hack.”
ask richard armitage about that
Techie – they ran a few numbers for fun on an early version of the package.
Everything else is talk-radio bullshit.
Again, you’re telling me that no budget office has run studies/predictions for the LARGEST SPENDING BILL IN HUMAN HISTORY?
Wow, I feel so much better now.
Congress has been working on and holding meetings on this very bill for over two weeks now. Maybe you don’t watch much news, understandable, and with News Corp (parent company of Fox News) today reporting over $6-billion in losses in the previous quarter I’d say the numbers correlate to your ignorance. (Layoffs, yah! Announced immediate layoffs! Weee! Love it when more Americans lose their jobs! Hey sPies, let’s toast those thousands of Fox Newsers and WSJ’ers who’ll be pink-slipped! Yah! They’re not important to this economy, not like a econ heavy like sPies, with his phat adjunct prof bling, whoop!)
Watch the short-legged pink piggies snort and fart. Teh Rethuglidum porknozzle has run dry, ohnoes. Without their pork laden piggy pies the rethuglidums promise to make s stink and a rumpus! “Where’s ’em Haliburton no-bids in this holy darned bill! My armadillo gotta eat! Subsidies, where’s’um farm freebies go?”
Haha. Pppppppppppt(~~~~~elavanty!!!11!!!!!)
The CBO isn’t allowed to take into consideration all the other dirty socialist stuff Baracky wants and that Harry and Nancy have coming down the pike. Card check and their gay persecution of the little carbon dioxide molecules alone will ensure a big big FAIL I think. “Stimulus” bill. Too cute by half I think.
Lets vote on it tonight! Golly, what could someone possibly object to about it?
thor, for your own sake, take your meds and lie down.
Does the skirt-hiked bendover hurt all the more because, well, you know, because he’s black?
“Where’s ‘em Haliburton no-bids in this holy darned bill!”
axs mrs clinton’s husband
I was questioning btas, Einstein. He is the one saying there is no study.
Do try to keep up.
“because he’s black?”
the affirmative action candidate can’t run a red sickle stand
i like the O!’s ebonics it is real you know
He is the one saying there is no study
Is he still claiming that? Despite the video evidence and Obama’s own team admitting that it existed?
Hahahahaha!
Unlike the lying liars at HuffPo, Obama’s team didn’t say there was no study. They attacked its completeness (which is certainly a legitimate target for debate).
That THERE WAS A STUDY, however, is not in question.
At all.
Thus, HuffPo is a pack of lying crapweasels and “Mr. Honesty” btas is a lying crapweasel for defending them.
Josh Marshall needs a vacation. He’s overtired.
happyfeet – This country’s getting smaller all the time, isn’t it?
It really is. Except for Texas anyway.
“Does the skirt-hiked bendover hurt all the more because, well, you know, because he’s black?”
No thor,
It’s because of the hypocrisy and double standard. Contrary to the wildly popular cartoon reality, many of are truly disinterested when it comes to race and gender…
Unlike the masters of identity politics…
“Otherwise, global economies would be as easy to predict as Man’s impact on Earth’s climate.
And that would be crazy talk.”
Wow, someone who recognizes that Al Gore is as crazy as thor.
Or parsnip.
“Unlike the masters of identity politics…”
C’mon, say it, you know you want to:
Democrats are racists.
Well N O’Brain, they really are…
It is involved in every calculus that surrounds their posturing and decision making…
Their self-serving, self-congratulatory, sense of their own “enlightenment” and absolute moral authority revolves around tribal pandering. It’s a classic divide and conquer strategy that they are using to appeal to peoples provincial and ethnic lowest common denominator…
A grand connivance and charade…
I wish Justice Ginsberg a speedy recovery. I pray that happens.
May the One who blessed Israel’s ancestors —
Patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,
Matriarchs Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, and Leah —
bless and heal the one who is ill: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
May the Holy Blessed One
overflow with compassion upon her,
to restore her,
to heal her,
to strengthen her,
to enliven her.
The One will send her, speedily,
a complete healing —
healing of the soul and healing of the body —
along with all the ill,
among the people of Israel, the United States, and all humankind,
soon,
speedily,
without delay,
and let us all say: Amen!