September 20, 2010

Reichspollster: 61% Want to Repeal ObamaCare
— Gabriel Malor

My fears that people would reconcile themselves to the President's health care program have fortunately not come to pass. A strong majority of likely voters still oppose ObamaCare and want repeal.

Sixty-one percent (61%) of Likely U.S. Voters now at least somewhat favor repeal of the new national health care law, including 50% who Strongly Favor it. ThatÂ’s up eight points from a week ago and the highest level of opposition measured since late May.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 33% of Likely Voters oppose repeal. Since the passage of the bill in late March, a majority of voters have consistently favored repeal of the new law, with support ranging from a low of 53% to a high of 63%.

Only 33% say the health care plan will be good for the country, the lowest level measured since late July. Fifty-six percent (56%) disagree and believe the new law will be bad for the United States.

Part of that, no doubt, is the realization that rising insurance rates are part of the ObamaCare mandates. As more folks and businesses notice the higher rates after October 1, more will come to oppose the Democrats' health care reform and the source.

Related: Bill Clinton on his advice to Democrats that health care reform would help them at the polls: "oops".

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at 05:31 AM | Comments (479)
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1 As more folks and businesses notice the higher rates after October 1, more will come to oppose the Democrats' health care reform and the source.

We can hope...

Posted by: thebronze at September 20, 2010 05:37 AM (JEs16)

2 Have we ever had a spammer with the first post?

Posted by: Navin R Johnson at September 20, 2010 05:38 AM (HpT9p)

3 Darren is a douche.

Posted by: thebronze at September 20, 2010 05:38 AM (JEs16)

4 The crazy cat lady that lives next door needs a cat filter.  Does Darren do gift wrapping?

Posted by: John Galt at September 20, 2010 05:39 AM (F/4zf)

5
Co-pay's, deductible, premium all went up including job lay offs our boss was blunt about the reason.
Health Care Reform.

Posted by: YIKES! at September 20, 2010 05:40 AM (WHRS/)

6 O/T:  Speaking of spinning facts using polls, CNBC is saying that small business didn't create jobs after the tax cuts.  I don't know, I remember Bush talking ad nauseum about how he was doing things to help small business.

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 05:41 AM (p302b)

7 Only 61%? It should be higher. It still amazes me that people didn't know that this crappy bill was only going to make healthcare more expensive.

Posted by: Moi at September 20, 2010 05:42 AM (Ez4Ql)

8

The Dems are still in their bizarro world. Clinton claims to be mystified that the Pubs can be polling so well despite opposing the Obama agenda. He said that it's because it's "easier" to listen to Repubican rhetoric. And so it goes on...

Posted by: Luca Brasi at September 20, 2010 05:43 AM (YmPwQ)

9 NBC, in all of its levels, will say anything it thinks will help Obama and the communists. The fact is, nobody with two living brain cells believes anything that the MFM says anymore.

Posted by: Vic at September 20, 2010 05:44 AM (/jbAw)

10 I guess bill is producing the BO show as yesterday he said the president had to bring his successes to the people and today we get a CNBC town hall meeting about business by surprise.

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 05:45 AM (p302b)

11 #5, your boss better watch, Sebelieus mioght have him dragged off to the re-education camp.

Posted by: Luca Brasi at September 20, 2010 05:45 AM (YmPwQ)

12 Only 61%? It should be higher. It still amazes me that people didn't know that this crappy bill was only going to make healthcare more expensive.

Posted by: Moi at September 20, 2010 09:42 AM (Ez4Ql)

Well, 52% of the electorate thought they were voting for a tax cutting, deficit hawk, post-partisan president.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 20, 2010 05:45 AM (7BU4a)

13
I'm waiting for CO Republicans to sort of mention this....

Mention that so-called "moderates" Betsy Markey(D) and Ed Pearlmutter(D) voted for PelosiCare.

Against the wishes of a vast majority of Coloradans.

Posted by: Lemon Kitten at September 20, 2010 05:46 AM (0fzsA)

14 Clearly the racists have taken over America.  Then again, it may be because Obama is half black

Posted by: Bill Maher at September 20, 2010 05:46 AM (7rfUg)

15 The Dems are still in their bizarro world. Clinton claims to be mystified that the Pubs can be polling so well despite opposing the Obama agenda.

I have to wonder how much of that was the famous Clinton maneuvering.  He utterly despises Obama and he learned many years ago how the people feel about health care "reform".

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at September 20, 2010 05:46 AM (5aa4z)

16 #5, your boss better watch, Sebelieus mioght have him dragged off to the re-education camp.

Posted by: Luca Brasi at September 20, 2010 09:45 AM (YmPwQ)

On the plus side, if they run the government re-education centers like the government education centers, you are guaranteed to get out in four years even if you haven't learned a damn thing.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 20, 2010 05:46 AM (7BU4a)

17
Rising insurance rates + rising taxes + the gutting of Medicare + Obama+Democrat lies and deceit  =  major suck x economic disaster.


Posted by: Lemon Kitten at September 20, 2010 05:47 AM (0fzsA)

18 Posted by: 18-1 at September 20, 2010 09:45 AM (7BU4a)

who was going to throw the lobbyists out of washington (you know those guys/gals rumored to have authored all these horrid bills he pushed through)

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 05:49 AM (p302b)

19
Unencumbered, Bill Clinton is as left-wing as Obama.  Bill Clinton is just a better, smoother politician. 

Posted by: Lemon Kitten at September 20, 2010 05:49 AM (0fzsA)

20 Wasn't Darren told to go get his shinebox?

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at September 20, 2010 05:49 AM (5aa4z)

21 Bill Clinton is just a better, smoother politician.

Self-interest, instead of ideology.  Obama is pure ideology.  Even his sociopathic narcissism can't overcome that.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at September 20, 2010 05:51 AM (5aa4z)

22 Somebody give Bill Clinton a $20 bill so he can drag it down K-street and get lucky.

Posted by: CHEESY at September 20, 2010 05:51 AM (eHP4n)

23 I think that the key to the opposition is that no working person with health insurance believes that Obamacare will not negatively impact their current health insurance.  The President and Congressional Democrats are not credible on this point and it needs to be hammered over and over.  Americans are generous, but they think that it is manifestly unjust to tax a working person to death to pay for someone else's health insurance, and create a system in which said working person loses his private health insurance and gets scuttled into the "public exchange" in the process. 

Posted by: Alec Leamas at September 20, 2010 05:51 AM (r1OG3)

24 Carville (check) Begala (check) Billy (check).....ok, ok, when is hillary announcing her run for the presidency 2012?

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 05:52 AM (p302b)

25
$ "

"ItÂ’s not just the highly effective attack on it.  ItÂ’s also because people didnÂ’t want a government takeover of health care in 2010 any more than they wanted it in 1993.  ItÂ’s hard to understand why Democrats took Bill ClintonÂ’s advice seriously in the first place.  After all, Clinton himself didnÂ’t take it at the time; he dropped HillaryCare and moved back to the center, and won his next election because of it."

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Posted by: Lemon Kitten at September 20, 2010 05:52 AM (0fzsA)

26 #7

Exactly my reaction.

Posted by: dogfish at September 20, 2010 05:53 AM (Ncv/n)

27 This means Hillary is running in 2012, everything they do is calculated to that end.

Posted by: Mjb at September 20, 2010 05:54 AM (daA45)

28 Bad economic ploicy is what happens when the people in power learned thier economics from marxist teachers in college.

Posted by: CHEESY at September 20, 2010 05:54 AM (eHP4n)

29 OT:  Is your 9 year old son a bonesmoker?  Is your 13 year old daughter a muffdiver?  Government wants to know!

http://tinyurl.com/25w5rl2

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at September 20, 2010 05:55 AM (5aa4z)

30 Yesterday I was feeling from the dems that they were missing clinton.  I ws told over and over that he did, though he raised taxes, balance the budget.  I didn't see him but my friends tell me the intimation was "hillary would balance the budget". 

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 05:55 AM (p302b)

31

Is Clinton (the Dress Stainer, not Hillary) starting to, ah, campaign for Hillary?  It just seems that he's willing to lead the current White House staff into pile of c*ap after pile of c*ap - while she distances herself from the same.  FWIW, the Clinton's aren't that smart - they're still working from the same "Look, We solved the Mideast Crisis Again" book long played out in the 90's...

Posted by: Jess at September 20, 2010 05:55 AM (eqsrg)

32

Wild Bill,  "I was not in the midst of putting the pork to that little doggie while I was bogusly building up the bennies of barrycare."

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at September 20, 2010 09:54 AM (RkRxq)

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at September 20, 2010 05:55 AM (RkRxq)

33 I don't think Clinton ever believed that ObamaCare would be popular; only that once it was passed, the American people would resign themselves to it.

The real agenda was that it would vastly increase the size, scope, and clout of the federal bureaucracy and the labor unions that run it. ObamaCare would be a giant irreversible step toward turning the United States into a corrupt one-party system like Detroit, Chicago, or New Orleans. 

I do think he is stunned that the American people are fighting back.

And incidentally, that crap about him being 'the best politician of his generation' has always been politically illiterate nonsense.

Posted by: lyle at September 20, 2010 05:56 AM (Twbm+)

34 So Gabe, did we get a final decision on the "forbidden subject" last night?

Posted by: Vic at September 20, 2010 05:56 AM (/jbAw)

35 7 Only 61%? It should be higher. It still amazes me that people didn't know that this crappy bill was only going to make healthcare more expensive.

A sizable portion of the voting population (I don't know, say 52%) also bought into the "hope and change" mantra.

There's always going to be that 20-30% of people that won't stop drinking the Kool-Aid, despite seeing the symptoms that it is killing them. 

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at September 20, 2010 05:57 AM (9hSKh)

36

A Marxist is an economics expert

who has never studied economics.

Posted by: CONFUSUS SAY at September 20, 2010 05:58 AM (eHP4n)

37 MY fear is that the RINO wing of the GOP--meaning, nearly all of them in office--will not go all out for Repeal when they returned to power, the overwhelming sentiment in favor thereof in the elctororate notwithstanding.  See eg the RINOs intellectual mentor Charles Krauthammer, who has declared national healthcare "a moral imperative" and here to stay.  See also, Mitt Romneycare.

Posted by: typical wingnut at September 20, 2010 05:58 AM (K/USr)

38 NY GOV Cuomo 54% That Guy 38% Cuomo's lead has shrunk by 9% since the primary last week. Interesting to see if we see similar movement for DioGuardi in the Senate race- it would move him within 10/11 points- closing in on dangerzone territory for Gilly.

Posted by: CAC at September 20, 2010 05:58 AM (lV4Fs)

39  he dropped HillaryCare and moved back to the center, and won his next election because of it."

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Posted by: Lemon Kitten at September 20, 2010 09:52 AM (0fzsA)

I think I had a hell of a lot to do with that.

Posted by: Ross Perot at September 20, 2010 05:58 AM (WDySP)

40 Beck is busy saying "the game is over in Washington" oblivious to the fact that the prez is holding this town hall meeting on business at CNBC at noon.  This is what happens when you are surprised and your script doesn't include the bunker buster.

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 05:59 AM (p302b)

41 Biden is appearing at a fundraiser for Ted Strickland this afternoon at the same place I got married.

Should  I make a big sign that says "Welcome Slow Joe!  This Is A Big Fucking Deal For Us!" and head on down there?  I've never been questioned be Federal officers.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at September 20, 2010 05:59 AM (5aa4z)

42
Obama is pure ideology.  Even his sociopathic narcissism can't overcome that.
Posted by: Herr Morgenholz

Cannot disagree. It will be interesting to see, if, after the midterms, Obama moderates, or just falls apart in a puddle of vicious narcissistic ideology.  All while the democrats continue to play their never-ending blame game...
(All while America sinks)

I think it's interesting that Bill Clinton and Barney Frank, as architects of the housing melt-down, get little blame for it.  A free pass.  It's just amazing to me how the democrats can actually ruin entire industries, entire cities and towns, and now the entire nation, and the R's get the blame.  Those crazy R's!


 

Posted by: Lemon Kitten at September 20, 2010 06:01 AM (0fzsA)

43 The 39% who still like barrycare are the ones who think (and probably rightly so) that their healthcare costs will be borne by others and they will pay nothing.

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at September 20, 2010 06:01 AM (RkRxq)

44

Gabe, after last night's thread . . . we needed the Obamacare is cracking emulsifier.

Check on Ace every 15 minutes to make sure the swelling's under control.

And make sure the web host is fed thorazine every few hours with a bottle of NewCastle. 

Posted by: journolist at September 20, 2010 06:02 AM (O/NP5)

45 Should  I make a big sign that says "Welcome Slow Joe!  This Is A Big Fucking Deal For Us!" and head on down there?  I've never been questioned be Federal officers.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at September 20, 2010 09:59 AM (5aa4z)

Just show up with an American flag (you can pick one up at Home Depot on your way over) and waive it around outside.  You'll get the same result and you can use the flag on other occasions.

(You won't even have to fly it upside down...)

Posted by: Warthog at September 20, 2010 06:03 AM (WDySP)

46 Just heard on the news the story about christine.  They talked about the new video that surfaced (you get the feeling they know there are many more to come) and the most important thing to them "she canceled an appearance on a national news show".   Now, the rumor is she went to church. 

I wonder why the media would not realize that national notoriety will do her no good but that going to church with her constituency will?

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 06:05 AM (p302b)

47 Tell me again why Michael steele is riding around on a bus until the election?

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 06:06 AM (p302b)

48 The 39% who still like barrycare are the ones who think (and probably rightly so) that their healthcare costs will be borne by others and they will pay nothing.

It's gonna be just like Christmas.

Just show up with an American flag (you can pick one up at Home Depot on your way over) and waive it around outside.

While an admirable gesture of patriotism, my sacred honor as a Moron In Good Standing requires something more, shall we say, notable.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at September 20, 2010 06:06 AM (5aa4z)

49 And make sure the web host is fed thorazine every few hours with a bottle of NewCastle. No DE references

Posted by: Jean at September 20, 2010 06:08 AM (9e8Ti)

50 Herr, along with the flag . . .  have a jar for premium assist Obamacare donations.

Posted by: journolist at September 20, 2010 06:08 AM (O/NP5)

51 If the three hundred people who are going to be in the townhall got online before the SS was even there, how did these people get picked?   Did they send out tickets?  Did they publicize this?  Heck, I would have gone to DC if I'd known about this, will there be anyone but loyal dems and union members?

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 06:08 AM (p302b)

52 51 Herr, along with the flag . . .  have a jar for premium assist Obamacare donations.

"Change, change....anybody got some change?!?!"

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at September 20, 2010 06:09 AM (9hSKh)

53 ObamaCare needs a total repeal.  How in the hell can the idiots still supporting this debacle explain how the IRS getting a cut out of the sale of your home be considered healthcare?

Posted by: RushBabe at September 20, 2010 06:09 AM (a3Z62)

54

Tell me again why Michael steele is riding around on a bus until the election?

 

Thats not a bus its a Dope Mobile

Posted by: CONFUSUS SAY at September 20, 2010 06:11 AM (eHP4n)

55 Clinton is such a smarmy fuck. Although he knows that a GOP takeover helped him win re-election in 1996, he gives the GOP absolutely zero credit for dragging him to the center, stopping him from passing liberal legislation, and getting him to sign on to most of the Contract With America.

No, in Clinton's mind, none of that was responsible for the prosperity in the 90's. What was, according to President Cumshot? His 1993 tax hike, because it "ended trickle-down economics," as if that was all the legislation that was passed in that decade, and the only thing that contributed to the 90's economy.

He can't give the GOP a sliver of credit. What a self-absorbed fuck!

Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at September 20, 2010 06:11 AM (JYuY2)

56 Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 10:08 AM (p302b)

This is in Dayton, Ohio.  The Engineers' Club, which is really a quite nice, old money facility from way back.  If it wasn't downtown, it would still be prestigious.  Frau and I got married there.  And people paid a bunch to have lunch with Slow Joe and the Prison Preacher.


Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at September 20, 2010 06:11 AM (5aa4z)

57 MY fear is that the RINO wing of the GOP--meaning, nearly all of them in office--will not go all out for Repeal when they returned to power, the overwhelming sentiment in favor thereof in the elctororate notwithstanding.  See eg the RINOs intellectual mentor Charles Krauthammer, who has declared national healthcare "a moral imperative" and here to stay.  See also, Mitt Romneycare.

Posted by: typical wingnut at September 20, 2010 09:58 AM (K/USr)

Sarah Palin has been the only contender willing to flat-out call for repeal.

Posted by: RushBabe at September 20, 2010 06:11 AM (a3Z62)

58 Trust me, never believe a word Bill C says. That premature ejactulating fuck will say anything for attention or a BJ.

Posted by: Monica Lewinsky at September 20, 2010 06:12 AM (uvFJG)

59 premature ejaculating- oops!

Posted by: Monica Lewinsky at September 20, 2010 06:12 AM (uvFJG)

60 50 And make sure the web host is fed thorazine every few hours with a bottle of NewCastle. No DE references

Posted by: Jean at September 20, 2010 10:08 AM (9e8Ti)

< Jean, the male culture can rip each other apart in good nature then the next day still be friends.  That is why I am so glad this is being run by Ace.  Versus a yenta donta saya thata gonna upseta.  

Posted by: journolist at September 20, 2010 06:13 AM (O/NP5)

61 While an admirable gesture of patriotism, my sacred honor as a Moron In Good Standing requires something more, shall we say, notable.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at September 20, 2010 10:06 AM (5aa4z)

Drop by Wal-mart instead and get a demonic clown costume (it's Halloween time don'tchaknow) and a flag.  That'll get their attention.

(Flag waving demonc clown, now that's a political statement...)

Posted by: Warthog at September 20, 2010 06:13 AM (WDySP)

62
o/t:  Speak the truth about Lord Obama, and get your ass fired from the unbalanced, unprofessional pro- media.


Posted by: Lemon Kitten at September 20, 2010 06:13 AM (0fzsA)

63 Drop by Wal-mart instead and get a demonic clown costume (it's Halloween time don'tchaknow) and a flag.  That'll get their attention.

I was thinking more about a chocolate-vanilla swirl jockstrap.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at September 20, 2010 06:14 AM (5aa4z)

64 Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at September 20, 2010 10:11 AM (5aa4z)

I've no doubt that you got married in a great place, probably with great food and atmosphere.  Fascinating that joe would pick this as the venue but then again to make money you have to spend money.

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 06:15 AM (p302b)

65 The "smartest politician of the 20th Century"  couldn't manage to get his dick sucked without getting caught at it.  Just sayin'.

Posted by: SurferDoc at September 20, 2010 06:15 AM (RKpGM)

66 He can't give the GOP a sliver of credit. What a self-absorbed fuck!

Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at September 20, 2010 10:11 AM (JYuY2)

And if only he had embraced your ethos he would not have been so disgraced.

(He should have only taken a magazine into the Oval Office bathroom...)

Posted by: Warthog at September 20, 2010 06:16 AM (WDySP)

67 61 - not quite sure what you meant there; but you might be new here: Jean not girl

Posted by: Jean at September 20, 2010 06:17 AM (THrql)

68
Repeal it.  Ab-so-fucking-lutely.
The R's have a responsibility to do it.

Posted by: Lemon Kitten at September 20, 2010 06:17 AM (0fzsA)

69

just wait until this fall when people get their rates for next year.

I already got mine, for my small business, a 37% increase in rates.  Nope, no hiring of any kind for the foreseable future.  I don't trust a word this redistributionist-in-chief says, who the hell knows what crap is going to thrown next by this fool.  Everyone I know who has their own biz is hunkering down, cutting staff or closing shop.

The man is a community agitator, he's never run a lemonade stand.

Posted by: johnc_recent_EX-dem at September 20, 2010 06:17 AM (ACkhT)

70 someone who knows beck and rush ought to let them know about the "game changer" at noon on CNBC with Hard wood and BO

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 06:18 AM (p302b)

71 My fears that people would reconcile themselves to the President's health care program have fortunately not come to pass.

And this is before any of the negative effects have arrived.

Just wait until people start getting hurt by this legislation.It's going to be devastating. I predict it will kick us into a severe depression.

I choose to remain partially in denial about the whole thing. Skyrocketing health care premiums are going to destroy the middle class standard of living. Plus, people are going to start dying while waiting for health care that has suddenly become very scarce.

I know it's coming, but I try not to think about it too much.

Posted by: Warden at September 20, 2010 06:18 AM (fE6tn)

72 Just show up with an American flag (you can pick one up at Home Depot on your way over) and waive it around outside.

While an admirable gesture of patriotism, my sacred honor as a Moron In Good Standing requires something more, shall we say, notable.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at September 20, 2010 10:06 AM (5aa4z)

Herr, good thing you were as prolific as you were before EBola came on the scene.  Beck's talking about John Holdren again, liking the idea of sterilants in drinking water.  What's the ETA of #5 (?)?

As for signs, my fave was at a Tea Party this past weekend and said, "Hang on, America.  Mama's coming!"

Posted by: RushBabe at September 20, 2010 06:19 AM (a3Z62)

73 I've no doubt that you got married in a great place, probably with great food and atmosphere.

It was really nice, and surprisingly cheap.  125 guests, full banquet, open bar, etc.  The best part?  We had several clients in attendance.  Extrapolate tax advantages from there. 

A lot of people said it was the best wedding they'd been to.  Only cost about $7K.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at September 20, 2010 06:19 AM (5aa4z)

74 Beck:  "now I gotta go for the marxist of the witch"....

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 06:20 AM (p302b)

75 I was in the ME during most of Bill's excellent adventure, esp. the Bj part. The ridicule was mostly becasue he could get a hotter "executive assistant", not that he got caught. Got crap for it from everyone: Arabs, Brits, embassy douches, even the Indians (which really took some balls on their part).

Posted by: Jean at September 20, 2010 06:20 AM (UrtDR)

76
"Change, change....anybody got some change?!?!"

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at September 20, 2010 10:09 AM (9hSKh)

Heh.  With ObamaCare, it'll be more like "Bring out your dead!  Bring out your dead!"

Posted by: RushBabe at September 20, 2010 06:20 AM (a3Z62)

77

The anti Obamacare poll may read 61%:

But Louise Slaughter says it's only 44% through the scientific polling application of Deem & Reconcilliation. Which is a statistical application of always a - 17% error rate against any negative Obamacare numbers.  

See Speaker Pelosi's office for details.

Posted by: journolist at September 20, 2010 06:20 AM (O/NP5)

78 What's the ETA of #5 (?)?

#4, actually.  Mid-February.  Next week we get out the ultrasound and look for the stem on the apple.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at September 20, 2010 06:21 AM (5aa4z)

79

what stuns me is, average americans can see this tsunamai comning b/c of this chitty legislation, and yet the dems dont. And the worst is not even here yet.

Smoot-Hawley == ObamaCare

Posted by: johnc_recent_EX-dem at September 20, 2010 06:22 AM (ACkhT)

80 The only way Obama could change the "GAME" right now is if he puts Coons in charge of Organizing for America .

Posted by: CONFUSUS SAY at September 20, 2010 06:22 AM (eHP4n)

81 The one thing that no one in the MSM or in the Democrap Party ever said about the BJ was the obvious: Billy, you are one stupid sonofabitch.

Posted by: SurferDoc at September 20, 2010 06:22 AM (RKpGM)

82  The "smartest politician of the 20th Century"  couldn't manage to get his dick sucked without getting caught at it.  Just sayin'.

Posted by: SurferDoc at September 20, 2010 10:15 AM (RKpGM)

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

*gasp*

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Posted by: Linda Tripp at September 20, 2010 06:23 AM (a3Z62)

83 If BO somehow took coons out of the race to be replaced by biden?  What are the rules in DE?  Isn't that called "pulling a torricelli"?

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 06:24 AM (p302b)

84 There's always going to be that 20-30% of people that won't stop drinking the Kool-Aid, despite seeing the symptoms that it is killing them. 

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at September 20, 2010 09:57 AM (9hSKh)

If only they'd stick to just killing themselves off, rather than dragging the rest of us down with them.  They should be forced to quarantine themselves into a few states set up as libtard containment zones.  Then they could communize to their hearts content, and before long the famine and pestilence would rid us of them.

Perhaps we could talk Bill Clinton into starting up his own version of Jones Town in the tropics someplace, and taking a colony full of Leftists with him. 

Posted by: Reactionary at September 20, 2010 06:24 AM (xUM1Q)

85 68 61 - not quite sure what you meant there; but you might be new here: Jean not girl

Posted by: Jean at September 20, 2010 10:17 AM (THrql)

< Not new, just a yet to be caffeinated dolt.  OK, I'll cool my jets on the you know what State of Biden land.

Posted by: journolist at September 20, 2010 06:25 AM (O/NP5)

86

Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at September 20, 2010 10:11 AM (JYuY2)

And if only he had embraced your ethos he would not have been so disgraced.

(He should have only taken a magazine into the Oval Office bathroom...)

Betta safe than sorry!

Posted by: James Carville at September 20, 2010 06:25 AM (a3Z62)

87

Support the repeal of Obamacare!!!

 

MONEYBOMB for BJ Lawson today.

 

BJ Lawson is running against David fkn Price in NC-4.  In 2008 he put up a great challenge but lost to the overwhelming tide of idiotic Obama voters voting the straight party ticket ballot.

 

This year will be different.  Please contribute and pass the word around.

Posted by: NC Ref at September 20, 2010 06:25 AM (2ZZlU)

88 Liberals are like cockroaches. No matter what you do once they get in your country there is no getting rid of them. Step on them all you want and they never get the hint that they are not wanted; they just keep on coming - spoiling everything they touch.


 

Posted by: An Observation at September 20, 2010 06:25 AM (ylhEn)

89 If the GOP really is looking for a knockout blow every single Republican running needs to cut a commercial vowing everything in their power to repeal it or defund it, if elected. Let Obama veto any repeal- it will be his death knell in 2012.

Posted by: jjshaka at September 20, 2010 06:26 AM (f/gEc)

90

Whitehouse spokesperson, "Oh, no.  We have every intention of continuing to do stupid shit.  It is the totally insane shit that we want to try to minimize."

http://tinyurl.com/3x86jm4

 

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at September 20, 2010 06:27 AM (RkRxq)

91  Liberals are like cockroaches. No matter what you do once they get in your country there is no getting rid of them.  

Posted by: An Observation at September 20, 2010 10:25 AM (ylhEn)

Maybe so, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't take steps to thin their numbers as much as possible.

Posted by: Reactionary at September 20, 2010 06:28 AM (xUM1Q)

92 Also here in California I already know of 3 seniors furious that their rates are going way up and guess who they blame? And they vote.

Posted by: jjshaka at September 20, 2010 06:28 AM (f/gEc)

93 Beck has said this morning that Colbert and Stewart are calling for rallies in DC to jump start the youth vote again and have the youths vote in lock step with the unions.

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 06:28 AM (p302b)

Posted by: cummins filter at September 20, 2010 06:29 AM (8xxdk)

95 #4, actually.  Mid-February.  Next week we get out the ultrasound and look for the stem on the apple.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at September 20, 2010 10:21 AM (5aa4z)

Is Frau down with that stem thingy?

Posted by: RushBabe at September 20, 2010 06:29 AM (a3Z62)

96 This is why Sharon Angle will win.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at September 20, 2010 06:30 AM (mHQ7T)

97

"There's always going to be that 20-30% of people that won't stop drinking the Kool-Aid, despite seeing the symptoms that it is killing them." 

You know, that's fine, they can drink it by the gallon. Just don't try to pur it down everyone else's throats.

Posted by: RM at September 20, 2010 06:30 AM (1kwr2)

98

Posted by: jjshaka at September 20, 2010 10:26 AM (f/gEc)

100% agree.

I already know many businesses try and figure out how to get around the $600 1099 filings.  they are trying to spittling up orders or the prices to get around this increblibly stupid crap policies.  These are small businesses, they don't have huge staffs to take care of nonsense like this.

Every repub needs to pound on this.  And say, "every vote for a demon's rat is a vote for Obama, there is no difference".  Oppose Obama, then you need to oppose every demon's rat, there are no moderate or independent democrats, they have all been driven out.

Posted by: johnc_recent_EX-dem at September 20, 2010 06:31 AM (ACkhT)

99

"I was thinking more about a chocolate-vanilla swirl jockstrap."

I'm not sure I understand this sentence, but I'm pretty sure you don't wanna put ice cream on your balls.

Posted by: Joanie (Oven Gloves) at September 20, 2010 06:31 AM (HaYO4)

100 Is Frau down with that stem thingy?

She keeps calling it "him" and "he", so yeah.  We had two girls, then a boy, so another boy would put a nice bow on the package of the entire endeavor.

While I admit my desire runs that way, all I really care about is that the kid be healthy and happy.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at September 20, 2010 06:32 AM (5aa4z)

101 Beck is going to play a videotape of some florida reporter who found out the hard way about all kinds of new laws that exist.

Wow, playing a video tape on the radio?  That Beck is amazing.

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 06:32 AM (p302b)

102

Support the repeal of Obamacare!!!

MONEYBOMB for BJ Lawson today.

BJ Lawson is running against David fkn Price in NC-4.  In 2008 he put up a great challenge but lost to the overwhelming tide of idiotic Obama voters voting the straight party ticket ballot.

This year will be different.  Please contribute and pass the word around.

Posted by: NC Ref at September 20, 2010 10:25 AM

 

Now that's one BJ I can get behind and I know BJs.

 

 

Posted by: Monica Lewinsky at September 20, 2010 06:32 AM (uvFJG)

103 Philly news just said BO is going there for a sestack fund raiser.

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 06:33 AM (p302b)

104 O/T:  What is this "Event" thing NBC keeps advertising.  Is it a tv show or something else?

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 06:34 AM (p302b)

105

"I was thinking more about a chocolate-vanilla swirl jockstrap."

I'm not sure I understand this sentence, but I'm pretty sure you don't wanna put ice cream on your balls.

Posted by: Joanie (Oven Gloves) at September 20, 2010 10:31 AM (HaYO4)

D'uh.  Everybody knows that pudding is room temperature. 

Posted by: RushBabe at September 20, 2010 06:34 AM (a3Z62)

106 105. Yeah he can't seem to stay away from here. Irritating, messes up traffic. He's just sticking to his "happy lands," full of union-members and zombies. not going to help the Sleestak.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 20, 2010 06:35 AM (SB0V2)

107

"D'uh.  Everybody knows that pudding is room temperature"

I can't believe pudding didn't even enter my mind.  I just kept picturing frozen balls.

Posted by: Joanie (Oven Gloves) at September 20, 2010 06:36 AM (HaYO4)

108 will there be anyone but loyal dems and union members?

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 10:08 AM (p302b)

pfft, unlikely.

Posted by: KG at September 20, 2010 06:36 AM (DeCj1)

109 dinner jacket messing up traffic in NY big time.

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 06:37 AM (p302b)

110 A wiccan just called Beck to talk about "she who must not be mentioned" and they started playing the Bewitched song.

Posted by: RushBabe at September 20, 2010 06:37 AM (a3Z62)

111

I can't believe pudding didn't even enter my mind.  I just kept picturing frozen balls.

Posted by: Joanie (Oven Gloves) at September 20, 2010 10:36 AM (HaYO4)

I'll just never forget George (Seinfeld) whining about shrinkage.

Posted by: RushBabe at September 20, 2010 06:38 AM (a3Z62)

112 He said the bewitched theme song should be COD's new theme song....

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 06:38 AM (p302b)

113 We don't have to repeal it, we'll fix it.

Posted by: Dumbass GOP leadership at September 20, 2010 06:38 AM (4XzsU)

114

"I'll just never forget George (Seinfeld) whining about shrinkage."

I was in the pool!

Posted by: Joanie (Oven Gloves) at September 20, 2010 06:40 AM (HaYO4)

115 The conspiracy theorist in me thinks that Bubba gave that advice knowing fully well the repercussions. He wants the stage cleared for the arrival of the Hildebeast in '12.

Posted by: Tushar at September 20, 2010 06:41 AM (lDfjO)

116 I wish the GOP would just come out and say that they are all in for BO care and put the cards on the line.  The American people must believe that the GOP is all in or they wouldn't be getting behind these TEA party candidates the way they are.

Steve liesman on CNBC just showed a chart that show that BO, according to him, does everything to benefit the banks and big business.  So the fact that small business is crammed into the lower left hand corner with the lowest numbers must escape them.

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 06:41 AM (p302b)

117 Beck has said this morning that Colbert and Stewart are calling for rallies in DC to jump start the youth vote again and have the youths vote in lock step with the unions.

But, but, but ... I thought they were a couple of joke-telling clowns. Certainly they aren't to be taken seriously! That would mean they'd be willing to defend their dishonest and selective editing of quotes from the conservative politicians they mock.

Posted by: Warden at September 20, 2010 06:42 AM (fE6tn)

118 If only they'd stick to just killing themselves off, rather than dragging the rest of us down with them.  They should be forced to quarantine themselves into a few states set up as libtard containment zones.  Then they could communize to their hearts content, and before long the famine and pestilence would rid us of them.

Posted by: Reactionary at September 20, 2010 10:24 AM (xUM1Q)

I've always thought that the government should buy that farm in upstate NY where they held Woodstock and put a huge electric fence around it.  Then let all the old hippies move in and take the place over with the proviso that they never leave and never communicate with anybody on the outside.  In return the gov't would agree to air-drop all the drugs seized in drug raids into the compound along with a palate or two of Cheet-O's every now and then.

The world would be a much, much better place...

Posted by: Nighhawk at September 20, 2010 06:43 AM (OtQXp)

119 I've come to the easily reached conclusion that anyone still sporting an Obama bumper sticker on their Prius or Subaru must be avoided at all costs.  They're truly too stupid to function without the gubmint leading them by the hand. 


Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 20, 2010 06:43 AM (UOM48)

120 Posted by: Warden at September 20, 2010 10:42 AM (fE6tn)

People actually get their news from them and people believe that Colbert is "the conservative".

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 06:43 AM (p302b)

121 Anyone think the MSM will downplay the attendance at Colbert and Stewart's circle jerk?

Posted by: SurferDoc at September 20, 2010 06:44 AM (RKpGM)

122 Christine, the Teenage Witch

Posted by: ingenus at September 20, 2010 06:44 AM (+sBB4)

123

Posted by: Tushar at September 20, 2010 10:41 AM (lDfjO)

Yes, that is what I thought orginally as well, I voted for Bill Clinton both times.  The thing is this whole obamacare legislation has made people realise that HillaryCare was just as bad, and Hillary would have enacted the same nonsense, at a slower pace, so no one would notice.

movements are useful to politicans when they can be controlled, when they are led by principles, they are uncontrollable.  I voted for Hillary in the 2008 dem, I will not support her again.

Posted by: johnc_recent_EX-dem at September 20, 2010 06:45 AM (ACkhT)

124 My highly educated NYC s-i-l told me a couple of years ago, with a straight face, that the only "news" she trusts comes from the NYT and.......Jon Stewart.

I couldn't even respond, I was so gobsmacked.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 20, 2010 06:45 AM (UOM48)

125 If BO somehow took coons out of the race to be replaced by biden? What are the rules in DE? Isn't that called "pulling a torricelli"? Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 10:24 AM __________________________________________ They're democrats. Hence, no rules apply.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at September 20, 2010 06:46 AM (yQWNf)

126 Stu is talking about the "stuff about Christine that bothers him"....Beck just asked "can we get her on the phone?"

Guess they will have her on the program.

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 06:47 AM (p302b)

127 Meanwhile, Hillary slouches toward Babylon to be born anew.

Posted by: SurferDoc at September 20, 2010 06:48 AM (RKpGM)

128 Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 20, 2010 10:45 AM (UOM4

They seriously trust stewart and colbert more than the MSM.   And they are the group that has been saying for years that "the MSM doesn't tell you stuff".  So it fits right into their "narrative".

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 06:48 AM (p302b)

129 Heh.  I'm still laughing over something my kid e-mailed me this morning.  He's become fixated on my buying a handgun and getting a concealed carry permit.  Regarding one of the guns he recommended he said this:  "This gun is scarier than a retard with a Happy Meal and a baseball bat."

I don't know where he's getting his material, but lately he's been a regular comedian.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 20, 2010 06:49 AM (UOM48)

130 They're democrats. Hence, no rules apply.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at September 20, 2010 10:46 AM (yQWNf)

Well, in all fairness there ARE some rules:

Rule 1: They do whatever the f#ck they want

Rule 2: The MFM covers for them and then points out the cute squirrel up in the tree.

Rule 3: The public goes "awwwwwww" and stares at the squirrel.

Posted by: Nighhawk at September 20, 2010 06:49 AM (OtQXp)

131 Beck just asked for your prayers for his voice.  Said he is going to a doctor today.

Sheesh, Beck is falling apart physically.

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 06:49 AM (p302b)

132 Bill Clinton on his advice to Democrats that health care reform would help them at the polls: "oops"


Damn! I was hoping the Dems would take that advice.

Posted by: NM Hick at September 20, 2010 06:50 AM (IzuWw)

133

 "This gun is scarier than a retard with a Happy Meal and a baseball bat."

So your kid has seen my ex wife.

Posted by: CONFUSUS SAY at September 20, 2010 06:51 AM (eHP4n)

134

Amazing how there are always a lot of stories out there about the schizms in the Repub party while one hears so little about dems running away from even the crap they themselves participated in.

http://tinyurl.com/25mr2dn

I'm also pretty certain that "moderate" doesn't mean what they think it does.

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at September 20, 2010 06:51 AM (RkRxq)

135 So is this townhall featuring vetted dems and planted questions?  since he doesn't do press conferences why would he do a genuine townhall?

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 06:52 AM (p302b)

136 Will there be a teleprompter?

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 06:53 AM (p302b)

137 curious, I don't think Barry can go to the bathroom without TOTUS.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 20, 2010 06:54 AM (UOM48)

138 48 Tell me again why Michael steele is riding around on a bus until the election?

To get him out of the way, sillyhead.  If he is on a bus somewhere far away, he is not on the Sunday talking head shows stepping on his crank.

Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at September 20, 2010 06:54 AM (Snu7z)

139 Is anyone live blogging the town hall for those away from the tv?

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 06:54 AM (p302b)

140 "that will wash right outta that blue dress, don't you worry your pretty little head one bit about that, you just get back to what you were doin sugar."

Posted by: Other shit that makes Bill Clinton say woops my bad at September 20, 2010 06:55 AM (eCAn3)

141 mort zuckerman, please stop whining, you voted for this idiot. Hell, I was a democrat as well, and I could see through this snake oil saleman.

Posted by: johnc_recent_EX-dem at September 20, 2010 06:55 AM (ACkhT)

142 O/T:  o'really must realize his social security won't kick in, they've announced new dates for the "bold, fresh tour"

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 06:55 AM (p302b)

143 The real is getting the question sequence lined up with the telepromter script. Maybe next time they will go with card carrying actors, playing union thugs - instead of actual union thugs.

Posted by: Jean at September 20, 2010 06:55 AM (C7OIp)

144 I won't fooled again!

Posted by: Mort Zuckerman, jumping out of a cake at September 20, 2010 06:55 AM (Snu7z)

145 I'm just gonna throw this out there ('cause it's the internets, and you are free to make shit up):
1) If the shitheads from Comedy TeeVee even go through with their rally, they'll be lucky to get 1000. But, I read their talk as jest that is not intended to be taken serious. Think about it, they'd be the main draw and when's the last time you heard of a comedian selling out a large venue?
2) Right now, as it stands, you can add 5% to 7% to any Republican's poll numbers. That's the bump they will get between now and November 2 from Obamacare alone.

It' ain't a wave coming, it ain't even a tsunami--it's a fucking planet-destroying meteor. Not even the GOP has a clue just how pissed Americans are.

Posted by: jimmuy at September 20, 2010 06:56 AM (ImAna)

146 "Chelsea don't worry about it, the country's gonna think you're the most beautiful first daughter ever"

Posted by: Other shit that makes Bill Clinton say woops my bad at September 20, 2010 06:56 AM (eCAn3)

147 This will almost make up for their bullshit Cali polls coming out today- from PPP/Daily Kos twitter: "New PPP results for dkos, will post tomorrow -- Feingold down by double digits, MASSIVE intensity gap. W/o gap, it'd be tied race." They are about to confirm Rasmussen. Wisconsin is now lean GOP. Thats SEVEN seats (PA,AR,ND,IN,CO,IL,WI) leaning to likely. 3 more needed..

Posted by: CAC at September 20, 2010 06:57 AM (lV4Fs)

148 140 So is this townhall featuring vetted dems and planted questions? 

Is this a trick question?


Posted by: The guy who answers your question with a question at September 20, 2010 06:57 AM (Snu7z)

149

curious -- they may not need a teleprompter, I think John Harwood is the "jour-o-list" there.

Hardwood essentially works for the marxist fool and his admin.  He will essentially be the teleprompter and run interferece for the marxist fool.

Posted by: johnc_recent_EX-dem at September 20, 2010 06:57 AM (ACkhT)

150 "I think your ass looks great in the brown pantsuit, you're gonna look great in that honey"

Posted by: Other shit that makes Bill Clinton say woops my bad at September 20, 2010 06:58 AM (eCAn3)

151 "This gun is scarier than a retard with a Happy Meal and a baseball bat."

Is it scarier than BHO with an arugula salad and a bowling ball?

Posted by: Penfold at September 20, 2010 06:58 AM (1PeEC)

152 The conspiracy theorist in me thinks that Bubba gave that advice knowing fully well the repercussions. He wants the stage cleared for the arrival of the Hildebeast in '12.

Posted by: Tushar at September 20, 2010 10:41 AM (lDfjO)

Yeah, the stage may be cleared, but IF Hildebeast got elected, she'd be looking at a sea of Repub/Tea Party faces in Congress.

Posted by: RushBabe at September 20, 2010 06:58 AM (a3Z62)

153 Is the townhall on now?  Because I can't stomach the douche being on my TV. 

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 20, 2010 06:59 AM (UOM48)

154 too bad some well known republican can't stage an event at noon that would force the MSM to cover both.

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 06:59 AM (p302b)

155 But Intrade has support for ObamaCare up by 20%!!!!!!

Posted by: In before the troll at September 20, 2010 06:59 AM (P9+0W)

156 147 O/T:  o'really must realize his social security won't kick in, they've announced new dates for the "bold, fresh tour"

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 10:55 AM (p302b)

People actually pay to attend his tours? Boggle. Mind.

Posted by: KG at September 20, 2010 06:59 AM (DeCj1)

157 126 My highly educated NYC s-i-l told me a couple of years ago, with a straight face, that the only "news" she trusts comes from the NYT and.......Jon Stewart.

I couldn't even respond, I was so gobsmacked.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 20, 2010 10:45 AM (UOM4

< Jane, you had me at gobsmacked. What a cool word.  And now to learn you are likely carrying a 40 Cal. Glock 22 G4 15RD OPR NS. And on top of that come from a military family. Hoo Rah.

Salute.

 

Posted by: journolist at September 20, 2010 06:59 AM (O/NP5)

158 "no, no, no, we don't have any way of prosecuting Bin Laden, just do what you think's best with him, and keep it on the down low."

Posted by: Other shit that makes Bill Clinton say woops my bad at September 20, 2010 06:59 AM (eCAn3)

159 Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 20, 2010 10:59 AM (UOM4

starts at noon, I think they are doing it during power lunch since hard wood is always on power lunch.

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 06:59 AM (p302b)

160 scary, something filtered the word b---- out of my post at 148

Posted by: Jean at September 20, 2010 07:00 AM (kOLrd)

161

LOL, CNBS is really pushing this nonsense.

They are calling him "America's CEO"... LOL

Posted by: johnc_recent_EX-dem at September 20, 2010 07:00 AM (ACkhT)

162 I've always thought that the government should buy that farm in upstate NY where they held Woodstock and put a huge electric fence around it.  Then let all the old hippies move in and take the place over with the proviso that they never leave and never communicate with anybody on the outside.  In return the gov't would agree to air-drop all the drugs seized in drug raids into the compound along with a palate or two of Cheet-O's every now and then.

The world would be a much, much better place...

Posted by: Nighhawk at September 20, 2010 10:43 AM (OtQXp)

I think Max's farm recently sold.  Wonder if it was bought up by the nice gents who run Islamburg?

Posted by: RushBabe at September 20, 2010 07:01 AM (a3Z62)

163 Posted by: johnc_recent_EX-dem at September 20, 2010 11:00 AM (ACkhT)

That language is purely frightening.  America is not a corporation. 

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 07:01 AM (p302b)

164 Quintinilla and Kudlow and Cramer ("reunited and they feel so good") kid you not quintinilla actually said that.

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 07:02 AM (p302b)

165 My insurance company sent me a letter yanking back current quotations with 12% rise. They then sent another quotation, blaming Obamacare and a 16% rise. http://www.kennelson.com/newblog/how-corruption-works-10201 I'd like it repealed. And I'd like those that forced it on us repealed too!

Posted by: Ken Nelson at September 20, 2010 07:03 AM (yB1LJ)

166

Loved Mark Haines comment, "people don't care, they don't want more speeches, that's all this man does, they wanted action, this townhall  will make no difference."

Posted by: johnc_recent_EX-dem at September 20, 2010 07:03 AM (ACkhT)

167 166 scary, something filtered the word b---- out of my post at 148

Posted by: Jean at September 20, 2010 11:00 AM (kOLrd)

Oh, do we have filters now a la Hot Air. So I can't say that Allah is a little bitch.

Posted by: dagny at September 20, 2010 07:03 AM (//AX9)

168 "Yeah you heard me right, bomb the fuck outta Kosovo. No, it won't piss the Russians off, Albright says they won't care."

Posted by: Other shit that makes Bill Clinton say woops my bad at September 20, 2010 07:03 AM (eCAn3)

169 Verily, for on the second day of the eleventh month, as the moon doth wane and the land feels the first deathly touch of winter, the party of the false messiah shall have the taste of ash in their mouth.

So I foretell, and so mote it be.

Posted by: Cristine O'Donnell, speaking ex-cathedra at September 20, 2010 07:03 AM (Snu7z)

170 Must be you Jean.

Posted by: dagny at September 20, 2010 07:04 AM (//AX9)

171 I bet all they talk about is OBAMA

Posted by: MR OBVIOUS at September 20, 2010 07:04 AM (eHP4n)

172 OMG, my friend just said "this is a very clever way for the administration to get tips on what to do out of wall street, they are genious"...

oh dear God

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 07:07 AM (p302b)

173

Now I have no illusions that this just started under the reign of Barry, but it is another example of the liberal nature with which the Federal government spends, and the contempt in which they hold the money that you send them via your taxes.

http://tinyurl.com/2b5vgbz

Your taxes directly and openly pay terrorists.

And that should not be countenanced.

Soccer Dad

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at September 20, 2010 07:07 AM (RkRxq)

174 dagny - and I post thru an SSL proxy, hmmmm

Posted by: Jean at September 20, 2010 07:07 AM (n4HiF)

175 178 OMG, my friend just said "this is a very clever way for the administration to get tips on what to do out of wall street, they are genious"...

oh dear God

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 11:07 AM (p302b)


your friend's an idiot.

Posted by: Unclefacts, Summoner of Bacons, and Meteor afficionado at September 20, 2010 07:08 AM (eCAn3)

176 Jimmuy: You watched SyFy last night too?

Posted by: SurferDoc at September 20, 2010 07:08 AM (RKpGM)

177 I assume because it does not provide 100% free coverage, only a couple hundred dollar discount off of already prohibitively expensive premiums.

That was not the change that the freeloaders wanted.

Posted by: Downsized Upscale

This was baked in.  Remember, the end goal is 100% "free" government health care. 


"If only conservatives had not stopped the public option blah blah blah, vote democrat so we can finish the job...."

It just did not work the way they had it planned.

Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at September 20, 2010 07:08 AM (Snu7z)

178 ok, CNBS has ed rendell on, so here comes hillary dressed in white, white hat, white horse, to save us all...

you know she's coming.

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 07:08 AM (p302b)

179
I don't know where he's getting his material, but lately he's been a regular comedian.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 20, 2010 10:49 AM (UOM4



I know where.

Marine Gunny Sergeants and Army First Sergeants are some of the funniest, most un-PC people on the planet.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 20, 2010 07:08 AM (P9+0W)

180 181 Your friends need to buy a clue, curious.

Posted by: toby928 at September 20, 2010 11:07 AM (S5YRY)

Yeah but they are a good barometer of what is going on out there....

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 07:09 AM (p302b)

181 curious -- what does your friend mean?  I don't understand.

Posted by: johnc_recent_EX-dem at September 20, 2010 07:10 AM (ACkhT)

182

Your taxes directly and openly pay terrorists.

One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter!


Posted by: The Opinion Makers at September 20, 2010 07:10 AM (5aa4z)

183 Hillary will emulate this successful pic.

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 07:11 AM (p302b)

184 OMG, my friend just said "this is a very clever way for the administration to get tips on what to do out of wall street, they are genious"...

oh dear God

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 11:07 AM

curious, since you are surrounded by progressive stalwarts, can I ask you something?

What is your gut feeling about how they feel about this election?  Are they just wishcasting at this point, or are they so smug it just does not occur to them that November is going to be a slaughter for progressives outside places like Queens, NY? 

I am getting "smug" from the ones in my corner of Queens.

Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at September 20, 2010 07:12 AM (Snu7z)

185 Curious, cnbc was advertising the BO town hall on Friday afternoon; don't know if there was anything earlier in the week.
And speaking of diversionary squirrels [or should it be chipmunks?], Hillary Clinton has had some major cosmetic work done:
http://tinyurl.com/34pk2lj

Posted by: Museisluse at September 20, 2010 07:12 AM (DTfXb)

186 CNBS has ed rendell on, so here comes hillary dressed in white, white hat, white horse, to save us all...

Hillary is going to come in riding John F-ing Kerry?

Posted by: Buzzsaw at September 20, 2010 07:12 AM (tf9Ne)

187 Posted by: johnc_recent_EX-dem at September 20, 2010 11:10 AM (ACkhT)

That's usually my reaction to what they say too but then if you try and put yourself in the mind set of someone who is still drinking the kool aid and hasn't chosen to try a cup of tea, you get it.

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 07:13 AM (p302b)

188

" you know what makes me sad? YOU DO !!!"

Posted by: SGT THERAPIST at September 20, 2010 07:13 AM (eHP4n)

189

From The WSJ:

"Eyeing a potential Congressional win in November, House Republicans are planning to chip away at the White House's legislative agenda—in particular the health-care law—by depriving the programs of cash.

'We need to establish the proverbial lines in the sand and show we are serious about limited government,' said Wisconsin's Rep. Paul Ryan, a leading conservative who is in line to chair the House budget committee if Republicans take control."

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at September 20, 2010 07:13 AM (yfJ6g)

190 @191 Of course, my corner of Queens is filled hipster douchebags, so "smug" is sort of the entering argument.

Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at September 20, 2010 07:14 AM (Snu7z)

191 Jugeared Barry could care less.  Even if 90% of Americans wanted the feds to repeal this God awful Ovomitcare, Barry would tell us we are wrong he is right.  Thank you 52% for bringing this nighmare into our lives.  We are fucked and that is that.

Posted by: Sparky at September 20, 2010 07:15 AM (r0u40)

192 Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at September 20, 2010 11:12 AM (Snu7z)

The other day I tried to bring this up and I was basically slaughtered by someone on here.  It took me three days to even have the courage to come back and say anything.

But, that is what I'm reading, smug, self assured, we got this election in the bag and the one in 2012 and "you are the one who will be shocked not us" mentality.  More over confident than I've ever seen.  Which is why I keep bringing it up, it is concerning as these are people with major graduate degrees and such.

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 07:15 AM (p302b)

193

One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter!

Posted by: The Opinion Makers at September 20, 2010 11:10 AM (5aa4z)

I'm always amazed how much idiots like to spout that bullshit.

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at September 20, 2010 07:15 AM (RkRxq)

194

Posted by: Sparky at September 20, 2010 11:15 AM (r0u40)

the revolt will be even more severe in 2012.

people are finally getting this a representative govt, the people who go to DC REPRESENT their voter's will, not their own.

Posted by: johnc_recent_EX-dem at September 20, 2010 07:16 AM (ACkhT)

195 Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at September 20, 2010 11:14 AM (Snu7z)

And they aren't even real hipsters since real hipsters are only in Brooklyn (I'm told)

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 07:17 AM (p302b)

Posted by: ameer at September 20, 2010 07:18 AM (6+aqW)

197 Terrorist spam.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 20, 2010 07:19 AM (UOM48)

198 Fifty-two percent (52%) of Likely U.S. Voters say their own views are closer to Sarah PalinÂ’s than they are to President ObamaÂ’s, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Just 40% say their views are closer to the presidentÂ’s than to those of the former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate. Eighty-four percent (84%) of Republicans and 59% of voters not affiliated with either major party say their views are more like PalinÂ’s. HMMMMM..things are looking up wouldn't you say? Not electable? PLEASE

Posted by: Dan at September 20, 2010 07:19 AM (1jzSs)

199 Posted by: toby928 at September 20, 2010 11:16 AM (S5YRY)

funny, a lot of these folks "go without healthcare" cause they know they "have to be treated at the emergency room and can't be turned away by law"

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 07:19 AM (p302b)

Posted by: Mjim at September 20, 2010 07:20 AM (mMdWG)

201

If there is a God and he has a sense of humor. Ace will be manning the phones at the suicide hot on Nov. 2nd and 3rd.

Posted by: SGT THERAPIST at September 20, 2010 07:20 AM (eHP4n)

202 Beck talking about voter fraud and intimidation.

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 07:20 AM (p302b)

203 On Staten Island, i haven't seen any smugness on the part of the GOP yet, but that might be because there was, from what I read in the local paper, a bloodbath within the party over the NY-13 candidate. The leadership's candidate did not win. They might still  be in shock, drunk or both.

Posted by: Penfold at September 20, 2010 07:21 AM (1PeEC)

204 Well Friday I was not watching in the afternoon so it is possible that they announced it then but Kudlow said nothing on his radio show, nothing. 

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 07:22 AM (p302b)

205

"And they aren't even real hipsters since real hipsters are only in Brooklyn (I'm told)"

Unfortunately, it's an epidemic.  They have taken over a section of Philly and ruined one of the best bar jukeboxes in town. It's now filled with bullshit & the sounds of grown men crying. 

Posted by: Joanie (Oven Gloves) at September 20, 2010 07:23 AM (HaYO4)

206

curious -- I get what you are saying.  I don't ever remember being this mad at Bush, and I was one of those with the Bush Derangement Syndrome.

The thing is, this is not about just about 2010, because people aren't just going ot shut up and go away now. This is not about social issues, I am pro-choice, probably more liberal than most on this board, however I am a fiscal conservative a defense conservative, a constitutional conservative independent.

That is th driving force of the Tea Party and therefore includes so many indies and dems, the thrust of the movement is the economy and limited govt via the US Consitution.

I consider myself a JFK dem, that party is now gone.

And with the internet, people are finally getting information unfiltered, and are able to study and make up their own minds.  Most people in  this country are conservatives, or right of center, the LSM makes conservatives seem like all it is about is legislating social issues and uses this to drive away voters.

Now voters, independent minded voters are able to make that distinction.  As you say, and I agree, its not good to be overconfident, but keep going and convince anybody and everyone who is open minded and independent minded to make up their own minds.

46 days until 2010 elections, and about 900 days until the 2012 elections.

Posted by: johnc_recent_EX-dem at September 20, 2010 07:24 AM (ACkhT)

207

The Republicans need a veto-proof majority if they want to completely overturn healthcare. Which leads me to a question-- let's say they make good on their promise to freeze funding for ObamaCare. Would Obama be able to do anything, or would it be beyond his reach?

/Hope it's the latter.

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at September 20, 2010 07:25 AM (yfJ6g)

208

156 "This gun is scarier than a retard with a Happy Meal and a baseball bat."

Is it scarier than the FLOTUS going out to shop for a "stunning" new outfit?

Posted by: Book Geek at September 20, 2010 07:25 AM (1+OO5)

209

Anyone see the article on Drudge about England mulling over the idea of having all paychecks sent to them first, then deciding what they want to take out and then giving the rest to the worker?

 

Posted by: Ben at September 20, 2010 07:25 AM (wuv1c)

210

Posted without comment...OK maybe a couple short ones

...stick with it to the end..it's lees than 2 minutes

...Bonus: an AoSHQ favorite is in it

 

Posted by: beedubya at September 20, 2010 07:25 AM (AnTyA)

211 208 Steve Wiebe is back on top!

Posted by: Mjim at September 20, 2010 11:20 AM (mMdWG)

Just the way his wife likes it!

Posted by: Radioactive Satellite Of LOVE at September 20, 2010 07:25 AM (LdYLm)

212

The Republicans need a veto-proof majority if they want to completely overturn healthcare. Which leads me to a question-- let's say they make good on their promise to freeze funding for ObamaCare. Would Obama be able to do anything, or would it be beyond his reach?

/Hope it's the latter.

we will never win a veto proof majority. Actually, it is a mathematical impossibility. I don't think there are 67 seats up for re-election in this campaign.

The best the Republicans can hope for is to win the house with a comfortable margin, and maybe win the senate by one or two seats.

Posted by: Ben at September 20, 2010 07:27 AM (wuv1c)

213 Ken Nelson, the policy costs for young engineers who I work with just went up over 30%. They had been getting high deductible, catastrophic policies (being 27 and immortal), plus motorcycle accidents at 120 are cheap. I'm sure most of them voted for the One.

Posted by: Jean at September 20, 2010 07:27 AM (LpqRt)

214 Posted by: johnc_recent_EX-dem at September 20, 2010 11:24 AM (ACkhT)

I saw a great bumper sticker yesterday.  On one side was a tea bag and on the other side was a pitcher of Kool Aid and in the middle "what are you drinking?"

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 07:27 AM (p302b)

215 217

Anyone see the article on Drudge about England mulling over the idea of having all paychecks sent to them first, then deciding what they want to take out and then giving the rest to the worker?

 

Posted by: Ben at September 20, 2010 11:25 AM (wuv1c)

What's the difference between that and taking taxes out before...

Some asshat who worked for FDR suggested that. May he be eternally audited by IRS for that.

Posted by: Radioactive Satellite Of LOVE at September 20, 2010 07:29 AM (LdYLm)

216 Yeah, just got word on the new rates for my work's health insurance and our premiums doubled to $500. DOUBLED. FML. Repeal cannot come soon enough.

Posted by: LizLem at September 20, 2010 07:29 AM (lSuMX)

217 OMG.  The pics of Hillary on Drudge are....I'm speechless.

Sister, the hair pulled back with the little clips:  not working for you.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 20, 2010 07:30 AM (UOM48)

218

I saw a bumper sticker that said,

 

" If at first you dont succeed , well then being President is not for you..."

Posted by: SGT THERAPIST at September 20, 2010 07:30 AM (eHP4n)

219 Christine, the Teenage Witch

Posted by: ingenus at September 20, 2010 10:44 AM (+sBB4)

Does the MFM really want to go the route of disqualifying people for stupid crap they say they did in high school? Seriously??? Because using those standards is gonna leave us with zero people qualified for office. Sheesh.

Posted by: Mandy P. at September 20, 2010 07:30 AM (MK6Kx)

220

Glenn Beck sometimes makes some crazy assertions when it comes to history.

The Nazi's didn't make their flag red because of socialism or communism. They did it because those were the traditional colors of the German flag.

Someone needs to tell glenn to look at the German Empire's flag prior to the nazis. Same colors. Red, White, and Black. More specifically, Prussia, Germany's largest state was Red Black and White.

Glenn takes some liberties a little too often for my liking.

Posted by: Ben at September 20, 2010 07:30 AM (wuv1c)

221

217 Anyone see the article on Drudge about England mulling over the idea of having all paychecks sent to them first, then deciding what they want to take out and then giving the rest to the worker?

 "A spokesperson for Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne was not immediately available for comment."

Coward.

 

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at September 20, 2010 07:32 AM (yfJ6g)

222 It is actually good politics to hamstring Obamacare; rather then out right repeal it. 1st the Pub send a repeal package to Senate (one version a month, make the Dims bottle everyone of them up.) 2nd use appropriation bills to gut Obamacare, in future elections the unrepealed Obamacare becomes a Damocles' sword hanging over the country to keep the Dems out of control.

Posted by: Jean at September 20, 2010 07:32 AM (P3nC8)

223 oh geez cramer and kudlow, fighting again, CNBS must just love this.

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 07:33 AM (p302b)

224 PPP California senate- Boxer 50 Fiorina 42. Fucking laughable sample- 49% Democrat? The states party registration is only 45% Democrat- adjust that for the intensity gap and the whole dynamic of the poll shifts. also underrepresented whites.

Posted by: CAC at September 20, 2010 07:34 AM (lV4Fs)

225 Kudlow:  "well he's always got a second chance, always a second chance"
cramer:  "yes (emphatic) why give up on the guy"

I'm telling you, Americans are very forgiving, so this is the narrative they are going with "please give us a chance to finish what we started so reelect all the incumbents so they can come to the party"

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 07:35 AM (p302b)

226

O/T: the NBER has determined the recession ended in June 2009.

You can look at that two ways:

1) the NBER is full of you know what as anyone can tell we are still economically down

or

2) the recession ended only 4 months into Obama's presidency which means none of Obama's policies were responsible for ending the recession, on the contrary, they are hindering the recovery.

Posted by: Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz at September 20, 2010 07:36 AM (4JpPD)

227 233, CAC you are right. I do not buy that poll for a second.

Posted by: Dan at September 20, 2010 07:36 AM (1jzSs)

228 221

we will neverot win a veto proof majority in 2010.

Posted by: Ben at September 20, 2010 11:27 AM (wuv1c)

Whoa there, FIFUR (Fixed It Fer Us Rs)

Posted by: NM Hick at September 20, 2010 07:36 AM (IzuWw)

229 221 we will never win a veto proof majority. Actually, it is a mathematical impossibility. I don't think there are 67 seats up for re-election in this campaign.

The best the Republicans can hope for is to win the house with a comfortable margin, and maybe win the senate by one or two seats.

So our only option (at this point) is to freeze funding. We can keep passing bills to overturn ObamaCare, but Obama will veto them. Our best shot will be when we have a Republican in the White House.

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at September 20, 2010 07:36 AM (yfJ6g)

230 Beck is good most times but he does get stuff wrong and he is oblivious to this town hall coming up at noon.  

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 07:36 AM (p302b)

231 LOL, CNBS is really pushing this nonsense. They are calling him "America's CEO"... LOL ----- That language is purely frightening. America is not a corporation. What, you never heard of corporate fascism? Where private 'ownership' is permitted but corporations have to accede to government direction? Barry is the closest thing we've ever had to an Italian/Mussolini style fascist. Ah, CNBC. Putting the props under propaganda for the Left-Wing fascists. CNBC really does specialize in cheesedickery of the worst kind. I lost my patience with them at least two years ago when watching some roundtable under Kudlow. Don Luskin was making sense about the effects of rising tax rates on high income earners, and a co-panelist, some "nonpartisan" "expert" on Wall Street said with a straight face that "no one is going to change their business plan based on a couple of percent in taxes." WTF. Epic, cosmological brain-death. I wanted to reach through the screen, grab him by the entrails and skull-fuck his pie-hole. I wanted to scream at him that even someone as anonymous and lunch-pail as myself knows that entire fucking industries on Wall Street alone understand and base their whole business model on fractions of a percent of return on investment. And this idiot that Kudlow let on the air farted nonsense contrary to something so elementary and obvious that you could smell it through a lead wall. That episode also made me lose respect for Kudlow, that he would put someone like that on air, and let that remark go unnoticed or rebutted firmly.

Posted by: George Orwell at September 20, 2010 07:37 AM (AZGON)

232

Someone needs to tell glenn to look at the German Empire's flag prior to the nazis. Same colors. Red, White, and Black. More specifically, Prussia, Germany's largest state was Red Black and White.

Glenn takes some liberties a little too often for my liking.

Posted by: Ben at September 20, 2010 11:30 AM

Actually, it is possible you are both right, you more than him, but the flag was designed to compete with the communist banners.


David Cohen, 12 May 1998:

According to John Toland's Adolf Hitler, the flag submitted by the "dentist from Starnberg" was "a swastika against a black-white-red background". He also writes that "Hitler insisted upon a party flag that could compete with the flaming red Communist banner". "We wanted something red enough to out-Herod Herod", recalled Drexler, something to outdo the Reds but "quite different." Anton Drexler was one of the founders and the original leader of the German Workers' Party, which became, after Hitler joined, the National Socialist German Workers' Party, or Nazi Party for short.


Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at September 20, 2010 07:39 AM (Snu7z)

233 215

The Republicans need a veto-proof majority if they want to completely overturn healthcare. Which leads me to a question-- let's say they make good on their promise to freeze funding for ObamaCare. Would Obama be able to do anything, or would it be beyond his reach?

/Hope it's the latter.

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at September 20, 2010 11:25 AM (yfJ6g)

It really depends on how the funding is voted on.  The R's will probably try to separate out the Obamacare appropriations and not move on them while the D's will try to bundle them into other appropriations bills so as to hold other programs (ie defense) hostage to funding Obamacare. 

In any event expect the MFM to go all out in attempts to "Gingrich" John Boehner and make him into the shifty politician who wants to starve grandma and kill our troops- or maybe the other way around.

Posted by: Nighhawk at September 20, 2010 07:39 AM (OtQXp)

234

231 It is actually good politics to hamstring Obamacare; rather then out right repeal it. 1st the Pub send a repeal package to Senate (one version a month, make the Dims bottle everyone of them up.) 2nd use appropriation bills to gut Obamacare, in future elections the unrepealed Obamacare becomes a Damocles' sword hanging over the country to keep the Dems out of control.

Good idea. I agree.

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at September 20, 2010 07:39 AM (yfJ6g)

235 OMG.  The pics of Hillary on Drudge are....I'm speechless.

Sister, the hair pulled back with the little clips:  not working for you.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 20, 2010 11:30 AM (UOM4

Dear God; I thought anything that took attention away from those massive cankles would be an improvement.  *vomit*

Posted by: Captain Hate at September 20, 2010 07:40 AM (aIWP/)

236 239 Beck is good most times but he does get stuff wrong and he is oblivious to this town hall coming up at noon.  

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 11:36 AM (p302b)

When he is doing comedy, he is at his best. He really pokes holes in the pompous president. This whole crusade he's been on has been dragging the show down.

Posted by: Radioactive Satellite Of LOVE at September 20, 2010 07:41 AM (LdYLm)

237 Posted by: Chris Coons, Balding Marxist at September 20, 2010 11:37 AM (IhHdM)

are you saying that Ace is the one who doesn't want me to post?  Are you saying you don't think it is important to analyze what is going on with your opponents?   So you want blinders on just like the libs/dems?  

If Ace doesn't want me to post anymore then why wouldn't he post as Ace and tell me that or send me an email?

I was thrown off the internet due to the tornado so if ace did say something I totally missed it.  And have had friends staying with me cause a tree fell into their apartment.

I don't know what a moby or an eyore so that stuff is lost on me, but I'm assuming that since you say "her" that you are referring to my posts.

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 07:41 AM (p302b)

238

Posted w/o comment.....OK maybe a couple short ones

1)...stick with it to the end..it's less than 2 minutes

2)...Bonus: an AoSHQ favorite is in it

Sorry..bad link

http://tinyurl.com/25z2am3

Posted by: beedubya at September 20, 2010 07:41 AM (AnTyA)

239
Here's something interesting...

BOSTON (AP) _ Boston, the city that has banned smoking in bars and trans-fats in restaurants, now wants to keep sugary drinks out of city-owned buildings.

The city has convened health, education, and housing leaders to develop a policy that aims to reduce consumption of sugar-sweetened sodas and other beverages.

Panel member Bill Walczak, head of a community health center, tells The Boston Globe that "somebody has to take a stand" to control the consumption of sugar-laden drinks blamed in part for the nation's obesity epidemic.

Barbara Ferrer, executive director of the Boston Public Health Commission, expects resistance to an outright ban. She says people look at sweetened beverages differently from tobacco.

A spokesman for a national soft drink organization called a ban an "overly simplistic" way to fight obesity.

Posted by: the unknown comic at September 20, 2010 07:41 AM (uFokq)

240 I still think Clinton did it as a deliberate sabotage to the administration (his advice last year).

Posted by: g at September 20, 2010 07:42 AM (gU6mL)

241

I really wish Glenn Beck would stick to the national scene.  Or, if nothing else, at least wait until elections are over before getting state people on-the-air.

I dunno.  Maybe it's just me.

Posted by: Debra Medina at September 20, 2010 07:43 AM (q/kmn)

242
"Only 33% say the health care plan will be good for the country", and we 33% of the population will continue to suck from the fruits and labors of those foolish buffoons that continue working their asses off to pay for our leisure lifestyle.  Fuck you producers in the squeakhole.

Posted by: 33% of America at September 20, 2010 07:43 AM (v1gw3)

243

starts at noon, I think they are doing it during power lunch since hard wood is always on power lunch I'm on then.

FIFY

Posted by: Rush at September 20, 2010 07:44 AM (a3Z62)

244 Opposition to Hellcare is a trifling 61% of the population.  Wait till the other 39% discover that they're going to jail because they haven't bought/arranged for health care at enormous premiums. 

Posted by: Minnie Rodent at September 20, 2010 07:44 AM (PZLW0)

245 Bill, I'm not going to approve of your behavior, but I might be able to understand your "pain".

Posted by: Jean at September 20, 2010 07:45 AM (OsAaC)

246 249
Here's something interesting...

BOSTON (AP) _ Boston, the city that has banned smoking in bars and trans-fats in restaurants, now wants to keep sugary drinks out of city-owned buildings.

The city has convened health, education, and housing leaders to develop a policy that aims to reduce consumption of sugar-sweetened sodas and other beverages.

Panel member Bill Walczak, head of a community health center, tells The Boston Globe that "somebody has to take a stand" to control the consumption of sugar-laden drinks blamed in part for the nation's obesity epidemic.

Barbara Ferrer, executive director of the Boston Public Health Commission, expects resistance to an outright ban. She says people look at sweetened beverages differently from tobacco.

A spokesman for a national soft drink organization called a ban an "overly simplistic" way to fight obesity.

Posted by: the unknown comic at September 20, 2010 11:41 AM (uFokq)

First they came for my neighbor's

249
Here's something interesting...

BOSTON (AP) _ Boston, the city that has banned smoking in bars and trans-fats in restaurants, now wants to keep sugary drinks out of city-owned buildings.

The city has convened health, education, and housing leaders to develop a policy that aims to reduce consumption of sugar-sweetened sodas and other beverages.

Panel member Bill Walczak, head of a community health center, tells The Boston Globe that "somebody has to take a stand" to control the consumption of sugar-laden drinks blamed in part for the nation's obesity epidemic.

Barbara Ferrer, executive director of the Boston Public Health Commission, expects resistance to an outright ban. She says people look at sweetened beverages differently from tobacco.

A spokesman for a national soft drink organization called a ban an "overly simplistic" way to fight obesity.

Posted by: the unknown comic at September 20, 2010 11:41 AM (uFokq)

First they came for my neighbor's cigarette and I said nothing. Then they came for his bacon - still I said nothing. Then they came for his Mountain Dew - still I said nothing. I'm just waiting for when they come for the midget tranny porn - then I'll get pissed.

Posted by: Radioactive Satellite Of LOVE at September 20, 2010 07:45 AM (LdYLm)

247 @247 A moby is someone who pretends to be a conservative and posts inflammatory stuff trying to make conservatives look bad.

It would be sort of hard for you to be a moby, since you are not pretending to be a conservative-not to mention you don't post over-the-top nonsense.

An eeyore is a "Debbie Downer" who constantly laments.  Also known as a "concern troll."  Again, with you, clearly not the case.

Maybe he is talking about somebody else.

Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at September 20, 2010 07:45 AM (Snu7z)

248 Hillary looks like hammered shit.

Posted by: SurferDoc at September 20, 2010 07:47 AM (RKpGM)

249 When the food police come for my bacon, it's on, bitches. 

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 20, 2010 07:47 AM (UOM48)

250 Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at September 20, 2010 11:45 AM (Snu7z)

thanks for the explanation.


Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 07:47 AM (p302b)

251
 A sausage link?

You cookin breakfast?

Posted by: the unknown comic at September 20, 2010 07:48 AM (uFokq)

252 Posted by: Chris Coons, Balding Marxist at September 20, 2010 11:46 AM (IhHdM)

Stop being such an ass. 

Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at September 20, 2010 07:48 AM (Snu7z)

253

"Yeah, just got word on the new rates for my work's health insurance and our premiums doubled to $500. DOUBLED. FML. Repeal cannot come soon enough."

Clearly, your employer, and possibly you, are racist.

Posted by: The Obama Administration at September 20, 2010 07:48 AM (q/kmn)

254 So if I was a Clinton that needed (not wanted..needed) to be back in the White House, how would I engineer such an event after the election to Barack Obama? Well a few obstacles would need to be overcome. First and foremost the Democrat loyalty to BO. He would need to set up a substantial schism between the Democrat leaders and BO so they would actively look for an alternative; and this would be hard because nothing short of an electoral train wreck would cause the party leadership to break from the President. Next BO's huge popularity must be quenched, so that it can't be used as a bargaining chip to maintain that slipping loyalty. Last, democrat voters themselves, must actively want that alternative.

So
1. Obama must become unpopular,
2. Democrats need an electoral shellacking
3. Obama needs to be rendered ineffective to lose the support of the base.
4. Clinton has a chance of sleeping in the WH come 2013.

So how to implement such a complex plan.

Slick Willie:  "I'm telling you no matter how low they drive support for this with misinformation, the minute the president signs a health care reform bill his approval will go up. Secondly, within a year, when all those bad things they say will happen don't happen, and all the good things happen, approval will explode"

the perfect plan.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose at September 20, 2010 07:48 AM (0q2P7)

255 257 @247 A moby is someone who pretends to be a conservative and posts inflammatory stuff trying to make conservatives look bad.

It would be sort of hard for you to be a moby, since you are not pretending to be a conservative-not to mention you don't post over-the-top nonsense.

An eeyore is a "Debbie Downer" who constantly laments.  Also known as a "concern troll."  Again, with you, clearly not the case.

Maybe he is talking about somebody else.

Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at September 20, 2010 11:45 AM (Snu7z) 

Maybe a visual of an eeyore: (from Winnie the Pooh)

http://tinyurl.com/24w4yzy

Posted by: Radioactive Satellite Of LOVE at September 20, 2010 07:48 AM (LdYLm)

256 259 Hillary looks like hammered shit.

Posted by: SurferDoc at September 20, 2010 11:47 AM (RKpGM)


she definitely had some work.  You would think she would have had it before the wedding and bill had some too, saw him yesterday and he looks different, just like she looks different.

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 07:48 AM (p302b)

257 People are so completely clueless as for what is in store for them. I saw a co worker after passage of the bill and he said to me "Now YOU will have to pay for my health care". I said, "What part of Individual Mandate do you not understand?"

Posted by: rawmuse at September 20, 2010 07:49 AM (mxUbm)

258 @249 -

Sweet jeebers -- and they teach us that Assachusetts under the Puritans was repressive?

Posted by: Minnie Rodent at September 20, 2010 07:50 AM (PZLW0)

259

It's going to get worse in October!?!?

My rates have nearly doubled since Obama passsed this monument to his bad-self.

Posted by: garrett at September 20, 2010 07:50 AM (2S90a)

260 Toby,

The kids will be 3 on Sept 25. I can't believe you remembered! I am touched*.


*Not in an AoS sort of way, NTTAWWT.

Posted by: Tushar at September 20, 2010 07:50 AM (lDfjO)

261 265 So if I was a Clinton that needed (not wanted..needed) to be back in the White House, how would I engineer such an event after the election to Barack Obama? Well a few obstacles would need to be overcome. First and foremost the Democrat loyalty to BO. He would need to set up a substantial schism between the Democrat leaders and BO so they would actively look for an alternative; and this would be hard because nothing short of an electoral train wreck would cause the party leadership to break from the President. Next BO's huge popularity must be quenched, so that it can't be used as a bargaining chip to maintain that slipping loyalty. Last, democrat voters themselves, must actively want that alternative.

So
1. Obama must become unpopular,
2. Democrats need an electoral shellacking
3. Obama needs to be rendered ineffective to lose the support of the base.
4. Clinton has a chance of sleeping in the WH come 2013.

So how to implement such a complex plan.

Slick Willie:  "I'm telling you no matter how low they drive support for this with misinformation, the minute the president signs a health care reform bill his approval will go up. Secondly, within a year, when all those bad things they say will happen don't happen, and all the good things happen, approval will explode"

the perfect plan.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose at September 20, 2010 11:48 AM (0q2P7)

Meh, never attribute to genius in one person what can be attributed to arrogance and stupidity in another.

Posted by: Radioactive Satellite Of LOVE at September 20, 2010 07:50 AM (LdYLm)

262

This just in . . . my neighbor down the street lost her job as a health insurance broker and they told their nanny they had to let her go because of Obama.

I then explained to my middle school aged son that we in the United States live under a Constitutional Republic carried out through a representative democracy with the will of the people represented by public servants. I then told him the office of the presidency should always be repsected. But the occupant does not have to be if  their policies contravene the Constitution. 

Obamacare is a fricking 2,000 page nightmare whose "egalitarian compassion" belies liberty.

The clamoring over Obamacare's ills needs to crowd out the dems extremist meme.

Posted by: journolist at September 20, 2010 07:51 AM (O/NP5)

263 Medicare is socialism

Posted by: belzebub's burp at September 20, 2010 07:51 AM (I+7Zv)

264 267 259 Hillary looks like hammered shit.

Posted by: SurferDoc at September 20, 2010 11:47 AM (RKpGM)


she definitely had some work.  You would think she would have had it before the wedding and bill had some too, saw him yesterday and he looks different, just like she looks different.

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 11:48 AM (p302b)

I'd hit it.

Posted by: Radioactive Satellite Of LOVE at September 20, 2010 07:51 AM (LdYLm)

265
Don't worry, though.

It's still legal in MA to smoke the baloney pony.

/dice

Posted by: the unknown comic at September 20, 2010 07:51 AM (uFokq)

266 The owner of the business D'oh runs has mentioned cancelling everyone's insurance and paying the fine, which will be far less expensive.  Gawd, I hope he reconsiders.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 20, 2010 07:52 AM (UOM48)

267 People are so completely clueless as for what is in store for them. I saw a co worker after passage of the bill and he said to me "Now YOU will have to pay for my health care". I said, "What part of Individual Mandate do you not understand?"

Posted by: rawmuse at September 20, 2010 11:49 AM (mxUbm)

Wait....aside from him not getting the 'Individual mandate', why would a CO-WORKER, think you have to pay for his healthcare? 

Posted by: Tami at September 20, 2010 07:52 AM (VuLos)

268

SWEET FANCY MOSES, THAT PICTURE ON DRUDGE.

It's like Hillary's trying to out-Klingon M'cel or something.

Posted by: reason at September 20, 2010 07:52 AM (q/kmn)

269
I know, dunce. And so is the VA hospitals, right, dunce?

Your TPM talking points are old, dunce.

Posted by: the unknown comic at September 20, 2010 07:53 AM (uFokq)

270 I wonder if Hillary is featured in Carla Bruni's book too?

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 07:53 AM (p302b)

271 You can kiss mine.

Posted by: Chris Coons, Balding Marxist at September 20, 2010 11:49 AM (IhHdM)


With the amazing similarties between your ass, and your forehead, would you perhaps be kind enough to point out which is which?

Posted by: Unclefacts, Summoner of Bacons, and Meteor afficionado at September 20, 2010 07:54 AM (eCAn3)

272 Hey, how about those NY Giants last night! What? Too soon?

Posted by: conscious, but incoherent at September 20, 2010 07:54 AM (YVZlY)

273 280

SWEET FANCY MOSES, THAT PICTURE ON DRUDGE.

It's like Hillary's trying to out-Klingon M'cel or something.

Posted by: reason at September 20, 2010 11:52 AM (q/kmn)

SSSHHHHH, you don't want to wake Ace up from his Valu-Rite induced weekend coma.

Posted by: Sockpuppet Ace's Girlfriend at September 20, 2010 07:55 AM (LdYLm)

274

Hillary looks like hammered shit.

Growing old ain't for sissies and if you're in the public eye, you'd better hire a hair dresser.

Posted by: EZB at September 20, 2010 07:55 AM (Ty06w)

275
For some reason today ABC News feels it is necessary to remind everyone the recession is over and has been since last July '09.

Did you hear that, too? Talk about propaganda...

Posted by: the unknown comic at September 20, 2010 07:55 AM (uFokq)

276 @279 because he is Democrat. Don't ask me how his mind works, I have no idea.

Posted by: rawmuse at September 20, 2010 07:56 AM (mxUbm)

277 Repeal ObamaCare?

*GASP*

That sounds RADICAL AND EXTREME!

Can we moderate that a bit?

Oh and BURN THE WITCH!

Posted by: Big Tent Squishy Ass at September 20, 2010 07:56 AM (yRJfW)

278 Growing old ain't for sissies and if you're in the public eye, you'd better hire a hair dresser.Landscaper Terra-former.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose at September 20, 2010 07:57 AM (0q2P7)

279

90 If the GOP really is looking for a knockout blow every single Republican running needs to cut a commercial vowing everything in their power to repeal it or defund it, if elected.
Let Obama veto any repeal- it will be his death knell in 2012.

And the fact that GOP candidates, outside the tea party candidates who have just taken out some stinkin RINO, have NOT made the unequivocal vow to REPEAL tells you what about the GOP's intentions?

Posted by: typical wingnut at September 20, 2010 07:57 AM (K/USr)

280 The delegitimization of Obama and undermining his support from his base in favor of Hillary is already underway.  See: Maher's recent semi-racist rant hanging out there with no criticism from the Left at all.

Posted by: SurferDoc at September 20, 2010 07:57 AM (RKpGM)

281 I was in home depot the other day.  They had no cashiers, none.  They had a person watching the 8 self checkout machines but no cashiers.  some people are fine with checking themselves out and others need help.  The girl was helping one woman and she shared with the woman that twenty cashiers had been fired.  I was surprised to hear her answer "well maybe it's time to fire some of the people in our bloated government instead of people making ten bucks an hour".   I have to say, we were all standing at the self check out machines and agreeing with her but feeling really bad that by us checking ourselves out twenty people could be fired.

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 07:58 AM (p302b)

282 278 jane.... ....and then you have to go get insurance or risk getting fined/imprisoned.... i believe this is intended to create class warfare between employers and employees

Posted by: phoenixgirl at September 20, 2010 07:59 AM (eOXTH)

283 278 The owner of the business D'oh runs has mentioned cancelling everyone's insurance and paying the fine, which will be far less expensive.  Gawd, I hope he reconsiders.

This will be de rigeur. And the libs will spin it by saying that it's the evil corporation's decision to cut your insurance, not Obama's.

Posted by: . at September 20, 2010 07:59 AM (gQLr2)

284
At the gym this morning CNN was on the tv's and there's Lady Gaga commenting on military policy. She's going to Maine for a rally to get Snowe & Collins to make yet another foolish vote.

 

Posted by: the unknown comic at September 20, 2010 07:59 AM (uFokq)

285

"Gawd, I hope he reconsiders."

If it's a publicly-traded company, then the stockholders could take action against him for not doing exactly that.

Businesses and their stockholders (Wall Street) at each others' throats!  Intended consequences...

Posted by: reason at September 20, 2010 07:59 AM (q/kmn)

286 curious, Bernie Marcus, one of the founders of Home Depot, has been on fire on the talk shows lately slamming Barry. 

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 20, 2010 08:00 AM (UOM48)

287 Hey Hill! You should try my hairdresser! He'll do wonders for you! Trust me.

*tee hee hee*

Posted by: Michelle Obama at September 20, 2010 08:00 AM (yRJfW)

288 295 I was in home depot the other day.  They had no cashiers, none.  They had a person watching the 8 self checkout machines but no cashiers.  some people are fine with checking themselves out and others need help.  The girl was helping one woman and she shared with the woman that twenty cashiers had been fired.  I was surprised to hear her answer "well maybe it's time to fire some of the people in our bloated government instead of people making ten bucks an hour".   I have to say, we were all standing at the self check out machines and agreeing with her but feeling really bad that by us checking ourselves out twenty people could be fired.

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 11:58 AM (p302b)

My son and I went to a jazz festival in a local town. Every other store was for rent. The businesses were closed and the landlord was looking for new tenants. They can manipulate the Stock Market and the unemployment numbers but they cannot change the underlying carnage they are causing.

Posted by: Radioactive Satellite Of LOVE at September 20, 2010 08:00 AM (LdYLm)

289 280 SWEET FANCY MOSES, THAT PICTURE ON DRUDGE.It's like Hillary's trying to out-Klingon M'cel or something.

ah, hahahaha.  That would be Hildebeast's interpretation of the Palin look.  Next, some librarian glasses for the 'beast?

Posted by: typical wingnut at September 20, 2010 08:00 AM (K/USr)

290 Posted by: the unknown comic Well, the Obama machine, of which ABC News is a large part, just saw their whole gameplan (taking out ads trashing the TP's) dissolve right in front of their eyes. I guess they went with Plan B: "Recession, what Recession?". I'm sure it'll work out well for them.

Posted by: Lincolntf at September 20, 2010 08:00 AM (EHI/u)

291

Not a Joke.

CNN has a "Breaking News" Article on their website.

Great Recession Officially over in 2009

 

go to cnn dot com.

it's hilarious that they are treating this as breaking news.

Posted by: Ben at September 20, 2010 08:00 AM (wuv1c)

292 The girl was helping one woman and she shared with the woman that twenty cashiers had been fired.  I was surprised to hear her answer "well maybe it's time to fire some of the people in our bloated government instead of people making ten bucks an hour".

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 11:58 AM (p302b)

*sniff*

Peasant.

Posted by: Your Friendly and Helpful Government Employee Union at September 20, 2010 08:01 AM (I+yJg)

293 Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 20, 2010 12:00 PM (UOM4

That explains the new flags with lighting in front of every home depot. 

He must be angry that he had to fire people.  The stores have a skeleton crew.

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 08:01 AM (p302b)

294 reason@299, alas it's a small family-owned business.  The company D'oh runs is one of a couple the family owns.  D'oh is hoping to buy the guy out eventually. 

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 20, 2010 08:01 AM (UOM48)

295 For some reason today ABC News feels it is necessary to remind everyone the recession is over and has been since last July '09.

Kind of like an airplane crash being over when you hit the dirt. The splat sound is your cue to feel better according to them...Except this kind of reminds me of the airplane crash in the Temple of Doom, where the crash splat portion is kind of done and they appear to be sliding to a stop, just before they reach the cliff.


Posted by: MikeTheMoose at September 20, 2010 08:02 AM (0q2P7)

296

"If I wanted an ankle biter I'd buy a dog. Or look at your FB picture."

T-Dub is back, baby!

Posted by: reason at September 20, 2010 08:02 AM (q/kmn)

297

296

278 jane....

....and then you have to go get insurance or risk getting fined/imprisoned....

i believe this is intended to create class warfare between employers and employees

Works great for us in Mass!

Posted by: Mitt I like mandates Romney at September 20, 2010 08:02 AM (K/USr)

298 At the gym this morning CNN was on the tv's and there's Lady Gaga commenting on military policy. She's going to Maine for a rally to get Snowe & Collins to make yet another foolish vote.

Thank God for those Moderate RINO'S!

After all, how do you expect to have a Big Tent without the Lady Gaga crowd?

Oh and BURN THE WITCH!!!!

Posted by: Big Tent Squishy Ass at September 20, 2010 08:02 AM (yRJfW)

299 Posted by: Ben at September 20, 2010 12:00 PM (wuv1c)

is this the pre gaming to the town hall message?

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 08:02 AM (p302b)

300
Re: Colin Powell

Amazing how many of the left's talking points he repeated yesterday when talking to David Gurglery.

Powell even repeated the one about the Tea Party being nothing more than slogans. I guess he hasn't heard about the hundreds of Tea Party citizens who are now candidates running on the issues.


Posted by: the unknown comic at September 20, 2010 08:03 AM (uFokq)

301

 I was in home depot the other day.  They had no cashiers, none.  They had a person watching the 8 self checkout machines but no cashiers.  some people are fine with checking themselves out and others need help.  The girl was helping one woman and she shared with the woman that twenty cashiers had been fired.  I was surprised to hear her answer "well maybe it's time to fire some of the people in our bloated government instead of people making ten bucks an hour".   I have to say, we were all standing at the self check out machines and agreeing with her but feeling really bad that by us checking ourselves out twenty people could be fired

 

I love the self check out lines. I am so quick and efficient with them. I was pissed when my local walmart got rid of them because a lot of people were switching price tags and barcodes and stealing from the Walmart.

now i have to stand in the express line and the guy in front of me has well over 20 items, but he didn't feel like waiting int he normal lines.

Posted by: Ben at September 20, 2010 08:03 AM (wuv1c)

302 302 Great news!  The "recession" ended more than a year ago.

Posted by: Gerry at September 20, 2010 12:00 PM (ahBvG)

Here's the important part of the story:

"a panel of academic economists based in Cambridge, Mass."


Posted by: Radioactive Satellite Of LOVE at September 20, 2010 08:03 AM (LdYLm)

303

Posted by: Ben at September 20, 2010 12:00 PM (wuv1c)

is this the pre gaming to the town hall message?

Without question.

Posted by: Ben at September 20, 2010 08:04 AM (wuv1c)

304 Can we start whining for a new thread now?

Posted by: joncelli at September 20, 2010 08:05 AM (RD7QR)

305 Anyone going to risk their blood pressure spiking and watch Teh Won's town hall? 

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 20, 2010 08:05 AM (UOM48)

306 he's leading up to the "blame it on bush" comment, straight out of the box

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 08:05 AM (p302b)

307 Praise Gaia.  Rush is back.

Posted by: RushBabe at September 20, 2010 08:06 AM (a3Z62)

308 "those programs that we put in place, worked" so now you have "a financial system that is stable"

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 08:06 AM (p302b)

309
ABCNews: "Although the economy is growing, it's not as fast as the administration would like."

That's a direct quote from the White House press release. They just repeat whatever comes out of the White House.

Posted by: the unknown comic at September 20, 2010 08:06 AM (uFokq)

310 323 he's leading up to the "blame it on bush" comment, straight out of the box Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 12:05 PM (p302b) I'd advise them to get a new schtick but you don't stop your enemy when he's shooting himself.

Posted by: joncelli at September 20, 2010 08:07 AM (RD7QR)

311 Oh, I cannot wait for the "recession ended in 6/09" post by... ace.  Please don't let it be DrewM.  This is ripe for some grade A snark. 

Posted by: Editor at September 20, 2010 08:07 AM (pUfK9)

312 you all know barry gave a speech to the schools last week? i asked my kids what it was about....one said she didn't pay attention.... the other three said he was talking about how he was a slacker in school until his mom told him he had to do better.....my oldest said....i guess he didn't listen because he keeps going on vacation......

Posted by: phoenixgirl at September 20, 2010 08:07 AM (eOXTH)

313

D'oh - best of luck to you!  Do you guys still have your "corporate takeover!" savings account still set aside, or have you had to dip into that over the past couple years to make ends meet like so many others?

Posted by: reason at September 20, 2010 08:07 AM (q/kmn)

314 Can we start whining for a new thread now?

Hey!! Check out the polls from Wisconsin!  Bad news for the Circle D's.

Posted by: CUS at September 20, 2010 08:07 AM (wOGfT)

315

CNN has a "Breaking News" Article on their website.

Great Recession Officially over in 2009

And right next to that pile of dogshit:  "GOP sniping up after tea party wins" with a picture of a person who shall remain un-named.

The link to "Great Accomplishments of Our Comrades During the Current Five Year Plan" is bad, though.


Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at September 20, 2010 08:08 AM (5aa4z)

316

SWEET FANCY MOSES, THAT PICTURE ON DRUDGE.

It's like Hillary's trying to out-Klingon M'cel or something.

Well, it was science fiction book day here yesterday.  Maybe Cankles is a reader.

Posted by: Mao at September 20, 2010 08:08 AM (xxgag)

317 "It took ten years to create"  "no quick fix, slow and steady"

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 08:08 AM (p302b)

318 Wise man say get this fucking sock off of me!

Posted by: WalrusRex at September 20, 2010 08:09 AM (xxgag)

319 Posted by: Radioactive Satellite Of LOVE Ugh. Those are the same people that the MA Legislature used to convince people that MA health care would be "budget neutral". Nobody in the world believed it, but they had a "study" which they then used to justify overriding Romney's vetoes (I think they used potential Civil Rights violations as another excuse). I'd say 90% of the Dem-sponsored Legislation that makes it's way through Congress begins as a Cambridge study.

Posted by: Lincolntf at September 20, 2010 08:09 AM (EHI/u)

320 did you see he went to church? i would have loved to be a fly on the wall while they were all getting ready....do we have to daddy? we haven't gone in years! why now? IT'S BUSH'S FAULT!

Posted by: phoenixgirl at September 20, 2010 08:09 AM (eOXTH)

321 "It took ten years to create" Barry-to-English translation: "I'm not responsible for my own actions. Look, a squirrel!"

Posted by: joncelli at September 20, 2010 08:10 AM (RD7QR)

322 Massive fire in NYC. Bridge over the Harlem River completely consumed in flames. FoxNews.

Posted by: Lincolntf at September 20, 2010 08:10 AM (EHI/u)

323
Ah, see?

The Inner Circle of the Ministry of Propagandatm have decided they will remind people the recession is over.


Posted by: the unknown comic at September 20, 2010 08:10 AM (uFokq)

324 Great news!  The "recession" ended more than a year ago.

Posted by: Gerry at September 20, 2010 12:00 PM (ahBvG)
Here's the important part of the story:

"a panel of academic economists based in Cambridge, Mass."

"Obama saved us!"

The narrative had to be written.
The facts of the matter are just simply not important.
Acadamia must protect their own.
They must protect their master plan.
They've never let the facts of human existence interfere with their elitist views in the past; Why start now?
The narrative had to be written.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose at September 20, 2010 08:10 AM (0q2P7)

325 299

"Gawd, I hope he reconsiders."

If it's a publicly-traded company, then the stockholders could take action against him for not doing exactly that.

Businesses and their stockholders (Wall Street) at each others' throats!  Intended consequences...

Posted by: reason at September 20, 2010 11:59 AM (q/kmn)

< Exactly! The officers and directors of both private and publicly traded companies have a fiduciary duty to those with 3rd party interests held in the company.  Paying a fine versus affording health care cover is a decision that would positively affect the company's balance sheet and fulfill the fiduciary role of those in charge.

But as you say, this could start a whole new bad business meme echoed by the left.

This is why the State of Virginia's case is so important as the Feds are trying to shut down the ability to even litigate Obamacare.

The two star Attorney Generals in the repeal legislation are in Virginia and Alaska.  

Posted by: journolist at September 20, 2010 08:11 AM (O/NP5)

326 Not a bridge, maybe a pier?

Posted by: Lincolntf at September 20, 2010 08:11 AM (EHI/u)

327

that's it. I am wathcing this fool and the obot "journ-o-list"

what a spectacle, this is nothing but a campaign "poor is me" speech.  Talking about stuff the man has no clue about, and the audience just cheering everything on. WHAT A JOKE!

might as well go to work now. Have a good afternoon everyone.

Posted by: johnc_recent_EX-dem at September 20, 2010 08:11 AM (ACkhT)

328 Not a bridge, maybe a pier?

Eh.  When you're hammered enough, it makes no difference.

Posted by: Ted Kennedy, Riding High on the Engorged Cock of Satan at September 20, 2010 08:12 AM (5aa4z)

329

I love the self check out lines. I am so quick and efficient with them

Me, not so much. Have to keep the kids from bumping or leaning on the weight sensitive parts first. Then it just complains randomly. It's probably racist. The ones at the Commissary are only for 30 items or less, so that's just not going to work most days.

Even more O/T, but at 327 comments, why not: anybody use a free or cheap online calendar and like it? Gotta keep track of the kids' schedule now that we're busy. Would be nice if it were accessable by PDA.

Posted by: Mama AJ at September 20, 2010 08:12 AM (XdlcF)

330 "The life you describe, worrying about your family, giving back to your community, that's what we want to reward"

That language creeps me out and I don't know why.

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 08:13 AM (p302b)

331
Yeah,
Remember last year it was, "the mess that took 8 years to create"?

Now it's the mess that took ten years to create. So either Obama is blaming himself, too, for creating the mess, or he's blaming Clinton, too, for the mess.


Posted by: the unknown comic at September 20, 2010 08:13 AM (uFokq)

332 348

that's it. I am wathcing this fool and the obot "journ-o-list"

what a spectacle, this is nothing but a campaign "poor is me" speech.  Talking about stuff the man has no clue about, and the audience just cheering everything on. WHAT A JOKE!

might as well go to work now. Have a good afternoon everyone.

Posted by: johnc_recent_EX-dem at September 20, 2010 12:11 PM (ACkhT)

< Don't forget to clock in.

Posted by: journolist at September 20, 2010 08:13 AM (O/NP5)

333 I have to say, we were all standing at the self check out machines and agreeing with her but feeling really bad that by us checking ourselves out twenty people could be fired.

Those self check-out machines annoy me, especially at grocery stores.  I always avoid them.  If prices were lower because of them that would be one thing, but they aren't.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at September 20, 2010 08:14 AM (FkKjr)

334 Omg. Obama getting questioned by black admirer...a fucking softball. They pay these fucking people...I swear...they are actors and given their questions.

Sarah! Go to the BS townhall meeting!

Posted by: Something Wicked This Way Comes... at September 20, 2010 08:14 AM (GOG1H)

335 i asked my kids what it was about....one said she didn't pay attention.... the other three said he was talking about how he was a slacker in school until his mom told him he had to do better.....my oldest said....i guess he didn't listen because he keeps going on vacation......

Posted by: phoenixgirl at September 20, 2010 12:07 PM (eOXTH)

Uh, didn't he admit he was a cokehead through school? And we have pictures of him smoking pot in college...I'm pretty sure he was a slacker throughout his school career.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 20, 2010 08:14 AM (7BU4a)

336 Posted by: the unknown comic at September 20, 2010 12:13 PM (uFokq)

you noticed that too

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 08:15 AM (p302b)

337

Talking up repeal is fine red meat for the conservative base. But I would like to make a suggestion for a winning plank.

No more taxes on overtime pay.

And similar compensation for salaried workers.

Posted by: Cluebat from Exodar at September 20, 2010 08:15 AM (cqZXM)

338 Good news to take some pressure off the race that shall not be mentioned:

Rumor has it that PPP will show fiengold down big tmrw.  seen at HA.

Posted by: Guy Fawkes at September 20, 2010 08:15 AM (L8kaT)

339 Even more O/T, but at 327 comments, why not: anybody use a free or cheap online calendar and like it? Google calendar works for me (yeah, they're evil, but still.). I can synchronize it with Outlook at work and iCal on my Mac at home and keep up to date wherever I am.

Posted by: joncelli at September 20, 2010 08:17 AM (RD7QR)

340

See how big my forehead is?  That relates directly to the size of the brain within.

My brain is huge.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton, sporting her new facelift via bobby-pin, at September 20, 2010 08:17 AM (+hPIb)

341

I love the self check out lines. I am so quick and efficient with them. I was pissed when my local walmart got rid of them because a lot of people were switching price tags and barcodes and stealing from the Walmart.

now i have to stand in the express line and the guy in front of me has well over 20 items, but he didn't feel like waiting int he normal lines.

Posted by: Ben at September 20, 2010 12:03 PM (wuv1c)

I love the super genius that came up with them in Walmart.  As soon as I saw them in the newly remodeled store near us I said to the wife, they are going ot steal this store blind when they open those up.  They didn't last a month after they first started using them.  After two weeks they had 3-4 people standing their monitoring them, more than they had on regular registers.

Posted by: Johnnyreb at September 20, 2010 08:18 AM (JSetw)

342 The Bamster is on CNBC right now telling a "town hall" how he's saved our country from last 10 yrs of mismanagement. I really hate this man.

Posted by: Old dude at September 20, 2010 08:19 AM (o8Aaf)

343
The checkout lines are great unless you have an impatient dildo behind you who starts scanning his/her shit while your bagging your shit.


Posted by: the unknown comic at September 20, 2010 08:19 AM (uFokq)

344  Anyone going to risk their blood pressure spiking and watch Teh Won's town hall? 

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 20, 2010 12:05 PM (UOM4

I get the bulk of my exercise reaching for the mute/volume switch when Black Narcissus comes on, so put me down for "no" since I did five miles on the stepper this a.m.

Posted by: RushBabe at September 20, 2010 08:20 AM (a3Z62)

345
haha, now Rush is picking up on the "recession has been over for a year" propaganda.

Posted by: the unknown comic at September 20, 2010 08:22 AM (uFokq)

346 278 The owner of the business D'oh runs has mentioned cancelling everyone's insurance and paying the fine, which will be far less expensive.  Gawd, I hope he reconsiders.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 20, 2010 11:52 AM (UOM4

I've seen a couple of the interviews.  He's turning the populist message back on Barry and team.  Makes some awesome points - hard to argue against.

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at September 20, 2010 08:22 AM (RkRxq)

347 A young attorney with no job just asked about the American dream, they don't see it for their generation.  It was a great question, I'm not doing justice to it but BO said basically that marriage is worth the monetary cost (everyone laughed).  I thought the guy who had the question was going to cry.

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 08:22 AM (p302b)

348 ace is engaged in witchcasting

Posted by: ingenus at September 20, 2010 08:23 AM (+sBB4)

349 SWEET FANCY MOSES, THAT PICTURE ON DRUDGE.

Ye Gods!  It's the borg queen.

Resistance is futile.

Alice Krige is still way hotter than Hillary, even when dressed up as the Borg Queen.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose at September 20, 2010 08:23 AM (0q2P7)

350

Hey!! Check out the polls from Wisconsin!  Bad news for the CircleD's  jerks.

FIFY

Posted by: RushBabe at September 20, 2010 08:23 AM (a3Z62)

351

"Ye Gods!  It's the borg queen."

Great.  Now I'm gonna have nightmares about Hillary's head and spine pulling out from her body before she goes to bed at night...

Posted by: reason at September 20, 2010 08:23 AM (+hPIb)

352 he is going through the we are the best country in the world meme

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 08:24 AM (p302b)

353

Question. Has there ever been a modern President that has acted so petulant and Unpresidential?  Clinton, Nixon - the two that immediately come to mind as potentials, always seemed to speak the part and act the part publicly.

Obama has truly lowered the office by his unpresidential public presence.

Posted by: journolist at September 20, 2010 08:24 AM (O/NP5)

354 I am not sure I can take much more. It's like a fucking pep rally. This guy talks, and talks, and talks, surprised if they get 5 questions...from D actors.

Posted by: Something Wicked This Way Comes... at September 20, 2010 08:24 AM (GOG1H)

355 So far it's the same old same old with the exception of him saying the ten years now instead of 8 (probably thinking hillary will challenge him)

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 08:26 AM (p302b)

356 He got really pissed when asked if he had a hard on for business and of course he denied it. But his inflection changed dramatically...got very defensive.

Methinks he's full of shit.

Posted by: Something Wicked This Way Comes... at September 20, 2010 08:26 AM (GOG1H)

357

CNN has a "Breaking News" Article on their website.

Great Recession Officially over in 2009

And right next to that pile of dogshit:  "GOP sniping up after tea party wins" with a picture of a person who shall remain un-named.

The link to "Great Accomplishments of Our Comrades During the Current Five Year Plan" is bad, though.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at September 20, 2010 12:08 PM (5aa4z)

I'm sure it's in there, but I can seem to see anything referencing how all those unemployed people aren't really unemployed but just enjoying a long overdue extended vacation paid for by us out of gratitude for their years of devotion and hard work.  (That's how I feel so I may be projecting a bit.)

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at September 20, 2010 08:26 AM (RkRxq)

358
Rush is on fire. But he's repeating all the good points we made here over the weekend.

Posted by: the unknown comic at September 20, 2010 08:26 AM (uFokq)

359

"he is going through the we are the best country in the world meme"

Despite all your best efforts, Barry...

Posted by: reason at September 20, 2010 08:27 AM (+hPIb)

360 extend tax relief for middle class Americans like most of the audience here.....

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 08:27 AM (p302b)

361 Google calendar works for me (yeah, they're evil, but still.).

Thanks, I'll check it out. I have Yahoo and Google accounts, but my husband has his personal email elsewhere so I could set up one of those and he'll never look at it...but he probably won't look at it anyway...

Posted by: MamaAJ at September 20, 2010 08:27 AM (XdlcF)

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 20, 2010 08:27 AM (OIw0R)

363

379

<Curious, good point on the 10 vs. standard 8 Obama meme. This guy is truly a remarkable joke of a president.

Posted by: journolist at September 20, 2010 08:28 AM (O/NP5)

364 This is a commercial.  Does that mean the republicans get equal time and the TEA party gets equal time?

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 08:30 AM (p302b)

365
I kinda miss progressoverpeace. His comments were long, but always pretty good.

Posted by: the unknown comic at September 20, 2010 08:30 AM (uFokq)

366 By saying "I want to get to this guys question" you realize he knows what questions are coming.

susquehana glass guy speaking.  Saying how important and essential BO's plans were for small business.  Oh this guy was definitely a plant.

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 08:31 AM (p302b)

367

Interesting coincidence that means absolutely nothing... maybe.

Remember Barry's reference to there being 57 states?

There are 57 states!  Fiftyseven Islamic states (countries) in the world.

Curious how that works out.

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at September 20, 2010 08:31 AM (RkRxq)

368 What happened to progressoverpeace?

Posted by: Captain Hate at September 20, 2010 08:32 AM (aIWP/)

369 I guess I'm out of the loop here, but where did progressoverpeace go, and Bl*zer?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 20, 2010 08:32 AM (UOM48)

370 The Bamster is on CNBC right now telling a "town hall" how he's saved our country from last 10 yrs of mismanagement. I really hate this man.

Posted by: Old dude at September 20, 2010 12:19 PM (o8Aaf)

 

He saved us from a lower unemployment rate, lower poverty rate, higher GDP and lower foreclosures

Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 20, 2010 08:32 AM (1Jaio)

371 When I typed Bl*zer I got a spam warning.  wth?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 20, 2010 08:33 AM (UOM48)

372

Per Bill Clinton on Obamacare on Meet The Press: "First of all, the benefits of the bill are spread out of three or four years. It takes a long time to implement. And secondly, there has been an enormous and highly effective attack on it,”

< Um, the first four years of "implementation" are securing taxes, taxes, taxes to preload for 6 years of implementation.  So the 4 years Tax, then 6 years "benefits" scheme accounted for a "revenue neutral" CBO score. 

But now, the CBO ain't even claiming revenue neutral.

Posted by: journolist at September 20, 2010 08:33 AM (O/NP5)

373

Great.  Now I'm gonna have nightmares about Hillary's head and spine pulling out from her body before she goes to bed at night...

Posted by: reason at September 20, 2010 12:23 PM (+hPIb)

What?  She doesn't do that?

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at September 20, 2010 08:33 AM (RkRxq)

374 Did they release a budget, he keeps mentioning cuts in the budget?

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 08:33 AM (p302b)

375
Sources say...

One of them left because he was sick of the shit, and the other was *asked* to leave.

Posted by: the unknown comic at September 20, 2010 08:35 AM (uFokq)

376

MamaAJ - I'm sure there is a group of loosely-organized leftists somewhere in the Pacific NW that can speak with complete authority when they say, "Calendars and The Moron Horde do not mix!"

I've been looking for a link to the above-referenced thread, with no luck.  Anyone got better Google-fu?

Posted by: reason at September 20, 2010 08:35 AM (+hPIb)

377 371 A young attorney with no job just asked about the American dream,

Wait.  I thought that was the American dream. Not for him, but for the rest of us.

I'm also not sure about the correlation of lawyer jobs with the economy.  In fact, the more lawyers that are working, the slower the economy.  Are lawsuits dependent on economic growth?

Seriously, though, what about his Bachelor's degree?  Shouldn't he be able to get a job just with that?  Not as a lawyer, but doing something else.

Posted by: AmishDude at September 20, 2010 08:35 AM (T0NGe)

378 I don't know about PoP but Bl*zer was permanently banned a few weeks ago when he went off his meds again.

I got the spam warning as well.

Posted by: Vic at September 20, 2010 08:35 AM (/jbAw)

379 I am now officially puking. All of these pricks have been pre screened and given questions.

This is such BULLSHIT. Fuck I hate politics. A clever choreographed  and scripted piece of shit. Anyone believing this crap has any spontaneity or fair mindededness is nuts. It is a big libtard lovefest broadcast on national TV.

Posted by: Something Wicked This Way Comes... at September 20, 2010 08:35 AM (GOG1H)

380 401  Oh. 

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 20, 2010 08:35 AM (UOM48)

381
Not trying to pimp but...

the American Thinker blog is an under appreciated gem. Lotsa good & thoughtful stuff.

Posted by: the unknown comic at September 20, 2010 08:36 AM (uFokq)

382 I can't stomach watching/listening to Jugears McFucktard.  How many "ummms" and "ahhs" is he using?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 20, 2010 08:37 AM (UOM48)

383

"There are 57 states!  Fiftyseven Islamic states (countries) in the world."

I dabbled in Islam!

Posted by: Barry Soetoro, Jr. at September 20, 2010 08:37 AM (+hPIb)

384 Posted by: AmishDude at September 20, 2010 12:35 PM (T0NGe)

The last three law school classes are having a tough time.   If you thought that someone would leave your regular job once they got a job in the law would you hire them?  That's what is going on.

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 08:37 AM (p302b)

385 "we can't give 700 billion dollars away to America's wealthiest people"...I'm not wealthy, it is tough to live in NY

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 08:38 AM (p302b)

386 Reichpollster declares 87% of morons want a new thread.

Posted by: Ben at September 20, 2010 08:38 AM (wuv1c)

387 Reichpollster declares 87% of morons want a new thread. Posted by: Ben at September 20, 2010 12:38 PM (wuv1c) Yeah even a witch craft one. Well maybe?

Posted by: nevergiveup at September 20, 2010 08:39 AM (0GFWk)

388 Didn't Barry "dabble" in coke and weed?  And like Rush said, Barry's buddy Billy Ayers "dabbled" in domestic terrorism. 

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 20, 2010 08:39 AM (UOM48)

389
Yes, it's choreographed and scripted and sickening but it's...

a) effective propaganda
b) something the Republicans should be doing, too.

Obama is making his case and making it appear he's connecting to the people. Republicans should holding these town halls, too. They don't even have to lie; the Republicans can just talk about what's going on.

Posted by: the unknown comic at September 20, 2010 08:39 AM (uFokq)

390
'sup, bitches?

Posted by: Michael Steele at September 20, 2010 08:40 AM (UOM48)

391 This is definitely completely choreographed.

Do they really think Americans are that stupid.

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 08:41 AM (p302b)

392

MamaAJ - I'm sure there is a group of loosely-organized leftists somewhere in the Pacific NW that can speak with complete authority when they say, "Calendars and The Moron Horde do not mix!"

Heh, heh, heh. That was a moment of pure moron evil. I'll find it...

Posted by: Mama AJ at September 20, 2010 08:41 AM (XdlcF)

393

"Reichpollster declares 87% of morons want a new thread."

REPEAL AND REPLACE!

Posted by: an aspiring Thread Party candidate at September 20, 2010 08:41 AM (+hPIb)

394 Wow saw the post on Hot Air about Florida CFO Alex Sink made a run around the law to invest money (tax payer money) 9.5 billion worth. Sink, Crist McCollum trustees of the fund. Best part, St. Pete Times a liberal paper published the emails.

Posted by: lions at September 20, 2010 08:42 AM (H8tcq)

395 "What will the administration do if these activists are elected?"  Questioner referenced the TEA party movement.

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 08:42 AM (p302b)

396 394 What happened to progressoverpeace?

Posted by: Captain Hate at September 20, 2010 12:32 PM (aIWP/

Nam Grunt, too?

Posted by: beedubya at September 20, 2010 08:43 AM (AnTyA)

397
It's only a matter of time until it morphs into...

"We can't be subsidizing the rich."

amirite or amirite?

Posted by: the unknown comic at September 20, 2010 08:43 AM (uFokq)

398 Do they really think Americans are that stupid.

They figure 52% of them are.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 20, 2010 08:43 AM (UOM48)

399 397 When I typed Bl*zer I got a spam warning.  wth?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 20, 2010 12:33 PM (UOM4

< So what are we supposed to do if we want to say Obama the fool was wearing a cheesy blue Bl*zer jacket or I just orderd a Bl*zer burger from Dairy Queen.

Oops. I guess we're OK on the DQ burger thing . . . they're called Brazier Burgers.

Wheew.  Close one.

Posted by: journolist at September 20, 2010 08:43 AM (O/NP5)

400 This is such BULLSHIT. Fuck I hate politics. A clever choreographed  and scripted piece of shit. Anyone believing this crap has any spontaneity or fair mindededness is nuts. It is a big libtard lovefest broadcast on national TV.

Posted by: Something Wicked This Way Comes... at September 20, 2010 12:35 PM (GOG1H)

Pretty stark contrast between Gov. Christie and our beloved master and healer of ther universe.

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at September 20, 2010 08:43 AM (RkRxq)

401 If you thought that someone would leave your regular job once they got a job in the law would you hire them?  That's what is going on.

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 12:37 PM (p302b)

LOL, that made me think of a young female co-worker we had years ago. She was a mechanical engineer and a female which made hiring her a premium. After she had worked for a couple of years they sent her to SRO school for 2 years and she got her SRO license. Now she was a licensed ME female. Shortly after she got the SRO license she quit in order to go back to school to pursue a law degree. She was on the "fast track" path to management and quit. 

Think of all the money the company wasted on sending her to SRO school for two years.

Posted by: Vic at September 20, 2010 08:43 AM (/jbAw)

402 Didn't Barry "dabble" in coke and weed? And like Rush said, Barry's buddy Billy Ayers "dabbled" in domestic terrorism. Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 20, 2010 12:39 PM (UOM4 I dabbled in sex while in high school and college and would have gone full bore crazy with it if I had gotten just a little more encouragement from my female class mates!

Posted by: nevergiveup at September 20, 2010 08:44 AM (0GFWk)

403 A while back 'Nam Grunt visited and said he usually reads here.  I wish he'd chime in more often.  I miss him.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 20, 2010 08:44 AM (UOM48)

404 417
Yes, it's choreographed and scripted and sickening but it's...

You are right. At least when they fed in Santelli's question, he wasn't falling all over himself kissing Obama's ass.

This cleverly crafted garbage is nothing other than a giant commercial for Democraps this fall. Thank Gawd most people can't stop to watch this shit during a workday.

Obama even used veterans healthcare. This is the guy who said veterans should buy their own healthcare...they signed up to fight voluntarily...therefore they should be on the hook. No shit.

Posted by: Something Wicked This Way Comes... at September 20, 2010 08:44 AM (GOG1H)

405 basically painting the tea party as a bunch of complainers with no solutions.

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 08:45 AM (p302b)

406
I don't know but that reminds me of that girl who sued to get into one of the military academies. When she finally won her case and succeeded in ruining the institution, she washed out in just a couple of weeks.

Posted by: the unknown comic at September 20, 2010 08:46 AM (uFokq)

407 412 "we can't give 700 billion dollars away to America's wealthiest people"...I'm not wealthy, it is tough to live in NY

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 12:38 PM (p302b)

Point of order.  You are not giving anything away, you just aren't stealing it from them.  That money does not belong to the government.

Posted by: Johnnyreb at September 20, 2010 08:46 AM (BuYeH)

408

"pure moron evil"

Yes.  Yes it was.

Posted by: reason at September 20, 2010 08:46 AM (+hPIb)

409 something is up, he was talking about Clinton having a 39% capital gains tax and how he just want to "fairly" raise it from 15% to 20%.

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 08:47 AM (p302b)

410 421 "we can't give 700 billion dollars away to America's wealthiest people"





Think about this. What he is saying is...it's our money, not theirs. That is how this confiscatory gov behaves. 

Posted by: Something Wicked This Way Comes... at September 20, 2010 08:47 AM (GOG1H)

411 I think it's interesting that Bill Clinton and Barney Frank, as architects of the housing melt-down, get little blame for it.  A free pass.  It's just amazing to me how the democrats can actually ruin entire industries, entire cities and towns,and now the entire nation, and the R's get the blame.  Those crazy R's!

How many remember that Clinton and the idiot Gore wrecked the lumber industry in the Pacific Northwest in the early 90s?  The economic disaster in timber-dependent communities was masked for a while by the dot-com boom in Seattle and Portland.  But when that bubble burst, Oregon had the highest unemployment rate in the nation.  However, the MFM never seemed to connect eco-lefty politics with the economic distress felt in the region.  It had to have been caused by Booosh and his tax cuts for the rich.  Different times, same old shit.

Posted by: Reiver at September 20, 2010 08:47 AM (64S5N)

412 the unknown comic@436 

That was the chubby chick who fought to get into the Citadel.  It wasn't too hard to figure she'd wash out. 

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 20, 2010 08:47 AM (UOM48)

413 I don't know but that reminds me of that girl who sued to get into one of the military academies. When she finally won her case and succeeded in ruining the institution, she washed out in just a couple of weeks.

Posted by: the unknown comic at September 20, 2010 12:46 PM (uFokq)

That was here at the Citadel. It was one of the last all male schools in the country (it is a military school BTW). Note that it is OK to have all female schools though.

Posted by: Vic at September 20, 2010 08:47 AM (/jbAw)

414 the American Thinker blog is an under appreciated gem. Lotsa good & thoughtful stuff.

AT is quite good.  You know, I'm surprised this blog didn't pimp the (I guess two-week-old) article by Dinesh D'Souza in Forbes: "How Obama thinks"
http://tinyurl.com/27yrzxn

As well as the AT article by Thomas Lifson: "The Grudge: Barry Soetoro's Indonesian Expatriate Hell"
http://tinyurl.com/3xrvasb

Lots of insight on the guy.  I think the former was right on the money because Gibbsy attacked D'Souza over that article.

To expand on Lifson's point, Barry has always been around the very rich.  He's always been surrounded by people who are far more wealthy and/or well-accomplished than he or his family.  His running in those circles didn't make him appreciative but made him resentful.  The Lifson article really puts his life in Indonesia into perspective.

Posted by: AmishDude at September 20, 2010 08:49 AM (T0NGe)

415

"they're called Brazier Burgers."

I had no idea DQ had shifted gears and was gunning for the Hooters demographic...

Posted by: reason at September 20, 2010 08:49 AM (+hPIb)

416 A hedge fund manager that went to law school with BO and BO says "you've done very well".

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 08:49 AM (p302b)

417
oh, was it the Citadel? Yeah, now I remember.

She ruined it. She ruined a fine institution, for what?


Posted by: the unknown comic at September 20, 2010 08:49 AM (uFokq)

418 he run skybridge capital.

wow, they are covering all the bases, this guy remembers going to law school with BO and Brian Matheson.

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 08:50 AM (p302b)

419 The repeal of the death tax will be the nail in the coffin of small, family owned businesses.  It's pure evil and criminal to be forced to pay a huge tax on a business that has already been taxed.  Makes my blood boil.


Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 20, 2010 08:50 AM (UOM48)

420
Ace isn't too fond of D'Souza, I think.

A little too 'spiritual,' if I recall.

Posted by: the unknown comic at September 20, 2010 08:51 AM (uFokq)

421 433 A while back 'Nam Grunt visited and said he usually reads here.  I wish he'd chime in more often.  I miss him.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 20, 2010 12:44 PM (UOM4

I miss his detailed dinner menu descriptions, they were mouth watering.

Hope all is well w/him.

Yelloooo Ya'all

 

 

Posted by: Bat Man at September 20, 2010 08:51 AM (pr+up)

422 Having pop leave is a major loss; he always had an arsenal of relevant facts for any argument.  Plus he wasn't a flamer.  This place is diminished by his absence.

Posted by: Captain Hate at September 20, 2010 08:51 AM (aIWP/)

423

I remember the Citadel thing.  "Channel One" covered it extensively in junior high.

*facepalm*

Posted by: reason at September 20, 2010 08:51 AM (+hPIb)

424 The MSM and the administration really can keep a secret.  This is so well choreographed and the answers and questions matched so perfectly as to cover everything that has been discussed.  It's a work of PR art.

And the republicans will just sit there and take it.

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 08:52 AM (p302b)

425 446

"they're called Brazier Burgers."

I had no idea DQ had shifted gears and was gunning for the Hooters demographic...

Posted by: reason at September 20, 2010 12:49 PM (+hPIb)

< D.Q. did a joint study with Long John Silvers . . . Ultimately, D.Q. went with Brazier Burgers over Hush Puppies.  

Posted by: journolist at September 20, 2010 08:53 AM (O/NP5)

426 437 Point of order.  You are not giving anything away, you just aren't stealing it from them.  That money does not belong to the government.

440 Think about this. What he is saying is...it's our money, not theirs. That is how this confiscatory gov behaves. 

Damn straight.  Where are the Repubs who should be jumping all over this? 

Posted by: Reiver at September 20, 2010 08:53 AM (64S5N)

427

"they're called Brazier Burgers."

I had no idea DQ had shifted gears and was gunning for the Hooters demographic...

Posted by: reason at September 20, 2010 12:49 PM (+hPIb)

I can't wait for their garter and stockings hot dogs.

Posted by: WalrusRex at September 20, 2010 08:53 AM (xxgag)

428

Friggin fappin batman sock from last week!

 

Posted by: Bat Man at September 20, 2010 12:51 PM (pr+up)

Posted by: dananjcon at September 20, 2010 08:53 AM (pr+up)

429
Newt was discussing the D'Souza piece and then the Left attacked him for being a racist, of course.

Because according to Bill c-sucker Maher, 'Kenya' or 'Kenyan' is the new n word.

Posted by: the unknown comic at September 20, 2010 08:53 AM (uFokq)

430 Posted by: the unknown comic at September 20, 2010 12:51 PM (uFokq)

Isn't he the guy who wrote the book about BO's british colonial roots or something?  I think Batchelor interviewed the guy in the last two weeks but I haven't listened to the interview.

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 08:54 AM (p302b)

431 still no wedding band.

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 08:54 AM (p302b)

432

"I can't wait for their garter and stockings hot dogs."

Sounds like something that should only be sold at midnight on Saturdays. 

Posted by: reason at September 20, 2010 08:55 AM (+hPIb)

433 Shortly after she got the SRO license she quit in order to go back to school to pursue a law degree.

There isn't any problem in this country that isn't caused by our law schools.

But think about this, we're saying that it's a better deal to become a lawyer (or to go to law school for other purposes) than to be a mechanical engineer.  What is wrong with this picture?  Lawyers do not grow economies, innovate or otherwise produce a good or a service people choose to purchase voluntarily.

If you thought that someone would leave your regular job once they got a job in the law would you hire them?  That's what is going on.

Well, I've learned from M'chelle's hospital job and Obama's cabinet that a law degree prepares you for every single possible job under the sun.  Either that or it's just the little badge to get you into the ruling class.

But we are still under the impression that the economy will get better quickly.  Frankly, I'd take the bet that lawyerkid ain't goin' nowhere anytime soon.

Posted by: AmishDude at September 20, 2010 08:55 AM (T0NGe)

434

Oh, reeeeason...

http://minx.cc/?post=246672

 

Posted by: Mama AJ at September 20, 2010 08:56 AM (XdlcF)

435 I want a new thread
One that won't bore me sick
One that won't make me actually do work
Or make me feel three feet thick

Posted by: Huey.Lewis at September 20, 2010 08:56 AM (gQLr2)

436 460

"they're called Brazier Burgers."

I had no idea DQ had shifted gears and was gunning for the Hooters demographic...

Posted by: reason at September 20, 2010 12:49 PM (+hPIb)

I can't wait for their garter and stockings hot dogs.

Posted by: WalrusRex at September 20, 2010 12:53 PM (xxgag)

< It's on the menu in Vegas as the Hot D'Thong.

Posted by: journolist at September 20, 2010 08:56 AM (O/NP5)

437

"Friggin fappin batman sock from last week!"

Nothing a little bleach can't take care of.

Posted by: reason at September 20, 2010 08:57 AM (+hPIb)

438 RCP avg Direction of the Country
Right Track  31.3%   Wrong Track  61.4%

I have always hated this metric.

Is it on the Wrong Track because people dislike Obama, or is it on the Wrong Track because the TEA party is about to win?  The question is so open-ended and people in general so cynical the country is always going to be on the Wrong Track with the majority of them.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at September 20, 2010 08:58 AM (FkKjr)

439 426 394 What happened to progressoverpeace?

Posted by: Captain Hate at September 20, 2010 12:32 PM (aIWP/

Nam Grunt, too?

Posted by: beedubya at September 20, 2010 12:43 PM (AnTyA)

POP got into with ace on a 'race' thread.  Ace asked him to leave.  I thought it was uncalled for but it's not my house.

Nam Grunt got into it with DrewM....can't remember over what but he stopped posting.

Posted by: Tami at September 20, 2010 08:58 AM (VuLos)

440 @468 - Hells yes!

Posted by: reason at September 20, 2010 08:59 AM (+hPIb)

441
But we are still under the impression that the economy will get better quickly.  Frankly, I'd take the bet that lawyerkid ain't goin' nowhere anytime soon.

Posted by: AmishDude at September 20, 2010 12:55 PM (T0NGe)


The model of big law is totally broken only they seem to be the last to recognize it.  They are deferring their classes hoping that people just find another job but the people are still waiting to go to their big law job cause they can't get anything else anyway.  But this year's class is the 2008 group so they are behind.

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 08:59 AM (p302b)

442 I capitulate.

I can no longer listen to this shit. I'd love the Tea Party Express to sponsor a fucking "town hall" meeting and offer an invitation. I'm all in that el presidente would never show. Never.

Posted by: Something Wicked This Way Comes... at September 20, 2010 08:59 AM (GOG1H)

443

Nam Grunt, too?

Posted by: beedubya at September 20, 2010 12:43 PM (AnTyA)

POP got into with ace on a 'race' thread.  Ace asked him to leave.  I thought it was uncalled for but it's not my house.

Nam Grunt got into it with DrewM....can't remember over what but he stopped posting.

Posted by: Tami at September 20, 2010 12:58 PM (VuLos)

Damn, I consider myself quite the lurker. How the hell did I miss this?? Too bad I relly dug Nam Grunt.

 

Posted by: dananjcon at September 20, 2010 09:01 AM (pr+up)

444 Posted by: Something Wicked This Way Comes... at September 20, 2010 12:59 PM (GOG1H)

talking about china and our trade relationship.  Bringing more actions before the world trade organization.  Since when do we have to go through these global channels.  Just put tariffs on their goods until they capitulate and level the playing field for American companies.

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 09:02 AM (p302b)

445 I't premature to say that John Boner is going to be speaker of the house....(big applause)

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 09:03 AM (p302b)

446 Oh he's explaining the blame bush segment now without mentioning bush but stressing no deficit with clinton..

he started with "since 2001 your wages have gone down 5%"

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 09:04 AM (p302b)

447 Yay! I want to repeal Obamacare, too.

Now, maybe all the candidates will promise to do so.

Posted by: Dianna at September 20, 2010 09:04 AM (qrFCz)

448
I figured Nam Grunt wasn't around because his keyboard is covered with so much bbq sauce he can't type.

Posted by: the unknown comic at September 20, 2010 09:06 AM (uFokq)

449 Interesting Rasmussen poll up at H/A.  Palin is suppossedly polling 52/40 over Obama on:  "Who voters feel closer too."   

Posted by: journolist at September 20, 2010 09:06 AM (O/NP5)

450 Very positive, said to fix everything he is going to need bi partisan support and asked for everyone's support over the coming weeks...then the standing up and the tsunami of applause......

was typing and someone screamed in surprise so he must have done something on the exit.

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 09:06 AM (p302b)

451 480 I't premature to say that John Boner is going to be speaker of the house....(big applause)

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 01:03 PM (p302b)

Nothing wrong with having a well-tanned boner in the house...just sayin'

Posted by: Moochelle at September 20, 2010 09:06 AM (YVZlY)

452 Did PoP get banned?  that would be wrong.  maybe he's just busy at work, unlike 90% of the rest of us.

Posted by: louis tully at September 20, 2010 09:07 AM (K/USr)

453 'some candid questions"....quintinilla, have another cup of the kool aid..

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 09:07 AM (p302b)

454 Toby, he's fricking loosing sleep over the economy and is starting to crack with the blame game tactics. 

Posted by: journolist at September 20, 2010 09:08 AM (O/NP5)

455

Okay, if you need a good laugh, definitely click on my link at 468 where the morons infiltrated a leftie calendar

"release frozen turekys into the wild"

As God as my witness...

Posted by: Mama AJ at September 20, 2010 09:08 AM (XdlcF)

456 What "town" is hosting this "town hall?"

Posted by: louis tully at September 20, 2010 09:08 AM (K/USr)

457 CNBS studios....

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 09:09 AM (p302b)

458 Our American Ponzi scheme is hanging by a thread. We don't have jobs. We lost 10 million domestically, we let NAFTA grab 10 million more.

We lost the capacity to pay 20 trillion in debt. (I add Fannie and Freddie)

You can't tax the rich or the middle class. You simply cannot pay what you owe. We will be damn lucky just to pay the interest.

Ergo the inescapable truth. Your country and it's leaders have sold you into debt slavery. No different than sharecropping blacks- the only difference is that you are free to travel about. That's the illusion of freedom they have created for you. Not get back to work, the government needs their money.


Posted by: Something Wicked This Way Comes... at September 20, 2010 09:09 AM (GOG1H)

459

Nothing wrong with having a well-tanned boner in the house...just sayin'

Posted by: Moochelle at September 20, 2010 01:06 PM (YVZlY)

Mega dittos!!

 

Posted by: Snookie at September 20, 2010 09:09 AM (pr+up)

460
federal employee's wages have gone way up -- they always go up

and they're much higher than the average in the private sector

Posted by: the unknown comic at September 20, 2010 09:09 AM (uFokq)

461

467 . . . Well, I've learned from M'chelle's hospital job and Obama's cabinet that a law degree prepares you for every single possible job under the sun.
--------

So does a PhD in Anthropology.

If you're a woman.

Posted by: Ed Anger at September 20, 2010 09:10 AM (7+pP9)

462

Hussein,

I have no idea who you are, but thanks as always for your generous links!

Soccer Dad

Posted by: soccer dad at September 20, 2010 09:10 AM (ILk7o)

463 472 RCP avg Direction of the Country
Right Track  31.3%   Wrong Track  61.4%

I have always hated this metric.

Is it on the Wrong Track because people dislike Obama, or is it on the Wrong Track because the TEA party is about to win?  The question is so open-ended and people in general so cynical the country is always going to be on the Wrong Track with the majority of them.

Does this clear up your confusion?

RASMUSSEN: VOTERS FEEL CLOSER TO PALIN THAN OBAMA, 52/40


Posted by: Big Tent Squishy Ass at September 20, 2010 09:10 AM (yRJfW)

464 The thing about this townhall, guys, is that it doesn't have to be refuted.  Noon on a Monday?  It's for CSpan junkies who, right or left, know exactly what it is.

Its purpose is to provide soundbytes for the evening news.  So even if there were a similar GOP event, it would be ignored at best or cherry-picked at worst.

When it comes down to it, politics is about trust.  Do you trust the president?  Not do you like or approve, but do you trust.  This is why we have a representative republic.  If we didn't, each of us would have to be up on the details of every single issue.  We can't possibly be experts in all fields, so we have to trust that someone is more educated on details.

In the case of the president, we trust that (a) he is honest with his vision and (b) has trustworthy experts who know arcane details and (c) that he is competent enough to decide based on this information.

Instead, people know that (a) he is not honest about what he wants and (b) he is surrounded by hyper-radical political hacks and (c) could not make a rational decision other than one motivated by radical politics.

Posted by: AmishDude at September 20, 2010 09:10 AM (T0NGe)

465 Was someone here whining about wanting a new thread?

Posted by: NM Hick at September 20, 2010 09:12 AM (IzuWw)

466 They are going to reinforce everything he said all day.

I mean people are saying he was spectacular.  I heard the same stuff he's been saying condensed into an hour program.  Nothing new.

Posted by: curious at September 20, 2010 09:13 AM (p302b)

467 Ace is up.

Posted by: journolist at September 20, 2010 09:14 AM (O/NP5)

468 Damn straight.  Where are the Repubs who should be jumping all over this? 
Posted by: Reiver at September 20, 2010 12:53 PM

To get back to Gabe's original point -- and the speculation about the Repub "plan" to be unveiled this week: What I want to see, as much as a repeal of  OsamaObamaHealthScare and a continuation of tax reductions, is a Repub pledge to return to fiscal responsibility.

As long as earmarks and handouts to privileged contributors/friends are allowed, we are doomed to have an overspending, irresponsible government, no matter which party's in charge.

We need to reverse the thought process that prevails on both sides of the aisle: begin with an absolute balanced-budget law (only wars and gross national disasters should be exempt) that compels government to operate with actual receipts. Hold members of Congress personally liable for overspending.

Then, look to the Constitution to see what responsibilities the feds have a right to take on. The Founders did not envision a welfare state; we must shut it down. Nor did they believe Washington has any right to take over businesses or regulate them into failure. The government's prime responsibility is to provide security, and they've screwed that up.

If the freekin' Russkies and Cubans can fire hundreds of thousand of government drones, we can too.

If the Repub "leaders" can't grasp these simple concepts, they will be little better than the treasonous libs.

Any Repub candidate should make these points the centerpiece of their campaign promises.

Posted by: MrScribbler at September 20, 2010 09:17 AM (Ulu3i)

469

484 Interesting Rasmussen poll up at H/A.  Palin is suppossedly polling 52/40 over Obama on:  "Who voters feel closer too."   

Let's see---

Person who talks too you like you're an equal.

Person who talks down to you like you're dryer lint (Granted, there are those who have a dryer lint fantasy who make that 40%)

Posted by: EZB at September 20, 2010 09:21 AM (Ty06w)

470

POP got into with ace on a 'race' thread.  Ace asked him to leave.  I thought it was uncalled for but it's not my house.

Nam Grunt got into it with DrewM....can't remember over what but he stopped posting.

Posted by: Tami at September 20, 2010 12:58 PM (VuLos)

So it wasn't just so's it wasn't because they weren't ideologically impure enough???

Posted by: beedubya at September 20, 2010 09:23 AM (AnTyA)

471 The Republican plan is already out in the news. Repeal simply is not possible this cycle. The plan is to defund and I hope the plan on doing it as I called for, small discrete bills for each department.

That way if it doesn't pass the Senate, or if Asshole vetoes it, they can say pass it or get nothing. That department shuts down and it accomplishes the same objective.

Posted by: Vic at September 20, 2010 09:24 AM (/jbAw)

472 We get my wife's health insurance from Blue Cross, because it has been cheaper than putting her on my employer's plan. Her premium just went from $700 per quarter to $350 per month. Thanks for the affordable health care, congress!

Posted by: mikesixes at September 20, 2010 09:56 AM (w42dJ)

473 If I wanted an ankle biter I'd buy a dog. Or look at your FB picture.

Posted by: Chris Coons, Balding Marxist at September 20, 2010 11:58 AM (IhHdM)


It was a trick question, you're solid ass from head to toe.

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