September 22, 2010
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A precis.
Roll Call says it's heavy on spending cuts and light on social issues.
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You got a ways to go to catch up with me, bitchez.
Posted by: President Me at September 22, 2010 02:26 PM (BP6Z1)
At every debate they should ask every democrat if they would support "The Pedge".
Yes or No? and why not?
Posted by: Kemp at September 22, 2010 02:27 PM (AQxTm)
Posted by: Captain Hate at September 22, 2010 02:29 PM (aIWP/)
Posted by: laceyunderalls at September 22, 2010 02:29 PM (pLTLS)
Leftwing bedwetters to begin crying about people "suffering" due to "massive budget cuts" in
3 ... 2 ... 1 ...
Posted by: Log Cabin at September 22, 2010 02:29 PM (slOv8)
Posted by: Clint Didier at September 22, 2010 02:30 PM (pUfK9)
Posted by: William Jefferson Clinton at September 22, 2010 02:31 PM (M0mqh)
I really love that "America is an idea" paragraph. That needs to be in campaign ads.
Posted by: Methos at September 22, 2010 02:31 PM (EQa35)
Posted by: Ceaucescu at September 22, 2010 02:31 PM (0K3p3)
What do they planning on replacing it with?
Posted by: Rickshaw Jack at September 22, 2010 02:32 PM (JNV96)
Posted by: Dang at September 22, 2010 06:28 PM
Smaller Unicorns that don't have the ability to shit Skittles.
Posted by: Truck Monkey at September 22, 2010 02:32 PM (yQWNf)
Posted by: CDR M at September 22, 2010 06:31 PM (5I8G0)
Uh, it's actually 21-pages.
Posted by: Editor at September 22, 2010 02:34 PM (pUfK9)
Ya know, I'm hoping that some day we can support "business" instead of only supporting "small business".
A big business is a small business that was successful.
Posted by: Dang at September 22, 2010 02:34 PM (TXKVh)
Posted by: ChuckOH at September 22, 2010 02:34 PM (M0mqh)
Posted by: Preznit Barry at September 22, 2010 02:36 PM (pUfK9)
This part is huge:
- Require congressional approval for any new federal regulation that would add to the deficit.
Regulatory agencies "findings" cost us millions.
Posted by: Quilly Mammoth at September 22, 2010 02:36 PM (7rfUg)
Posted by: jjshaka at September 22, 2010 02:37 PM (b7RKw)
Posted by: Johnny at September 22, 2010 02:37 PM (aB5St)
Posted by: Andy at September 22, 2010 02:38 PM (5Rurq)
Posted by: Dr Spank at September 22, 2010 02:40 PM (xtAfO)
Posted by: Curmudgeon at September 22, 2010 02:40 PM (ujg0T)
Posted by: Rickshaw Jack at September 22, 2010 06:32 PM (JNV96)
I assume it will be something like portability between states and the type of stuff the Repubs were suggesting for Bammydontcare but were completely ignored on. Although I thought the first contract with America was a fairly brilliant idea, this one seems like almost stepping on their dicks by comparison. The voters are pissed off at all incumbents and the Repubs have been given a gift by the Tea Party which they'll doubtlessly do their best to completely fucking squander.
Posted by: Captain Hate at September 22, 2010 02:40 PM (aIWP/)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 22, 2010 02:41 PM (zgZzy)
Posted by: madamex at September 22, 2010 02:41 PM (dXGcy)
Posted by: 9th Circuit Court at September 22, 2010 02:43 PM (pfStM)
Posted by: George W Bush at September 22, 2010 02:43 PM (JNigo)
Posted by: Quilly Mammoth at September 22, 2010 02:43 PM (7rfUg)
Posted by: Dr Spank at September 22, 2010 02:44 PM (xtAfO)
I really love that "America is an idea" paragraph. That needs to be in campaign ads.
Mexico was an idea first.
Posted by: Barry Obasketball at September 22, 2010 02:44 PM (zgZzy)
Posted by: Curmudgeon at September 22, 2010 02:44 PM (ujg0T)
I mean come on, look at this snazzy 21 page Power Point presentation, it just screams seriousness!
Posted by: The GOP at September 22, 2010 02:44 PM (JNV96)
Posted by: Soona at September 22, 2010 02:44 PM (D18z1)
34 GD simple cons, maybe make it more simple.
Too difficult for you to understand, denny/jack/conssuck? Idiot.
Posted by: Barry Obasketball at September 22, 2010 02:45 PM (zgZzy)
Posted by: Annaleesea at September 22, 2010 02:45 PM (fjrTQ)
Shit! Give me the bullet points!
Click on the link at "a precis," a high-falutin word if ever there was one meaning Here Be Bullet Points.
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 22, 2010 02:46 PM (2g2ex)
Posted by: dumbass who wrote Obamacare bill at September 22, 2010 02:46 PM (eKvou)
Posted by: The GOP
And you'd prefer what instead?
Bsides a pdf bedecked with Playboy models, I mean ...
Posted by: Garbonzo the Garrulous at September 22, 2010 02:46 PM (23kaI)
It's a big mistake to leave out unicorns.
Posted by: Cicero at September 22, 2010 02:46 PM (QKKT0)
Posted by: Rip Torn at September 22, 2010 02:47 PM (zgZzy)
I like this:
-Give members at least 3 days to read bills before a vote
but I'd also like it if they gave the general public 5-7 days to read the bills before the vote, as well. If they held to that, it'd be a good display of transparency AND a slap in the face to that fucknut in the White House.
That was one of the many campaign promises with an expiration date that lasted as long as a milk carton.
Posted by: The Q at September 22, 2010 02:47 PM (pfStM)
Posted by: logprof at September 22, 2010 02:47 PM (BP6Z1)
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 22, 2010 02:48 PM (eKvou)
Posted by: Paul Anka at September 22, 2010 02:48 PM (pUfK9)
1) Cut taxes
2) Cut regulations
3) Defense
Thats all we need to win the elections again. Voters are dumb, remember it, write it in your bibles.
Posted by: George W Bush at September 22, 2010 02:48 PM (JNigo)
Posted by: Esoteric at September 22, 2010 02:48 PM (NjYDy)
Cutting Spending:
- Repeal and Replace health care
and this..Requiring every bill to have a citation of constitutional authority !
Posted by: willow at September 22, 2010 02:48 PM (8fK1n)
Didn't see "pay-as-you-go," either.
Yeah, it's a start, but there's enough weasel-wording in there to let the gutless Repubs keep on spending and enacting dumb-shit laws the same was Dems do.
I'd like to see a prohibition of frivolous laws and questionable activities by Congress itself. End the junkets, entitlements and gross perks leadership grabs and dole out to junior members. Let's have some lobbyist reform, too, plus stricter financial disclosures of elected officials and the people who try to bribe influence them.
Oh, am I asking too much? Guess so. You can't spend years (in some cases, decades) in that cesspool and come out without a whiff of shit.
Back to drawing board, Republican bitches.
Posted by: MrScribbler at September 22, 2010 02:48 PM (Ulu3i)
Posted by: Editor at September 22, 2010 02:49 PM (pUfK9)
Posted by: Vlad The . . . at September 22, 2010 02:49 PM (zgZzy)
Posted by: Quilly Mammoth at September 22, 2010 06:43 PM (7rfUg)
You got a problem with my dark epidermis?
Posted by: John "Big" Boehner at September 22, 2010 02:49 PM (YVZlY)
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at September 22, 2010 02:50 PM (yfJ6g)
Posted by: The GOP
We're the only reason this document has any credibility.
Posted by: Every non-Establishment candidate that won a primary...and Paul Ryan at September 22, 2010 02:50 PM (EQa35)
Page 20.
Anything else you'd like us to read for you?
Posted by: Garbonzo the Garrulous at September 22, 2010 02:50 PM (23kaI)
Some highlights @ CBS (yes, I know):
Jobs:
- Stop job-killing tax hikes
- Allow small businesses to take a tax deduction equal to 20 percent of their income
- Require congressional approval for any new federal regulation that would add to the deficit
- Repeal small business mandates in the new health care law.
Cutting Spending:
- Repeal and Replace health care
- Roll back non-discretionary spending to 2008 levels before TARP and stimulus (will save $100 billion in first year alone)
- Establish strict budget caps to limit federal spending going forward
- Cancel all future TARP payments and reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
Reforming Congress:
- Will require that every bill have a citation of constitutional authority
- Give members at least 3 days to read bills before a vote
Defense:
- Provide resources to troops
- Fund missile defense
- Enforce sanctions in Iran
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at September 22, 2010 02:50 PM (yfJ6g)
The Pledge will certainly have the effect of forcing the Democrats to remember their important responsibilities and remember those all important lines to scream from the House floor:
They're coming for the poor, the sick, the elderly and the disabled!!!11!!1!!
This extreme agenda will force grandma to eat dog food and deprive her of much needed medicine. Why are Republicans so extreme???1111!!!
Posted by: Glib Tunafish at September 22, 2010 02:50 PM (PxrDj)
It's the spending, stupid. Arguing about whose meatstick is going into whose squeaker is a luxury we can't afford right now. Keep it in church.
Posted by: schizuki at September 22, 2010 02:50 PM (M+lbD)
Posted by: Soona at September 22, 2010 02:51 PM (D18z1)
Posted by: Every non-Establishment candidate that won a primary...and Paul Ryan at September 22, 2010 06:50 PM (EQa35) You left out 15 other House members.
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at September 22, 2010 02:51 PM (yfJ6g)
Posted by: Glib Tunafish at September 22, 2010 02:51 PM (PxrDj)
--I'll give the troll credit: its recycling of posts from other threads is conserving scarce brain cells.
Posted by: logprof at September 22, 2010 02:51 PM (BP6Z1)
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 22, 2010 02:52 PM (2g2ex)
Posted by: D.C. Engineer (The Train Kind) at September 22, 2010 02:52 PM (zgZzy)
Posted by: Guy Fawkes at September 22, 2010 02:53 PM (L8kaT)
This sounds more like propaganda that Mike Pence desperately wants to be spread far and wide on every evangelical Christian mailing list and conservative message board, posthaste.
I can see what Pence's game is: he's posing as the Unify The Teams candidate, a red-blooded True Conservative about fiscal issues who can also keep the enthusiasm of the socons.
It just might work. Consolation prize is Dick Lugar's Senate seat.
Posted by: Esoteric at September 22, 2010 02:54 PM (NjYDy)
Apparently "Force Nancy Pelosi to eat every bill she voted for without reading" would have cost too much.
Posted by: Cicero at September 22, 2010 02:54 PM (QKKT0)
WooHoo! Oh, wait. Commerce Clause. Shit.
Posted by: Chris Red-diaper-fern at September 22, 2010 02:54 PM (9b6FB)
Posted by: K~Bob always forgets to take off his sock at September 22, 2010 02:54 PM (9b6FB)
I'd like that bit about including "Where the Constitution says we can do this" applied retroactively, but we're not going to do everything this cycle. Most of what we're going to do is stop Obama from doing any more damage to the country.
Posted by: Methos at September 22, 2010 02:54 PM (EQa35)
Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.
Posted by: George W Bush at September 22, 2010 02:54 PM (JNigo)
Posted by: political correctness czar at September 22, 2010 02:54 PM (UPNlB)
i know health care is an issue for many poor, well now we're all going to be the poor. but they need a kick in the ass, where's SS funds? see they ask for funds and use it as slush . no way i would have gone to jail for that.Why haven't anyone in the ruling class?
Posted by: willow at September 22, 2010 02:54 PM (8fK1n)
Posted by: Guy Fawkes at September 22, 2010 06:53 PM (L8kaT)
--Best of all, it refudiates 0bama parroting the line about the Republicans not coming up with a positive agenda of their own.
Ball's in your court, Demotards.
Posted by: logprof at September 22, 2010 02:55 PM (BP6Z1)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at September 22, 2010 02:55 PM (yQWNf)
Posted by: Esoteric at September 22, 2010 02:55 PM (NjYDy)
Posted by: schizuki at September 22, 2010 02:55 PM (M+lbD)
Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.
Posted by: George W Bush at September 22, 2010 02:55 PM (JNigo)
66 Special Report said Pence was pushing long and hard for social-con stuff and had to be put down by Boehner. If true, that means the first Repub to hint at running in 2012 just doesn't get it.
It's the spending, stupid. Arguing about whose meatstick is going into whose squeaker is a luxury we can't afford right now. Keep it in church.
One of my political philosophies is social conservatism, and I think they did a fine job with this new proposal. Permanently ending federal funding for abortion and defining marriage as between 1 man and 1 woman is a good start. Besides, it's not feasible to expect they can somehow overturn Roe v. Wade or anything of that nature.
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at September 22, 2010 02:55 PM (yfJ6g)
Posted by: K~Bob at September 22, 2010 02:57 PM (9b6FB)
The first page and a quarter were terrific in themselves and very in keeping with the Declaration of Independence. Perhaps they should have released just that and then stopped for a few days. Even lazy folks would have read just one page. It's that first part which gets the spirit up and running. They could then have promised to provide their "plan" in the coming days or weeks.
I hate to admit it, but as someone said above, some folks will see 21 pages and not even bother. My opinion: They deserve the government they get. However, you and I have to live with that government too and I wish the planners hadn't blown it out all at once.
Sorry. I guess it's just the marketeer in me.
Posted by: jmflynny at September 22, 2010 02:57 PM (QR5c+)
Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of "need." The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc.
Posted by: George W Bush at September 22, 2010 02:57 PM (JNigo)
Posted by: George W Bush at September 22, 2010 06:55 PM (JNigo)
So Canada is fascist!
Fuck off, troll.
Posted by: logprof at September 22, 2010 02:57 PM (BP6Z1)
Miss80sBaby, I don't know how carried away you get with sockpuppets, but I've founf that new comments thingy cuts off your name after a certain length. No slight to those folks intended.
Posted by: Methos at September 22, 2010 02:58 PM (EQa35)
Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.
Yawn. You call Ace a fascist every day and yet you're still here. But hey, keep fucking that chicken, troll.
Posted by: denny crane/john ryan/conssuck at September 22, 2010 02:58 PM (zgZzy)
This part is huge: - Require congressional approval for any new federal regulation that would add to the deficit. Regulatory agencies "findings" cost us millions.
And they still will, but they won't "add to the deficit." It's a Make Federal Accounting Even More Dishonest provision. We so need that.
Repeal and Replace [Obamacare]
That's the dirty asshole of the thing, right there. The GOP is unalterably evil. Oh well.Posted by: oblig. at September 22, 2010 02:58 PM (x7Ao8)
Posted by: Meggie McCain at September 22, 2010 02:58 PM (D18z1)
Immigration?
Nothing about immigration?
Holy hell. Not good.
Posted by: Who Knows at September 22, 2010 06:57 PM (QLiYt)
--Yeah, not crazy about that, and that issue is a winner across the political spectrum.
Posted by: logprof at September 22, 2010 02:59 PM (BP6Z1)
http://bit.ly/bCMHBH
No one will add that the threat has been brought to its current absurdly high level by Osama Obama, Eric Shabazz Holder and ol' Nappy her own fat self.
Cockholsters.
If the Repubs don't push to impeach the Traitor-in-Chief and his cabal of America-hating criminals, none of their fancy "promises" will mean jack shit.
Posted by: MrScribbler at September 22, 2010 03:00 PM (Ulu3i)
Posted by: ChuckOH at September 22, 2010 03:00 PM (M0mqh)
Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.
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The fascist/Nazi thing is so last spring. Get with the program fella!
Posted by: Glib Tunafish at September 22, 2010 03:01 PM (PxrDj)
Posted by: Myke Pence at September 22, 2010 03:01 PM (9b6FB)
Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.
Posted by: George W Bush at September 22, 2010 06:55 PM (JNigo)
As shown by the Obama O logo, the many presidential seals he has made, and the new Circle-D democrat logo.
Well spotted, GW! Keep it up!!
Posted by: Oldcat at September 22, 2010 03:01 PM (z1N6a)
Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.
All dogs are animals but not all animals are dogs. Do I have to draw a freakin' Venn diagram?
Our current president has his own logo. What does that tell you?
This monkey wants a word with you.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at September 22, 2010 03:02 PM (QMtmy)
Ball's in your court, Demotards.
Posted by: logprof at September 22, 2010 06:55 PM (BP6Z1)
Uh, they already had Obama server to us with a weak underhand serve, "Stay the course."
Posted by: Editor at September 22, 2010 03:02 PM (pUfK9)
Political scientist Dr. Lawrence Britt recently wrote an article about fascism ("Fascism Anyone?," Free Inquiry, Spring 2003, page 20). Studying the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia), and Pinochet (Chile), Dr. Britt found they all had 14 elements in common. He calls these the identifying characteristics of fascism. The excerpt is in accordance with the magazine's policy.
The 14 characteristics are:
Posted by: George W Bush at September 22, 2010 03:02 PM (JNigo)
That's dynamite.
Posted by: Dr Spank at September 22, 2010 03:02 PM (xtAfO)
Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of "need." The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc.
Posted by: George W Bush at September 22, 2010 06:57 PM (JNigo)
Like the right to keep the fruits of our working labor, instead of having it taxed away. You're a real credit to the party, pal!
Posted by: Oldcat at September 22, 2010 03:02 PM (z1N6a)
It's the spending, stupid. Arguing about whose meatstick is going into whose squeaker is a luxury we can't afford right now. Keep it in church.
I'm at the point where I don't believe anything on TV. This report could be true or false; I could easily see this as an exaggeration or even a lie concocted by the GOP for purely political reasons:
1. To mollify that breed of social con that can't see the forest for the trees. "Pence tried but he was shot down."
2. To beef up Pence's social con street cred. "I tried but I was shot down."
3. Perhaps this was a discussion rather than a suggestion and whoever leaked it didn't understand the context.
4. Maybe someone's trying to kneecap Pence or Boehner.
These people are politicians. I don't trust them, not even the ones on our side.
Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at September 22, 2010 03:03 PM (2TXoO)
96 Miss80sBaby, I don't know how carried away you get with sockpuppets, but I've found that new comments thingy cuts off your name after a certain length. No slight to those folks intended.
I didn't expect them to be there; I was just saying.
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at September 22, 2010 03:03 PM (yfJ6g)
Posted by: Editor at September 22, 2010 03:03 PM (pUfK9)
Posted by: Ronster at September 22, 2010 03:04 PM (q08oe)
Posted by: Michael Steele at September 22, 2010 03:04 PM (SwkdU)
Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.
Posted by: George W Bush at September 22, 2010 03:04 PM (JNigo)
Immigration?
Nothing about immigration? Holy hell. Not good. Posted by: Who Knows
Page 20, dumbass.
• Establish Operational Control of the Border: We must take action to secure our borders, and that action starts with enforcing our laws. We will ensure that the Border Patrol has the tools and authorities to establish operational control at the border and prohibit the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture from interfering with Border Patrol enforcement activities on federal lands.
• Work with State and Local Officials to Enforce Our Immigration Laws: The problem of illegal immigration and Mexican drug cartels engaged in an increasingly violent conflict means we need all hands on deck to address this challenge. We will reaffirm the authority of state and local law enforcement to assist in the enforcement of all federal immigration laws.
• Strengthen Visa Security: To stop terrorists like Omar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Christmas Day bomber, we will require the Department of Homeland Security to review all visa applications at high-risk consular posts and prevent aliens from attempting to avoid deportation after having their visas revoked.
Posted by: Garbonzo the Garrulous at September 22, 2010 03:04 PM (23kaI)
I think Immigration is being hit hard at local levels. This "pledge" is about reversing the radical leftwing agenda pouring out of the aristocracy.
King Obama
Queen Nancy
Court Jester Harry Reid.
Posted by: Lemon Kitten at September 22, 2010 03:04 PM (0fzsA)
Immigration?
Nothing about immigration?
Holy hell. Not good.
Posted by: Who Knows at September 22, 2010 06:57 PM (QLiYt)
A happy illegal is a happy voter.
Posted by: Meggie McCain at September 22, 2010 03:05 PM (D18z1)
Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government's policies or actions.
Posted by: George W Bush at September 22, 2010 03:05 PM (JNigo)
Copy. Paste. Copy. Paste. Copy. Paste. Fascists under every rock! Nazis in every tree!
That you Charles?
Posted by: Glib Tunafish at September 22, 2010 03:06 PM (PxrDj)
As described by Robert Bond in The International Review of Law, Computers & Technology, trolls usually exhibit a typical pattern of behavior:
In The Art of Trolling, published on the web, it is suggested that in Usenet usage, a "troll" is not a grumpy monster that lives beneath a bridge accosting passers by, but rather a provocative posting to a news group intended to produce a large volume of frivolous responses. The content of a "troll" posting generally falls into several areas. It may consist of an apparently foolish contradiction of common knowledge, a deliberately offensive insult to the readers of the news group or a broad request for trivial follow-up postings.
Sound like anyone we know?
Posted by: denny crane/john ryan/conssuck at September 22, 2010 03:06 PM (zgZzy)
Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.
Posted by: George W Bush at September 22, 2010 06:54 PM (JNigo)
Yeah, they fight for your right to say dumbass shit.
Oh...STFU.
Posted by: Steph at September 22, 2010 03:06 PM (nbzzk)
Yes the republican Party came out with Messiah logos, Republican party Logos, Be Green logos. everydamn where.
oh you mean that was dems and obama , sorry i knew somebody did it!
Posted by: willow at September 22, 2010 03:06 PM (8fK1n)
Sorry, missed the section on immigration and my apologies.
Thanks for redirecting me to what I over looked.
No epithets needed. Dumbass.
Posted by: Who Knows at September 22, 2010 03:07 PM (QLiYt)
don't waste your time arguing with that troll
and stop quoting it; I'm sick of reading it's campus claptrap over and over
Posted by: the chief AoS inquisitor at September 22, 2010 03:07 PM (waTiq)
The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.
Posted by: George W Bush at September 22, 2010 03:09 PM (JNigo)
Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.
Posted by: George W Bush at September 22, 2010 07:04 PM (JNigo)
Like the fear of being without health care being used as cover for a massive spending program!
You sure are blowing the lid off the current administration GWB. You should run for office with the Tea Party.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 22, 2010 03:09 PM (z1N6a)
You sure are blowing the lid off the current administration GWB. You should run for office with the Tea Party.
Ignore it, OC. It thinks it's people.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 22, 2010 03:10 PM (zgZzy)
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 22, 2010 03:10 PM (eKvou)
The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.
Posted by: George W Bush at September 22, 2010 07:09 PM (JNigo)
Yeah, those Wall Street and Auto Company buyouts really sucked. Its good to see conservatives hitting Obama hard.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 22, 2010 03:10 PM (z1N6a)
Pledge on America??
..shit..that doesn't belittle it
Pledge at America??
...fuck..that doesn't either
Pledge Under America??
..Thats's it!! We'll call it the Pledge Under America!!
HAHA..we got those fucking Rethugs now
Posted by: Demtards and the MFM at September 22, 2010 03:11 PM (AnTyA)
Ignore it, OC. It thinks it's people.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 22, 2010 07:10 PM (zgZzy)
Aw, you're no fun anymore.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 22, 2010 03:11 PM (z1N6a)
Posted by: Charles Johnson at September 22, 2010 03:11 PM (D18z1)
My favorite part of the pledge.
Posted by: Dr Spank at September 22, 2010 07:10 PM (xtAfO)
That should be clarified, because it could be interpreted as being raped by trolls. It should read, "We encourage the raping of trolls, with broomsticks."
Posted by: Editor at September 22, 2010 03:11 PM (pUfK9)
Posted by: George W Bush at September 22, 2010 03:13 PM (JNigo)
"We encourage troll rape."
FYI - 'Troll Fuck' is a defined term.
Requiring a Bridge, some Soft Sand, and a Fish, preferably fresh caught and anadromous.
Posted by: garrett at September 22, 2010 03:14 PM (gHX8g)
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at September 22, 2010 03:15 PM (yfJ6g)
Have you many more quoted from Political scientist Barney the Dinosaur too?
Posted by: Glib Tunafish at September 22, 2010 03:15 PM (PxrDj)
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 22, 2010 03:16 PM (EHI/u)
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 22, 2010 03:16 PM (eKvou)
Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.
Posted by: George W Bush at September 22, 2010 07:04 PM (JNigo)
Hell you mean things like Carbon and their credits? OH OH and salt , sugar. everything is a national disaster?
Posted by: willow at September 22, 2010 03:16 PM (8fK1n)
Posted by: Valiant at September 22, 2010 03:16 PM (UKSRV)
You could've been here before Arizona was even a state, and you've got some uppity cop asking for your papers while you're taking your kid out for ice cream.
These doctors are sawing off legs and feet just to make a buck.
The Republican plan: DIE QUICKLY
Posted by: Party of Yes at September 22, 2010 03:17 PM (w9BEi)
I ruv you. You ruv me. Lets get together and build fascist dynasty.
-Political scientist Barney the fascist Dinosaur
Posted by: Glib Tunafish at September 22, 2010 03:17 PM (PxrDj)
That should be clarified, because it could be interpreted as being raped by trolls. It should read, "We encourage the raping of trolls, with broomsticks."
And pineapples. Don't forget the pineapples.
Posted by: Soona at September 22, 2010 03:18 PM (D18z1)
His Mom will be calling him up to dinner soon anyway.
Just as soon as she's done fellating me.
Posted by: schizuki at September 22, 2010 03:18 PM (M+lbD)
Posted by: Oldcat at September 22, 2010 03:19 PM (z1N6a)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 22, 2010 03:19 PM (zgZzy)
Roll Call says it's heavy on spending cuts and light on social issues.
No problem.
Conservatives simply need to adopt the Democrat stealth approach and disguise our social agenda in our fiscal policies.
Rarely mention it. Just quietly legislate it in, tucked away in unrelated complicated bills.
And then deny deny deny.
Now it's our turn you socialist bastards.
Posted by: Big Tent This at September 22, 2010 03:20 PM (wFMDa)
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 22, 2010 03:20 PM (eKvou)
Anti fascist
Posted by: George W Bush at September 22, 2010 03:21 PM (JNigo)
Posted by: Dr Spank at September 22, 2010 03:21 PM (xtAfO)
Posted by: Oldcat at September 22, 2010 03:21 PM (z1N6a)
Posted by: Clayton Norton Holmes at September 22, 2010 03:22 PM (SwkdU)
Pg 21 quotes the Iron Lady, where she contrasts America vs Europe. Eisenhower quote was good as well. Love inclusion of Reagan's quote about the govt's view of the economy.
Like the charts, easy for people to read. The federal assistance pie chart is staggering. If only people had time to read the entire thing...
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at September 22, 2010 03:22 PM (yfJ6g)
Sometimes to media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.
Faux News...
Posted by: George W Bush at September 22, 2010 03:22 PM (JNigo)
Posted by: blind and illiterate at September 22, 2010 03:22 PM (gbCNS)
Posted by: Oldcat at September 22, 2010 03:22 PM (z1N6a)
Posted by: willow at September 22, 2010 03:24 PM (8fK1n)
Posted by: Jerry f'in McGuire at September 22, 2010 03:24 PM (SwkdU)
Posted by: Zsu-Zsu at September 22, 2010 03:24 PM (EHI/u)
Sometimes to media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.
Posted by: George W Bush at September 22, 2010 07:22 PM (JNigo)
Like the MSM! They are in bed with Obama 100 percent.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 22, 2010 03:24 PM (z1N6a)
Posted by: Raycon at September 22, 2010 03:24 PM (w9BEi)
Very very smart... stick to Fiscal issues FOR NOW... pull in Blue Dogs and Fiscal Con Independents...
Once in power? vote your conscience...
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 22, 2010 03:24 PM (AdK6a)
Francis: (This troll's droppings) are symbolic of our struggle against oppression.
Reg: It's symbolic of his struggle against reality.
Posted by: Stan "Call me Loretta" at September 22, 2010 03:25 PM (2g2ex)
Posted by: Oldcat at September 22, 2010 03:25 PM (z1N6a)
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 22, 2010 03:25 PM (eKvou)
I would be fine with only the "repeal" part, but everything else is a good start.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at September 22, 2010 03:25 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: willow at September 22, 2010 03:25 PM (8fK1n)
They actually do lay out what they intend to replace Ocare with and also detail that they will defund certain parts that they cannot repeal (Veto likely). They also lay out that they will evaluate ALL federal programs and defund and/or repeal those that are duplicative (is that a word?) or no longer is needed.
I n short this is a good, concise yet detailed agenda that doesn't give the Dems any ammo while touching on all those issues that the public are angry about.
All in all a pretty good job......I'll bet that Ryan authored a large portion of this.
Posted by: rls at September 22, 2010 03:26 PM (hS3ai)
Sometimes to media is directly controlled by the government
Like now with CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, The New York Times, WaPo, ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, NPR . . . .
Posted by: Mel Gibson at September 22, 2010 03:26 PM (zgZzy)
--If the USA really was a fascist country, your sorry ass would have been euthanized by now.
Posted by: logprof at September 22, 2010 03:26 PM (BP6Z1)
When Democrats take a piss all over "Corporate" - what they are really pissing on is "private enterprise".
Democrats hate private enterprise (-or- "corporations"), they hate individual liberty and they think all power comes from the government.
Democrats are fascists.
GWB - go fuck yourself.
Posted by: Lemon Kitten at September 22, 2010 03:26 PM (0fzsA)
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 22, 2010 03:26 PM (EHI/u)
From the Pledge:
Cutting Spending:
- Establish strict budget caps to limit federal spending going forward
The last time they promised this, we got Ted Stevens running
appropriations.
I'm confident things will be different this time.
Posted by: VADM (Red) Cuthbert Collingwood RN at September 22, 2010 03:26 PM (UL/HQ)
wedgies?
wet willies?
gum in their hair?
anything else?
Posted by: jmflynny at September 22, 2010 03:27 PM (QR5c+)
THAT IS CHANGE I CAN BELIEVE IN!
Posted by: SOCR at September 22, 2010 03:27 PM (x7MwC)
Posted by: Oldcat at September 22, 2010 03:28 PM (z1N6a)
Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.
Posted by: (I Wish I Was At Least As Smart As) George W Bush at September 22, 2010 07:04 PM (JNigo)
By damn, he's right!
Posted by: Myke Pence at September 22, 2010 03:28 PM (9b6FB)
Posted by: willow at September 22, 2010 03:29 PM (8fK1n)
And then deny deny deny.
Now it's our turn you socialist bastards.
Posted by: Big Tent This at September 22, 2010 07:20 PM (wFMDa)
It would feel good, wouldn't it?
Besides the fact that we're slightly above that (go fuck yourself, Mark Davis) it would undermine who we are.
However, I wouldn't mind body checking a libtard into a rusty-staple covered utility pole on occasion.
Posted by: ErikW at September 22, 2010 03:29 PM (OfN45)
The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.
Posted by: George W Bush at September 22, 2010 07:09 PM (JNigo)
Preach it!
Posted by: Goldman Sachs, Obama Supporters at September 22, 2010 03:29 PM (BP6Z1)
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 22, 2010 03:29 PM (eKvou)
169 Anything in there about pushing for a constitutional amendment for TERM LIMITS?
DeMint would likely put forward his bill on that again if they took the House.
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at September 22, 2010 03:30 PM (yfJ6g)
Posted by: Whoopi Goldberg at September 22, 2010 03:30 PM (SwkdU)
My one sentence plan. We promise to repeal and/or defund everything passed in the last FOUR years, get rid of all entitlements, get rid of all Depts except Defense and State, then go the fuck home and stay there til next year when we meet and commit ritualistic suicide on CSPAN if we fail to live up to this plan.
Posted by: Ms Choksondik at September 22, 2010 03:31 PM (uvFJG)
Interim Palette Cleanser:
Did any of you fricking morons see this little ditty tacked on to the NYT's article on the Woodward book? These yucks are cheesy amateurs:
NYT's Correction: September 22, 2010
"An earlier version of this article referred incompletely to an assessment of Richard C. Holbrooke, the president’s special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. Mr. Woodward's book quotes Mr. Biden saying both that Mr. Holbrooke was “the most egotistical bastard I’ve ever met” and that he “may be the right guy for the job”; the earlier version omitted the second part."
Posted by: journolist at September 22, 2010 03:31 PM (O/NP5)
"Even most liberals know they're about to take it up the ass in a big way."
Oooh that sounds wuv-wee! Do me furst! Pweeze! Pweeze!
*drops pants and faints*
Posted by: Bawny Fwank at September 22, 2010 03:31 PM (wFMDa)
All we need now are some lameass slogans. May I suggest:
We were the ones we had been waiting for, but after we got to know us we found out the we hated us so we beat the piss out of ourselves.
Or perhaps:
This is the day that the oceans started encroaching again because hey, we like warm weather and beaches.
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at September 22, 2010 03:31 PM (r1h5M)
If the USA really was a fascist country, your sorry ass would have been euthanized by now.
And it is probably very fond of Little Green Douchebags, the most fascist site evah! You see, Trolly, when you troll here you don't get banned. At Douchebag's site, you are bid adieu.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 22, 2010 03:31 PM (zgZzy)
Thank you.
Posted by: Editor at September 22, 2010 03:32 PM (pUfK9)
Posted by: The Democrats at September 22, 2010 03:32 PM (xtAfO)
189 What if he's not really a "troll" troll?
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Good point. Is there some kind of test we can do like in The Thing? I mean if you put a hot syringe in a petri dish with his blood in it will it start squealing out The Internationale or God Bless America?
Posted by: Glib Tunafish at September 22, 2010 03:32 PM (PxrDj)
Because the organizing power of labor is a real threat to a freedom, fascists promote them and give them spoils from the taxpayer in return for votes.
Posted by: George W Bush at September 22, 2010 03:32 PM (JNigo)
The status quo sucked, and we shouldn't go back to it. We need real market-based reforms (and Paul Ryan has some great suggestions).
If Republicans had listened to the public's health care concerns back when they controlled the White House and both houses of Congress, we wouldn't be in this mess today.
Posted by: sandy burger at September 22, 2010 03:32 PM (twiRb)
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 22, 2010 03:32 PM (eKvou)
Posted by: BP, Obama contributors at September 22, 2010 03:33 PM (SwkdU)
Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government's policies or actions."
Just like that Global Warming Gaia worship used to justify taking away lightbulbs. You ROCK GWB!!
Posted by: Oldcat at September 22, 2010 03:33 PM (z1N6a)
208 Will you please help us to get Jaime Herrera elected in WA-9? Please donate... after returning from your bunks.
Ho. Lee. Crap! Teh hotness! Let's see the Japanese make a better one of those!
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 22, 2010 03:33 PM (zgZzy)
@35: "And someone tell Boehner to ease up on the tanning stuff. He's looking like Crist"
Hell no! The spray tan hides the ruptured capillaries. The good news is that Boehner isn't drinking any more. The bad news is that he isn't drinking any less, either.
Posted by: Fa Cube Itches at September 22, 2010 03:33 PM (xy9wk)
Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for fascists to try to dumb down or otherwise destroy the education and replace it with propaganda.
Posted by: George W Bush at September 22, 2010 03:33 PM (JNigo)
Posted by: Soona at September 22, 2010 03:34 PM (D18z1)
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 22, 2010 03:34 PM (eKvou)
Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed.
I remember the halcyon days when George W. Bush eliminated the Teamsters! Oh, what a day!
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 22, 2010 03:34 PM (zgZzy)
Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed .
Posted by: George W Bush at September 22, 2010 07:32 PM (JNigo)
Like small businessmen being crushed by Obamacare mandates.
You really have it going today GWB. We social-cons need to preach it.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 22, 2010 03:35 PM (z1N6a)
Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia.
Word up, G!
Posted by: Hitler's Art Teacher at September 22, 2010 03:35 PM (zgZzy)
Posted by: willow at September 22, 2010 03:35 PM (8fK1n)
Okay, this junk with George W. Bush is just getting to be tiresome. Could someone please dig up a troll with half a brain in his head. I'm bored.
What. The Cavalcade of Dipshittism isn't your idea of entertainment?
Posted by: Cicero at September 22, 2010 03:35 PM (QKKT0)
218 Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts
Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts.
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Piss Christ. Ultimate expression of resisting the fascist empire.
Posted by: Glib Tunafish at September 22, 2010 03:36 PM (PxrDj)
Bar the doors at Whole foods and Starbucks. Have the burger joints go back to using lard for their fry grease. Pin them down and alternate between Lee Greenwood and Ted Nugent music in half-hour cycles...
Posted by: jmflynny at September 22, 2010 03:36 PM (QR5c+)
Posted by: UAW at September 22, 2010 03:36 PM (SwkdU)
The status quo sucked, and we shouldn't go back to it. We need real market-based reforms (and Paul Ryan has some great suggestions).
Agreed. The only reason I'm worried about the "replace" part in this Pledge is that it may be used to justify some kind of Obamacare Lite by the Republicans.
I love some of Paul Ryan's suggestions as well.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at September 22, 2010 03:36 PM (c0A3e)
Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts.
Posted by: George W Bush at September 22, 2010 07:33 PM (JNigo)
Conservative Professors are oppressed in liberal Academia. You are hitting the establishment with massive buffets. Keep Punching!!
Posted by: Oldcat at September 22, 2010 03:37 PM (z1N6a)
Hitler was a Leftist:
"We are socialists, we are enemies of today's capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions." --Adolf Hitler
(Speech of May 1, 1927. Quoted by Toland, 1976, p. 306)
Posted by: Libtards Lie at September 22, 2010 03:37 PM (wFMDa)
Posted by: willow at September 22, 2010 03:37 PM (8fK1n)
Yeah. This is a very dangerous time for us.
Posted by: sandy burger at September 22, 2010 03:37 PM (twiRb)
What. The Cavalcade of Dipshittism isn't your idea of entertainment?
The problem is its stream-of-consciousness posting. None of his highlighted points ever happened under a Republican administration. Not even close.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 22, 2010 03:37 PM (zgZzy)
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 22, 2010 03:38 PM (eKvou)
Thanks for reminding me!
In tough times, it's tough shit for the arts. How much do we pay every year? I have no problem with arts education in the schools, but beyond that, fuck it.
I'm tired of funding public art.
Posted by: jmflynny at September 22, 2010 03:38 PM (QR5c+)
When running a search for "Lawrence Britt" many of the top results get:
Network Planning Engineer at ComCon Technologies, Inc.
--the god of the Internets has a sense of humor.
Posted by: logprof at September 22, 2010 03:38 PM (BP6Z1)
It's the same big government SHIT they've been foisting on us since before Wilson.
Sure, they are offering to slow it down, but crap like 'repeal and replace healthcare', and 'reform FNMA' are just more of the same shit.
Let's see - Congress has mucked around in the healthcare market enough and fucked it completely up. Why don't you get the hell out of it and let the market fix the mess YOU assholes made.
Reform FNMA/Freedie? Repeal the CRA and abolish them and stay the hell out of the housing market. That's what we NEED. If they remain, we'll just have more 'tinkering' with the housing market.
Nowhere do I see abolishment of the institutions that both Democrats and Republicans have created, and which now rule over us a tyrannies.
What a joke, but it's exactly what I expected. The mood of the country right now is such radical change could be accomplished, but, then, where would all the beureaucrats and staffers go to work. The Republicans like big government just like the Dems do.
Time for the States and people to engage in civil disobedience or open revolt.
Posted by: blindside at September 22, 2010 03:39 PM (X1Y8q)
Posted by: Johnny Ramone at September 22, 2010 03:39 PM (SwkdU)
Posted by: The Democrats at September 22, 2010 03:39 PM (xtAfO)
Posted by: Oldcat at September 22, 2010 03:39 PM (z1N6a)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 22, 2010 03:40 PM (zgZzy)
Posted by: willow at September 22, 2010 03:41 PM (8fK1n)
creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite
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Fascinating.
Posted by: Goldman Sachs at September 22, 2010 03:41 PM (PxrDj)
Posted by: Barney Frank at September 22, 2010 03:41 PM (ktD7X)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at September 22, 2010 03:42 PM (eOXTH)
No. The stupid meme about us "spending too much on healthcare" is grade-A bullshzt. We spend an assload on healthcare because we can. Also because we want to. The reason is because it works. People are living longer, stying healthy longer, and recovering from things that were diagnosed as fatal only a few years ago.
It could be improved by adding some competition, and reigning in the ambulance chasers. Anything else will stifle it. Especially focusing on cost controls.
Posted by: Myke Pence at September 22, 2010 03:42 PM (9b6FB)
"The demand that defective people be prevented from propagating equally defective offspring. . . represents the most humane act of mankind." - Adolph Hitler (Mein Kampf, vol. 1, ch. 10)
". . .we prefer the policy of immediate sterilizarion, of making sure that parenthood is ' absolutely prohibed ' to the feeble-minded." - Margaret Sanger - Founder of Planned Parenthood (The Pivot of Civilization, p102)
Most people today think that Planned Parenthood and Nazi Germany have little in common. Their histories show otherwise. Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, subscribe to a Hitlerian philosophy of Eugenics - the science of improving "racial health" by socially engineering human reproduction. Both Hitler and the founders of Planned Parenthood advocate birth control, sterilization, and segregation in concentration camps for the "unfit."
Posted by: Libtards Lie at September 22, 2010 03:42 PM (wFMDa)
Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. Kinda like, you know, making you buy health care n' shit.
The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. Like how those black panthers intimidated those white voters.
There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations. Kinda like the national military force Obama wanted to build.
Posted by: George W Bush at September 22, 2010 03:43 PM (JNigo)
Posted by: Ray Davies at September 22, 2010 03:43 PM (SwkdU)
Before her state Rep position she was the chief aide to Cathy McMorris Rogers.
Cathy's a hottie in her own right. Yet Dingy Harry thinks Gillibrand is the epitome of hotness. Wow.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 22, 2010 03:43 PM (zgZzy)
The status quo sucked, and we shouldn't go back to it. We need real market-based reforms (and Paul Ryan has some great suggestions).
Agreed. The only reason I'm worried about the "replace" part in this Pledge is that it may be used to justify some kind of Obamacare Lite by the Republicans.
I love some of Paul Ryan's suggestions as well.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at September 22, 2010 07:36 PM (c0A3e)
< Kratos, that is my concern as well. However, if folks like Paul Ryan become key committe chairs and we can keep Boehner committed to what he said on the floor of the house before the vote, Obamacare hopefully will not be replaced by something else.
Posted by: journolist at September 22, 2010 03:44 PM (O/NP5)
I miss the Ramones. My greatest regret is that I never saw them play live.
Damn, that sucks.
Growing up in NY, we were spoiled for Ramones shows. I smoked many a joint with a Ramone in my youth.
I missed Zappa.
Had tickets twice, once I went to see Ozzy, the other time I went to a Dead show.
Posted by: garrett at September 22, 2010 03:44 PM (gHX8g)
Posted by: politicalmuse at September 22, 2010 03:44 PM (kLKnf)
Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.
Fraudulent Elections
Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.
There, did the rest of the work for you, Ray. Now go make me a sammich.
Posted by: Blackford Oakes at September 22, 2010 03:45 PM (w9BEi)
259 Obsession with Crime and Punishment
Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.
Show us one example where any of your cut and pastes happened in real life. Just one. Imagine the credibility you'll have! Execpt you can't can you? Go ahead, scan the Interwebs and find an example of any one of these things happening under a Republican. We'll wait.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 22, 2010 03:45 PM (zgZzy)
Alexis de Toqueville saw this entire load of bullshit coming 150 years ago:
Dr. Samuel Gregg of The Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty (a religious[1] institute), explains:
In Democracy in America, Tocqueville suggested that democracy was capable of breeding its own form of despotism, albeit one without the edges of Jacobin or Bonapartist dictatorship with which Europeans were all too familiar. The book spoke of “an immense protective power” which took all responsibility for everyone's happiness-just so long as this power remained “sole agent and judge of it.” This power, Tocqueville wrote, would “resemble parental authority” but would try to keep people “in perpetual childhood” by relieving people “from all the trouble of thinking and all the cares of living.”
Such circumstances might arise, Tocqueville noted, if democracy's progress was accompanied by demands for a leveling of social conditions. The danger was that an obsession with equality was very compatible with increasingly centralized state-power. Leveling social conditions, Tocqueville observed, usually involved using the state to subvert those intermediate associations that reflected social differences, but also limited government-power.
Tocqueville's vision of “soft-despotism” is thus one of arrangements that mutually corrupt citizens and the democratic state. Citizens vote for those politicians who promise to use the state to give them whatever they want. The political-class delivers, so long as citizens do whatever it says is necessary to provide for everyone's desires. The “softness” of this despotism consists of people's voluntary surrender of their liberty and their tendency to look habitually to the state for their needs.[2]
Directly from Wikipoedia
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at September 22, 2010 03:46 PM (r1h5M)
Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. You know, like Tim Geitner getting away with cheating on his taxes.
It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders. Sorta like the way that Jefferson guy stuffed $10,000 in his freezer. Or how Obama stole money from Chevrolet's bond holders.
Posted by: George W Bush at September 22, 2010 03:46 PM (JNigo)
Damn, that sucks. Growing up in NY, we were spoiled for Ramones shows. I smoked many a joint with a Ramone in my youth.
I have every one of their albums and know the words to pretty much every song they ever made. Wart Hog and Animal Boy are two of my favorites.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 22, 2010 03:47 PM (zgZzy)
Go on, troll. It's on the list.
Posted by: logprof at September 22, 2010 03:47 PM (BP6Z1)
Posted by: jwpaine at September 22, 2010 03:47 PM (g4J4S)
Posted by: Fa Cube Itches at September 22, 2010 03:47 PM (xy9wk)
270 Rampant Cronyism and Corruption
Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.
Blackford Oaks already posted that one, douchebag.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 22, 2010 03:48 PM (zgZzy)
Posted by: Senator Al Franken at September 22, 2010 03:48 PM (SwkdU)
"The terrorist threat changes quickly, and we have observed important changes in the threat even since this Committee convened a similar hearing last year. The threat is evolving in several ways that make it more difficult for law enforcement or the intelligence community to detect and disrupt plots...
"The threats come from a broader array of groups and regions. It comes from a wider variety of harder-to-detect tactics. And it is aimed at harder-to-secure places than before."
Posted by: stuiec at September 22, 2010 03:48 PM (fgCQL)
They should replace it with competition, not programs.
Posted by: K~Bob always forgets to take off his sock at September 22, 2010 03:48 PM (9b6FB)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 22, 2010 03:49 PM (zgZzy)
Fascism will come to America wrapped in a Obama logo and carrying an SEIU mass produced sign accusing Tea Partiers of racism.
Posted by: George W Bush at September 22, 2010 03:49 PM (JNigo)
284 Connnsssss, are fascists, admit it
Fascism will come to America wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.
Aheemmm..
Still waiting on an example, piss flap.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 22, 2010 03:50 PM (zgZzy)
Posted by: George W Bush at September 22, 2010 03:51 PM (JNigo)
264 232 211 < Kratos, that is my concern as well. However, if folks like Paul Ryan become key committe chairs and we can keep Boehner committed to what he said on the floor of the house before the vote, Obamacare hopefully will not be replaced by something else.
IIRC, they are saying that Ryan will most likely be chairing the Committee on the Budget.
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at September 22, 2010 03:51 PM (yfJ6g)
Posted by: Fa Cube Itches at September 22, 2010 07:47 PM (xy9wk)
You can't hug your children with nuclear arms, man!
Posted by: I miss those days at September 22, 2010 03:51 PM (gHX8g)
Posted by: willow at September 22, 2010 03:51 PM (8fK1n)
Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Like how ACORN is used as a government funded tool to cheat conservatives out of elective office.
Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even character assassination of opposition candidates, like the engineered smears against Sarah Palin.
Posted by: George W Bush at September 22, 2010 03:51 PM (JNigo)
Dammit. They left out the part about prohibiting congress from exempting themselves from the laws that they stick everyone else with.
Bastards.
Posted by: Max Entropy at September 22, 2010 03:52 PM (la188)
As a hobby-artist I agree. Funded art is crap and allows for stupidity to pass as 'art'. Making artists to work and compete changes the scape and keeps it honest.
Posted by: EZB at September 22, 2010 03:52 PM (fa9yq)
Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. You know, like Tim Geitner.
It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders. Sorta like the way that Jefferson guy stuffed $10,000 in his freezer. Or how Obama stole money from Chevrolet's bond holders.
Posted by: George W Bush at September 22, 2010 07:46 PM (JNigo)
Jesse Jackson Jr! The Kennedys! Obama's chicago cronies! That's very true.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 22, 2010 03:52 PM (z1N6a)
Posted by: Mikey Bloomberg at September 22, 2010 03:52 PM (SwkdU)
Posted by: beerologist at September 22, 2010 03:52 PM (gNzDf)
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 22, 2010 03:53 PM (EHI/u)
I thought fascism had already come as a big blue D wrapped in a 2000 page healthcare bill and carrying a copy of Rules for Radicals?
Connnnssss my precious....yes they fascists is my precious....stole it they did from us....make them pay we will precious...
Posted by: Goldman Sachs at September 22, 2010 03:53 PM (PxrDj)
Posted by: logprof at September 22, 2010 03:53 PM (BP6Z1)
Look, I'm a constitutional absolutist - I'd like to get rid of every Federal program excepting defense, the post office (until we can get an amendment to the constitution) and a scaled down State Department, and that part of defense that is the intelligent gathering agencies, but I know that all of that is not even remotely possible in this election cycle.
All of those reforms have to be done incrementally........reducing taxes and returning those agencies/responsibilities back to the states to implement or discard as they choose........crawl before walking, walking before running, baby steps, etc.
Posted by: rls at September 22, 2010 03:53 PM (hS3ai)
Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.
Posted by: George W Bush at September 22, 2010 07:51 PM (JNigo)
The ACORN frauds were really infuriating. Im with you brutha.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 22, 2010 03:53 PM (z1N6a)
Posted by: willow at September 22, 2010 03:53 PM (8fK1n)
Sarah
That's it? A first name? That's all you got? Nothing else? No facts to back up your sound, reasoned argument? Just Palin's first name? Bawahahahahahaha!
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 22, 2010 03:54 PM (zgZzy)
'Those days'...being when this only came from dirty hippies. You know, the kind you could bitch slap in a public.
Now it comes from a bunch of litigious hipster asswipes and trustifarians droning on about the merits of collectivism.
Posted by: garrett at September 22, 2010 03:54 PM (gHX8g)
I miss the Ramones. My greatest regret is that I never saw them play live.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 22, 2010 07:40 PM (zgZzy)
Well, at least you can still see them play dead.
Someone in the early 1990s asked George Harrison if a Beatles reunion concert was in the works. "As long as John Lennon remains dead," he replied, "I view the prospect as highly unlikely."
Posted by: stuiec at September 22, 2010 03:54 PM (fgCQL)
Ya know, I'm hoping that some day we can support "business" instead of only supporting "small business".
A big business is a small business that was successful.
That's beautiful. I'm going to use it.
I often question leftists when they start going on about how big businesses are evil, "at exactly what point does the saintly small business turn into an evil big business in your mind?"
Posted by: Max Entropy at September 22, 2010 03:55 PM (la188)
LOL! I noticed. One of the joys of having the keys to the underside of the board. You can screw with idjits posts.
Posted by: EZB at September 22, 2010 03:55 PM (fa9yq)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 22, 2010 03:56 PM (zgZzy)
You can't hug your children with nuclear arms, man!
Posted by: I miss those days at September 22, 2010 07:51 PM (gHX8g)
War is Not Healthy For Children and Other Living Things.
Posted by: Do you have it in a black light version? at September 22, 2010 03:56 PM (fgCQL)
labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed .
If they are so severely supressed, how is it that most government workers belong to a union? Answer me you stupid fuck.
Posted by: Ronster at September 22, 2010 03:57 PM (q08oe)
All of those reforms have to be done incrementally........reducing taxes and returning those agencies/responsibilities back to the states to implement or discard as they choose........crawl before walking, walking before running, baby steps, etc.
Posted by: rls at September 22, 2010 07:53 PM (hS3ai)
Cutting to 0 in one step is an increment. A big one, but still an increment.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 22, 2010 03:57 PM (z1N6a)
Posted by: willow at September 22, 2010 03:57 PM (8fK1n)
Posted by: George W Bush at September 22, 2010 03:58 PM (JNigo)
Sounds like GWB is caught up on some ideas from the sixties, man!!!
Posted by: Erik the Clown at September 22, 2010 03:58 PM (zgZzy)
It's a dangerous thing, coming to the HQ. You might encounter a "snow crash" kind of bug in your brane stem. The sekrit is to maintain the proper degree of inebriation, to make sure none of it sticks.
Posted by: K~Bob at September 22, 2010 03:58 PM (9b6FB)
I often question leftists when they start going on about how big businesses are evil, "at exactly what point does the saintly small business turn into an evil big business in your mind?"
Posted by: Max Entropy at September 22, 2010 07:55 PM (la18
About the time it doesn't give a big campaign donation, I think.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 22, 2010 03:59 PM (z1N6a)
@315: "War is Not Healthy For Children and Other Living Things."
If It Wasn't For War, You Wouldn't Know What Peace Is
Posted by: Fa Cube Itches at September 22, 2010 03:59 PM (xy9wk)
319 Rinse and repeat. The truth is much cleaner.
Does someone have a troll to English dictionary? This ass hammock isn't making any sense or citing examples to back up his douchebaggery.
Posted by: Erik the Clown at September 22, 2010 03:59 PM (zgZzy)
Cathy's a hottie in her own right. Yet Dingy Harry thinks Gillibrand is the epitome of hotness. Wow.
Agree. I think if she wins, I'm going to volunteer to be her congressional page. I'll tell her that she can send me all the naughty emails she wants to.
Posted by: Soona at September 22, 2010 03:59 PM (D18z1)
325 Connsss suckkk....
Wow, that is really a terrific insult. I guess I'll change to Democrat now. Fuckmouth.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 22, 2010 04:00 PM (zgZzy)
[Hey, did you guys know that I know who John Ryan Jr is? That's right. I have a picture of him right in front of me. Guess what? He's a sociology professor. And he's in his 60's or 70's. Bwahahahahah! -TB]
Posted by: archie bunker at September 22, 2010 04:01 PM (0YS61)
Posted by: Raykon W Bush at September 22, 2010 04:01 PM (JNigo)
All of those reforms have to be done incrementally........reducing taxes and returning those agencies/responsibilities back to the states to implement or discard as they choose........crawl before walking, walking before running, baby steps, etc. Posted by: rls
+ 3000%
I would love to see a conservative argue against interstate insurance plans and tort reform.
Please, someone. Please go ahead and tell us how these market-oriented reforms would be bad.
Posted by: Garbonzo the Garrulous at September 22, 2010 04:02 PM (23kaI)
Cutting to 0 in one step is an
increment. A big one, but still an increment.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 22, 2010 07:57 PM (z1N6a)
Posted by: rls at September 22, 2010 04:02 PM (hS3ai)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 22, 2010 04:03 PM (zgZzy)
Posted by: George W Bush at September 22, 2010 07:59 PM (JNigo)
As the VAST majority of Cons are heterosexual, wouldn't only the Female Cons suck?
/looks confused...
And as most of the Homosexuals are Liberals, wouldn't more Liberals suck, than Cons?
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 22, 2010 04:03 PM (AdK6a)
Posted by: Cass Sunstein, choice imagineer at September 22, 2010 04:03 PM (w9BEi)
Posted by: Oldcat at September 22, 2010 04:04 PM (z1N6a)
Posted by: Harry Reid at September 22, 2010 08:01 PM (uCjoj)
You know Harry, as a sort of physics buff, I'd recommend you just watch. If you tried to join in, you'd get squashed like a bug.
Posted by: K~Bob at September 22, 2010 04:04 PM (9b6FB)
Posted by: logprof at September 22, 2010 04:05 PM (BP6Z1)
Posted by: rls at September 22, 2010 08:02 PM (hS3ai)
Alexander the Great untied the Gordian Knot by cutting it with his sword.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 22, 2010 04:05 PM (z1N6a)
Posted by: Garbonzo the Garrulous at September 22, 2010 08:02 PM (23kaI)
That, and stop the Tax break for business for Health Insurance, and give it to individuals instead... divorcing working for a big company, from the Tax break...
Beacuse us folks who are self employed, get hosed...
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 22, 2010 04:05 PM (AdK6a)
My mom dropped sold me for a crack rock and a 40 of Old English. I spent most of my childhood being passed around as a "service boy" for very butch lesbians.
Posted by: Raykon W Bush at September 22, 2010 04:06 PM (JNigo)
Roll Call says it's heavy on spending cuts and light on social issues.
Good. Enough with the social conservatism.
Posted by: Vyceroy at September 22, 2010 04:06 PM (I+6Gq)
Posted by: the chief AoS inquisitor at September 22, 2010 07:59 PM (/ebqR)
--You mean that one about sunblock that sounds like a commencement speech?
Posted by: logprof at September 22, 2010 04:06 PM (BP6Z1)
342 Once we know that people are human and there's some Homer Simpson in them, then there's a lot that can be done to manipulate them.
Food goes in here. (Points to belly.)
Posted by: Homer Simpson at September 22, 2010 04:06 PM (zgZzy)
Posted by: George W Bush at September 22, 2010 08:04 PM (JNigo)
(JNigo)?
Barack? Is that you bruth-uh?
Posted by: Al Franken at September 22, 2010 04:06 PM (wFMDa)
Not realistic nor pragmatic.....you have to unravel it from the end just like it was put together....a good start would be both of the DOE's (Energy and Education) and rolling back the bureaucracies.
A lot of that shit's flammable, isn't it?
Posted by: Soona at September 22, 2010 04:07 PM (D18z1)
Posted by: Oldcat at September 22, 2010 04:07 PM (z1N6a)
The primary difficulty I see with "The Pledge to America" is that a GOP House will be limited according to how many colleagues that have in the Senate. Otherwise, they may find themselves repeatedly writing bills that don't mean anything.
Secondary problem is that people are so angry right now that they want everything changed here and now. It's going to take more than one election cycle to undue the damage Obama has wrought, so I think assuming that this is all going to take place in a fortnight is only going to leave us frustrated.
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at September 22, 2010 04:07 PM (yfJ6g)
Infringement of Rights
yes the right to choose our healthcare plan. the right to our doctor. the right to eat salt and have an icecream, the right to breathe ir and not be charged for frkn breathing
Posted by: willow at September 22, 2010 04:07 PM (8fK1n)
Posted by: John Dingell at September 22, 2010 04:07 PM (w9BEi)
351 Ok cons like repetition lets start over:
I like repeatedly skull-fucking your mother. Does that count?
Posted by: Brett Favre at September 22, 2010 04:08 PM (zgZzy)
You can't hug your children with nuclear arms, man!
Posted by: I miss those days at September 22, 2010 07:51 PM (gHX8g)
All we are say-ing
is give Jesus pants!
(oops, wrong words)
Posted by: EZB at September 22, 2010 04:08 PM (fa9yq)
--You mean that one about sunblock that sounds like a commencement speech?
yeah....maybe
It kinda does sound like a commencement speech. But it's not a joke.
Posted by: the chief AoS inquisitor at September 22, 2010 04:08 PM (waTiq)
Posted by: Soona at September 22, 2010 07:34 PM (D18z1)
Don't see where she has denied this yet. Could it be?
Posted by: Badonkeydonk at September 22, 2010 04:08 PM (YYkW9)
Posted by: Raykon W Bush at September 22, 2010 04:08 PM (JNigo)
Posted by: willow at September 22, 2010 08:07 PM (8fK1n)
Come on.... its OK to INHALE... just don't Exhale...
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 22, 2010 04:08 PM (AdK6a)
Posted by: George W Bush at September 22, 2010 08:08 PM (JNigo)
Yet strangly enough, everything you have posted, is being done by the Obama administration...
How... interesting...
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 22, 2010 04:10 PM (AdK6a)
Because us folks who are self employed, get hosed... Posted by: Romeo13
Yes, the employer based insurance scheme that, ahem, the government foisted on the US public is at the core of our bastard system.
The GOP has thrown away opportunity after opportunity to demonstrate to the US public why government intrusion into the health care market is necessarily destructive. They need to take each element of the current situation and explain how the Fed and the States made a total mess of things.
Posted by: Garbonzo the Garrulous at September 22, 2010 04:11 PM (23kaI)
366 Cons are fascists. Let me count the ways...
Raycons suck can't produce an example. Let me count the times we asked him.
Posted by: Barry Soetero's Department Of Breath Taxes at September 22, 2010 04:11 PM (zgZzy)
yeah....maybe
It kinda does sound like a commencement speech. But it's not a joke.
Posted by: the chief AoS inquisitor at September 22, 2010 08:08 PM (waTiq)
Posted by: logprof at September 22, 2010 04:11 PM (BP6Z1)
If It Wasn't For War, You Wouldn't Know What Peace Is
Posted by: Fa Cube Itches at September 22, 2010 07:59 PM (xy9wk)
Peace is an abstraction that humans have accepted because there have been brief periods between wars.
Posted by: Do you have it in a black light version? at September 22, 2010 04:11 PM (fgCQL)
am I talking to myself, here?
Posted by: the chief AoS inquisitor at September 22, 2010 08:02 PM (/ebqR)
< Dude, trying to help but, I'm on my umpteenth budweiser and soon switching to bourbon . . . keep wanting to say Paul Simon. And now The Who just came up on the i-pod, Eminence Front - great fricking guitar intro. A great theme song for Obama's presidency.
Posted by: journolist at September 22, 2010 04:11 PM (O/NP5)
Meanwhile, Lawrence Britt wrote an article!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Raykon at September 22, 2010 04:11 PM (w9BEi)
That's WA-03 .
Posted by: Chris in Va at September 22, 2010 07:35 PM (uCjoj)
Like I was even paying attention to the district... gaaaawwwdd.
Posted by: Editor at September 22, 2010 04:11 PM (YX6i/)
Having rules about masturbation in libraries is total fascism and I blame the cons.
Posted by: Raykon W Bush at September 22, 2010 04:12 PM (JNigo)
Posted by: Oldcat at September 22, 2010 04:13 PM (z1N6a)
Yeah. Me too.
Posted by: Ann Dunham at September 22, 2010 08:12 PM (wFMDa)
--That's not my name.
Daddy gave me a boy's name.
Posted by: Stanley Ann Dunham at September 22, 2010 04:14 PM (BP6Z1)
Sometimes to media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives who join secret lists and conspire ways to coordinate negative coverage against candidates from Alaska.
Posted by: Raykon W Bush at September 22, 2010 04:14 PM (JNigo)
Posted by: Mad as Hell at September 22, 2010 04:14 PM (pSvEm)
What do they planning on replacing [HellCare] with?
Posted by: Rickshaw Jack at September 22, 2010 06:32 PM (JNV96)
They said "tort reforms" on Special Report."
Posted by: RushBabe at September 22, 2010 04:14 PM (a3Z62)
Posted by: Rickshaw Jack at September 22, 2010 06:32 PM
A smaller turd.
Posted by: TC at September 22, 2010 04:16 PM (BAtLQ)
Posted by: Fabius at September 22, 2010 04:16 PM (A3VDA)
Posted by: JNigo at September 22, 2010 08:12 PM
No, that was me.
Posted by: Lorena Bobbitt at September 22, 2010 08:15 PM (23kaI)
Use tweezers and a microscope?
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 22, 2010 04:16 PM (AdK6a)
Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses. Anyone who questions the Supreme Leader will have his private records scoured by government bureaucrats and released to a government controlled media. This is known as the Joe the Plumber treatment.
Posted by: Raykon W Bush at September 22, 2010 04:16 PM (JNigo)
Posted by: George W Bush at September 22, 2010 07:33 PM (JNigo)
GWB, I don't think we could get kids any dumber than they currently get at American universities, taught by douchebag - D profs. And by propaganda, do you mean that moron caught on tape that was on the public dole to encourage artists to keep making ZeroCare art, funded by the NEA?
Oh, that's right. He had to resign when Breitbart/Beck outed him.
Posted by: RushBabe at September 22, 2010 04:18 PM (a3Z62)
Apropos.
Posted by: nickless at September 22, 2010 04:18 PM (MMC8r)
Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.
Posted by: George W Bush at September 22, 2010 08:16 PM (JNigo)
Word
Posted by: Dr. Tonsils Obama at September 22, 2010 04:18 PM (BP6Z1)
Posted by: Chris in Va at September 22, 2010 08:16 PM (uCjoj)
What a loser!
Posted by: Michael Barone at September 22, 2010 04:18 PM (A0VTZ)
Are we really gonna let this tool repeat every single bullet point on this thread again and again? Someone please cut him off at the knees.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 22, 2010 04:20 PM (zgZzy)
Posted by: Oldcat at September 22, 2010 04:20 PM (z1N6a)
386 They said "tort reforms" on Special Report."
So they're going with The Roadmap?
It's going to be interesting to see how they handle this, since Bush 43 proposed tort reform and the Republican House and Senate balked. Though we have more conservative leaders in the current Congress, so we shall see.
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at September 22, 2010 04:21 PM (Yq+qN)
Posted by: Oldcat at September 22, 2010 04:21 PM (z1N6a)
Barack, Barack. MmmMMmm mmmMMM
Barack Obaaaaama gonna save us. Yes he will. He is chocolatey and delicious and super super smart.
mmmmMMM Barack Barack. MM MMm Mmmm
Posted by: Raykon W Bush at September 22, 2010 04:22 PM (JNigo)
SQUUEEE!
You are so smart! Let me guess, IQ of 155.
You've been told over and over how special you are since you were itty bitt...but never fit in and you still don't belong.
You've been an outcast in most social settings and you were usually bullied in school. You lack a degree of social finesse with females and the few personal relationships you have had (both male and female) lack intimacy on both physical and emotional levels. The few times you've had sex, it's been disappointing and inadequate.
You either still live at home, unable to find work in your major field or you live in sub-standard housing working in a portion of your field that is emotionally and financially unsatisfying.
You're angered by the injustices you perceive in the world, in your state, your town, your community but most of all, against yourself personally. Which causes you a great deal of anger and barely suppressed rage, causing you to hang out on various blogs to find propaganda pieces that support your world view of an unjust world needed 'word warriors' such as yourself to fight against the corrupt bullies you still see dominating global playground.
However, because of your internal lack of self-esteem juxtaposed with massive paranoia, you're in therapy on an average of once a week, subbing sessions with support forums for those suffering from MDD, GAD, Cluster B Traits and even Axis I diagnosis. Current medications include a a cocktail of psychotropics including neuroleptics, SSRI's and dopamine enhancers.
All this combined still leaves you miserable, sexually frustrated, driving a used Yugo and trolling conservative forums for a small degree of attention and validation in your shaky sense of self-worth.
Posted by: EZB at September 22, 2010 04:23 PM (fa9yq)
And masturbation. Sweet, sweet masturbation.
Posted by: nickless at September 22, 2010 04:24 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Raykon W Bush at September 22, 2010 04:25 PM (JNigo)
Posted by: jmflynny at September 22, 2010 04:27 PM (QR5c+)
As long as the girls get their tongue time from the guys, I'm all for it.
Posted by: Typical Orgasmic Female at September 22, 2010 04:27 PM (fa9yq)
Cons! Without a government hand up, how am I supposed to get a place of my own where I can have the kind of privacy I need to treat my love doll to a classy candle lit dinner AWAY from Mom's prying eyes?
Posted by: Raykon W Bush at September 22, 2010 04:27 PM (JNigo)
very similar
Posted by: the chief AoS inquisitor at September 22, 2010 08:20 PM (waTiq)
--That's all I got. I know not of any original; that's the onliest one I've heard.
Posted by: Dr. Tonsils Obama at September 22, 2010 04:28 PM (BP6Z1)
"Posted by: George W Bush at September 22, 2010 08:25 PM (JNigo) "
Yo! J Negro!
Did I say you could stop sucking my tiny balls?
Now get back to work fuck-muzzle.
Posted by: Barack Obama at September 22, 2010 04:29 PM (wFMDa)
Posted by: nickless at September 22, 2010 08:24 PM (MMC8r)
So I have your vote?
Posted by: Chris Coons (D) at September 22, 2010 04:30 PM (BP6Z1)
You think? Then you can't possibly be a con.
Hahahahaha! Oh, man! That was a GOOD one! Almost as good a Jon Stewart joke! I love Jon Stewart! He really gives it to the cons!!! Oh, man!
Posted by: Raykon W Bush at September 22, 2010 04:30 PM (JNigo)
thanks, you put me on the right trail, though
I'll think of it and post it and you'll be like Oh Yeeeeeahhh, I remembers that.
Posted by: the chief AoS inquisitor at September 22, 2010 04:30 PM (/ebqR)
That's a cute little IQ.
It's funny how that often goes hand-in-hand with an even more overinflated sense of self-worth.
Posted by: nickless at September 22, 2010 04:30 PM (MMC8r)
Holy shit, what a stupid troll...
Propaganda...dumbing down education....
THAT IS THE LEFT IN AMERICA. I'm a public school teacher, and I see it every single day.
I've personally been singled out and given a "talking to" for requiring HONORS students to read eight novels (over the course of a school year) from a selection of about thirty classics ( Twain, Orwell, Cather, Steinbeck, Aldous Huxley, etc..).
My leftist administrators told me that kids should be able to read whatever they want - every book is equally valid. Our district's "literacy coordinator" is a Berkeley grad, and she accused me of "attempting to separate and discriminate against the less-abled readers." This was in an HONORS class.
I love working with kids, and I love being a teacher, but people are absolutely right to be infuriated with the public education system. There are still some fantastic public schools, but many have been hijacked by leftist morons. These people DESPISE anything associated with tradition, history, or Western cultural values - they are total and complete nihilists.
Posted by: stickety at September 22, 2010 04:32 PM (EsWC3)
Here's another joke I heard.
There was a tomato and he was the dad tomato and his kid tomato was walking too slow behind him and his dad said, Son! It's a good thing Obama gave you health care until you're 26 or I'd kick you out!
Posted by: Raykon W Bush at September 22, 2010 04:35 PM (JNigo)
Posted by: maddogg at September 22, 2010 04:37 PM (DqSon)
You know, the Dem/Media/leechfuck propaganda machine was going to scream about anything the GOP was going to produce anyway. So the least they could have done is "gone big" on this "Pledge".
Better than nothing, but only slightly.
Underwhelming.
Posted by: DocJ at September 22, 2010 04:39 PM (AWzOz)
Hahahaha!
Posted by: Raykon W Bush at September 22, 2010 04:41 PM (JNigo)
Posted by: maddogg at September 22, 2010 08:37 PM (DqSon)
And we're getting a bumper crop now.
Delightful.
Posted by: DocJ at September 22, 2010 04:43 PM (AWzOz)
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at September 22, 2010 04:44 PM (Yq+qN)
well, had a day off work today and read almost every comment on the AoSHQ today.
i have came to this conclusion. you people are very smart, very funny, and way out there on the crazyness side.
that said........ i'm old. i smoke the best blond sinsemilla weed in the world. i'm talking High Times Mag. centerfold good buds........ and drink beer on my days off. but you people blow me away with the shit you come up with to say. you are never boring and almost always put a smile on my face. thanks Morons.
Posted by: Racefan at September 22, 2010 04:48 PM (Pn2oB)
that said........ i'm old. i smoke the best blond sinsemilla weed in the world. i'm talking High Times Mag. centerfold good buds........ and drink beer on my days off. but you people blow me away with the shit you come up with to say. you are never boring and almost always put a smile on my face. thanks Morons.
Posted by: Racefan at September 22, 2010 08:48 PM (Pn2oB)
--'Tis a pleasure for all of us, I'm sure.
Posted by: logprof at September 22, 2010 04:49 PM (BP6Z1)
- Require congressional approval for any new federal regulation that would add to the deficit.
I WISH it was huge. Sadly there are similar mandates already in place and I've watched plenty of regulations issued which simply do lip service to it. You can see now at the end of new regulations those sections which state "this regulation doesn't significantly impact X" and "this regulation doesn't do Y" and it's just a lie. They know it probably won't be challenged in court.
Posted by: John Galt at September 22, 2010 04:56 PM (NLWij)
Posted by: Raykon W Bush at September 22, 2010 05:02 PM (JNigo)
I find your mental masturbation intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Posted by: Christopher Coons at September 22, 2010 05:07 PM (BP6Z1)
I find your mental masturbation intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Ok, but it costs real money. And it's written in crayon and soiled with my feces "fingerpainting."
Posted by: Raykon W Bush at September 22, 2010 05:11 PM (JNigo)
And also for my diary.
Mostly for my diary.
Posted by: Raykon W Bush at September 22, 2010 05:13 PM (JNigo)
DING DING DING! Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a winner!
Posted by: Blacksmith8 at September 22, 2010 05:20 PM (X2DYo)
Posted by: Ugrev at September 22, 2010 05:21 PM (862vz)
Posted by: ChrisP at September 22, 2010 05:23 PM (1xc6b)
The House is expected to move the Senate-passed version that includes $12 billion in tax breaks and a $30 billion fund to expand credit access to small businesses, according to a Democratic aide....
Posted by: HA HA HA HA HA! at September 22, 2010 05:28 PM (gbCNS)
Posted by: Whatever at September 22, 2010 05:57 PM (RuDGX)
Posted by: bverwey at September 22, 2010 06:05 PM (9Skvo)
In other words, more of what these assholes gave us from 2001-2008. Massive deficits and open borders and a declining middle class. That worked well, didn't it? Fuck 'em all. Fuck the Democrats, fuck the Republicans. Dick Armey's commandeered the Tea Party well, hasn't he?
Posted by: Wilkey at September 22, 2010 07:50 PM (tBrQI)
Bullshit. Crumbs. Scraps. They'll "reaffirm" the right of states to enforce immigration laws, and let border patrol agents onto government lands. B.F.D. That's not much change from the policies that got us 12 million illegal fucking immigrants and 4 million anchor babies. Awesome.
The Chamber of Commerce gets what it wants, up front: tax cuts, and no threat to its supply of cheap labor.
Call your GOP congressman or candidate and complain.
Posted by: Wilkey at September 22, 2010 08:50 PM (tBrQI)
Posted by: donabernathy at September 22, 2010 09:53 PM (B2fIq)
Well that's the idea. Take a look at those opening sentences: "America is an idea." Did Aunt Zeituni write this?
The GOP leadership couldn't find their own asses with both hands and Barney Frank's penis.
Posted by: Wilkey at September 22, 2010 10:52 PM (tBrQI)
Posted by: sTevo at September 23, 2010 03:09 AM (VMcEw)
Roll Call says it's heavy on spending cuts and light on social issues.
There's the addicts talking again. The Constitution does not authorize the Federal Government to do 'social'. The last 80 years we have drifted farther and farther from original intent and along the way we have a greater and greater number of leeches and their enablers in the population. We could delete 80% of the Federal Government if we trimmed back to the enumerated powers.
In the meantime the government-as-'cargo' junkies will be screaming for their ever increasing dose of cargo. It will get very ugly.
Posted by: chuck in st paul at September 23, 2010 05:29 AM (adr25)
Posted by: doug at September 23, 2010 05:57 AM (dDxif)
No. It should be: Require congressional approval for any new federal regulation that would add to the deficit
Unelected bureaucrats have no business writing rules for anyone not working inside their agencies. Congress writes the laws, dammit.
Posted by: delayna at September 23, 2010 08:04 AM (Tt4Sg)
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