1 Good morning post ONT

2 Go, Fred, Go!

3 Upton! Repeal Obama's antipathy for functional reality. 

4 If Democrats are going to vote to repeal that mess, we'll need to provide them some excuse to do so.

5 "If Democrats are going to vote to repeal that mess, we'll need to provide them some excuse to do so." Boehner can tell them "A repeal vote is the only thing standing between you and the pitchforks."

6 Boehner could tell them if they don't vote for repeal now the economy will dive into another Great Depression, then after they vote for it jet off on vacation and wait a week to schedule a giant presser for the bills signing.

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8 Geez, the spammers are out early.

9 A nice new pitchfork will make great gifts this year.  Get 'em before inflation rabid inflation kicks in.

10 Geez, the spammers are out early. Posted by: Tami at January 07, 2011 08:14 AM (VuLos) Well when you work from your bed at home???????

11 The court has previously said they don't have power to do something, that could expand the lawsuit awards, as now they are operating "under color of law."

12 The lighbulb thing sounds like a very hard hill to climb given the degree of GLOBAL MORONING out there (/= morons here).  Maybe a little later when supplies of incandescent bulbs run out?

(will they be illegal in Canada, too?  I remember college students who bought Canada-strength beer in college; will have to make bulb runs to Montreal?)

13 Just curious, while I'm sure they still save money, is the manufacturing cost of CFLs counted when they rate their efficiency?  What about that they are likely manufactured in places with poor or no environmental regulations?

14

"under color of law."  that sounds racist!

I predict Hillary Clinton ass will gain seven inches this year.

15 He's also interested in deregulating Medicaid and stopping the EPA's climate change power grab.

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Pet peeve here - could we please never, never use the term "climate change"? It was "global warming" and it should stay "global warming". "Climate change" is what the warm-mongers came up with when people started noticing inconvenient things like lots of rain and snow. Don't let them get away with weaseling out of it when their old predictions of heat and drought and melted polar caps don't come true.

They screetched "global warming" for twenty years, they should be stuck with it. If they try to correct you, ask "So what happened to the warming you so confidently predicted?"

16 I watched that hearing yesterday. Upton was a milquetoast; i.e., he was neither adequately prepared, nor sufficiently aggressive - a nice guy and a gentleman, to be sure, but also a wimp who didn't do his homework. Smug and sneering Democrats like Louise Slaughter and Alcee Hastings were contemptuous of his positions on issues, and they ate his lunch.  Not a good sign for the first day of that hearing. 

17 Government branches operate under policy v. law.

WWPD? What would Paulson do certainly doesn't contain what Geithner or the next autonomous authoritarian Sec./Treasury will do having been empowered to disregard Congress by the departing GWB executive order. /From his buddy's impeached lips, "Because I could."

18

Posted by: Tami at January 07, 2011 08:14 AM (VuLos)

No, they're just still out from last night.

I would really like to see the FCC smacked down.  And then all of its authority taken away.  That would be sweet.

Of course, I'm not sure how we'd prevent radio/tv stations from trying to use the same frequencies, but I'm sure we could come up with something- and why is it the Federal Government's business of someone curses on air?  Regardless of what Society thinks about on-air profanity, how is that the Government's business?

19 Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at January 07, 2011 08:35 AM (KxyHe)

They could certainly figure out how to avoid stepping on each other, and if they have problems they could go to court. The FCC is superfluous -- simply a power grab by the federal government. As for profanity? Here's some for the FCC -- fuck you and your anti-freedom regulations.

20 I hope he goes after the FCC power grab as well as the EPA power grab, but I would not have a lot of confidence in this guy.

As you said, he was a co-sponsor of the stupid CFL light bulb scam. A quick check shows that he meets the very definition of a RINO and most likely a DIABLO as well.

His ACU ratings for the past two years have been 72/44 with a lifetime of 72.

One wonders how a RINO like this got to be chair of the energy committee?

21 One wonders how a RINO like this got to be chair of the energy committee? Posted by: Vic at January 07, 2011 08:42 AM (M9Ie6) Time In The Seat (TITS).

22 Well Issa has submitted legislation to reign in the EPA on the CO2 scam (side bar) but that is not going to be the correct route because Obama will simply veto it even if it does get past the Senate.

It will take a budget bill like we have been discussing for the past many months to get that POS under control.

23 The original Will column implies that Upton, as chair of House Energy and Commerce will seek to repeal the lightbulb ban law that we've talked about previously. But that didn't sound quite right to me and it's because Upton was a champion of that bill in the first place. Upton may have the power to push repeal, but there's no indication to me that he actually intends to. Bummer Oh well, just think of all the economic cleanup funds from the toxic levels of mercury that will inevitably pile up in the landfills across America, as Americans casually toss spent bulbs into the trash. And how many homes will be mercury-contaminated from broken bulbs? We're witnessing a slow-moving freight train wreck. In 30 years, people will wonder who's boneheaded idea this all was.

24 Posted by: ParisParamus at January 07, 2011 08:30 AM (Q16sd)

You poor, deluded bitter clinger. Perhaps if you left behind your preconceived notions of archaic industrial-economy models and try to grasp the beauty and forward thinking brilliance of the new Obamerica^tm.

The bulbs are manufactured by green industry, which, if you knew anything, you would know do not pollute at all. Just the savings from the lack of pollution dwarfs the small increase in cost per bulb (government subsidy of 200% of retail cost). Th mercury in each bulb can be recycled. Just drive your hybrid to your regional government reclamation center (opening date for site #1: 2017), drop off the bulbs, pay the small fee ($5/bulb), and maybe you will finally feel like you are a part of this brave new world.

25 Of course, I'm not sure how we'd prevent radio/tv stations from trying to use the same frequencies, but I'm sure we could come up with something- and why is it the Federal Government's business of someone curses on air?  Regardless of what Society thinks about on-air profanity, how is that the Government's business?

A little know fact is that the FCC was not created to allocate radio station frequencies. There was already a federal department in place that did that. It was allocated to shutdown radio stations and programs that opposed FDR and his policies.

It was a blatant censorship grab by the FDR adm and it was rubber stamped by the commie congress. Never think that if you get enough Dems together that they would vote themselves in to a communist dictatorship.

26 Upton isn't up to the task. He doesn't have the temperament. A guy like Jeff Sessions would rip the Democrats new assholes.

27
21   Gubmint's been suckin' Nanny State TITS so long, Washingtonians are all titty babies. Taxed teats have gone bone dry. Wean the teat drainers.

28 I think Boner is going to have to have a backroom talk with Upton and get him to let a younger firebrand on the committee do the heavy lifting while he remains in the chair and controls the parliamentary aspects.

29 29 I think Boner is going to have to have a backroom talk with Upton and get him to let a younger firebrand on the committee do the heavy lifting while he remains in the chair and controls the parliamentary aspects.

That is a great idea.

30 That light bulb ban is ridiculous.  I moved house this summer, and had to pack up an attic full of incandescents, only to fill my new attic with them.  I have a 5-6 year supply at least.

31 I just saw the first of many Obamacare public health announcements.

It said:  talking several naps a day prevents growing old and saves money. . . . Especially if taken while driving.  President BO thanks you for your support.  Now, all you middle class/lower class crackers, if you wouldn't mind getting behind the wheel and falling asleep.  You know (fist bump) Uncle BO wants needs you to!

32

The packages that exploded in Maryland? There was a note in one of them that complained about the highway signs that told people how to "report suspicious activity". In their brillance, they have come up with the following profile: (seriously) Male, white, socially awkward.

I guess the extremely obvious connection with groups who approve of "suspicious activity" isn't a factor.

We're doomed.

33 No, it will be fine. All that mercury will cause all future "workers" to be autistic and therefore unlikely to want change. It's a scheme to incapascitate the voters.

34 One wonders how a RINO like this got to be chair of the energy committee?
Posted by: Vic

Like this:

Fred Upton wins House energy gavel

Overcoming concerns that he's too moderate for the job, Rep. Fred Upton emerged Tuesday as the winner of a bitter internal Republican battle to lead the powerful Energy and Commerce Committee.

The Michigan Republican won the steering panel nod with critical support from Rep. John Boehner and a collection of senior and rank-and-file GOP lawmakers closely allied with the incoming House speaker.

The full GOP caucus must now ratify UptonÂ’s selection Wednesday, but that is expected to be a formality as former Energy and Commerce Chairman Joe Barton (R-Texas) told POLITICO he will not challenge the steering committeeÂ’s decision.

With his win, Upton navigated an internal GOP feud between the upstart tea party movement and the party's rank-and-file establishment. Conservative commentators Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck both called him a socialist on their programs because of his co-authorship of legislation banning the incandescent light bulb. Former House GOP Majority Leader Dick Armey's Freedom Works tea party campaign ran a 'Down With Upton' Internet petition campaign.

Politico 12/7

As mentioned in the article,  Comrade Upton has begum purging the committee staff of ideological undesirables.

The Republicans^tm win again.

35 And how many homes will be mercury-contaminated from broken bulbs? We're witnessing a slow-moving freight train wreck. In 30 years, people will wonder who's boneheaded idea this all was.

Posted by: CoolCzech at January 07, 2011 08:49 AM (tJjm/)

In thirty years everyone will be too afflicted with mercury poisoning to be able to ask the question.  We'll all be bumping into furniture and slurring our words as we blindly grope for our blackmarket Valu-Rite.

Also, good morning, all!

36 As mentioned in the article,  Comrade Upton has begum purging the committee staff of ideological undesirables.

Well I guess there is no chance that Boner will get him to allow a "firebrand" to take the lead on attacks. We are seriously boned on this committee. It is now worthless.

Tell me again why it is better to elect RINOs in blue States?

This also gives me grave doubts about Boner.

37      At the end of the day it is imperative that we hold Guys like Upton accountable. Lest the RINOs revert to the spineless hacks they had become by 2006. They do not have the courage to "raise the flag and slit the throats" of the liberals. The conservatives in Congress need to fear us who elected them more than they fear the other side of the aisle.  Guys like Upton are just just like the little flags on top of the goalposts.  We need to look at them see which direction they are blowing and then kick the ball.

38 This also gives me grave doubts about Boner.

Posted by: Vic at January 07, 2011 09:18 AM (M9Ie6)

I've said it in the past, but he's on probation in my book.  He's shown moments of awesome (his little note in response to the Senate democrats urging the House not to try repealing Obamacare was particularly perfect), but I expect a LOT more if he wants to solidify himself in my good graces.  And I know I'm not alone!

39 ALL, we need to get off the Mercury kick on these bulbs. There is enough ammunition out there on all the other scores without that one which is simply not true. The amount of Hg in these bulbs is microscopic and beneath the level of notice.

If we hand this too them on a platter I guarantee it will come back at a later time to bite us in the ass when they want to ban some really needed product because of microscopic Hg content.

40 The voters spoke as clearly as they ever have in the last election. You would think the Repubs would be more assertive. Seems like they may just be more interested in business as usual. The base won't be so fired up in 2012 if this is the case, especially if a RINO is nominated

41

Good little article on islamist taking over islam by Jonah Goldberg

http://tinyurl.com/23rfpe9

42 Yesterday was driving and listening to some talk program and a caller said that Feingold and specter both were teaching in law schools.  The lib/dem riding next to me turned to me and said "geez these people always find a way to make more money and they have full salaried pensions, don't they".   I was shocked that a lib/dem would say something like this.  All I could muster was "be thankful they both didn't go the usual route and become lobbyists">

In other words, these people fear nothing.  So what if they are voted out of office, they will still have their pension and they will take some high paying job.  They always win and land on their feet so they really don't care what the American people think.

43

Any democrat who votes NOT to repeal - you're job is on the line and 2012 is fast approaching.

Huh Claire McCatkill?

 

44 Some more Upton facts:

BAILOUTS

Voted YES for TARP
Voted YES on the auto bailout
Voted YES on Cash for Clunkers

SPENDING

* Voted NO on 7 of the last 9 RSC Budgets
* Voted YES on the Farm Bill
* Voted YES on the 2005 Highway Bill
* Voted NO to cap farm subsidies
* Voted YES four times to extend unemployment benefits
* Voted NO to end milk subsidies
* Voted NO to cut sugar subsidies
* Voted NO to cut NEA spending
* Voted NO to cut AMTRAK spending
* Voted YES to increase funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
 
TAXES

* Voted YES on Patriot Tax – a surtax on high income earners

REGULATIONS

* Voted YES for Sarbanes-Oxley
* Voted YES to increase the minimum wage
* Voted YES on energy bill with new CAFÉ standards and tax hikes


POLITICAL FREE SPEECH

* Voted YES to force 527s to disclose their donors
* Voted YES on McCain-Feingold

Redstate

45

Ben Nelson(D-Neb) will be out of a job in 2012 regardless.

His one vote sold us all down the river.

46 45 dagny,
 
Good link. Depressing info. This will not end well, I fear.

47 haven't listened to beck in a while.  He is planning to spend the next hour of his radio show discussing the prez's comment about poor little gibseys' meagher salary of just $ 170,000 plus.....

48 Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 07, 2011 09:35 AM (W/gz4)

And he's an R why?

49 50 When I read that I thought of 3 things: 1. I suppose that Katie Couric's reading material is expunged of this type of info. Someone needs to ask her what she reads and then make a national ass out of her choices and 2. When the Christians had a mini-riot after the murders in egypt, I read comments where christians here condemned them for it. 3. Hopefully the Indians aren't as passive as we are.

50

Operation Demoralize.   Join the democrats and their media mouth pieces and whine about the imperfect rethuglicans.

51 And he's an R why?

Because a Dem primary would be hard is my guess.

52 Spit take into my Frosted Flakes.....

The Case for Fred Upton for Chairman of House Energy and Commerce Committee
By FRED BARNES

I know Upton quite well. HeÂ’s not as conservative as I am. But he is especially well suited to be chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee.

53 Upton can draw a triangle real nice.

54 And he's an R why?

Posted by: Tami at January 07, 2011 09:39 AM (VuLos)

As I said earlier, he is most likely a DIABLO, that list pretty much confirms it.

55 geez the lib/dems are really excited about the o'really interview which I wasn't even planning to watch.  The last BO interview by o'really was embarrassing to watch.  but the lib/dems are all excited, they are talking about it with great anticipation.

56 59 Sure they are, O'Reilly gives Obama every chance to look reasonable. Bill was sucking hard during the last one.

57 to Speaker-in-waiting John Boehner and his leadership team, Upton is a team player who may stray on many votes but can be counted on to throw roadblocks in front of President Obama's plans for health care and climate change.

Conservatives on the Hill, in think tanks and on K Street are fighting to keep Upton from the chair, but Upton's closeness with Boehner -- including his record of raising funds for GOP candidates and coming to heel when Boehner has snapped the whip -- could ensure he gets the gavel.

Upton earned conservative ire with his liberal voting record, including votes on energy and health policy, which are under E&C's jurisdiction. Out of 158 returning Republican congressmen, Upton ranks as the 10th most liberal, judging by lifetime American Conservative Union ratings.

While outsiders focus on Upton's ideology, Republican House staffers know that a lawmaker's voting record isn't how party loyalty is measured on the Hill. Leadership staffers and K Street lobbyists emphasized to me how much Upton has raised for other Republican candidates -- through his TRUST PAC, by hosting fundraisers, and by transferring funds from his campaign.

By giving Upton the gavel, Boehner would anger the conservative base. By denying Upton the chair, Boehner would disrupt the system of seniority and fundraising incentives that makes the conference function.

Washex 11/10

58 By denying Upton the chair, Boehner would disrupt the system of seniority and fundraising incentives that makes the conference function.

That's our problem in a nutshell.  Nothing is going to change....

59

So unemployment's down from 9.7% to 9.4%.  But the number of people who gave up looking for work has risen.

Gee, wonder why that would be?  Maybe because unemployment bennies got extended again?

20 consecutive months with unemployment over 9%, a new record...Preznt Toonces is nothing if not ambitious.

60 Sure they are, O'Reilly gives Obama every chance to look reasonable. Bill was sucking hard during the last one. Posted by: dagny at January 07, 2011 09:47 AM (2sLWg) The only reason O'Reilly isn't the most hated guy at Fox is because of a guy named Geraldo Rivera.

61 By giving Upton the gavel, Boehner would anger the conservative base. By denying Upton the chair, Boehner would disrupt the system of seniority and fundraising incentives that makes the conference function. Washex 11/10 Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 07, 2011 09:48 AM (W/gz4) The Empire is not going to just roll over and die.

62

61 Well then give Upton some other committee on whose issues Upton has voted properly. Instead of putting the fox in the henhouse put him in charge of something less tempting for him to screw up

63 This post reminded me to pick up more incandescent bulbs while I'm out today. 

64 Hmm. A nice nighttime rally illuminated by a sea of incandescent bulbs powered by North Dakota oil would send a message. The USA is being starved and poisoned by ignorant fanatics.

65 Leadership staffers and K Street lobbyists emphasized to me how much Upton has raised for other Republican candidates -- through his TRUST PAC, by hosting fundraisers, and by transferring funds from his campaign.

This is why the RNC is broke. Party loyalty is not measured by how well a member supports the ideology and platform of the party. It is measure by how much money they can raise from freakin' lobbyists.

It is definitely time for new leadership. It is time for some more primaries. It looks like chances are good we will be boned for another 2 years despite taking the House by a wide margin.

66 Why do I have a feeling that there might be more heat on the lightbulb issue if the public knew about it?

Maybe there are some illegal immigrants we could get to do the job the State Media won't do?

67 Lest the RINOs revert to the spineless hacks they had become by 2006.

Revert? What makes you think that they weren't always spinless hacks?

68 We're gonna have to be a dog on Upton's ass because I don't trust that guy. He's all to willing to go along to get along. Until these things are gone, I won't believe it.

69 (repulled from yesterday a'cause it still applies, apparently

Today's Lesson About Liberalism:

I am completing a writing residency and my lodgings have no paper towels, disinfectant, or meat, but there is a half-used bottle of fair trade hemp shampoo generously left in the shower.

Note left in the room:

"You  may hear a scratching on the door from a cute little black dog.  I let him in while I was here, thinking he might be eaten by a coyote, but he peed on the refrigerator."

70

Posted by: 18-1

It is odd that this law effecting every single home, business and public place in the nation has gotten so little attention. Hopefully it'll be repealed with the same lack of fanfare with which it was instituted. As to the Mercury issue, I think it's the smartest way to make the appeal (if one is needed) to the people wavering. It objectively exists in the bulbs, whereas every other criticism of the bulb is subjective. I've had Libs tell me with a straight face that the love the new CFL's as we're sitting there waiting for them to warm up. They can and do lie about the quality, cost, "green-ness", etc. of the CFL's but they can't pretend the Mercury doesn't exist.

71 You can't take a fat slob and turn him into an Olympic athlete overnight. The RINOs, etc. are waiting for us to say, "Fuck it. I give up. Where's my piece of the action?"

72 Why do I have a feeling that there might be more heat on the lightbulb issue if the public knew about it?

Given time and the proper pressure, this will be the metric system of the '10's.  I personally look forward to people shooting the curly lightbulbs out in  public buildings.

73

Per Drudge, 41% of pregnancies in NYC are terminated.

Great at taking out what they see as real garbage.

74 The best thing that can happen between now and 2012 is for gas to hit $10 a gallon. Hell, at that point we could nominate Rin-tin-tin and he'd whip Bambi's ass.

75 Not to worry...hopefully we'll soon have on the market a new product: heat balls, which are 95% at converting electricity to heat, for localized warmth. The incidentally waste about 5% as visible light, so you shouldn't look directly into the ball. Fortunately, they can easily be installed into pre-existing fixtures in your house, and the excess light can be softened using a "lampshade" which most people already have. The Germans already have them: http://www.redstate.com

76

Ooh-la-l.... WTF?!   

(Sun - UK tabloid link) 

So after ten seconds, when straight men will notice the photobomb, try to figure out what that is.  

77 @78: Well think of it this way: that's a lot of cancelled welfare checks. We live in an age when expecting kids in America to learn English and say the Pledge of Allegiance is tantamount to "genocide," but a self-imposed abortion genocide is practically a sacred rite for Liberals. Gimme a break.

78 They screetched "global warming" for twenty years, they should be stuck with it. If they try to correct you, ask "So what happened to the warming you so confidently predicted?"

Posted by: schizuki at January 07, 2011 08:32 AM (M+lbD)

Well, they had to jump on the warming wagon as the 'New Ice Age' they were hollering about before sure wasnt happening

79 The USA is being starved and poisoned by ignorant fanatics.

The rank-and-file foot soldiers of the eco-tard agenda are ignorant and easily led, but the higher-ups know exactly what they're doing.  The Gores and Prince Charles of the intend to profit mightily from their green-schemes and place themselves in exulted positions over our emaciated, impoverished selves. 

80 Rush said that everyone is leaving the administration to go back to the campaign.  Beck seems to think ol bobby wants to think about his life and try to make more money somewhere else.  So bobby would become a lobbyist?  And though he's been by BO's side since 2004, blithely leave with the upcoming presidential election coming?  Wow, beck has some fascinating ideas.

81 Beagle: WTF indeed!

82 And how many homes will be mercury-contaminated from broken bulbs? We're witnessing a slow-moving freight train wreck. In 30 years, people will wonder who's boneheaded idea this all was.

Posted by: CoolCzech at January 07, 2011 08:49 AM (tJjm/)

My neighbor down the street had an accident with mercury in their house and called the MD dept of hazardous waste or some such fucking agency.  Apparently a mercury thermometer/thermostat broke in their basement.  They had to move out for weeks while the Gubmint agency assessed their problem then cleaned it up.  They had just moved here when their house was destroyed by Katrina.

There is no fucking way that I will use these lightbulbs if given another option and if I have to, they are going right in the trash when done.  No recycling...nothing.  If these fuckers are going to make me put hazardous materials in my house, they're getting them right back into the landfill.

83 A joke, well I think it's a joke, was just made that timmmmay is going to be making extra money by making turbo tax commercials for the upcoming tax season.

84

37 & 48 & 61 - Kudos. Thanks.

85 @80: you shouldn't directly into the ball Hmmm. Flash forward 3 decades, and millions of young Americans are legally blind or visually impaired because as kids they always looked into the ball. Here's an Idea! Let people keep their incandescent light bulbs, and build about 500 nuclear power plants across America. As environmentally green as it gets, with NO carbon, pollution, etc., and an practically unlimited power. Now who could possibly be opposed to that? Not the French, that we are constantly told by the Left are the superior model for us to espouse!

86 The rank-and-file foot soldiers of the eco-tard agenda are ignorant and easily led, but the higher-ups know exactly what they're doing. The Gores and Prince Charles of the intend to profit mightily from their green-schemes and place themselves in exulted positions over our emaciated, impoverished selves. Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at January 07, 2011 10:20 AM (9hSKh) Fully agree. It will take much time and effort to diminish the ranks of the foot soldiers. The returning glaciers will lend a hand, I'm sure.

87

Posted by: CoolCzech

Anyone who claims to be concerned about the environment, dependence on foreign fuel or those evil oil companies, but doesn't list nuclear power as their number one goal is either ignorant or a fraud. Nuke power would solve all of those "problems", but it would also strengthen America's positon in the world, which is the exact opposite of the Greenies goal.

88 Fred Upton's initials are "FU."

89 44 The voters spoke as clearly as they ever have in the last election. You would think the Repubs would be more assertive. Seems like they may just be more interested in business as usual. The base won't be so fired up in 2012 if this is the case, especially if a RINO is nominated Both parties take the ups and downs of elections in stride. They've got a two party monopoly on power and a passive, largely disengaged populace. They know all losses are temporary. In the long run, the two entities will meld into one.

90 Nuke power would solve all of those "problems", but it would also strengthen America's positon in the world, which is the exact opposite of the Greenies goal. Posted by: Lincolntf at January 07, 2011 10:34 AM (hUf/c) Right, because EVERYTHING the Left (Greenies included) espouses must be viewed thru the prism of hurting American power in the world. That's why nuclear reactors are OK for France, but horrible for America. The left has always viciously hated the United States, precisely because it is at once powerful & anti-statist. BTW way, when is the GOP going to hold hearings on George Soros? I'd love to see that bastard hauled before Congress and made to explain himself. I hope President Palin or whoever sicks the IRS after him, too.

91 Rush Limbaugh said 16 or 17 years ago that, with the fall of the Soviet Union, Greenies were just the hard-core Communists who changed their name and who came up with a slicker marketing strategy, recognizing that they could advance their agenda more effectively and destabilize Capitalism with their sly, disingenuous and insideous environmental programs.

92 Boehner can tell them "A repeal vote is the only thing standing between you and the pitchforks.'

I won.

93 Never put your hopes in a guy named Fred. Wait.

94 I don't know who the bigger disappointment turned out to be: Fred or Rudy? Neither really wanted the job, and did everything they could to project that fact. Hell, Fred actually said he didn't care if he got the nomination or not. Well in that case, Thanks for sucking up all that air during the primaries, Dude!

95 I'm already beginning to suspect that, like Obama, Boehner is a charming, likeable guy, who doesn't have any executive, managerial or leadership skills, and who is, therefore, vulnerable and prone to favoring the opinions and advice of equally charming sycophants, aka, brown-nosers, who make him feel better about himself. I hope I'm wrong.

96

I like to follow the environmentalists wackos off my porch asking them about nuclear power? Why are you opposed to it? Why can the navy use it without a problem but we aren't building reactors? How many people were killed at 3 mile island? What happened there? Was the China syndrome fact or fiction? Who did it star? Why can france have nuclear power and we can't? Why don't you want the US to have it's own power resources?

 

HAHA As I wrote, I just got a cold call from someone who wanted to survey me about "Investing in Green Energy". I told them that that was the LAST thing I would ever invest in since it's a scam.

97 Posted by: Brian at January 07, 2011 10:55 AM

You're partly wrong, mainly because you misunderstand (and underestimate) Osama Obama. He knows full well what he's doing and has a definite agenda in place. Just because he learned his hatred for America from others -- he actually has no experience with living in the America the rest of us have known -- doesn't mean his immature lust for revenge on The Man isn't real.

Boner, on the other hand, strikes me as the classic rube, a nice-enough guy who would be right at home running the local hardware store and being a big in the Chamber of Commerce.

Neither one of them should have any part of running the country, but for opposite reasons. The Mohammedan Mouthpiece is an enemy of all that the USA stands for, while Boner is simply in way over his head. The sharks will eat him alive.

98

I believe that it was Rush Limbaugh who once said, also, that more people have died in Teddy Kennedy's car than in all of the nuclear power plants that were ever built in this country. That quip befuddled the liberal caller who was on the phone with him.

99 The Empire is not going to just roll over and die. You got that right, hoss.

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I don't misunderstand ot underestimate Obama. I know exactly where he is coming from.

That doesn't alter the facts that he doesn't have any executive, managerial or leadership skills, that he is an empty suit, that he is a street hustler and that he is a decadent dilletante. He coasted to the top with his charm and with a lot of help from affirmative action and political correctness - not with any qualifications to become POTUS, nor because he has ever rolled up his sleeves and gotten his hands dirty, figuratively speaking.

101 Upton is an assclown, the exact wrong person for the job..

102 32 That light bulb ban is ridiculous.  I moved house this summer, and had to pack up an attic full of incandescents, only to fill my new attic with them.  I have a 5-6 year supply at least.

Just out of curiosity, how did you package them to prevent breakage?

103  I have a 5-6 year supply at least.

Just out of curiosity, how did you package them to prevent breakage?

Posted by: someone else at January 07, 2011 12:13 PM (/hia0)

I keep them in their original sleeve packaging, then use crumpled paper along the bottom, sides, and top of the cardboard packing box.  A standard UHaul type box can hold around 60-70 incandescents.

104 48 Some more Upton facts: BAILOUTS Voted YES for TARP Voted YES on the auto bailout Voted YES on Cash for Clunkers SPENDING * Voted NO on 7 of the last 9 RSC Budgets * Voted YES on the Farm Bill * Voted YES on the 2005 Highway Bill * Voted NO to cap farm subsidies * Voted YES four times to extend unemployment benefits * Voted NO to end milk subsidies * Voted NO to cut sugar subsidies * Voted NO to cut NEA spending * Voted NO to cut AMTRAK spending * Voted YES to increase funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting TAXES * Voted YES on Patriot Tax – a surtax on high income earners REGULATIONS * Voted YES for Sarbanes-Oxley * Voted YES to increase the minimum wage * Voted YES on energy bill with new CAFÉ standards and tax hikes POLITICAL FREE SPEECH * Voted YES to force 527s to disclose their donors * Voted YES on McCain-Feingold Redstate Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 07, 2011 09:35 AM (W/gz4) Hope and change. You're welcome.

105 I keep them in their original sleeve packaging, then use crumpled paper along the bottom, sides, and top of the cardboard packing box.  A standard UHaul type box can hold around 60-70 incandescents.


Thanks for the info.  I may have to do the same at some point.

106 Upton championed the lightbulb ban?

He's dead to me.

107 repeal the lightbulb ban law I prefer "mandatory mercury bulb" law. Not that I prefer the law, I just want to remind every patchouli-smelling tree-humping hippie environmentalist of the law of unintended consequences. I called my city to see what to do with a dead mercury bulb; they had me contact Waste Management, who in turn sent out a 5 ton garbage truck to pick up the bulb. The main source of electrical power in my area is nuclear. Anyone want to do the net pollution math there?

108 Anybody need some wedding dresses?