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Good Morning Morons; today will be short for me as I will be leaving here about 7:30 for my bi-weekly trip to The City. Now on to the news.

Panetta says drone program will continue, lets hope they have learned how to deal with downed aircraft

2

House passes the budget busting Payroll Tax extension and unemployment extension

They include the Keystone pipeline instead of tax hikes for small businesses so Democrats vow to kill it. Still playing political games but Fox calls it pox on both Houses and the rest of the MFM will blame the Republicans. I say fine, gridlock is good in this case. Too bad the pipeline deal is dead but it was dead anyway until we rid the Congress and Whitehouse of the Watermelon Communists.

3

Issa asks Interior Dept why they allowed OWS to illegally camp and destroy $400K worth of newly planted stuff from stimulus money.

Now that should be interesting. Wants communications with the WH. Of course they will stonewall.

4

DC resident fined $2K for not recycling kitteh litter

You only think you live in the land of the free. If you live in a small red State city you are over regulated. If you live in a large blue city like DC you are ground into the dust by Fascist power and regulatory Mussolinies. (not to mention being taxed to death by communist oligarchies).

5

More evidence that all the economic numbers are phony

Realtors admit they have over-counted home sales.

6

Ron Paul "surges" in Iowa. This tells you how relevant the Iowa caucuses are.

7

This should make the Romneybots happy, he has won the coveted "witch" endorsement.

8

Washington Posts blasts Newt over his past House ethics problems

No surprise here from this Democrat PR rag. The point is you can expect this times 100 if he gets the nod. The Obama campaign will not have to spend a nickel on negative campaign ads, the press will write them for free.  However, this doesnÂ’t mean vote for Mutt either.

9

Solyndra case has gone to grand jury now.

Any bets on pols from the dept of energy getting indicted with these people?

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Good Lord, school system in Plano, TX went berserk in enforcing no Christian religion in school policies

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Not only is Corazine up for illegal actions in the MF failure, but he is up for perjury as well

LetÂ’s see how well protected he is by whitedemocratium. Since he is not part of the current administration, and so far, there are no indications of contact with the current administration I would say in the end he will be hung out to dry.

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^{Solyndra case has gone to grand jury now.}

^{Any bets on pols from the dept of energy getting indicted with these people?}

The over/under on that is:  0

13 Outrage of the day - Obama DOJ/EEOC goes after company for not hiring guy with epilepsy to drive heavy equipment

14

Corrupt AG to go after voter ID laws now

Keep in mind that these laws are in a lot of cases in States subject to the unconstitutional section V of the VRA. They have already been challenged in court by the Communists who lost. He doesnÂ’t have a leg to stand on, but he could tie up a bunch of States in court until after the election.

15

Corrupt lying communist jackal to go to Fort Bragg today

This is a twofer, one he wants to take credit for Bush’s success in Iraq at the same time he “looks like” he supports the troops and secondly he gets a political trip to a tight State that he needs in 2012.

16

NTSB thinks it has the authority to regulate cell phone and other device usage in the States

Somehow I canÂ’t find that authority ion the Constitution.  F&F debated this this morning, not one mention of the authority to do this.

And that's it for the news today.

17 Twitter??? I have studiously avoided ALL of the community social networks. They sell your personal data to people.

18

Vic, you're my favorite curmudgeon.

 

 

19

Okay, comspiracy theory timeline time:

 

Couple weeks ago, one of our drones blew up a bunch of Pakistani soldiers on the Afghan border.

About a week ago, we safely land a drone inside Iran for them to pull apart.

About three days ago, we send another drone into the Seychelles, where China is about to take over port operations.

 

And nothing, nothing is done.  The Seychelles drone is barely mentioned in the news.

 

Why?

20 You need to change the name of this blog to: Random of Spades, HQ.

21 Okay, retards, I'll see you later on.

22 Vic, you're my favorite curmudgeon.

LOL, thanks

23 See yah Truman

24 If George W. Bush would have sold guns to drug cartels and allowed them to "walk" into another country, would the United Nations be silent?

25

Vic, you're my favorite curmudgeon.

I obviously have more work to do.

Hope things go well today, Vic.

26 hi all
eh - don't really like twitter, don't care

27 If George W. Bush would have sold guns to drug cartels and allowed them to "walk" into another country, would the United Nations be silent?

Posted by: franksalterego at December 14, 2011 07:09 AM (9XykO)

Bush would have been impeached the first year long before gunwalker.

28 After 55, life is about bowel function. All the other stuff that makes up your day is just the music while you're on hold.

29

And nothing, nothing is done.  The Seychelles drone is barely mentioned in the news. Why?

Forbes reporter on WMAL was speculating this morning that the drone shown by Iran is a fake (plastic and Xmas lights) and spun elaborate theories as to why this game is being played by both sides.  He actually started to convince me.

30 After 55, life is about bowel function.

Well there is the rocking chair as well.

31

eh - don't really like twitter, don't care

Me neither. Must be for folks with those smartphone thingys, which I don't have.

Social media? Humbug. Who the hell wants to be sociable, especially this early in the morning?

32 Forbes reporter on WMAL was speculating this morning that the drone shown by Iran is a fake

It is painted like a mock up.

33 I'm sure this got covered extensively in the ONT, but regarding the three potential First Ladies... Mrs. Romney looks like Ariana Huffington. Mrs. Newt... just no. My first thought upon seeing the third woman is that she's not only stunningly beautiful, she looks warm and sensible. And that was before noticing what appears to be the Texas flag behind her.

34 "DC resident fined $2K for not recycling kitteh litter" How is putting urine soaked paper and cat shit in the paper recycling bin recycling? Or, are they demanding that she buy kitty litter and not use old newspapers?

35 well, I have a smartphone, I just don't like Twitter

36 Or, are they demanding that she buy kitty litter and not use old newspapers?

Posted by: mike at December 14, 2011 07:18 AM (0hdwM)

They are demanding that she conform to their fascist whims.

37

Forbes reporter on WMAL was speculating this morning that the drone shown by Iran is a fake

It is painted like a mock up.

There was also no reason to drape a curtain around the landing gear.  Unless you don't have the real thing and you're not sure what the gear looks like.

Of course, why would JEF ask for it back too? 

38 so,  NPR is describing the left's demands for tax hikes as a "small tax surcharge"
what a bunch of tools

39 Oh, and no twitter for me either, thanks. Anytime I accidentally find myself hitting a link that takes me there, I immediately back out and assume whatever the reason I went there in the first place, it must not have been that important.

40

And that was before noticing what appears to be the Texas flag behind her.

Let Paul. Mitt, and Gingrich fight it out over Iowa and get the riff-raff out of the way for Perry to start surging in the primaries. He's the closest thing we have to a real conservative candidate.

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Thanks for the links, Vic. .....Hope it goes well for ya today.

Curmudgeons are cool....and misunderstood, I think. I'm studying to be a curmudgeon.

42 Well folks, time to go. I'll be back some time this afternoon.

43 so, atheist assholes mock Christians, manipulate the system to push out traditional nativity scenes

44 Except that twitter's a stupid fad

45

Yeah, I'm outta here, too. That salt ain't gonna mine itself.

Y'all have fun and try not to trash the place.

46 Take care Vic.

47 40

And that was before noticing what appears to be the Texas flag behind her.

Let Paul. Mitt, and Gingrich fight it out over Iowa and get the riff-raff out of the way for Perry to start surging in the primaries. He's the closest thing we have to a real conservative candidate.

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Anita Perry would make a great first lady. She's fiesty and yet low-drama. She could probably hit a coyote at 50 yards.

48 Forbes reporter on WMAL was speculating this morning that the drone shown by Iran is a fake

I thought the same thing about the picture I glanced at.

49 If George W. Bush's economic adviser would have "disappeared" $1.2 Billion of hard-working people's money, would it be confined to the Business Section, page 2 of the New York Times?

50 twitter is teh ghey.

51 Can we all agree that Harry Reid has dementia.  Seriously.

52 43- The irony is that these same people are the ones who, without the slightest bit of evidence, would swear they are saving the planet by recycling.

53 That Plano stuff has been going on for years. We lived in Plano back in 2004 -2006 and you couldn't bring candy canes to school then. But you could celebrate the hell out of Halloween. Thanks for the news Vic, hope all goes okay.

54 Do get hopes up about fake drone. Knowing our government it was real. I like the conspiracy theory. Can I use it???

55 I still don't get the kitty litter story. The paper is soaked with urine and feces. Last time I checked, you're not suppose to put contaminated paper in the paper recycling bin. Though you wouldn't get it from the way the news item is written, I would assume they are telling her not to use her old newspapers as kitty litter. But, she bought the newspapers and what she does with it is her business.

56 Wikipedia has the goods on Mitt Romney.

... Thus, Bain Capital turns a profit on floundering corporations by buying them at low cost, stripping away any projects that aren't profiting or that lack potential, and laying off any excess workers. One of the fund's first start-up investments was Staples, Inc., the $15 billion office supply retailer. The funding enabled Staples to expand from one store in 1986 to over 2000 stores in 2011...

Am I the only one, who sees a conflict in that narrative?

57

I've been hoping that the downed drone in Iran is full of intentional flaws....to keep them going around in circles trying to make it work.

The one that went down in the Seychelles was destroyed, or in little pieces, wasn't it?

58

OccupyKSt Hunger strikers' morale is not doing great after today. "We just wanted to talk to somebody. Anybody." Not ok, @johnboehner. #respectdc

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Awwwwww

59 From Vic's link at #4 about recycling cat litter:

“DPW recycling investigators are looking for evidence of co-mingling of trash with recyclables. We are finding contamination of the recyclables that is clearly coming from someone who lives or works in the building or in the trained perspective of our investigators, the problem is ‘systemic’

Can you imagine the guy that has this job? Does he wake up thinking, 'Oh, maybe Ms. Cat Lady has emptied her cat pans last night and I'll catch her co-mingling again!' as he rubs his hand together in glee?

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56 Well Wikipedia is, of course, a very liberal-dominated source.

Be that as it may....if Mitt gets the nom, the libmedia will portray him as an evil Gordon Gekko, with the blood of a million jobs on his hands.

61 Morning y'all..

Been kinda busy.. has any mention been made about Newt's response to Romney?

http://tinyurl.com/7p9mo7z

Reporters asked Gingrich for his reaction to Romney’s suggestion that Gingrich return the money he had received from Freddie Mac. “If Governor Romney would like to give back all the money he’s earned from bankrupting companies and laying off employees over his years, then I would be glad to then listen to him,” Gingrich replied, then added the kicker. “I’ll bet you $10, not $10,000, that he won’t take the offer.”

That's left-wing bullshit coming from Newt.  That's exactly the kind of talk you hear coming from the OWS crowd!

Fuck Newt.. he has tried real hard to come across as someone different than he really is recently.. but his true colors come shining through every now and then.

62 Okay, someone here has to watch Homeland. I just looked at previews. Brody has a boner for the VP for calling a drone strike that killed civilians (let's ignore the fact that terrorists were hiding among civilians and therefore are the ones responsible for their deaths under the GC). So, Brody is either going to blow the VP up or not. Either way, he's off the serious - dead or in Florence ADX. They need a star for the show so I can't see the producers proceeding either path. So, what's going to happen? Poor Carrie! She gets dragged away by the cops a few more times! lol!

63 follow me on Stutter

64 It's leftwing bullshit from both Mitt and Newt. Their instinctual moves are left. Great. Just great.

65

Good to see Tim Blair mentioned - great bloke, very funny and a good friend of Iowahawk

That kitty litter story is bizarre! Where the blazes is the owner supposed to discard smelly kitty litter, homemade or whatever - my first thought was the owner should deliver a bag of used kitty litter in person to the nasty little bureaucrat who keep sending the fines

And I know you've headed off but thank you Vic for all the news headlines - much appreciated!

66 60

Funny too,

Donald Trump has nearly 100 different successful enterprises going, but the only one you hear about, is the one that went bankrupt,

isn't it.

67 62....I watched the first three episodes of Homeland....then stopped watching because it seemed like it was trying to reinforce the narrative that our guys coming back from the Mideast are potential terrorist threats...and should be watched.

68 It's not called the 'rightospere' dummy. Dextrosphere. and Sinestrosphere.

69 .if Mitt gets the nom, the libmedia will portray him as an evil Gordon Gekko, with the blood of a million jobs on his hands.

And they'll portray Newt as a lobbyist who failed to register as a lobbyist, which, IMO, is actually probably accurate, and brings up the whole question of Newt's ethics again.  Fair or not, it will destroy him.

Furthermore, for those worried that MittCare will take away OCare as an issue, Newt's activities will take away Dem involvement in Fannie and Freddie as an issue. 

The whole Gordon Gekko thing will fail to resonate this time.  If you doubt that, just look at the success of OWS. 

70 I'm not sure if Ace coined those terms, but he was using them a long time ago.

71 55.
What they want is her not to enslave animals. Or live in DC. Or to think for herself. Or eat butter.

72 Am I the only one, who sees a conflict in that narrative?

Posted by: franksalterego at December 14, 2011 07:53 AM (9XykO)

It looks like they jumped from the reorganization side of the business to the early investor side.  Firms like Bain often take companies private to fix them.  They also provide financing to start-ups, usually before they become publicly traded. 

73 You'll be glad to know that Hitler can sign the recall petition for Scott Walker in Wisconsin. 
Government Accountability Board says so.

http://tinyurl.com/75p9g3f

74 Actually, I don't think Tim Tebow is all that interested in corporate finance.

75 What they want is her not to enslave animals.

Have you ever owned a cat? Enslavement is the other way round with a cat. Even now mine is sitting over there, across the room, plotting against me because I didn't prepare his breakfast on time.

76 It's almost funny to watch the MFM play wack-a-mole with each Republican candidate who emerges from the crowd.

77 Here's something to piss off the morons. Time magazine has named the Man Thing of the Year, the Protestor. As in Arab Spring and OWS.

78 Of all days to watch Morning Joe... Chuck Todd flips teh bird to the set. Halperin thinks he's "kind of a dick". http://bit.ly/rHCchh

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69 Pep,

I think that both Mitt and Newt would present the libmedia with a lot of material for them to trash them with. ....But worse than that, they lack the charisma that it will take to beat the charismatic lying Clusterf'ck in Chief.

So I'm still hoping for a miracle that Perry can pull out of the hole he's in.

80 I think Morning Joke is so desperate for ratings that soon we'll see Meeka flash her cones.

81
Talking to the Washington Post today, Mitt Romney said of Newt Gingrich, “He has been an extraordinarily unreliable leader in the conservative world—not 16 or 17 years ago but in the last two to three years and even during the campaign, the number of times he has moved from one spot to another has been remarkable. I think he’s shown a level of unreliability as a conservative leader today.”

NRO




"Immediately following this statement, Mr. Romney was smote by the very Hand of God and turned into a pillar of salt...."

82 @10.  Plano, a large suburb of Dallas, use to be a very good school district, years ago.  Looks like times have changed.  The city seems to have been taken over by liberal thugs.  But I'm proud some of the good folks there are fighting back.  The Constitution is very clear.  We have freedom of religion (choose any you want or none at all) not freedom from religion (how can you hide a church, temple, or whatever from someone who doesn't want to see it?)  Religion is everywhere around us and it's stupid to outlaw the mention of it.  It's part of life.  Those very rude people running that school district should be fired.  Get someone who has some people skills and common sense.

83 Mika's cones (lol), like birds in winter and her ratings, are heading south.

84 I would think if Newt is the nominee and Obama tries to talk about what Newt was doing 20 years ago, it would open up Obama's past for discussion as well - his association with Ayers and his Marxist mentors, among other things.

85 “He has been an extraordinarily unreliable leader in the conservative world—not 16 or 17 years ago but in the last two to three years and even during the campaign, the number of times he has moved from one spot to another has been remarkable. I think he’s shown a level of unreliability as a conservative leader today.”

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at December 14, 2011 08:17 AM (3wBRE)

"And the kettle is black." Mitt added.

86 Well we're fucked.

87

NTSB does some valuable work, but their recommendations are almost always unworkable. Their mandate is, in summary, "safety at any cost." That's not how anyone really thinks.

Do you test your brake lights before you leave your driveway?

Family fire drills?

Test all GFCI outlets in your home periodically?

None of these even cost you a dime. But you don't do them because you've made a rational calculation about risk, and decided to accept it.

NTSB doesn't do that. If they had power to go with their recommendations, they would bankrupt the trucking, airline, and auto industries within a few years. All in the name of safety.

Don't feel bad laughing out loud at them. They're just there to make noise.

88 The Joint Chiefs have since GWB been pushing towards automated drones v. manned craft.

The Air Force just completed the refurbishing of every F-22, reconfiguring its construction maintenance while correcting its onboard oxygen-generating system (OBOGS) as the Raptor Returns to be greeted by CinC Obama with the determination to produce the Raptor no more. Right, when the safety feature providing pilots with oxygen, when the wastefully extravagant design flaws requiring layering of coats per repair are corrected by design panels easily removed/replaced for maintenance, when the pilots have retrained and the preparations complete for a February Red Flag at Nellis AFB, Nev., it all comes to Obama downing the Raptor.

Col. Kevin Robbins, 1st FW commander at Langley, "Our adversaries and potential adversaries around the world are very well aware" of the f-22's capabilities, "and I think it frightens them. It provides a different tool" than anything else in the US inventory. AIR FORCE Magazine, December 2011, "Raptor Return," by Aaron Church, Associate Editor, 24.

Meanwhile, the obvious problems with drones persist, as if opportunities to patrol our many varied borders and coastal oceans wouldn't have combined thoroughly expert training with actual US national border security before allowing the forfeiture of such extravagant tax funded "gifts" to Iran for whatever stupidly convoluted reason.

89 "I watched the first three episodes of Homeland....then stopped watching because it seemed like it was trying to reinforce the narrative that our guys coming back from the Mideast are potential terrorist threats...and should be watched." You're right. But at least I could rationalize it in that Brody and Walker were subjected to intense psychological programming by our enemies. Still hard to take in that we as a society have nothing in common with them. People who turn are generally those who already have psych problems and they mostly regret their decision. It did get better when Brody started banging Carrie.

90 Oopsbama SCOAMF

91 I'm not a twit, either. Nor am I planning on becoming one any time soon.

92 heh
Coulter paraphrase: Romney is just as conservative as Bachmom!

Ann is jumping the glenn beck that jumped the shark.

93 Ace & Burge notwithstanding, Twitter could still use some more cowbell. Go harass Tim Blair in comments to any of his posts; goad him into joining Twitter. Tell him that if he doesn't, the terrorists (and head-tilters) win. #DraftTimBlair http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/

94 Here's a great story about an early Christmas present.

95 So it turns out that the Christmas Mall grenade and gun guy in Luxenburg ? or somewhere where they almost speak French is a Muslim. What you did not hear that from any media? Also the guy shooting at people in Hollywood that was killed by the cops was also a Muslim. What? You did not hear that from any media? The guy in Hollywood was shouting Allah Snackbar or something like that as he calmly tried to execute some citizens. Mayor Bloomberg was not available for comment.

96

I just got this email from my husband:

More importantly, I heard on the radio this morning that a Gingrich staffer resigned because he gave an interview last year referring to Romney as Mormon, and stating it was a "cult," and that if Romney were the nominee that is God's way of giving Obama 4 more years while giving Christians the ability to finally expose the "cult."  I have heard some of these evangelical types use the word "cult" in connection with Romney.  It got my attention how hard Greg was arguing for Gingrich [Craig is the office evangelical who said mormonism is a "cult"].  Not just saying support but going to bat hard for a guy who is pretty liberal on most things, made me think that this may be a more serious problem.  God is going to nominate Romney as a gift to expose Mormonism?  Really?  No, really?    He pointed out to Greg that Catholics saw his church as a "cult" but didn't treat him like a pariah (anymore).   Seriously, the evangelicals are that nuts? PS We like Perry. Worry about Romney and think Newt is a loose cannon with McCain issues.

97

“Christine has been a leader in the conservative movement for many years,” said Mitt Romney. “Christine recognizes that excessive government threatens us now and threatens future generations, and I am pleased to have her on my team.”




Mr. Romney then continued, "the addition of a magic user completes our LARP party.  Now we are prepared to begin our Quest for the Black Dragon's hoard -- as soon as my Mom gets back with the Range Rover."

98 I'm still waiting for Canadian authorities to launch Operation Fat and Furious, a covert action to allow illegal purchases and smuggling of back bacon.

99 Homeland is at least accurate in portraying that our bumbling bureaucracy is our enemy and the enemy of the handful of dedicated professionals that are resisted, threatened, and maybe could be sued for water-boarding some poor Muslim murdering bastard Probably will end with Carrie saving the worthless VP and then she will be carted away to hang out with Jack Nicholson in the Cuckoos' Nest.

100 Harumph.  He [Tim Blair] never sent me my vegemite, you know.

101 Here's something to piss off the morons. Time magazine has named the Man Thing of the Year, the Protestor. As in Arab Spring and OWS.

Posted by: Retread at December 14, 2011 08:15 AM (ALZZ7)

Does anyone even read that rag any more?

102

Forbes reporter on WMAL was speculating this morning that the drone shown by Iran is a fake (plastic and Xmas lights) and spun elaborate theories as to why this game is being played by both sides.  He actually started to convince me.

Posted by: pep at December 14, 2011 07:12 AM (YXmuI)

One look at the grille pretty much confirms the drone is real. The spacing of the squares is what you would expect in a stealth design -- each facet positioned slightly differently to reflect radar waves in a different directions, either into some RAM or just to diffuse the return. It is very intricate.

The stuff the grille is made of isn't stock material you you would expect a model maker to use.

103 Is Romney that desperate for conservative votes that he is dragging out O'Donnell? Yeah, he isnt winning this.

104 So, since I went to two Tea Party protests, I can now put on my resume that I was Time's Person of the Year in 2006 and 2011.

105 Talking to the Washington Post today, Mitt Romney said of Newt Gingrich, “He has been an extraordinarily unreliable leader in the conservative world—not 16 or 17 years ago but in the last two to three years and even during the campaign, the number of times he has moved from one spot to another has been remarkable. I think he’s shown a level of unreliability as a conservative leader today.” --NRO


Romney's corporate raider performance:

Of the buyout of Dade International, a medical company, which filed for bankruptcy after Bain had cashed out with $242 million, Dade was on the verge of bankruptcy when Bain bought it. While Mr. Romney made cuts at the company, he also invested heavily, turning it into the industry leader to bolster it. It was only then that Bain investors leveraged the Dade company up even more and paid themselves a huge dividend, saddling the company with too much debt, causing its failure.

Private equity firms skillfully cut costs at businesses AND choke off growth with large amounts of debt. That is the "streamlining" experience Romney brings as context to the governmentÂ’s budget.

In 2007, Mr. Romney famously said of his private equity work that “sometimes the medicine is a little bitter, but it is necessary to save the life of the patient.” Critics have taken that quotation to suggest he is a heartless mercenary. So far, however, Mr. Romney has managed to dodge ... How well Mr. Romney manages those perceptions may determine whether private equity makes it into the White House. The private equity industry’s titans have long been worried about the effect Mr. Romney’s presidential campaign will have on the industry. “If he is a nominee, well, hold your seats,” Henry Kravis, the co-founder of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, told a room of executives at a dinner in Hong Kong last month, according to Reuters. “They’re going to describe us all as asset strippers; we’re flippers of assets, we just put on a lot of debt, fire a lot of people and that’s how we make money,” he added. “There is no doubt that the Obama administration will clearly come out after Mitt Romney and the whole private equity industry,” Mr. Kravis said. “Mitt Romney may become the single source of all U.S. unemployment by the time the election happens.” A looming issue for the private equity industry is the tax treatment of what is known as carried interest. Private equity executives pay only the capital gains rate — 15 percent — on most of their income [if any] instead of the ordinary income rate, which in their case would typically be 35 percent.
-- NYT

106

Was listening to Time's managing editor talk about their Person of the Year process.  He said SEAL Team 6 was a runner-up.

Oh, if only they had taken out Rupert Murdoch.

107 So, since I went to two Tea Party protests, I can now put on my resume that I was Time's Person of the Year in 2006 and 2011.

Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at December 14, 2011 08:49 AM (AQD6a)

I think I'd rather be one of Uberdouche's Worst People In The World.

108 I dont know why Mitt is attacking Gingrich, he aint his problem. Gingrich will only fight back and make Romney hurt as well

109 Posted by: Flapjackmaka
 
Mitt has teh witch, and Newt has teh Scozzzzzafava........
 
Advantage Mitt there. Christine is at least a lot easier on the eyes.

110
I'm still waiting for Canadian authorities to launch Operation Fat and Furious, a covert action to allow illegal purchases and smuggling of back bacon.
Posted by: Fritz

Isn't that Michelle Obama's covert operation?

111 Here is a decent article by Tony Blankly who used to work for Newt giving a non-elistist view of what Newt accomplished during his tenure in Congress, quite a different spin than what all the cry-babies say about how mean Newt was to them. Newt

112 I think I'd rather be one of Uberdouche's Worst People In The World.

Well, let's put that question to a Facebook Poll.

113 God, are the republicans going to start with the corporate demonizations stuff too? Newt is aware that going after Romney's business acumen is lefty?

114 Newt is aware that going after Romney's business acumen is lefty?

Posted by: dagny at December 14, 2011 08:57 AM (tb5pQ)

I think they were both wrong. Romney does this with taxes too. If they want to get ahead just go attack Obama. Gingrich voters are not Romney voters.

115 As if God's gift to debate, Newt's "Because I could" make a FAT profit at taxpayer expense (applauded by the audience acknowledging that taxpayers got NOTHING for Newt's Freddy Mac payoff as if what isn't illegal is "good", exemplifying "The American Way") lost middle class taxpayer votes.

Porky Newt illustrates how the more things change, the more they stay the same.

116 A man was walking down the street when he was accosted by a particularly dirty and shabby-looking homeless man who asked him for a couple of dollars for dinner.

The man took out his wallet, extracted ten dollars and asked, If I give you this money, will you buy some beer with it instead of dinner?

No, I had to stop drinking years ago, the homeless man replied.

Will you use it to go fishing instead of buying food? the man asked.

No, I don't waste time fishing, the homeless man said. I need to spend all my time trying to stay alive.

Will you spend this on greens' fees at a golf course instead of food? the man asked.

Are you NUTS! replied the homeless man. I haven't played golf in 20 years!

Will you spend the money on a woman in the red light district instead of food? the man asked.

What disease would I get for ten lousy bucks? exclaimed the homeless man.

Well, said the man, I'm not going to give you the money. Instead, I'm going to take you home for a terrific dinner cooked by my wife.

The homeless man was astounded. Won't your wife be furious with you for doing that? I know I'm dirty and I probably smell pretty disgusting.



The man replied, That's okay. It's important for her to see what a man looks like after he has given up beer, fishing, golf and sex.

117 Anyone else note Gingrich's endorsement of SEIU's Andy Stern as the kind of Union head they all should be in his 2007 book?

118

I don't have a problem with Newt getting money from Freddy Mac. Shit, if Obama wanted to pay me big bills to decorate the white house christmas tree with Mao balls, I'd do it. Who gives a shit? If I didn't take the money some lefty douchebag would.

Newt just promptly spent it at Tiffany's, thus creating jobs in retail.

119 And regarding any Iowa poll -- remember it is still a caucus. Organization matters more than poll numbers. Yea, 33% may be inclined to vote for Newt, but getting those 33% there is still the challenge. And by all accounts, Newt has very little organization in Iowa.
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True. I wonder how much though now, with expanded grassroots and all. My brother in Nebraska is apparently seeing more Newt campaign muscle in Iowa. People are saying this is looking to be a very cheap primary. But remember Huckabee, he didnt have much of an org either. He just used Romney's lol.

120 This meme from Krauthammer, Hugh Hewitt (A Romney Supporter) and Brit Hume et al, that Newt is anti-capitalism is just short of a hysterical wish-fulfillment. The take is that Newt was attacking capitalism because he responded to Romney's attack on Newt taking money from Fanny and Freddie with one of why don't you apologize to all the people that lost jobs because of your corporate house-cleaning job. My take is Newt was responding in perhaps a childish way that if you want to attack me for making a living giving advice to a corrupt quasi-government entity, that did NOT take my advice, then maybe you should be as pristine and pure in your job activities as you claim I should be. Nothing more or less, not some hidden lefty impulse to attack capitalism. It goes to show you have people that are really invested in Romney, that are a part of the Right-Wing media. Nothing wrong with that, but then nothing wrong with me not taking them too seriously either. Also the more Fanny and Freddie are mentioned and Front Page, the better for the stupid party that has been unable to peg the economic implosion on the sub-prime market, which was a Democratic idea, just as Fanny and Freddie is a giant slush-fund and retirement home for EX, or between assignments, Democratic operatives.

121 Time Magazine's "Person of the Year" is the ....Protester. They wrap it around the events in North Africa and the Middle East but who are they really paying homage to...the Occupy douches


To figure out what "Occupy Wall Street" might mean, they reconvened two days later at a come-one-come-all meeting — outdoors, for hours, in a park near that charging bronze bull, amid the thousands of unwitting passersby on an ordinary Wall Street workday.

David Graeber, 50, a prominent anthropology scholar and soft-spoken pro-anarchism activist, showed up.

Funny how the left always describes themselves as "soft spoken" even though they are loud mouthed assholes

122

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at December 14, 2011 09:10 AM (OWjjx)

Wish PA was like that. I always only see Repub yard signs yet dems take the county easily.

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Wish PA was like that. I always only see Repub yard signs yet dems take the county easily.

Posted by: Flapjackmaka at December 14, 2011 09:16 AM (yGiAn)

The gravestones in your local cemetary....every one of them is a democrat sign

124
Newt and Mitt both pander. A vote for either endorses pandering.

"Undecided voter" Craig Bergman, state director for Fair Tax For Iowa: "A lot of the evangelicals believe God would give us four more years of Obama just for the opportunity to expose the cult of Mormon. There’s a thousand pastors ready to do that.” (during a focus group last Wed. according to The Iowa Republican)

Real Clear Politics reports that Bergman, a Des Moines Republican, officially joined the Gingrich campaign the next day on Thursday. In other words, this was Bergman's credential upon employment.

Romney: “I don’t think the particular faith of an individual should become an issue in a campaign, but again it’s up to the people to decide what they want to do on their own. I think campaigns would be unwise to make a particular faith an issue in the campaign.” (interview with the Register’s editorial board on Friday)

Embracing Mormonism isn't going to lend Newt or any other neoconservative any more logic having made a particular faith a campaign plank issue: intolerance for Muslims and sovereign nations. Deferring a leader's responsibility as Mitt, leaving constitutional rights to lawyers to decide whether US citizens have? "But again itÂ’s up to the people to decide what they want to do," as if Rockefeller RINOs ever listened to their constituents over vested interests given THE Lobby industry.

125 The previewed clip suggests that, specially with the ominous EBS signal closing it out, it seems a modern version of the Manchurian candidate scenario,

126 Newt won't cut federal wasteful spending.

I don't have a problem with Newt getting money from Freddy Mac. Shit, if Obama wanted to pay me big [tax funded] bills to decorate the white house christmas tree with Mao balls, I'd do it. Who gives a shit? If I didn't take the money some lefty douchebag would.

The universal thieving con artist credo.

127 I didn't see Newt's remarks about Mitt as an attack on capitalism, but rather as an attack on Romney's competence.

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I hear you there.  Last night I had to sit through a 5 minute segment on how unhappy the electorate is on NBC with Chuck "No Chin" Todd.  How historically pissed the American people are about the state of the country, the misery index, the wrong track numbers, and all that jazz.  Then numbers on how awful congress is, followed by how unpopular and flawed the Republican candidates are.  More data on how they are all trailing the president.  Even new numbers on Newt saying they are still as bad as his old numbers from 94, and then a commercial.  Not one, single, solitary mention of the president's approval ratings.  Not one mention of the shift in voter ID.  Not one mention of the "deserves to be reelected" numbers.  Just flat out linking "congress" to how bad things are and ignoring the presidents sub-Jimmy Carter numbers.  In short, everything sucks, the people hate what the government is doing, and it is in no way related to or the president's fault. 

I was so pissed the headache still hasn't gone away. 

 

129 This should make the Romneybots happy, he has won the coveted "witch" endorsement.
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Politics makes strange bedfellows. 

I guess Christine O'Donnell is striving for relevancy and thinks that attaching herself to the presumptive nominee will help achieve that. 

I think she's wrong. 

130 @10
You-know-who hardest hit.

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