I went out to dinner last night. Thursday. Got one of the last tables. Place was packed. Everyone having a good time.

Maybe these MSNBC-types should get out in the real world every now and then.

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The challenge is to follow a consistent plan despite inconsistent prices - Sarah Palin, State of the State of Alaska speech

But if it fails, if it fails and our economy implodes and we see ourselves stuffing cardboard back in our shoes like they did in the Depression era

Comback, yes its teh perfect green recycle solution.  What an excellent idea kill two birds with one stone recycle cardboard creating less waste in landfills by not throwing the shoe or the cardboard away and no manufacturing plants spewing CO2 out into teh skies. 

Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark.

The answer to Brewers' presentation of: 

...the possibility that his vote against a stimulus bill could send the country spiraling into a Depression ..

..could have been to mention what the CBO said about the bill. According to the Washington Times on Wed.,

President Obama's economic recovery package will actually hurt the economy more in the long run than if he were to do nothing, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday.

CBO, the official scorekeepers for legislation, said the House and Senate bills will help in the short term but result in so much government debt that within a few years they would crowd out private investment, actually leading to a lower Gross Domestic Product over the next 10 years than if the government had done nothing

There is no “rescue” that’s feasible. It’s called pulling yourself up by your boot-straps and taking some lumps. 

Why stretch out a recession and meanwhile make the gov. bigger and have us all suckling on the socialist teat? WHY? Hmm?

Let’s suffer this mess we are all a part of in one way or another and pull off the proverbial band-aid and get it over NOW rather than making our children and children’s children pay for something that WILL NOT WORK and is basically a FREAKING J-O-K-E. So we go without for a few years and we bitch and moan but the real estate market will eventually level out…people will shop again but more conservatively [no more Wally World stampedes yay!] and life WILL go on.

-Same with the banks. We should have let the sh*tty banks fail and let other banks take their places who knew how to HANDLE money. 

Golden parachute$ do diddly squat for our economy.

it took me literally 8 yrs to walk through to the soles of my shoes.   I think we're safe from cardboard sole supports.   My son is more likely to grow out of the shoes he has, than ruin them.

The D word is being used more and more... The MSM keeps hitting the panic button until it actually does something.  When it finally happens I am sure they will be ever so full of I-told-you-so.    Will Rachel Maddow have an on-air party atmosphere like she did when the Recession was made official?

Here is a D word.  Disgusting.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.  -Edmund Burke

Contessa and crew have their talking points down pat...along with the rest of the majority of the msm...let's not forget that Jeffrey Imelt is now on O's economic team...GE msnbc/NBC has a lot of interest in this getting passed with all of the greening in the bill, I could go on and on...it would be useless, but you get the picture.

Btw...I heard little on the radio today because of what is going on in the Senate...but Glenn Beck had a great segment about all of this on his radio show today. 

Classic stuff, cardboard in shoes.  MSNBC is really scraping the bottom to find these reporters...or whatever you'd call them.  Their job application must be something to behold:

#1) Do you suffer from BDS: Bush Derangement Syndrome?  Y or N   

#2) If you selected N above, put the pencil down and leave the building, you are not qualified.

#3) Are you a Socialist, Communist, have bought Noam Chomsky's books or hate Ronald Reagan?  Y or N

#4) If you selected N above, leave immediately you evil Conservative Republican Facist. 

I actually used to stuff cardboard into the heels of MY shoes when I was younger, to make myself a fraction of an inch taller.

I wish I was making this up, but I'm not. I also wish I was keeping this to myself.... (doh!)

Those that know me around here, know I have a slight obsession. But I quit doing this when I was like 20 or 21, and actually grew another inch or so.

:) 

You're the next contestant on...
THE MESSIAH IS... LEFT !!

CNN sucks, but MSNBC raises the BAR for wasted bandwidth.  Isn't this the same crappola the Democrats claimed Bush did which was to appeal with fear?  I remember everyone saying the "war on terrorism" was a fear tactic to lead us into war.  Now, the Democrats themselves are trying to pass a bill by telling us the sky is falling.  At least Bush had a legitimate concern; afterall, we had just been BOMBED!

Don't know about you, but I think Democrats are hypocrites. 

     I guess once we run out of the cardboard for our shoes we can boil said shoes and eat them like Charlie Chaplin.  Damn those Republicans!!!  That's what they have in store for us.

"Not to be a republican at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head." - Francois Guisot

I think Brewers humm dinger can go down as the loaded question of the week. For the fun of it how about this question. Mr. Senator, if the stimulas plan falls short will you take responsibilty for the trillions of $$ of deficits you have unloaded on future generations? 

Brown College and The Columbia School of Journalism.

Contessa, ask Obama if he's willing to be known as the black Hoover if this bill blows up in all of our faces.  That's what we're looking at if he gets his way.

When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.

opps

Obama: My job is above my pay grade

We have enough brainless idiots on this rock as it is.

-Dave

Our clueless political leaders are about to drive us all over a cliff. The time to HITM is now-before we go over.

A lot of this is BO's fault. To have the President appear on television every single night and harp that the end is near, that this is a catastrophe, the sky is falling....DOES NOT instill confidence in Joe Sixpack to invest in the market, to start a business, to take out a new car loan.

You can thank the president and his fear mongering for most of this mess. Give each and every taxpayer $2700 and a tax cut and you will see the economy boom.

Instead we are going to see it go boom. Any Repub who votes for this thing should be chased out of office. 

I guess she's afraid of becoming a Barefoot Contessa?

It's like with that first bail-out towards the end of the elections.  The first package was voted against by more Democrats in the House than Republicans, but Pee Lousy got up there and in a bold-faced lie blamed the Republicans for it not going through.

They'll blame the Republicans no matter what (if it gets voted in and doesn't work, if it doesn't get voted in, if it does get voted in and it doesn't work) and the American public will lap it up from their bowls.

One of the 24% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 89% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.

Below, find RNC Chairman's weekly address.  See if it sounds like a plan to further this economic downturn or if it would actually stimulate our economy unlike the dimocrat porkulus bill:

“This is Michael Steele, Chairman of the Republican National Committee. Democrats have controlled both branches of government for less than a month. And you have to wonder if all that power has gone to their heads.

“For the last two weeks, they’ve been trying to force a massive
spending bill through Congress under the guise of economic relief.

“All of us — Republicans and Democrats — agree the government must act to kick-start the American economy. American families are doing their best to balance their own budgets and pay their mortgages.

“The fastest way to help those families is by letting them keep more
of the money they earn. Individual empowerment: that’s how you
stimulate the economy.

“But the Democrats have a different philosophy. Instead of leaving
money in the family checkbook, they want to send it to Washington, run
it through a slow and inefficient government, and hope that does some
good.

“When families keep the money, they spend it, save it, or invest it. And the private sector economy benefits when families and businesses buy consumer goods or invest it for the future. But when Washington spends the money, some of it may flow into the economy, but all too often, much gets wasted.

“Democrats in Congress want a one-trillion dollar spending bill.
You’ve heard about the pork-barrel programs they want to fund… 45
million dollars for ATV trails
and removal of fish passage barriers is one that caught my eye. Exactly
what is a fish passage barrier and why does it cost 45 million dollars
to stimulate the economy with it?

“That’s why Republicans in the House voted against uncontrolled
spending. This is not a bragging point, but rather a statement that at
least Republicans would stand with the American taxpayer.

“But voting ‘no’ is not enough… and Republicans have offered
innovative ideas to help struggling families and small businesses.
We’ve offered plans to spark job creation and investment through lower
taxes, to stop the taxation of unemployment benefits, and to help Americans keep their jobs and their homes.

“The comprehensive Republican plan would lower taxes for all working
American families. If you’re married, the first 16,750 dollars you make
this year will be taxed at ten percent. Why don’t we cut that rate in
half to give instant buying power to every working American family?

“Good ideas… lots of them… all left out of this plan by the Democrats in Congress.

“Republicans stand ready to work with reasonable Democrats to do what is right for America.

“But it will take more than bipartisan words from the President. It will require fair-minded action from Democrats in Congress.