#3 - six months (like now) is too long, but two weeks? That is not enough time. Four to six weeks would be better (allow more time for the candidates to campaign...)
#4 - How do you do the straw polls? Who decides (via straw polls) who gets eliminated right off the bat before the votes?
Here in La we had less of a choice then 4 would had given us. I think the primaries should go quickly, it will help keep the media from tampering. The Canidates should be campaining uptill this time, so giving them more time doesnt do it for me. Keeping the media representing them correctly concerns me far more. #4 needs some real thought, one way or the other.
I don't usually have time (more honestly, take the time) to browse the forums so this was the fist I had seen it. After thinking more about it, I guess I went ahead and signed it because, as someone else said, although not perfect, the RNC has to do SOMETHING!
The time to change the GOP has passed. They should have been solidifying the party as a conservative/libertarian/constitutional party since 1994 when they first got control of Congress.
But there are too many establishment types (RINOs) in the party who won't switch to the Dems because although their ideology is closer to Democrat, they aren't marxist enough to get any party support.
They blew it, big time. It's time for a new, true American party.
I'd like to know how it is that the Libs got such control over the media. Look at how popular FOX is, and all they do is include the conservative side, while not excluding the liberal.
Why don't they get on regular TV instead of just cable? Why aren't their more conservatives in other media areas? Even newspapers might be able to survive if they included the conservative viewpoint - and not just on the editorial page, but it what news is covered and where it's placed.
I would think there's money in this, so investment should not be too hard to come by.
It's not surprising that Libs are more politically active than conservatives because we tend to just want to be left alone whereas liberals want to be in everyone's business.
Conservatives need to force themselves into action...just sitting back and expecting people to somehow come to the same conclusions we've come to has not worked.
what is is with blacks and illigitamacy? tons of illegit kids, and now an illegit prez - railroaded into the Whitehouse by the MSM propaganda machine...
I don't blame our beloved African American community of course - it's their leadership - OR COMPLETE AND TOTAL LACK THEREOF
slavery, the kkk, opposing the civil rights act, the dnc voting plantation - DEMOCRATS - why do they so freely and unashamedly abuse the black community so much? where does the hate come from - is it still from the civil war? unbelievable...
David Brooks wrote a howler today in the NY Times. He was trying to present everyone in the Obama team as pragmatic centrists. But that forced him obscure the obvious: Hillary is no centrist. She may not be as wild-eyed a liberal as some others, but she's no centrist. And then he dropped this line, that made me physically ill:
"He nominated Hillary Clinton and James Jones, who have been champions of this approach ... "
Where did David Brooks get the idea that Hillary Clinton was a “champion” of General Petraeus’ strategies? Remember, it was Mrs. Clinton who said that this strategy, and its early successes, required a suspension of disbelief. How can Mr. Brooks spin it so that Hillary was a “champion” of that strategy? Pure revisionist spin.
It took forever, but Bush wound up getting a few things right. These Petraeus-inspired policies have been successful, and they've been in place for a year and a half. But these liberals and Democrats based their campaigns on rejecting everything Bush-related. Frankly, they were running against Donald Rumsfeld, but Rummy had been gone for a while. The media never made that distinction.
Of course, now they're seeing that their anti-Bush, anti-war strategy was an easy and cheap cop-out, they're trying to slide into the same strategy and calling it theirs.
I hear the echoes of the old Byrds song: "To everything, spin, spin, spin ... "
of Petraeus' strategies, that she followed up THAT (hawkish, yes?) little sound bite with this one:
"Hope is not a strategy."
HILLARY CLINTON, Democratic New York Senator, to General John Abizaid, top commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, during Abizaid's testimony before the Senate and House Armed Services Committee
"Senator, I agree with you--and I would also say that despair is not a method."
And now HRC has joined the Hopeful Changer, thus selling out, yet again, in her pursuit of power. And the media, as you correctly pointed out, continues to spin, spin, spin it so that it will be a democrat victory in Iraq.
As someone said on Noel's thread yesterday, they're all weasels.
The one thing I remember Hillary saying that I will never forget.
She said..."I'll take those profits from ExxonMobil, and I'll do good with them"! Now Brooks, tell me that is centrist!
And then you've got Obami himself, speaking of the Oil Companies profits to a crowd of Obamatrons..."that's your money"! Yeah, Brooks, that's real centrist too!
These libs think all history happened five minutes ago and nothing that was done or said before five minutes ago matters. It's a new day every time a lib blinks!
Hillary conceding the 2012 bid for the Presidency. I dont recall a cabinet officer ever running for pres. The most likely scenario is she will play nice with Obama until if and when he screws up. I think her plan is if Obama survives and doesn't screw up royally he will be re-elected and serve a total of 8 years. She will be lobbying to be on the VP ticket in 2012 and that may have already been promised grooming her with Sec State and Veep creds and experience for 2016.
Change: When the winds of change blow hard enough, the most trivial of things can become deadly projectiles. From a Poster
Where is the calling on the carpet, of the people responsible for our immediate financial chrisis? I thought I saw a pretty good critque of the entire situation, early on, when this thing was laid on us, the people of the USA, about 4 months ago.
Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Maxine Waters, and there are others, are pretty etched in my mind. The Big Blockbuster was suppose to be over Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac, and Barney was suppose to have had a long term love affair with some guy at Fannie Mae. Don't hear anything about this in the news at all.
I guess it is just us coolee's out here in the real world that have to pay the cost, if we screw up. Barney and all his pals are still in power, still legislating and setting the table for all us out here to go by. This is the part of government that really gets under my skin. No accountability!
This is the part of government that really gets under my skin. No accountability!
Problem is, it is us who should be holding them accoutable, but all of these mangy mutts will get reelected no matter how currupt they are. They will buy the moron vote with the $ they steal from us, Murtha is a perfect exsample of this.
You don't understand. These are our leaders, our elites, the cream of the crop, the best of the best. Laws, rules, accountability; these are for the peasants, not the kings. Not for our rulers. Not for our betters.
Now maybe, just maybe, if these facts you mention were actually reported on, and known by your average voter, things would be different. But our betters in the media, our "pundits," the ones who decide what we need to know and when we need to know it, have decided that all those tiresome "details" don't really matter.
And you thought "We, the people" ran this country, huh?
Cynical? Moi?
"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss..." - The Who
You
can bet that Xerxes will whack the military budget deeply and use that
(and only that) to take credit for being a thrifty “budget manager”.
Virtually ALL modern liberals loathe any military actions because they
are so expensive…and that money is taken away from social (vote buying)
programs here. They cringe. They would also cringe if Obama really
looked at the federal waste, pork and corruption. That will be given
only lip service as the budget explodes under the guise of “saving the
economy”…ha, ha. The govt can’t even save their Postal Service…it lost
way over a billion this year.
It greatly pains them to see all those opportunities to push more
secular socialism (dependency) lost to freedom for, say, 50 million
abused humans in Iraq. The military will be cut up to 25% and once
again we will endanger our lead in weapons that discourage the
communist and thug countries. They will be emboldened once again (as in
Jimmah Carter days).
Liberals will do what liberals do now. Watch.
Speaking of the military has NB been following the story about the troops that are supposed to deployed on our home soil. This is one piece of new that really scares the heck out of me and it is not even BO that is trying to do it. This has the potential for uprisings like we have not seen in this country since the revolutionary war. We could be on the road to a dictatorship sooner than we know. Isn't it unconsitutional to deploy our troops on our home soil. I thought that is what the National Guard was for and controlled by the states themselves. It just smells really bad and maybe someone could bring me up to speed on what this could mean and what to do about it.
I have your answer, Badcleats. All those clowns you mentioned have one thing in common. They are all Democrats! When it comes to the Donkey House, the MSM plays "see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil".
Worse still, the brain-dead voters in Massachusetts, Connecticut and California (Los Angeles) overwhelmingly re-elected each and every one of the goofballs you mentioned. If they were Republicans, the MSM would have had a field day with them. They would have been hounded out of office or crushed at the ballot box.
If Bush had enough gumption to go after these cheats like he does the terrorists, there would be a ton of Dems in orange jumpsuits right about now. But, sadly, he's one of those who won't look at the Dems as the enemy...Dems look at him that way, but he's trying to "take the high road" - and what do we get? 4 years of Hussein and the Dems....
Well, Ford's got their hand out. At least it's a loan, not a "gimme." What I find the biggest problem with this is they've said all this before. "Now we get it. Now we'll make those changes." They've been saying the same thing since the 80s. We're supposed to believe that now they have the answer, when they were so wrong for so long?
Here's how they claim they're going to "fix" things: "The company said it will accelerate plans to roll out electric vehicles as part of its plan." WHAT? Where did they get the idea that the public wants electric vehicles? What auto company out there is getting rich selling electric vehicles? Where is the proven success of that strategy? But it will be music to the ears of the new administration, that's for sure.
Oh, and they're going to sell their corporate jets, and the CEO will work for $1 a year. Yeah, that will make the difference. Talk about style over substance!
Can't they see the real truth? They're getting trounced by companies building reliable, efficient, well-made cars that people like and trust. So, do that! Don't they have the sense to emulate a successful model? I've had people tell me that Detroit is hurting because the high-profit big trucks aren't selling as well since the last gas-price debacle. Well, gas is under $1.60/gal around here now, so how does that figure in?
If one company can build and profit from small, fuel-efficient, reliable cars, why shouldn't another? That logic shouldn't be so hard to follow
How blind can they be?
"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss..." - The Who
Well its not a corned beef sandwich, and its not a trip to the gym.. but here are today's Obama fluffy pieces. Really not sure what the ChiTrib printed before Obama :D
Hard as it is to believe, the ChiTrib used to be a conservative paper. Now, they're just a little to the right of the Sun-Times, which is somewhere to the left of Saul Alinsky. Which still makes them the most coservative paper in Chicago, while remaining comfortably liberal.
It's all relative, you see.
"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss..." - The Who
Why in the Sam Hill are we not off the Coast of Somalia blasting every dadgum..ship...boat..panga..canoe..kayak..dug out...rubber raft..or floating log we see out to 200 miles of their coast on the off chance it may have pirates on it?
Our Navy could use the practice, and we'd be ridding the world of floating cockroaches that nobody gives a damn about anyway.
So what gives? What are we waitng for? Permission? From who? We've got the big guns, it's time we used 'em.
How can you say such things? These so called "pirates" are people who may have grown up in broken and abusive homes, never had a chance to even touch a plasma TV, let alone own one and only have Nokia cell phones, not Iphones... How can you be so callous???
Seriously, I think if we did unleash our guys the scum bags would start offing the hostages they have and the planet would go ape $h!*. All our fault of course.
"...peace is the highest aspiration of the American People. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it, we will never surrender for it, now or ever." President Ronald Reagan~ January 20, 1981
And it looks like Coleman is ahead in MN...Keep your fingers crossed...
"...peace is the highest aspiration of the American People. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it, we will never surrender for it, now or ever." President Ronald Reagan~ January 20, 1981
Well, it is good news, but Franken is going to take this to Reid and the Senate if he can, he is all the sudden finding magical votes out of nowhere again...I hope it works out the way it should but I remember what happened to Woody Jenkins I think it was, let alone other tricks over the years, we shall see, Franken has Soros behind him, so it will be to the slimiest death possible.
As far as two years of filibusters going on...I think not, we have to many RINOs that will vote with the dems, unless some dems vote with us on down the road, CapnTrade, illegal immigration, oil independence ect ect will be all but over, let alone Universal Health Care...and the Judges, we are screwed...no matter what.
Not to be a drag here...just the way it is.
..."America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~Rush Limbaugh
as to whether Franken pushes this further, although I do think that he'll try to take Coleman's seat any way he can.
I share your doubts about fillibusters...As you said, there are plenty of RINO's loose, but there are some conservative and moderate Dems out there too. We'll have to see what happens.
"...peace is the highest aspiration of the American People. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it, we will never surrender for it, now or ever." President Ronald Reagan~ January 20, 1981
As an Iowan, I'm no great fan of having our state overrun by literally dozens of candidates for months, even years, ahead of the caucuses. But the following quote from the petition is off base regarding Iowa:
Stop letting Iowa and New Hampshire go first. We realize that they have strong traditions in the primary process, but neither state represents Republican values anymore. New Hampshire is solidly blue and Iowa goes blue more often than not.
This statement says my state shouldn't go first because the entire electorate tends to go blue in November. I can't speak to New Hampshire, but the Iowa Republican party is strongly influenced by social conservative/evangelical voters at caucus time. Only highly motivated activists would come out on a cold January night to meet with other activists in hundreds of small venues and talk politics for an hour or more. It's not as easy as marking a ballot, something that is more and more often done at home days or weeks ahead of time. Who won Iowa's Republican caucus this year? Huckabee. That tells you something about the people who turned out for the caucuses. Romney was a fairly strong second. Thompson came in third. McCain barely made a mark. You may not approve of Huckabee, but he was hardly the choice of Rockefeller Republicans.
Unfortunately, other offices in Iowa are not decided by the caucus system, so the country club wing tends to choose the candidates down the ticket. That's why we don't have the statehouse, the legislature, 3 of the 5 House seats, and a Senate seat.
I'm not saying Iowa is perfect, and I certainly wouldn't argue that the primary system is perfect. I'm just saying that Iowa doesn't deserve the shot it takes in this petition.
I'm sure many of you saw this on Drudge but in case you didn't you'll be reminded of why the people no longer matter. Harry Reid is a deplorable excuse for a U.S. senator, let alone majority leader.
The Capitol Visitors Center, which opened this morning, may have tripled its original budget and fallen years behind schedule, but Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid found a silver lining for members of Congress: tourists won't offend them with their B.O. anymore. "My staff tells me not to say this, but I'm going to say it anyway," said Reid in his remarks. "In the summer because of the heat and high humidity, you could literally smell the tourists coming into the Capitol. It may be descriptive but it's true." But it's no longer going to be true, noted Reid, thanks to the air conditioned, indoor space. And that's not all. "We have many bathrooms here, as you can see," Reid continued. "Souvenirs are available." $621 million well spent.
From CNN international, the story of a brave nanny who saved a small Jewish boy in her care after his parents were murdered in Mumbai. It really has nothing to do with media bias. It's just a story that needs to be heard.
This is one of the funniest Newsbusted episodes I have ever seen....
I am just just trying to catch up with some blog posts ect I missed here lately, and close out for the night, so I thought I would save this for last...if any of you haven't watched it Do!
Just the Premature Inauguration was side-splitting!
Good job Jodi, and of course the rest of the crew.
Thank you Matthew for the laughter....wished I had much more time.
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~Rush Limbaugh
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time to change the GOP
December 2, 2008 - 12:13 ET by candanceIf you haven't done so already, please sign the petition to change the RNC primary.
I'm a typical white person.
problem with parts of petition
December 2, 2008 - 12:52 ET by SouthJersey1953I personally have a problem with line items 3 & 4.
Petition is more likley to be acted upon if they limit it to just items 1 & 2. (Item 5 I am neutral on)
Luke 23:34
PALIN/Jindal '12
I understand the problem with #4, sort of.
December 2, 2008 - 13:50 ET by general companyBut what is your problem with #3? Also if you would, let me know the problem with #4 as well.
"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg
two weeks is not enough time
December 2, 2008 - 14:01 ET by SouthJersey1953#3 - six months (like now) is too long, but two weeks? That is not enough time. Four to six weeks would be better (allow more time for the candidates to campaign...)
#4 - How do you do the straw polls? Who decides (via straw polls) who gets eliminated right off the bat before the votes?
just my opinion....
Luke 23:34
PALIN/Jindal '12
#3 is one of my favorite parts
December 2, 2008 - 14:16 ET by general companyHere in La we had less of a choice then 4 would had given us. I think the primaries should go quickly, it will help keep the media from tampering. The Canidates should be campaining uptill this time, so giving them more time doesnt do it for me. Keeping the media representing them correctly concerns me far more. #4 needs some real thought, one way or the other.
"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg
sorry for that southjersey
December 2, 2008 - 14:42 ET by candanceThe draft has been sitting in the forums for almost a month now waiting for feedback. Several people gave their input, so I went with what I had.
I'm a typical white person.
no problem
December 2, 2008 - 15:43 ET by SouthJersey1953I don't usually have time (more honestly, take the time) to browse the forums so this was the fist I had seen it. After thinking more about it, I guess I went ahead and signed it because, as someone else said, although not perfect, the RNC has to do SOMETHING!
Luke 23:34
PALIN/Jindal '12
Signed.
December 2, 2008 - 21:17 ET by Dan DiegoI also had a problem with 2 weeks. After some thought I figure we push for 2 weeks and hope we end up with less than 2 months.
The time to change the GOP
December 2, 2008 - 12:56 ET by mattmThe time to change the GOP has passed. They should have been solidifying the party as a conservative/libertarian/constitutional party since 1994 when they first got control of Congress.
But there are too many establishment types (RINOs) in the party who won't switch to the Dems because although their ideology is closer to Democrat, they aren't marxist enough to get any party support.
They blew it, big time. It's time for a new, true American party.
A New Party
December 2, 2008 - 13:38 ET by Gothampc"They blew it, big time. It's time for a new, true American party."
I agree completely. Forget trying to have a platform that covers every splinter group in America.
Stand on conservative spending, small government, a return to the belief system of the Founding Fathers and the Constitution.
can-can
December 2, 2008 - 13:41 ET by MrShySigned. Sealed. Delivered.
Well, you already know I'm yours.
You're the next contestant on...
THE MESSIAH IS... LEFT !!
I signed it can!!
December 2, 2008 - 14:00 ET by BEGRUNTit has some issues, but anything is better than what we have now.
"If a man does his best, what else is there"?
General George S. Patton Jr.
Signed. Thanks for the link.
December 2, 2008 - 14:22 ET by choselife3xSigned. Thanks for the link. Here's hoping!
In order to be pro-choice, one must first be born. Ah, the irony.
I'd like to know how it is
December 2, 2008 - 12:20 ET by mattmI'd like to know how it is that the Libs got such control over the media. Look at how popular FOX is, and all they do is include the conservative side, while not excluding the liberal.
Why don't they get on regular TV instead of just cable? Why aren't their more conservatives in other media areas? Even newspapers might be able to survive if they included the conservative viewpoint - and not just on the editorial page, but it what news is covered and where it's placed.
I would think there's money in this, so investment should not be too hard to come by.
It's not surprising that Libs are more politically active than conservatives because we tend to just want to be left alone whereas liberals want to be in everyone's business.
Conservatives need to force themselves into action...just sitting back and expecting people to somehow come to the same conclusions we've come to has not worked.
conservatives need to get
December 2, 2008 - 12:22 ET by TruthMongerconservatives need to get off their ass and make it happen
too fat dumb and happy perhaps...? I don't know...
Dominate education now
Well Matt
December 2, 2008 - 13:56 ET by general companyWhy don't they get on regular TV instead of just cable? Why aren't their more conservatives in other media areas?
I think it is discrimination, their are obviously a ton of Right leaning commintators. Just look at how many are on the internet.
Me personaly, I just want the truth. No hidden facts, no slant toward either direction. Just the truth and the whole truth.
"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg
Obama - illegitimate
December 2, 2008 - 12:21 ET by TruthMongerwhat is is with blacks and illigitamacy? tons of illegit kids, and now an illegit prez - railroaded into the Whitehouse by the MSM propaganda machine...
I don't blame our beloved African American community of course - it's their leadership - OR COMPLETE AND TOTAL LACK THEREOF
slavery, the kkk, opposing the civil rights act, the dnc voting plantation - DEMOCRATS - why do they so freely and unashamedly abuse the black community so much? where does the hate come from - is it still from the civil war? unbelievable...
Dominate education now
Hillary as the counterinsurgency "champion"
December 2, 2008 - 12:23 ET by KC MulvilleDavid Brooks wrote a howler today in the NY Times. He was trying to present everyone in the Obama team as pragmatic centrists. But that forced him obscure the obvious: Hillary is no centrist. She may not be as wild-eyed a liberal as some others, but she's no centrist. And then he dropped this line, that made me physically ill:
Where did David Brooks get the idea that Hillary Clinton was a “champion” of General Petraeus’ strategies? Remember, it was Mrs. Clinton who said that this strategy, and its early successes, required a suspension of disbelief. How can Mr. Brooks spin it so that Hillary was a “champion” of that strategy? Pure revisionist spin.
It took forever, but Bush wound up getting a few things right. These Petraeus-inspired policies have been successful, and they've been in place for a year and a half. But these liberals and Democrats based their campaigns on rejecting everything Bush-related. Frankly, they were running against Donald Rumsfeld, but Rummy had been gone for a while. The media never made that distinction.
I hear the echoes of the old Byrds song: "To everything, spin, spin, spin ... "
Hillary was such a "champion"
December 2, 2008 - 12:41 ET by Blondeof Petraeus' strategies, that she followed up THAT (hawkish, yes?) little sound bite with this one:
And now HRC has joined the Hopeful Changer, thus selling out, yet again, in her pursuit of power. And the media, as you correctly pointed out, continues to spin, spin, spin it so that it will be a democrat victory in Iraq.
As someone said on Noel's thread yesterday, they're all weasels.
The one thing I remember
December 2, 2008 - 14:13 ET by ConservativeRexThe one thing I remember Hillary saying that I will never forget.
She said..."I'll take those profits from ExxonMobil, and I'll do good with them"! Now Brooks, tell me that is centrist!
And then you've got Obami himself, speaking of the Oil Companies profits to a crowd of Obamatrons..."that's your money"! Yeah, Brooks, that's real centrist too!
These libs think all history happened five minutes ago and nothing that was done or said before five minutes ago matters. It's a new day every time a lib blinks!
"It's a new day every time
December 2, 2008 - 14:49 ET by Indiana Joe"It's a new day every time a lib blinks!"
Does that mean if we throw a blanket over their heads, they'll think it's night and go to sleep?
;^D
"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss..." - The Who
So is
December 2, 2008 - 18:31 ET by ahusserHillary conceding the 2012 bid for the Presidency. I dont recall a cabinet officer ever running for pres. The most likely scenario is she will play nice with Obama until if and when he screws up. I think her plan is if Obama survives and doesn't screw up royally he will be re-elected and serve a total of 8 years. She will be lobbying to be on the VP ticket in 2012 and that may have already been promised grooming her with Sec State and Veep creds and experience for 2016.
Change: When the winds of change blow hard enough, the most trivial of things can become deadly projectiles. From a Poster
Birth Certificate
December 2, 2008 - 12:56 ET by CpickeringWe are still looking for Obama's birth certificate . . . many questions still unanswered and only 50 days until inauguration!!
http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2008/12/01/obama-birth-certificate-rears-its-ugly-head-again/
You still fretting about
December 2, 2008 - 14:50 ET by Indiana JoeYou still fretting about that Constitution thingy?
Get over it. </sarc>
"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss..." - The Who
Understanding the financial crisis
December 2, 2008 - 13:09 ET by PopularTechUnderstanding the financial crisis (Video) (8min)
Censored Global Warming Videos
Dem&Dumb
December 2, 2008 - 13:19 ET by RackieAnother one bites the dust.
The Daily Show weighs in on
December 2, 2008 - 13:34 ET by balboaThe Daily Show weighs in on terrorism attack at Mumbai:
http://ccinsider.com...
Where is the punishment
December 2, 2008 - 13:46 ET by badcleatsWhere is the calling on the carpet, of the people responsible for our immediate financial chrisis? I thought I saw a pretty good critque of the entire situation, early on, when this thing was laid on us, the people of the USA, about 4 months ago.
Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Maxine Waters, and there are others, are pretty etched in my mind. The Big Blockbuster was suppose to be over Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac, and Barney was suppose to have had a long term love affair with some guy at Fannie Mae. Don't hear anything about this in the news at all.
I guess it is just us coolee's out here in the real world that have to pay the cost, if we screw up. Barney and all his pals are still in power, still legislating and setting the table for all us out here to go by. This is the part of government that really gets under my skin. No accountability!
I feel your pain BC
December 2, 2008 - 14:06 ET by general companyThis is the part of government that really gets under my skin. No accountability!
Problem is, it is us who should be holding them accoutable, but all of these mangy mutts will get reelected no matter how currupt they are. They will buy the moron vote with the $ they steal from us, Murtha is a perfect exsample of this.
"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg
Not gonna happen
December 2, 2008 - 14:08 ET by Indiana JoeYou don't understand. These are our leaders, our elites, the cream of the crop, the best of the best. Laws, rules, accountability; these are for the peasants, not the kings. Not for our rulers. Not for our betters.
Now maybe, just maybe, if these facts you mention were actually reported on, and known by your average voter, things would be different. But our betters in the media, our "pundits," the ones who decide what we need to know and when we need to know it, have decided that all those tiresome "details" don't really matter.
And you thought "We, the people" ran this country, huh?
Cynical? Moi?
"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss..." - The Who
OBAMA BANK: THE MILITARY
December 2, 2008 - 22:40 ET by reelman46OBAMA: MILITARY WILL BE HIS “BANK”
You
can bet that Xerxes will whack the military budget deeply and use that
(and only that) to take credit for being a thrifty “budget manager”.
Virtually ALL modern liberals loathe any military actions because they
are so expensive…and that money is taken away from social (vote buying)
programs here. They cringe. They would also cringe if Obama really
looked at the federal waste, pork and corruption. That will be given
only lip service as the budget explodes under the guise of “saving the
economy”…ha, ha. The govt can’t even save their Postal Service…it lost
way over a billion this year.
It greatly pains them to see all those opportunities to push more
secular socialism (dependency) lost to freedom for, say, 50 million
abused humans in Iraq. The military will be cut up to 25% and once
again we will endanger our lead in weapons that discourage the
communist and thug countries. They will be emboldened once again (as in
Jimmah Carter days).
Liberals will do what liberals do now. Watch.
Doug Schexnayder, Ph.D. (theconservativecrawfish)
Speaking of the military has
December 3, 2008 - 13:10 ET by jistincaseSpeaking of the military has NB been following the story about the troops that are supposed to deployed on our home soil. This is one piece of new that really scares the heck out of me and it is not even BO that is trying to do it. This has the potential for uprisings like we have not seen in this country since the revolutionary war. We could be on the road to a dictatorship sooner than we know. Isn't it unconsitutional to deploy our troops on our home soil. I thought that is what the National Guard was for and controlled by the states themselves. It just smells really bad and maybe someone could bring me up to speed on what this could mean and what to do about it.
The answer: those guys are Democrats!
December 2, 2008 - 14:24 ET by Mary Louise TurnerI have your answer, Badcleats. All those clowns you mentioned have one thing in common. They are all Democrats! When it comes to the Donkey House, the MSM plays "see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil".
Worse still, the brain-dead voters in Massachusetts, Connecticut and California (Los Angeles) overwhelmingly re-elected each and every one of the goofballs you mentioned. If they were Republicans, the MSM would have had a field day with them. They would have been hounded out of office or crushed at the ballot box.
If Bush had enough gumption
December 2, 2008 - 15:22 ET by mattmIf Bush had enough gumption to go after these cheats like he does the terrorists, there would be a ton of Dems in orange jumpsuits right about now. But, sadly, he's one of those who won't look at the Dems as the enemy...Dems look at him that way, but he's trying to "take the high road" - and what do we get? 4 years of Hussein and the Dems....
Virus?
December 2, 2008 - 13:51 ET by ScotSeaAnyone elses's virus program going off when you go the NB homepage?
Nope, no virus alert on NB
December 2, 2008 - 14:00 ET by Indiana JoeWhat anti-virus are you running? I got Trend Micro, and it's fine.
"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss..." - The Who
I am runing the CA software
December 2, 2008 - 14:14 ET by ScotSeaI am runing the CA software that comes free with roadrunner...
Still goes off with every refresh of the NB homepage.
Well, I don't know what CA
December 2, 2008 - 14:44 ET by Indiana JoeWell, I don't know what CA is, but my guiding priciple is "you get what you pay for."
Trend Micro is pretty good. Costs about $30-40 and it cured the problems I had with Norton.
"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss..." - The Who
You're right! I pay for my
December 2, 2008 - 14:50 ET by Jack BauerYou're right! I pay for my CA, and get no probs.
CA
December 2, 2008 - 15:21 ET by ScotSeaI assume that the virus alert is coming from some ad that loads with the homepage, and not the NB page itself. Do you allow the ads to appear?
I block all pop ups as a
December 2, 2008 - 15:26 ET by Jack BauerI block all pop ups as a default setting, but that's via the browser/s prefs. I've never noticed that as a option in my CA suite
no alert with McAffee
December 2, 2008 - 14:03 ET by SouthJersey1953no problems here....
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Detroit seeks loan
December 2, 2008 - 13:59 ET by Indiana JoeWell, Ford's got their hand out. At least it's a loan, not a "gimme." What I find the biggest problem with this is they've said all this before. "Now we get it. Now we'll make those changes." They've been saying the same thing since the 80s. We're supposed to believe that now they have the answer, when they were so wrong for so long?
Here's how they claim they're going to "fix" things: "The company said it will accelerate plans to roll out electric vehicles as part of its plan." WHAT? Where did they get the idea that the public wants electric vehicles? What auto company out there is getting rich selling electric vehicles? Where is the proven success of that strategy? But it will be music to the ears of the new administration, that's for sure.
Oh, and they're going to sell their corporate jets, and the CEO will work for $1 a year. Yeah, that will make the difference. Talk about style over substance!
Can't they see the real truth? They're getting trounced by companies building reliable, efficient, well-made cars that people like and trust. So, do that! Don't they have the sense to emulate a successful model? I've had people tell me that Detroit is hurting because the high-profit big trucks aren't selling as well since the last gas-price debacle. Well, gas is under $1.60/gal around here now, so how does that figure in?
If one company can build and profit from small, fuel-efficient, reliable cars, why shouldn't another? That logic shouldn't be so hard to follow
How blind can they be?
"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss..." - The Who
daily fluff
December 2, 2008 - 14:35 ET by katainkentWell its not a corned beef sandwich, and its not a trip to the gym.. but here are today's Obama fluffy pieces. Really not sure what the ChiTrib printed before Obama :D
"If you think you're finished shopping for Christmas, why not start on next year"
kk,
December 2, 2008 - 14:42 ET by Indiana JoeHard as it is to believe, the ChiTrib used to be a conservative paper. Now, they're just a little to the right of the Sun-Times, which is somewhere to the left of Saul Alinsky. Which still makes them the most coservative paper in Chicago, while remaining comfortably liberal.
It's all relative, you see.
"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss..." - The Who
Does anyone else realize
December 2, 2008 - 17:51 ET by DavidRDoes anyone else realize that the Newsbusted video is dated NOVEMBER 2nd, instead of December?
Edit: Ah, it's been fixed. Thanks!
Why in the Sam Hill are we
December 2, 2008 - 15:54 ET by ConservativeRexWhy in the Sam Hill are we not off the Coast of Somalia blasting every dadgum..ship...boat..panga..canoe..kayak..dug out...rubber raft..or floating log we see out to 200 miles of their coast on the off chance it may have pirates on it?
Our Navy could use the practice, and we'd be ridding the world of floating cockroaches that nobody gives a damn about anyway.
So what gives? What are we waitng for? Permission? From who? We've got the big guns, it's time we used 'em.
Brute.
December 2, 2008 - 21:41 ET by Dan DiegoHow can you say such things? These so called "pirates" are people who may have grown up in broken and abusive homes, never had a chance to even touch a plasma TV, let alone own one and only have Nokia cell phones, not Iphones... How can you be so callous???
Seriously, I think if we did unleash our guys the scum bags would start offing the hostages they have and the planet would go ape $h!*. All our fault of course.
CPO Ret.
→ Harry Reid says you stink!!
December 2, 2008 - 16:19 ET by Cool ArrowHarry Reid says you (the constituents) stink. He's happy the new Visitors Center is now open because tourists stink.
Nice to know Harry doesn't have to interface with the unwashed masses anymore.
I agree. We need to get BO
December 2, 2008 - 17:50 ET by DavidRI agree. We need to get BO out of Washington DC as soon as possible!
Looks like Chambliss is going to clobber Martin.
December 2, 2008 - 21:23 ET by R D HelmGood.
At this point, I'll take any small victory.
-Dave
When in doubt, always side with freedom, as it sure beats the hell out of the alternative.
Hey Dave... Yep, last I
December 2, 2008 - 21:31 ET by bigtimerHey Dave...
Yep, last I saw it was more than 2-1.
...too bad Minnesota isn't doing the same thing....instead of the filth Franken/Soros/Reid are going to try to get away with.
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
AP just called Chambliss the winner in GA runoff!
December 2, 2008 - 22:04 ET by PrairieSkyChambliss cleaned Martin's clock!
"...peace is the highest aspiration of the American People. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it, we will never surrender for it, now or ever." President Ronald Reagan~ January 20, 1981
AP says Chambliss
December 2, 2008 - 22:07 ET by bigtimerAP says Chambliss WON.
Well, that's that!
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
The last hope to prevent Armageddon
December 2, 2008 - 22:13 ET by PopularTech2 years of filibustering should keep them at bay.
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Hi bt! Some good news for a change!
December 2, 2008 - 22:15 ET by PrairieSkyAnd it looks like Coleman is ahead in MN...Keep your fingers crossed...
"...peace is the highest aspiration of the American People. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it, we will never surrender for it, now or ever." President Ronald Reagan~ January 20, 1981
Well, it is good news, but
December 2, 2008 - 22:31 ET by bigtimerWell, it is good news, but Franken is going to take this to Reid and the Senate if he can, he is all the sudden finding magical votes out of nowhere again...I hope it works out the way it should but I remember what happened to Woody Jenkins I think it was, let alone other tricks over the years, we shall see, Franken has Soros behind him, so it will be to the slimiest death possible.
As far as two years of filibusters going on...I think not, we have to many RINOs that will vote with the dems, unless some dems vote with us on down the road, CapnTrade, illegal immigration, oil independence ect ect will be all but over, let alone Universal Health Care...and the Judges, we are screwed...no matter what.
Not to be a drag here...just the way it is.
..."America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
bt,
December 2, 2008 - 22:39 ET by R D HelmI agree. The RINOs are going to be a problem, particularly for the next two years.
Still, at least Obummer can be stopped, though. That is at least a little comfort.
Maybe...
-Dave
When in doubt, always side with freedom, as it sure beats the hell out of the alternative.
It will depend on what the final margin will be...
December 2, 2008 - 22:42 ET by PrairieSkyas to whether Franken pushes this further, although I do think that he'll try to take Coleman's seat any way he can.
I share your doubts about fillibusters...As you said, there are plenty of RINO's loose, but there are some conservative and moderate Dems out there too. We'll have to see what happens.
"...peace is the highest aspiration of the American People. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it, we will never surrender for it, now or ever." President Ronald Reagan~ January 20, 1981
and your powder dry
December 2, 2008 - 22:31 ET by botgand your powder dry
Cheap shot at Iowa
December 2, 2008 - 23:07 ET by nkviking75As an Iowan, I'm no great fan of having our state overrun by literally dozens of candidates for months, even years, ahead of the caucuses. But the following quote from the petition is off base regarding Iowa:
Stop letting Iowa and New Hampshire go first. We realize that they have strong traditions in the primary process, but neither state represents Republican values anymore. New Hampshire is solidly blue and Iowa goes blue more often than not.
This statement says my state shouldn't go first because the entire electorate tends to go blue in November. I can't speak to New Hampshire, but the Iowa Republican party is strongly influenced by social conservative/evangelical voters at caucus time. Only highly motivated activists would come out on a cold January night to meet with other activists in hundreds of small venues and talk politics for an hour or more. It's not as easy as marking a ballot, something that is more and more often done at home days or weeks ahead of time. Who won Iowa's Republican caucus this year? Huckabee. That tells you something about the people who turned out for the caucuses. Romney was a fairly strong second. Thompson came in third. McCain barely made a mark. You may not approve of Huckabee, but he was hardly the choice of Rockefeller Republicans.
Unfortunately, other offices in Iowa are not decided by the caucus system, so the country club wing tends to choose the candidates down the ticket. That's why we don't have the statehouse, the legislature, 3 of the 5 House seats, and a Senate seat.
I'm not saying Iowa is perfect, and I certainly wouldn't argue that the primary system is perfect. I'm just saying that Iowa doesn't deserve the shot it takes in this petition.
Welcome to the era of unity, you racist!
The moron Harry Reid opens his trap again
December 2, 2008 - 23:08 ET by WorriedI'm sure many of you saw this on Drudge but in case you didn't you'll be reminded of why the people no longer matter. Harry Reid is a deplorable excuse for a U.S. senator, let alone majority leader.
The Capitol Visitors Center, which opened this morning, may have tripled its original budget and fallen years behind schedule, but Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid found a silver lining for members of Congress: tourists won't offend them with their B.O. anymore. "My staff tells me not to say this, but I'm going to say it anyway," said Reid in his remarks. "In the summer because of the heat and high humidity, you could literally smell the tourists coming into the Capitol. It may be descriptive but it's true." But it's no longer going to be true, noted Reid, thanks to the air conditioned, indoor space. And that's not all. "We have many bathrooms here, as you can see," Reid continued. "Souvenirs are available." $621 million well spent.
A heroic story from Mumbai
December 2, 2008 - 23:14 ET by nkviking75From CNN international, the story of a brave nanny who saved a small Jewish boy in her care after his parents were murdered in Mumbai. It really has nothing to do with media bias. It's just a story that needs to be heard.
Welcome to the era of unity, you racist!
Newsbusted!
December 3, 2008 - 02:24 ET by bigtimerThis is one of the funniest Newsbusted episodes I have ever seen....
I am just just trying to catch up with some blog posts ect I missed here lately, and close out for the night, so I thought I would save this for last...if any of you haven't watched it Do!
Just the Premature Inauguration was side-splitting!
Good job Jodi, and of course the rest of the crew.
Thank you Matthew for the laughter....wished I had much more time.
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh