Curiosity didn’t kill the Rover. But controversy erupts.
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Actual Headline: “Northwest ties to Hiroshima remembered on A-bomb anniversary”. Ummm…are we supposed to celebrate or something????
Sour note: Sikh Temple shooter was “a ‘frustrated neo-Nazi’ who led a racist white supremacist band.”
The good news for Mitt is that he “probably earned more than $50 million, and possibly as much as $60 million from the Italian directory sale of Seat Pagine Gialle SpA…. The deal turned into one of the biggest windfalls of his tenure.” The bad news: Mitt can’t really go to Italy anymore.
More science for the nutbaggers to deny: The impact of ocean acidification on shellfish.
Saving Town Hall: Stanwood edition
Saving Town Hall: Darrington edition
Romney outraises Obama for third month in a row.
WA-10 Republican candidate Stan Flemming’s “atypical loan pushed the boundaries of federal law.”
Obama’s haul in July: $ 75M
Romney’s: $101.3M
Romney’s cash on hand: $ 158M
Obama’s COH? Well, we don’t know that right now. What we do know is that his burn rate is substantial.
We also know that most of Romney’s cash is designated for the general, meaning he’s got even more to throw at Obama after the convention.
“The results showed that while CO2 emissions had quadrupled, natural carbon “sinks” that sequester the greenhouse gas doubled their uptake in the past 50 years, lessening the warming impacts on Earth’s climate.”
http://www.colorado.edu/news/r.....-led-study
I assume that eventually this will result in more carbonic acid production and ocean acidification. Unless that carbon is turned into calcarious material by invertebrates or otherwise inactivated.
Meanwhile, on land, more CO2 means more and bigger plants.
There’s nothing quite like a water balloon fight between jealous physicist types and strutting engineering types.
http://www.newyorker.com/onlin.....tists.html
Meanwhile, back in the real world:
A rising number of manufacturers are canceling new investments and putting off new hires because they fear paralysis in Washington will force hundreds of billions in tax increases and budget cuts in January, undermining economic growth in the coming months.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08.....wanted=all
If businesses fear the results of a second Obama term, why they hell should they stick their necks out further?
If they succeed:
1. They didn’t build that. Someone built that for them.
2. Success must be punished. Higher taxation, greater fees nearly every step of the way. After all, at some point you’ve made enough money.
“Romney’s extensive investments in tax havens are drawing intensifying media scrutiny at the same time that revenue-starved governments around the world are cracking down on such practices. In recent weeks, Romney has faced increasing pressure to release additional years of tax returns because of questions over his 13.9 percent personal tax rate, his Swiss bank account, an IRA valued at as much as $102 million and his investments in Bermuda and the Cayman Islands.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/.....taxes.html
Roger Rabbit Commentary: This is the guy that Republicans want you to entrust our nation’s economic recovery to.
Serial Conservative @ 1,
We don’t know Obama cash on hand? You may not, but that is because you are too lazy to spend 12 seconds to find out.
(Jeez…can’t you go for just a little bit of intellectual rigor in your comments?)
Total Obama raised: $300,134,364
Total Romney raised: $153,537,758
Total Obama spent: $204,901,024
Total Romney spent: $131,044,967
Obama’s cash on hand: $97,536,739
Romney’s cash on hand: $22,505,830
Serial Conservative,
“1. They didn’t build that. Someone built that for them.”
Now you are going to just lie?!?
Very disappointing, Bob. Very sad.
Democrats and Republicans alike should be distressed by President Barack Obama’s disregard for constitutional limits on his authority. The president’s flouting of the separation of powers risks turning this country into something other than a representative democracy. Congress should move in a bipartisan rebuke of Obama’s overreach before he neuters that institution.
In a blatant challenge to the legislative branch, Obama by executive order tossed out the Clinton-era welfare reform that required able-bodied aid recipients to work, saying the federal government will no longer enforce the law.
From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/art.....z22mezLZP9
Michigan: That’s a swing state, no?
I’d say Michigan’s going to be a very big fish in the Fall. A Pawlenty, Ryan, or Portman could very well move the needle too far toward red for Obama’s comfort.
Fortunately Obama’s outraising Romney so he’s got the cash to burn.
Oh @ 1, wait…………………….
@4 Here’s my simple answer to your tirade:
I’m sick and tired of the rightwing meme that we have to continually suck up to, and bribe, the one-percenters with subsidies and tax breaks the rest of us don’t get in hopes they’ll provide jobs they, in fact, don’t provide.
So let’s try this instead. We’ll stay in recession for hte next 10 to 20 years, we won’t work for them, and we won’t buy stuff from them. Then they’ll have nothing, along with the rest of us, and we’ll see how they like having nothing.
The working class has been bullied by these whiny greedheads long enough. If they don’t like the cushy deal they already have, then I say make them pay their fair share of taxes, follow the same rules we have to follow, and live like the rest of us.
@ 6
NOTE: All the numbers on this page are for the 2012 election cycle and based on Federal Election Commission data released electronically on Saturday, July 21, 2012.
They don’t include July’s ins and outs.
Romney released his numbers in standard fashion. Obama released his total contributions in a tweet.
A tweet, Darryl. He might has well have done it on a Friday night instead of on a Monday morning.
@ 7
It’s not about what was said or the context therein. It’s how it has been and will be used.
You could point out Harry Reid’s latest windmill-tilting as an example of that.
Speaking of cushy deals and pampered lifestyles, I’m making about $1,500 in the stock market this morning, for doing absolutely nothing except sitting here watching my stocks go up.
Hey, I didn’t invent this wonderful system called capitalism under which lazy unproductive rabbits make that kind of money just for owning esoteric electronic blips called “stock shares,” I merely exploit it like Republicans do.
Call me a hypocrite if you wish, but remember, there’s an important difference between me and them. To wit, I don’t sit here telling others to “work hard” while sitting on my fat ass doing nothing. To the contrary, I tell people they shouldn’t work at all, because working is for saps and suckers. We should all be capitalists. That way, we’ll all be rich, even though our economy produces nothing.
And, of course, if nobody works then nothing is what our economy will produce. All wealth comes from workers. Anyone who doesn’t understand that is ignorant about economics.
Serial Conservative,
“It’s not about what was said or the context therein. It’s how it has been and will be used.”
Bullshit. People with the capabilities of building successful businesses are not confused by the notion that their success is enabled by the foundations laid down by other people, businesses, and the government.
There are certainly a gaggle of Limbaugh-worshiping dopes who are duped by the propaganda. You, apparently, are one of them.
I don’t disrespect workers. I hold workers in highest esteem. I just don’t want to be one of them, that’s all.
I prefer to be a lazy good-for-nothing capitalist because that’s the kind of rabbit I am. When I was growing up people said, “That rabbit is no good, he’s going to be a capitalist,” and they were so right.
Nevertheless, I have a couple of saving graces: I admit what I am, and I don’t vote for Republicans.
@ 13
I don’t know about ‘duped’.
I did take personal offense to the video of Warren and her dismissive ‘Good for you!’.
Significantly less so with Obama’s video although the pattern between her screed and his was fairly consistent, so it’s hard to watch his video and not think directly of her, especially since she was his first choice for the consumer protection position and she’s on the DNC speaker convention list, a decision that some Dems are now perhaps rethinking:
http://dyn.politico.com/prints.....389F6F84D5
It’s a matter of perspectives and yours differs from mine. For the record, I am not a fan of Limbaugh, nor Beck, nor Coulter, nor Hannity, I don’t listen to right-wing radio, and I don’t watch Fox News. You guys provide me plenty of material from those sources – I don’t need to go looking for it there myself.
@11 “You could point out Harry Reid’s latest windmill-tilting as an example of that.”
I agree Reid shouldn’t have publicly speculated that Romney didn’t pay any taxes for 10 years. Reid doesn’t know that, he’s just guessing, and he may be wrong. What if what’s lurking in his undisclosed tax returns is a plea deal that kept him from going to prison for tax evasion?
The article about Romney’s personal efforts in the purchase of the Italian phone company, and unloading it two years later for huge profits to another Italian phone company, probably has lots of “devil in the details”. But the following trends pretty much sum up the G.O.P., the one percenters, and Romney and his cohorts in particular.
1. They insist that as long as they follow the rules, including any and all loopholes, that they did nothing wrong, even if it violates the spirit of the laws and regulations (to say monthing of moral issues). To make it worse, they insist that since you can’t hold them criminally or civilly responsible, you aren’t entitled to complain about it.
2. It’s another example of making profits by passing the liabilities to others – often workers and collateral casualties. Their response if you complain? They grin, and say “Yea, it sucks to be you”. It’s a game for them, they’ve rigged the system so you can’t win, and they think it’s funny as hell when you complain about it. For them, it’s just more money to hide from taxation. For the rest of us, it’s our livelihood, our communtie’s economic health, and our retirements (or lack thereof).
Serial Conservative,
“They don’t include July’s ins and outs.”
Yes…but the July numbers are not final.
“Romney released his numbers in standard fashion.”
Horseshit, Bob. The only “standard fashion” for a campaign to release fundraising figures is via the FEC. What the Romney people did was release an optional press release to brag about their great fundraising numbers. You can’t blame them for it. But calling this “standard fashion” is just plain bullshit.
“Obama released his total contributions in a tweet.”
Yes…the Obama campaign did not have as good a fundraising month as Romeny, hence the lack of a press release.
On the other hand, Obama has still raised 50% more than Romney for this campaign. Obviously, Obama had a huge (4 year) head start. Romney’s big numbers now are largely catch-up…and he still has a way to go to catch up with Obama.
@ 16
Gee, RR. Maybe he didn’t disclose his tax returns to the IRS, either.
@17 As I read the article, it was primarily Italian taxpayers and small investors who got burned by the most lucrative deal of Romney’s equity-skimming career.
I was sick most of last week, but Sunday afternoon I went to a party at my son’s house. Also attending were some old friends of ours who, sadly, have become right-wing zealots (too much exposure to Rush Limbaugh, I think).
Normally, at such social gatherings we just agree to disagree, then talk about families, jobs, etc.
But this Sunday, one of the fellows was adamant that President Obama was not going to win re-election. I asked him why. His response was, in general, that everyone he talks to doesn’t like him. He also insisted that “we” should all work together to vote the President out of office this November.
I pointed out that his “sample” was too small and insular a group to be a legitimate reference to the feelings of the community at large. That got him going on the subject for a while again. Then I asked him if, given the electoral college system, he thought that his vote and those of his compatriots would make a difference in deliverying Washington into the Romney camp. After he insisted that it would, I just smiled, and said “Good luck with that”.
@ 18
Noted, as far as your FEC statement is concerned.
We’re in a presidential campaign. It’s typical for info to be released well ahead of the actual FEC filings. Very few articles are written by people who wait for the FEC filings. My guess is the next desperate plea for donations from Axelrod will come before the FEC filing but will still reference the fact that Romey outraised Obama in July. My guess is that his plea won’t mention Obama’s overall money lead, as you did.
@19 We’re all guessing. The fact is, we don’t know what Romney is hiding. All we can be sure of is (1) he doesn’t want anyone to know what’s in his 2009 tax return, and (2) that’s the year the IRS offered amnesties to tax dodgers who agreed to pay back taxes and penalties in exchange for not being criminally prosecuted. All else is speculation.
@21 The concern I have about such people is they’re talking themselves into believing Obama can’t possibly win; and if he does, they’ll convince themselves he “stole” the election and is an illegitimate “dictator” who should be removed from office by utilizing “Second Amendment remedies.”
# 20: Yes, in this case it appears that the Italian investors and taxpayers got the shaft.
Reminds me a lot of the guys who were peddling programs to cities where their muni bonds would be backed by funds which all but evaporated in 2012. Quite a few small towns and counties, especially in the south-east, ended up bankrupt or close to bankruptcy as a result. Of course, the fund managers already took their profits and bonuses and are long gone from the picture. The taxpayers are being asked to make up the difference – at a time of high unemployement (especially in those areas).
Of course, Romney and his types see nothing wrong with this picture – the local officials got the 293 page perspecuts in 8 point font which included a few sentences saying that all investments carry risks, didn’t they? Sucks to be you, folks!
@ 19
Harry Reid’s not guessing.
If he were guessing he wouldn’t be so reckless as to go on the Senate floor and state a guess as if it were fact.
All you HA types are OK with McConnell doing the same thing next year, right?
Serial Conservative,
“It’s a matter of perspectives and yours differs from mine.”
No…it is not a matter of “perspecitve.” It is a matter of taking words out of context by selectively editing. It may be effective with the uninformed, but it is fundamentally dishonest.
You may remember, early on, the Romney people showing Obama in 2008 saying, “If we keep talking about the economy, we’re going to lose.”
Again…that was some good “hit politics” in that ad. But it was entirely dishonest to use the clip out of context.
It isn’t just “perspective” when an out-of-context quote is used to generate a completely different message from a person.
I hope you will have the honesty and decency to avoid the use of such tricks in these comment threads, and, more generally, in your life. We need more people around here to analyze and critically evaluate ideas and issues.
What we don’t need around here is another tool peddling lies!
@25 Conservatives don’t mind wasting taxpayer money if we pay it and they get it.
@26 Are you saying he knows what’s in Romney’s tax returns? If so, who do you think leaked them to him? (If he doesn’t, he’s guessing, as I said.)
This is one time I won’t support what Harry Reid did. His spokesperson suggested over the weekend that Romney didn’t pay any taxes for 10 years. If that comment was unauthorized, Reid should repudiate it, and box his staffer’s ears (so to speak). If Reid did authorize this statement, and it’s his position, then either (a) he knows what’s in Romney’s tax returns, or (b) he’s guessing.
I’m against a U.S. senator guessing about something of this nature. The Senate Majority Leader shouldn’t lower himself to such tactics. Campaigns, too, must be above such behavior. They should leave that sort of dirty work to lowly ditch-digging bloggers like me.
Serial Conservative,
“It’s typical for info to be released well ahead of the actual FEC filings.”
My experience (with campaigns, in general, not just Presidential campaigns) is that the side that thinks it has raised the most money will become very “vocal” about it. (As they should.) The side that is “down” will downplay the month. That is what we saw here.
“My guess is the next desperate plea for donations from Axelrod will come before the FEC filing but will still reference the fact that Romey outraised Obama in July. My guess is that his plea won’t mention Obama’s overall money lead, as you did.”
I suspect you are right. The Obama campaign is probably quite happy to have Romney’s July fundraising dominance in the spotlight right now. And I suspect they fully intend to exploit the fact for future fundraising.
# 27: They tried the honesty route, and it didn’t work. Heck, even “St. Ronnie” might have had a hard time winning against Carter if he simply admitted that his reliance on the Lafler Curve and “voodoo economics” was a complete fabrication. In order to win, Republicans have learned that they have to peddle fear and lies. Once the discussion become fact-based, then they lose.
@27 “I hope you will have the honesty and decency to avoid the use of such tricks in these comment threads, and, more generally, in your life. We need more people around here to analyze and critically evaluate ideas and issues.”
I couldn’t agree with you more, Darryl. Unfortunately, we can’t beat Republicans by behaving like Democrats. We’ve got to fight fire with fire. Forget about honesty and decency; we’ll never get that from them. Let’s, as Patton would say, “grab ’em by the nose and kick ’em in the ass!”
“When someone tells you they got rich through hard work, ask them “Whose?””
– Facebook.
“What sort of person thinks there is nothing wrong with asking the folks tasked with teaching our children to take a 20% cut on a $50,000 annual salary, but thinks it’s a terrible idea to ask millionaires and billionaires to pay an additional 3% in taxes?”
– Facebook
So. Some neo-Nazi meathead with a “towelhead” mentality went to a Sikh temple and murdered six harmless people because he thought they were Muslims. He did it with a legally purchased handgun. He was able to buy that gun despite being kicked out of the Army for misconduct. Anyone still want to argue that losers like him should have access to guns?
“Republicans 2012
Keeping Millions Out Of Work,to put one Man out of a Job.”
– Facebook.
The news said today that Romney was in his New Hampshire home today, “taking meetings”. I found this a bit surprising – I would have expected him to be on the road, campaigning hard in battleground states.
So who exactly are at those meetings? Maybe it’s campaign strategy meetings. Perhaps they’ve decided that their current strategy isn’t very effective, and Romney has called for a meeting on the issue. Or Romney’s campaign advisors are meeting with Romney to tell him to stick to the script, and to not make any extranious comments. Or Romney’s advisers are pleading with Romney to release the tax returns now, several months before the election, so any bad news will have time to become “old news” by November. Or maybe they are making a final decision on a vice-presidential nominee.
Or, Romeny could simply be conducting meetings with fundraisers, both for his campaign and for “independent groups”, the details of which won’t be available for months, if not years. After all, Romney went to Britain to secure bribes (er, “contributions”) from the very folks who are being investigated their for the LIBOR scandel, which may become a U.S. issue by the end of the year. It helps to have friendly people controlling the prosecutors’s ofice, eh?
@34 I’m not rich, and may never be rich, but if someday I become rich it won’t be through my hard work. I retired years ago and haven’t done lickspittle since. All I do is flip stocks.
Just checked again, and my portfolio now is up $2,000 today, simply because the capital-owning class hopes bankers will use taxpayer money to bail out Europe.
A thought just occured to me concerning Romney’s tax returns. Perhaps he’s planning on releasing them two days before the election. Then he can say – “See, I released them! Like I said, nothing to see there!” Of course, it will take a week or so for the news folks to scour through them and find the ticking bombs.
Another possibility: His accountants have been busy drafting amended returns which have been scrubbed a bit to conceal the political liabilities a bit more.
It’s not like Romney’s never done this – in a previous election (1992?) he had insisted that he had paid taxes in both Utah and Masshachusetts, then after the fact made a “retroactive” payment of the Massachusetts taxes, to make sure he was qualified for the ballot. And, of course, there is his “retroactive” retirement at Baine Capital, as he seeks a retirement date which is more politically suitable for him – after the fact.
@ 38
NH IS a battleground state.
Romney and RR in agreement:
Romney says more Fed stimulus would not help U.S. economy
http://www.reuters.com/article.....cs+News%29
Don’t miss @ 33, wherein RR agrees and disagrees with Darryl in a single post about decent and honest behavior. Either that or RR’s a hypocrite, so it must be that he can’t make up his mind whether to behave or not behave with decency and honesty.
Rachel Maddow had a great piece on the other night how Romney avoiding releasing tax returns when runing for Governor of Massachuestts becuase they showed that he didn’t file returns as a Massachusetts resident, which was required in ordet to be a valid candidate for the Governorship. He lied about it, the facts came out, then he had to retoractively file returns in the state of Mass for 2 years to qualify. Got caught red handed. Romney is nothinm more than a lying piece of turd. This guy can’t be trusted with anything. He is never thruthfull…I’d like to know what he is hiding.
Harry Reid getting a little radioactive (too bad he quashed that Yucca Mountain thing:
Lieberman: Reid ‘went over the line’ in questioning Romney’s taxes
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-.....neys-taxes
White House is backing away from him too. Cohen in WaPo all but called him a lying weasely asshole.
Anyone consider the possibility that Reid’s behavior has made it easier for Romney to pick Chris Christie as VP? After all, if the Senate Majority Leader can do this, then the Senate’s tiebreaker should have a loose leash as well. Hell, Biden’s made that the standard.
Regarding retroactive returns:
Didn’t Rangel file a couple?
Seems to me our lauded Secretary of the Treasury did as well.
I filed one a few years back (mine was because I missed a big deduction).
Even the best and brightest don’t always interpret the tax code correctly. Money magazine, each year, has a contest and the CPAs who participate are all over the map in how they treat the fake financials used for the contest.
Nice try but you guys are stretching on this one.
Maddow get rid of that neck mole yet? It’s got more hair than Eugene Levy’s eyebrows these days.
# 45: Nice try, but no cigar.
Finding an occassional error (or additional deduction) might merit the filing of an amended return. The scenario I was postulating was that an entire decades worth of returns might be amended just before they were released, for political purposes – and only the amended returns made available to the news media.
Of course, we are only speculating, because at this point Romney has left us with nothing except speculation, by his refusal to release his returns. Some might say that “no news is good news”, but in politics “no news” creates a vacume which must be filled by -something.
As they say in litigation, “the defendant has always had all the information needed to exonerate himself, and his concealed that information from the authorities. We may therefore conclude that the information would be interpreted in a manner which is most harmful to the defendent’s case”.
@ 46
As you gleefully head down the path of blessing a political smear, keep in mind that the other side is now free to launch the same type of unsourced, anonymous smear against Obama.
At which point Doctor Steve will scream “RAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
# 47: “the other side is now free lt launch the same type of unsourced anonymous smear against Obama.
NOW Free??????
It’s been going on for over four years! The birther argument, Ayers, the allegations that the entire defecits are the President’s fault, the claims that Obama is Muslim, etc. have been never-ending.
Hey, I’m all for arguing facts, but that’s been absent from the Republican toolbox for quite a while. They insist that we can’t say anything without incontrovertable proof, then the Republicans pull allegations out of their nether regions and fling it like a monkey flings his poo.
Romney’s left himself open on this issue. Like my old football coach used to say, “that’s a hole big enough to drive a Mac truck through”. Don’t blame us because Romney’s asking us to take his word. I wouldn’t trust any of the current Republicans with a penny, much less the federal treasury, and Romney in particular.
Heck, most Republicans don’t trust Romney – he never broke 20% of the primary elections until after his nomination was secured!
@47 – haven’t the Republicans already smeared him with the acccusations of not being an American born or being a Muslim. Republicans created smear tactics. Republicans love to project onto others what they do best. Biggest hypocrites going. And do you have to get so low to use the tactics you use against Rachel Maddow? Why do you always have to attack her, she atleast provides factual information unlike the big bloviating right wing cast of charachters who have no factual information.
# 47: By the way, feel free to speculate about what is in the President’s tax returns all you want.
Wait – he’s release twelve years worth of returns, it’s all available for public consumption, and there’s nothing there of interest that hasn’t already been discussed.
As you gleefully head down the path of blessing a political smear, keep in mind that the other side is now free to launch the same type of unsourced, anonymous smear against Obama
What you talkin’ ’bout willard?
Like your side isn’t STILL making stuff up about his birth certificate, his political associations real and imagined, his religion, his economic philosophies for the last four year.
Republican are schoolyard bullies, willing to dish it out, but whine and cry when it’s given back to them.
Just show us the tax returns.
Wow, talk about the hypocrisy. Obama seizes PUBLIC BEACHES so some Hollywood fuck can have a $36,000/plate fundraiser for obama…right in the middle of tourist season.
What in the fuck is with obama? I thought one of his major points was respect for PUBLIC LAND, not seizing it for personal gain. And that’s what he has done.
Beachgoers, get lost.
That little pussy Jay Carney is distancing himself & obama from Harry Reid’s lies and make believe attacks. The Senate Majority Leader..if he is lying about this, what else is he lying about? No sources, no proof.
John Sununu nails Reid real good–
# 49: Karl Rove is the master of the smear job.
When he was doing local elections he would print up outrageous fliers, purporting to be from the opposition, in a “false flag” operation. In Alabama he started a whispering campaign against a sitting Supreme Court justice, claiming (without any truth whatsover) that he was a child molester who used his children’s charity to groom victims, in an attempt to win that election. The rumor went on to claim that his position made him too powerful for the news media to report the “truth” or posecutors or police to press charges. Then with George H.W. Bush, Rove hit the national stage, knocking off his primary opponants and winning the general election with help from the notorious “Willie Horton” ad.
Of course, with George W. Bush Rove became a permanant fixture in the White House, until he became too toxic in the later years of his administration to keep around any longer. He’s the author of the “Swift Boat” campaign against Kerry, which has been pretty much discredited (after the fact), and I’m pretty sure he was behind the “leaked” forged memo from the Air Texas National Guard which brought down Can Rather and made Bush’s poor record in military service to hot a topic to touch.
The extent of Rove’s involvement in this election are unclear. He’s been raising PAC money to put out ads which probably won’t air until October, at the earlist. In the meantime, he’s trained thousands of Republican operatives in his methods, both in his firm and among Republican campaign consultants all across the country.
WH Press Corps Goes Seven Weeks Without a Question
The last substantive question Obama took from a White House reporter was during a June 20 press conference following the G20 Summit in Los Cabos, Mexico. Obama allowed only six questions during the event, which was nearly guaranteed to keep him out of political hot water as the focus was on foreign policy.
Since then, Obama has held no press conferences, given no interviews to White House reporters, and taken no questions at the White House events he has held where reporters have been present.
http://www.whitehousedossier.c.....-question/
And somehow, shouting a question to the president, in frustration over his refusal to take questions, is racist or something.
Right, Doctor Steve?
I don’t “scream “RAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!””, Bob. I call them out. I confront them. I settle scores. And seeing as how you’re a racist, Bob, I can see why you’d have a big problem with that. It looks to be on your mind.
How about telling everybody here how you came to the conclusion that Trayvon Martin was a “thug” who deserved to die. Tell us more about your sick, twisted vision of armed, right-wing Michigan militias roaming the streets of Detroit. Doing what, Bob? Who are they shooting at? Tell us again how you believe that fucked up vision of yours must come to pass and why. And what was it you were you sayin’ about the president’s daughter?
You’re a right-wing racist, cut from the same cloth as the right-wing racist who made killed in Wisconsin. And like him, you’re a coward, Bob. Little wonder you whine and lie so damned much.
@ 48
Heck, most Republicans don’t trust Romney – he never broke 20% of the primary elections until after his nomination was secured!
Now, that’s factually incorrect. If you were on my side it would be called a lie by someone around here.
@ 56
Doctor Steve, I see you are doing enough twisting for the both of us.
“And somehow, shouting a question to the president, in frustration over his refusal to take questions, is racist or something.
Right, Doctor Steve?”
Wrong, Bob. Again. Always.
“Racist” would be reading lies posted on the internet posted by fellow right-wing extremist racists and then reaching the conclusion, as you did, that Trayvon Martin was a “thug” who deservered to die.
“Racist” would be sharing wetdreams of armed, extremist right-wing Michigan militias roaming the streets of Detroit.
You’re one sick fuck, Bob.
# 52: That’s all you’ve got? Check out all the times here in Washington State where Republican candidates have “reserved” portions of public parks for campaign events, and excluded everyone who is not invited (particularly the media). They’ve even gone so far as to threaten people videotaping from public sidewalks well outside of the reserved areas!
And then there’s the entire town that was seized by Republican “trustess” this past year because tax collections didn’t meet the budget (after Republicans cut off the tax base), and then turned over the public beachfront park to a private corporation for development!
Heck, I remember back in the early 1970’s when Billy Graham held a revival at the Univ. of Tennessee stadium and brought in Richard Nixon as an honored guest. It was election season, of course. People complained that there was no compensation paid for the rental of the facilities, and the State Supreme Court agreed, but nothing ever came of it as far as I know.
Of course, putting down a soap-box and speaking on public issues in the public square (or parks) is pretty much a sanctified first-amendment right. Exclusions of others is problematic, but necessary to some extent with both candidates due to security concerns. The dinner probably pushes the limits, but I’ll bet if you look into it further you will see that this particular public park probably rents out portions of the park for private events all the time, in order to raise enough money to fund their operations.
Oh, to hear the republicans cry crocodile tears over the Public Beaches and Taxpayer Money. It’s kind of amusing.
Ask the people of Benton Harbor MI about the public parks there
http://thinkprogress.org/alyss.....ic-enough/
Oh noes…puddybuddy got to boycot the Fox News now.
“Doctor Steve, I see you are doing enough twisting for the both of us.”
No. You’re lying. Again.
# 57: Okay, give me specifics.
I’m going completely by memory here, but it took a long time for Romney to break above 20%. By the time most of his opposition had dropped out, he was left facing Newt Gingrich, who didn’t have a fat chance of ever getting the nomination (the party leadership would have ensured that). Heck, if Gingrich hadn’t been bought and paid for by the Los Vegas mogul, he would have been forced to drop out at least a couple months earlier than he did.
The fact is, that most Republicans preferred anybody else other than Romney, but Romney had the cash and organization to keep going long enough to win.
I’ve sat down with some pretty ardent Republicans who hate the President and really, really want to vote him out of office, but are unwilling to commit to voting for Romney. They are still hoping for a miracle at the convention, or a credible third-party candidate they can vote for. A number of Evangelical Christians are not comfortable with his Mormanism, but a large number don’t feel he represents them, economically. They don’t like the President’s policies, but they don’t feel that Romney can empathise with their concerns, either.
# 62: That’s the “dog whistle” Fox is blowing.
It’s got nothing to do with the outfits. What we are seeing on Facebook (which appears to be the Republican’s preferred method of smear transmittal these days) is a number of complaints about Gabby Giffords: her buttocks are too big, her thighs are too big, her teeth need work, and her hair is too frizzy. In other words, she’s African American. They want to appeal to their racist viewers who prefer cute, white, blonde teenage girls to ogle, rather than a real athlete who happens to be African American.
It’s amazing to me how a cable TV network can bee so utterly racist in it’s practices and still exist today. They should just put on the white sheet and pointed hood and rename it the KKK network.
@ 64
Maybe don’t go by memory:
Here’s Romney at 23% before the primary season started:
http://www.foxnews.com/politic.....reference/
MY recollection is that the early knock on Romney is that he was stuck more or less around 25% and couldn’t break above that.
True, but…….
At one point in the 1992 campaign, Bill Clinton was polling at 2%. We know how that turned out.
While you’re busy telling yourself how likable Obama is and how creepy and weird Willard is, maybe keep this in mind (also from the link above):
Winning matters more than issues. By a wide 20-percentage point margin, GOP primary voters are more likely to say it’s “very important” their nominee can beat Obama (73 percent) than to say it’s “very important” for the nominee to share their views (53 percent).
Even so, if forced to pick, most Republican voters would rather see the economy turn around (80 percent) than be guaranteed their favorite candidate would win in 2012 (14 percent).
That’s similar to how voters overall feel. By a 5-to-1 margin, most voters would prefer economic growth (77 percent) over their candidate’s victory (15 percent).
It’s the economy. It’s the economy and nothing else. It’s why the Dems are so desperately trying to make it about magic underwear, dressage, and tax returns.
How them conservatives feeling about the shooting in Wisconsin….right wing nut job goes nutty but it is all the same for them, like nothing unusual happened.
@ 67
Still waiting for information. How is this right-wing according to what you know? Admittedly I have not kept up.
@62 – they don’t know what the real meaning of red, white and blue is. How can you tote it around and then say you are for traditional marriage or deny the right for two gay people to marry….they are more into the Nazi Flag. All Republicans should be ashamed of themselves.
@68 – As far as I’m aware no too many skinheads that are on the left. Hate when it is grouped comes mostly from the right.
@ 70
I don’t know either but Wiki really doesn’t support your statement:
The political spectrum within the skinhead scene ranges from the far right to the far left, although many skinheads are apolitical.
(and)
On the far left of the skinhead subculture, redskins and anarchist skinheads take a militant anti-fascist and pro-working class stance.[50] In the United Kingdom, two groups with significant numbers of leftist skinhead members were Red Action, which started in 1981, and Anti-Fascist Action, which started in 1985. Internationally, the most notable left-wing skinhead organisation is Red and Anarchist Skinheads, which formed in the New York City area in 1993 and then spread to other countries.[51]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinhead
My suggestion to you is wait for information rather than pulling a post-Loughner-type attack on the right that turns out to be false.
If he’s on the right, it will be found out soon enough.
@66 it is about the economy – and the people are stupid to believe that the Mittster will do anything about it.
You know how he stands in front of the national debt clock at all of his campaign stops. I think if elected President that should be the backdrop to all his public speaches, so we can all laugh about what a hypocrite he is…national debt is not going any lower if he is elected. I know I will have it pictured in my mind. The majority of the Southern Voters are too stupid to even know what the national debt is, let alone know that it is all the monkey bushs fault, except for maybe 2 trillion of it.
You know how he stands in front of the national debt clock at all of his campaign stops.
Nope. Have never seen it. Wasn’t there when he stood in front of Solyndra. The Solyndra sign and building were clearly visible, tho.
@ 72
The national debt won’t. You are correct. Even in an 8-year Romney presidency I am convinced the debt will climb higher each year.
The annual federal budged DEFICIT will decrease significantly more quickly under Romney than it will under Obama. I can live with that.
Based on a couple decades worth of working on political campaigns, I’d say what’s typical is for campaigns to be so buried in work that they have to triage the work they need to get done and rush to meet all of their various filing deadlines.
#75
Continued…
Campaigns release all sorts of stuff when they think it will help them. No one should pay any attention to these numbers (unless it’s a campaign I’m volunteering with, then it’s important and gospel, baby.). It’s the actual FEC filing numbers that count.
@ 75
True. although it’s not typical for a campaign to function non-stop for five-plus years, like the Obama one has (not that there’s anything wrong with that!!!!).
From one of those right-wing echo chambers, your line of the day:
If tea partiers are willing to line up behind the guy who signed off on RomneyCare in the interest of bouncing The One, adding a guy to the ticket who believes in global warming isn’t going to deter them.
http://hotair.com/archives/201.....on-for-vp/
Note the comments about GOP concern that Romney’s money is a problem. Since it’s all the Dems have go rally behind, I don’t expect it to go away any time soon.
@74 – cut taxes on the rich and the debt will increase. The debt has increased the most under Republican Presidents. Bush Tax cuts are mostly to blame for the current deficit and increasing national debt, it will only get worse under Mittens. I hope you can live with that.
SC whats your position on Gay Marriage…are you one of those patriots that likes to deny right to an individual(s)? If you are are a traditional marriage person, why should I abide by what your religious beliefs are? And if not, don’t you think your party is short changing on freedom?
So, the campaign is all about the economy? I can live with that.
Let’s talk about the Republicans who’s admitted main goal was not to get Americans employed, but to get Obama out of office. From there, we can talk about Republican’s intentional sabatoge of recovery plans by use of the Senate Veto/Hold (2009-10) and the House refusal to act (2011-12).
Let’s talk about mostly Republican opposition to assistance to the American car companies in 2009, with Romney saying they should all be allowed to collapse (leaving millions more out of work).
Let’s talk about the deficit run up by George W. Bush for the tax cuts which led to no new hiring, and the Iraq war, with profligate spending in both Iraq and Afganistan to big contractors with political connections and lots of missing money (typical Republican mis-management?).
While we are at it, let’s talk about the Tarp I, where the Republicans dared the Democrats to vote against it on pain of another Great Depression, only to switch their votes against it after it was assured of passage, just so they could use it as a campaign issue.
And let’s talk about the Bush administration’s “there’s no time for details, trust us” open-handed authority under Tarp I, then simply shoveling the money out to favored Wall Street brokerage firms with no accountability.
Let’s talk about the money wasted by the House Republicans in yet another of their votes (what is it 33 so far?) to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
Let’s talk about how the Republicans’ only “jobs” plan is to shovel more money in the direction of the uber rich through more tax cuts, without any requirement that they actually hire a single American worker. That, and lifting of environmental regulations so that workers and their communities could find themselves back in a 1960’s could of emissions and lake and rivers which spontaneously combusted.
Oh, and let’s talk about 22 months straight of job growth under the Obama administration. They say it’s not enough, but it’s a lot better than during either of the previous two Republican administrations.
The photo of the right-wing fascist shooter standing in front of a Nazi flag. I’m sure that’s enough to convince our wingnuts that the guy was a lefty, what with their delusional notions of commie-fascism and all that horseshit.
Romney and Obama are the same in that regard. What’s interesting is how little movement there’s been on both sides, despite all of the campaigning. That’s going to be interesting to look at once this is all over.
Being in permanent campaign mode seems to be the norm these days. I think it’s really unhealthy.
Yes, darryl, you are god damned right we should celebrating something.
Are you suffering from another case of progressive revisionist history that is spurned on by your progressive American/white mans guilt or something?
dropping the bombs was a good thing. period…end of discussion…and the involvement of companies like Boeing, and the scientists at Hanford, should be celebrated, not hidden or downplayed, and all those who had a part(alive or since deceased) should be proud of their work.
gman, nobody gives a fuck about gay marriage, accept the freaks on the far left and far right.
in the grand scheme of things, its such a minor fucking issue that it shouldnt even rate any discussion, either pro or con.
people focus on the stupidest, more irrelevant shit.
and that is somehow different from the hate you spew about heterosexuals how?
“They say it’s not enough, but it’s a lot better than during either of the previous two Republican administrations.”
From WIN buttons to Reagan’s credit card spree, and from “deficits don’t matter”, to the Great Recession, yeah, that’s one hell of a record they have. It makes sense that they don’t want to talk about it, especially since all they can do is trot out the same failed ideas that got us all in this damned mess in the first place.
Nah, they don’t want to to talk about they’ll do, and what good for America might come from a Romney presidency. No plan. No details. No tax returns. Nothing. Better to prattle on about how the president’s kid “looks like a man” and accusing the president of being some kind of uppity Kenyan commie-jihadist who is gonna take everybody’s guns away while imposing Sharia’ Law.
Soon, the Obama campaign should be issuing a daily press release, entitled “This Day in History”, which details the headlines of the Bush administration’s economic collapse during the summer and fall of 2008. Just to make sure everyone remembers. They should follow it up with a Democratic Congressperson each day holding a press conference where they discuss the events and their own experiences, and the recovery which has come under the Obama administration.
Be sure to include some photos of Sen. John McCain looking befuddled as he his hustled into a meeting on the issues for a photo-op.
Republican spokesperson, Ted Nugent,
“But on important issues, I am saddened to admit that Obama represents everything bad about humanity and Romney pretty much all that is good. It is really that stark.”
“Everything bad about humanity”. Like the Wisconsin shooter, only way, way worse. “All that is good”. Hmm, something like Dr. Albert Schweitzer, only much, much better.
What a bunch of assholes.
@1 Keep telling yourself R-Money will win if it makes you feel better.
Bwaaa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha
http://www.punjabigraphics.com.....ng-rabbit/
Now that we’ve learned the Milwaukee shooter was a “patched” member of the Hammerskins, a large national “white power” skinhead group with neo-Nazi leanings — i.e., far right racists — our conservative trolls are in full denial mode. Watch them try to portray this guy as a tree-hugging, Obama-voting, marxist granola …
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Hammerskins are “the best organized, most widely dispersed and most dangerous Skinhead group known. … [U]nlike criminal street gangs, [Hammerskin Nation] has a focused and … relatively sophisticated political outlook” of “racist revolutionaries.”
http://www.splcenter.org/get-i.....n?page=0,1
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Although skinhead subculture embraces the political spectrum from far-right to far-left, a “white power” neo-Nazi group like the Hammerskins is definitely far-right.
@86 – what have I said that was hateful towards heterosexuals? That you are murderers? That’s hateful? How about your hate towards gay people? You are the real bigot asshole.
@85 you are one heck of a bigot and hypocrite. Just like I said your against freedom. You’re one heck of a patriot. Yeah right, you are a bigot, you fuck. And the real question is why doesn’t SC answer the question?
LMFAO…I dont have any hate towards gay people – I just dont give damn about most of them….and then again, I dont give a damn about most heterosexual people either.
now that is true equality.
look, its like this: you are a freak – just own up to it. You wanna call a group of people(including your own parents I would surmise) a bunch of murderers, than thats fine. But dont get all indignant when the rest of us think you are a freak with a messed up brain in serious need of help.
what? more blithering blather from a self hating wackjob?
heh, nothing new here…
OMG Sharia law is coming!!!
Be afraid, be very afraid.
So is now ANY different from the last 4 years?
Follow the talking points, fellow conservatives. For example, if someone of a non christian faith does anything anything bad, they are just tip of an army and every last person of that group is a ticking time bomb. But the Milwaukee shooter is an individual, acting alone. Any organizational ties are pure coincidence. Argue strongly that it’s wrong and completely unfair and some sort of liberal bias to make inferences to right wing talk radio.
Yep. And Obama’s free to disprove those smears and make the people making them look like idiots. Mitt Romney’s, of course, free to do the same. But, so far Mitt’s chosen to keep his lips sealed about his tax records.
@2 “More CO2 means more….plants”
Well, yeah…but not necessarily the kind we’d like to have. For a long time, from what I remembered from a couple classes I took in marine biology, I figured that if the oceans accumulated a little extra carbonic acid, we’d see some algal blooms that would slurp it all up. That, indeed, has been happening, but many if not most of the varieties of algae are really nasty stuff. There are places where hundreds of square miles of ocean have been overrun with toxic glop that kills every other known life form before it dies off itself. Similarly, on land where in other circumstances there might be growth of stable conifer forests we may get fast-growing alder, cottonwood, Scotch broom (ah-CHOO!) and tall grass that dry out and become tinder in the summer.
@2 “More CO2 means more….plants”
Ah’, but plants germinate within specific temperature ranges. What happens when we warm to a point where corn will no longer grow in Latin America?
@102 The Russians will grow it in Siberia and we’ll have to buy it from them.
I hope Romney calls Obummer’s bluff.
104 – Yawnnn.. Yet more bullshit from right wing bullshit artists..
@95 sounds like you are a real miserable son of a bitch on top of being a hypocritical bigot.
Then why won’t Obummer release his college records ylbuttspiot? If nothing to hide, release the records! The author never claimed to be Obummer’s roommate, just a classmate. What a ylbuttspigot!
More yawning from the buttspigot!
@103
102 wasn’t about us, it was about the mass migration of starving people in Latin America. Well, it was about us in the sense that most of that starving mass will be headed for El Norte.
107 – College transcripts are not tax returns. Democratic Party candidates for the White House in the past have released their tax returns..
So have Republicans.
So should Willard (R-Money).
What’s he hiding? Why are you for him hiding his returns?
lmfao…coming from you, thats some funny shit.
you really are in a true conundrum arent you gleeman? you cant decide what you hate more: heterosexuals or yourself.
glad im not you….
problem is, the Bank of El Norte is fucking broke…not enough people making deposits, and wayyyy too many people doing withdrawals.
From puddles’ link…
and…
That’s all you got?!
Sucks to be you. So, about those tax returns…
Yup, pigs feeding at the trough, like these Rmoney supporters.
@111
Try telling that to 5M starving people swarming our souther border. We might be a few years from exactly that.
Checkout Gwynne Dyer’s book Climate Wars.
Link for #114
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZwEDPxmRkA
add them to the leaches that slurp from the govt tit all their lives and produce progeny that do the same…funny, most of them seem to vote D…its all about “free stuff” ya know…
at that point you will see armed US citizens on the border, whether the US govt supports them or not….and it wont be a few dozen, it will be thousands.
@104 I hope he does, too. If I were Obama, I’d trade all my college transcripts for just one of R-Money’s tax returns: 2009. What’s Mittster hiding in his 2009 tax return? My guess is a plea bargain with the IRS to avoid prosecution for tax evasion.
Following up on the link puddykins supplied us, this is about as dumb as DUMB gets:
“But did his mother ever change him back to a U.S. citizen? When he returned to live with his grandparents in Hawaii or as he neared college-age preparing to apply to schools, did he ever change his citizenship back?”
Hey, dumbass, if you’re born a U.S. citizen and leave the country for a while you don’t have to “change back” your citizenship! Born a citizen, always a citizen, unless you renounce. For example, I didn’t have to reapply for citizenship after spending a year in Vietnam, ya know? Geez, some of these rightwingers are STOOPID!
I’m surprised pudnutz swallowed this one whole. Puddy, you’re not bright, but I did think you were brighter than this.
@116 “leaches that slurp from the govt tit all their lives”
You mean disabled veterans who got limbs blown off by going places that Romney wouldn’t go in his youth?
So here we see yet again the hoary rightwing myth that federal spending is weighed down by lazy bums who live the good life on welfare.
Never mind that welfare was never, even in its heyday, more than 3% of the federal budget. And that nearly all welfare recipients were children living with one parent. After all, there’s a reason why they called it “Aid For Dependent Children” (AFDC) and then “Temporary Aid for Needy Families” (TANF). And an awful lot of those children were on AFDC/TANF because their dads were deadbeats who wouldn’t pay child support unless threatened with jail. Like a certain GOP congress critter from Illinois named Joe Walsh, who owes his kids more than $100,000 in unpaid child support.
Yeah, just keep playing that fiddle, righties. And after you cut welfare to nothing, after you’ve kicked the last starving welfare mom and her kids to the curb, who will you blame your deficits on then?
Surely not corporate welfare. Surely not tax cuts for billionaires and millionaires. Surely not runaway defense spend and trillion-dollar recreational wars.
My guess is after they’ve run out of other scapegoats for their fiscal profligacy they’ll go after veterans. But they’ll never, ever touch their special fiscal and tax privileges for the rich and powerful. Preserving those is what they live for.
Owebamma’s Book, I was dreaming of a time when I could destroy America, take home a cushy 33k per month in retirement +++ while turning it into a Marxist nation like my birthplace in Kenya. My father taught me well how to redistribute wealth, and bankrupt America doing so.
Another Obummer fund raiser with the 1%ers.
Of course the HA faithful will scream on about how it’s not as it seems, because Obummer represents the 99%ers.
It seems from good old libtard political correctness a red alert was missed on James Holmes. Seems the university coverup is in big play! Why didn’t another of America’s liberal universities act on her information? Reminds you of Virginia Tech and their inaction.
Celebrate asswipe, celebrate!
Give libtards control of police and this is what happens to a deaf black lady. And or course you know they sat down together and wrote their action reports. Of course rujax is missing in action AGAIN. Just what does the HA house neeeeeeegro do? Oh yeah he’s looking at left wrong whack-job sites for the latest in Romney character assassination commentary. He is grazing on the reservation while Puddy finds the news!
Here’s another that ought to make maxie asshat FEEL REAL GOOD!!
http://libertyontour.com/wp-co.....victim.jpg
Yawwwn… Puddydope being tedious as usual.
What if Dick Morris is right? Will this affect da professa’s monte carlo analysis? Everyone knows the slobbering libtard love affair media gives a 3-5% uplift to Obummer.
This is for HA most crazed loon ylbuttspigot. Four Pinocchios from a well known libtard paper.
Nigerian Christians are mowed down by Muslims. Will Obummer decry this violent act against Christians?
Social Security a great deal for our generation??
We are likely to get back much less than we paid in with No Interest. What a joke this Ponzi Scheme is. There are many many folks sucking off this that paid in very little. I know a guy who’s daughter is getting $775/mo. until she is 18 or 19. WHY? Because he had her when he was 55. She has been getting this check since he qualified at 62. She gets 50% of what he gets. How much of this shit has happened to deplete the fund?
Read this–
http://www.foxnews.com/politic.....p=trending
Puddy @ 130–
The Nigerian Muslim murderers are Islamic Extremists. You cannot re-program these people. There is only one answer.
How does your attitude not surprise me? We have already established, through you own words, that you feel US military deaths are not relevant or worthy of attention. So of course you would have supported another couple hundred thousand more dead GI’s in lieu of the bomb.
Of course, it also must have slipped your simple mind that another million or so Japanese would have died too had the war dragged on.
Poor Tenderhands YLBigot, another shining example of the pussification of America.
I bet it just pains people like you that Truman and Roosevelt were democrats – hard to blame the bomb on the repubicans, eh?
asshole.
no, that is not what I mean.
nice try at twisting my words limpdick – fayle.
Harry Reid is sure looking the fool…
Has that ever happened?
Wouldn’t it be a violation of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?
Merely asking that question could blot out this corner of the galaxy.
That you’re asking that question implies a level of desperation, of unthinking frothing terror, of intellectual bankruptcy and moral degeneration…that we’ve come to expect from you.
Next.
Perhaps all the bloodthirsty religionists, under the banners of Heaven, will kill each other off and leave earth to be nursed back to health by us socialist environmentalist atheists.
Dare to dream.
Harry Reid (whom I’m generally underwhelmed by) is presently demonstrating a brilliant piece of political warfare.
He has married asymmetrical warfare with the ‘bitch slap’ model of politics.
Half the country doesn’t know who Harry Reid even is, and he’s not running for anything, and may not ever run for anything again. He’s a gnat compared to Rmoney, a raggedy guerrilla fighter up against a deeply monied, deeply conventional force.
He has drawn howling protests from Mitt and his surrogates, and in doing has diminished the Mittster, making him small and vulnerable.
And he’s done so by boldly slapping Mittens in a way the he can’t effectively his back. Mitt accuses him of baselessly speculating about Mitt’s taxes, but that’s exactly what Mitt’s doing – asking the American people to speculate about his taxes in the absence of any actual facts, which he refuses to provide.
The whole episode makes Mitt look the fool, and weak and defensive, in the face of an attack by somebody much smaller than himself, AND it keeps the media focus on the story of the rich, secretive tax cheat.
Brilliant, just brilliant. Mitt is so fucked.
Whatadipshit Lib da schmuck is. We’ve already proven these libtard network polls over sample DMMOCRAPTS. Is it on purpose? Probably. Obummer didn’t lead in Florida by 7 points per NBC Screws poll. Yet checksez and others promptly placed it on the blog saying it was truth. When other DUMMOCRAPTS admitted the oversampling, checksez and others doubled down.
Toooooooooooooooo
Damnnnnnnnnnnnnn
Fuuuuunnnnnnnnnny
It is really only a 2 point spread for Obummer. The same thing has happened in Ohio. His lead is probably 1-2 points at most. Also with all the negative libtard press Obummer gets +3 points due to their biased reporting.
So like what happened in Wisconsin where the libtards in the media were saying Scott Walker was in trouble based on their biased polling, when he won by 7%, this could be happening again. You see you idiot, I remember the posts on HA discussing Wisconsin since the Friday Night Comedy Purveyor received his PhD from Wisconsin. I remember the multiple posts about Wisconsin. I placed 8 of those posts in a blog response on how silly the news media was, how silly the left wrong blogs were and how your side was bitch-slapped by Wisconsin voters. You continue to trust morons like Rachel Maddow, Markos Moultsitas, Ed Schultz, and Ezra Journolist Klein.
You can’t accept anything from other sources besides the left wrong bullshittium sites you read and gladly drink their kook-aid. If it isn’t on Stinky Progressives, The Puke Machine, Moron.org, Of BluffPo, you can’t accept it. It blows apart your lousy narrative.
Sucks to be you Lib da schmuck. Run along now, adults are having a real conversation!
Child!
Oh, do tell. Don’t be coy now. How do we deal with Islamic Extremists ™, in your world?
Would you apply the same treatment to Christianist Extremists?
White suppremacist extremists?
When the right-wing is reduced to screeching “Left wrong sites!” and “oversample Democrats!!” and generally getting picayunish about a couple of points of (alleged) built in bias, you know they’re losing and desperate.
Come on puddles, what specifically is Romney going to do for America?
You said “Jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs” as 1-5 in a recent post, but I don’t think you mean that Rmoney is going to hire everyone himself, did you?
Tell me, what specifically is he going to do that will benefit the American people should he be elected. Give me a reason to vote for him, rather than against Obama.
Doubt you can.
BTW, to all the right-wingers around here – should Mitt release all of his tax returns for the last 12 years?
Mitt will release his tax returns the same day Obama proves he was born in the US and not some foreign country like Kenya or Hawaii or something.
Of course Lib da schmuck forgets it was main stream DUMMOCRPATS who said the poll was biased. Does Puddy need to remind da schmuck who said it? Well he can ask ylbuttspigot to diarrhea PuddyLinks to the subject because it’s all cataloged who said what!
Naturally da schmuck wants to believe the left wrong kook sites. That’s all he has left in his little prison called “life”.
BTW to all left-wrongers here should Obummer release all his transcripts and college entrance admissions forms?
False Equivalency ALERT!!
Hmmm…documentation of Obama’s relationship with Columbia University when he was in his 20’s…
versus…
documentation of Romney’s relationship with the United States as recently as 2009.
Not at all equivalent.
Real equivalence: Obama has released his tax returns, and Mitt hasn’t.
puddy, do you think that Mitt should release his tax returns for the past 12 years?
I soooo want to see the RMoney tax returns.
I really really want to know how to pump up my IRA to $100,000,000.
“the same day Obama proves he was born in the US and not some foreign country like Kenya or Hawaii or something”
Funny.
Breaking news
Mitt Rmoney took out an insurance policy on the Newt for $10,000,000.
It’s unbelievable what the left-wing whackjobs will resort to to win an election. It’s apparent there plan is to create such a deep & ugly divide among Americans across every possible line you can think of…race, wealth, income you name it.
Here is the latest deed of destruction–
HOPE & CHANGE==this is it???
137. Liberal Scientist is a a dirty fucking hippie spews:
Nigerian Christians are mowed down by Muslims.
You are the ultimate fucked up arrogant bastard, aren’t you? I suspect you really believe this..or you wouldn’t have written it.
Now you will say you are just joking.
You really want a world filled with selfish pricks like you??? I thought you had an open mind for tolerance & diversity.
Guess not.
You are an ugly human being.
142. Liberal Scientist is a a dirty fucking hippie spews:
As soon as obama releases all his college transcripts and applications to prove he didn’t pretend to be a foreign student to get preferences to get into Occidental & Columbia.
Deal?
Obama’s allied super-PAC is running an ad in which a former steelworker laments his wife’s death and attributes it to Bain’s closure of his plant.
Except she died in 2006.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/.....31332.html
Romney left Bain several years earlier to work on the Olympic Games, which were held in 2002.
Your ilk certainly seems desperate.
I’m glad this idiot “Jody” character showed up.
We need another dumb-ass troll to kick the shit out of.
Well rujax, you are TOO STUPID to care about. We bait you for fun you moron!
Still no Gabby Douglas accolades. You are the HA reservation neeeeeeeeeeeeegro!
See ya plantation lover!
…coming from a tom like the puddybitch.
Ouch! LOLOL
TSA loses a woman who tested positive for trace explosives. The same airport where seven TSA agents were caught asleep.
Remember this is Obummer’s TSA now!
PS…for the record, I could give two shits about the Olympics.
Got that story from Fox News, did you?
Why did Ron Paul end his campaign so quietly?
This is why:
http://news.yahoo.com/santorum.....54008.html
Picking Paul looks like a particularly elegant solution to what might have been a thorny problem. Ron Paul’s campaign didn’t gain traction with voters, but his supporters understood party rules better than other campaigns, giving them the opportunity to win delegate seats at county and state party conventions. Had Paul won a majority of just one more delegation, he would have been allowed to be formally nominated for president, which could have been a hurdle for organizers trying to arrange an event that will serve as a Romney coronation.
I heard puddywhippedpussy tested positive for “trace intelligence”.
Great, huh?
@158…
Jody the dim-bulb just won’t make very much money here.
He/She/It will be gone by next week.
http://thinkprogress.org/polit.....extremism/
The puddywhippedpussy’s heroes in action.
http://thinkprogress.org/elect.....-to-death/
Kidding…KIDDING!!!
Ohhhh foolish rujax, still no accolades for Gabby.
Even your band bud Steve is watching rujax. He applauded my accolades. You’ve been mute.
HA’s house neeeeeeeeegro has nothing to say about Gabby. She made history and rujax is silent. Whatamoron! Are you one of those “blacks” complaining about Gabby’s hair?
Enjoy the reservation.
@153
You couldn’t kick he shit out of a outhouse.
Just another loud mouthed pussy afraid of talking shit in person.
When is doubt rujax runs to left wrong web sites. How telling!
– in heaven rujax?
Man you dwell on the moronic cuz you are moronic!
@157
That’s because you’re a weak girly man…just another urban metrosexual weakling…
Has the dumb-fuck learned how to read yet?
So now we learn the Obummer sadministration lied again.
PuddyEmphasis!
Makes a great attack ad. What a bunch of liars!
Maxee and the puddypussy doin’ the “Larry Craig”?????
EEEEWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!
@170…
The puddypussy’s running to wrong-wing websites again…
…tsk, tsk, tsk!
“Romney left Bain several years earlier to work on the Olympic Games, which were held in 2002.”
That’s just another way of saying that Bain, created in Mitt’s image, infused with his character, is so dark a stain on his record that you and your candidate have to continuously put distance between yourselves and it’s foul deeds. That is what you’re trying to say, isn’t it?
“Your ilk certainly seems desperate”
Project much? You’re fast turning into just another Psych 101 punching bag.
@ 173
Why, Doctor Steve, now that I view the world through your warped perspective, I can see that Bain, created in Mitt’s image, actually implanted the cancer onto the steelworker’s skin, whereupon he brought it home and unknowingly transferred it to his wife, who developed cancer and died.
A sane person with a little background in medicine could surmise that the woman smoked for years, developed pulmonary carcinoma, and a secondary pneumonia made her ill and contributed to her death.
But I see now, Doctor Steve, that Mitt Romney killed that woman.
Thank you for enabling me to see the error of my former ways.
What this fuck really just said…by implication…is that Bain injected cancer into Capitalism.
Nice job dummy-head…poke holes in your own boat.
PS…This guy’s better than Bill Frist!!! YOW!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....00501.html
Daily Caller?
You are a moron rujax!
http://www.dailykos.com/story/.....ns-Elected
Yeah. Right.
@127 Puddy spends so much time bloviating on HA that you’ve gotta wonder if he’s employed at all. If he is, he’s gotta be doing this on the employer’s time.
Angry White Men With Guns Dep’t
Police have arrested a 37-year-old white guy who went into an Ohio theater showing the Batman flick with a loaded 9mm handgun and four knives. A search of his home turned up eight more rifles and handguns, gas masks, and bulletproof vests.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_new.....e-say?lite
Roger Rabbit Commentary: I doubt this guy is a card-carrying Democrat. More likely a rightwing militia-type nutjob.
http://www.salon.com/topic/tucker_carlson/
http://thinkprogress.org/justi.....un-hacker/
How responsible.
Here’s another of those lazy welfare bums sucking on the gummint teat whom rightwing work-ethic enforcers plan on kicking to the curb in order to finance more tax cuts for billionaires.
http://vitals.nbcnews.com/_new.....icaid?lite
“But I see now, Doctor Steve, that Mitt Romney killed that woman.
Thank you for enabling me to see the error of my former ways.”
Lame. That you always resort to making shit up is getting tiresome. But if that’s all you’ve got to work with, so be it. I never suggested that Mitt killed the woman. I merely pointed out that you and your candidate are always running away from Bain. Geez, it looks like your link makes that same point.
“The Romney campaign has pushed back on other GST Steel-related attacks by arguing that the plant in Kansas City closed after he stepped away from his management job at Bain.”
Running away from Bain. Again. What’s left? He ran away from his only major achievement as governor, Romneycare. He saved the SLC games by grabbing gobs of gub’mint cash. He’s shown himself to be a foreign policy disaster. Tax returns? Damn. I can see why you make shit up, Bob. It’s all you’ve got left.
http://www.splcenter.org/get-i.....h-massacre
Max, Bob, puddybuddy, ev, jody…here are your people…this is what you have created.
Happy?
PS Hey puds…like that last line?
Is It True Romney Paid No Taxes For 10 Years?
When this story first broke, it semed as though Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) was floating unsubstantiated gossip or rumors. But this story is gaining traction as it becomes clear he actually had information from a knowledgeable source:
“‘Harry Reid made a statement that is true. Somebody told him. It is a fact,’ House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told the Huffington Post on Monday in support of Reid. …
“‘I don’t know who Harry Reid’s source was, but I do know that this is a question that has swirled around Mitt Romney for this entire campaign,’ Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said Sunday on ABC …. ‘I do know that he could clear it up just like that, lickety-split, by releasing his tax returns.'”
http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_.....claim?lite
Roger Rabbit Commentary: I’m not saying R-Money has an obligation to release his tax returns. I’m simply saying everyone else since Reagan has, and if he doesn’t, people will assume the worst. It’s kinda stupid to keep holding out, because people will use their imaginations to fill in the blanks, and what imagination produces usually is worse than reality. But so stubborn is R-Money about this, you gotta wonder …
@183 This continent used to belong to my Native American friends until white men stole it from them.
137. Liberal Scientist is a a dirty fucking hippie spews:
Nigerian Christians are mowed down by Muslims.
You are the ultimate fucked up arrogant bastard, aren’t you? I suspect you really believe this..or you wouldn’t have written it.
Now you will say you are just joking.
You really want a world filled with selfish pricks like you??? I thought you had an open mind for tolerance & diversity.
Guess not.
You are an ugly human being.
The Job Creator Debate
This article from CNBC, which is usually investor-friendly, says Romney and Obama are both right about where jobs come from. And that’s more or less where I am with this issue.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/48546245
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Of course taxes and regulation burden businesses; but that’s like saying stop lights and speed limits slow traffic.
We have consumer protection laws because consumers need protecting from predatory business practices. We need bank regulation because greedy and dishonest bankers will destroy the banking system if they’re left unsupervised.
Businesses, especially those in the finance sector, habitually behave like toddlers. You don’t leave daycares unsupervised. At least, the responsible adults — us pro-regulation liberals — won’t. Conservatives? They’re the todders who need supervising, so who cares what they think.
We have all these regulations and agencies for good reasons. All of them sprung up from the ashes of past abuses and disasters. Over the years, many smart people have given much thought to balancing the need for regulation with the burdens and restraints it puts on businesses. You probably can find isolated examples of regulations that went too far, were unnecessary, or overly burdensome. But that doesn’t invalidate the broad idea that traffic systems don’t work without traffic rules and traffic cops.
Our regulatory system isn’t perfect and could withstand constructive tweaking. But the conservatives’ idea of doing away with it altogether defies common sense. And policing business so our economy isn’t taken over and run by people with a criminal mentality won’t keep legitimate entrepreneurs from creating jobs.
Roger DUMB Wabbit makes this comment every so often not knowing where I am or what I am doing. Each time I kick his sorry ASS! So why not just STFU DUMB Wabbit? Incompetent retired wabbit.
The Prosecution Rests Your Honor. Very stupid wabbit!
Sucks to be you Roger DUMB Wabbit!
Looks like libtard atheist nutbag Jared Loughner will plead guilty and go to jail for the rest of his life.
Wow I could not have said it any more eloquently about Lib da schmuck!
Thanks Jody!
@186 You’re new here, aren’t you? There’s a lot of facetious irony in this blog. And, like everywhere else in today’s society, the people posting here are mostly talking (or should I say writing?) past each other (i.e., probably not a whole lot of education happening here).
This house neeeeeeeeeegro rujax is one screwed up individual. How did any of us create this freak show?
Stay on the reservation. Do the math moron! Sheesh what an idiot!
@188 Whether my ass is “sorry” or not, which I’m willing to debate, you’ve never been able to find it much less kick it.
This freak doesn’t get it does he?
My ass spends most of its time interfacing with a comfy chair in front of a computer screen on which I watch my stocks go up — about $2500 today.
A stock I bought last week for $37 is $44 today; so much for the idea that markets are rational, professional traders know what they’re doing, and small investors don’t have a chance.
I did absolutely nothing to earn that $7 per share profit. I didn’t invent a new product, I didn’t create a single job, I didn’t do a fucking thing except guess that “the smartest guys in the room” were selling their shares of that stock at too low a price. All this does is take money out of their pocket and put it in my pocket — it’s a zero-sum game from which nobody else derives any benefit whatsoever.
I vote for the most progressive candidates on the ballot, but anyone who calls me a “socialist” is out of his/her fucking mind; I’m as capitalist as they come. Skimming off the top, like all the rich capitalists do, sure beats fighting commuter traffic, putting up with abusive bosses, and working Republican wages. Anytime I can make more than $300 an hour for sitting on my fat rabbit ass, I’ll take it!
@194 I’ve met fenceposts that were more intelligent, sensitive, and aware of their surroundings than pudnutz is.
Makes one wonder how much “free stuff” rujaxoff is sponging off the rest of us…..
@190 Neither you nor Jody would know what an arrogant fucked up bastard looks like even if you saw one in a mirror.
@197 Nowhere near what one-percenters get.
Let’s take away the emperor max mini-dick (aka kaiser bun the first)’s tax breaks and gummint contracts and make him pay a fair wage and see how the rat-bastard scab gets along, shall we??
Vulture capitalists don’t survive without “free stuff”.
@186 Jody spews, “You are the ultimate fucked up arrogant bastard, aren’t you?”
On the other thread Darryl outed “Jody” as the goatfucking Klown. That’s just too damned funny. It’s not like it wasn’t obvious, it’s just hilarious how he was denying it the other day.
Hey, Klown, got any new racist jokes you want to share? I’m sure Bob will get a laugh, if nobody else. You see, Bob’s a wingnut racist too.
@201 I’m a vulture and I get free money, but I take it from capitalists, not taxpayers.
A better and more significant question is how much “free stuff” are the Rethug “oh we’re taxed too much” counties sponging off the rest of the state?
Something like $2,000,000,000 per year, every year.
What? You’re not going to thank me for the celebratory pictures I posted? Typical.
Oh I called you an asswipe. No apologies. Just a statement of fact.
Arrogant Bastard, why that’s one ofnthe finest barley based beverages in all the land.
In other news, Rafalca has lost. There goes the first of two high profile contests that Willard will pour a boatload of money into a losing effort this summer.
LMFAO…what tax breaks? what govt contracts?
is your welfare check in yet? you lazy douchebag…go get a job.
and neither do you….
and you would rather see pics of dead GI’s I bet too(although you would only want to see them on the back page of the newspaper).
as for the rest of your post? eh, who cares. you talk like a tough guy down behind the computer in your basement….its wise of you that you dont talk that way in person – I doubt you have decent enough medical insurance to cover the ass whooping your mouth would get you in.
no wonder you support communist medical care.
@211 The cheerleaders for Bush’s bungled wars didn’t want us to see the coffins at all. They’re like the Russians, who bury their war dead in the middle of the night, so no one will know the regime threw away their sons’ lives.
What, exactly, do the families of the 4000+ Americans killed in Iraq have to show for the lost lives of their loved ones?
A few pictures, maybe a body, maybe a medal or three and a gub’ment handout.
Another burfer type outrage promoted by Glen Beck, Drudge, Fox, etc. — Yahn…
The star of your hit piece claims to never having met or seen Obama. And he is proof of what? And how? BTW, did this knuckle dragger even go to Columbia. Let’s see his college transcripts and applications.