I’m off to Obama-a-rama. Will report later. In the meanwhile, talk amongst yourselves.
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You’d think that all of those Cantwell press releases would generate positive publicity for her. But to many observers, it looks like the Seattle media is openly hostile to Cantwell’s re-election campaign.
Maria Cantwell, call your office!
-Jamieson roasts Cantwell (and Gov. Gregoire) for largely ignoring the black community-
Oh god, a white right wing republican Talibangelist Discovery Institute punk citing a liberal columnist trying to imply that Cantwell isn’t “black enough.” Can these clowns get any funnier?
Yeah – Cantwell’s first major campaign event is with Sen. Obama at Garfield High School. Sounds like a big whitewash to me.
Cantwell is clueless.
A sideshow with Obama so she can appear to be a “homeboy”!!
This is going to get interesting….especially with Aaron Dixon in the mix. At least Dixon stands up for what he believes in.
Yeeeeeeeeeeeehawwwwwwww
Keep those blacks on that liberal plantation…. speechify on how you feel their pain but dont dare wonder off ya hear.
How’s about switching gears to something besides right wing nuts using left wing nuts to try and make their case for a doomed-from-the-start McGavick campaign.
Let’s visit the bungling Bush gang trying to get the American people interested another invasion based on WMD:
“Some of the most powerful IED’s we’re seeing in Iraq today include components that came from Iran”
-George Bush, March 13, 2006
March 14 DoD News Briefing with Secretary Rumsfeld and Gen. Pace
Q: You and General Pace and, indeed, the president and others have had intimated strongly in recent days that Iran is stirring — actively stirring up violence in Iraq. You said that Revolutionary Guards and IEDs and weapons are moving across the border from Iran. What you have not said conclusively is whether the government of Iran and the mullahs are sponsoring that activity. Do you have proof that they are, indeed, behind this, the government of Iran?
RUMSFELD: Pete?
GEN. PACE: I do not, sir.
RUMSFELD: The — let’s disaggregate the question so that it’s answerable with reasonable precision.
Q: As in “avoided”.
RUMSFELD: Charlie!
Q: Okay.
RUMSFELD: As to equipment, unless you physically see it coming in — in a government-sponsored vehicle, or with government- sponsored troops, you can’t know it. All you know is that you find equipment — weapons, explosives, whatever — in a country that came from the neighboring country.
http://www.defenselink.mil/tra.....12644.html
Nevermind how white liberals keep your kids in failing schools, just stay on the plantation.
The Senator from the Insurance Industry – just what the people in this state need in Congress…
Doomed from the start? I hope so!
-This is going to get interesting-
Yeah, that’s what you morons said about the Patty Murray race two years ago. And Bush’s approval ratings were DOUBLE what they are now.
Got any butter for that McGavick Toast, boys?
Gregoire and the Democrat Legislature are going to get blasted for this one:
OLYMPIA — A Snohomish County judge ruled Friday the Legislature violated the voter-approved spending limit last year by manipulating the state budget to avoid having voters consider $250 million in tax increases.
Superior Court Judge James Allendoerfer in Everett said voters must have their say if the state wants to continue collecting the increased taxes on cigarettes, alcohol and self-service laundries, among other things.
The immediate effect on consumers is unclear.
The judge said lawmakers and state officials “exploited a loophole with the express purpose of artificially increasing the limit,” according to Dick Stephens, the attorney for the group of organizations that sued the state.
Allendoerfer said the Legislature manipulated the budget “to avoid a vote of the people” on the tax increases for the current two-year budget, according to Jason Mercier, senior budget analyst for the Evergreen Freedom Foundation.
The lawsuit was filed last year by the Evergreen Freedom Foundation along with the National Federation of Independent Business, the Building Industry Association of Washington, the Washington Farm Bureau and the Washington State Grange.
The judge made his ruling in part based on e-mails between legislative and budget staff for Gov. Chris Gregoire’s administration that laid out a road map for the complicated maneuvers that would allow the limit to be pumped up and avoid a public vote on taxes.
The state had argued that the e-mails should be protected by legislative privilege. Allendoerfer ruled in January that he would allow some of the e-mails to be entered as evidence, and he quoted from several Friday.
Gregoire, a defendant in the case, said she had not been briefed on the court ruling and could not say what the immediate financial impact will be.
Those e-mails are DAMNING and clearly show the manipulative attitude of the Gregoire Administration to ignore the will of the people.
Wingnuts win one in Missouri. Go team!
The Crucible? A Midsummer Night’s Dream? Sad…
Hey Goldy – Be sure to pick up one of those “Boxer-Obama 08” bumper stickers to put on your Volvo. Do us a favor… please….
There is actually something she does well. Cantwell’s new nickname is going to be “PanderWell”.
LiberalRedneck missed the point: Seattle Media is being hostile to one of its own. If Cantwell’s seat is as safe as Goldy wants everyone to believe, then why is her GOP challenger getting positive press, while she’s hung out to dry? Not to mention all of the spreads on Dixon…
COURT BLOCKS GOP’S EASING OF AIR POLLUTION RULES
The Federal Appeals Court of D.C. handed a huge victory to 14 states, several large cities, and environmental groups yesterday when it ruled that EPA rules relaxed air pollution regulation of power plants, refineries, and factories violate the Clean Air Act.
“States Win Suit to Stop Lax EPA Standards
“By MARK JOHNSON, AP
“ALBANY, N.Y. (March 17) – A federal appeals court sided with 14 states Friday and blocked the Environmental Protection Agency from going forward with new regulations activists say would lead to more air pollution from the nation’s power plants and factories.
“The new rules would have allowed older power plants, refineries and factories to modernize without having to install the most advanced pollution controls. …
“The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington ruled that the EPA’s changes violated the language of the federal Clean Air Act, and that any such change can be authorized only by Congress.
“Fourteen states and a number of cities, including New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., sued to block the change in 2003.
“‘This is an enormous victory for clean air and for the enforcement of the law and an overwhelming rejection of the Bush administration’s efforts to gut the law,’ said New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who led the suit for the states. …
“Peter Lehner, Spitzer’s top environmental lawyer, said the decision applies to about 800 power plants and up to 17,000 factories nationwide. … ”
For complete story, see http://articles.news.aol.com/n.....8;cid=2194
George Bush should be censored, impeached and forced out of the office he defiles. He is plotting WWIII. The sounds uttered from the toothed hole in his face disgrace the USA. His inferred decree, “Die Democracy! Die liberty”, is welcomed by his obeisant, fascist Jesus-freak followers. How low the USA has fallen. No longer the mythic beacon on a hill. Republicans will leave their heads stuffed up their asses til they die. Future generations will not forgive them.
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A link to College Republicans??? ha ha ha ha ha Way to go, “C antVoteWell” … that’s the group that fleeced senior citizens! Their credibility is ZERO, and so is yours.
“Fund-raising group milks vulnerable senior citizens
“Copyright 2004, The Seattle Times Co.
“By David Postman and Jim Brunner
“Seattle Times staff reporters
“The College Republican National Committee has raised $6.3 million this year through an aggressive and misleading fund-raising campaign that collected money from senior citizens who thought they were giving to the election efforts of President Bush and other top Republicans.
“Many of the top donors were in their 80s and 90s. The donors wrote checks — sometimes hundreds and, in at least one case, totaling more than $100,000 — to groups with official sounding-names such as ‘Republican Headquarters 2004,’ ‘Republican Elections Committee’ and the ‘National Republican Campaign Fund.’
“But all of those groups, according to the small print on the letters, were simply projects of the College Republicans, who collected all of the checks. And little of the money went to election efforts. … ”
For complete expose of College Republican scamming of senior citizens, see http://seattletimes.nwsource.c.....bs28m.html
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Hey CVW, keep posting, you’re a great help to us!
Why bother spending billions of dollars on big corporate mainstream media reporters when they could just as easily have the Pentagon supply the stories and footage directly?
They already do in most cases.
Take the breathlessly “covered” air attack in Iraq. “Largest Air Attack in Iraq War Launched Against Insurgents,” read one big city headline we saw. And television was right there, providing lead stories on the massive “air attack.”
Only, of course, it turned out to be a PR stunt to boost Bush’s poll ratings at home and divert attention from the civil war in Iraq, as if the U.S. presence was accomplishing something.
It turned out that this air blitz was just a bunch of helicopters that flew up to a pretty sparsely populated area, where 40 poor shlubs that happened to be around were detained. There was no shooting, no injuries, no deaths. It was all just show time.
But did the mainstream media expose the stunt? Are you kidding? They just dutifully reported it as if it were some vital military strategic assault.
Soviet propaganda fulfilled the same function as “reporting” like this. The mainstream press has been lobotomized by a corporate culture that doesn’t want to “upset” the administration by practicing actual journalism.
Most television news and print coverage fulfill the same role as public relations agencies for the administration, with some exceptions for whistleblowing stories that are shoved in the media’s face.
But the “massive air attack” fell into the former category. The mainstream media might as well have had the Pentagon press office or Karl Rove’s shop writing their material. Maybe they did.
“Operation Overblown” Was a Costly PR Stunt in Iraq for Domestic American Bush/Rove PR Purposes. There Was No “Enemy” to be Found.
Bush Attack in Iraq to Raise His Poll Numbers is a Tragic Farce: “U.S. and Iraqi troops pressed their sweep through a 100-square-mile area on Friday in a bid to break up a center of insurgent resistance, the U.S. military said. No resistance or casualties were reported.” This Should be Called “Operation Save Bush from the Dumpster.”
The Real Daily Horror Story in Iraq That Bush Wants to Cover Up with PR Diversions that the Mainstream Press Swallows Like Caviar: The Muslim pilgrims’ road to the holy city of Karbala was a highway of bullets and bombs for Shiites on Friday. Drive-by shootings and roadside and bus bombs killed or wounded 19 people, ratcheting up the sectarian tensions gripping Iraq.
Yeah Aaron Dixon stands up for what he believes. Accepting RNC donations to split votes. Dixon is nothing but RNC diversion.
Give it up.
The Evergreen Freedom Foundation is a private, non-profit public policy think tank founded by Bob Williams, a former Republican state legislator. It is funded by the Scaife foundations and Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation.
The group’s original goal was to fight the Washington Education Association’s Union dues for political purposes; it also played an important role in Dino Rossi’s unsuccessful attempt to challenge the result of the 2004 Washington State governor election.
So much for Freedom and Propaganda Foundation
Watch Bush circle in the bowl
http://www.pollkatz.homestead......age001.gif
And the Republican Party, too.
Gregoire constantly ignores the will of the people.
She and her stooges got caught “plotting & scheming” how to circumvent the law….and GOT BUSTED!!!
“The judge ruled that the series of money transfers made by the Legislature “trumps the intent and spirit of 601,” a reference to the 1993 initiative that sets a state spending limit and requires voter approval to raise taxes above that limit.
The limit is based on a three-year average growth in population and inflation. In 2000, the Legislature approved a loophole that allows the limit to be raised by transferring money among different state accounts. The Legislature did something like that last year, according to the plaintiffs, to raise the limit by about $250 million.”
The Seattle Times is even willing to disclose the scheming. This will be a huge issue in the November Elections.
I think the point many of you, including Mrs. Rabbit, are missing, is that McGavick might never have to go negative. The Seattle MSM is finally taking initiative, and exposing CantVoteWell for what she really is: a vote pandering fool.
Cantwell is leading by 40 points. Doesn’t look like she needs to worry about (gasp) the college republicans attacking her. They’re loooosers who support a loooooser!
DEMOCRATS ARE FASCISTS AND HOLOCAUST DENIERS
Just listen to what Democrat former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark had to say at the funeral of Slobodan Milosevic, the deposed Serbian dictator. Milosevic is known as “The Butcher of the Balkans” for waging three genocidal wars against Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo. Over 250,000 people, mainly Muslims, died in these wars. Milosevic was on trial before the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague, when he died of a heart attack last week.
Ramsey Clark, a former U.S. attorney general and longtime Milosevic supporter who is now on Saddam Hussein’s defense team, drew cheers by telling the crowd: “History will prove that Slobodan Milosevic was right.”
But some drivers passing by the square honked car horns and made obscene gestures at the Milosevic supporters, underscoring the disgust many Serbs feel toward the late autocratic leader.
“All of Belgrade’s squares would be too small for all the victims of Milosevic and his rule,” said Foreign Minister Vuk Draskovic, who was twice targeted for assassination by the Milosevic regime. “A murderer and his crimes were glorified today.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200.....0bQ–
Where is the OUTRAGE from Democrat leaders about the atrocious comments by their former Attorney General Ramsey Clark? Saying that “History will prove that Slobodan Milosevic was right”, is equivalent to saying that history will prove Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, or Pol Pot right.
But what do you expect from a party headed by the likes of Howard Dean and Dwight Pelz, who believe that history will prove Fidel Castro right?
At the present time, Ramsey Clark heads up a Democrat organization that is pushing for the impeachment of President George W. Bush:
http://www.impeachbush.org/sit.....e=homepage
This goes to prove that President Bush’s opponents are led by Nazis, Fascists, Holocaust Deniers, and friends of war criminals.
Ramsey Clark is an old senile attention seeking fool.
So, Richard, from the left – I accuse him of utter stupidity and brain mush.
The death of Milosevic is convienent for the world. Will save a few bucks for some prison system.
It is surprising he was not assinated long ago. The Balkans take their traditional hate and revenge politics very seriously.
The horrors of the shattering of the old Yugoslavia is sad.
They could have forged a new federation at the end of the Tito years, and moved into the modern Europe.
My family is Croatian on my dad’s side.
Another Bush Mission Unaccomplished: “Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar vowed a ferocious offensive against U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan, saying on Thursday they would soon face unimaginable violence.”
Bush Attack in Iraq to Raise His Poll Numbers is a Tragic Farce: “U.S. and Iraqi troops pressed their sweep through a 100-square-mile area on Friday in a bid to break up a center of insurgent resistance, the U.S. military said. No resistance or casualties were reported.” This Should be Called “Operation Save Bush from the Dumpster.”
As Bush Continues to Mislead America, Iraqis Prepare for Full Civil War Bush Lied, Soldiers Keep Dying.
2,314 U.S. Military Fatalities in Iraq (thru today)
16,653 U.S. Military Maimed in Iraq (Last DoD Update: 07-Feb-06)
37,795 Iraqis Reported Killed (thru today)
WELL BOB WHY THE FUCK DONT YOU GO BACK TO CROATIA,AND TAKE ALL YOU FRIENDS ALONG WITH YOU.SEE YA
GBS. DONT YOU FELL BAD THAT YOU ARE A TOTAL FAILURE.HELL YOU COULD NOT EVEN MAKE IT IN THE NAVY.THE LESSON YOU SHOULD OF LEARNED WAS TO KEEP YOUR BIG MOUTH SHUT.TELL US AGAIN HOW HE GOT A LETTER AND YOU GOT A CAPTAINS MAST.I THINK YOU ARE TELLING A SEA STORY.YOU REMEMBER HOW THEY START OUT.THIS IS NO SHIT.COME CLEAN ASSWIPE.WHATS YOUR RE CODE ON YOUR DD214.WERE ALL WAITING.LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSER.
Richard Dope: The nazi sympathizers and holocaust deniers are on your right wing side. Right-wing historian David Irving pleaded guilty to charges of denying the Holocaust. David Irving was sentenced to three years in prison. Irving said he was wrong to say there were no Nazi gas chambers at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Holocaust deniers conceal the true motivation for their propaganda. Though the deniers often try to assume a scholarly, reasonable tone in their public statements, in their more private newsletters, conferences, and e-mails they typically display admiration for Nazism, and contempt for free speech and democracy. Sounds Republican.
TO: BIAW media whore Ken Carns:
The League of Conservation Voters (LCV), the political voice of the national environmental movement, today announced its endorsement of Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) for reelection to the U.S. Senate, citing her leadership in fighting for Washington families and standing up to corporate polluters and special interests. Sen. Cantwell is the organization’s first for the 2006 election among Democrats, Republicans and Independents. :)
“LCV is proud to make its first endorsement of the 2006 election cycle for Senator Maria Cantwell,” said LCV President Deb Callahan. “Senator Cantwell is one of our nation’s strongest environmental leaders in Congress, fighting every day for the health, quality of life and pocketbooks of Washington families, willing to stand up to big corporate interests, and working tirelessly to protect our wild places for future generations. In the coming weeks and months, we look forward to mounting an aggressive campaign to help reelect Senator Cantwell to the U.S. Senate.”
Ms. Callahan commented that LCV’s particularly early endorsement of Sen. Cantwell is because of her exemplary environmental record and leadership on behalf of Washington families. Senator Cantwell earned a 100% rating on LCV’s 2004 National Environmental Scorecard – one of only two senators who received a perfect score last year.
“Day in, day out, Senator Cantwell is on our side, putting the people of Washington first while standing up to the likes of Enron and holding corporate polluters accountable,” said LCV Northwest Campaign Manager Mike Palamuso. Senator Cantwell’s record of fighting for Washington families.”
Senator Cantwell is a leader in protecting the environment and fighting for Washington state. She has worked to protect consumers, most recently leading a successful effort to stop Enron from suing ratepayers in Snohomish County for payment of electricity the discredited energy company never delivered. Senator Cantwell has also been outspoken in making sure polluters, not taxpayers, pay for clean up of toxic waste sites, and co-sponsored legislation to ensure oil and chemical companies maintain their responsibility for cleaning up Superfund sites. On the critical issue of nuclear waste, she helped extract a pledge from the Department of Energy to clean up waste at the Hanford Site.
Additionally, Senator Cantwell has led the effort in the U.S. Senate to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from oil drilling. She continues to work for the creation of the Wild Sky Wilderness and has consistently fought for protection of our wild rivers and roadless areas.
Take that and shove it up your BIAW tail pipe. You who destroy the environment for profits.
Large Signs are called for
“RIchard Pope supports the use of Nazi Publications to support the absurd lie that Blacks and Indians owned more slaves than White people did!”
Oh, yeah, I am looking foward to your next campaign Richard!
Klake is a Nazi.
RIchard Pope defends his “lifestyle choice”.
Bumper Stickers will be issued!
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The League of Conservation Voters???
Who in the fuck are they??
Where do they get their dough??
Intertwined with the 122 Friends of Washington no doubt.
All that group is is a Left-wing spin-off that was established to support Democrats NO MATTER WHAT! They gave themselves a nice sounding name though. Just like 1000 Friends (which is really 122)
HI YO/DAWO. THIS MAN-CRUSH YOU HAVE ON GBS IS COSTING YOU A LOT OF KEYBOARDS. I BET UR GOING THROUGH A LOT OF UNFILTERED CAMELS AS WELL.
HEY CAPLOCKS THANKS FOR YOUR CONSERN.ILL DEFER TO YOU ON HOW TO BLOW A CAMEL SINCE YOU KNOW SO MUCH ABOUT THE SUBJECT.OH BY THE WAY FUCK YOU CAMEL BREATH.
DON SUCKS CAMEL DICKS ALONG WITH CAPSLOCKS STUCK.I THINK HE SHOULD CHANGE HIS NAME TO MY LIPS ARE STUCK ON A CAMEL DICK.
THERE IS NOTHING BETTER THAT FUCKING WITH THE LEFT.THEY ALL EAT SHIT AND BARK AT THE MOON.THUS YOU GET MOONBATS
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“Nevermind how white liberals keep your kids in failing schools, just stay on the plantation. Commentby RUFUS— 3/18/06@ 11:35 am”
It’s hard to argue schools never fail, Doofus. You’re Exhibit A.
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Wow! Democrats raised taxes to meet this state’s education, transportation, and human services needs. What a surprise.
Meanwhile, at the national level, the Republicans have run up $3 trillion of debt to pay for their wars, corporate subsidies, and tax cuts for the rich. And they’re looking for ways to spend even more on YOUR credit card.
So —
Democrats — pay as you go, use tax money to pay for things that help people
Republicans — spend and borrow, use tax money to kill people or give to their pals
lol, I was having a messenger talk with my nephew in Olympia tonight and he had a great comment:
“Cheney can’t keep his stories, his staff, or his daughter straight”
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“The League of Conservation Voters??? Who in the fuck are they?? Where do they get their dough??”
Not from the BIAW, Richard Scaife, or Aryan Nations.
Cynical @ 35
Actually, 1000 Friends of Washington changed their name to Futurewise. A more credible name for a group of 122 people (as you count their numbers at least).
OH DON’T MENTION IT, YO/DUMB ASS WASHOUT. UR ALWAYS WELCOME TO “COME” HERE TO “FINISH” (ON YOUR KEYBOARD) AFTER A HOT AND HEAVY CIRCLE JERK AT (UN)SP. ON SECOND THOUGHT MAYBE UR NOT WELCOME. DOESN’T MATTER. UR GONNA BE THROWN OFF THE ISLAND PRETTY SOON.
Wabbit @ 41
You have an excellent point about the hideous deficits that George W has run up on our credit card. Maybe he wouldn’t be there right now if the Democrats had come up with a credible solution for this problem.
Despite having close to 50% in each house, the Democrats in Congress didn’t propose any alternatives. Nor did their 2004 candidate, John Kerry — who certainly had plenty of opportunity to do so sitting in his safe Senate seat from Massachusetts.
People may be disgusted enough with Bush to vote in Democrat majorities in both houses of Congress — in spite of the Democrats still not presenting any credible alternative. If the Democrats could come up with something like the “Contract With America” (the concept, not the same issues of course), they might be able to pull off double digit gains in the Senate and 50 seats or so in the House.
By the way, what were the points in the “Contract With America”, and how well have the Republicans fulfilled them after 12 years?
I found the link to the “Contract With America”:
http://www.house.gov/house/Contract/CONTRACT.html
The Republicans have earned a big fat “F” on point one of the “Contract With America”:
1. THE FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY ACT: A balanced budget/tax limitation amendment and a legislative line-item veto to restore fiscal responsibility to an out- of-control Congress, requiring them to live under the same budget constraints as families and businesses.
“if someone can show me that bush is messiahonic i will lose my fucking mind. this man left his ranch to see about one woman, terry schaivo, but stayed a week and a half when thousands were dying in louisiana”
And there was NOTHING in the “Contract With America” calling for massive tax cuts. Especially not tax cuts targeted towards the rich.
Basically, the tax relief promised consisted of: (1) $500 per child tax credit, (2) elimination of marriage penalty, (3) Roth IRA accounts (as they were later called), (4) raise Social Security earnings limit for retired workers, (5) repeal increases in taxes on Social Security benefits, (6) tax deduction for nursing home insurance, (7) cut capital gains tax by 50% and index capital gains for inflation, and (8) allow deduction of first $25,000 business investment each year (instead of depreciation over time).
I would think this might have even sounded halfway weasonable to a wabbit back in 1994. We certainly didn’t get what we voted for — at least not in fiscal policy.
RP, it did sound reasonable back in ’94. But once again it only proves that RepubliCONS are great at campaigning, and inept at governing.
Actually, the promise on fiscal policy was kept for several years, since the GOP did hold the line on spending while Clinton was President. Fiscal policy went out the window after George W became President.
What a coincidence Richard. The spending policy went out the window, the constitution went out the window, honesty went out the window, social programs went out the window, corporate governance went out the window, the environment went out the window, price stability went out the window. I hope all of the RepubliCONS are still confident and proud that GWB is such a roll model!
The League of Conservation Voters??? Who in the fuck are they?? Where do they get their dough??”
Not from the BIAW, Richard Scaife, or Aryan Nations.
Commentby Roger Rabbit— 3/18/06@ 5:32 pm
They are like Moron.org and donks coming together. A front group for the democrats acting like a non partisan blue grass movement.
Pope said (and I quote):
“And there was NOTHING in the “Contract With America” calling for massive tax cuts. Especially not tax cuts targeted towards the rich…. Basically, the tax relief promised consisted of: …(7) cut capital gains tax by 50% and index capital gains for inflation…”
How dumb of me. I should have recognized that cutting capital gains taxes in half would have benefited the working poor the most, and have little or no effect on the rich? So many of my blue-collar friends are fretting about the unfair tax burden they will face when they cash out their huge stock portfollios! And of course, cutting a tax in half is hardly “massive” – it is almost an insignificant reduction”!
I have to go now – the big face behind the smoke is telling me to ignore the man behind the curtain, and I must obey…..
Everyone know donks have to disquise themselves as normal to be taken seriously. To be labled a “liberal” is the kiss of death in politics.
LOL @ Rufus. All along I thought the kiss of death was to be named a friend of yours! (you must have at least 1 or 2, right?)
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“To be labled a “liberal” is the kiss of death in politics. Commentby RUFUS— 3/18/06@ 7:04 pm”
I’d much rather be called a “liberal” than a “Republican.” I am, in fact, a liberal — and proud of it.
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Go where? Back to? — you are having some brain wave problems — I was born and raised in Seattle.
I can only surmise that warmer weather is having an effect.
Suck face — you could not get laid on Pride day with your attitude and I suspect you are ugly and _________ to boot.
Proud Native Son
Your public schools at work.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.c.....er18m.html
I love it when the inbred righties try to convince us that even though the rethugs control the House, the Senate and the White House that it is somehow Dems job to cut spending? Do you motherfuckers have a brain cell one in your stupid bodies? How is it the Dems job to cut spending when the Rethugs control the entire process from chairing the committees to allowing (or not) bills to even make it to the floor?
If the best the Richard Popes of the world have to offer is, “The Dems should have stopped us from spending America into oblivion” then we will win back the whole shooting match.
Laura @ 61
Well, the Democrats should have. Democrats have had nearly 50% of the seats in both houses in each Congress during the last 12 years. Back when the Democrats controlled both houses of Congress, the percentage of Republicans was considerably less than the numbers the Democrats have had in any of the last 12 years.
For example, in 1993-94, there were only 176 Republicans in the House. By contrast, the Democrats have always had at least 200 members of the House, and currently have 203 (including Bernie Sanders). Likewise, in 1993-94, the Republicans had only 43 Senators. The Democrats have always had at least 45 Senators since 1995 — i.e. the present breakdown of 44 Democrats and James Jeffords.
In the 1993-94 Congress, the Republicans were able and willing to block many of Clinton’s massive spending ideas, even though they were a decided minority. This kept Clinton from spending the nation into bankruptcy.
However, the Democrat minority in Congress has never shown any interest in cutting back on spending. So when Bush and the Republicans decided to spend the nation into bankruptcy, the Democrats in Congress have gleefully joined the party, rather than trying to prevent these massive deficits.
Bush isn’t very popular. The Republicans in Congress aren’t very popular. However, the Democrats are not an extremely credible alternative. But they will probably still pick up a lot of seats, since the Republicans are really unpopular.
Like I said, the Dems will win back the whole shooting match!
The Republican strategy in 2006 will be to say negative things about the Democrats. The Democrat strategy in 2006 will be to say negative things about the Republicans. This will probably result in a slight Democrat margin in one or both houses of Congress.
This experience will be humbling for the Republicans, and will make the Bushistas and kleptocrats in the party extremely weak. At the same time, the Democrat Congress will have absolutely nothing to offer the country either. Reform minded Republicans will insist on spending discipline. Bush might actually veto something for a change.
In 2008, the GOP nomination will end up being a contest between John McCain and Mitt Romney, either one of whom will have broad appeal among the American public. The Democrats will be overconfident and nominate Hillary Clinton. The GOP nominee will win by the biggest margin of any presidential contest in at least 20 years. The GOP will also regain a majority in Congress.
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Quote from above – Bush is not very popular.
Richard, that is the understatement of the week. Bar none.
He is also I N C O M P E T E N T – are the two related?
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“They are like Moron.org and donks coming together. A front group for the democrats acting like a non partisan blue grass movement. Commentby RUFUS— 3/18/06@ 7:02 pm”
Spoken like the ignorant fuck you are. There’s a reason why virtually everyone who gives a rap about the environment votes for Democrats. Just look at what Republicans do the the environment.
Mitt mother fucking Romney?
Are you high, Dick?
Mitt, for a man who doesn’t drink for religious reasons, seems to handle a corkscrew pretty well.
Besides, the GOP will never ever ever ever ever ever nominate a Mormon.
If there is any group the GOP hates more than blacks, it’s Mormons. You know, false religion and all that. Mormon DOES NOT equal Christian in the eyes of the GOP taliban.
An international view of GWB’s National Security Strategy statement:
“Intellecutal poverty is the most striking quality of the Bush administration’s new NSS statement, issued on Thursday. Its overall incoherence, its cliches and stereotyped phraseology give teh impression that Stephan Hadley, the national security adviser, and his fellow authors assembled it from the boilerplate of bureaucratic discourse with contempt for the Congress to whom it is primarily addressed.
It reveals the administrations’s foreign policy as a lumpy stew of discredited neoconservative ideas with some neo-Kissingerian geoplolitics now mixed in.” ……..
http://www.iht.com/articles/20.....edoped.php
Funny how the world understands the ineptness of this administration, but our resident wingnuts and the ridiculous far right keep heaping praise on the fool.
Calling all wingnuts!
Belltowner: I am sick and tired of you libruls claiming Republicans hate blacks. It’s the Democrats who hate blacks. Your people continue to oppress and suppress blacks with your librul policies.
Librul policies put an end to and forcibly subdue blacks who want to aspire to the highest offices in the land. Name me a librul black SoS, NSA Director, JCoS in any librul administration? Why did Colin Powell quit under Clinton after being elevated by GHWB? Figure it out or is the bell stuck in the towner?
Librul policies curtail or prohibit the activities of the black family. See DPM’s words in following entries.
Librul policies keep from being revealed, published, or circulated the fact that most black families want vouchers because their librully run schools in inner cities suck.
Librul policies deliberately exclude (unacceptable desires or thoughts of young intelligent blacks from leading this great country) from their minds.
That’s why you all are scared of Ken Blackwell, Lynn Swann, Michael Steele and others getting to high office as black Republicans. You find some old prune and you promulgate her words as gospel for the Republican masses.
Condi would wipe Hilary’s butt in 2008 if they were opponents. One is sweet, and gentle; the other is an asshole!
It was the Great Society that started destroying the black family. It was Daniel Patrick Moynihan who postulated the use of these programs. I will place links for your namometersized brain for reading.
From Daniel Patrick Moynihan”
http://www.family.org/cforum/c.....014430.cfm
In 1965, as an undersecretary of Labor during President Johnson’s rollout of his “Great Society” programs, Moynihan was alarmed by the data coming out of the ghettos: one of every four black children was born out of wedlock, compared to three of every hundred white children; a quarter of all black families were headed by women, double the number for white families; and the black divorce rate was 5.1 percent, while white marriages were failing just 3.6 percent of the time.
These and other findings led Moynihan, a sociologist, to write a report titled “The Negro Family: The Case for National Action.” In it, he argued that “the heart of the deterioration of the fabric of Negro society is the deterioration of the Negro family,” adding that unless steps were taken to halt that deterioration, the result would be increased “crime, violence, unrest [and] disorder.”
“The Moynihan report was completely abandoned, and none of the [welfare] programs that came out had any reference to the family-breakdown issue at all,” Rector said. “In fact, they were hostile to it because they were basically programs that subsidized single parenthood.”
This is why I challenged horseless looselips (why would a man choose a name headless lucy?) to his claim the Head Start program is a wonderful activity. Yes after your librul policies destroyed the black family you had to invent Head Start.
The problem with libruls is you think you can think for us. Wrong! You have live the life of societal luxury. You have never been discriminated against. You have never walked into a high fashion store and the clerks walk over to you asking in a condescending tone “May I help you” with the undertone of “Why are you here? You can’t afford this stuff.” That happened to the wife and me when were were buying some jewelry. We left and went to another store where the lady was Turkish. We come back to her and buy more stuff. You libruls have no fucking clue what it is like to be black in northeast America!
In fact you libruls have no fucking clue what it is like to live in WA State. When the navy moved into Everett Naval Station in the 90’s, the white teachers made comments to each other which the wife heard saying “Time to move. More minorities will cause more school problems.” Now who runs the school systems in blue state FUWA? You do. The WEA only supports (D) libruls.
Soon For the Clueless will ask for my banning again!
More for you BellTowner:
http://www.pbs.org/fmc/segments/progseg12.htm
“Not only did black out-of-wedlock birth rates skyrocket, but so did white rates. In fact, by 1999, the white illegitimacy rate was equal to the black rate when the Moynihan report was written. And black out-of-wedlock births reached almost 70 percent.” = That’s what welfare did to black inner city families. It was a free ride for more babies, the more money you received. So fuck and make more donks.
Soon For the Clueless will call for a ban of me as I preach the truth again.
“When effective conservative opposition to the left was still in its infancy, Moynihan was busily and often controversially pointing out the flaws in liberal thought. Yet when these policies came under serious challenge first from President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s and then a Republican Congress led by Newt Gingrich in the 1990s, he hugged what was left of the New Deal consensus tightly and was an obstacle to reform.”
A couple years ago, the writer Steve Sailer remarked that “true neoconservative politicians are practically nonexistent – as opposed to the Joe Liebermans and Daniel Patrick Moynihans who talk like Irving Kristol (R) but vote like Walter Mondale (big time (D).”
“Then the black illegitimacy rate was 26 percent; today it stands at 33 percent among all Americans and 69 percent among black Americans. We are now acutely aware of illegitimacy’s relationship with crime, welfare dependency, drug abuse, educational failure and a whole host of other pathologies and only beginning to reverse the tide.”
Oh I love this next paragraph: “Although he was then chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Moynihan refused to be bullied into uncompromising support of Bill Clinton’s health care plan. He sought to inject contrary views into the debate and chided Clinton that while we did not truly have a health care crisis, the country was facing a welfare crisis. This helped America avert Hillarycare and also moved the welfare reform debate forward, although Moynihan disappointingly opposed the landmark 1996 reform legislation in Kennedy-like terms.” Talks like a Republican but still votes like Walter Mondale. What happened to Mondale? Hmmm…?
“But Moynihan was seldom more on target than with his appraisals of his fellow liberals. The left, he stated, had developed “the ability to immediately dissolve every statement of fact into a question of motive.” He pointed out, “Liberalism faltered when it turned out it could not cope with truth.” His rebuke to messianic Great Society liberals – we thought we could do anything. . . The central psychological proposition of liberalism is that for every problem there is a solution”
For the Clueless will call for a banning of me because of these truths.
Sorry all: The link for the above is: http://www.americandaily.com/article/1531
Here is a good cartoon: http://newsbusters.org/
Was this in the Seattle Times?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....87_pf.html
“Federal prosecutors have decided to bring charges against a Democratic researcher accused of fraudulently obtaining a credit report on Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele, now a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate.
Lauren B. Weiner, who has since resigned from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in Washington, will be charged with obtaining the report without authorization, according to a letter sent to Steele by the U.S. attorney’s office in the District.
A copy of the March 8 letter, which notified Steele that he is considered a victim in the case, was obtained by The Washington Post yesterday.”
Republicans seized on the incident when it came to light in the fall as evidence of how seriously Democrats are taking Steele’s candidacy, an idea they sought to further yesterday.
“This sort of dumpster diving shows Marylanders that Democrats are willing to engage in this campaign from the gutter,” said Dan Ronayne, a spokesman for the National Republican Senatorial Committee in Washington, which was heavily involved in recruiting Steele to run. “It’s unfortunate that the lieutenant governor and his family have had to endure it.”
Weiner and Katie Barge, then the DSCC’s director of research, resigned after their superiors learned of the incident, which drew the FBI’s attention. The DSCC is the arm of the national Democratic Party that works to elect U.S. senators. = Who leads this group? – None other than little Chucky Schumer a white librul trying to quash a black running for senatoral office!! Why do libruls hate blacks who “leave the reservation”
Oh no, I just blogged something that For the Clueless will lead the cheer to get me banned!
Dumb Librul comment revisited. Bryant Gumbel goes racist and you libruls give him a pass. Yet Rush Limbaugh said something less damaging on how white America holds Donovan McNabb to a different standard and you all crucified him!
“Finally, tonight, the Winter Games. Count me among those who don’t like them and won’t watch them … Because they’re so trying, maybe over the next three weeks we should all try too. Like, try not to be incredulous when someone attempts to link these games to those of the ancient Greeks who never heard of skating or skiing. So try not to laugh when someone says these are the world’s greatest athletes, despite a paucity of blacks that makes the Winter Games look like a GOP convention. Try not to point out that something’s not really a sport if a pseudo-athlete waits in what’s called a kiss-and-cry area, while some panel of subjective judges decides who won … So if only to hasten the arrival of the day they’re done, when we can move on to March Madness — for God’s sake, let the games begin.”
Where was Dr E., Mr. X, or even horseless looselips on this comment? You mean Benson is not allowed to skate or play hockey?
Well there is a lack of white basketball players in the NCAA March Madness except for the Big Sky and other mostly white area schools. Is there a hue and cry over that?
Damn Pudster, you are asking for For the Clueless to ban you!
Pudster posted real truths in 70-78. If libruls have problems with truth, Roger Rabbit has an armadillo waiting for your visitation. Also there is a librully run farm in Enumclaw that accepts donks from Seattle who need animal contact.
Another post that For the Clueless will ask for my banning.
Calling all Wingnuts:
Ken Blackwell: the TOOL of WHITE SUPREMACISTS!
How pathetic is that!?!
SHOULD CORPORATIONS BE “PERSONS”?
By law, a corporation is a “person.” This means it owes income taxes, can sue and be sued, lobby Congress, etc. When a corporation breaks the law, the corporate “person” is liable, not the human beings who actually broke the law — they have legal sanctuary behind the “shield” of corporate identity.
And when Republicans are in power, corporations can break the law to their heart’s content, because NOBODY WILL DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT.
How do you throw a corporation in jail? You can’t. The only way to punish a corporation is with monetary penalties, which are no punishment at all unless the corporation pays them.
Well, guess what? Environmental laws and individuals’ constitutional rights aren’t the only thing the bush regime isn’t enforcing. From the Associated Press:
“Corporations Stiffing Government on Fines
“By MARTHA MENDOZA and CHRISTOPHER SULLIVAN
“(March 19) – When a gasoline spill and fiery explosion killed three young people in Washington state, officials announced a record penalty against a gas pipeline company: $3 million to send the message that such tragedies ‘must never happen again.’
“When nuclear labs around the country were found exposing workers to radiation and breaking other safety rules, assessments totaling $2.5 million were quickly ordered.
“When coal firms’ violations were blamed for deaths, injuries and risks to miners from Alabama to West Virginia, they were slapped with more than $1.3 million in penalties.
“What happened next with these no-nonsense enforcement efforts? Not much. The pipeline tab was eventually reduced by 92 percent, the labs’ assessments were waived as soon as they were issued, and the mine penalties largely went unpaid.
“The amount of unpaid federal fines has risen sharply in the last decade … corporations regularly avoid large, highly publicized penalties for wrongdoing ….
“These are conclusions of an Associated Press examination of federal financial penalty enforcement across the nation, which also found:
“– The government is currently owed more than $35 billion in fines and other payments from criminals and in civil cases, according to Justice Department figures. This is almost five times the amount uncollected 10 years ago … enough to cover the annual budget of the Department of Homeland Security. …
“– In 2004, federal authorities ordered $7.8 billion in 98,985 fines, penalties and restitution demands in criminal and civil cases, but collected less than half of that.
“– White-collar crime cases account for the largest amount of uncollected debt. In a study, Government Accountability Office investigators found that just 7 percent of restitution in such cases is paid.
“‘Fines and orders to pay restitution are an important part of how we punish convicted criminals. When so little effort is made to collect that money, we allow convicted criminals to avoid punishment for their crimes, weaken our criminal justice system and ultimately deny justice to the victims of crimes,’ said Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., who has pressed for closer scrutiny for years.
“The mechanisms of financial penalty enforcement are complex. To glimpse them, the AP filed Freedom of Information Act requests with a dozen federal agencies, seeking records on why and how they issue and collect administrative penalties and other assessments.
“The AP reviewed the responses, which ranged across the spectrum of regulation — from penalties for an Illinois company’s shoddy bike handlebars that resulted in knocked-out teeth to fines for selling tainted meat in Tennessee. The AP also reviewed more than a decade of congressional and Justice Department reports on uncollected debt, and interviewed agency officials, prosecutors and individuals who were fined.
…
“In many high-profile cases, fines are touted by authorities as proof that they are cracking down. Yet frequently those orders are quietly negotiated to just a fraction of their original amounts — as if drivers, faced with fines for speeding, offered the traffic court judge pennies on the dollar, and the judge agreed.
“Documents provided to the AP by the Labor Department’s Employment Benefits Security Administration, whose job is to protect pension and welfare benefits, showed that $2,000 was the maximum amount paid on nearly a dozen penalties ranging from $86,500 to $180,000; these were for … everything from failure to file reports to self-dealing by pension fund managers.
…
“The Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s written policy explains to inspectors that they can reduce penalties by as much as 95 percent ….
“Internal documents from U.S. Customs show that dramatically large fines may be cut sharply. Agency documents released under AP’s FOIA request listed, for example, a $60,911,316 ‘commercial fraud’ assessment for one company — but the case ended with a $15,000 collection by Customs.
…
“The Energy Department routinely issues substantial fines it isn’t even allowed to collect … the Energy Department has issued some $2.5 million in fines against Los Alamos, Livermore and Argonne national laboratories since 2000. The fines — issued and waived in the same sentence — involved 31 different workers who inhaled or touched radioactive or toxic materials.
…
“Even so, the Energy Department includes the fines in its annual reports to Congress and often announces them in press releases.
…
“Financial penalties are regularly touted by agencies and prosecutors as a strict consequence of lawbreaking. …
“The Office of Pipeline Safety, a Transportation Department bureau, is one of a number of agencies chastised by members of Congress for failing to follow through on enforcement. Nearly seven years ago, a pipeline ruptured, spilling 230,000 gallons of gasoline into a creek near Bellingham, Wash. The fuel exploded into a fireball that ravaged the surrounding woods. And it killed two 10-year-old boys playing in the woods and a young man, 18, who had gone to the stream to fish … on June 2, 2000, the Transportation Department issued a forceful press release, announcing a $3.05 million administrative penalty against the pipeline owner, Olympic Pipe Line Co. This, it said, was the largest in the history of the federal pipeline safety program.
“‘Tragic events like this pipeline failure must never happen again,’ then-Transportation Secretary Rodney E. Slater said at the time. ‘This civil penalty is one of a series of actions we have and are taking to help protect the people and environment.’ But last year … the penalty was quietly reduced to $250,000.
“‘They let them off with a slap,’ said Carl Weiner, who heads the Bellingham-based Pipeline Safety Trust.
“(T)he case illustrates how the value of assessed penalties is merely a starting point for some officials. The Environmental Protection Agency, for example, is often willing to reduce penalties ….
“The recent West Virginia coal mine deaths focused new criticism on enforcement tradeoffs made by mine safety inspectors. During hearings in January, Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., voiced outrage at how coal operators can whittle down fines. He cited assessments by the Mine Safety and Health Administration against a company in an Alabama mine where 13 people were killed in 2001.
“‘Incredibly, … an Administrative Law Judge reduced these fines from $435,000 to a mere $3,000 _ a decision that harms workers and erodes MSHA’s authority,’ Specter and three fellow senators elaborated in a letter to Labor Secretary Elaine Chao.
“The Labor Department later announced plans to raise fine amounts, and in a case it called ‘precedent-setting’ sought an injunction against a Kentucky mine operator … which paid nothing on $200,000 in penalties.
“AP’s Freedom of Information filing turned up numerous cases in which administrative penalties were ordered against mining companies for dangerous laxness in following rules — and yet records showed many went unpaid. …
“On Feb. 20, 2002, near Rupert, W.Va., a section of mine roof up to 10 feet thick collapsed, killing one miner and seriously injuring another. It took more than four hours to dig them out. The MSHA investigators’ report concluded: ‘Root cause – Mine management condoned unsafe work practices and … demonstrated a reckless disregard of the dangers ….’ … The companies … were hit with $165,000 in administrative penalties …. But MSHA has no record of any payment four years later. …”
For complete article, see http://articles.news.aol.com/b.....1009990001
So, how to enforce penalties against deadbeat corporations? Revoke their fucking personhood, that’s how!!! If a corporation doesn’t pay up, it should cease to exist — and the incorporaters shouldn’t be allowed to form another corporation. (It’s easy to bankrupt or dissolve a corporation, and set up a new one on the same day.) What the hell — THEY SHOULDN’T EVEN BE ALLOWED TO VOTE UNTIL THEY PAY THEIR FINES!
What a radical idea. I wonder who thought of it first?
81 – Succint argument for why the Republicans bums must be thrown out. Thanks.
ROGER RABBIT POLL
Show of hands — how many of you thought Olympic Pipeline ACTUALLY PAID that $3 million fine prosecutors announced to the press with fanfare and brass bands?
[ ] 1. B-b-b-u-t they have to, don’t they? After all, the government regulators mean what they say when they promise to punish companies who break the law, don’t they?
[ ] 2. What do you think I am, naive? They’re corporations, aren’t they? Hellooooo … the Republican CEOs of this very corporations are running the government …
[ ] 3. Yawn. It’s good propaganda for the masses, but you don’t really expect corporate lawbreakers to be punished, do you? Corporatedom comes with special privileges, you know.
[ ] 4. Let’s get rid of these fucking Republican corporate fascists, eliminate corporate immunity, and when a company burns little kids alive, tie the CEO to a stake and burn HIM alive!!!! Grrrrrrr.
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“Succint argument for why the Republicans bums must be thrown out.”
You mean you needed another one? As if there aren’t enough already?
Well, I think for starters, if say Diebold gets fined for criminal behavior and doesn’t pay the fine, then Diebold shouldn’t be allowed to vote more than once in Ohio until it pays the fine.
And, if say Sequoia gets fined for crminal behavior and doesn’t pay the fine, then Sequoia shouldn’t be allowed to vote more than once in Snohomish County until it pays the fine.
Etc.
That’s not asking for too much, is it??
Am I the only person who thinks it’s strange that, in Snohomish County, poll votes cast on Sequoia electronic machines went for Rossi in a much higher percentage than did absentee ballots cast on paper ballots?
But the bright side is that in Snohomish County, the military folks not only got to vote, they each voted 5 times!
It works kind of like Class A and Class B shares in a corporation. You know — a Class A share gets 10 votes per share, a Class B share gets 1 vote per share. The Class B shareholders provide all the capital, and the corporate insiders get all the Class A stock.
This shouldn’t be too hard for us to understand, because our “democracy” works the same way. Three Republican-owned companies … Diebold, Sequoia, and ES&S … own all the Class A shares, and we the people get the Class B shares. That means the folks who own those companies pick our government, and us Class B shareholders provide money for them to spend.
It’s the OPM principle — we provide the money and take the risk, and they get all the profits, but if there are no profits they take our capital. If there are profits, they take the profits AND our capital.
Here’s an example of how OPM works. Let’s say QWest files a $250 million rate increase with the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission. QWest says it needs the money to install new equipment and phone lines for growing communities (i.e., to capitalize its corporate growth in Washington state).
Because a Democrat governor appoints the UTC, a majority of the commissioners are Democrats, so they reject the rate increase, saying something like, “It’s QWest’s responsibility to provide capital for its business operations. However, if you can raise $250 million from your shareholders or by borrowing, we’ll give you a $25 million rate increase for ROI (return on investment), as your investors are entitled to a reasonable return on their money for putting up capital so QWest can expand its services in our state.”
But let’s suppose Rossi had succeeded in stealing the election, and had installed three former phone company lobbyists on the UTC. What do you think would have happened then? It doesn’t take much imagination …
“Sure, you can charge the ratepayers $250 million to expand your infrastructure, and not only that, we’ll let you charge the ratepayers an additional $25 million a year in perpetuity, because after all, you are entitled to a reasonable rate of return on their money!”
See how OPM works? Man, Republicans just love OPM! They’d be crazy not to. And it sure gives them an incentive to steal elections, too.
Republicans are not only
F R E E L O A D E R S,
they also want to charge you interest on the money they took from you.
It’s kind of like this: You deposit your money in a bank, and pay them interest on your money, even after they withdraw and spend it. That’s how OPM works.
And finally, to realize the full potential of OPM, Republicans eliminate taxes on capital gains, dividends, and interest so the money they took from you, and the interest you pay them on your money, can compound tax-free!
Shifting the entire tax burden to wage earners also ensures that workers will never accumulate enough capital to cash in on the OPM system themselves, so they’ll have to keep working.
Which is exactly what the CHEAP LABOR CONSERVATIVES want, because their wealth depends on your hard work, i.e., you work so they don’t have to. (For complete explanation, see http://www.conceptualguerilla......php?id=103)
See how OPM works? Yep, being a Republican is a good deal … for Republicans. But not so good if you work for a living, instead of sitting around on your fat ass reading the WSJ and clipping dividend coupons, like Roger Rabbit does.
Oh yeah, before I forget — Republicans also have to eliminate pensions, or they won’t be able to get rabbits to work at all, much less work cheap. (In my case, it’s too late — I’m already living off the fat of the land!!! ha ha ha ha ha ha ha)
Kind of makes you wonder why any wage earner would ever vote for any Republican, doesn’t it?
About the only way any wage earners would ever vote Republican is if (a) they were stupid, and (b) the Republicans sold them a pack of lies about Democrats.
ROGER RABBIT POLL
Wage earners who vote Republican are
[ ] 1. ignorant,
[ ] 2. stupid,
[ ] 3. gullible,
[ ] 4. self-destructive,
[ ] 5. all of the above.
ROGER RABBIT POLL
Rabbits who sit around on their fat asses all day reading the WSJ, collecting pension checks, and clipping divided coupons continue to vote Democrat because
[ ] 1. they like the OPM system but don’t know how it works,
[ ] 2. they’ll live off the fat of the land if they can get away with it, but have enough decency to have a guilty conscience about it,
[ ] 3. just figure, what the hell, if Republicans can do it why can’t I? Why should Republicans have a monopoly on being lazy bums living off other people’s labor? Why can’t liberal bunnies horn in on that deal, too? Republicans want a monopoly on every fucking thing.
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“fa89Kn9MuzoNi6 aPvZTIPznC L46Lfl6nXkH Commentby dSQzU65HNG— 3/19/06@ 11:58 am”
If any of you are wondering what this says, it’s in a rabbit dialect, so I can easily translate it for you. It says:
“klake is a nazi”
Let’s see, where was I? Oh, yes. I was about to say, why shouldn’t I live like a Republican? The whole point of being a Democrat is so that some day we can live like Republicans.
Besides, every dollar of tax-free capital gains, dividends, and interest that I collect is a dollar the Republicans can’t use to buy congressmen with.
ROGER RABBIT POLL
What are the odds that Kevin Carns’ robo-calls are financed by L & I taxes?
[ ] 1. 10%
[ ] 2. 100%
[ ] 3. Whatever the current Mafia loan shark rate is
[ ] 4. Whatever the current ROI rate on OPM is
[ ] 5. All of the above summed, then cubed.
Spoken like the ignorant fuck you are. There’s a reason why virtually everyone who gives a rap about the environment votes for Democrats. Just look at what Republicans do the the environment.
Commentby Roger Rabbit— 3/19/06@ 12:50 am
You can say the same thing about voter fraud watch groups. There is a reason why most are run by republicans. For a donks to be serious about voter fraud it would cost them votes and elections. Nuff said.
For the Clueless: You applaud John Murtha and Code Pink?
Visit your librul sisters at http://www.codepink4peace.org/ Search John Murtha
Remember this?
Thank You Congressman Murtha! CODEPINK co-founder Gael Murphy and DC coordinator Allison Yorra met with Congressman Murtha to thank him for his courageous stand on Iraq. We presented him with our pink badge of courage and pink flowers sent by CODEPINK members nationwide. Rep Murtha was very appreciative of these gestures and requested that we ask legislators to support H.J Res 73 (Murtha’s resolution). He also requested that we use additional donations for the wounded at Walter Reed. DC CODEPINK along with other peace groups involved in the weekly vigil at Walter Reed recently delivered baskets of goodies to the wounded at Walter Reed. Together, with Murtha’s office, we will be continuing this outpouring of kindness and support to the wounded soldiers from CODEPINK.”
But For The Clueless, this is not told to you by Code Pink regarding their meeting with John Murtha and their other activities:
Code Pink has given $650,000 to the terrorists in Fallujah, participated in war crimes tribunals against America and has called American soldiers “killers” on their website among many treasonous actions.
Yeah, we support the troops.
Or For the Clueless did you remember the protest by Code Pink on Hilary last December? From Code Pink’s website: “Hillary Clinton was the keynote speaker at an event to get high school and college kids interested in politics. Eight CODEPINKers, with pink umbrellas, treated Hillary to a CODEPINK-style protest, opening their umbrellas and chanting, “Out of Iraq Now” — one word on each umbrella. People in the crowd chanted “Troops out now,” and others had signs along the same vein. One friend threw leaflets down on the crowd. It was [an] amazing event!
Yet Code Pink supports Hilary! Of course you have no problem with that!!!
Of course For the Clueless you protested loud and hard when Code Pink supported John Kerry in 2004, right?
http://www.utne.com/web_specia.....315-1.html
So drop the crap with Ken Blackwell and the conservatives. What Republican conservatives supporting Black Candidates?
You leftist loony moonbats like Code Pink ((eat shit and bark at the moon) – that was a funny line) know how to support their candidates!!!
But Belltowner claims Republicans are racists by dredging up some old prune! Need I remind you of Robert 3K Byrd BellTowner? Are you one of his white niggers? Remember this Belltowner or did you conveniently go moonbat and forget this: http://www.bannerofliberty.com.....001.1.html
“What is his (Bill Clinton’s) legacy for your party?” Senator Byrd responded without hesitation:
“You can see his legacy right here on Capitol Hill and down at the other end of the Avenue – a Republican House, a Republican Senate and a Republican White House. That’s part of his legacy.”
Tony Snow: “What’s the other part?”
“A lowering of the standards of our culture. I’ve been in Washington 49 years. In these past few years I’ve seen a more rapid deterioration in the country’s culture than ever before.”
The next names Snow threw out were “Terry McAuliffe” (Byrd said: “Bad Choice”) and “Ronald Reagan” (Byrd said: “a very likeable individual, charming personality. He had one, two or three ideas about government and kept those ideas in front of him always…” And before Byrd finished his thought Snow threw out: “race relations.” The 83 year old senator responded with the following rather remarkable, and seemingly disjointed comment:
“They are much, much better than they have ever been in my lifetime. As a personal opinion, I think we talk about race too much. I think those problems are largely behind us. I think we can all profit by our mistakes. I think we have reached a new plateau. And, I think it is going to keep going upward.- the understanding and race relations. = Yes librul moonbats play the race card whenever they need a fall back position!
“I think…I just think …we talk so much about it we create somewhat of an illusion …uh…uh…I think we should try to have good will. My old Mom told me, ‘Robert, you can’t go to heaven if you hate anybody.’ We practice that.”
And then came the bombshell. His tone of voice changed and he said firmly,
“There are white niggers. I’ve seen a lot of white niggers in my time …it you want to use that word. We all…we all just need to work together to make our country a better country.
“I’d just as soon quit talking about it so much.”
So who is still the racist today Belltowner.
The Prosecution Rests
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“You can say the same thing about voter fraud watch groups. There is a reason why most are run by republicans.” Commentby DOOFUS— 3/19/06@ 12:55 pm
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Aee you referring to this one? http://www.bradblog.com/ACVR.htm
New ‘Non-Partisan’ ‘Voting Rights’ Org Appears Little More than Republican Front Group!
“6-Day Old Tax-Exempt Group Run by High Level GOP Operatives!
“As reported here earlier today, the U.S. House Administrative Committee hearings yesterday in Columbus featured testimony from St. Louis attorney, Mark F. (Thor) Hearne, II of the ‘non-partisan’ American Center for Voting Rights (ACVR).
“According to Internic records, the ACVR was established on the web just last Thursday and early investigation into this group would seem to indicate that it is little more than a front group for Republican operatives with little or no interest in actual ‘Voting Rights’ at all.
“While Hearne is listed as a witness for yesterday’s hearings on the U.S. Committee for House Administration website as ‘National Counsel, American Center for Voting Rights’, there is no mention of his affiliation or extensive work for Bush/Cheney ’00, ’04 and other Republicans.
“Hearne, a former Reagan Administration official, is the National Election Counsel to Bush-Cheney ’04 Inc. and was Missouri counsel to Bush-Cheney ‘00 Inc. As well, he was General Counsel to Republican Missouri Governor Blunt.
“He is pictured, at a March 5, 2005 Republican National Lawyers Association (RNLA) reception in Ohio, at the bottom of this article. The RNLA is an off-shoot of the national Republican Party.
“But Hearne is not the only high-level Republican operative working for the tax-exempt ‘non-partisan’ 501(c)3 organization…
“ACVR publicist, Jim Dyke — the contact person given on a press release issued by ACVR yesterday — is the one-time Communications Director for the Republican National Committee!”
Memo to Doofus: The fact that GOP-sponsored fake “voting rights” groups sprout like mushrooms after a rain means nothing. Quantity is not a substitute for quality.
correction
post #112 & #113 are in reply to post #106, not #107
Kevin Carns @107, 108
Don’t you have some robo-calls to make? Oh, that’s right, this is Sunday. Republicans don’t work on Sundays.
Republicans don’t work on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, or Saturdays, either. They live off other people’s work.
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So what? BFD. The Birchers and Aryans supported Bush.
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“What Republican conservatives supporting Black Candidates?”
If I can find one, I’ll get back to you.
They sure as hell didn’t support Colin Powell.
For the Clueless: I guess the information provided today has you clueless? Shall I start with the MoveOn.org another way out librul moonbat website and their ((eat shit and bark at the moon) – Yo, I just love that line!) support for Hilary?
Maybe because Powell didn’t have enough militarist credentials to suit them. (Having seen war, he doesn’t like it.)
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“niggers”
Spoken like a Republican. Oh, and btw, pudding-brains, where did you get this self-delusion that you’re some kind of “prosecutor?” That’s pretty high-falutin pretension for a dolt who can’t even win an argument with his own shoelaces.
Roger_Rabbit@115: More bullshit from rabbit pellet himself. I work hard to earn what I make. How come most on Forbes richest list are Republican leaning except for Moonbats Bill and Warren? Did they take off those days and act like a librul? I work on average 13-14 hours a day six days a week. You’d do better eating shit and barking at the moon!
#117,118@Rabbit_Pellet: I named black candidates above. Did you miss the memo? Support for Colin Powell. The Republicans wanted him to run moron. He didn’t want to subject his wife Alma to the strains of librul moonbat mudslinging.
I am surprised at how idiotic your comments are sometimes Rabbit Pellet! Did you forget this in 2004? Oh, wait the rabbit pellet brain is small so yes I can understand how this was flushed. http://decision08.blogspot.com.....-five.html
“Take My Wife, Please – It is widely believed that Alma Powell discouraged her husband from making the 1996 run that he might have won. I also recall a lot of talk about whether Alma’s treatment for depression would be an issue, though I think the stigma of anti-depressants has largely disappeared in the intervening years.” = Because librul moonbats don’t care that you overcame a disease. They use it to ensure you never live it down!!!!!
So Rabbit Pellet – More bullshit?
Oops, For the Clueless will call for my removal from ASSes again!
Jesse Jackson is a pawn of white libruls. He asked Kerry about his white campaign. He was bought off! Just give Jackson some money:
Can Jackson Still Help Kerry With Blacks?
Commentary, Earl Ofari Hutchinson,
Pacific News Service, Oct 01, 2004
Editor’s Note: With a recent poll showing that Bush has gained some ground among blacks, John Kerry has called on Democratic standby Jessie Jackson to bump up black support. It may not work this time, writes PNS contributor Earl Ofari Hutchinson.
It’s predictable. The moment that white Democrat presidential candidates stumble with black voters they call on Jesse Jackson to bail them out. Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton did it in 1992. At his behest, Jackson barnstormed in black neighborhoods touting Clinton as a white Southerner who cared about civil rights. In 2000, Democratic presidential contender Al Gore dispatched Jackson to Florida at the 11th hour to shore up his sagging campaign among black voters.”
http://news.pacificnews.org/ne.....3c3f73fe64
So Rabbit Pellet, need I say more?
Nope!
The Prosecution Rests
Rabbit Pellet: I take on all libruls like a prosecutor does with defendants.
Regarding a librul saying nigger. I posted the documentation on Robert 3K Byrd. Who has said this:
“Yeah, he’s a nigger but he’s not bad.”
How about Democratic Chicagoans talking about black Mayor Harold Washington!
Rabbit Pellet – You are playing with fire. I know libruls. I came from a family of libruls.
Read this entry from a librul. http://www.deanesmay.com/archives/004918.html
Even this librul says this: “By the way, have I mentioned that of all the places I’ve been, Chicago’s only the second most racist? The city of Detroit is worse, from everything I’ve seen. Almost no white people live there anymore, since the city’s first black mayor, Coleman Young, went out of his way to drive them all out.”
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“Rabbit Pellet – You are playing with fire.” Commentby Puddybud— 3/19/06@ 2:10 pm
Yup. Warmin’ up the brandin’ iron to stamp “KKK” on your ass. She’s startin’ to glow …
Here is another nigger comment from a librul. BTW this was proven wrong later!
http://annatopia.com/archives/001374.html
Damn Rabbit Pellet: You are just stupid!!!
Oh no, For the Clueless will call for my banning!
REPUBLICANS SUPPORT HUMAN MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS
Under Bush, the FDA has relaxed rules for testing new drugs so pharmaceutical companies can market them sooner. http://www.signonsandiego.com/.....13fda.html
After all, if there’s a problem, it’ll show up when patients start dropping dead. Letting unsuspecting patients test new drugs is cheaper, too. (Cost effectiveness, however, requires that Congress pass “tort reform” so doctors, hospitals, drug companies, and government agencies can’t be sued for things like injecting plutonium into patients without their knowledge or consent.)
Click here for photo of human medical experiment:
http://aolsearch.aol.com/aol/i.....ie%3DUTF-8
Of course you are going to try and brand KKK on my ass. You own the branding iron. You bought from a Grand Klagon, who happens to be your best friend! Remember rabbit pellet, rabbits don’t run too fast, while the world’s greatest speed runners are blacks!
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“I work hard to earn what I make.”
Not me! I sit on my fat ass all day, collecting pension checks and stock dividends. Hell, why should Republicans have a monopoly on living off the work of others? I want a piece of that, too!
I always get a kick out of listening to Republicans whime about how “hard” they “work.” Sheesh. The whole point of being a Republican is getting rich on the backs of working people so they themselves DON’T HAVE TO WORK!!!
Unless you consider playing golf and drinking in the country club bar on Wednesday afternoons “work.” I understand that’s considered “marketing” or “networking” or something like that when they claim business tax deductions for it.
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“So Rabbit Pellet – More bullshit?”
Make up your fucking mind! Do I shit rabbit pellets, or bullshit? I can’t do both, I’ve got only one colon.
Roger, who called for ehuman trials. Dummocraps:
“1992 — Congress passes a new law creating a faster approvals process to legalize new drugs. The FDA must hire more reviewers and speed up reviews without sacrificing proper study and testing. The drug industry must pay “user fees” with every new drug application. Approval times drop from 30 to 12 months on average. 60% of new drugs come on the market in the U.S. first, before other countries. Before this law, when the approval process was slower, more new drugs came out in other countries first.”
Damn this is too easy!
http://www.positivenation.co.u.....tment1.htm
Among younger men in San Francisco, Kirk says, “the condom is over. People are just over them.” Despite this, he does not anticipate the kind of highly visible, concerted demand for microbicides among gay men that we saw generated in the 1980s and 90s by treatment activists demanding more and faster research to develop effective Aids drugs. “In the late 80s, we were in such a state of crisis around Aids. We’re just not experiencing that state of crisis now. Seroconversions are a very quiet phenomenon and death is a very loud one, so the crisis sounds different.”
Pudding-brain apparently thinks this is a rabbit: http://www.nctc.net/~hazard/ph.....ghorns.JPG
Rabbit Pellet: Your pellets are bullshit!
Oh no for that comments For the Clueless will demand me being banned!
Hey, whatever. He wouldn’t know what a terrorist looks like if one shot him between the eyes.
click here for photo of terrorist http://talkleft.com/new_archives/007851.html (the terrorist is the white-haired pig on the left)
Heyyy pudding-brains, to assist you in target identification …
This is a bunny: http://mysite.wanadoo-members......n/bs1.html
This is a bull: http://www.nctc.net/~hazard/ph.....ghorns.JPG
Wait a minute … I don’t look like THAT bunny, I look like THIS bunny: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit
DEMOCRATS SUPPORT HUMAN MEDICAL EXPERIMENT
Well, why not? If Republicans conduct medical experiments on rabbits, why shouldn’t I conduct medical experiments on Republicans? Why should Republicans dish out all the medical experiments? Republicans want a monopoly on every fucking thing.
Rabbit Pellet: When did you change gears and bring up your friends, islamofascist terrorists? You were getting your racist furry ass and tail handed back to you so a topic change?
There are many more librul racist web sites on the www. You should visit and read them before making specious comments that have no weight in the blogosphere!
On second thought, Republicans can have all the medical experiments. I don’t have the stomach for that shit. Republicans, on the other hand, get their rocks off from killing people in the most gruesome ways imaginable. For example, like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.....m_1966.jpg
Rabbit Pellet: I proved to you the Dummocraps were the first to speed up the medical testing under pressure from your gay friends. You offer no counter argument. I expected more from a lawyer.
I must go now. I have to prep for tomorrow! I’ll read more of your bullshit pellets tomorrow!
PullYourPuddyBuddy, that will be the day. You have never proved anything with your cut and paste from wingnut sights! You are a very sad example of an expended lifetime of plagiarism.
Pope at 25 & 26
-Where is the OUTRAGE from Democrat leaders about the atrocious comments by their former Attorney General Ramsey Clark? Saying that “History will prove that Slobodan Milosevic was right”, is equivalent to saying that history will prove Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, or Pol Pot right.-
Ramsey Clark? That senile nut (you should like him, Mr. Pope!) got nowhere in trying to prevent NATO from removing Milocevic from power. And, if you had any clue whatsoever, Richard Pope, Clark has not been affiliated with the Democratic Party for decades. Try the Party for Socialism and Liberation, some spinoff from the Workers World crazies.
Now, the Republican Senate at the time (you know, the guys who were trying to stop Clinton and NATO from intervening in Milocevic’s ethnic cleansing exercise) was a different story. Along with right wingnut activists at the time, the GOP did its best to let Milocevic wreak havoc on the former Yugoslavia.
Better luck fomenting outrage against Democrats next time, Mr. Pope.
Drivel@146: Aptly named because you bring nothing to the librul argument. It is all drivel!
Drivel: Looks like Goldy allowed Post@151 to leak through in honor of you!
Drivel: He has brain and erectile dysfunction. Keep up the good work!
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