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The Democrats in Olympia are NO better than the Republicans in D.C. The Federal Government and the State Government have all gone beserk with spending. Next year ought to be a real dream with Gregoire taking on “Health Care for all.”
How many billions are we wasting in Washington State???
Revenue goes up 6 percent, spending goes up 17 percent last budget cycle. We have almost 1 billion deficit next year, the only question is – whose sin will they tax into the ground next year???
why the fuck am I paying 3 bucks a gallon for gas? why the fuck did Washington State spend 78 million dollars on routine medical care for illegal aliens?????????? What are they going to tax to make up the 78 million bucks that will have to be repaid to the Federal Government because Washington State isn’t in compliance with Federal laws?
I’d ask why you weren’t paying more before. Americans have been getting a free ride for far too long. The big crime here is that the national tax on gas was so low. Now when we end up paying $5 per gallon it little of that money will benefit anyone but Big Oil.
Why should I pay more national taxes? The “national” highway system is complete…… I don’t feel the need to pay for Boston’s Big Dig or any other “national” transportation system.
How many billions (with a B) were earmarked pork? Seattle Art Museum sculpture park ring any bells with you? Patty did bring home the pork!
KC, is that you?
Damn.
Either sgmmac is now COMPLETELY a hater or an uncrupulous (shocking, I know…) troll has hi-jacked the handle.
re 1: But look at all the money employers saved with cheap labor, smegmac! You need to start seeing things with a little consistency. You can’t be a cheap labor American corporatist fascist with that inconsistent thinking.
I see a case of cognitive dissonance coming on for you.
Oy vay!
And Democrat dumbass liberals wonder why prices for energy are high………..
Dem energy policy [ex Hollywood Democrats, Kerry and Kennedy’s private jets, 110 ft Chris Crafts, mansions, water craft, and SUVs]
– tax and litigate as many energy/oil/transportation/retailers/corner gas station owners [ producers] as possible
– don’t drill anywhere, ingore the Russian drilling in Siberia, but it’s OK for the Chicomms and Cubans to drill 75 miles from Key West, FL because they are sweet and socialist. – blame Bush
– don’t pursue nuclear power. Jane Fonda’s movie taught all Democrats everything they need to know!! Only the French should because they are socialist.
– Always blame Bush
– don’t allow new hydro
– blame oil companies. Tax them even more. Add 50 cents more in taxes per gallon, then blame Bush for higher pump prices!!!.
– tear down old hydro
– blame Republicans. Oil Companies must not show any profits. Profits are evil.
– don’t allow wind mills if they spoil a Kennedy view off Cape Cod.
– blame people that drive to work alone. Make them use bikes and/or walk. No horses because of horse poop. Democrat welfare hacks who need to power their 42 inch Sony plasma HDTVs in Detroit, Gary, Philly, and South Central LA are OK.
– don’t use coal. Coal kills.
– blame businesses that use energy to produce products or generate jobs. “Guvment” jobs: good, private sector jobs: bad, must tax them until they go away.
– don’t give incentives to anyone, anywhere to find and develop hydrocarbons. “All you need is love”!!
– blame capitalists and shareholders of any energy/oil companies for being “greedy”. Russian oil companies are OK. So are Chicomm energy companies. EXXON is a four letter word!!
The big crime here is that the national tax on gas was so low.
Commentby Daniel K— 4/30/06@ 10:10 pm
[……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….Another brain dead Democrat. Tax me more!!! Total fucking idiot.]
I’M BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!!!!
And guess what my wee LEFTIST PINHEADED KLOWNS……
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To quote from Lord Jim (and for the mouth breathers, a reference to T.S. Eliot) “Mr. Kurtz, he dead. . .”
We burned up a shitload of petrol!! It’s great.
On the first leg of our trip, we were on fumes when we rolled into a gas station just across the Idaho border in Post Falls.
I’LL BE GOD-DAMNED IF I GIVE THE STATE OF WASHINGTON ONE EXTRA CENT OF GAS TAX MORE THAN I HAVE TO!!!!!!
Hell, I was willing to PUSH my SUV across the fucking border if I had to…just to avoid paying the extortionists!!
I wonder why gas in Montana was only $2.48/gallon????
Great to see ya, BOZO!!!! How was the road trip?
Pay a lot of GAS TAXES?
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THANKS BOZO FOR DOING YOUR FAIR SHARE TO MAINTAIN AND REPAIR OUR CRUMBLING INFRASTRUCTURE!!!
DAY 173 of my Vigil since the KLOWNS of Washington caved in to the Gas Tax Extortionists……………
TRAFFIC STILL SUCKS!!!!!!!
BIAW’S Dick is still an asshole!
BIAW’S Dick is still an asshole!
BIAW’S Dick is still an asshole!
BIAW’S Dick is still an asshole!
BIAW’S Dick is still an asshole!
Any moron can cut aand paste. Even Peeeeeeeeee-Doooooooooookie.
I gues it’s hard (NO PUN…you filthy-minded people!) to be a Dick and an asshole at the same time. I think few can pull it off…
…But…
BIAW’s Dick is that man. (Wild standing ovavtion!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Thank you! Thank you! (THE OVATION CONTINUES AS THE SHOT FADES)
(Roll credits)
Hello Klueless!
Yup….but most of my Gas Taxes went to other states.
I filled up in Post Falls before entering Washington State too….just to avoid another 28 gallons worth of WASHINGTON TAX.
Hell, I even filled up an extra 5 gallon Gas Can!!!!!!!!
Anyway…America is a great country with many beautiful places and great people. Hell, I was embarrassed to say I lived in Washington. People across America HATE the LEFTIST COAST. I tell them you KLOWNS talk a bunch and desire to be in charge….BUT DON’T HAVE A FUCKING KLUE WHAT YOU WOULD DO IF YOU WERE IN CHARGE!!!
A lot of very Conservative people are as disgusted with Bush as I am…..
However the thought of the whole Country being run the way Washington State is (run into the ground that is), is more than most reasonable folks can stomach.
Remember you PINHEADS….Bush ain’t runnin’ again!!
You have to come up with a fucking plan in order to win.
That’s MISSION IMPOSSIBLE for you idiots.
With no one (hardly) but rightwingnut fruitcakes posting this really is The Wasteland .Nevertheless, “Mistah Kurtz, he still dead. . .”
It is now three years since Mission Accomplish.
Let’s remember what Bush has cost us:
http://americablog.blogspot.co.....may-1.html
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“The Democrats in Olympia are NO better than the Republicans in D.C.”
Bullshit. The Republican congress is corrupt as all get out; NO Olympia Democrats — not one — have been indicted, convicted, or forced to resign.
“The Federal Government and the State Government have all gone beserk with spending.”
Sorry Mac — more bullshit. Bush and the GOP Congress, yes — a $700 billion gift to Big Pharma and HMOs that does little or nothing for seniors, for starters. (And they even lied about what it would cost!) Is spending up in Olympia? Yes, about 12%. Why? Because a lot of essential needs were deferred because of the Bush Recession, and because of Republican obstructionism in the state senate. Gregoire added several thousand badly needed seats in state colleges (Washington ranked dead last in availability of public college spaces for its residents, on a per capita basis), and addressed critical transportation needs, and gave state employees a very modest raise (about 3.2% total, for a period of 6 years — do you really think state employees should get nothing?).
“Next year ought to be a real dream with Gregoire taking on ‘Health Care for all.’”
Rossi’s budget kicked 40,000 needy kids off Medicaid. Are you proud of him, and your party, for that?
“How many billions are we wasting in Washington State???”
Depends on what your definition of “waste” is. Republicans think any government spending that helps needy citizens, educates our citizens, or otherwise doesn’t line the pockets of the rich is “waste.” I say bullshit.
“Revenue goes up 6 percent, spending goes up 17 percent last budget cycle. We have almost 1 billion deficit next year, the only question is – whose sin will they tax into the ground next year???”
I don’t think your 17% figure is correct, but even if it is, OF COURSE STATE SPENDING IS GOING UP BECAUSE THE STATE POPULATION IS GROWING. There’s something else you don’t understand about the budget, Mac. Washington, unique among states, counts local school funding as part of the state budget. Here, as elsewhere, K-12 schools are largely funded by property taxes. However, everywhere else, the school taxes are collected by local jurisdictions and never show up in state budget figures. In Washington, property taxes for schools go through the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction and are part of the state budget — about 45% of the budget, to be exact. Consequently, when Washington’s state budget is compared to other state budgets, the figures are very misleading. To get an apples-to-apples comparison, you have to subtract the school funding. The STATE budget — i.e., the portion that funds state government — is not nearly as large as it appears to be. That portion of the budget is not growing dramatically. The growth in school funding reflects the fact Washington has strong job growth, people are moving to this state, and school enrollments are growing rapidly.
“why the fuck am I paying 3 bucks a gallon for gas?”
Basically, because of supply and demand. Specifically, for the following reasons:
1. World demand has caught up with the world’s production capacity; the producer countries are unable to pump more oil to meet demand, so the price has to rise until demand falls to a level that is in balance with the available supply.
2. Military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan are consuming large quantities of fuel.
3. In addition, the Iraq war has taken Iraq’s oil production off-line.
4. The popularity of gas guzzling SUVs in the U.S. market, combined with Bush’s lax CAFE policies, have increased U.S. demand.
5. Outsourcing of jobs have transferred wealth from the U.S. to India and China, which those countries are using to buy oil.
6. Bush’s massive deficit spending has resulting in sale of IOUs and payment of interest to other countries, primarily China, which is using the taxpayer dollars we send to them to buy oil and construction materials.
7. U.S. gulf oil production still has not fully recovered from Katrina.
8. This is the time of year when refineries experience downtime as they switch from winter heating fuels to summer driving fuels, and perform routine maintenance.
9. In some parts of the country, there is a shortage of the ethanol being used as a substitute for MTBE, which is being phased out because it pollutes drinking water supplies and poses a substantial health risk.
“why the fuck did Washington State spend 78 million dollars on routine medical care for illegal aliens??????????”
Because it’s the compassionate and humane thing to do, but I don’t expect Republicans to understand either of those words.
“What are they going to tax to make up the 78 million bucks that will have to be repaid to the Federal Government because Washington State isn’t in compliance with Federal laws?”
State tax revenues are increasing because of economic growth and increased economic activity in the state. Consequently, no increase in tax rates, or addition of new taxes, is necessary to grow state revenue. As far as repaying the Federal Government, if you want to bitch about that, why don’t you complain to the Republican White House and the Republican congress about all the unfunded mandates they’ve dumped on state government? We’re talking a LOT more than 78 million dollars there. For example, the Republicans repeatedly voted against funding for homeland security, but passed laws requiring states to implement homeland security measures that consumed state and local tax dollars that had to be made up, in some locales, by laying off cops and teachers. You should be real ashamed of that, if you’re a Republican. The Democrats consistently voted for homeland security funding; the Republicans consistently opposed it. This has ramifications for our national security, as well. If terrorists ever carry out a nuclear attack against the U.S., they will almost certainly get the weapon into our country in a cargo container aboard a ship — there is no other feasible way for them to carry out such an attack. When Bush took office, fewer than 1/2 of 1% of cargo containers were being inspected. Nearly five years after 9/11, that figure is not appreciably higher. Democrats want 100% inspection of cargo containers, but Republicans have consistently refused to pay for enhanced port safety. Instead, they tried to sell port operations to a company controlled by an Arab government! It’s downright embarrassing to be a Republican nowadays, and no Republican with any sense would admit being a Republican.
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“The “national” highway system is complete”
Bullshit — don’t you ever drive on I-5 or I-405? In case you haven’t noticed, lanes are being added — there’s a lot of federal highway construction right here in the Seattle area. You also assume that highways, once built, never have to be maintained. Not true. In northern Rocky Mountain states like Montana and the Dakotas, the interstates are continually being rebuilt because the winter weather destroys the pavement and roadbeds. Bridges don’t last forever; for example, the Ship Canal Bridge and other I-5 structures in Seattle are aging and will need to be replaced. And, of course, as the country’s population — which has doubled since the original interstate highway system was built in the 1950s — continues to grow, we need more highway lanes and more new highways to handle the increased traffic, especially in urban areas where highway construction is extremely expensive. And let’s not forget the reason why the interstate system was built in the first place: National defense. Based on the country’s experience during World War 2, by the 1950s a system of high-speed interstate highways was thought to be necessary to move troops, military equipment, and supplies in case of war.
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Mac, instead of complaining about paying $3 a gallon for gas, you should be thinking about what will happen if consumers can’t buy gas at any price. Petroleum won’t last forever, you know. At the current consumption rate, assuming NO GROWTH in consumption, the world’s known reserves will be exhausted in less than 30 years. The majority of the world’s oil supplies come from unstable regions where supply interruptions are an ever-present possibility. Don’t kid yourself that the U.S. can drill its way out of this problem; the U.S. consumes 25% of the world’s oil but has only 3% of the world’s oil reserves. On-shore domestic production has been declining for 30 years now; the largest offshore find in the Gulf of Mexico is Thunder Horse, a 1 billion barrel oil field. U.S. consumers go through 1 billion barrels every 7 weeks! So you’re talking about less than a 2-month supply in the largest oilfield yet found in the U.S. portion of the Gulf of Mexico. If we drill in ANWR, that oil would not come to market for at least 10 years, and when it did, it would mostly replace declining Prudhoe production rather than provide new supplies. The fact is, we can no longer take for granted that oil producers will be able to supply enough oil to meet demand. We probably will live in an oil-short world from now on. National Geographic and others began raising the alarm over two years ago that the era of cheap oil is over and the world can no longer supply enough oil to meet demand.
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I don’t think sgmmac was very scrupulous, all along. Certainly, she is very closed-minded.
Americans are stupid about energy consumption, period. For several generations, we have behaved as though oil and natural gas will last forever, and will be cheap forever. Europe began building public transportation decades ago, and is not nearly as vulnerable to high oil prices as we are. Every day, millions of Americans burn vast quantities of fuel commuting long distances to work. You know all those McMansions that gluttonous Americans are building? You know, 7,000-square-foot homes with two-story ceilings — lived in by two people? They have to be heated. REPUBLICANS laugh at energy conservation. Then, when energy shortages drive up energy prices, they bitch about the shortages and high prices. You ain’t seen nuthin yet, dearie. Wait until Bush attacks Iran, a major oil producer; then you’re going to see $6, $7, or $8 gas.
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“don’t allow new hydro”
So tell me, JCH, where you gonna put new hydro? After 75 years of dam building, how many dam sites are left? America has tens of thousands of dams, just about all of the hydro is already being exploited, and God ain’t making more rivers. As always, you’re full of shit.
Mr. Cynical @10
Mr. C: Please explain how your washing machine works. I want to know what’s inside the rollers. How come a $100 bill that goes into the rollers as L & I taxes for injured workers comes out of the rollers as Rossi slush funds? How do you do that?
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“I’LL BE GOD-DAMNED IF I GIVE THE STATE OF WASHINGTON ONE EXTRA CENT OF GAS TAX MORE THAN I HAVE TO!!!!!!”
By all means, give your money to Idaho, so they can build roads while ours fall apart.
“Hell, I was willing to PUSH my SUV across the fucking border if I had to…just to avoid paying the extortionists!!”
Does paying taxes to Idaho feel better than paying taxes to Washington?
“I wonder why gas in Montana was only $2.48/gallon????”
Because Montana has oil wells and three big refineries — although strangely, in Billings — where the refineries are — gas usually is higher than elsewhere in Montana.
“Commentby Mr. Cynical— 4/30/06@ 10:48 pm”
I thought you were dead, Cynical. I thought Mrs. Cynical finally got tired of your gassing, hit you with a tire iron, cut you up in the bathtub, and fed you to the sand sharks. It turns out you were only visiting Idaho. Did you have trouble finding Richard Butler’s Aryan Nations compound at Hayden Lake? I have news for you, Dick is dead, and his group lost their Hayden Lake property in a lawsuit, all the buildings were razed, and the grounds are now a peace park!
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“DAY 173 of my Vigil since the KLOWNS of Washington caved in to the Gas Tax Extortionists……………
TRAFFIC STILL SUCKS!!!!!!!” Commentby Mr. Cynical— 4/30/06@ 10:50 pm
So what? 173 days later, you still suck, too. But we wouldn’t like you any other way, Cyn. What would we do without Cynical to kick around?
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“A lot of very Conservative people are as disgusted with Bush as I am…..” Commentby Mr. Cynical— 4/30/06@ 10:58 pm
In that case, maybe they’re not quite as stupid as they look, sound, and act.
17 – Keep on taking road trips and burning up gas BOZO!!!! Only I think the state coffers aren’t going to do that well wherever you drive. You know why?
THE GAS IS COMING STRAIGHT OUT YOUR ASS!!!
You’re so full of bullshit it’s pathetic. State gas tax in Idaho is a quarter a gallon. If you had your I-912 wet dream, WA state would be only 3 cents a gallon higher and think what if Gary Locke didn’t get his way with the nickel package – it would be LOWER!!
As it is WA State’s gas tax is higher than ID by 6 lousy cents a gallon and Montana, your other libertarian utopia, is only lower by 2.5 cents!
That fill-up in Post Falls – you saved 2 lousy bucks! What are you going to do when you burn through those 33 gallons in your gas guzzler BOZO? I know what you’re going to do – you’ll drive all the way to Post Falls to fill up again!
BOZO your miserable, petty resentment is all about Rossi, the BIAW’s creature. Nothing more, nothing less. I-912, the revenge of the BIAW zombies, lost. You lost!
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So how are things in the RED states, Cynical? Are they prospering on the tax dollars we blue-staters send to them? They would fucking starve without their federal subsidies, you know.
BLUE STATES = payers
RED STATES = takers
Hey Cynical tell us again about “hard work” and “thrift” and “self sufficiency” and all those other good ol’ red state values!
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Not to worry, Roger Rabbit is alive and well, and on the attack …
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I have a suggestion for Mr. Cynical — move to northern California. That way, when he needs to go into town, he can kick his motorhome into neutral and roll downhill all the way, using no gas. Back in the 60s, I did this in a VW and finally came to a stop 17 miles from where I turned the ignition off.
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Of course, pushing the vehicle uphill on the return stretch is a bitch.
Actually, the reason gas was only $2.48 in Montana is because you were there a couple days ago. It’s going up everywhere by about 30 cents a day. That’s nothing, just wait until Bush bombs Iran, and they shut down the Strait of Hormuz! Roger Rabbit is gonna be a RICH FUCKING BUNNY when oil hits $200 a barrel and my oil stocks go through the roof!
Actually, Mr. Cynical is a conservationist. His motorhome only gets 5 mpg, but he only drives it once a year — to Hayden Lake and back. That’s less than 150 gallons of gas all year! The rest of the time, his motorhome is up on blocks at the trailer park in Roy, and he walks to the outhouse, tavern, parole office, and everywhere else he has to go.
I’m a conservationist, too! I have a gas guzzling old pickup that I use for hauling away yard waste once a year. It only gets about 10 mpg, but I only drive it 10 miles a year, so my gas guzzler consumes only 1 gallon per year.
There’s nothing wrong with RVs, SUVs, or other gas guzzlers if you don’t drive them very much. Given the costs of owning and operating those things, there can’t be very many people who drive them hardly at all! For example, take the “snowbirds” who drive to Arizona for the winter, and back to Seattle in spring. That’s what, about 3,000 miles? At maybe 5 to 10 mpg, so they’re using somewhere around 300 to 600 gallons of fuel — a lot less than they would be burning if they were commuting to work in a 20 mpg car every day!
Frankly, from a public interest standpoint, I’d rather Mr. Cynical be in Idaho than in the BIAW building.
Hey Cynical — so how was the Wingnut Convention in Yahooland?
Rog Rabbit—
I KNEW you all missed me!
Actually, we drove straight thru Idaho in a little over an hour.
Kellogg & Wallace Idaho are not exactly prime Tourist destinations….although some of the mining exhibits are quite fascinating.
But I do love the golf courses and physical beauty of the Idaho Panhandle. From Couer D’alene to Sandpoint to the border has some beautiful country and great golf courses.
You IDIOTS holed up in GOOFBALL LAND (Seattle) ought to escape your Insane Asylum and visit the REAL America sometime.
““The “national” highway system is complete”
To expand upon Roger Rabbit’s accurate exposure of this complete falsehood, let me add some other points:
1. Washington State was a bit of an afterthought in the U.S. highway system. In the 1930’s the bridges over the Columbia almost weren’t built – they were then considered the “bridges to nowhere”. Even in the 1950’s Seattle was considered the “end of the country” – no need to build interstate highways north of Seattle, and I-90 westbound didn’t even need to connect to I-5! Only Boeing/Everett and Senators Jackson and Magnuson provided the push for I-405 and I-5 north of Seattle to be constructed, but it was expected only to handle a small volume of traffic.
2. Instead of the primarily local traffic I-405 and I-5 North of Seattle experienced, the following economic events caused and explosion of economic and population growth in Washington State: Boeing/Everett (about 1968), trade with China (starting about 1978), the multiplication of trade with other Asian nations (1970’s onward), Microsoft (1980’~1990s) and other high-tech firms on the east side (1990’s), NAFTA causing large increases in traffic along I-5 to the Canadian border (1990’s). Highways in Washington State are handling many times the amount of cars and trucks they were originally designed to handle.
3. The highways system was designed to last 50 years, assuming a modest rate of growth. We have been replacing the top asphault layer every few years as routine maintenance, but the underlaying roadbed of all interstate highways are overdue for reconstruction. This would be true if traffic loads had been along predicted growth patters, but the load they have been carrying is many times greater than that. We are currently living on borrowed time – the longer we wait, the more expensive and inconvenient the repairs will be.
The attitude of the “no tax” guys reminds me of the spoiled rich kid, who keeps spending the family inheritance until there isn’t anymore left, and then whines and cries and blames everyone else for the mess he is in.
Why is the price of fuel so high? Oil is htting $70/BBL on its way to God knows where on market jitters caused by the administration’s mindless bellicosity towards Iran. The market is being destabilized by their idiot rhetoric and they know it damn good and well. Blame the warmakers.
The only crisis with Iran is the crisis with the president’s public approval ratings. Period. End of story. The Iranians are years, probably (according to your most recent intelligence estimates) as long as a decade away, and possibly even longer from creating even a limited yield nuclear weapon. Clearly, any period of “peril” into which the USA is entering isn’t tied to any Iranian bomb. It’s all about how far a desperate president will go to avoid losing control of Congress. The man is a laughing stock, whose lies and failures are all catching up with him.
Double or Nothing is Not a Foreign Policy.
[portions borrowed from http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com]
visit the REAL America sometime.
Golf courses are a great example of the “REAL” America – NOT. Golf courses are a bubble that people with too much time on their hands fritter away their lives in.
I hope you change your shoes after tromping around on those golf courses, BOZO. That’s some mean poison they spray everywhere to maintain the illusion of all that “beauty”.
George W. Bush is still presidnet, all right. And that is a shame. Our dry-drunk (if he’s still dry) frat-boy president cant’ take the humiliation that comes with his miserable failure translating into 33% Fox News favorability, so he’s going to try to lie us into another ginned-up Middle East conflict that will shoot fuel prices (oil up to $72.36 in Singapore trading, a jump of $0.48 per barrel) through the roof, require troops we don’t have (if you look at the rnecessary rotations for the 130K+ we have in Iraq), and will destabilizre the Middle East for decades to come.
But who cares, right? Bush can break 40%, and that’s what’s really important.
Impeach now.
I don’t think Bush is dry, if he ever was. Unidentified WH sources have tattled that he’s popping pills and boozing, and that he has a nasty bastard temper (as in tantrum.) The rightie trolls here represent well the 32% of boneheads who still support this pretender.
The 32% solution should give up “proving” that Saddam Hussein was a threat beacuse he had plans to utilize suicide bombers. Replace that canard with thought on how we’re going to defend the homeland against Hezbollah when they reinvigorate their terrorist capability in support of Iran after a US strike.
The commercial spammers are a growth demographic here.
The Boston Globe has researched the issue of GWB’s signing statements since taking office.
Presidents have often provided signing statements in the past, but none have used them to, basically, negate the laws they were enacting with their signature.
It turns out that Bush has issued signing statements on more than 750 new laws, declaring that he has the power to set aside the laws when they conflict with his interpretation of the Constitution.
The 32% solution has given us a king. Short may his reign be.
Here’s the link
http://www.boston.com/news/nat.....s_of_laws/
Remember that the hero of the right, Lush Flimbaugh will have to face the media again today as the details of his illegal drug use will be displayed for all the world to see. And as their criminal hero tries to spin the fact he’s a common crook, the right will further reinforce for their inbred children that situational ethics is fine if you are a republican. Hypocrites all who deserve their fate.
“why the fuck did Washington State spend 78 million dollars on routine medical care for illegal aliens??????????”
Because it’s the compassionate and humane thing to do, but I don’t expect Republicans to understand either of those words.
[Roger Rabbit]…………………………………………………………………..Soon it will be 78 billion, and taxes will triple, and many will go broke, but RR loves to spend other people’s money because he is a Democrat. Note, like Al Gore’s $431 charity dedution on 4 -5 hundred grand in “guvment” income, liberals NEVER spend their own money to show compassion. JCH
Happy “Illegal Aliens Extortion” Day!! Time to vote Republican and go shopping!!!!
No comment required.
Americans are stupid about energy consumption, period. You know all those McMansions that gluttonous Americans are building? You know, 7,000-square-foot homes with two-story ceilings – lived in by two people? They have to be heated. REPUBLICANS laugh at energy conservation.
Commentby Roger Rabbit— 5/1/06@ 12:24 am [Er…………………………………………………………………RR, You mean like the Kerry mansions, or the Kennedy Compound, or mayba all those Democrat homes in Beverly Hills with the Goldwins and Mayers and Goldsteins and Lowensteins and Loebs, etc. Yeah, right, RR!!! hehe
For those new to this site, [JCH] is a self-loathing gay prostitute who cruises sailors at a club called “Hawaii,” and keeps hoping to find a large black man to call his own.
His syphalitic racist ravings should be ignored.
The trolls are coming on strong because they are worried about the spread of the Colbert satirical pieces about Kristol and Bush. My advice to Colbert. Stay off of small airplanes. They might unexpectedly go down in a remote area.
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Wasn’t Colbert a hoot at the White House Press dinner? The live audience was subdued, but I was laughing out loud.
Rearranging the deck chair on the Hindebburg was my favorite line.
The Star Spangled Banner in Spanish was a brilliant touch to divide people. Being as divisive as possible is the goal of the Republicans.
Once again, the Righties aced us by not underestimating the stupidity of the American people. So, now, the spectre of NUKULER anni9hilation has been eclipsed in the public mind by the Star Spangled Banner in Spanish.
The Republicans may be correct. Democracy is a bad idea.
Hi Roger! Good morning! I have tried several times to say hello, but everytime my post is consumed with too much traffic errors……..
78 million is a whole lot of routine medical care, unfortunately, I doubt that the illegal aliens received very much “care” for the millions. The biggest majority of it probably went to HMO’s and insurance companies. We are only talking about routine care here, not emergency. Emergency care is authorized by Federal law.
As for the highway system being complete, I got that from the newspaper! I have driven I-5 and I have been stuck on that “parking lot” leading to and from Seattle for hours. As a result, I don’t visit Seattle unless it is absolutely necessary.
It should be against the law for lawmakers to spend more than the revenue received in any given year.
I got supply and demand and understand the concept very well. Our “oil” problem has been created by lawmakers for the last 40 years in both parties.
The outsourcing in America began before NAFTA, CAFTA and whatever else is in the works. It began many years ago with tax breaks for businesses on money made and kept in foreign countries. The same tax break also applies to individuals who make money in foreign countries………
Roger, you have Big oil stocks???? I hope it’s not Exxon-Mobile. My daughter told me that people on MySpace are calling for a nationwide boycott on gas buying for May 15. Many are boycotting Exxon………
Have a great day!
I don’t think sgmmac was very scrupulous, all along. Certainly, she is very closed-minded.
Commentby Roger Rabbit— 5/1/06@ 12:21 am
Roger have you look at your self in the mirror lately? You are the last person that should be making that comment.
Cynical KLOWN: You drove thru Idaho and didn’t stop to play Circling Raven? What, the posse comitatus on your ass?
Rog Rabbit—I KNEW you all missed me! Commentby Mr. Cynical— 5/1/06@ 6:09 am
Of course we did! You may be wrong, but at least you’re funny. Can’t say the same for the other trolls, who are merely cloying.
Hey trolls: “cloying” is a big fucking word for you illiterates — it has 2 syllables — you may need a dictionary for that one.
Americans are stupid about energy consumption, period. For several generations, we have behaved as though oil and natural gas will last forever, and will be cheap forever. Europe began building public transportation decades ago, and is not nearly as vulnerable to high oil prices as we are. Every day, millions of Americans burn vast quantities of fuel commuting long distances to work.
Commentby Roger Rabbit— 5/1/06@ 12:24 am
Roger when I was young and dumb everyone moving to the city (Chicago) for work and to raise their families. That lasted for some time until their family structures started breaking down and those who could have fix that problem lost their vision. That problem still exists today and everyone is still migrating to the suburbs while the cities still fail. That problem does not happen in Europe because they leave their Socialist countries and move to this country for a better life. The trick is to make the cities healthy for its citizens and reveres the process to bring everyone back into the cities. To do that will require a culture change for your friends running city hall. That will be the greatest challenge getting these folks (Socialist Democrats) to make the necessary changes and swallow their pride with dignity. No punt intended but they have run this state for many years and have yet to present a new vision.
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“Hi Roger! Good morning! I have tried several times to say hello, but everytime my post is consumed with too much traffic errors……..
Commentby sgmmac— 5/1/06@ 9:22 am
Happens to me, too. To all of us. Apparently Goldy’s blog is getting so popular the server can no longer handle the traffic. The thing to do is, after you type your post, highlight it and right-click on “copy” so if you lose it, you can paste it back in again without having to retype the whole thing.
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“78 million is a whole lot of routine medical care” Commentby sgmmac— 5/1/06@ 9:22 am
Not really. Have you priced health care lately? Try paying for it yourself — like 45 million Americans have to — you’ll see what I mean.
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Rossi kicked 45,000 KIDS off medical care. What’s next, taxing old folks in nursing homes? Oh wait, I forgot — Rossi tried THAT too! Remember Rossi’s $200 “bed tax” on indigent nursing home patients?
My guess is that Ms. Cynical was in Idaho for a KKK convention.
And you trolls want a guy whose only supervising experience consists of one part-time janitor when he was in college to run our state government? Amazing!
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I can’t say that what our righties supply was was ever pleasant.
You want a slippery real estate salesman who made a beeline back to his convicted boss when the latter walked out of the prison gates (he was convicted for ripping off widows and orphans) to be our governor? Incredible!
Hey Mac, why not pin four stars on a used car salesman and put him in charge of running the Pentagon? Makes about as much sense.
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The biggest majority of it probably went to HMO’s and insurance companies.”
More likely all of it.
PRIVATE EFFICIENCY VS. GOVERNMENT “WASTE”
When your health care dollars are channeled through for-profit organizations, they take 15% off the top for administration, overhead, and profit.
By comparison, less than 1/2 of 1% of Medicare dollars go to administration; over 99% of Medicare dollars pay for direct delivery of health care services.
Speaking of 1/2 of 1%, that’s how many cargo containers are being inspected nearly 5 years after 9/11 — because REPUBLICANS are TOO CHEAP to pay for NATIONAL SECURITY.
MediaMatters has a look back at the lies the Chickenhawk In Chief told on another May 1st!
Mission Accomplished MY ASS!
http://mediamatters.org/items/200604270005
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“It should be against the law for lawmakers to spend more than the revenue received in any given year.” Commentby sgmmac— 5/1/06@ 9:22 am
Here’s a partial list of people I’d like you to speak with about that.
George W. Bush
Dickless Cheney
Bill Frist
Dennis Hastert
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“I got supply and demand and understand the concept very well. Our ‘oil’ problem has been created by lawmakers for the last 40 years in both parties.” Commentby sgmmac— 5/1/06@ 9:22 am
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I’m gonna SAVE this one, and you’ll see it again — I promise! It’s right up there with this one:
“Ummm…. if the President says it… it’s not a “leak”. A “leak” is disclosing information without authorization. Since the President is the boss, it is by definition not a leak since he can authorize whatever the fuck he wants. That’s how things work when you’re boss.” Commentby Mark The Redneck— 4/10/06@ 3:06 pm
Sgmmac= Kevin Carns .
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“Roger, you have Big oil stocks???? I hope it’s not Exxon-Mobile.” Commentby sgmmac— 5/1/06@ 9:22 am
I bought National Oilwell Varco (NOV) last summer for $44; it’s now $70. I don’t own Exxon stock, but I have relatives who do, which I will inherit someday — and that stock is doing extremely well, thank you very much! Hey, I gotta do something … the Bush Inflation is destroying my pension, so I’m gonna have to live off the stock market (like Republicans do) someday.
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Nah, I don’t think so.
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“My daughter told me that people on MySpace are calling for a nationwide boycott on gas buying for May 15. Many are boycotting Exxon………” Commentby sgmmac— 5/1/06@ 9:22 am
Gas boycotts make me laugh!!! What are suburban commuters who live 50 miles from work in areas that have no public transit because Republicans refuse to pay for it gonna do? Walk to work? Camp in a tent at the office? Hell, even $4 gas won’t get them to park their RVs! Just ask Mr. Cynical.
I don’t think Exxon-Mobil has anything to worry about.
You need Exxon more than they need you. If you don’t want their gas, the Chinese will gladly buy it.
Breaking News
Report: Turkey won’t let U.S. attack Iran from its land
Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said Sunday that his country refused a request from the United States to attack Iran from its Air Force base in Incirlik, despite the U.S. offer of a nuclear reactor, according to a report in Al Biyan.
In an interview for the United Arab Emirates newspaper, Gul noted that America’s efforts to attack Iran are “imaginary” and that Turkey’s stance is “strategic” and refuses the use of its land for any belligerent activity against neighboring countries. (Roee Nahmias)
This copyrighted news story is copied under the Fair Use Doctrine.
Now that Berlasconi is out, Avicenna is no longer an option for launching strikes.
Can you imagine Dubai or the Saudis acceding to this nonsense?
Looks like RushBaby is going to pee into a cup on demand. . .gotta love those random tests.
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“Roger when I was young and dumb everyone moving to the city (Chicago) for work and to raise their families. That lasted for some time until their family structures started breaking down and those who could have fix that problem lost their vision. That problem still exists today and everyone is still migrating to the suburbs while the cities still fail. That problem does not happen in Europe because they leave their Socialist countries and move to this country for a better life. The trick is to make the cities healthy for its citizens and reveres the process to bring everyone back into the cities. To do that will require a culture change for your friends running city hall. That will be the greatest challenge getting these folks (Socialist Democrats) to make the necessary changes and swallow their pride with dignity. No punt intended but they have run this state for many years and have yet to present a new vision.” Commentby Anonymous— 5/1/06@ 10:18 am
What a crock of troll hot air! When were you “young and dumb,” two years ago? Are you 30 yet??? Let me explain a little history for you. My grandpa and grandma were the post-Victorian generation, i.e., the generation that fought The Great War. In those days, people stayed married even if they hated each other, because they had no choice! It was economic necessity. The majority of American families still lived on small farms, in poverty by today’s standards, and every able-bodied hand was needed to keep the wolf away. They had big families because they didn’t have birth control, and they needed them because rarely did all of the children survive long enough to get killed in a war. (E.g., four of my papa’s six siblings made it to adulthood.) People of that generation didn’t concern themselves with such esoteric concepts as love or being happy. They WORKED until they dropped dead! And when there were frictions — as there always are whenever two humans gather at the same place — their parents and aunts and uncles sat them down and said, “Okay, we’re gonna sit here until this problem is solved.” Nobody got divorced because (1) they couldn’t afford to, (2) of social pressures, and (3) there was no expectation in those days of being happy.
So what happened to the social fabric of American life? Two things. One, we became more prosperous, and divorce is now an economically feasible option. Two, we became more mobile, and in addition, the jobs moved off the farms to the cities, so now the grandparents and parents and extended family were far away and no longer in a position to intervene in marital disputes.
This has nothing to do with morality or religion or any of that high-falutin’ stuff. It’s a simple function of human nature that people won’t continue to be desperately unhappy nor continue living in a conflict situation if they have a choice to leave. Affluence and mobility gave them that option, and they exercised it. People don’t have to stay in unhappy relationships anymore, so they don’t. It’s that simple.
The RightWingGasBag can’t control his FLATULENCE , so maybe he’ll try to hide behind a bashful
bladder.. . . .
Typical rightwingnut asshole, always trying to hide behind some lame excuse or other.
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“That problem does not happen in Europe because they leave their Socialist countries and move to this country for a better life.”
Really? All the Spanish-speaking immigrants that trollfucks complain about are coming from Europe? Is Europe emptying its cities to Ellis Island? What a load of horse manure! Trust me on this, there’s a hell of a lot of Europeans that want nothing to do with our culture, and are perfectly happy to stay right where they are. As for whether they get along with each other any better than anyone else, two world wars and several genocides answer that question … as for whether we would be better off to scrap the very mild (by comparison) social legislation we have in this country in favor of the Law of the Jungle Economics favored by CHEAP LABOR CONSERVATIVES, the economic history of the United States between 1776 and 1933 answers that question.
The RightWingGasBag can’t control his FLATULENCE , so maybe he’ll try to hide behind a bashful
bladder.. . . .
Typical rightwingnut asshole, always trying to hide behind some lame excuse or other. -Commentby Tree Frog Farmer— 5/1/06@ 10:57 am
Typical MORON, spewing invectives… or more likely a CLOSET RUSH FAN AND LISTENER!
Come out of the closet froggy!
Oops that last post is in response to #65.
Laissez faire economics sucks.
To characterize a court enjoined Plea Bargain as a Dismissal is the rankest of LIES.
Let me explain what would happen if government didn’t regulate the marketplace. If anything goes, you can’t trust anyone, so you don’t buy as much stuff. There goes the consumer economy. I can tell you that already I won’t take newly licensed drugs, even if my doctor recommends them, because I DON’T TRUST BUSH’S FDA. They have already cleared dangerous drugs for the market, and now they want to fast-track the approval of drugs so drug companies can make more money! Meanwhile, Republicans in Congress are trying to pass legislation that would make it impossible for consumers killed or injured by defective drug products to sue. So, if Big Pharma poisons you, and you incur a million dollars of medical expenses, you’re on your own! You’re better off taking street heroin than taking drugs approved by Bush’s FDA. My little bunny brain says, the only safe thing to do is take only drugs that were licensed before Bush became president and his political hacks were running the FDA. No trust = no sale.
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Or the rankest of ignorance. Under that reasoning, GARY RIDGWAY IS NOT A CONVICTED FELON because he struck a deal with prosecutors.
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You need to take some Bean-O before sucking your thumb.
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“Golf courses are a great example of the “REAL” America – NOT. Golf courses are a bubble that people with too much time on their hands fritter away their lives in.” Commentby For the Clueless— 5/1/06@ 7:49 am
No, golf courses are where Republican bosses go on Fridays so they can say they “work.”
For those new to this site, [JCH] is a self-loathing gay prostitute who cruises sailors at a club called “Hawaii,” and keeps hoping to find a large black man to call his own.
His syphalitic racist ravings should be ignored.
Commentby JDB— 5/1/06@ 9:07 am [………………………………….Welcome back, JDB. Are you still dreaming about me, or are you satisfied with your Cinthia McKinney [D-Bitchslap] anal Democrat “Tookie Williams” corn holing? “Loooooooooovvveeee”!!!!
So there’s a booking sheet for Lush Flimbaugh (posted here on HA) and you right wing liars want us to believe that’s not part of an “arrest”? Talk about parsing words. He plead to a CHARGE moron. A charge can only come incident to an ARREST. Lush Flimbaugh is in effect on probation. As has been discussed EVEN ON FAUX NEWS, he will have to report in to a probabtion officer, undergo ramdom drug treatment, avoid certain establishments where intoxicants are served, pay fines, report hiw wherabouts and a host of other things required of all CRIMINAL defendants. You fucking liars love a drug addict. Is that how you want your kids to turn out?
Oxycotin is a tough addiction to shake. ‘Course Methadone can’t be doing the GASBAG’S FLATULENCE any good.
Eighteen months is a long time to stay straight.
” C’mere RushieBaby , just pee into this here little cup. . .”
Here’s a story from the right wing, republican controlled Washington Times admitting that Chickenhawk, hypocrite and drug addict will have to pee in a cup. I guess he’s just doing that because he’s a nice guy. Not because he was ARRESTED!
http://ap.washingtontimes.com/.....CTION=HOME
Rush Limbaugh must submit to random drug tests under an agreement filed Monday that will dismiss a prescription fraud charge against the conservative commentator after 18 months if he complies with the terms.
He also must continue treatment for his acknowledged addiction to painkillers and he cannot own a gun.
Great person for you righties to have your kids look up to!
What would a day without illegal aliens really be like? Let’s try to imagine it… OBGYN wards in Denver would have 24% fewer deliveries and Los Angeles’s maternity-ward deliveries would drop by 40% and maternity billings to Medi-Cal would drop by 66%. Youth gangs would see their membership drop by 50% in many states, and in Phoenix, child-molestation cases would drop by 34% and auto theft by 40%. Finally, Democrats would lose hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of illegal votes.
Key part of the Lush Flimbaugh scandal…
“The Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office may revoke or modify the deal if Limbaugh violates the terms, according to the agreement.”
There’s still a chance the coward could end up in a cell with the other republican crooks heading to prison!
Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich said Tuesday that he will tell Congress that close to 100,000 children of illegal immigrants in the county collect $276 million in annual welfare benefits. Antonovich, who is in Washington with the Board of Supervisors, will meet with congressional representatives and provide information about the impact of illegal immigration on county services. […………………………………………………………………………..PAY MORE TAXES!!!!! PAY MORE TAXES!!!!!!!! hehe, JCH]
What would a day without illegal aliens really be like? Let’s try to imagine it… OBGYN wards in Denver would have 24% fewer deliveries and Los Angeles’s maternity-ward deliveries would drop by 40% and maternity billings to Medi-Cal would drop by 66%. Youth gangs would see their membership drop by 50% in many states, and in Phoenix, child-molestation cases would drop by 34% and auto theft by 40%. Finally, Democrats would lose hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of illegal votes. [……………………….More Democrat victim voters on the way!!! Turning the USA into Baja Norte!!!!!]
re 60: Smegmac: The outsourcing of America began after the TVA was completed and textile mills moved to the South because of low wages and no unions. The 1st foreign country to be outsourced to was CRACKERLAND ( anywhere south of the Mason/Dixon Line ).
The corporate race to the bottom is an attempt to return to the age of the robber barons. Do you have any relatives, Smegmac, between the ages of 6 and 12? That’s the end of the road on the corporate race to the bottom. That’s your family’s future — child labor. Do you know what party OPPOSED child labor laws.
Republicans, Chumpette!
re 80: Kevin Carns is like Karl Rove, except without the talent.
RR
“In those days…The majority of American families still lived on small farms, in poverty by today’s standards, and every able-bodied hand was needed to keep the wolf away.”
Actually, to the best of my knowledge in 1900 about 75% of Americans were already living in the cities. Otherwise, your post seems to be right on.
The president sends a strong message, that no matter what happens to America, she will always rebound — with the most powerfully staged photo ops in the world.
RR
That was me @ 111
The greatest thing about the president is that he’s steady. You know where he stands. He believes the same thing Wednesday that he believed on Monday… no matter what happened Tuesday. Events can change; this man’s beliefs never will.
I know there are some polls out there saying that the president has a 32% approval rating. But guys like us, we don’t pay attention to the polls. We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in “reality.” And reality has a well-known liberal bias.
Let’s review the rules. Here’s how it works: the president makes decisions. He’s the decider. The press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those decisions down. Make, announce, type. Just put ’em through a spell check and go home. Get to know your family again. Make love to your wife. Write that novel you got kicking around in your head. You know, the one about the intrepid Washington reporter with the courage to stand up to the administration. You know – fiction!
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Turkey wouldn’t let Bush attack Iraq from their land, either.
And Turkey doesn’t want an independent Kurd state.
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“The greatest thing about the president is that he’s steady. You know where he stands. He believes the same thing Wednesday that he believed on Monday… no matter what happened Tuesday. Events can change; this man’s beliefs never will.” Commentby Daddy Love— 5/1/06@ 3:08 pm
In other words, if Bush saw a tree straight in front of him, he’d think he was still on the road, and would push on the accelerator instead of the brake.