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by Goldy — Monday, 7/10/06, 6:49 pm

Rep. Dave Reichert has spent $526,000 sending out 1.5 million pieces of franked mail… that’s 20 percent of his entire office budget. Up Front with Robert Mak has details, and kind of sticks it to Reichert. (I especially like the part where Reichert looks over his shoulders at an off camera aide when he can’t answer a question.) Anyway, watch the video.

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  1. LeftTurn spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 7:11 pm

    Since Mack always takes it real easy on the GOP this is pretty telling. Of course, the righties who scream bloddy murder if we use tax dollars to do something evil like teaching kids to read, have no problem with Rubber Stamp Reichert spending tax dollars to campaign.

    I have forwarded three complaints to the FEC and hope others will too. If we put enough pressure on Davie he’ll do what he always does, run and hide.

  2. BushWentAWOL spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 7:13 pm

    If I were to think like Pat Robertson and the rest of the taliban wing of the GOP I would say God didn’t like churches in Republican-MO!
    http://www.usatoday.com/news/n.....htm?csp=34

  3. skagit spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 7:15 pm

    What is your favorite place outdoors, Goldy? I had to laugh at Reichert on that one. I mean even he was a little taken aback! I wonder who’s in charge back there? (LOL)

  4. the young rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 7:15 pm

    leftturd fuck your complains

  5. K spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 7:21 pm

    Powerful response, young rabbit

  6. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 7:51 pm

    “Liberalism” is the Democrat controlled “guvment” raising 500 million in “selected” taxes, taking 400 million in public “overhead” [new “guvment employees would are vastly overpaid with huge pensions and will vote Democrat along with their entire families], and then contracts out the rest to union [Democrat] controlled firms to “Davis Bacon” any and all new projects [Best example: the Kennedy/Tip O’Neil/Kerry Big Dig In Boston]. If the project is not completed, raise taxes, rinse and repeat. See also Detroit, Atlanta, and Harare. hehe, JCH Kennedy

  7. Harry Tuttle spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 7:54 pm

    Jughead never tires of posting the SOS over, and over, and over, and over….

  8. BushWentAWOL spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 7:54 pm

    Laura Bush killed a guy.

  9. Dr. E spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 8:00 pm

    W got lots of guys killed.

  10. LeftTurn spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 8:05 pm

    Funnier than Hell story about how impotent the right really is.

    http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/.....ong10.html

    Speaking of impotent, how are you righties feeling about your hero LimpDickLimbaugh these days? HE HE HE HE!

  11. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 8:10 pm

    Democrat’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.– Ronald Reagan

  12. skagit spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 8:18 pm

    Put young rabbit in time out, please.

  13. skagit spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 8:19 pm

    RPKKK – perhaps you are unable to read. Just trying to figure out why you have to rerun the same ol’ same ol’ on every thread. It loses it potency, you know.

  14. skagit spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 8:22 pm

    RPKKK – Reagan raised taxes or have you forgotten? Perhaps senility? Bush I stopped short of invading Iraq . . . a wise papa. RPKKK, just what the fuck are you on anyway?

  15. skagit spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 8:23 pm

    Sorry, RPKKK, I forgot that you can’t read. :(

  16. Harry Tuttle spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 8:26 pm

    11.

    Ol’ Ronnie never knew his ass from third base, that’s why he bought the David Stockman bullshit. Tip O’Neill called him the most ignorant man who had ever occupied the White House, “Herbert Hoover with a smile” and “a cheerleader for selfishness.” “The evil is in the White House at the present time, and that evil is a man who has no care and no concern for the working class of America and the future generations of America, and who likes to ride a horse. He’s cold. He’s mean. He’s got ice water for blood.”

    Just the kind of asshold Jughead worships.

  17. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 8:27 pm

    JAKARTA, Indonesia – Scientists trying to photograph wild tigers deep in the Indonesian jungle captured a glimpse of another endangered species instead — the Sumatran ground cuckoo. An Indonesian-British surveying team released rare images of the short, brown fowl, with black and green plumes, taken with a sensor-triggered, camera. The bird, apparently startled by the flash, is seen gazing into the lens with spread wings.

    What is Left Turn doing in Indonesia?

    GBS? K? Roger Rabbit? Harry Tuttle? Goldystein?

    So many sub-species…

  18. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 8:31 pm

    Tuberculosis is ”particularly problematic” in U.S. correctional and detention facilities, say federal health officials, who have updated guidelines for preventing the spread of TB in jails and prisons./ The researchers said the TB rates of inmates in prisons in California and New York are 10 to 15 times greater than the general populations.. Studies show the prevalence of LTBI — or latent TB infection, ”to be as high as 25 percent” in prisons, they said. […………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..The more Illegal aliens [New Democrat voters], the more TB. And Hep type “A”. And AIDs. And HIV positive problems. Oh, don’t you love “New Democrats”???]

  19. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 8:32 pm

    Harry Tuttle, The “Tip O’Neil” Big Dig. Original estimate: 3 billion. Finall cost after Democrat pols and Democrat controlled unions: 14 billion. Get it?

  20. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 8:34 pm

    William J. Jefferson, DEMOCRAT, LA……………………………………………………………………hehe……………………………………………………………………..A federal judge in Washington ruled yesterday that the unprecedented FBI raid on Rep. William J. Jefferson’s Capitol Hill office was constitutional, saying the government “demonstrated a compelling need to conduct the search” in the ongoing public corruption probe. U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan, in an anxiously awaited 28-page opinion, said politicians were not above the law, and he rejected arguments…

    Of course this is receiving minimal play nationally from the MSM, so I’ll post again on HA.ORG.

  21. skagit spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 8:37 pm

    RPKKK – I think Goldy should charge you to post here. You post such total nonsense. I wonder how many of us don’t even read you anymore . . . hmmm ?

  22. Harry Tuttle spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 8:39 pm

    19.

    Shit, Jughead, stop talking about pocket change. The Iraq war has cost $1.27 trillion. You could do Big Digs for eternity and not spend that kind of cash.

    Get real.

  23. Harry Tuttle spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 8:41 pm

    19 (cont’d) But there are no unions getting that Iraq money, no siree. It’s jacking up the value of Dick Cheney’s Haliburtion stock, making billionaires out of body armor suppliers who ship faulty products, and spreading more to KBR and Bechtel.

  24. Harry Tuttle spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 8:42 pm

    Tell me a fairy tale about Star Wars, Uncle Jughead, I like the fantasy.

  25. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 8:44 pm

    HT, I OWN Haliburton common shares, and have for YEARS!!! You could have as well. But I took the risk. And YOU didn’t! So I’m retired in Hawaii, and you are another whinning POS Democrat who whats to “redistribute” other’s wealth because you are a loser!!

  26. Tree Frog Farmer spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 8:46 pm

    Harry@23 You are forgetting all the money falling on the floor in Iraq. . .I rather doubt the rethugs could as freely loot a project like the “Big Dig”. Maybe the chaos of Katrina was an attractive model,rather like the ongoing chaos in Iraq, but not a ‘civil engineering’ project like the ‘big dig’.

  27. skagit spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 8:59 pm

    You’re retired in Hawaii . . . ROLFLMAO! LIke all the guys I ever met were airline pilots!

  28. Dan -Whats the frequency-Kennedy spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 9:08 pm

    26

    May I suggest campaign contributions for selling military secrets. You are in the big leagues if you can pull that off. It also helps if the MSM is on your side.

  29. Dan -Whats the frequency-Kennedy spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 9:10 pm

    Of course a couple fake memos doesnt hurt either. Courage, courage.

  30. Tree Frog Farmer spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 9:11 pm

    Whackjob@28 WTF are you gibbering about now?

  31. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 9:12 pm

    27, Ask Roger Rabbit. RETIRED, IN HAWAII!!

  32. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 9:17 pm

    You’re retired in Hawaii . . . ROLFLMAO! LIke all the guys I ever met were airline pilots!

    Commentby skagit [……………………………… Thank you AWSHX, XOM, and JPM!!]

  33. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 9:17 pm

    27, Aloha!!

  34. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 9:21 pm

    Hey trolls, if they don’t like government regulation to prevent global warming, you should go live on a Pacific atoll! Make sure you find one less than 21 feet above sea level. Take a couple pool toys with you. ha-ha-ha

    Commentby Roger Rabbit […………………………………………………………………..Hawaiians are soooooo scared that the value of land here has dropped because of Al Gore’s PROVEN “global warming”! Oh, wait………………….. It has tripled in value in 4 years? Never mind!!! Rosanna Rosannadana [SNL]

  35. Puddybud Michael Kennedy spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 9:24 pm

    Jughead never tires of posting the SOS over, and over, and over, and over….

    Commentby Harry Tuttle— 7/10/06@ 7:54 pm

    And mummified, you post fresh material?

  36. Dan -Whats the frequency-Kennedy spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 9:24 pm

    I’am retired…. not by choice. Damn Bush economy wrecked the lefty media.

  37. Puddybud Michael Kennedy spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 9:30 pm

    Speaking of impotent, how are you righties feeling about your hero LimpDickLimbaugh these days? HE HE HE HE!

    Commentby LeftTurn— 7/10/06@ 8:05 pm

    LeftTurd: He has more millions than you’ll ever have. And Viagra can do wonders LeftTurdy. Keep wondering stupid little man!

  38. Dan -Whats the frequency-Kennedy spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 9:32 pm

    The global warming crisis of today is the same crap as the coming ice age but without the sideburns. Geeeeesh.

  39. Tree Frog Farmer spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 9:33 pm

    RancidButtPutty@37 Especially since LimpDick is already blind and has no fear of that particular side effect.

  40. Dan -Whats the frequency-Kennedy spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 9:38 pm

    I heard that Rush is down to 19 million listners as of today. Of course he is on vacation and it is still 18.5 million more then Scare America.

  41. Puddybud Michael Kennedy spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 9:41 pm

    RancidButtPutty@37 Especially since LimpDick is already blind and has no fear of that particular side effect.

    Commentby Tree Frog Farmer— 7/10/06@ 9:33 pm

    You R so stupid!!! He is deaf!

  42. Tree Frog Farmer spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 9:43 pm

    Au contraire You are deaf,Rancid.

  43. Teddy Roosevelt spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 9:45 pm

    To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

  44. Tree Frog Farmer spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 9:48 pm

    To listen to RancidButtPutty aspire to argue logic and science is laughable. Like a variety act with a cockerspaniel farting out the Star Spangled Banner. Not that the spaniel is any good at it, but that it attempts it at all.

  45. Will spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 9:49 pm

    What a TOTAL fucking ‘tard.

    Dave’s dumber than a sack of hammers.

  46. Tree Frog Farmer spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 10:00 pm

    Or as we used to say in the service Dave’s two days dumber than dirt.

  47. Dan -Whats the frequency-Kennedy spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 10:13 pm

    I remember the days when the dems never had to worry about mailers from the repubs because we ruled the public airways. Then Reagan repealed the fairness doctrine and you know the rest of the story. We democrats must realize that we can not maintain and control this country with freedom of information over the public airwaves. We must take back control of the media.

  48. Dwight David Eisenhower,POTUS spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 10:26 pm

    Throughout America’s adventure in free government, our basic purposes have been to keep the peace; to foster progress in human achievement, and to enhance liberty, dignity and integrity among people and among nations. To strive for less would be unworthy of a free and religious people. Any failure traceable to arrogance, or our lack of comprehension or readiness to sacrifice would inflict upon us grievous hurt both at home and abroad.

  49. John F.Kennedy,POTUS spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 10:36 pm

    The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

  50. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 10:39 pm

    REICHERT’S PLANE DIVERTED TO DENVER

    Rubberstamp Reichert was last seen thumbing a ride to D.C. from Denver. He made the mistake of flying on Scab Airlines — you know, the outfit that fired all its UNION LABOR and outsourced its ramp operations to a scab outfit. His plane was diverted to Denver because of concerns about a paint chip out of the fuselage.

    Hey Dave, how’s that CHEAP LABOR working out for ya?

  51. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 10:40 pm

    You get what you pay for in this world, and since CHEAP LABOR CONSERVATIVES aren’t willing to pay more than $5.15 an hour, the service ain’t what it usta be.

  52. John F.Kennedy,POTUS spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 10:42 pm

    Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

  53. William J Clinton, POTUS spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 10:42 pm

    Dammit Monica, I thought you were gonna swallow.

  54. William J Clinton, POTUS spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 10:44 pm

    You better put ice on that.

  55. William J Clinton, POTUS spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 10:44 pm

    I guess it would depend on what the meaning of “is” is.

  56. ArtFart spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 10:46 pm

    Looks like Reichert’s been spending all his time in the gym instead of trying to learn what the hell his job is.

  57. Aeschylus spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 10:52 pm

    He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart. And in our own despair, and against our will, comes Wisdom by the awful Grace of God.

  58. americafirst spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 10:54 pm

    Maybe Mak will investigate how much cheap labor corporate Dem Cantwell(D-Mexico, voted for NAFTA and CAFTA)paid Wilson to drop out of the race. Even Cantwell(D-Mexico, voted to give social security benefits to illegal aliens who use stolen social security numbers)is so embarrassed at blatantly buying out her opponent that she won’t say how much she paid Wilson. It’s a good thing that Cantwell(D-Mexico, voted against building a wall on the southern border so her cheap labor corporate friends could get more cheap labor Mexican illegals) made millions selling her dotcom stock to suckers before it tanked; in case she needs to buy off somebody else she’ll have plenty left.

  59. LeftTurn spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 10:54 pm

    When George Bush’s daughters were arrested for being drunken whores, do you think they pulled a train on all the guys in the jail?

  60. BushWentAWOL spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 10:55 pm

    I hear that Mrs. Bush fucks Georgie with a plastic dick every night. Then Georgie returns the favor. With the plastic that is.

  61. BushWentAWOL spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 10:57 pm

    I hear that Lush Flimbaugh’s wife left him because he had a limp dick. But it turns out, she left him because he farts so much she couldn’t stand it. Rumor has it he let one go in Manhatten today and blew up an entire building.

  62. Puddybud Michael Kennedy spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 11:03 pm

    Damn if only lefties were funny. Too bad Bushwentawol had his brain go awol. Rush lives in Florida. What a dipshit!

  63. Puddybud Michael Kennedy spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 11:07 pm

    When George Bush’s daughters were arrested for being drunken whores, do you think they pulled a train on all the guys in the jail?

    Commentby LeftTurn— 7/10/06@ 10:54 pm

    No, we heard about your sister doing the train from her whore house roommate. You were upset so you inserted the lovely Jenna and Barbara instead. Leftturdy knows he will never touch beauty such as the Bush twins, EVER! So he has to make fun of them.

  64. Puddybud Michael Kennedy spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 11:08 pm

    Random House’s Crown imprint, has reviewed the plagiarism allegations and has found them to be baseless.

    “We have reviewed the allegations of plagiarism surrounding ‘Godless’ and found them to be as trivial and meritless as they are irresponsible,” said Steve Ross, Senior Vice President and Publisher of Crown Publishing Group.

    Ross continued: “Any author is entitled to do what Ann Coulter has done in the three snippets cited: research and report facts. The number of words used by our author in these snippets is so minimal that there is no requirement for attribution. As an experienced author and attorney, Ms. Coulter knows when attribution is appropriate, as underscored by the nineteen pages of hundreds of endnotes contained in ‘Godless.’”

    Awww lefties, too bad. BTW it’s a great read!

  65. Puddybud Michael Kennedy spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 11:09 pm

    Moonbats: Coulter’s book has over 300 footnotes! I know I counted them.

  66. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 11:09 pm

    In case anybody doesn’t know what a CHEAP LABOR CONSERVATIVE is, I’ll help you out!

    “When you cut right through it, right-wing ideology is just ‘dime-store economics’ – intended to dress their ideology up and make it look respectable. You don’t really need to know much about economics to understand it. They certainly don’t. It all gets down to two simple words. ‘Cheap labor’. …

    “You see, cheap-labor conservatives are defenders of corporate America – whose fortunes depend on labor. … The more desperately you need a job, the cheaper you’ll work …. If you are a wealthy elite – or a ‘wannabe’ like most dittoheads – your wealth, power and privilege is enhanced by a labor pool, forced to work cheap. …

    “Cheap-labor conservatives don’t like social spending or our ‘safety net’. Why. Because when you’re unemployed and desperate, corporations can pay you … next to nothing … they want you ‘over a barrel’ and in a position to ‘work cheap or starve’.

    “Cheap-labor conservatives don’t like the minimum wage, or other improvements in wages and working conditions. Why. These reforms undo all of their efforts to keep you ‘over a barrel’.

    “Cheap-labor conservatives like ‘free trade’, NAFTA, GATT, etc. Why. Because there is a huge supply of desperately poor people in the third world, who are ‘over a barrel’, and will work cheap.

    “Cheap-labor conservatives oppose a woman’s right to choose. Why. Unwanted children are an economic burden that put poor women ‘over a barrel’, forcing them to work cheap.

    “Cheap-labor conservatives don’t like unions. Why. Because when labor ‘sticks together’, wages go up. …

    “Cheap-labor conservatives constantly bray about ‘morality’, ‘virtue’, ‘respect for authority’, ‘hard work’ and other ‘values’. Why. So they can blame your being ‘over a barrel’ on your own ‘immorality’, lack of ‘values’ and ‘poor choices’.

    “Cheap-labor conservatives encourage racism, misogyny, homophobia and other forms of bigotry. Why? Bigotry among wage earners distracts them, and keeps them from recognizing their common interests as wage earners.

    “The Cheap-Labor Conservative ‘Dirty Secret’ : They Don’t Really Like Prosperity

    “Maybe you don’t believe that cheap-labor conservatives like unemployment, poverty and ‘cheap labor’. Consider these facts. Unemployment was 23 percent when FDR took office in 1933. It dropped to 2.5 percent by time the next Republican was in the White House in 1953. It climbed back to 6.5 percent by the end of the Eisenhower administration. It dropped to 3.5 percent by the time LBJ left office. It climbed over 5 percent shortly after Nixon took office, and stayed there for 27 years, until Clinton brought it down to 4.5 percent early in his second term.

    “That same period – especially from the late forties into the early seventies – was the ‘golden age’ of the United States. We sent men to the moon. We built our Interstate Highway system. We ended segregation in the South and established Medicare. In those days, a single wage earner could support an entire family on his wages. …

    Are Liberals Destroying America?

    “These facts provide a nice background to evaluate cheap-labor conservative claims like ‘liberals are destroying America.’ In fact, cheap-labor conservatives have howled with outrage and indignation against New Deal liberalism from its inception in the 1930’s all the way to the present. … Cheap-labor conservatives opposed virtually all of the New Deal, including every improvement in wages and working conditions.

    “Cheap-labor conservatives have a long and sorry history of opposing virtually every advancement in this country’s development going right back to the American revolution.

    “Cheap-labor conservatives have hated Social Security and Medicare since their inception. Many cheap-labor conservatives are hostile to public education. They think it should be privatized. … Cheap-labor conservatives hate the progressive income tax …. Cheap-labor conservatives like budget deficits and a huge national debt for two reasons. A bankrupt government has a harder time doing any ‘social spending’ – which cheap-labor conservatives oppose, and . . . (they) buy the bonds and then earn tax free interest on the money they lend the government. … The deficit created by cheap-labor conservatives while they posture as being ‘fiscally conservative’ – may count as the biggest con job in American history.

    “‘Free Trade’, globalization, NAFTA and especially GATT are intended to create a world-wide ‘corporate playground’ where national governments serve the interests of corporations – which means ‘cheap labor’.

    “The ugly truth is that cheap-labor conservatives just don’t like working people. They don’t like ‘bottom up’ prosperity … (they) believe in social hierarchy and privilege, so the only prosperity they want is limited to them. They want to see absolutely nothing that benefits the guy – or more often the woman – who works for an hourly wage. …

    “See how easy it is to understand these cheap-labor conservatives. The more ignorant and destitute people there are – desperate for any job they can get – the cheaper the cheap-labor conservatives can get them to work.

    “Try it. Every time you respond to a cheap-labor conservative in letters to the editor, or an online discussion forum, look for the ‘cheap labor’ angle. Trust me, you’ll find it. I can even show you the “cheap labor” angle in things like the ‘war on drugs’, and the absurd conservative opposition to alternative energy.

    Next, make that moniker – cheap-labor conservatives – your ‘standard reference’ to the other side. … If enough people will ‘get with the program’, it won’t be long before you can’t look at an editorial page, listen to the radio, turn on the TV, or log onto your favorite message board without seeing the phrase ‘cheap labor conservatives’ – and have plenty of examples to reinforce the message. …

    Now if you stop right here, you will have enough ammunition to hold your own with a cheap-labor conservative, in any public debate. … Now go find some cheap labor conservatives, and pin that scarlet moniker on them.

    “Less Government And Cheap Labor

    “’Less Government’ is the central defining right-wing slogan. And yes, it’s all about ‘cheap labor’.

    “Included within the slogan ‘less government’ is the whole conservative set of assumptions about the nature of the ‘free market’ and government’s role in that market. In fact, the whole ‘public sector/private sector’ distinction is an invention of the cheap-labor conservatives. They say that the ‘private sector’ exists outside and independently of the ‘public sector’. The public sector, according to cheap-labor ideology, can only ‘interfere’ with the ‘private sector’, and that such ‘interference’ is ‘inefficient’ and ‘unprincipled’. Using this ideology, the cheap-labor ideologue paints himself as a defender of ‘freedom’ against ‘big government tyranny’.

    “In fact, the whole idea that the ‘private sector’ is independent of the public sector is totally bogus. In fact, ‘the market’ is created by public laws, public institutions and public infrastructure. But the cheap-labor conservative isn’t really interested in ‘freedom’. What he wants is the ‘privatized tyranny’ of industrial serfdom, the main characteristic of which is – you guessed it – ‘cheap labor’. For proof, you need only look at exactly what constitutes ‘big government tyranny’ and what doesn’t. It turns out that cheap-labor conservatives are BIG supporters of the most oppressive and heavy handed actions the government takes.

    “Cheap-labor conservatives are consistent supporters of the generous use of capital punishment. They say that ‘government can’t do anything right’ – except apparently, kill people. Indeed, they exhibit classic conservative unconcern for the very possibility that the government might make a mistake and execute the wrong man.

    “Cheap-labor conservatives complain about the ‘Warren Court’ ‘handcuffing the police’ and giving ‘rights to criminals’. It never occurs to them, that our criminal justice system is set up to protect innocent citizens from abuses or just plain mistakes by government officials – you know, the one’s who can’t do anything right.

    “Cheap-labor conservatives support the ‘get tough’ and ‘lock ‘em up’ approach to virtually every social problem in the spectrum. In fact, it’s the only approach they support. As for the 2,000,000 people we have in jail today – a higher percentage of our population than any other nation on earth – they say our justice system is ‘too lenient’.

    “Cheap-labor conservative – you know, the ones who believe in ‘freedom’ – say our crime problem is because – get this – we’re too ‘permissive’. How exactly do you set up a ‘free’ society that isn’t ‘permissive’?

    “Cheap-labor conservatives want all the military force we can stand to pay for … support every right-wing authoritarian hoodlum in the third world … support foreign assassinations, covert intervention in foreign countries, and every other ‘black bag’ operation the CIA can dream up, even against constitutional governments, elected by the people of those countries … ‘domestic surveillance’ against ‘subversives’ … think it’s the government’s business if you smoke a joint or sleep with somebody of your own gender … support our new concentration camp down at Guantanamo Bay … ‘secret tribunals’ with ‘secret evidence’ ….

    “Then they say that liberals are ‘Stalinists’.

    “And let’s not forget this perennial item on the agenda. Cheap-labor conservatives want to ‘protect our national symbol’ from ‘desecration’. They also support legislation to make the Pledge of Allegiance required by law. Of course, it is they who desecrate the flag every time they wave it to support their cheap-labor agenda. …

    “Sounds to me like the cheap-labor conservatives have a peculiar definition of ‘freedom’. I mean, just what do these guys consider to be ‘tyranny’. That’s easy. Take a look.

    “’Social spending’ otherwise known as ‘redistribution’. While they don’t mind tax dollars being used for killing people, using their taxes to feed people is ‘stealing’. Minimum wage laws. Every piece of legislation ever proposed to improve working conditions, including the eight hour day, OSHA regulations, and even Child Labor laws. Labor unions, who ‘extort’ employers by collectively bargaining. Environmental regulations and the EPA. Federal support and federal standards for public education. Civil rights legislation. … Apparently, federal laws ending segregation were ‘tyranny’, but segregation itself was not. Public broadcasting – which is virtually the only source for classical music, opera, traditional theatre, traditional American music, oh yes, and Buckley’s ‘Firing Line’. This from the people constantly braying about the decay of ‘the culture’. The average cost of Public Television for each American is a whopping one dollar a year. ‘Its tyranny I tell you. Enough’s enough!’

    “See the pattern? Cheap-labor conservatives support every coercive and oppressive function of government, but call it ‘tyranny’ if government does something for you – using their money, for Chrissake.

    “Even here, cheap-labor conservatives are complete hypocrites. Consider the following expenditures: 150 billion dollars a year for corporate subsidies. 300 billion dollars a year for interest payments on the national debt – payments that are a direct transfer to wealthy bond holders, and buy us absolutely nothing.
    Who knows how many billions will be paid to American companies to rebuild Iraq …. That’s all in addition to the Defense budget – large chunks of which go to corporate defense contractors. Is the pattern becoming clearer? These cheap-labor Republicans have no problem at all opening the public purse for corporate interests. It’s ‘social spending’ on people who actually need assistance that they just ‘can’t tolerate’. And now you know why. Destitute people work cheaper, while a harsh police state keeps them suitably terrorized.”

    HEY REDNECK — that’s YOU they’re talking about, you fucking CHEAP LABOR CONSERVATIVE!!! I should say ex-fucking, as the only thing you’ve been fucking since your crack-whore wife kicked the bucket is your right hand!!! So HOW did you end up paying $$$ FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND $$$ in vagimony? Why, because you made BAD CHOICES, of course! See, even CHEAP LABOR CONSERVATIVES sometimes make BAD CHOICES!!!

    HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR

  67. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 11:11 pm

    Here’s the link for more info about CHEAP LABOR CONSERVATIVES:

    http://www.conceptualguerilla......php?id=103

  68. skagit spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 11:11 pm

    Looks like Reichert’s been spending all his time in the gym instead of trying to learn what the hell his job is.

    Commentby ArtFart— 7/10/06@ 10:46 pm

    Just following his leader . . .

  69. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 11:11 pm

    Rubberstamp Reichert patronizes scab airlines and doesn’t hug bunnies. :(

  70. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 11:12 pm

    Al Gore’s “Global Warming” is soooooooooo serious that land values in Hawaii have gone down to zero!!! Oh, …….wait. Never mind. Rosanna Rosanandana [SNL]

  71. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 11:13 pm

    69, UNIONIZED airlines have or are going out of business. It’s seems the common shares keep going to zero. hehe, JCH

  72. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 11:14 pm

    Darcy Burner hugs rabbits! http://www.merchantsbay.com/eI.....t_Full.jpg

  73. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 11:15 pm

    You get what you pay for in this world, and since CHEAP LABOR CONSERVATIVES aren’t willing to pay more than $5.15 an hour, the service ain’t what it usta be.

    Commentby Roger Rabbit [……………………………………………………………..Why not make the minimum wage 100 dollars an hour so everyone will be rich!! hehe, Democrats: economic dumb shits!]

  74. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 11:16 pm

    59

    “When George Bush’s daughters were arrested for being drunken whores, do you think they pulled a train on all the guys in the jail?”

    Goes without saying.

  75. Janet S spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 11:17 pm

    I’m actually glad that BushWentAWOL and LeftTurn write garbage they (he) write. If I was just tuning in and read these posts, I would surely be convinced of the righteousness of your views, based on this logic!

    Have at it – even Kos is backing away from some of his more hysterical posts. Maybe Goldy will realize that no one is being convinced by you nutballs, and start deleting your postings. Nah, you all think this stuff is funny.

  76. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 11:17 pm

    You’re retired in Hawaii . . . ROLFLMAO! LIke all the guys I ever met were airline pilots!

    Commentby skagit [Aloha, dumb ass scum “progressive” libs!! Land here has tripled over the last 4 years, so you shit for brains Democrats will NEVER leave the MAINLAND!!! Roger , No Rabbits over here!! [Many long tailed mongoose!]

  77. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 11:19 pm

    62

    You think Lush Limpdick never visits New York for business or pleasure? Man, you ARE slooooow …

  78. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 11:20 pm

    Hey libs!! Maybe some dumb ass “progressive” communist will “redistribute” Hawaii land so that slackers like Roger Rabbit, Tree Frog Farmer and Left Turn can live in Paradise. Maybe not!!!

  79. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 11:22 pm

    That Al Gore!!! He is sooooo “right on” about “global warming” that Hawaii land [of course soon to be underwater] is dropping in value!!! Oh………………….wait……………..Never mind!!!

  80. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 11:23 pm

    Bet Midler has a shit load of land over here, but I’ll bet she sells it all because of “global warming”!!!! hehe, JCH Kennedy

  81. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 11:25 pm

    Hey trolls, if they don’t like government regulation to prevent global warming, you should go live on a Pacific atoll! Make sure you find one less than 21 feet above sea level. Take a couple pool toys with you. ha-ha-ha

    Commentby Roger Rabbit […………………………………………………………………..Hawaiians are soooooo scared that the value of land here has dropped because of “global warming”! Oh, wait………………….. It has tripled in value in 4 years? Never mind!!! Rosanna Rosannadana [SNL]

  82. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 11:26 pm

    “Moonbats: Coulter’s book has over 300 footnotes! I know I counted them.” Commentby Puddybud Michael Kennedy— 7/10/06@ 11:09 pm

    Coulter is infamous for inaccurate footnotes. Any college instructor sees through the old trick of weighting down a term paper with footnotes to make it look “academic.” How sophomoric.

  83. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 11:28 pm

    70

    “Al Gore’s “Global Warming” is soooooooooo serious that land values in Hawaii have gone down to zero!!! Oh, …….wait. Never mind. Rosanna Rosanandana [SNL]” Commentby REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX]— 7/10/06@ 11:12 pm

    Does this mean you had to take a job flipping burgers?

  84. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 11:31 pm

    83, Roger Rabbit, Nope…….Just a poor land owner. hehe, JCH

  85. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 11:31 pm

    75

    We don’t have to convince anybody, Janet. Bush and the nutwig Congress are doing it for us.

  86. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 11:31 pm

    83, Refer to 81. hehe, JCH Kennedy

  87. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 11:33 pm

    JAKARTA, Indonesia – Scientists trying to photograph wild tigers deep in the Indonesian jungle captured a glimpse of another endangered species instead — the Sumatran ground cuckoo. An Indonesian-British surveying team released rare images of the short, brown fowl, with black and green plumes, taken with a sensor-triggered, camera. The bird, apparently startled by the flash, is seen gazing into the lens with spread wings.

    What is Left Turn doing in Indonesia?

    GBS? K? Roger Rabbit? Harry Tuttle? Goldystein?

    So many sub-species…

  88. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 11:33 pm

    84

    Don’t come crying to me about being poor! I’m not responsible for your bad choices.

  89. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 11:33 pm

    75

    Oh wait, I forgot! You wingnuts are first in line when you need a government bailout.

  90. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 11:34 pm

    Hey Craig, I hope for your sake that your house is more than 21 feet above sea level — and not below a dam built by a wingnut who doesn’t believe in government permits.

  91. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 11:36 pm

    88, Roger, Like I need a union hack “guvment” POS like you for anything! Aloha, JCH

  92. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 11:37 pm

    Stefan — why aren’t you gonna share the proceeds of your lawsuit against King County with the generous contributors to your “legal action fund” who paid for the lawsuit?

  93. skagit spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 11:37 pm

    Hey Janet, you can say that with RPKKK, Puddin’head and Proudtobe . . . Stupid posting? Oooo eeeee!

  94. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 11:38 pm

    91

    If you don’t want to lick my furry cottontail, you could get your sex by licking a tampon instead. For a good time, call 1-800-LICK-ROG.

  95. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 11:38 pm

    That Al Gore!! He is really the smartest Democrat!! “Global Warming” is destroying the land values in Hawaii!!! ……………………………………………………………………………………Oh, wait. The land values in Hawaii have triped in 4 years?………………………………Never mind!!!

  96. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 11:39 pm

    Hey trolls, if they don’t like government regulation to prevent global warming, you should go live on a Pacific atoll! Make sure you find one less than 21 feet above sea level. Take a couple pool toys with you. ha-ha-ha

    Commentby Roger Rabbit […………………………………………………………………..Hawaiians are soooooo scared that the value of land here has dropped because of “global warming”! Oh, wait………………….. It has tripled in value in 4 years? Never mind!!! Rosanna Rosannadana [SNL]

  97. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 11:50 pm

    73

    “You get what you pay for in this world, and since CHEAP LABOR CONSERVATIVES aren’t willing to pay more than $5.15 an hour, the service ain’t what it usta be. Commentby Roger Rabbit [……………………………………………………………..Why not make the minimum wage 100 dollars an hour so everyone will be rich!! hehe, Democrats: economic dumb shits!]” Commentby REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX]— 7/10/06@ 11:15 pm

    Why not just make it $7.15 an hour, so people who WORK FULL-TIME don’t have to live on FOOD STAMPS — but nooooo, the REPUBLICAN CONGRESS REFUSED to raise the $5.15 minimum wage.

  98. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 11:52 pm

    96

    JCH — didn’t you already post that? Yeah, you did … @81. Sure is sad to see a guy go senile at age 49.

  99. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/10/06 at 11:55 pm

    Next thing you know, JCH will be carrying on conversations with photographs and smearing his feces all over himself. It’s sure gonna be fun watching him get wheeled off to the NURSING HOME.

    The NURSING HOME will be JCH’s worst nightmare come true! He’ll have to be fed, bathed, and get his ass wiped by ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS because the owner of the NURSING HOME pays only $5.15 an hour.

  100. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 7/11/06 at 12:01 am

    Hey JCH — next time you fly to the States for a little R & R, make sure you book a seat on a scab airline that pays its ground crew the minimum wage. ha-ha-ha

    http://www.b24.net/stories/ann.....0crash.jpg

  101. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 7/11/06 at 12:02 am

    It’s midnight, and I work the night shift, so it’s time for me to hop up the hill to Stefan’s place and prune his vegetables. Later, America-hating trollfuck traitors!

  102. Richard Pope spews:

    Tuesday, 7/11/06 at 4:00 am

    DEMOCRATS MURDER FELLOW DEMOCRAT IN D.C.

    Political volunteer killed in attack

    A British volunteer for the potential presidential campaign of former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner was killed in the city’s Georgetown neighborhood by robbers who slashed his throat and tried to rape his female companion, police said.

    Within three hours of the attack Sunday, police arrested and charged two men, and two other suspects surrendered a few hours later. Three of the suspects appeared Monday before a magistrate judge who ordered them held without bond pending a July 19 hearing. The fourth suspect, a 15-year-old boy, appeared in juvenile court.

    Three assailants stabbed Alan Senitt and slashed his throat as the 27-year-old and his companion returned home from a movie, police said.

    Senitt, who was active in Jewish causes, had moved to Washington last month to volunteer for the Democratic former governor and to study political fundraising. “Our entire team is shocked and heartbroken,” Warner said in a statement.

    http://seattletimes.nwsource.c.....dig11.html

  103. Harry Tuttle spews:

    Tuesday, 7/11/06 at 6:23 am

    102

    Does everything you wingnuts say need to be race based?

    The perpetrators of the crime spoken of, whatever their race, are likely so removed from civil society that the question on what their politics would be is like ruminating that they were from Mars.

    Should they take their agressive tendencies an apply them to politics, however, the authoritarian modern Republican Party would be the natural home for criminals. After all, most convicts are in favor of the death penalty, too.

  104. LeftTurn spews:

    Tuesday, 7/11/06 at 6:30 am

    Well Janet do you think the valued comments offered by your taliban loving friends like Klake, JCH and the other idiots with handles that even THEY don’t understand brings the dialog to a valuable place? Nah. You have no problem with that because it supports your side and like all republicans you’re a hypocrite to your core.

    I give what I get. If your fellow cowards and traitors who are prone to batshit crazy posts were to stop their approach, I would stop mine. But someone has to balance the crap you righties post.

    And nothing helps my side more than cunts like you saying things like a woman’s place is in the home!

  105. JESSIE JACKSON spews:

    Tuesday, 7/11/06 at 6:46 am

    W got lots of guys killed.

    Commentby Dr. E— 7/10/06@ 8:00 pm

    LBJ DID A BETTER JOB OVER 50,000 AS COMPARED TO BUSH 2000+. dr E YOU HAVE SHIT FOR BRAINS AND LOVE THIS NATIONS ENIMIES.

  106. PUTT PUTT spews:

    Tuesday, 7/11/06 at 7:41 am

    # 102 Republican sponsored retribution?

    #75 Janet: The only nutjobs we hear about are in Limbaugh’s
    nut-free scrotum.

    CONSTIPATED CONSERVATIVES, such as yourself have no sense of humor. You are all full of shit and it can’t come out.

  107. Harry Tuttle spews:

    Tuesday, 7/11/06 at 7:51 am

    25.

    Yeah, right, you took a risk.

    What is boils down to, Jughead, is that you bet on the political cartel who would benfit you the most. The money still comes out of the pockets of those of us who work for a living, so you’re no better than the welfare queens. You just bet on a surer game.

    Well, excuse me, but if the benefit of warmongering and world-wide calamity is a few bucks for you to sit on your ass in paradise where you punch screed on a keyboard, I think the time for a revolution has come.

  108. LeftTurn spews:

    Tuesday, 7/11/06 at 8:09 am

    A conservative and long-standing republican pulls the covers on the evil of today’s GOP!
    http://www.amazon.com/gp/produ.....9?n=283155

    Great book!

  109. Dr. E spews:

    Tuesday, 7/11/06 at 8:20 am

    105

    Don’t you righties know how to make a logical argument? You’re not going to get very far sounding like a fifth-grader your entire life.

  110. Puddybud Michael Kennedy spews:

    Tuesday, 7/11/06 at 8:26 am

    MTR Kennedy: Add this to your collection of quotes:

    MSRedneck @4,

    Thanks for point that out. Silly me, when Postman wrote “Stefan Sharkansky says” I accepted it without question. I should know better than to believe anything I read in the Seattle Times.

    Commentby Goldy— 7/6/06@ 10:24 am

    Now when Goldy uses the Seattle TImes for a lefty moonbat librul point, let’s remind him of his original thoughts regarding the power of Seattle Times reporting!

  111. Puddybud Michael Kennedy spews:

    Tuesday, 7/11/06 at 8:37 am

    Turdyboy wants a truce. Let’s review turdy boy:

    Limbaugh pees in a cup
    Bush twins are drunken whores
    Bush twins pull a train
    Laura Bush killed a guy.
    Ann Coulter is a guy
    North Korea is GWB’s fault
    Looks like the world’s biggest crack addict and transvestite has never written an original word in her miserable cowardly life.
    Ralph Reed is a bitch
    We’re knuckle-dragging, baby-raping right wingers
    Bunch of fucking crooks. They should be hanged for treason. Today!
    Republicans are cowards.
    He fucked my “daughter”. – Don’t have any daughters!
    He fucked my wife. – She isn’t interested in having to use the Hubble Telescope on full mag to find his dick!
    Ordered the outing of a CIA agent – If so Fitz didn’t say it. Lie
    Lied 40000 times about the war in Iraq – Oh really? Repeated the 1998 Donko lies you mean?
    Created the biggest trade deficit in history – Debatable
    Let Osama get away a month before 9.11 and then let Osama’s family get away after 9.11 Lie – Richard CLarke did
    Tried to turn our ports over to Arab control – Mistake, he took Bill Clinton’s suggestion
    Screwed up the immigration situation
    And my personal favorite, got down on all fours, stuck his ass in the air and invited N. Korea to collectively fuck him in the ass because he’s afraid to fight any country that ACTUALLY DOES HAVE WMD!

    Now he claims :”I give what I get. If your fellow cowards and traitors who are prone to batshit crazy posts were to stop their approach, I would stop mine. But someone has to balance the crap you righties post.

    And nothing helps my side more than cunts like you saying things like a woman’s place is in the home!

    Commentby LeftTurn— 7/11/06@ 6:30 am

    1.) You are the moonbat
    2.) You are part of Goldy’s Northwest Division of Lunatic Moonbats
    3.) You are a simpleton who post the same shit day-in, day-out
    4.) Clinton didn’t remove the North Korea fuel rods from Kim Il Soon – the daddy
    5.) Now Clinton/Madeline Halfbright wants us to attack NK
    6.) Carter told the Shah of Iran to leave IRAN. Khomeini took over the power vacuum. 444 days of hostages & Radical Islam – Thanks
    7.) Carter told the world we had stealth technology – Thanks
    8.) Carter sold the Panama Canal control to the Chinese – Thanks
    9.) Carter, Pelosi, Feinstein, Boxer, Durbin and Hollyweird donks love Castro

    Do I need to continue these lists LeftTurdy? You are a vitriolic hateful moonbat who can’t see past his hatred for GWB to post something worthwhile or liberally righteous on the board. Typical librul. Keep up the “good” work!

  112. Dr. E spews:

    Tuesday, 7/11/06 at 8:48 am

    “Carter told the Shah of Iran to leave IRAN. Khomeini took over the power vacuum. 444 days of hostages & Radical Islam”

    C’mon, puddy, don’t you know your history? Who put Reza Pahlavi (the Shah) there in the first place? You might want to read Stephen Kinzer’s book “The Roots of Middle East Terror.”

    Do you really have a problem with liberalism? If so, can you explain the importance of Enlightenment philosophy to the founders of this nation while simultaneously discounting liberalism?

  113. Puddybud Michael Kennedy spews:

    Tuesday, 7/11/06 at 8:51 am

    Libruls lie people die: http://www.boston.com/news/loc.....or_tunnel/

  114. Puddybud Michael Kennedy spews:

    Tuesday, 7/11/06 at 9:00 am

    Dr E. I know who the shah really was. His Savak was similar to the KGB. Carter could have done better is all I am saying. He didn’t.

    Speaking of liberalism vs. librulism – John Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey were liberals. The moonbats on ASSes are libruls. Way past the fence in left field, past the parking lot, heading toward Pioneer Square

    Speaking of Libruls: Where’s Prize Fighting McKinney?
    http://www.drudgereport.com/flash4.htm

  115. Puddybud Michael Kennedy spews:

    Tuesday, 7/11/06 at 9:10 am

    More news for you LeftTurdy: Clinton’s good friend Bernie Schwartz of Loral gave improved rocket telemetry to the Chicoms. Now they can hit your beloved moonbat neighborhood on the first try. I know you feel good about that!

    Now North Korea. You want us to take out the North Koreans. Why LeftTurdy? Don’t you know that the Chinese were watching our response to NK tests. Are your really that dumb?

    http://www.humaneventsonline.c.....p?id=15963

    Yes, the post of LeftTurdy are a cacophony of nothingness. Us whom think right deliver euphony, worthwhile posts of people like the professor who sez kill the 2 year old!

  116. Harry Tuttle spews:

    Tuesday, 7/11/06 at 9:10 am

    113.

    Which is the liberal among these two?

    Modern Continental and a spokesman for project manager Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff did not respond to calls for comment Tuesday.

  117. Puddybud Michael Kennedy spews:

    Tuesday, 7/11/06 at 9:32 am

    http://findarticles.com/p/arti.....i_98923487

    * All of which again raises the question of what Democratic Sens. Ted Kennedy and John Kerry of Massachusetts expected to gain by playing host to the Democratic National Convention in Boston next year when the whole of the national press can take a heavily broadcast look at whatever evidence of warts, crookedness and abuse Romney and his investigators turn up.

    * Could any other two U.S. senators have kept a federal pork project going in their state that is $12 billion over budget? So what did they know and when did they know it?

  118. Puddybud Michael Kennedy spews:

    Tuesday, 7/11/06 at 9:34 am

    http://www.republicanvoices.org/big_waste.html

    $2.5 Billion. Five years to complete. These are two promises made to us by Senator Edward Kennedy, Speaker Tip O’Neill, and Governor Michael S. Dukakis in 1988, when the idea of putting Boston ’s elevated Central Artery underground as a series of tunnel. 17 years later, and the Big Dig is facing new problems.

    First off, the cost. The Big Dig has cost a total of $16.5 billion! Past governors have been forced to request billions of dollars in cost overruns from the federal government. The cost has also drained chapter 90 funds responsible for funding our highway departments, thus explaining our deplorable roads. Our roads are a gross embarrassment to the state and are ruining our cars.

  119. Daddy Love spews:

    Tuesday, 7/11/06 at 9:47 am

    117

    Pud,
    Funnny, but when you actully READ it the Globe article appears to be about how Bechtel used its REPUBLICAN contacts to prosper, including Weld and his successors in Massachusetts.

    “Bechtel had more than technical expertise. It had stellar Republican credentials, a handy tool when trying to persuade President Ronald Reagan, a California Republican, to give liberal Massachusetts the nation’s most expensive public works project…Not only was San Francisco-based Bechtel a major GOP campaign contributor, but Reagan had plucked two of his Cabinet members, George P. Shultz and Caspar Weinberger, from Bechtel’s boardroom. That connection continues today: Shultz’s daughter, Margaret, works as Bechtel’s Big Dig human resources manager.”

    and

    “Just as construction began on the Big Dig in 1991, William F. Weld, a Republican with strong business support, became Massachusetts’ governor, ushering in an era of GOP control of the corner office that continues today. The Weld victory also began an era of considerable access for Bechtel…Between 1991 and 1996, Weld reaped nearly $25,000 from Bechtel and Parsons executives,…”

  120. Daddy Love spews:

    Tuesday, 7/11/06 at 9:48 am

    The botched Iraq invasion and occupation is costing us $10 billion every month.

  121. Dr. E spews:

    Tuesday, 7/11/06 at 9:48 am

    114

    Puddy, there’s no such thing as a “librul”. We could take a poll to find out how many true communists are lurking around here (I’d suspect the number to be zero), so I don’t think your characterization of “way past the fence in left field” is accurate — unless, of course, that fence ends with “centrism”. Let’s face it, the modern Democratic party, based on its actions is not a left-wing organization. It’s hardly even truely liberal, at least in a consistent sense.

    That’s my problem with wingers: they call anyone that disagrees with their (often radical) world view “liberals”, without realizing that they are participating in a framing game manufactured (as indicated in 108, above) to play off the authoritarian mindset.

  122. Puddybud Michael Kennedy spews:

    Tuesday, 7/11/06 at 10:01 am

    Wait a minute Dr. E. Lets dialog for a minute. I gave you examples of liberals. Today they would be conservatives. You seem to gloss over the ELF, GLA, GLAAD, PETA, ACLU, NAMBLA, LA RAZA wings of the democratic party.

    Would Hubert or John want gay marriage, etc. in their democratic platform? Doubt it. But what do we have today? The above groups pulling your party way left. How can you claim centrists. Those voices like Lieberman are being sent packing!!!

    Just like your side claimed the tax cuts didn’t work. 2.4 Trillion so far of economic activity. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07.....r=homepage

    http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07.....2Q5DQ7BQ2B

    Good Try. Just like the story on the Lebanese man trying to blow up the Holland Tunnel you ridiculed. I delivered a small URL SMACKDOWN on that one!

  123. howcanyoubePROUDtobeaKennedyandanASS spews:

    Tuesday, 7/11/06 at 10:14 am

    the identity of headless lucy… what is it about liberal men and bizarre sexual misconduct?… Slick Willie… report for duty, boy… the Slurpee Machine is down!

  124. Daddy Love spews:

    Tuesday, 7/11/06 at 10:15 am

    Funny how you don’t see Democrats defending William jefferson at all, really. And certainly not with the fervor of Republicans defending Tom DeLay, Rush Limbaugh, Bill “thanks for the hot tip” Frist, and the like.

    In fact, while Tom DeLay persuaded Republicans to vote to change Senate rules to he could keep his leadershp position in case he was indicted (a position they later changed after public outcry), the Democratic House membership voted to force Jefferson to step down from his committee position BEFORE any indictments, to avoid any appearance of corruption and of course to draw a sharp contrast to the “wallowing in corruption” Republican leadership of the disgraced Tom DeLay, Denny “build that federal highway hwere I bought the land” Hastert, Bob “For Sale” Ney, Jack (the greaser) Abramoff, Duke “large bills, please, and a hooker” Cunningham, Grover “I’l launder your cash” Norquist, and oh so many more.

  125. howcanyoubePROUDtobeaKennedyandanASS spews:

    Tuesday, 7/11/06 at 10:27 am

    Why did Momma NoLeftBrainandmissinghisLeftNut despise him so?

  126. Daddy Love spews:

    Tuesday, 7/11/06 at 10:28 am

    Pud 123

    “Just like your side claimed the tax cuts didn’t work.”

    Well, thank God that republicans can’t quite destoy the American economy in the time they’ve had so far. Yes, the economy rebounds. It’s called the businness cycle. But the GOP made certain predictions about economic activity that the tax cuts would produce. And in every case they have been wrong, wrong, wrong.

    Check out http://www.jobwatch.org:
    “Based on Defense Department estimates of the number of private-sector jobs created by its own spending, we project that additional defense spending will account for a 1.495 million gain in private sector jobs between FY2001 and FY2006. Furthermore, increases in non-defense discretionary spending since 2001 will have added yet another 1.325 million jobs in the private sector, for a total of 2.82 million jobs created by increased government spending. Increased mandatory government spending—which is not even included in these estimates or the accompanying chart—would account for even more job creation. The mere fact that the projected job growth resulting from increased defense and other government spending exceeds the actual number of jobs projected to be added to the economy through 2006 clearly indicates that the tax cuts hardly seem plausible as the engine of the modest job growth in the economy since 2001. ”

    or http://www.faireconomy.org/pre....._01.06.pdf
    “a study examines the administration’s claim that tax cuts create jobs—and finds it without merit…While two million jobs were created in 2005, this is 3.5 million jobs short of expectations by the President’s Council of Economic Advisors, who estimate job growth at 3.1% in a normal year. Jobs grew by only 1.5% in 2005.”

    To put it simply, on average, Bush’s economy has created 393,000 new jobs per year, while Clinton created 2.75 million per year.

  127. Puddybud Michael Kennedy spews:

    Tuesday, 7/11/06 at 10:44 am

    Democrats did support Jefferson until the democrat leadership decided they could make hay!!!

    Now I ask where is the Frist or DeLay convictions. Even the court said the redistricting was basically okay!

  128. Richard Pope spews:

    Tuesday, 7/11/06 at 10:46 am

    102

    Does everything you wingnuts say need to be race based?

    The perpetrators of the crime spoken of, whatever their race, are likely so removed from civil society that the question on what their politics would be is like ruminating that they were from Mars.

    Commentby Harry Tuttle— 7/11/06@ 6:23 am

    Where did I say anything that was “race based”?

    I simply quoted an article from today’s Seattle Times in its entirety, and attributed the murder to Democrats.

    Washington DC, after all, is overwhelmingly Democrat in its voter registration and voting patterns. It also has a crime rate — especially for murder, rape and robbery — far above the national average. The same holds true for almost all other Democrat strongholds (with the possible exception of places like Seattle).

    If the perpetrators of this crime ever registered to vote, you can bet that they registered as Democrats. And if they never registered to vote, you can bet that that their parents and siblings were registered as Democrats.

  129. Daddy Love spews:

    Tuesday, 7/11/06 at 10:47 am

    Tax cuts and the economy, from Salon.com (and keep in mind that those quoted here are Bush-appointed Republican economists:

    Suppose you are George W. Bush and you cut taxes. By how much do you have to cut spending in order to keep the budget deficit from growing? Gregory Mankiw — chosen by Bush to chair his Council of Economic Advisers and be his chief economic advisor in 2003-2004 — says that initially you have to cut spending by almost the entire amount of the tax cut. If you do, however, according to ex-CEA head Mankiw and most credentialed economists, you find that the economy does grow faster.

    What if you cut taxes but don’t cut spending? There the consensus of economists is equally clear. A tax cut without accompanying spending cuts lowers economic growth. In the end taxes must be raised, and raised to a higher level than they were before the cutting began. As Ben Bernanke — whom Bush chose to succeed Mankiw as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, and then chose again to run the Federal Reserve — puts it: “This adverse effect of budget deficits on economic growth is probably the most important cost of deficits, and a major reason why economists advise governments to minimize their deficits.”

  130. Richard Pope spews:

    Tuesday, 7/11/06 at 10:52 am

    I think a study should be done regarding violent crime and political party affiliation of convicted criminals.

    Take some states which have voter registration by political party — such as California, Florida, New York, North Carolina, and Louisiana.

    Then take criminal defendants who were convicted of murder, rape, robbery, burglary, and other violent crimes within a given calendar year — let’s say 2005 for example.

    See if the defendants were registered to vote in those states at any time in their lives prior to their criminal convictions. And if so, what political party they were affiliated with.

    Also check out the parents of the defendants and their party affiliation. It will probably be easier to get information for mothers, than for fathers, but make an effort to get information for all known parents.

    To the extent that criminal defendants and their parents were ever registered to vote, I will bet that this will show an overwhelmingly Democrat political preference on the part of violent criminals and the people who brought them into this world.

  131. Daddy Love spews:

    Tuesday, 7/11/06 at 11:01 am

    Richard Pope

    So you should really admit straight up that
    a) You have NO IDEA what the political affiliation of the perpetrators is
    b) it is no more or less likely to the best of your knowledge that the perps may be nonpolitical non-voters.
    c) that calling them “Democrats” when such an assertion is utterly ungrounded in any kind of factual basis is your attempted smear and nothing else.

    From the Seattle PI:
    “According to data from both the U.S. Census and the Voter News Services, 17 percent of eligible voters under 30 participated in the 2000 presidential election. Of voters 18-24, just 29 percent participated in the last presidential election…”

    And those percentages to not focus on young black men, as many as 40 percent of whom in some areas cannot vote due to laws denying the franchise to ex-felons.

  132. Daddy Love spews:

    Tuesday, 7/11/06 at 11:02 am

    Richard

    But your feigned wide-eyed innocence has a certain charm.

  133. For the Clueless spews:

    Tuesday, 7/11/06 at 11:40 am

    Daddy Love – nice smackdowns of the wingnut propaganda spewing from ASS, Richard Pope and Puddybud.

    Unfortunately so many people in this country are driven by emotion and haven’t learned to think critically. Propaganda is lies coated with a thin veneer of plausiblity – look closely and anyone with a brain can see the ugliness beneath. Our resident wingnut trolls have swallowed these lies whole while refusing with their whole beings to admit that they’re wrong.

    Thanks wingers for your stubborn crusade to destroy this country.

  134. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Tuesday, 7/11/06 at 12:40 pm

    Tokyo – North Korea could be preparing for new launches of mid-range missiles after last week’s tests, with activity detected at its bases, a report said today citing Japanese government sources. US and Japanese satellite photos show that mid-range Rodong missiles had been set up on launch pads at a base in southeastern North Korea, but were later removed, /break/ fuel tanks could be seen near the launch pads. […………………………………………………………………………………..A closer “SATVIEW” shows Jim McDermott, Roger Rabbit, and Ted Kennedy pushing the North Korean missiles into launch position!]

  135. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Tuesday, 7/11/06 at 12:45 pm

    BOSTON –At least 12 tons of concrete fell from the ceiling of one of Boston’s Big Dig tunnels, crushing a woman in a car and again raising concerns about the integrity of the massive highway project that is the central artery through the city.

    A steel tieback that held a 40-foot ceiling section over Interstate 90 eastbound gave way late Monday night in the tunnel, a main access way to Boston’s Logan International Airport. The tunnel was closed indefinitely as crews worked to remove about 30 ceiling slabs in a 200-foot section where the collapse occurred, DEMOCRAT Authority Chairman Matthew Amorello said Tuesday. […………………………………………………………………………………..This is a lie!!!! This project [DEMOCRAT Tip O’Neil Tunnel] was pushed by Democrats, designed by Democrats, and built by Democrat unions!! DEMOCRATS Kerry and Kennedy PERSONALLY
    built this tunnel!! Any and all problems are Republican hate attacks!!!!!!!]

    Commentby REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX]— 7/11/06@ 12:44 pm

  136. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Tuesday, 7/11/06 at 6:48 pm

    We need to hear more about REP Pat “BitchSlap” Kennedy, DEMOCRAT, RI, Cindy “BitchSlap” McKinney, DEMOCRAT, GA, and last but not least, William J. “IceBox” Jefferson, DEMOCRAT, LA! hehe, JCH Kennedy

  137. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Tuesday, 7/11/06 at 9:49 pm

    We need to hear more about REP Pat “BitchSlap” Kennedy, DEMOCRAT, RI, Cindy “BitchSlap” McKinney, DEMOCRAT, GA, and last but not least, William J. “IceBox” Jefferson, DEMOCRAT, LA! hehe, JCH Kennedy

  138. Uji0j4DhIJ spews:

    Thursday, 7/13/06 at 11:14 pm

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