When is your hero going to grow some and actually start talking about the war in Iraq instead of funding for the former fighters in same?? The war is wildly unpopular in the 8th district but unless she taps into this openly a.) she’ll do nothing about when elected and b.) she won’t win.
Darcy step up to the plate and speak truth to power!!!
LauraBushKilledAGuyspews:
When will RubberStampReichert stop ducking the media and debates and at least PRETEND to have a nutsack and tell us what he thinks about anything? Or does he think at all? Or is he capabale of thinking? Or is he so bad off he lets that coward Bush do his thinking for him? Inquiring minds want to know!
Mark The Redneck KENNEDYspews:
So tell me again… what is it you guys are running against?
1) Stock market at all time high
2) Interest rates near historical lows
3) Unemployment near historical lows
4) Fed revenue at all time high
5) Zero terror attacks since 9/11
6) Global warming tamed (no hurricanes in 2006)
7) Home ownership at all time high
Is the fact that the big stuff is doing well why you focus on stoopid trivial shit like Mark Foley? Good luck with that strategy… (and yes… Foley is a better man than Clinton)
Daddy Lovespews:
In the gut. UUUHHH!~
On the chin. UUUNNNHHH!
“No mas. No mas.”
Roger Rabbitspews:
The GOP’s legacy:
“Americans are working harder, and earning less.”
That’s the CHEAP LABOR CONSERVATIVE agenda in a nutshell! Why the hell should anyone work, when wages are taxed, but investment income and inheritance windfalls are not? If Republicans continue creating disincentives for work, nobody will work, and we will become a nation of lottery ticket buyers and real estate flippers!
Welcome to the Cheap Labor Conservative Cafe! Get your own damn coffee … no waitress is on duty. If you want ham and eggs over easy, you’ll have to cook them yourself, because no cook is on duty either. This place is open only for tax shelter.
Roger Rabbitspews:
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, you have to bring your own food to the Cheap Labor Conservative Cafe.
Roger Rabbitspews:
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We’ll let middle class voters decide whether they’re better off than they were six years ago. And when they do, the GOP Congress will be history, and Bush will be a lame duck.
As for Mark the Lying Welsher’s assertion of zero terror attacks since 9/11, I suppose 2,700+ Americans died in Iraq of natural causes?
LauraBushKilledAGuyspews:
So tell me again… what is it you guys are running on?
1) Stock market took six years under Bush to get to a point it already hit under President Clinton
2) Deficit near historical highs
3) Underemployment near historical highs
4) Average worker take home down 34% under Bush
5) Terrorism right here at home in the form of Anthrax attacks
6) Bin Laden still on the lam
7) Highest trade deficits in history
8) The fact that you let a ped get away with chestering minors in order to save a house seat?
Is the fact that the big stuff is doing well why you focus on stoopid trivial shit like Clinton getting a BJ? Good luck with that strategy… (and yes… Clinton is a better man than Foley)
Roger Rabbitspews:
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I should also mention that Bush has yet to get within a full percentage point of what the unemployment rate was under Clinton. And let’s not forget that Clinton created 22 million jobs in 8 years, while Bush has created only 3 million jobs in 6 years — less than what is needed just to keep up with population growth. And why don’t we ask the millions of people who are facing huge increases in their mortgage payments what they think of how things are going on the interest rate front. Nor should we forget record-level budget and trade deficits (we are selling our seed corn to foreigners, notably China), and rising inflation.
Yes, let’s ask the middle class if they like the GOP’s economic policies that give freebies to multimillionaires at the expense of working families. Unless the voting machines are rigged, the GOP is going to suffer a crushing defeat next month!
P.S., pay your gambling debt, liar.
Roger Rabbitspews:
Mark the Welsher is a proven liar. He claimed that cutting taxes ALWAYS increases revenues!!! (raucous laughter in university economics departments across the land) Let’s recap:
Revenue before Bush tax cuts: $1.372 trillion
Revenue after Bush tax cuts: $1.069 to $1.279 trillion
proud leftistspews:
Does the Republican Party seek out slow-witted rubes (Reichert, Hastert, Hastings, Pombo, George Allen, Jim Bunning, et al) to run for Congress to ensure a lack of independence from the legislative branch, or is that simply all there is to choose from within the party ranks? The collective IQ of these folks almost hits the Dull Normal mark.
Roger Rabbitspews:
Maybe Welsher could explain how cutting taxes to zero would increase revenues even more!!! (raucous laughter in background)
Here’s how taxes work. A zero tax rate produces zero revenue. A 100% tax rate also produces zero revenue, because it eliminates all incentives for economic activity. Somewhere between the zero and 100% rates, is a tax rate that produces the maximum amount of revenue. If the existing tax rate is above this point, then cutting the tax rate will stimulate economic activity and result in more revenue. But if the existing tax rate is below this point, then cutting the tax rate will simply reduce revenue.
Roger Rabbitspews:
Another explanation Welsher owes us is how repealing the nickel gas tax increase would have reduced the pump price of gasoline in a market of limited supply. The pump price goes up until consumers reduce their demand to a level in balance with the amount of gasoline that oil companies can supply, it’s that simple. Let’s say that price is $3.00 a gallon. If you repeal 5 cents of gas tax, or (to take an even more preposterous proposal) enact a “gas tax holiday” which would temporarily repeal ALL gas taxes, will the pump price be $2.95 or $2.50 a gallon? Hell no!!! It’ll still be $3.00, because a lower pump price would stimulate consumer demand in excess of supply, and oil companies would raise THEIR price! You’re simply taking a nickel out of the WSDOT’s bank account and putting it in the oil companies’ profit column. The consumer doesn’t get a penny of it. Then what do you do, impose a sales tax on food to pay for roads? Or not build roads? What other alternative is there? Does Welsher think he can persuade the paving industry to build roads for free?
This is the idiot who poses as an “economic expert” on this board. He not only supported I-912, but bet Goldy $100 it would win by 15 points, then didn’t pay up when the voters shoved his wingnut economics up his ass! And Welsher flat-out LIED when he said Bush’s tax cuts increased revenue. Even the administration’s own doctored revenue statistics prove that’s bullshit!
Pay your gambling debt, Welsher. Then we’ll talk economics.
headless lucyspews:
re 3: Federal revenue is lower now than in the last year of Clinton’s Presidency. Historically revenues always go up — but not with baby Bush.
How about the trade deficit and port security and – oh- Republican pedophiles in Congress.
Roger Rabbitspews:
The wingnut line on the Foley scandal goes something like this.
1) Mark Foley is really a Democrat.
2) The Democrats knew all about it, but covered it up.
By tomorrow they’ll be saying,
3) The Democrats obstructed the FBI investigation into Foley’s misdeeds.
Oops, that’s today! I see in today’s news an FBI shill blamed a Soros-funded liberal group for obstructing the investigation by sending the FBI redacted copies of Foley’s IMs and refusing the FBI’s requests for information. The group says those allegations are lies. Let’s see, whooooo should we believe … ?
When Republicans talk about “personal responsibility,” what they really mean is, blame everything on the Democrats.
Roger Rabbitspews:
The thing wingnuts don’t get is that telling their lies doesn’t change the facts, and it’s their lies — not anything the Democrats do or don’t do — that will bring them down.
Let’s state the principle this way. If a wingnut says “gravity is bunk!” and jumps off a cliff, he breaks his fucking neck anyway.
MEGABRADspews:
Gee,
Roger Rabbit sure does leave a bunch of comments in here.
Roger Rabbitspews:
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Write your complaint here [ ] and send it here __.
Roger Rabbitspews:
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Reading the HorsesAss.org comment threads is a voluntary activity. No one made you do it. If you don’t like it, go somewhere else. Or, alternatively, suck my rabbit dick! For a good time, call 1-800-SUCK-ROG.
MEGABRADspews:
Shouldn’t you be at the anti-American rally today, Rabbit? Or was that yesterday?
Roger Rabbitspews:
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Another option is to e-mail the site owner (i.e., Goldy) and ask him to edit Roger Rabbit’s comments, or ban Roger Rabbit. Hey, it’s Goldy’s web site, and he can do whatever he wants! If you don’t like the way he runs it, go start your own fucking blog.
Roger Rabbitspews:
Wow! This thread’s been up for only 1 1/2 hours and it’s already got TWO DOZEN comments! That’s more than the pathetic little competing blog gets in TWO WEEKS!!
Roger Rabbitspews:
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Read a fucking newspaper and you’ll know when it is! I’m not your fucking personal assistant.
Roger Rabbitspews:
We apparently have a new troll on board today, folks. Welcome to HorsesAss, Megabuttfuck! Let me acquaint you with the informal HA posting rules:
1) This is a liberal blog
2) Anyone can post here
3) There is no censorship
4) As liberals, our job is to verbally kick the living shit out of unpatriotic America-hating rightwing traitors
5) No mercy for wingnuts
6) Our terms are unconditional surrender
7) Klake is a nazi
Any questions?
MEGABRADspews:
Hahahaha!
You make me laugh, Rabbit. You’re kind of funny. Maybe you should make your own webpage. You could call it “Roger the economics bunny”, or “Hip Hop economics 101”.
Roger Rabbitspews:
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Neither Welsher nor I are economics experts. The difference is that I don’t claim to be one. However, some things are demonstrable facts, while other things are common sense. Maybe YOU would like to take a run at explaining how cutting taxes increases government revenue, reduces deficits, and prevents inflation? Are you an economics expert?
Roger Rabbitspews:
Wingnuts confuse their expertise in stealing with economics expertise. If they had a Nobel Prize for Robbery, maybe Bush could get it.
MEGABRADspews:
Wow,
You’re a wrascally lil’ rabbit, aren’t you! Hahaha. Are you Google searching me now, bunny?
Roger Rabbitspews:
No, I’m not an economics expert. I rely on the expertise of others, like the revenue statisticians at the Treasury Department, and information published on web sites like this one: http://tinyurl.com/lnzs3
“Right-Wing Ideology in a Nutshell
“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’. That’s their whole philosophy in a nutshell … 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, and the more power those ‘corporate lords’ have over you. 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.”
Here’s an example of cheap labor conservative legislation: “Raise” the federal minimum wage applicable to waitresses from the current $5.15 an hour to $2.13 an hour by letting employers deduct tips from their hourly pay rate. That’s right, cheap labor conservatives are so mean, evil, greedy, and grasping — they even want to steal the waitress tip jar!!! Their motto is: Leave no penny on the sidewalk — or in someone else’s pocket!!!
MEGABRADspews:
“Maybe YOU would like to take a run at explaining how cutting taxes increases government revenue..”
Gee wrabbit, what do you need all that “government revenue” for? To support you? Are you afraid the federal government might not have enough money to give you so that you can live?
Roger Rabbitspews:
Oh, and one more thing, if you’re a Republican of course you want to couple the minimum wage “increase” to elimination of the federal estate tax, so people can inherit a billion dollars they didn’t work for and did nothing to deserve without paying a dime of taxes — while $2.13-an-hour waitresses continue to pay taxes on their wages!
And then, if you’re a lying sack of shit like Mike McGavick, who got paid $28 million for two months of part-time “consulting work,” run campaign ads that falsely claim Maria Cantwell voted against a minimum wage increase!
Harry Tuttlespews:
I’m sure glad Roger is back.
Roger Rabbitspews:
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The simple answer to your question is that I carried an M-16 rifle in Vietnam for 13 months for $250 a month (plus employer-paid medical care for on-the-job injuries); that I spent approximately 30 years in state government working 50 to 70 hours a week but getting paid for only 40; that I paid for my own pension with deductions from my below-market pay; that I started working when I was 13 years old; that I paid my own way through college, graduate school, and law school with no family help or government grants; that I paid taxes the whole way; and that if you don’t like my resume, take a deep breath, bend over as far as you can, and suck your own dick!!! That’s the only way you’ll ever get a blowjob, because you’ll never find a woman to do it for you.
Roger Rabbitspews:
I didn’t have one of those cushy $150,000-a-year “private security contractor” (i.e., soldier of fortune) jobs the Bush administration pays for with taxpayer dollars.
MEGABRADspews:
Hmm,
Maybe you SHOULDN’T rely on the “expertise” of others. That stuff you copy and pasted, well, you probably would have been better off pasting it in the garbage can. Can’t you rely on your own common sense about economics? You know, turn off the tv, put down the commie manifesto, stop jumping up and down flinging your poop all around and shouting crazy slogans, and just, calmly, think about it.
LauraBushKilledAGuyspews:
Yes common sense is in order here.
I made more money when Clinton was President. I’ll vote D!
Roger Rabbitspews:
Now maybe Megacheeks would like to explain to us how the GOP wisely manages our hard-earned tax dollars while fucking over the soldiers they won’t even buy battle helmets for.
Hey Megabuttfuck, I gotta question for ya. I contributed $99 to http://www.operation-helmet.org/ to buy a helmet upgrade kit for a soldier or Marine in Iraq or Afghanistan. Thanks to private donors like me, over 16,000 of these kits have been distributed to our troops serving in combat zones.
How about you? Have you donated $99 to Operation Helmet? If not, will you? Or are you one of those wingnuts who waves the flag and flings the word “patriotism” around like a Pike Place Market vendor tosses fish in the air, but your patriotism stops short of bleeding for it or paying a penny out of your own pocket? Are you man enough to step up to the plate, pull out your checkbook, and write a check for $99 to Operation Helmet — or are you all hat, no cattle; an empty suit; JAWB (just another wingnut blowhard)??
If you haven’t already contributed to Operation Helmet, will do contribute TODAY?
America is waiting for your answer.
Roger Rabbitspews:
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“Are you Google searching me now, bunny?” Commentby MEGABRAD— 10/6/06@ 11:40 am
No. Why would I? If you think I give a rap who you are, you have an overinflated opinion of yourself.
Daddy Lovespews:
What is it “us guys” are running against? Umm it’s “you guys.” And the lying liars you elected.
And the corrupt government-for-sale they instituted.
And the deceitful and unnecessary invasion and occupation of Iraq that is draining our treasury and killing our soldiers, who should be searching for Osama bin Laden instead of standing with targets on their backs in between warring factions jockeying for power in Iraq.
And the absolute squandering of the international good will that COULD have produced the cooperation we need to combat global terrosism instead of creating more new terrorists every day.
And the absurd spectacle of the highest leaders of the party of so-called “personal responsibility” falling all over themselves to point the finger at Democrats, teenaged House pages, Bill Clinton, George Soros, the media, and each other to cover up their years of malfeasance, neglect, and obstruction while they allowed an as-yet-unknown number of predators full and unrestricted access to House pages as their personal sex toys.
Not much, really.
Roger Rabbitspews:
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“That stuff you copy and pasted, well, you probably would have been better off pasting it in the garbage can.” Commentby MEGABRAD— 10/6/06@ 11:55 am
Really? Which part of the following is not true?*
(*Note: Just because a wingnut denies something doesn’t mean it’s not true.)
“Don’t believe me. Well, let’s apply this principle, and see how many right-wing positions become instantly understandable.
“Cheap-labor conservatives don’t like social spending or our ‘safety net’. …
“Cheap-labor conservatives don’t like the minimum wage, or other improvements in wages and working conditions. …
“Cheap-labor conservatives like ‘free trade’, NAFTA, GATT, etc. …
“Cheap-labor conservatives oppose a woman’s right to choose. …
“Cheap-labor conservatives don’t like unions. …
“Cheap-labor conservatives constantly bray about ‘morality’, ‘virtue’, ‘respect for authority’, ‘hard work’ and other ‘values’. …
“Cheap-labor conservatives encourage racism, misogyny, homophobia and other forms of bigotry. …”
Roger Rabbitspews:
Now I’m gonna cut-and-paste some more economics facts. Namely, the job creation record of all presidents from Harding through Bush (as of December 1993, when these figures were published).
Jobs Records of Presidents
(as percentage of workforce)
Democrat Roosevelt 5.3%
Democrat Johnson 3.8%
Democrat Carter 3.1%
Democrat Truman 2.5%
Democrat Clinton 2.4%
Democrat Kennedy 2.3%
Republican Nixon 2.2%
Republican Reagan 2.1%
Republican Coolidge 1.1%
Republican Ford 1.1%
Republican Eisenhower 0.9%
Republican Bush Sr. 0.6%
Republican Bush Jr. (0.7%)
Republican Hoover (9.0%)
Source of data: James Carville, “Had Enough?” (Simon & Schuster, New York, 2003), p. 87.
Daddy Lovespews:
MEGABRAD is another Republican troll. So recognizable: no ideas, just invective.
I was playing with MWS early this morning a post or two down. He was getting so steamed, it was hilarious. Just turn their overweening self-importance against them.
Roger Rabbitspews:
Now, those are facts, and the fact I cut-and-pasted them doesn’t change the facts. It so happens I don’t have mainframe computers, research teams, and millions of dollars to conduct my own economic research. And why should I, when I would just be duplicating the work of others? Most of these data come from official sources, so I’ve already helped pay for the cost of obtaining it, by paying taxes.
And let’s not overlook that if the wingnut argument that information you get from other sources isn’t true is applied to them, nothing they say is true, because they don’t conduct original research either.
Actually, the reason what wingnuts say isn’t true is because they don’t get information from other sources, they just make shit up as they go along to fit the situation. In other words, they’re liars.
MEGABRADspews:
Hahahahaha,
You silly wrabbit! Maybe you really can’t figure out simple economics!
You certainly know nothing about “an honest days pay for an honest days work”, now do you?
Even people without a law degree know that if you work 70 hours a week, and only get paid for 40, that either…
A) You are getting ripped off..(time to put that law skoolin’ to work!)
B) You are a horrible negotiator….
C) You like being a victim…(poor wrabbit)
D) Your skills in your chosen field are so lacking and inadaquate, that you put in extra hours without pay to make up for it and hope your boss doesn’t fire you.
Roger Rabbitspews:
This is cut-and-paste too — but that doesn’t make it untrue. If Megabuttcheeks wants to challenge it, then I say let him do his own peer-reviewed research and publish his results here.
From Harding In 1921 to Bush in 2003:
–Democrats held White House for 40 years and Republicans for 42.5 years.
–Democrats created 75,820,000 net new jobs — Republicans 36,440,000.
–Per Year Average-Democrats 1,825,200—Republicans 856,400.
–Republicans had 9 presidents during the period and 6 had depression or recession.
–DOW-grew by 52% more under Democrats.
–GDP-grew by 43% more under Democrats.
Comparing Clinton to Reagan:
–JOBS-grew by 43% more under Clinton.
–GDP—grew by 57% more under Clinton.
–DOW-grew by 700% more under Clinton..
–NASDAQ-grew by 18 times as much under Clinton.
–SPENDING–grew by 28% under Clinton—80% under Reagan.
–DEBT-grew by 43% under Clinton-187% under Reagan.
–DEFICITS-Clinton got a large surplus–grew by 112% under Reagan.
–NATIONAL INCOME-grew by100% more under Clinton.
–PERSONAL INCOME-Grew by 110% more under Clinton.
SOURCES-Bureau of Labor Statistics (www.BLS.gov)
Economic Policy Institute (EPI.org)-Global & World Almanacs from 1980 to 2003 (annual issues)
Roger Rabbitspews:
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No, he’s the same old Kevin Carns in a new dress. He’s not fooling anyone.
Daddy Lovespews:
46 is another good eample of the emptiness of MEGABRAD: ignoring every substantive issue under discussion to pick out a trivial personal characteristic he can use to fashion a good ol’ ad hominem attack.
Old and tired, even for HA troll standards. MTR would slaughter him on global warming.
Roger Rabbitspews:
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You don’t understand the concept of “public service,” do you? For example, military service is “public service.” And, at present, it is public service that you volunteer for, because we don’t conscript soldiers anymore.
So, do you think soldiers should refuse to pull more than 40 hours a week of duty unless they get paid overtime? Do you think our soldiers in Iraq should bargain with their commanders for better pay and working conditions, in light of the fact the job turned out to be more arduous than what they were led to believe when they enlisted? Do you think they should quit for a better job?
Or how about the hundreds of thousands of Americans who serve in unpaid volunteer positions with churches, schools, relief organizations, and civic organizations? Do you think they’re fools for working without pay? Should Cub Scout leaders quit unless they’re paid? Should church deacons be salaried? Should political parties pay their activists and campaign volunteers at least minimum wage? If so, why not $20 an hour? Or $50 an hour?
Roger Rabbitspews:
With Republicans, everything is money money money. They talk about values, but they have only one value, getting as much money as they possibly can and preferably without working for it.
The whole point of being a Republican is living off other people’s work so they don’t have to work.
Roger Rabbitspews:
I went into public service because my values are to serve others, not to enrich myself. I’m a Democrat, not a Republican. If anyone out there has a great big problem with my values, then he can meet me at my burrow at 7 PM tonight. Seven paces to the right of the big tree on the east side of the lake. Bring a gun, so I can claim self-defense.
ManofTruthspews:
“…The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power…” – Henry Wallace
MEGABRADspews:
Hahaha,
Wrabbit, I was just responding to your crybaby “resume”. You post it, I respond to it. It’s that simple.
About the “Republican” this and the “GOP party” that…
I’m not registered with or associated with the Republicans. I don’t carry their sign around, or put them in my yard. If you and your friends like to bash Republicans, I don’t care.
If you think you are better represented by, and you actually endorse THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, well,….uhh..huh…huhah..huhahahahaoohoohuah…..aaaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaa!!!!!!
You are retarded. If that’s the case, anyways.
I wonder if you hippies would call me so many names if you knew I voted for Bill Clinton?
No, I’m not a Democrat. Duh. But I thought the country, at that time, could use a good hippy in the White house.
I tell you this because in the future it will save you a lot of time posting your liberal cookie cutter anti Bush/republican/gop remarks. You hippies waste so much time on this, it’s pathetic. But maybe you have nothing better to do?
Also, commenting in this guys blog is not my day job, so don’t expect me to debate all these little “points” you are all trying to make. When you throw a bunch at me, of course I’m going to pick and choose. If you want to concentrate on ONE ISSUE, at a time, well, gee whiz mr. wrabbit, there is still no garantee I will co-operate! Hahahahaha.
ps. I voted for Bush too! And I dislike hippies.
MEGABRADspews:
Whaa??
You want me to meet you at your “wrabbit hole”??
Whaaa?? “bring a gun..” whaaa??
Look, you retarded hippy, If I did meet you “down at the lake”, I would surely bring a fresh bar of soap instead of the gun. I think you need a good bath more than you need to be shot.
Hahahahaha…..
proud leftistspews:
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Your having voted for both Clinton and Bush does not give you credibility, nor in any way suggest you are objective. A voting pattern like that simply suggests that you flit around. I am proud to say that I have never voted for a Republican (in a partisan race) in my life. By the way, you might want to look up the definition of “hippy.” You don’t seem to know just what it is that you dislike.
Daddy Lovespews:
Worth repeating…Hastert has been accused of only what he has already admitted publicly: that he was (along with other GOP leaders) informed of Foley’s pursuit of teenaged pages, and instead of informing the Ethics Committee, informing the House Page Board, or initiating an investigation himself that would certainly have come up with a truckload of much more damning information almost immediately, he sat on the issue until press exposure, not conscience, forced him to action. That’s the bottom line, and he’s going to hang for it, or so it seems.
As for other issues: the claims by a House staffer that he has e-mails and phone calls from three years ago provign that he informed them then of the same issues, Foley’s creepy 2002 speech where he bragged about driving teenaged pages around town in his BMW convertible, the possibility raised in here today that there is evidence that the matter came to the GOP’s attention in 1998, those can certainly all await a full investigation, a full airing, and appropriate action and/or punishment from the appropriate institutions.
But we already know the real bottom line malfeasance, because Hastert admits it. So “cheap, sick publicity stunt?” No, real and justified outrage at lies and irresponsibility at the highest levels.
Daddy Lovespews:
Somehow I find it hard to believe that A BAD GERM votes.
MEGABRADspews:
By “hippy”, I mean a lot of things. I use the term because it ammuses me. It’s fun to say. Saying “Hey Hippy” is equivalent to saying “Hey Proud Leftist”, but it’s more fun and uses less words. Liberals always use too many words than are needed. That’s wasteful. Know what I mean, Hippy?
Daddy Lovespews:
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He keeps using that word. I do not think it means what he thinks it means.
Daddy Lovespews:
One of the common ploys of the Republican troll is to deny being Republican. Often there is an attempt to claim “libertarian” status, and that seems to imply further that hanging around liberal blog comment pages making fun of liberals is a really “libertarian” thing to do. Like MWS, it seems more of the “kid” thing to do. “Can I pull on their old, gray beards and make them jump?” Good times…I must say I am surprised that someone who is manifestly NOT interested in the issues looks for a political comment site to play in. Are the porn sites down today?
MEGABRADspews:
Hey,
Here’s a question for all you hippies. Do you like the way the primary election is set up, where you have to “pick a party” for your vote to count? You don’t have to limit your answer to a yes or a no, but it would be nice if you would say “yes” or “no” at the top of your 500 word explanation.
ArtFartspews:
10 You might also add:
Record level of middle-class indebtedness, mostly in the form of people borrowing against their homes.
Eroding health-care benefits even for white-collar workers, so an unprecedented number of Americans are one major health crisis away from bankruptcy.
Daddy Lovespews:
I don’t see any hippies.
proud leftistspews:
MEGABRAD
Your thoughts seem to be disorganized and random. Such a thought pattern is a key diagnostic symptom of Conservatism. Perhaps you should see an appropriate health provider. Help is available. Reality immersion is an effective treatment for Conservatism. Don’t spend a moment longer in the humorless, uptight, twisted wasteland of Conservatism.
Rujax!spews:
MEGABRAD the maxiboob.
Just the latest misguided troll to get the shit beat out of him (metaphorically speaking of course) in the comment jungle of HA.
It’s tough in here, dude. Better pack your stats…your ideological bullshit won’t work here.
Daddy Lovespews:
66 Rujax!
Oh, no, it’s not tough for him! After all, he can laughingly ignore substantive discussion and skewer us on for the pretensions he asserts we have. It’s ha ha and la la and no reponsibility or any connection with the reality-based earthlings at all.
Being spurned and unsupported thus as a troll-ette, and having assayed one feeble and appropriately-couched-in-protective-cynicism attempt at discussing an actual relevant issue, I predict a huffy exit in the offing.
MEGABRADspews:
See,
All I did was ask ONE simple question, and all the hippies run away.
Yeah, “real tough in here…” huh?
I don’t think so.
Daddy Lovespews:
DRAB GAME
No.
sgmmacspews:
Roger,
You know that you cannot quit the military, you can’t bargain for better working conditions or pay and it’s illegal for soldiers to unionize. Soldiers never work ONLY 40 hours either!
This place was pretty boring without you, hope you had a great vacation wherever you wandered.
Daddy Lovespews:
We have an FBI criminal investigation going on and Denny Hastert is asking potential witnesses to contact him first and to give him their evidence rather than the FBI. In what possible world is that not obstruction of justice, especially since Denny Hastert is one of the people being investigated for an attempted cover-up of this possible crime?
sgmmacspews:
I used to be a hippie in High School. I grew up and joined the Army…………
I love the primary system, down here in Thurston County, we got three ballots in the mail and picked one, filled it out and mailed it in.
I selected the Democratic ballot, because of who was running in our local elections……….
A nationwide poll of 1,500 registered voters released yesterday by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center found that 57 percent of white evangelicals are inclined to vote for Republican congressional candidates in the midterm elections, a 21-point drop in support among this critical part of the GOP base…In the latest survey, taken in the last 10 days of September and the first four days of October, the percentage of evangelicals who think that Republicans govern “in a more honest and ethical way” than Democrats has plunged to 42 percent, from 55 percent at the start of the year.
“Maybe we could save some time here if all the members of the GOP who knew that a congressman was preying on teenage boys and covered it up just took responsibility for their massive error in judgment and resigned. I have little doubt that would mean the Democrats would have a majority before the first vote was counted — but maybe it would be better for them to take the high road after rolling around in the gutter like this. “
MEGABRADspews:
Daddy Love,
Wow! A one word comment! Great! I completely understand your answer. You communicate rather effectively. I say, I agree with you, in that I do not like it either.
May I ask, do you personally know anyone who does like the primary situation as it is now? I do not know anyone who likes it.
Two months after a security crackdown began in the capital, U.S. military deaths appear to be rising, even as fatalities among Iraqi security forces have fallen, U.S. military sources and analysts said.
The U.S. military Tuesday revised to eight its count of American deaths in the capital on Monday, the highest daily toll in a month. In September, 74 U.S. troops died nationwide, about a third of them in Baghdad, according to the military.
Observers also noted recent statements by Al Qaeda in Iraq that reveal a strategy to redirect its attacks from Iraqi troops to U.S. forces.
It’s all good news from over there, yes sirree.
Daddy Lovespews:
A MAD BERG
sgmmac. She just said it. Really, it’s a couple of comments up. Is this thing on?
MEGABRADspews:
sgmmac,
You got THREE separate ballots? Hmm, don’t you think that might be a little wasteful? You did throw away the other two, right?
But you like it that you have to pick a party? That is interesting.
Daddy Lovespews:
The same old game goes on. Republicans pummel Demcorats about building the oh-so-important-the-republic-will-fall-without-it fence across the border, veote it in, then make sure it will never get built.
No sooner did Congress authorize construction of a 700-mile fence on the U.S.-Mexico border last week than lawmakers rushed to approve separate legislation that ensures it will never be built…Shortly before recessing late Friday, the House and Senate gave the Bush administration leeway to distribute the money to a combination of projects — not just the physical barrier along the southern border. The funds may also be spent on roads, technology and “tactical infrastructure” to support the Department of Homeland Security’s preferred option of a “virtual fence.”
Just in case you think they favor YOUR pet project. They really don’t care about any of them, but will pretend to do so to get your vote, then assume you’re too stupid to know the difference when they leave you flat.
Daddy Lovespews:
MARGE DAB
So long posts tax your attention span? Should I keep the questions under seven words, just in case?
MEGABRADspews:
Big Daddy,
Would YOU build a wall?
MEGABRADspews:
Big daddy,
No, just don’t yammer on and on and bore the crap out of everyone. That’s all I would suggest to any liberal.
Daddy Lovespews:
BADGER MA
I’ll be sure to run it by you first.
Daddy Lovespews:
81 BARD GAME
A wall is a stupid idea. You know, ladders and such.
The high number of slain civilians, many of whom were Sunni Arab victims of Shiite death squads, suggests that U.S. forces eventually may have to take on Shiite militias as vigorously as they have fought insurgents — a prospect that probably would lead to even more American deaths.
“As long as they are fighting the Sunni insurgents, you don’t have a problem with the Shiites,” said Anthony Cordesman, a Washington-based military analyst. “But the minute they try to deal with the overall sectarian violence — you can’t do that without coming into occasional conflict with sectarian and ethnic elements who are not insurgents and not terrorists. These are things that don’t offer easy choices to make.”
<> U.S. military has not released data on the number of attacks against Americans by Shiite fighters, but anecdotal evidence suggests that they may be risinglockquote>
Look, if the Shiites are not “on our side” in Iraq (and I think they’re not), at least in the way they have been, that is, where 60% of the Iraqi population was not out after American blood, we’re well and truly fucked there. The Kurds don’t matter too much: they have their oil, and all they want is autonomy, which no one (yet!) wants to fight them for (not counting Turkey).
But is we have to fight both a Sunni insurgency fighting for it’s ethnic life AND the Shiite majority with their control of the country’s security apparatusI mean, come on, that hs “no-win situation” written all over it.
Let’s he some of the Iraq good news guys come up with a happy spin on that.
The high number of slain civilians, many of whom were Sunni Arab victims of Shiite death squads, suggests that U.S. forces eventually may have to take on Shiite militias as vigorously as they have fought insurgents — a prospect that probably would lead to even more American deaths.
“As long as they are fighting the Sunni insurgents, you don’t have a problem with the Shiites,” said Anthony Cordesman, a Washington-based military analyst. “But the minute they try to deal with the overall sectarian violence — you can’t do that without coming into occasional conflict with sectarian and ethnic elements who are not insurgents and not terrorists. These are things that don’t offer easy choices to make.”
U.S. military has not released data on the number of attacks against Americans by Shiite fighters, but anecdotal evidence suggests that they may be rising.
Look, if the Shiites are not “on our side” in Iraq (and I think they’re not), at least in the way they have been, that is, where 60% of the Iraqi population was not out after American blood, we’re well and truly fucked there. The Kurds don’t matter too much: they have their oil, and all they want is autonomy, which no one (yet!) wants to fight them for (not counting Turkey).
But is we have to fight both a Sunni insurgency fighting for it’s ethnic life AND the Shiite majority with their control of the country’s security apparatus—I mean, come on, that hs “no-win situation” written all over it.
Let’s he some of the Iraq good news guys come up with a happy spin on that.
Daddy Lovespews:
Fuck it.
Daddy Lovespews:
Uh-oh. I screwed up the site?
Daddy Lovespews:
Crap. Look, I’ll resign as Speaker, OK?
Daddy Lovespews:
testtest
Daddy Lovespews:
Hmmmm
www.megabrad.comspews:
Yeah,
Uh, like I was saying about how you liberals tend to run on and on and on etc? I think you are having a conversation with yourself here. Wish I could join you (not).
Later hippies!
Doctor JCH Kennedyspews:
“Everyone sit down! The Mooooslim terrorists have assure me that if we all vote Democrat and chant “BUSH NO GOOD”, they will land the plane at JFK!” [GBS]
headless lucyspews:
re 22: Shouldn’t YOU be chasing 16 year old boys like your congressman does?
Doctor JCH Kennedyspews:
JCH,
“I make mistakes…”
Commentby GBS […….Yes, You do, GBS. That is why you are an E-3.]
headless lucyspews:
re 32: Do all of you clowns come out of the same rubberstamp ideology factory. Keep posting nimnull crap like you have been today. It will be a blast deconstructing every lying word you write.
headless lucyspews:
re 59: “Hippy”, “Beatnik”,”Cowboy” “Moutain Man” “Young Republican” Megapoo, which of these American Iconic figures is anomalous to the rest? Which one belongs in this list:
“Mama’s Boy”, “Corporation Man”, “Wage Slave” “Debtor” “Tool of the Monied Elite”
Heathen Sinnerspews:
Roger Rabbit for President!
Heathen Sinnerspews:
Republicans would screw their own mother if it meant getting a tax credit.
For the Cluelessspews:
Re: Building a wall.
WTF? Why? Is there a wall between here and Canada?
Heathen Sinnerspews:
Test
My Left Footspews:
MegaBrad is actually proudofherfatlyingass. The tone, sentence structure and sanctimonious attitude are identical.
Doctor JCH Kennedy, ESQspews:
Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful Harold Ford Jr. referred to himself as a lawyer earlier this week, but the congressman has not passed the bar exam. Michael Powell, senior adviser to the Ford campaign, said U.S. Rep. Ford took the Tennessee bar exam in February 1997 and failed. He said that was the only time Rep. Ford has taken the test. [……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….In honor of REP Harold “MoFo” Ford, DEMOCRAT, [ESQ?], I am adding ESQ to my post name. hehe, DR JCH Kennedy, ESQ]
Doctor JCH Kennedy, ESQspews:
Just watched “Judge Judy”, and there was GBS. Borrowing someone else’s car, driving with a license or insurance, getting into a fight, causing a wreak, and blaming someone else. GBS: typical Democrat.
Doctor JCH Kennedy, ESQspews:
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean yesterday said that Maryland’s Democratic ticket should have had a black or other minority at the top, but added that the national party isn’t to blame for the lack of diversity. […………………………Maxine “Fuck Up The White Boys” Waters? Cynthia “BitchSlap The MoFo!” McKinney? Hillary “Fucking Jew Bastard” Clinton? [If her husband was the first black President……….?] Sheala Jackson “Mars Rover” Lee? hehe, JCH]
Heathen Sinnerspews:
I am a Republican – When I’m not snorting coke, taking oxycontin, being a pedofile, lying, stealing, cheating, avoiding taxes, crying about liberal Democrats, being a hypocrit, being a neo-nazi. i’m being a family man.
Mark1spews:
Darcy!? Darcy who? Oh, Darcy Burner? Who the hell is that?
Mark1spews:
Maybe Dave wants to get all the facts and then form an opinion unlike most Democrats who beleieve the mostly biased liberal media’s “reporting” as the truth incorrectly and then jump to conclusions and capitalize on it politically when it suits them. Glad none of you doiuche-bags are cops. I’d bet most of you couldn’t find your own asshole with a flashlight and a mirror. Ho-hum.
Heathen Sinnerspews:
Republicans can’t handle the truth. They cant even believe that the liberal media might be telling the facts. Republicans don’t capitalize. You don’t need any help finding your asshole, because your head is in your ass.
Heathen Sinnerspews:
Hey remember the liberal media telling us about Weapons of Mass Destruction – yeah, Mark is right. And also, Sadam Husein, he was connected to Al Queda, Mark right again. Damn, liberal media – they can’t even report a corret sport score right.
Doctor JCH Kennedy, ESQspews:
ST. PAUL, Minn. — It may seem like a distant memory now, but Democrats not so long ago dominated the battle between the parties to get their voters to the polls. Over the past half-dozen years, Republicans reinvented the system, using sophisticated computer modeling and vast amounts of consumer data. In 2002 and 2004, they demonstrated their newfound superiority — to the dismay of Democratic Party officials and their allies. […..How to get Democrats to the polls? Food stamps, KFC, cocaine, cases of Marlboros, and Black Velvet.]
MEGABRADspews:
Hahahaha,
Doctor JCH Kennedy, ESQ kicks ass!
“..[…..How to get Democrats to the polls? Food stamps, KFC, cocaine, cases of Marlboros, and Black Velvet.]”
When is your hero going to grow some and actually start talking about the war in Iraq instead of funding for the former fighters in same?? The war is wildly unpopular in the 8th district but unless she taps into this openly a.) she’ll do nothing about when elected and b.) she won’t win.
Darcy step up to the plate and speak truth to power!!!
When will RubberStampReichert stop ducking the media and debates and at least PRETEND to have a nutsack and tell us what he thinks about anything? Or does he think at all? Or is he capabale of thinking? Or is he so bad off he lets that coward Bush do his thinking for him? Inquiring minds want to know!
So tell me again… what is it you guys are running against?
1) Stock market at all time high
2) Interest rates near historical lows
3) Unemployment near historical lows
4) Fed revenue at all time high
5) Zero terror attacks since 9/11
6) Global warming tamed (no hurricanes in 2006)
7) Home ownership at all time high
Is the fact that the big stuff is doing well why you focus on stoopid trivial shit like Mark Foley? Good luck with that strategy… (and yes… Foley is a better man than Clinton)
In the gut. UUUHHH!~
On the chin. UUUNNNHHH!
“No mas. No mas.”
The GOP’s legacy:
“Americans are working harder, and earning less.”
That’s the CHEAP LABOR CONSERVATIVE agenda in a nutshell! Why the hell should anyone work, when wages are taxed, but investment income and inheritance windfalls are not? If Republicans continue creating disincentives for work, nobody will work, and we will become a nation of lottery ticket buyers and real estate flippers!
Welcome to the Cheap Labor Conservative Cafe! Get your own damn coffee … no waitress is on duty. If you want ham and eggs over easy, you’ll have to cook them yourself, because no cook is on duty either. This place is open only for tax shelter.
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, you have to bring your own food to the Cheap Labor Conservative Cafe.
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We’ll let middle class voters decide whether they’re better off than they were six years ago. And when they do, the GOP Congress will be history, and Bush will be a lame duck.
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P.S., pay your gambling debt, lying welsher.
P.P.S.: So revenues are at an all time high, huh?
2000 – $1,372,376,000,000 (baseline year)
2001 – $1,297,063,000,000
2002 – $1,152,413,000,000
2003 – $1,069,364,000,000
2004 – $1,146,664,000,000
2005 – $1,279,114,000,000 (estimate)
(data from official sources)
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As for Mark the Lying Welsher’s assertion of zero terror attacks since 9/11, I suppose 2,700+ Americans died in Iraq of natural causes?
So tell me again… what is it you guys are running on?
1) Stock market took six years under Bush to get to a point it already hit under President Clinton
2) Deficit near historical highs
3) Underemployment near historical highs
4) Average worker take home down 34% under Bush
5) Terrorism right here at home in the form of Anthrax attacks
6) Bin Laden still on the lam
7) Highest trade deficits in history
8) The fact that you let a ped get away with chestering minors in order to save a house seat?
Is the fact that the big stuff is doing well why you focus on stoopid trivial shit like Clinton getting a BJ? Good luck with that strategy… (and yes… Clinton is a better man than Foley)
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I should also mention that Bush has yet to get within a full percentage point of what the unemployment rate was under Clinton. And let’s not forget that Clinton created 22 million jobs in 8 years, while Bush has created only 3 million jobs in 6 years — less than what is needed just to keep up with population growth. And why don’t we ask the millions of people who are facing huge increases in their mortgage payments what they think of how things are going on the interest rate front. Nor should we forget record-level budget and trade deficits (we are selling our seed corn to foreigners, notably China), and rising inflation.
Yes, let’s ask the middle class if they like the GOP’s economic policies that give freebies to multimillionaires at the expense of working families. Unless the voting machines are rigged, the GOP is going to suffer a crushing defeat next month!
P.S., pay your gambling debt, liar.
Mark the Welsher is a proven liar. He claimed that cutting taxes ALWAYS increases revenues!!! (raucous laughter in university economics departments across the land) Let’s recap:
Revenue before Bush tax cuts: $1.372 trillion
Revenue after Bush tax cuts: $1.069 to $1.279 trillion
Does the Republican Party seek out slow-witted rubes (Reichert, Hastert, Hastings, Pombo, George Allen, Jim Bunning, et al) to run for Congress to ensure a lack of independence from the legislative branch, or is that simply all there is to choose from within the party ranks? The collective IQ of these folks almost hits the Dull Normal mark.
Maybe Welsher could explain how cutting taxes to zero would increase revenues even more!!! (raucous laughter in background)
Here’s how taxes work. A zero tax rate produces zero revenue. A 100% tax rate also produces zero revenue, because it eliminates all incentives for economic activity. Somewhere between the zero and 100% rates, is a tax rate that produces the maximum amount of revenue. If the existing tax rate is above this point, then cutting the tax rate will stimulate economic activity and result in more revenue. But if the existing tax rate is below this point, then cutting the tax rate will simply reduce revenue.
Another explanation Welsher owes us is how repealing the nickel gas tax increase would have reduced the pump price of gasoline in a market of limited supply. The pump price goes up until consumers reduce their demand to a level in balance with the amount of gasoline that oil companies can supply, it’s that simple. Let’s say that price is $3.00 a gallon. If you repeal 5 cents of gas tax, or (to take an even more preposterous proposal) enact a “gas tax holiday” which would temporarily repeal ALL gas taxes, will the pump price be $2.95 or $2.50 a gallon? Hell no!!! It’ll still be $3.00, because a lower pump price would stimulate consumer demand in excess of supply, and oil companies would raise THEIR price! You’re simply taking a nickel out of the WSDOT’s bank account and putting it in the oil companies’ profit column. The consumer doesn’t get a penny of it. Then what do you do, impose a sales tax on food to pay for roads? Or not build roads? What other alternative is there? Does Welsher think he can persuade the paving industry to build roads for free?
This is the idiot who poses as an “economic expert” on this board. He not only supported I-912, but bet Goldy $100 it would win by 15 points, then didn’t pay up when the voters shoved his wingnut economics up his ass! And Welsher flat-out LIED when he said Bush’s tax cuts increased revenue. Even the administration’s own doctored revenue statistics prove that’s bullshit!
Pay your gambling debt, Welsher. Then we’ll talk economics.
re 3: Federal revenue is lower now than in the last year of Clinton’s Presidency. Historically revenues always go up — but not with baby Bush.
How about the trade deficit and port security and – oh- Republican pedophiles in Congress.
The wingnut line on the Foley scandal goes something like this.
1) Mark Foley is really a Democrat.
2) The Democrats knew all about it, but covered it up.
By tomorrow they’ll be saying,
3) The Democrats obstructed the FBI investigation into Foley’s misdeeds.
Oops, that’s today! I see in today’s news an FBI shill blamed a Soros-funded liberal group for obstructing the investigation by sending the FBI redacted copies of Foley’s IMs and refusing the FBI’s requests for information. The group says those allegations are lies. Let’s see, whooooo should we believe … ?
When Republicans talk about “personal responsibility,” what they really mean is, blame everything on the Democrats.
The thing wingnuts don’t get is that telling their lies doesn’t change the facts, and it’s their lies — not anything the Democrats do or don’t do — that will bring them down.
Let’s state the principle this way. If a wingnut says “gravity is bunk!” and jumps off a cliff, he breaks his fucking neck anyway.
Gee,
Roger Rabbit sure does leave a bunch of comments in here.
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Reading the HorsesAss.org comment threads is a voluntary activity. No one made you do it. If you don’t like it, go somewhere else. Or, alternatively, suck my rabbit dick! For a good time, call 1-800-SUCK-ROG.
Shouldn’t you be at the anti-American rally today, Rabbit? Or was that yesterday?
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Another option is to e-mail the site owner (i.e., Goldy) and ask him to edit Roger Rabbit’s comments, or ban Roger Rabbit. Hey, it’s Goldy’s web site, and he can do whatever he wants! If you don’t like the way he runs it, go start your own fucking blog.
Wow! This thread’s been up for only 1 1/2 hours and it’s already got TWO DOZEN comments! That’s more than the pathetic little competing blog gets in TWO WEEKS!!
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Read a fucking newspaper and you’ll know when it is! I’m not your fucking personal assistant.
We apparently have a new troll on board today, folks. Welcome to HorsesAss, Megabuttfuck! Let me acquaint you with the informal HA posting rules:
1) This is a liberal blog
2) Anyone can post here
3) There is no censorship
4) As liberals, our job is to verbally kick the living shit out of unpatriotic America-hating rightwing traitors
5) No mercy for wingnuts
6) Our terms are unconditional surrender
7) Klake is a nazi
Any questions?
Hahahaha!
You make me laugh, Rabbit. You’re kind of funny. Maybe you should make your own webpage. You could call it “Roger the economics bunny”, or “Hip Hop economics 101”.
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Neither Welsher nor I are economics experts. The difference is that I don’t claim to be one. However, some things are demonstrable facts, while other things are common sense. Maybe YOU would like to take a run at explaining how cutting taxes increases government revenue, reduces deficits, and prevents inflation? Are you an economics expert?
Wingnuts confuse their expertise in stealing with economics expertise. If they had a Nobel Prize for Robbery, maybe Bush could get it.
Wow,
You’re a wrascally lil’ rabbit, aren’t you! Hahaha. Are you Google searching me now, bunny?
No, I’m not an economics expert. I rely on the expertise of others, like the revenue statisticians at the Treasury Department, and information published on web sites like this one: http://tinyurl.com/lnzs3
“Right-Wing Ideology in a Nutshell
“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’. That’s their whole philosophy in a nutshell … 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, and the more power those ‘corporate lords’ have over you. 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.”
Here’s an example of cheap labor conservative legislation: “Raise” the federal minimum wage applicable to waitresses from the current $5.15 an hour to $2.13 an hour by letting employers deduct tips from their hourly pay rate. That’s right, cheap labor conservatives are so mean, evil, greedy, and grasping — they even want to steal the waitress tip jar!!! Their motto is: Leave no penny on the sidewalk — or in someone else’s pocket!!!
“Maybe YOU would like to take a run at explaining how cutting taxes increases government revenue..”
Gee wrabbit, what do you need all that “government revenue” for? To support you? Are you afraid the federal government might not have enough money to give you so that you can live?
Oh, and one more thing, if you’re a Republican of course you want to couple the minimum wage “increase” to elimination of the federal estate tax, so people can inherit a billion dollars they didn’t work for and did nothing to deserve without paying a dime of taxes — while $2.13-an-hour waitresses continue to pay taxes on their wages!
And then, if you’re a lying sack of shit like Mike McGavick, who got paid $28 million for two months of part-time “consulting work,” run campaign ads that falsely claim Maria Cantwell voted against a minimum wage increase!
I’m sure glad Roger is back.
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The simple answer to your question is that I carried an M-16 rifle in Vietnam for 13 months for $250 a month (plus employer-paid medical care for on-the-job injuries); that I spent approximately 30 years in state government working 50 to 70 hours a week but getting paid for only 40; that I paid for my own pension with deductions from my below-market pay; that I started working when I was 13 years old; that I paid my own way through college, graduate school, and law school with no family help or government grants; that I paid taxes the whole way; and that if you don’t like my resume, take a deep breath, bend over as far as you can, and suck your own dick!!! That’s the only way you’ll ever get a blowjob, because you’ll never find a woman to do it for you.
I didn’t have one of those cushy $150,000-a-year “private security contractor” (i.e., soldier of fortune) jobs the Bush administration pays for with taxpayer dollars.
Hmm,
Maybe you SHOULDN’T rely on the “expertise” of others. That stuff you copy and pasted, well, you probably would have been better off pasting it in the garbage can. Can’t you rely on your own common sense about economics? You know, turn off the tv, put down the commie manifesto, stop jumping up and down flinging your poop all around and shouting crazy slogans, and just, calmly, think about it.
Yes common sense is in order here.
I made more money when Clinton was President. I’ll vote D!
Now maybe Megacheeks would like to explain to us how the GOP wisely manages our hard-earned tax dollars while fucking over the soldiers they won’t even buy battle helmets for.
Hey Megabuttfuck, I gotta question for ya. I contributed $99 to http://www.operation-helmet.org/ to buy a helmet upgrade kit for a soldier or Marine in Iraq or Afghanistan. Thanks to private donors like me, over 16,000 of these kits have been distributed to our troops serving in combat zones.
How about you? Have you donated $99 to Operation Helmet? If not, will you? Or are you one of those wingnuts who waves the flag and flings the word “patriotism” around like a Pike Place Market vendor tosses fish in the air, but your patriotism stops short of bleeding for it or paying a penny out of your own pocket? Are you man enough to step up to the plate, pull out your checkbook, and write a check for $99 to Operation Helmet — or are you all hat, no cattle; an empty suit; JAWB (just another wingnut blowhard)??
If you haven’t already contributed to Operation Helmet, will do contribute TODAY?
America is waiting for your answer.
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“Are you Google searching me now, bunny?” Commentby MEGABRAD— 10/6/06@ 11:40 am
No. Why would I? If you think I give a rap who you are, you have an overinflated opinion of yourself.
What is it “us guys” are running against? Umm it’s “you guys.” And the lying liars you elected.
And the corrupt government-for-sale they instituted.
And the deceitful and unnecessary invasion and occupation of Iraq that is draining our treasury and killing our soldiers, who should be searching for Osama bin Laden instead of standing with targets on their backs in between warring factions jockeying for power in Iraq.
And the absolute squandering of the international good will that COULD have produced the cooperation we need to combat global terrosism instead of creating more new terrorists every day.
And the absurd spectacle of the highest leaders of the party of so-called “personal responsibility” falling all over themselves to point the finger at Democrats, teenaged House pages, Bill Clinton, George Soros, the media, and each other to cover up their years of malfeasance, neglect, and obstruction while they allowed an as-yet-unknown number of predators full and unrestricted access to House pages as their personal sex toys.
Not much, really.
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“That stuff you copy and pasted, well, you probably would have been better off pasting it in the garbage can.” Commentby MEGABRAD— 10/6/06@ 11:55 am
Really? Which part of the following is not true?*
(*Note: Just because a wingnut denies something doesn’t mean it’s not true.)
“Don’t believe me. Well, let’s apply this principle, and see how many right-wing positions become instantly understandable.
“Cheap-labor conservatives don’t like social spending or our ‘safety net’. …
“Cheap-labor conservatives don’t like the minimum wage, or other improvements in wages and working conditions. …
“Cheap-labor conservatives like ‘free trade’, NAFTA, GATT, etc. …
“Cheap-labor conservatives oppose a woman’s right to choose. …
“Cheap-labor conservatives don’t like unions. …
“Cheap-labor conservatives constantly bray about ‘morality’, ‘virtue’, ‘respect for authority’, ‘hard work’ and other ‘values’. …
“Cheap-labor conservatives encourage racism, misogyny, homophobia and other forms of bigotry. …”
Now I’m gonna cut-and-paste some more economics facts. Namely, the job creation record of all presidents from Harding through Bush (as of December 1993, when these figures were published).
Jobs Records of Presidents
(as percentage of workforce)
Democrat Roosevelt 5.3%
Democrat Johnson 3.8%
Democrat Carter 3.1%
Democrat Truman 2.5%
Democrat Clinton 2.4%
Democrat Kennedy 2.3%
Republican Nixon 2.2%
Republican Reagan 2.1%
Republican Coolidge 1.1%
Republican Ford 1.1%
Republican Eisenhower 0.9%
Republican Bush Sr. 0.6%
Republican Bush Jr. (0.7%)
Republican Hoover (9.0%)
Source of data: James Carville, “Had Enough?” (Simon & Schuster, New York, 2003), p. 87.
MEGABRAD is another Republican troll. So recognizable: no ideas, just invective.
I was playing with MWS early this morning a post or two down. He was getting so steamed, it was hilarious. Just turn their overweening self-importance against them.
Now, those are facts, and the fact I cut-and-pasted them doesn’t change the facts. It so happens I don’t have mainframe computers, research teams, and millions of dollars to conduct my own economic research. And why should I, when I would just be duplicating the work of others? Most of these data come from official sources, so I’ve already helped pay for the cost of obtaining it, by paying taxes.
And let’s not overlook that if the wingnut argument that information you get from other sources isn’t true is applied to them, nothing they say is true, because they don’t conduct original research either.
Actually, the reason what wingnuts say isn’t true is because they don’t get information from other sources, they just make shit up as they go along to fit the situation. In other words, they’re liars.
Hahahahaha,
You silly wrabbit! Maybe you really can’t figure out simple economics!
You certainly know nothing about “an honest days pay for an honest days work”, now do you?
Even people without a law degree know that if you work 70 hours a week, and only get paid for 40, that either…
A) You are getting ripped off..(time to put that law skoolin’ to work!)
B) You are a horrible negotiator….
C) You like being a victim…(poor wrabbit)
D) Your skills in your chosen field are so lacking and inadaquate, that you put in extra hours without pay to make up for it and hope your boss doesn’t fire you.
This is cut-and-paste too — but that doesn’t make it untrue. If Megabuttcheeks wants to challenge it, then I say let him do his own peer-reviewed research and publish his results here.
From Harding In 1921 to Bush in 2003:
–Democrats held White House for 40 years and Republicans for 42.5 years.
–Democrats created 75,820,000 net new jobs — Republicans 36,440,000.
–Per Year Average-Democrats 1,825,200—Republicans 856,400.
–Republicans had 9 presidents during the period and 6 had depression or recession.
–DOW-grew by 52% more under Democrats.
–GDP-grew by 43% more under Democrats.
Comparing Clinton to Reagan:
–JOBS-grew by 43% more under Clinton.
–GDP—grew by 57% more under Clinton.
–DOW-grew by 700% more under Clinton..
–NASDAQ-grew by 18 times as much under Clinton.
–SPENDING–grew by 28% under Clinton—80% under Reagan.
–DEBT-grew by 43% under Clinton-187% under Reagan.
–DEFICITS-Clinton got a large surplus–grew by 112% under Reagan.
–NATIONAL INCOME-grew by100% more under Clinton.
–PERSONAL INCOME-Grew by 110% more under Clinton.
SOURCES-Bureau of Labor Statistics (www.BLS.gov)
Economic Policy Institute (EPI.org)-Global & World Almanacs from 1980 to 2003 (annual issues)
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No, he’s the same old Kevin Carns in a new dress. He’s not fooling anyone.
46 is another good eample of the emptiness of MEGABRAD: ignoring every substantive issue under discussion to pick out a trivial personal characteristic he can use to fashion a good ol’ ad hominem attack.
Old and tired, even for HA troll standards. MTR would slaughter him on global warming.
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You don’t understand the concept of “public service,” do you? For example, military service is “public service.” And, at present, it is public service that you volunteer for, because we don’t conscript soldiers anymore.
So, do you think soldiers should refuse to pull more than 40 hours a week of duty unless they get paid overtime? Do you think our soldiers in Iraq should bargain with their commanders for better pay and working conditions, in light of the fact the job turned out to be more arduous than what they were led to believe when they enlisted? Do you think they should quit for a better job?
Or how about the hundreds of thousands of Americans who serve in unpaid volunteer positions with churches, schools, relief organizations, and civic organizations? Do you think they’re fools for working without pay? Should Cub Scout leaders quit unless they’re paid? Should church deacons be salaried? Should political parties pay their activists and campaign volunteers at least minimum wage? If so, why not $20 an hour? Or $50 an hour?
With Republicans, everything is money money money. They talk about values, but they have only one value, getting as much money as they possibly can and preferably without working for it.
The whole point of being a Republican is living off other people’s work so they don’t have to work.
I went into public service because my values are to serve others, not to enrich myself. I’m a Democrat, not a Republican. If anyone out there has a great big problem with my values, then he can meet me at my burrow at 7 PM tonight. Seven paces to the right of the big tree on the east side of the lake. Bring a gun, so I can claim self-defense.
“…The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power…” – Henry Wallace
Hahaha,
Wrabbit, I was just responding to your crybaby “resume”. You post it, I respond to it. It’s that simple.
About the “Republican” this and the “GOP party” that…
I’m not registered with or associated with the Republicans. I don’t carry their sign around, or put them in my yard. If you and your friends like to bash Republicans, I don’t care.
If you think you are better represented by, and you actually endorse THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, well,….uhh..huh…huhah..huhahahahaoohoohuah…..aaaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaa!!!!!!
You are retarded. If that’s the case, anyways.
I wonder if you hippies would call me so many names if you knew I voted for Bill Clinton?
No, I’m not a Democrat. Duh. But I thought the country, at that time, could use a good hippy in the White house.
I tell you this because in the future it will save you a lot of time posting your liberal cookie cutter anti Bush/republican/gop remarks. You hippies waste so much time on this, it’s pathetic. But maybe you have nothing better to do?
Also, commenting in this guys blog is not my day job, so don’t expect me to debate all these little “points” you are all trying to make. When you throw a bunch at me, of course I’m going to pick and choose. If you want to concentrate on ONE ISSUE, at a time, well, gee whiz mr. wrabbit, there is still no garantee I will co-operate! Hahahahaha.
ps. I voted for Bush too! And I dislike hippies.
Whaa??
You want me to meet you at your “wrabbit hole”??
Whaaa?? “bring a gun..” whaaa??
Look, you retarded hippy, If I did meet you “down at the lake”, I would surely bring a fresh bar of soap instead of the gun. I think you need a good bath more than you need to be shot.
Hahahahaha…..
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Your having voted for both Clinton and Bush does not give you credibility, nor in any way suggest you are objective. A voting pattern like that simply suggests that you flit around. I am proud to say that I have never voted for a Republican (in a partisan race) in my life. By the way, you might want to look up the definition of “hippy.” You don’t seem to know just what it is that you dislike.
Worth repeating…Hastert has been accused of only what he has already admitted publicly: that he was (along with other GOP leaders) informed of Foley’s pursuit of teenaged pages, and instead of informing the Ethics Committee, informing the House Page Board, or initiating an investigation himself that would certainly have come up with a truckload of much more damning information almost immediately, he sat on the issue until press exposure, not conscience, forced him to action. That’s the bottom line, and he’s going to hang for it, or so it seems.
As for other issues: the claims by a House staffer that he has e-mails and phone calls from three years ago provign that he informed them then of the same issues, Foley’s creepy 2002 speech where he bragged about driving teenaged pages around town in his BMW convertible, the possibility raised in here today that there is evidence that the matter came to the GOP’s attention in 1998, those can certainly all await a full investigation, a full airing, and appropriate action and/or punishment from the appropriate institutions.
But we already know the real bottom line malfeasance, because Hastert admits it. So “cheap, sick publicity stunt?” No, real and justified outrage at lies and irresponsibility at the highest levels.
Somehow I find it hard to believe that A BAD GERM votes.
By “hippy”, I mean a lot of things. I use the term because it ammuses me. It’s fun to say. Saying “Hey Hippy” is equivalent to saying “Hey Proud Leftist”, but it’s more fun and uses less words. Liberals always use too many words than are needed. That’s wasteful. Know what I mean, Hippy?
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He keeps using that word. I do not think it means what he thinks it means.
One of the common ploys of the Republican troll is to deny being Republican. Often there is an attempt to claim “libertarian” status, and that seems to imply further that hanging around liberal blog comment pages making fun of liberals is a really “libertarian” thing to do. Like MWS, it seems more of the “kid” thing to do. “Can I pull on their old, gray beards and make them jump?” Good times…I must say I am surprised that someone who is manifestly NOT interested in the issues looks for a political comment site to play in. Are the porn sites down today?
Hey,
Here’s a question for all you hippies. Do you like the way the primary election is set up, where you have to “pick a party” for your vote to count? You don’t have to limit your answer to a yes or a no, but it would be nice if you would say “yes” or “no” at the top of your 500 word explanation.
10 You might also add:
Record level of middle-class indebtedness, mostly in the form of people borrowing against their homes.
Eroding health-care benefits even for white-collar workers, so an unprecedented number of Americans are one major health crisis away from bankruptcy.
I don’t see any hippies.
MEGABRAD
Your thoughts seem to be disorganized and random. Such a thought pattern is a key diagnostic symptom of Conservatism. Perhaps you should see an appropriate health provider. Help is available. Reality immersion is an effective treatment for Conservatism. Don’t spend a moment longer in the humorless, uptight, twisted wasteland of Conservatism.
MEGABRAD the maxiboob.
Just the latest misguided troll to get the shit beat out of him (metaphorically speaking of course) in the comment jungle of HA.
It’s tough in here, dude. Better pack your stats…your ideological bullshit won’t work here.
66 Rujax!
Oh, no, it’s not tough for him! After all, he can laughingly ignore substantive discussion and skewer us on for the pretensions he asserts we have. It’s ha ha and la la and no reponsibility or any connection with the reality-based earthlings at all.
Being spurned and unsupported thus as a troll-ette, and having assayed one feeble and appropriately-couched-in-protective-cynicism attempt at discussing an actual relevant issue, I predict a huffy exit in the offing.
See,
All I did was ask ONE simple question, and all the hippies run away.
Yeah, “real tough in here…” huh?
I don’t think so.
DRAB GAME
No.
Roger,
You know that you cannot quit the military, you can’t bargain for better working conditions or pay and it’s illegal for soldiers to unionize. Soldiers never work ONLY 40 hours either!
This place was pretty boring without you, hope you had a great vacation wherever you wandered.
We have an FBI criminal investigation going on and Denny Hastert is asking potential witnesses to contact him first and to give him their evidence rather than the FBI. In what possible world is that not obstruction of justice, especially since Denny Hastert is one of the people being investigated for an attempted cover-up of this possible crime?
I used to be a hippie in High School. I grew up and joined the Army…………
I love the primary system, down here in Thurston County, we got three ballots in the mail and picked one, filled it out and mailed it in.
I selected the Democratic ballot, because of who was running in our local elections……….
WOrth repeating:
Deserting the sinking ship?
Coyurtesy of the always trenchant Digby:
“Maybe we could save some time here if all the members of the GOP who knew that a congressman was preying on teenage boys and covered it up just took responsibility for their massive error in judgment and resigned. I have little doubt that would mean the Democrats would have a majority before the first vote was counted — but maybe it would be better for them to take the high road after rolling around in the gutter like this. “
Daddy Love,
Wow! A one word comment! Great! I completely understand your answer. You communicate rather effectively. I say, I agree with you, in that I do not like it either.
May I ask, do you personally know anyone who does like the primary situation as it is now? I do not know anyone who likes it.
Remember Iraq?
It’s all good news from over there, yes sirree.
A MAD BERG
sgmmac. She just said it. Really, it’s a couple of comments up. Is this thing on?
sgmmac,
You got THREE separate ballots? Hmm, don’t you think that might be a little wasteful? You did throw away the other two, right?
But you like it that you have to pick a party? That is interesting.
The same old game goes on. Republicans pummel Demcorats about building the oh-so-important-the-republic-will-fall-without-it fence across the border, veote it in, then make sure it will never get built.
Just in case you think they favor YOUR pet project. They really don’t care about any of them, but will pretend to do so to get your vote, then assume you’re too stupid to know the difference when they leave you flat.
MARGE DAB
So long posts tax your attention span? Should I keep the questions under seven words, just in case?
Big Daddy,
Would YOU build a wall?
Big daddy,
No, just don’t yammer on and on and bore the crap out of everyone. That’s all I would suggest to any liberal.
BADGER MA
I’ll be sure to run it by you first.
81 BARD GAME
A wall is a stupid idea. You know, ladders and such.
Holy crap:
27%
That’s the number of Americans who think Denny Hastert should remain as Speaker, according to SurveyUSA.
63% think he should resign as Speaker.
43% think he should resign his House seat.
So, we’re fighting the Shiites now?
Dammit. This should work better.
So, we’re fighting the Shiites now?
Fuck it.
Uh-oh. I screwed up the site?
Crap. Look, I’ll resign as Speaker, OK?
testtest
Hmmmm
Yeah,
Uh, like I was saying about how you liberals tend to run on and on and on etc? I think you are having a conversation with yourself here. Wish I could join you (not).
Later hippies!
“Everyone sit down! The Mooooslim terrorists have assure me that if we all vote Democrat and chant “BUSH NO GOOD”, they will land the plane at JFK!” [GBS]
re 22: Shouldn’t YOU be chasing 16 year old boys like your congressman does?
JCH,
“I make mistakes…”
Commentby GBS […….Yes, You do, GBS. That is why you are an E-3.]
re 32: Do all of you clowns come out of the same rubberstamp ideology factory. Keep posting nimnull crap like you have been today. It will be a blast deconstructing every lying word you write.
re 59: “Hippy”, “Beatnik”,”Cowboy” “Moutain Man” “Young Republican” Megapoo, which of these American Iconic figures is anomalous to the rest? Which one belongs in this list:
“Mama’s Boy”, “Corporation Man”, “Wage Slave” “Debtor” “Tool of the Monied Elite”
Roger Rabbit for President!
Republicans would screw their own mother if it meant getting a tax credit.
Re: Building a wall.
WTF? Why? Is there a wall between here and Canada?
MegaBrad is actually proudofherfatlyingass. The tone, sentence structure and sanctimonious attitude are identical.
Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful Harold Ford Jr. referred to himself as a lawyer earlier this week, but the congressman has not passed the bar exam. Michael Powell, senior adviser to the Ford campaign, said U.S. Rep. Ford took the Tennessee bar exam in February 1997 and failed. He said that was the only time Rep. Ford has taken the test. [……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….In honor of REP Harold “MoFo” Ford, DEMOCRAT, [ESQ?], I am adding ESQ to my post name. hehe, DR JCH Kennedy, ESQ]
Just watched “Judge Judy”, and there was GBS. Borrowing someone else’s car, driving with a license or insurance, getting into a fight, causing a wreak, and blaming someone else. GBS: typical Democrat.
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean yesterday said that Maryland’s Democratic ticket should have had a black or other minority at the top, but added that the national party isn’t to blame for the lack of diversity. […………………………Maxine “Fuck Up The White Boys” Waters? Cynthia “BitchSlap The MoFo!” McKinney? Hillary “Fucking Jew Bastard” Clinton? [If her husband was the first black President……….?] Sheala Jackson “Mars Rover” Lee? hehe, JCH]
I am a Republican – When I’m not snorting coke, taking oxycontin, being a pedofile, lying, stealing, cheating, avoiding taxes, crying about liberal Democrats, being a hypocrit, being a neo-nazi. i’m being a family man.
Darcy!? Darcy who? Oh, Darcy Burner? Who the hell is that?
Maybe Dave wants to get all the facts and then form an opinion unlike most Democrats who beleieve the mostly biased liberal media’s “reporting” as the truth incorrectly and then jump to conclusions and capitalize on it politically when it suits them. Glad none of you doiuche-bags are cops. I’d bet most of you couldn’t find your own asshole with a flashlight and a mirror. Ho-hum.
Republicans can’t handle the truth. They cant even believe that the liberal media might be telling the facts. Republicans don’t capitalize. You don’t need any help finding your asshole, because your head is in your ass.
Hey remember the liberal media telling us about Weapons of Mass Destruction – yeah, Mark is right. And also, Sadam Husein, he was connected to Al Queda, Mark right again. Damn, liberal media – they can’t even report a corret sport score right.
ST. PAUL, Minn. — It may seem like a distant memory now, but Democrats not so long ago dominated the battle between the parties to get their voters to the polls. Over the past half-dozen years, Republicans reinvented the system, using sophisticated computer modeling and vast amounts of consumer data. In 2002 and 2004, they demonstrated their newfound superiority — to the dismay of Democratic Party officials and their allies. […..How to get Democrats to the polls? Food stamps, KFC, cocaine, cases of Marlboros, and Black Velvet.]
Hahahaha,
Doctor JCH Kennedy, ESQ kicks ass!
“..[…..How to get Democrats to the polls? Food stamps, KFC, cocaine, cases of Marlboros, and Black Velvet.]”
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