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  1. Sweet! What a bunch of idiots. fisrt, they can’t even say democratic. Second, they completely forgot that they lost the last election. Third, they forgot that their idiot hero Bush sunk our economy and created the largest deficit in history.

    Finally, she says that if they don’t win at the ballot box (a forgone conclusion, if they keep up this foolish rant), then they will use bullets.

    Wow, that is almost sedition. Claiming that if you don’t win an election, you will commit treason and start an armed revolution?

    What happened to the will of the people, democracy and the consent of the governed? She seems to have forgotten the very principles she thinks she stands for…

    Can a small minority of republican fanatics overthrow the US? No.

    Can they lose the next election by talking like this? Yes.

  2. Churches that sponsor tent cities make my puke. The congregants are SO proud that they are letting homeless people sleep on church grounds. But If they were truly good people; if they were truly doing HIS work, they would invite these people into their homes.

  3. What a scary scary individual(s). Didn’t we just have a peaceful election? Didn’t more than half the nation say this is the direction they want the nation to move in? So it’s only democracy if it agrees with you? Pathetic.

  4. Here’s one for both sides. Cantwell has opposed to tax gains from day trading. Does this make any sense? I can see taxing transactions but don’t day traders pay taxes NOW on net gains?

  5. So full of fear and anger – such a sad bunch of incoherent right wing losers.

    Their first mistake is to believe there’s a lot of people like them. The reality is that they’ve always been a minority and now they’re shrinking into utter irrelevance if not extinction.

  7. Troll,
    You racist piece of puke. How many homeless people do you have living in your tent? Hey, I have honored Matthew 25, you know, that Gospel lesson about comforting the imprisoned, homeless, and hungry. You have not. I know that because of your political views. As humans, we should aim to make life better for others. You, Troll, have not.

  8. One of Lee’s pals:

    http://www.bellinghamherald.co.....91491.html

    Lee– being a new Dad, heed the statement:

    ‘….She went on to scold him, “You haven’t earned a decent living legally in years. What did you tell your kids when you came home? ‘Daddy’s had a tough day at the grow?” ‘

    Food for thought to a loser-asshole obsessed with his weed. Grow up already douche-bag, and I hope you find the REAL priorities in life.

  9. @5 YLB:

    As someone that is still unemployed….ahem…I mean “between jobs”, it sure is ironic of you calling anyone losers or irrelvant. Thanks for the laugh though!

  10. Mark1
    I’m quite sure that I would rather have my child raised by Lee than by you. After all, hate truly is not a family value.

  11. Rally at Baucus’ office tomorrow to stop the Obamacare debacle–

    Thursday, July 16, 2009

    The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 29% of the nation’s voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-six percent (36%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -7.

    Thirty-two percent (32%) now say the country is heading in the right direction That’s down eight points from the 2009 peak and the lowest since February.

  13. Cyn,
    I just spent a few days in your state. Montana is definitely going blue, if those I talked to are any indication. Your state is really green for this time of year, indicating an unnatural weather pattern. Which, of course, verifies global warming predictions. I hope that polls start showing that there is disagreement with what our most fine of presidents, President Obama, is doing. That would indicate that he is starting to do things right. Damn, I’m proud of our president.

  14. Idiot Vice President Biden defended the Obama administration’s economic stimulus package Thursday by suggesting that without the federal government spending massive amounts of money to shore up the economy the country would go bankrupt.

    “We’re going to go bankrupt as a nation,” Biden warned at an event in the backyard of the House’s No. 2 Republican.

    “People, when I say that, look at me and say, ‘What are you talking about, Joe? You’re telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?” he said. “The answer is yes.”

  15. pl–
    Baucus will tie up Obamacare in the Finance Committee. He knows it makes no sense. We cannot afford it…plus it has a negative impact on healthcare costs.
    Obama is fortunate to have Baucus to protect him from his destructive actions.
    There were 2,000 at the 4th of July Tea Party in a town of 50,000…and you say it’s going Democrat??
    Dream on.

  16. Be sure and take lots of sheep to the meeting for your entertainment. It’s Montana’s claim to fame. Along with the polygamists in the Hamilton valley.

  17. I see absolutely nothing wrong with her statements. If we did not have forefathers willing to resort to the ‘bullet box’ we would a) never have had a republic; b) would still have slavery.

    Is that what the HA denizens would have preferred?

  19. I was the first one to call Goldy sexist for calling Susan Hutchinson “Suzie.”

    Prediction: Today, Goldy will try to rebut Connelly. Goldy will write a new, long post, denying his sexism. He’ll deny everything Connelly said in his column.

    Just watch.

    What a weasel.

  20. In the grand tradition of Booth, Beckwith, Oswald, Hayer, Sirhan, Bremer and Ray, Ms. Crabill has shown her true colors.

  21. Has she been paid a discrete visit by the FBI yet?

    Waaaaay back in the “hippie days” federal agents took a rather dim view of folks who publicly advocated violent insurrection against the duly elected government and its authorities. Back then it got you more than a “visit” by the guys in cheap suits. It usually got you arrested, got your home tossed, and got you brought to the federal building for interrogation.

  22. Daily Presidential Tracking Poll

    Friday, July 17, 2009
    The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 29% of the nation’s voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-five percent (35%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of –6.

    In the health care debate, 50% of voters now oppose creation of a public insurance company to compete with private insurers. Seventy-eight percent (78%) believe that health care reform is likely to lead to middle class tax hikes.

  23. Many thanks to Cornellian Puddy for belated Bastille Day Birthday wishes.

    Goldy? Our Goldy? Goldy Milhous Goldstein went to Cornell? Oh dear.

    Many thanks to MADDOCTOR for … nothing. But back to socialism …

    Debs continued to praise Russia’s “sublime experiment” in creating a workers’ republic. … But many American communists … now accused Debs of lacking sufficient revolutionary zeal. He clung to a false faith in “bourgeois democracy” they charged, and failed to grasp Lenin’s great insight that the proper path to socialism was the “dictatorship of the proletariat,” a disciplined revolutionary party that was prepared to fight capitalism unencumbered by concerns about free speech, the democratic ballot, and the rule of law.

    – Ernest Freeberg, Democracy’s Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, The Great War, and the Right to Dissent; pages 304 – 306

    … and reactionary Republican capitalist tools:

    (President Harding, who released Debs from the prison where progressive president Wilson put him) released many of the seventy-six remaining prisoners … After Harding’s untimely death in August 1923, amnesty forces feared that his successor, Calvin Coolidge, would have little sympathy for these last holdouts. Once again a conservative Republican president surprised his liberal petitioners. Though known as a flinty opponent of radicalism … Coolidge commuted the sentences of the remaining prisoners.

    – Freeberg, page 316

  25. Ten months ago she was embraced with friendliness by her party. The left and the media immediately overplayed their hand, with attacks on her children. The party rallied round, as a party should. She went on the trail a sensation but demonstrated in the ensuing months that she was not ready to go national and in fact never would be. … she was out of her depth in a shallow pool.

    – Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal.

    If the Republican Party has a future, Sarah Palin is not it. Peggy Noonan is. Krauthammer too, despite his odd advocacy of $4.00 gasoline.

    Rush, in his war on the GOP, is trying to read Noonan out of the party, but that’s only because Rush can’t read the writing on the wall. Noonan can. She knows where we went wrong and why. Her faith frees her to see the truth and to tell it.

    Rush is wrong and Noonan is right. If the right has a reason to live, she’s it.

  26. In his book about Bush’s war, 2006-2008, Bob Woodward pulled long quotes from this column by Peggy Noonan. Then Woodward wrote this:

    For at least seven months during 2006, Pres Bush had known that the existing strategy in Iraq was not working. No matter how he tried to dress it up with positive language and sugarcoat it to the American public, he was losing the war. But somehow he had set no deadlines, demanded no hurry, avoided any direct confrontation with Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, General Pace or General Casey about the need for change. …

    U.S. military planners were not brought directly into the review until after the election. Rumsfeld had made his resignation contingent on a political event ather than on the war itself — he would resign if the Republicans lost control of either the House or the Senate.

    The president delegated the responsibility for finding a new strategy to Steve Hadley, his national security adviser … an appointed staff position in the White House that requires no Senate confirmation. … The commander in chief had handed off a war he was losing …

    – The War Within: A Secret White House History, pages 320-321.

    Woodward, who used to wring confessions from dead white men, gets it about right. He cherry-picks shamelessly about Bush and Iraq, but comes to the right conclusion: Bush finally muddled to the right conclusion, perhaps, but the way he did it and the lives he squandered were enough to make an old man (his earthly father, and maybe his heavenly father) cry.

  27. JFK believed the Pentagon’s biggest challenge would be deciding how to allocate the huge increase in defense spending the president-elect felt was necessary to overcome the “missile gap” he (erroneously) thought had left the American military trailing the Soviets—and to reduce what he considered America’s overreliance on strategic nuclear weapons. …

    McNamara knew little about Southeast Asia, and made no conspicuous effort to learn more. His penchant for numbers left him ill-equipped to understand that some human motivations cannot be quantified or predicted. As a result, he drastically underestimated the Viet Cong’s determination.

    – Michael Beschloss, “News”week, July

    Preposterously, tho, Beschloss thinks JFK would have been better served by putting itchy brother Bobby at DOD. Some smart people never learn.

  28. The question that President Obama ought to be asking—that we all should be asking—is this: how big a government do we want? Without any-one much noticing, our national government is on the verge of a permanent expansion that would endure long after the present economic crisis has (presumably) passed and that would exceed anything ever experienced in peacetime. …
    We face an unprecedented collision between Americans’ desire for more government services and their almost equal unwillingness to be taxed. The conflict is obscured and deferred by today’s depressed economy, which has given license to all manner of emergency programs, but its dimensions cannot be doubted. A new report from the Congressional Budget Office (“The Long-Term Budget Outlook”) makes that crystal-clear. …
    For the past half century, federal spending has averaged about 20 percent of GDP, federal taxes about 18 percent of GDP, and the budget deficit 2 percent of GDP. The CBO projection for 2020—which assumes the economy has returned to “full employment”—puts spending at 26 percent of GDP, taxes at a bit less than 19 percent of GDP, and a deficit above 7 percent of GDP. Future spending and deficit figures continue to grow after 2020.
    What this means is that balancing the budget in 2020 would require a tax increase of almost 50 percent from the past half century’s average. …
    Whatever the case, the major causes of the budget blowout are well known: an aging population and rapid increases in health spending. In 2000, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid—the main programs providing income and health care for the 65-and-older population—totaled nearly 8 percent of GDP. In 2020, the CBO projects that will reach almost 12 percent of GDP and continue to increase. But the deeper source of our predicament is a self–indulgent political culture that avoids a rigorous discussion of government’s role. …- Robert Samuelson, “News”week

  29. Here’s Perlstein on Palin, so to speak. Bill-O says Perlstein’s a far-left liberal shit, but that’s redundant.

    Haven’t done Perlstein’s Nixonland, yet, but his book about Goldwater was very good. Is it remotely possible that Big Bill is, like, fucking nuts?

  30. Whoa! Was looking for hot pix of Erica C. (the Big C stands for Tempest in a C-Cup) and found this at Slog:

    Let’s all go to courtroom 1003 on June 18, 2009, at 13:35, to offer our support to Erica C Barnett, petty thief of The Stranger, who stole wine from QFC.

    Tim, Dan, and Eli are proud of Erica’s rehabilitation. She’s only plagiarized one story since her first court appearance on March 17, 2009.

    The Obama Depression must be way worse than we thought if Savage’s avatars of the masses can’t afford to buy life’s necessities.

    But at least it wasn’t Two-Buck Chuck at TJ’s.

    (If Lee whacks this post again, he gets the full-frontal Tut-Carnarvon curse.)

  31. Montana’s claim to fame, @16? Actually, that would be moi.

    Remember always that those gay “cowboys” from “Wyoming” were really sheepherders from Montana sharing a two-dog nite in a one-pup tent.

    We old cowboys have always known that if you aren’t queer and crazy when you start herding sheep, the sheep will quickly make you queer and crazy.

  32. So full of fear and anger – such a sad bunch of incoherent right wing losers.

    Listen, itchy brither, the Usual Reliable Sources show that about 40% of Americans call themselves conservative vs. about 25% who call themselves liberal libtards.

    Do the math.

    The problem for the GOP is that identification with the GOP is somewhere in negative digits. (Just kidding! But it’s really low.)

    If we ever get our poop in a group, you’re hosed.

    But enough blogging in pajamas. Gotta get up and face the new day at, um, 1326 in the P.M.

  33. the Usual Reliable Sources

    which you don’t name. convenient.

    show that about 40% of Americans call themselves conservative vs. about 25% who call themselves liberal libtards.

    Liberal libtards? Wow that’s a big step up from marxist, Fidel-lovers. How about one of those revolutionary Bronx cheers from back in the day? You’re getting soft, hating name-calling fiend.

    The problem for the GOP is that identification with the GOP is somewhere in negative digits. (Just kidding! But it’s really low.)

    Geez.. I wonder why???? Maybe because they are were all puffing out their sagging chests bleating about how “conservative” they were. Or maybe all the people in the remaining 35 percent (according to you) had no taste for endless war and endless lining of the pockets of the well-connected.

    If we ever get our poop in a group, you’re hosed.

    Dream on. See the previous. When you get together, you eat each other over who’s richer and greedier or who’s more “conservative”.. You had your day. It’s over. The more crazies like that woman in the video who “step up”, the better it is for people who want real progress.

    But enough blogging in pajamas. Gotta get up and face the new day at, um, 1326 in the P.M.

    Have a great day. What’s left of it. Keep speaking out like that nutcase in the video. I celebrate your first amendment rights. It just can’t help but bring real progress closer.,

  34. Les Miserables: Debate’s over. The trials of fallen woman Erica C. Barnett prove that Reagan was wrong and that capitalism sucks. We know that Reagan capitalism is the problem, but what’s the solution?

    [A] Send Erica C. Barnett a Stimulus bailout, pronto!
    [B] Send your dollars and dimes to the ECB Legal Defense Fund, c/o Me.
    [C] Send ECB to Gitmo.
    [D] Cast ECB as the lead in a Ron Moody remake. Erica can be the work’ouse waif who goes up to the QFC wine counter and says ‘Please, sir, I need some more!’
    [E] Discover penumbras and emanations in the Bill of Rights to a Constitutional right to designer wine.
    [F] Make designer wine one of the four basic food groups and include a wine voucher requirement in Obama’s health care reform.

    Phone in your poll preferences to 1-800-PHUK-ROG.

  35. The full-frontal Tut-Carnarvon curse: Lee gets sent to his room without any blow for dessert.

    Careful, Lee, or you’ll end up as wasted as YLB.

  36. You really really need to read Lance Selfa’s book about the Goldycrats, Itchy Brother. the Money and greed are loaded on the left. That’s why you can buy elections and we can’t. Hell, you can even afford to reprogram your own Diebold machines.

    My unimpeachable primo source for the 40% assertion is right-wing hate radio. A source doesn’t get any better than that, so debate’s over.

    Among the conservatives that a formerly conservative GOP can’t reach are African Americans and Latino/a voters who supported Prop 8. If the last-gaspGOP is going to wean itself from life-support, it’s got to find a way to reach and win those conservative values voters who, so far, vote Democrat.

    The GOP is, after all, the populist party of the people. Democrats are the party of elitist cheaters like Erica C. Barnett.

  37. @18! @18! @18!

    Troll got it and Troll gets it! Beautiful beyond words, but here are some of the words anyway:

    In this era of political correctness, evangelical Christians and Catholics remain fair game for those who call themselves freethinkers.

    Guilt by association, broad-brush smears, demeaning sarcasm — tactics used by the right-wing screamers on Fox News — get borrowed by the secular left in Seattle. …

    The name-calling against Hutchison reads like a Karl Rove playbook adopted for use by the left. “Religious Wingnut” read a recent headline in The Stranger. Underneath, scribe Erica Barnett (now with Publicola) huffed about Hutchison’s donation to “anti-choice nut job Mike Huckabee,” her being a director of the “creationist Discovery Institute,” and her “Bible-thumping speech” at the Governor’s Prayer Breakfast.

    A breakfast prayer was used as proof of Hutchison’s nuttiness …

    That’s Connelly comparing Goldstein to Fox and Rove. How low can sleazy wanker bigot Goldy go?

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