Morning Must Reads: Scrappy

To describe members of the activist right, I see that Time uses the phrase “Tea Partier” which is how the movement identifies itself, rather than “Teabagger” which is how the movement’s critics identify it.

“Professional left,” is how the enemies of progressives identify progressives. It’s not a term that Time, if it wants to be fair, should throw around without attribution.

BTW, Sargent doesn’t identify the group as “the professional left,” either. He uses the term liberals, which is fair.

His headline: “Liberal blogger directly confronts David Axelrod, accuses White House of “hippie punching.”

The only use of the term “professional left” comes when Sargent quotes Gibbs, the critic who made up the derisive term.

More dessert:
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http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/09/jon-stewarts-takedown-of-gops-pledge-to-america-same-sht-we-heard-before-video.php?ref=fpb

How far have the pathetic Democrats fallen? Jon Stewart? Steve Colbert? 2 Comedians being used to argue political philosophy.
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I guess it proves that the philosophy of the left is a joke

Dems fleeing Obama at every turn. Obama’s focus on jobs just another failed slogan. W
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WOnder why Dems don’t seems to have a problem with the fact Obama’s ban doesn’t apply to Mexican state oil company PEMEX, to which the US Import_Export Bank is guaranteeing $1 billion in loans to support drilling in the Gulf.
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A Gulf Coast Democrat is vowing to block Senate confirmation of President Obama’s budget director until the administration agrees to lift or ease a federal freeze on deepwater oil-and-gas drilling.

Sen. Mary Landrieu’s (D-La.) hold on Jacob Lew, Obama’s widely praised pick to run the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), marks a dramatic political escalation of her battle against the temporary drilling ban, imposed as a safety measure after the BP oil spill.

http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/120639-landrieu-to-block-omb-nominee-unless-oil-drilling-ban-lifted

Classic freeinpa — reacting to something without watching it. There was zero “political philosophy” being presented by Stewart in that clip.
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What was there — and what you would have seen if you’d bothered to look at it and think for yourself, for once — was a series of clips of House Republicans setting forth their bold new ideas interspersed with a series of clips of those same House Republicans spouting the exact same ideas, often in verbatim language, five or ten or fifteen years ago.
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Stewart didn’t offer any “political philosophy” at all. He merely showed that what Republicans claim to be a new political philosophy is completely recycled material, with nothing new or innovative at all.

“Democrats put off votes to extend Bush tax cuts until after midterm election”
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Once again Dems paying lip service to the middle class. No doubt Obama will do what he always does –blame someone else. Last we checked Dems still held huge majorities in the House and Senate. Putting it off until after the elections, which means uncertainty for small businesses which means no new jobs.
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Desperation to panic to full blown hysteria!

“–Glen Bolger sees a Democratic bloodbath coming in swing seats this year.”
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Glen Bolger is a GOP pollster. That probably should’ve been mentioned. Y’know, for context.

Can’t win the argument with the people so back to the playbook and destroy the messenger. Facts need not apply for a Republican but the compliant NYT and the MSM will gladly do the dirty work as an arm of the DNC

Insiders on Capitol Hill are buzzing about an upcoming New York Times exposé that will detail an alleged Boehner affair. Sources say the Times is looking for the right time to drop the story in October to sway the election, similar to how the Times reported during the 2008 presidential campaign on an alleged John McCain affair that supposedly had taken place many years before and that was flatly denied by the woman in question.

“Catching Boehner with a mistress is the only way to destroy him politically before the election,” a source said

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/liberal_blitz_on_gop_chief_i2CGMY2pnf70TdawgzDZIN#ixzz10SDTZRP4

One doesn’t need to watch it. WHy are they wasting money having a clown speak. Oh sorry the Dems actually elect them

Teh GOP had the option to extend the cuts for the middle class, but refused to do so with out doing it at the same time for the rich.
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The democrats were spineless and didn’t push the issue.
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Number of people surprised: 0
Number of ways to spin this: 8 (please turn your computer counter clockwise 90 degrees)

“Mike Castle, the popular moderate Republican Christine O’Donnell vanquished in Delaware’s Senate primary, is testing the waters for a write-in bid. This is nothing but bad news for Democrats.”
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How is a write-in campaign by a defeated Republican bad news for the Democrats? Wouldn’t Castle staying in the race weaken O’Donnell’s candidacy in this heavily Democractic state?

Putting it off until after the elections, which means uncertainty for small businesses which means no new jobs.
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Free,
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“Uncertainty” isn’t the reason small businesses here aren’t hiring. No new customers for the product or services.
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Some of the local business leaders don’t seem to get that things just aren’t in great shape.
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The HS baseball team tried to sell tickets to watch the local team play another team at Busch Stadium after a Cardinals game. The booster club pres, owner of a local lumber company, was dumbfounded that they couldn’t sell tickets at $25 a pop as a fundraiser.
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We’ve tried to remind them that the local economy sux to a large degree, lots of regular people are out-of-work and the few jobs available are entry level with no benefits. They just don’t get it!!
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Life is good for them. They can’t seem to understand that it’s NOT equally good for eveyone else (or why they might not have the extra cash to go to St. L, buy meals, and get hot dogs and beer at $10 a pop).
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There’s a disconnect right now.

What did I miss?

Stupid Senate wusses, put the damn bill up for a vote.

“Senate leaders on Thursday abandoned plans to extend a broad array of tax cuts before the November elections, delaying a vote that could affect tax rates for virtually every American.

Senate Democrats had been preparing a less expensive bill that would extend some tax provisions only temporarily. Just a few weeks ago, Democratic leaders in both the House and Senate argued that a pre-election tax battle would put Republicans on the defensive, forcing them to justify borrowing billions of dollars to pay for tax breaks for the nation’s 3 million wealthiest families.

Some Republicans were nervous about that prospect. But Democrats were equally divided, with many conservatives arguing that the ailing economy – and a contentious election season – made this a bad time to raise anyone’s taxes.”

Christopher Kennedy, Son of former slain Attorney General and Candidate for the Presidency Robert Kennedy gave an impassioned plea to decline William “Bill” Ayers, the now Democrat, Progressive and Obama Administration friend, a position at the University of Illinois as professor emeritus.
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/education/ct-met-ayers-denied-emeritus-20100923,0,5045265.story
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Next up, Axlerod to leave the White House too!!
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http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/09/axelrod-leaving-white-house-next-year-to-work-on-campaign.html

Colbert to testify in Capitol Hill hearing before a House Committee …………….oops, wait a minute. Conyers throws him out!!
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http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/09/24/stephen-colbert-to-testify-in-washington-today/
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You see Ladies and Gentlemen, the Democrats who are currently in control of both the House and Senate think this is all one big JOKE.
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November 2nd, we shall explain to them exactly WHO will be the joke then.

hailto,
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Castle is a relatively moderate R. O’Donnell is who she is and won by demonizing Castle…
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O’Donnell will get the votes she is going to get. The ones that can’t stomach her would reasonably be assumed have voted for the Democrat or stayed home.
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If he comes back as a “write-in”, he takes a measure of the conservative moderates that would vote, some of the ones that can’t stand her, from the stack analysts put in the D column.
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My take, anyway, FWIW…

The real-world effects of the right wing’s anti-Muslim hysteria.

“…a record number of Muslim workers are complaining of employment discrimination, from co-workers calling them “terrorist” or “Osama” to employers barring them from wearing head scarves or taking prayer breaks.

Such complaints were increasing even before frictions erupted over the planned Islamic center in Lower Manhattan, with Muslim workers filing a record 803 such claims in the year ended Sept. 30, 2009. That was up 20 percent from the previous year and up nearly 60 percent from 2005, according to federal data.

The number of complaints filed since then will not be announced until January, but Islamic groups say they have received a surge in complaints recently, suggesting that 2010’s figure will set another record. [...]

‘There’s a level of hatred and animosity that is shocking,’ said Mary Jo O’Neill, regional attorney of the E.E.O.C.’s Phoenix office. ‘I’ve been doing this for 31 years, and I’ve never seen such antipathy toward Muslim workers.’”

Russians predicting WAR …………..Now which side will our “Dear Leader” take??
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/8020972/North-and-South-Korea-on-the-brink-of-war-Russian-diplomat-warns.html

Libtard thugs cause disruption at a Angle / Reid forum. Reid of course was not present, but did send his best regards via a video taped response.
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Reid supporters begin fight, as many present alleged.
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Who is really surprised?
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http://www.lvrj.com/news/fight-erupts-at-reid–angle-election-forum-103685344.html

More CNN / TIME employees biting the dust.
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“Jonathan Klein, the president of the beleaguered CNN cable channel in the United States, is being replaced by Ken Jautz, the head of the tabloid-friendly sister channel HLN, the company said Friday.”

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Any bets on who will bite the dust right here in the Swamp?

“Banana republic, here we come.”

“On Thursday, House Republicans released their “Pledge to America,” supposedly outlining their policy agenda. In essence, what they say is, “Deficits are a terrible thing. Let’s make them much bigger.” The document repeatedly condemns federal debt — 16 times, by my count. But the main substantive policy proposal is to make the Bush tax cuts permanent, which independent estimates say would add about $3.7 trillion to the debt over the next decade — about $700 billion more than the Obama administration’s tax proposals. [...]

The ‘pledge,’ then, is nonsense. But isn’t that true of all political platforms? The answer is, not to anything like the same extent. Many independent analysts believe that the Obama administration’s long-run budget projections are somewhat too optimistic — but, if so, it’s a matter of technical details. Neither President Obama nor any other leading Democrat, as far as I can recall, has ever claimed that up is down, that you can sharply reduce revenue, protect all the programs voters like, and still balance the budget.”

Even a Queen gets cold………..
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/queen-tried-to-use-state-poverty-fund-to-heat-buckingham-palace-2088179.html
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The Queen asked ministers for a poverty handout to help heat her palaces but was rebuffed because they feared it would be a public relations disaster, documents disclosed under the Freedom of Information Act reveal.
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Royal aides were told that the £60m worth of energy-saving grants were aimed at families on low incomes and if the money was given to Buckingham Palace instead of housing associations or hospitals it could lead to “adverse publicity” for the Queen and the Government.

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Next up, the Obama’s new vacation plans on the tax payer dime………………

Well, they have lobbyists write the legislation, so…

“The Republican Party’s 21-page blueprint, ‘Pledge to America,’ was put together with oversight by a House staffer who, up till April 2010, served as a lobbyist for some of the nation’s most powerful oil, pharmaceutical, and insurance companies.

In a draft version of The Pledge that was being passed around to reporters before the official release, the document properties list ‘Wild, Brian’ as the ‘Author.’ A GOP source said that Wild — who is on House Minority Leader John Boehner’s payroll — did help author the governing platform that the party is unveiling on Thursday. Another aide said that as the executive director of the Republican leadership group American Speaking Out, Wild’s tasks were more on the administrative side of the operations.

Until early this year, Wild was a fairly active lobbyist on behalf of the firm the Nickles Group, the lobbying shop set up by the former Republican Senator from Oklahoma, Don Nickles. During his five years at the firm, Wild, among others, was paid $740,000 in lobbying contracts from AIG, the former insurance company at the heart of the financial collapse; $800,000 from energy giant Andarko Petroleum; more than $1.1 million from Comcast, more than $1.3 million from Exxon Mobil; and $625,000 from the pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc.”

Reid supporters begin fight, as many present alleged.
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Rusty,
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I read it – the “many present” who said “they started it” were Angle supporters.
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Reid supporters said they were prevented from leaving.
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I’d be “surprised” if each side DIDN’T claim the other started it.
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Do try a little harder.

I agree completely. I was trying to dig up what the # of registered democrats in Delaware vs. the # of registered Republicans in Delaware but was unable to find it via google. I figured that the number of registered Democrats there would outnumber the registered Republicans, but I’m just speculating based on previous experience. Based on that, I figured that the loss to O’Donnell would outweigh the loss to Coons in the general election.
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In the end, I just don’t think it’s so clear which side would benefit more as there would be losses to both parties. But really, between you and me, I think we’re splitting hairs.
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Thanks for responding! (am new to regularly commenting & am trying my best to actually comment knowledgeably)

I’m curious Freepy…
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Does this bother you because you’d prefer Boehner’s indiscretion remain discrete, or because you think the NY Times is making it up?
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For what its worth Freepy, I couldn’t care less about Boehner’s sex life unless it involves policy decisions or kickbaks, as it did in the case John Ensign. I think the NY Times is better than tabloid pablum like this and shouldn’t be racing to the bottom of muck raking journalism.

Words of encouragement.

“‘Make no mistake: The Republicans running for Congress, they want the next two years to look like the eight years before I took office,’ he said. ‘They might be announcing some new details tomorrow — but the chair of one of their campaign committees already told us their intentions. He said that if the other party takes control of Congress, they plan to pursue — and I’m quoting here — the “exact same agenda” as they did during the last administration. The exact same agenda.’ [...]

‘We need your energy and enthusiasm — the energy and enthusiasm of everybody in this room and everybody you can reach,’ he said.

On several occasions, the president was interrupted by protesters, one woman yelling about increasing AIDS funding and another about the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy on gays in the military.

‘As president, I have said we’re going to reverse it. I got the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and I got the secretary of defense to say that we’re going to reverse it,’ Obama said, deviating from his remarks. ‘Think about what happened in Congress two days ago where you got 56 Democrats voting to debate this issue and zero Republicans. And as a consequence, some of those signs should be going up at the other folks’ events. And folks should be hollering at the other folks’ events because the choice in November could not be clearer.’”

Deficits don’t matter any more, Major change in 30 days,

If the Republicants felt deficits are important, they should stand their ground and defend letting the Republicant tax cut plan go to its natural conclusion. They designed it that way. Let them explain why they did it. Otherwise, adding another $3.7 trillion to teh deficit isbn’t such a big deal!

Hey guys, the deficit is either an issue or not but the deficit is already 90% the result of Republicant administrations and continuing the Bush tax cuts will increase it to 96% Republicant caused, There is no free lunch!

Republicans blocked a vote on the DISCLOSE act. They seem scared to have the names of their sponsors on their campaign ads.

Mavericky Snowe and Collins voted with their parties against voting on the bill.

What was that phrase about the perils of a politician being caught in bed with a “live boy or a dead girl” right before an election? Even if true, she’s neither of those.
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Given what Ensign and Vitter were caught doing with few consequences, Boehner could get caught going at it on the Capitol steps (or, more probably, the 2nd tee at the local country club) and no one would blink an eye.
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He’s a freakin’ national politician – it’s what we expect these days.
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Lack of morals or ethics isn’t a weakness or hinderance for a politician, it’s in the job description.

Boxer widens gap on Fiorina. No double entendres intended.

“The survey showed Boxer leading Fiorina 47 percent to 41 percent, with 12 percent of voters undecided. A July Field Poll showed Boxer with support from 47 percent of voters, compared to 44 percent for Fiorina, a gap that was within that poll’s margin of error.

‘I would surmise much of this has to do with the advertising that the Boxer campaign has done,” Field Poll Director Mark DiCamillo said. “It has had the intended effect.’ [...]

Boxer began running advertisements Sept. 13, the day before polling began for the survey, while Fiorina did not launch her first statewide TV ad until Thursday. Boxer opened with a television ad highlighting her accomplishments in Congress, then released an ad accusing Fiorina of enriching herself as a corporate executive while laying off thousands of workers at Hewlett-Packard Co. and shipping jobs overseas. [...]

Two-thirds of Fiorina’s supporters said they are motivated more by their dislike of Boxer than their enthusiasm for Fiorina.”

The Ex-Im bank loan is for the purchase of $500m of equipment from U.S. companies.
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Why are Republicans against this?

“Lackluster”, or “What happens when you annoy your customers and don’t adapt your business to modern times”.

“Blockbuster has filed for bankruptcy. The company is staying in business and apparently doesn’t plan to shut down any stores at the moment, but the fact that it’s in deep trouble does not exactly come as a gigantic surprise. Between Netflix DVDs-by-mail and Redbox kiosks and various streaming and download services and cable-TV on-demand services, the whole concept of driving to a large store to rent a movie on a shiny disc is an inherently antiquated concept. [...]

Blockbuster was founded in 1985, grew rapidly for years, and, at one time, made a lot of sense. I certainly spent a fair amount of time trolling its aisles for VHS tapes at one point. Let’s face it, though–it was never a particularly pleasant place to be, nor one that treated its customers all that well. The more options that people got for avoiding Blockbuster, the more they tended to do so.”

It’s rarely mentioned that the reason it had to be put up for a vote is that they could only get them passed in the first place through reconciliation. Of course when the Democrats suggested using that for health care, the Republicans went on and on about what a terrible thing it was to even consider such an undemocratic (read I can’t stop it) process, etc. etc. Some Democrats who were against using reconciliation pointed that that after five years it would have to be renewed.
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So here we are. Repubs need to have them renewed. Why not let them all expire? It is not raising taxes, it is not continuing a process that the Repubs objected to last year.
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The Democrats could introduce a bill for their own tax cut proposal. However, I want everyone who has ranted about teh terrible deficit to explain how borrowing to increase deficit for tax cuts is a good thing.

Republicans are against that, they are against the continuing hypocrisy of the Democrats. Support drilling by a foreign country but ban the same activity here ( and costing jobs here).

“”Uncertainty” isn’t the reason small businesses here aren’t hiring. No new customers for the product or services.”
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Repeating this doesn’t make it true
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“Some say the federal money isn’t worth it because they fear it will come with too much regulatory oversight”
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“Our business customers are mired in uncertainty and are reluctant to invest in their businesses,”
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“And then there’s concerns that the government money will have strings attached.

The fears stem from what happened under TARP, the Troubled Asset Relief Fund, formed at the height of the financial meltdown to pump money into banks. Banks that accepted TARP money had to later cut dividends to shareholders and limit compensation to top executives. They were also penalized for early repayment.”
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The disconnect is the Obama administration has no idea how business operates.

Comedians are the perfect people to describe the current class of Republicans/TeaBaggers. The comedians love it because their material practically writes itself. These wingnuts are trying to convince people that their lame @ss ideas that haven’t worked in two decades are somehow going to work this time around.

” I think the NY Times is better than tabloid pablum like this and shouldn’t be racing to the bottom of muck raking journalism.”
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As they have proven time and time again they are not better than this. It is fascinating that those who screamed the defense of Bill Clinton “it was only sex” seem to care less if an “alleged” affair is used to destroy someone you detest because of his political opinion..
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Lesson: Demos remain hypocrites and while they talk about lies and negative ads they relish them them if pointed at a Republican.

Not to mention the fact that it was almost impossible to get a new release at Blockbuster unless you were right there when the store opened.
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My family now has Netflix on the Wii, and we never looked back. Though my wife found “Hot Tub Time Machine” a little weird.

“Senate Democrats had been preparing a less expensive bill that would extend some tax provisions only temporarily”
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Still trumpeting a false assumption. Its the taxpayers money- it doesn’t cost the government anything! Even Chris Tingles has figured that out.

“Chris Matthews To Obama: Stop Saying That Tax Cuts Represent Giving People Money”

Complaints do not equal actual activity.
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If we learned nothing form the theatrics at Camp Gitmo : they learn to protest, claim abuse to gather sympathy from the dimmest of the left in this country

Afguy

I am sure stupidity raged on both sides. But is was nice to see that profile in courage Reid, have a taped speech

“policy proposal is to make the Bush tax cuts permanent, which independent estimates say would add about $3.7 trillion to the debt over the next decade — about $700 billion more than the Obama administration’s tax proposals. [...]”
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Let’s follow that logic. We can afford $3 trillion in debt but another $700 billion is over the top?
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The analysis is also done in a vacuum (where liberals usually live) and assumes spending continues to infinity and beyond!

More liberal media blood-letting……..
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http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/24/zucker-announces-departure-from-nbc/?partner=rss&emc=rss
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Zucker CANNED at NBC

“Lesson: Demos remain hypocrites and while they talk about lies and negative ads they relish them them if pointed at a Republican.”
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That’s what I like about you Freepy. Even when someone agrees with you, you can’t stop your hatin’ on the ‘libtards’. That’s what makes you the knee-jerk sycophant we all know and …ermmm….

Conyers threw Colbert out? Funny, in the video I just watched of the hearing, Colbert was there and Conyers too.
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But again, reality has a liberal bias.

More evidence that the Republicans are so in bed with the lobbyists, that they hire them to write their platform. A platform by the way that supports…. you guessed it Tax Cuts for everyone, especially the rich. Even though the Republicans also say they stand for deficit reduction. They want to borrow money to give people a tax cut in the middle of fighting two wars. Idiots.

Yeah, I don’t know why there’s a temporary ban on deep-water drilling in the Gulf. Did something happen there over the summer?

Harry Reid is the Senate Majority Leader, and he was in D.C. trying to secure a vote on middle-class tax cuts.
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He deserves credit for doing his job, rather than campaigning to keep it. But a videotaped message would be more than enough to debate Sharron “F#ck the Autistic” Angle.

How much was the deficit again when the Democrats who control budget and all spending took control of the House and Senate in 2006?
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“Faced with a potential government shutdown, the Senate votes to raise the nation’s debt limit for the fourth time in five years. The bill passed by a 52-48 vote, increasing the ceiling to $9 trillion. The bill now goes to the president.
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The debt now stands at more than $8.2 trillion.
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Like many cash-strapped Americans who have maxed-out credit cards, the federal government has hit its limit for borrowing funds to keep operating. If the limit isn’t raised, the government likely will run out of borrowing authority within days, risking a shutdown.
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When President Bush took office five years ago, the national debt was at $5.6 trillion; since then, big budget surpluses have collapsed into huge deficits, and the debt has shot up nearly 50 percent.

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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5282521
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So let us recap. 8.2 trillion from 5.6 trillion is a total of 2.6 trillion when the national debt was being handled by a Republican controlled House, right?
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Today, or since 2006, the national debt has gone to 13.5 trillion. Hmmmmm…..now let’s see, 13.5 trillion from 8.2 trillion is 5.3 TRILLION.
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Not only has the Democrat controlled House and Senate more than doubled the debt, they have blow the lid off the ceiling into the stratosphere of debt.
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Perhaps you would like to look at a picture, which clearly shows how much exactly the Democrat House and Senate along with Obama in just the past 18 months have exploded the debt.
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http://blog.heritage.org/2009/08/28/obama%E2%80%99s-tripling-of-the-national-debt-in-pictures/
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Enjoy

One doesn’t need to watch it.
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Yes, why would One want to have One’s steady diet of right-wing propaganda disrupted by proof that One’s beliefs are a lie?

“Colbert defended himself, but seemed uncharacteristically rattled by the interrogation—enough to put his foot in his mouth with an off-color and worse, unfunny, joke about gay Iowans. ”
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Just another hypocritical liberal on display
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“He tried to enter images from his colonoscopy into the Congressional Record during a riff on how Americans should eat less ruffage.”

His picture on the TV showed what an a*shole he is, no need for any other medical photos

“Republicans blocked a vote on the DISCLOSE act. They seem scared to have the names of their sponsors on their campaign ads.”

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Actually no, that is a lie. The reason it was voted down are due to all of the exclusions contained in this Reid supported and defined bill.
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Good ‘ol Harry put in the act exclusions for labor unions and other Democrat Party major contributors.
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“Some companies – those that receive substantial government contracts or took TARP bailouts – would be altogether banned from spending money on election advertising.
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It also bans any company with more than 20 percent foreign ownership from advertising, which means international companies that employs tens of thousands of U.S. citizens, which also attract substantial foreign investment, could no longer pay for U.S. campaign-related advertising.
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CEOs who are major donors would have to appear on in ads to notify the public of their involvement. The top donor to the advertising organization would be required to appear in the commercial to explain their role as well.
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Finally, a TV ad would have to list the top five funders to the organization. The disclaimers alone would preclude the possibility of a 15-second advertisement.
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“Organized labor, which notably was the single largest political spender in the 2008 election, some $420 million, who just in the past three weeks has announced their intention to spend $150 million minimally in this election to protect ‘incumbency,’ to quote them, they are carved out of the bill, no effect on them, no real disclosure, no real reporting requirements required of them,” he tells Newsmax.

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Of course, not least in the matter of the First Amendment and how this act would directly challenge our Freedom of Speech. Now why would the majority of Democrats want to restrict our freedom of speech? Any thoughts on that ArtPepper?

So, what Freakinpa is saying that, since we stopped drilling in part of US territory – namely the Gulf of Mexico – because the Bush Administration had gutted, castrated and corrupted MMS until is was a bunch drug addicts having sex with oil industry whores to the point where even after this administration believed they had fixed everything, we ended up having the worst environmental disasters in history, we should invade Mexico and all other oil producing countries to make sure that they do not produce any oil at all?
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Or, maybe he is saying that they should not get a loan which would help prop up their country’s economy so that Mexicans will not come here to do the dishes and provide tax dollars to the country so that they can hire police to stop the horrible violence just South of the Boarder?
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Yeah, since the Bush Administration screwed up and let BP act like a bunch of idiots, let’s make sure that Mexico can’t drill so that the Mexican government will have fewer cops, more murders and far more people going from Mexico to Arizona. Yeah, that’s the solution!
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I think that is what Freak is trying to say, but, I can’t tell since he is so extremely unreasonable and illogical all of the time.

So its ok to put taxpayer money at risk with a foreign company but its not ok to allow any US companies to perform the same jobs

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Spoken like a true liberal

“Harry Reid is the Senate Majority Leader, and he was in D.C. trying to secure a vote on middle-class tax cuts.”
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He has a majority of Dems. Why didn’t he force the passage just like HC.

He knew before last night the vote wasn’t going to happen but it makes a good excuse not to go and defend the crap you have done in real time.

Where is the TARP money for Blockbuster. Maybe the store clerks should join the UAW

“So its ok to put taxpayer money at risk with a foreign company but its not ok to allow any US companies to perform the same jobs”
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So it’s okay to drill in Mexico where if they spill their oil they will spill it on their own people’s land and not on Americans while it’s not okay to drill in a body of water which just experienced the worst environmental disaster since Chernobyl until we know that we not have a follow up disaster.
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Yes.
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So, it’s okay for Arizona law enforcement to drop murder cases, rape cases, child molestation cases to go catch a guy working his ass off but shouldn’t be working here since he is from Mexico, but, it is not okay to help the Mexican economy and, with it, Mexican law enforcement to make Mexico a better place to stay so that Mexicans won’t be as eager to come here.
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Spoken like a true wingnut.

Good points, destor23.

Joe Klein hates liberals (aka anyone to the left of Joe Klein), and that is why he uses the language that he does.
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If you would have bothered reading the article, you’d have read about the ‘actual activity’.
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Now stop trying to pick a fight with your intellectual betters and run along…I’m sure there’s a fly you need to pull the wings off of, somewhere.

From the same article you grabbed your first quote from:
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“Bank executives say their customers don’t want loans, even at low interest rates, because the sluggish economy has chilled expansion plans.”
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http://wtop.com/?nid=111&sid=2061333
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From the source of your second quote goes on to say:
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“Ninety-one percent of small business owners surveyed in August by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) said all their credit needs were met. Only 4 percent cited a lack of financing as their top business problem. Plans for capital spending were at a 35-year low.”
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http://www.kansascity.com/2010/09/24/2246575/small-biz-banks-may-spurn-obamas.html
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Both of your articles come to the opposite conclusion you wish for: there are no customers coming in the door, so, who wants to borrow to build up capital for goods and services nobody wants.
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This cherry picking of yours is an absolute addiction of yours.
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You, not the president, has no idea how small business operates.
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Every day I work, I am on the phone trying to see if I can find a small business who wants to move to larger office space or a higher quality office space and I do not hear the word “government’ at all but, what the two articles said from the parts you did not want to see.

Here’s how it works:
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If a Democrat has sex, Republicans go insane and want him stoned to death as the Taliban will do, but, so long as he has good policy, Democrats don’t really care very much.
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If a Republican is having sex with other men in public bathrooms but says he is sorry, Republicans forgive him and Democrats weren’t voting for him anyway.
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So, since he is a Republican, wherever Beohner’s boner has been is not going to influence anything. He’ll just apologize in public with embarrassed wife next to him and say how much he loves “family values” (he loves the act which makes families so much but doesn’t give a flying duck if children can get health care, a good education or anything else about children) and Republicans will still support him after a few Letterman and Leno jokes.

Let’s follow that logic.
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Let’s not. Point is, you can’t legitimately be both for and against increasing the deficit…Unless you’re, you know, a complete hypocrite or total moron.

Repeating this doesn’t make it true
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And simply repeating your point of view doesn’t make it any more valid, either.
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Read what I said, Free. I said “uncertainty” wasn’t the reason here. Uncertainty about tax rates aren’t the reason the only jobs here are menial or in the fast food industries. Even the HS students are finding it hard to find work.
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No new industry is coming in here. It’s gotten to the point that an expansion of an existing building 10 employees is a big deal – although most of the jobs touted are during the construction of the additonal structures.
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Our problem here is the relative education of the available workforce – large dropout rates and poor scores out of the schools.
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The issue is NOT with unions (or lack of same). It’s the provincial attitude that the best administrator for a given system should be someone who has been a part of that system. They need “new blood” but “new blood” is absolutely the LAST thing anyone will listen to here. They have to be “comfortable” with the new hire, and the only way to do that is to hire someone who you’ve known for 40 years.
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It’s not worded that way, though. The common phrase is someone ” familiar with the needs of the community”. What is meant is “someone who knows the right people, who knows how to push the right political buttons.”

“Its the taxpayers money- it doesn’t cost the government anything!”
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But the roads they drive on, the police who protect them, the, schools their children go to, the fire department who protects them, the armed forces who protect them are the governments. So, unless you leave the United States and, therefore, stop directly and indirectly using the government’s services, you need to get some kind of a bill for the services rendered.

From Rusty Newfreakenblog:
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“Ayers, the Vietnam War-era radical, had been an education faculty member at UIC since 1987. He retired effective Aug. 31 and then sought the emeritus faculty status, a largely honorific title that includes some benefits such as library privileges.
While trustees regularly vote on emeritus appointments, they rarely comment about themKennedy was referring to a 1974 book co-authored by Ayers, “Prairie Fire,” which was dedicated to a long list of people including Robert Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan and “all political prisoners in the U.S.”"
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So, Ayers lost his library card. BFD.

When you see how cheap and easy it is to get a movie from the Redbox machines. It’s no wonder they are going out of buisiness. They are going out the way that payphones and music on Compact Discs are going.

“A half-dozen bystanders tried to separate the combatants, one male Angle backer and two female Reid supporters, before security guards intervened…

“I didn’t expect anything like this, not in a million years,” said the Rev. Robin Joyce, one of the organizers of the event at Faith Lutheran Junior/Senior High School in Summerlin. “Our whole aim was to have an educational forum to hear from the candidates about their economic positions.”

Instead, tempers flared in the high-stakes race between the Democratic incumbent and the Tea Party upstart three weeks before early voting starts Oct. 16.

“He punched me twice, so I punched him back twice,” Kay Mehta said as she nursed a red, tearing eye and waited for police to arrive. “I was just defending myself.”

No arrests were made. Police interviewed those involved for a report on the incident. The names of all of the participants were not released.”
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Real title should be: Tea Party nut attacks two women, but Rusty likes to lie alot and make it sound as if two women attack men when the article says the opposite.
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Rusty, just because your wife beats you up doesn’t mean that most men aren’t far stronger than women.

So you agree you are a moron and your logic is faulty..
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Come on say it with me taxes are not spending.

“Where is the TARP money for Blockbuster. Maybe the store clerks should join the UAW.”
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There are multiple reasons for a business to fail.
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1) Undercapitalized. That means not enough equipment, etc to do the job efficiently and has nothing to do directly or indirectly with the stock market since stock in economics, is not capital. Stock ownership of a company is savings for the stock owner, like putting money in the bank but far more risky.
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2) Poor management.
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3) The entire economy failed.
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4) Good produced is outdated and no longer in demand.
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Banks and car companies had bad management, but, were so large that they would have taken millions of secondary jobs with them (as in the stores, restaurants, etc that employees of car companies go to and all of the customers of banks). So long as management is replaced when bailed out, there will be very little disturbance to the economy.
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Blockbuster has a service no longer needed. But, I do miss the blockbuster down the street even though I now use Netflix. I just liked seeing the large lists of options in front of me – maybe that’s just me as a 30 something the way my parents used to talk about going to the soda fountain at the local drug store. By my time drug stores is where old people got medicine.

“Now stop trying to pick a fight with your intellectual betters and run along..”
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As soon as I find any here I might. No luck so far.

Tell me how do those complaints compare with the rise in Anti-Semitic ones? Or is the left selective about who gets harassed.

I see simple reading is still a problem Rev Jim.

They have no need for loans because they don’t want to risk adding capacity when the economy sucks as people are hunkered down because of uncertainty over taxes, HC, regulations and more deficit growing stupidity from Washington.
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You, not the president, has no idea how small business operates.
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Every day I work, I am on the phone trying to see if I can find a small business who wants to move to larger office space or a higher quality office space.”
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And that’s because I sold 2 successful small businesses and now sit in semi-retirement while you play the witless Bud Fox hoping to haul in your Gordon Gekko.
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Stop listening to those voices n your head.

Rev Jim stepped off the curb again;;

I am invoking the following:

“Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience. “

“”Its the taxpayers money- it doesn’t cost the government anything”
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Isn’t it amazing when anyone talks about people keeping their own money (taxes) the left trots out the military and police- 2 entities they despise or ridicule in general.
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The roads? Isn’t that what the state adn federal gasoline taxes are for?
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Funny how entitlement and waste NEVER come into the discussion

Don’t you hate it when they act like the SEIU

Ssve the lecture Rev Jim

I didn’t sing up for the course and if I did I would demand a graduate to teach it. That ain’t you Sparky!

“And that’s because I sold 2 successful small businesses and now sit in semi-retirement…”
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When your neighbor paid you twice to get your lemonade stand off of his front yard twice that doesn’t qualify as selling a business twice.

“They have no need for loans because they don’t want to risk adding capacity when the economy sucks as people are hunkered down because of uncertainty over taxes, HC, regulations and more deficit growing stupidity from Washington.”
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So, you are saying that the reason that people aren’t spending isn’t because they lost their jobs in the aftermath of the Bush financial meltdown, it’s because they aren’t sure if they made $250K a year or not and are holding all their money?
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You didn’t really run that lemonade stand, did you? Your Mom at the nursing home last year did the bookkeeping for you, didn’t she?
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You see people aren’t spending because they lost their jobs and/or got a cut in work hours and if somebody like the government would hire them for a a year or two to fix bridges and road among many other things (known as a bigger stimulus package) they will start spending again.

Rule #1 of wingnuts: lose an argument, call winner of argument a moron.

“Isn’t it amazing when anyone talks about people keeping their own money (taxes) the left trots out the military and police- 2 entities they despise or ridicule in general.”
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I guess I must not be a part of the left since I signed up for the Army in 2003 but was medically PDQ, and will be joining the NYPD auxilliary.
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Afguy isn’t a part of the left, either.
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Freakinpa, the left, as you describe them are those voices you keep on hearing when you don’t take your meds.

“Don’t you hate it when they act like the SEIU.”
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A the Prudential Mall in Boston I once held down an SEIU strike all by myself.
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They assigned one security guard to watch the striking janitors and, for one day, that assignment was mine.
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It was about 60 strikers.
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How did I do it?
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Easy, they were a peaceful bunch.
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So, let me correct you:
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Don’t you wish violent tea Partiers act like the SEIU instead?
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Yes.

“I didn’t sing up for the course…”
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That would apply to economics, junior high school history, geology, high school biology, junior high school math, and 4th grade reading as well.
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I noticed you haven’t signed up for any classes.

According to what I read here, Colbert came across very well.
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But, since you are completely insane, you will never see it that way.

What Arguing with Freakinpa is like:
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Of course Paul Reubens was too mach to play Freakinpa’s part.

Too Macho not too mach.

Feakinpa,
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Considering I handled 60 striking SEIU workers all by myself in 2002, you can come to two conclusions:
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1) Patrick Sartor is tougher and stronger than a Green Barrett squad.
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2) The SEIU is as peaceful as nuns – but louder.
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Here’s a hint: I was medically PDQ from the Army in 2003.

I guess the Republicans brought in someone more serious when they had Elmo testify. Actually, I liked is testimony.
http://articles.cnn.com/2002-04-23/politics/elmo.hill_1_elmo-instruments-congressional-committee?_s=PM:ALLPOLITICS

hail: Welcome to the Swampland. Aptly named as it is.
We appreciate someone who wants to engage in some interesting dialogue and welcome anyone who can expand our knowledge.

Patrick: The right has no respect for so many. How many liberals, muslims, undocumented aliens, athiests, etc. do you think have died for our country. I know some in my own family. So, I have to assume their are millions.
Why do you think they are so anti-American that they can’t recognize the sacrifice of others?

What does the reactionary right here think of the Iranian Green Revolution? I watched many videos that were courageously sent from Iran. Many times I was in tears seeing the Iranians fighting for some freedom.
Should all Muslims be demonized as some on the right insist on doing?
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Do you think Gingrich took into account any of this when he attacked all Muslims with his hate speech. I challenge anyone who stereotypes all Muslims as terrorists to watch the above video. If you aren’t moved, than I question your humanity.

As a Californian, I am sure that we will not let two gazillionaires buy their vanity government positions. HP did not want Fiorina and Whitman didn’t even bother to vote while a resident of CA. They need to take their golden parachute money, join a Republican country club and sip martinis and play golf.

When I rented movies there, I always wished they had taught there employees to give their customers their full attention. I know they are low paying jobs, but I also wanted someone who had the vaguest idea about movies.
As someone who owns over 800 DVDs, I can say I am a movie buff.

Apr,
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Very moving.
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My mother has a friend who is a former coworker who is from Iran.
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This woman and her husband went back for a short time since he couldn’t find good work with his Iranian credentials. It didn’t work out too well there for him, either. He ended up deciding to join a protest and went missing in an Iranian secret prison for a number of months (no way his wife could have heard if he was alive or dead at that time). After his release, he decided to, again, reunited with wife and adult children, try his chances on the US labor market.
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This woman my mother is friends with is a devout Muslim and does the four prayers a day – but has always despised the Islamic dictatorship of Iran and always considered a theocracy, rather than a democracy, an abomination.
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She is 0% similar to what wingnuts think of Muslims – non violent, educated, polite and easy to get along with. (You can say this about a huge number of people from every nation and religion , but the wingnuts will never believe it.)

Freakinpa,
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“Funny how entitlement and waste NEVER come into the discussion.”
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For anybody with a set of moral values higher than a dead cockroach, throwing grandma and her social security, the Vietnam vet with no legs and the unemployed under the bus is not an option.
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As far as waste goes, you have no idea how to get rid of it. Randomly cutting budgets don’t do it in the public nor the private sector. High quality managers who can figure out the usefulness of each and every purchase or expense can bring about efficiency, but, stop deluding yourself in believing that the private sector is that much more efficient.
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Apr,
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Wingnts (and I do not mean conservatives, I mean nutty extra right wing conservatives) would easily presume that I am a conservative Republican unless they ask me. They have this presumption of long hair (never had it), drugs (never done any) T shirt and jeans (own one pair jeans and only dress shirts – no T shirts) laziness (not me) are what liberals are. I bet nine out of ten of them will, if they ask, be shocked by how many very traditional, normal looking people are liberal. Also, I have met a few long haired men with beards wearing T shirts and jeans because they find them more comfortable who are quite conservative.
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So, when they can’t wrap their brain around the fact that many people who they honor as their conservative ideal are not at all conservative and a few people here and there they write off as leftist hippies are, actually, their political brethren.
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WIngnuts always judge a book by it’s cover or, online where it is reversed, always presume what we look and act like by our politics.