Morning Must Reads: Sunny

Bloomburg gave a speech last night about how the government is failing to create jobs. There’s speculation he’s dipping his toes into the presidential race waters.
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Similarly, Trump has said recently he’s considering a run for president. He doesn’t want to be president, he says, but he believes someone from the business community should step up.
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With the number of people who self identify as center, it remains to be scene whether big business elites can done the moderate center label and run successfully for office.

Bloomberg also killed the speculation about running for President

“I’m not going to be running for president,” he said. “I have eleven-hundred and nineteen days left in my job. I’m looking forward to today and every other one of them.”

Instead, he said he’s speaking out on national issues such as immigration and taxation because they are important not only in Washington but also in New York, where problems with unemployment and the housing market reflect the national picture.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/40584051

I only caught the tail end of it on CNN this morning, so I missed that.
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That still leaves Trump, and I don’t know how I feel about that….

Let me help you. NO! His comb-over ought to be reason enough to disqualify him

From “Sunny Gates” link…
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“I will go back convinced that our strategy is working,” (Defense Secratary Gates) said at a news conference with Karzai. “The bottom line is that over the last 12 months we’ve come a long way…”
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But even as (U.S. military officials) tout those successes, they are careful not to raise expectations that they will be able to withdraw large numbers of troops next summer, when Obama has said he would start to reverse the surge.
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..in other news, the sun rose in the east this morning.

I just did 5 minutes of internet research and found more than a comb over to disqualify him in my book. Avid Republican, Tea Party supporter, big business, failed business history, and an inability to follow the moral code, Catholicism, he has publicly adopted.
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I guess that puts at an end the “Business Mogul for President” in my book. I wasn’t fond of what Bloomberg had to say to begin with, but it was nice to here a big business man be honest about his intentions. I’d rather have someone be honest than two faced about it all.

Proof that liberalism is wrong!
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Billionaire-Americans are giving away their money to charity!
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http://gizmodo.com/5710013/facebooks-mark-zuckerberg-is-donating-everything-to-charity
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See, if we tax them more, they’ll have less money to give to charity and help feed the poor. Liberals want to take money that’s destined to go to feed poor hungry children and use for a government-made solar-powered hookah’s or protecting the endangered striped beagle bird or some such nonsense.
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Why do liberals hate the children?

I discount most conspiracy theories but if a letter turns up in the future discussing how the Democrats only needed to sacrifice 12 or 15 members of Congress, to get the billionaires tax cut approved, so the rest could pretend they still believe in ethics and common sense, I won’t be surprised.

We have had the wailing and gnashing of teeth phase, now comes total capitulation. But how do they do it, without losing 40% of their voters?

On another note does John Boehner or Mitch Mcconnell ever call you guys to complain about how little attention they get here? Surely there is one story about their side we could discuss. I’d love to hear why they believe tax cuts for billionaires is top of the house in national priorities, at this point in time. Heck, one doesn’t even have to call it top of the house, because there is no bottom or middle of the house. I think they should have equal time to explain their priorities to the American people.

Its not that we hate children, its that they taste better when harvested thin!

Derek, you often have intriguing things to say, but your penchant for conspiracy theories is a mite underwhelming…
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I’m not saying it is unlikely that there corrupt democrats in congress. Harry Reid certainly is. But I find it hard to believe they’d be that good at manipulating the public on such a large scale without something seeping out to the rest of us. That kind of cover up would need every media personality, aid, and politician working together or a master manipulator who knew every person’s strings.
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The high rates of improbability stoke my desire for a pan galactic garble blaster when I read posts like this one.

Liberals hate smart investing! So they have their activist liberal judges shut em down!
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http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-gold-coin-dealer-20101209,0,5237126.story
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I’ve converted all of my money to gold bouillon. Or gold coins with embossed pictures of Glenn Beck. Or maybe soup. I’m not sure which.
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In any case! Gold is the smartest investment that smart people can make with their money. I know because people who told me they’re smart told me so!

“If she decides to get into the race, she will take a lot of air out of the room, that’s for sure.”
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Can’t….breathe….must…

Actually, gumOnShoe, I said if I believed in conspiracy theories. I’m sure it will be mere coincidence if this things is approved, without very many Democrats putting targets on their back.

“Bank of America Corp. has agreed to pay $137 million in restitution, interest and other penalties to hundreds of U.S. counties, towns, school districts, train, bus and airport systems, and other local-government entities it ripped off with bid-rigging by the bank’s employees and bond consultants in the late 1990s and early 2000s”
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They owned up to it. They said they’re sorry, and I’m sure they’ll never do it again.
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So, let’s give them more money! The Banking-Americans are our best and brightest hope for lowering unemployment! They are our first responders to an economic emergency. They’re just like firemen.
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Why do liberals hate firemen?

Westboro “Baptist Church” to picket The Lovely Elizabeth’s funeral.
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Jesus wept.

Related – Why hasn’t there been more talk about BofA being saddled by all those bad Countrywide loans?

“our strategy is working”
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What strategy is that?
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Do we want to include the Taliban in the future of Afghanistan? What about Karzai- is he the legitimate and effective leader, or criminal, erratic and unstable? Do we want Afghan security forces to stand alone? -because it that doesn’t jibe with the admitted fact that the infrastructure we built “for them” is too expensive and sophisticated to be operated by Afghanis. Are we toning down missile strikes, so as not to kill so many civilians, or are we ramping up the pressure with multiple launch missile systems and tanks?
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Can anyone give me a coherent summary of our strategy and its goals?
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Well, US Navy Commander Huber did (link):
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(T)o extend the wartime economy we’ve been on since World War II indefinitely by making “persistent conflict” the permanent global reality. Part of the reason the Pentarchy never gives us a coherent list of war objectives is the danger that they might accidentally achieve one or more of them. Then they’d need to make more excuses to keep our troops, and our country, enmeshed in counterproductive wars.
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I guess it is working.

You implied you wouldn’t be surprised. I’m sorry for taking you at your hyperbolic word.

I’m sure Jay will have more to say about her cover piece on Palin.

Jesus, what else can be said about Palin? It’s not like anyone in the news media – especially Jay – is ignoring her…Y’all dry-hump Palin’s Twitter feed, fer chrissakes. It’s not as if Palin’s stating anything original or surprising.

Can’t Time think of a better way to sell magazines?

..per “the infrastructure we built “for them” is too expensive and sophisticated to be operated by Afghanis.”
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A federal watchdog criticized U.S. agencies on Thursday for squandering taxpayer money on facilities in Afghanistan that are too complex and costly for the Afghan government to maintain.
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U.S. officials acknowledge that they plan to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to hire contractors to operate a complex of buildings in troubled Kandahar and other facilities in Afghanistan for the next 10 years.
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A federal auditor complained in a report that the buildings constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for the Afghan national police represent an “outrageous waste of taxpayer money.” He said the problems are representative of a “regular negative pattern” in overly complex construction in the country.
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“Why in the world are we continuing to construct facilities all over Afghanistan that we know, and the Afghans know, they will not be able to sustain once we hand the facilities over?” asked Arnold Fields, the special inspector general for Afghan reconstruction. -link
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Why indeed.

Did I insult you when you had another handle or something? I don’t recall insulting you.

DNA on a tweet. That’s a first.

It’s true. To make a good wine, the grapes must be raised to work hard to survive. Same principle applies to tasty children.

Phelbs can enjoy the deep south when he finally croaks. I won’t bother wasting my time picketing his funeral because I believe the good lord will have the final definate word anyways. Enjoy the pitchfork in the @ss moment old man and the irony.

It is the Bank of America, liberal football noisemaker!
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Don’t you love America?!?

No, I’ve never posted here with another handle unless you count when I was using a ’0′ in my name instead of an ‘O’. I honestly thought you were arguing for a conspiracy theory, and your previous comments lead me to often believed in such things with your remarks related to big business, etc.
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I don’t have a grudge against you. I don’t want to have one. But you tend come across as combative or as if you believe in conspiracy theories.
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I apologize for misinterpreting you. This is the internet, its hard to tell exactly what people mean. You’ve made it clear you don’t believe in conspiracy theories now, so I’ll take you at your word.

Mmmm, Sarah Palin….
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She’s so smart and soooo wonderful and as a Real America Man, I cannot wait to vote for her as hard as I can, over and over again, Until I can’t vote any more, and I collapse into a puddle of just voted bliss!
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I….I’ll be right back, going to need a moment alone…

“Can’t Time think of a better way to sell magazine?”
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No, hence every liberal rag Time, Newsweek, WaPo NYT are sliding down the gutter as they push their left wing nonsense. Conservatives outsell liberals.

Derek, I don’t think it is a conspiracy in the way you speculate. I think it’s systematic.
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It’s the way our reps are elected. Re-elections are won by war-chests, commercials and coveted TV face-time. All of which is dominated by corporate interests. By the time our politicians are re-elected enough times to have power and influence- to sit on or head the most powerful committees- they’ve “befriended” the most influential lobbies numerous times. Our system of campaign finance and the “independent” groups (527s, etc) that create candidate-profiles push DC to what we currently call “the right” (corporatist), not ideology. Ideology is for candidates and freshmen lawmakers, not the pros.
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As Senator Dick Durbin said of lobbies: “they frankly own the place”. (link)

no hurry

Media Myths: How many did Time help spread?

Each year the Business & Media Institute looks back on the year’s news and selects the top 10 worst economic myths. Here is our 2010 list:

10. GM Repayment Shows Taxpayer Bailout Worked

9. All the Economy Needs is More Stimulus

8. Soda is Like Cocaine and Ads Cause Obesity

7. Obama the Tax Cutter

6. The Tea Parties are Astroturf, but Green Groups Aren’t.

5. Despite Largest Budget in History, Obama is Fiscally Conservative

4. Lack of Press Freedom in Gulf Doesn’t Point to Obama

3. Nearly 10 Percent Unemployment Isn’t So Bad

2. ClimateGate? What ClimateGate?

1. The Chamber of Commerce is Taking “Secret Foreign Money” for Election

http://www.mrc.org/bmi/mediamyths/2010/The_Top__Economic_Myths_of_.html

Well I guess there is no conspiracy because the House Dems just rejected the whole deal. Unless this is just act 2 .

That 40 percent of voters Derek mentioned brought this little tidbit to mind:

“Indeed, the wealth of the Wal-Mart founder’s family in 2005 was estimated at about the same ($90 billion) as that of the bottom 40 percent of the US population: 120 million people.” — Tony Judt, New York Review of Books

Yup, the rich really need those tax breaks. And of course billionaires are generous. Just looks at the Waltons. Warms the heart in this holiday season, doesn’t it? Aristocracy is so romantic. I just feel like curling up with a Sir Walter Scott novel.

The Constant Weader at http://www.RealityChex.com

Free, I’m amazed you think these pubs are liberal. Have you seen who’s on the WaPo editorial page? Don’t you know that the NYT was Cheney’s favorite media outlet (and of “official” sources); have you heard of Judith Miller? Have you read Time’s “The Page”?
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Palin is Murdoch’s project- she is hot (in selling terms) because she is divisive; they love the attention. And Murdoch is, by far, the most influential person in major media.. if all non-Rupert publications were liberal (which, by far, they’re not) the media as a whole would still slant in his direction.

Collins won’t support repeal of DADT after all.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/12/in_blow_to_dadt_repeal_talks_w.html

Now, how did I predict this weeks ago? I must be psychic.

Tea Partiers: Stand up for the earmark ban! Don’t give it up without a fight.

Indeed, many Republicans are now worried that the bridges in their districts won’t be fixed, the tariff relief to the local chemical company isn’t coming and the water systems might not be built without a little direction from Congress.

So some Republicans are discussing exemptions to the earmark ban, allowing transportation, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and water projects.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1210/46172.html

(via Steve Benen)

“More than 50 percent of Americans say they are worse off now than they were two years ago when President Barack Obama took office, and two-thirds believe the country is headed in the wrong direction, a Bloomberg National Poll shows.”

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-09/most-americans-say-they-re-worse-off-under-obama-poll-shows.html
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Not very good news for our dear Leader. Not at all.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1336858/Oprah-Winfrey-I-lesbian-cries-love-best-friend-Gayle-King.html
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I AM NOT A LESBIAN!!!

While our friends on the left are so focused on the tax cuts to billionaires, did anyone happen to notice the budget passed through the House yesterday?
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“Senate Democrats are working on a different approach that would provide slightly more money and would include thousands of pet projects sought by lawmakers. It’s unclear whether that measure can get enough support from GOP old-timers to survive a filibuster by party conservatives. The House bill is free of such “earmarks.”

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Can we say, SPEND SPEND SPEND????
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Yes We Can!!!!

“Free, I’m amazed you think these pubs are liberal. Have you seen who’s on the WaPo editorial page? Don’t you know that the NYT was Cheney’s favorite media outlet (and of “official” sources); have you heard of Judith Miller? Have you read Time’s “The Page”?”
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This is what is truly funny about many of the people here. THey believe that pubs like NYT, WaPo are moderate of center right. It says more about how far left you truly are than where they are. I also love the one sacrificial conservative at most of these pubs in the pathetic (and failed) attempt to show journalistic neutrality.
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It’s as lame an argument as the one that Obama is a moderate. Yeah anyone who listened to Rev Wright for over 20 years, sought out the radical elements of college reactionaries, was friends with Bill Ayers and names radical czars like Cass Sunstein and Van Jones can be considered a moderate on what planet?
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The left still has not figured out what the recent elections really meant. Nobody wants the radical left even the ones in denial of being the radical left

What an outstanding non partisan source of information.

the horror

Dems have another candidate to run for COngress next year.

House prosecutors laid out a damaging case against Porteous, a New Orleans native who was a state judge before winning appointment to the federal bench by President Bill Clinton in 1994. The prosecutors said gambling and drinking problems led him to begin accepting cash and other favors from attorneys and bail bondsmen with business before his court.

He also was accused of lying to Congress during his judicial confirmation and filing for bankruptcy under a false name.

The Senate voted unanimously to convict on the first article involving cash from attorneys, and with strong majorities on the other three.
Porteous is the first judge to be impeached and convicted since 1989, when two judges — Walter Nixon of Mississippi and Alcee L. Hastings of Florida — were removed from office. Hastings went on to win a seat in Congress, where he still serves.

Thank goodness for that Rusty. I am glad you are not

Lets see,
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you cry rivers when libruls spend billions on pet projects (and to be fair conservatives are including here too but I don’t hear you argue against that) and extending unemployment to people – most likely a lot of regular conservatives who lost their job at the tune of 55 billion…but you don’t blink even once at extending tax cuts for trillions of dollars.
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You even want to make them permanent.
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Why would I bother taking your moans and groans serious if your fiscal stand point is so severly rotten by the absolut and fundamental gap of disbelief when you can’t seem to marry those two glaring opposite forces.
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Maybe you don’t care about what I think, but I’d like to see you explain this to people who voted republican in November and expected to see some serious action against deficite explosion.

pintortwo your theory as to cause is as good as any. I just keep seeing the pattern repeat itself, over and over, like how terrible Democrats felt, as they kept funding the Iraq war.
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gumOnShoe too old to change now. Combativeness is now second nature, as is cynicism.

Now will we see the media take Team Donkey to task for holding up unemployment benefits, raising taxes on the low and middle class and holding the country hostage by not compromising.

Of course not. We will have plenty of shovel ready jobs. That is the media shoveling the public a line of crap of how they are not increasing the debt by not voting for a law that had no change from current tax law.
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Somehow they still have figured that its spending that causes deficits

WASHINGTON — The House Democratic Caucus has voted to reject President Barack Obama’s tax deal with Republicans in its current form.

By voice vote, the rank and file Democrats passed a resolution Thursday that said the tax package should not come to the floor of the House for consideration. Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., introduced the resolution.

I also love the one sacrificial conservative at most of these pubs in the pathetic (and failed) attempt to show journalistic neutrality.
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Well, we were provided a snapshot, and…
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“This is what one finds — just from today — on the Op-Ed page of The Washington Post…
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* Neocon Charles Krauthammer: attacking Obama for indifference to Freedom in Iran
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* Neocon Paul Wolfowitz: attacking Obama for indifference to Freedom in Iran
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* Establishment/CIA spokesman and war supporter David Ignatius: demanding that Obama do more to support Freedom in Iran and refuse to negotiate with the Iranian regime
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* Bush CIA and NSA Director Michael Hayden: warning that America will be in danger if CIA officials involved in torture continue to be criticized and questioned about what they did
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On Monday, the Post hosted an online chat with Fox News’ Glenn Beck to promote his new book. Today, on its so-called “Post-Partisan” Opinions page, The Post features a column from neocon Bill Kristol, attacking Obama for indifference to Freedom in Iran; a column from right-wing polemicist Kathleen Parker, attacking Obama for indifference to Freedom in Iran; and Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson, attacking PBS for banning sectarian programming. On Wednesday, it published an Op-Ed from neocon Robert Kagan accusing Obama of being “objectively” pro-Ahmedinejad (headline: “Obama, Siding with the Regime”). The Post hosts a permanent feature with National Review’s Ramesh Ponnuru, leading discussions about conservatism. And its Editorial Page, for years, was (and still is) the loudest cheerleaders for the neoconservative prongs of Bush’s foreign policy, particularly the war in Iraq.
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The Washington Post does more to advance neoconservative ideology than The Weekly Standard, the American Enterprise Institute and Commentary combined. But Post columnist Charles Krauthammer — and so many like him — fantasize that they’re surrounded by a Liberal Media that oppresses, persecutes and silences them. Just ponder the levels of delusion and self-pity necessary to believe that.” -link

“The Senate voted unanimously to convict on the first article involving cash from attorneys, and with strong majorities on the other three.
Porteous is the first judge to be impeached and convicted since 1989, when two judges — Walter Nixon of Mississippi and Alcee L. Hastings of Florida — were removed from office. Hastings went on to win a seat in Congress, where he still serves.”
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Am I the only one that sees the irony in Freeinpas regular partisan ‘libruls are bad’ meme? A majority lame duck Senate With a larger number of democrats than republicans (and still will be come January) voted unanimously to get rid of this guy.
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Republicans are snow white I tell you. A chain smoking, chainsaw wielding cussing like a trucker snow white, but snow whites nontheless.
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I get the feeling that Freeinpa believes he’s perfect despite being a complete @ss as a person because he votes republican. As I wrote before – a real mensh.

“Now will we see the media take Team Donkey to task for holding up unemployment benefits, raising taxes on the low and middle class and holding the country hostage by not compromising.”
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Why should they – they didn’t do it when Republican snow white did it. It’s almost like you argue that GOP and you operate under complete different rules.
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Having integrity is a bummer but it’s always easy to pretend you have any when you can blame someone else for living up to theirs.

Perhaps you meant to say of WaPo:
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I also love the one sacrificial liberal at most of these pubs in the pathetic (and failed) attempt to show journalistic neutrality.
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…oh yeah, they fired they’re most popular on-line columnist, Dan Froomkin, I guess they don’t have one.

Hey, this is a fun game. I’ll take your statement and change a few words:
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“It’s as lame an argument as the one that McCain is a moderate. Yeah anyone who sought approval of radical preacher and End of Days proponent Rev Hagee, sought out the radical elements of the PNAC cabal, was friends with John Singlaub, and on the on the board of directors for his U.S. Council for World Freedom Corp, convicted of selling arms to Iran and names radical czars like Randy Scheunemann and John Bolton can be considered a moderate on what planet?”
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I’m surprised though that the liberal media never talked up any of these issues…

“Am I the only one that sees the irony in Freeinpas regular partisan ‘libruls are bad’ meme?”
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As opposed to your and others regular partisan conservative meme?
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Keep living the delusion that your liberal beliefs are anything but bankrupt. But I guess it would be hard to find out your life is a lie why you question someone about integrity unless of course you remain clueless. So where do you fall liar, clueless or just delusional

“Thank goodness for that Rusty. I am glad you are not”
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Kind of sad, really. Probably his only chance of actually having sex with a woman.

“Why should they – they didn’t do it when Republican snow white did it”
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Apparently you lack the ability to read or listen since it was done for weeks by most MSM outlets.

Delusional in the lead with clueless closing in on the outside for hippo

I’ve read and heard reports that Obama’s “compromise” with republicans will actually raise the total tax bill for people making less than $20,000 and couples making less than $40,000. That means the working poor will see a tax increase, but everybody else will get a cut. Does this is fair?
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I’ve said for weeks the Bush tax cuts should be allowed to expire, just like they were set to do. Why should the working poor have to pay more to allow the ultra rich to save $70,000 – $100,000 on taxes?

“Probably his only chance of actually having sex with a woman.”
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Says the man with a calloused palm

“As opposed to your and others regular partisan conservative meme?”
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I see the difference between your ideologue BS and that of conservative ideology. I try not to generalize about all conservatives. Judge the induvidual and all that jazz.
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Quite different from your ‘libruls sux’ meme. But that still doesn’t explain the irony of you lambasting liberals for tossing a guy out on his @ss than (you) writing they should hire the guy.
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So classic you.

“Apparently you lack the ability to read or listen since it was done for weeks by most MSM outlets.
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Delusional in the lead with clueless closing in on the outside for hippo”
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Really, for weeks. In regular media?
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I must’ve missed the media storm against republican obstructionism while (they) hanging on every word from Bhoener. I call chickencr@p on that. Or do you want me to take a look at another one of your unbiased blog/websites?
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Don’t worry about my delusion dear friend, I have you to keep me sane. I figure I listen to your paranoia and aim 180 degrees and I’ll be just fine.

“Says the man with a calloused palm”
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Well its a good thing then for you that mental masturb@tion doesn’t cause callouses.

“Quite different from your ‘libruls sux’ meme. But that still doesn’t explain the irony of you lambasting liberals for tossing a guy out on his @ss than (you) writing they should hire the guy”
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I am sure that sentence made some sense in your head (God help us) but there is no irony. In the article (if oyu read it) had the name of another judge impeached who is now a Democratic Congressman from Florida, so hence they have another candidate.
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“I must’ve missed the media storm against republican obstructionism while (they) hanging on every word from Bhoener. I call chickencr@p on that. Or do you want me to take a look at another one of your unbiased blog/websites?”
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Well you did, no surprise. But I guess since they weren’t tarred, feathered and gutted you consider it a pass. So I guess the chicken crap is you!

No check you unbiased sites as you usually do. But have someone with a 5th grade reading comprehension check ABC, NBC, CBS CNN MSNBC and other to read it to you.

I have to give you credit you stick to your delusions

“I am sure that sentence made some sense in your head (God help us) but there is no irony. In the article (if oyu read it) had the name of another judge impeached who is now a Democratic Congressman from Florida, so hence they have another candidate.”
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I did read the article. I’m sure your Imperical data of one judge getting impeached and now serve politically (democrat) means that that’s a-okay with all liberals and that we should now embrace this guy.
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Is that how it works?
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Sorry – shallow ditch logic isn’t my speciality.
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But poor mans snark is sure yours.
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I of course won’t bother finding a republican doing something similar because it’s irrelevant. I don’t judge all conservatives based on how ‘you’ behave. You’re not a ideologue because you vote republican. You’re that way because you’re intellectually incurious and have no integrity. Political affiliation is completely unrelated.

Oh I have to be corrected you said “unbiased”, that would exclude ABC, NBC, CBS CNN MSNBC .

They are left wing hacks like you!

“Well you did, no surprise. But I guess since they weren’t tarred, feathered and gutted you consider it a pass. So I guess the chicken crap is you!

No check you unbiased sites as you usually do. But have someone with a 5th grade reading comprehension check ABC, NBC, CBS CNN MSNBC and other to read it to you.

I have to give you credit you stick to your delusions”
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Better yet – show me it. it must be easy since you’re the one who claims having heard it for weeks.
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And don’t worry about my reading skills. If I can decipher your ‘librul sux’ rants I will be able to handle more simple formulations.

“Good Morning America’s George Stephanopoulos on Tuesday pressed Senator John McCain to “move the President’s way” on extending the Bush tax cuts. He also oddly spun such a continuation as a “tax cut” for millionaires.

The ABC anchor lobbied McCain, asserting, “[Obama] moved your way on this freeze of all pay for federal workers. Are you prepared to move the President’s way for any items on his agenda?”

Stephanopoulos then forced the Arizona senator to listen to a clip of Democrat Claire McCaskill arguing against extending tax cuts for the wealthy. “What’s the answer to that,” the host goaded. The former Democratic operative turned journalist complained, “But, do Americans making more than $1 million need a tax cut right now?” He didn’t explain how it’s cutting taxes to keep current tax rates in place.

On November 16, 2010, Stephanopoulos hit Congresswoman Michele Bachmann with the same Democratic talking points: “But, why is it okay for the wealthiest Americans, earning over $250,000 a year– And remember, the President has called for extending all tax cuts for those under $250,000.”

On November 15, he talked to Erskine Bowles, the co-chair of a commission on debt reduction. Sounding a similar theme, Stephanopoulos worried, “Couldn’t some of this be avoided by keeping the tax rates where they are? I mean, by letting them go back to where they were in 1998 when you were White House chief of staff?”
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If I can decipher your ‘librul sux’ rants
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I find it hard to believe you can understand them when you can’t spell them.
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The above is just George–others followed suit. You can check the rest on your own when you are down stamping your feet

Yeah then I would be a jerk off like you hippo

Set me straight -

One pundit equats all of the media shouting for weeks?
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So the news section of those media are doing the same? Good for them. Finally some b@lls.
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Wait a minute. I can’t believe my lyin’ eyes.
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So where’s the link to this information so I can read for myself?

“I find it hard to believe you can understand them when you can’t spell them.”
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Okay mr spellin’ nazi. I hear yah. You can always tell what’s the highest priority in a argument – define and articulate ideas or scoring points to pretend they mean something, by what someone highlight as important in a reply.
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2 points to you for being a complete @ss as suppose to a regular. Kudos.

“Yeah then I would be a jerk off like you hippo”
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That was actually a pretty funny comeback. Nice work

“right-wing polemicist Kathleen Parker”
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This is funny. She is as right wing as Mayor Bloomberg. Great examples of one per day of conservatives. When they write the front page stories day in and day out then we can talk.
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WaPo unlike the NYT still makes an attempt at attracting conservative readers. Which goes more toward their desire to make money and be paid unlike the NYT who will probably be following Newsweek and sold for some bubble gum and glass beads.

Why don’t you provide your acceptable version of unbiased sources – you know the ones in bizarro world were you and your delusional perception of unbiased live (with all the other friends you carry around in your head)

Just one of many – nice of you to notice

“One pundit equats all of the media shouting for weeks?”
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No just an example. If you want to hire me to do research for you I bill at $675/hr. But I love how you try to ignore the facts unless I fill out a library worth of examples for you which you will ignore or say it was from a biased source.

Typical liberal you don’t want truth you want something else to attack.
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So where’s the link to this information so I can read for myself?
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You can read what I posted or Google the quote (Does mom still have to wipe your butt) But say it you want something to criticize (source) rather the deal with the issue.
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“You can always tell what’s the highest priority in a argument”
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No just making fun of how you try to characterize a conservative– just an extra plus.

Trump states he is flirting with running for President every 4 years. The man has filed for business bankruptcy at three times. He has the same record for marriage fidelity as Gingrich. He is a scam artist who loves publicity.

Although Phelps is abhorent, I am proud for Elizabeth Edwards that she caused his wrath. She stood for morality in a way that Phelps and his followers could never understand.

Collins didn’t pull the football this time. Of course, she knew it wouldn’t pass.
Brown, that bipartisan hero that said he would support voted against the repeal.
Manchin voted Nay, Lincoln no vote. And that brave American, McCain, no. Gays and lesbians fighting and dying in our wars can continue to do so while protecting the right of people like McCain to have a say in governance. Shame.
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How they voted:
http://www.towleroad.com/2010/12/read-roll-call-on-failed-defense-bill-dadt-vote.html
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Freeper et al you never promised a rose garden, but:
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/08/AR2010120806221.html?wpisrc=nl_politics
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New Republican lawmakers are hiring lobbyists, despite campaign rhetoric
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Informative video that explains lobbying. Maybe it should have been part of the Republican freshman orientation.

Josh Marshall | December 9, 2010, 11:01AM Rep. Ralph Hall (R) of Texas has been in the news this week because the octogenarian anti-environment crusader is taking over as chairman of the House Science and Technology Committee. But here at TPM we remember him for another proud moment: the day thirteen years ago when he slandered a teenaged sex slave into the House record on behalf of then-lobbyist Jack Abramoff. “[S]he wanted to do nude dancing,” said Hall of the fifteen-year-old girl who was taken from her parents in the Phillippines and forced to perform sex acts on stage and before video cameras at a Northern Marianas sex club.

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The Marianas were the epitomy of Republican and lobby evil. We are right back to those tactics beloved by Tom DeLay.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/12/democrats-aghast-over-gop-standing-in-the-way-of-911-responder-bill.php?ref=fpb
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Republicans stand in the way of helping American heroes.