John Boehner Elected Speaker

A major civil rights moment. I’m sure that Snooki sees this and thinks, “if I clean up my act and get serious, I can make it to. The orange can succeed in America. Repeal the tanning tax! Repeal the tanning tax!”

Shuler would probably prefer to be remembered as a Tennessee Volunteer.

Would anyone have noticed if Sanford Bishop hadn’t voted present?

Jay, is Boehner crying? Why the defections from B-Dogs? Blaming her for their losses (since more ‘dogs lost relatively than liberals)? Personal feud between Shuler and Pelosi or just his natural greed political ambition? Or just trying to draw attention to themselves?

Goes to show Dems aren’t pod people. Besides, what is newsworthy about the blue dogs being stupid?

I’m almost surprised that the Blue Dogs didn’t try to make Eric Canter the minority leader.

Why not? Blue dogs are Republicans who like the letter “D” better than the letter “R”.

I saw Boehner wipe a tear, and I saw a full on kiss on Boehner’s lips by none other than Nancy Pelosi!
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WOW!
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My wife (please remember she’s old school! So no offense, please!*), when I exclaimed in a started voice about her actions, her comment was, simply:
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“He’s white.”
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*faux offense, too…

MM,
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You are truly an Idiot.

3x:

You are truly an idiot.
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I realize you think that since you are an idiot, that it’s a proper noun, but it’s not…

“Personal feud between Shuler and Pelosi or just his natural greed political ambition? Or just trying to draw attention to themselves?”
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No, just the Sane Democrats showing their discuss with the Insane Liberal Democrats who are destroying the Democratic Party.

It’s about time that a person of color was elected as Speaker of the House……..
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Orange is a color, yes?

I thought Yoda (aka 3x) possessed infinite wisdom and waved Perfect Resumes™ in our faces all the time.

“Goes to show Dems aren’t pod people. Besides, what is newsworthy about the blue dogs being stupid?”
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The Blue Dogs are the only ones with any Common Sense. The Liberal/Progressives with Obama’s help will destroy the Democratic Party.

You too are an Idiot.

Nancy Pelosi: class act all the way.

How predictable the libtards continue their 3rd grade playground attacks.

Sorry, Yoda, but the Republican Party will be destroyed from within long before the D’s face any decline …when the Tea Party and old-school R’s turn on each other. BTW, your dream girl Sarah will play a huge role in the R’s implosion. I’ll enjoy that.

Hey! You’re speaking out of turn!
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3xfire3 didn’t tag you yet…

I bet you don’t know why people think it’s funny when you call other people idiots. Hint: that’s part of what makes it funny.

How predictable the libtards continue their 3rd grade playground attacks easy-as-pie smackdowns of unthinking troll parrots as rusty flies in to try to limit the damage in vain.

Fixed that for you, dear.

I try to limit my interaction with the mentally handicapped but I’ll indulge myself here.

You too are an Idiot.

More sage wisdom from our resident senile troll. Amazing how you decry the state of discourse here in the Swamp yet you consistently call other people names. Have someone still in possession of their faculties explain the term hypocrite to you because you are, without a doubt, a giant hypocrite.
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Now get off my lawn!

I have a hunch that the GOP is not going to be all of that, decon.
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I think Boehner sipped some gas, ate a flare, and gave a fiery partisan speech all because he wanted to sterilize his tong after Pelosi’s “deep throat” kiss.
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Note that he was too startled to do anything with that hammer after Pelosi handed it over…

One can really understand and appreciate why we have so many of our libtarded friends who are so disappointed today.
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“So, 20 Democrats either didn’t vote for Pelosi or voted for someone else. That’s just over 10% of her 193-member caucus. The Republicans have 242 seats”

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I guess burying the hatchet and working for the best interest of the people is NOT a Democrat ideal.
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Imagine that!!
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Nancy promised to drain the swamp. She failed, but who really is surprised. She at the helm of the lowest rated Congress in our history now leaves the stage, and from her long-winded speech, she left it grudgingly.
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Now we can welcome mature, respectful, and courageous adults back into the People’s House.

She was.
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After my wife’s comment, I literally exploded with laughter, too.
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Good thing I was away from my computer….

Beat me to it in a more subtle form Shep! I’m certain that he won’t get it though. That’s why I eschewed the subtlety.

Funny thing is decondiva, I can’t even say you make it out of pre-school, let alone the 3rd grade.

As the Swamp descends into a morass of “I’m Rubber You’re Glue…..”

It’s ok, 3xfire3. Let them moan and groan. Thankfully we no longer have to say, Obama, Pelosi, and Reid in the same sentence any longer. The American people spoke in November. They loudly said, “No more Nancy!!”.

For a guy who was a CEO this and a CEO that, 3x is really showing his hard-won talents, isn’t he?

“Nancy Pelosi: class act all the way.”

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Nancy Pelosi: class-a$$ all the way. There FIXED it for ya!!
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Enjoy!!

I thought Yoda Gramps (aka 3x) possessed infinite wisdom hypocrisy and waved Perfect Resumes™ threw garbage in our faces all the time.
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Yep, that’s better.
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@Decon – I would suggest you utilize “Gramps” or another such moniker as using “Yoda” is entirely too kind, even used in a facetious manner.

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“How predictable the libtards continue their 3rd grade playground attacks.”
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Wait, that’s it? I am “truly an Idiot” is it? All my life I’ve been afraid that some time, some place, I would get served. And now it’s happened. Not just “Idiot” but “truly” one.

And just like that the served was over.

Meh.

re: pre-school, I didn’t need it; I was smart enough to go straight into regular classes. But how long were you held back? No Head Start or No Child’s Left Behind in your district, rusty? How long did it take for you to learn that those brightly colored building blocks are NOT meant to be thrown at the other kids? And don’t lick them too long; the Chinese lead paint has long-term debilitating effects.

I am curious are the Republicans here at all pissed that even before being sworn in your elected reps and leaders are already breaking the promises they made to you to get elected?

Cut $100 billion! Well not really.

Many people knowledgeable about the federal budget said House Republicans could not keep their campaign promise to cut $100 billion from domestic spending in a single year. Now it appears that Republicans agree. [...]

Now aides say that the $100 billion figure was hypothetical, and that the objective is to get annual spending for programs other than those for the military, veterans and domestic security back to the levels of 2008, before Democrats approved stimulus spending to end the recession.

http://I think /archives/individual/2011_01/027383.php

Write new rules and follow them? Well not really.

House Republicans are in a pickle: One of their new rules says that new legislation must be paid for. But the health-care bill reduces the federal deficit by more than $100 billion over the next 10 years. Luckily, they’ve figured out an answer to their problem: They’ve decided to simply exempt the repeal bill from the rules. That means they’re beginning the 112th Congress by lifting their own rules in order to take a vote that will increase the deficit. Change we can believe in, and all that.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2011/01/repealing_health-care_reform_w.html

And now there is the problem of their backers at the US Chamber telling them to not cut things they like. Such as infrastructure spending on highways.

The Chamber, which contributed heavily to GOP congressional candidates in the midterm elections, said in a letter last week that subjecting highway spending to the uncertainty of annual budget cuts would lead to more job losses in the battered industry. The letter was also signed by groups tied to the construction industry.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703808704576062342133580266.html

It will be interesting to see whom the Republicans actually listen. The money or the Tea Party.

It will be interesting to see whom the Republicans actually listen. The money or the Tea Party.

You say that as if there’s any doubt!

The Incredible Shrinking Democratic Party
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As I said in an earlier Post, Liberal/Progressives and the President are doing a great job of destroying the Democratic Party. The following survey shows that people identifying themselves as Republicans now outnumber those identifying themselves as Democrats. That’s a major change.
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Keep up the good work L/Ps as you ride into the sunset.
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PARTISAN TRENDS
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Number of Republicans Reaches Highest Level Since December 2004
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The number of American adults calling themselves Republicans in December increased by one percentage point from November to 37.0%.
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Also in December, the number calling themselves Democrats fell by a point to 33.7%
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Those figures reflect the largest number of Republicans in the nation since December 2004 and the lowest number of Democrats ever recorded in tracking since November 2002.
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It’s the second straight month that Rasmussen Reports polling has found more people identifying as Republicans than Democrats. Prior to November, that had never happened before. See the .
History of Party Trends from January 2004 to the present.
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The biggest partisan gap advantage ever measured for Democrats was 10.1 percentage points in May 2008. In December 2008, the final full month of the Bush administration, the Democrats held an 8.8-percentage-point advantage.
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Between November 2004 and 2006, the Democratic advantage in partisan identification grew by 4.5 percentage points. That foreshadowed the Democrats’ big gains in the 2006 midterm elections. The gap grew by another 1.5 percentage points between November 2006 and November 2008 leading up to Obama’s election.
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The number of Democrats peaked at 41.7% in May 2008, and it was nearly as high–at 41.6%–in December 2008. That number fell below the 40% mark in March 2009 and first fell below 35% in September 2010. The number of Democrats has been below 35% in three of the past four months.
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Keep in mind that figures reported in this article are for all adults, not likely voters. Republicans are a bit more likely to participate in elections than Democrats.
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Republicans continue to hold an advantage on the Generic Congressional Ballot.
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Republicans still are trusted more than Democrats on most key issues.
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See the History of Party Trends from January 2004 to the present.
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Rasmussen Reports tracks this information based on telephone interviews with approximately 15,000 adults per month and has been doing so since November 2002. The margin of error for the full sample is less than one percentage point, with a 95% level of confidence.
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http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/partisan_trends

John Boehner – the only man in America whose skin color is allowed to be mocked.

“Now we can welcome mature, respectful, and courageous adults back into the People’s House.”
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I know that’s what I always call lying traitors. They’ve already violated their oath to protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies. They’re paid employees of our domestic enemies – corporate owners who seek to bend public policy to maximize corporate profits and owner riches, even as the undermine US national interests. The only enjoyment in watching them further corrupt government and the nation will be watching them screw you in the process. John Boehner: “now watch this drive…”

The stoiry of Saddam’s WMD’s proves that just because and idea is popular doesn’t mean its a good one. And real tragedy can ensue when enough people are wrong. Save your congratulations for when you actually do something to help America recover.

There are a few pollsters out there who have a shred of credibility. Why didn’t you pick one of those?

Rusty,

Ha, ha, you are such a kidder! Yes, the public’s opinion of Congress was very low. In fact the only group who have a lower approval rating than Congressional Democrats were Congressional Republicans!!

Do you really think the House will be more “mature, respectful and courageous?” Oh, yes we saw how mature members of the Tea Party were when it came to debate about the Health Care bill! LOL

Maybe Nancy did not exactly drain the swamp, but when was the last time a Republican Congress did to one of their fellow GOPers what Nancy did to good ol’ Charlie Rangel?

The “People’s” House? Get real! These were the same guys who were going to hold up tax cuts for 98% of the people to please the top 2%! (Granted Boehner originally stated he wouldn’t held hostage middle class tax cuts, until he was shouted down by his Caucus)

Trust me, it will be business as usual. We do have he benefit of having a Democrat in the White House. Having a Democrat in the White House was the last time we were able to keep the Republican spending at bay. George Bush never saw a spending bill coming out of the Republican Congress he did not approve.

If you think the Republicans will do anything other than waste time trying to appeal Obama’s legistlative accomplishments, you are fooling yourself.

I will say the same thing to you I said to my Democratic friends after 2008 who were claiming the Republicans were DOA for the foreseeable future. Be careful, these kind of pronouncements come back to bite you hard in the ass.

If the Republicans over reach, spend more time investigating and wasting time on anything but improving the economy they could well be out just as fast as they came in.

It is not the number of R or Ds you or I need to worry about, but where moderate indies decide to throw their support. And if the R’s pay to much attention to their Tea Party base they could be in serious trouble with this group.

And you wonder why I call some of you L/Ps Idiots.
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What you probably don’t have the common sense to see is that there are several L/P that I never call idiots.
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The ones that are Idiots are the ones who use personal attacks against every Conservative Leader or individual.
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If you were not an Idiot, you would discuss and debate policies rather than use personal attacks on anyone who does not share you political views.
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You claim that if a conservative is against the President’s policies than they hate the President or are racist. Debating political differences is not a personal attack or racism. It’s Democracy in action. Something that way too many of you L/P seem unable to do.
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The Idiots are the ones who act like 3rd Graders.

The ones that are Idiots are the ones who use personal attacks against every Conservative Leader or individual.
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If you were not an Idiot, you would discuss and debate policies rather than use personal attacks on anyone who does not share you political views.

So does that mean the “conservatives” who do the very same thing are also “Idiots?”
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It is so interesting so see someone call others 3rd graders but use the “I know you are but what am I?” defense.

Hey foxy, you seemed to have let out one of the major benefactor’s of highway federal dollars being spent.
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Was that on purpose?
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Congress is expected to take up a new multi-year highway and transportation funding bill this year, and a diverse array of groups ranging from the Chamber to big labor unions are calling for more funds to rebuild the nation’s infrastructure.
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So far as the healthcare bill “saving” hundreds of billions, that is yet to be proven. The only thing you can say about ObamaCare is that maybe, based on CBO projections, we might see a decrease. But, all major entities have since debunked Nancy and Harry’s lies about ObamaCare, and since have stated your healthcare will significantly rise as well as the cost to tax payers for those who do not have healthcare now.
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Just because you rob Peter to pay Paul does not count as a savings. No matter how hard you spin it otherwise.
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While I do not have much faith in the fact that Republicans currently in control of the House will shatter any records for being true to the people, I do know the Tea Party WILL hold them ALL accountable. That you can count on.

If you were not an Idiot, you would discuss and debate policies rather than use personal attacks on anyone who does not share you political views.

You slay me, dude.

No use in bantering with the idiots, 3xfire3. The libtards on this site have absolutely no reason to engage in political debate. I have attempted it on here many times, and as usual we see what we have witnessed on this thread by the usual 3rd grade crew eager to get on their computers to throw out their basic F-bombs.
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They have no respect for anyone. Least not for themselves. If they did have any self-respect, they wouldn’t say the things they do on here on a daily basis.
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Definitely continue to challenge them, I know for a fact I shall. Definitely continue to use their own 3rd grade playground tactics against them, especially when they start it. I do. And, I will continue and continue to do so and hopefully more and more of them will leave this site as others have before them. That’s what makes my day on here.
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I love it when they pine for the “good ol days” when their other less offensive friends used to comment here. Libtardo world has not been the same since folks like you and I came on here and challenged them all. Believe me, they hate it with a passion.
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LOL and I love it!!

“I do know the Tea Party WILL hold them ALL accountable. That you can count on.”
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I sure hope so. Please, please, please make them live up to every word of the insane “conservative” dogma you’ve been fed for the past 30 years. I’ll get the popcorn.

I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on.

Seconded. Liberals cannot win on the merits of their arguments or failed policies, so the only thing left for them is personal attacks. Expect more ridiculous rhetoric about how Republicans want to starve people, etc.

A thought or two from a former Democrat, and Teacher in Detroit, MI. From and email I received.
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By Frosty Wooldridge
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For 15 years, from the mid 1970′s to 1990, I worked in Detroit , Michigan. I watched it descend into the abyss of crime, debauchery, gun play, drugs, school truancy, car-jacking, gangs, and human depravity. I watched entire city blocks burned out. I watched graffiti explode on buildings, cars, trucks, buses, and school yards. Trash everywhere!
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Detroiters walked through it, tossed more into it, and ignored it. Tens of thousands, and then hundreds of thousands today exist on federal welfare, free housing, and food stamps!
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With Aid to Dependent Children, minority women birthed eight to 10, and in one case, one woman birthed 24 children as reported by the Detroit Free Press, all on American taxpayer dollars.
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A new child meant a new car payment, new TV, and whatever mom wanted. I saw Lyndon Baines Johnson’s ‘Great Society’ flourish in Detroit . If you give money for doing nothing, you will get more hands out taking money for doing nothing.
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Mayor Coleman Young, perhaps the most corrupt mayor in America, outside of Richard Daley in Chicago, rode Detroit down to its knees … He set the benchmark for cronyism, incompetence, and arrogance. As a black man, he said, “I am the MFIC.” The IC meant “in charge”.
You can figure out the rest. Detroit became a majority black city with 67 percent African-Americans.
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As a United Van Lines truck driver for my summer job from teaching math and science, I loaded hundreds of American families into my van for a new life in another city or state.
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Detroit plummeted from 1.8 million citizens to 912,000 today. At the same time, legal and illegal immigrants converged on the city, so much so, that Muslims number over 300,000. Mexicans number 400,000 through out Michigan , but most work in Detroit. As the whites moved out, the Muslims moved in.
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As the crimes became more violent, the whites fled. Finally, unlawful Mexicans moved in at a torrid pace. Detroit suffers so much shoplifting that grocery stores no longer operate in many inner city locations. You could cut the racial tension in the air with a knife!
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Detroit may be one of our best examples of multiculturalism: pure dislike, and total separation from America.
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Today, you hear Muslim calls to worship over the city like a new American Baghdad with hundreds of Islamic mosques in Michigan, paid for by Saudi Arabia oil money. High school flunk out rates reached 76 percent last June, according to NBC’s Brian Williams. Classrooms resemble more foreign countries than America. English? Few speak it! The city features a 50 percent illiteracy rate and growing.
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Unemployment hit 28.9 percent in 2009 as the auto industry vacated the city. In Time Magazine’s October 4, 2009, “The Tragedy of Detroit: How a great city fell, and how it can rise again,” I choked on the writer’s description of what happened. “If Detroit had been ravaged by a hurricane, and submerged by a ravenous flood, we’d know a lot more about it,” said Daniel Okrent. “If drought, and carelessness had spread brush fires across the city, we’d see it on the evening news every night.”
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Earthquake, tornadoes, you name it, if natural disaster had devastated the city that was once the living proof of American prosperity, the rest of the country might take notice.
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But Detroit, once our fourth largest city, now 11th, and slipping rapidly, has had no such luck. Its disaster has long been a slow unwinding that seemed to remove it from the rest of the country.
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Even the death rattle that in the past year emanated from its signature industry brought more attention to the auto executives than to the people of the city, who had for so long been victimized by their dreadful decision making.”
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As Coleman Young’s corruption brought the city to its knees, no amount of federal dollars could save the incredible payoffs, kick backs, and illegality permeating his administration. I witnessed the city’s death from the seat of my 18-wheeler tractor trailer because I moved people out of every sector of decaying Detroit.
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“By any quantifiable standard, the city is on life support. Detroit’s treasury is $300 million short of the funds needed to provide the barest municipal services,” Okrent said. “The school system, which six years ago was compelled by the teachers’ union to reject a philanthropist’s offer of $200 million to build 15 small, independent charter high schools, is in receivership. The murder rate is soaring, and 7 out of 10 remain unsolved. Three years after Katrina devastated New Orleans, unemployment in that city hit a peak of 11%. In Detroit, the unemployment rate is 28.9%.
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That’s worth spelling out: twenty-eight point nine percent.” At the end of Okrent’s report, and he will write a dozen more about Detroit, he said, “That’s because the story of Detroit is not simply one of a great city’s collapse, it’s also about the erosion of the industries that helped build the country we know today. The ultimate fate of Detroit will reveal much about the character of America in the 21st century. If what was once the most prosperous manufacturing city in the nation has been brought to its knees, what does that say about our recent past? And if it can’t find a way to get up, what does that say about our future?”
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As you read in my book review of Chris Steiner’s book, “$20 Per Gallon”, the auto industry won’t come back. Immigration will keep pouring more, and more uneducated third world immigrants from the Middle East into Detroit, thus creating a beachhead for Islamic hegemony in America. If 50 percent illiteracy continues, we will see more homegrown terrorists spawned out of the Muslim ghettos of Detroit. Illiteracy plus Islam equals walking human bombs.
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You have already seen it in Madrid, Spain; London, England and Paris, France with train bombings, subway bombings and riots. As their numbers grow, so will their power to enact their barbaric Sharia Law that negates republican forms of government, first amendment rights, and subjugates women to the lowest rungs on the human ladder. We will see more honor killings by upset husbands, fathers, and brothers that demand subjugation by their daughters, sisters and wives. Muslims prefer beheadings of women to scare the hell out of any other members of their sect from straying. Multiculturalism: what a perfect method to kill our language, culture, country, and way of life.
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Yes Ladies and Gentlemen, these are the so-called “accomplishments” our progressive, liberal friends of the Democrat Party have bestowed upon us.

Rusty, thanks for tipping your hand in trying to make people leave. While you’re insulting us, do please keep disparaging the female reporters here too. You WILL p1ss one of them off enough to ban you (bets anyone?) …which Tumulty should’ve done right before she left. Ever apologize to her?

“The Blue Dogs are the only ones with any Common Sense. The Liberal/Progressives with Obama’s help will destroy the Democratic Party.”
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With wisdom like that who need smarts?.

…it’s only Wednesday.

“It’s ok, 3xfire3. Let them moan and groan. Thankfully we no longer have to say, Obama, Pelosi, and Reid in the same sentence any longer. The American people spoke in November. They loudly said, “No more Nancy!!”.”
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Right after they reelected Reid.

as usual we see what we have witnessed on this thread by the usual 3rd grade crew eager to get on their computers to throw out their basic F-bombs.
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They have no respect for anyone. Least not for themselves. If they did have any self-respect, they wouldn’t say the things they do on here on a daily basis.

A classic case of projection if ever there was one……..

“re: pre-school, I didn’t need it; I was smart enough to go straight into regular classes. But how long were you held back? No Head Start or No Child’s Left Behind in your district, rusty? How long did it take for you to learn that those brightly colored building blocks are NOT meant to be thrown at the other kids? And don’t lick them too long; the Chinese lead paint has long-term debilitating effects.”
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He was home schooled. 6 pack of beer – small pet to experiment on and the old testament. Solid foundation.

“Nancy promised to drain the swamp. She failed, but who really is surprised. She at the helm of the lowest rated Congress in our history now leaves the stage, and from her long-winded speech, she left it grudgingly.”
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She sure tried, but it plays 2 to tango and GOP only wanted the lockstep.

Well rusty, if there was ever a case for self-justification of your racist views, this must be it…

Do you ever check the veracity of chain emails? Frosty seems to get around since he wrote another BS article that FactCheck found to be wanting.

http://www.factcheck.org/2009/04/cost-of-illegal-immigrants/

“Seconded. Liberals cannot win on the merits of their arguments or failed policies, so the only thing left for them is personal attacks. Expect more ridiculous rhetoric about how Republicans want to starve people, etc.”
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Oh man. The B Team is out in force today. Chest beating and righteous FUs a plenty. I can’t possibly understand how such a mediocre start of the new house can inspire such low wit.

Wow, rusty hit the trifecta: a racist, a liar and an idiot (go figure):

Overpopulation in the United States will become THE single greatest issue facing Americans in the 21st century.

Must’ve been one of rusty’s teachers. So that behavior can be learned and it’s not just genetic.

Needs more exclamation points.

It’s Thursday somewhere. (h/t Jimmy Buffett)

It’s not much different in Los Angeles with the Teacher’s Union firmly in charge of the State government. LA has some of the highest paid teachers in the country and a 60% dropout rate. The tragedy is that the majority of first year High School students want to go to college. The schools are a complete failure. But don’t even try to implement standardized testing, or charter schools for regular people. Those are for the limousine liberals. The elite. They all send their kids to private schools.

At least when my FIL sends me this tripe, I can press the “delete” key. Sheriffs?

“LA has some of the highest paid teachers in the country and a 60% dropout rate.”
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If you wanted to know whether that meant what you wanted it to mean, you’d know whether the highest paid teachers were in the schools with the highest dropout rates or vice versa, as well as poverty rates relative to other school districts and other relevant social factors. Then, some people use facts the way a drunk uses a lamppost – to support rather than illuminate.

The Teacher’s Union claims that they want reform, just not that reform…
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/sep/02/local/la-me-0902-lausd-20100902
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Oh no that won’t work. We wouldn’t want to change a terrific school system, run by progressives that has a 60% dropout rate.
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The Teacher’s has proven over and over again that they don’t give a damn about children. They are the most cynical, politically motivated group in the state. Every time a reform measure is proposed they trot out millions of dollars of TV ads with a “teacher of the year” lecturing about how budget cuts will hurt students.
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Every time the Teachers Union wins and the results are: 60% dropout rates.

The typical knee jerk reaction…
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Dispite spend almost $30,000 per student the dropout rate is 60%. Can’t argue with failure.
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http://www.uncoverage.net/2010/08/los-angeles-schools-spend-30000-per-student-60-drop-out/
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By JOHN SEILER, Cal Watchdog, 8/20/10 The research by Adam Schaeffer of the Cato Institutes Center for Education Freedom seemed shocking: The Los Angeles Unified School District spent $29,780 per student in fiscal year 2007-08. Thats way above the $10,000 as advertised by the school district, and as used in most studies.

The $29,780 per student figure means a class of 25 students would spend $744,500 a year.
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Stunning isn’t it?
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Here’s a better deal 12yrs x $30,000 = $360000. Just give the students $360,000 at age 18 if they can pass a GED test. I am kidding, kind of.

Shuler’s college color was orange. Maybe that had something to do with it.

Hilarious..IQ53..when getting spanked in a blog..why not just call them a racist..typical libtard strategy.

Newfreedom falls for a fake chain email and you start kicking on CA teachers because the segway – fake teacher letter somehow makes for a perfect bridge.
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Ideologue logic and argumentation 101 – Glenn Beck university. Only 995, but wait. If you order the course within 10 minutes we throw in liberals are Idiots101. Free of charge for the low shipping cost of 250 dollar.

It’s the only thing he knows how to do.
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He is the biggest racist posting on the swamp.

He is the biggest racist posting on the swamp.
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Don’t say that about rusty, 3x. You’ll hurt his feelings. And you chide everyone else for calling names (never mind you do that too all the time, but I digress).

You’re buddy Frosty is mathematically incompetent.
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“Detroit plummeted from 1.8 million citizens to 912,000 today. At the same time, legal and illegal immigrants converged on the city, so much so, that Muslims number over 300,000. Mexicans number 400,000 through out Michigan , but most work in Detroit.”
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912,000 – 300,000 = 612,000 – 400,000 = 218,000.
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So, out of 1.8 mil people 1,782,000 Americans left and the remainder are all Mexicans and Muslims?
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“Race
One race 929229 97.68%
White 116599 12.26%
Black or African American 775772 81.55%
American Indian and Alaska Native 3140 0.33%
Asian 9268 0.97%
Asian indian 2827 0.3%
Chinese 912 0.1%
Filipino 951 0.1%
Japanese 188 0.02%
Korean 217 0.02%
Vietnamese 393 0.04%
Other Asian 3780 0.4%
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander 251 0.03%
Native Hawaiian 46 0%
Guamanian or Chamorro 45 0%
Samoan 64 0.01%
Other Pacific Islander 96 0.01%
Some other race 24199 2.54%
Two or more races 22041 2.32%

Hispanic or Latino and race
Total Population 951270 100.00%
Hispanic or Latino(of any race) 47167 4.96%
Mexican 33143 3.48%
Puerto Rican 6615 0.7%
Cuban 871 0.09%
Other Hispanic or Latino 6538 0.69%
Not Hispanic or Latino 904103 95.04%
White alone 99921 10.5%”
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Detroit is 3.48% Mexican.
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http://detroit.areaconnect.com/statistics.htm
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Anybody with four or more working brain cells knows that immigrants, who have little if any preference of one part of the US over another go to wherever they are hiring and that is not Detroit.

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The most ethnically diverse cities are mostly in Hawaii, the lowest crime state in the US and some of the most desirable real estate in the US.
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http://www.city-data.com/top35.html
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The most ethnically diverse county is Queens, a borough of NYC where I live.

RustFreep, quoting discredited e-mail authors is about as low as you can get. Why don’t you quit while you’re behind?
Or are you BEING a behind?

“Detroit became a majority black city with 67 percent African-Americans”
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What’s NOT racist about this statement and it’s context (i.e. ‘I’m the MFIC’)? If Frosty the SnowJob’s NOT grouping A-As as power-hungry, drug-addicted, uneducated people then why would he even write the sentence?

Nah, nfl, rusty can always go lower. He always digs deeper into his soul to find new lows, simply amazing how he does it. For example, he danced on Jack Murtha’s grave…
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http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/02/08/lets-vote/comment-page-1/#comment-131917
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…wished poor Kate Pickert to be in prison with a lesbian cellmate…
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http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/04/14/jail-time-for-insurance-evaders-yes-said-fox-news/comment-page-2/#comment-155680
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…etc. etc. etc. Too bad we’re only allowed two links per reply. Rusty’s sadism knows no limits.

That’s pretty funny.
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I’ve not heard that sentiment echoed by anyone in my wife’s family, or my freinds, or my freidns family or my…

Just another instance in which rusty take a page from “‘minority x’ behaving badly” and juxtaposing it with his opinion as reinforcement for it.
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rusty’s just a slut for xenophobia.
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FYI, I think Boehner is either a minority of one or an endangered species.
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Take yer pick…

But what really mystifies me is your inverted perception, which you put on display so ably.
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How is a situation where the commentary regarding rusty’s opinion in agreement with mine considered a “spanking”?
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I’m mystified. Completely! Is more less? Is less more?
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Help me here…

@liberalmeltdown:
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I’m sure I don’t know if know if LA has the highest paid teachers, but I know I’d rather live in a city with highly paid teachers than in the US city that has the highest paid superintendent.
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Erie is only the 4th largest city in PA and yet in an era when our schools are literally crumbling, our superintendent recives total compensation (including house in the ‘burbs, car, health care) over $1 Million a year. While I, a city resident and property owner who pays her taxes in a timely manner each and every year, was forced to send her children to schools without books or adequate supplies, the superintendent sent his children to some of the areas best private schools. This, of course, is not the fault of the superintendent solely. It is the fault of the entire school board who voted to give the super raise after raise for his own mediorcre work–the highest raise coming after he was a position at an ivy league college, which he didn’t even accept.

To all you intellectual and emotional leaders on this blog site: First of all, whatever you do, learn to read and, no matter how many slings and arrows you let fly, spell my name correctly: Frosty Wooldridge. As a teacher, I demanded that students learn how to spell their names and learn to address others correctly. I wrote that column on Detroit because it exposed what I saw while I worked in Detroit for 15 summers. You can cry and name-call all you want, but the fact remains, Detroit became a basket case from the “Great Society” which allowed welfare and Coleman Young to steal money out of US taxpayers’ pockets. Nothing racist about reporting the facts as I saw them. If you look at Detroit today, it continues as a frightening place, loaded with welfare, overrun with welfare- receiving legal and illegal immigrants. It’s a fact that Detroit is now 83 percent minority as reported by Time writer Daniel Okrent. Additionally, Brian Williams at NBC reported Detroit with a 76 percent dropout rate in Detroit high schools. That’s a fact; not racist. Crime rates exceed the nation. That’s a fact; not racist. It’s a huge graffiti loaded, crime infested, car jacking, shoplifting mecca in the USA. That’s a fact; not racist. If you think it’s so great, how about moving to Detroit to make it a better place to live. Try entering any of Detroit’s mosques as a female through the front door. Good luck! Go to the hospitals where Muslim girls get patched up after female genital mutilation operations get infected. Watch for the next “honor killing” or try to enjoy your ‘free speech’ in a Muslim dominated arena. You can rant all you want, but Detroit exposes the incompatibility of multiculturalism and mass immigration. Enjoy your idealism, but reality is reality. Same things happening in LA, Chicago, Atlanta, NYC, Dallas, Houston and Denver. We are importing poverty and illiteracy into our civilization. It will continue to manifest in greater consequences for all Americans. Facts are facts. You can observe all over this country. Additionally, I stand by my statement: overpopulation will be America’s single greatest crisis in the 21st century. With continued mass immigration, projections show us adding 100 million people by 2035–a scant 24 years from now. It’s unsustainable, creates horrific environmental consequences, loss of quality of life, unhealthy and futile. Each year, the world adds 80 million humans, so the line never ends. Try calling overpopulation ‘racist’. Won’t get you anywhere! FW