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BigAlSouth
February 7th, 2010 | 9:28 am | #1

Honestly. Why even bother with what Schulz, Maddow or Olbermann say?

Other than the comedic value of their nonsense, anyway.

Auntie Em
February 7th, 2010 | 9:41 am | #2

Didn’t expect anything but this from the floundering state run media.

They act as if their lives depend on the success of the progressive socialist movement in America. Hmmm…

Militant Conservative
February 7th, 2010 | 9:44 am | #3

They are telling you who they FEAR because they are acusing Palin of what the left does. LOL

Valerie
February 7th, 2010 | 9:49 am | #4

OT

Keep it up, guys. You are on the right track. Take a look at this.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/feb/07/michael-dukakis-sounds-off-on-complacent-democrats/

Michael Dukakis made a speech yesterday at the the City Club of San Diego, and included a post-mortem of the election his home state. The speech included this:

“Dukakis, who now teaches public policy at UCLA and Northeastern University, has become an outspoken critic of the Senate filibuster procedure that, with Republican Scott Brown’s election in Massachusetts, leaves Democrats one vote shy of the 60 votes that are required to cut off debate and move the health care bill forward.”

““Because of what happened in Massachusetts, 41 people can stop 59 people from acting,” he said.”

“Brown was swept into office after promising to supply the critical vote to derail President Barack Obama’s health care plan.”

“Dukakis contended it is voter revulsion against the public deal-making necessitated by the filibuster rule that is the major factor behind mounting opposition to the health care legislation.”

“They didn’t exactly cover themselves with glory, and I think a lot of the public anger comes from abusing the process,” he said.”

**************

So, he thinks the Democrats have been abusing the process, and his solution is to make it easier for them to enact legislation that substantial numbers of Americans (yes, a minority can represent substantial numbers) think is unwise.

1) In retrospect, I am SO GLAD this man was never President of the United States.

2) This kind of “ram-it-down-their-throats” disrespect for ordinary Americans is intolerable.

The reason this Congress is unpopular is because the legislation it has proposed and passed has been properly criticized, without redress. The people of this country are not stupid. They don’t even necessarily disagree with the professed goals of some of the legislation. They do object to provisions that appear to be pernicious. They object to old, bad ideas embodied in hugely bloated, expensive, unreadable, badly-timed and ill-targeted legislation, particularly when that legislation is plainly directed to enriching the political allies of individuals in Congress.

ar05075
February 7th, 2010 | 9:51 am | #5

OH NO.!!!

I hope all 11 people that watch MSNBC didn’t get the same impression.

LytnUp
February 7th, 2010 | 9:57 am | #6

No one accuses “the one” of being a merchant of hate when he exhausts straw man after straw man and belittles most of the electorate. I assume this means that “hate” is defined as anyone holding up something he believes in as something to be ridiculed. For most of us, this is probably not a new feeling.

CPT. Charles
February 7th, 2010 | 10:03 am | #7

Ultra Breaking News:

Ukrainian Pres. candidate Tymoshenko killed at polling place during election runoffs vs Russian-backed candidate.

Hunting for more news now.

Bill Mitchell
February 7th, 2010 | 10:03 am | #8

Lol, “Merchant of Hate”?

So, to the left:

Believing in the Constitution and Self-sufficiency = Hate?

Seriously?

No wonder no one listens to or trusts these jokers any more. Just keep calling grassroots America “haters” you idiots. 11/10 starts looking better and better.

Freedomwarrior/Bill
February 7th, 2010 | 10:08 am | #9

ROFL!! Thank You MSNBC for telling us clearly just who you fear and why. The first thing you learn in War is “Loose Lips Sink Ships” well, tell me how the view from the bottom looks, lol!

Bill Mitchell
February 7th, 2010 | 10:09 am | #10

The thing I find most amusing about the Democrats is that even they admit that opposing their agenda is politically beneficial to Republicans, and yet, they continue to claim that America WANTS their agenda.

If America WANTS their agenda, why is opposing it politically beneficial to Republicans? If America WANTS their agenda, why are Republicans who run AGAINST that agenda winning even in Democrat strongholds like MA?

Their entire thinking is a non-sequitur and shows that in their hearts, the believe that THEY know better for America than Americans know themselves, and isn’t that at the core of fascism?

Cargosquid
February 7th, 2010 | 10:10 am | #11

The press REALLY does not get it. Palin comes across to them as paranoid and hateful because she is suspicious of government and politicians.

They don’t get the fact that many AMERICANS don’t like the government, and are suspicious of the current crop of criminals politicians. Americans have always feared their government. That’s why the 2nd Amendment was put into writing…..

anonymundo
February 7th, 2010 | 10:12 am | #12

Yes, Palin is a complete idiot.

You tell me. How hard is it remember one of your key platforms is energy when you only have 3 to remember.

God you people are stupid.

wow
February 7th, 2010 | 10:18 am | #13

CPT. CharlesNo Gravatar
February 7th, 2010 | 10:03 am | #7

Where did you see that about Yulia? I can’t find anything, not even in the Ukrainian press.

Ginger
February 7th, 2010 | 10:24 am | #14

Have pity on the Lib’s for they have low self esteem!

CPT. Charles
February 7th, 2010 | 10:24 am | #15

Fox News is running the headline on their ‘crawler’, but I’m unable to find anything elsewhere.

Not even the the Ukrainian sites [which may not be 'surprising'...]

Dell
February 7th, 2010 | 10:27 am | #16

While it’s incredibly FUN to hammer the BeJesus out of MSDNC and their minions, like anonymundo, it really would be in our best interests to just ignore the Hell right out of them. The time and effort to even acknowledge them is wasted – sort of like beating your head against the wall because it feels so good when you stop.

It’s time to move up-stream and catch bigger fish.

Militant Conservative
February 7th, 2010 | 10:28 am | #17

cargosquid you are correct. I did not start owning firearms till the Clinton years. I saw what was a slow march to socialism. Palin is straight up and truthfull. that is why the left thinks she is so hatefull.
Meanwhile I buy lots of ammo cuz I don’t trust government and will always be prepaired to take down a tyrant. powder is dry and plentiful.

wow
February 7th, 2010 | 10:31 am | #18

CPT. CharlesNo Gravatar
February 7th, 2010 | 10:24 am | #15

Thanks. I haven’t been able to find anything either, not even on the Ukrainian sites. This could be false information to discourage people from voting.

ar05075
February 7th, 2010 | 10:31 am | #19

Well, anonymundo, now we know who number 11 is.

sliderblaze
February 7th, 2010 | 10:32 am | #20

lol, conservatism wins everytime it’s tried, cus, it’s common sense. Liberalism, not so much

Nahanni
February 7th, 2010 | 10:33 am | #21

anonymundo,

Yawn….

Is that all you got, hun?

Just remember that when your clay footed Obamamessiah and his regime falls he will be taking you with him, just like Jim Jones, David Koresh, Charles Manson, Stalin, Saddam, Mao and Adolph Hitler took their followers into the abyss with them.

There is no longer a way for you to escape that fate, it is too late for you.

anonymundo
February 7th, 2010 | 10:33 am | #22

Dell<

"…anonymundo, it really would be in our best interests to just ignore the Hell right out of them"

Nice job of ignoring me. It's hard to believe but you must be even more ignorant than Palin.

God you people are stupid.

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February 7th, 2010 | 10:34 am | #23

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sliderblaze
February 7th, 2010 | 10:35 am | #24

Hows that “reset” button working out again?

anonymundo
February 7th, 2010 | 10:36 am | #25

“lol, conservatism wins everytime it’s tried”

Yeah right. Conservatism was a smashing success with George Bush and the republican controlled Congress.

If you count success as leading us into a depression.

God you people are stupid.

Sequoia
February 7th, 2010 | 10:42 am | #26

Anonymundo,
So I’ll do this the lefty way. I will win this argument by pointing out what a COMPLETE idiot your sitting president is. He told the entire naton that he had been “to…54, 53, states? 7 to go…” GOD, what a tool. Should we start trotting out the O’biden idiocies??
BTW, what brings a troll out on a day like today?

sliderblaze
February 7th, 2010 | 10:43 am | #27

Well i mean, lets see what does just that one platform get us?

Cheaper energy
Better security
Jobs
More money for states
More money in our pockets

Five good things from just one platform…. but…we are the idiots

Militant Conservative
February 7th, 2010 | 10:43 am | #28

anonymundo,

Bush was not a conservative he was a moderate.

His TARP bailout was a wrong move when he did it and wrong when Obama did it.

The last conservative was REAGAN.

The slide to the left because of (moderate) RINO sellouts is what got us the stellar bunch of Liberal Democrats. This is also what is getting us a conservative crop of politicians. I remember the 1994 elections. This is going to be way bigger. LOL
The more you Lib’s scream the more people find out how filled with hate you are.

Now google Malignant Narcissist and see if that does not discribe the NOTUS. LOL

Chisum
February 7th, 2010 | 10:46 am | #29

Anonymundo,

Reading your comments made me think you were just a stuttering one-trick pony.

I see that you actually have one other trick in your bag…BUSH..BUUUSH…BUUUSSSHHH!

kansas
February 7th, 2010 | 10:49 am | #30

Anonymundo

Is that you Keith?

Bill Mitchell
February 7th, 2010 | 10:52 am | #31

Ok, let’s set the record straight on Bush’s “disastrous 8 years”.

The average unemployment rate under Bush was below 5%.

During 6 years of the Bush Presidency, we had the highest sustained economic growth EVER in our history – and this despite 9/11, two major wars and about 8 hurricanes. (Bill Clinton faced NONE of this and without these, Bush would have run a trillion dollar surplus.)

When did it all start to fall apart?

That’s easy – when the Dems took Congress and started forcing lenders to make loans to people who could not afford them. In order to hedge their risk on these bad loans, banks got involved in trading risky derivatives.

When the real estate market collapsed, the derivative market collapsed and the banks collapsed.

This can all be CLEARLY tied back to Democrat Policy once they took power. There is no debating this as Al Gore likes to say.

CONCLUSION:
For a liberal to claim that Bush gave us ‘another Great Depression’ shows they they are either lying or ignorant.

We entered a recession during the last 2 years of Clinton due to the dot.com bubble bust. Does that mean that Clinton’s entire 8 years were a failure?

CPT. Charles
February 7th, 2010 | 10:58 am | #32

[O/T] Correction: Ukraine Election News.

Here’s the info I’ve gotten so far: http://xrl.us/bguugs

I stand corrected.

But it does sound like there’s some pretty rough stuff going on over there.

Gandalf
February 7th, 2010 | 11:06 am | #33

The truth is that Sarah is the future. If you happened to watch Fox News Sunday you understand what I mean. On target bullseye, every question, dynamic and enthusiastic, and sincere. The comparison to the “won” is awesome. We need her to correct the mess that has happened since the 2006 Dem takeover. The Bush years were growth years until the 2006 elections then the crap started.

Nahanni
February 7th, 2010 | 11:09 am | #34

OT….

http://itsaboutfreedom.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=215

Rather surprising to see something like that in true bleu Minnesota, especially in Chisago county.

ACORN better get all the Somalis in the Twin Cities registered to vote.

wow
February 7th, 2010 | 11:10 am | #35

CPT. CharlesNo Gravatar
February 7th, 2010 | 10:58 am | #32
O7T Thanks for the link. Yes, rough stuff. About par for the course. I’d venture to say that Ukraine is fighting again for its independence.

wanumba
February 7th, 2010 | 11:10 am | #36

Just fried that MSNBC gets their operating subsidy to push propaganda from the Progressive Left ga’Ould that controls the GE corporate body.

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anonymundo
February 7th, 2010 | 11:14 am | #38

“The last conservative was REAGAN.”

Do you mean the Reagan that tripled the debt and raised taxes three times.

And cut and ran from the brown people in Lebanon?

God you people are stupid. Conservatism is nothing but idle chit chat and it has failed every time it’s tried.

Women’s suffrage anyone?

anonymundo
February 7th, 2010 | 11:18 am | #39

Ok, let’s set the record straight on Bush’s “disastrous 8 years”.

Yet to be seen how bad it will end up. So far we’ve had about 150 bank failures.

mcnorman
February 7th, 2010 | 11:30 am | #40

RBO
http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/2010/02/07/huffpos-palinhandgate-meltdown/

Stephen Spruiell at NRO writes in “Hand-Gate”:

I’m trying really hard to figure out why certain left-wing blogs are treating this picture of Sarah Palin reading notes off her hand as some kind of major coup. The notes she had written are “Energy,” “[illegible],” Taxes,” and “Lift America’s spirits.” That’s some cheat sheet.

Yep, that is some cheat sheet: can’t these people do any better?

jainphx
February 7th, 2010 | 11:46 am | #41

Isn’t it amazing how quickly some forget history? The left has silly inane talking points, and facts just don’t count. They watch as their parties agendas drive the country into depression with millions out of work and in despair, and have the unmitigated gall to blame it on others. This practice may have served them well before, but now they have shown their true colors, it is much harder to pull the wool over our eyes. There are still some who are to ignorant to even see the forest because the trees get in the way.

Sarah Palin is not perfect, indeed no man or woman is, but she’s a far cry from the filthy agenda of the anonymundos. She stands for something they don’t understand. It’s called honesty and the love of life unrestricted under G-D.

Militant Conservative
February 7th, 2010 | 11:47 am | #42

anonymundo,

your knowledge of histroy is deplorable.

Reagan cut taxes. Top marginal rate down from 70% to 38%.

The treasury doubled it’s intake to just under a trillion.

Civic’s 101, congress’ function is to appropriate and spend funds. Congress was dominated by Liberal Democrats that spent everything and more. theres your debt. They did this as a political tactic to be able to point and say tax cuts cause debt.

If your salary doubles in one year and yet you go farther into debt, you spent too much. duh!

Keep laughing when the conservative train runs you down.

The NOTUS is doing the same thing that FDR did just bigger and faster. FDR stimulated the economy 7 times with no effect. That is a quote from his treasury secretary of the time. Now class how did we get out of the great depression, WWII.

You have theories, I deal only in facts. Not perverted lies.

red
February 7th, 2010 | 11:47 am | #43

Anonamundo said:

Yes, Palin is a complete idiot.

You tell me. How hard is it remember one of your key platforms is energy when you only have 3 to remember.

—-
Working in McDonalds, as Anonamundo apparently does, never requires you to speak to large groups. Having done my share of training and speaking – I can admit that I could forget my mother’s name at the wrong time and I live and die by crutches like powerpoints.

Anonamundo would be even more of a blithering whacko if required to speak to a group without some note.

Anybody who thinks that Palin isn’t an enormously talented speaker after watching her acceptance speach and this one, is just clueless.

greenfairie
February 7th, 2010 | 11:49 am | #44

God you people are so stupid!

–Leftist AutoPost

jainphx
February 7th, 2010 | 11:54 am | #45

red– I don’t believe anonymundo even heard the speech. Much easier for the idiot left to criticize from their usual position which is ignorance.

Chisum
February 7th, 2010 | 11:56 am | #46

God you people are so stupid!

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Militant Conservative
February 7th, 2010 | 11:57 am | #48

Oh yes the famous tactic of small petulant children and LIBTARDS. your stupid! whaaaaa whaaaaa.
Just love roasting your innane arguments.

Reagan had a saying for you.

Liberals are not stupid, they just know so much that isn’t so. LOL

jainphx
February 7th, 2010 | 12:01 pm | #49

Ronaldus Magnus Reagonus had quite a way with TRUTHFUL words didn’t he.

There is an old adage that say’s “who the gods wish to destroy, they first make insane” We are watching the left go insane.

Opus #6
February 7th, 2010 | 12:05 pm | #50

MSNBC’s ratings are so low, I bet they are grateful when you discuss them on your blog.

Militant Conservative
February 7th, 2010 | 12:09 pm | #51

yet another truth the left glosses over.

“A rising tide raises all boats” John F. Kennedy
Cutting taxes across the board is good for all.

Ken
February 7th, 2010 | 12:27 pm | #52

Anybody who thinks that Palin isn’t an enormously talented speaker after watching her acceptance speach and this one, is just clueless.

She can give a great speech, but her delivery last night was awful — rushed, breathless, and stilted. I expect she was nervous.

Slappy
February 7th, 2010 | 12:38 pm | #53

anonymundo
February 7th, 2010 | 10:12 am | #12

Yes, Palin is a complete idiot.

You tell me. How hard is it remember one of your key platforms is energy when you only have 3 to remember.

God you people are stupid.

Like children, Leftists like yourself are big on tossing out the “you are stupid” response against conservatives. Perhaps you should save these “persuasive” retorts for arguments with 10-year-olds down at the local grammar school.

I have to laugh when I see Palin called “a complete idiot” by people who defend obvious simpletons like Pelosi, Boxer, Biden, etc. Instead of using projection, half-truths, and acting like an adolescent child, how about trying to engage in a reasonable exchange of views? No, I don’t think you’re capable of doing this. But let me ask how you mentioning that Reagan increased taxes three times is relevant considering the false Leftist talking point that he increased the deficit by cutting taxes too much? Or that Reagan tripled the debt while ignoring the role of Congress and defending double-digit spending increases under Obama and a Democrat-run Congress? I think based on your comments we can all see who “is a complete idiot,” junior.

Ken
February 7th, 2010 | 12:45 pm | #54

Like children, Leftists like yourself are big on tossing out the “you are stupid” response against conservatives. Perhaps you should save these “persuasive” retorts for arguments with 10-year-olds down at the local grammar school.

I agree. Do you also condemn “libtard” and “a-hole”?

Kevin
February 7th, 2010 | 12:46 pm | #55

I am so sick of Liberals and their meaningless BS catch phrases “Hate Merchant”?? What the hell does that even mean LOL.

You want to screw up a liberal? When they spout those meaningless phrases ask them “So what do you mean ‘Hate Merchant’ can you define that for me, I’ve never heard of that..”

Then watch the deer in the headlights look as they stumble, hem and haw just like TOTUS.

Ken
February 7th, 2010 | 12:56 pm | #56

I can define one for you, Kevin. It’s someone who mocks a man for service to his community, as Palin did in her acceptance speech. It’s someone who speaks of “the real America” vs., of course, those nasty liberal places like NYC. the rest of us. It’s someone who says “this is where we find the kindness and the goodness and the courage of everyday Americans,” implicitly suggesting those qualities are not found in places that don’t support her. It’s someone who gleefully compares herself to a pit bull.

Chisum
February 7th, 2010 | 12:58 pm | #57

The Truman Show

In his weekly column, Mark Steyn writes:

At the National Prayer Breakfast, Barack Obama singled out for praise Navy Corpsman Christian Bouchard. Or, as the president called him, “Corpseman Bouchard.” Twice.

Hey, not a big deal. Throughout his life, the commander in chief has had little contact with the military, and less interest. And, when you give as many speeches as this guy does, there’s no time to rehearse or read through: You just gotta fire up the prompter and wing it. But it’s revealing that nobody around him in the so-called smartest administration of all time thought to spell it out phonetically for him when the speech got typed up and loaded into the machine. Which suggests that either his minders don’t know that he doesn’t know that kinda stuff, or they don’t know it, either. To put it in Rumsfeldian terms, they don’t know what they don’t know.

Which is embarrassingly true. Hence, the awful flop speeches, from the Copenhagen Olympics to the Berlin Wall anniversary video to the Martha Coakley rally. The palpable whiff given off by the White House inner circle is that they’re the last people on the planet still besotted by Barack Obama, and that they’re having such a cool time starring in their own reality-show remake of “The West Wing” they can only conceive of the public – and, indeed, the world – as crowd-scene extras in “The Barack Obama Show.” They expect you to cheer and wave flags when the floor manager tells you to, but the notion that, in return, he should be able to persuade you of the merits of his policies seems entirely to have eluded them.

http://pajamasmedia.com/eddriscoll/

Valerie
February 7th, 2010 | 1:06 pm | #58

Ken @ 12:56 #56

Perfect answer: you get the evil from your own mind. Anybody who automatically interprets praise for one as denigration of another is dishonestly changing the subject.

Valerie
February 7th, 2010 | 1:08 pm | #59

Oh-oh

Ken
February 7th, 2010 | 12:27 pm | #52

paid astroturfer alert. They run these guys out to gush over BO and claim the other side lost after every speech.

Chisum
February 7th, 2010 | 1:09 pm | #60

Oh yes, Kevin. I forgot!

We were reminded during the election that Jesus was a community organizer.

Therefore we can’t criticize BO’s community agitating/organizing, right?

Slappy
February 7th, 2010 | 1:18 pm | #61

Ken
February 7th, 2010 | 12:45 pm | #54

Like children, Leftists like yourself are big on tossing out the “you are stupid” response against conservatives. Perhaps you should save these “persuasive” retorts for arguments with 10-year-olds down at the local grammar school.

I agree. Do you also condemn “libtard” and “a-hole”?

Yes, I do. I never use them and I cringe when others due. The point is, the “you are stupid” insults are easily proven false based on the educational achievements and accomplishments of many on the Right. If some of us are in Mensa, have multiple college degrees, etc., doesn’t that pretty much falsify that insult? That is different than the insults you cited, which are more akin to other garden variety insults used by the Left, like “Rethuglican” or “D-bag.” The biggest problem I have is that the challenging of the intellect of the Right by members of the Left is especially ridiculous considering who is tossing out the insult (e.g., 19-year-old Lefties working towards their liberal arts undergrad degree and who support politicians of relatively average to below-average intelligence, like Pelosi, Boxer, and Biden).

BTW, good job at ignoring the full content of my post. You’re big on only focusing on selected portions of posts when you have no response to much of it, aren’t you?

Kevin
February 7th, 2010 | 1:19 pm | #62

MSNBC is really building up their resume on how they allow their below average talented staff members, and contributors to show who they really are.

Keep parading out the idiots MSNBC and your pathetic ratings will continue to drop. Hopefully, and I said hopefully, when Comcast gets 51% ownership of NBC Universal, they’ll throw out some of these Saul Alinksy members of MSNBC.

Espresso Logic - The 6th Sense
February 7th, 2010 | 1:20 pm | #63

We welcome stupid asshats that post garbarge.

Here’s an example:;

anonymundo
February 7th, 2010 | 10:12 am | #12
Yes, Palin is a complete idiot.

You tell me. How hard is it remember one of your key platforms is energy when you only have 3 to remember.

God you people are stupid.

red
February 7th, 2010 | 1:21 pm | #64

—but her delivery last night was awful — rushed, breathless, and stilted.—

Nope, nope and nope. I thought she was quite relaxed and I was especially impressed how she kept visibly referring to some veteran in the crowd – how he had defended the Constitution. Counter point to Obama NOT defending it. She’s a great communicator.

Oh and Happy Birthday Ronaldus Magmus. You were there in spirit at the Tea Party I attended yesterday.

Espresso Logic - The 6th Sense
February 7th, 2010 | 1:24 pm | #65

I see stupid people.

anonymundo
February 7th, 2010 | 11:18 am | #39
Ok, let’s set the record straight on Bush’s “disastrous 8 years”.

Yet to be seen how bad it will end up. So far we’ve had about 150 bank failures.

red
February 7th, 2010 | 1:27 pm | #66

Ken says –mocks a man for service to his community –

But what you really mean is using Alinskiite tactics to prod innercity people to ineffective civil protest rather than effectively aiding them to help themselves? Recall Acorn thugs threatening banks to make them lend more? Does that have any tie in to massive mortgage fraud???

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1279545.html

Would Barry have turned in Okeefe and Giles when they asked for help setting up an underage slave-prostitution ring? Or would he have tried to get in on the action?

He didn’t serve his community, he exploited it – just like socialists and communists always do.

Espresso Logic - The 6th Sense
February 7th, 2010 | 1:30 pm | #67

You mean Barry is a poverty pimp? Now it all makes sense.

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February 7th, 2010 | 3:05 pm | #69

How dare Palin not get a tingle up her leg and immediately fall in love with Obama and everything he does and stands for…..the shame of it.

wanumba
February 7th, 2010 | 7:47 pm | #70

“came across to me …”

South Park ripped this Leftie dirty trick against Sarah Palin to SHREDS in the recent “Dances with SMURFS” episode.
Outstanding episode – you have no idea where it’s headed from the first outrageous minute to its stupendous table-turning finale.

Solaratov
February 7th, 2010 | 8:17 pm | #71

anonymundo
February 7th, 2010 | 11:18 am | #39
Ok, let’s set the record straight on Bush’s “disastrous 8 years”.

Yet to be seen how bad it will end up. So far we’ve had about 150 bank failures.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

You DO realize that Mr. Bush is not the president any longer, don’t you, cupcake? The banks have been failing under the “enlightened leadership” of your favorite economic ignoramous – the one, the only, barry d’ohbama.

Or does he plan on avoiding responsibility for *everything* for the next 3 years? All the poor little wimp does is blame anyone and everyone else for his own failures. Now, that may have worked as an affirmative action charity case at harvard – but this is the real world; where a MAN steps up and admits his responsibility.
But, we don’t expect that from lil barry. He’s certainly no man.

ogee
February 8th, 2010 | 1:52 am | #72

The banks began to fail at 3 pm on Christmas Eve day 2006 just a couple months after DemocratsIslamofascist-Marxist/Progressives took control of congress and DNC appointed Nancy Moriarty Piglosi as speaker of the henhouse. The first bank to fail was Indy Mac Bank. The bank catered to illegal immigrants loans forced upon banks by the law and by reinvestment act or better known as ACORN & SEIU. These loans were called NINJA. NO INCOME, NO JOB, NO ASSETS –NO PROOF they will ever be paid back loans–> Many employees of the bank had to pack up that night and go home for Christmas without a job and without a pay that they counted on for the holidays. No severance pay, nothing! I will never forget that day when they closed. I am in the industry but not with the failed banks. I knew people from Indy that got the bad news. I knew as it was happening at 3 pm that day in 2006. There are countless failures so far. Upwards of 500 lending institutions and 400 banks. All done under the DEM CONGRESS. Now you know why the credit market is tight. Narly Nancy! And Beans Franks. And Dowdy Dodd. And, well you know the rest.

Once again the OBOTS have no idea what they are talking about and their command of recent ‘histra’ as their leader says it, downright sucks. Who’s the stupid one? Must be a volunteer door knocker (r)obot. Works for free ’cause no one would pay for their services anyway. Who’s dumb? (R)OBOTS. (R)OBOTS are the name of the easily FOOLED.

ogee
February 8th, 2010 | 2:01 am | #73

Here’s what your leader wants to do to you OBOT.
Highlights of the first 500 pages only! Not the little Red Book of Moe, or a Nazi propagandist’s handbook, but the OBOTS president’s health care bill before congress.

Page 22: Mandates audits of all employers that self-insure!
Page 29: Admission: your health care will be rationed!
Page 30: A government committee will decide what treatments and benefits you get (and, unlike an insurer, there will be no appeals process)
Page 42: The “Health Choices Commissioner” will decide health benefits for you. You will have no choice. None.
Page 50: All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free healthcare services.
Page 58: Every person will be issued a National ID Healthcard.
Page 59: The federal government will have direct, real-time access to all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer.
Page 65: Taxpayers will subsidize all union retiree and community organizer health plans (read: SEIU, UAW and ACORN)
Page 72: All private healthcare plans must conform to government rules to participate in a Healthcare Exchange.
Page 84: All private healthcare plans must participate in the Healthcare Exchange (i.e., total government control of private plans)
Page 91: Government mandates linguistic infrastructure for services; translation: illegal aliens
Page 95: The Government will pay ACORN and Americorps to sign up individuals for Government-run Health Care plan.
Page 102: Those eligible for Medicaid will be automatically enrolled: you have no choice in the matter.
Page 124: No company can sue the government for price-fixing. No “judicial review” is permitted against the government monopoly. Put simply, private insurers will be crushed.
Page 127: The AMA sold doctors out: the government will set wages.
Page 145: An employer MUST auto-enroll employees into the government-run public plan. No alternatives.
Page 126: Employers MUST pay healthcare bills for part-time employees AND their families.
Page 149: Any employer with a payroll of $400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays an 8% tax on payroll
Page 150: Any employer with a payroll of $250K-400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays a 2 to 6% tax on payroll
Page 167: Any individual who doesn’t have acceptable healthcare (according to the government) will be taxed 2.5% of income.
Page 170: Any NON-RESIDENT alien is exempt from individual taxes (Americans will pay for them).
Page 195: Officers and employees of Government Healthcare Bureaucracy will have access to ALL American financial and personal records.
Page 203: “The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax.” Yes, it really says that.
Page 239: Bill will reduce physician services for Medicaid. Seniors and the poor most affected.”
Page 241: Doctors: no matter what specialty you have, you’ ll all be paid the same (thanks, AMA!)
Page 253: Government sets value of doctors’ time, their professional judgment, etc.
Page 265: Government mandates and controls productivity for private healthcare industries.
Page 268: Government regulates rental and purchase of power-driven wheelchairs.
Page 272: Cancer patients: welcome to the wonderful world of rationing!
Page 280: Hospitals will be penalized for what the government deems preventable re-admissions.
Page 298: Doctors: if you treat a patient during an initial admission that results in a readmission, you will be penalized by the government.
Page 317: Doctors: you are now prohibited for owning and investing in healthcare companies!
Page 318: Prohibition on hospital expansion. Hospitals cannot expand without government approval.
Page 321: Hospital expansion hinges on “community” input: in other words, yet another payoff for ACORN.
Page 335: Government mandates establishment of outcome-based measures: i.e., rationing.
Page 341: Government has authority to disqualify Medicare Advantage Plans, HMOs, etc.
Page 354: Government will restrict enrollment of SPECIAL NEEDS individuals.
Page 379: More bureaucracy: Telehealth Advisory Committee (healthcare by phone).
Page 425: Government will instruct and consult regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney, etc. Mandatory. Appears to lock in estate taxes ahead of time.
Page 425: Government provides approved list of end-of-life resources, guiding you in death.
Page 427: Government mandates program that orders end-of-life treatment; government dictates how your life ends.
Page 429: Advance Care Planning Consult will be used to dictate treatment as patient’s health deteriorates. This can include an ORDER for end-of-life plans. An ORDER from the GOVERNMENT.
Page 430: Government will decide what level of treatments you may have at end-of-life.
Page 469: Community-based Home Medical Services: more payoffs for ACORN.
Page 472: Payments to Community-based organizations: more payoffs for ACORN.
Page 489: Government will cover marriage and family therapy. Government intervenes in your marriage.
Page 494: Government will cover mental health services: defining, creating and rationing those services.

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