Congress Acts Swiftly!
by Gary GrahamI notice that the House acted swiftly to tax the AIG bonuses. (And at 90% — wow…seems a bit steep, but hey – taxation as a means of punishment is a time-honored tradition amongst the Left.) Because earlier they had acted swiftly in condemning the fact that AIG executives were even taking bonuses at all after receiving billions in bailout monies. And this on the heels of the 787Billion dollars ‘Stimulus’ Bill that the Congress had acted swiftly to pass.
Chris Dodd acted swiftly to redirect blame toward the Treasury Dept. for the snafu, and Tim Geithner acted swiftly to stumble over his memory of time lines of discovery and timing on the whole affair; while Maxine Waters, Our Lady of Pure and Noble Purpose, acted swiftly to indignantly demand answers from Chris Dodd, Tim Geithner, and anyone who could point the camera at her microphone.
President Obama was unavailable for comment, having taken the occasion to act swiftly and get the hell out of Dodge.
Call me stupid, but I’m beginning to sense a pattern here. The Democrat President and the Democrat House and the Democrat Senate all defend the speed with which these gargantuan spending bills were passed, saying that the current economic crisis is so grave that speed is of the utmost necessity…even though the expenditures don’t even start for another two years.
So what was the big hurry?
Duh. The Dems are ‘acting swiftly’ because they know that that is the only way to get this shit rammed through before people catch on to what they’re up to. The Porkulus Bill was presented and passed so fast that no one even had a chance to read it. Is that the sort of behavior from our representatives that the forefathers envisioned when they devised these United States? Does that seem to be the fair and honorable method of providing for the good of the people?
Prez Obama decries the AIG bonuses as outrageous in these perilous economic times…but he has absolutely no problem with hopping on AF-1 with the whole circus in tow and jetting off to California to hob-nob with mega celebs, get his ring kissed by the Governator and do a rock star appearance on the Tonight Show starring Jay Leno…oh yeah, and insult the Special Olympics organization and special needs children everywhere. (“Uh, sir…you can’t really make that remark…you see, you are the President now.”)
And I’m wondering exactly how many millions of tax payer dollars are paying for the big-O’s penchant for travel every time things heat up a little. He was quoted as telling a Costa Mesa audience, “Sometimes it sure is nice to get out of Washington!”
“Uh…sir, you’ve only been in office for two months.”
And half of that he’s spent travelling around the country on …you guessed it, AF-1. (It’s like he’s got a side bet going with Pelosi on who can log more flight miles before the Easter break.)
And all paid for by…you guessed it….us!
And speaking of getting’ outta dodge… How to do dodge pesky questions over whether or not to fire your Treasury Secretary — for a hundred points, and a chance to keep you’re your job approval rating above 50%…
“Uh…. Present.”
Okay. The Great Socialist Takeover of 2009 is only two months old, and it is definitely much too early to start bandying about words like Impeachment, or Indictment, or High Treason…or phrases like ‘the most corrupt and incompetent administration in the history of the Universe’ and a ‘total embarrassment of the species’…
I would give that another four months.
But those of us who don’t sport Che T-shirts, who don’t think Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro are heroes and who don’t think a huge, encroaching centralized Federal government spawned by Woodrow Wilson and expanded by FDR, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton was a particularly good thing for the cause of Liberty…
Well, let’s just say we are not surprised that the new Socialist regime of Obama is an abject failure, joke, and debacle.
I never thought I’d say this is a million years…but I’m almost nostalgic for Bill Clinton. How’s that for Irony — Obama makes Bill Clinton look like Abraham Lincoln.
This new administration with its Pelosi/Reid/Schumer/Frank/Dodd Congress is the most glaring example of graft and corruption gone wild in America. And that’s just what we can see after two months!
Imagine for a second what is about to happen as billions (not millions), even hundreds of billions of dollars start to run through the hot little hands of these bureaucrats. Do you think there is any possibility that some may develop sticky fingers? When you are appropriating hundreds of billions of dollars…oh then why not just round the sum off by, say a few million? Who is going to miss a few million bucks when you’re dealing with hundreds of billions? This scenario…times a thousand? Now, I’m not suggesting any of our current elected representatives, Federal, State or Local would ever be tempted with the Sticky Finger Syndrome…but there might, I say there just might be a real problem here.
Storm warnings on the horizon.
Pay attention folks. Because we are about to witness the biggest money grab in the history of mankind. The stories of fraud, graft, money laundering, government 3-card Monty, shell games, blackmail, hush money, kick-backs and payoffs are going to start in earnest, and they will be coming at us faster than anyone can keep track of them.
And it will all be happening as “Congress acts swiftly”.
Ahhh….the sweet culture of corruption. Where’s the pea, watch carefully… Now which card is yours? Nothing up my sleeve…
I have never seen anything like this in my lifetime…and I’m old enough to remember when a billion dollars was a lot of money.
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This guy wants to be Rush Limbaugh so bad. Sorry dude. There can only be one fat, drug addicted, de facto leader of the GOP who dropped out of college. Now quit screwing around and get to the beach! Mandy Pitankin is about to be dissolved in the ocean by the bad guys!
I'm hoping for a news story that will likely never happen. In either house, wasn't there ultimately ONE person on staff in charge of the Xerox machine and/or the electronic distribution of the 1,073 pages to members? WHO is this person? WHAT was running thru his/her mind as this bill mushroomed in size faster than Roger Clemens biceps? And is there a staffer's spouse who exists somewhere DC that heard, "honey…you're not gonna BELIEVE what's happening at work…" Is he/she sleeping OK at night? Where's Deep Throat when you need him?
So the US govt doesn't want the company to pay a retention bonus to someone who has a legal right to receive it.
If they can do that, they certainly can cut or eliminate your SS or medicare benefits. No, wait, they already cut them. Wait, a govt that is not governed by a rule of law is no gov at all. It is a dictatorship.
GG, I read this swiftly, and chuckled briefly, but there is one thing I am not doing swiftly—shaking my head at the circus clowns who lead country.
Thank heavens for people like Thaddeus McCotter, a congressman not afraid to act swiftly and tell the emperors that they are wearing no clothes—was that what they meant when they bandied about the "age of transparency?"
Nicely done, G2.
Stop pickin' tha' banjo, boy, you're makin' people nervous.
You mixed up a movie with a TV series, complemented Gary in his ability to convey intelligent discourse like the greatest talk-radio icon, attempted to insult that talk icon because of his success, disparage him for overcoming adversity, and belittle his skill in communication while trying to make a almost non-existent point that because you went to a college in some backwoods where you have the right to sodomize everyone to your point of view.
I am in awe of your intellectualism; please, get out your microscope and show it to us again.
The Keystone Cops will gladly throw Howdy Doody under the bus when his huge spending dreams put their own political futures at risk.
When you have no logical argument in reply to a conservative, attack him personally. Isn't this the mantra of the Left? You guys never fail to follow the party line.
Great article as always Gary! The Dems are acting quickly because if they don't the Republicans can pick apart their silly, lobbyist driven legislation. That's what happened with the first stimulus bill. So now, the idea is to rush things through before the public can learn what is really being done.
I guess that's what the Dems have to do, since they know the public won't accept their ideas! Democratic thinking, the policies that dare not speak their true intent.
Isn't kind of early for the green skinned, wet footed, furry little creatures that live under the bridge to be up and annoying the grown ups already. What is it, about 3:00 in the afternoon in North Korea where you posting from?
Lil' Kim not taking visitors yet?
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What a nice picture of Huey and Dewey. Guess Louie was back in Vegas making another land-grab deal. Seriously, look at these "gentlemen" that are making decisions that will effect us for generations to come. Where in the hell did we dredge these sphincters up and when can we toss them back. Dodd and Frank were directly responsible for the mess, and now they are going to lead us out of it? When did America start smoking crack? Nasty habit!
It is nice to have Congress back in balance with the executive branch again. It is important for the president to ask permission for what he wants and for Congress to weigh the pros and cons and for the courts to take a balanced view of what is produced.
Thank god the days of George II are gone and we have this balance back along with a rise in how the world views us. Pretty soon we will get permission from Iran to talk to them and get permission from Wall Street to help them and permission from the North Koreans too, to send them food and talk to then about how displeased we are that they are shooting Missiles. Then we can get permission from China to buy their stuff and have them buy our country in exchange.
It is a new hopeful day again and America is liked again and Congress is helping the nation solve its problems and the sun is shining on everybody.
Gary, I was just thinking last night about how I couldn't imagine anyone could demean the office of the President more than Clinton. After his appearance on Jay Leno, Obama has actually achieve it. I actually find myself longing for those silly Lewinsky days of yore. By comparison, they seem so harmless.
On a side note: Has anyone noticed, that after 20 years, we had our first Clinton-less week in the news?
That's because Hillary is busy planning the coup.
I called Ohio Rep. Charlie Wilson's (D) office yesterday, and asked if the retention bonuses paid to execs at Fannie and Freddie were going to be targeted.
This guy, like the rest of the Democrats, are party hacks.
Dude – except for you hair -do –.what does this have to do with HOLLYWOOD?
It is going to take TRILLIONS to un-do what your hero Ronnie Raygun did to the US economy with his stoopid Globalization dream…got it?
You don't like taxes but endless wars to kill innocent Iraqi civilians — who had nothing to do with 9/11 —
is just fine, right? BILLIONS of dollars went to that stupid Republican war in the mideast!! Since 1991!
So, the $ 787 billion is a drop in the bucket for all the US mortgage portfolios sitting in
China,
Scotland,
England,
Switzerland
Japan
and Germany –
Thanks to Raygun's BIG SWINDLE — we cannot go to Jimmy Stewart at the local bank (they were all wiped out in the GOP's 1980's consolidation schemes, remember? ) and re-negotiate terms…and AIG exploited the mess, saying thousands of homes were in foreclosure than there actually are –
No, Obama and the other intelligent leaders cannot react fast enough to plug up the leaky oceanliner
Reagan and Iron Lady Thatcher set sail in 1986.
Four months? Gary, you're far too generous. I'll take two months, and give the points.
That smoke we smell is the libs starting to catch at the edges. Dodd is losing handily to "anonymous" in pre-election polls. Specter raised one, and its chasing him around trying to eat whatever is left of his soul. Hillary hides under the beds in the hotels, whispering, "Don't send me home, don't send me home", into her cell phone. Michelle looks to be unable to bake cookies, so instead she wants to be seen "sharecropping" the White House grounds with the neighborhood kids; kids that now have to go back to their metal-detector equipped failures of a school system. PBHO goes to Burbank and promptly shoves his foot into his mouth up to the hip because his wonderful buddy the teleprompter isn't moderating either his brain or his rhetoric; and everyone in the world now knows what a genius he really is without reflective plastic panels. Never mind the Region 1 DVD's and the Churchill bust (Winston, no, Wade, yes). When things start going double-double, the ghost of peanut farmer past is waiting in the wings for his cue.
Republicans -3 should just repeat, "Don't look at us, we didn't vote for this."
"So the US govt doesn't want the company to pay a retention bonus to someone who has a legal right to receive it. "
Actually the previous administration's treasury department wanted them to have their bonuses, the current one agreed (because Geithner is one of the boys) and talked the useless Chris Dodd into going along with it. Despite the fact that the sole reason to give them the money in the first place was to solve a specific problem. It's like giving the bucket brigade a truckload of Perrier in the middle of a drought and then watching them swig it down instead of putting out your burning house — when they lit it on fire in the first place.
http://www.nvfc.org/news/hn_firefighter_arson.htm...
You're on point, brother. I've got your back.
Is there a point here?
While I would agree that the finance policy of the current administration is an abject failure, joke, and debacle —
having just read http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/21/despa...
– a program of private profits and socialized losses is not socialism.
Ronnie Raygun? Are you SERIOUS? Bwahahahahahahahaaaaa…..!
We only accept capable trolls here, lovely(?), not pickup game wannabes. Request reassignment at HufPro.com.
Thanks for pointing out our first Clinton-free week! Let's hope there are many more!
Conspiracy theories are a hallmark of the looney left. Next you'll be telling us that Bush was behind the 9/11 attacks and used them as a reason to go to war with Iraq and steal their oil. Where's the oil, by the way? Oh, I know; the oil is being stockpiled by Halliburton and will be released to the market when the price is $100 a barrel. You also forgot to include Oz, Shangra-La and the Martian colonies in your list of U.S mortgage holders.
I'm serious, dude! She's under the beds, clicking her heels together and whispering, "Don't send me home…don't send me home…."
She knows a disaster when she sees one. She's not planning the coup, she's looking for a seam to drop into and hide until the fire is over, and updating her resume just in case…
Now that’s your typical “Progressive” for you…always living in the past.
"Obama and the other intelligent leaders…"
Kool-Aid much.
Another early rising troll. Go figure.
Not Over.
You forgot the "black helicopters"…
LOL!
Thanks. I've walked into too many ambushes in my time. Nice to have an alert "tail end Charlie" in a tight spot. ;^)
Yup,
Ronaldus Magnus put us on this course in 1986, and JUST LIKE CLOCKWORK, 22 YEARS LATER, the economy collapses. All those years of growth and prosperity were just smoke and mirrors.
Lovely, you really have to work hard to achieve such champion depths of stupidity. I'd learn to let go of your hatred of the Gipper. It has the unfortunate tendency to narrow down your cognitive abilities to such a sharp point that the little dancing angels slip off.
AIG provides the biggest of the distractions, as Obama et al express outrage via Teleprompter, and delightedly legislate our nation out of Constitutionality and into dictatorship. (Fairness Doctrine under whatever its current name is; taxation and encoding of ammunition; insulting Britain and Israel; YouTubing Iran … is this all for real?)
And to the person who asked: what does this have to do with Hollywood? What does Hollywood have to do with dictating our culture and public policy? They've been at it for years.
Ronnie Raygun… Zap! We believe Abbie Hoffman said that first in '68 or so- when he was Gov. Reagan. Blaming globalization on Mr Reagan is interesting seeing it was Mr Clinton's watch where it was really implemented. Of course facts arte stubborn things to be ignored by the clueless- and the disingenuous.
'Ronnie Raygun… Zap!'- We believe Abbie Hoffman said that first in '68 or so- when he was Gov. Reagan. Blaming globalization on Mr Reagan is interesting seeing it was Mr Clinton's watch where it was really implemented. Of course facts arte stubborn things to be ignored by the clueless- and the disingenuous.
Frank.
Dodd.
Time for the perp walk.
Probably went looking in the mailbox for his stimulus check. Didn't realize it meant "check stimulus", as in how much stimulating he'd require before accepting PBHO as his true deity figure.
Typical government program; putting effort where none is required, just like he wants. Told you, pickup-game wannabe. We really have to send a letter to troll central and ask for better ones, I mean really, "Ronnie Raygun"? I think someone dropped the wrong cassette tape into his TRS-80 drive.
Okay. The Great Socialist Takeover of 2009 is only two months old, and it is definitely much too early to start bandying about words like Impeachment, or Indictment, or High Treason…or phrases like ‘the most corrupt and incompetent administration in the history of the Universe’ and a ‘total embarrassment of the species’…
Oh I'm already bandying about these words. But that's just me.
Maybe she'll defect… seeing as how she's already defective!
I'll second that.
"And to the person who asked: what does this have to do with Hollywood? What does Hollywood have to do with dictating our culture and public policy? They've been at it for years."
Reader
Tru dat.
Look behind you "Hollyweird" the big bad conservatives are coming out of the closes now, and threatening your dominance over your "Culture-Think.”
Not Over.
Me too.
Check six, DaDDy…
Wish they'd send us better trolls though; the last few have all had "Dumbass lib…won't somebody please shoot me?" signs prominently displayed on their backsides.
No fun, those…
Don't hold back, Gary, tell us how you REALLY feel! Appreciate your directness.
Mark Steyn has described The One as "Jimmy Carter at warp speed." The success of his antics are reflected in the further descent of his net approval rating (down to four from six last week). As Abe Lincoln said, you can only fool all of the people some of the time.
…a retention bonus that this administration OK'd, no less!
Nullifying legal business contracts and then demonizing the people who received the bonuses — government's own game of Catch-22. . . . And of divide and conquer.
It is unbelievable.
I too noticed a clintonless week. Maybe they are locked up in an Ashram in Nepal, looking for cosmic enlightenment
Forsooth! The hammer of Thor hath smote yon hillbilly troll with a mighty blow!
Black helicopters? Are those the ones that the Kingfish just bought? (My bad)
The quality of trolls has gone down ever since the best of them took spots in Obama's cabinet.
i wonder when the conservatives are going to realize that no one is listening to them anymore?
Be gentle. You're going to confuse the republicans with all of your fact based commenting. Perhaps you should go to Rush's site and copy/paste some GOP sanctioned talking points. It will be a whole lot easier for you to fit in. That's what Gary Grahm does anyway.
More like trying to push his/her/it's "8 track tape" of progressive/liberal gobbly goop into the "microSD" slot of the card reader.
Might need to use a hammer, (and sickle), to get it in. But, they're going to try it anyway. Even if it destroys the reader.
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Gary, great to see you on here. Loved you in the Alien Nation t.v. series back in the 80s. Loved you in Star Trek Enterprise. Great to see another one of my favorite actors (Dirk Benedict, Dwight Schultz and now you) not taken in, chewed up and spit out by Hollyweird.
It's nice for everyone except what's left of the right wing (approx. 40% of Americans who vote). The sun cannot shine on right-wingers because they are hunkered down in their bomb shelters hoping for America to fail. That is the only possible hope they have for regaining any semblance of relevance.
Dammit I thought I recognized Napolitano's buy line.
The quality of trolls is not strained, they droppeth as the acid rain from heaven.
You really suck as a troll. DFTT
The only thing that should be swift about the current band of thieves in DC is the swift kick in the arse we'll give them in the next two election cycles.
Lovely I just don't know how to dismantle such a bit of logic such as yours. I mean I am staggered by your vocabulary, and plethora of stunning and lucid points. Wow. You make me long for a shot gun so I can shoot myself rather than read your piffle. Please if you are going to attack someone make sure they are living. Reagan passed away. Unless you think he is hiding under your bed. Or is that the futon in your Mom's basement? You show a real derth of intellect. But I am glad they allow people like you access to the internet.
Well, it seems that your Gold Lifetime Membership at “troll central” certainly is, or you wouldn’t be here now…would you Skippy.
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That's kind of cute how you two are playing with each other's tail ends. My wife & I get in to roll playing sometimes to spice things up too. I've always been curious: why do they call you guys Log-Cabin Republicans?
Anyhoo…….sorry that I am not assimilating to the Republican hive mind and group-thinking with the rest of you. I guess that I was just blessed with the ability to think critically. Let me know when the GOP's approval ratings get above 30%. Perhaps I'll start taking you guys seriously again and engage you in a debate on the issues. For now, I'm just going to laugh at the caricatures that I create of you guys.
Wife? Trolls have wives? I thought they only had basements and sad lives?
Wife? Trolls have wifes? I thought they only had basements and sad lives?
Obama will call for increased oversight of 'executive pay at all banks, Wall Street firms and possibly other companies' as part of sweeping plan to 'overhaul financial regulation', NY TIMES reporting Sunday, newsroom sources tell DRUDGE… Developing…
Headline over @ Drudge…What I'd like to see is each and every member of Congress take the lead of AIG CEO, Ed Liddy and work for the American taxpayer for one dollar a year. Now, *that* would be CHANGE I could believe in.
Once again Gary Graham shoots- He scores! It is sad that Clinton is already looking to be a statesman and a scholar compared th the Current Occupant…
is that the best comeback you've got? come on, really! i suck as a troll! oh boo hoo, i guess i'll have to get back to the woodshed.
just curious: is there ever an occasion where you say "man! you are an awesome troll!"
I wonder if the comment system can handle link tags. Well, we'll see:
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&q=pdf+site%3Ahouse.gov&as_qdr=w">House of Representatives PDF documents published over the past week.
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&q=pdf+site%3Asenate.gov&as_qdr=w">Senate PDF documents published over the past week.
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&num=100&lr=&as_filetype=&ft=i&as_sitesearch=appropriations.house.gov%2Fpdf%2F&as_qdr=m&as_rights=&as_occt=any&cr=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&safe=images">PDF files published by the Appropriations committee over the past month.
I noticed that despite all your blathering, you have not one fact to state or logical argument to make. Instead, you throw out second rate insults like the little wussy that you are. You're too stupid to realize what an idiot you look like but then again, leftist morons like yourself are little better than emotionally stunted children. Now go watch Sesame Street, because the big people are talking.
You forgot to mention that we're also armed to the teeth waiting in our "bunkers", for the "New World Order of Socialist America" to fail.
You got ammo?
I gotsa plenty Skippy.
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Sure, we've had a couple of awesome trolls. They were clever, biting, maybe even frustrating. But you… your routine is played out and stale, your playbook is out of date, your points make no sense.
You, sir, are a weak troll. Sorry, but it's true.
Evidently not.
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http://tinyurl.com/c55r5g
http://tinyurl.com/dygnmr
As opposed to Michael Moore, the de facto fat, drug addled leader of the Left? Or is that Al Gore?
See how easy it is to sling insults without substance? I'm sure I could do this all day by just repeating your posts back to you, substituting mouthpieces from the Left and rewording your empty sound bytes. But why waste the time when there's intelligent conversation to be had elsewhere?
DFTFT
Hear! Hear! (but don't hold your breath …)
Pay no attention to the deviant fair-weather troll. He's looking for the popular people — needs to go have cookies and milk with the in-crowd at Sweetiepies.
I can dream, can't I?
have fun down there with your friends. let me know when you run out of food. i'll throw ya a sandwich.
funny how right wingers are always so proud of america while they are getting their way, but once someone they didn't vote for gets elected, their ready to launch a coup. i guess you and timothy mcveigh feel pretty strongly about pruning the tree of liberty, huh? glad to see you supporting your country through thick and thin.
just an FYI: i never liked bush, but once he was "elected", he became my president and i did not disparage him. i guess that's the difference between real patriots and ones who only wave the flag when the moment is opportune.
"… fraud, graft, money laundering, government 3-card Monty, shell games, blackmail, hush money, kick-backs and payoffs …"
This is gonna cost us dearly when we have to tidy it up over the next few years…decades.
I've posted this quote before but here it is again. This quote has everything to do with the "urgency" with which congress rushed through the stimulus. Once the currently ignorant become aware of what is going on, it could get fun.
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." -Winston Churchill
Wasilla Hillbilly, I like for you to dispute this quote in a reasonable and articulate manner.
“Uh…sir, you’ve only been in office for two months.”
Wah! I liked that a lot.
It's Mandy Patinkin, moron. The whole world at your finger tip, yet you still got it wrong. I wonder what else you're wrong at? Life?
It's Mandy Patinkin, moron. The whole world at your finger tip yet, you still got it wrong. I wonder what else you're wrong at? Life?
ROLE play. Damn private education… Don't mention thinking, since you can't spell.
No room for it; your common sense is locked up with liberal twaddle. And that anyhoo comment is priceless! One should accept such gifts in the spirit they are given. Thank you ever so much!
That "roll playing" (snicker) with your "wife" (chortle); sounds like your a man with experience, ESPECIALLY with the follow up of Log Cabin Republicans. You really DO play a banjo! I had digressed into hyperbole, but if your "roll" fits…
Then you suggest hive mind and group-thinking statements. First, "Alien Nation", now the "Star Trek" Borg. SERIOUSLY? I can barely take your logic askance and off-axis as the frightened quavering of a lunatic mind. Does the wife really find your "roll playing" in your Captain Kirk shirt while in Mom's basement exciting? Poor thing!
Now if she were in the market for real men…but I digress. You can always take the plug out,
deflate her, roll her up and stash her in the closet; Mom won't look in there amongst the "skid underwear" and used Kleenex. Better clean that up, though, the police are becoming more aware and suspicious of all the attacked and sodomized mice in the area; and they have a DNA sample for a match.
No wonder Republicans are above 30%. Hard to keep that number down and less frightening to libs with your intellectual prowess, guess we'll have to lie some more to keep it under 75 or 80%.
Wanna show me that thar dazzling intellect again, mouse turd?
They can't possibly let go of their hatred of that great man. It is all they have left. Logic and reason have been abandoned by the Left. President Reagan had the audacity to remove regulatory and tax burdens that had been in place since FDR, the patron Saint of American Socialism. For his efforts, President Reagan was rewarded with the eternal animosity of the American Left and America was rewarded with an unprecedented period of economic prosperity. Every time the economy slid since 1982, it corresponded with a tax increase, threat of tax increase or some other power grab by the Democrat Party. Today is no exception.
That's funny!! Extra points for "use of Shakespeare or other literary reference in a comment".
Yes, they are called "Trollops"…
Absolutely!
Unless there are thought police being trained, as we speak.
(Sorry, I'm not really that pessimistic . . . yet )
The favorite 'organ' of the Left, the NYT, is mentioning how Obama is trying to channel the 'outrage' over the bonuses.
THAT is a favorite tactic of the Obamatons: Create a situation through proxies, then feign 'outrage' and try to push through 'solutions' that are far worse than the actual 'problem'.
Obama conveniently omits from his 'outrage' that:
His Treasury Secretary had oversight responsibilities over AIG, Citicorp, JP Morgan, etc. when he was with the NY Fed. As a high-ranking member of the NY Fed, Timmy had knowledge of the bonuses when the first bailout was proposed. If he didn't, then he failed in his responsibility to perform due diligence, or he was knowlingly negligent in not requiring an overview of these bonuses. If he knew of the bonuses and they were legal, then he should have fessed up that these were legal bonuses.
Obama and the other Dems in Congress viewed the TARP legislation, made the modifications they wanted, and passed it. Obama voted for TARP. In fact, he was lauded by the MSM for his 'quiet leadership' in getting the TARP legislation passed . On the Sunday morning news shows before voting for TARP, Obama himself said the legislation would have to meet his requirements. So, there was nothing about halting bonuses which now 'outrages' him. Dodd created the language which allowed bonuses to be paid. Obama went around the country telling people that the 'Stimulus' bill needed to be passed ASAP. Obama did not object to the Dodd provision when he pushed for the legislation. Dodd and Geithner continue to contradict themselves about who did what and when, and who was responsible.
Dodd, Pelosi, Reid, Frank and 3 RINOs pushed the bill through with the bonus exemption language. Obama did not wait to read the bill, and did not put it up for public view as he promised he would. He signed it as written, despite having plenty of time to read it. Obama, now facing a crisis, tries to channel that anger, by placing the blame on AIG; even though what they did was not only legal, but approved by Geithner, Dodd, the Dem-controlled Congress, and himself.
Pelosi and Reid attempt to punish the workers who received the bonuses, rather than admit their failure to properly negotiate the orignial TARP language, and the 'Stimulus' bill language. Instead, they are attempting to do something completely Unconstitutional, by trying to pass a tax law which is not only after the fact that the bonuses were approved and disbursed, but that the Congress itself and the President of the United States approved.
Come back here and fight, you mouse turd!
I am SO sure everyone thought the same thing about Hitler, Mussolini, Idi Amin, Chavez, Castro, et. al.
Everyone here that believes Wasilla Hillbilly was polite about Geo.W. while he was in office, raise your hand…
Thought so…
The 'protests' against AIG are thinly-disguised 'political actions' by leftist groups like ACORN, using taxpayers who are being deliberately mislead into venting their frustration against AIG employees and not people like Dodd and Obama. He has counted on his minions in the MSM to promote the anti-AIG tome. However, it doesn't work like Chicago, where a complacent media rolls over for the Machine. He has pushed his luck too far, and his hypocrisy and his feigned 'outrage' doesn't fly nationwide. Unfortunately, the damage he has caused so far, and the potential damage he will cause until January 2011 may take decades to undo.
Doesn't get it, does he?
You are so on target, Hermie. It's "Wag the dog" on steroids.
I guess you can't show any proofs that you never disparage Bush. Wait, you didn't capitalize his name. I'd say that's one, which makes your "never" statement false.
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How about a break in the action for a little Saturday morning sing-a-long?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHRxfn-DTV4
Catchy tune/toon…have a good day gang…
God forbid, someone here used facts to argue their points. What the hell is this world coming to?
"Wife? Trolls have wives? I thought they only had basements and sad lives? "
His wife, Morgan Fairchild?
Zing! BevfromNYC for the win!
His blow up doll has a "tramp stamp" that says, "My name is ___". Its tatted upside down so it can be read in certain positions….
You're still here yapping with ya fingers? You leave then we'll believe no one is listening to us anymore.
I was bandying them about around Nov. 5, 2008 in preparation…
lol So much facts, you'll hurt Wasilla Hillbilliy's head.
So much facts, you'll hurt Wasilla Hillbilliy's head.
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