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THOM: It is not about figuring out that the Republicans crossed-over; the DEMS know that is what happened. The DEMs are afraid to admit that they were cross-overed by the REPs . . . because reality is scary.
This continues to be my question with one of my best friends who has been indoctrinated into the tea party by his brother. Where were you then and where will you be when there is an old, white, rich Republican in office? He insists he will still be fighting but I guarantee, if this happens at all - it will be with much less zest.
Sorry . . . What I meant to type was:
“Tim Pawlenty is a whore whose sole philosophy that he NEEDS to remain on the public dole FOREVER and FOREVER.”
Can a State call for impeachment and send it to Congress?
Tim Pawlenty is a who-wore . . . with the sole philosophy that he NEEDS to remain on the public dole.
70% of Americans are progressive.
Thom get your self a good speech to text software, Dragon Naturally Speaking works fine. You may have to still do some typing to make corrections, but far less.
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Gotta TOTALLY love the broadcasted “Arco has 10¢ price advantage” commercial on the KTLK 11550 AM web-stream right after Bernie & Thom answered the dude with the gasoline pricing trend ramble . . . CLASSIC!
@Gene, actually I fear a lot of things are going to change in Congress because our election systems are being flooded with loot.
A lot of horrible things are on the horizon, brace yourself people, and pray for lube. :-(
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Bernie . . . Bernie . . . Bernie . . . Sigh. Your crazy-McWonky ideology is showing . . . Ensuring that teachers have jobs, means that future voters might possibly be more likely to be smarter in their electoral choices AND the Republicans wouldn’t be able to be elected. We are ‘Mericans, dagmabit! We can’t have crap like this that makes sense . . .
Think about the corporations! What would corporations do without electoral fodder?
I fear that nothing's going to change in Congress as long as our election systems can be flooded with loot that attracts sociopaths.
Conflict of Interest Alert -
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/10/jim-sensenbrenner-bp-inve_n_608...
Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) is the second-ranked minority member of the House Judiciary Committee, andalso said committee's former chairman. He is also the owner of more than 3600 shares of BP plc., and is not even considering recusing himself from the oil spill hearings.
Yes, friends, we DO have the best Democracy money can buy! :(
@lorne, by your reasoning, I guess dispersants are chemotherapy.
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Our dependency on oil is cancer. The pipelines are the cancers intervation of veins keeping both our oil dependent society functioning and the cancer alive. The oil companies, wells and refineries are tumors, and the oil spill in the gulf a bleeding open infection. Greed and ignorance is metastasis.
We can treat cancer, we do it for people and we can do it for the earth. Ultimately one will be the victor.
One feature of a recession is more shifting of wealth to the already rich.
WRONG! Oil prices are fixed by CARTEL.
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=2&vote=00184
Vote Summary
Question: On the Motion to Proceed (Motion to Proceed to S.J. Res. 26 ) - (Murkowski (R-AK)’s attempt to gut the EPA)
Vote Number: 184 - Vote Date: June 10, 2010, 03:52 PM - Required For Majority: ½ - Vote Result: Motion to Proceed Rejected
Vote Counts: YEAs - 47 & NAYs - 53
DemonCrats voting to gut the EPA:
Bayh (D-IN)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Nelson (D-NE)
Pryor (D-AR)
Republicants voting to support the EPA doing its actual job:
(Cricket, cricket.)
Sorry if I offended any 8th graders. (#4)
Speaking of red-lining . . . The practice of banking and real estate corporations discriminating against poor (black) folk by zip code . . . Just like Republican ‘caging operations’ . . . Perhaps we stumbled upon another question for Sherry Angle & Rand Paul.
re: #4: yeah, but the drugs arent as good...
The Senate is mostly like 8th grade with money.
Corporations are artificial constructs designed as liability mitigation devices . . . Is it irony to hold one responsible?
Besides British Petroleum: Blackwater/Xe, Halliburton, the five major national banks all need to be thrown on this pyre . . . A pyre lit with the bones of ACORN whose only sin was getting the practice of red-lining blocked in the 1970s.
Did anyone here catch the Discovery Channels hour long advertisement for Blown Prevention? It was called "Disaster In The Gulf", and tried to pass itself off as an unbiased documentary on the BP act of negligence.
If you didn't see it, trust me, it was backed chock full of BS. If you did see it, I hope you didn't strain you're middle fingers and throat as you instictively yelled "BULLL SHIIIIT!!!!" as I did.
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Alvin Greene appears to be a well-meaning (and unfortunately inarticulate – Check out last nights Olbermann show) slub. I don't think he meant to cause problems. All things considered, it is doubtful that he was his registered Party’s choice. This is the reason we need to re-initiate exit polls in America.
The Republicans voting cross party lines were supporting their candidate by pooching the other side's best candidate. There is a long history of similar Republican malfeasance going back to the 1960s. Republican dirty tricks don’t end with caging and purging voter rolls and spurious immigration laws and . . .
@hgoverick, notoriety is going to Sliwa's head. He was a policeman with his group to protect one of our city's streets and now he wants the the U.S. to police the world. Our on-going stupidity will never end.
The rich will spend their tax breaks for thugs like Sliwa and the teabaggers but not for everyday Americans and our infrastructure.