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Grover Norquist is such a liar. Europe does NOT have slower economic growth. I wish I could afford to go there and live but alas, I am too old and don't have enough money. It seems after going to college, working all my life, raising a family, paying my taxes, defending my nation, I am left with not enough money to hardly live on. There is no way I could ever afford to even VISIT Europe, let live there.
Thanks to the liars like Norquist, our nation is screwed. When will people learn to quit allowing people like him and like Blankenship rule our lives?
Supply-side means screwing the middle-class to pay the wealthy a bonus for being wealthy.
@ Gene, you can raise the average income of a planet by having Bill Gates walk in.
Why is sloooow economic growth bad?
Slow and sure wins the race you know.
Grover Norquist came to MN and got Gov. Tim Pawlenty to take the "No Taxes Pledge." As as result, the state's economy went the way of Bush's national economy.
@Gerald, so we end up kicking ourselves,'cause mushrooms grow in it. These metaphors are really getting surreal.
You can raise the average income in a room by having Bill Gates walk in.
Grover, "a decent guy with decent motives"?
Please. Why Thom puts these GOPhers/Corporate shills on the air...
Is Elena married to the neocon lover and a goosestepping Republican, Fred Kagan?
This is largely a redux of the 1930s and 1870s and 1760s . . .
‘Clean Coal’ burns blood red as well as blacker than smoke . . .
Thom, I know that you wanted Obama to pick the Supreme Court Justices. But, there is no guarantee that his appointments will have progressives on the court.
The Case Against Elena Kagan
by Glenn Greenwald
It is far from clear who Obama will chose to replace John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court, but Elena Kagan, his current Solicitor General and former Dean of Harvard Law School, is on every list of the most likely replacements. Tom Goldstein of SCOTUSblog has declared her "the prohibitive front-runner" and predicts: "On October 4, 2010, Elena Kagan Will Ask Her First Question As A Supreme Court Justice." The New Yorker's Jeffrey Toobin made the same prediction.
The prospect that Stevens will be replaced by Elena Kagan has led to the growing perception that Barack Obama will actually take a Supreme Court dominated by Justices Scalia (Reagan), Thomas (Bush 41), Roberts (Bush 43), Alito (Bush 43) and Kennedy (Reagan) and move it further to the Right. Joe Lieberman went on Fox News this weekend to celebrate the prospect that "President Obama may nominate someone in fact who makes the Court slightly less liberal," while The Washington Post's Ruth Marcus predicted: "The court that convenes on the first Monday in October is apt to be more conservative than the one we have now." Last Friday, I made the same argument: that replacing Stevens with Kagan risks moving the Court to the Right, perhaps substantially to the Right (by "the Right," I mean: closer to the Bush/Cheney vision of Government and the Thomas/Scalia approach to executive power and law).
harry ashburn, our call in life are to be shit kickers.
Yes, harry ashburn, but the powerbrokers are above the law and they cannot be blamed for any murders.
President Obama would NEVER choose a Liberal or a Lion to serve on SCOTUS. Being the wishy-washy, mediocre, just right of the center of the road pro-corporate plutocrat that he is, he will chose THE wishy-washiest , most mediocre, just right of the center of the road pro-corporate plutocrat with a law degree he can find . . . Maybe his wife.
Charging CEOs and Boards for murders, I believe that our murder rates will go down significantly.
@Gerald, at least we're not toadstools!
@Gerald, so you do agree there is someone to blame? thats my point. Peas!
"There were a lot of people, particularly Democrats, who were declaring after the 2008 election that we were beginning a period of Democratic dominance that would go on for decades," Lieberman told Newsmax. "Now, all of a sudden, the momentum is with the Republicans. And that's — thank God — that's the way people have spoken, you know? That's our democracy." Joe Lieberman
Hey now baby, get into my big black car, I wanna just show you what my politics are...
harry ashburn, by nature we are not either cannon fodder or a mushroom. We are control by the powerbrokers and they place us in the category of cannon fodder or mushroom. Since I am seventy years old, I cannot be cannon fodder to fight in American wars. I am placed in the mushroom category. By either category we are shit on by the powerbrokers.
@Maxrot: that's 30 ELEPHANT years.
"Kids Make Nutritious Snacks" - headline from leftwingwacko.com
@harry, your right (though I think 30 years is an underestimate).
@Maxrot, we've had the foxes guarding the henhouse for 30 years. At the head of most regulatory agencies, in Washington and here in Austin, are former CEO's and others who have a financial interest in the industries they regulate.
Thom, thank you for making my day with Rush Limbaugh's comment on unions. That comment proves Limbaugh is a total idiot.