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MSNBC Host, Dem Rep Accuse GOP of Sabotaging Economy to Beat Obama in 2012

The Republicans “want chaos,” Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., announced on MSNBC Friday. According to McDermott, the GOP’s “hidden agenda” is to keep unemployed Americans out of work and to destroy existing jobs in a grand scheme to make voters blame President Obama, thus ushering in a Republican president in 2012.  (Yeah, like the GOP is that organized.)

Everything the GOP does in the next 24 months, McDermott insists, is solely meant to undermine Obama who is apparently leading the charge to get the country’s private sector back to work.  Bad Republicans, bad!

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  • Volsense
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:35am

    Liberalism is a mental disorder. McDermott’s anti-American bias has kept him from being relevant for years. He knows that if the unions are not fed hundreds of millions of dollars and in turn relay those dollars to the demonrats, they may not be able to buy enough votes to maintain any semblance of power. His insanity has become comical.

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  • thermonator
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:28am

    This is rich…. especially after giving billions of dollars to the unions over the last two years. No doubt Mr. McDermott will say that he only cares about the American people and doesn’t care if Obama is re-elected.

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  • Nervous Investor
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:24am

    Normal part of the left wing’s standard strategy. They adopt policies which kill an economy and then blame the center right for having “sabotaged” the economy or “economic crimes”. Seen this all before elsewhere in the world. Check the USSR, check Jamaica in the late 1970s for two examples.

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  • DSTSS2010
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:21am

    WOW! This guy just blew up my BS Detector.

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    • chickenlittle
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:26am

      You can borrow mine. (It stays pegged whenever tuned to MSM or during most political speeches anyway.)

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    • chickenlittle
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:29am

      PS… It runs on 6 “D” batteries.

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    • Mateytwo Barreett
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:48am

      I’m waiting for the new “green’ solar powered model. . unfortunate,y the company that got the $58 M for solar power development is supposedly moving operations to China. But in my estimation, thats just another 600 jobs (1200-2500 lives) that were touched by the wonderful stimulus. Unfortunately, I’m afraid the instructions will be in arabic.

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  • psst
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:14am

    How much is PMSNBC paying Beck to keep promoting this marxist network

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  • chickenlittle
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:14am

    Pledge written on rice paper, no less.

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  • wash1776
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:10am

    This clown is SOOOOOOOO ridiculous I can’t decide whether to laugh or cry. What a blatantly pathetic attempt to blame the Republicans for the VERY THING the Damocratic communists have doing to this country. They will never be able to stoop low enough I guess, because every time I think one of them has stooped as low as these Damocrats can go, one of them exceeds the stupidity they have come up with in the past. I have NEVER in my lifetime seen so much damage done to this country than in the last 2 years and who has been in charge? THE DAMOCRATS! You are all so pathetic you beggar belief.

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    • chickenlittle
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:22am

      I don’t laugh much anymore myself… I would suggest crying (especially when you realize that there are now a couple of generations of indoctrinated people ((thank the public school systems)) and poorly educated people to provide a voting “base” for these buffoons).

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  • moonpeace
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:09am

    ddd…2…@CaptainKook
    You really are the Kook! It is human nature to follow the path of least resistance. In wanting back in office, of course the Republicans are going after Obama. It is so easy to do. His stupidity makes him the path of least resistance. And apparently your stupidity does the same thing for you.

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    • CaptainKook
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:17am

      Opposing Obama on PRINCIPLE is a valid political strategy and I expect Republicans to do so.
      Opposing Obama with only the intent to undermine – even at the cost of further harm to the United States – is NOT patriotism – it is sedition.

       
    • DashRipRock
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:59am

      CAPTAINKOOK

      You are sounding like your HERO ARLAN SPECTOR

      YOU KEEP REPEATING YOURSELF

      BUT YOU ARE NOT SAYING ANYTHING

      WHAT UNDERMINING

      HAVE THE REPUBLICANS DONE WITH THE ECONOMY????????

      (I have $5 that says he wont answer)

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    • fatpatriot
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:40am

      Careful Kook your progressive leanings are beginning to show. The progresssive movement by definition is seditious.
      “In law, sedition is overt conduct, such as speech and organization, that is deemed by the legal authority to tend toward insurrection against the established order. Sedition often includes subversion of a constitution and incitement of discontent (or resistance) to lawful authority. Sedition may include any commotion, though not aimed at direct and open violence against the laws.”

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    • CaptainKook
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 11:13am

      @ FatPatriot
      “Sedition often includes subversion of a constitution and INCITEMENT OF DISCONTENT (or resistance) to lawful authority. Sedition may include any commotion, though not aimed at direct and open violence against the laws.”

      Thanks for that desciption of right-wing talk radio and their creation, the Tea Party movement.

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    • CaptainKook
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 11:22am

      An addendum:
      The Tea Party movement is a tremendous source of political energy – you can bet that when Tea Partiers begin to realize in large numbers just how the GOP has lied to them they will be the biggest factor in the further decline of the GOP in 2012.
      That may not mean they’ll go for the Democrats, but they WILL turn on the Republicans.

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 11:37am

      Private Kook

      As a Tea Party member . you have no idea what a can of worms, you, Major Reid Lt Pelosi and General Barry have opened. While the Liberals, Socialists, Progressives, Communists, ( And now for the first time), Union (some) Members, DEMOCRATS ALL, wallow in the same cesspool.. The Tea Party and R’s have too much in common to split. And you are FUNNNNNNEEEEEEEEE

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    • fatpatriot
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 12:00pm

      calling attention to your diversionary tactics by your attempt to use lies and innuendo to make your progressive viewpoint seem valid. Your other comments on this subject confirm your socialist/progressive tilt. Such as your comments about being brainwashed by business interests and your reference to the insurance business as “cartels”. Another ad hominem attack. (see above definition). You are what is referred to in socialist circles as a “useful idiot”. I do not mean that you personally are an idiot. Your views and indoctrination spouted here and no doubt to anyone else who will listen, are useful to the progressive/socialists to forward their agenda. I don’t really know if you even believe this stuff or if you are “parroting” something you heard some other “useful idiot” say. Either way you won’t find many here who will swallow the “kool aid” you’re serving. I now have real work to do and besides I’m bored with your circular logic. You‘re a troll and I won’t waste any more time with you.
      Yes I copied and pasted my previous comment because it is worth repeating.

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    • fatpatriot
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 12:03pm

      sorry I should have addressed my last post to Kook

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    • CaptainKook
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 12:37pm

      13th Imam
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 11:37am
      Private Kook

      As a Tea Party member . you have no idea what a can of worms, you, Major Reid Lt Pelosi and General Barry have opened. While the Liberals, Socialists, Progressives, Communists, ( And now for the first time), Union (some) Members, DEMOCRATS ALL, wallow in the same cesspool.. The Tea Party and R’s have too much in common to split. And you are FUNNNNNNEEEEEEEEE

      And you are doing your best to maintain the majority public perception of the Tea Party as being a fringe group – but I know the average Tea Partier is a concerned citizen who will eventually figure out who really works on their behalf – and that is NOT the GOP.

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 1:07pm

      Private

      In your infinite wisdom please, Let us All know who is TRULY on the side of the TEA Party? Baited Breath I need a good laugh

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    • CaptainKook
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 1:43pm

      13th Imam
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 1:07pm
      Private

      In your infinite wisdom please, Let us All know who is TRULY on the side of the TEA Party? Baited Breath I need a good laugh”

      The Koch Brothers.
      Who are on their OWN side – not yours.

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    • Jim from Maine
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 4:21pm

      @CAPTAINKOOK
      We are definately trying to undermine Obama because of our principles ( and his lack of any )

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  • moonpeace
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:08am

    @CaptainKook
    You really are the Kook! It is human nature to follow the path of least resistance. In wanting back in office, of course the Republicans are going after Obama. It is so easy to do. His stupidity makes him the path of least resistance. And apparently your stupidity does the same thing for you.

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  • LittleLordFauntleroy
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:08am

    Something in that ORDER is out of STATEMENT. That’s like the saboteur pointing the finger at someone else calling them the saboteur first so that by the time the innocent person explains that they are innocent, they start looking guilty.

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  • Long Neck News
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:06am

    now we know why msnbc has such bad ratings.

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  • Sterling Mac
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:06am

    Oh, dear~! This is ridiculous… These guys are either stupid, or evil… I vote stupid.. But I could be wrong.

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  • MONEY_FOR_NOTHING
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 8:59am

    It never ceases to amaze me. The economy is in the toilet because Repubs are trying make the Prez look bad. LOL!! B*%L#S^!+&T….!!!!

    I suppose what bothers me most is the absolute lack of integrity of these people.

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  • clockwatcher
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 8:57am

    Can any one undermind the black jimmy carter any more? Look at the fools record.

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  • matt708
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 8:55am

    another ducebag that needs to be voted out of office. His brain went to dog pooh

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  • IntrepidSI
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 8:51am

    Yes, the Democrats had Super Majority for two years, they did what exactly?

    Was it the GOP that ignored the American people while they rammed “Obamacare” thru?
    Was it the GOP that ignored the job situation when people lost homes, and savings?
    Was it the GOP that thought “DADT” was more important than the economy?
    Was it the GOP that wasted all that money on the Stimulus Projects, you know, the money that went to pork, waste, fraud and Unions?

    For those who think this dribble about the GOP is true, see DNC Chairman Kaine’s remarks on CNN. He said, and I quote “Barrack Obama was too busy to worry about the economy in the first two years of his Presidency”.

    Now for this tool to come out and point the fingers shows that they are desperate to have someone to blame for the job situation.

    Of course, he has a sliver of a point. The Republican Party needs to stop worrying about Abortion and Birth Certificates and Impeachment and work on one thing – JOBS! Never mind everything else, except “ObamaCare” which is a jobs killer and needs to go.
    All other priorities should be shelved for now, and a plan should be drawn up for the economy starting the day after the election in 2012.

    HELLO GOP? YOU LISTENING? GET YOUR DAMN HOUSE IN ORDER AND FIND US AN ELECTABLE CANDIDATE.

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    • chickenlittle
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:05am

      The federal government has NO ability to create jobs (except for government jobs)! Only an unshackled free market can create revenue producing jobs. Government jobs create only one thing… debt to the taxpayers. Some government is absolutely necessary, but when the numbers side with the public financed sector, you have a financial spiral against the economy and thus give more power to the ruling class. It’s always been a progressive movement goal of a giant pyramid scheme. … and now it’s collapsing without new investors (taxpayers) to support it.

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    • teachermitch32
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:18am

      Chickenlittle,

      I had not heard anyone describe their tactic exactly as a pyramid sceme before. You are absolutely right to compare it in this manner. In order for those benefiting from the influx of funds, one must nessesarily find new partakers to invest in the sceme, hence more funds. Those benefiting from the influx would be the progressives and poeple dependent on thier entitlements. Those new partakers, in this case, would be us (the taxpayer) funneling more $ into the sceme. There never is, according to their sceme, anything actually produced, sold, serviced, etc. This is exactly like a pyramid sceme.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 1:03pm

      Amen.

      And Chicken Little, that was WELL STATED!

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  • Alphonso
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 8:50am

    As the saying goes “Whatever the libs accuse you of is exactly what they are doing themselves”.

    Shamless conduct from an elected leader…

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    • lillianrose
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 7:00am

      Yep- proof in the pudding- look at how Washington state has been doing. It has been steadily going downhill ever since dems got control of the gov seat.

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  • BLEMON01
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 8:48am

    Projection-attributing feelings or impulses unacceptable to one’s self to another person.
    ex. Dems want chaos. Dem states that Republicans “want chaos on a daily basis.”

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  • ares338
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 8:47am

    I think anyone with an IQ of over 60 can figure out where the agenda is in this story.

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  • TruthisHealthy
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 8:43am

    Uh, how about telling the truth. Barry the fraud and his lawless administration are deliberately trying to destroy America.

    They are liars, thieves, treasonous Anti-America enemies within. It‘s astonishing he’s not being impeached for his crimes against the American People.

    The fraud in office works for “We The People” and he commands no respect. Thank my God, not his who is Alah he’ll go down in history as the biggest fraud in World History.

    “We The People” know the truth.

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    • chickenlittle
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 8:55am

      We (the conservative, politics-following, Fox News listening, reasonably intelligent, fair minded Americans) know the truth… the unfortunate part is that a lot of people have been indoctrinated for so long that they really DON’T know the truth… and that has been the strategy for the last 40 years of the Progressives. How do you think these Dems got elected in the first place? They may be coming out of the closet (now that they have the numbers), but they didn’t just pop into office over night.

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  • piper60
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 8:41am

    Add your comments

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    • hopnmad
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 11:55am

      The GOP needs to kick the Dems in the butt this coming 2012! I can’t take anymore of this liberal crap!!!!

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  • piper60
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 8:40am

    OH, Right. Yeah, sure, you bet. And it’s my imagination that Obama has been systematically doing his best to thwart efforts at exploring for oil, which would help out at least one sector of the economy, for example. He claims he wants us energy independent, so our economy can thrive, then doesn’t allow drilling in the gulf or Alaska.
    He claims to want to help small companies to be able to invest in equipment and workers, then strangles their ability to do so by forcing the Obamacare law on them. Cass Susstein, his regulatory czar, makes sure that the average entrepenure decides not to start any new business because the amount of red tape he/she has to deal with is just too much.
    The Dems have a lot of nerve, trying to claim that it is the Republicans, who stand for smaller government and lots more individual opportunities, are to blaim. Geeeeeeeeeeees. Time to cowboy-up, folks.

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  • Dustyluv
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 8:40am

    I think that Obama has done well enough destroying our economy. Nothing a Rebublican could do to make it worse…well unless they start that stupid spending crap again.

    What a bunch of Dem BS

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  • newspapertaxis
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 8:39am

    The propaganda machine in high gear. Gotta start now, so their hero Barry gets 4 more years.

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    • Sparky101
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:47am

      They started a couple of years ago. See, I’ve always found it to be true that when people accuse you falsely, or ascribe motives to your actions, it is because it is what they do. In other words, think back to how the economy tanked just before the last presidential elections. Things were fine, economically, so the Dems and their puppydog media started a stealth campaign to inflict fear in the investors. They hammered for months how the economy was beginning to go south. It worked. The investors started to get worried and some began to take their money out of the stock market. That brought the averages down to where the automatic withdraws began, and the rest is history. The Dems did that on purpose, and since it worked so well, they are now accusing the Republican of trying the same stunt. Problem is, the Republicans are honest people for the most part, and would never ride with the Dems mantra: “the end justifies the means.” It does not. Republicans have something the Dems don’t, integrity. So, we know these asinine charges by the Dems are false, but only made because the Dems feel the Republicans are as dirty as they are.

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    • hopnmad
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 11:40am

      “According to McDermott, the GOP’s “hidden agenda” is to keep unemployed Americans out of work and to destroy existing jobs in a grand scheme to make voters blame President Obama, thus ushering in a Republican president in 2012.”
      ***********************************************
      This is so pathetic and typical of Democrats..why it’s the “vast right wing conspiracy” that‘s keeping you out of work and by the way the GOP wants to take your grandmother’s medications away because they don’t support Obamacare…ridiculous!

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  • Geo0248
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 8:38am

    What an idiot!
    I dont know what worse, this fool for saying stupid things like this in public or the votors who didnt do their homework before wasting their vote on him.

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    • Cemoto78
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 8:47am

      Anything to undermine this administration is a good thing. I want to live in a free, capitalist society where there are plenty of jobs, less welfare and entitlement programs. All the things Obama and the progressives are against.

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    • tobywil2
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 8:50am

      “PREPONDERANCE OF PROPAGANDA”!
      Another example of the “preponderance of propaganda”! The wannabe tyrants and their cronies are publicizing lies, half-truths and the irrelevant to avoid a discussion of the issues. Pay no attention to the smokescreen.
      When the premise is false the only arguments that can be used are fear mongering, emotion, sarcasm, ridicule, attacking the messenger and misrepresentation of the facts (lying). Those who expect to reap huge profits from our misery caused by tyranny are experts at these tactics.
      The only relevant issue is freedom or tyranny!!!! http://commonsense21c.com/

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    • CaptainKook
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 8:54am

      The truth:
      Arlen Spector left the GOP precisely for this reason. He said – on Fox News Sunday – that right after the 2008 election, the GOP leadership decided that their only path back to power was to oppose and undermine EVERY EFFORT made by Obama to help the economic recovery and to get any work on behalf of the American people done.

      The GOP are the enemies of the American middle and working classes – if that isn‘t obvious you aren’t paying attention to current or past history..

       
    • tobywil2
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:00am

      For this news item to be valid, Mr. Obama’s policies would have to be good for the economy. Yet, all llhis initiatives either damage the economy, reward his political cronies or both. Look at how Obama’s policies have caused the price of energy to increase.

      Do you actually believe that Mr. Obama is actually trying to improve the economy? In recent history, almost all coups, resulting in a dictatorship were preceded by a very severe economic crisis. Is that economic crisis Mr. Obama’s objective? Remember when Rahm Emanuel , Obama’s chief of staff, stated one should never waste a crisis. What do you think he meant? You should be very afraid!

      Mr. Obama presents 3 alternatives:
      • Ignorance, which can be cured with knowledge
      • Stupidity, which is forever
      • Evil, he plans to avenge King George III by destroying the American Revolution and create a dictatorship.

      Almost every initiative that Obama has instigated is destructive to the economy. Does anyone really believe that a President can be that stupid or ignorant? If you do, I have some perfectly dry, vacant land that is completely ready for development in Florida for sale cheap, cash only. http://commonsense21c.com/

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    • CaptainKook
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:01am

      Here’s the video of Arlen Specter on Fox News Sunday describing the GOP plot to undermine Obama and the United States:

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS8Y8G2aNpk

       
    • CaptainKook
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:11am

      John Boehner, when told that the proposed budget-cuts could kill hundreds of thousands of jobs, replied “so be it” – that’s the mindset of the enemies of the American working person: the Republican Party

       
    • Freefromyou
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:26am

      @captinkook

      Arlen Spector! This is who you would choose as your beacon thruth! He has as much credibility as Saddam’s Information Minister or Colonel Gadaffi. Just another tyrannt trying to cling to power. As witness by his party loyalty.

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    • AzDebi
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:27am

      ((((((((((Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Hee Hee Hee Hee))))))))))…..Toooooooo Funny!

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    • DashRipRock
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:31am

      CAPTAINKOOK

      Gets the dumbass award of the day.

      The republicans have only had control of the nationas purse strings for the last

      3 MONTHS

      the last 24 MONTHS

      democrats had control of the purse strings

      LAST TIME I CHECKED THE ECONOMY TANKED WHEN THE DEMOCRATS TOOK CONTROL OF CONGRESS

      So you can chose to believe your lies
      (and you will)

      BUT EDUCATED PEOPLE KNOW BETTER

      idiot

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:31am

      I recall being at all those “lets get Barry” meetings, me, GWB, GB, RL, SH, ML, BG, BO,JB, RR, RN, How much fun it was deciding how to divvy up all those lost jobs among the poor union workers..Arlen Spinciter, worked tirelessly flashing back and forth between the Communist left and the confused moderates trying to find a place in history.

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    • CaptainKook
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:32am

      Slam Arlen Specter all you like – but if you have any sense you‘d know that if he had kept his mouth shut and just gone along with the GOP sabotage and stayed with the GOP he’d STILL be in the Senate with a “R” after his name – he took a principled stand instead and left the Party.

       
    • DashRipRock
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:34am

      and Arlan Spector has been stuck on STUPID

      long enough to get the boot from the GOP

      and when I say stuck on STUPID

      I mean STUCK on Stupid

      Wait a minute.

      Wait a minute.

      Wait a minute.

      Wait a minute.

      Wait a minute.

      Wait a minute.

      Wait a minute.

      Wait a minute.

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    • CaptainKook
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:37am

      @ DashRipRock

      I guess you forgot how the Republicans filibustered everything they could in 2009 and 2010 including bills they had previously supported – from Federal judgeships to the 2010 Defense Department budget, keeping Congress tied up in knots for month on end.
      THAT is sabotage, nothing more

       
    • Mateytwo Barreett
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:39am

      @CAPTAINKOOK
      You can’t be serious. . Using Arlen Benedict Specter as a source!
      How credible has that twit EVER been. Cripe, look around when you drive, if ou can affford the gas, houses vacant, busineses closed, the homeless people, and you still come to a conclusion, somehow, that this administration is doing anything to allow this country to survive, let alone prosper. I got some little brown pills you to take!

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    • Freefromyou
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:42am

      @captinkook

      RE John Boehner qoute “so be it”

      Just as Pres Obama’s comment on energy prices having to “necessarily rise” leaders choose a path to acheive a goal. While Obama’s is to destroy free enterprise and give rise to tyranny, Speaker Boehner is to reduce to burden of debt thus freeing capital and eventually restoring liberty. I for one am with the Speaker.

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    • CaptainKook
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:47am

      Freefromyou
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:42am
      @captinkook

      RE John Boehner qoute “so be it”

      Just as Pres Obama’s comment on energy prices having to “necessarily rise” leaders choose a path to acheive a goal.

      Do you really think the utility companies can upgrade from their antiquated and filthy coal-burning plants to cleaner and more efficient systems at no cost?
      Like it or not, we pay premuims in other areas for that dirty energy.
      Better to pay more for cleaner energy than for the effects of all of that pollution.

       
    • Freefromyou
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:50am

      @captinkook

      RE: I guess you forgot how the Republicans filibustered everything they could in 2009 and 2010 including bills they had previously supported – from Federal judgeships to the 2010 Defense Department budget, keeping Congress tied up in knots for month on end.
      THAT is sabotage, nothing more

      Again when faced with the tyrannical, free people as witnessed in Lybia, will do everything in their power to be free, You dont get it, Cons, TEA and the like see there freedom being lost. I am suprised that the violence that has occurred elsewhere in the world has yet happened in the USA. A real testament to the quality of people in those organizations

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    • DashRipRock
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:51am

      So republicans Filibustered

      OBAMACARE??????????????

      DID YOU JUST GET HERE FROM WHAT EVER PLANET YOUR FROM??????

      THE REPUBLICANS FILIBUSTERED THE BAN ON OFFSHORE DRILLING??????

      here is a shovel

      just keep digging

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    • DashRipRock
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:55am

      and WHAT THE HELL DO JUDGES

      HAVE TO DO WITH FISCAL POLICY??

      AKA ECONOMICS???

      WHOS PHILOSOPHY IS SPREAD THE WEALTH?????

      WELL IT REALY HARD TO SPREAD THE WEALTH

      IF THE GOVERNMENT

      TAKES IT AWAY….AND KEEPS IT FOR THEMSELVES

      SO LETS FIRE WASHINGTON

      AND HIRE MORE WORKERS

      dumbass

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    • CaptainKook
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:55am

      @ DashRipRock

      The Republicans filibustered the 2010 Defense budget to stop health insurance reform?

      I won’t laugh at you.

       
    • Lt_Taz
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:03am

      Has anyone suggested that McDermott should be medically screned for alcohol and or illicit drugs?

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    • DashRipRock
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:03am

      Riders on the Bus

      Rider on the Bus

      liberals make a fuss

      because they’re riding a short Bus

      There is no money to lend

      because liberals tax and spend.

      Rider on the Bus

      a little tiny bus.

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    • Freefromyou
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:05am

      @captinkook

      RE: Dirty power

      Our freedom always comes at a cost be the life of one of our patriot soliders or the danger to choose something that may be more harmful in the long term for a gain in the short term .ie paying that high energy bill or putting food on the table. I can not blame a free person for choosing food. I can however blame a government that would choose for you.

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    • fatpatriot
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:07am

      Dear Kook,
      First things first. Arlen Specter left the GOP because he’s an opportunistic little weasel. He saw the difference in the numbers after the 2008 elections and jumped ship. That’s why he got his a$$ handed to him in 2010. Cause and effect. Get it? Weasel like effort to change parties for self and a$$ handed to you next election. The video from December 2009 was Specter trying to cover his a$$ before the 2010 election. Cause and effect. Get it? Weasel like effort to explain treacherous behavior a$$ handed to you in next election.
      Secondly; Boehner in February said “Over the last 2 years since President Obama has taken office the Federal Government has added 200,000 new federal jobs. and If some of those jobs are lost in this then so be it“ It is disingenous to make the connection between cost cutting measures that will affect Government jobs and the ”American working person” which I have to assume is a back handed reference to the public sector.. By the way, Isn’t it interesting that there was an increase in hiring after the bush tax cuts were extended. You really should be a little more prepared before throwing around ad hominem attacks on the Blaze.
      “Ad hominem attacks are often used in a debate or discussion where the speaker wishes to avoid the substance of the discussion and instead resorts to smearing the character of their opponent.
      It is considered a logical fallacy and is one of the modes of spreading propaganda.” thefreedictionary.com
      People here actually pay attention to what’s going on. Better luck next time.

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    • justright
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:08am

      If there is anything you DON’T want to remember over the next 12 months is what people like this guy are saying!!!!!!!!!!

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    • DashRipRock
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:10am

      CAPTAIN KOOKY

      OBAMCARE WASNT SIGNED INTO LAW???????

      IS THAT WHAT YOU ARE SAYING??????

      THE REPUBICLANS STOPPED HEALTHCARE??????

      AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

      you are a SUPERSIZED DUMBASS

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    • CaptainKook
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:13am

      @ fatpatriot
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:07am
      Dear Kook,
      First things first. Arlen Specter left the GOP because he’s an opportunistic little weasel. ……

      You really should be a little more prepared before throwing around ad hominem attacks on the Blaze.
      “Ad hominem attacks are often used in a debate or discussion where the speaker wishes to avoid the substance of the discussion and instead resorts to smearing the character of their opponent.”

      LOL – thanks for clearing that up, sir.

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    • fatpatriot
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:14am

      Dash I really like myour style!!!!!!

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    • jagr1850
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:17am

      no leadership is living in the white house….the obumma is good for kEnya not the USA
      god bless the republicans ..when the obumma resigns …there will be plenty of new jobs $$

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:20am

      Captain

      General Barry has just demoted you to Private Kook. Can’t Wait for 2012 when the new Republican/TeaParty President works with the Republican?Tea Party Senate and the Republican/Tea Party House. I am sure by your rant that the Socialists, Liberals, Progressives, Communists, DEMOCRATS ALL , will pledge not to filibuster, oppose ,challenge or sabatoge any Republican policy..

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    • DashRipRock
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:20am

      CAPTAIN KOOKY

      DID THE REPUBLICANS STOP OBAMA’S STIMULUS BILL??????

      DID THAT STIMULUS WORK?????

      ARE YOU GOING TO KEEP TALKING ABOUT A NON ISSUE

      LIKE ARLON SPECTOR BECAUSE YOU KNOW

      REPUBLICANS DIDNT STOP @#$#$#2

      you’re really bad at this CAPTAINKOOKY

      maybe you should go back and study

      RHETORIC

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    • CaptainKook
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:29am

      @ Fatpatriot
      The GOP budget plan would cost 700,000 jobs, reports Lori Montgomery: “A Republican plan to sharply cut federal spending this year would destroy 700,000 jobs through 2012, according to an independent economic analysis set for release Monday. The report, by [the infamous Socialist...heh heh] Moody’s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi, offers fresh ammunition to Democrats seeking block the Republican plan, which would terminate dozens of programs and slash federal appropriations by $61 billion over the next seven months. Zandi, an architect of the 2009 stimulus package who has advised both political parties, predicts that the GOP package would reduce economic growth by 0.5 percentage points this year, and by 0.2 percentage points in 2012, resulting in 700,000 fewer jobs by the end of next year.”

      http://www.economy.com/dismal/article_free.asp?cid=197630&src=wp

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    • fatpatriot
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:32am

      Kook,
      It seems hard for you to recognize that the reference to opportunistic weasel is the substance of the argument. When faced with the reality of being on the losing side of the majority in the Senate Specter made a concious decision to bail on the GOP after almost 30 years for his own benefit. Weasel get it? Nothing ad hominem about that. Fail for you again.

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    • CaptainKook
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:37am

      fatpatriot
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:32am
      Kook,
      It seems hard for you to recognize that the reference to opportunistic weasel is the substance of the argument. When faced with the reality of being on the losing side of the majority in the Senate Specter made a concious decision to bail on the GOP after almost 30 years for his own benefit. Weasel get it? Nothing ad hominem about that. Fail for you again.”

      OK – I won’t respond with an ad hominem attack by calling you an ignorant hypocrite.

       
    • DashRipRock
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:45am

      CAPTAIN KOOKY

      STILL THINKS THE REPUBLICANS STOPPED :

      OBAMACARE….

      OBAMA’S STIMULUS PACKAGE

      OBAMA’S OFFSHORE DRILLING BAN…

      AND OBAMA’S 2010 BUDGET…..

      are you ralley that stupid KOOKY?

      or just a BIG FAT LIAR?????????

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    • fatpatriot
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:47am

      Kook When an adversary resorts to name calling then they have nothing left to offer to the discussion. You have now resorted to name calling i.e. “ignorant hypocrite”. Feel better now?

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    • Kurty C Wipe
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:49am

      @13th In my book, Spector made histroy long, long ago. Lead investigator in JFK shooting, this coward comes up with the magic bullet theory, and sold it. Corruption is Spector. If only one bullet hit Kennedy, Barry is a Christian and is going to release his college records tomorrow. Both these clowns place in histroy has been well defined, a sad joke!

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    • CaptainKook
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:49am

      @ DashRipRock
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:45am
      CAPTAIN KOOKY

      STILL THINKS THE REPUBLICANS STOPPED :

      OBAMACARE….

      Of course they didn’t stop it – they just added dozens of favors for the insurance cartels to it then whined that they weren’t allowed tp participate.
      They also voted for the 2010 Defense budget after filibustering it for a few months – just to keep Congress in a straightjacket for political gain.

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    • DashRipRock
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:54am

      CAPTAIN KOOKY

      NO REPUBLICAN VOTED FOR OBAMACARE

      THE INSURANCE PAYOFFS WERE TO GET

      DEMOCRATS TO VOTE FOR IT!!!!!!!!!

      YOU ARE THAT STUPID…..

      moron

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    • Sparky101
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:54am

      And believers like CaptainKook think Glenn Beck is a conspiracy theorist. At least Glenn uses facts and the truth to expose evildoers, not some made up drivel. People like CaptainKook seem to believe anything, and this is what McDermott is hoping. Looks like he is succeeding.

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    • CaptainKook
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:54am

      @ fatpatriot
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:47am
      Kook When an adversary resorts to name calling then they have nothing left to offer to the discussion. You have now resorted to name calling i.e. “ignorant hypocrite”. Feel better now?”

      I’m still trying to find the first “ad hominem attack” you accused me of posting.

      And I STILL won’t call you an ignorant hypocrite.

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    • CaptainKook
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:58am

      @ Sparky101
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:54am
      And believers like CaptainKook think Glenn Beck is a conspiracy theorist.”

      I don’t think Glenn Beck is a conspiracy theorist.

      I think he’s a novelist.

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    • CaptainKook
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 11:01am

      I don’t think Glenn Beck is a conspiracy theorist.

      I think he’s a novelist.

      “The Overton Window” – now in paperback.

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    • lylee
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 11:04am

      Speaking of undermining an agenda and defeating a president, isn’t this Baghdad Jim speaking? Isn’t he the one that went to Baghdad to undermine the war effort with the sole purpose of defeating Republicans? Always look at what they accuse their opponents of doing and you’ll find what they do.

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    • fatpatriot
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 11:05am

      Kook
      When referencing Boehner’s “so be it” comment you stated “the mindset of the enemies of the American working person: the Republican Party”
      That’s ad hominem. Got it?

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    • CaptainKook
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 11:09am

      fatpatriot
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 11:05am
      @ Kook
      When referencing Boehner’s “so be it” comment you stated “the mindset of the enemies of the American working person: the Republican Party”
      That’s ad hominem. Got it?”

      No it’s my opinion – based on their behavior – of the current Republican Party.

      an ‘ad hominem attack“ is you calling Specter ”an opportunistic weasel”

      I‘m starting to think I SHOULD call you an ignorant hypocrite but I’m still resisting the temptation.

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    • DashRipRock
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 11:10am

      There goes KOOKY

      repeating himself again

      KOOKY

      HOW MANY TIMES DO YOU HAVE TO REPEAT

      A LIE TO YOURSELF

      BEFORE YOU BELIEVE IT????????????

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 11:25am

      These commentators (reading from Obama’s teleprompter?) are so stuck on stupid. I really don’t even think a 2×4 would knock any sense into their heads. Someone needs to remind them that the sweep of 2010 was because Obama’s economics failed to deliver and not much has changed. This song and verse, along with the racism card, is so old we need to brush the dust off of it.

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    • fatpatriot
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 11:46am

      Kook’
      No attempt to smear his character. He did that all by himself by his actions. .No avoiding the substance of the argument only calling attention to your diversionary tactics by your attempt to use lies and innuendo to make your progressive viewpoint seem valid. Your other comments on this subject confirm your socialist/progressive tilt. Such as your comments about being brainwashed by business interests and your reference to the insurance business as “cartels”. Another ad hominem attack. (see above definition). You are what is referred to in socialist circles as a “useful idiot”. I do not mean that you personally are an idiot. Your views and indoctrination spouted here and no doubt to anyone else who will listen, are useful to the progressive/socialists to forward their agenda. I don’t really know if you even believe this stuff or if you are “parroting” something you heard some other “useful idiot” say. Either way you won’t find many here who will swallow the “kool aid” you’re serving. I now have real work to do and besides I’m bored with your circular logic. You‘re a troll and I won’t waste any more time with you.

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    • fatpatriot
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 11:49am

      Dashriprock,
      I’ll leave the troll captainkook in your capable hands.

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    • CaptainKook
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 11:57am

      @ Showtime
      I agree that there is a lot of cuts that can be made from Federal spending – the disagreement is over what to cut.
      Republicans want to get rid of programs that work toward the interests of the American people [environment, education, healthcare, retirement security, workplace safety etc] while protecting spending that supports the corporations and oligarchs – the elite and very wealthy 2% which I assume includes few – if any – of the posters on this board.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 12:08pm

      Re; My comment to Captain Kook ~

      I just read my comment to my friend from high school. He laughed and told me that I’d become such a conservative that talking sex was out!

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    • banjarmon
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 1:27pm

      McDermott insists, the GOP’s plan is solely meant to undermine Obama who is apparently leading the charge to get the country’s private sector back to work.

      @Mr McDermott; the potus would not know how to lead a charge even if he were in a barrel rolling down a hill.
      The potus is a disaster looking for more places to happen!!! We do not need him leading ANYTHING, ANY MORE!!!

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    • REDPILLREADY
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 1:40pm

      When I hear the radical dumboRats brazenly and sanctimoniously argue that cutting government spending and jobs will trash our economy despite the fact we are FLAT BROKE, deeply in debt, and the world is actively taking steps to get the hell away from our currency, I‘m convinced we’re on the brink. It’s feels like being trapped below deck of a sinking ship while listening to decision makers talk about blowing another hole in the hull to let the water out. No wonder more and more people are considering the likelihood there is another agenda behind BHO and the democRats. Stupidity just can‘t explain what they’re doing and advocating.

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    • Zippo
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 1:58pm

      I concur Geo

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    • C. Schwehr
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 3:36pm

      I don’t call him “Jihad Jim” for nothing!

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    • obfuscatenot
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 8:48pm

      Yeah, that makes soooo much sense. The GOP wants the people who give them money to be out of work and broke. Yeah, that’s the ticket.

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    • walkwithme1966
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 5:05am

      The Republicans are not smart enough to come up with a plan like that!! Just another conspiracy theory!! Fairly I don’t believe that the Democrats or the Republicans have any idea what to do to get us out of this mess!! http://wp.me/pYLB7-IH

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    • lillianrose
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 6:10am

      @Geo0248- as far as changing the minds of the many voters who elected this joker- well, it is kinda hard to change the minds of the cemetary community.

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    • lillianrose
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 6:13am

      Oh- and the Washington state democrats where openly allowing illegal aliens to participate before elections and planned on voting themselves.

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    • Ruler4You
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 10:38am

      While MSNBC has a long history of reporting pure fabrications as though they were fact, and making up supportive “stories” to back their “political gaming” strategies, using REAL data to support such claims isn’t even a consideration for even a single person in their line up. So this is a waste, but:

      Let‘s see the ’proof’ of such accusations. Obviously, to execute a George Soros style economic sabotage would leave some ‘marks’ traceable by a motivated fact finding ‘journalist.’

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    • jackrorabbit
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 12:18pm

      Wow! Remind me, who is running the FED, and who is running up the debt?
      yes, Bush ran up 4.4T in 8 years, shame on him! Obama has done it in 2 years, so shame on him as well.

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    • jackrorabbit
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 12:25pm

      @CaptainKook
      Are you really this blind? Look at the budgets passed or proposed under Obama. How many really have jobs in mind? If the last two really had jobs in mind, then we wouldn’t be at 8.9% unemployment. Two years is plenty of time to turn a “sinking ship” around. Spending isn’t the answer. Investment can only be performed by an entity that produces something. So, name me one thing that the Federal Government actually produces(for sale, as in a service or product) that renders ANY profit. I can give you some that they “run”, but they all run on a deficit. Amtrak, their own cafeteria, and Medicare to name a few. Add in Fannie, Freddie, and SSDI and WOW they suck. I would rather let the market forces decide, than let an entity with such a horrible track record spend the money.

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    • jackrorabbit
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 12:34pm

      @CaptainKook
      Lets see between food stamps and oil
      Less than 10% of Americans actually NEED food stamps
      Less than 99% of Americans actually NEED oil, hmmm. Bad example to choose there. However, I agree with you. NEITHER should be supported by the Federal government. There are plenty of churches, food banks, and other things that can be used to help those that need food. If we would drill here, then we wouldn’t need to subsidize oil, since they would be making a profit locally(not to mention the 1000′s of jobs created). While on the subject, we should do away with “green energy” subsidy, let the market decide. Quit subsidizing our farming, and while we are at it, let all the business things(like amtrak, Fannie, Freddie, school loan programs, post office, et al) be run by the private sector, and if they fail, LET THEM FAIL. We are supporting so much “dead wood”, like bailing out AIG and the auto companies, that our economy is drowning.

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    • Jim from Maine
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 3:52pm

      @CAPTAINKOOK …
      Arlen Spector didn’t leave the Republican party because of any principles … he knew that he wouldn’t be elected again ….. his principle goal was a job,nothing else. How can you spout this stuff ? I have been reading here for awhile and can’t keep quiet anymore. There are too many people like you here just saying foolish things. I feel sorry for you and your view of life here in the USA.

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