MSNBC’s Ratigan Flips Lid: Democrats Want to ‘Screw Me and My Kids’ While Republicans ‘Want to Burn the Place to the Ground’
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The transcripts just don‘t do this recent tirade of MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan justice. In the wake of the recently passed debt bill, S&P downgrade of the U.S. credit rating and subsequent financial market volatility, Ratigan blew a fuse Tuesday, unleashing a rant for the ages, in which he described both Democrats and Republicans as “reckless, irresponsible and stupid.”
According to Ratigan, “Republicans want to burn the place to the ground” while Democrats just want to offer a deal that will see them through their reelections and then “screw me and my kids when it’s over.”
During Ratigan’s bombastic diatribe he stated, “we’ve got a real problem…this is a mathematical fact. Tens of trillions of dollars are being extracted from the United States of America. Democrats aren’t doing it, Republicans aren’t doing it, an entire integrated system, banking, trade and taxation, created by both parties over a period of two decades is at work on our entire country right now.”
“We’re sitting here arguing about whether we should do the $4 trillion plan that kicks the can down the road for the president for 2017, or burn the place to the ground, both of which are reckless, irresponsible and stupid.”
But Ratigan‘s ire also found it’s way to President Obama. According to the MSNBC transcript, Ratigan stated what he would like to see the President do:
I would like him to go to the people of the United States of America and say, “People of the United States of America, your Congress is bought, your Congress is incapable of making legislation on healthcare, banking, trade, or taxes because if they do it, they will lose their political funding and they won’t do it. But I’m the President of the United States, and I won’t have a country that is run by a bought Congress. So I’m not going to work with a bought Congress and try to be Mr. Big Guy … I’m going to abandon the bought Congress like Teddy Roosevelt did, and I’m going to go to the people of the United States get rid of the bought Congress.” … Until a President says that’s the problem and says he’s going to fix it, there is no policy that I can possibly see no matter how brilliant your idea may be or your idea or my idea or her idea or your idea at home, is that idea will not happen as long as there’s a capacity to basically fire a politician who disagrees with me by taking funding away from him. Is that a fair assessment?
Watch Ratigan’s rather piquant outburst below:
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Comments (191)
BarbWire
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 2:09amI do not know one Tea Party-type of person (It’s not a real party, no real membership, it’s just a movement of people who like traditional US History, Constitution, you know), I do not know one Tea Party Person who wants to burn anything down. A Democratic, government supported, college kind of voter is more likely to riot and loot. (Quit handing out free college, quit saying everyone has to waste so many years for too much money, for liberal indoctrination, for no guaranteed job.)
We who like the Tea Party, Hobbit label, are more likely to be calm, and like to carry political signs and to check voter guides and to be sure to vote. Also, just for fun, we read the Declaration of Independence once in awhile.
Report Post »one years food ration like glenn says
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 2:17amYes, yes dylboy, if you were the only one in charge everything would be just perfect , right ? pppffft !!!
Report Post »SkunkWorks
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 2:57amDylan is talking about Obama becoming a Dictator. Get rid of congress and go straight to the people. Serve the majority that voted him into office.
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 6:01amHe’s actually pretty accurate. Teapublicon austerity as a policy will collapse the country, which appears to be the tpc goal as long as we have a President Obama.
Report Post »rodamaa
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 6:07amThis guy, Retigan? whoever he is… What a nut job. Either he is misinformed or part of the hard left. The narrative is very familiar. Basically: “The system does not work”. We have heard this before from some in the Left already. I will start investigating this *****, I bet this guy has ties either Soros or one of the other rats in the good ship “screw America”.
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 6:17amAny idea how laughable the “Soros” meme is? hahahahahaha :^D
Report Post »hifi74
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 6:19amRifles you bumbling idiot, what Ratigan is purposing is that Obama should take over in a dictatorship. THAT is what will destroy this country. Our country is so in debt that we need cuts, so stop with the false meme’s. To not stop us bleeding cash is going to kill thus nation, not pitting an end to it. Sure in the short term idiots from your party might take to the streets and bus stuff because you think you’re “owed” it and tear some stuff up. But too bad so sad, tell your people to remove their heads from their fifth point of contact and that problem would be resolved. So cut your BS crap Tifksa because no one here is stupid enough to buy it but you.
Report Post »jedi.kep
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 6:57amHey DUMMY! The stooge in the President’s chair has been BOUGHT AND PAID FOR AS WELL! DUH!!!
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 7:20amWhy do you think Obama wants college to be declared a right, and given away free. I had to pass a test (back in 1982) in order to get into college. If you‘re scores weren’t high enough, you didn’t get in. And this was tiny little Southeast Missouri State University (SEMO). They keep lowering the standards because they don’t want to teach the kids in high school. As a preface, I have a special needs 21 year old. Now the state is paying for special needs children to “go to college” even if they’re on a 3rd grade level. That’s not college. If my son needs more after he got out of high school, I’ll teach him.
and, @tifosa do you just like talking out of your a$$? You don’t give any proof, only the talking points of the Democrats. The republicans wouldn’t be on our side, if it didn’t represent most of America. Sitting in your basement making up stuff to try to convince the man who just got his first Ipad off the government, or his free cell phone isn’t going to make it a reality.
Report Post »JohnGalt
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 8:48amBarbwire, the Tea-party, if it had gotten just a part of what they wanted, would have prevented a downgrade in credits rating. Dylan is not actually harping for a republic anymore, scary thing is I’ve started seeing more about people who want to get rid of this republic form of democracy.
Report Post »old white guy
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 8:55amtoo bad he couldn’t say that less government is the solution.
Report Post »popweasel
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 9:04amI for one would like to bulldoze most of downtown DC (while everyone’s on vacation of course). Destroy their records (not the historical ones of course), computer systems, buildings, etc. Only way to make sure the massive glob of overbearing bureaucracy isn’t able to come back to life a few years later.
Report Post »carbonyes
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 10:30amIf you listen closely to Ratigan, he makes some good points. Republicans, burn the place down? No, but we have certainly contributed to the debt problem, not only under Bush with the screwed up Prescription Drug bill, but also under the Mickey Mouse debt ceiling bill that makes nominal cuts up front, kicks the can down the road with the “supposition” that future cuts are going to be agreed upon, and does not truthfully address the gargantuan mounting debt that is going to continue to mount until the bottom falls out.
It is going to take a President to go to the American people because we do have a corrupt Congress succored regularly by lobbyists, other interest groups, and the likes of the George Soroses of life. Unless Obama had a St. Paul conversion, his agenda would not only not be accepted, but would only make matters worse, but it will take a strong principled, courageous man of character, yet to be elected, who is willing to go to the American people let them know what needs to be done and why, and then run with it, keeping them informed and drawing regularly from their support and encouragement.
When Congress sees that the people are behind such a dynamic leader, they will get with the program and do the right thing or the people will send them packing.
Ratigan seems to have some fire in his belly, and again makes some good points. A good bit of fire in our bellies motivated by right thinking and policies would go a long ways.
Report Post »ConstitutionalPatriot
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 10:42am‘BarbWire’, excellent movie reference by the way, we must realize this is MSNBC, (Media’s Socialist Network Broadcasting Company), and they always put down any conservative or group. To see them act like this is very good, to see the host smack the socialist annalist the way he did is good. This IMHO shows that they are starting to think about their families instead of their career, this is what Glenn talked about last year; we need to keep pushing the truth and many on the left and the middle will start to wake up and see what is actually going on.
Report Post »Servant Of YHVH
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 12:58pmYes that would definitely take care of it. Have a person that is more crooked and hateful and against the very tenets of our society and our freedoms refusing to deal with a “crooked” congress. Most of the people in congress are saintly angels compared to obama. That would be like a wolf going to the sheep and telling them that he is refusing to deal with the sheep dogs and will go and deal directly with the sheep.
Report Post »kellied
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 1:34pmThe Tea Party is the American people, they belive in the American values.. we have had since the beginning… The rights for all, not government of all rights.
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 1:39pmThanks, Barbwire, you’re exactly spot on.
So many foolish Liberals and Republicans just don’t understand much of anything. They have tunnel-vision. They can‘t see anything outside of the gamesmanship they’ve known for years.
They don’t understand the Tea Party, and that’s to our great advantage. They have no clue what’s coming down the pipe.
Report Post »The Third Archon
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 1:59pm” A Democratic, government supported, college kind of voter is more likely to riot and loot. ”
Report Post »A statement you offer zero evidence to support. Actually, poor people are more likely to riot and loot–political ideology has little correlation substantiated by any study of which I am aware.
JMorcan
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 2:00pmThis guy couldn’t be more correct. The only difference between Democrats and Republicans is who they steal from and who they reward. We’re badly in need of a total purge.
Report Post »Clive
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 2:13pmbarb, you miss the point. the point is, congress is bought and sold. they are slaves to whoever is filling their campaign bank accounts. its democrats, its republicans. neither one will vote for the will or good of the people, they will vote how they are told to, plain and simple. and you don’t think that is the heart of the problem with our system, you are high.
Report Post »Clive
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 2:22pmServant Of YHVH Posted on August 10, 2011 at 12:58pm:
Most of the people in congress are saintly angels compared to obama.
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are you serious? saintly angels? everyone agrees that obama sucks, but you have to be really ignorant to think even ONE congressman has actual integrity.
@JMorcan totally agree. people on this site are so jaded towards msnbc (with good reason), that they can’t even see when someone makes a salient, common sense point.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 2:53pmIn typical liberal style…Ratigan wants to abandon the constitution and have Obama declare himself dictator.
oh and TIFOSA? The Soros “meme’? So Soros doesn’t fund Moveon.org Or the programme to get liberal jugdes into state judiciaries? Or the “Secretary of State Project”?
From the Wall Street Journal:
“[...] That’s a nifty outcome for liberal groups who see the state courts as the next frontier for moving political agendas. The Nevada initiative is part of a nationwide effort supported by George Soros, among others, to eliminate judicial elections in state courts. Through groups such as Justice at Stake, Mr. Soros’s Open Society Institute has spent some $45 million on the cause nationwide”.
the Secretary of States Project that worked to elect friendly Secretaries of States in certain battleground states in 2006. They had remarkable success in claiming Secretary of State’s offices in eleven of thirteen critical states they had targeted.
These are the state officials charged with the responsibility of ensuring the integrity and honesty of the voting process. We can look at two of those states where their favored candidates won to see how their handiwork pays off.
Report Post »Minnesota’s Secretary of State in 2008 was Mark Richie (he still is in office). He gave credit for his own victory to the Secretary of States Project, and they trumpeted their own role in helping him get elected, lauding him as “arguably the most progressive Secretary of State in the na
Maxim Crux
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 1:42amThis man is afraid…which is the next step after denial. If he and others had done their job keeping the government honest, perhaps things would be different.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 8:24amDEMOCRATS were spending our wealth long before BARRY. DEMOCRATS were spending our childrens and greatgrandchildrens future wealth for a looooong time before BARRY. But he took it to a whole new level. Dylan, your purposeful shading of your eyes toward the DEMOCRAT thieves, is funny.
Report Post »Clive
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 2:25pmright imam…
Report Post »except for the 8 years of george bush blowing money like a kid in a candy store, sort of contradicts your point. don’t be so blind, they both suck, they both want big government.
CLM
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 3:50pmThis is exactly what this administration is wanting to create; panic and fear! This has been Obama’s agenda from day one. Remember, “never allow a crisis to go to waste.” That is exactly what they are trying to do, create a crisis so that Obama can become, not just president, but dictator of The Socialist Republic of the United States. This man needs to be fired! And so does Ratigan! It is people like him, who have a position on the air waves, that will create the panic, fear and crisis moment that this administration has been positioning for all along.
Report Post »Gypsy123
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 1:39amHe is a little right but alot wrong. Obama is not interested in fixing anything he is bought and paid for as well.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 2:26amhe never said Obama wants to fix anything
Report Post »A_VT_PREPPER
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 7:15amI couldn’t agree more
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 1:38amI got four and a half minutes into the video and couldn’t take it anymore. So I’ll have to comment on the transcript. I can’t dispute that congress is bought by special interest and that is both parties ( can you say term limits) but to pretend that this president isn’t bought and paid for is a frikken joke.
Report Post »PATRIOTMAMA
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 7:57amCouldn’t agree more. Let‘s focus on the bigger problem and making His Majesty Obama wouldn’t help at all. How about we get the people involved and educate them on how the process is supposed to work. Oh and remind them that they have a repsonsibility to keep these guys honest. They can only be as bought and paid for as we allow them to be. VOTE THE IDIOTS out of office and quit electing people like Barbara Boxer, Barnie Frank back into office when THEY are clearly in the bag. Come on!! Yes some in congress are bought and paid for but the President himself is most definitely one that is bought and paid for, his cabinet and all of his Czars. No need to change the constitution just start taking responsibility for our part in electing these people to office. That is the only way to solve this problem. WE HAVE TO DO IT!!! Not our president, not our Govenors, not our elected officials, WE HAVE TO!!!! Quit expecting other people to take care of you and start fixing the problem yourself!!! UGGGHHH!!!!
Report Post »Clive
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 2:30pmnot some patriotic momma, ALL.
its not even really their fault, its the way its set up. if you don’t raise XXX amount of money, you won’t win your next election, and if you don’t have that amount, you have to start doing favors. of course obama is bought and sold, but does that make what Ratigan says untrue? No.
money wins elections. dear leader obama has 3 times the money of ALL GOP candidates COMBINED. the fix is in, the election is a foregone conclusion.
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 1:31amThe secret combinations of evil men.. God will have His way with them… the gates of hell will open and swallow them up.. soon I hope.. Soon!
Report Post »40 Ford Ragtop
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 1:30amRatigan will soon be exiled from the Progressive lapdog – MSNBC – perhaps he will be able to find a job in China if Immelt CEO of the parent of MSNBC will give him a shot.
Report Post »hellnomo
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 1:21amThe sickening demonization of the Tea Party has the methods of Adolph Eichmann all over it, create an enemy and raise hatred through constant propaganda. Class envy, racial tensions and transference of blame are all being used as political tools of the Obama administration. Bypassing Congress is increasingly being called for by many on the left. It will only take one incident to blow it all sky high
Report Post »Okieflyover
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 2:59amYou are correct, but this group of leaders in the Progressive party including the likes of Hillary Clinton are Alinsky-ites. They have all read his books. There are stories that his book was handed out by Clinton when he was in office to his staff.
Personalize your enemy
Report Post »Freeze Your enemy and marginalize your enemy with ridicule and hatred. Discredit your enemy so matter if even what they say is right, noone dare stand with them or they will be attacked and ridiculed along with them. That is Alinsky.
AngelThree
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 1:16amPresident – Bought Congress – Bought Senate – Bought
Americas only Hope for Survival are the Very People that your Network refers to as Terrorists.
Ratigan – Your a Dolt…..
Report Post »Marci
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 1:22amI guess you should have thought about that instead of spending the past three years being a cheerleader for Mr. Hopey Changey Mr. Raging Ratigan. And do I understand that you are advocating that Barry become a dictator and bypass Congress? Too late. Guess he STILL didn’t do what you wanted him to.
Report Post »Clive
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 2:31pmits “You’re”, dolt.
Report Post »Eaglesnest
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 1:09amWe need to organize right now and push hard for term limits.
They will not pass a law that has term limits so we need to do it for them.
Term limits are NOT a right/left, dem/repub issue because they impact both parties equally.
2 terms president (check), 2 terms Senate, 4 terms in congress TOTAL, not each.
For some reason, some on the left are against this, so we need to work on them. I would also pay them less, no lifetime benefits.
Let’s demand a law be passed. If they refuse, let’s impose our own term limits and vote ANYONE out after their time is up, repub or dem, good or bad.
This would be a good start to fight this mess and corruption that we have slept through and allowed.
Those of you with small children like I have, go into their rooms right now and watch them sleep for a few minutes and then ask yourself if you are willing to curse their futures for our sins.
Report Post »Paradigmm
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 2:21amDon’t forget campaign finance reform and close the revolving door for good!
Report Post »blownaway
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 2:45amWell said… that is exactly what needs to happen!
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 6:20amTake away all their percs, they return to their districts as citizens without lifelong pensions and other benefits.
Report Post »term limits for congress
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 11:43ambeen sayin’ that for a while now…
Report Post »Scotch
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 1:07amSpeaking of term limits, ny father had an interesting idea. He proposed that Congressional elections be based on a sort of Selective Service lottery system, effectively, a new representatitve is drafted for one term of office – then sent home after their term is up and pulled from the lottery to prevent future service. Though the need to vote for Congressmen is eliminated, it is still a system of governemnt based upon being governed by the people. Plus, it revives and almost makes real the long-held American idea of the reluctant leader hestitantly serving on behalf of his neighbors. (A common myth attributed to many of the founding fathers and any other leader you want to sanctify with the notion that they are not ambitiously seeking power and influence.)
Report Post »Mil-Dot
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 9:19amNice try Scotch, but both parties will find a way to rig the system and exclude ordinary citizens. Only the corrupt with connections will get in. There is no limit to the criminality that these goons will stoop to.
Report Post »SHOESHINEBOY
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 1:05am**fixed “Democrats/Liberals/Progressives/Communists/Socialists want to burn the place to the ground” while Democrats just want to offer a deal that will see them through their reelections and then “screw me and my kids when it’s over.” **fixed**
Report Post »Viks4141
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 1:04amTwo Thumbs up for Radigan!!!!
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 2:25amagree……
Report Post »JimCDew
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 3:38am“Two thumbs up . . ” his a$$. Are you nuts? Anyone who wants Obama to override congress is asking for another King George. We already fought that war and won it. Term limits are the answer and the Tea Part movement is the way to get them done.
Report Post »LinkedIn G
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 1:03amVote Obama out…problem solved. No need to get your knickers in an uproar. He’s the problem…we’re the solution.
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 6:26amObama isn’t the only problem, all of the career politicians need to go. The whole system needs to be reformed starting with repeal of the 17th amendment. Then term limits. This eliminates guys like Wiener the whiner, fancy Nancy (the queen of percs), Rangel, Frank, Kerry, Feistein, Boxer, er al.
We would be enroute to becoming a gret country again.
Report Post »Clive
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 2:33pmyeah, obama is the only problem. you really have your head in the sand buddy.
Report Post »Scotch
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 12:57amThe one major fault in Ratigan‘s logic though is his belief that Obama actually wants to do anything to solve America’s financial problems.
Barry talks down the economy and the interests of America every chance he gets and has been doing so for four years, if not a lifetime.
Report Post »semihardrock
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 12:41amI have watched him for years and he IS a NUMBERS guy….numbers involve logic. There is NO LOGIC in our political system OTHER than politicians reading POLLS to say the “politically correct” thing to get re-elected.
The TERM “Politically Correct” actually comes from politicians and watching polls to get re-elected which has NOTHING to do with MATH and LOGIC of our ECONOMY!
AND when you DO get someone that looks at REAL FIGURES and puts a budget together (Ryan)…The Political Correct Politicians who ONLY follow (poll figures)shred it to pieces…be it right OR wrong!
Poll Numbers is the ONLY math skills politicians have which is what Dylan Ratigan is AND has… been saying for years! ALSO… He is STARTING to see (through math) the DESTRUCTION of The United States of America and REALIZES (through his childrens eyes)….There is no place else to live…ON THE PLANET!
Report Post »SavingtheRepublic.com
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 12:39am~~^^~~^^~~
Report Post »In a round about way he “gets it” by going after all of the above, so maybe there is some hope. I mean you rarely see a rant like this on the state controlled media channel! He is off thinking Emperor Obama can just make the rules around the DC though, so he needs some basic govt education there. Then again Emperor Obama has demonstrated when he, the crybaby in chief, doesnt get his way he will in fact do that. So maybe thats why Dylan rants hoping his majesty will hear him and act! Hey Dylan there are 3 branches of govt to prevent a dictatorship and what you want for a solution via BHO! But cmon lets give the guy props for going after all of the above! I actually like this rant for some odd reason LOL :) One thing is for sure he spelled out the truth, possibly enlightened a few, for those who watch this network that the Dems & Repubs are nothing but the 2 faces/heads of the progressive beast! http://SavingtheRepublic.com
LinkedIn G
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 1:17amYeah…But, he just wants Obama to make another speech. I…for one…have heard enough from Obama. Nothing he can say will make a difference. He had his chance in January. What did he do ? He started with his “raise taxes” agenda again and again and again and…Too late Obama…the boy who cried wolf…
Report Post »Rambo49
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 12:32amAll members of the House and Senate, who have served two terms, should be given there pink slips tomorrow. They should be told in no uncertain terms that voters will consider there name on any future ballots to be null and void. Gridlock and incompetence have reigned long enough. Compounded by an inept President who should have been impeached after his first six months.
Report Post »SavingtheRepublic.com
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 1:02am~~^^~~^^~~
AMEN!
Nothing will ever change until DC is swept clean of all of them good or bad. Nov 10 was proof of that “we” removed the weak ones but those responsible are still in power. I know I know I am a broken record with my cancer surgery analogy but it is that clear.
Surgeons have to remove good tissue too when they remove cancer from an ill patient because there is always the chance of a relapse. We have to do the same with politicians, gut DC completely and if that means those deemed good have to go then so be it! BTW some of them labeled true statesmen are hypocrites being in office as long as they have while supporting the term limit move!
Report Post »psst
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 12:29amI wonder how much PMSNBC is paying Beck to get such prominent features/stories on the Blaze?
Report Post »If the Blaze did not run what is happening on PMS, mebbe only the 69 guys and gals who regularly stays tuned into PMS waiting for Raquel er Rachel Madcow would know what is happening there.
TheCenturion
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 12:27amHe actually made some valid points — tens of trillions ARE be STOLEN from this country, and congress is BOUGHT, BUT SO IS THE PRESIDENT!!!
Where he went WAY off the reservation is by suggesting that the dictator in chief ignore the constitution, the rule of law, and the American people.
The REAL answer, as most of us on here know — BALANCE THE DAMN BUDGET.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 12:26amThere are a lot of ANGRY people in AMERICA. NO body in government office is doing their job. Elect new people now and recall the ones that aren’t up for election. It’s TIME FOR TEA TO CLEAN WASHINGTON!!
Report Post »DeannaRae
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 12:13am“I would like him to go to the people of the United States of America and say, “People of the United States of America, your Congress is bought…:
Problem is that George Soros, who has bought the President, won’t let him. So sorry Ratigan.
Report Post »amerbur
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 12:12amRatigan, you just lost any spit of respect I may have had for you. This is our country, this is our congress, elected by us, and we have a constitution. You can get the hell out of America and go live in your beloved dictatorship. In the mean time, I will do all I can to ban you from my site.
Report Post »Clive
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 2:43pmban him from your site! oh god no!!!! whats he gonna do without AMERBUR’s site!!!!
if you don’t think that all of our politicians, who are voting based on basically bribes, is a problem…. you are the problem.
Report Post »lonewolf57
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 12:11amDylan Ratigan,your about 3-8 years behind the curve ball,Bucko.Did you learn anything in college,or were you just sucking it all up,wanting a job at MSNBC someday?
Report Post »Clive
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 2:37pmbold words, from a man with a 7th grade knowledge of spelling and punctuation.
Report Post »rienheart
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 12:05amWhat a Moron. They are All the Problem including The President. Supreme Court too.
Report Post »rickroland
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 12:02amThe problem is, our President is bought by the very same people that Congress has been bought by. :/
Report Post »xoke
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 12:09amTerm limits. Period. We have 300 million people in this country, 80% of which I would trust more than Barney (I just passed something) Frank.
2 terms in Senate, 2 terms as president, 4 terms in house, period. Now, go back to where you came from and live with the laws you passed.
Report Post »S_Owen
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 12:49am@Rick Roland,
Hear, hear! I would so much enjoy it if one day all of our elected officials just came clean and admitted that they are all working for someone else and it ain’t the American people.
I’m with Xoke, who commented to you as well, that TERM LIMITS need to be made and enforced. The days of career politicians (spits) need to be over and they need to be over NOW.
Report Post »affinnity
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 9:56amI agree.
Report Post »lillymckim
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 10:50amI feel your pain but WHO is going to vote for term limits in Congress?
Report Post »StanO360
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 2:17pmI heard a CA State Senator (former) that said he changed his mind about term limits. He felt that term limits hands the keys to the kingdom to special interest groups and bureaucrats. Not sure if I agree, but I would instead eliminate all retirement benefits and financial incentives to be a lifelong politician, but that could lead to problems with politicians “feathering their beds” before they leave office too.
Report Post »Clive
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 2:38pmXOKE,
Report Post »term limits for sure… i don’t know about your 80% figure. that’s a bit high.