‘Oh My Gosh. I Pushed Green’: NC Lawmaker Accidentally Legalizes Fracking by Pressing Wrong Button
- Posted on July 3, 2012 at 8:28pm by
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State Representative Becky Carney of North Carolina accidentally cast the wrong vote for one of the state’s most controversial topics Monday night and, because it was the deciding vote, Republicans won’t allow her to change it.
According to the Atlantic Wire, lawmakers had already passed a bill establishing rules for hydraulic fracking and horizontal drilling for oil and gas exploration in the state, but the bill was vetoed by the Governor Bev Perdue.
The House needed exactly 72 votes to override the veto late Monday night and, lo and behold, Carney’s accidental “yes” vote gave opponents the exact number they needed. Whoops.
“Oh my gosh. I pushed green,” she reportedly said. “It won’t let me change my vote.”
She then burst in to tears, according to the Wall Street Journal, and asked for a redo with the rest of her party.
Republicans said no. A change in Carney’s vote would have changed the outcome, which is against the House rules. Majority Leader Paul Stam said fracking is important for the economy and Republicans needed every vote they could get to allow it, including Carney’s, if it so happened. The Senate had already overridden the veto and it became law the moment voting closed, he explained. “There was nothing she could do about it…There was nothing that can be done.”
Carney said in an interview: “It feels rotten…It’s a very heavy responsibility because I just feel like the state is not ready.”
Check out a brief interview with the embarrassed politician, via WCNC, below:
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Comments (213)
RJJinGadsden
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:06pmA lot of people now feel the same way after pushing the wrong ‘button’ for 0bama in ‘08. Okay, except for you trolls here. We know how invigorated you are about pushing that wrong button.
Report Post »Gregb
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:45pmyep… I was thinking the same thing. No going back. We cant change the communist cr-p that obama has started, but we can change course.
Report Post »REMINDER – IN NOVEMBER – DO NOT PUSH THE WRONG BUTTON – THERE WILL BE NO GOING BACK!!!!!
Cemoto78
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:57pmJust proves your too stupid to be in the legislature. Another moron progressive who probably has a hard time spelling her own name.
Report Post »Lotus503
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 10:16pmProbably a Freudian slip. She unconsciously wanted to vote for what’s right.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 10:23pmWhy are solar power panel factories never powered by solar?
Report Post »22AUTOMATIC
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 10:33pmThe Lord works in mysterious ways! I love it!
Her conscience knew it was the right thing to do and overpowered her agenda & talking points for a brief moment.
Report Post »mr.goodvibe
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 10:42pmRepub- That is the 365 million dollar question.
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 12:04amRJ: My thoughts as well.
Report Post »martyinhagerstown
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 12:42amBet this idiot woman has family in broward county florida…I hear they had voting trouble in the 2000 election.
Report Post »Dale
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 1:10amRepubliCorp;
“Why are solar power panel factories never powered by solar?” ANSWER: They are powered by US tax dollars.
Report Post »toiletclogga
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 8:36amHow would you like her to be your representative? Proof you can’t fix stupid!
Report Post »Shifty6
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 11:43ammaybe she was voting for it BEFORE she voted against it. I’ve seen it happen before.
Report Post »dmerwin
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 1:25pmNow tell me who the smartest people in the room are!
Report Post »Git-R-Done
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:04pmThat‘s one of the worst excuses I’ve ever heard in my life.
Report Post »mils
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:10pmif you do not know “yes” from “no”…
Report Post »THEN …you belong in the obama administrtion!!!!!
Mil Mom
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:41pm@mils
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:10pm
if you do not know “yes” from “no”…
THEN …you belong in the obama administrtion!!!!!
*****
Report Post »Where the term “Good Democrat” comes from!
The-Monk
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:42pmI guess she thought the green button meant “going green”.
Eyes wide open but no one home…..
Report Post »Raging_Waters
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 10:54pmImmediately after pushing green, she pushed brown..
Report Post »Onodacops
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 8:08amI bet in middle school the dog ate her homework too :)
Report Post »Viperguy46
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 4:02pmOf course she’s claiming it to be an accident! Yeah, right, she voted the RIGHT WAY and is just trying to hide the fact! BooooooHoooooo! You go girl!
Report Post »Smoovious
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 8:58pmWell, for a brief moment to be on her defense, the equipment should allow her to change her vote as long as the time limit hasn’t yet expired…
but that‘s the only part of her defense I’m taking…
Report Post »sawbuck
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:01pmLets just call this what it is …
Report Post »A religion that worships mother earth ,that will force all of it’s inhabitants to submit.
Exrepublisheep
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:25pmWhat kind of Idiots think forcing all those carcinogens at high pressure into a hole will have no repercussions?
Report Post »jhrusky
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:42pm@ exrepublisheep
I wonder the same … a friend of mine swears up and down that fracking is causing well aquifer contamination in Colorado … if that is the case, I don’t care how important fracking is for the economy … water is far too precious to risk on this procedure. SO, that said, does anyone have any verifiable facts on fracking causing water aquifer contamination from independent sources? Seems all the sources I can find are funded by the companies behind that fracking technology, and that makes me a wee bit suspicious.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:44pm@Exrepublisheep
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:25pm
What kind of Idiots think forcing all those carcinogens at high pressure into a hole will have no repercussions?
Report Post »****
Obviously right! They’ve been doing it for generations and look how brain dead half the people are!
therealconservative
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:47pm@currentlibsheep
What IDIOT thiinks that wind and solar power will save the day?
Report Post »jhrusky
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:50pm@ therealconservative
I know people living off-grid with wind and solar and they have been for years. When everyone else’s power goes out, they’re still running their small business, watching TV, and never miss a glitch. What part of that is so bad?
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:52pm@therealconservative
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:47pm
@currentlibsheep
What IDIOT thiinks that wind and solar power will save the day?
Report Post »***
But it’s working so well for all those in the path of the Derecheo (sp) last week. Those birds are all out beheading themselves to supply the downed power grids.
therealconservative
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 10:39pm@milmom
Roger that
@jhr
Read milmoms reply. Your friends are still tied into the grid, why because solar doesn’t provide it all. I live in southern Arizona and people still need to tie their solar into the coal fired electric plants. Also, name anyone who drives to work in their solar/wind power car or text/tweets/facebooks/emails/surfs on any devices that is solar or wind powered.
Report Post »jhrusky
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 10:49pm@ therealconservative
“Your friends are still tied into the grid, why because solar doesn’t provide it all.”
Actually you’re mistaken. Off-grid means NOT tied into the grid. They are entirely, 100% solar and wind powered. Grid-Tie would mean still tied into the grid.
“I live in southern Arizona and people still need to tie their solar into the coal fired electric plants.”
Do some investigation … I’m certain you can find a number of them that are, indeed, off-grid. Many are grid-tie, but more and more are going off-grid.
“Also, name anyone who drives to work in their solar/wind power car or text/tweets/facebooks/emails/surfs on any devices that is solar or wind powered.”
I‘m not going to list people’s names here, but I work on the computers of those that I know that are off-grid and they DO text and tweet and facebook and email and surd on devices that are entirely run by electricity they generate themselves all via solar and wind power.
Report Post »JediKnight
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 11:41pm@jhrusky: They may be off grid, but their power use is extremely limited. They aren’t running computers 24/7. They aren’t watching TV for hours at a time. They aren’t running their dishwasher and laundry whenever they want. Everything is done on a schedule and only when they have a lot of sunshine or wind. When the sun goes down, their power usage plummets (it has to because they simply can’t store enough in batteries).
They aren’t staying up late at night watching TV with the house lights on. They simply can’t. They can live off the grid just fine, but they aren’t living like people who are on the grid. In a nutshell, even though they have electricity, they’re living similar to people in the 1800s. Up at dawn and in bed at sunset (give or take a few hours). Their homes are probably buried halfway into the earth too to keep them cooler in the summer (so they don’t have to run A/C) and warmer in the winter.
Report Post »JediKnight
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 11:48pm@JHR: FYI, the claimed Colorado water contamination is utter bs. They’re claiming the fracking has resulted in methane gas getting into the water supply. Too bad fracking happens far below the water table and that supply of water has been flammable for decades, long before fracking was being used.
Report Post »jhrusky
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 11:59pm@ jediknight
Read my other post on this 1st page regarding how fracking MIGHT be causing problems. I’ve never stated it certainly does … I’m trying to actually find out answers. I do know, however, it’s insanity to take a chance on destroying a finite resource like fresh water. We really cannot afford an ‘Oops!’ here.
Report Post »therealconservative
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 12:07am@jhr
Nope they are ALL still tied to the grid, sorry.
Report Post »jhrusky
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 8:28am@ therealconservative
“Nope they are ALL still tied to the grid, sorry.”
I guess I do not understand what you are saying as those I know are not tied to any grid, anywhere, except their own. They are not tied to any coal-fired electrical plants or any other electricity supplying outfit except their own battery banks which are powered by their own solar panels and windmills. At least one of them do not even have electrical company lines running anywhere near their home.
If you’re making a different statement, please help me understand.
Report Post »Smoovious
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 9:10pm@jhrusky
> I do know, however, it’s insanity to take a chance on destroying a finite resource like fresh water.
What‘s ’finite’ about it?
I mean, yeah, sure, assume the whole ecosystem crumbles and becomes static, then I guess fresh water could be finite…
like… if water stopped evaporating off of the oceans, making the air humid… then we wouldn’t have any clouds anymore, and without clouds, we’d have a hard time getting rain falling on the land and collecting into rivers and stuff as it heads back out to the ocean, so, yeah, I suppose of that cycle was broken, then yeah, fresh water could be finite, sure…
but since we don’t have the capability of stopping that cycle, then the only way fresh water would become finite is if the atmosphere blows off the planet, and the oceans boil away into space and we don’t have any water left…
hmm… seems kinda far fetched, so, for ALL practical purposes, fresh water isn‘t ’finite’, since the cycle that makes fresh water, happens above ground, in the air.
fracking, takes place FAR below ground, so, it won’t interrupt the infinite fresh water cycle.
Where did you ever get the idea that fresh water was a finite resource!?
– Smoov
Report Post »dmerwin
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 1:23pmjhrusky
Report Post »The good part of the “off the grid” folks is that they did it themselves. They also had no alternative. As a country we do not have the money or logistics to “large scale” alternatives. Barack himself stated “Energy costs will necessarily skyrocket” and his Department of Energy thinks that the conversion price is 6-7$ a gallon gasoline. Regarding the safety of fracking I would look in another direction. The earth is constantly shifting and changing. Earthquakes and volcanoes are an example, as are the natural phenomena in Yellowstone or any other hot spring, or cold spring for that matter. It is internal pressure that causes this. Nothing is done in a complete vacuum. Wind turbines kill birds and apparently in New England “ruin the viewscape”, can‘t put solar in Death Valley because there is a mouse or lizard that hasn’t been studied, but may be adversely affected, we don’t know, but the concern was sufficient to table the idea. Massive projects would be necessary to build the infrastructure to move the “green energy” to where it would be needed. So that leaves your example of a small scale, self funded wind or solar as the ONLY viable, for now, solution.
rogwl
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 8:58pmWhat’s wrong with fracking? It’s natural and feels so right.
Report Post »Smoovious
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 9:30pmit doesn’t mean the same thing to us, as it means to the other 12 colonies
– Smoov
Report Post »varnell99
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 8:55pmLead by the “Hand of God” who know what NC needs most.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:01pmIndeed. And all too soon all of us who love liberty and freedom will need His grace and mercy to keep alive; the Drudge Report shows an article in which Homeland Security now considers those who love small government and freedom as “Right wing extremists and terrorists.”
Report Post »sawbuck
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 8:53pmYep …Full assault on mother earth.. bad coal burning plants ..The weather channel is promoting restrictions on water run- off ..
Report Post »and Now…frinken fracking..!
Mil Mom
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:49pm@sawbuck
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 8:53pm
Yep …Full assault on mother earth.. bad coal burning plants ..The weather channel is promoting restrictions on water run- off ..
Report Post »and Now…frinken fracking..
****
Don’t forget the run-off from livestock polluting rivers and streams. IT‘S ONLY THE POLLUTION FROM ALL THOSE WILD ANIMALS INCLUDING THE ONES THEY’RE RE-INTRODUCING THAT WILL HELP OUR WATER SOURCES!
jhrusky
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 11:29amCoal-burning plants; you don’t think they spew pollution in our air? How about you go breathe their emissions for a few decades and then tell me what you think about it. Have you ever known and been close to anyone who died of lung cancer due to breathing in pollutants?
And water run-off … if concentrated pollutants are running off and entering streams, rivers and getting to the aquifers, how can that be good and OK to continue?
There comes a time that we have to be smart enough to protect our environment because if we continue, there wont’ be an environment to protect (until after we’re all gone and then it will rebuild itself). You can only dissolve so much of an unnatural substance into another substance at which time a threshold is reached. We could be getting close to that threshold. I don’t believe it smart to play russian roulette with our environment.
Report Post »Tri-ox
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 8:51pmDim-O-Rats get tripped up by their own stupidity every time – LOL – FRACK you, lady.
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 10:06pmFLUKE and FRACK?
Report Post »Democrappy women are soooooooooooooooo frigging stoopid.
Watch—she will claim low blood sugar and Obummer will change her vote.
OMG 2012
JQCitizen
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 8:50pmSuck it Up, Honey! How do you think all those people who voted for Big O feel?
Report Post »normbal
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 8:50pmWhat were Abraham Lincoln’s first words after coming down off a ten-day drunk?
“I freed who!”
Too bad Chief Justice Roberts can’t use the “oops,” excuse, now that he’s enslaved 330 million Americans.
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 8:47pmIt’s not often that a Dem makes a mistake that is actually good for us…….
Report Post »jhrusky
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:45pmIf it contaminates water, I wouldn’t call that “good for us”. From what I have found and read thus far, the jury’s still out. Nothing is worth destroying our fresh water supply.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:55pm@copatriots
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 8:47pm
It’s not often that a Dem makes a mistake that is actually good for us……
Report Post »****
The hand of God was pushing hers. All those prayers being answered. Wonder if that‘s why it’s called the “Bible Belt”?
copatriots
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 10:07pmKeep reading, JHRUSKY, you’re bound to find the truth one day.
Report Post »jhrusky
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 10:15pmSo, @copatriots, you just espouse the right mantra or do you have factual information to share?
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 10:57pmYep……..the sense God gave me and 50 years of fracking that has had zero water issues. Then again, you should believe every liberal talking point.
I think you, JHRUSKY, will all by yourself save the very planet!
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 11:00pmOh and JHRUSKY, please, for the love of God, do not breathe or pass flatulence. I’m told it is very bad for the environment!
Report Post »izzy1127
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 11:32pm@JHRUSKY You say the jury is still out. That tells me you have no clue whether or not Fracking contaminates our water supply. Its been going on for decades now and the jury is still out? We should just stop the Fracking process until when? Instead of condemning the process, why not show your proof that its contaminating the water supply. The reason you haven‘t is it doesn’t exist. Only a “kook-aid” drinker would give your kind of defense and expect something good to come from it. Kinda like the BFD is now a BFT. yeah……..
Report Post »jhrusky
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 11:44pm@ izzy1127
Remember, some 80+ years ago it made sense to bury gasoline in leakproof steel tanks designed especially to not leak We continued this process into the 80s … Oops.
There are more than 680,000 underground waste and injection wells nationwide, more than 150,000 of which shoot industrial fluids thousands of feet below the surface. Records from disparate corners of the United States show that wells drilled to bury this waste deep beneath the ground have repeatedly leaked, sending dangerous chemicals and waste gurgling to the surface or, on occasion, seeping into shallow aquifers that store a significant portion of the nation’s drinking water. In 2010, contaminants from such a well bubbled up in a west Los Angeles dog park. Within the past three years, similar fountains of oil and gas drilling waste have appeared in Oklahoma and Louisiana. In South Florida, 20 of the nation’s most stringently regulated disposal wells failed in the early 1990s, releasing partly treated sewage into aquifers that may one day be needed to supply Miami’s drinking water.
Fracking is changing the earth’s geology, adding man-made fractures that allow water and waste to flow more freely. This could be an issue. We may have fossil fuels, but no fresh water. Not a good tradeoff.
.
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 1:35am@jhrusky—–The jury’s not still out?. You just won’t believe what is said.
Report Post »jhrusky
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 11:22am@ bikerr
I won‘t believe what is said by people with a financial interest in what they’re trying to prove, you are correct. When analyzing “proof” today in this heavily politicized and dishonest society we are in, one needs to take into account where the information is coming from and whom is financing the studies. Screw the politics … how about some real factual information from honest people with integrity and character?
Report Post »Blazebanned
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 8:42pmWonder if she thought “frack” when she realized what she had done?…….
Report Post »Welcome Black Carter
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 10:55pmProbably said it a few times!
Report Post »moonlight on the bay
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 2:42amShe pushed pushed the fricken fracking button! Hope she’s more careful at TRAFFIC LIGHTS.
Report Post »Doug Piranha
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 8:42pmDoes John Roberts get a chance to recast his vote on ObamaTax? No? Then, tough crap, lady.
Remember the Tea Party Rally Cry this November. ObamaCare is a BFT! A Big F’ing Tax!
Report Post »Banter
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 8:41pmFreudian slip. You know you wanted to vote this way.
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 8:40pmI’ll lay odds that the Dems in the NC legislature will, in fact, get their Do-Over. Just wait for the media Hellstorm that’s coming.
Report Post »wisehiney
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:28pmI don’t wanna take your money, but we (Tea Partiers) swept some normal Carolinians back into office in 2010. Biotch gets no do over. We will redeem ourselves to you folks in November.
Report Post »Blazebanned
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 8:40pm@Tron
Report Post »Though im not religous, i do believe in God though,maybe its true what the say that sometimes its God who guides the hand of man;pSure hate it for her luck ;p
MODEL82A1
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 8:37pmWe truly do get the government we deserve. Her constituents are obviously morons, too.
Report Post »aChameleon
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 8:37pmNo mulligans when you vote. I bet a lot of people wish they could take back their vote from 2008.
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 8:42pmACH, Wanna bet? I’ll give you 8 to 5 on $1000. The will get their do-over. This is ObamAmerica now.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 10:37pm@MODEL82A1
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 8:42pm
ACH, Wanna bet? I’ll give you 8 to 5 on $1000. The will get their do-over. This is ObamAmerica now.
Report Post »***
What’s Holder going to investigate the integrity of the vote, or will hillary ask the u n to do this one?
izzy1127
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 11:42pm@model82A1 North Carolinian here. The General Assembly is now ran by Republicans and Conservatives. Its up to the General Assembly to allow a do-over. Not gonna happen. No court in the land will accept the “oops” excuse. Can you imagine how large a can of worms that would open?
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 8:37pmshe feels the state isnt ready to become an economic powerhouse
typical lib
so dumb she actually thinks that fracking affects the water table, and that dumbness is futher collaborated by her pressing the wrong button
its about time she did the right thing…………….even if it was by accident
Report Post »biffo
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:27pmShe has no idea what the technology is about. None. These democrat fools do what they are told to do. With few exceptions these are the dumbest people in Washington. I would love to have a Jeopardy roundup. Alan West has more knowledge in his pinkie than the whole lot of these democrat idiots. The con men pair of obama holder couldn’t read a cookbook if they had to. Unless their was a joint and some ripple as a reward. Black racist dummies. Can’t wait to vote them out.
Report Post »jhrusky
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:48pmPlease explain to me why it is dumb to think fracking MIGHT affect the water table? When we frack water wells to increase the gallons per minute in a well, we open up new aquafers and cracks in the ground. Does not fracking for gas do the same? If it does, could not gas then permeate a well aquifer and contaminate it? I don’t know much about fracking for fuel so am asking the question to better understand the technology.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 10:46pm@jhrusky
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:48pm
Please explain to me why it is dumb to think fracking MIGHT affect the water table? When we frack water wells to increase the gallons per minute in a well, we open up new aquafers and cracks in the ground. Does not fracking for gas do the same? If it does, could not gas then permeate a well aquifer and contaminate it? I don’t know much about fracking for fuel so am asking the question to better understand the technology
Report Post »***
Let me carry your questions a little further: How does the fracking fluid tell if we’re fracking for water, or gas, and do both reside in the same aquafers? if fracking to increase a well‘s water pressure doesn’t contaminate it, then why are we worried about fracking for gas or oil?
mr.goodvibe
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 10:50pmWell JR, I don’t know everything about fracking but everything I have read shows that it is done at much deeper depths than what we drill for water, however that being said it seems that if you cross an aquifer on the way down you could contaminate it. That’s the best I got for you, if I find something concrete I will search you out on the blazer threads.
Report Post »jhrusky
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 11:17pm@ mil mom
“Let me carry your questions a little further: How does the fracking fluid tell if we’re fracking for water, or gas, and do both reside in the same aquafers? if fracking to increase a well‘s water pressure doesn’t contaminate it, then why are we worried about fracking for gas or oil?”
That’s a good question. Fracking for water is in a higher aquifer. As to any fracking, the answer I am coming across is that we have been drilling deep (thousands and thousands of feet) into the earth for decades to dispose of harmful industrial waste. In some instances, that waste has risen to the surface and caused issues. Now, we are coupling that with fracturing the earth’s geology with fracking for gas or oil (or water), opening up and weakening this deep layer, and more and more is coming to the surface and contaminating existing water aquifers. I do not know if this is as severe an issue as it is being made out to be, but I do know that common sense should cause us to proceed with great caution and if there is doubt, stop. The end result of a mistake is not just a high priced bottle of water. It’s the entire basis for all life on this planet. I find that pretty important. I do not understand the mindset that would trade a possible catastrophe of that magnitude for federal reserve notes.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 8:36pmOh this is too poetic, justice delivered by God for all of us to see, she is eating crow for some time to come. Notice how the leftists constantly demand the rules be changed when they make a mistake or the outcome is not to their liking?
Report Post »3monkeysmomma
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 10:49pmThat’s what I was just thinking:
“See, there is a God!”
Report Post »mr_matalino
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 8:35pmI’d like to believe this is what happened to John Roberts. He just pushed the wrong button on Obamacare…
Report Post »thibx
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 8:34pmdemocrats who needs them? he accidently did something right. now go home and never run for office again.
Report Post »Landon410
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 8:34pmfracking is big money!
this woman isn’t that stupid, she may be stupid, but not that stupid…. she did it on purpose, I’m betting she makes a couple million off some company fracking on some land her family owns….. this is an act
she wants fracking but has to play to her base with this “accident”
Report Post »txjb
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 8:42pmI agree 1000% , my exact thought when I heard it .
Report Post »randy
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 8:55pmMy Thoughts Exactly…….. Keep your eye on her BLAZe!
Report Post »lets see what family member or friend profits from this….
leftcoastslut
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:31pmshe may be running as a republican in the near future…. once a turncoat, always a turncoat
Report Post »wisehiney
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 8:34pmShe was watching Mayberry reruns.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:19pmBwahahahaha. When I was stationed at Bragg in the late ‘70s until ’81 there were a couple of hours in the afternoon when just about every channel on our cable ran the show.
Report Post »Kupo
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 8:34pmLOL well, her career is over.
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 8:33pmWAY TO GO, LIB LADY! Glad your fingers came to their senses. See who we have as leaders in our society? And….we’ll take it, thank you.
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