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Mr. Hankey!
Crap Sandwich officially passes 61-37.
Liberal elitist contempt personified as Schumer declares the “chattering class,” i.e. citizens who discuss the issues, is wrong and the American people “don’t care” about the crap sandwich
I see. The first TARP didn’t work, so let’s so one that almost 3 times bigger. Geithner Says Bank-Rescue Plans May Reach $2 Trillion. This on top of the Spendulus Crap Sammy.
Michelle Obama to Grace Cover of Vogue Magazine
Rihanna’s Injuries — “Horrific”
Megyn Kelly, our hero, pulls no punches grilling Specter on the Crap Sandwich abomination, and how in God’s name this Orwellian ‘health czar” crap got jammed in. It’s clear Specter has no clue and never read the bill in the first place.
Like you, Tammy, I’ve been feeling increasing contempt and downright hatred for all of these people and it’s presented me with a challenge. How do stay engaged and informed without manifesting physical illness because of this crap? These are the times when I really feel my hot-blooded Sicilian heritage.
I’m hoping that going to the firing range and picking up my first gun in a week will help with the catharsis.
Dear Tammy,
As you’ll see on my page at TeamSarah, I posted part of your editorial on Sarah Palin which everyone loves.
I’m listening to you now (you’re really messing up my work schedule, thank you) and just revised my post on the PAC. Now I say as soon as she gives us the specifics, THEN donate.
http://www.teamsarah.org/profile/LauraVanWormer
Great show as always.
with all best,
Laura
Kelly, the rage is a good thing. At least some of us won’t become complacent.
The damage is done………douchebags like Shumer are now openly taunting middle America and the center-right tradition of American republicanism (note that’s a small “r”).All one can hope is the contempt for these lilliputions who win elections (and the mannequin-in-chief) will create a backlash like the ’94 elections. Then maybe SOME modifications can be made. But the genie is out of the bottle. Hey, remember, France elected a mentch like Sarkosy and we’re not as pathetic as france yet.
All I can say is if we get hit big by terror the country will turn on Barkey in way that he won’t be able to handle.
2 pack a day habit contempt is what he’ll get.
I was reading about it over at Michelle’s and didn’t have the stomach to watch her posting of Chuckie’s video. Too soon after breakfast. Read some of the posted excerpts. I commented:
“Back in the 60s, we had a saying that seems very appropriate here for Senator Schumer:
“Chuck You Farley!â€
Screw you and the horse you rode in on. Thanks, Chuck. You really screwed the country now. You and your incompetent boobs in both houses of “Con-gasâ€. Geez Louise.”
I also offered something a good friend sent me the other day. A quote from WWII era history:
“Do you remember Norman Thomas?
You don’t remember him? Probably not if you are under sixty. Norman Thomas ran as a candidate for president of the United States of the Socialist Party of America six times. The following is a statement made by Thomas in 1944.
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of “liberalism,” they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” He went on to say: “I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democrat Party has adopted our platform.”
Scary stuff, these days. Someone put it so well the other day, they said that it is so devastating to see how far this Great Country has sunk…
I can’t believe that sell-out, Charlie Crist, just introduced Obama in Florida. This man couldn’t destroy the party faster if he were doing it intentionally. (You can thank him for McCain winning the Florida primary).
He has made a few good court appointments, but even that is going down the tube as he asked an appointment board for “more diverse†candidates. Disgusting.
TeamSarah members may feel free to send me a friend request.
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Can we get our own army yet?
How apt the name “Specter”.
I’ve watched the GOP rush to people for their electability or image (as in ‘specter’) more than their principles to wit: Collins and Snow of Maine. (For that matter look at the SECDEF of Clinton; none other than former GOP Senator Cohen.)
Look back at Spectre’s background. He’s always been a whore searching for a bed.
We might just witness a Darwinian pruning of the GOP in the Senate; the above mentioned three, even if Coleman comes through, he better start looking for a real job; McConnell was too close for a leader. Look at those still on life-support and maybe “Daschle” them – thin out support.
Again: “Look back at Spectre’s background. He’s always been a whore searching for a bed.”
http://www.usnpl.com has a list of all newspapers, by state. We can bitch about these dinosaurs (Specter, Collins and Snowe) all day long. But let’s all follow up with some action.
Write reasonable letters to these papers and urge your fellow citizens to throw these crooks out of office. You can go the extra step and send copies of these letters to their offices in D.C. and their respective states, as I did. Let’s flood their offices and the newspapers and, shall we say, register our displeasure.
Sen. Specter spoke of his commitment. Let him see that his commitment to his Senate colleagues over his constituents is a big mistake.
It all starts at the grassroots level, folks.
Specter is the champion and author of the “magic bullet” theory. No surprises here. The time to hold his feet to the fire was when he gave us the big, fat red herring in the JFK assassination. I wonder what he’s been up to between 1963 and 2009.
Arlen Specter makes it sound like the Republicans are still in charge in the Senate. He’s fooling himself. The Democrats can promise all they want that they’re going to “correct” this thing with health care in the “stimulus” bill, but the Democrats alone are going to make that decision, if at all. I think the only hope we have of “clarification” is if the American people wake up and vote Republican for open seats in about 2 years.
‘We’ll pass it, and then we’ll fix it’. Only in Washington does such thinking exist. A wholesale sweep of all these goons is the only solution now.
The only leverage Specter, Snowe and Collins have is to threaten to keep the bill from coming to a vote. Old Arlen just said in so many words that he isn’t going to do that.
What a bunch of gutless wonders. It’s going to be a long four years.
It’s called MEGABOMB legislation. It is now the norm. Precipitate a crisis, and create a need for extreme urgency. Write a bill that is 700 or 800 pages long, and pull the old “cram-down” manuvere on your fellow lawmakers. They should limit each lawmaker to two staff, just to shorten these bills up. Or perhaps they could require a 1 day delay per each 200 words in the bill to give time for consideration. We need a viable third party to thwart this one-and-a-half party rule we have now.
I learned about the health care “socialized medical care” provisions stuck in the “stimulus” bill earlier tonight on Glen Beck… Betsy McCaughey (sp?), former Lieutenant Governor for NY pointed it out.
Megyn Kelly absolutely exposes Arlen Spector on this. He obviously is supporting a bill he hasn’t read. Are we to believe he has no staff, and that they perhaps have more pressing legislative initiatives to review?
I’ll say it again, I view this bill as a national tragedy. It’s starting to look like Barack Obama and the Democratic party has shifted to socialized government in a concerted effort to command and dictate everything in our lives. Limbaugh isn’t wrong when he says it’s all orchestrated toward building the voter base from the bottom.
Even worse, I believe this bill will move us closer to the precipice of the next Great Depression… and on an order of magnitude greater than the last.
Specter is totally hopeless, and needs a primary opponent. (Pat Toomey?)
“[Charlie Crist] has made a few good court appointments,”
He has made excellent, not just good, appointments. I don’t know Ricky Polston because I’ve never practiced in the 1st DCA, but Charlie Canady was a superb conservative Congressman even before Jeb named him to the appellate bench, and Jorge Labarga was pretty much universally regarded as the best trial judge in Palm Beach. I don’t know about the lower-court bench in the rest of the state, but I haven’t been unimpressed by a single one of his county, circuit or DCA appointments where I work every day (Broward County, 17th Circuit, 4th DCA).
I’ve known Crist since he was AG and I know he regards getting good judges on the bench as one of his most important responsibilities as Governor.
“…but even that is going down the tube as he asked an appointment board for “more diverse†candidates. Disgusting.”
Part of that was tactical: it’s about the Governor’s Office trying to show the JNC’s who’s actually in charge of the appointments process. The JNC’s are in many cases still controlled by the defense bar on the criminal side and the plaintiffs’ bar on the civil side, despite the amendments to the state constitution that have changed the appointment process for the JNC’s themselves. “Merit selection” in every state where it exists as a judicial appointment model is a sham, a facade for the bar instead of elected politicians or the public deciding who gets to be a judge.
I couldn’t help but notice the picture of the “crap sandwich” at the top. This comes from a South Park episode called “Douche and Turd”, Season 8, Episode 8. It was broadcast just before the 2004 presidential election. It’s satire about voting and “having to pick between a giant douche and a turd sandwich”. Some digs are taken at PETA as well.
I know it’s crazy, I just can’t remember why it’s a crazy suggestion on my part… why aren’t politicians personally liable for their actions in office once they’ve served their term? Especially when they knowingly spend taxpayer money on themselves and their cronies rather than on American interests? Is there a good reason to prevent Specter from being the target of a class action lawsuit once he’s taken down from his dias(sp?)?
Next question is: our tax dollars are clearly being wasted in Sacramento and DC, but we have no means of removing the hands of government from our pockets; what’s an American to do? Is it time to take up leftist and anarchist tactics against politicians? Hire professional protestors and professional agitators to bring the politicians down to earth? Is there a point where we can no longer ‘be the better person’?
I’m an Engineer and you all must understand we types can actually go insane if we try to solve the equation for X. X = (CrapSandwich)x3SenatorialTraitors/1xSpecter1xSnowe1xCollins
(ChuckSchumer-ZERO).
If you can solve that, you get a free 1 year supply of crap sandwiches and Kool Aid and entrance to a free study at Bellevue.
Michelle, our First Lady, on the cover of Vogue? With that bootylicious behind, they better use a landscape font. Sorry, my bad.
ROBK:
It’s the partial differentiation and subsequent integration ( optimization ) of numerous first order rates of decline in various sectors of our economy, to infinity.
Someone probably could calculate precisely when all of the chickens will come home to roost. I say the bust happens in 2010. But then, I really didn’t do the math.