Idaho Republican thinks he woke up in 'Bizarro World'
By David Neiwert Saturday Feb 14, 2009 5:30am
Republicans are having a tough time dealing with the realities of not having even a shred of remaining power. There's been a lot of gnashing of teeth the past few days as Democrats have proceeded to impose their political will in the form of Barack Obama's economic stimulus package.
My favorite came from my former dentist, Rep. Mike Simpson of Idaho, yesterday on the House floor:
Simpson: I feel like I went to bed a couple nights ago, a couple weeks ago, amd woke up in Bizarro World. We're about to spend over a trillion dollars for a stimulus bill which will do little if anything to stimulate the economy.
... For the first time in my life, I am embarrassed to be a member of this body.
Really? It's hard to imagine anyone from Idaho -- whose delegation, after all, was until this year led by Sen. Larry Craig -- being embarrassed easily these days about anything. So I guess that must be saying something.
Meanwhile, what seems to have him most irate is that America is no longer a "center right" nation and we are moving forward to fix our problems with progressive solutions. All Mike Simpson and his fellow Republicans had to offer as an alternative was more of the same old garbage that wreaked this mess in the first place -- tax cuts, tax cuts, tax cuts, and oh did we mention tax cuts?
Feh. The Idaho Republican idea of stimulus is a hand under the stall divider.
Let's just say that there are probably good reasons why a politician from Idaho might see reality as "Bizarro World." After all, we all remember how confused Bizarro became whenever he visited Earth.
Cluestick for Republicans: You lost. Your political philosophy, beyond being repudiated by the voters, has most of all been repudiated by reality. Deal with it.
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The GOP couldn't be any more irrelevant, yet all the left seems to do now is focus on everything the GOP says.
The GOP has been digging its own grave for the past 8 years, its time for these left wing blogs to start holding democrats accountable, rather than pointing at the rotting republican corpse all the time.
The guy's a gop from the land of ruby ridge and larry craig. He wakes on bizarro world every day.
and Coeur d'Alene are bizarro world if you are any other color than white and haven't had your eye on your sisters ass for a life time
But coming from Orange County, CA, it's not as bizarre as one might think...
The left is gathering datum as they speak. Polls have shown that the actual sound bites of McCain making those ludicruous and indicting statements (fundamentals are sound; I voted with Bush over 90% of the time) did more damage than anything else.
Once they open mouth/insert foot, they've given another "gift" to their opponents in the next election.
The fools on the reich don't seem to comprehend that desite watching it happen to McSleaze.
It'll be interesting to see the results of this. One thing is for damn sure: It won't be worse than the first six years of the Bush/Cheney double header.
We've just lived 8 years of Bizarro world with torture pushed as an American virtue, the middle class voting for their wealth to be redistributed to the upper .02%, with a government lead effort to undermine science, etc, etc. To Repukes like Simpson, now that we're moving out of his world back to reality, it is bizarro to them to no longer condone torture, not to steal from the poor (and middle class) and give to the rich, not to knock evolution in favor of a 6000 year-old-world created by a (kryptonite -proof) superbeing in 6 days.
Actually, he's right. Economists even say the same thing, including Krugman. Hell, Krugman is now getting told by posters on HuffPost to STFU because he doesn't agree with the piece of crap that was passed.
After inheriting a surplus, the Republicans had every opportunity to implement policies that worked. They failed. It's now time for the Democrats to get a good swing at the bat and if the Republicans truly believed in some of the ideals they profess, particularly patriotism, they would be supporting their new president.
If the Democrats policies fail, so be it. Let the chips fall where they may. I can understand their knee-jerk reaction to suddenly being powerless after all those years of complete control but if they don't begin to show at least SOME honest respect for the President the Republicans are going to face even more rejection in 2010.
Quoting myself
Was reading this article on partisanship over the "stimulus" bill on the BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7889741.stm
Well, seems many people pretty much figured that would happen. Even C&L wrote an article on Obama not getting his hand bitten off by the repubs. Also it's not like it's a big secret that ever since at least st. ronnie (possibly earlier as I wasn't around), bipartisanship means the repubs get what they want and everyone else bends over and no lube is used.
So how is it possible, that Obama being supposedly smarter than the chimp didn't see that coming. My personal theory is he did and that was the intended purpose. Not to make the repubs look bad, hell they won the stimulus battle as they got to water down an already ineffective bill to where it will be mostly pointless and added a bunch of tax cuts and they still didn't vote for it. Seems to me the end game for dems was to do just that, why else did they decide not to fight the repubs. The repubs had lower majorities during the chimp years and yet they got everything they wanted but dems with larger majorities can't get anything done, yeah right. Can we finally get a movement started to dump ALL the crooks in congress out?
For eight years the Republicans refused to work with the Democrats, refused to criticize George Bush, refused to investigate any criminality within the Bush administration, allowed (encouraged!) the practically complete politicization of the DOJ and other govenment departments where any liberal Democrat was effectively locked out all the while foisting one bad policy after another on the country AND NOW...after only a few weeks of being neutered by the voters are crying and complaining that the big, bad Democrats aren't listening to them! How dare the President want to get legistlation passed the HE believes in! How partisan! Why doesn't he listen to us!!??
I knew they were hypocrites but this takes it to a whole new pathetic level.
nailed it. Perfectly.
is what we have been experienceing for the past 8 years under Bush. It will take us all a bit of time to understand and realize what a REAL LEADER is all about.
working as hard as they can against the public
Fri, 02/13/2009 - 13:56 — BaScOmBe
we know that repugliscum, media and corporations are working as hard as they can against the public, as witnessed by the total lack of economists being publically consulted on the bill. with the DLC, DSCC and DCCC being so willing to screw the people under the guise of bipartisanship, what else could we have expected?
what else are we supposed to expect, regardless of what we voted for? the bubbleheads in the bubble don't have a notion of what the people want or need. they planned their schpiel, executed it and give no credit to those who worked so hard to get this country steered toward a more positive future.
bipartisanship is self-serving, not people-serving. I'm voting against all incumbents. this has never been about a debate for me. this is about the future for my kids.
Video: GOP leader tosses stimulus bill on House floor in disgust
David Edwards and Jeremy Gantz
Published: Friday February 13, 2009
A simple "nay" vote wasn't enough for Republican Congressman John Boehner this afternoon, as the $787 billion stimulus package headed toward passage: While speaking before C-SPAN cameras, the House leader had to toss all 1,073 pages of the bill onto the august chamber's floor in disgust.
Holding a massive white stack of paper in his hand, Boehner registered his disdain -- shared by every other Republican House member, all of whom voted against the bill -- by noting that no one has read it.
They voted on something they never read. WTF?
This happenes more often than you'd like to know
Yeah, kinda like the Patriot Act. One senator said that he read it, and that was Russ Feingold, the only Senator who voted against it.
But they could have at least had their staff break it into sections and reviewed it. Plus they knew what was mostly in it as it moved along.
The MCA was another one. Hell, we can go all the way back to the
FederalReserve Act of Dec. 22, 1913. Nobody except the authors read that either. That act alone is the reason the US and the rest of the world is in an economic quagmire.Kucinich read the "Patriot" Act and knew it was scam too.
that's our congress critters and senate snakes!
What the hell are we paying these fools for if not to thoroughly digest the bills we are asking their opinions on...duh!
Their level of stupidity rises every day.
[NOTE: it was linked in the prior OPEN Thread. That's where I got it.]
Sounds like a scratched record do'nt it tax cuts the reason they dont have any new ideas cause of 2 things their myopic view on everything..the my way or the highway attitude about tax cuts...and they dont have ideas probably havent had an original idea since 1872 they need to be told what that new idea is and it usually comes as guess what????? tax cuts
true dat!
We KNOW why these thugs are lobbying for greater tax cuts to their benefactors (the fat cats)....do the math - it's a payoff for getting them into office and will be used against them the next time 'round.
Simple as that.
Yes, that was quite a stunt. These guys have no class. VP Dick Cheney saying FU to Pat Leahey on the Senate floor set the tone for the years that followed.
Perhaps all of these dramatics belong on Broadway, not under the rotunda. But then again, these guys know a lot about meaningless gestures, don't they?
It's pointless to bring Republicans into the fold. They only have one idea and it's well known what that idea is: tax cuts.
The republicans just voted AGAINST THE LARGEST TAX CUTS FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS IN HISTORY -AS A BODY ---
BUT VOTED FOR THE LARGEST BAILOUT FOR THE RICH WITH THE TARP!
Bipartisanship is a nice way of letting the DLC, DSCC and DCCC join with republiscum in their support of the rich and their corporations. That coalition is going to be hardest for Obama to break. Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, along with the 7 bluedogs are the worst political dangers to America and Obama's stated agenda.
Simply put, there are Dems that need to be replaced as well as nearly all republicans.
Don't forget they wanted this horrible war. That's all repugs care about, funding for these wars and giving the very rich more tax cuts.
Have a primary coming up, do we?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/13/spec...
If the gop doesn't think this is the right package, why didn't they present the right package when they were in power. This mess didn't happen over night. It's been building steam for several years now.
Because the party of Tush Lumpboil wouldn't let them, maybe?
Happy V. D. PoP ;>0
Sat, 02/14/2009 - 06:22 — Floridiot
U R wishing PoP an STD?
I am sick and tired of "this plan isn't right" as a statement and nobody in the MSM ever asks the obvious next question OK genius the what is right? Their only answer could be tax cuts
"The Idaho Republican idea of stimulus is a hand under the stall divider." That was the old plan. The new plan?
Gloryholes.
I particularly like the point about why they didn't offer a stimulus when they were in charge. Repubs and Wall Street were too busy bleeding the national economy and stuffing the wealth into their offshore accounts.
Thanks. And FWIW, Mike Simpson once upon a time was my dentist. He was a very good dentist. He should go back to being one.
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The Republicans, from the talk radio and columnist people, to the think-tanks and bloggers, to the national and local politicians are going absolutely nuts. The things they are saying is so wingbatted.
They are finally beginning to realize that they are no longer in charge and they do not like it.
However, all they got is attacks and negativity. Not a winning formula, particularly in this environment.
One could only hope that canibalism is the next step.
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I kind of like Bizarro World... beats the hell out of Stupidland and Greedonia.
Besides, why do these guys hate America? They should support our President... we're at war, you know.
Yes. They're the ones who said for eight years that the President must be supported, no matter what. Anything else is un-American.
How dare he say that "for the first time in his life, he's embarrassed to be a member of Congress"... that's shameful... he must hate democracy.
Yesterday's stimulus bill voted proved once again that Republicans are cocksuckers, plain and simple. And not in a nice way, either.
And what's more romantic on Valentine's Day than a good ole fashioned Republican cocksucking?
Simpson: "...For the first time in my life, I am embarrassed to be a member of this body."
But when you they were giving Bush OUR money for an illegal war, you were happy and proud, Mr. Simpson?
Asshat. No wonder you guys are Irrelevant.
I live in Vegas. Gibbons was elected by the dumbasses led by the Big Casino's (Business) for the same reason. His mantra is NO NEW TAXES.
He proposed a budget in January with NO NEW TAXES. Nevada is facing a $3 Billion hole in the ground. His budget "idea" is all pay cuts, spending cuts, only cuts, cuts, cuts. Teachers- at least 6%. Good programs to help low income seniors- cut. UNLV and UNR are facing 50%, that's right folks, 50% cuts in funding.
I sent many messages to the state senators and house leaders to demand Gibbongs give back his entire paychecks for the last two years.
His budget was DOA. Both gop and demos have stated that Gibbons lives in Bizarro World and has become a lame duck only two years into his first term.
But the NO NEW TAXES crowd loves him. All 13 of them.
LOL. The Democrats take up the Republican mantra. Folks, IT'S NOT A TAX CUT IF YOU HAVE TO BORROW TO FUND IT. It's a temporary reprieve front-running a deferred tax increase.
We need to get over our knee-jerk partisanship and look at this for what it is: a continuation of the Republican assault on the American middle class. Every trillion borrowed is a claim of $4,000 (at least) PLUS INTEREST in perpetuity on the savings of every taxpaying American: about $10k for the average family of 2.5 persons. Bush's multi-trillion dollar piss-a-thon broke the economy. Now we're headed for indentured servitude (or default).
The bailout/stimulus fraud was a crooked plan when Paulson was behind it; now it's OK because it's been tweaked by Obama?
You don't kick a heroin habit by shooting up a bigger dose. You don't get out of debt by borrowing more. When the stimulus ends, the misery can only increase.
Read Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism."
This package looks more like Republican legislation. Everybody supports the increased spending, without seeming to realize it is almost half tax cuts. That's Republican. Not to mention, as you did, that it isn't really a tax cut when you have to borrow the money. What nobody is asking from anyone, economists included, is what is the true cost down the road. What does it amount to in increased taxes and cuts to social services? Because THAT is what it will do. You cannot beg borrow and spend without looking into the future. Sounds great, but is it? Do you spend your entire pay today, plus borrow triple it, without thinking about how and when you'll pay it back?
his statement, "We're about to spend over a trillion dollars for a stimulus bill which will do little if anything to stimulate the economy" is not measurably different from Krugman's opinion.
Not that anyone cares.
You don't see/hear Krugman praise right now since his non-support of this bill was published. Wanna see anger? Go to HuffPost and read what supposed lefts are now screaching at Krugman. He was the world's smartest economist when his opinion agreed, but now he's being told to STFU.
maybe his neutrality is an asset. and his fact-facing can help Obama make a better bill later.
And there will be more. This is just the tip of the iceberg until somebody allows banks to fold, that should have already. And that point in time doesn't seem to be anywhere on the horizon.
"We're about to spend over a trillion dollars for a stimulus bill which will do little if anything to stimulate the economy."
They said the same thing about Bill Clinton's stimulus/economics plan.
Cuts to services, complete overhaul of welfare, and Free Trade legislation. What will be cut to pay for this, that will take a few years to be felt? And yes, a big part of his plans, were taxcuts and slashing regulation funding.
Yes he did cut some welfare abuses out. He closed all the old and defunct military bases. Deregulation was Phil Gramms baby. Clinton couldn't veto it. The GOPers had the votes locked up. Nafta was a mistake. But I'll bet Canada benefited from Nafta. And you probably like buying cheaper stuff from Mexico. I hope Obama pulls this off.
I sincerely do. What are you guys going to do if he pulls this off?
I won't bother you with the 21 million jobs Clinton policies created during his time in office. Or that whole budget surplus thing.
thanks to clinton's 'reforms', needy people can't get what they need. you need to research this stuff instead of making assumptions. in NYC, the money to 'spur private investment' was used to replace unionized workers in the city's services, sanitation, and subways most of all. Welfare workers replaced union workers for six months or so and then the replacement workers were dropped as the funding dried up.
That the Unions in NYC of all places would tolerate that. That wouldn't happen. They would have went on strike and picketed the subways. And garbage would have piled up everywhere. Where are you finding this stuff?
That's how we know it's going to work... the Republicans hate it.
help for the children, the poor and the elderly. It's already built in.
Raise taxes on the rich. Raise them high, then raise them again.
The economy is all about the money that moves. The wealth of the super-rich is just a vast untapped energy reserve. It's like a huge bank that we've been making massive deposits in year after year. Time for some withdrawals.
This video and this man is embarrassing and is indicative of the republicans as a whole. They are acting like immature brats because their party is over (figuratively and literally). How many trillions have been spent in Iraq? A quick google search suggested $3 trillion as of early 2008. They talk about "mortgaging our children's future" but nothing has been more devastating than that fiscal abuse. On 60 minutes recently I heard we are spending $10 million a DAY in Afghanistan.
How ironic the GOP is whining about the bullet train from LA to Vegas, infrastructure updates, upgrades to schools being in this bill. How DARE we want to, just for once, get AHEAD of the curve and get back to being LEADERS of industry. American's are sick of being meek lambs. Laissez-faire economics have failed us (the middle class) and we are not moving towards socialism or communism. We simply want people who ask for government handouts to be held accountable for results and that is true for those on welfare and CEO's who want our money to save them. The same results for both.
......that the combined US debt (public and private)=8 x GNP (Read: Bankrupt)
But it is amusing!
It's funny he should mention Bizarro world. I was thinking the Republicans I heard on TV had to be from there. They were talking about how jobs aren't work, how creating jobs isn't stimulus, how they weren't consulted on the bill and Democrats made no attempt at bipartisanship, how the Democrats were the ones trotting out the same old ideas, how we shouldn't be upgrading our schools, how we shouldn't be investing in mass transit between major tourist destinations, etc. I went back and forth between laughing and yelling at my TV. I was mostly yelling when it was McCain spewing the nonsense.
The greatest monolinquist in history. Born on Feb 14, 1894. On radio for 28 years. On TV for 20 years. In many movies from 1928 to 1970. Died in 1974 at age 80.
Jack was Johnny Carson's biggest idol and mentor.
Jack donated his time and energy to support raising money for music groups by playing his violin to delight audience members. He made fun of himself.
He left money to a flower shop to make sure that his widow Mary Livingston would receive roses on her birthday until she died in the late 1980's.
Happy Birthday Jack
What a great idea. I going to do that if I go first. Selflessness. What a concept.
I'd do it regardless, Mudshark. Only a small minority have a say in who goes first. I don't think you're one of them. ;-)
You got me.:)
OK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve9N9oaXU18
the Repuglicans have been paying some attention to progressives these last few years. Isn't it funny how they are all twisting and using the same euphemisms we have been using? Listening to Hannity it sounds like Obama is doing all the things King Bush did, even worse, he's done it in only 4 weeks. Unbelievable. At least they are paying attention.
It's all a matter of perspective. The "evildoers" like Mike Simpson absolutely HAVE awakened into a new reality where the rule of law is being reinstated.
No more fingers in the cookie jar, Mike!
There's a new sheriff in town and these criminals will all learn their lessons - the hard way.
Their cavalier, irresponsible "lark" is over.
These guys are evil. They will say and do anything to preserve their ill-gotten wealth and power. And please stop even using "GOP." There's nothing grand about them--though they are old.
Is it just me or are we being exposed to a very rare "treat" with these first-class idiots and fools parading their ignorant wares right under our noses?
I suppose their criminal ways became so entrenched during 8 years of lawlessness and running the government (all 3 branches compromised) that they can no longer distinguish between right and wrong. Wrong to them became "de rigeur". Evil supplanted good and they're now clueless as to how to regain their equilibruim.
It's hysterical to watch each one of them show their a$$es to the american people - and without having to trap or provoke them. It's primo!
Once an individual opts for the way of crime....he isn't usually able to reconnect to his inner good unless he hits rock bottom.
These GOPers are sinking to new lows every day and doing so front and center. Do they realize that sound bites and news clips make for impossible regaining of the moral high ground? Do they realize that we are archiving their inane, superficial, and totally juvenile statements to be used against them as we did to Mr. DeRegulation? "the fundamentals of the economy are sound"! Hah!
"I voted with Bush 90% of the time"....remember those doozies?
There is no doubt that their own words will come back to haunt and destroy them.
Be careful what you ask for, Reps.
mike simpson was just needling us.
Whassamatter, Homer not available?
But let's not criticize them too much lest they discontinue their practice of providing fuel to be used against them in 2010 and 2012.
If a Repig's mouth is open, he's either lying or simpering like a stuck pig.
What's Biazarroworld is waking up and finding America's institutions toppling like it's an earthquake, due in large part from lack of oversight, lack of enforcement of existing regulations, and needs for new regulations, and that the invisible hand of the marketplace didn't work, and that Wall Street knows best, while giving tax cuts to the wealthiests, while borrowing heavily to pay for two wars, one of which was unnecessary.
But while they can't see hand in what's happening, it forms a total disconnect.
Face it schmucks, ray gunn was WRONG!
Since you say that one of the wars were unnecessary, you are implying that one of them was necessary.
The one which enables Unocal's long awaited pipeline from the Kaspian Basin to the Indian Ocean, or the one that gave Halliburton access to some of the best oil fields in Eurasia?
That's got to be it - two whining babies on parade! They need to take this show on the road.
Boner can be dressed appropriately in little girls's ruffled panties and Simpson can be alternately sucking his thum and whining.
and I must say that the lawmakers we vote into office are making my state more and more difficult to live in everyday. Idaho's teachers are among the lowest paid in the country and our infrastructure is absolutely falling apart. If you Drive from Utah, Nevada, Oregon, or Washington into Idaho you will immediately see how our highways are substandard. We elected our current GOP governor even though he didn't campaign; he had an (R) next to his name so he knew he had the election in the bag. My alma mater, the University of Idaho, loses funding every year because the state doesn't seem to think that higher education is important.....and our elected officials still tow the line that investment in our country is a bad idea.
I wish I was around for the Frank Church era when Idaho had a respectable politician. Its hard for me to fathom that when I was a kid my state had a democratic governor in Cecil Andrus. All I am trying to say is that my fellow Idahoans are the gas bags that they appear to be.
Okay
U R a ho
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7t7cGwN7_0
thank you. clever.
I lived in Oregon most of my life. We recently traveled to Yellowstone Nat'l Park, and a few years back my daughter attended the U of Idaho. Beautiful country....heads-up-their-asses people living there...or too many of them for the good of the state.
I could feel the moment we crossed the border that we were stepping into a third world country...something out of the deep south in respects to prosperity. You mentioned the education system being among the worst in the nation. The roads and upkeep of the state are apparent, even if only subliminally. You feel it.
Idaho is lipstick-on-a-pig country. I feel sorry for you and the good people of Idaho who get branded with the back woods, red neck, and ignorant label of the repug party ideals. WY, ID, UT and AL...the last strong hold outs of the repug party. Lots of ignorance per capita. I sometimes get the same feeling toward the Southeast, but then, NONE of these states is anywhere near the southeast.
FWIW, I'm a 1984 UI graduate who grew up in Idaho Falls and was friends with both Frank Church and Cecil Andrus.
I finally had to leave Idaho in 1985, when I moved to Montana. (Moved to Seattle in '89.) It was just too tough to be pointedly non-conservative.
...had he said a repuglican/neocon/fascist pig, responsible for this mess we are in....I would have had some respect for him.
ONE MORE PIG from the repug side of the Congress. He should be embarrassed. He should have been embarrassed for all those years since reagon that he lock stepped us into this dismal sewer.
F*ck him! I would be embarrassed to be him too. Go to hell, you ignorant goof ball. You have no idea what it is to be embarrassed. You are just one more shameless repug Nazi brown shirt.
... For the first time in my life, I am embarrassed to be a member of this body
Does this mean we can expect your resignation?
now that was the true bizarro call to arms
we had 8 years of bizarro world
where we attacked a nation that didnt attack us
torture, cutting taxes while increasing spending, god, guns, gays, right to life (as long as you are a fetus)
need i go on?
these people are useless
Mike must have a very high embarrassment threshold.
I live in Boise. Boise is a blue island in a red sea. I have lots of friends. All my friends are liberals and are familiar with Michael Phelps' unique training practices. We somehow elected a Democrat, Walt Minnick to Congress.
He voted against the bill.
that is a funny image seeing as how the only thing people outside of Idaho know about Boise is Donkey State's blue turf. I think I would like to be your neighbor because I live in Boise too and granted Boise is able to elect democrats to local offices but it is hardly a blue island in a sea of red. You must not get out of the north end very often.
Used to be a Northender but I'm a benchy now. The further West you get from downtown the redder it gets. It's more like a small atoll, instead of some big island, and it doesn't include all of Boise. Wood River valley is another atoll.
Up north, instead of an atoll you have Athol.
Funny thing is, the north was where Democrats always got elected in the past; that was both Church's and Andrus's base. Lewiston, Moscow, CdA, Sandpoint, Kellogg -- those were all heavily Democratic precincts.
Then the white-flight wackos started moving in from Orange County and, well, that was that.
Republicans are obstructionists.
They don't CARE that the lost. They're not INTERESTED in what's fair, reasonable or likely to succeed. ALL they care about is pandering to a decreasingly rational, increasingly hate-fueled, ever-shrinking die-hard constituency of science-denying, Bible-thumping, fearmongering pinheads.
The governance train left the station long ago and the Republicans are still standing on the platform cursing the "wasteful" train tracks.
Cut. Them. Loose.
And if they want to filibuster, that's their perogative. But make them ACTUALLY DO IT.
Make them stand in front of the entire nation and vote NO on new jobs, vote NO on infrastructure, vote NO on fixing the economy, vote NO on the rich helping the poor.
And that's it.
I'm glad we got the stimulus. It's got real problems. It's probably not enough. But it's a start.
And remember, Republicans of 2010, when the economy is better off (perhaps not good, but better) and you're taking all the credit for making it happen: CSPAN keeps the tapes.
And so do we out here. We keep the tapes.
should be embarrassed at calling himself a Republican. If he thinks we are in bizarro-world now, I wonder what he thinks of the last eight years? To him maybe the WarPig years was Nirvana? Get a clue...it was your party that created it.
That's weird, I almost felt as though I were having an out of body experience when the whole Larry Craig incident happened!
'bout darned time they had a taste of it.
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Rep. Mike Simpson of Idaho said:
So then, maybe he'll resign and make room for someone who cares about Americans...
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He is... he's a frickin' republican and he's from Idaho; white supremist capital of AmeriKKKa... If that ain't Bizarro world, I don't know what is... what an idiot!
The thing most people don't think of is there is another election in two short years. Assuming we make it that far as a nation, there will be a very clear choice in 2010. Either we succeed in recovering from the gang rape of the last 8 years, or we slowly sink into the history books along with the USSR and other failed imperial empires. If the first scenario is correct, there will not be any reason to vote a single repig back into office.
They know this and choose to actively sabotage any chance of recovery rather than go the way of the Whig party. They would rather see the country fail than to loose power. They aren't willing to go quietly into that dark night. They prefer to drag down the entire country with them kicking and screaming.
They aren't Americans, they are republicans. If they can't run the show, then they will do everything in their dwindling power to make sure there is no show at all.
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