Gov. Mark Sanford and South Carolina really need your prayers
(AP photo Mary Ann Chastain)
Mark Sanford's morphing into some form of a Grover Norquist flesh-eating organism that consumes itself, and it's about to take his state with him. Earlier today it was reported that:
The Obama administration is developing legislation to fix what it now concedes was a flaw in the $787 billion economic stimulus bill.
With it appearing that Sanford will stand alone among governors in rejecting two-thirds of his state’s education funds in the stimulus plan, Education Secretary Arne Duncan is working with House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., on a special appropriations measure that would direct the $700 million Sanford has rejected to South Carolina. This despite the governor's statement at a news conference in his office Thursday where he called the Friday deadline bogus and pointed to another pot of money available to save teaching jobs. Sanford was joined by handful of senators who say the chief legislative budget writer, Sen. Hugh Leatherman, is ignoring a $578 million pot of money. Leatherman has said Sanford's budget ideas are "smoke and mirrors."
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I’m asking you to pray for us, because that’s about all we have left,” Senate Minority Leader Harvey Peeler, R-Gaffney, said from the podium on the Senate floor after learning what Sanford had to say during the press conference.
Virtually every legal analysis — including one done by the non-partisan Congressional Research Service — has concluded that Sanford’s deadline to accept his state’s $700 million in stim money is tomorrow. But Sanford — an apparent contender for the 2012 GOP primary — held a press conference today in his office, where he announced that the deadline was, in fact, bogus.
Little Bobby Jindal has nothing on this guy. Now it looks like Sanford is going to take the money.
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford will comply with a midnight Friday stimulus deadline and become the last governor in the nation to seek millions of dollars in federal economic-recovery funds for his state, aides said late Thursday.
Sanford will continue contesting $700 million in education and law enforcement money for South Carolina, but his 11th-hour move to meet the deadline buys time for schools fearing mass teacher layoffs and draconian cuts.
Does he really think he has a shot at running for president in 2012? Well, the way the rest of the Neanderthal Republicans are acting, I guess he fits right in.
What appropriate response is there except...
Fuck 'em
This degenerate gambling ambitious asshole will make his state like the Donner Party.
turning SC into a junkyard.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
...but a pretty good analogy.
Go ahead, run for Prez. The repukes have no viable candidate -they're all Bush wannabes. I think the REAL conniving repukes are angling for 2016.
Since the moronic right have annointed him as some kind of prophet...
we already had Bush the plumber why not Joe??
you're close - but, Bush was really the actual piece of Sh*t - that someone should have flushed , long ago!
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
WTF? They just get crazier by the day. It's like watching some kind of flesh eating bacteria spreading in front of our eyes.
"Someday somebody related to some of these sufferers, these victims, these collaterally damaged souls, may try to kill you. And I have to tell you, I think you’ll have it coming." - Christopher Cooper
Both parties are obviously tied to corporate money.
However, as i've pointed out...at least the Dems attempt to understand the problems of regular people.
Repubs only interact with elites. They are themselves elites. If they WERE middle and lower class at one time...they quickly forget their roots.
They have no clue, nor do they care, what the impact of their political decisions has on regular Americans.
They simply don't give a shit.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
They just can't help but continually shoot themselves in the foot.
What a fucking idiot.
That gets you out of the Army.
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My cousin is a sailor in South Carolina... a tugboat operator. Six months ago he was laid off because his boss felt he could hire someone with less experience and qualifications to do the job more cheaply. He's been looking for work ever since. The state as a whole has a double digit unemployment rate (it was 11% in February, I'd be willing to bet its 13% to 15% by now).
These Republicans are so disgusting I just don't know how they can live with themselves. I can only hope that, just as the 1964 Civil right bill handed the South to the GOP for 45 years, maybe this sort of callousness will hand the region back to the Democrats in the near future.
Sorry to hear about your brother, I wish him luck.
Living with yourself is much easier when you are all you care about. That's how they do it.
Looking forward to seeing karma get busy on the conservative blight.
"Six months ago he was laid off because his boss felt he could hire someone with less experience and qualifications to do the job more cheaply."
Another poor oppressed Christianist business mahn pimping usury and economic blackmail. Nice.
My question is, will the people of this state reward this cynical cracker with reelection? Given the dumbing down of America . . .
..to see a Democrat occupy the White House for the next eight years or so.
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
be a new third wing nut party.
Democrats, Republicans, and Reschmucklicons
The American Newtzi Party.
The Newtzis probably will all have to have frontal lobotomies to even be allowed to run, if they're anything like the Newt...
and Newt and Rush will be the candidates. What a great ticket that would be.....the two preeminent 'Leaders' of the Repugs together at last!
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
third wing nut party.
Democrats, Republicans, Newtlick cons.
"I’m asking you to pray for us, because that’s about all we have left.”
They must be talking about the whole country after eight years of Con rule!!
he should resign immediately.
besides Kerry wasn't appealing?
Can anyone explain that?
Diebold, and other dirty tricks used by the GOP pretty much.
Only the Dem leadership at the time could have managed to lose 2 elections to a buffoon like Bush; one right after the relatively successful 8 years of Clinton, and the second one after the 4 years of hubris and disaster of Bush's first term. As evil as the GOP is, they could not have gotten away with their sh*t hadn't it been for the utter incompetence (and relative enablement) of the Dem political machine. Mostly of the DLC persuasion.
The total and utter contempt for Dean even after he literally saved the Dems from oblivion led me to believe that it is time for liberals and progressives to start contemplating the creation of a real political alternative to the Dem party. I am no longer willing to be humored by what the DLC wants to shovel down my throat.
Same applies for the few sane conservatives left regarding the GOP.
I'm on board with the new party idea.
is not working. Until we decide to address that we will be useless as a working democracy.
When liberal or progressive has been allowed to be used as an "insult" by the right, it is clear to me that the Dem party is not interested in the least in fight or defend our interests.
The literal throwing under the bus of progressives by Obama is the last straw as far as I am concerned.
That being said, real progressives need to put forth a much more coherent (and cohesive) alternative platform than the Green party. Once that happens, the DLC can have their Dem party and fight for the conservative vote with the GOP all they want.
... discard the notion of party altogether, and let candidates stand/fall on their own notions and values.
a$$e$
i recall plenty of fear mongering from the right at that time. the (R) used the war and the power they had in the legislative branch to get BUSH re-elected. many people were rolling around in cash/driving a Hummer so they said to themselves why change anything.
I heard that Obama probably won the election with a higher percentage than what was announced. Diebold and large voter list purges reduce the percentage but not enough for McCain to win.
http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/board...
Those fuckers denigrated the combat record of a presidential candidate. They were sanctioned by the GOP. The rightards would have been deleriously vindictive if anyone had second guessed Bush's combat record, and rightly so.
But he never had one. So they went after Kerry.
"Someday somebody related to some of these sufferers, these victims, these collaterally damaged souls, may try to kill you. And I have to tell you, I think you’ll have it coming." - Christopher Cooper
I see that walking POS Pickens peddling his "energy plan."
F*ck him and the horse he rode on....
there hasn't been any of his BS commercials on lately.
some in this website even.
I think he is trying to swindle a big chunk of cash, as he is basically demanding the taxpayer bankrolls his latest venture. Which I always find amusing... you know, it is not socialism if the public money is used to make the rich even richer, I guess.
...second only to decimated Michigan. Reality sets in for even the craziest of wingnuts. South Carolina is in trouble.
with an a$$hat like $anford running things, they're in deep $hit!
sucks to be them.
I know...let's all sing!!
Gawwwwd...blessss..A...merrrrr...icaa.....
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
Okay, here you go:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk52WsQ4Isk
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Wow. I've been to Hogmanay and the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, but never heard of the Beltrane Fire Festival......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-Vv0MeDt8A
... the existence of God, it's the dipsticks and wackaloons who keep waving the 'I'm With Jesus!' flag around. George W. Bush, who purportedly talks to God and cries on His Shoulder. Bobby Jindal, who participated in an exorcism when he was in college. Sarah Palin, who asked her community to pray for a frickin' oil pipeline. And now this loon in the legislature.
Never mind the advice in the Bible where Jesus says, 'go to your room and pray in secret, and Your Father, hearing you in secret, shall reward you openly' - this is the new breed of Christian, the prosperity crowd, who subscribe to the Prayer of Jabez nonsense 'Oh, Lord, gimme cool stuff so that I may do Thy Bidding.'
Forget tending to the least among us and the example of service Christ provides. We're supposed to pray, instead, that the Democrats Get Theirs? Yeah, real Christian exemplars, there.
when he or she allowed 6 million of his or her "original chosen people" to be systematically eliminated at an industrial scale. The ante was upped when 5 million of his or her "new chosen people" (there were almost as many Polish Catholics killed in the holocaust as Jewish victims) suffered the same fate, even when the official "representative of God on earth" aka the Pope was present a mere few hundred miles away from the thick of things...
Furthermore, the fact that the Pope rides on an armored vehicle tends to point at the fact, that if the person supposedly closest to god on earth (which would guarantee direct access to heave) is afraid of dying... chances are that he knows how full of sh*t the whole god thingie is.
"Furthermore, the fact that the Pope rides on an armored vehicle tends to point at the fact, that if the person supposedly closest to god on earth (which would guarantee direct access to heave) is afraid of dying..."
Maybe the popes should stay out of the sacral wine.
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let me assure you that sacral wine is very very watered down by the time it makes it to the Eucharist. ;-)
is back at the rectory.
"Someday somebody related to some of these sufferers, these victims, these collaterally damaged souls, may try to kill you. And I have to tell you, I think you’ll have it coming." - Christopher Cooper
Shouldn't that be erectory?
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"Someday somebody related to some of these sufferers, these victims, these collaterally damaged souls, may try to kill you. And I have to tell you, I think you’ll have it coming." - Christopher Cooper
this site would not be the same without him, that is for sure.
So chapeau Mr. Y, well played sire, well played! :-)
Catechism was more bearable under the influence...
best catechism questions:
"Is God so powerful that He can make a rock so heavy that even He Himself can't lift it?"
"Someday somebody related to some of these sufferers, these victims, these collaterally damaged souls, may try to kill you. And I have to tell you, I think you’ll have it coming." - Christopher Cooper
If god is all powerfull, why cant he destroy the devil/republicon party?
where it's served to the altar boys after the mass....
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
When I was an altar boy, they still used the good stuff - 'cos the church-goers weren't yet allowed to drink the wine.
(Yes, of course, as a typical altar boy, I'd take hits off the wine bottle before the priest came into the sacristy!)
... to participate in the traffic squad, and it's a good thing, because one of the parish priests was later revealed to be part of 'molester musical chairs'.
in your rectory?
No, they're just glad to see you.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
... to use scotch.
Hemp wafers.
"Someday somebody related to some of these sufferers, these victims, these collaterally damaged souls, may try to kill you. And I have to tell you, I think you’ll have it coming." - Christopher Cooper
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6raSw9BOh8
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Jesuits and Franciscans are about the only decent thing left in the Catholic church. They are literally the only institutions preventing the whacks a the Opus Dei and the Legionaries of Christ for taking over the Vatican completely.
I met some cool Jesuits (I went to a J-school for most of my formation years) who had fled prosecution, mostly due to theology of liberation related issues. One of them actually gave us some insight about the internal struggles in the Vatican, esp. regarding the fundamentalist "new order" of the Opus Dei, vs. the rationality that orders like the Jesuits try to preserve. If you read about the number of numeraries of the Opus which are now in power positions (via government, or corporations) all over the world, you'd be very surprised. A real eye opener for me...
place an introductory dose of LSD in their food. They'd see the folly of their ways, but probably go crazy (er).
"Someday somebody related to some of these sufferers, these victims, these collaterally damaged souls, may try to kill you. And I have to tell you, I think you’ll have it coming." - Christopher Cooper
unfortunately those who are wound too tight tend to go psychotic. I would shudder to image how a die-hard Opus Dei nutjob would react on LSD. Ugh....
What if you're a Bill Dei like me?
Call now for the Holy Chaunt:
AAAACCCCKK!!!
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I prefer mead spiced with wormwood.
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actually turn religious. Usually took too much for too long.
"Someday somebody related to some of these sufferers, these victims, these collaterally damaged souls, may try to kill you. And I have to tell you, I think you’ll have it coming." - Christopher Cooper
Makes sense...
Fri, 04/03/2009 - 09:42 — Tyler Durden
"If you read about the number of numeraries of the Opus which are now in power positions (via government, or corporations) all over the world, you'd be very surprised. A real eye opener for me..."
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Thassawhat we were talkin' about
Eye-openers.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Absinthe
"Someday somebody related to some of these sufferers, these victims, these collaterally damaged souls, may try to kill you. And I have to tell you, I think you’ll have it coming." - Christopher Cooper
Absinthe makes the heart grow fondler.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PjfQS39fTw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyQi-1Z2tN8&fe...
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Hatred can go both ways
Using one's brain and applying logic is not the same as bigotry. It is not the same league, it is not even the same sport. Stop using intellectual dishonesty trying to equate criticism of superstition with the ill effects of superstition, please.
Yeah, Sanford. Run for President in 2012. You're the idiot who couldn't answer Wolf Blitzer's question about how McCain's economic plan was different than Bush's.
Not only is South Carolina the 2nd highest in the country in unemployment; I read yesterday that they're very low in their school graduation rates.
Sanford is in his 2nd term as governor. The 2 U.S. senators are DeMint and Lindsay Graham. DeMint has been a U.S. Senator for 4 years (previously in the U.S. House for 6 years); Lindsay Graham has been a U.S. Senator for 6 years, and in the U.S. House for 8 years before that. What's their excuse for the high unemployment and low school graduation rates????
Prayer. They were praying for jobs, and praying for God to make 'em smart, obviously.
that SC pulls its head out of it's ass.
... that the SC GOP seems to like it where it is.
If you pray for millions of dollars and God doesn't beam winning lottery numbers into your head, or leave $100 bills dotting your lawn like manna, perhaps you need to consider that this is not God's plan for you or yours, and that there's a lesson to be learned from it.
Or, perhaps it's just the way things are, and there's no special significance to events, no punishment, no reward - but we nonetheless have to make moral and ethical decisions about how we, as individuals, will live our lives, in which case pissing and moaning about the Other Guy isn't really an option.
I can emphathize with the people...but I don't sympathize.
They put this asshat in office. They love the flag waving. They love the "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" talk. They love the "war", "patriotism", etc.
Yeah...I guess I say...FUCK 'EM.
You know...States rights and all that right wing bullshit.
Enjoy, SC.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
Now only will Sanford be booted out as Governor of SC, his reputation now will tank any chance he may have of running for higher office in this country. His attitude of giving two $hits about the people of SC is precisely how he would view the rest of us if he were elected to national office.
Sanford is toast!
If the likes of Neanderthal Sanford, Washed-up Gingrich, and mentally-challenged Palin is ALL the GOP has as it's best & brightest stars, they're totally phucked in 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016.....
It will be a very long time before a corrupt Republican ever gets voted into the presidency of this country.
... Newt wants a third party?
so there's a party for each of his wives?
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
Sanford should be impeached for violating the oath of office to work in the best interest of the people whom he serves.
Clearly, his transparent move has nothing to do with helping his own people and everything to do with toting the party line for running in 2012.
Time to out frauds like Sanford and rid ourselves of the GOP flesh-eating bacterium.
The last thing the republicans want is a batch of educated voters to deal with. Don't forget, this is the party that endlessly whines about 'East Coast Elites' ruining the country.
Can't be makin's any more o' them thar elites now, can they?
South Carolina: First in succession, last in education.
Of course education could lead to elitism. And we all know how the GOP feels about that.
I guess the "Black House" jokes have stopped in SC.
I guess the whole "liberal socialist", "terrorist enabling homo loving left" jokes have stopped in SC.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
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Diabolus est Deus Inversus
one out of ten people are on/receiving food stamps. 32 million on food stamps. only four states did NOT see arise in demand for food stamps. SOUTH carolina is NOT one of the states.
and of course these are the same people that "want government off our backs".
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
Wasn't God of the Old Testament punishing people with drought and famine?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
if the GOP hadn't kept teh gays from marrying...SC and the nation would REALLY be in trouble.
Whew! Dodged that bullet!
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
to be alot of praying going on in the US. Oprah and Suzie Orman one day, Repubs the next. Think the rich political powers that be are saying "we have no f*cking idea how to fix this mess we created" and are just relying on "faith" and "hope" to keep the gravy train running?
Sure do make nice catch phrases though in the process.
they are playing on peoples' most basic emotions. Faith is one final tool with which to pull the sheeple back into the fold. The backlash against the plutocracy may be having more of an effect than might originally thought. People are not seeing the emperor's new clothes as easily they used to.
"Someday somebody related to some of these sufferers, these victims, these collaterally damaged souls, may try to kill you. And I have to tell you, I think you’ll have it coming." - Christopher Cooper
... the lesson of the Emperor's New Clothes isn't that the Emperor was able to fool anyone, it's about the perils of delusional thinking. The Emperor chose to believe his tailor, and the ministers and subjects chose to believe the Emperor rather than risk his anger.
they want us to see the clothes or risk socialism.
"Someday somebody related to some of these sufferers, these victims, these collaterally damaged souls, may try to kill you. And I have to tell you, I think you’ll have it coming." - Christopher Cooper
... the clothes are there.
It's the Socialist Worker's Party hat and grey uniform that ain't there.
you are thinking of Mao's crazy ass cultural revolution communist inferno army...
... we have a faith-based economy?
It's just that we keep picking pimps and liars for the vestry.
Please bend the laws of cause and effect for the benefit of Mental Marky Sanford.
And pleeze give all the good KKKree-yist-yins of SC a pony, like it sez in the BuyBull, I'm pretty sure.
In Cheese-zis' Name,
Aww, Man...
Oops...
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I’m asking you to pray for us, because that’s about all we have left
As a Californian, I put forward that prayer is not their only recourse. There's always a recall. Should Sanford screw his state over this, the voters can always yank his ass out of the chair and put someone else in it. Hell, we did it.
Pull that puling Republican out and replace him with someone not too fancy to piss in a pot.
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
any governor, would refuse money which would then allow his or her state to continue to pay for schools and police and other public services, services which in many cases are in dire financial straights. That response to that kind of money is totally insane. My question is: Do the voters of South Carolina approve of their governor's actions? If so, that's even more bizarre to try and figure out. The world is an amazing place. Maybe I just can't see something that may be evident but, what is Sanford's refusal of the rescue money? Is is a pure and simple rejection of democratic principles that own government's obligation to do certain work for the people, in this case, make sure that schools and police are adequately funded so they can continue to educate and protect the people? Or is it simply a republican partisan stance based not on sound policy (or even common sense) but rather on a play for power and control at the public's expense? If the republicans at this point were offering anything in the way of principled opposition and had some new and workable ideas for improving government and making life better for Americans, they should be allowed to present their ideas. And, they have been given endless opportunity to do this since the new administration began in January. Unfortunately, they have attempted to sabotage or obstruct everything the newly elected government has done, every step of the way. How is that going to help this country rebound from everything that it has suffered under republican rule? At this time, the republican party, Sanford included, has nothing of value to offer. They don't want government to be improved. They don't want Americans to enjoy a stable prosperous life. They would rather see government of, for and by the people wither and die. Sanford is one of the proponents of this slow death to American government. As long as the people of South Carolina continue to elect people like him, America will have to respond to whatever stunts he may pull. It's too bad. The country has so much work to do to get its shit together without having to listen to maladroits like Sanford and his republican cronies.
for a repuglyKKKan.
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common sense matters as much as truth
on the throats of the poor.
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Let's praise Jeebus!
You feel for South Carolinans, but like someone said upthread, they put Sanford into office twice. He ran with the usual "get the government off our backs, gay marriage, abortionists die" crap, and wear a flag pin or two. Now their state is about to become a third world country because their pinhead governor doesn't give a fuck about the real problems of the state or the country for that matter.
Sanford thinks if you don't have a job, it's your fault. He would do away with unemployment insurance entirely if he could get away with it, and some South Carolinans would let him, too.
If the people of South Carolina love high unemployment, then more power to them. Amend the state constitution and let Sanford run for a 3rd term. Let the unemployment rate hit 25 percent. Eliminate state spending once and for all. Close all your schools and all your bridges.
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