Mark Sanford now begs for stimulus money after he said it would lead to slavery
[Sanford's weird press conference]
Mark "Lover Boy" Sanford of South Carolina once called the stimulus "fiscal child abuse. Now he's flying to D.C. to beg for it.
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford (R) waged a high-profile war against the economic stimulus package last spring, claiming that accepting the $700 million for which his state was eligible would lead to “a thing called slavery.” Even as his state’s unemployment rate climbed above the national average, Sanford maintained his partisan and politically motivated refusal to take the funds.
But yesterday, Sanford flew to Washington to demand $300 million in stimulus money for education, the State newspaper reports:
Sanford, who spent much of last year fighting parts of the Obama administration’s stimulus plan, now wants S.C. to have a piece of $4 billion in “Race to the Top” education money. [...]
Sanford met with [Secretary of Education Arne] Duncan to learn more about a charter school program Duncan started in Chicago, said Ben Fox, the governor’s spokesman. Sanford also took the trip to urge Duncan to support more charter school grants, Fox said. [...]
Sanford’s trip — which did not appear on his official calendar — is especially hypocritical because the majority of stimulus money destined for South Carolina was to fund education and save thousands of teachers’ jobs. Yet, in March, Sanford told Fox News host Glenn Beck that taking the money would be akin to “fiscal child abuse.”
This is typical conservative behavior. Attack a Democratic initiative relentlessly -- and then after you get your fifteen minutes of fame, change your mind because you know the media will never hold you accountable. Sanford actually had an extra 15 minutes of fame, thanks to his love of long hikes in the Appalachians Brazil.
"Sanford’s trip — which did not appear on his official calendar — "
No doubt he told the people back home he was just hiking the Appalachian Trail. . .
or hitting Argentinian tail? What's the difference? Skipping out on your responsibilities is wrong.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
Mark Sanford is a republican as John Ensign, R-Nevada was so they receive free passes and get out of jail free cards..
Remember when Rush caught for using illegal drugs and filling or having a illegal prescription filled and giving not even a slap on the hand ,,, Ann Coulter knowingly & illegally voted in the wrong district & the FBI stepped in and stopped any and all investigations... They also were republicans..
And you have to remember that not ONE of our democrats , Obama , Emanuel , Pelosi , Reid and the rest have the guts , nerves or backbone to prosecute Bush , Cheney , Rumsfeld , Rove and any other criminal actions in the previous 8 years of the dictatorial Bush / Cheney administration..
There are very few democrats in the democratic party anymore which are real democrats and stand for what is right for the citizens of this nation and uphold the oath they took when swore into office..
Emanuel and other democrats which controls the actions and policies of the democratic party select wealthy conservative candidates to run on the democratic ticket and force any real democratic candidate to quit..
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Special Report: Democratic House Officials Recruited Wealthy Conservatives
http://www.truthout.org/article/special-repor...
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Our elected officials , prosecutors turn their heads about the criminal activity from Halliburton , Blackwater , Wall Street , poison which has been sent into our country from China and other partners of these Global corporations which are feed more jobs instead of bringing home the ones they have..
If by now you have not figured that these Global Empires are not controlling this nations every action and policy then you are asleep at the wheel...
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out on his responsibilities. He was answering America's call. (watch the clip of the Joy Behar show below) It just happened to be South America who was calling.
continues to show their partisanship between the democrats and Republicans sex scandals and other actions..
You do not see most of the republicans resigning for their sex scandals and other actions as they force the democrats to do...Like Eliot Spitzer and the way they are attacked Edwards even thro he did not win the democratic president candidate mush less the office..
Our government should have more power and control over the actions , policies and concern for the Americans citizens, but do not..
The main force which controls every phase of the government's actions and policies are the Corporate monopolies and now our corporate and mercenary military.
We have sent our military overseas fighting a war we should never have at the magnitude they did and it is destroying this country for the average working citizen..
Our national guards are overseas with their equipment fighting a war and our nation's citizens are paying the price for it..
Look at the national disasters which our national guards are not here and our citizens receive at the state level receive not help..
There was the case of New Orleans which was a total disaster , floods in the middle west and now Maryland which has a disaster with the snow receives very little help if any at all.
We are the citizens of this country going to unite and take our country back for the corporate empires and the elected officials in which are on the pay roll..
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TomDispatch here
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
Was not he found with fondness in Argentina, not Brazil.
Or was that found fondling with fondness in Argentina but I am sure had he looked he could easily have found fondness to fondle in Brazil.
These guys and their wayward weenies, after all.
Anyway, more to the point, the hypocritical corporate media will never point out the political hypocrisy but they always will report on the ups and downs of this or that zipper.
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
balls?
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
The profit motive.
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
I don't know what bothers me more:
The blatant hypocrisy and lack of shame these Republicans have, or the Media's failure to point it out.
* There are two types of Republicans: millionaires and suckers.
"Mugsy's Rap Sheet": Recording history for those who seek to rewrite it.
... pointing out hypocrisy would mean doing actual work. Journalism. Research. Having to remember shit instead of repeating what Boehner/Cantor/McCain/McConnell/Graham said!
The Media fails to point out hypocrisy because THAT is part of the program.
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
of a problem isn't it? Oddly enough the situation is actually better now in terms of getting the truth then it ever has been. Once upon a time, in the dark ages before the dawn of the internet, there existed people called "professional" journalists who made their living writing stories. The political journalist was entirely dependent on access to political figures and so could not afford to piss in the politician's cornflakes to any significant degree. In those days scandals like having a mistress were seldom even reported. With the rise of internet journalism has been set free. It may not pay much but by God we're getting more truthful reporting than we ever have before.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
if I agree with that assessment. As Newstalgia pointed out just the other day, Nightline did a bangup job reporting on Iran-Contra way back in 1982. Nowadays, perfeshunul jernulists ONLY report on salacious stuff like sex & drugs. Meanwhile, they totally ignore, say, the Downing Street Memo, phantom WMDs, US attorney firings and so forth. Shows like '60 Minutes' are a mere shadow of what they once were, and nightly news broadcasts are a complete joke. The only access to actual news is through underfunded blogs, the operators of which must piece together the truth by hunt-and-peck & extrapolation.
They got one of Tiger's girls on the tube.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
in a long line of two faced bastards.
I saw his wife and her new book on three different tv shows yesterday. Sounds to me like she might have a couple of screws in need of tightening as well as her husband. For an ever so private woman, she sure didn't miss an opportunity to air out the family laundry when money might be in her future.
As for him, after hearing his first speech where he admitted his affair, I don't think anyone would say he is rational. People who are not rational do things that are not rational. So is he running for gov again and he needs the $$ for education so he can claim he tried, and if that's the case won't taking the $$ make him look weak to the republicans?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
was pretty telling, she defends his politics and misses her rose garden tended to by the slaves, uh, I mean the prisoners. I hope someone can post it here.
The Daily Show (Feb 8, 2010): Jenny Sanford
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
If she has screws loose, it is because she did not go to the Skil saw factory, founded by her family, for a tightening and a tool with which to harvest her wayward husbands ripening pears.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Along with the Democrats for continuing to think that they can work with these assrockets. Time to stop pretending that Republicans are reasonable or have any interest in governing.
Barack Obama: Change we can only imagine
They are good little Nordquistians (Not to be confused with Xtians)
who are only there for the drowning.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CErapf79rqM
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What do they need education money for?
Homeschooling...it's the conservative way. It's the personal responsibility of the parents to rear their children. The state should not be involved. It's the conservative way.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
the stimulus. Probably not even the long from now. Don't take my word for it, all you have to do now is wait.
Goodnight, Frau Blücher
...they know whats coming.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkleUXa3l04&fe...
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... because my angst is still booked solid with recovering from eight years of Bush.
it shut. I wish Obama would try to start trying to taking a few nails out. Unfortunately he has become the anti-Robin Hood, take from the poor and give it to the rich while Fryer Tuck Bernanke is sitting in the back ground laughing and printing our future away.
Look at this BS
When you look at this chart realize we have passed though the great depression, WWII, the Korean War, Vietnam War, Gulf War, and every financial crisis including the S&L Loan crisis and none hold a candle to what we have now.
US Monetary Chart since 1918 to present
This is the total amount the Federal Reserve has loaned out of its bottomless checkbook.
Reserve Bank Credit
Goodnight, Frau Blücher
Think we'll see that headline?
get the cash from beck and friends... they got plenty of spare slave cash sitting around... otherwise - pound sand.
Mark Sanford said it would lead to slavery but didn't state whether he thought slavery was a good or a bad thing. The current Republican party is a far cry from the party of Lincoln.
A lying, two faced, hypocritical, opportunistic Republican? My faith in the world is shattered! Oh, and that whole "cheating on his wife while claiming to be a family values kinda guy" thing too... There was that...
Is there like, some sort of handbook they're given when they join the party?
"I could give a flying crap about the political process.... We're an entertainment company."
- Glenn Beck - Forbes interview; April 26, 2010
It's called the Holy Bible.
God spake unto the Republicans "keep fucking that chicken! Literally... Have sex with chickens."
"I could give a flying crap about the political process.... We're an entertainment company."
- Glenn Beck - Forbes interview; April 26, 2010
... belongs to George W. Bush, actually.
Sorry. I did not mean to rant on real assholes. We all know Sandy "Sandpaper my crotch" Sanford is a fake asshole.
"Let's talk dirty to the animals"
I don't believe I have ever heard of a fake asshole. Of course I have never heard of someone sandpapering a crotch either. I need to catch up and get with the program.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
:)
"Let's talk dirty to the animals"
to keep the pears from bruising while in shipment to hungry markets.
If you had a pear you would know that. Grow some.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
why Gawd wouldn't allow all of these pious, churchgoing, Xians a little slack?!
I mean why wouldn't S/He just wave the magic wand and disappear the deficits in their states and provide their children with the best edumacashun money can buy? And, why would Gawd allow his chosen men folk to always be gettin' caught with their pants down? Guess Sanford and his ilk aren't tithing or praying quite enough.....
In reality, the children in SC have to come from way, way behind in the 'race to the top' because their state leaders are useless twits.
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
What I really found crazy is the fact that after his appearance acknowledging infidelity, Sanford calls his wife to say something to this affect-"How'd I do honey?"
Now this idiot is requesting money that he earlier had refused to take. EVERY DAY THERE'S A NEW REVELATION ABOUT SOMETHING STUPID THESE REPUBS DID OR ARE DOING.
We sacrified more than 5,000 lives to export this nonsense to other countries? HELP!!!
This story highlights a key principle for hardcore Republicans:
"Words are the only thing that matter. Actions do not." As long as you say the correct, approved talking point words, you are considered "faithful" to the party. Doesn't matter if your actions are exactly the opposite, AS LONG AS YOU SAY THE RIGHT WORDS.
Correct ---> "I oppose this stimulus bill." (holding hand out for stimulus check)
WRONG ---> "My state could put some of this funding to good use."
He is was agianst the stimuluous, the Dems and Pres need to practice tough love.
"You didn't want any - so now see if you can do it on your own"
Just see how that will help their re-election.
If he receives stimulus money would it be used for the citizens of S.C. or for his trips to South America?
pennlady
why does he still have a job?
NOBODY 2012
Why hasn't South Carolina gotten rid of him yet? Isn't he an unfaithful blaggard?
Government + the Federal Reserve = organized crime
He wants stimulus money to start his plantation.
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