Schumer opposed flu pandemic funding in stimulus, too, you morons
Sorry to interrupt all the liberal blogosphere’s unhinged GOP-bashing over conservative opposition to flu pandemic funding in the porkulus bill, but…
Well. Just an inconvenient reminder:
“All those little porky things that the House put in, the money for the [National] Mall or the sexually transmitted diseases or the flu pandemic, they’re all out,” Schumer said.
“Porky things.” Er, a rather unfortunate choice of words then. And now.
Leaves a bad taste in your mouth, doesn’t it?
***
Wow. There is actually one sane person at the Daily Kos. Probably won’t be there for long, but give this person credit for pointing out that the left-wing attacks on Republicans over flu pandemic funding are utterly ridiculous. The money they are shrieking about was included in a different bill passed by the Senate — and in fact, was funding requested by George W. Bush:
(1) It’s a good point to make that Collins somehow thought pandemic preparation money was not an economic issue deserving of inclusion in the stimulus package. But Collins was for the money being included in some other form. Now, I think her reasoning is stupid — pandemic prevention is part of a recovery plan. But it’s not like she was against the very idea of it.
In fact she has voted for a number of bills that included pandemic prevention in the past, including the war funding bill of 2007. This undermines her point about which basket the funding is in, but also proves that she’s not against the idea of it.
(2) Relatedly, this money is actually the tail end of money ($7.1 billion worth) that President George W. Bush pushed for in 2005. So this is actually Bush money! To pin all this on the GOP is, thus, a little silly.
The blogger also pointed out Schumer’s opposition. And adds one more point:
(4) Importantly, the vast majority of the pandemic prevention money was passed in March’s omnibus bill, which passed the Senate by (uncounted) voice vote.
Statements like “thanks for the swine flu” or “I hope Susan Collins’ kids get swine flu” are crazy responses to her opinions and the reality of the current funding situation. Just asinine. Same as actually calling or writing Senator Collins. Why? Why are you doing this? Schumer went so far as to call the pandemic prevention funding a “little porky thing,” are you calling him? Are you yelling about him? Additionally, the money has been appropriated, so what’s the point?
Be truthful. Be fair. Be as comprehensive as possible.
Shhhhhh!
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Me, I would trade a few million doses of Theriflu for letting AIG go into bankruptcy, where it belongs.
Funny that they are quick to throw Susan Collins under the bus, seeing that she is one of the few “bipartisan” Repubicans out there at this time.
PLEASE, Michelle…!!!
ANY juxtaposition with Schumer and anything CLOSE to my mouth is simply UNACCEPTABLE!!!
Sorry about insulting pigs. Personally, they are delicious.
Is it just me or does Schumer-Antoinette have a really nice rack? Put a bag over her head….
Oink-Oink!!
***had to make a “MCP” comment – it seemed fitting!
Schumer:Flounder, you can’t spend your whole life worrying about your mistakes! You f$%^&d up – you trusted us! Hey, make the best of it! Maybe we can help.
Flounder: [crying] That’s easy for you to say! What am I going to tell the Fed?
Schumer: I’ll tell you what. We’ll tell the Fed you were doing a great job taking care of the money, but you parked it out back last night and in the morning, it was gone. We report it to the police, the insurance company buys a new one. D-Pelosi takes care of the wreck.
Flounder: Will that work?
Otter: Hey, it’s gotta work better than the truth.
Reid: [thrusting six-pack into Flounder's hands] My advice to you is to start drinking heavily.
Schumer: Better listen to him, Flounder, he’s in pre-med.
D-Pelosi: [firing up blow-torch] There you go now, just leave everything to me.
That’s the problem with post-partisan government. You have to drop the toxic two-party rhetoric too. You can’t have both. The Dems better make the most of their majority while they can because at some point, a real second party will arise to replace their GOP country club “rivals”. (Why do I chuckle whenever I think about the GOP? Sorry, can’t help it. )
Asteroids!! The GOP didn’t include money in Porkulus for asteroids! Money for everything!!!
Asteroids? I’m surprised you can actually use that word. Isn’t there an over-the-counter ointment for that?
Here, Aloha. Problem solved. Now we can focus on Donkey Kong.
You are a sick, twisted man…
But it was funny…
First an epidemic now, earthquakes in Mexico ? Yikes !
So which way do the Dems want to play this: do they want to thin the herd so to speak or do they care about hygiene? In essence, any pandemic spreads because people can’t be bothered to wash their hands or maintain high hygiene standards. This is why Mexico dumps a lot of its sewage into the ocean and its local water tributaries. Same with other third world hell holes like China and India who’ve never heard of modern plumbing and sewage treatement facilities.
This is why I always have trouble believing that liberals like Schumer really care about anyone other than themselves, their social position, and their vast riches. The cognitive dissonance of so many liberals regarding the border and how many illegals have NOT been vaccinated against diseases that were once stamped out but that are now coming back with a vengeance (think Whooping Cough for instance) and yet our borders are wide open and the opportunity is ever present for a pandemic.
The fact that the US didn’t see this coming, even though we have an open border policy with Mexico, is not only disturbing but suggests that the political caretakers of our Republic are either incompetent, negligent or both.
Where I am from we call that a butter face…
They’ve narrowed down the source of the swine flu. It came from tainted pork in the stimulus and budget bills. It looks like the only thing that will control it is qurantining the pork that hasn’t been spent yet and returning it to the taxpayers immediately.
Daily Kos has a “closet right-winger”! LOL He/she makes too much sense to be a lefty moonbat!
I just had a minor flash of insight…
Mexico has nationalized health care.
We don’t.
How far does that go to explaining the mortality in Mexico…
opposed to the lack of mortality here…
from the same disease?
I can’t believe a dhimmicrat didn’t want $$ for the AIDS victims, you know? Since they were infected on purpose by Bush & DeKlerk & all…
In addition, the young man seen shaking BO’s cloven hoof during his trip to Mexico has since died of swine flu. Connections?
Har! ‘cloven hoof’!
Rome burns and the Dhimmis are right about everything else.
Go for it Dhimmicrats. The torture memos, the birth certificate, the absence of appointments to key cabinet posts, bowing to the Saudi “king”, selling out Israel…..
…. the chickens are on their way home.
Glad they elected a moron for TOTUS? You bet! They can continue eating their junk food political diet of blaming Bush for everything they were complicit in.
Pukes.
Bear1909 out.
PS: Schumer the Tumor.
Hmm, I’m making stuffed pork chops tonight… I wonder how many people slipped in the tub and hurt themselves , compared to swine flu symptoms reported.Not to worry, I always wash my hands , cover my mouth and nose when I sneeze, and never , ever shake hands with an illegal alien. Yeah, I said illegal alien.
Pardon, just doing some free form pondering.
MNUSMCDavid
and good cigars give you immunity…!!!
Ragspierre
I forgot that… I have plenty! a few Cohibas, some Partagas, a few Punch and others……
Oh, the TV is staying off for as long as I can handle it…. going to learn more about Swine flu than I care to if left on and how we can’t do what other countries do , in these circumstances… like ban immigration and quarantine people… How’s that world order work for you lefties?
MM-
PLEASE don’t lump we AoS types in with the Schumer’s of the world..
It does an injustice to we morons
Wolf
What do we need a government for anyway?
Talk about a total waste of money!!!
I am beginning to think like a libertarian….throw the whole frigging bunch out and let’s wing it….Can’t be much worse than what we have…may be an improvement
Heck I’m certain it will be an improvement!
Who else thinks we should finally begin to assume the Japanese position…..
Bow when you greet people……
Except for Obama..DO NOT BOW to Saudi King!!!
Michelle
my DearDid you just call lgm a moron? But be careful out there-Bush, Cheney and Karl Rove spiked the TamiFlu with mercury from broken earth friendly light bulbs
OR…
we could cut them back to what the charter of our government permits…
Hmmm…THAT could work…!!!
Wow…!!! Life is good for you…
I have mostly Patels, some Perdomos, Gurkas…like that. I like the BOLDER ones.
I also have a supply of bundle cigars, some of which are remarkable values.
Of course they’re not. “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,” and donks are nothing if not consistent in their bald-faced double standards. About the only thing you can count on from donks is their consistency in being inconsistent: if a Republican does it or says it, it’s automatically “bad”; but if a donk does or says the same thing, it either magically becomes “good” or it becomes invisible.
As modern “journalists” are largely nothing more than propagandists for the donkey party, it follows that the catechisms of modern-day “journalism” are wholly consistent with a donkey point of view. Those catechisms are:
1. “Fake, but accurate!”
2. “It *might* be true!”
3. “Too good to check!”
4. “Wouldn’t it be cool if ________?!?”
5. “Name that party!”
6. “But he’s a democrat, so it’s different!”
Number 6 is clearly being applied in this case.
There’s no reasoning with these people, because they have no universal principles and are therefore incapable of making a good-faith argument. Everything — ethics, outrage, morality, humor, everything — is “situational.”
There’s nothing to be gained intellectual intercourse with such people. They simply have to be defeated.
There’s nothing to be gained intellectual intercourse with such people.
Ah, Jeff2161 that’s almost a proper tom swifty.
Garth Algar: Uhm, Wayne? What do you do if every time you see this one incredible woman, you think you’re gonna hurl?
Wayne Campbell: I say hurl. If you blow chunks and she comes back, she’s yours. But if you spew and she bolts, then it was never meant to be.
Garth Algar: That is a babe. She makes me feel kinda funny, like when we used to climb the rope in gym class.
Wayne and Garth are lying on the hood of the mirth-mobile, staring at the starlit sky]
Garth Algar: Sometimes I wish I could boldly go where no man has gone before… but I’ll probably stay in Aurora. What are you thinking about?
Wayne Campbell: Schumerette. She’s a fox. In French she would be called “la renarde” and she would be hunted with only her cunning to protect her.
Garth Algar: She’s a babe.
Wayne Campbell: She’s a robo-babe. In Latin she would be called “babia majora”.
Garth Algar: If she were a president she would be Baberaham Lincoln.
[a brief pause]
Garth Algar: Did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he put on a dress and played girl bunny?
Wayne Campbell: No.
[cracks up laughing]
Wayne Campbell: No.
Garth Algar: Neither did I. I was just asking.
Umm…I think renard is the male. Vixen the female.
Schumerette…what they give you for one of those erectile drug mishaps they warn you about in the commercials…
Tis being reported that many countries are now banning pork products. Among the countries are China, Malaysia, Ukraine and many others. Two points, 1. you don’t get swine flu from eating pork products. 2. For those of you wishing to be one world, count me out, the world is stupid we( well, those of us who believe in self determination and the Constitution) are not.
You are a bad person Ragspierre–give me another week, or more than four hours, and I could have come up with that
Ah! A man after my own heart! Gurka’s, Perdomo’s, Torano’s Exodus 59’s & 1916’s, assorted CAO’s, and a copius supply of wonderful bundles from TNT Cigars! I also favor the bolder, more flavorful maduros, and some Cameroon’s. Okay, okay…I must admit that I also like an occasional Kuba Kuba.
See, I’m a conservative who really cares about the children! I hope they put my S-Chip donations to good use!
Ah! A man after my own heart! Gurka’s, Perdomo’s?
I’d walk a mile for a Camel if my emphysema wasn’t bad today. Does that count?
Probably the only thing that I’ll ever agree with Susan Collins on…how’s government money/pork going to prevent the flu, or do anything about curing it? What are they going to do…pass out surgical masks?
If liberals want to do something, maybe they can guard our borders and keep the third world disease, and the carriers, out of our country.
Idiots!
***Wedding Crashers
John Beckwith: Claire’s mom just made me grab her hooters.
Jeremy Grey: Well snap out of it! What, a hot older women made you feel her cans? Stop crying like a little girl.
John Beckwith: I wasn’t crying like a little girl.
Jeremy Grey: Hey, what were they like anyway? They looked pretty good, are they real? Are they built for speed or comfort? What’d you do with them? Motorboat? You play the motorboat?
[makes sputtering motorboat noise]
Jeremy Grey: You motorboatin son of a gun! You old sailor you! Where is she? She still in the house?
I’m a LOT more cold-blooded.
I have three real humidors, and four large “cheapidors” (ice-chests adapted to the purpose) filled with pre SCHIP sticks.
It will be many, many a day before any kiddies are treated with my tax money…!!!
And, Arizona, you don’t inhale cigars…!
Oh, goodness…my blushes…
Yeah. I also have three big humidors, but I tapped my cigar budget a few months ago, and diverted it, temporarily to my Home Defense Fund, if you know what I mean…
Gotcha.
I have to do some of the same supply details. .30-06, 12ga., and 9mm ammo is still plentiful…
Shopping time…
David and Rags…Do cigars get stale? I have one in a drawer somewhere from about 1982. I might want to try it.
Ragspierre #3: On the other hand, Barney said quite the opposite.
Well, time can destroy them…or make them sublime.
They are like fine wine in many respects. They require care, and get better with time.
However, with too much time, they can degrade, even if carefully kept.
If that stogie is still intact…uncracked, etc…it might be worth some money, depending on the brand. It could be a highly coveted pre-embargo Cuban.
A Kossack showing signs of intelligence?
Are we seeing the beginning of the pods breaking open and the light of truth shining in?
Speaking of Chucky Schumer…
He is Chairing a Senate Immigration Subcommittee hearing this Thursday regarding AMNESTY. The Amnesty lobby is gearing up.
More info here at NumbersUSA- please be ready folks and get involved.
the chuckster is such a vile pos, it hurts me even to think of him much less see him and hear himon the tube. there are just certain people that get my immediate channel switch response, and he and nancy are at the top of the list.
If it’s in a drawer and in glass…. it would be a great fire starter. Unless the humidity was around 45 to 55 % I’m thinking It stinks and is dry. Do you agree , Rags? I know this is off topic… but this swine flu thing is a major joke and a big media event, even FOX…. nimrods.
G-a-a-a-h! E-r-u-h-h-h-h! (Sounds of retching.)
Ideal conditions for aging Cuban-type cigars are supposed to be 70/70…70% relative humidity at 70 degrees F. There is warm disagreement among cigar affeccianadios (sp, I can’t spell)(I know, color us all surprised), but those are the general consensus conditions. European cigars are far dryer.
In some climates, storage in a drawer (especially if the cigar was in cellophane) might accidentally work out to be near perfect. The cellophane would act to buffer rapid changes in the conditions, as would other stuff in the drawer.
One thing to be cautious of, however, is that high humidity and high temperature could have induced mold growth. That could be not just bad, but dangerous. I am not a mold-o-phobe, but I know that our little friends can produce some very interesting toxins. Smoking them could set you free…in either a good or terminal way…
A whitish, powdery material on the wrapper (skin) of the cigar is not necessarily mold. It can be what is called “blume”, and can be a sign of wonderful things to come.
If you take the cigar out of its happy place in the drawer, be aware of humidity in your home when you do. Place it in a good baggie, and, if the humidity is low, breathe into the baggie. Seal it, and either keep it for eventual appreciation, or get it to a cigar shop. It could be worth not a little money.
DO NOT FREEZE the cigar. That would almost certainly destroy it under most conditions.
What do you think, Devil Dog?
Rags,
I wasn’t aware of too many people who would know the bag thing and breathing…..lol Kinda like liberals who know nothing of living independent life.
If this swine flu does get me-God forbid-at least I can go knowing that I now am indeed a know it all as I now know how to care for aging Cuban Style Cigars. And now wife wife can be proud to know she is married to a know it all as she has been saying for years. {insert tear here}
Life is good, as are Cuban style cigars.
Arizona…
We haven’t even scratched the surface…