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1. #101
   On March 8th, 2011 at 5:54 pm, tre said:

   Here’s a few examples of cowboy wisdom from one of our wisest cowboys ever; Will Rogers.

   Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

   Democrats never agree on anything, that’s why they’re Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

   I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

   I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him “father.”

   I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

   If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?

   If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don’t get wet you can keep.

   Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven’t had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

   The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.

   There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

   There ought to be one day – just one – when there is open season on senators.

   Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it

   This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

   When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.

2. #102
   On March 8th, 2011 at 5:55 pm, ShoreDor said:

   Can I play?

   Alan Ladd
   Randolph Scott
   Alex Baldwin
   Gary Cooper
   Richard Widmark

3. #103
   On March 8th, 2011 at 6:00 pm, Hangfire said:

   Chuck Connors
   Yakima Canutt
   Broderick Crawford
   Kevin Spacey
   Lee Van Cleef

4. #104
   On March 8th, 2011 at 6:00 pm, Hangfire said:

   Good ones, SD

5. #105
   On March 8th, 2011 at 6:06 pm, spaceycakes said:

   Charles Bronson
   Warren Oates
   Lee Marvin
   Tim Robbins
   Lorne Greene

6. #106
   On March 8th, 2011 at 6:10 pm, spaceycakes said:

   James Drury
   John Carradine
   Thomas Mitchell
   Joseph Gordon Levitt
   John Vernon

7. #107
   On March 8th, 2011 at 6:12 pm, spaceycakes said:

   Tab Hunter
   Lainie Kazan
   Henry Silva
   Divine
   Cesar Romero

   oops–that’s the cast for Lust in the Dust

8. #108
   On March 8th, 2011 at 6:20 pm, passingruffian said:

   Would this count?

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR-1Bgch_l4

9. #109
   On March 8th, 2011 at 6:25 pm, old goat said:

   We have a huge Cowboy Poetry festival in our county in Utah. It was started by my neighbor and then grew and grew. No NEA money etc… (he is so conservative they wouldn’t give him any anyways). Maybe Mr. Reid should come up here and see how it is done without federal handouts.

10. #110
    On March 8th, 2011 at 6:27 pm, Chuck Biscuits said:

    Yeah, only the NEH would think it was a good idea to stick a bunch of rhyming cowboys in a place where nobody lives.

11. #111
    On March 8th, 2011 at 6:28 pm, happyscrapper said:

    On March 8th, 2011 at 4:15 pm, Massasoit said:

    Massasoit…where did you get your name? Seriously, I need to know why you chose it!

12. #112
    On March 8th, 2011 at 6:29 pm, ThunderHawkk said:

    Why do they need Federal money for this?? WTH? Just hold the festival and find a way to pay for it!

    Harry Reid sucks!

13. #113
    On March 8th, 2011 at 6:31 pm, Cybergeezer said:

    Why? Because Harry is such a good stand up comedian?
    Pardon me, while I make myself laugh.

14. #114
    On March 8th, 2011 at 6:33 pm, BobStevenson said:

    Jack Palance
    Clint Eastwood
    James Arness
    Paul Ruebens
    Clayton Moore

15. #115
    On March 8th, 2011 at 6:38 pm, ShoreDor said:

    James Garner
    Tex Ritter
    Clint Eastwood
    Woody Allen
    Jimmmy Stewart

16. #116
    On March 8th, 2011 at 6:40 pm, ShoreDor said:

    You beat me to Clint Eastwood, BobStevenson, so I have a substitution:

    James Garner
    Tex Ritter
    Clint Eastwood
    Woody Allen
    Jimmmy Stewart
    Fess Parker

17. #117
    On March 8th, 2011 at 6:40 pm, ShoreDor said:

    You beat me to Clint Eastwood, BobStevenson, so I have a substitution:

    James Garner
    Tex Ritter
    Clint Eastwood
    Woody Allen
    Jimmmy Stewart
    Fess Parker

18. #118
    On March 8th, 2011 at 6:47 pm, ShoreDor said:

    Sorry for the double post. D’oh!

19. #119
    On March 8th, 2011 at 6:51 pm, Mister P said:

    I have seen heads of the pronghorns in N TX when I was a child. They are beautiful animals. I have no idea if they are still here, but I would imagine they might be on the endangered list.
    L

    We have herds of them here in Central Oregon, where seldom is heard a discouraging word, and the skies are not cloudy all day.

20. #120
    On March 8th, 2011 at 6:52 pm, Cybergeezer said:

    What about Lee Marvin?

21. #121
    On March 8th, 2011 at 6:54 pm, TooMuchTime said:

    Yul Brenner
    Steve McQueen
    Horst Buchholz
    Charles Bronson
    Robert Vaughn
    Brad Dexter
    James Coburn
    Eli Wallach

    Oh, wait! They’re all included. That’s the cast of The Magnificent Seven. (Listening to the theme by Elmer Berstein right now.)

22. #122
    On March 8th, 2011 at 6:56 pm, Cybergeezer said:

    RONALD REAGAN

23. #123
    On March 8th, 2011 at 6:57 pm, Cybergeezer said:

    ROY ROGERS

24. #124
    On March 8th, 2011 at 6:58 pm, Cybergeezer said:

    FESS PARKER.

25. #125
    On March 8th, 2011 at 7:04 pm, tre said:

    Lee Van Cleef
    Chief Dan George
    Scoot Glenn
    Heath Ledger
    Robert Duvall
    Tom Selleck

    Five of these starred in excellent westerns.
    One of them in an abomonation.

26. #126
    On March 8th, 2011 at 7:05 pm, Cybergeezer said:

    FESTUS; (Ken Curtis)

27. #127
    On March 8th, 2011 at 7:08 pm, Marshall_Will said:

    Harry Reid’s love of all-things-cowboy dates back to his great great grandfather Bucky Ried, who, as legend has it, once taxed a man to death just for snorin’ too loud.

    Dagg nabbit! Right, nothing says Freedom Of The Old West quite like a gov-funded blab-fest. Actually I always thought Geoffery Lewis ( bad guy in High Plains Drifter ) was quite good.

28. #128
    On March 8th, 2011 at 7:09 pm, Cybergeezer said:

    Slim Pickens.

29. #129
    On March 8th, 2011 at 7:11 pm, OK_Loyalist said:

    Cleavon Little

30. #130
    On March 8th, 2011 at 7:12 pm, Cybergeezer said:

    ANNE OAKLEY!
    AAAAAAHAHA HA HA!

31. #131
    On March 8th, 2011 at 7:14 pm, Marshall_Will said:

    One of them in an abomonation

    Tom Selleck? Lol, good one.

    My uncle was the spittin’ image of Lee Van Cleef and he played it to the hilt. Like Lee, he was a genuinely nice person in real life. But w/ that hookbill nose and beady eyes, well let’s just say I’ve seen grown men breakdown and make sure he got all his change back and then some!

    He really reveled in the resemblance. I miss ‘em both.

32. #132
    On March 8th, 2011 at 7:16 pm, Cybergeezer said:

    MEL BROOKS!

33. #133
    On March 8th, 2011 at 7:18 pm, Cybergeezer said:

    Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, Martin Short!

34. #134
    On March 8th, 2011 at 7:27 pm, Whirled Peas said:

    Harry yure mouf is purtier than a $20 whore!

35. #135
    On March 8th, 2011 at 7:28 pm, Mister P said:

    ANNE OAKLEY!
    AAAAAAHAHA HA HA!

    Isn’t that Hillary Clinton?

36. #136
    On March 8th, 2011 at 7:30 pm, TooMuchTime said:

    Name one that isn’t like the other.

    Louis L’Amour
    Zane Gray
    Annie Proulx
    Alistair MacLean
    Charles Portis

37. #137
    On March 8th, 2011 at 7:30 pm, bodfish said:

    William Boyd
    Duncan Reynoldo
    Andy Devine
    Guy Morrison
    Richard Boone

38. #138
    On March 8th, 2011 at 8:02 pm, tre said:

    Actually I always thought Geoffery Lewis ( bad guy in High Plains Drifter ) was quite good.

    !?!WHO ARE YOU!?!

    *Bang!*

    who are you?

39. #139
    On March 8th, 2011 at 8:13 pm, Splinter said:

    Had that program not been around, the tens of thousands of people who come there every year would not exist.”

    Where Cowboy Poetry Fans go when they no longer exist.

40. #140
    On March 8th, 2011 at 8:16 pm, tre said:

    On March 8th, 2011 at 7:11 pm, OK_Loyalist said:
    Cleavon Little

    “You’re so talented, and they’re so dumb!”

    Blazing Saddles, starring Chickasha, Oklahoma’s Cleavon Little, is a classic.

41. #141
    On March 8th, 2011 at 8:21 pm, OK_Loyalist said:

    hmmm I didn’t know that Tre

    Where do you live in OK ?

    Tulsa here if you hadn’t caught that already.

42. #142
    On March 8th, 2011 at 8:23 pm, Curt said:

    John Wayne
    Robert Duvall
    Tommy Lee Jones
    Robert Mitchum

43. #143
    On March 8th, 2011 at 8:29 pm, Hangfire said:

    Carl Albert class of ’73

44. #144
    On March 8th, 2011 at 8:30 pm, Hangfire said:

    Tommy Lee Jones

    Not a fey pretty boy.

45. #145
    On March 8th, 2011 at 8:39 pm, Hangfire said:

    By the way, is FEY the abbreviation of IRONY?

46. #146
    On March 8th, 2011 at 8:39 pm, swede said:

    Harrison Ford

    You thought they were out of script ideas? You were right.

    Cowboys and Aliens?!?

    Get outta here.

47. #147
    On March 8th, 2011 at 8:45 pm, tre said:

    On March 8th, 2011 at 8:21 pm, OK_Loyalist said:
    hmmm I didn’t know that Tre

    Where do you live in OK ?

    Tulsa here if you hadn’t caught that already.

    I live just a few miles east of Edmond, off Route 66.

    I was born in Coffeyville, KS, and raised just south of there near Wann, OK.

48. #148
    On March 8th, 2011 at 8:50 pm, Hangfire said:

    On March 8th, 2011 at 8:45 pm, tre said:
    I live just a few miles east of Edmond, off Route 66.

    Been to Pop’s Pops?

49. #149
    On March 8th, 2011 at 8:51 pm, OK_Loyalist said:

    On March 8th, 2011 at 8:45 pm, tre said:

    Ah out by Wellston. ?

50. #150
    On March 8th, 2011 at 9:00 pm, Flyoverman said:

    You cannot mention cowboy without:

    Gary Cooper

51. #151
    On March 8th, 2011 at 9:15 pm, shimauma2 said:

    umm, can’t cowboys make poetry without tax money? “look at that Texas moon, see how it shines, look at that Nevada dim, hear how he whines” See I did that completely free of charge….

52. #152
    On March 8th, 2011 at 9:18 pm, tre said:

    On March 8th, 2011 at 8:50 pm, Hangfire said:

    Yes. That bottle looks cool at night.

    On March 8th, 2011 at 8:51 pm, OK_Loyalist said:

    North of Arcadia. If you ever want to “get your kicks on Route 66″ then WATCH YOUR SPEED in Arcadia. The police just love writing tickets.

53. #153
    On March 8th, 2011 at 9:24 pm, OK_Loyalist said:

    On March 8th, 2011 at 9:18 pm, tre said:

    LOL, sounds like one section of 11th Street (old Rt 66) here.

54. #154
    On March 8th, 2011 at 9:48 pm, ShoreDor said:

    On March 8th, 2011 at 9:00 pm, Flyoverman said:
    You cannot mention cowboy without:
    Gary Cooper

    No you can’t!

    #103
    On March 8th, 2011 at 5:55 pm, ShoreDor said:
    Can I play?
    Alan Ladd
    Randolph Scott
    Alex Baldwin
    Gary Cooper
    Richard Widmark

55. #155
    On March 8th, 2011 at 10:01 pm, sbw999 said:

    “Mean spirited”: Another blight on the American language by brainless liberals. Lib pols utter these low IQ phrases, and their lapdog constituents salivate like Pavlov’s dog .

56. #156
    On March 8th, 2011 at 10:23 pm, Massasoit said:

    Massasoit…where did you get your name? Seriously, I need to know why you chose it!

    Who better to know cowboys, er, pilgrims/puritans, than Massasoit, son of King Phillip… and he’s a local legend, and even has his own community college. Its a regional name and I’m here in SEMass. That answer it for you, happyscrapper?

57. #157
    On March 8th, 2011 at 10:26 pm, rocketman said:

    ***
    Dodge City
    Virginia City
    Tombstone
    Deadwood
    Searchlight ???
    ***
    Rocketman
    ***

58. #158
    On March 8th, 2011 at 10:28 pm, rocketman said:

    ***
    .44 Cap and Ball
    .45 Long Colt
    .45-70
    .30-30
    .25 auto ???
    ***
    Rocketman
    ***

59. #159
    On March 8th, 2011 at 10:32 pm, rocketman said:

    ***
    Juaquin Murietta
    Pancho Villa
    Black Bart
    Jessie James
    Comrade Obama ???
    ***
    Rocketman
    ***

60. #160
    On March 8th, 2011 at 10:43 pm, Hangfire said:

    .25 auto ???

    Eww. You win, rocket.

61. #161
    On March 8th, 2011 at 11:19 pm, CaryConcealed said:

    Pronghorn (antelopes) are NOT endangered. (Yeah, they’re not true antelopes, but American Bison aren’t true buffaloes either.)

62. #162
    On March 8th, 2011 at 11:46 pm, bodfish said:

    Good name. Already Sachem/Leader, Massasoit greeted the Pilgrims and lived in peace. His second son was the so-called Prince Phillip, who led a brutal war 45 years later, brutal for both sides.

63. #163
    On March 9th, 2011 at 6:49 am, Jimmy Chowda said:

    I think Harry Reid is claiming the NEA created 10,000 people.

64. #164
    On March 9th, 2011 at 6:52 am, steamjetKC135 said:

    Chester
    Newly, and
    Marshall Dillon!

    I’m surprised that no one mentioned:

    George Bush!

65. #165
    On March 9th, 2011 at 7:44 am, ITookTheRedPill said:

    On March 8th, 2011 at 4:01 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    Harry Reid: Save the Cowboy Poets!

    Save a cowboy, ride a horse?

    On March 8th, 2011 at 4:07 pm, sicoit said:

    No, sorry, the song is Save a horse, ride a cowboy…

    I know, I was mocking Dingy Harry for getting his “Cowboy poetry” wrong!

66. #166
    On March 9th, 2011 at 7:44 am, swede said:

    rocketman said:
    ***
    .44 Cap and Ball
    .45 Long Colt
    .45-70
    .30-30
    .25 auto ???

    Here lies Lester Moore
    Six slugs from a .44
    No Les, no more.

67. #167
    On March 9th, 2011 at 7:50 am, swede said:

    Sundance: “Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?”

    Re: Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboy Poets
    By Mark Steyn

    An ol’ cowpoke went ridin’ out one dark and windy day
    Upon a ridge he rested as he went along his way
    When all at once he spied a posse from the GOP
    A-hangin’ from that ol’ mesquite his fed’ral subsidy

    His pen was still a-fire and he knew how to spell “git”
    But an ol’ paint can’t outride a trillion-dollar deficit
    If only Harry Reid can head ’em off at that there pass
    ‘Cuz he hasn’t finished paying off creative-writing class

    Yipp-ki-o yippi-ki-ay
    Cow Poets On The Dole
    Yipp-ki-o yippi-ki-ay
    Cow Poets On The Dole…

68. #168
    On March 9th, 2011 at 8:05 am, StaceyOfLiberty said:

    Well…I’m going to comment here, even though I’m feeling super skittish about commenting, just because I feel like I know a lot about the topic. I got my MFA in Creative Writing (poetry) in Tucson. Although I work full-time and write romance, I also write some poetry and publish it occasionally in literary magazines.

    I think NEA funding should be cut back quite a bit and should never go to individual artists and writers. Right now, poets can get NEA grants. I think it’s not a good use of taxpayer money because most people don’t care about poetry. Why should they have to fund my writing? I do it because I love it.

    It’s not that expensive to hold a poetry festival. On a small scale, it can actually be done for free.

69. #169
    On March 9th, 2011 at 8:11 am, mondamay said:

    Based on who’s paying, I’m seeing Amiri Baraka in a ten-gallon hat.

70. #170
    On March 9th, 2011 at 8:31 am, mondamay said:

    On March 9th, 2011 at 8:05 am, StaceyOfLiberty said:

    Romance novels aren’t my thing, but I’ll tip my hat to a published author of fiction.

    I always wanted to write creatively (and make money at it, of course), but I don’t seem to have the imagination I once had.

71. #171
    On March 9th, 2011 at 8:33 am, swede said:

    StaceyOfLiberty said:
    I think it’s not a good use of taxpayer money because most people don’t care about poetry.

    Yet it is deeply ingrained in most people’s lives – Frost, Dickinson, Whitman, E. E. Cummings, Poe. Part of our culture and psyche.

    Why should they have to fund my writing? I do it because I love it.

    There you go. None of the above wrote a single word for money. If art is subsidized, any clown will do it. If only passionate artists do it for the sake of art, we will see masterpieces again.

    Again wishing you success in your writing.

72. #172
    On March 9th, 2011 at 8:39 am, Dexter Alarius said:

    Neville Brand
    Charles Durning
    These two were also highly decorated WWII Soldiers.

73. #173
    On March 9th, 2011 at 9:32 am, ITookTheRedPill said:

    On March 9th, 2011 at 8:05 am, StaceyOfLiberty said:

    Well…I’m going to comment here, even though I’m feeling super skittish about commenting

    Please don’t feel skittish. Please feel free to share your comments.

    I think it’s not a good use of taxpayer money… Why should they have to fund my writing?

    More money = more choices = more freedom.

    Less money = less choices = less freedom.

    Every time Government takes taxpayer money, they are taking away some freedom from taxpayers.

    Therefore, government should only do those things that it alone can do. For example, national defense. The Constitution is designed to limit the size, power, roles and responsibilities of our government. The more we hold our elected and appointed government officials to the Constitution, the freer we will be.

    That said, I agree with you that funding the arts is not a good or legitimate use of taxpayer money… let the arts be funded by individuals who appreciate the value of those arts. And there will always be large benefactors who voluntarily subsidize the arts for the less fortunate. (Carnegie libraries, etc.)

74. #174
    On March 9th, 2011 at 9:39 am, ramblingman said:

    On March 9th, 2011 at 9:32 am, ITookTheRedPill said

    Hear, Hear.

    The free market is a most wonderful thing. It allows anyone to succeed at anything. It is the epitome of equal opportunity. It is the ideal of capitalism and freedom.

    It is also the enemy according to progressives like Obama.

75. #175
    On March 9th, 2011 at 9:55 am, happyscrapper said:

    I just saw a repeat of Harry Reid in the Senate talking about his Cowboy poets. Harry Reid is a doddering, senile old fool. In the midst of a major financial crisis, he is worried about a cowboy poet festival and thinks that tens of thousands of people will cease to exist if it is cancelled. He need to retire to the home for senility. I am serious. There is something wrong with him, and he is the leader of the Senate!! My lord, this is what we have come to in this country…a marxist POTUS and a senile Senate Leader. And until the November election, we had a moron as Leader of the House. How do these people get elected and HOW.DO.WE.KICK.THEM.OUT??

76. #176
    On March 9th, 2011 at 10:08 am, cheapseat said:

    We pay 35% of the people in this country not to do anything, why not cowboy poets? We pay farmers not to grow crops, dairymen not to produce milk, teachers not to produce literate students, and millions of deadbeats not to litter our streets while unemployed. We pay the old to have liver transplants, we pay the young to attend school, we pay the middle class to buy a house or a new car, and we pay the unions, and we pay the unions, and we pay the unions… We pay the sports team owners to move to our town, we pay the colleges to give scholarships to morons who can dunk from the foul line, we pay for the opera so snobs can mingle, and we pay for the UN so every dictator in the world can export his (_*_) brother in law out of his kingdom into NY where he can spy on our technology and thumb his nose at our laws. The sixty four billion dollar question is what doesn’t the taxpayer pay for?

77. #177
    On March 9th, 2011 at 10:20 am, mondamay said:

    On March 9th, 2011 at 9:55 am, happyscrapper said: There is something wrong with him, and he is the leader of the Senate!!

    Actually under the Constitution Joe Biden is president of the Senate, so um well… never mind.

    Kidding aside, Harry has some real issues.

    This quote is scary:
    “the tens of thousands of people who come there every year would not exist.”

    There are a lot of ways to interpret this (delusional, massive hubris, flat-out lying), and none of them are good.

78. #178
    On March 9th, 2011 at 10:28 am, happyscrapper said:

    Well, at least if tens of thousands of people didn’t exist, they couldn’t stink up the place, right Harry?

79. #179
    On March 9th, 2011 at 10:36 am, ramblingman said:

    If tens of thousands of people attend the festival every year, wouldn’t it be self-sustaining?

    Just saying.

    Of course, we can follow (Warning! Oxymoron Alert!) Harry’s logic. If abortion was illegal, there would exist millions who could attend cowboy poetry festivals.

80. #180
    On March 9th, 2011 at 10:42 am, MacEamonn said:

    So does this count as Cowboy Poetry?

    There once was a Senator named Reid

    He was a real piece of work indeed

    The people in Vegas

    Lost all of their wages

    While on the rest of the country he peed

81. #181
    On March 9th, 2011 at 10:44 am, happyscrapper said:

    On March 9th, 2011 at 10:36 am, ramblingman said:
    If tens of thousands of people attend the festival every year, wouldn’t it be self-sustaining?

    Of course. But that would require a free market and capitalism. Harry doesn’t believe in that.

82. #182
    On March 9th, 2011 at 10:45 am, happyscrapper said:

    On March 9th, 2011 at 10:42 am, MacEamonn said:

    Excellent, MacEamonn! Excellent! A signed copy of Pinheads and Patriots is on its way to you!

83. #183
    On March 9th, 2011 at 10:47 am, mondamay said:

    On March 9th, 2011 at 9:55 am, happyscrapper said: HOW.DO.WE.KICK.THEM.OUT??

    I would support a lock-out.

84. #184
    On March 9th, 2011 at 10:59 am, plymouthacclaim said:

    Here’s a poem Harry won’t support:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG0mhWLrr3c

85. #185
    On March 9th, 2011 at 11:21 am, jlhudg23 said:

    Can I deduct the cost of gasoline I’d spend to drive to Cowboy Harry’s little poetry get-together? How do you think the IRS would look on that? I mean, come on people, I’m helping to ensure that thousands of people get to exist!!!

86. #186
    On March 9th, 2011 at 11:31 am, StaceyOfLiberty said:

    There you go. None of the above wrote a single word for money. If art is subsidized, any clown will do it. If only passionate artists do it for the sake of art, we will see masterpieces again.

    Ah, don’t even get me started. I feel like the insular, homogenous university system, combined with the system of grants that is almost completely administered by products of that same system, has led to very weak literature in the past 20-30 years.

    Thanks for the good wishes.

87. #187
    On March 9th, 2011 at 11:34 am, ITookTheRedPill said:

    On March 9th, 2011 at 10:20 am, mondamay said:

    On March 9th, 2011 at 9:55 am, happyscrapper said: There is something wrong with him, and he is the leader of the Senate!!

    Actually under the Constitution Joe Biden is president of the Senate, so um well… never mind.

    YES!!! I wrote a post about that very topic: President of the Senate.

    It is so wrong that we have come to believe that the Vice-President has no job except to attend funerals and hope one of those is the President’s…

    McCain said, turning to that wry humor of his. “The vice president has two duties. One is to inquire daily as to the health of the president, and the other is to attend the funerals of Third World dictators. And neither of those do I find an enjoyable exercise.”

    If you look at the signed copy of the Bill of Rights, you will find the signatures of the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate.
    It is an important job in its own right.

88. #188
    On March 9th, 2011 at 11:37 am, StaceyOfLiberty said:

    Romance novels aren’t my thing, but I’ll tip my hat to a published author of fiction.
    I always wanted to write creatively (and make money at it, of course), but I don’t seem to have the imagination I once had.

    Hey, thanks! I published with a smaller house, but I’m still proud of it, you know?

    You might have the imagination but just need more info about how to structure things! That was my problem for a long time, anyway. Plotting is a b****

89. #189
    On March 9th, 2011 at 11:52 am, NJMark said:

    … that the Vice-President has no job except to attend funerals and hope one of those is the President’s…

    I know that’s the usual joke, but when was the last time a vice president was actually sent to a foreign funeral?

    I think you have to go back to Mondale for that.

    Cheney certainly didn’t sit around waiting for world leaders to die.

90. #190
    On March 9th, 2011 at 12:56 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    Cheney did not fulfil his Constitutional role as President of the Senate.

    And even in the few instances when he did, he did not do it well.

    In fact, Dick Cheney Broke the Law.

91. #191
    On March 9th, 2011 at 2:51 pm, shimauma2 said:

    On March 9th, 2011 at 8:33 am, swede said: If art is subsidized, any clown will do it.

    that explains algore’s poem “neptune’s bones”….