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1. #1
   On April 6th, 2011 at 9:25 am, letget said:

   I just pray the enough American’s are finally waking up to all the corrupt going on’s in dc. Acutual taxpayers are getting fed up with the same ole, same ole curd. Both the r’s and d’s are guilty! This needs to stop stat!
   L

2. #2
   On April 6th, 2011 at 9:26 am, Flyoverman said:

   Do-nothing House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi attacked Republicans for paving a “path to poverty for America’s seniors and children and a road to riches for big oil.”

   Ahhhhh…. who is responsible for fuel prices doubling, because we have not exlpoited our vast oil resources?

   Democrats are oblivious to the impact of fuel prices doubling, clothes going up 10%, and food going up 20% for the poor and working families.

   How much spending power has the average American lost just this year?

3. #3
   On April 6th, 2011 at 9:30 am, Rogue Cheddar said:

   For Fannie and Freddie lobbyists and leeches, the path to prosperity has been paved with a Democratic friends and fat cats protection plan that epitomizes Washington’s culture of corruption.

   In other words Freddie’s got a fat fanny!

4. #4
   On April 6th, 2011 at 9:33 am, 123upnorth said:

   If each one of us were to name the next major purchase we needed/wanted to make, the resulting list would be diverse and extensive. Such a list would be illustrative as to why it is impossible for a central planner to effectively allocate an economy’s scarce resources in order to produce maximum wealth per person.

   Secondly, not only is it impossible for a central planner to effectively distribute because of diverse needs/wants, the mere fact that a third party is involved when government interferes, makes any economic allocation more inefficient because more hands are involved.

   Thirdly, because government isn’t bound by the signals of profits and losses as is the private sector (pre-2008 that is), there is nothing to correct government’s actions when they make bad decisions.

5. #5
   On April 6th, 2011 at 9:35 am, sbw999 said:

   While Pelosi demagogues Republican budget cuts for depriving kids and seniors of their meals, the Beltway-sponsored Fannie and Freddie behemoths have been devouring taxpayers’ lunches for years. For Fannie and Freddie lobbyists and leeches, the path to prosperity has been paved with a Democratic friends and fat cats protection plan that epitomizes Washington’s culture of corruption.

   Precisley Michelle. Which is why I say once again, our corrupt press is the biggest threat to our democracy. Without a free press willing to vette these outrageous statements (as they so willingly do when Republicans speak), the uninformed masses take this crap in hook, line and sinker. The lie repeated enough times, becomes the truth. I wonder who made this phone call to strategize on demagoguing the issue. Fear mongering, lying, dishonesty, corruption: the attributes of your modern day democrat.

   I will say this: if we as a citizenry cannot gather up enough interest in the present and future of this Country to enable us to see through the infantile mantra’s of the dems, and see their statements as OBVIOUSLY and patently false, then we deserve what we get. As Pat Buchanan said a couple of years ago, “we are an unserious people, living in serious times”.

6. #6
   On April 6th, 2011 at 9:37 am, MitchCa said:

   cutting taxes for “the rich and their corporate donors.”

   What then is GE and Jeffery Immelt?

7. #7
   On April 6th, 2011 at 9:39 am, NJ-Aviator said:

   And similarly, here in NJ, the NJEA has radio ads running proclaiming Gov. Christie is making sure his millionaire pals get tax breaks while kids in schools are punished by larger class sizes and families having to pay more for higher education.

   It’s all BS. A 5% cut in the budget, which what Christie cut, means classes with ONE MORE STUDENT PER TEACHER.

   The NJEA claims are a bunch of crap. Teachers who say he’s hurting kids are full of sh**.

   This state’s per student outlay is 70% more than the national average. More so in urban areas.

   And get this. This is FIRST HAND INFORMATION.

   A vendor who sells schools supplies asked a buyer why they were ordering supplies that cost about a third less than some other supplies they offered. The vendor quickly added “Oh yeah. You’re a suburban school. The urban schools always order the most expensive stuff. Like the $8 student planners instead of the $3 planner you’re ordering. They have to use up their budget or they won’t get it next year.”

   So, in NJ, like the rest of the liberal bastions around the country, waste of tax dollars is the rule. The supply of funds needs to the cut.

   We can’t afford to lose this fight.

8. #8
   On April 6th, 2011 at 9:41 am, 123upnorth said:

   What then is GE and Jeffery Immelt?

   GE is an environmental champion (not including their nuclear reactor installations) of mother earth and a fighter toward economic justice (not including the TARP bailout money they received).

9. #9
   On April 6th, 2011 at 9:41 am, Oh-nO said:

   The commusocialist democrats had 2 years to pass a budget of their own and pissed away the opportunity on crap like obamacare, and now they will blame their stupidity on the tea party driven responsible conservatives who are trying to get a handle on a major financial problem-about-to-go-meltdown.
   If the people of s.f.,n.y. and the like continue to elect pelosi, weiner and the like,they deserve the crap these people feed them, but not the rest of the nation.

10. #10
    On April 6th, 2011 at 9:45 am, 123upnorth said:

    Why doesn’t the GOP put out ads that simply ask:

    Where has socialsim worked?

    Oh, that’s right. The GOP belives in the same type of big government that the Democrats believe in, only to a slightly lesser extent – we are all sh*t-out-of-luck.

11. #11
    On April 6th, 2011 at 9:51 am, mondamay said:

    On April 6th, 2011 at 9:45 am, 123upnorth said:
    Oh, that’s right. The GOP belives in the same type of big government that the Democrats believe in, only to a slightly lesser extent

    The problem is that there is a large portion of the American people also believe in that socialism. Even among professed conservatives, many will exempt themselves and their own activities from consideration.

12. #12
    On April 6th, 2011 at 9:51 am, DirkBelig said:

    “a luxurious three-bedroom, seven-bath penthouse condominium”

    Wow. Rich people really need to go to the bathroom a lot.

    Or someone transposed the numbers and no one caught it in editing.

    It’s like when unfounded liberal opinionating slips into MSM reports because no one in editorial thinks anything about slamming their ideological inferiors. “Of course those teabaggers with their Sky Man and boy-girl patriarchal pairings believe Jesus was a dinosaur rodeo champion.”

13. #13
    On April 6th, 2011 at 9:53 am, cicerokid said:

    Do-nothing House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi attacked Republicans for paving a “path to poverty for America’s seniors and children and a road to riches for big oil.”

    While the Fed profits more from Oil revenue (taxes, permits) than big oil. Square that, please.

14. #14
    On April 6th, 2011 at 10:03 am, peteee said:

    let me see if i have this correctly, democrats under nancy did not do a budget last year, so now if the government shuts down, it is the republicans fault? seems to fit with the new norm. don’t pay for your house, obama to the rescue, pay for your house, screw you. have a job in the private sector, pray, obama is gunning to put you out of work. don’t have a job, if you run out of unemployment, welfare, food stamps, housing assistance, job training, or heating assistance, apply for a wonderful job in government, and get juice taken out of your check to pay the union, who gives money to obama.

15. #15
    On April 6th, 2011 at 10:07 am, 123upnorth said:

    The problem is that there is a large portion of the American people also believe in that socialism. Even among professed conservatives, many will exempt themselves and their own activities from consideration.

    Exactly. One of the strategies of the left has been to distribute government benefits of some sort to each and everyone of us. Less people will object to socialism if most of the population is getting something from the central planners.

    The government has figured out that if they can take $5 from us, give us back $4 and keep $1 for themselves, it is a pretty good racket to run. And if they can do that while convincing us that it is the government that actually makes it all possible, then even better because we then become like addicts to their ways.

16. #16
    On April 6th, 2011 at 10:32 am, Captain Blasto said:

    Taxes don’t matter. Spending does.
    This terrific link explains very clearly that if we completely gutted corporate America and took all of the “fat cats” money along with a lot of other confiscations. We could barely fund our government for just one year with no where to go after that.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=661pi6K-8WQ

    I have never linked anything before but this is too good to not share.

17. #17
    On April 6th, 2011 at 10:32 am, nail49 said:

    there is nothing to correct government’s actions when they make bad decisions.

    123: That seems to be the only decisions government makes any more!

    Apologies to Hee Haw:
    Gloom, despair and agony on me. (whoooooooah!)
    Deep dark depression, excessive misery. (repeat deep moans)
    If it weren’t for bad decisions, we’d have no decisions at all!
    Gloom, despair and agony on me. (whoooooooah!)

18. #18
    On April 6th, 2011 at 10:36 am, Marshall_Will said:

    “Collection of devastating excerpts from the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac hearings”

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yga7TlsA-1A

    Mindful, the ‘montage’ you’re looking at is dated back to 2004. It’s times like these we need to remind ourselves that Phonie & Fraudie were “created to make housing ‘affordable’ to the broadest number of Americans!”

    ( Well, when had it ever been less affordable than during the GSE-Sponsored “Boom”? ) Bonus footage of Maxine Waters huckin’ water for Franklin Raines at: 0:38, just to show I am a man not ‘completely’ without humor?

19. #19
    On April 6th, 2011 at 10:36 am, maisy said:

    We must, must ,must continue to support people like this!

    http://www.thebostonchannel.com/mostpopular/27449849/detail.html

    New Americans bring ‘diverse’ culture to our shiores!

20. #20
    On April 6th, 2011 at 10:40 am, Marshall_Will said:

    Captain Blasto said:
    I have never linked anything before but this is too good to not share.

    Hey, put it at the end of every POST for all I care!? The more ppl see that the better!

21. #21
    On April 6th, 2011 at 10:47 am, DiaryGirl said:

    On April 6th, 2011 at 9:51 am, DirkBelig said:
    Wow. Rich people really need to go to the bathroom a lot.

    Only the ones that are full of excrement….

22. #22
    On April 6th, 2011 at 10:49 am, Mister P said:

    Let them whine. It will all backfire on the Dims. They are the rich kids who when they don’t get what they want, they take there bats and balls and go home.

    So every trip during a shutdown that Obama takes, and the huge costs that Michelle Obama incurs will only make people madder. On what grounds can the Dims say THEY didn’t cause the shutdown.

    So it will end up: Conservatives praising the GOP for the shutdown and Liberals condemning the Dims for the shutdown.

23. #23
    On April 6th, 2011 at 10:53 am, Cybergeezer said:

    These lies, repeated for generations, have corrupted the minds of our children.
    It will not be a carefree task, to correct the damage.
    Like muslims; They’ll die before changing their minds.

24. #24
    On April 6th, 2011 at 10:55 am, maisy said:

    Hold their feet to the Fire!

    today and tommorow in Washington

    http://www.fairus.org/site/PageNavigator/FTTF2011

25. #25
    On April 6th, 2011 at 11:13 am, right_on said:

    Pelosi demagogues Republican budget cuts for depriving kids and seniors of their meals.

    “We’ll, uh, have to pass” the Ryan budget proposal to actually see what happens, huh, Nancy?

    Um, no…we know what the proposed budget will accomplish, and depriving kids and seniors is not one of those things. Ages old protestations against cutting non-essential, and/or bloated spending will not work this time. Pelosi’s argument has been used ad nauseum for decades, and those predictions never materialize.

    Take for instance the 1995 welfare bill. Democrats declared it would be devestating to the poor (who needed the help of government.) Well guess what? The bill got people off of welfare, and put them to work. It was a rousing success.

    The Democrats are showing their true colors. Their actions (and votes) show them to be cowards, crooks, creeps, liars, and out of touch. I just wish we could put them out of mind, once and for all!

26. #26
    On April 6th, 2011 at 11:16 am, Marshall_Will said:

    Mister P said:
    So it will end up: Conservatives praising the GOP for the shutdown and Liberals condemning the Dims for the shutdown.

    And THAT… retires the Top of the order! Lol, and roll that Bud comm. footage.

    It will not be a carefree task, to correct the damage.
    Like muslims; They’ll die before changing their minds.

    Cyber, I’ll have to respectfully disagree. Just look at the marvelous progress we’ve made w/ kentroyals5 ( in just a few short weeks! ) However.., where more entrenched, lifelong Junk Science ‘Researchers’ and PEU Recipients are concerned..? I’m less than hopeful and yes, many would prefer death. Their choice!

27. #27
    On April 6th, 2011 at 11:18 am, Flyoverman said:

    Even Tax Cheat Timmy wants Fannie and Freddie to die. That is how pathetic these Fleebaggers are.

28. #28
    On April 6th, 2011 at 11:27 am, Lindsay said:

    (D) The Fleebag Party.

    This would be hysterically funny if it were not so sad to have panty-waist COWARDS in Congress today, literally holding our children’s futures in their grubby little paws. I hope they continue to tick off the American people. Will end rant here as I am the rest is not printable.

29. #29
    On April 6th, 2011 at 11:33 am, mondamay said:

    Liberal political strategist Donna Brazile took to Twitter to assail fiscal conservatives for “taking medicine from seniors” and cutting taxes for “the rich and their corporate donors.”

    If “our side” had any guts or brains they would point out that the Democrats are taking food, travel, and air conditioning/home heating away from seniors by their misanthropic energy policies.

30. #30
    On April 6th, 2011 at 11:43 am, cheapseat said:

    In the 1990′s, the MSM had a strangle hold upon news and views in America. They don’t anymore. When the gubmint shuts down, the same old propaganda demagogues will shout it’s all republicans fault, but we now know that we conservatives are getting our message out, as the polls and the votes show that conservatives are on the rise.
    Go Judge Prosser.

31. #31
    On April 6th, 2011 at 11:52 am, Marshall_Will said:

    Oh-nO said:
    The commusocialist democrats had 2 years to pass a budget of their own and pissed away the opportunity on crap like obamacare, and now they will blame their stupidity on the tea party

    Yahtzee!

32. #32
    On April 6th, 2011 at 12:11 pm, Green eyed Lady said:

    Update: Look who went fleebagging from Fannie/Freddie reform hearings…

    “Democrats ran from this burst of common sense like vampires fleeing the cross.” D.Z.

    Another Update:

    By the Dozens: Unions Stage Not-So-Massive “We Are One” Rallies.

    What do you do if you spend tens of thousands to plan hundreds of rallies on the same day and you get ignored? Did you see the thousands of union protesters yesterday? Surely you saw the several million workers that CWA President Larry Cohen said “were going to stop business as usual at work or after work to join vigils, community rallies or marches at statehouses.” You didn’t see them either? Well, that may be because the day of solidarity that the AFL-CIO had been promoting for weeks, to co-opt coincide with the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination was a flop.

    http://www.redstate.com/laborunionreport/2011/04/05/by-the-dozens-unions-stage-not-so-massive-we-are-one-rallies/

33. #33
    On April 6th, 2011 at 12:27 pm, hawkeye54 said:

    If “our side” had any guts or brains they would point out that the Democrats are taking food, travel, and air conditioning/home heating away from seniors by their misanthropic energy policies.

    Absolutely. Few of our political leaders have such fortitude for that, and since American Pravda (faithful media lapdog wing of the Democrat Party) would never allow “our side” to make that point in traditional media, the message has to go viral through the new media.

34. #34
    On April 6th, 2011 at 12:31 pm, BK said:

    Liberal political strategist Donna Brazile took to Twitter to assail fiscal conservatives for “taking medicine from seniors” and cutting taxes for “the rich and their corporate donors.”
    Do-nothing House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi attacked Republicans for paving a “path to poverty for America’s seniors and children and a road to riches for big oil.”

    Meanwhile the Dhimmicrats are giving tax breaks to their rich cronies and corporate cronies.

    Obama’s no drill policy is making big oil richer because they get more for the oil they are already pumping. He’s Bush III.

35. #35
    On April 6th, 2011 at 12:35 pm, hawkeye54 said:

    Well, that may be because the day of solidarity that the AFL-CIO had been promoting for weeks, to co-opt coincide with the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination was a flop.

    I’m eager to see who turns out for the annual May Day rallies nationwide, combining a day of solidarity for unions and immigrants rights!

    Nothing says nostalgia for the USSR than May Day, synonymous with International Workers’ Day, or Labour Day, a day of political demonstrations and celebrations organised by the unions, communists, anarchists, and socialist groups.

36. #36
    On April 6th, 2011 at 12:48 pm, RedDog said:

    All of these crooks need to be prosecuted and jailed. They’re criminals and arrogant ones at that.

37. #37
    On April 6th, 2011 at 12:58 pm, John Deaux said:

    But as I’ve said many times, people who live in fat cat-infested houses shouldn’t throw stones.

    Why not? How many have suffered consequences from any of this?

38. #38
    On April 6th, 2011 at 1:26 pm, WaterBoyz said:

    The Ds are real good at beating the lie so much that the simple nutwits think it is the truth.

    Can anyone name something that the Rs have done that produced the truth result ?

    Obama 2012 campaign will spend $1B on Facebook and Twitter and the Koolaide drinking media.

    The Rs suck at getting their message out.

    Any one hear anything from Steele’s replacement?

39. #39
    On April 6th, 2011 at 1:36 pm, rambler said:

    Karma is coming for these sleasy elites. The house of cards they built is headed for collapse, taking them with it.

40. #40
    On April 6th, 2011 at 1:37 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    the U.S. Treasury has invested close to $154 billion to stabilize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.”

    Well sure – I wanted to buy Franklin Raines a rooftop condo at the Ritz-Carlton with my tax money. Even more important was making sure Barney Frank enjoyed a nice lifestyle courtesy of his then boyfriend. Am I allowed to say he’s corrupt, or is any criticism gay-bashing?

41. #41
    On April 6th, 2011 at 2:05 pm, hawkeye54 said:

    Karma is coming for these sleasy elites. The house of cards they built is headed for collapse, taking them with it.

    I’d like to think so. Regretably the elites will most likely avoid the colapse themselves, leaving their house of cards to fall on the rest of us.

42. #42
    On April 6th, 2011 at 2:20 pm, Marshall_Will said:

    hawkeye54 said:
    I’d like to think so. Regretably the elites will most likely avoid the colapse themselves, leaving their house of cards to fall on the rest of us.

    Exactly. What do we think WI was all ‘about’? Sure, we’ve no doubt our unending Greed will bring the system down. None at all. But when it does, we’ll have been positioned to be still be at the top of the heap. Suckerz!

43. #43
    On April 6th, 2011 at 2:26 pm, DanMan said:

    Jail. Real, hard time prison. The democrats have been saying there is no way to track the collapse and I have said all along that there are records, with names that tie every bad loan that was bundled and sold. Every loan made to someone with no income and no assets ought to have two names that need to be investigated. The borrower AND the person that authorized the loan.

    Find them, identify them publicly and begin the indictments. Everybody outside of the management of FM/FM was injured by their corruption.

44. #44
    On April 6th, 2011 at 2:26 pm, Ilovemycountry said:

    You know, I just don’t know who I like more: Scott Walker Idiot Governor in Wisconsin.

    Or Paul Ryan Idiot budget chairman from Wisconsin.

    But I do know one thing – they are both gifts for the Democratic Party.

    Maybe I should just stick with that Idiot Haley Barbour, you know the bigot from Mississippi.

    But it’s hard not to like Newt (3 wives, too many lies to count).

    You people are awesome for supporting scum of this magnitude – you people are much more forgiving than educated people.

    You all set a shining example for forgiveness.

45. #45
    On April 6th, 2011 at 2:36 pm, stillontheroad said:

    Ilovemycountry said:
    You may want to think a bit, try hard, try harder and maybe this will sink in:
    If you do not cut back on spending the only way to balance this out is to raise taxes. This finacial mess is so bad, the Tax rate for everyone would have to be apprx 85%. Thats right stupid, 85%.
    Now, being a village idiot may have its perks but I want you to come up with a viable way to either decrease spending or raise taxes to the point where people will no longer want to work.
    Your choice!!

46. #46
    On April 6th, 2011 at 2:37 pm, happyscrapper said:

    So, Meals on Wheels will be cut. Not eliminated, just cut. Well, those Meals on Wheels couldn’t get much worse. We had ordered them for my Mom at one time and she lasted 3 days before we cancelled. Rotten bananas, undercooked noodles, etc. Bad. Maybe if you have NO other choice. Fortunately, my Mom had two daughters to make sandwiches and stock her refrigerator for lunches. I know that not everyone has kids to take care of them, but that is really the way to go, if you CAN. Leave the Meals on Wheels for those who are truly in need. We learned the hard way. At the time, we were working full time and thought the Meals would be a good program. Maybe they aren’t all that bad, but the ones here were awful.

47. #47
    On April 6th, 2011 at 2:52 pm, flmom said:

    If “our side” had any guts or brains they would point out that the Democrats are taking food, travel, and air conditioning/home heating away from seniors by their misanthropic energy policies.

    Not to mention the monetary policy of the Fed is cutting into seniors ability to make any sort of return on their retirement nest eggs. Virtually zero percent interest rates and the looming inflation must bite hard if you’re relying on your savings to get you through your old age.

48. #48
    On April 6th, 2011 at 2:53 pm, flmom said:

    You may want to think a bit, try hard, try harder and maybe this will sink in:

    Think, Pooh, think!

49. #49
    On April 6th, 2011 at 3:06 pm, stillontheroad said:

    flmom said:
    ILMC hasn’t a clue – the question I should have asked is – If Ryan wants to make a budget at 2008 levels, and 2008 the entire Gov was Democrat controlled and the Democrats passed said 2008 budget – I would task ILMC to find any reference to Starving children and Seniors – Hospitals turning away sick and dying Seniors and Children etc etc.
    That task would be way to hard though.

50. #50
    On April 6th, 2011 at 3:07 pm, rambler said:

    hawkeye, have some faith here. The elites won’t be escaping this time. We are only at the beginning of their undoing. There is more to come.

51. #51
    On April 6th, 2011 at 3:19 pm, John Deaux said:

    On April 6th, 2011 at 2:26 pm, Ilovemycountry said:
    Cool! Mom bought Hot Pockets!

52. #52
    On April 6th, 2011 at 3:25 pm, Lynn II said:

    I will never, not ever forgive the Dems for this. The blow to the economy, building and housing industries, remodeling and rehab industries will never be calculated correctly. It’s in the trillions of dollars.

    Clinton appointee] Andrew Cuomo… made a series of decisions between 1997 and 2001 that gave birth to the country’s current crisis. He took actions that… helped plunge Fannie and Freddie into the subprime markets without putting in place the means to monitor their increasingly risky investments. He turned the Federal Housing Administration…into a sweetheart lender with sky-high loan ceilings and no money down, and he legalized what a federal judge has branded “kickbacks” to brokers that have fueled the sale of overpriced and unsupportable loans. Three to four million families are now facing foreclosure, and Cuomo is one of the reasons why.

    If outrage could be bottled and sold, I would be one very wealthy woman.

    http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2008/09/testimony-that-will-have-you-pulling.html

53. #53
    On April 6th, 2011 at 3:40 pm, Christian Soldier said:

    so we in the US do have ROYALTY!!!
    AGAIN!!!
    1776-we need you again!!

    C-CS

54. #54
    On April 6th, 2011 at 3:58 pm, T-Bone said:

    “At a time when you are struggling to pay your bills and meet your responsibilities, the least we can do to meet our responsibilities to produce a budget. That is not to much to ask for. That is what the American people expect of us, that’s what they deserve. You want everybody to act like adult, quit playing games and realize it is not my way or the highway,” President Obama said in Pennsylvania before he is set to hold a fundraiser tonight.

    Thats a great example of the non free press. There are two sides in the budget debate. When you point a finger at someone else, 3 fingers are pointing back at yourself. Obama says this with confidence no one in the MSM will bring that up. It is such a silly statement and fair reporting would have to point that out.

55. #55
    On April 6th, 2011 at 3:59 pm, hawkeye54 said:

    hawkeye, have some faith here. The elites won’t be escaping this time. We are only at the beginning of their undoing. There is more to come.

    I’ll believe it when I see them behind bars. I’ve seen the elites get away with too much for too long. Maybe I’m just jaded.

    It’ll take a huge change of the political landscape to see that true justice is done.

    On April 6th, 2011 at 3:25 pm, Lynn II said:
    I will never, not ever forgive the Dems for this.

    I’m with you on that. I’ve never cared for the Dems since watching their ’68 convension coverage on TV as a youth. And I’ve never forgiven them for allowing the demise of South Vietnam by withholding funds for supplying arms to it. None of our allies, nor any US citizen with an ounce of sense can every trust this nation with the Marxist led Dems in charge.

56. #56
    On April 6th, 2011 at 4:26 pm, T-Bone said:

    I’ve seen the elites get away with too much for too long. Maybe I’m just jaded.

    Charlie Rangel reelected by wide margin.
    Barnie Frank reelected by wide margin.

57. #57
    On April 6th, 2011 at 4:32 pm, rocketman said:

    HI HAWKEYE 54–#56. I used to be a democrat since my parents were–they all grew up during the great depression.
    ***
    My epiphany wakeup call was as a 23 year old Army draftee. Watching President Lyndon Johnson getting us in a winnable war–and being too stupid to win it within 6 months. No matter how much it would hurt the North Vietnamese. Instead he played Comrade Obama style screw around and got 66,000 U.S. personnel killed. And hundreds of thousands gravely wounded. As he lied to us about what was really going on in the swamp.
    ***
    I’ve been a conservative ever since. And watching the Fannie and Freddie Follies reminds me of LBJ all over again. Incompetence, lying, coverups, etc. The liberals / socialists / statists / marxists / communists in our government keep bringing us disaster after disaster. On our dimes and backs.
    ***
    No wonder the democrats are running for cover. F & F aren’t ticks on our economy–they’re more like a couple of crazed T-rex sized skunk / porcupine hybrids trashing our economy–Jurassic Park style. A can of Raid isn’t going to help much.
    ***
    John Bibb
    ***

58. #58
    On April 6th, 2011 at 4:46 pm, hawkeye54 said:

    HI HAWKEYE 54–#56. I used to be a democrat since my parents were–they all grew up during the great depression.

    I hear ya. My parents, who were depression kids too, and grandparents on both sides were staunch small government Republicans. My mother’s dad hated FDR and she remembers him telling her his “New Deal” would wreck havoc on the nation and make the depression even worse than it was. I never had a justification or good reason in my upbringing for becoming a Democrat.

    A Republican for life. I only wish GOP leaders would actually act like Republicans all the time.

59. #59
    On April 6th, 2011 at 8:33 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    We, as a people and nation, are in the fight of our lives, the lives of our children and grand children. The Progressive and all too many of our own “leaders” have us running in circles putting out brush fires while whole damn structure is burning. It is time we stopped.

    All these issues-Fannie & Freddie, Department Education, EPA, oil and energy crisis, gun control, ObamaCare, Public Sector Unions, the Department of Transportation money to force public policy–this is ALL about power, Fundamentally Changing America and subjecting the America people to a police state.

    Our debt and aging population do mean a lowering of the standard of living for generations. Hyper inflation seems to be the Feds next solution.

    We best be EXTREME: Just say NO to all compromise? We best get extreme if we want any decent future at all. Submitting to OUR BETTERS is not the Hopey Changy bull any honest man can tolerate.

    ===
    Cut the budget:

    Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
    should be a convenience store,
    NOT a government agency.

60. #60
    On April 7th, 2011 at 9:05 am, drbage said:

    And where is the “great” Bawney Fwank on this. Remember how many times he appeared before Congress or on TV promising us that there was not even the slightest hint of any sort of problem with Fannie and Freddie. Maybe now that we, the taxpayers, have paid for his cataract surgery he will see the truth, but then again he wouldn’t recognize the truth if it bit him.
    Some suggested opening lines for Speaker Boehner:
    1. We are just trying to clean up the mess that we inherited.
    2. The previous Congress had 17 months to pass a budget, but they chose not to pass one. In fact, they didn’t even try to deem it passed.
    3. They just need to pass the budget, then they can read it and see what is in it.
    He should just let the Dems keep on talking, because the one point that is painfully clear is that they have NOT read the bill yet again. (Should we require a reading test for future members of Congress?)

61. #61
    On April 7th, 2011 at 10:17 am, TK-421 said:

    Wow….all of this crap over a SMALL cut the Republicans want when the budget is set to go out of our means by 2 trillion…..Democrates and even the Republican party needs to go. We need two new parties.

    And Obama had the gall to say this

    “Mr. Obama has remained aloof from the talks until recently, and Wednesday he sought to portray the White House as a parent watching squabbling siblings. “You want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize it’s not just ‘My way or the highway,” Mr. Obama said.”

    The same man who says I won. The same Man who says we don’t know whats best for us. Mr Obama (as you’ll never be my president) if you had attempted half of what you did in our nations past or dared to show your face in public, we would be having talks with your Vice President at this momment.

    I hope the House doesn’t cave in to this tyrant, this black mail, this scum, and his ilk. If the price of that is a shutdown and maybe a rebelion I welcome it with open arms. We are a bloated, corrupt, imputent, and shortsightned nation. Some hardship would do all of us a collective good.

62. #62
    On April 7th, 2011 at 11:11 am, Virginia Patriot said:

    Is it time yet to notice he’s INELIGIBLE?

63. #63
    On April 7th, 2011 at 11:12 am, Virginia Patriot said:

    How much of the country will The Usurper be allowed to destroy before anyone other than Dnald Trump asks for verification of eligibility?

64. #64
    On April 7th, 2011 at 11:14 am, GraniteMan said:

    Every program dedicated to the elimination of poverty makes politicians and insiders that are the providers of said programs very, very rich. Why the hell should we give our money to Chuckie Schumer and his like so he can take care of his friends? Charity belongs to the people and we who claim to be Christian are being moved out of the job of helping those in need and we should stop funding Dick Durbin, Dirty Harry Reid and Co.

65. #65
    On April 7th, 2011 at 11:42 am, Cogs said:

    Good thing the guy didn’t ask a question about the rising prices of food and clothing. Obama would have told him to eat less and don’t wear pants.

66. #66
    On April 7th, 2011 at 11:45 am, Cogs said:

    Ooops, wrong thread!

67. #67
    On April 7th, 2011 at 12:07 pm, Marshall_Will said:

    These pointless delaying tactics managed to push the vote on the subcommittee’s common-sense legislation back to today. Let’s hope it passes without any further temper tantrums from the Democrats. The last time taxpayers babysat for Fannie and Freddie, they used our best china for skeet shooting, drove our car into the swimming pool, and stuffed our cat into the microwave. Someone has to push their overbearing mother out of the way, and put these little brats into “time out” for a while.

    ( From MM’s Update: above! )

    Well said Mr. Hayward. Also see Maxine Waters’ dog & pony show from link on #19. Sure to bring laughs for the whole family..?

68. #68
    On April 7th, 2011 at 12:30 pm, right_on said:

    Every election cycle, when the Democrats crawl out from under the furniture to invade our airwaves, and print media, I am reminded of some song lyrics from the sixties. You know:

    “Second verse, same as the first…”

    Their message never changes. “The rich are villians; accumulation of wealth is evil. The poor are victims of capitalism and the evil rich.” Yada yada yada….

    I’m sick of it!

69. #69
    On April 7th, 2011 at 12:37 pm, Virginia Patriot said:

    Just wait until Jamie Gorelick, who made mills off Fan/Fred, gets to be FBI Director. No one will be safe.

70. #70
    On April 7th, 2011 at 12:39 pm, Virginia Patriot said:

    Just wait until Jamie Gorelick, who made millions off Fannie/Freddie, is FBI director. No one will be safe. This government is no longer “of the people”.

71. #71
    On April 7th, 2011 at 1:31 pm, hawkeye54 said:

    Just wait until Jamie Gorelick, who made millions off Fannie/Freddie, is FBI director. No one will be safe. This government is no longer “of the people”.

    All going, mostly, according to plan. Her appointment should be a slam-dunk.

72. #72
    On April 8th, 2011 at 1:11 am, BK said:

    (Should we require a reading test for future members of Congress?)

    But wait, we’d have to have a whole bunch of illiterate congresscritters to pass such a law….

    *poof* goes the great ideas, eh?