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1. #101
   On September 2nd, 2011 at 3:06 pm, Flyoverman said:

   On September 2nd, 2011 at 2:48 pm, Hangfire said:

   On September 2nd, 2011 at 2:46 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:
   A smoking Catherine Deneuve in black lingerie to be precise.

   Oh, yeahhhhhh. A little saxophone and brushes on the high-hat in the the background

   My hormone levels will now be totally out of control for the next 48 hours….. I did not need you two to do that.

2. #102
   On September 2nd, 2011 at 3:17 pm, Hangfire said:

   On September 2nd, 2011 at 3:06 pm, Flyoverman said:

   My hormone levels will now be totally out of control for the next 48 hours….. I did not need you two to do that.

   Lipstick smudge on emptied champagne goblet…..

3. #103
   On September 2nd, 2011 at 3:20 pm, spaceycakes said:

   A smoking Catherine Deneuve in black lingerie to be precise.

   whilst ironing mrcakes’ white dress shirt.

4. #104
   On September 2nd, 2011 at 3:22 pm, Hangfire said:

   Uh………we’re talking ’50s ~ ’60s era Catherine, right? Not today’s Catherine….right?

5. #105
   On September 2nd, 2011 at 3:24 pm, Flyoverman said:

   spaceycakes, Hangfire, RogueCheddar,

   This is like being waterboarded!!! The blood pressure cuff just flew off by bicep!

6. #106
   On September 2nd, 2011 at 3:25 pm, spaceycakes said:

   yes, Hangfire

   this Helmut Newton Catherine.

7. #107
   On September 2nd, 2011 at 3:26 pm, rocketman said:

   ***
   The term PRESIDENT ZERO doesn’t even begin to do justice to this loose cannon on deck as He destroys our economy. Zero is a kind of neutral number–not good, not bad. Although capable of making things much better or worse as a digit holder.
   ***
   I prefer the term COMRADE OBAMA for The Messiah. It explains why we are always taking it in the shorts with His bad decisions. Nothing neutral here–just bad to the bone for our country and economy.
   ***
   I hope this 1 year delay in implementing more unnecessary but job killing EPA regulations includes the impending shutdown orders for lots of coal fired power plants. The damage from their shutdowns will be much more immediate than the longer term damage done by these unneeded ozone regulations.
   ***
   John Bibb
   ***

8. #108
   On September 2nd, 2011 at 3:27 pm, Hangfire said:

   On September 2nd, 2011 at 3:24 pm, Flyoverman said:
   The blood pressure cuff just flew off by bicep!

   Literally? Or Fellini-esque?

9. #109
   On September 2nd, 2011 at 3:28 pm, Hangfire said:

   Is the flying blood-pressure cuff a metaphor for…………oh, never mind.

10. #110
    On September 2nd, 2011 at 3:31 pm, Hangfire said:

    Or is that Ingmar Bergman? I get confused.

11. #111
    On September 2nd, 2011 at 3:38 pm, Hangfire said:

    I know how to stop a thread.

    Sorry. Guess I’ll get back to work.

12. #112
    On September 2nd, 2011 at 3:44 pm, Mister P said:

    2 years and 8 months and what are his accomplishments?
    A) The death of Bin Laden

    Have we seen proof?

13. #113
    On September 2nd, 2011 at 3:46 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    On September 2nd, 2011 at 3:44 pm, Mister P said:
    2 years and 8 months and what are his accomplishments?
    A) The death of Bin Laden
    Have we seen proof?

    Oh yeah, it’s right there with an official Hawaian BC and all his college transcripts. You just gotta look real hard and squint your eyes jest right.

14. #114
    On September 2nd, 2011 at 3:47 pm, Truesoldier said:

    2 years and 8 months and what are his accomplishments?
    A) The death of Not screwing up on the call to take out Bin Laden

    FIFY

15. #115
    On September 2nd, 2011 at 3:50 pm, AmericaFirst said:

    On September 2nd, 2011 at 12:10 pm, Freddy said:
    Obama has already claimed that he has no control over regulators.
    Now Obama claims he does not want the regulations.

    Yes, Obama claims Every Single Cabinet is a separate power of government. Much like the courts, legislation and executive branches. Claims he can’t control what they do (in order to distance himself from their destructive actions). But now he can stop these EPA regulations?

16. #116
    On September 2nd, 2011 at 3:55 pm, spaceycakes said:

    Hangfire said:
    Or is that Ingmar Bergman? I get confused.

    I prefer Pekinpah!

17. #117
    On September 2nd, 2011 at 3:55 pm, spaceycakes said:

    oops; s/b ‘Peckinpah’

    lo siento

18. #118
    On September 2nd, 2011 at 4:28 pm, FirstSkirt said:

    Recovery? What freakin’ recovery? STOP using the word recovery, Obiwankadope! Everything you and your people do damages our economy and our Constitution. I’ve never distrusted the “government” the way I do now.

19. #119
    On September 2nd, 2011 at 4:32 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    On September 2nd, 2011 at 3:55 pm, spaceycakes said:
    Hangfire said:
    Or is that Ingmar Bergman? I get confused.
    I prefer Pekinpah!

    Oh yes, blood gushing everywhere! Like a Monty Python picnic sketch!

20. #120
    On September 2nd, 2011 at 4:52 pm, GladzKravtz said:

    There’s a wall in the WH.
    BHO and his advisers stand in front of it and throw.
    So far, nothing is sticking. plop plop plop

21. #121
    On September 2nd, 2011 at 5:10 pm, Truesoldier said:

    On September 2nd, 2011 at 4:52 pm, GladzKravtz said:
    There’s a wall in the WH.
    BHO and his advisers stand in front of it and throw.
    So far, nothing is sticking. plop plop plop

    Though occasionally something does bounce back to hit Obama right between the eyes….

22. #122
    On September 2nd, 2011 at 5:21 pm, Marshall_Will said:

    John Bibb said:

    Nothing neutral here–just bad to the bone for our country and economy.

    And that good sir, more than anything is what drives me up a WALL about this pResident. Any time He’s being interviewed you see these contemplative pauses to ensure He’s getting the correctly encrypted messages across to the hard left.

    Nothing Neutral should be His middle freaking name. Bring up an issue or topic and his toggle ‘defaults’ to “is this good for the Progressive Cause”? It’s just how He’s wired.

    Nothing Neutral also equates to: Zero Peace for Conservatives. In order to combat His 24/7 365 Agenda you’d have to a) get a divorce b) disown your family c) quit your profession and d) be prepared to go toe-to-toe and from coast-to-coast at the drop of a hat.

    Otherwise, He wins.

23. #123
    On September 2nd, 2011 at 5:22 pm, spaceycakes said:

    yes; “and the blood goes psssssssssss in slow motion..”

24. #124
    On September 2nd, 2011 at 5:27 pm, rambler said:

    plop, plop, fizz, fizz…

25. #125
    On September 2nd, 2011 at 5:29 pm, Truesoldier said:

    On September 2nd, 2011 at 5:27 pm, rambler said:
    plop, plop, fizz, fizz…

    November 2012 where the relief is!

26. #126
    On September 2nd, 2011 at 5:42 pm, nordic_prince said:

    I realize the pic is supposed to be Obama-Urkel, but wouldn’t a pince-nez be more appropriate, seeing as how Obummer is taking his cue from FDR?

27. #127
    On September 2nd, 2011 at 5:50 pm, yaymm said:

    Obama’s claim that he has no control over regulatory agencies is ridiculous on it’s face. He is not only the Commander In Chief, he’s the Chief Executive Officer of the entire Federal Government. That includes the entire bureaucracy.

    Every single agency head and their top managers serve at his pleasure and must do his bidding, with or without his knowledge, or risk being fired. He has the ultimate club. And he knows it, so I believe he’s blatently lying.

28. #128
    On September 2nd, 2011 at 6:01 pm, CO2 Producer said:

    President Obama, in a statement, said that by requesting withdrawal of the ozone regulations “I have continued to underscore the importance of reducing regulatory burdens and regulatory uncertainty, particularly as our economy continues to recover.”

    You lie,

    President Barack Obama’s inaugural budget sets the stage for an expansion of the federal work force and for hundreds of new rules that would widen Washington’s involvement in the workings of private business…The Food and Drug Administration would get an additional $300 million in the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, the largest increase in the agency’s history…Mr. Obama is asking for $13.3 billion of discretionary spending to run the Labor Department, up 3% from fiscal 2009. The $400 million increase would boost enforcement of workplace-safety and wage rules, and pay for more staffers to ensure that businesses comply with equal-employment rules for federal contractors…The Internal Revenue Service would get an additional $400 million to beef up efforts to collect taxes…

    you big fat

    When President Barack Obama took office, he directed the new EPA to kick-start the regulation process — nearly 11 months and 380,000 public comments later, the agency is now poised to regulate CO2 as a pollutant.

    lying liar!

    FINANCE-On Wednesday, it was reported that Americans will not be allowed to invest in Goldman Sachs’ private offering of $1.5 billion in Facebook shares, in case the transaction would be termed improper by financial regulators. Foreigners will be scooping up the shares of an American company in a deal organized by an American securities firm, but Americans are excluded. How’s that for inefficient regulation?

    DRILLING-Because the Interior Department stopped issuing permits after the BP well blew out in 2010, drilling in the Gulf of Mexico has ground to a halt, with 33 rigs idled, a decline of $1.8 billion in spending by oil drillers, and 23,000 workers unemployed or underemployed.

    CARBON–The Environmental Protection Agency is insisting on regulating carbon emissions, even though Congress chose not to pass cap and trade legislation that would have achieved the same objective. This would raise the cost of energy for large and small firms alike, and would particularly harm energy-intensive manufacturing firms and the coal industry.

    TAX COMPLIANCE–The health care law would require, beginning in 2012, that firms submit a Form 1099 to the Internal Revenue Service with names of vendors from whom they have purchased $600 or more in goods and services. This will impose new burdens on companies, such as having to elicit the tax ID of each of its suppliers, add up purchases, and submit the 1099 form.

    GENDER–Consider the gender quotas in the financial regulation bill. It sets up 29 Offices of Minority and Women Inclusion, in the 12 Federal Reserve regional banks, the Treasury Department, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and other agencies, to make sure that financial firms and their subcontractors practice “fair inclusion” of minorities and women. “Fair inclusion” is to be defined by the directors of the 29 offices, and firms could be guilty of breaking the law even if no minority or female applied for a job.

    OBAMA’S RECORD-Last fall 4,225 proposed rules were published…The Environmental Protection Agency alone lists over 340 rules in various stages of development.

    Susan Dudley, director of George Washington University’s Regulatory Studies Center, notes “there are 183 more regulations underway now than last year at this time, representing a 5 percent increase in activity…The agenda reveals a 20 percent increase in economically significant regulations, or 40 more regulations with impacts of over $100 million under development now than at this time last year.”

    People, don’t let him get away with saying this crap.

29. #129
    On September 2nd, 2011 at 6:14 pm, DanMan said:

    On September 2nd, 2011 at 6:01 pm, CO2 Producer said:

    Thank you CO2! Those of us with facilities and keeping compliance records have been bombarded since mid July with calls and e-mails from EPA contracted compliance firms to warn us of the approaching reporting deadlines for CO2. It has been a nightmare and as I dove into it to get a handle on whether we were compliance I discovered all they did was take old estimated fugitive methane release calculations and call the values generated CO2 “equivelents”.

    Methane as a green house gas, m’okay, not farting every 45 seconds is doable. CO2 as a GHG? try exhaling at the same frequency you fart. Its about the same damn thing for industry.

30. #130
    On September 2nd, 2011 at 6:23 pm, CO2 Producer said:

    I appreciate the feedback, DanMan.

    Just to clarify, certain things have changed already, such as the 1099 reporting requirement, which was repealed, but the point is that the requirement was signed into law in the first place. Initiating the regulations, then stepping back from them when they shouldn’t have been forced upon us originally, shows a pattern of shooting first then asking questions later. That’s not how government should be run.

31. #131
    On September 2nd, 2011 at 7:45 pm, Papa Louie said:

    there has been “two and a half years of Obamanomics and nothing to show for it.”

    Obama now wants to double down on stimulus spending to create jobs, but he is still spending the original stimulus. The fact that it has resulted in zero jobs for August should make it clear that additional stimulus money will not help. Any increased amount of stimulus spending times zero still equals zero.

    You can’t get the water level of a pool to rise by taking water out of the deep end and redistributing it to the shallow end. All you get is more waste and evaporation even if you do it twice as fast.

32. #132
    On September 2nd, 2011 at 7:47 pm, kwrxxx said:

    We really can’t blame Obama. With globalization taking hold America’s best days are behind us. We will just have to adjust to the new reality. I have a family member that graduated top of her class here in USA then immigrated to Europe to find work. If you have a good work skill you will be able to find a job in the world economy. If you’re a high school drop out you will end living at a place like diginty village in Portland, OR http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dignity_Village
    Now we just need to eliminate all welfare programs so that only producers eat and the slackers immigrate someplace else.

33. #133
    On September 2nd, 2011 at 8:08 pm, Green eyed Lady said:

    Off Topic
    “Valerie Jarrett, a close friend of Barack and Michelle Obama is the former CEO of Habitat Company, which managed Grove Parc, a federally subsidized apartment complex on Chicago’s South Side that can be accurately described as a slum. Jarrett is now a senior adviser to the president.

    On Wednesday with great fanfare the awarding of a $30.5 million federal grant to revitalize Grove Parc–by tearing it down–was announced.

    The irony is thick here. Jarrett’s Habitat runs Grove Parc into the ground, and now the federal government funding its demolition and the building of its replacement.

    Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan, Sen. Dick Durbin, and US Rep. Bobby Rush attended the Grove Parc ceremony. Jarret was not there. In fact, no mention of her role in mismanaging the unhappy homes was mentioned by the Chicago Sun-Times or the Chicago Tribune.”
    http://marathonpundit.blogspot.com/2011/09/valerie-jarrett-managed-slums-to-be.html

34. #134
    On September 2nd, 2011 at 8:12 pm, vickisoup said:

    Gee willikers. Can’t call him, “President Food Stamps”. Can’t call him, “President Zero”. All that doesn’t matter to me as long as, on January 20, 2013, I get to call him “Former President Obama”!

35. #135
    On September 2nd, 2011 at 8:28 pm, love2rumba said:

    Now if Boehnor and Comapny had stood up to Obama during the Budget Ceiling Non-Debate, imagine the concessions Boehnor and company would have gotten on the budget-and the reaction to all this by the financial markets.

    Imagine.

36. #136
    On September 2nd, 2011 at 8:59 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    More bad news for Obama. Another major Obama bundler and green loan recipient, The Underpants Gnomes, Inc., have also gone out of business. Locals are not happy.

37. #137
    On September 2nd, 2011 at 10:11 pm, peteee said:

    vickisoup said:

    Gee willikers. Can’t call him, “President Food Stamps”. Can’t call him, “President Zero”. All that doesn’t matter to me as long as, on January 20, 2013, I get to call him “Former President Obama”!

    i would prefer to call him former president obama much sooner, if any weak kneed politician could only pull the trigger on impeachment articles!

38. #138
    On September 2nd, 2011 at 11:32 pm, DocScience said:

    The President has delayed ONE of his mistakes.

    Just one.

    We need to roll back the entire progressive agenda to restore America to a competitive position.

    How about we void every law since 1962 and have a do-over?

39. #139
    On September 2nd, 2011 at 11:42 pm, OK_Loyalist said:

    On September 2nd, 2011 at 11:32 pm, DocScience said:

    …. How about we void every law since 1962 and have a do-over?

    
    1913

40. #140
    On September 3rd, 2011 at 1:06 am, OK_Loyalist said:

    Legislature OKs Dream Act for illegal immigrant students

    The state Assembly gave final approval to the California Dream Act today, sending the controversial legislation to the governor’s desk for its anticipated signing. The Dream Act, Assembly Bill 131, by Assemblyman Gilbert Cedillo, D-Los Angeles, makes illegal immigrant college students eligible for publicly funded financial aid.

    Got to love conservative California….

41. #141
    On September 3rd, 2011 at 1:43 am, Paratus said:

    Where do I sign up to be an illegal alien so I can get public funding for my new career?

42. #142
    On September 3rd, 2011 at 1:58 am, Ray said:

    Ok_Loyalist, thanks to the link to Devvy. I have read her before, but this was great.

    Makes me sick thinking about all this crap.

43. #143
    On September 3rd, 2011 at 3:29 am, Hiraghm said:

    FACEPALM

    We are so screwed up…

44. #144
    On September 3rd, 2011 at 9:27 am, marco said:

    Hussein Zero Obama’s Presidency:http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CBkQtwIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DSbWg-mozGsU&rct=j&q=blazing%20saddles%20toll%20booth&ei=GCViTqSFFYiBsgKH38nGCg&usg=AFQjCNEL8OuS4FGPgi8n1Y97lCLsp-_BlA&sig2=dvDWYy8EDNk5bw866icBTQ&cad=rja

45. #145
    On September 3rd, 2011 at 9:52 am, Pasadena Phil said:

    Gotta love those Texas conservatives who support Rick Perry, father of the TX DREAM Act 2001.

46. #146
    On September 3rd, 2011 at 10:39 am, BOB said:

    On September 2nd, 2011 at 10:11 pm, peteee said:

    vickisoup said:

    Gee willikers. Can’t call him, “President Food Stamps”. Can’t call him, “President Zero”. All that doesn’t matter to me as long as, on January 20, 2013, I get to call him “Former President Obama”!

    i would prefer to call him former president obama much sooner, if any weak kneed politician could only pull the trigger on impeachment articles!

    Considering the massive evidence of a long list of crimes Obama is involved in, the most damaging to America being the usurpation of the presidency, I would much prefer he be called something like:

    Inmate number O-666.

    Oh, and forget impeachment, it will never happen no matter what he does.

47. #147
    On September 3rd, 2011 at 10:49 am, happyscrapper said:

    On September 2nd, 2011 at 7:47 pm, kwrxxx said:
    We really can’t blame Obama. With globalization taking hold America’s best days are behind us. We will just have to adjust to the new reality.

    Bullfeathers! Yes, we CAN blame Obama. He is the one doing this to us! With the help of his marxist cronies, every one of them. We all know how we can get our economy booming again. This country is the BEST when our free market is allowed to do it’s thing. And we all know who is preventing that…the socialists in power. My God man, we can’t even advertise our products any more if they have a little salt in them!

    75% of the American People are on to Obama and he won’t be getting away with it much longer. I just pray it isn’t too late to reverse the damage. My husband thinks the tipping point is tipping as we speak, and it may already be impossible to stem the tide of economic collapse.

48. #148
    On September 3rd, 2011 at 11:05 am, BOB said:

    On September 3rd, 2011 at 10:49 am, happyscrapper said:!

    75% of the American People are on to Obama and he won’t be getting away with it much longer. I just pray it isn’t too late to reverse the damage.

    My husband thinks the tipping point is tipping as we speak, and it may already be impossible to stem the tide of economic collapse.

    Tell your husband,”Bob the Birther”, completely agrees with him.

    And…have a great Labor Day weekend.

49. #149
    On September 3rd, 2011 at 11:06 am, yaymm said:

    kwrxxx, I prefer to believe you’re half right. Yes, we have to contend with globalization. It’s already here and we need to use our economic machine again to make it work for us. I do not however, believe our best days are behind us. When government gets out of our way gain, our best days can still be ahead for us and particularly, for our kids and grandkids.

50. #150
    On September 3rd, 2011 at 11:07 am, yaymm said:

    When government gets out of our way again…..

51. #151
    On September 3rd, 2011 at 11:13 am, babiesgrandma said:

    We, as legal Americans, are “born” with certain inalienable rights…..

    But this gubmint wants to give and take away.

    Remember: ‘a government that “gives” you rights, can also “take them away.” ‘ … indirect quote from Gerald R. Ford.

52. #152
    On September 3rd, 2011 at 11:27 am, happyscrapper said:

    Tell your husband,”Bob the Birther”, completely agrees with him.

    And…have a great Labor Day weekend.

    Back at you, Birther, from another crazy, right-wing extremist birther!

    Eat lots of meat!! And don’t forget to turn UP your A/C! Could be a hot weekend, due to that global warming causing thing called summer!

    The days are dwindling down to a precious few…enjoy them to the fullest and use the resources that God provided for His People!

53. #153
    On September 3rd, 2011 at 11:28 am, happyscrapper said:

    Vegetarians and atheists can ignore my last comment.

54. #154
    On September 3rd, 2011 at 11:34 am, GladzKravtz said:

    BOB said:
    happyscrapper said:
    Tipping point

    We may be @ that point. With all the regulations that have been created since BHO took office, it will take awhile to get rid of them (and bad old ones) after we win in 2012. We have to stand by our pols while they get this done, push them but remember that it may take more than 4 years to undo.

55. #155
    On September 3rd, 2011 at 11:41 am, GladzKravtz said:

    yaymm said:
    Yes, we have to contend with globalization. It’s already here and we need to use our economic machine again to make it work for us.

    I agree, there are opportunities out there to exploit. Americans are the most creative people out there.

56. #156
    On September 3rd, 2011 at 12:01 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    We used to be the best civilization in history when we were just Americans living under Constitutional law. With less than 4% of the world’s population, we accounted for more than 30% of the world economy. Why don’t we go back to that? We just aren’t good at this globalization thing. No one is. It killed the Roman and English empires and it will kill ours too if we don’t wise up.

57. #157
    On September 3rd, 2011 at 12:13 pm, rambler said:

    bho’s up coming speech will amount to a bunch of zeros. Zero in content follower by his spending proposal which will contain more zeros.
    The tipping point is about the cost of gov. We are paying for failure in all forms. The failures of central planing are all around. How much more money would be available for disasters if the states held the money? How much money is wasted on salaries and office space for federal workers who dispense the money back to the states with strings attached. Mr. Zero will reduce us all to zero.

58. #158
    On September 3rd, 2011 at 12:28 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    My guess is that Obama will do what he always does when he is cornered on a particular issue: change the subject. I don’t know if he can succeed on the economy this year but there is a major build up of US military going on in Afghanistan right now. I expect something big next year. We already know where the Iran nukes are. If we now know where the Pakistan nukes are, I expect that we will take both out and then pull out of Afghanistan and Iraq soon after. Are we ready for Obama the conqueror?

59. #159
    On September 3rd, 2011 at 1:08 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    Why is Perrybush’s “conservative” Texas criminalizing childhood?

    I don’t know but why is it so hard for Texans to see that if it weren’t for their state constitution, their state would already by worse than CA. The same things that ruined CA (illegal immigration, inflows of populations from liberal states and corrupt GOP) are destroying their state? Perrybush is a big part of that.

    So stop bashing us CA conservatives. You are making the same bed for yourselves and CA, not being as parochial as TX, was not as unpopular around the country as TX is and will be. You will need all of the friends you can get in a few years.

60. #160
    On September 3rd, 2011 at 1:46 pm, rambler said:

    Zeros for all! We are witnessing the total exposure of gov corruption. So many of our citizens have traded honor and integrity for sucking up to the powerful. The “I’ll scratch you back if you scratch mine” has placed the country in peril. All in the public eye have done this. Those running the banks, Wall Street, Hollywood, large corporations, Higher education and the Media have acted like groupies to the political elites. They all colluded to mislead the public. Now the fruits of their labors are being exposed for the frauds they all have been. I’m sick of hearing the CEOs now complaining that bho is anti-business. Why didn’t they see that? Because they thought they would be getting bennies from him and since that didn’t happen, they’re mad. Well, I’m mad too! At all of them for putting their own selfish interests above the welfare of the country. They all suck! This is what happens when those who think they deserve more or feel they can buy perks while sticking it to the rest of us. Watch for the “elites”, our self-proclaimed “betters” to reap what they have sewn. “All are punished”!

61. #161
    On September 4th, 2011 at 12:36 am, Speakup said:

    Bill Clinton should be learning a new appreciation for the Republican party because but for them goes he.

    Of course that has not one thing in this world to do with all liberals being convinced that no matter how many total and abject failures they and their ideology suffers that they alone are the saviors of the creed. How are the grandly deluded ever to know?

    Case in point:

    Economist Milton Friedman was testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee in favor of a national constitutional amendment for a balanced budget. Kennedy argued that a requirement for a balanced budget would restrict the federal government’s power and its ability to spend – thus, he said, Washington’s role in more fairly and equitably distributing wealth, goods and services.
    “Senator, socialism hasn’t worked in 6,000 years of recorded history,” explained Friedman. “Why won’t you give up on it?”
    Kennedy rose to his feet, according to Nuttle, who attended the hearing, and replied: “It hasn’t worked in 6,000 years of recorded history because it didn’t have me to run it.”

62. #162
    On September 4th, 2011 at 12:32 pm, Catmboy said:

    On September 02, 2011 at 09:33 am, Marshall_Will said:
    

    MM said:

    the New York Times “reports” on the “demeaning” “new” label:

    I find myself in this position often. Given the fact every word coming out of The Left is deceptive and misleading obfuscation at its finest, we’re forced to either sarc tag or place in parenthesis their every head fake.

    And it’s not unintentional! By overloading each sentence with numerous misrepresentations, we’re forced into a labor intensive drill of refuting and tagging them one by one and losing our intended audience. Or, debunk en masse and run the risk of being labeled ODS.

    It makes the whole scenario prog-friendly as ratcheting up the energy level req. to confront also takes the emotional level up a notch. From there, we’re steps away from a shouting match. Their home turf.

    Hmmm…thoughtful prose Marshall. It will get worse as zero sees even more electorate loses as we near the election.

63. #163
    On September 4th, 2011 at 8:44 pm, DocScience said:

    Pretty simple.

    If Obama merely reversed himself 180 on virtually EVERY policy he truly believes in, then he’d make one of the best presidents in American history.

    And if I had wings, I could fly to the store to pick up milk and bread.