Comments on: Sen. Richard Shelby Blocks 70 Nominees, Demands Billions in Earmarks

By: admin

admin — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:18:23 +0000

Mr. Huck: Are you suggesting that wrongdoing is less wrong if more people do it? Are you suggesting that degree of obstruction is not relevant to the level of harm done? On the following points: “A school safety czar that wants to teach preschool chldren about the gay life style? A regs czar that imposes his personal will? An appointed USAID administratior that critices the Pope? A Pay czar the limits salary of who he chooses? A president that allows his buddies to get 9 million in bonus?” you are mischaracterizing or openly misstating the facts. There has never been a shred of evidence to support the “Global warming is a hoax” conspiracy theory, though evidence built on centuries’ worth of mainstream science illustrate clearly that climate destabilization is happening and is linked to our carbon emissions. You can make random statements in order to support ideologically prejudiced conspiracy theories, but that right does not give your statements weight.

Please, for all commenters, try to avoid aggressive ad hominem attacks or overtly hostile rhetoric.

By: Paul Huck

Paul Huck — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:57:02 +0000

This is NOT extortion. If Ben Nelson, Mary Landreau,Joe Leiberman,NY, MN and Conn congress people can, why not Shelby? I see no difference. Who approved all the Czars? Congress is suppossed to approve all. They did not. An Atty General that wants control and power over every terrorist we capture? Should he have given Miranda rights to every German Japanese soldier? A school safety czar that wants to teach preschool chldren about the gay life style? A regs czar that imposes his personal will? An appointed USAID administratior that critices the Pope? A Pay czar the limits salary of who he chooses? A president that allows his buddies to get 9 million in bonus? A preisdent that appoints someone who can’t do his own taxes over the IRS? Same man was head of Goldy Sacks that was a big cause of the recession. They keep telling us we e”on the edge” but they never said of what! What CAUSED the problem is the fed giovernent under Clinton passing the Comminuty Redevelopment Act that FORCED banks to make bad loans to section 8 housing people, who were already 6 months behind in apartment rent. They are now 6 months behind in mortgate payments (imagne that). Forced= threat by Gietner or however he spells it this week, what with all the ‘change’ Obama promised) who threatened to deny FDIC cioverage, and cacel licenses for bracnches across state lines.
The fault lies in DC. The American peolle are fed up with it. Evidence: NJ VA Mass. Nov the Demwits will loose more seats. Is that why Obama wanted to pass the health care in Ju;y, before it was even written? Before we found out what they were up to? Global warming is a hoax. Cap and trade raises electric costs for every american even under 250,000. We do not need to cut off our electric supply until we have alternate sources in place that can provide an amount equal to the current coal fired plants. Sure they can buy carbon credits and plant a tree in Brazil or India. more jobs overeas. Why not a tree here? Smoke and mirrors. carbon credits. Al Gore should have to buy them for the electricity he uses in his big house. Nancy should have to for the miles she flew her family at taxpayer epense. Mad ? Me and 80% of Americans!

By: apostasyusa

apostasyusa — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:24:54 +0000

There will be no fallout.

Republicans are saints in the eyes of our MSM.

As for obstuctionist, what else can you call the enormous rise in the use of filibuster by Republicans since they lost power?

“We have crossed the mark of over 100 filibusters and acts of procedural obstruction in less than one year,” Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, said on the floor on December 20, 2009. “Never since the founding of the Republic, not even in the bitter sentiments preceding Civil War, was such a thing ever seen in this body.

I understand the frustrations of everyone who wanted Obama to fix the world in 365 days, but I do NOT understand how anyone could be so illogical to think that Obama is an evil person bent on the destruction of this country.

There are people who vote for people that call themselves conservatives but really what you get is a bunch of theocrats who try to consolidate money and power to an elite group of ideological zealots who are willing to commit intense acts of hypocrisy simply to feel as if they have “won”, like it’s all some kind of game.

These toe tapping tools will stop at nothing to force your children learn myth in science classrooms such as ID or that the Earth was made 6000 years ago. These fake so called Republicans will vow that gays should not be able to live as non-gays do in our country, while simultaneously being gay in the closet. These people like to hate things. Fighting is what feels normal. These people are angry and angry people are easily exploited.

If you prefer a government that governs the least that’s exactly what you are going to get. I don’t believe there can be an intelligent debate with toe tapping Republican propagandist hacks. Hacks don’t want to talk, they just want to be mad about something and government is an easy target. During the Bush days, the hacks were mad at Saddam, for the wrong reasons but it didn’t stop them from exploiting the people into supporting a two trillion dollar tax payer funded unjust war did it? 4000 Americans and 50,000 (and counting) innocent Iraqi civilians died. Republican leaders said, “hey be mad at this”, now they are saying, “hey be mad at this”.

The fatalistic tragedians of our nation fall in line. No one said Americans have any patience. We want to be right all the time. The only thing we are conservative with is the use of our intelligence and the application of ethics.

By: bozozozo

bozozozo — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 18:49:36 +0000

ordinance vs ordnance

one is a law, rule or regulation, the other is usually a military explosive device

we could use one to curb Shelby, but not the other.

we need to get rid of anonymous holds: make the holders justify their actions, or at least expose the fact that they are responsible.

this is a great example of saying one thing, and doing another, and it lays out the essential paradox of election to national office: the people elect you to do something for them, state or district, specifically. But really, your responsibility is to the country as a whole. If you can do something for your electorate en passant, that’s great, but this is clearly beyond the pale.

he must have an election coming up.

By: sotall

sotall — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:14:29 +0000

Will the American public ever learn. We have an extremely powerful tool we can use to stop blatant abuse of the use of OUR money. It’s called your vote. People of Alabama, please pay attention and vote this guy out of office next election. Show him just how powerful you are!

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