House Majority Whip Roy Blunt (R-MO)
By on Oct 19th, 2006 at 12:47 pm
House Majority Whip Roy Blunt (R-MO)
yesterday “sent an email to the media” suggesting the agenda of his political opponents is to “plot to establish a Department of Peace, raise your taxes and minimize penalties for crack dealers.”
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What’s worse than Republicans? Why thinkprogress, that’s what!
About the most despicable web site on the net.
October 19th, 2006 at 12:51 pmHas that email been verified? Why would he possibly send that to the media?
October 19th, 2006 at 12:55 pmAnd what’s wrong with a Department of Peace? Other than that we shouldn’t need one if the State Department functioned adequately and had as much pull as the [misnamed] Department of Defense.
October 19th, 2006 at 12:55 pmGOP means > GREED-OIL-PERVERTS, so anyone who votes for Republicans is certified stupid and should be institutionalized!
October 19th, 2006 at 12:57 pmCrap, a department of Peace (terrorists are killing your grandmother as we speak). Now we can’t have that, can we! Especially if its sole purpose is to let all the criminals out of jail (Willie Horton)
October 19th, 2006 at 12:59 pmTypical desperate tactics of desperate Republicans.
October 19th, 2006 at 1:00 pmThe internal GOP mantra:
“If it get’s us a vote, who cares if it’s true?”
October 19th, 2006 at 1:03 pmWhat’s worse than Republicans?
Comment by Sen. Sir
That would be who’s worse, Sen.
October 19th, 2006 at 1:03 pmThe next ad or comment by a Rethug will probably be that if you vote for Democrats, they will come and behead your babies and put their heads on a pike on your front lawn. Oh, and then the Dems will eat the rest of the baby in front of you.
October 19th, 2006 at 1:05 pmAmerica’s Least Wanted
#1 – “About the most despicable web site on the net.”
It’s so dispicable, they haven’t censored your post, nor have they banned you!
RedState is a much better website, where you HAVE to toe the GOP-Party line and swig the kool-aide or they WILL censor your post and WILL ban you.
Think Progress –> putting the “think” back in “think for yourself.”
October 19th, 2006 at 1:08 pmDepartment of Peace – a plot! how nefarious! how wicked!
October 19th, 2006 at 1:11 pmIt must be stopped at all cost!
#1 – are you kidding? Are you trying to be sarcastic?
October 19th, 2006 at 1:12 pmTP let YOU post didn’t they? Right wing sites don’t allow for dissenters.
“House Majority Whip Roy Blunt, a Missouri Republican, yesterday sent an email to the media suggesting House Democrats would “plot to establish a Department of Peace, raise your taxes and minimize penalties for crack dealers.”
Rove’s strategy becomes visible, and it’s and oldie but a goodie; race baiting. “Minimize penalties for crack dealers” is racist code for “pander to the blacks.”
To paraphrase a saying from The Wolfman:
Even a boy who’s pure of heart,
October 19th, 2006 at 1:15 pmand says his prayers just right,
can vote GOP when the mid-terms loom,
and the race card’s played just right.
Sounds like Blunt is on crack himself!
October 19th, 2006 at 1:21 pmHe’s just hoping, because his crack use has been going up lately.
October 19th, 2006 at 1:23 pmIt seems significant to me that the Republicans are always talking about what the democrats are going to do and never do they talk about what they, the Republicans, have done while the reverse is true for the Democrats. I guess it all depends upon the mentality level of the people you are trying to convince. This is painfully obvious when one looks at the IQ of DUHbya, his 30% cadre of supporters, and the definite relationship and significance of the 30% mark.
October 19th, 2006 at 1:23 pm#1. That’s jutht dethpicable, I tell ya, dethpicable!
October 19th, 2006 at 1:32 pm“RedState is a much better website, where you HAVE to toe the GOP-Party line and swig the kool-aide or they WILL censor your post and WILL ban you.”
Democrat Soldier,
You couldn’t be more correct. I just joined RedState 2-3 weeks ago and was banned in less than 24 hours. I thought it would be a site where I could debate and discuss, but I obviously didn’t know what I was getting myself into. They manipulated the wording in my posts, then banned me completely.
Ah, the freedom of speech.
October 19th, 2006 at 1:33 pmI thought the complaint about Democrats was that they have no plan. Thanks for the idea Honey-Blunt. A Dept. of Peace sounds like a smashing idea.
October 19th, 2006 at 1:35 pmdork is on crack aint ya blunthead
October 19th, 2006 at 1:36 pmA Department of Peace – great idea.
Raise the taxes of those who have the means – good idea
Making Roy Blunt the House Minority Whip – priceless
October 19th, 2006 at 1:41 pmI really hope the media outlets are vetting this. Sounds too far out there for me. Could be some political nerd spoofing an email address, right?
October 19th, 2006 at 1:44 pmI hear the Aztec’s used to throw a guy off the top of a pyramid and watch his ass touble a few thousand steps to the bottom. Perhaps they cut his head off at the top or bottom of this one way ride. In any event, the common folk got a thrill and naturally the king got a thrill watching this all go down.
So, now we suite up our sacrifices to our new gods and send them off somewhere to be killed. Another time, another culture, but we still enjoy a good old blood sacrifice for the king.
Not much has changed in the last few thousand years. There is absolutely no reason for this war. We are sacrificing our young so our king can save face. Isn’t that pathetic.
October 19th, 2006 at 1:52 pmBlunt is smoking the blunts.
October 19th, 2006 at 1:53 pmA Department of Peace would be a great thing. Raising taxes to pay for Bush’s war? Also a good idea. Who is suppose to pay for this war? My grandchildren will have to because Bush just puts it on this nation’s tab.
Lets have that peace department and fiscal responsibility. Bring back the pay as you go rules. Abolish all of the R favored earmarks; no exceptions.
Didn’t the Rs promise us fiscal responsibility? Didn’t George Bush receive an MBA from Harvard? Didn’t the Rs impeach a popular President because he cheated on his wife and lied about it (first time that ever happened).
Vote Dem and we can all wake up from the nightmare of Republican rule. It has all been lies, lies and more lies.
October 19th, 2006 at 1:58 pmcarollt, you forget that the “Contract with America” had an escape clause.
October 19th, 2006 at 2:01 pmIt is actually true though. Aren’t your leaders proposing to raise taxes?
October 19th, 2006 at 2:01 pmYou couldn’t be more correct. I just joined RedState 2-3 weeks ago and was banned in less than 24 hours. I thought it would be a site where I could debate and discuss, but I obviously didn’t know what I was getting myself into. They manipulated the wording in my posts, then banned me completely.
Ah, the freedom of speech.
Yup, me too. I got two posts in before they banned me. And all I did was disagree with someone – no profanity, no threats, just “I disagree….”
October 19th, 2006 at 2:01 pmRoger_Roger, you’re going to have to be a little more specific.
October 19th, 2006 at 2:04 pmWho is going to pay for Social Security?
Please consider this. The budget numbers and the deficit/surplus the federal government shows the public is not the true financial numbers they should be showing us. The internal accounting department does a second set of books that follow standard accounting rules. Looking at the true numbers, you will find that the federal government runs a deficit closer to $2.9 trillion per year. Even the year Clinton reported a surplus of $559 billion, the true number was a $484 billion deficit. Standard accounting rules require them to report all expenses including those from entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicaid. Adding those costs would make federal accounting similar to that used by corporations, state and local governments and large non-profit entities such as universities and charities. It would show the government recording enormous losses because the deficit would reflect the growing shortfalls in Social Security and Medicare. The government would have reported nearly $40 trillion in losses since 1997 if Social Security and Medicare had been included. Do you remember the Medicare prescription drug benefit they enacted in 2004? If they reported the expense based on accounting principles, it would have been reported as an $8 trillion debt. Combined with other entitlement programs enacted in 2004 we would have shown an $11 trillion dollar debt, which is roughly the same size as our entire economy. Last year alone, we ran a true deficit that would cost each American household $6,700. Add another $3,000+ per year for a potential universal health care plan and now each household is paying in excess of $10,000 more then what they pay today. Does every household really want to pony up $6,000 to $10,000 extra per year? We already can’t afford the entitlement programs we have and they are quickly running America into bankruptcy.
October 19th, 2006 at 2:05 pmI think Roy Blunt is a drunkard, womanizer with a meth addiction and several children out of wedlock….
wow that was so easy…..I too can be a Republican candidate for office…
proof you say ….. pffft….who needs proof
Seriously though,
Can reporters please do their jobs….
Three easy steps journalists
Politician makes statement
1. Ask politican if he has proof
2. If answer is yes…print allegations
3. If allegations are false print story noting politician is making FALSE allegations
done…how hard was that
October 19th, 2006 at 2:18 pmSounds pretty desperate. I guess trying to rouse the gullible constituents.
October 19th, 2006 at 2:19 pmBlunt is about as clueless as Hastert and Bush about America.
October 19th, 2006 at 2:20 pmOn behalf of the entire state of Missouri, I apologize for this abortion of a human being.
October 19th, 2006 at 2:22 pmAny time these CON-ARTISTS(Republicans) are caught with their deceased criminal minds spewing hatred and sickening propaganda, they look like deers caught in a headlight. Is’nt it ironic that these cons always bring up wedge issues during elections when they know they have failed miserably in their foreign and domestic policies. All of a sudden, they go to the shelves, dust off their old tricks, knowing that we americans are so stupid and deplorably ignorant. No one that cares about these whimsical wedge issues ever bother to ask them why they have not made good on these issues as they have promised. The democrats should not take anything for granted…a collosal amount of aggression towards, and a mega-force of retaliation to every false assertions, ads and spins should be enforced. That was what Clinton did, and beat the cons at their own game.
October 19th, 2006 at 2:41 pmAl,
Kinda like the “war on poverty”. When are you Dems going to win that one? Or is it time to cut and run from that war as well as it isn’t winnable?
October 19th, 2006 at 2:47 pmWell, Roger, the Republicans have turned it into a “War on the Poor” and its going quite swimingly.
October 19th, 2006 at 2:49 pmCome on June,
Please explain why it is ok to stop fighting a war in Iraq but it isn’t ok to stop fighting the war on poverty? The war on poverty has been a failure for over 40 years and there isn’t an end in sight. Isn’t it time to stop wasting money on such a failure? It has cost us much more then Iraq and is a much greater failure. I say we cut and run from Iraq and the War on poverty now!!
October 19th, 2006 at 3:16 pmFor more on the Dept. of Peace check out Congressman Dennis Kucinich’s website and The Peace Alliance.
October 19th, 2006 at 3:19 pmRoger_Roger, are you saying the War in Iraq and the War on Poverty are the same thing? Really, that’s the analogy you’re going with. Well, I think Vietnam and Bob’s House off Appliances “War on High Prices” are the same too. How many US soldiers have died handing out meals in US soup kitchens? I’ll wager that number is low.
October 19th, 2006 at 3:22 pmAlso, Roger, are you admitting that only the liberals care about poverty?
What happened to compassionate conservativism? Too expensive? Can’t fund it because of a war in Iraq and tax cuts at the same time? How’s Reagan’s War on Drugs coming? Will you cut and run on that one?
October 19th, 2006 at 3:25 pmBecause, Roger, unlike Sadaam’s WMDs, poverty actually exists.
October 19th, 2006 at 3:27 pmGood analogy Roger. Cut and run now.
October 19th, 2006 at 3:28 pmLOL,
We live in a free market meaning there will always be poverty. It is part of the free market. My point is that we are fighting a war on poverty that by definition isn’t winnable. So, are you ready to stop wasting money on these entitlement programs that will never work?
October 19th, 2006 at 4:40 pmRoger Roger
We don’t live in a truly “free market”. We, as a society, help bail out individuals and business through a number of mechanisms. We, as a society, sponsor basic research for a number of products.
I don’t like the overuse of the word “war” to describe programs or interventions meant to improve the “general welfare” of our society because it limits the mechanisms we consider.
Our “war on drugs” isn’t working either and probably never will. Do you think we should stop wasting money on this war?
October 19th, 2006 at 4:49 pmThere is legislation (HR 3760 and S. 1756) currently in the House and Senate to create a cabinet-level U.S. Department of Peace and Nonviolence. the legislation has been introduced by Dennis Kucinich and has 75 reps and 2 senators who have co-signed the bills. there is a large grass roots movement to make the Dept. of Peace a reality. It’s an idea who’s time has come.
October 19th, 2006 at 7:00 pmHere’s the link to the Dept. of Peace web site.
October 19th, 2006 at 7:03 pm“>
October 19th, 2006 at 7:04 pmhttp://www.thepeacealliance.org
October 19th, 2006 at 7:04 pmOne more try for the link to DOP site
October 19th, 2006 at 7:06 pmhttp://www.thepeacealliance.org