TN unanimously passes resolution honoring Gore.
By on Jan 11th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
TN unanimously passes resolution honoring Gore.
Yesterday, the Tennessee House unanimously approved a resolution honoring Al Gore and his efforts to curb global warming:
We hereby honor and congratulate vice president Albert Arnold “Al” Gore Jr. on his receipt of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his exemplary efforts to inform and educate the public and promote understanding of the threats posed by global warming and the measures needed to counteract such change.
Gore is a former U.S. congressman and senator from the state of Tennessee. House Republican Leader Jason Mumpower now wants Democrats to vote on a similar resolution praising the late President Ronald Reagan.
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Democrats voting to praise Ronald Raygun?
FAT CHANCE.
January 11th, 2008 at 6:43 pmvery nice gesture by the tennessee house.
January 11th, 2008 at 6:43 pmThis is going to make Rush Limpdick, Trannie Coulter, Bushies, and Repugs go ballistic. Gore smearing begins in 4…3…2…1…
January 11th, 2008 at 6:43 pmNice, but I am sure he would have rather had their electoral votes in 2000.
January 11th, 2008 at 6:44 pmTo wit:
January 11th, 2008 at 6:45 pmWe hereby honor and congratulate dead former president Ronald Wilson “Gipper” Reagan on his canonization by every current Republican candidate for the presidency and his untiring work to educate the public about the threat posed by smog-spewing trees and the measures needed to counteract this threat, examplified in his immortal one-liner, “Seen one redwood, ya seen ‘em all.”
House Republican Leader Jason Mumpower
– - Some jokes just write themselves.
January 11th, 2008 at 6:45 pmreagan’s from tennessee?
January 11th, 2008 at 6:47 pmTennessean’s, SHAME on YOU!
January 11th, 2008 at 6:50 pmFor no recognition.
January 11th, 2008 at 6:52 pmTennessean’s, SHAME on YOU!
Comment by theswan
Now, now, let’s not be offensive. They’re called “HILLBILLIES”.
(sarc OFF)
January 11th, 2008 at 6:52 pmJason should employ the power of his last name and put a sock in it.
January 11th, 2008 at 6:53 pmWhat are they going topraise Reagan for? Starting the most recent “Great Republican Experiment” in which we are now living in the failed results of? Yeah, bush only sped up that failure, but this all began under Reagan.
January 11th, 2008 at 7:00 pmHow can you keep a straight face when praising someone who made a movie titled Bedtime for Bonzo?
January 11th, 2008 at 7:05 pmHey Jason–have you ever heard the expression “go pound sand”?
January 11th, 2008 at 7:05 pmWhy don’t Republicans dig up ol’ Ronnie and Bronze him and then they can have him around 4ever?
January 11th, 2008 at 7:07 pmWhy don’t Republicans dig up ol’ Ronnie and Bronze him and then they can have him around 4ever?
Comment by LibertyLover — January 11, 2008 @ 7:07 pm
Even Dead Bronzed Ronnie would have higher approval ratings than Bush :P
January 11th, 2008 at 7:14 pmI didn’t know that Reagan lived in or held political office in Tennessee. Wow, the things you learn new every day. Who would have thunk it.
January 11th, 2008 at 7:15 pmThis is going to make Rush Limpdick, Trannie Coulter, Bushies, and Repugs go ballistic. Gore smearing begins in 4…3…2…1…
Comment by Uncle Ho — January 11, 2008 @ 6:43 pm
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Nice, but I am sure he would have rather had their electoral votes in 2000.
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Only took one. Next post.
January 11th, 2008 at 7:15 pmThis is good news. Gotta go get a copy of today’s paper (I’m in northeast TN) and see if they covered the story, and where in the paper they put it.
When Gore won the Nobel Prize, they put the story in a 2-inch-wide vertical column along the full length of the left margin.
January 11th, 2008 at 7:16 pmRecognize Ray Gun for killing innocent peasants and nuns in Latin America and for pardoning treasonous criminals. He spilled enough blood that it has probably “trickled down” to Hell where empty suit Ray Gun now resides. GOP failure extraordinaire.
January 11th, 2008 at 7:17 pmRaygun & his adopt a Contra program. The Contras made the mafia look like a collection of alter boys. That’s really worth praising alright- Like endorsing the SS for their extermination programs.
January 11th, 2008 at 7:23 pmKeltoi: “Nice, but I am sure he would have rather had their electoral votes in 2000.”
I guess most of them had their heads firmly planted in their own coal-soaked arses to elect an outspoken environmentalist as president. Very sad. I hope they’re satisfied. There are thousands of dead American soldiers and hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis today because they love their stinking coal.
January 11th, 2008 at 7:25 pmWhat WOULD they be praising Reagan for? Tripling the debt? Cutting and running after getting 243 Marines killed in Lebanon? Selling shoulder missle launchers to terrorists? Secretly funding terrorists in latin America?
January 11th, 2008 at 7:28 pmMaybe they should offer praise to Reagan for giving us the largest tax increase in history because none of the wealthy had to feel its pain.
January 11th, 2008 at 7:29 pmBTW; Bonzo got top billing. Raygun plays second banana to a monkey.
January 11th, 2008 at 7:34 pmReagan…what for? A hard recession(uhuh),Iran Contra,Failing to do anything about the attack on the Marines in Lebanon in 83 which killed 241 US Personel,Attacking Grenada instead,Air Traffic controllers (reamed them folks)..Reaganomics(yeah…trickle down…the only problem was…it didn’t trickle down far enough).Or how about the People Park incident on May 15th 1969 in Berkely wher then Governor Reagan called out the Calif Highway Patrol to quell a protest. The CHP fired their weapons and 1 man died and hundreds were injured…thanks Ronnie…heck of a job…..oh and don’t even bother trying to tell me this cretin won the cold war(this is aimed at trolls)……and last but certainly not least…The War on Drugs.
January 11th, 2008 at 7:38 pmit’s also about Ron Reagan … bigfoot
January 11th, 2008 at 7:39 pmReagan: 132 indicted and convicted, the most since Teapot Dome; sold weapons to terrorists; allowed central American terrorists to use American planes to smuggle cocaine; enacted the largest tax INCREASE in American history (doubling the SS tax); accumulated more national debt than all previous administrations put together; in a “show of force,” got 243 Marines killed and then cut and ran; invaded the island of Grenada in which we lost more soldiers to friendly fire than hostile; fell asleep during cabinet meetings; uttered the imortal words, “you know, facts are stupid things.”
I’m talking about him because as the discussion header states, the Repubes in Tennessee feel they have to match the praise of Al Gore with one for Reagan as well and I’m wondering what he did to merit your belief that he was one of the “finest Presidents of the 20th century.” I know there’s a lot of myth surrounding him, but I live in the real world.
January 11th, 2008 at 7:41 pmPraise Ronnie for his union-busting? Trickle-down economic lunacy? The Iran-Contra criminal conspiracy?
January 11th, 2008 at 7:41 pmanyone that still thinks Ron Reagan was “The Great President”…IS on drugs.
January 11th, 2008 at 7:45 pmBigfoot: “Why do you liberal rabid Bush haters have to turn everything into something negative? Are you people really that bitter?”
Of course I’m bitter. The 2000 election fiasco changed history and the last 7 years of pain and misery are a direct result of that fiasco. Hundreds of thousands are dead, the world is in flames, our economy is in tatters, the dollar is in the toilet and we’re seen throughout the world as a nation of torturing fascists.
Anyone who loves America SHOULD be bitter about what’s been going on.
January 11th, 2008 at 7:49 pmBigfoot: “This thread is supposed to be about kudos to Al Gore”
OK, KUDOS TO AL GORE!!!!! Hey, I voted for him, a-hole. That’s more than you can say and I’m sure he would agree that my vote for him was worth more than any “kudos.”
January 11th, 2008 at 7:51 pmAnd Ron Ray-gun is noted for???
Iran Contra
Eliminating labor unions
Declaring that ketchup is a vegetable for poor kids
I don’t understand the adoration for the man. Perhaps in comparison to Nixon and W. Bush?
January 11th, 2008 at 7:58 pmI think Al Gore is quite content with all the accolades he’s already received.
January 11th, 2008 at 8:17 pmRon Reagan’s on the other hand ….are not deserved.Only to the simple minded folks who let their hatred of Democrats guide them.They’re the ones who think Boosh is still a (cough,cough)good President…..now I need something for an upset stomach………
They would honor Regan for ripping President Carter’s solar panels off the white House roof!!!! WHAT ELSE???!!!
Does anyone even reflect on what things might have come to pass if President Carter’s energy policies would have been followed?? 20 % of our energy was supposed to come from renewable sources by the year 2000, but thanks to Regan/Bush we’ve had so many more years of Middle Eastern control. Oh those lovable repubs!!!
January 11th, 2008 at 8:20 pmHouse Republican Leader Jason Mumpower now wants Democrats to vote on a similar resolution praising the late President Ronald Reagan.
Mumpower might just be another RePugniScum assh0le!
Ronny RayGun was a treasonist president. This useless assh0le took the oath while claiming the goverment was the “problem!”
That’s the words of a treasonist!!!
Ronny RayGun was the third worst president in history!!! Just behind 2 Gorge Botchs!!!
January 11th, 2008 at 8:25 pmUntil 2000, I considered myself a liberal-leaning independent. I was socially liberal, but fiscally conservative and therefore always politically conflicted.
January 11th, 2008 at 9:02 pmPreceding the election, as I carefully watched Bush and Gore, I made up my mind that Bush was an idiot, despite the favorable media coverage.
Since the election, I have become a firm Democrat – thanks to the disastrous Bush administration.
Bush has trashed America to extremes I didn’t think possible in seven years: economically, politically, internationally, and Constitutionally; and yet trolls ask why some of us hate Bush. How dense are they?
Resolution praising Raygun? For what, Iran/Contra? I thought this turd was flushed long ago.
Buck Fush
January 11th, 2008 at 9:43 pmGot news for you, Bigfoot. When Bush Sr. took office, as you know he kept most of Reagan’s people on staff. I remember reading an article in the paper telling how those leftover members were making comments about Regan’s habit of sleeping late and missing staff meetings, and how he would rather watch TV than meet with members of his administration.
Bush finally got fed up with it and threatened to fire anyone in the administration who made any further negative comments about Reagan.
One of the finest presidents? Uh huh.
January 11th, 2008 at 10:19 pmpretty damn dense, marie…
sometimes i wonder if it’s an act… but who would WANT to come off
so dumb and dense? …
besides i know some personally… painfully…
January 11th, 2008 at 10:38 pmit’s real…
Reagan, greatest president of the 20th Century? Really?
So that one guy, Franklin-something-something (Reagan voted for him four times, BTW), apparently didn’t do as much for this country?
January 11th, 2008 at 11:10 pmSo how long til Texas passes a resolution to denounce Bush?
January 11th, 2008 at 11:37 pmI am sure Reagan can be praised as soon as he wins his own Nobel Prize, in whatever category.
Oh, wait…
January 11th, 2008 at 11:42 pmThat’ll piss off all those idiots who chose georgejr over him….
January 12th, 2008 at 12:54 amTennesee turned against Al Gore in 2000. This is their way to distract and make people forget about the fact that they helped put a baboon in the White House.
January 12th, 2008 at 2:18 amTennesseeans must be feeling pretty guilty and foolish for not voting for their favorite son in 2000 and paving the way for who has been the worst president in history.
January 12th, 2008 at 7:28 amAs for the Repugs wanting to honor Reagan, what for?
They are like little children: “well, HE got an honor, so I want one too.”
Reagan was NOT a good president – he was an attractive, but lazy, spokesman for the party, and he hurt the middle class and the poor, and was part of the felonious Iran-Contra scandal.
Remember how he embarrassed himself by making claims about WWII that were fabrications in his own mind?
Those who think he was a great president are also fabricating facts in their own minds.
Reagan was absolutely one of the finest Presidents of the 20th century, of that there can be no doubt.
Spin what you will, in your bitterness, for being losers, both then and now, but the facts and history will always, always, be against you.
How’s that hair-shirt feel, by the way? Uncomfortable?
Comment by O. Bigfoot
God foot, do they send this shit to you in a file so you can just copy and paste the bs into the forum?
raygun was a phony and a criminal justs like the bush bunch you support…the main difference is the bush bunch really are a bunch of facist nazis…it was so….ironic to watch bush at the scene of the holocost….crying for the jews killed by the germans.
What has been all but forgotten, however, is the role of Prescott Bush, George W. Bush’s grandfather, who was in business with the Nazis even after the U.S. entered the war in late 1941:
George Bush’s grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany.
The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism.
His business dealings, which continued until his company’s assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy.
We will never know if George Bush gave any thought to his grandfather’s role in the creation of the Nazi camps while he toured a memorial to the horror they produced. One of his biggest flaws is his instinctive reflex to deflect responsibility for his own failings, so it is unlikely he’d see any connection between himself, the family fortune that paved his way to power and the portion of it that came from profits from his grandfather’s business dealings with Hitler’s government.
January 12th, 2008 at 8:19 amGore may become a joke over time if more information comes out against global warming or global warming never gets any worse. There are indications that over the past several years the planet has begun a stabilization in regards to temp, etc. In 10 years will we be laughing at all this?
January 12th, 2008 at 9:04 amMike
http://mtaricani.blogspot.com/
George W. Bush’s grandfather was doing business with the Nazis.
January 12th, 2008 at 9:38 amHe grew his fortunes during that period.
Yet Bush the moron, cries when seeing photos of Auschwitz; second guesses the military of that time for not doing more.
Gore may become a joke over time if more information comes out against global warming or global warming never gets any worse. There are indications that over the past several years the planet has begun a stabilization in regards to temp, etc. In 10 years will we be laughing at all this?
Mike
you can’t just make up science and not give a link if you want to be credible.
January 12th, 2008 at 10:17 amit’s laziness, fred… after all:
“I’m a Fred Fan all the way.” – mtaricani
ah hahahahaha!
January 12th, 2008 at 10:38 amFred, Mike’s “argument” sounds a lot like those made by global warming skeptics that I know personally. They always cite some trend that that the media, and scientists themselves, are ignoring. They claim that “the science is not yet in”, as if all the studies conducted over the past two decades have been warm-up drills. They claim “more and more scientists are reversing their positions on GW every day” but the only names they ever cite are those familiar high-profile skeptics.
Mike’s claim that “There are indications that over the past several years the planet has begun a stabilization in regards to temp, etc.”, (aside from his imporper use of “etc.” as a means to suggest that there’s more to his argument without actually providing evidence) is nothing more than a vague, all-but-meaningless advertising slogan.
January 12th, 2008 at 12:20 pmComment by ralph the wonder llama — January 12, 2008 @ 12:20 pm
Well, the Gore haters have to say something, don’t they? Just last year the managing editor of our local paper attacked Gore’s GW claims by pointing out negative issues with the early years of Gore’s college education, issues which had nothing whatsoever to do with his work on environmental issues.
Just like our friend “Mike,” the editor also cited no sources for his claims that GW is a myth.
January 12th, 2008 at 3:09 pmReagan was absolutely one of the finest Presidents of the 20th century, of that there can be no doubt.
Comment by O. Bigfoot
Typical. This shows how the “Reagan Revolution” was both the beginning and the end of Republican dominance. The Reagan worshippers can never tell you why he was such a great president. They don’t have a reason, just accept it.
We heard the same crap about Newt Gingrich and then Dubya.
Now they are finished, and they caused their own downfall by continuing to prop up their worthless leaders for no other reason than they were Republicans. The massive incompetence and corruption didn’t matter because they were “good men”.
It’s over now. The American people are finally waking up from this nightmare. The Republicans are finished for the forseeable future, and they may even join their ideological brethren, the Federalists, on the scrap heap of history.
January 12th, 2008 at 6:22 pmIt’s over now. The American people are finally waking up from this nightmare. The Republicans are finished for the forseeable future, and they may even join their ideological brethren, the Federalists, on the scrap heap of history.
Comment by shoeless — January 12, 2008 @ 6:22 pm
I have to disagree. Thanks to the false information being disseminated by the corporate media, middle and lower class America will continue to vote against their own interests and elect “good” men who trumpet their own morality while obeying only the almighty dollar. We will continue in this manner and enjoy America’s second gilded age until middle America really begins to feel some economic crunch. This would probably already be happening if it weren’t for the massive credit card debt that most Americans already possess. Until this debt gets called in (it’s mostly owed to foreign creditors) nothing will change.
January 12th, 2008 at 9:52 pm