Jonah Goldberg: I want Obama to fail.
Jonah Goldberg: I want Obama to fail.
In an LA Times op-ed today, right-wing blogger Jonah Goldberg joins the bandwagon of conservatives hoping for President Obama’s failure. Implying that hoping for the country’s failure is a perfectly natural sentiment, Goldberg writes, “The scorpion must sting the frog. The conservative must object to socialized medicine”:
Liberal bloggers and media chin-strokers are aghast at Limbaugh’s statement that he hopes Barack Obama fails.
Well, given what Obama wants to do, I hope he fails too. Of course I want the financial crisis to end — who doesn’t? But Obama’s agenda is much more audacious.
Goldberg adds that he is “dubious” about the criticisms of moderate conservatives like Ross Douthat and David Frum, who argue that the Republican party’s Limbaugh obsession “guarantees that the GOP will become a powerless rump party only for conservative true believers.”
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Once again, we see that the Right Wing has only the interests of the Right Wing in mind and cares not one whit for the interests of the country as a whole.
One Nation Under God? Not to the Republicans.
Party Uber Alles!!
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:46 amThere’s a name for people who want the President of the US to fail: Traitor.
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:47 amJeez! Is that all they have to say? “I want him to fail.” What are their ideas? Do they have a plan to get us out of this mess? My God. These people truly are crazy.
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:50 amThe pundits who want Obama (read, America) to fail are nothing short of traitors. Benedict Arnolds, all.
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:53 amThere is nothing wrong with expressing their disagreement with the administration – Democrats did that for years during the Bush reign – but to call for failure, to wish for failure, is shameful and disgraceful.
They have been steeped so long in their ideology, that they think only in terms of their party “winning” – they have lost sight of America, the country.
How long does this have to continue before they are made to stop these treasonous outbursts?
And I want Jonah to shut up. Looks like we both won’t get our way.
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:53 amIt’s understandable, if he doesn’t fail it proves that everything they’ve stood for has been wrong.
So…. let them HOPE he fails, but don’t let them actually MAKE him fail. Don’t let them sabotage and scuttle Obama’s efforts. And when he succeeds, it will be apparent that the right-wing way is a silly, obsolete cult.
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:55 amOK, so, let’s give them this scenario: Republicans successfully mount a Talibanesque insurgency and Obama’s initiatives fail to make progress. It’s election time 2012 (if the planetary alignment doesn’t shift earth’s axis and cause a cataclysmic polar magnetic shift…LOL). What are the republicans going to base their platform on? We helped kill the democrats socialist agenda! Now, elect us and we’ll give MORE tax breaks to millionaires, and deregulate Wall Street!
Ummm… OK.
They truly are in an echo chamber, a hall of mirrors. They just aren’t grasping the fact that the only people who believe their philosophy is sound are their fellow republicans. Millions upon millions of Americans see through their lies and obfuscations.
I find solace in one thing. Republicans have been consistently on the wrong side of history. We just have to let them whine and cry and moan and complain, get Obama’s initiatives passed, then their party will become irrelevant.
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:55 amIn one of Robert Altemeyer’s experiments with authoritarians/authoritarian followers, a “World” game that was to last overnight, authoritarians and their followers blew up the planet with a nuclear war within about thirty minutes. They even had time to restart the game afterward, lasting a couple of hours this time.
In that context, it’s not surprising to read asshats like Goldberg hoping for failure. Besides, in a Second Depression, I’m sure Jonah will be just fine, which is all he really cares about. What he fails to consider, perhaps, is in such a scenario, the angry mob need only go to the public library to google his address in the what he assumes to be safe confines of his gated community.
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:55 am“The conservative must object to socialized medicine”.
Well, all those elected conservatives in Washington should henceforth renounce their medical coverage provided by the US taxpayers.
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:55 amI like the way they phrase it – by trying to say they only want his “policies” to fail.
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:56 amWell, helloo!! If the policies fail, the country is down the tubes. Even though I didn’t think the Iraq war was a good idea – I didn’t want Bush to fail in Iraq. Why? I knew that failure meant more US military deaths, the possiblity of breaking up Iraq similarly to Yugoslavia and giving Iran a foot hold.
Remember that it was Sadaam who was holding Iraq together and keeping Iran at bay.
They are all bereft of ideas, except for tax cuts for the wealthy. They have no alternative plan, no solution – they only want themselves and their wealthy donors to have greater tax cuts.
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:57 amIt’s all Grover Norquists’ oligarch-plan — less money going into Treasury, more persons needing assistance from federal programs, and the rich making more money on both ends – by owning the corporations who end jobs, who send employees to the unemployment rolls, while continuing to benefit from tax cuts on their wealth.
Okay, I have questions for the antagonists (and I know they are here, in numbers recently).
Why was it that if anyone questioned Bush during his tenure, it was considered treasonous?
Now, with out and out blatant statements of hope of failure for the current president, is it NOT consider treasonous?
And, of most importance, why does the right HATE the American people?
Should not their patriotism be questioned?
I patiently await well thought out, intelligent responses to these questions?
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:57 amyou have to remember that these people have their future at stake. if obama succeeds there will be no more republican party (they are doing a good job of making sure of that) and therefore there will be no more right wing pundits that anyone gives a shit about. With obama’s success comes the demise of these people who have been preaching for years about doing the opposite of what obama is doing and therefore if he succeeds it will mean that this whole time they were wrong and therefore obsolete.
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:58 amWell, given what Obama wants to do, I hope he fails too. Of course I want the financial crisis to end — who doesn’t? But Obama’s agenda is much more audacious.
What should we call this, the brazen bigotry of high expectations?
It’s like, Obama wants to bring the economic and financial crisis to an end, AND implement other reforms, such as healthcare. And Jonah Mommy-got-me-a-job Goldberg, finds this ambition somehow offensive.
And not to carp on, but remember Chimp’s calling card was to Spread Freedom Wherever He Went. This too was pretty audacious, but back then it gave young Jonah a boner. What changed, White Boy?
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:59 amSo they don’t want him to fail in something like basketball or fatherhood, only in leading the country. I see now.
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:59 amWhen is this country going to come to grips with the fact that the modern conservative cares nothing for the “general welfare” emphasized in the preamble to the Constitution? This incarnation of conservatism, which would likely turn Edmund Burke’s decaying stomach even now, has so deified self-interest that those who adhere to it haven’t the capacity to recognize moments when a rising tide could truly lift all boats. Monetary self-interest is God, and political self-interest (see: Rush Limbaugh) represents the right’s worldly ideology. Left unchecked, they truly can, unlike liberalism, upend the secular, civil foundations of this nation.
Americans need to reject this solipsistic nihilism. That’s all that remains of conservatism and those who celebrate it.
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:59 amRush Limbaugh = Father Charles Coughlin.
Look it up.
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:00 amRemember back in the days after 911? If you even critized Bush, the Feds would be knocking on your door? If you joined an antiwar march, you were watched and monitored by the CIA. Well, where are they now? Are they watching Rush and all these other guys who are stoking the flames of violence? I didn’t think so.
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:00 amNUGENT/PALIN 2012
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:03 amI’m totally bummed that we can’t pull together. What a horrible way to represent you party “I hope the president fails”. I’ve never in my life seen such a display!!
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:04 amWhen I read this article, my gut tells me this is going down a very bad road and it’s going to be very unpleasant for all of us. I got the same feeling when we went into Iraq.
I would like for all of my middle-of-the-road and liberal friends to remember these days and these quotes coming from leaders of the GOP and consverative movement so that they will never make this same mistake again:
DEMS & REPUBS are NOT the SAME
Sure, they make many of the same mistakes when in power. But Dem leaders at least tried to work with the Bush administration no matter how corrupt or wrong they were.
They at least supported him when he put our American troops in harms way.
These positions and statements from the GOP are unconscionable.
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:04 amTranslation: “Obama’s economic strategy has a better chance of success than anything our side did, and this spells disaster for neo-conservatism.”
Everytime one of these water carriers claims they “want”, “wish”, or “hope” President Obama’s plan fails, it tells me they’re all scared out of their minds.
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:07 amIf Rush is there Bin Laden then we are safe.
Besides that I’ve been calling them the American Taliban for awhile.
It seems as though the title fits.
Bin Laden and the Republicans are now in the same boat.
They want us to fail.
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:08 amWe couldn’t question the “Decider”. That wouldn’t have been unpatriotic. That man had a mandate at 51%. Now that Obama won the election with 53% it’s ok to lash out at every step he takes.
One would think the GOP is acting like a little child that isn’t getting it’s way.
Or, the GOP is the wounded animal trapped in a cage of their own making and we the people are watching it die.
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:09 amJonah Goldbrat, 40 years old and living in his mom’s garage.
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:09 amGoldberg’s life, in limerick-form:
There was a young wingnut call Jonah,
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:15 amWhose Mom got him a job at Teh Corner.
While shining Chimp’s halo
He made out with K-Lo,
Then blogged about his favorite boner.
All of these bandwagon jumpers are failing to realize one important fact; Limbaugh is not a Conservative. He is a Corporatist. Listen to Limbaugh for any length of time (10 minutes is enough) and you will understand that he hates the little guy (the cause of the crisis) and loves the CEO (obscene bonuses will ensure that “talent” stays loyal). His constant underlying message is, if you’ve got money you are OK, if not, you are the enemy. Limbaugh’s true talent is somehow convincing idiots like this guy Goldberg (and millions of listeners) that he is the opposite of who he is.
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:17 am“the criticisms of moderate conservatives like Ross Douthat and David Frum, who argue that the Republican party’s Limbaugh obsession”
Let’s get real here. Libaugh is a junky, an opiate addict. If his drug of choice has indeed been “curtailed”, his obsessiveness will metastasize in another area, and “politics” is clearly part of his “drug” (read mood-altering)-seeking behavior. He show no signs of the humility that would characterize someone in “recovery”.
Just my .02 as an addiction counsleor for 28 years.
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:21 amAs far as Jonah’s columns go this one is actually pretty tame. I accept his seeing a difference between the economy recovering and Obama pushing through major reforms in health care and energy. If Obama gets health care passed and it works as expected, Republicans are never going to be able to kill it. Just like Social Security. Which is why passing it is so important.
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March 3rd, 2009 at 10:21 amwell said pd
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:22 amWhen Bush failed we all failed. If Obama fails we’ll all fail. It’s time for the American people to act more like the French and protest against those that would do us harm. Keep talking boys, we’ll put you on the “list”.
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:22 amHere in North Carolina, NCAA basketball is practically a religion (and yes, March Madness is nearly upon us!). There are two very formidable basketball teams here — the University of North Carolina Tarheels and the Duke University Blue Devils. Theirs is a long and intense rivalry, and their fans are — well, fanatical.
Each team has their hard-core group of followers, many of whom claim they always support their team, AND whatever team is playing against the other one. To a Tarheel fan, for example, the defeat of the Blue Devils is critically important. If the Blue Devils make it to the Final Four and the Tarheels don’t, a Tarheel fan will expend all his mental and emotional energy praying for the Blue Devils’ elimination.
This is considered normal in the sports world. After all, victories and losses in sports arenas tend to elevate or depress us temporarily, but they don’t usually impact our economic situation, our standing in the world, or our civil rights.
Yet the right-wingers are treating our current political situation as if it’s a sports championship. They want to see President Obama fail for the same reason the Tarheels want to see the Blue Devils fail. Do they even begin to grasp what the REAL stakes are here?
Not only are they fools, but even fools are starting to recognize them as such.
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:29 amAt the risk of stealing CheeseFlap’s thunder…
“I hope Obama fails”
The Limbaugh train picks up steam
Now Goldberg jumps on
Never mind — haiku’s too difficult; I’ll stick to snarkiness…
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:33 am“Country First?” What hollow words those are turning out to be for conservatives, who apparently really believe only in “Party First” or “Ideology First” or maybe “Rich People First.” Shayne (@ 32) is right. As Franklin said, “If we do not hang together, we most assuredly will hang separately.”
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:35 amJonah Goldberg: The fat, steaming pant load, is a failure. The only reason he is known to anyone is because of his backstabbing, hateful, mother. Insignificant bs.
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:38 am” Drill Now, Drill Here ” = Fail Now, Fail Here “
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:38 amWhat does the moral majority/religious right or whatever they’re calling themselves this week think of they’re party being headed up by a child molesting drug head who hopes the economy gets worse?
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:42 amThis is too funny! They can’t get enough of slobbing on Limbaugh’s knob – can they? Now this loser wants the join in too! ROTFL!
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:43 amThe conversation we want to hear:
journalist: So, led by Rush, the republican party wants Obama’s policy initiatives to fail.
refukclican: Yes, we do.
journalist: Why?
refukclican: Because if he succeeds, the repfukclican party is toast.
journalist: OK, so, are you offering an alternative?
refukclican: Yes.
journalist: And?
refukclican: tax cuts and deregulation.
journalist: but, didn’t Bu$h give over a trillion dollars worth of tax breaks to the top 5%?
refukclican: Yes.
journalist: deregulation?
refukclican: yes.
journalist: Haven’t we tried that over the last 8 years?
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:46 amRaptureReady Says:
Test.
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:47 amFAILED
Dr. Hussein Matt Says:
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RaptureReady Says:
Test.
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:44 am
You’ll be banned by the end of the day. Just quit now
thats it doc banned anyone that diagrees with you sniff sniff anyone smell a communist?
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:50 amIf anyone had said this when Bush was getting started, they would have been branded a traitor by Republicans, they would have had their work boycotted or banned. Republicans hoping for failure really are angry, hateful people who care only about their party, not their country.
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:53 amOh, stop it. Of course they want him to fail at implementing policies that they object to, in the same sense that we wanted Bush to fail at implementing the right-wing agenda. Let’s not become what we detested for eight years. Loyalty to the country does not require loyalty to the president. When you think the president is doing the wrong thing for the country, as we did then and as they do now, you hope he fails to do it.
We have far more substantive fights to fight. Let’s not waste our breath name-calling those who disagree with us. Let’s spend it arguing for the progressive policies we need.
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:53 amliberalism generates the opposite of what it was intended
example the fairness doctrine….squelching freedom of speech
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:55 amObama needs to realize that the Republicans do not want bipartisanship. They want it all, and unless we, remaining 98% of the country who want good, responsible, competent government, stand up to the Freepers and the haters, then we have done nothing more than play into the hands of the radical right.
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:55 amAll the reich wing can wish for the Greater Depression of 2010 all they want. Obama’s spending will create jobs for tens if not hundreds of thousands of Americans.
They’ll remember who wanted this to fail.
Keep it up, idiots.
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:57 amThe lemmings are lining up!
Onward Christian Soldiers — to the CLIFF!!!
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:57 amjerseyboyblue Says:
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Obama needs to realize that the Republicans do not want bipartisanship. They want it all, and unless we, remaining 98% of the country who want good, responsible, competent government, stand up to the Freepers and the haters, then we have done nothing more than play into the hands of the radical right.
what about the bipartisanship from 2000 to 2008? now obama expects total cooperation?
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:58 amDON’T LIE BECAUSE JESUS IS WATCHING YOU!
If that’s the only reason not to lie, there’s gonna be a whole shitpot of prevaricatin goin on.
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:58 amPraise the FSM!!
#47, bullit4us Says:
“thats it doc banned anyone that diagrees with you sniff sniff anyone smell a communist?”
I know it’s early in the day, but I’ll have three of what this guy is drinking.
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:59 amGoldberg adds that he is “dubious” about the criticisms of moderate conservatives like Ross Douthat and David Frum, who argue that the Republican party’s Limbaugh obsession “guarantees that the GOP will become a powerless rump party only for conservative true believers.”
Limpballs has the rump to carry your party and it`s ideologies to the grave you you guys keep digging deeper and deeper and take the Steele Token with you.
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:59 amCan anyone here tell me who inserted the earmark for 1.4 million dollars for grape research?
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:00 amMr. Bullithead:
The majority of the American people do not agree with you.
In a Democracy, the majority rules.
Were you even aware of that?
DO you know how our system of goverment is organized? how it operates?
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:00 amruptured rectum says;
We just know you are drooling over Limpdick’s knob, or butthole. bulit is anxiously waiting right behind you.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:00 amtombaker Says:
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Mr. Bullithead:
The majority of the American people do not agree with you.
In a Democracy, the majority rules.
Were you even aware of that?
DO you know how our system of goverment is organized? how it operates?
yes i do can you answer the question?
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:02 amFurther, if the majority disagrees with you, it’s not supposed to count? Is that what you’re getting at? Are you saying a majority of Americans are insane? are marxists?
Put your energy into your work and your family – you have no business popping off in here.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:02 amtombaker Says:
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Further, if the majority disagrees with you, it’s not supposed to count? Is that what you’re getting at? Are you saying a majority of Americans are insane? are marxists?
Put your energy into your work and your family – you have no business popping off in here.
we have every right to be here
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:03 amBoasting your ignorance? Is that somehow fun to you?
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:04 amIt must really suck to be a repuglycan now. We’re going to fix the mess you jerks left. And you’re not going to be able to stop us.
Keep us the bleating and whining. It’s downright amusing.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:05 amyes but none of them can answer the question because they are all hung up on what rush limbaugh said yesterday
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:06 amThey still don’t get it. If the government spends money of biological or botanical research, that puts money into the hands of (gasp!) scientists!
Who pay mortages, shop at the grocery store, etc.
Just don’t get it, do you?
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:06 amThe reichwingers, like this inexperiemced, chickenhawk coward, want us to believe that their way may not have worked but if the progressive way works, they are dead. I have news for them. Their way has failed and there is another way. Get a new gig, cons, your “bad deal” is over.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:07 amRUCerious Says:
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It must really suck to be a repuglycan now. We’re going to fix the mess you jerks left. And you’re not going to be able to stop us.
Keep us the bleating and whining. It’s downright amusing
baaaa rush limbaugh said this baaaa rush limbaugh said that baaaaa
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:08 amOh how the nose-less spite their faces.
Wow – seriously?
If you’re ever diagnosed with a brain tumor – skip what those elitist Doctors tell you (they’re mostly Jews and Liberals andyway) and just start beating your head with a ball peen hammer, procaliming to all the neighborhood how you’re going to beat the disease through boot-strappiness and rugged individuality.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:08 amkasinca Says:
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The reichwingers, like this inexperiemced, chickenhawk coward, want us to believe that their way may not have worked but if the progressive way works, they are dead. I have news for them. Their way has failed and there is another way. Get a new gig, cons, your “bad deal” is over.
Oh so you can answer the question who is wasting the moneys honeys
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:09 amWhen is Goldberg scheduled to be on Beck’s hatefest?? Maybe we can get these two, Limberger, Hannity and Billo in the same room together and arrest them all for sedition at the same time??
Since these losers have nothing else to talk about except maybe Malkin’s shorts, who is listening?? NO ONE EXCEPT THE HATERS…
Empty…..
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:10 amThe audacity of hope!
I hoped, even during America’s darkest hour, that President Bush would succeed! I hoped he would right our ship. That he would repeal his tax cuts. That he was right about us being greeted as liberators in Iraq. That he was defending our nation. That he had surround himself with competent managers who were streamlining the government. I never gave up hope. Even as our economy cratered I hoped that our President would find it within himself to lead this country through it.
I hoped, but my hope was dashed again and again.
The Republicans should take a moment to step back and think about what it means to support the American president. They should find it within themselves to hope that he knows what he’s doing. Rather than sniping at him, they should give him some room to enact the agenda we the people elected him for. Trust in our Democracy and our leader.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:11 amThere was a mad wingnut called Bullit,
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:12 amWhose pride and joy was his mullet.
He swung by TP for a troll,
Playing the perfect a**hole;
His reward – Limbaugh’s d!ck down his gullet.
Daryll, we didn’t hope bush would fail. We just knew that invading Iraq for fun and profit, while cutting taxes for the rich was a presciption for disaster. None of us are happy that we were correct about the Bush trainwreck. It’s just that is was obvious to anyone who wasn’t blinded by devotion to Bush.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:13 amfletc3her Says:
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The audacity of hope!
I hoped, even during America’s darkest hour, that President Bush would succeed! I hoped he would right our ship. That he would repeal his tax cuts. That he was right about us being greeted as liberators in Iraq. That he was defending our nation. That he had surround himself with competent managers who were streamlining the government. I never gave up hope. Even as our economy cratered I hoped that our President would find it within himself to lead this country through it.
I hoped, but my hope was dashed again and again.
The Republicans should take a moment to step back and think about what it means to support the American president. They should find it within themselves to hope that he knows what he’s doing. Rather than sniping at him, they should give him some room to enact the agenda we the people elected him for. Trust in our Democracy and our leader.
funny the last 8 years you’ve been bush is this and bush is killing our country…now that your in power…..can’t we all get along? for the good of the country? wow the hypocrasy
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:13 amRaptureReady Says:
By spending phantom money, and increasing massive inflation? When you are paying $8.00 for a loaf of bread, don’t come to us. We warned you.
and the war in Iraq was paid for with…what exactly? Yeah, I thought so. Don’t worry, when bread hits $8.00 a loaf we’ll be sure to ram some policy through that is going to ensure you have to pick up the tab for us. Me? I’m partial to pumpernickel. Keep that in mind Daryllllllll!
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:14 amDaryll, how did Bush pay for the Iraq War and his massive tax cuts for the top 2%?
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:15 amThere was nothing funny about Bush spending the last 8 years destroying our country.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:16 amDumb Fox the Average Golfer Says:
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There was a mad wingnut called Bullit,
Whose pride and joy was his mullet.
He swung by TP for a troll,
Playing the perfect a**hole;
His reward – Limbaugh’s d!ck down his gullet
wow that 100,000 dollars mommy and daDDY SPENT FOR YOUR EDUCATION IS REALLY PAYING OFF…..can you answer the question of 1.4million earmark for grape reseach? whoinserted it into the bill?
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:16 amKinda late guys, to jump into the who’s spending what on what game.
All I need to know is that it’s not a Bush budget, cooked up by crooked billionaires hell-bent on screwing the last dollar out of me.
If you had any sense, or any shame, you just wouldn’t bring this stuff up.
But you have no sense, and no shame – just a bitter hate for everything your drug addict pal hasn’t consecrated with asscrack sweat on his filthy radio honkfest.
You guys are sickies. Every time some sickie crime makes the national news, it’s been perpetrated by some Righty honker like y’all.
When’s the last time you heard of a Liberal on a killing spree?
Rally up, Righties
- – “chickens for Sanders in 2010!!!!”
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:17 ambullit4us Says:
Wow bullit that was a pretty nutty and unhinged reply to Dumb Fox’s poem. Successful troll is successful.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:17 amshoeless Says:
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bullit4us Says:
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funny the last 8 years you’ve been bush is this and bush is killing our country…
There was nothing funny about Bush spending the last 8 years destroying our country.
but now that obama is in we should just go along with all he says be good little drones and work for the good of the country
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:17 amNOBODY CARES ABOUT THE G*DDAMNED GRAPES, BULLITTHEAD.
better the grape guys should get the $ than Halliburton.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:18 amI hope they triple funding for grapes. And quadruple the funding for mice. And put the GOP leadership on trial for running an organized crime ring.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:20 amWHY! does ANYONE care what this mamma’s boy,twit says?
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:21 amtombaker Says:
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Kinda late guys, to jump into the who’s spending what on what game.
All I need to know is that it’s not a Bush budget, cooked up by crooked billionaires hell-bent on screwing the last dollar out of me.
If you had any sense, or any shame, you just wouldn’t bring this stuff up.
But you have no sense, and no shame – just a bitter hate for everything your drug addict pal hasn’t consecrated with asscrack sweat on his filthy radio honkfest.
You guys are sickies. Every time some sickie crime makes the national news, it’s been perpetrated by some Righty honker like y’all.
When’s the last time you heard of a Liberal on a killing spree?
Rally up, Righties
- – “chickens for Sanders in 2010!!!!”
Once again you show me what office rush limbaugh holds in this government…..maybe he’s the one that spent 1.4 million on grape research?…..
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:21 amIt’s all happening, bullithead, because a MAJORITY of Americans WANT IT.
If you don’t like Democracy, there are several dictatorship you can move to. Look into them.
AMERICA – LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT, WINGNUTS!!
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:21 amtombaker Says:
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NOBODY CARES ABOUT THE G*DDAMNED GRAPES, BULLITTHEAD.
better the grape guys should get the $ than Halliburton.
I DO
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:22 amlove it or leave it, bullitthead – that’s the last I have to say to you, and it’s more than you deserve.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:22 amwow that 100,000 dollars mommy and daDDY SPENT FOR YOUR EDUCATION IS REALLY PAYING OFF…..can you answer the question of 1.4million earmark for grape reseach? whoinserted it into the bill?
ZOMG, a 1.4 million dollar earmark!!! Stop the phucking press!!! I’m guessing some ooger-booger librul like Pelosi inserted it, and it’s certainly not something to go apesh!t over.
Scuse me for caring more about the multi-trillion dollar Iraq War and banking bail-out, but I guess my expensive education taught me to prioritize trillion dollars issues over million dollar issues.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:22 amtombaker Says:
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It’s all happening, bullithead, because a MAJORITY of Americans WANT IT.
If you don’t like Democracy, there are several dictatorship you can move to. Look into them.
AMERICA – LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT, WINGNUTS!!
i agree with the system not the waste
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:23 amSo why are the Republicans who do hold office so afraid of the song less DJ? Tell us bullit, who spent 1.4 million on grape research? Just put it out there.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:23 amDumb Fox the Average Golfer Says:
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wow that 100,000 dollars mommy and daDDY SPENT FOR YOUR EDUCATION IS REALLY PAYING OFF…..can you answer the question of 1.4million earmark for grape reseach? whoinserted it into the bill?
ZOMG, a 1.4 million dollar earmark!!! Stop the phucking press!!! I’m guessing some ooger-booger librul like Pelosi inserted it, and it’s certainly not something to go apesh!t over.
Scuse me for caring more about the multi-trillion dollar Iraq War and banking bail-out, but I guess my expensive education taught me to prioritize trillion dollars issues over million dollar issues.
Thats only one of 9000 thats 9 thousand sweetie
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:24 amI that what JESUS would do? Daryll?
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:24 amTough turnips. You guys lost. Get over it. Lead, follow, or get the F out of the way.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:25 amRaptureReady Says:
You should be kissing the shoes of the 2%. They gave you a job. Correct? Do you want to keep your job?
Incorrect, Daryll. Maybe they gave jobs to guys in India, though.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:25 amif you get over your hate and loathe for the republican party and start looking at what your elected officials are doing you’ll be better off
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:26 amYou’re too willing to Lie about your Savior, Daryll, to even dignify your comment with a response.
Jesus weeps in his knowledge of your selfish, hateful heart, Daryll.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:27 amtombaker Says:
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Tough turnips. You guys lost. Get over it. Lead, follow, or get the F out of the way.
yes tommy but are you smart enough not to jump off the cliff when the rest go over?
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:28 amWould that be advice? Where, here today, have you been solicited for advice? What qualifies you to be giving advice?
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:28 amB, P, and M – all a righty is good for.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:28 amthis country is not a game to win or lose wake up
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:28 amIndeed, Republican leader Mitch McConell “has more than $75 million worth of earmarks in the omnibus spending bill.”
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:29 amalpuz3 Says:
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bullit4us Says:
if you get over your hate and loathe for the republican party and start looking at what your elected officials are doing you’ll be better off
Would that be advice? Where, here today, have you been solicited for advice? What qualifies you to be giving advice?
I PAY TAXES thats what qualifies me sweetie
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:29 amanything that my elected official does qualifies me to ask questions
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:30 amAll, take solace on this:
The republicans DON’T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT! Their polcies ALWAYS FAIL, and they HAVE NO ALTERNATIVE.
Seriously. I could easily go on some cable TV show and blather on incessantly about how these policies will fail. But I’d be wrong because I DON’T KNOW WHAT THE FUKC I’M TALKING ABOUT.
Same goes for these people, and the trolls on this thread. They can talk all they want, but they are WRONG. And Americans KNOW THIS.
Obama is basically giving us a New Deal for the 21st century. Republicans blasted thd first New Deal with the SAME ARGUMENTS and THEY WERE WRONG ON ALL FRONTS. The New Deal changed this country for the better, and created the biggest middle class and the biggest GDP in our nations history.
So Obama is going with a tried and true economic philosophy. republicans are going with a tried and FAILED philosophy. Don’t worry, we’ll be OK. Mankind has changed it’s destiny with this election.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:30 amAhhh, there’s the qualifier. Seeing how your movement-sold to the public as “conservative”-has taken a slow roll over the deep end. Therefore, during your climb uphill, you’re taking a “time out” to help out the posters at TP.
Save your breath… you have lots of climbing in front of you.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:30 amRaptureReady Says:
LIBERALS DID WISH FAILURE UPON PRESIDENT BUSH!!! DON’T LIE BECAUSE JESUS IS WATCHING YOU!
He (Huckabee) is the next President. It is God’s will.
Comment by Daryll January 2, 2008 @ 11:34 am
Deuteronomy 18:22
When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.
Deuteronomy 18:20
But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.
YES, DARYLL, JESUS IS WATCHING – YOU
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:32 amcitizen_pain Says:
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All, take solace on this:
The republicans DON’T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT! Their polcies ALWAYS FAIL, and they HAVE NO ALTERNATIVE.
Seriously. I could easily go on some cable TV show and blather on incessantly about how these policies will fail. But I’d be wrong because I DON’T KNOW WHAT THE FUKC I’M TALKING ABOUT.
Same goes for these people, and the trolls on this thread. They can talk all they want, but they are WRONG. And Americans KNOW THIS.
Obama is basically giving us a New Deal for the 21st century. Republicans blasted thd first New Deal with the SAME ARGUMENTS and THEY WERE WRONG ON ALL FRONTS. The New Deal changed this country for the better, and created the biggest middle class and the biggest GDP in our nations history.
So Obama is going with a tried and true economic philosophy. republicans are going with a tried and FAILED philosophy. Don’t worry, we’ll be OK. Mankind has changed it’s destiny with this election.
woo hoo straight out of professor left wings text book hahahahaha wake up
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:32 amThat’s what qualifies you? LOL, thanks big D’s jesus for the internets. Call it hunch, but that dog wont hunt anywhere outside of either your brain, or the interweb.
christ… you’re a fool.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:32 amMississippi Republican Sen. Thad Cochran led his colleagues by raking in more than $470 million in 204 earmarks. Mississippi’s junior Republican, Roger Wicker, pulled in more than $390 million.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:33 ami feel sorry for your pysche when all this spending doesn’t pan out
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:34 amThats only one of 9000 thats 9 thousand sweetie
So? You question was who inserted it. By the way, I like sweetie, please use it more often Big Daddy.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:34 amahhh, what do you really worship, D?
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:35 amDumb Fox the Average Golfer Says:
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Thats only one of 9000 thats 9 thousand sweetie
So? You question was who inserted it. By the way, I like sweetie, please use it more often Big Daddy.
i know who did i’m asking you!
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:35 amRaptureReady Says:
Remember President George Bush?
The one you worshipped and never criticized for his spending?
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:36 amTell that the doosh-bag right-wingers who think that if Obama fails, they win.
Truth is, if Obama fails, WE ALL FAIL.
Republicans had eight years in the White House, 12 years ion Congress, and they delivered two wars financed by massive debt, and an economy teetering on the brink of collapse.
You guys don’t get to tell the adults what to do anymore.
Accomplish something. THEN you can offer advice.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:37 amRaptureReady Says: You and your minions hoped that he would fail on each government policy. Remember that?
Provide a post from any of us “minions” (nice new word you learned) as proof or you will be proven as a sinner bearing false witness against your neighbor.
Do you plan to teach your child to lie?
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:37 amY’know, if I thought for a second this were anything more than the babble of another deranged dittohead who can’t come to grips that we now have a Liberal Democrat President, I’d be busy writing my elected officials.
But it is just the deranged and incoherent babble of a hapless dittohead.
Suck it up guys – you’re supposed to be the tough and rough and ready, aren’t you??
Doesn’t seem much that way these days – all I hear are pissy and petulant objections to everything that happens – like little kids make when they’re bored in the car.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:37 amI refuse to read ANY of cRapture Ready’s posts.
But, I do have the trump card to be played.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:38 amWhitley, In. is about a 2 hour drive from where I live.
So Daryll, when will I be able to hear your campaign speech for City Councilman?
I’d love to meet your constituents.
I’d love to be among your throngs.
So, is it a date?
I guess you speak from experience, having trusted Bush to deliver prosperity with tax cuts by widening the gap between rich and poor. that didn’t exactly “pan out” either, did it?
So maybe it’s time to try something new.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:38 amRaptureReady Says:
If you are currently employment, you are most likely working for a company that has a CEO and board. Therefore, nod your head to my question. The 2% pays 80% of our taxes. Tackle them and you will lose your job.
You truly are full of crap, Daryll. It’s the large corporations that have been dumping employees and shipping their jobs overseas, and that has just accelerated in the last few months.
So, no, as I said before I do not work for a 2% er. Just because you do doesn’t mean that “most” Americans are.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:39 amThe guys that can’t get on base insisting on leading off the batting order.
The baby that’s filled its diaper, yet complains about how he’s getting changed.
The guys that put the car in the ditch insisting on driving home, because they are the “safer drivers”.
It’s just too g*ddamned laughable for words.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:39 ambullit4us Says:
“…but now that obama is in we should just go along with all he says be good little drones and work for the good of the country”
As Americans we should ALL work for the good of the country regardless of who’s the POTUS, idiot. It’s your regressive party that selfishly supports itself over the good of the Nation, fool. By the way, when we are paying $8.00 for a loaf of bread it will STILL be Bush’s fault, numbnuts. Bush, the Republican Party, PNAC and the wingnut fools who voted for and support them collectively OWN the Iraq War and this Country’s economic collapse. The upside is that they also OWN the slipshod disfunctional party that they are left with after the devastating carnage of the ‘06 and ‘08 elections. Face it trolls, your party has NO solutions to America’s problems. The fact that President Obama is trying to fix these problems seems to really piss you guys off considering your guys caused it and all. If he succeeds and saves America from a depression it won’t bode well for Republicans in 2010 & 2012. So what’ll it be Repukes? You seem to have painted yourselves into a corner. Either America wins or the Repubs win. May I ask what you hope to inherit if Obama fails, the Nation spins into recession and Repubs regain power? How do Repubs plan to fix things? Tax cuts and deregulation? Face it, that boat sailed long ago and sank before it left the harbor. Your party has NOTHING except praying for disaster. Pretty pathetic indeed.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:41 amralph the wonder llama Says:
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bullit4us Says:
this country is not a game to win or lose wake up
Tell that the doosh-bag right-wingers who think that if Obama fails, they win.
Truth is, if Obama fails, WE ALL FAIL.
Republicans had eight years in the White House, 12 years ion Congress, and they delivered two wars financed by massive debt, and an economy teetering on the brink of collapse.
You guys don’t get to tell the adults what to do anymore.
Accomplish something. THEN you can offer advice.
and this spending is going to accomplish that? ok you tell me who inserted the 1.4 million dollars for grape research that is no doubt going to pull us out of this mess were in?
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:41 amAnother of the “usual suspects” hoping Obama fails. The more these guys say this, the more they move to the fringes and become less relevant. I think they should keep talking.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:41 amA Patriot Acting Says:
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bullit4us Says:
“…but now that obama is in we should just go along with all he says be good little drones and work for the good of the country”
As Americans we should ALL work for the good of the country regardless of who’s the POTUS, idiot. It’s your regressive party that selfishly supports itself over the good of the Nation, fool. By the way, when we are paying $8.00 for a loaf of bread it will STILL be Bush’s fault, numbnuts. Bush, the Republican Party, PNAC and the wingnut fools who voted for and support them collectively OWN the Iraq War and this Country’s economic collapse. The upside is that they also OWN the slipshod disfunctional party that they are left with after the devastating carnage of the ‘06 and ‘08 elections. Face it trolls, your party has NO solutions to America’s problems. The fact that President Obama is trying to fix these problems seems to really piss you guys off considering your guys caused it and all. If he succeeds and saves America from a depression it won’t bode well for Republicans in 2010 & 2012. So what’ll it be Repukes? You seem to have painted yourselves into a corner. Either America wins or the Repubs win. May I ask what you hope to inherit if Obama fails, the Nation spins into recession and Repubs regain power? How do Repubs plan to fix things? Tax cuts and deregulation? Face it, that boat sailed long ago and sank before it left the harbor. Your party has NOTHING except praying for disaster. Pretty pathetic indeed.
wow i’m moved
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:43 amIf that’s the road to putting Righties back under the rocks they emerged from, I am all for it.
Fringe Reactionary Kooks.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:43 amYou are wrong, D-bag. I work freelance and most of my employment comes from small businesses that don’t have CEOs and boards. So bite me.
Not even close, D-bag.
The top 1% pays 29% (of course, they also control 39% of the wealth).
The top 5% pays 50%.
So tell me, why should anyone pay attention to anything you say from now on, if you’re willing to make up outlandish statistics just to make yourself feel better about your “search for a superior moral justification for selfishness”?
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:45 amDaryll?
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:47 amSweetie.
Is it a date?
You future City Councilman of Whitley, Indiana!
Jonah is king of the “straw-man” argument. Garbage in- garbage out.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:47 amThese are the same people who refuse to pay for car insurance, then wreck someone else’s life when they get in an accident. Their excuse: “I’m no going to have the government tell me what I have to have.”
These are the same people out driving around on suspended licenses after their 3rd DUI, because they’re “not going to have big government proscribing their innate liberties”.
The same people who can’t recognize that the casino is draining their bank account and ruining their personal lives, but do find time to hold a grudge against the Tribe that runs the casino because they don’t pay the same taxes.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:48 amAh yes, more advice from a proven hypocrite and liar.
No thanks, D.
You tie up the Nikes™ and bunker down… the rapture is on the horizon for the Idol you worship.
…the GOP.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:48 amno taxes for anyone making under 250,000 dollars
wait the cap and trade tax….1.27 on a gallon of gas eh poor people don’t use gas though
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:48 amThese are people who would cry “marxism!” over a 3% adjustment in a marginal income tax rate.
way too easily frightened to be any kind of genuine American tough-guys.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:49 amTherefore, nod your head to my question. The 2% pays 80% of our taxes. Tackle them and you will lose your job.
Fried baloney.
When the total tax take is considered, they don’t pay as much as their help.
Or did someone forget about SSI?
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:50 amBullit4 us:
Wow, you have overdosed on the kool-aid boy.
So, can you please point out to all of us why you are right and we are wrong? Is there any evidence that your philosophy makes our country better and stronger?
Getting lectured from the likes of your ilk, the dead enders, or 20%s, is like taking anti-drug advice from a meth-head.
Give it up moron, the whole country, the world, has passed you idiots by.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:51 amssi is gone what you pay into it now you will never see
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:52 amwow i’m moved
Then the stimulus laxative is working…
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:52 amMost economists say that, yes, this spending is going to accomplish what it sets out to do.
Whining about individual pieces of spending is a smoke screen. As RUC said above, spending for “grapes” goes into someone’s hands, and then gets spent at the supermarket or on a mortgage payment. It doesn’t just get pissed down a rathole in Iraq. It will likely produce new information that will be useful for agriculture (which is still one of the industries in this nation with a net positive trade balance). Maybe it will not, no one really knows.
But just saying “grapes” like it’s a magic word doesn’t make the expenditure wasteful. Only people who don’t care about reality are willing to make such a knee-jerk assumption.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:52 ambullit4us Says:
ssi is gone what you pay into it now you will never see
Wrong. But then, anyone who would believe “the war will pay for itself” will swallow anything.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:53 amcitizen_pain Says:
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Bullit4 us:
Wow, you have overdosed on the kool-aid boy.
So, can you please point out to all of us why you are right and we are wrong? Is there any evidence that your philosophy makes our country better and stronger?
Getting lectured from the likes of your ilk, the dead enders, or 20%s, is like taking anti-drug advice from a meth-head.
Give it up moron, the whole country, the world, has passed you idiots by
yes but they still want my tax money
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:53 ambug Says:
I’m totally bummed that we can’t pull together. What a horrible way to represent you party “I hope the president fails”. I’ve never in my life seen such a display!!
But even worse than the “we hope he fails” are the calls for “we have to stop him any way we can”. I’ve heard that numerous times from conservatives and as far as I am concerned, that’s nothing more than a call to some nut job to assassinate President Obama. That is treason in my book.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:53 amand as long as they do i will be here
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:54 amyes but they still want my tax money
So? You thing Shock and Awe was a freebie?
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:54 amRaptureReady Says:
You should be kissing the shoes of the 2%. They gave you a job. Correct?
Incorrect. God gave them talents. Our government, we the people, gave them opportunity. Their workers bring them income.
Luke 12:48 For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required
Paying a higher rate of taxes on income above that needed to live comfortably is payment for that which God and society and workers gave them. Or would you dispute Jesus?
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:55 amIs Daryll admitting that he believes there is another savior besides Jesus? Maybe there is a ray of hope for him….nah!
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:56 ambarfly Says:
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yes but they still want my tax money
So? You thing Shock and Awe was a freebie?
who says i agree with that spending either
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:56 amThere probably isn’t even any money being spent on grape research, it’s probably just another Fox News fake issue. Like when they said there was going to be a train from Disneyland to some whore house in Nevada. It didn’t exist. The right wing just keeps making sh*t up and then the trolls come here and want us to find out who sponsored it. Idiot.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:58 amRaptureReady Says:
Somebody owns the company that you are employed with. Therefore, you do work for a 2%er. Stop creating class warfare.
You’re a bigger idiot than I imagined, Daryll. You need to get out a little bit and see how many Americans work for small businesses (or own them) and how many work for government agencies. If you seriously believe that everyone in the country works for one of the 2%, you really are beyond hope.
Class warfare in this country has come from the top down, thanks to the followers or Reagan.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:58 amBullit4us you idiot, if you don’t want a government or to pay taxes, then just move. Try Somalia, I hear there isn’t a government there, so no taxes.
Seriously, it’s anti-patriotic, greedy, self centered, I have mine fukc anyone else 20% dead enders like yourself that are ruining this country.
If you don’t want to give back to the country that provided for you all the chances you have had to make your money, then get the fukc out. Where else you going to @ssh0le?
Go suck Santelli’s c0ck, or buttfukc Limpballs.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:58 amObama does not run a company, he is the highest executive offcier of the United States government who manages affairs ,local and international , of United States.
So if Goldberg wants Obama to fail, then Goldberg in fact wants the country to fail, because you cannot seperate one from another.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:58 amcitizen_pain Says:
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Bullit4us you idiot, if you don’t want a government or to pay taxes, then just move. Try Somalia, I hear there isn’t a government there, so no taxes.
Seriously, it’s anti-patriotic, greedy, self centered, I have mine fukc anyone else 20% dead enders like yourself that are ruining this country.
If you don’t want to give back to the country that provided for you all the chances you have had to make your money, then get the fukc out. Where else you going to @ssh0le?
Go suck Santelli’s c0ck, or buttfukc Limpballs.
c’mon you kiss your momma with that sewrhole?
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:58 amRaptureReady Says:
If you are currently employment, you are most likely working for a company that has a CEO and board.
Somebody owns the company that you are employed with. Therefore, you do work for a 2%er. Stop creating class warfare.
Daryll, either God did not give you sufficient brains to understand how things work (I, too, am self employed) OR you are deliberately lying.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:58 amDaryll’s real bosses are Mammon and the Pharoah.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:58 amGuys like these know in their hearts they are only 1/6000th as valuable as some other people.
That’s a pretty hard-core self esteem problem, if you ask me.
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:01 pmralph the wonder llama Says:
Whining about individual pieces of spending is a smoke screen. As RUC said above, spending for “grapes” goes into someone’s hands, and then gets spent at the supermarket or on a mortgage payment. It doesn’t just get pissed down a rathole in Iraq. It will likely produce new information that will be useful for agriculture (which is still one of the industries in this nation with a net positive trade balance). Maybe it will not, no one really knows.
All I’ve found in reference to grapes in the stimulus package has to do with scientific research, which “conservatives” are apparently terrified of. Scientific research in agriculture is responsible for the huge success we’ve had in this country and the rest of the world in terms of food production.
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:01 pmonce again liberalism generates the opposite of what is was intended……i’ll see you tomorrow guys
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:02 pmMy god! That’s probably more than entire the state of Kentucky is worth! I wonder why the wingnuts aren’t mad about such colossal waste?
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:02 pmthanks for pretending to know sh*t, Bullitthead.
I needed the laughs.
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:03 pmI’m sure your parents generated the opposite of what they intended.
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:03 pmBullit4us, typically I am not as profane. But I am really at the end of my limit in terms of patience with people like you. I consider you a scourge, a bleeding, puss filled boil on the ass of this country. You and your people have done absolutely NOTHING to improve the day to day lives of ordinary Americans.
I have asked you time and time again to please explain to us why we are wrong and you are right, with evidence as examples. Like your party, you have failed to deliver an answer.
Again, getting lectured about fiscal responsibility from people who who marched in lockstep with the Bu$h administration, and who elevate drug addicted child molesting AM talk radios how hosts to speak for them is farsical to say the least.
You people lost. The majority has spoken, and our president is exerting his political capital and mandate.
So again I say, if you don’t like it, get out of the country. You won’t be missed at all.
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:04 pmSo Republicans are what, poisonous scorpions now? Yeesh.
Weirdo.
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:05 pmWhere were the trolls bullit and rapture when their hero lied us into a neverending war, borrowing and spending trillions and giving tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans while the middle class shrank? Where was their outrage?
Bullit and rapture, thy name is hypocrisy.
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:05 pmbullit4us Says:
funny the last 8 years you’ve been bush is this and bush is killing our country…
He did pretty much kill this country. Now President Obama is trying to fix it and you won’t give him more than 30 days to succeed or call him a failure as a President.
I don’t ever remember any progressive saying about Bush and his policies “I hope he fails”. I do remember progressives pointing out WHEN HE FAILED that he failed. There’s a big difference, one that escapes people with an IQ in the room temperature range.
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:06 pm(ralph hits the Troll Translation Circuit:)
“Lalalalalalalalalalalala-I-can’t-hear-you-lalalalalalalalalalala”
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:07 pmDaryll, the false prophet, you are an a**. Don’t take my word for it:
Isaiah 9:15 The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:08 pmNot only that, but when Bush faced a crisis as President, on 9/11, the country was united behind him.
Now when Obama faces a crisis with far more serious and widespread potential consequences, Republicans are unable to rise above petty politics and put the interests of the nation first.
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:10 pmDaryll, how much money do you think businesses and entrepreneurs would save if they didn’t have to foot the bill for their employee’s health care?
Oh yeah, that’s socialism. Can’t have that.
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:10 pmRaptureReady Says:
I apologize, 5%. Also, you are a business owner, a entrepreneur. Therefore, if you are in the top 5% ($250,000-more) you should be enraged about the tax increase.
Some people have more sense of civic responsibility than you, Daryll. They don’t object to rendering unto Caesar because they understand that a healthy nation is good for everyone, not just the top 2%. Or 5%.
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:12 pmMaybe he is a patriot, and is putting the good of the country ahead of selfish greed, unlike some people I know.
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:13 pmMarch 3rd, 2009 at 12:14 pm
They were busy telling us to stop whining because the rich people would take care of us all.
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:15 pmbullit4us Says:
ssi is gone what you pay into it now you will never see
Hey idiot, do you even know what ssi is? Because it isn’t Social Security. And Social Security is solvent until 2047, which gives us plenty of time to realign it so that it will stay solvent forever.
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:17 pmbullit4us Says:
“wow i’m moved”
Real zippy comeback, troll. Any constructive response to my post? Oh I’m sorry I forgot your party doesn’t do “constructive”. That would be a step towards progress. No, you guys just stick with your obstructionism, pandering to your pathetic base, defending your failed ideas and your failed leaders and praying for the continued failure of America. I shouldn’t expect a regressive to have an actual idea. Just keep repeating the mantra “cut taxes, deregulate, Democrat=socialism”. Hell it worked for you in the 80’s and 90’s maybe it’ll be all retro-cool by the time November 2010 comes rolling around. Or maybe America has finally woken up to the fact that the trickling economic ideas of a confused, criminal actor-president were dead wrong, that Republican politicians and pundits gleefully backing Bush for eight years of failed policies and crimes might have consequences or maybe they just realized that Republicans serve no one but themselves and their corporate masters and if left unchecked as they were for many years, they will selfishly bring down our economy for a little more power. Yes, I smell a bright future for the Party of NO as ruled by their rightful leader Rush Limbaugh because you see trolls, whether Obamas plan works or it doesn’t won’t change the fact that the problem was caused by the Republican Party and that every Repub up for re-election in 2010 wholeheartedly supported Bush down the road to failure.
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:19 pmThat was weird. I’ll try again:
RaptureReady Says:
Therefore, if you are in the top 5% ($250,000-more) you should be enraged about the tax increase.
Don’t you even try to tell me how I should feel about anything! Some years my professional wife and I have reached that 250K income level. Unlike you and your political Pharisees, however, I am a CHEERFUL GIVER and gladly and proudly want to pay more tax than my neighbors who make less. That is because I recognizize that my success has not been just my own as God has given me intelligence and talent, my community gave me good schools, my society offered me student loans, and my parents offered me love for learning and ambition. Unlike you and others like you, I humbly wish to PAY BACK my obligations for these factors and to pass on those same opportunities to others. So, again, you have no more right to tell me how I SHOULD feel about taxes than you do my faith.
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:20 pmSo bullit4us hands off the baton to JK. Pathetic.
Suck on this troll.
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:20 pmTroll JK< perhaps you can tell… on what grounds do you propose impeaching the President?
Has he gotten a blow job?
Spied on Americans without a warrant? (nah, that wouldn’t be enough for Troll JK)
What are the charges you suggest be brought?
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:20 pmbullit4us Says:
OH, NO!!! Don’t leave!!!! YOU are the voice of clarity here. You bravely waded into the pool filled with pirannah and told the truth, by the Gods! That’s right. All that pork, and NO republicans voted for it, and certainly NO REPUBLICANS PUT any PORK into the bill…. right?….
…ummmm….. right?……
…right?……
…there’s no Republican “PORK” in the bill…. right?….
… oh. …. they DID put their own measures into the bill that they voted against…..
Well, they knew it would pass without them, so they made a partizan stand AND got their REPUBLICAN PORK.
Cake and pork, and they get to eat it too. Yummmm.
How about some crow?
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:20 pmExactly shoeless – all that trickle down voodoo economics, what a joke. I find it interesting that the trolls defend the policies that have crippled our country and my bet is that they too are amongst the majority that continues to suffer. They cheerlead for the powerful wealthy amongst us even though they sit in their trailer parks guzzling Budlight.
Good job trolls – and your pseudo leaders are laughing at you on their way to the banks!
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:22 pmJK:
Nice bold. Great style. Incredible form.
So…. why do you support all these people wishing the country will fail?
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:23 pmRemember how the Repugnicans came down on the Dixie Chicks when Natalie Maines said “We don’t want this war, this violence; and, we’re ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas”?
What a bunch of bleeping hypocrites! May the fleas of a thousand camels infest their nether regions.
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:26 pmDaryll, read and contemplate:
Luke 16: 19 “There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day. 20At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores 21and longing to eat what fell from the rich man’s table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.
22″The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried. 23In hell,[c] where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side. 24So he called to him, ‘Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire.’
25″But Abraham replied, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony. 26And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.’
27″He answered, ‘Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my father’s house, 28for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.’
29″Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them.’
30″ ‘No, father Abraham,’ he said, ‘but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.’
31″He said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.’ ”
Are you going to listen to Christ, one risen, regarding money?”
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:26 pmThe most amazing thing is, they want to do it all over again!
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:28 pmNewspapers are hurting all over the country. I grew up with great ones, The Boston Gobe, the New York Times. Then I moved to Los Angeles. The LA Times is touted as a progressive publication, but from someone who used to read it, believe me it isn’t. If what get’s printed in the Times is progressive we’re all in trouble.
The one bright spot in the Times was Robert Scheer. A few years ago the Times discontinued their contract with him and hired these right wing neo con blowhards to take over their opinion section. They’ve got Max Boot and Jonah Goldberg among others. To be kind, it wouldn’t be incorrect to say every opinion they’ve offered on anything at any time has been 100% wrong.
I cancelled my subscription and e-mailed and wrote the Times. I’ve recieved no response. I’ve done it numerous times and recieved nothing. And they wonder why their going down the drain.
People just don’t want lies anymore. I know a few years ago it was patriotic to believe in lies – not any more.
If I’m writing more about a newspaper than the columnist then I guess I am. I miss them.
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:28 pmDaryll ripped out those pages of his bible.
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:30 pmRich H, I agree completely. The LA Times is fairly conservative, and a shadow of what it used to be.
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:44 pmBegan reading this thread on my lunch break, and I couldn’t help but respond to the damn grape research BS.
I will never understand conservatives and their nonsensical and irrational attitudes towards some products, foodstuffs, and research. Why would anyone think spending 1.4 million on grape research would be a good idea? Oh, I don’t know, maybe because the grape industry is a multi BILLION dollar PER YEAR industry. (according to Bush’s administration anyway; re. the wine industry – http://www.ita.doc.gov/td/ocg/wine2008.pdf). So, I would say a small investment in research on grapes might be an investment in the continued success of the industry. Perhaps the unnamed research will combat fungal diseases, loss to insects, etc and help sustain the grape industry. If it were corn that the money were allotted to, I bet the right wouldn’t say a word. Corn, wheat, etc are ok. Certainly money for livestock research is ok. But if we are talking about wine, grape juice, jelly, or god forbid, something as liberal as arugula, then that money is wasteful. I hope there is lots of money in the budget for bee research too. We need it. The bee populations are being hit hard by colony collapse disorder, and there is no big biotech company for bees to invest privately in eliminating the problem. So, either the government invests in its own economy and agricultural output, or no one does. In the process, the money for research funds a few jobs and students education. But I would guess money for bee research is also taboo.
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:46 pmAnyone besides me think that JK was truly gone off the deep end? It’s time to send in the men with the white coats.
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:49 pmBilbo, you must have a more finely-tuned sense of Crazy than I do. Sure, I see his wattage dialed up, and his nonsense a little further out there, but I suspect it’s a function of two factors:
one, his doctors finally got his dosage right, so his TRoll Tourette’s is under control, allowing him to type more than a single sentence of invective, and
two, the disintegration of the Republicant Party is really tough for the little feller to bear.
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:58 pmDaryll the rapture ready satanist:
I have come to the conclusion that the leader of the republican party is Satan himself.
Only the great deceiver could fool so many basically good people into believing that greed is good, F thy neighbor, war is peace.
Repent before you spend eternity in hell sucking Bill Clinton’s c0ck.
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:58 pmLet’s grade the trolls today.
Rapture Ready, always good for complete and utter nonsense, but somewhat amusing. B
Bullit, fresh off of getting his as* kicked yesterday he has shown amazing stamina in his ability to get off the mat and absorb more punishment. However, he fails to make any valid points. C-
JK, never anything to say, has tourettes, stole a good name,
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:06 pmF.
shoeless, I have heard of the Jeffersonian Bible. I didn’t realize there was an equivalent Daryllian Bible (I should have of course).
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:06 pmThe Daryllian bible is just another name for The Satanic Bible.
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:08 pmPLC,
Always good rebuttals of R.R. Great reads, how did you learn so much of the bible?
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:08 pmI will Daryll – right after the top 2% stop making war on my family – which is ALL they’ve ever done.
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:12 pmThat foil hat looks great today JK – takes the eye away from your grizzled brown tweeker teeth.
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:13 pmtbone Says:
“The bee populations are being hit hard by colony collapse disorder,…”
Maybe there is some correlation with this and the disorder in the current Republican Party.
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:21 pmRich H Says: PLC, Always good rebuttals of R.R. Great reads, how did you learn so much of the bible?
Thanks. I’ve been an active church member for all my life. I attended a church affiliated college and took comparative religion classes. I have taught confirmation classes. I have taken a number of Bible studies through my church. And I have read much of the Bible independently. I also rely on Bible search engines a lot because I tend to remember the spiritual content of the Bible, but not the exact words and certainly not the exact book and verse. I am much better at the bigger concepts than the small details!
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:23 pmNote to Troll JK:
this is not the “Obama Recession”. Even if you accept that recessions can be blamed on whichever president is in office when they begin (like the First bush Recession in ‘01 — sorry — since his dad also preside over a recession, that would make it the Second Bush Recession), you still can’t pin this one on Obama, since economists agree that it began in summer or fall of ‘08.
It’s Bush’s baby.
By the way, Troll JK, when are those Bush tax cuts s’posed to kick in and bring all that promised prosperity? Shouldn’t the good times have been here by now if those tax cuts were gonna work?
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:24 pmPLC,
My father often gives sermons back home. I read the bible when I was much younger and recall the concepts and not the scripture. I was’nt kidding, good smackdowns of RR.
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:27 pmPLC, just thought I’d take this opportunity to voice my appreciation for your contributions here. Not just for your expertise in cutting down Daryll the Pharisee — hes not that tough to handle,just you do it so much more quickly and efficiently than most of us.
But you always offer a clear-eyed, compassionate and wise Liberal Christian perspective (appropriately enough), and it’s refreshing to read. Thanks.
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:29 pmRR is a satanist? THAT makes a LOT of sense of a lot of his rants and the complete and utter lack of understanding of Christianity (or, rather, the complete ‘flip’ on all points).
Hmmm… I guess if I want to do some research I’m going to have to go buy LaVey’s “Satanic Bible” (my personal library has been void of LaVey, but it might be quite interesting to see the comaprisons… still, I don’t know… LaVey…. hmmmmm……).
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:31 pmAnd I’ll chime in for PLC — good quotes, well done (my generalizations against Christains are not fair, but when I do generalize in said manner, I UNDERSTAND that generalizations are not completley accurate: there ARE Christains who try very hard to be good and proper Christains, and I appreciate those people. Unfortunately, TOO many are NOT like that (there I go :) ).
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:36 pmHey, with all the troll infestation, did anyone come close to answering my questions at post 12???
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:42 pmOR are they just disrupting with off topic posts?
DRxJ,
Off topic, no answers. What did you expect?
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:44 pmYou know, I remember when President Obama (that just burns the hell out of you, eh JK THE BOLD?) was inaugurated, we were in a great recession.
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:46 pmI remember he said that “it will take time” and there “will be struggles along the way”.
He said this Jan 20th (a little less then 2 months ago).
Only unpatriotic imbeciles would consider his response to an inherited recession and troubles as a “failure”
JK THE BOLD, why do you hate the United States of America?
ralph and Cagey, thank you as well. I am glad you appreciate my brand of Christianity – that’s part of the reason I post.
And ralph, I think you know I can also be snarky rather than “clear-eyed”. I actually enjoy being humorous as much as being serious, maybe more.
All in all, I like the “hit ‘em high, hit ‘em low” approach to trolls often employed here at TP. And I enjoy the contributions the regulars make to promote progressive values, even when I don’t agree. And I promise to keep hitting at whatever level I feel motivated for whenever I am here.
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:47 pmDRxJ,
Don’t expect anything valid from JK. He does know how to use the bold key however. It looks like there may be some action on the Yoo post, but I don’t know how any Bushies can defend it. We’ll see.
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:49 pmSo, Troll JK… no response on when that tax-cut-driven prosperity is s’posed to kick in?
By the way, JK, dbadass is really pissed that he spent so many months cultivating a relationship with you, offering all sorts of high-end victuals and what not, and yet I seem to be the one who’s gotten under your skin. I’m enjoying it.
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:53 pm.
May I just say…
… That the current number of crisis, of which this Nation is facing many, that the way we get there be successful.
It is going to REQUIRE many different approaches…
… There is no “ONE FIX” to all “our” ills.
Therefore, no matter the combination, I choose success over failure…
… For where is the success in choosing failure?
May the chickens of “I HOPE HE FAILS“…
… Come home to roost well for these men.
.
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:55 pmI know, PLC, your snark can stand toe-to-toe with anyone’s here. But snark without substance can feel empty after a while, even if it’s for the right causes.
And snark without substance for all the WRONG causes — well, that’s Troll JK in a nutshell.
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:56 pmWell said, ralph, and duly noted.
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:59 pmNow here’s Daryll claiming to have a daughter AND a pregnant wife. I could have sworn he just got married last year. Maybe I’ve been hanging around here longer than I thought!
March 3rd, 2009 at 2:10 pmDaryll’s copy is one of a kind. Not only is it missing all the pages about doing good things for those less fortunate, Daryll also writes bad stuff about gays in the margins.
March 3rd, 2009 at 2:13 pmThey are one and the same person.
March 3rd, 2009 at 2:15 pmcan twitter make jonah the new fail whale?
March 3rd, 2009 at 2:36 pmbullit4us Says:
Oh so you can answer the question who is wasting the moneys honeys
So tax cuts for the rich and a war based on lies that has KILLED, no MURDERED almost 5,000 of our soldiers and countless Iraqis is not? Nice to see you have priorities…
March 3rd, 2009 at 2:44 pmJohn Kerry Says:
LLAMA
Nope, sorry! The Bamster is all we supposedly needed to fix things so………..what has he done! HA! Just made it all worse so……….no matter how much you want to try and fool yourself the Community Organizer playing “president” now owns the recession and is making it worse!!!
PS DOW DOWN AGAIN!! Way to go Brotha O!!
So-called “President” Bush owns the recession, period. President Obama is trying to fix it…
March 3rd, 2009 at 2:46 pmJohn Kerry Says:
“Has he gotten a blow job?” – quote from LLAMA BOY!!
ANSWER: Yes—from a guy! See the latest. The LINK please:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fbd_1201056512
HAVE A GREAT DAY and enjoy watching the Obama Recession sink the stock market……as usual!
No wonder Rush loves you…you swallow (hmmm, no pun intended) everything you see if it conforms to your beliefs…Hell, I gave Obama a blowjob! In fact, I got rich off it…Believe that too!
March 3rd, 2009 at 2:48 pmCan you just image how much the other kids wailed on this dope in high school?
March 3rd, 2009 at 4:59 pmWhy does John Kerry have to go to work afterall…
March 3rd, 2009 at 5:00 pmI OWN JOHN KERRY
I hope the Republicans continue to fail and never darken our door of democracy again…there, I too have said it!
March 3rd, 2009 at 5:00 pmThe paths to economic justice are many. The path to the rich getting richer, the poor getting poorer, and the destruction of the middle class is Republican—that’s all they’ve got.
March 3rd, 2009 at 5:19 pmGoldberg added that he preferred the Zionist World Domination Agenda.
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:56 pmI want Jonah Goldberg to fail. He probably has a much better chance of failing than Obama has.
And by the way, Jonah, you will never, ever run this country. Neither will Michelle Malkin, or Rush Limbaugh, or Anne Coulter, or Michael Steele. You can take that to the bank.
March 4th, 2009 at 4:35 amObama may or may not fail; but now, one of the most important things Obama should do is deal with terrorism that was effectuated by Bush.
“We are not waging a war on terror in this country. We’re waging a war of terror. The biggest terrorist in the world is George W. Bush! So declared Cindy Sheehan earlier this year during a rally at San Francisco State University” (Retrieved December 18, 2008, from http://www.infowars.com/articles/us/sheehan_cindy_unleashed.htm).
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March 4th, 2009 at 4:44 amB.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993