South Carolina Supreme Court orders Sanford to accept stimulus funds.
South Carolina Supreme Court orders Sanford to accept stimulus funds.
After waging a months-long war against the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Gov. Mark Sanford (R-SC) lost his final battle yesterday, when the state supreme court ordered him to accept the $700 million in stimulus funds he had opposed. The court, in a unanimous decision made “with blazing fast speed,” took extra steps to try to ensure Sanford obeys their ruling:
The S.C. Supreme Court also took the rare step of issuing a writ of mandamus, which orders the governor to apply for the money. [...]
As for issuing the writ of mandamus, the other four justices said that “while we recognize and respect Governor Sanford’s sincerely held beliefs concerning (the federal law), those convictions do not alter the ministerial nature of the legal duty now before him.”
The justices added that the decision to issue a writ is “an extremely delicate one.”
$185 million will go to K-12 education this year, on July 1, and $100 million will go to state colleges. “I’m very excited that our schools and our teachers and our education system will be getting the funds that are so desperately needed here in South Carolina, and I’m glad the court case went our way,” said 18-year-old South Carolina student Casey Edwards, who filed the lawsuit.
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Good! Sanford (the evil, posturing, grandstanding thug) should be glad that the citizens of SC didn’t show up with pitchforks and torches! Sanford should sell his house and get out of SC. If he thinks this is going to win himself a presidential election in 2012 is delusional.
June 5th, 2009 at 8:39 pmMore exploding Reichwing heads in …3, 2, 1.
Got your popcorn ready?
June 5th, 2009 at 8:39 pmWhat’s a sin and a shame is that an 18 year old student had to file a lawsuit! Goodness Sanford repair the schools let the student get a quality education is a structurally sound building! Sanford is supposed to be a christian! He’s Godless!
June 5th, 2009 at 8:42 pmUm yeah, state Governors don’t have the authority to block Federal spending. Never did. Federal block grants don’t have to cross their desk for approval; therefore they don’t have the power to disapprove it.
June 5th, 2009 at 8:44 pmMaybe I don’t fully understand mandamus, but this seems like a total misuse of it.
June 5th, 2009 at 8:47 pmBut that’s not how the stimulus bill worked. It was not mandatory to take any of it.
June 5th, 2009 at 8:48 pmWhy do Republicans in South Carolina want to keep the children of their State uneducated? It’s no wonder that the “Slave States” are always at the bottom of national test scores for school children.
June 5th, 2009 at 8:49 pmDelafield, uneducated voters are more easily misled on everything from politics to evolution. It’s easier to scare an idiot into voting for you (or voting against someone you’ve made him fear) than educating him, so for the Reich-wingers, it’s win-win.
June 5th, 2009 at 8:53 pm“South Carolina Supreme Court orders Sanford to accept stimulus funds.”
Good! And a waste of time for Sanford to deny the people of South Carolina the stimulus funds. And Sanford is certainly delusional if he thinks that he can run this country as President in 2012 if he can’t run his own state.
June 5th, 2009 at 8:58 pmA one-time stimulus check going to fund ongoing expenses? LAME MORONS! The money will be gone next year and SC won’t have anything to show for it. The stimulus should go to one-time projects like bridges or road improvements.
Obama promised shovel ready jobs and the money is being wasted by being spent for ongoing budget items. This is NOT stimulus.
June 5th, 2009 at 8:58 pmParents and teachers should indeed breathe a sigh of relief — then they should take care of the chill that runs up their spine as they realize that Sanford just signed a law that allows guns on school grounds. He says teachers need to protect themselves and have their 2nd amendment rights ensured.
June 5th, 2009 at 9:01 pmAh, those unelected activist judges are at it again, ignoring the will of the people…
/sarc off
June 5th, 2009 at 9:08 pmI’m not saying that one needs to obtain a college degree to be successful but education has provided a way out of poverty for alot of Americans (mostly non-white). I do believe that people like Sanford are part of a movement to only allow a good education to be available to the elite rich in America.
June 5th, 2009 at 9:08 pmThe Moderate Squad Says, “uneducated voters are more easily misled on everything from politics to evolution.”
South Carolina is one of many Southern States that refuse to evolve from the Civil War era. I think they still haven’t gotten over the shock of losing their way of life. They continue to elect Bible thumping, flag humping, gun toting, slave loving, war mongering, racist, right wing, Republican idiots like Mark Sanford to represent them.
June 5th, 2009 at 9:23 pmThis young woman is a light unto her generation. Go girl!
June 5th, 2009 at 9:28 pmNonsense. He also promised $ for education.
Try again?
June 5th, 2009 at 9:28 pmAlejandro Says:
But that’s not how the stimulus bill worked. It was not mandatory to take any of it.
Maybe so… this ruling seems to be based on a different point, namely that the South Carolina legislature had passed a law saying take the funding:
So, OK. They were just ordering Sanford to follow the law the legislature had passed.
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delafield Says:
Why do Republicans in South Carolina want to keep the children of their State uneducated?
I think that’d be obvious, since you’d have to be an ignoramus to vote Republican to begin with.
June 5th, 2009 at 9:32 pmThe judge ordered Sanford to take the Stimulus package. She then said, “Bailiff–Whack his peepee!”
June 5th, 2009 at 9:44 pmOff Topic But Interesting:
I noticed that Joe Scarborough tried to sneak this story on to his show this morning and then they quietly moved on to something elese
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/06/reort_before_congressional_run_scarborough_represented_k.php?ref=fpc
Morning Show Host represented Abortion Killer
June 5th, 2009 at 9:47 pmYeah, delafield, you’re right. After all, SC is the place where they started the Civil War that they refer to for some reason as the war of northern aggression. It’s that kind of rhetorical disconnect that has made their education system the envy of, well, I guess nobody…
June 5th, 2009 at 9:55 pmI want a simple amendment to the contstituition. All of the qulaiified voters in all other state, vote by a majority that a state has a failed state status, we simply kick them out of the United states, collect any debts, pay any debts, close all federal facilties and leave, Bye bye Texas, OK,KS, NC and SC.
June 5th, 2009 at 10:29 pmThe stimulus money is an emergency stop gap to allow the country to limp along for a few years until the economy recovers. These monies were provided to help states bridge this time while maintaining basic and fundamental services to its citizens.
June 5th, 2009 at 10:29 pmGovernor Sanford appears to place education very low on his list of priorities, but his legislator and his courts differed with him. My speculation of Sanford is his political aspirations far outweighed the welfare of the states children. Education is fundamental to survival in this country, and to short change these kids is unconscionable.
This presidential hopeful appears to have a problem getting his priorities straight in South Carolina, how in the hell could he handle the priorities of the United States
Hey regulararmyfool,
Leave NC out of that – we’re a BLUE state full of Democrats,Liberals and Progressives. LOL
June 5th, 2009 at 10:32 pmJune 5 (Bloomberg) — Senator Richard Lugar praised President Barack Obama’s Cairo address to the Muslim world as a “signal achievement” and dismissed Republican criticism that the speech was too apologetic.
The speech was important and necessary, said Lugar, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, noting a “lack of sympathy for our country” in many Muslim nations.
On a domestic issue, Lugar said federal appellate judge Sonia Sotomayor has “excellent qualifications” to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. He recalled his own support for her when she was elevated from a district court to an appellate court by then-President Bill Clinton in 1998.
The 59 Democratic senators are all expected to support her. And if the seven senators who voted for her 11 years ago don’t change their vote, she will be “confirmed fairly easily,” Lugar said.
‘Piling On’
Some of the Republican criticism of Obama’s speech at Cairo University yesterday amounted to “piling on,” Lugar said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20090605/pl_bloomberg/anr10rbcgdeq
June 5th, 2009 at 10:37 pmCan Sanford file an appeal to the US Supreme court ?
I wouldn’t be surprised.
June 5th, 2009 at 10:45 pmHey, Governor Sanford?
Suck. On. This.
ha ha
June 5th, 2009 at 10:51 pmflight sed:
“This presidential hopeful appears to have a problem getting his priorities straight in South Carolina, how in the hell could he handle the priorities of the United States [?]”
Republicans always have a hard time getting their priorities straight, but Sanford’s are actually spot on.
For a Republican, that is. A-walkin’ in George W. Bush’s very footsteps. The remarkable part is how anybody could think they’d have any chance to win. Like McCain.
They’re screwed for a long, long time, and I don’t see anything to change my mind any time soon. Even Obama caught with a live boy in bed won’t help them.
June 5th, 2009 at 10:53 pmregulararmyfool Says:
I want a simple amendment to the contstituition. All of the qulaiified voters in all other state, vote by a majority that a state has a failed state status, we simply kick them out of the United states, collect any debts, pay any debts, close all federal facilties and leave, Bye bye Texas, OK,KS, NC and SC.
Oh, hell no. Them with the sovereign right to create their own military? It’d be like having North Korea inside our own borders.
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hormiga brava chavez Says:
Hey regulararmyfool,
Leave NC out of that – we’re a BLUE state full of Democrats,Liberals and Progressives. LOL
That’s right! Congratulations, we were all very proud of ya last November.
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ADAY Says:
June 5 (Bloomberg) — Senator Richard Lugar…
I need to find a spatula, as my jaw has dropped so hard it’s stuck to the floor. Wow. Did he just get a working brain transplant or something?
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Mathazar Says:
Can Sanford file an appeal to the US Supreme court ?
It would probably have to go through the 2nd Circuit Apellate first… snicker.
June 5th, 2009 at 10:53 pmThis is unconstitutional. You simply cannot order anyone to “accept” stimulus funds. They aren’t mandatory. This is truly sickening.
June 5th, 2009 at 10:55 pmProfessional Intelectual Says:
This is unconstitutional. You simply cannot order anyone to “accept” stimulus funds. They aren’t mandatory. This is truly sickening.
The court ordered the governor to obey a law passed by the state Legislature. How is that sickening?
June 5th, 2009 at 11:03 pmheeeheee found this on craigslist, thought it was funny
09 Apr 2009 – cha – Republican governor for sale
June 5th, 2009 at 11:07 pmWhat’s sickening is the no child left behind act. you can strangle school funding all you want, we are going to fix it if we can help it.
June 5th, 2009 at 11:09 pmProfessional Intelectual Says:
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This is unconstitutional. You simply cannot order anyone to “accept” stimulus funds. They aren’t mandatory. This is truly sickening.
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You may consider the point that his legislature voted to accept the moneys. I don’t think a representative form of government is against the law is it? I get the feeling this thing of a “representative government” is a sticking point with many Republicans.
June 5th, 2009 at 11:10 pmDaddy-O, in #27 you said “They’re screwed for a long, long time, and I don’t see anything to change my mind any time soon.” Historically the party in power loses at least a few seats in a mid-term election, but I really think 2010 could be different. The wing-nuts really believe that Rush Hannity, Michelle Coulter, Glenn O’Reilly and the rest of the right-wing media train wreck are making their party better by showing moderates the door. I have a lot of Republican friends (I live in a primarily agricultural rural area) who 10 years ago would never have dreamed of voting Dem, and most them are either horrified or heartbroken at what their party has devolved into. And every time a Sanford, Palin or Jindal is mentioned as a possible prez, their first question is “Is this the best we have, or is this just the best Rush thinks we have?” It’s a valid question.
June 5th, 2009 at 11:18 pmI would like to echo some previous commentators re this news posting. It really is a sad commentary on Sanford that he would need to be sued in state court in order to release these funds to the public education system.
Think about the wasted money expended by the state attorney’s office defending the suit, the wasted docket time incurred by the court system producing certain inconvenience and delay to other cases as the Supreme Court acted with significant speed to hear this case and, lastly, the fact that no other Republican either possessed or desired to exert the necessary fortitude and political will upon Sanford to get him to stop the dilatory conduct. Yes, a single 18 year old teenager has more guts than the entire S.C. GOP.
June 5th, 2009 at 11:19 pmYep! Everyone knows that “state’s rights” means the Governor should be able to defy the other branches of state government.
snark/off
June 5th, 2009 at 11:22 pmIf the good governor is successful in getting guns in schools, he should also get guns in the state legislative chamber and the court houses. I am sure the lawyers will appreciate it as will the good governor.
I think the good governor reveals that he must have been home schooled or that the SC schools were not successful in educating his dumb ass.
June 5th, 2009 at 11:26 pmThe stimulus was meant, in part, to help the unemployed by groceries and pay the mortgages until they find another job. It was also meant to help the schools in SC which obviously turn out some of the dumbest people in the US according to the ignorance of their governor.
June 5th, 2009 at 11:32 pmI truly feel bad for the people in states like South Carolina and Alaska. I’m sorry that their governors care more about smearing President Obama and pandering to their base that they would refuse much needed funding to help get through this crisis. If there is any justice they’ll both get beat in a Presidential primary and voted out of office :)
June 5th, 2009 at 11:34 pmkasinca Says:
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The stimulus was meant, in part, to help the unemployed by groceries and pay the mortgages until they find another job. It was also meant to help the schools in SC which obviously turn out some of the dumbest people in the US according to the ignorance of their governor.
The dumbest people come from california, the school system scores an F year after year. Look it up.
June 5th, 2009 at 11:37 pmsanford is one of the last few governors of freedom. i pledge to move to sc in 2012 to help spread his good values. the transition will be easy since sc is a right to work state.
June 5th, 2009 at 11:38 pmwiley Says:
This young woman is a light unto her generation. Go girl!
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shut your pie hole you stupid tramp.
June 5th, 2009 at 11:40 pmlinder van tyrannist Says:
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sanford is one of the last few governors of freedom. i pledge to move to sc in 2012 to help spread his good values. the transition will be easy since sc is a right to work state.
You’ll fit right in.
June 5th, 2009 at 11:40 pmProfessional Intelectual Says:
You’ll fit right in.
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thank you. those ronald reagan values have carried me far in life.
June 5th, 2009 at 11:43 pmProfessional Intelectual Says:
Harrumph, er, I’m a “Professional Intelectual”, and I’ll continue to call myself a “Professional Intelectual” despite the fact that I can’t spell “intellectual”! The extra ‘l’ must have been snuck into the word by those lefties, probably stands for ‘liberal’! Harrumph!
June 5th, 2009 at 11:45 pmThey carried me far too, but I don’t think he would agree with some of the things Sanford stands for…
June 5th, 2009 at 11:47 pmDammit Jane, you beat me to it! You’d think one would know how to spell the very thing it claims to be!
June 5th, 2009 at 11:48 pmProfessional Intelectual Prattles:
This is unconstitutional.
You didn’t even bother to finish reading the headline, did you?
How short is your attention span?
June 5th, 2009 at 11:53 pmHi Jane:
June 5th, 2009 at 11:56 pmWhat a “freegan” night. One of the best in months….I see the freaks are still begging to be acknowledged…
maybe the misspelling is an intentional knock on you latte-drinking, enlightened libs. ever get tired of wiping your butts with one square of toilet paper for “mother earth.”
June 5th, 2009 at 11:56 pmlinder van tyrannist Says:
maybe the misspelling is an intentional blah blah blah
Why is this troll responding to a post that wasn’t addressed to it?
I sense a sock puppet…
June 6th, 2009 at 12:00 amlinder van tyrannist Says:
wiley Says:
This young woman is a light unto her generation. Go girl!
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shut your pie hole you stupid tramp.
June 5th, 2009 at 11:40 pm
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thank you. those ronald reagan values have carried me far in life.
June 5th, 2009 at 11:43 pm
Apparently those “ronald reagan values” include calling a veteran such as wiley a “stupid tramp”? Some values.
You owe wiley an apology.
June 6th, 2009 at 12:00 amthe end result is freedom. never hesitate in the face of tyranny. buy that suv with all the bells, sign the contract on that 4,000SF home, take that 150K job with at&t. fill up at Exxon and pick up a few cold dr. peppers. push back against the liberals.
June 6th, 2009 at 12:01 amReally, dbadass, who sent this new troll horde over here?
Oh, BTW, LVTyrannist, I have never had a latte in my life and wouldn’t waste my hard-earned money on one, and I use all the toilet paper that’s necessary, if it’s any of your effing business. But apparently I am more enlightened than you.
June 6th, 2009 at 12:04 amWhy would anyone want any of that shit?
June 6th, 2009 at 12:04 ambecause that shit makes me feel good.
June 6th, 2009 at 12:07 amWell Jane let’s just say that if you like mocha chocolate chip cookies and bison tenderloin I am your guy. Also a flat of raspberrys 5 pounds of baby spinach, 4 bags of cauliflower florets, about a dozen eggplant, and a variety of other stuff. I’ll have to swing by the soup kitchen or do some side deals which ever comes first
June 6th, 2009 at 12:08 ami feel more in touch if im consuming all the free market has to offer.
June 6th, 2009 at 12:10 amanother green job, making shit that no one eats!!!!! we want burgers and grilled chicked, shit real men eat!!!!!!!
June 6th, 2009 at 12:12 am“Why would anyone want any of that shit?”
And how does that push back against us scary liberals? Jeez, even GM realizes that its Hummer division isn’t worth saving! Hey, maybe another company can buy all of the unsold Hummers and retrofit them for the troops, or is it already too late for that?
dbadass, I’ll be back in a bit. ;) Have fun.
June 6th, 2009 at 12:12 amHmm, the raspberries, spinach and cauliflower sound good to me. Save me some!
June 6th, 2009 at 12:13 amI feel more in touch using only that which I need and aiding others who may be in need…
June 6th, 2009 at 12:13 amin addition to raising pay for generals, obama should provide every new operating forces commanding general with a Hummer for his keeping.
June 6th, 2009 at 12:14 amI have beaten the so many “real men” into submission it has become boring
June 6th, 2009 at 12:15 amdbadass, what about those of us who have have personal wounds and shortcomings too great to put aside the free market goodness and get into the humanities business?
June 6th, 2009 at 12:17 amlinder van tyrannist Says:
Just so you know; I like plain old regular Maxwell House. I eat eggs and bacon for breakfast. I like hamburgers, bratwurst, baseball, football and BEER! BTW, us “enlightened libs” are Americans. The only advantage that I see we have over you is that we are also human. Go swallow a turd!
June 6th, 2009 at 12:18 amenvironmental hypocrisy! environmental hypocrisy! you are dr. evil!
June 6th, 2009 at 12:20 amWho’s dr. evil?
June 6th, 2009 at 12:22 ami hate football! i hate bratwurst! i don’t swallow turds!
June 6th, 2009 at 12:24 amHalp! Almost a dozen wingnuts stinking up the Inhofe thread! Reinforcements! MEDIC! lol
June 6th, 2009 at 12:25 ami’ll be there!
June 6th, 2009 at 12:26 amWatch Sanford call the South Carolina Supreme Court “activists”, and he will still refuse to take the money, even if he risks jail time. The right wingers will eat it up, but the rest of the country will shake their head at how immensely stupid this man is.
June 6th, 2009 at 12:32 amWell a sikis sikis sikis to you too there my Turkish pervert buddy….
June 6th, 2009 at 12:37 amSee what their childhoods look like? Isn’t is sad?
Mommy—is that daddy? Uncle daddy?
Shut your pie-hole!
June 6th, 2009 at 12:38 amHell Sanford will just appeal it and drag this bull$hit on for a while if his state can afford it($$$$$$$$$$$),Not.
June 6th, 2009 at 12:45 amwiley – you know you’re a tramp. i hope you never served in my military. you’re a filthy embarrassment!
June 6th, 2009 at 12:49 amIt is like a little child….
June 6th, 2009 at 12:50 amThe nerve of Mark Sanford thinking he has the right and power to deny the citizens of SC federal stimulus money in the first place. Where do these clowns get off?
June 6th, 2009 at 12:51 amSee? My lord that child has been put up with some abuse.
Aneewei, wanted to throw out something about Richard Lugar
He’s a Republican, yet he’s an adult. He co-sponsored the Nunn-Lugar Act, which has facilitated cooperation between the U.S. and Russian; in fact, it was under this act that we helped Russia pull together their nuclear forces after the fall of the Soviet Union. As far as I can tell, he gets things done.
June 6th, 2009 at 12:55 amI’m guessing around fourteen. No older than sixteen. It’s single parent must be working nights or passed out.
June 6th, 2009 at 12:57 amHe was beat by a girl, what a fool, what did he think?
June 6th, 2009 at 12:57 amYou know what the saddest thing about these trolls is?
They only get dumber.
June 6th, 2009 at 1:03 amlink
June 6th, 2009 at 1:06 amHi wiley, I tried to post a different comment in response to the vile insult from the troll, but either I effed it up or TP wouldn’t let it through. It was much more strongly-worded than what I posted at 12:00 am (sorry, my screen insists that every comment is numbered ‘0′ or ‘1′.)
That POS still owes you an apology.
June 6th, 2009 at 1:07 amseks izle seks izle izle seks izle … the small turkish immigrant desperately implores the WalMart greeter, in broken english.
June 6th, 2009 at 1:10 amCan’t a fellow just get a little sesli sorbeht anymore?
June 6th, 2009 at 1:18 amlinder van tyrannist Says:
i’ll be there!
Ha haa, thanks. Things seem to have settled down now that you showed up to help discredit them.
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JaneaneTheAcerbicGoblin Says:
Watch Sanford call the South Carolina Supreme Court “activists”, and he will still refuse to take the money, even if he risks jail time.
I don’t know if there’s any more percentage in it. History will record that he resisted the stimulus, and that’s all he needs, politically speaking. The Republican presidential primaries won’t even be gearing up until 2010 or 2011, so he’s already done more than enough to “excite the base” at this point. He’s on record as having tried to stop it. He could do more to delay it I suppose, with appeals and such, but he wouldn’t risk jail time for any reason as that would preclude him from winning the Presidency, if not qualifying for it.
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dbadass Says:
Well a sikis sikis sikis to you too there my Turkish pervert buddy….
I think he just drops his “big money $$$ running a website!” link and moves on. I honestly have no idea why he hits an English-language website to begin with. I used to think it was just an automated script, but now its changing up usernames, text and times of day. So now I have no idea.
However, I would be willing to type some numbers from an image into a box when I post if that would put a stop to it.
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linder van tyrannist Says:
i hope you never served in my military.
You have your own military now? Congrats! I bet it’s wicked awesome.
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wiley Says:
He’s a Republican, yet he’s an adult. He co-sponsored the Nunn-Lugar Act, which has facilitated cooperation between the U.S. and Russian; in fact, it was under this act that we helped Russia pull together their nuclear forces after the fall of the Soviet Union. As far as I can tell, he gets things done.
Huh… dude should go Dem. I’m also glad to see somebody’s doing something about eliminating the massive ex-cold-war stockpiles of now-unnecessary but still-insanely-lethal weapons.
June 6th, 2009 at 1:27 amRepublicans. These are not people you want giving candy to your children!
June 6th, 2009 at 1:35 amProfessional Intelectual Says:
The dumbest people come from california, the school system scores an F year after year. Look it up.
Cough * Prop 13 * Cough…
June 6th, 2009 at 1:35 amYou have your own military now? Congrats! I bet it’s wicked awesome.
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June 6th, 2009 at 1:35 amThis cracks me up.
Jane, don’t worry about it. It only thinks it’s talking to me. I am not insulted. I’m the adult here.
June 6th, 2009 at 1:40 amProfessional Intellectual – go suck on a tail pipe already – I’m sick of reading the troll dribble – boring
June 6th, 2009 at 1:43 amHaving to use a captcha might keep the trolls out too, as well as Sesli. I really doubt that they could figure it out.
June 6th, 2009 at 2:17 amthere is an 18 year old in south carolina smarter than the gov.
wow. she had to be born out of state.
the south is like one big sucking motion on the federal money
look it up
June 6th, 2009 at 2:23 amCasey Edwards – remember that name. I hope that before too long, the good folks of South Carolina get the opportunity to vote for her.
June 6th, 2009 at 2:59 amSchool must be out and the “locked out bunch” are free to use mom’s computer . . . never seen so many low “inter-leck-two-all trollies’ in one place . . . .
June 6th, 2009 at 3:15 amthank you seslisohbet seslichat sesli sohbet sesli chat
June 6th, 2009 at 4:00 amHey Kevin. I just saw the YouTube video about web 3.0 and I have had this idea about our future economy.
June 6th, 2009 at 4:32 amIt’s a bit in tune with the Zeitgeist film. See, if all of our knowledge was shared, we couldn’t make money of it. Siki?
porno
Porno izle
sex videolar?
I’m a musician and I kinda have the feeling that in the future people will pay for live performances, because we have computer software that is very close to sounding like a musical instrument, with a modelled human touch. So, if a person that has never played the guitar, can click a button and sound like Jimi Hendrix, than what is the coolness about all this digital music really? Infact, I think that the more advanced this gets, the less interesting it becomes. We are still in awe over a youngster that can make the violin cry and we will definately be in even more awe when a person can actually do with their fingers that what we can do in an iPhone application.
doktorgizemli Says:
Hey Kevin. I just saw the YouTube video about web 3.0 </em.
Stop. Please, just stop. If you are a person who can read English, and not a remote script or an extremely confused Turkish webmaster, I’m imploring you to leave us alone. We can’t use your site. Surrounding your links with pre-scripted text doesn’t make them any less obvious because THINKPROGRESS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH TURKISH PORN!!! I don’t understand any of the links on your site and am incapable of navigating it. Everybody else here is in the same boat.
June 6th, 2009 at 4:42 amWho the hell is Kevin? I’m guessing there is some strange planetary configuration going on today. Somebody left the cosmic barn door open.
June 6th, 2009 at 5:05 amActivist judge. n. A judge who makes a liberal decision.
Swine!
June 6th, 2009 at 6:01 amToo bad the funds weren’t there for Miss SC.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io63z-aRMbg
June 6th, 2009 at 6:31 amAs I was scrolling through the comments here, I noticed a couple that proudly proclaimed adherence to “Ronald Reagan Values”.
I hate having to constantly debunk the Reagan myth on different blogs, but here goes again:
1) Reagan, if not outright racist himself, certainly fanned the flames. He opened up his campaign in Philadelphia, MS at the behest of Trent Lott. Philadelphia is the site where three civil rights worker were killed, the inspiration for the movie Mississippi Burning. He spoke to the knowing crowd about his desire to *wink, wink* allow states more independence in setting policies regarding issues, including civil rights oversight.
2) Reagan ushered in the massive de-regulation and anti-working class neo-liberal economic system (aka “trickle-down). This is the system that encourages selish self-interest to be our “national standard” in business, as well -as wild-west corporate hegemony. One of his first actions was to devastate unionization in America by firing 13,000 striking air-traffic controllers. The results of Reaganomics were disastrous in many ways, including the Savings and Loan Scandal.
3) Reagan let thousands die due to his reluctance to take early action in combatting what he considered the “gay disease”, AIDS.
4) Reagan, via the CIA, authorized drug smuggling into U.S.
in order to fund
5) Reagan supported the apartheid South African government until the political pressure became overwhelming.
6) The most important thing Reagan did regarding the fall of the USSR was just not getting too involved and screwing things up.
June 6th, 2009 at 6:55 amI love how these republicans are always touting that the government’s money is really our money so when the government wants to send the state money, suddenly the right wingers are up in arms about it!
Hypocrites.
It’s not your money to keep, Sanford. It’s intended for your state’s citizens.
June 6th, 2009 at 7:42 amI must suck when a Republican is forced to accept funding that would educate his constituency. These people rely on the very rich and the very ignorant.
June 6th, 2009 at 7:59 amRepublicans: 5% super rich, 95% super stupid, Sanford was only protecting the Republican base, education is a threat to the GOP agenda.
June 6th, 2009 at 8:55 amlinder van tyrannist Says:
Professional Intelectual Says:
Looks like P-brain has been playing with his (tube)sockpuppets again.
**yawn**
June 6th, 2009 at 8:55 amWhen I hear of governors and senators eager to cut funding for schools, etc., I can only think that their actions are a guise for keeping the poor from attaining equal education opportunities. The wealthy will always educate their children. The poor must depend on public education in the early years and other means of assistance to continue with higher education which is often limited.
June 6th, 2009 at 8:58 amSo I am pleased that the court slapped this down in SC, but people must realize what is the true motivation behind Sanford and people who assert that they are being “fiscally conservative” when in reality they are lelgalizing their own bigotry.
Don’t be surprised if in the next election he takes credit for the things that the stimulus money has bought. Hopefully by then the people of SC will be “smarter” and vote Mr. No out.
June 6th, 2009 at 9:33 amOMG! Where’re the teabaggers, and their righteous fury?
Didn’t the baggers have a big demonstration in SC, wailing about their high taxes?
They should be at the capitol steps, pitchforks gleaming in the morning sunlight, in their red, white and blue sweatpants, adipose tissue shaking with patriotic rage!
What? New breakfast combo at IHOP, you say?
Some things are just more important…
June 6th, 2009 at 9:54 amWhat’s the point of having built a treehouse if you don’t get to pull up the ladder?
June 6th, 2009 at 10:54 amMaybe I don’t fully understand mandamus, but this seems like a total misuse of it.
You’re right. You don’t understand mandamus.
My guess is: Sanford will now accept the Stimulus money, but he won’t spend it.
Sanford may well follow the lead of another politician from South Carolina, Andrew Jackson, when he said of a Supreme Court ruling ordering him to follow the law, “John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it.”
June 6th, 2009 at 10:56 amI thought playing doctor could get you in trouble. Oh, right, that’s children playing doctor.
June 6th, 2009 at 11:32 amSame thing.
How long does this twit have left as Governor? If I was South Carolina, I’d make sure this moron couldn’t even get elected dog catcher. All this posturing just for a run in 2012 for the conservative nutball base.
June 6th, 2009 at 11:42 amDavis X. Machina Says:
I appreciate your analogy — they are like those little boys aren’t they?
June 6th, 2009 at 11:43 amUnfortunately for us here in Pennsylvania the repubs are alive well and kicking…and this is a story that gets NO AIR.
June 6th, 2009 at 2:02 pmWe have a wonderful democrat Governor, Governor Ed Rendell. Rendell has done a hell of a lot for us in the 2 terms he’s been in…however…..the state house is all GOP repubs and they passed this HORRIBLE budget…cutting so many great things. In a state that has two of the best PBS stations in the country, our GOP budget cuts ALL of the government funding for our PBS stations…REALLY? I mean right wingers are always complaining about the destruction of the family unit….so they thought that cutting wonderful, educational, family oriented programming would help the american family?
So see just having a Dem Governor DOES NOT guarantee that the repubs wont try and mess things up. At least S.C. could take action to counter Sanford’s stupidity…but we here in PA have no freaking choice at all. And just the thought of having to vote for Spector is making me ill. But if Sestak does not run against him in the democratic primary…I will be FORCED to vote for Arlen “magic bullet theory” Spector, because I am sure as hell not voting for the ultra right wing candidate!!! Sorry I know this is slightly off topic…but just reading the posts here saying that the republican party is all but dead…makes me want to warn you all….OH NOT THEY AREN”T and if they are they are sure as hell going down shooting. You know they had their turn…for most of the last 25 years and they almost tanked the country. You here is one arguement you can use when they whine about Obama “growing the government” and butting in on the private sector…..remind them of their God, the man who sold the world, Ronald Reagan. Doesn’t anyone but me remember that he FIRED the air traffic controllers as President…and IMHO, that was the start of the decline of the power of unions and thus the working class. For god’s sake they have selective memory. So Sanford, Palin, Jindahl and the rest need check for skeleton’s in their own closet before running their mouths or denying their constituents the fruit of the stimulus bill. Okay off rant now.
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darr Says:
After seeing Sestak interviewed the other day, I have a feeling that he will go ahead and run against Specter. At that point Sestak had said that the only thing that would stop him would be if his family didn’t want him to run. But I would have to assume that his family would encourage him to do the right thing.
I really liked a lot of what Sestak had to say, I truly hope he runs so that you can vote for someone with integrity.
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June 6th, 2009 at 8:29 pmthanks for all
Jane E. Schneider Says:
After seeing Sestak interviewed the other day, I have a feeling that he will go ahead and run against Specter.
I’m pretty sure Specter checked with the DNC to make sure he’d get party ($$$) support in the primary before jumping ship. So Sestak’s basically screwed…
June 7th, 2009 at 5:55 amYour right, we should not rely on the internet, internet is only a media, but I think while you are writing this article your mind is not in peace… I knew from reading every word you wrote.
June 7th, 2009 at 11:45 amElBruce said:
This is true ElBruce that DNC are backing Spector….but from talking to others in this district (Spector’s District) a lot of them, including me and my husband, feel that Spector’s opposition to the Employee Free Choice act makes him a non contendor for their vote ESPECIALLY in this area of the country. We lost our livelyhoods…ie the closing of the steel mills and coal mines and then the other businesses in the area went under because their businesses depended on the steel workers. We lost these jobs TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO and this area has been overlooked ever since. We are an area full of the working class and unions have been a big part of that in the past. So the race may be tighter than you think.
June 7th, 2009 at 3:22 pmI know this doesn’t have anything to do with Spector’s abilities as a Senator, but I for one could never get past the fact that Arlen Spector as a young attorney was the person who came up with the “brilliant” theory of the magic bullet in JFK’s assasination. That theory is so contrived that it makes me wonder about his cognitive abilities. Most of the voters here STILL think of Ol’ Arlen as a Republican so even though he has that backing I think and hope that it will be a tight race. Remeber we are the people that have voted Congressman John Murtha in for over 30 years even though he sometimes steps in it, because he is democrat and he backs the unions. So we shall see.
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