Who knew politics could be this much fun?
Yesterday, sources told CNN that Republican U.S. Senator Judd Gregg had agreed to become Democrat President Barack Obama’s new Secretary of Commerce. Which is kinda funny, considering this news flash:
President Obama’s new candidate to run the Commerce Department voted in favor of abolishing the agency as a member of the Budget Committee and on the Senate floor in 1995.
Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., whose nomination was expected to be announced Tuesday, also worked in the Senate to trim the department’s budget as head of the Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations Subcommittee.
Unless he’s planning to totally destroy the Department of Commerce from the inside, this is about as hypocritical as Rush Limbaugh running for the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee. ‘Cause, you know, now he wants to improve it.
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This administration is just making your job too easy
If he DOES dissolve the Commerce Dept (from the INSIDE!!), I would hit it.
I’ll take one for the team dammit!
First the Commerce Dept., then the entire presidency — now that’s change I could believe in.
The greatest Tom Daschle video ever:
Well it is in his power to reduce the number of staff his dept has under him so wouldn’t it be funny if he cut his staff by 50% every year he is in the position?
Will you guys please get off of Obama’s back!! I mean it isn’t like he promised you a whole bunch of change, and stuff.
Actually the only change I’ve really seen is in the reporting of all this stuff. And by that I mean you don’t really hear much reporting about it at all.
Well, it would certainly help with the deficet. Now if we can just get Congress to do that. Let’s start with Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank.
Notice that this guy is a REPUBLICAN. All you right-winger’s should be very happy and proud to have him there. What? You think he is a douche? I thought only Democrats were allowed to be destroyed because of their past beliefs. The republicans, the architects of the S&L crisis in the 90’s, are going to save us from the same thing now? All they are interested in is lining their pockets (& their corporates sponsors’ pockets) with your money & make you think you are getting a great deal. They have had 50% of America voting against their own economic interests for many years while telling them that they are better off than they were before, no matter what your bank account says.
I guess appointing Republicans is just too much for your little brains to handle & now they are going to explode!!! MUST FIND SOMETHING WRONG & BLAME THE DEMOCRATS! You obviously and erroneously believe that the Democrats are responsible for all wrong-doing since the beginning of time but that GWB was the second coming of Christ. Have you noticed that the economy tanked due to his decisions??? Did you notice 9/11 happened on his watch even though he was specifically warned about it in advance? Bunch of cry-baby losers who think that they can now take their ball & go home because they don’t like the way the game is now being played — the enemy is now using your new rules against you! Too bad you couldn’t take away all of those new executive privileges that Bush gave himself, but, sorry guys, you did it, so now live with the consequences.
Dear Julie:
You won.
Signed,
The Adults
It’s nice to see Julie got a break from fellating Obama to post a comment no matter how dumb non-sensical the comment may be.
Julie, be careful not to spill any “Kool-Aid” on your dress. We don’t need anymore stories of “stained blue dresses” popping up again.
Well, at least he’ll fit right in with the rest of hypocrites in BO’s administration.
Yes Julie – rich people are the end-all-be-all of evil. Say, how much stock do you own? How much does your ENTIRE extended family own? How about your entire block?
I’d wager to say that a single page of Bill Gate’s stock portfolio has more capital in it than every person you went to high school with combined could put together. The reason I point this out? I quote “All they are interested in is lining their pockets (& their corporates sponsors’ pockets) with your money & make you think you are getting a great deal.”
This smacks of the whole Obama ‘Wallstreet vs. Main Street’ crap that will ruin this nation’s economic situation for the foreseeable future. Lemmie guess, you want to ’stimulate’ the economy by giving the money to Main Street, the quote ‘real engine of the economy’. Except they’re NOT! These people aren’t going to use the money to buy stock (the so-called Financial Sector, AKA the part of the economy that actually NEEDS fixing) – they’re going to use it to buy things. While that helps our manufacturing base, it does very little to help put confidence back in the market, which under Obama, continues to plummet.
Now who WOULD invest in the stock market? RICH PEOPLE! But Obama is going to raise their taxes to pay for those checks he’s mailing to ‘Main Street’. Sounds like a hell of a solution doesn’t it?
Oh, and the real irony in all this, is that this is basically going to end up helping the rich anyways! I call this the ‘Trickle-up Economics Approach’.
1. Send checks to average citizens.
2. Citizens spend money at companies that have been suffering, downsizing, ect.
3. (now for Econ 101) operating costs down profits up = BIG FAT CHECKS FOR THE CEOS! (AKA, exactly what the Democrats constantly shrill on and on about Republicans doing).
You really think they’re gonna re-hire their work force while the economy is adjusting? Not if they’re able to sustain operations at their current levels. Had the money been invested through the market, that might have been different, but we’re talking PROFITS vs. Invested capital here. Good luck explaining all this come 2012 though, I’ll be looking forward to hearing how this was a good idea for ‘main street’.
Hurricane, you’re my hero.
Julie’s panties are just in a twist because she’s having memories of all the cabinet appointees that Bush had to reject because of problems like these… oh, wait, that’s right, there weren’t any.
Just like you sick Republicans, Hurricane. If you don’t agree, call everyone a nasty name & treat them like porn stars. You already drank the Bush Kool-aid & will never be cured. What is interesting is how you can dish it out but can’t take it & your only response, rather than a well-reasoned argument, is that we must all be dumb porn stars (of course, this only applies to women — evolved much lately?). Your eight years are over so get used to seeing your guys in prison. Unfortunately, your criminals actually made it into office & ran it like a gang — defame or try to get killed (Valerie Plame) anyone who disagrees with your lies (which have been proven). Once again, glad to at least get rid of the bad ones BEFORE they get into office.
Again, I never said Obama or the Democrats are perfect. It’s just that you can’t stand to have the same tactics used on you that have been used against the Democrats for so long. It is crazy how you are now crying over the same things you were standing up for just a few months ago. By the way, the Republicans didn’t want the new stimulus package because there were too much spending on infrastructure & not enough in corporate tax cuts (for the same companies we are giving bailout money to). Once the bill was passed, with the exact same amounts, the Republicans decided there was NOT ENOUGH being spent on infrastructure. They are just taking the opposite side of anything because they are now completely impotent & it is the only way their outrageous ideas will be heard.
Save Valerie Plame!
Goodness, does the administration pluck these names out of a hat? Because they can’t seriously be vetting these candidates. I thought they had some super invasive questionnaire?
I agree with you Julie. Republicans shouldn’t be saying there’s not enough being spent on infrastructure. They should be saying there’s too much being spent. Period. Then the Democrats could agree and we’d have bipartisan agreement that too much is being spent. Period. Like I said, I agree with you Julie, the GOP should lead the way on this one. Who knew you were a closet right-winger?
Politicians care about re-election. Not you.
We all resort to amusing “insults” because we’re clearly never going to reach the enlightened state most liberals have and can at least laugh down here at the bottom of the barrel. Either that or we just can’t fabricate “facts” quite as well…
My favorite thing about liberals is that I could go up and reverse every use of “Republican/conservative” and “Liberal/Democrat” in Julie’s comment and a bunch of conservatives would all agree with me. (Except I’d use proper grammar and punctuation and stuff.)
In fact, haven’t I already commented somewhere back here that liberals can dish it up but they can’t drink it down? Oh, look, people on opposite sides of the political spectrum behaviorally identical?! NO! Not possible!!
“It’s just that you can’t stand to have the same tactics used on you that have been used against the Democrats for so long. It is crazy how you are now crying over the same things you were standing up for just a few months ago.”
Kinda like how just a few short months ago, dissent and holding the president accountable was patriotic, but now with a Democrap in the White House it’s not.
Or how Democrats spent the past 8 years having their infantile temper tantrums until they were able to steal an election for their own Kenyan, er, Indonesian, er, Chicago thugocrat with the help of the MSM inside his ass and ACORN’s fraudulent non-citizen, felon, and underage moonbats voting multiple times (“vote early vote often”).
Dang do you Liberals ever listen to your own hypocrisy?
The stimulus bill is anything but a stimulus bill. How does buying new cars for all of the government workers stimulate and produce more jobs? How does providing STD protection stimulate new jobs? Show me more tax cuts for the small, struggling companies; tax cuts for those of us who actually work instead of mooch off of the state and then it will be a stimulus package.
Julie- what’s the point of laying out a real reasoned argument as a response to your juvenile and uneducated “Truther” talking points? Why bother trying to reason with somebody who clearly is uncapable of reason?
It’s better to mock people like you instead of trying to pretend you are on the same level intellectually. By making fun of your idiotic post it puts you in the corner where you and your kind belong.
Take your class warfare and Truther charges of “Bush new specifically” that 9/11 was going to happen and go over to the Daily Kos. You may find a warm welcome and you actually may end up as being one of the smarter people in the room there.
I agree wholeheartedly with Hurricane.
Julie is incoherant; it’s a waste of time to try and debate such unfounded, irrational venom.
In lieu of slinging mud in Julie’s swamp, I offer up a bit of reason and light. Here’s Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI 11th) before the House last night:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6o8bwc2AdCo
I happened to catch the original call on local radio last week. If you’re interested, here’s the audio of the McCotter interview and the call of “Greg from Milford”. Greg is the last caller, but the entire interview is worth a listen.
http://wjr.com/Article.asp?id=1136771&spid=6525
It’s people like McCotter who restore my faith in the political process.
It’s people like McCotter, people like me, like many of you, who define conservatism.
Not Julie.