John P. Murtha, 77, the powerful dean of Pennsylvania's congressional delegation ... died yesterday at a hospital in Arlington, Va., after complications from gallbladder surgery.When most said nothing, Jack Murtha stood up and said something.
John P. Murtha, 77, the powerful dean of Pennsylvania's congressional delegation ... died yesterday at a hospital in Arlington, Va., after complications from gallbladder surgery.The resurgent GOP wants a Gipper purity test. Does the party faithful know he raised taxes, grew the federal government, and granted amnesty to illegal immigrants? Republicans love hallowing Ronald Reagan’s name. Too bad they know so little about the guy.Poor wingnuts, they're just so ignorant. They thought about creating a 10 point litmus test for their candidates and they wanted to name it after Ronald Reagan. One huge problem; Reagan could not have even come close to passing his own 'test'. Ronald Reagan and 'smaller government' and 'smaller deficits and debt"? The federal government grew tremendously under Reagan and he tripled both the deficit and the debt. And candidates must "oppose amnesty for illegal immigrants"? He signed the largest amnesty program in our country's history!
Now that is slick. Sheep give Palin money and she buys her book with it. She's not smart enough to have thought of it but I'm sure she was happy to go along."Sarah Palin has found a down-low way to stay atop the bestsellers' chart: she's quietly using her political action committee to buy up copies of her memoir. ...The Federal Election Commission filings show that Sarah PAC sent $63,000 to Palin's publisher, Harper Collins, for "books for fundraising donor fulfillment."
Every Republican Senator votes against 'PAYGO' "One of the hallmarks of the Clinton presidency was its focus on fiscal responsibility. It turned a federal budget deficit into a surplus. One of the tools used to accomplish that was so-called "pay-as-you-go" legislation. It required any new spending be accompanied by a way to pay for it — either new taxes or a corresponding spending cut elsewhere — so as not to increase the deficit. Common sense. This was abandoned during the past Bush presidency, under which government spending rose by 8.4 percent, as compared to a 3.5 percent growth in the Clinton years. President Obama has urged Congress to revive pay-as-you-go as a way to limit future deficit growth. The House passed a bill last year. Last week, the Senate followed through on a 60-40 vote — 60 Democrats yes and 40 Republicans no."If you know anything about the last 30 years you're very aware of the fact that well over 90% of our $12 trillion national debt is directly attributable to Republican presidents; Ronald Reagan and the two George Bush's. Reagan, laughingly referred to as a 'fiscal' conservative, tripled our nation's debt, Bush Sr. added well over a trillion to it in four short years and of course, George W. added $5 trillion and left us a $1.2 trillion massive crater of a shortfall with his last budget. Republicans are actually 'deficit peacocks', who when it really comes to fiscal discipline they, “like to preen and call attention to themselves, but are not sincerely interested in addressing deficits". And that was proven once again when 58 Senate Democrats and two 'Independents' voted 'yes' and all 40 of the phony-conservative Republicans voted 'no' on doing something about it.
"An autopsy report shows that a Muslim cleric who died in an October shoot-out with federal agents was shot 21 times, then handcuffed, according to a person familiar with the case."
... And it's by merely stating the facts. So much for the teleprompter jokes. One thing is for certain, Obama knows the statistical facts and when he shoves them down the throat of some phony-conservative Texas congressman who comically tries to blame him for the trillion dollar plus deficit Bush left us, it sure sets it up for a fun to watch and well-deserved smackdown.
Yes Kansas has a death penalty and if anyone deserves it that scumbucket sure does. You plan out and then stalk a man and shoot him in the forehead while he ushers you into church you deserve to die. Ninety-nine percent of all premeditated murderers should be executed. Kansas hasn't executed anyone since 1976 but they do have 10 men on death row and Scott Roeder should have joined them. He's already confessed so they wouldn't have to waste much time on an appeal.(CNN) -- A Kansas jury deliberated just 37 minutes before convicting an anti-abortion activist of first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of an abortion provider.
The jury found Scott Roeder, 51, guilty of gunning down Dr. George Tiller, who operated a clinic in Wichita where late-term abortions were performed. Roeder, 51, faces life in prison when he is sentenced on March 9.
The U.S. economy roared ahead in the final months of 2009, growing at its fastest rate in six years, as corporate America stopped slashing its inventories and again started to invest for the future. Gross domestic product, the broadest measure of economic activity, rose at a 5.7 percent annual rate in the fourth quarter, the Commerce Department said Friday...This is definitely not the economic news the America-hating rightwing wanted to hear. Listen for the whining.
Okay smartasses, tell us, who owns CITGO? Yeah that's right, Hugo Chavez. And guess what fools, as "a corporation formed under the laws of Delaware", Hugo now gets to pump as much money as he wants into our elections because five activist judges on our Supreme Court were too stupid to know better."...it is time to finally slash the tax breaks for companies that ship our jobs overseas, and give those tax breaks to companies that create jobs right here in the United States of America."You can catch the Republicans' despicable behavior at 17:40 into the President's speech last night.
So Sam Alito didn't like it when Barack Obama rightly pointed out that foreign corporations will now be able to bribe our politicians, huh?"Does Stram point out that these [Iranians] are Shi’ite MUSLIMS, who are allies of al-Qaeda and sympathetic to Bin Laden and the Taliban? No, he doesn’t."
Of course Al-Qaeda are Sunni Muslims and Iran despised both Al-Qaeda and the Taliban so much they actually tried to help us after 9/11.