FIRST DRAFT

Stupid and Reprehensible

Last week I was proud to be a New Orleanian. This week not so much after the revelation of the Saints' "bounty" scandal. Football is a violent enough sport without players deliberately trying to hurt someone. Unfortunately, some Saints fans are already resorting to the lame "everyone does it" defense.  That reminds me of Tricky Dick's apologists during Watergate. The Picayune's Jeff Duncan sums the whole sordid mess up quite well:

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the Saints had become America's Team. Everyone universally loved the story of their post-storm chumps-to-champs makeover. So much for that.

The Saints will now rank alongside the Spygate Patriots and cocky Cowboys among the most despised teams in the NFL. This story will follow the Saints for years. It's not going to go away after the league hands down its punishment.

It also will tarnish the legacy of owner Tom Benson, who appeared to do everything right in this case yet was failed by the men he entrusted to lead his organization. Loomis and Payton were derelict in their duties.

This wasn't a one-time indiscretion. This was organized, institutionalized system of improper behavior and actions that took place over an extended period and condoned by team leaders.

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Everybody loves a winner. Everybody, likewise, hates a sinner. And in the NFL there are few greater sins than playing dirty on the field and defying the commissioner off of it.

In this case, not even the Saints can expect salvation.

Their punishment will be harsh. It will be extensive. And it will be just.

Weekend Question Thread

You're magically made president of the United States. What's the first thing you do? 

Realistically I would order whatever critter is the Attorney General to prepare indictments of everyone involved in planning the Iraq War, but first I'd really like to issue an executive order to force everyone on the planet to make their house numbers be visible from the street. Be, like, ten feet high in neon, actually. I spend half my life driving around in the fucking dark trying to figure out if X is the house I want or if somebody in there is going to call the cops because I keep stalking their driveway. Drives me goddamn wild. 

A. 

Brain droppings

On the road for another media convention. Here are the random bits and bites that have given me pause over the past couple days:

- With my brain clearly on autopilot, I managed to forget to pull my laptop out of my bag, thus setting off the “you are clearly a terrorist” red light on the scanner. Totally my fault, but  then the guy did the special “wipe” thing on my laptop, which somehow came back positive for something dangerous. Given the current condition of my computer, it sure as heck wasn’t a cleaning supply chemical that set it off. In any case, this meant the Full Monty: every piece of my stuff came out, every page of my book was flipped through, every one of my candy bars was scrutinized. And then, I got the “pat down.” I think this is clearly a misnomer. I was expecting the “cop show” pat down and instead got the “altar boy” treatment. Lot of rubbing, pressing and a few utterances of “now I’ll be moving to your buttocks.” It wasn’t unprofessional, but it was not exactly how I wanted to start my day.

- Flying in to Seattle, I had a layover in Minnesota. Of course, I had 10 minute to change planes, so I did the “lunge and press” approach to getting off the plane, grabbing everything I owned and racing as far as I could up the aisle  before other people got out of their seats. It’s a total dick move, and I understand this. I only try it when I’m desperate to make a connection. Otherwise, I let everyone one else off the plane first. In any case, I get off the plane, run to a monitor and scan the list, desperate to find my connection. Turns out, it’s not only at the same gate I just got out of, but it’s the SAME PLANE I JUST LEFT. When I asked the lady at the desk why I had to get off the plane if all I’m doing is turning around and getting back on the same plane, her answer was, “Well, it’s a different flight.” Uh… It’s the same plane, the same gate and I’m in the same seat. “Well, it’s a different crew and a different number,” she sniffed. “It’s different.”

- I got called to the podium for a “seating issue.” Turns out, I got moved from the window in the back to the exit row. When I got there, I was seated next to a woman who was clinically morbidly obese. She had to move the arm rest and was at least half into my seat. About five minutes before take off, a flight attendant came to her and told her that the law forbade anyone who required a belt extender from sitting in an exit row. They moved her out, which was kind of a spectacle and everyone was watching. I think it was the first time on a plane that I ever felt bad for someone other than me or a stewardess.

- I did not realize Seattle was built on the side of a mountain. The hotel is up a “steep” hill from the light rail stop. It was only three blocks and I’m in pretty good shape, but after one block, I seriously considered calling a cab and telling the driver, “Take me up to the top of the hill. Here’s $50.”

Drinking way too much for my own good. Would tell you more but it would be pointless. Sufficient to say that former students who now have expense accounts and the desire to either get back at you or honor you in some way lead to way too much liver damage for my own good.

More next week. Or when I sober up. Which ever comes first.

Doc

Friday Catblogging

I was messing around with an old Canon point and shoot, shutter speed and lights when lines started running through the display so I switched to video.

Willie B stuck his face in for a few moments.

Only 45 seconds long

WARNING: There is a period of flashing in the middle which may bother someone susceptible to strobing effect...Just saying.

Friday Ferretblogging

I bought this ugly yellow coat last year, because it was warm and on sale, and during last year's brutal winter it was more important to be warm than to look good. Jude saw me in it at one point and said, "You have murdered Big Bird and taken his powers." In the fake-fur hood, I can't see a thing and I look like a stuffed animal.

Or a particularly successful Muppet-hunter. 

The one cold day we had this week I hauled it out and left it hanging on the back of the dining room chair, and this morning I came into the room and found this: 

It looks much more fetching on her. 

A. 

Thursday Night Music: Blues Before And After

I played Smithereens 11 today to drown out the construction pukes working next to the shop. Thought I'd share:

 

 

No Comment

My late mother taught me not to speak ill of the dead unless they were war criminals or mass murderers. Andrew Breitbart was just a liar, schmuck, putz and malaka.

The preliminary cause of death is a heart attack but my money is on bad karma:

 

The Dispensing of "Limited Government"

From Album4

Shorter Brion McClanahan (Warning, Daily Caller link):

You can exchange your clean urine for Victory Cheese as soon as we remove the transvaginal probe...you slut.

In a comment a week or so ago, I said you can have a government that does things for you, or a government that does things TO you. I think we know where Brion stands.

That said, maybe the surest way to not go down that path is...tell Brion to work out some real numbers and put forth an actual plan. I bet he's far too lazy.

I Just Don't Fucking Get It

This is fucking bullshit, man.

I don't get it.  I just don't fucking get Mitt Romney at all. 

Don't get me wrong--I don't understand the idea of wanting to be president at all.  It's tons of work, there's never really a fucking second when you're NOT on the job, at least a hundred million people who you're technically supposed to represent are going to hate every fucking thing you do, and there's the possibility that you'll be the person responsible for incinerating half the people on the globe at any given moment.  So, yeah--shitty, shitty job.

But back to Romney.  Of all the fuckers in my life who have run for president, I understand him least of all.

He's got all the charisma of a comatose iguana, and he's trying to be a politician.  But there he is, trying like hell to get elected to the highest office in the land.

And the hell of it is, the guy's got, like, a quarter of a BILLION fucking dollars, and he's been running for president non-stop for the last ten years. President of the United States is one of the least fucking desirable jobs in the entire world (see above), and he's been after it for a decade.

Dude. Take a fucking vacation.

TAKE ALL THE VACATIONS.

Why tool around in places like fucking Kansas, or Georgia, or fucking Ohio in a goddamn bus, eating at every shithole diner you come across, smiling while you choke down the greasy food and shitty coffee, pretending to like the yokels you so clearly despise, when you could be kickin' it in the south of France, or Hawaii, or somewhere in fucking French Polynesia?

Man, you have options: Eat all the best food, enjoy the gorgeous vistas, have a personal ball-shaver, play real-life first-person shooter games where no one can shoot back if you want.

YOU HAVE ALL THE MONEY.

Buy a goddamned island and hunt poor people for sport. Who's gonna stop you?

I mean, you give me $250 million bucks? I'm gonna go to work for exactly one week longer, but I'm gonna ride a fat man all the way there and tie him up to the bike rack outside like it's a fucking old-West hitching post.  Why one more week of work?  Because that's how long it would take me to literally shit on the desks of everyone who's pissed me off.

With a quarter of a billion dollars, I'd do shit just because I could.

I'd stomp the shit out of some Bluetooth-wearing asshole who wouldn't shut up when he's walking behind me on the street, and when the cops showed up, I'd pay them to taser him until his ballsack EXPLODED.

Why in the fuck would I subject myself to the never-ending hell that is the American Presidential campaign?  Jesus, I'd fucking pull out a gun and shoot myself if I had to share a stage with Bachmann, Perry, Gingrich, and Santorum EVEN ONCE.

I'd go to exactly one of those debates, but I'd have a hot firefighter guy and Zooey Deschanel trading off on tonguing my dong the whole time.  Naturally, they'd be paid extremely well for their labor.

That's the only way I would be able to keep from shooting myself.  Christ.  Can you imagine having to pretend to "debate" Rick Fucking Santorum?  That's a guy who thinks that fucking birth control should be illegal.  We settled that fucking shit FIFTY FUCKING YEARS AGO.  And just because he's never gotten a proper blowjob in the intervening years, we have to act like this is a fucking issue again?  WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK?

I swear to god, I'd just rip off a huge fucking bong hit right there on national TV, and dare Ron Paul to join me.

Then I'd go punch Santorum in the dick until his asshole collapsed, because, seriously, fuck that guy.

And what would anyone do? I'D HAVE A QUARTER OF A BILLION FUCKING DOLLARS. RULES DO NOT APPLY ANYMORE.  Why would I be participating in that fucking farce, unless it was just to show people that I could fuck with them?

And then there's fucking Newt Fucking Gingrich.  One of the most colossal assholes that the American political system has ever produced, and that is a pretty fucking high bar to set.

Here's what I'd do to that asshole: I'd just go stand beside Gingrich, work up a big hocker, and spit it right in his stupid fucking fat face.  And I'd tell him that I'd have his whole family killed if he even thought about wiping it off before the "debate" was over.

Of course, this being Gingrich, he'd probably see it as a hassle-free way to get rid of his family, and commence enthusiastically cleaning his face with his little rat claws.

The point is:  Dude's got more money than god.  Go build a gold-plated helicopter that runs on dodo blood and atheist tears, and fly around dropping the Book of Mormon on "Gentiles" or something.  Do some shit that you fucking ENJOY.  For god's sakes, fuckface, you've lived your whole life insulated from 99.99% of the rest of us.  Go on and spend the rest of it the same way.  You're only making yourself and the rest of us miserable with what you're doing now.

Interlude

For a little break from it all...here is a One Minute Time Lapse video I made of the mix of clouds rolling through Madison this morning. And geese at the end too.

They make our heart sing

It's just some funky old photo to most of y'all. 

Looking closer, you might guess, correctly, that it was taken on a Sunday. For the record, it was an Easter Sunday. Also for the record, I believe it may be the only (and last) photo ever taken of me carrying a purse.

But if you're from Texas, you see more. Almost certainly, in at least one of the springtimes of your childhood, you too were situated, possibly against your will or better judgement, in a field of Lupinus texensis so your parents, aunts, uncles, and/or Meemaws could snap your picture.

Transcending boundaries of class, gender, race, ethnicity, geography, and photographic abilities, tens of thousands of bluebonnet pictures have been taken of tens of thousands of children. As well as not a few adults, dogs, new pickups, and other objects of affection. That's just how we do down here.

But here's the deal: more than the bluebonnets (which, by the way, were more likely Lupinus subcarnosus, the sand-loving cousins of texensis), more than the Easter dresses, more than any actual reason that led to the picture being taken, it's the incidentals that give it power. 

That little goober in the red didn't know this location but the kid she would be and that I used to be knew every inch of it by heart. It wasn't my backyard or an actual playground but it might as well as been. "Going down to the bay" was how most of my wandering kid adventures started out. The best ones, anyway.

I look at this and I'm standing on the very spot where it was taken, I know the stray cats living under those exact salt cedars covered with wild mustang vines. Even over the pushy prevailing wind from the southeast, I can hear the noise from the mobs of courting Least Terns that have turned the little spit of an island in the background into their rookery. The wind, the salt in the air, grassburs and sand in my socks, the oyster shell road we're standing next to, the sense memory of all of it comes in waves. Not imagined or blurred nostalgia, but involuntary and absolute experience. Time travel, or as close as I've gotten to it.

Everybody has at least one old Polaroid or some other momento like that, don't they?

Tell us about yours.

Get The Fuck Over It

Oh, GOD, I cannot with this country right now: 

My daughter's fourth-grade teacher is unmarried and pregnant. Although she is a fantastic educator, kids at that age are bound to ask questions and are old enough that you cannot placate them with a simple answer. I asked her teacher what she told the children about her condition. She told me that she informed them she was pregnant (she is due in June, so this was obvious) and that was it. I asked her if she planned to keep the baby. She told me that was her business alone and she is not obligated to explain her marital status or plans with her child to me or anybody else. I feel that this woman has significant exposure and influence over my child and my questions were perfectly acceptable. Should I take this to the principal or switch classrooms? My husband thinks we should drop it, but I don't want my daughter to get the impression that single motherhood is acceptable.

Prudence rightly tells this crazy nosy skank to fuck right the fuck off, but she comes right back: 

I am having a hard time just "dropping" this. My daughter loves her teacher and is with her for a considerable amount of her day. Her teacher is somebody she looks up to, and now I am afraid my daughter is getting a bad example. I always plan to treat her teacher with respect, but that does not mean her condition does not have consequences at her job—which is influencing young minds!

You know what, for serious find something to DO. I am not an inordinately active person but I swear to God right now, whenever somebody tells me something you know what my first reaction is? These days? It's "Do I need to be here for this meeting? Like, do you need me to do anything about whatever it is?" Okay, then. If something is not actually on fire, or someone else is already engaged in putting the fire out, my primary reaction is relief. Goody, I get to watch some TV or take a bath. Make myself some cinnamon rolls. Have you ever made cinnamon rolls from scratch? It's so easy and they taste incredible. 

What I mean is, how on earth do you have time to skulk around worrying and worrying about how your kid feels about her knocked up teacher? Don't you have work or volunteering or books to read or Netflix or something? Don't you have a kid to take care of? Doesn't your bathroom floor ALWAYS need cleaning? I clean mine like every two days and I don't understand it, the ferrets aren't even IN there, how do dust bunnies get fucking everywhere? Aren't there museums to visit or baseball games where you are, crazyface? Is this really the biggest thing you have going on? Call your friends, go see a movie. Play some chess. Eat an apple. 

I've talked before about how we seem incapable of looking at people who are living lives we wouldn't live and just shrugging, and this is exactly it. 

A. 

Democrats for Archbishop Santorum

It was fun while it lasted: the fleeting notion of Democrats crossing over to vote for Santorum. Some did but not enough to beat Mittbot. I talked to a customer from Ann Arbor who early voted for Senator Sweater Vest because he wanted to "fuck up the Romney bandwagon." It's not much of a bandwagon for a man with a Cadillac at every McMansion.

On to the post title. I've been trying to bestow an ecclesiastical title on Santorum for quite some time and decided that an arch-conservative should be an Archbishop. It's hard to imagine the Pope or a Cardinal in a sweater vest, after all...

Santorum may be a raving lunatic and religious fanatic but he has a pulse. The pundits keep telling us that Romney has show more humanity but there's no there there. He is who he is and unlike Archbishop Santorum, he's not Opus to Dei for...

Now that I've used (misused?) that horrid pun, I shall retire for the night....

How It's Done

In case anyone still cares, this is how you call someone a liar without calling him a liar: 

“Senator, you know, wait a minute,” Gregory interrupted. “You talk about this stuff every week. And by the way, it's not just in this campaign. Sir in this campaign, you talk about it, and I've gone back years when you've been in public life and you have made this a centerpiece of your public life. So the notion that these are not deeply held views worthy of question and scrutiny – it's not just about the press.”

“Yeah, they are deeply held views, but they're not what I dominantly talk about, David. You're taking things that over a course of a 20-year career, and pulling out quotes from different speeches on issues that are fairly tangential, not what people care about mostly in America, and saying, 'Oh, he wants to impose those values.' Look at my record. I never wanted to impose any of the things that you just talked about.”

“There is no evidence at all that I want to impose those values on anybody else,” he added.

Last month, Santorum told CNN host Piers Morgan that he would as president outlaw gay marriage.

BOOM.

A. 

Monday Night Music: Clouds

It's been misty, foggy and cloudy for days here in NOLA. It's driving me crazy; make that crazier. 

I'm juggling a preposterous number of balls right now so posting will be light from me this week. Hey, stop cheering. It'll give me a complex or some such shit perhaps even an edifice complex...

Enough preamble and Sheckiness, it's time for a regular feature here at First Draft, Adrastos' obsession with the Jayhawks:

 

Cheap Shots and Christ on Sale

The NYT's Charles Blow tried to make a funny about Romney's magic underwear, failed, and got smacked around for it, but what I want to talk about is this statement:

‏ @thepubliceditor: I applaud @CharlesMBlow for apologizing for his tweet on Romney. Criticism based on religion is inappropriate, on Twitter or anywhere else.

Blow really should have been reprimanded for not being able to come up with anything better than the magic underwear thing. You work at the Times, man, put your shoulder into it! Have one of your interns look up something about Mormonism that all of Twitter hasn't adequately addressed before now.

Unfunny schoolyard cracks that Conan O'Brien's writers would have passed on are indeed inappropriate. However, criticism based on religion is most assuredly appropriate, at least, as appropriate as criticism based on anything else.

We can't sit here and rule things out of bounds to talk about on the basis of somebody said the word "god" and now that means we all have to stop questioning. Faith is used too often as some kind of prophylactic against criticism in public life, an instant protection against having to explain one's positions and justify one's actions. "I believe" has come to mean "now you can't object, because I invoked the Jesus Pokémon, regardless of what insane shit comes out of my mouth next."

Which is a pity, because in the best traditions of faith doctrine can be the result of long periods of learned argument and study, and talking about one's faith doesn't have to be a threat to that faith. Sensible criticism about a politician's faith would, one can hope, prompt a deeper explanation of how that faith informs a candidate's actions.

In Romney's case, that would mean exploring a candidate's explicit view of his campaign as some kind of affirmation that AMERICA IS TEH AWESOMEST SEZ GOD and go fuck a French mime if you think differently. So I can see why his campaign wouldn't exactly welcome that discussion.

A.

x-posted at Firedoglake

Jurassic Prick

Jesus and I need to have a talk about his shitty friends, and how they're not invited to our parties anymore. 

A. 

Today on Tommy T's Obsession with the Freeperati - Putrid Potpourri Edition

OK folks - it's that time again.

Old drums of Freepitude have been piling up to the point that I can't get to the air filtration controls any more, and that's just not safe.

OK - blowers are on 10 - let's get cracking!

First of all, Jim Rob has had two bold red banners up on the index page for some time now :

Newt's Position on Activist Judges, Rebalancing the Judiciary, Restoring Freedom!

Romney's positions: Abortion, gay rights, gun control, liberal judges, mandated socialist/fascist healthcare (RomneyCare)!

Strangely, they both disappeared this past Monday. I wonder why? Perhaps Jimbo has realized that he's backed the wrong horse (again), and is preparing to jump on the Santorum Explosion?

But at this point in time (the end of Janurary) it's balls to the wall for Newtie!

I dreamed of trolling against Newt in my maidenform bra and all I got was this big old zot
Washington Times ^ | Jan 20, 2012 | Stephen Dinan
Posted on Friday, January 20, 2012 9:33:09 PM by Hoodat

Hmm - the mods appear to have altered the title just a tad.

(This thread no longer exists, BTW)

ORANGEBURG, S.C. — Newt Gingrich on Friday backed at least a portion of the Dream Act, saying that he would grant a path to citizenship to illegal immigrant youths who agree to sign up and serve in the U.S. military.
That’s a much tighter standard than the full Dream Act, which President Obama wants. That legislation would allow legal status and an eventual path to citizenship for children and young adults who join the military, but would also apply to those who go to college — a much broader class of people.
“I am opposed to anybody who came here illegally getting citizenship. That’s entirely wrong,” the GOP presidential candidate and former House speaker told a young man who asked about illegal immigrant students. “The only exception I would make is if young people, the ones you are dealing with, are willing to join the American military and serve the United States.”
Speaking a day before South Carolina’s GOP primary, Mr. Gingrich said that would put them on par with any other foreign-born legal resident who joins the U.S. military, and who under the law has a path to citizenship.
Mr. Gingrich’s stance puts him in between Mr. Obama and GOP rival Mitt Romney, who has said he would veto the Dream Act.

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Remember the outrage on these boards when the Dems were pushing for passage of the DREAM Act?

1 posted on Friday, January 20, 2012 9:33:23 PM by Hoodat

I remember when you still had an account on Free Republic.

To: Hoodat

You’re really on an anti-Newt rampage tonight. Who are you supporting? Mitt or Santorum or Paul

2 posted on Friday, January 20, 2012 9:34:47 PM by ReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it's the new black. Mmm mmm mmm...)

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To: ReneeLynn

I’m supporting the kid from Winchester, VA.

6 posted on Friday, January 20, 2012 9:38:58 PM by Hoodat (Because they do not change, Therefore they do not fear God. -Psalm 55:19-)

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To: Hoodat

Newt lovers will disregard this just like global warming, lobbying freddie mac, the Newt leftist here on this board love him working goverment for 20 years then cashing in making 3-5 million a year, but romney can’t invest his own money open up a business and make a real honest living. Amazing group of leftist and hypocrites we now have here.

3 posted on Friday, January 20, 2012 9:36:21 PM by GoMonster (GO)

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To: GoMonster

You’re calling Jim a leftist?

5 posted on Friday, January 20, 2012 9:38:04 PM by ReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it's the new black. Mmm mmm mmm...)

To: gswilder

So is this what we have come to as conservatives?

Support a serial adulterer
Support a person who supports replacing Obamacare (said there were a good 300 pages of Obamacare)
Endorsed a government mandate in healthcare in 1994 & 1995, and beyond.
In 2003, Newt talked about how the government has to take the lead in regulatory control of healthcare
In 2005, he talks about redistribution of wealth to the poor to support healthcare
His healthcare thinktank has taken in $30 million from insurance companies
In 2011, Newt opposed Paul Ryans medicare reform. Said it was too much radical reform.
Newt claimed FDR was the greatest president of the 20th century
Support a person who made a global warming ad with Pelosi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuBd1atfhQ4
Supported Government subsidies for Ethanol to reduce GHG’s
Said he believed carbon emissions are going up in the atmosphere
Support a person who would have signed the dream act
Support a person who goes after capitalism (Bain)
Only speaker sanctioned with Ethics issues
Forced to resign from the house (400 members, including 100 republicans voted him out)
Made $1.5m from lobbying Freddie and Fannie
Was critical of Bush’s anti-terror policies
Opposed the surge in Iraq
These are just a few things I am aware of. And they are not conspiracies, lies or things taken out of context. Almost all the items above, you can find a video of Newt saying them in his own words.
To me, it seems like Newt is flipping and flopping as much as Romney.

66 posted on Friday, January 20, 2012 11:37:28 PM by gswilder

Wow. gswilder tells it like it is.  Let's find out more about him!

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This account has been banned or suspended.

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Or not.

To: GoMonster

bye

75 posted on Friday, January 20, 2012 11:51:33 PM by Jim Robinson (Rebellion is brewing!! Impeach the corrupt Marxist bastard!!)

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To: freedomfiter2

Wow, we have a once in a lifetime opportunity to elect a real conservative and it looks like we’re getting another hold your nose election. My sentiments exactly. And with McNewt as the nominee, we may actually lose.

42 posted on Friday, January 20, 2012 10:45:47 PM by Hoodat (Because they do not change, Therefore they do not fear God. -Psalm 55:19-)

Hoodat has been posting since 2004.

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This account has been banned or suspended.

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LET THE PURGES COMMENCE ANEW!!

To: gswilder

And I saw a video of him last night talking about replacing Obamacare with another similar plan.

You're finally getting Newt.
He is a technocrat. Full of "ideas" but they all involve tinkering with Gov't.
He doesn't really have the vision to return power to the power notwithstanding his "soaring" rhetoric.
Newt is unsteady and will disappoint. Guaranteed.

51 posted on Friday, January 20, 2012 11:06:55 PM by Siena Dreaming

This account has been banned or suspended.

To: GoMonster

the Newt leftist here on this board love him working goverment for 20 years then cashing in making 3-5 million a year, but romney can’t invest his own money open up a business and make a real honest living.

As someone who has called Romney some pretty vile names I have to wonder why this very important fact can't even be discussed here. It seems all discussion of Romney is verbotten (sp)--he's the enemy, and any DISCUSSION of who he is beyond anti-Mormon stuff is out of the question.
I seem to recall a website where everyone heaped praise on Sarah Palin for starting a business and meeting a payroll. I seem to recall a website where Obama was bashed relentlessly for living only in the world of academia and government/'community leadership.'
I seem to recall a website where we wanted Washington insiders out, and people who were actual businessmen were in, and where capitalism was championed--real capitalism, not government payouts, but where failing companies were reorganized and all the realities (some not so comfortable) that entailed.
I keep looking for that website, where having money wasn't a crime particularly when the rich were giving much of their money to charity (in Romney's case, this includes many non-Mormon causes). That same site praised Sarah Palin for her devotion to her husband and kids through good times and bad.
Not sure what happened to that site. I keep finding this other one, where a serial philanderer and do-as-I-say, not-as-I-do Big Government guy who took money from the hated Fannie Mae when he wasn't in government or teaching (not that there's anything wrong with either, but one needs more varied experience) is being toasted as a conservative icon.

44 posted on Friday, January 20, 2012 10:49:56 PM by Darkwolf377 ( It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.--C.S. Lewis)

This account has been banned or suspended.

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I told you there wouldn't be anybody left in the end except Jim Rob and his relatives, didn't I?

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Now, of course, Santorum has bubbled up from behind, and talks all that Gawd Talk.

Suddenly - the two bold red headers at the top of the index page are gone with the Cain Train.

I wonder if Jimbo is going to apologise to all the Santorum backers and reinstate their accounts?

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More after the Higgs Boson...

Sunday Morning Video: Leap Day

I know I've posted 30 Rock clips before but this is a seasonal classic. So, put on your yellow and blue togs and meet Leap Day William: