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Keep talking...I'm not working today (officially, for a change) but I expect to be back tomorrow. Did President Obama do anything horrible in the meantime...he did what?
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And to our liberal posters: remember while you are defending Obama and saying it is the right decision not to release these pictures you are in complete agreement with George W. Bush and Dick Cheney!!!!....it's comments like this that will keep the Democrats in power for a long time. lol— chasing history
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Will, maybe it is time to follow in Stu Bykofski's footsteps and admit as he did today "Imagine what columnists and editorial writers would be saying if this were a Republican-run city. Wouldn't they be screaming that corruption is in the DNA of the GOP?"— bird11- Comment removed.
- Good point, Queenie. Because it's clear that the tactics that the Republicans have employed over the past couple of years are reaping huge dividends. Yes, indeed, keep up with the shrill whining, red-baiting, blah, blah, blah. Clearly, it will deliver both Houses of Congress into Republican hands in 2010. I mean the American public is just stampeding away from Obama and Dems. LOL!— Talking point sleuth
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- From today's WSJ; a bit scary: "But the real power of the public sector is showing through in this economic crisis. Some five million private-sector workers have lost their jobs in the last year alone, and their unemployment rate is above 9% according to the BLS. By contrast, public-sector employment has grown in virtually every month of the recession, and the jobless rate for government workers is a mere 2.8%. For anyone who thinks such low unemployment numbers are good news, remember that the bulging public sector must be paid for with revenues that most governments don't currently have. This is one reason for a spate of state and local tax increases, such as $5 billion in tax increases New York state passed in April, and $12 billion in tax increases California's legislature agreed to in February that will only become law if voters pass a series of ballot initiatives next week. The next lesson we are likely to learn is that voter revolts against new taxes are no longer effective because of the might that these public- sector groups now wield. The tax-cut uprising of the late 1970s began in California with Proposition 13 capping property taxes. It then spread to more than a dozen states before it became a national movement that helped elect Ronald Reagan. The next tax revolt, during the recession of the early 1990s, helped sink officials like New Jersey Gov. James Florio and produced ballot propositions in places like Colorado that capped spending or made tax increases more difficult. Now powerful and savvy, public unions have moved effectively to quash antitax movements. In New Jersey, public unions derailed a taxpayer revolt in 2005 by using their legislative clout to water down a bill that would have created a state constitutional convention to enact property-tax reform."— Vandy
- What "fact" do you have to show that the Republican Party is building electoral momentum, Queenie? LOL!— Talking point sleuth
- America isn't easy. America is advanced citizenship. You've got to want it bad, because it's gonna put up a fight. It's gonna say, "You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil who is standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours."— legatus
- Bunch got clowned by Smerconish. The Eagles 44-6 win over Dallas was a closer contest than this one. Hey, Will, I guess that Stu B is now a member of the right wing, eh? Yo Sleuth, Cheney is in Barry O's head, no question about it.— Domenic
- what Vandy said— taxmemore
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- People want leadership bryanc, and in the absence of genuine leadership, they'll listen to anyone who steps up to the microphone. They want leadership. They're so thirsty for it they'll crawl through the desert toward a mirage, and when they discover there's no water, they'll drink the sand.— legatus
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