“The White House’s ‘plan’ consists of an 11-page outline, which has not been scored by the Congressional Budget Office or posted online as legislative text. So they want to reorganize one-sixth of the United States’ economy with a document shorter than a comic book, and they’re complaining that they can’t find our plan on their own website? C’mon,”
You’ll note John says in the above video that Republicans have “better ideas” and that they’d be “talking about them over the next week”? Was this it? Seriously? A one page bullet point list that surely wasn’t “scored by the CBO”? LOL
These are improvements that incorporate Republican provisions you idiot. What an embarrassment this asshat of a clown Boehner is to the state of Ohio. Disingenuous little orange bastard.
In 2000, when he dropped out of the Presidential race, GOP Gubernatorial candidate John Kasich called W. Bush his “soul brother.”
In a June 26, 2009 CNN story on the Bush years (featured on Kasich’s campaign website), Kasich said:
“The Republican Party is my vehicle, not my master,” he said. “I mean I am here to try to bring prosperity back to this state, to make sure families are better off. I’m not here to carry anyone’s banner.”
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“They [The Bush Administration] stopped solving problems,” said Kasich, who after his House tenure worked on Wall Street and as a cable TV political commentator and host. “Whenever you don’t have any ideas and are afraid to put things forward, you are going to lose energy. That’s what happened to the GOP and frankly I’m as mad as anybody in this country about what they did in the last 10 years, or since 2001.”
Today, in the Dispatch:“Jeb Bush in Ohio for Kasich”
Please respect Karl Rove’s right to publicly rant about family values while privately destroying it. Twice.
Famed Republican strategist Karl Rove got divorced last week, Politico reports.
Spokeswoman Dana Perino said, “Karl Rove and his wife, Darby, were granted a divorce last week. The couple came to the decision mutually and amicably, and they maintain a close relationship and a strong friendship. There will be no further comment and the family requests that its privacy be respected.”
Karl married Darby Hickson in 1986. They have one son, Andrew. Rove’s previous marriage to a Houston socialite ended after a year.
Whatever will we do now that Karl has completely and totally destroyed the sanctity of marriage. Again. Values! VALUES!
Live by the sword, you die by it I guess. The next time you hear a conservative blowhard talk about supporting the troops, remind them that at midnight last night the GOP delayed a vote on “funding the troops” in order to delay health care reform. Only 3 (count ‘em 3) Republicans voted with Democrats to end debate and vote on the measure. 33 actually voted against the troops. You’ll note the silence on this among the wingnut blogosphere.
What was in it?
- More than $100 billion operations and maintenance, and military personnel requirements for ongoing military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and to support preparations to continue withdrawal from Iraq.
- More than $23 billion for equipment used by our service members in Iraq and Afghanistan – including critical funds to accelerate the deployment of new mine-resistant vehicles
- More than $150 billion to increase readiness and training of our troops.
- Nearly $30 billion for health care for service members and their families.
- A 3.4% pay increase for our brave service men and women.
Holding the troops hostage because they don’t want health care reform and wish to harm this President and Congress in any way possible to win back some measure of power in 2010. Pathetic. Absolutely, positively pathetic!
Wonder how the “READ THE BILL!!!” folks will respond to this?
At a town hall meeting Wednesday Sen. Jim Inhofe told Chickasha residents he does not need to read the 1,000 page health care reform bill, he will simply vote against it.
“I don’t have to read it, or know what’s in it. I’m going to oppose it anyways,” he said.
Don’t expect much flailing of arms and gnashing of teeth from the right on this:
Q. What was your last assignment?
A. I made a photo of the president walking out, seeing Midland, Texas, for the first time as an ex-president. Midland wasn’t the last stop. We went to an event in Waco, where we said our goodbyes and he left for the ranch. Aboard the plane to Waco, he asked me what I was doing. … Then he said, “Let’s keep in touch.” Instead of a handshake, he gave me a fist bump. That’s how it ended.
The McCain campaign is un-American. They drag the American flag on the ground after a rally. Not just any American flag, but a ginormous American flag. Their treatment of this flag is despicable and violates rules of handling for our beloved red, white, and blue. Simply horrifying is the following video:
Looks like the RNC had to dress ‘em all up to parade them out at their convention:
The Republican National Committee appears to have spent more than $150,000 to clothe and accessorize vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her family since her surprise pick by John McCain in late August.
According to financial disclosure records, the accessorizing began in early September and included bills from Saks Fifth Avenue in St. Louis and New York for a combined $49,425.74.
The records also document a couple of big-time shopping trips to Neiman Marcus in Minneapolis, including one $75,062.63 spree in early September.
The RNC also spent $4,716.49 on hair and makeup through September after reporting no such costs in August.
Wheeeee! I sure hope nobody got a $400 haircut. You know how “conservatives” hate that!
Can we get some commentary from Joe the non-Plumber?
Despite Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) oft-repeated vow to “veto every single bill with earmarks†and to “make them famous,†he has indicated he will vote for today’s bill, apparently earmarks and all. This case seems to be yet another time that McCain’s anti-earmark rhetoric can’t match his actions.
Remember when John McCain blasted Barack Obama for raising money in California? Went something like this:
“He talked about siding with the people just before he flew off for a fundraiser in Hollywood with Barbra Streisand and his celebrity friends,” McCain told a crowd in Ohio. “Let me tell you, my friends, there’s no place I’d rather be than right here with the working men and women of Ohio.”
Guess what. John McCain says one thing to the good hard working people of Ohio in public, but then in private he jets off to – of all places – Los Angeles, California! To do what? Raise money from NOT elites who have bundled more than $250,000 each! You smell that? That’s hypocrisy cooking, my friends!
The McCain-Palin Victory California Leadership team is sponsoring the October 1 event at the Century Plaza Hyatt Regency in L.A. Supporters who bundle at least $250,000 receive entrance to a host committee dinner and private reception; others can attend the general reception for $1,000 per person (or $2,500 per person for a limited edition “McCain-Palin CA” lapel pin).
While the wingnut blogosphere is abuzz with the House Republicans staging an energy revolt and John McCain’s cries of “tell Congress to get back to work!”, house minority leader and GOPer hypocrite extroardinaire is…
So to all wingnut bloggers: Tell John McCain to tell John Boehner to GET BACK TO WORK!
ROFL. This is too easy. Please don’t talk to me anymore about offshore drilling and the Democrats being on vacation. It’s obviously not a serious argument and like many suspected just a political game.
I have no idea what John McCain was doing during his March visit to Europe. Probably out buying some slippers or something. What I DO know is that he wasn’t visiting wounded troops in Landstuhl, Germany. The question the right may want to ask themselves is why does John McCain hate the wounded troops so?
All of this is perfectly understandable. His agenda probably didn’t bring him close so it was not planned. He was in Paris, Berlin, and London. None of those are anywhere near Landstuhl:
What did John McCain choose to do over visiting the honorable men and women of our armed forces who so bravely put their lives on the line for us each and every day?
Wait for it…
Waaaait for it…
He decided to have a $1,000-$2,300 a plate luncheon fundraiser for his campaign. That’s what John McCain decided to do. John McCain decided to blow off wounded troops in order to raise thousands of dollars from Brits for his Presidential campaign.
You wingnuts got anything else for us? Really? Because so far this shit is way too easy.
Sen. John McCain will step off a plane in Iraq this weekend to see firsthand the effects of the troop increase that he has championed and that his presidential ambitions are tied to, at the outset of a week-long series of private meetings with Middle Eastern and European leaders that will be as much an overseas audition as it is political theater aimed at voters in the United States.
His strategists believe that the image of McCain standing shoulder-to-shoulder with world leaders in world capitals will nonetheless crystallize one of the campaign’s most important themes: that McCain alone has the experience and foreign policy savvy to be president. Republicans hope to highlight a “stature gap” between McCain and his Democratic rivals, Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama.
First thought: Sounds suspiciously “campaigny”
Second thought: So much for the “stature gap”. LOL.
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While the wingnut blogosphere is abuzz with the House Republicans staging an energy revolt and John McCain’s cries of “tell Congress to get back to work!”, house minority leader and GOPer hypocrite extroardinaire is…
