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“There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet’s bombast!”
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  1. Another Chuck | January 25, 2013 at 10:42 am

    I Propose an amendment to the Constitution:
    “All elected government officials, must pass a stringent background and periodic mental health checks before making any Laws or Decisions that will affect American lives!” This would solve many more problems than restictive gun legislation.

  2. Ron May | January 25, 2013 at 11:35 am

    Every time I read applewood’s or some of Frank’s, or pammala’s, or Susie’s comments I am reminded of this commercial. :)

    http://commercialsociety.wordpress.com/2012/06/28/state-farm-doesnt-think-you-should-believe-everything-on-the-internet/

  3. Frank | January 25, 2013 at 11:36 am

    Good suggestion, Another Chuck.

    I think something which might have been posted on another tread by applewood (i think) merits being re-posted on this thread. If the post belongs to someone else, I apologize. I think it goes something like this:

    “…you know it’s cold when you notice that the libs walking outside all have their hands in their …own… pockets…”

  4. Dave Hicks | January 25, 2013 at 12:27 pm

    Another Chuck @ 10:42 am

    How about to add, “We should publish a list of all the politicians — with a special note / symbol when they have a CHP. BTW, that would have include Feinstein until her hypocrisy made headlines. http://tinyurl.com/bhu3a5v

    Then we should Google map them.

    Or maybe all “media” folk with CHPs.

  5. Debbie | January 25, 2013 at 12:27 pm

    Yes, it merits reposting, because it’s so gosh darn original. Sarcasm font off now.

  6. Warren | January 25, 2013 at 12:39 pm

    Interesting that Dave Hicks notes what he sees as Feinstein’s hypocrisy for having a CHP, but is silent on the NRA blaming violent imagery in entertainment yet hiring as spokesman someone whose whole career has been selling violent imagery in entertainment. Dave Hicks also had nothing to say on the, ahem, “discrepancy” of the NRA calling for a big governemnt mandate for guns in schools without saying a word about funding it, while it’s had Grover Norquist as a board member.

    At this rate, if he’s not careful Dave Hicks will undo all the cut and pasting he’s done to make himself appear to be a rigidly logical, honest thinking non-partisan.

  7. Kristen | January 25, 2013 at 12:49 pm

    Spend a lot of time with your hands in your pocket, Frank?

  8. Dave Hicks | January 25, 2013 at 1:15 pm

    BTW, a very good read: http://tinyurl.com/acnd8ub

    CQ WEEKLY – COVER STORY

    Jan. 19, 2013 – 4:05 p.m.

    Keeping Score: The Power of Lawmaker ‘Report Cards’

    By Eliza Newlin Carney, CQ Staff

    SNIP
    **

  9. Frank | January 25, 2013 at 1:22 pm

    hey Kristen,

    yep! always my own pockets, never someone else’s.

  10. Another Chuck | January 25, 2013 at 1:37 pm

    Dave Hicks, I like it! I suprised someone hasn’t done a freedom of information search to see who in Congress has or had a CCP. I bet you would see a bunch of D’s following the names.

  11. Art Hill | January 25, 2013 at 1:38 pm

    “Every time I read applewood’s or some of Frank’s, or pammala’s, or Susie’s comments…”

    Sockpuppet theater.

  12. wayne goodman | January 25, 2013 at 1:55 pm

    11.“Every time I read applewood’s or some of Frank’s, or pammala’s, or Susie’s comments…”

    Sockpuppet theater.

    Comment by Art Hill — January 25, 2013 @ 1:38 pm

    Art, I would add Leon and Henry to that mix as well. There is a quotation,
    sometimes attributed to Plato (though not substantiated) that seems appropriate to most of those comments. It goes like this:

    “Wise men speak when they have something to say. Fools talk when they have to say something”

  13. Jack | January 25, 2013 at 3:14 pm

    I Propose an amendment to the Constitution:
    “All elected government officials, must pass a stringent background and periodic mental health checks before making any Laws or Decisions that will affect American lives!” This would solve many more problems than restictive gun legislation.

    Comment by Another Chuck — January 25, 2013 @ 10:42 am

    If you did that, we’d be down to a one party system as the Democrats would be disqualified from participating in the legislative process.

  14. pammala | January 25, 2013 at 3:27 pm

    WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court ruled Friday that President Obama violated the Constitution when he sidestepped the Senate to fill open spots on a labor relations panel, in a major setback for the president.

    Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/01/25/court-obama-appointments-are-unconstitutional/?test=latestnews#ixzz2J1MvNq2E

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

  15. Leon | January 25, 2013 at 3:32 pm

    I Propose an amendment to the Constitution:
    “All elected government officials, must pass a stringent background and periodic mental health checks before making any Laws or Decisions that will affect American lives!” This would solve many more problems than restictive gun legislation.

    Comment by Another Chuck — January 25, 2013 @ 10:42 am

    If you did that, we’d be down to a one party system as the Democrats would be disqualified from participating in the legislative process.

    Comment by Jack — January 25, 2013 @ 3:14 pm

    IMO it should be more restrictive. . .if one is an attorney or member of any BAR they would automatically be ineligible for any elected office.

  16. Debbie | January 25, 2013 at 4:07 pm

    Sci-Fi fans, support a local author and buy this book.
    http://us.macmillan.com/thesixguntarot/RSBelcher

    “A jaw-dropping first novel that explodes across genre lines. Wild, gritty, insanely inventive and a hell of a lot of fun!”
    —Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of Dust & Decay and Assassin’s Code

  17. J.M. White | January 25, 2013 at 4:27 pm

    Just finished ordering it, Debbie. Lord knows when I’ll be able to read it, but I’m always willing to get a new hardcover for the Sci-Fi collection. It looks really interesting. Thank you much!

  18. Hillary | January 25, 2013 at 4:46 pm

    Ohhhhh pammala @14…remember she who laughs last, laughs best…

    The judge who heard the recess appointment challenge was a Bush appointee…gee, I wonder how he would rule?
    This case will wind up being heard by the US Supreme Court.

    Meanwhile, some background to expand your limited knowledge of recess appointment challenges:

    In 2004, Democrats unsuccessfully tried to challenge the constitutionality of George W. Bush’s recess appointment of Judge William Pryor. The GOP congressional leadership is reportedly outraged that Obama would use a recess appointment to get around there obstruction, but interestingly many of these same Republicans who are outraged today were defending the constitutionality of George W. Bush’s recess appointment of Pryor.

    The Republican meme that Obama’s appointment of Cordray is an unprecedented executive power grab is completely false. All presidents dating back to George Washington have used recess appointments, so there is nothing unusual about what Obama has done. In the face of another defeat, Republicans are foolishly retreating back to their narrative that Obama is a political strongman who does not respect the constitution.

    President George W. Bush made 171 recess appointments, of which 99 were to full-time positions; Ronald Reagan averaged more recess appointments in a year (30) than Barack Obama has made during his entire presidency – as of December 8, 2011, President Barack Obama had made 28 recess appointments, all to full-time positions.

    http://www.politicususa.com/obama-recess-appointment.html

  19. gdad | January 25, 2013 at 4:51 pm

    Tell you what, Leon, we’ll also add that being a member of the NRA or the V whatever it is in Virginia also makes you ineligible.

  20. Debbie | January 25, 2013 at 5:12 pm

    You’re welcome, J.M. and I hope you’ll like it. I’ve know the author since he was a little boy, and I’m so happy for him that his book was published.

  21. Debbie | January 25, 2013 at 5:13 pm

    Make that, “known”.

  22. J.M. White | January 25, 2013 at 5:19 pm

    http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/25/16700938-virginia-governor-opposes-electoral-college-change?lite

    Well, well, well. It looks like ol’ Transvaginal Bob is listening to his constituents finally. He must be hedging the bets on his political future.

    And in other news: the S&P 500 closes above 1500 for the first time since G-Dub shoved us in the ditch and ran, putting it’s ten-year return index at a rate not seen since Clinton was in office. Yep… business sure does suffer under Democratic administrations.

  23. Kristen | January 25, 2013 at 5:22 pm

    The markets heart Obama.

  24. Another Chuck | January 25, 2013 at 6:02 pm

    The market likes 3 rounds of quantitative easing. There is more money out there and it finds its way in to equities at some point. The other reason, is the conservative investment vehicles are paying less than 1%, so more money than normal goes into the markets. The fact that the market has rallied is in spite of Obama, just like the rise in domestic oil production. Bush put all those policies in place regarding domestic oil and Obama takes credit when it suits him. We have reached a long-term triple-top on the S&P… Look for a huge market pullback soon. I would consider buying puts.

  25. Dan Casey | January 25, 2013 at 6:25 pm

    “The fact that the market has rallied is in spite of Obama, just like the rise in domestic oil production. Bush put all those policies in place regarding domestic oil and Obama takes credit when it suits him.”

    AC, tell us more about “the domestic oil policies Bush put in place.” Can you cite a bill, or bills? Please give us the numbers and the year they passed.

    Certainly there must be facts to document your claim . . . (unless there are none, I mean).

  26. Another Chuck | January 25, 2013 at 6:36 pm

    I will Dan, but in the meantime, please tell what Obama did policy wise to increase domestic oil production? He likes to take credit for it… What has he done other than killing the Keystone pipeline and the jobs that would come with it.

  27. Another Chuck | January 25, 2013 at 7:03 pm

    Here is a good link to support my position: http://factcheck.org/2012/10/obamas-drilling-denials/

    Permits and leases on Federal land down 36% in Obama’s first 4 Vs Bush’s last 4. It actually takes some time after the permitting to start producing oil. Hence, the delay in the benefits. The Bush Administration expanded drilling and yes even the evil fracking on federal land Obama is going the other direction.

    A friend of mine who trades in the oil and gas markets, can send me many more links with actual,up to date industry data …if you have any interest continuing this conversation

  28. Hillary | January 25, 2013 at 7:10 pm

    AC @24 – there weren’t “all those policies in place regarding domestic oil”

    In FACT:
    President [Bush] voiced a “goal” of replacing more than three-quarters “of our oil imports from the Middle East” by the year 2025. He did not mention that the US has grown more dependent on imported oil and petroleum products since he took office.

    The US imported 60% of its oil and petroleum products during the first 11 months of last year, up from just under 53% in President Clinton’s last year in office.” http://www.ontheissues.org/Celeb/George_W__Bush_Energy_+_Oil.htm

    Bush’s suggested policies on oil:

    Open new federal lands to oil exploration and drilling
    Ease regulations on refineries and pipelines
    Promote domestic on oil exploration, especially in ANWR
    [USA Today, p. 2A , May 14, 2001]
    Provide tax incentives for the purchase of high-mileage cars
    .
    Nothing promoted by GW Bush positively impacted the US economy.

  29. Hillary | January 25, 2013 at 7:17 pm

    Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal: GOP Must Stop Being ‘Stupid Party’
    http://tinyurl.com/a4vb2wh

    Amen and Hallelujah they have seen the light!

  30. Jason Perdue | January 25, 2013 at 7:26 pm

    AC, so the market rallied in spite of Obama, but the budget deficit and the national debt are totally Obama’s doing? Please explain.

    Better yet, would you have said that the market rally would have been in spite of Mitt Romney had he been elected President?

  31. Frank | January 25, 2013 at 7:27 pm

    Hey you good folks,

    I know that I’ve been pretty quiet about ol’ billary’s shriek Wednesday, when she effectively yelled out about about Benghazi, “WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE?”

    Well, I think the below pictures will explain my silence.

    Just remember, “what difference does it make?”

    http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=hp-pvdt&sz=all&va=bill+clinton+monica+funny

  32. wayne goodman | January 25, 2013 at 7:36 pm

    Very rarely do I ever aqree with or have anything positive to say about
    State Sen. Ralph Smith. But today I will congratulate him for taking the right stand on Carrico’s ridiculous power grabbing bill to attempt to allot the state’s electoral votes by Congressional District, with the one winning the most Congressional Districts getting the two at large votes.
    Thanks for standing for the principle of fair play Sen. Smith.

  33. Another Chuck | January 25, 2013 at 7:36 pm

    Jason, I have been very consistent regarding my equal criticism on both major parties on spending and deficits. It’s been going on at an unsustainable level for decades. I do believe the economy would be better if Romney was elected. He is a very pro-business guy. Obama didn’t even mention the still high unemployment numbers in his inaugural address Obama has not met with his jobs council in over a year. Sometimes perception is reality regarding BHO.

  34. Dave Hicks | January 25, 2013 at 8:14 pm

    OUTSTANDING!!!!

    http://tinyurl.com/bds2jao

    **
    Guantanamo and the Court: Next round

    Stepping out of the way of an internal government feud over prosecuting war crimes cases at Guantanamo Bay, the D.C. Circuit Court on Friday accepted the Obama administration’s plea to overturn a conviction [http://sblog.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/CADC-order-on-Bahlul-1-25-13.pdf ] in one of those cases. That set the stage for the administration to seek what it calls “further review” in court to determine the kind of crimes it can prosecute. The prospects are not good for further review in the Circuit Court, however, so a Supreme Court appeal may be next.

    These developments came in the midst of a disagreement within the U.S. military over the powers of the military commissions at Guantanamo. The chief prosecutor there moved to drop some charges in several cases, including some of those leveled against the five charged with planning the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. The prosecutor had concluded that those specific charges should not be pursued in the wake of a D.C. Circuit ruling last October that had put at least one form of war crimes complaint out of the reach of a commission. But then the Pentagon official who has overall supervision of the Guantanamo commissions said it was premature to drop those charges, until after the government had a chance to test the Circuit Court’s ruling. That test is what is now developing.

    In its ruling last fall (discussed in this post [http://tinyurl.com/9s363dn ]), the Circuit Court declared that military commissions have no authority to try one of the most common anti-terrorism charges — providing aid to a terrorist network or leader. That overturned the conviction of a Yemeni national already known to the Supreme Court — Salim Ahmed Hamdan. He was the central figure in a 2006 Supreme Court decision [ http://tinyurl.com/ahxzcb7 ] that had nullified an earlier version of the Guantanamo war crimes tribunals. He was then convicted by a newly constituted commission.

    SNIP
    **

    Cue up the essential liberty v. safety debate.

  35. Dan Casey | January 25, 2013 at 8:25 pm

    “Please tell what Obama did policy wise to increase domestic oil production? He likes to take credit for it… What has he done other than killing the Keystone pipeline and the jobs that would come with it.”
    –Comment by Another Chuck.

    AC,

    I don’t know if Obama has adopted any such policy. That’s an issue I have neither researched nor made any claims about. You’re the one who claimed Bush adopted some policies. I simply asked which ones. We are waiting.

    As for the Keystone pipeline, that was proposed to carry foreign, rather than domestic, oil. You’re aware of that, right?

  36. Dan Casey | January 25, 2013 at 8:34 pm

    AC,

    Your claim was that Obama is taking credit for Bush energy policies. I simply asked the subversive question, what policies are you talking about? Apparently that is a very difficult question. Fyi, permits and leases on federal land are not policies. They’re permits and leases. Are you claiming that Obama is stealing credit for Bush’s permit and lease denials?

    Perhaps you can persuade your friend to post bill numbers, the regulations, or the executive orders by Bush — aka the policies — that you claim Obama is taking credit for.

  37. Dan Casey | January 25, 2013 at 8:40 pm

    Jason P,

    The market crash in 08 was Obama’s fault. The market rally since 2009 is all because of George W. Bush. This is what applewood believes, and anything else is simply a lib conspiracy.

  38. Another Chuck | January 25, 2013 at 9:08 pm

    As for the Keystone pipeline, that was proposed to carry foreign, rather than domestic, oil. You’re aware of that, right?

    Comment by Dan Casey — January 25, 2013 @ 8:25 pm

    Yep, not from the Middle East though which is a further step in the right direction.

  39. gdad | January 25, 2013 at 9:49 pm

    “Look for a huge market pullback soon”

    Seems like we’ve been seeing this comment for months and months now.

  40. Art Hill | January 25, 2013 at 10:23 pm

    Getting pretty bad when you’re too dumb for Fox News.

  41. Art Hill | January 25, 2013 at 10:28 pm

    “What has he done other than killing the Keystone pipeline and the jobs that would come with it.”

    Certainly your wise energy investor friend knows the southern leg of Keystone is being built as we speak. You don’t build a southern end without connecting it to the northern end.

  42. Another Chuck | January 25, 2013 at 10:35 pm

    Well Dan, I wished I had phrased my statement a little differently, and I will do it now. The Bush Administration and the Federal government they operated was much more conducive to permitting and leasing federal land for oil and natural gas speculation. Is that policy?…informal, but I think so. Now the Bush Administration’s philosphy of drilling on Fed land is reaping benefits. Obama took ownership of the results of this oil speculation by Bush,despite his own actions which have limited oil permitting and land leasing by 36%.

    Hey, who wants to go see the new Jeep plant in China?

  43. Leon | January 25, 2013 at 10:40 pm

    LOL. . .looks like it’s time for Obama to lawyer up. . .NLRB; Fast & Furious; Guantanamo; and EPA regulations on the Gulf Coast. Too bad Michelle and he had to give up their law licenses but; since he will use
    government attorneys; there goes the deficit spending again! Perhaps another issue will be on the table after February 15?

  44. Another Chuck | January 25, 2013 at 10:46 pm

    gdad, if I were you I’d go all in on the stock market right now…who knows, you might make a fortune. Check out the S&P historical chart and make your own decision.

  45. Jason Perdue | January 25, 2013 at 11:10 pm

    AC, if the spending has been going on for decades, why the animosity for Obama? You may not agree with his methods, but these methods are producing positive results. Perhaps we are not progressing quicky enough, but you said yourself the problem has been decades in the making. My perception is that the President is making slow but steady progress. You disagree. Okay. We could rehash old arguments here. Instead, let’s forgo finger pointing and agree that there is much work to be done.

  46. Art Hill | January 25, 2013 at 11:15 pm

    Hey AChuck. Why don’t you tell us about the millions of acres of federal lands already leased to Big Oil? Why don’t they drill? Oh, right, they ‘re waiting for higher prices! And your Jeep plant argument has already been shot down in flames. Try and keep up.

  47. Another Chuck | January 26, 2013 at 12:22 am

    Jason, you asked, why the animosity for Obama? He’s just a big government guy who’s career path has extracted much more from the GDP than he has added to it. His political style divides rather than unites, which is evident by the recent Gallup poll this week which had him tied with Bush in terms of polarization. I’m for a limited central government and cannot embrace him in any way at the policy level. I find the modern day GOP only slightly better. I agree, there is much work to be done.

  48. Dan Casey | January 26, 2013 at 12:45 am

    AC,

    I would like you to give 3 specific examples of how Obama uses his political style to divide.

    I’d also like to hear from you specific suggestions of steps he could take to unite.

  49. Debbie | January 26, 2013 at 6:36 am

    This true story, boys, is why you should not play with machinery.
    http://www.snopes.com/risque/penile/scrotum.asp

  50. pammala | January 26, 2013 at 7:39 am

    “Ohhhhh pammala @14…remember she who laughs last, laughs best…”

    oh so you think all of that is FUNNY? no wonder you voted for a small minded islamic commie from indonesia

  51. Kristen | January 26, 2013 at 8:28 am

    Republicans hate him and failed to unseat him….because their bitter, we’re supposed to believe that Obama is a “divider”.

  52. Kristen | January 26, 2013 at 8:52 am

    That should be they’re”. And it appears that the VA GOP are going to fail in their attempt to hijack the Virginia electoral votes.

  53. gdad | January 26, 2013 at 9:33 am

    AC, I’m not pretending to give anybody investing advice here. I merely pointed out that we heard pretty much all of last year — maybe even from you at some point — that the market was due for a huge correction. Heck, Dan even told us that he pulled his cash out of stocks several months ago ago.

  54. applewood | January 26, 2013 at 9:55 am

    I`ll give you examples of how it divides…Do you read your own `site` ? Attacks the rich…Attacks any source of energy that might require extraction….. Is a socialist/Marxist/Communist….CRAPS all over our Men and Women in the Military..and, last but certainly not least, look at US on this `site`..Do we talk to each other like we`re friends ? NO, we`re as divided as it gets. Its all about ideologies, and I ABHOR yours and you, obviously, ABHOR mine. Obama said(among many other lies) that he would bring us together..Ha ! He would provide the `most transparent government` in history..Ha ! he has LIED…His lies make you happy…his LIES make me sick….Division, plain and simple.

  55. J.M. White | January 26, 2013 at 10:10 am

    Ow, Debbie! And you’re reading stories of scrotal mutilation at 6:30 in the morning, why?

    I’ve seen the story before, but… GAH! It makes you wonder what else people are doing at work when they think no one is around.

  56. Eddie | January 26, 2013 at 10:11 am

    To back AC up, its hard to come up with just three. But don’t take our word for it. Did you watch face the nation last week? Not once, but twice by two different contributors, it was said that BO is poking his finger in the eye of the republicans and thereby half the country who support them. Once was by Bob Woodward who is obviously non partisan, has the access to know and the credibility for it to mean something. The other was a top LBJ aide who was making the point that LBJ would never be this decisive. To not see BO’s divisiveness is to be troubling bind or completely out of touch with reality when even the liberal news media is allowing segments to air about it.

  57. wayne goodman | January 26, 2013 at 10:16 am

    49.This true story, boys, is why you should not play with machinery.
    http://www.snopes.com/risque/penile/scrotum.asp

    Comment by Debbie — January 26, 2013 @ 6:36 am

    Good thing he wasn’t a VCDL/NRA member. He’d probably have been using a shotgun barrel!

    :)

  58. Debbie | January 26, 2013 at 10:26 am

    J.M. I was searching for something else on Shopes, nothing related to male anatomy I assure you, and that story was among the ones that popped up. Curiosity made me read it. :-)

    As for 6:30 in the morning, I’ve been rising early for work for so many years, that I wake up early out of habit.

    Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man or woman healthy, wealthy and wise. Ben Franklin or applewood

  59. Another Chuck | January 26, 2013 at 10:27 am

    Dan, here you go:

    1. Obama has targeted the rich from day one. His recent stunt of increasing taxes on the wealthy solves nothing in terms of deficit spending, in the big picture. It was a punitive and spiteful move only. As he told Joe the Plumber, “I’m all for redistributing the wealth.”

    2. Obamacare: 67% of the folks were against the substance of the bill and almost everyone was against the method of passage. This was a 100% partisan bill that received 0 votes from the other side of the asile. This bill will cost jobs,limit employee hours and add to the deficit.

    3. Recently, Obama is on a mission to legislate gun control. He doesn’t like guns and doesn’t believe that the law abiding citizen should be able to own certain types of weapons. Very devisive.

    I can go on and on. The Gallup poll regarding his polarization supports my feelings on Obama.

    What could he do to unite? The first and most important thing he could do is come up with a legitimate budget proposal that includes massive spending cuts. The only way revenue will increase is a rapidly expanding ecnomy and GDP. I suggest he concentrates on how to expand the economy without worrying if he pisses off he union buddies, or any other of his pet groups. Our President should work for all of us…rich, poor, black, white, etc. instead of governing from a position where he is helping or in some cases picking winners and losers.

  60. gdad | January 26, 2013 at 10:30 am

    #14 Uhh, pammala, what else would you expect from three right-wing activist judges who hate Democrats? Invalidating the way recess appointments have been done since the 1860s? Yep, folks that’s judicial activism, the very thing wingnuts claim to hate.

  61. Debbie | January 26, 2013 at 10:32 am

    That should be Snopes, not Shopes.

  62. Steve C | January 26, 2013 at 10:36 am

    “Ow, Debbie! And you’re reading stories of scrotal mutilation at 6:30 in the morning, why?”
    J.M. White @10:10

    The poor thing had to read applewood’s and hey frank’s dopey nonsense all day yesterday and is obviously experiencing some serious malice towards those of us with mixed chromosomes as a result. This is completely understandable since the blog hasn’t been tag teamed up on like this since back before the election when Sharon N and pammala both used to post on the same day about how Romney was going to mop the floor with President Obama. After having to suffer through ‘wood’s and hey frank’s day long jihad on common sense it’s completely understandable why females would want to deny us our reproductive organs. We should be thankful she didn’t post links to articles about bushmaster assault rifles or low yield nuclear weapons.

  63. Dan Casey | January 26, 2013 at 11:11 am

    “To back AC up, its hard to come up with just three. But don’t take our word for it. Did you watch face the nation last week? Not once, but twice by two different contributors, it was said that BO is poking his finger in the eye of the republicans and thereby half the country who support them. Once was by Bob Woodward who is obviously non partisan, has the access to know and the credibility for it to mean something. The other was a top LBJ aide who was making the point that LBJ would never be this decisive. To not see BO’s divisiveness is to be troubling bind or completely out of touch with reality when even the liberal news media is allowing segments to air about it.”
    –Comment by Eddie

    Eddie,

    You have not named even one specific way that Obama’s political style has been divisive, or cited any example. All you’ve done say two other people have said he’s divisive (but they don’t say how, either).
    Name as many specific examples as you want. But don’t say, 1. Charles Krauthammer said so. 2. George Will said so. 3. Sean Hannity said so. Those aren’t examples of the divisiveness of Obama’s political style.

    Instead, an example would be something like, “He made a recess appointment of Richard Cordray to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, bypassing the Senate confirmation process.” That’s the kind of thing I’m talking about.

    We’re waiting.

  64. Kristen | January 26, 2013 at 11:19 am

    I hope Obama does a lot more than poke the GOP in the eye.

  65. Debbie | January 26, 2013 at 12:47 pm

    I heart Steve C.

  66. Warren | January 26, 2013 at 1:39 pm

    #53:
    gdad’s right. In fact, if I recall correctly, I believe it was HeyFrank who insisted back around October that the DJIA would be at 700 by March of this year. That was what prompted Dan’s mentioning that he’d consolidated some of his gains. If HeyFrank would like to reassess his prediction, no one’s listening.

    As for a big pullback eventually, if I predict a big earthquake or meteor strike often enough, I’ll eventually be right.

  67. J.M. White | January 26, 2013 at 3:26 pm

    Comment by Steve C — January 26, 2013 @ 10:36 am

    +1

  68. Steve C | January 26, 2013 at 4:40 pm

    Famous quotes

    Mr. T; “In every city, there’s a fool to pity”.
    Mr. C; He must have had hey frank and applewood in mind.

  69. Frank | January 26, 2013 at 5:50 pm

    hi warren,

    I generally don’t make stock market predictions.

  70. Frank | January 26, 2013 at 5:54 pm

    hi steve c,

    By the way, I posted a link (at or close to # 31 above) to some bill clinton photos …just for you. Be sure to have some fresh knee-pads on.

  71. pammala | January 27, 2013 at 7:45 am

    51 kristen dear, until you understand the difference between “their” and “they’re”

    dont bother to post your ignorance

    “.because their bitter,”

  72. wayne goodman | January 27, 2013 at 10:29 am

    52.That should be they’re”. And it appears that the VA GOP are going to fail in their attempt to hijack the Virginia electoral votes.

    Comment by Kristen — January 26, 2013 @ 8:52 am

    I realize that reading more than one sentence or post at a time is more than pammala’s tiny brain can handle but since this post immediately followed the one in which Kristen had her typo, it does seem that she could have made an effort to expand it just a little bit. The effort might even help her raise her IQ above 68.

  73. Kristen | January 27, 2013 at 10:41 am

    waynegoodman…she read that post all right. It’s the only way she would even know that the first “their” was wrong.

  74. Steve C | January 27, 2013 at 12:05 pm

    Warren @ 1:39,

    That’s nothing; believe it or not, hey frank was insisting right up the election that the state of Wisconsin was going “hook, line and sinker” for Tommy Thompson, Paul Ryan and Mitt.

    Whenever hey frank makes a bold prediction, you can make big money betting on the exact inverse occurring. In fact, I think Nate Silver was so accurate because he indexed his predictions to 180 degrees opposite of suz’s and hey frank’s big pronouncements.

  75. J.M. White | January 27, 2013 at 12:58 pm

    Does ignoring proper syntax while chastising another for incorrect word usage qualify as irony or hypocrisy?

  76. John Wilburn | January 27, 2013 at 1:27 pm

    J.M. White:

    “Does ignoring proper syntax while chastising another for incorrect word usage qualify as irony or hypocrisy?”

    All of that squabbling over speeling and grammar detracts from the blog. They’re digging their early graves over there worrying about such.

  77. Contrasuzie | January 27, 2013 at 1:34 pm

    Please stop picking on pammala. She’s my new friend. She said I was talented, remember?

  78. gdad | January 27, 2013 at 1:42 pm

    Let’s see, pammala, the king of writing, grammar and punctuation butchering, points out a mistake that the post author corrected on her own 24 minutes later and LONG before pammala made her idiotic comment? The same mistake that suzie has made MULTIPLE times without pammala commenting on it?

    pammie, quit raiding the cheap wine section.

  79. Frank | January 27, 2013 at 2:14 pm

    hey steve c,

    i think the stock market rise is going to go on unabated. pull out any money you have in mattresses, and put it in stocks. have you noticed how many mattress stores there are nowadays? i think the mattress market is way over-sold, and due for a punishing pull-back.

    so steve c, don’t put your money in mattresses. pile it into U.S. stocks.

  80. Steve C | January 27, 2013 at 2:43 pm

    hey frank,

    I have an MBA; what makes you think I’d listen to financial advice from someone who can’t even master fifth grade punctuation?

  81. Frank | January 27, 2013 at 3:27 pm

    howdy, steve c.

    Just above, in a post to Warren, you intimated that folks “could make big money if they were to do the inverse” of my bold prediction.” Ergo, I gave you a bold prediction.

    Now, you change your mind.

    And, what’s your mba got to do with it?

  82. dobbs | January 27, 2013 at 3:57 pm

    Frank, I took my money out of mattresses, and put it into socks. Old, smelly, socks. No one will look there.

  83. Steve C | January 27, 2013 at 4:48 pm

    hey frank, try using english.

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