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Politikal / Political News and Election Coverage / Re: Madison
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on: February 18, 2011, 08:51:06 pm
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I just got the full story on Wisconsin. I guess the governor gave out a shitload of tax breaks and expects the unions to cover it. I wonder how much he contributes to his pension and benefits?
that's pretty much the sum of it.. they had $130+million in surplus.. he came in and gave it all to tax breaks for corporations.. then claimed the state was in a fiscal crisis and to pay for it, he went after the union..after he said he wouldn't negotiate with them because they don't have any collective bargaining power rights.. of course by law they do, so last Friday night he decided to change that and wanted that new law voted in the other day.. wanted it real bad and real fast.. I imagine if Obama had done something like that, come to Pelosi on friday with a new law, forced her to have the vote on th 3 days later, we'd be having JFK llike documentaries running about him.. the shitty thing is, the unions have said they understand the fiscal crisis and will sit down and go over their contracts... but nope he won't negotiate with terrorists unions of course Boehner blames it all on Obama..
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Politikal / Political News and Election Coverage / Re: Madison
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on: February 17, 2011, 08:58:43 pm
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Boehner's reply kills me.. Boehner wades into Wisconsin labor battle, backing GOP governor By Michael O'Brien - 02/17/11 03:44 PM ET
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) stepped into the heated labor debate in Wisconsin on Thursday, backing GOP Gov. Scott Walker's proposed reforms to collective bargaining rights.
Boehner released a statement on Thursday afternoon backing Walker and his package of aggressive labor reforms that would force increased contributions by state workers to benefits and pension plans, and limit collective bargaining rights for some.
“Republicans in Congress — and reform-minded GOP governors like Scott Walker, John Kasich and Chris Christie — are daring to speak the truth about the dire fiscal challenges Americans face at all levels of government, and daring to commit themselves to solutions that will liberate our economy and help put our citizens on a path to prosperity," Boehner said in a statement. "I’m disappointed that instead of providing similar leadership from the White House, the president has chosen to attack leaders such as Gov. Walker, who are listening to the people and confronting problems that have been neglected for years at the expense of jobs and economic growth." blahblahblah he goes on to blame it all on Obama and demands that Obama stop the uprising.. http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/144889-boehner-wades-into-wisconsin-labor-battle-backing-gop-governorbut it's this part. "I’m disappointed that instead of providing similar leadership from the White House, the president has chosen to attack leaders such as Gov. Walker, who are listening to the people I'd say there is about 25,000+ people outside the door he ain't listening to... in fact, Walker and Boehner are pretty much ignoring them..
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Politikal / Welcome to Bizarro Amerika! / hahahahahah Obama is the birther
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on: February 17, 2011, 05:23:05 pm
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shit fire and save matches.. you knew after that poll that had 72% of the GOP either knowing he's furriner or not being sure, there had to be a reply to it from the Right.. well now we have it.. Rove claims ‘birthers’ actually in league with Obama
Republicans launched the “Obama is a secret Muslim” rumors even before the presidential campaigns got underway, but now the top political adviser to the Bush administration is trying to spin the popular GOP conspiracy theory as a plot by the Obama administration to divide Republicans.
“They love this,” Rove told Fox News opinion host Bill O’Reilly. The president’s birth certificate has been available online for years. http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/02/rove-claims-birthers-actually-in-league-with-obama/yes, even the birthers are Obama's fault
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Politikal / Political News and Election Coverage / Madison
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on: February 17, 2011, 04:17:11 pm
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You go girls and guys!!!!! Hell yeah! I love to see people finally standing up and saying 'not this time!" http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_wisconsin_budget_unionsProtests swell to 25,000 people at Wis. Capitol
MADISON, Wis. – Authorities say an estimated 25,000 people are protesting anti-union legislation at the Wisconsin state Capitol, and nine demonstrators have been arrested.
On the third day of protests, the Statehouse was completely jammed with protesters opposed to a bill that would strip public employees of their collective bargaining rights. The crowd filled the building's hallways, sat cross-legged across the floor and chanted slogans.
For the moment, a group of Democratic senators have blocked the bill by refusing to attend a midday vote and leaving the Capitol. The sergeant at arms was looking for them.
One member of the group told The Associated Press that they had all left Wisconsin in an effort to force Republicans to negotiate.
Republicans hold a 19-14 majority, but they need at least one Democrat to be present before voting.and the teachers are getting in on it too.. about time!
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Politikal / Political News and Election Coverage / Re: The Florida Gov. JarJar Binks Thread...
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on: February 17, 2011, 04:07:52 pm
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60 years ago the interstates were considered a "boondoggle".
Do you really think commuters, et al., that would ride a high speed rail would take a bus? Any idea how long it takes Greyhound to go from Point A to Point B?
Chris Christie is an idiot. After Scott made his announcement, the congressional delegation from New Jersey was the first out there to say "Give it to us, we'll take it!" I'm sure many other states will follow.
is that true?
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Politikal / Welcome to Bizarro Amerika! / Now this is bizarro
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on: February 16, 2011, 11:23:54 am
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you know they are just nit-picking everything they can think now.. Bachmann targets Michelle ObamaWashington (CNN) - Rep. Michele Bachmann, a potential Republican presidential candidate, is taking issue with Michelle Obama over the first lady's recent promotion of breast-feeding.
Speaking to conservative talk radio host Laura Ingraham Tuesday, the Minnesota Republican said Obama's efforts to promote breast-feeding and the IRS's announcement that nursing supplies that aide in the practice can be deducted from tax returns amounts to a "new definition [of] the nanny state."
"This is very consistent with where the hard left is coming from,"
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/02/16/bachmann-targets-michelle-obama/ yep, from Sarah "Let all kids eat cake" Palin railing on Michelle for trying to help end childhood diabetes and obesity by asking that we help our kids eat more healthy and exercise more instead of sitting around all day eating cheetos and playing x-box.. to now slamming her for for trying get more help for women who breastfeed.. it's seriously becoming a psychosis of some kind with these people..
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Politikal / Welcome to Bizarro Amerika! / Re: where are the jobs?
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on: February 16, 2011, 11:04:39 am
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why did people expect anything different from the same people that put this country in the fix it's in? It amazes me the forgiveness we show.. or maybe it's amnesia or stupidity..
It's all about them.. never about us.
however pure Boehner's motives may be, the dirty truth is that a stall in the recovery would bring political benefits to the Republicans in the 2012 elections. It is in their political interests for unemployment to remain higher for the next two years. "So be it" is callous but rational
ummm duh!
the best part is he'll kill off the rest of the country to get the national leverage his party wants.. but to keep his personal leverage he'll spend billions on something no one wants but him..
Among the savings proposed by the Obama administration (and before that, the Bush administration) is to end the wasteful effort to develop a second engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. The Pentagon is satisfied with the engine it has[/b], made by Pratt & Whitney, and it doesn't want the second engine, made by General Electric and others. Eliminating the second engine would save $450 million this year and some $3 billion over 10 years.[/b]
But it just so happens that a GE plant that develops the second engine employs 7,000 people in Evendale, Ohio, near Boehner's district. Rather than take a so-be-it attitude toward jobs his constituents may hold, he's backing an earmark-like provision in the spending legislation to keep funding the unneeded GE engine.
"I believe that over the next 10 years this will save the government money," Boehner reasoned at his news conference.
he can 'believe' what he wants if it's his money he's spending.. but for someone wanting to cut spending AND stop the gov't from forcing people to do or pay for something they don't want.. he has a funny way of showing that by unnecessarily wasting billions and forcing the DoD to take something it doesn't need or want.
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Politikal / Welcome to Bizarro Amerika! / where are the jobs?
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on: February 15, 2011, 10:00:38 pm
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to win the House, Boehner's single line of thought on any issue.. war,healthcare,taxes,epa,fcc,world series.. was always the same.. "Where are the jobs"... "We need to create jobs".. he would say "we need this_____ to create jobs"... "We need to end that______ to create jobs"..
after the election, he claimed the American people had spoken and they said they want Boehner to give them jobs. He said it was a referendum on Obama's job-killing policies and the GOP was there to end the job-killing stuff..and create jobs! It was their 1st.. wait no that's making sure Obama doesn't re-elected, their 2nd, oops no, that was the richies tax cut... Ok the 3rd,hmmm no, that was repeal... 4th?.. ok it was easily their 5th most important thing they had to do.. that was then.. this though, is now.. WASHINGTON – House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) on Tuesday showed little concern for the federal job losses that could result from the GOP's proposed spending cuts.
"In the last two years, under President Obama, the federal government has added 200,000 new federal jobs. If some of those jobs are lost so be it. We're broke," Boehner told reporters, according to Talking Points Memo. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/15/if-spending-cuts-kill-jobs-so-be-it-boehner/They haven't created a single job yet, but so be it if they kill a hundred thousand.. amazing.
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Politikal / Political News and Election Coverage / iran
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on: February 15, 2011, 11:12:40 am
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well I guess they know what to do with protestors.. Iranian lawmakers condemn protests; call for execution of leadersTehran, Iran (CNN) -- Iranian lawmakers denounced Monday's protests in Tehran and called for the execution of two opposition leaders for inciting the demonstrations, Iran's state-run Press TV reported Tuesday.
Members of the Iranian parliament issued fiery chants against opposition leaders and former presidential candidates Mehdi Karrubi and Mir Hossein Moussavi.
Press TV aired video Tuesday of lawmakers chanting "Moussavi, Karrubi ... execute them."
Lawmakers also named former President Mohammad Khatami in some of the death chants.http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/02/15/iran.protests/index.html?hpt=T1This very much interests me.. in 09 Iran had a pretty big uprising that just never got anywhere.. I would think that if they had the same, at this moment and time, they could probably oust the ruling class.. It will be interesting to watch.. it will also be interesting to watch Hannity and Beck defend Ahmadinejad and the clerics the way they did Mubarak. Wait no, they want Iran to have democracy and oust Ahmadinejad.. so watching them bend and twist while they explain why democracy in iran is needed but democracy everywhere else is a bad idea..
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Politikal / Political News and Election Coverage / Re: The Florida Gov. JarJar Binks Thread...
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on: February 15, 2011, 10:18:42 am
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Then moving Medicaid to managed care state-wide? Hell...the four-county experiment has proven to be a disaster! But I'm sure he'lll be able to pad those pockets a little more will all the increased traffic to Solantic!!
that's the scariest part in all of this.. do people really trust Scott to bring 'managed' care to this state and it work out for the better? of all people, he's the one to change our health care.. wtf? 1.7 BILLION dollars!! This guy was fined 1.7 BILLION dollars because of his management over his 'managed' care company.. how much did he have to steal to be changed with almost a 2 BILLION dollar fine? Obviously not enough to stop idiots from giving him their wallets to do it all again! Holy shit this state is in trouble...
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