You more than Palin getting Biden's and Obama's name mixed up? "Can I call you Joe?"
No that's Republicans playing pussy politics.
Republican Brown wins "Kennedy's Senate seat" in Massachusetts
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You more than Palin getting Biden's and Obama's name mixed up? "Can I call you Joe?"
No that's Republicans playing pussy politics.
But you are considering Palin as a choice.
LOL! Man, you wanna be intellectuals kill me. First, let me get you on the right page. Nicca, I'm a grown ass man that's a Pharm. D, MBA! So, go somewhere with that bullshit. Second, it actually was a smart decision to keep his economic staff. When you go into unprecedented economic territory like we are in now, you want individuals around who know the landscape. In fact, I would argue that if Bernanke wasn't on board, we probably would be in the 2nd Great Depression....do your homework. Third, no damn President can deliver on all of the promises that are made on the campaign trail. The rhetoric that is used during campaigns is mostly for individuals like you who are naive enough to believe everything that is said by individuals who are, above all things, POLITICIANS! If he can deliver on a third of what was promised, he would probably be the best President in history. Fourth, the current times require a President that should/must govern from the middle. So, extending a hand to at least try to get some of the Republicans on board is a smart thing. Not trying to include them could polarize independents and debunk him during his re-election campaign. Fifth, you didn't give any real opinions on how he should govern. The things that you listed are single actions. After he does that bullshit, then what??
Again, do you have better ideas about how he should run the country? If not Geithner/Bernanke, then who? If he delivers on all of his campaign promises, what ramifications will that have on the country/economy going forward? Until you can break that down with a logical rationale........like I said, Shut the fuck up!
Maaan, F*ck Glen Beck! But watch Scott Brown sell out conservatives, the same way Obama is sellin out the Dems. (ie. Wars, NAFTA,& the further expansion of corporate healthcare)
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You know we don't agree on shit! <font size="1"> We do on this though.</font size>
Welcome to this side and hope to read more of you. In the meantime, how about taking a peep at the rules of the board conveniently stuck near the top. The "N" word and all its forms, fortunately, are prohibited. Besides, you seem to do quite well communicating without it.
Peace,
QueEx
I'm just sayin................I've yet, come across anyone on this side, to argue on behalf of Bernanke.
just as much as you are considering Hilary as a choice for your side....
You more than Palin getting Biden's and Obama's name mixed up? "Can I call you Joe?"
No that's Republicans playing pussy politics.
I see you are grasping at any victory you THINK you can get.
Well, welcome diversity.
QueEx
Mr. Revisionist, go back over the threads you and I were a part of and remember how I felt about the Clintons. But of course you don’t read, you let Faux Snooze and Limbaugh spoon feed you information. By the way, I take that as a yes. Now let me go back to ignoring you.
Presidency, congress, senate. Some grasp.
Actually, what is Scott Brown's agenda? The only thing I heard is that he is going to be the 41st filibuster and he hates government, just like a republican tea bagger.
Yes, I'm a "refugee" from the main board. I'll follow the rules though, that's not a problem. Thanks for setting me straight Frasier......I mean Cruise.
"I can tell by your casual use of racial slurs against non-whites".......CLASSIC!
I have one message for the Dems.
Enact Order 66
Majority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said "there are options to still pursue health care."
Reconciliation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconciliation_(United_States_Congress)
Enact Order 66
Majority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said "there are options to still pursue health care."
Reconciliation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconciliation_(United_States_Congress)
lol you missed my point entirely...
Wall Street is down in part because of Japanese Airlines declaring bankruptcy and Bank of America's losses. The insurance and health care indicators are up since Brown's win.
Another way, Democrats Caught Sleeping . . .
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Stealthy effort helped GOP's
unlikely Massachusetts win</font size><font size="4">
Texas Republican had led a stealth operation in Massachusetts
since December that quietly funneled top staffers, $1 million in cash
and campaign knowhow to backstop Republican candidate Scott Brown.</center></font size>
Senator John Cornyn and his wife, Sandy Cornyn.
McClatchy Newspapers
By Maria Recio
January 23, 2010
WASHINGTON _The stunning Republican come-from-behind victory in Massachusetts' special U.S. Senate election wasn't entirely a shock to Sen. John Cornyn, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
The Texas Republican had led a stealth operation in the Bay State since December that quietly funneled top staffers, $1 million in cash and campaign knowhow to backstop Republican candidate Scott Brown.
While giving total credit to Brown for running a "perfect campaign," committee officials are thrilled that their effort may not have come to the Democrats' attention until it was too late.
"This was something we were playing close to the vest the whole time," Cornyn said in an interview. "We really caught the other side napping."
"We kept it all very, very quiet," committee spokesman Brian Walsh said.
A Huffington Post study based on AFL-CIO data concluded that Democrat Martha Coakley could have won by 2 points if union clout had been brought into the race sooner than the final days. She lost by 5 points.
State Democrats dispute that they were in the dark about the national Republicans being in the state.
"We were very much aware that this was a national election," said Tim Sullivan, the legislative and communications director for the Massachusetts AFL-CIO. "Contrary to popular belief, our side was running a campaign. When it came down to the race being a race, everyone got mobilized."
Tuesday's special election was to fill the remaining term of the late Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy, who died in August.
"No one believed it was possible, especially in the bluest of blue states," Cornyn said. "But the political naysayers who discounted Brown's candidacy and anointed Democrat Martha Coakley after she won her party's nomination miscalculated one important factor: voters' utter dissatisfaction with the status quo."
It was that dissatisfaction that came to the committee's attention in December.
"We polled December 16th and 17th," Walsh said. "We heard there was a buzz about Brown. He was down 13 points. But we looked closely at the numbers and among those most likely to vote, he was 3 points behind."
Armed with that intelligence, as well as polling data that underscored the electorate's unhappiness with the health care bill being fought out in Congress, the Republican campaign staff swung into action.
On New Year's weekend, the committee dispatched several experienced staffers to Massachusetts and within a week cut a $500,000 check to the state's Republican committee to support Brown's effort.
"We kept that quiet," Walsh said, laughing, relishing the secretive backstage drama.
Cornyn spearheaded the effort, even monitoring the race while he was overseas on an official trip.
The Republican campaign committee, engaged in daily conference calls with the Brown campaign, soon saw polls moving upward and sent, by the end, 15 staffers. Among them was the committee's veteran political director, Randy Bumps, a former Republican New England operative who, Walsh said, "was embedded" in the Brown election effort.
"We had our staff there a full week before they did," he said of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee's slow start.
The Republican National Committee sent an additional $500,000, bolstering fundraising that took off with Brown's strong performance in a debate in which he corrected moderator David Gergen for referring to the Senate vacancy as the "Kennedy seat," saying, "It's the people's seat."
"The debate was a big turning point," Walsh said. "It was getting increasingly clear, a week out, that he was ahead."
However, Republicans, now polling nightly, were careful not to share the data of Brown's surge so as not to alert the state's powerful Democratic machine.
Brown's campaign was helped by several Coakley missteps, such as her saying that she didn't see the point of "freezing" while shaking hands outside Fenway Park, which Brown did. She also mistakenly called former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling a "Yankee fan."
Then there was an incident in Washington. Coakley had a fundraiser — which the Republican campaign helpfully publicized to reporters — where one of her supporters shoved a persistent reporter to the ground. Coakley had said she really didn't know much about the episode, but the committee had sent aides with video cameras and promptly posted the video on YouTube, showing Coakley, the state's attorney general, standing near the felled reporter.
For Cornyn the victory was "even sweeter that it was so unexpected."
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/226/story/82888.html
<font size="5"><Center>
Stealthy effort helped GOP's
unlikely Massachusetts win</font size><font size="4">
Texas Republican had led a stealth operation in Massachusetts
since December that quietly funneled top staffers, $1 million in cash
and campaign knowhow to backstop Republican candidate Scott Brown.</center></font size>
Senator John Cornyn and his wife, Sandy Cornyn.
McClatchy Newspapers
By Maria Recio
January 23, 2010
WASHINGTON _The stunning Republican come-from-behind victory in Massachusetts' special U.S. Senate election wasn't entirely a shock to Sen. John Cornyn, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
The Texas Republican had led a stealth operation in the Bay State since December that quietly funneled top staffers, $1 million in cash and campaign knowhow to backstop Republican candidate Scott Brown.
While giving total credit to Brown for running a "perfect campaign," committee officials are thrilled that their effort may not have come to the Democrats' attention until it was too late.
"This was something we were playing close to the vest the whole time," Cornyn said in an interview. "We really caught the other side napping."
"We kept it all very, very quiet," committee spokesman Brian Walsh said.
A Huffington Post study based on AFL-CIO data concluded that Democrat Martha Coakley could have won by 2 points if union clout had been brought into the race sooner than the final days. She lost by 5 points.
State Democrats dispute that they were in the dark about the national Republicans being in the state.
"We were very much aware that this was a national election," said Tim Sullivan, the legislative and communications director for the Massachusetts AFL-CIO. "Contrary to popular belief, our side was running a campaign. When it came down to the race being a race, everyone got mobilized."
Tuesday's special election was to fill the remaining term of the late Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy, who died in August.
"No one believed it was possible, especially in the bluest of blue states," Cornyn said. "But the political naysayers who discounted Brown's candidacy and anointed Democrat Martha Coakley after she won her party's nomination miscalculated one important factor: voters' utter dissatisfaction with the status quo."
It was that dissatisfaction that came to the committee's attention in December.
"We polled December 16th and 17th," Walsh said. "We heard there was a buzz about Brown. He was down 13 points. But we looked closely at the numbers and among those most likely to vote, he was 3 points behind."
Armed with that intelligence, as well as polling data that underscored the electorate's unhappiness with the health care bill being fought out in Congress, the Republican campaign staff swung into action.
On New Year's weekend, the committee dispatched several experienced staffers to Massachusetts and within a week cut a $500,000 check to the state's Republican committee to support Brown's effort.
"We kept that quiet," Walsh said, laughing, relishing the secretive backstage drama.
Cornyn spearheaded the effort, even monitoring the race while he was overseas on an official trip.
The Republican campaign committee, engaged in daily conference calls with the Brown campaign, soon saw polls moving upward and sent, by the end, 15 staffers. Among them was the committee's veteran political director, Randy Bumps, a former Republican New England operative who, Walsh said, "was embedded" in the Brown election effort.
"We had our staff there a full week before they did," he said of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee's slow start.
The Republican National Committee sent an additional $500,000, bolstering fundraising that took off with Brown's strong performance in a debate in which he corrected moderator David Gergen for referring to the Senate vacancy as the "Kennedy seat," saying, "It's the people's seat."
"The debate was a big turning point," Walsh said. "It was getting increasingly clear, a week out, that he was ahead."
However, Republicans, now polling nightly, were careful not to share the data of Brown's surge so as not to alert the state's powerful Democratic machine.
Brown's campaign was helped by several Coakley missteps, such as her saying that she didn't see the point of "freezing" while shaking hands outside Fenway Park, which Brown did. She also mistakenly called former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling a "Yankee fan."
Then there was an incident in Washington. Coakley had a fundraiser — which the Republican campaign helpfully publicized to reporters — where one of her supporters shoved a persistent reporter to the ground. Coakley had said she really didn't know much about the episode, but the committee had sent aides with video cameras and promptly posted the video on YouTube, showing Coakley, the state's attorney general, standing near the felled reporter.
For Cornyn the victory was "even sweeter that it was so unexpected."
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/226/story/82888.html
Ay Conservatives: y'all remember, I said it!
Brown to support Wall Street Reform
Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) announced Monday he will vote for Wall Street reform when it comes up for a final vote, all but assuring Democrats the 60 votes they need to pass the legislation.
“I appreciate the efforts to improve the bill, especially the removal of the $19 billion bank tax. As a result, it is a better bill than it was when this whole process started,” Brown said in a statement on Monday. “While it isn’t perfect, I expect to support the bill when it comes up for a vote.”
$%#^ Brown and his "bank tax" lie. So now when the next big bank/financial institution fails instead of a bank-financed fund to wind them down and dissolve them, it'll be on the public's dime...again.
thats my understanding, Privatize the profits & Socialize the losses
Yet no one outside the MSNBC night time lineup will call him out on it, at least as far as television news goes. Corporate media at it's finest.
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