The smart kids are making gradual progress. In spite of a total lack of bipartisan cooperation. But gradual progress is usually the best kind.
This "progress" of which you speak of so much, can you give some particulars? Or is it just easier to insult others rather than cite any actions you perceive as "progress" under the current administration? Who are these "smart kids"? Inquiring minds want to know!
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Smart kid=Turbo Tax Tim Geithner. (Obama's choice for Sec Treasury--Owed back taxes)--his excuse: He couldn't figure out how to use Turbo Tax.
More recently--in response to Moody's, PIMCO, and others' concerns regarding the possible downgrade of US Treasury notes below AAA, said "US Notes will NEVER lose their triple A rating".
Moody had to remind him, that the govt doesn't set the rating--entities like Moodys and PIMCO do, and that it was indeed, a very real possibilty. yeah--real smart cookie.
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Appreciate the input MJ and bear but I was actually hoping for an answer or clarification from Neppy.
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originally posted by CliffW: What entertainer ? I wouldn't call you an entertainer, ?
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Rick Perry, Sarah Palin and Ted Nugent held a rally in Texas Sunday afternoon, after the Tea Bag convention, and before the Super Bowl. Don't you just HATE IT when entertainers stick their noses into politics?
Originally posted by NEPTUNE: OK, try to keep up... No problem, we'll wait.
Sara Palin, an entertainer ? You might think twice about speaking in public. I am doing everything I can to keep you from getting committed. Your delusions are showing. The talk is that they are paranoid delusions. Just last week you said ....
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Originally posted by NEPTUNE: Sarah Palin used her PAC to buy $63,000 worth of copies of her own book “in order to mail copies of the memoir to her donors, newly filed campaign records show.”
Are you really that worried that Sara is gonna be your next President of the United States ? Well, you should be. Hopey dopey is over. House cleaning begins.
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Nope. See above quote from NEPTUNE. BTW, I live in Orlando FL. I work one of my jobs near UCF. Dunno why you keep bringing it up, but I see hot girls every day. And in my previous incarnation, I used to visit Davie, Cooper City, Doral, and Miami Beach every month. I can just click on Univision and see amazingly hot women that I've actually MET.
So, if I planned a Tea Party for NEPTUNE, there's nothing I could do to make him go so long as Rush was going to be there?
How about if Palin dressed provocatively?
Yeah, there's a TON of hot girls here in South Florida...
This "progress" of which you speak of so much, can you give some particulars? Or is it just easier to insult others rather than cite any actions you perceive as "progress" under the current administration? Who are these "smart kids"? Inquiring minds want to know!
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Are you really that worried that Sara is gonna be your next President of the United States ?
I would be happy ECSTATIC to take your money should you want to wager on that. Go ahead, try to get the Wasilla Hillbilly (SARAH Palin) elected. Its a free country. Be very sure of the VP candidate, though. If the past is any indication, she'll quit as soon as things start to get tough.
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Why are you so worried about Sarah? She isn't running for office at this time. You should be more worried about Obama/dems and their lack of respect for Americans and America, but I guess you need them as much as they need you.
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You know for most of the country there had been NO progress at all and they are getting restless. November is fast approaching, and most are not happy with what is going on. Can you list some of the bright spots so I can feel better about the future. Maybe just focus on the massive debt and tell me how it will be repaid, and how it will not bring more taxes and inflation, making everyone a bit poorer. Like most of the country, I am not interested in who is to blame, only the fix. Help me out Tune.
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Why are you so worried about Sarah? She isn't running for office at this time. You should be more worried about Obama/dems and their lack of respect for Americans and America, but I guess you need them as much as they need you.
I see no signs of worry Palin is an easy target for lampooning. part of her charm. she got thrown into the deep end, and she made it to shore - not gracefully, but she did
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It's a good thing you've told us over and over and over how worthless foxnews (or should I say FAUX NEWS) is or we might take that seriously.
Sorry, dude, you can't have it both ways.
(For the record, I don't care much about the "tea party" movement one way or another, I just find it comical that you cite a source you've repeatedly said is not credible.)
It's a good thing you've told us over and over and over how worthless foxnews (or should I say FAUX NEWS) is or we might take that seriously.
Sorry, dude, you can't have it both ways.
(For the record, I don't care much about the "tea party" movement one way or another, I just find it comical that you cite a source you've repeatedly said is not credible.)
John Stricker
Well,yes, I believe FOX 'news' is crap. But lots of people on this forum believe in it. Hence the reference. If FOX 'news' veiwers have rejected the Tea Party, I think its safe to say that it's at least dying, if it isn't already dead.
Just as I predicted.
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You didn't really think he would answer a direct question did you? That, is only expected by him, of us. I've noticed it a lot from people who have a pre-occupation with always having to be correct--they avoid specifics at any costs in order to facillitate never being pinned down on anything.
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Originally posted by NEPTUNE: Well,yes, I believe FOX 'news' is crap. But lots of people on this forum believe in it. Hence the reference. If FOX 'news' veiwers have rejected the Tea Party, I think its safe to say that it's at least dying, if it isn't already dead.
Oh, you WISH. Geez.
Are you referring to the poll results? I guess you missed this important disclaimer:
"This is not a scientific poll."
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Just as I predicted.
Oh, yeah, you're a legend in your own mind.
The TEA Party isn't going away. The Democrats are getting their asses kicked in every current election, and will get their asses kicked in the mid-terms. Deal with it.
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OUR President might not be the greatest ever, but at least he doesn't read notes off his hand like a retard. The teabagging movement is a national embarrassment. Glad to see this poll on FOX.
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Well,yes, I believe FOX 'news' is crap. But lots of people on this forum believe in it. Hence the reference. If FOX 'news' veiwers have rejected the Tea Party, I think its safe to say that it's at least dying, if it isn't already dead.
Just as I predicted.
And how did you hear about that poll, surely you don't just happen to go to FOX to see what they have to say. Did you get sent there to help flood the voting by the left. Anyone who believes an internet poll is accurate couldn't look upon himself as one of the "Smart Kids" I don't take stalk in an internet poll even when it make the Progressives look bad.
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Yup, that TEA Party is so inconsequential, so "dying, if it isn't already dead", the Democrats and unions have to spend MILLIONS to try to fight the movement, and put together a web site. Interesting that they'd spend so much time, money and effort to fight something that's dying or already dead, isn't it?
Originally posted by NEPTUNE: If FOX 'news' veiwers have rejected the Tea Party, I think its safe to say that it's at least dying, if it isn't already dead.
Well, thanks for clearing that up. It explains a lot. So, link us to your post announcing the demise of the Dumbocratic Party.
Yup, that TEA Party is so inconsequential, so "dying, if it isn't already dead", the Democrats and unions have to spend MILLIONS to try to fight the movement, and put together a web site. Interesting that they'd spend so much time, money and effort to fight something that's dying or already dead, isn't it?
WASHINGTON — The snows that obliterated Washington last week interfered with many scheduled meetings, but they did not prevent the delivery of one important political message: Take Sarah Palin seriously.
Her lengthy Saturday-night keynote address to the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville and her debut on the Sunday-morning talk show circuit with Fox News' Chris Wallace showed off a public figure at the top of her game — a politician who knows who she is and how to sell herself.
This was not the first time that Palin has impressed me. I gave her high marks for her 2008 vice-presidential acceptance speech in St. Paul. But then, and always throughout that campaign, she was laboring to do more than establish her own place. She was selling a ticket headed by John McCain against formidable Democratic opposition and burdened by the legacy of the Bush administration.
Blessed with an enthusiastic audience of conservative activists, Palin used the Tea Party gathering and coverage on the cable networks to display the full repertoire she possesses, touching on national security, economics, fiscal and social policy and every other area where she could draw a contrast with Barack Obama and point up what Republicans see as vulnerabilities in Washington.
Her invocation of “conservative principles and common-sense solutions” was perfectly conventional. What stood out in the eyes of TV-watching pols of both parties was the skill with which she drew a self-portrait that fit not just the wishes of the immediate audience but the mood of a significant slice of the broader electorate.
Freed of the responsibilities she carried as governor of Alaska, devoid of any official title but armed with regular gigs on Fox News Channel and more speaking invitations than she can fulfill, Palin is perhaps the most visible Republican in the land.
More important, she has locked herself firmly in the populist embrace that every skillful outsider candidate from George Wallace to Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan to Bill Clinton has utilized when running against “the political establishment.”
It doesn't always win. There are more John Edwardses and Mike Huckabees than I can count. But it wins more often than you'd guess and for a greater variety of people, especially when things are not going well for the country.
Palin's final answer to Wallace showed how perfectly she has come to inhabit that part. When he asked her what role she wants to play in the country's future, she said:
“First and foremost, I want to be a good mom and I want to raise happy, healthy, independent children. And I want them to be good citizens of this great country.
“And then I do want to be a voice for some common-sense solutions. I'm never going to pretend like I know more than the next person. I'm not going to pretend to be an elitist. In fact, I'm going to fight the elitist, because for too often and for too long now, I think the elitists have tried to make people like me and people in the heartland of America feel like we just don't get it and big government's just going to have to take care of us.
“I want to speak up for the American people and say: No, we really do have some good common-sense solutions. I can be a messenger for that. Don't have to have a title to do it.”
This is a pitch-perfect recital of the populist message that has worked in the past. There are times when the American people are looking for something more: for an Eisenhower, who liberated Europe; an FDR or a Kennedy or a Bush, all unashamed aristocrats; or an Obama, with eloquence and brains.
But in the present mood of the country, Palin is by all odds a threat to the more uptight Republican aspirants like Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty — and, potentially, to Obama as well.
Palin did not wear well in the last campaign, especially in the suburbs where populism has a limited appeal. But when Wallace asked her about resigning the governorship with 17 months left in her term and whether she let her opponents drive her from office, she said, “Hell, no.”
Those who want to stop her will need more ammunition than deriding her habit of writing on her hand. The lady is good.
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Posts: 10199 From: Ticlaw FL, and some other places. Registered: Aug 2001
And how did you hear about that poll, surely you don't just happen to go to FOX to see what they have to say.
And you would be wrong. Again. In fact, I watch FOX 'news' more often than I do CNN or any of the others. Bill Oreilley makes me laugh, and Hannity reminds me of how far we still have to go in the USA. And yes, I DO check out the website occasionally
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And you would be wrong. Again. In fact, I watch FOX 'news' more often than I do CNN or any of the others. Bill Oreilley makes me laugh, and Hannity reminds me of how far we still have to go in the USA. And yes, I DO check out the website occasionally
So you are saying internet poll should be believed?
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fierobear Member
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SHHHHHH! They haven't figured out yet that insults and intimidation doesn't work with real Americans. Hopefully, they won't before the next 2 elections.
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fierobear Member
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And you would be wrong. Again. In fact, I watch FOX 'news' more often than I do CNN or any of the others. Bill Oreilley makes me laugh, and Hannity reminds me of how far we still have to go in the USA. And yes, I DO check out the website occasionally
Try watching Glenn Beck. But be careful...you might learn something.
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Who needs television? 
