Fairweather

This Sunday. Enumclaw. Want to do it again?

Kwame Kilpatrick - Detroit Mayor - (D)

You're pretty quick, Z. I thought I was going to get this past you.

My wife see your pikchur you post when she walk into room and say its a real small one and she ask why am I look at gay porn on mountain climb website. I tell her that what a librul one looks like I think and she say yeah her old boyfriend was a small penised librul.

Sandy Berger (D)

It seems you tools are a little slow to catch on. I'm only posting pictures of convicted Democrats and their supporters. I suspect this will take some time...

Tony Rezko (Obama "Contributor") (D)

William Jefferson. (D)

The year you gave Obama is almost up--just like the unemployment rate.

Spitzer (D)

Blago (D)

Hey now. That was uncalled for! I'm not even gonna retaliate this time. I was so touched by your ten dollar (and public!) demonstration of compassion for the people of Haiti that it's clear your present state of mind is nothing more than the product of those occasional bad days we all have now and then. Maybe I'll stop by your house for tea and we can work out this anger of yours. I still have the address you PM'd me from your last outburst. Cheers!

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/26/republicans-renew-calls-rangel-resign-powerful-chairmanship/

You're kidding--right?

Why hand completely over to government a system that serves 84% of us? Why add compulsory taxes to individuals who currently opt out? Last time I checked, people were free to make bad choices. I have no doubt that the recently unemployed hold a more desperate view of the issue--which is why Obama should be working on JOBS and getting the economy back on track and not this health care nonsense. He held a "jobs summit" back in December and set about working on the issue in earnest. What ever became of it?

This is spray, comprendes mi amigo?

Obama thought the procedure was a bad idea in 2005: [video:youtube]

Except 16 of the 22 times it was used, reconciliation was used by a Republican majority. Hmmm. http://www.brendan-nyhan.com/blog/2009/04/the-legislative-history-of-reconciliation-19802008.html Are you sure? Look at the dates on its use. Seems to me that Dems were in charge of the Senate in most cases. In any event, just three years ago Democrats were hysterical at the mere thought of its use by Republicans to push through a SCOTUS nomination (which they never had to do). I do just love the way this process was called the "nuclear option" when Republicans were in power, but now it's referred to, simply, as "reconciliation."

isn't this the sort of ad hominem argument you get so worked up over? Not trying to shed any light on your selective exhibit, but it was a response to this:

Good point. No bank should be "too big to fail." I have no problem reestablishing the insurance/investment/banking partitions that existed pre-Clinton era.

Duh. Sorry - my mistake. This is what happens when you no longer drink caffine. Thanks.

This shows how little you really understand about the world around you Fairweather. You assume that private, for-profit business employment success is based on performance. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, private business regularly pays exorbitant sums of money to essentially incompetent people. When these people are discovered as incompetent, they are often given staggeringly large sums of cash as severance pay. The intellectual hurdle you have yet to overcome is this: Modern capitalism encourages waste and inefficiency. The only real difference is that different people benefit. For some reason you have decided that 1 wasteful ceo who destroys the livelihoods of thousands is worth more than 100 admin. assistants providing social services. And please do not misunderstand my taking the time to disagree with you as any validation that you have a point. The difference, Joe, is that the CEO works for private shareholders, while the bureaucrats supposedly work for us. The rest of your post is just mindless carp.

You're off base on this one. I'm married middle school teacher with an MS in a science field, who worked in the private industy for 15 years before making the switch to teaching. She says when she made the switch her hours of work doubled and her pay was cut in half. Grading/planning evenings, weekends, and breaks while officially getting paid for a 6 hr day. There's likely some coasters in other parts of the state government - but not teachers. And by any yardstick the level of incompetence by the private industry over the past couple of years is astounding AND none of them lose their jobs AND they still get million dollar bonuses (WTF!) AND they have thier snout in the public trough. Did you read the post properly, Jim? I clearly stated that teachers are not part of the gluttonous state government I am decrying here. Administration is another story. Read my post again please.

Behold leftist arrogance.

BS. You don't even know what's the median pension and benefit of a Washington State public employee. Regurgitating GOP propaganda to bust unions won't cut it bozo. This, coming from a young man who still lives with his mom and links to Huffingtonpost exclusively? Run along, junior.