Re: Didn't Obama promise no more earmarks in his campaign?
robert bowman
> ...The House included language in its defense bill that could subject
> earmarks for for-profit companies to full and open competition. But
> the Senate resisted, meaning that senators apparently will continue to
> set aside spending for favored companies, the group said.
It isn't going to happen, but I'd love to see a role call vote on that
amendment to the health care bill in the Senate.
HH&C
You can't be serious. If you don't know who to vote out by now...
Dan
Dan
robert bowman
> You can't be serious. If you don't know who to vote out by now...
Yeah, but he doesn't come up for re-election until 2014. Baucus has run on
the 'I bring home the bacon' platform for about a quarter of a century but
I think he may have overdone it this time. I still have hopes for the other
one.
hal
<hot-ham-a...@hotmail.com> wrote:
We need to start by getting rid of all the obstructionist
conservatives who insist on doing nothing but repeating the mistakes
of the past. If we had a truly progressive dominated Congress then we
could fix the problems that desperately need to be fixed without
Republicans mucking up the works at every step.
Dan
> wonder this country is in a mess.
No, he is correct. He identified a wish (progressive) and the problem
(Republican) correctly.
Notice he did not make the common, but stupid, mistake of conflating
progressive or liberal with Democrat.
Dan
Dan
I just did.
Dan
HH&C
> On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:05:57 -0800 (PST), "HH&C"
>
The republicans are of no consequence. They are a minority.
You need to get rid of the democrats who have held your health care
bill hostage while extorting ransom for a party line vote.
pyotr filipivich
<hot-ham-a...@hotmail.com> reported Elvis on Wed, 23 Dec 2009
19:05:57 -0800 (PST) in misc.survivalism:
Yeah, but I want to see Democrats try and say they voted for the
bill before they voted against it.
OTOH, Read the Bill, Senator. It is not a filibuster if you have
the clerk read the bill to the Senate. Or the House. Or both, for
that matter.
tschus
pyotr
-
pyotr filipivich.
Just about the time you finally see light at the end of the tunnel,
you find out it's a Government Project to build more tunnel.
Dan
>>> hal wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:05:57 -0800 (PST), "HH&C" wrote:
>>>>> On Dec 23, 10:01=A0pm, robert bowman <bow...@montana.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Winston_Smith wrote:
>
>>>>>>> ...The House included language in its defense bill that could subject
>>>>>>> earmarks for for-profit companies to full and open competition. But
>>>>>>> the Senate resisted, meaning that senators apparently will continue to
>>>>>>> set aside spending for favored companies, the group said.
>>>>>> It isn't going to happen, but I'd love to see a role call vote on that
>>>>>> amendment to the health care bill in the Senate.
>>>>> You can't be serious. If you don't know who to vote out by now...
>>>> We need to start by getting rid of all the obstructionist
>>>> conservatives who insist on doing nothing but repeating the mistakes
>>>> of the past. If we had a truly progressive dominated Congress then we
>>>> could fix the problems that desperately need to be fixed without
>>>> Republicans mucking up the works at every step.
>>> You are confusing political viewpoints with party affiliation. No
>>> wonder this country is in a mess.
>> No, he is correct. He identified a wish (progressive) and the problem
>> (Republican) correctly.
>
I have yet to see anything even approaching "left," let alone "far left"
in the Republican Party.
I guess you read between the lines better than I do...
> From
> the alternate view, both parties house the entire range of political
> philosophies. They both do the big tent thing and the result is they
> both have nothing but power grabbing and corruption to cement their
> parties together.
Nonsense; hell, even I do not make a stupid statement like that about
the Republical Party, and you KNOW how much I hate them - I, unlike you,
just have this thing about some semblance of reality in my statements.
>> Notice he did not make the common, but stupid, mistake of conflating
>> progressive or liberal with Democrat.
>
> One way = good and true.
> Other way = bad and false.
One way = what I also believe.
Other way = what I find to be reprehensible.
NOTE that the Democrats fit neither (as stated above).
> Got it.
You never get anything; you live in a fantasy world of your own making,
and project your fantastic nonsense n all that you respond to.
Hamster, you are a liability to your own side.
Dan
HH&C
HH&C
> Dan <dnada...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >Hamster, you are a liability to your own side.
>
> Have you lost track of who you are writing to, or do you see endless
> enemies all with the same face everywhere about you, or do you just
> want to insult me in a major way. ;>}
Hey!
Dan has been conditioned (by me) to think of me whenever anyone gets
the better of him.
Dan
Yes, you have. Standard misattribution apology inserted. Sounded so
much like you!
Dan
HH&C
He.
> Standard misattribution apology inserted. Sounded so
> much like you!
>
> Dan
Now you've insulted him twice.
What do you think turned him against Obama?
Observer
How? It's not like you've gotten the better of him. Ever. Nor most
folks you disagree with. Ever.
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