Giving Democrats political advice is akin to sending Pamela Anderson to service attendees at a NAMBLA conference. The intended recipient in either example isn't really wired to accept your particular brand of hospitality.
Posted by steve duncan at October 6, 2006 10:11 AMSteve, like Steve Duncan above, I think your ideas and responses are great and right on. However, if you want any of the current Dems to actually use them, first you are going to have to get them some spines.
Posted by Howd at October 6, 2006 11:03 AMEnough with the negativity, men!
The Bloglord is just laying things out, it's up to you to urge your congresscritters to follow through, recommend this blog to them perhaps, suggest that they should check out these eminently sensible ideas, rather than say don't bother, RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MOST CRITICAL ELECTION since 1860. Please.
Posted by Duckman GR at October 6, 2006 11:29 AMDuckman, Bush has made it known he can choose to ignore SCOTUS. He publicly disputes having to follow laws passed by Congress. Next? He disavows having to honor the results of an election. So much for the '06 midterms making a difference.
Posted by steve duncan at October 6, 2006 11:37 AM"When the GOP smears Democrats on taxes, our candidates should ask why all these tax benefits were given to the top one percent..."
Perhaps, because the top 1% pays a disproportionate share of income taxes:
"In 2002 the latest year of available data...The top 1 percent of taxpayers paid 33.7 percent of all individual income taxes in 2002. This group of taxpayers has paid more than 30 percent of individual income taxes since 1995. Moreover, since 1990 this group’s tax share has grown faster than their income share."
You can read all about it here:
http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/incometaxandtheirs/a/whopaysmost.htm
Posted by Bagley at October 6, 2006 12:00 PMLet him try to disavow an election steve, that would be quite the sight. Because I'm pretty sure none of that sort of paperwork crosses his desk. He has no say in any elections, there's no mechanism there. What, MeatPuppet is going to decertify the election of 250 Democrats to the House because bush says so? I'd really like to see him try.
And just because HE disavows the laws doesn't mean he actually can, yes, yes, we all know about the rubber stamp republican dictated congress, but if it's run by Democrats, yes, yes, we all know about diebold too, that rubber stamp goes away.
I say again, don't give up, get busy.
Posted by Duckman GR at October 6, 2006 12:02 PMSteve Duncan, Duckman,
You’ve hit on the reason both of you should vote republican at this election.
We all know Halliburton has finished the secret detention facilities deep in the heartland of the Red States. The problem has always been how to fill them with only liberals. By using the midterm elections, which independents rarely participate in, and capturing biometrics through Diebold machines, the core of the progressive party can be efficiently rounded up for “reeducation”.
Only those liberals smart enough to foil the evil Rovian plot by voting republican will be in a position to lead the revolution “on the outside”.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/10/05/olbermanns-special-comment-it-is-not-the-democrats-whose-inaction-in-the-face-of-the-enemy-you-fear/
Posted by dennis at October 6, 2006 12:16 PMWest, you are a proven liar, why do you keep posting here?
Posted by goose1 at October 6, 2006 12:28 PMyou trolls are proof that 33% of the population firmly has their heads up their asses...
Posted by headxray at October 6, 2006 12:41 PMApparently I misspoke. There are no “secret detention facilities”.
It seems that term came from old plans that were discarded long ago. The areas originally designated for these sites (located over deep-seam coal deposits) are now a new social program of “progressive communes”.
They sound like wonderful places. The government provides everything.
Food, housing, clothing, full employment, health care (of a sort), it’s a liberal paradise. Supposedly it was instituted to provide an alternative to people who might have moved to Canada, but really wanted to stay in the good old USA. There are nice high fences to keep people who don’t share progressive values out.
And you thought your government didn’t care about you.
"you trolls are proof that 33% of the population firmly has their heads up their asses..."
Yes, that is why we are here. We think that each of you Leftists should endeavor to remove your cranium from your rectum.
Thanks are not necessary. We consider it our civic duty.
Posted by Bagley at October 6, 2006 12:44 PMleave it to the tea bag to misunderstand...
Posted by headxray at October 6, 2006 01:02 PMujest and bagel, Out for a little warm-up. Slithering along with the other snakes from the repuke party. You guys are 'going down', of course that is your party's style! I'm sure you enjoyed your daisey chain while it lasted. The greed, graft and corruption stops with this election!
Better get another job.
Thanks are not necessary. We consider it our civic duty.
Posted by Bagley at October 6, 2006 12:44 PM
*****
When we are the ones running Guantanamo, you best head for the hills and hide.
Posted by God Of War at October 6, 2006 01:29 PMwest, you are a proven liar! Why do you keep posting here?
Posted by goose1 at October 6, 2006 01:39 PMRumor has it that after touring these “progressive communes”, Dick Cheney found them so beautiful and quiet that he had a total change of heart and volunteered to be the “administrator”. He apparently has a group of “helpers” who were formerly in the GOP and want to assist Mr. Cheney in attaining the liberal dream.
I don’t know if this is just a publicity stunt, but it seems he had a special line of clothing developed just for him and his helpers. The outfits are all black, so that they will require a minimum of washing and no excessive phosphates will be released into the pristine waters.
Guess you’re never too old to catch the progressive dream.
Dude, your wit becomes you.
Go read the General, or Atrios Comment threads for some tips. In fact, read ALL of Atrios comment threads, then come back and try your luck with the comedy, okay?
Posted by Duckman GR at October 6, 2006 02:04 PMCome on, Duckman…. You love it.
Is this mike on?
chirp chirp
Posted by Duckman GR at October 6, 2006 02:11 PMLook, I know right now you think republicans are hard hearted, mean spirited people, but you’ll soon change your mind.
You guys thought we were wasting all that money in Iraq, but as a surprise we were diverting most of it into creating these communes. I’m sure you didn’t think we spend $600 on a toilet seat, did you?
Even Karl Rove, when asked what he could do to reach across the aisle for this program, volunteered to organize the moving teams for the lucky folks who get to live in this exciting new program. He realized that the people left behind might feel bad, so he arranged to move people at night. Talk about sensitive.
Luckily, Bush knew some former business partners who will arrange to sell the participants houses so that they don’t even need to worry about that. Compassionate Conservatism works.
Let’s hope that after you’re settled in, you’ll send a nice “thank you” note.
Why, I think the liar is trying to cleverly threaten us liberals.
Posted by Duckman GR at October 6, 2006 02:40 PM"leave it to the tea bag to misunderstand..."
No misunderstanding on my part.
"The greed, graft and corruption stops with this election!"
I doubt it: how is William "Money In The Freezer" Jefferson (D, Louisiana) doing?
"When we are the ones running Guantanamo, you best head for the hills and hide."
So, I guess that the detention facility in Gitmo is not the issue. I guess the issue is the people that are detained there. Interesting.
Posted by Bagley at October 6, 2006 04:56 PMThis thread was infested with scum from two idiots today. These two clowns wasted TLC bandwidth today.
Posted by smooth at October 6, 2006 05:54 PMdrain the swamp..god that's rich
Posted by dennis at October 7, 2006 04:51 AMEven George Will said if the dems can't take back at least the House they should find another line of work.
Posted by Daryl at October 7, 2006 11:50 AMSeveral questions:
1) Since there are both Republican and Democratic pages in Washington, when the Republican high school kids started being stalked by Republican Rep. Mark Foley, and reporting this to the House Page Office, did these Republican pages warn their Democratic Party counterparts to beware of Rep. Foley, too? Or did the Republican pages keep this to themselves, just as apparently the Republican leader of the House Page Office kept this sexual stalking information from the Democratic Party member of the House Page Office?
2) Mark Foley is a Florida Republican. Usually in political campaigns, an election team looks for weaknesses or personal foibles in their opponent that can be used against them, while also looking for anything in their candidate that might be used against him or her by their opponent. Therefore, Florida's Republican Party would have probably been aware of Rep. Foley's sexual penchant for young boys. Which might mean that Gov. Jeb Bush, the Republican leader of Florida, was just as aware of Rep. Foley's "little problem" as the House Republican leadership. And this would also mean that Karl Rove and other Republican strategists in the Bush White House would have been aware of Rep. Foley's "little problem."
In other words, it is my contention that the Republicans are reacting in such a panicky fashion because the knowledge of Rep. Foley's "little problem" was much wider spread and of a longer duration than anyone suspects.
Posted by The Oracle at October 7, 2006 09:10 PM