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Nothing like a democratic administration to make republicans popular

Posted: July 10, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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You know sometimes you have to let people actually figure it how much worse it could be for them to figure it out.

Voters now trust Republicans more than Democrats on eight out of 10 key electoral issues, including, for the second straight month, the top issue of the economy. They’ve also narrowed the gap on the remaining two issues, the traditionally Democratic strong suits of health care and education.

The Captain then comments on the most telling

The political class question is most revealing. Those who consider themselves apart from the political class trust Republicans more on the economy by a wide margin (58%-28%), while those inside the political class support Democrats … 99%-1%. No, that is not a typo. It’s a demonstration of the slavish devotion to Democrats within the political class, and the breakout indicates that the Democrats have more trouble than even this poll shows on voter trust.

You know I don’t even think it’s the corruption itself. Americans are big boys and know the ways of the world, I think its the fact that it’s so damn blatant.

We always get the government we deserve, always!

Those Damn Pictures. More “Nast”-tness for the President

Posted: July 3, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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This time it comes from Karl Rove

Source Karl Rove

Source Karl Rove

Pair this with the famous Heritage chart and that’s gotta leave a mark.

Source Heritage Foundation

Source Heritage Foundation

“Nast”tness refers to cartoonist Thomas Nast details here.

I agree with Hotair that these charts are better than the GOP commercial and can someone tell me who’s bright idea it was to feature hounds in pursuit of Obama jobs? Am I the only one who notices the symbolism in this ad might not be the smartest when used concerning the policies of the first black president?

Can’t anyone play this game?

If only he had Marty as his press agent

Posted: June 29, 2009 by datechguy in oddities, opinion/news
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Bernie Madoff is off to Jail for the rest of my yet to be born grandchildren’s life:

Bernard Lawrence Madoff, who by his own admission sometime 18 years ago concocted a devious plan that would turn into the world’s biggest and most diabolical financial fraud in history, will spend the remainder of his existence in prison.

Inside a U.S. District Court in Manhattan on Monday morning, a judge sentenced the former Wall Street bigwig to 150 years behind bars for his crimes, the maximum possible sentence.

He deserved it big time but I couldn’t help but laugh at this headline from Drudge:

He stole from the rich. He stole from the poor. He stole from the in between.

It reminded me of the 2000 year old man and his description of Robin Hood

On Robin Hood: “He stole from everybody and kept everything — he just had a good press agent”

The press agent was Murry< Marty.

and part 3 that includes Marty

If Madoff had Martyy working for him he would not be in jail today!

Cap and Trade and the Hell’s Canyon Dam

Posted: June 26, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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In 1957 Senator Lyndon Johnson had a problem. He wanted to be elected president but it was apparent that no southern candidate could win the democratic nomination without being made pure on Civil rights. Due to the use of the filibuster (these were they days before 60 vote cloture) the southern democrats were able to block any kind of vote so it was necessary to craft a bill weak enough to keep the democrats from filibustering while not gutting the bill to the point where supporters of civil rights would consider it a scam. Johnson managed in one of the most amazing balancing acts in political history managed to shepherd the Civil Rights act of 1957 through the Senate.

One of the pieces of that puzzle was a vote on the Hell’s Canyon Dam. A freshman Senator Frank Church and other senators from the northwest had been fighting for that dam for years to no effect. Johnson managed to make a deal with those senators that in exchange for the votes needed to remove parts of the Civil Rights Bill (section III) unacceptable to the south, southern senators would provide the votes to get the Hell’s Canyon bill through the senate.

What those senators didn’t realize but Johnson did was the House of Representatives would reject the dam. It would be another 7 years (under President Lyndon Johnson) before the dam would be approved and a full decade before it opened.

Something similar is going on right now with Cap & Trade. President Obama and the House Democratic leadership are looking for a win for political reasons and house democrats leaders are making deals to get the votes they need for passage. Like LBJ of old democrat leaders know they are selling a pig in a poke to their members for their own political benefit on a bill that will not actually help those who it purports to help.

The question remains will the undecided members see through it? Time will tell.

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