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The talking point: Hypocrites

Posted: February 9, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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It looks like the new talking point is that the GOP are hypocrites and have to business being critical of the bill.

Note that the argument is not that they are wrong it is now all about the spending of the last 8 years. Lets ignore the fact that the Fannie Mae mess is a wholly owned subsidy of the Democratic party.

Lets ignore the money for Acorn

A multi-million dollar liberal non-profit activist conglomerate reportedly under federal investigation may get a big piece of the economic recovery stimulus pie now under consideration by Congress.

It’s the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now – the infamous ACORN.

That’s right. ACORN, the activist group that has been implicated in voter fraud and registration deception in at least 14 states may get the financial bailout it needs to pull off another round of schemes in the next election season.

Or that the Tarp money has gone God knows where:

“What remains almost entirely opaque, however, is what has been done with the TARP money,” Barofsky says in January letter to Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., chairman of the Senate Banking Committee. “If the American taxpayer is to be expected to fund this extraordinary effort to stabilize the financial system, it is not unreasonable that the public and its representatives in Congress have some understanding as to how those funds have been used by the recipients.”

Ignore all of this; Lets just remember that the GOP spent money poorly so this bill should pass. If we fall for this we deserve everything we get out of it.

Morning Joe Mika strikes back!

Posted: February 9, 2009 by datechguy in baseball, opinion/news
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Mika seems to think that the republicans are in trouble and seems to glow.

6:01 a.m. Joe corrects Mr. Summers record, it would be nice if they mentioned the daily calls between George S at ABC and the white house guys.

6:03 a.m. I think the prime the pump with wars is an unfair statement, I wouldn’t actually be surprised if President Bush actually gave that spending to buy votes on the war. If so it was a good investment.

6:12 a.m. I won isn’t an argument but I disagree, nobody is making the point that they could pass this without republicans, let us vote against it if you think the public will object.

6:16 a.m. Can Mika explain to me why a bill with at most three republicans in both houses for it is “bi-partisan” but 10 nations with troops in Iraq is the US being unilateral?

6:20 a.m. I actually think the Rodriguez business is a tad unfair, I’ll discuss this in a different post. Doesn’t make the headline wrong. I’m really surprised that Barnicle didn’t jump all over it.

6:22 a.m. I don’t know what these guys make but if MIka buys uses then she has even more brains then i give her credit for.

6:35 a.m. Maybe they ought to think of it like a child in high school don’t give them the $100 dollars at once, dole it out.

6:41 a.m. Broken Clock Alert! Even Andrea Mitchell agrees that waiting a few days or a week isn’t a bad idea.

6:47 a.m. The SNL clip reminds us that these guys will never get over President Bush.

6:51 a.m. Level of transparency my a–, people have been putting the stuff on the net, Todd is full of it. Those differences are due to the times.

6:53 a.m. I had a stomach ache this morning, much more Andrea Mitchell isn’t helping.

7:09 a.m. Everyone is going to have an asterisk since there is an asterisk in the fan’s mind.

7:11 a.m. As far as the cynical stuff, remember the sign Lowell stuff after the world series? I agree with the Ken Griffey stuff too.

Doing my unemployment claim brb

7:42 a.m. Joe gives the: We are all … fill in the blank line.

7:44 a.m. Meachem: “The closest thing to eternal life on earth is a government program.”

7:46 a.m. I would not pay for Time or Newsweek or the New York Times. I can find out much more from one week with Glenn Reynolds then with all of those magazines put together. These guys in my opinion actually know that there product isn’t popular with at least half of the country. They can’t sell their product when they are giving when we know it is 90% spin.

7:51 a.m. This idea that it is all relative is a bunch of bull, there is a difference between cheating and moral issues.

7:54 a.m. Pete Rose should NOT be in the hall. Every day he passed a sign that gave the penalties for betting on baseball and every day he ignored it.

7:56 a.m. Anyone who starts a book “A people’s history of”…naturally brings suspicion to me, I can see it is earned.

7:58 a.m. Why am I not surprised to constantly seeing ads for W on MSNBC?

8:05 a.m. Great exchange: Joe: “I want to go back to the Bush years for the moment…” Schumer: “I don’t.”

8:07 a.m. So much for the rehabilitation of John McCain.

8:09 a.m. If the payroll tax is so regressive why not cut that instead of giving income tax refunds to people who don’t pay it? Why doesn’t anyone ask this?

8:15 a.m. Do nothing or pump in money, I vote A.

8:24 a.m. Maloney D-NY”: If there is not bi-partisan support we will just pass it.” Good do so lets see if you can win back any of those 11 dems who voted no first.

8:29 a.m. Money party wants disclosure. She says no earmarks, pork by any other name would still be tasty. Mmmm tasty.

8:29 a.m. Maloney: “We need you back in congress Joe”

8:31 a.m. It’s how you direct it , tax cuts for the rich.. blah blah blah.

8:37 a.m. Private money is waiting to buy assets. What they want is a floor to then bid and what is the split on the take for the taxpayer and the investor.

8:39 a.m. 93% of people ARE paying the mortgages. You would never know what would you?

8:42 a.m. This is the A-Rod show. “This will make it ok” says Mika?

8:49 a.m. The Jonas brothers and Stevie Wonder = the day the music died.

8:50 a.m. Paul McCartney is always worth watching. I’d pay to see him but not much.

8:52 a.m. Are these the only people in America who actually watched this show?

8:57 a.m. I missed Susan Collins saying she wouldn’t vote for the bill if she doesn’t like it. I suspect she will find a reason to do so, but mark my words the media lionizing her has given her power and if she is smart she will use it.

Meanwhile in the land of Obama jr…

Posted: February 7, 2009 by datechguy in local stuff
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While the President is making trade enemies on a global scale. Here in Massachusetts our Governor Obama Lite Deval Patrick is making trade war on a more local scale.

Gov. John Lynch said yesterday he will offer a new law to protect New Hampshire businesses from being forced to collect Massachusetts sales taxes.
“We need to send a clear message that Massachusetts and other states shall not impose their sales taxes on New Hampshire businesses,” Lynch said.

Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-Exeter, will be the bill’s prime sponsor and will be joined by other Senate and House members. Lynch and Attorney General Kelly Ayotte announced Thursday that New Hampshire has filed a brief at the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Council protesting efforts to force Town Fair Tire Center to pay more than $108,000 in back-taxes on sales to Massachusetts residents at its New Hampshire stores.

Lynch termed the tax collection effort as “outrageous” in announcing the legal action the state will take.

The idiocy on using state resources to do something clearly unconstitutional is so breathtaking even our papers are noticing it:

How ironic it is that the state that once had the gumption to start a war over unfair taxation imposed from afar is now trying to spread its tax tentacles beyond its own borders.

That’s right: Massachusetts, the state that boldly took on the tax-happy British Empire, is now doing a little imperial number of its own. And instead of depending on musket-toting militiamen, this time we’re using hapless store clerks as our frontline troops.

and he that sows the wind will reap too:

Massachusetts ought to be careful of the whirlwind it might reap. The Bay State has the second lowest sales tax in New England. One has to wonder whether neighboring states with higher rates, like Rhode Island and Connecticut, might get the same hunger for the cross-border enforcement of a “use tax.

I really thought that the country might reject Obama because of our experiences with little obama Patrick. I was wrong but will be really shocked if he wins re-election here.

Maine Senators no. Specter yes

Posted: February 7, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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If you are one of the thousands of conservatives who are bombarding the offices of Senators Collins and Snowe in Maine concerning their support of the so called “compromise” bill. Or if you are a site suggesting calling will make a difference let me tell you one word.

HA!

No amount of outside pressure is going to change the way a person from Maine votes. No amount of shouting ranting threats etc will change the way that Maine votes. And the rants that they should have been kicked out like I’m seeing at Lucianne would mean 60 Democrats in the Senate. Those two votes gave us majorities in the past. Don’t so lightly through them away.

Now Arlen Specter is a totally different story, he is not only vulnerable to pressure but we have candidates such as Rick Santorum or Pat Toomey ready who can beat him in a primary is we put in the effort. That is where the direction should lie. The reports that no republican wants to be vote 60 is certainly referring to Specter.

I’m an agnostic on this either way. As Rush suggested we are not going to stop this bill. Any change to improve it is better than none. The best we can do is to pin it on Obama and the democrats so that if it is the disaster we all think it is they will own it.

Remember if they thought it was such a good bill they wouldn’t care if republicans voted for it they would be happy to take the credit and let us twist in the wind. The media will try to twist as a bi-partisan bill. That’s the fight we need to have.

Update: Michelle disagrees.

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