Figerre's Comments (448)

“He's become robo-Mccain - Fill him up with GOP garp and point him toward a microphone - his integrity is in shreds and respect for him in AZ is between zip and zero. sit down, John.”

“Oh, Judd, you really must have a burr under your saddle, considering that this president was foolish enough to ask you to be a part of his administration -- just a thought, do you actually think ANY FUTURE president would consider you for anything more than refilling water pitchers at a Congressional hearing?”

“Lou, you answered your own question, he IS the president. You just THINK you are.”

“Somebody has too much time on their hands if they are getting paid to count words -- doesn't a computer do that when you hand in an English paper. so sad.”

“This is a surprise? Or just for people who can't read or are dilussional.”

“Oh, were they just misunderstood? Not buying, folks. They had a camera and the whole nine yards. I will bet they deliberately 'misunderstood' their DoD contact in order to follow thru with their plan. Jail, folks. this is our nation's president, and not the local Chamber of Commerce.”

“Charge them! They need a REAL dose of reality - what a stupid, childish, dangerous and stupid thing to do. Their little 'gig' got someone fired and is going to cost a good deal of money to prevent this happening again. They proved they could do it, now let's prove it was illegal with natural consequences.”

“Why wait? take it away from Leiberman NOW! Why give the man the privilege of a Democratic chairmanship with a Democratic majority if he would prefer to be with the GOP. Let him be GOP, but fork over the chairmanship who is a Democrat. I'm pretty sure he would fulfill the 10 GOP demands to be a good Republican - so long, Joe, and good bye! If you can't vote with the Democratic caucus, then you don't get the chairmanship of ANY Congressional committee that is part of a Democrataic majority. In other words, you are a self-serving jerk - go join with the GOP, you'll feel right at home, since you obviously vote with businesses more than the needs of people.”

“Oh my, are the teabaggers any relation to the Right-to-Lifers? The ones that will save a fetus and let a child and woman die without health care? Oh - I keep forgetting, that isn't 'the same thing' Life, isn't LIFE with these people. It is really MY life, MY people, MY friends. The rest of the world is just a bunch of greedy grasping lying people that don't agree with me.

What the heck happened to MY country? The one where individual lives matter? Where we work to help each other? This isn't the "ME generation" it is the "WHAT ABOUT ME generation" -- as long as me and mine get what we need, the rest of you yahoos can starve in the streets. Just don't do it in public where it might be inconvenient to my day.

These are just disgusting self-righteous hypocrites given license to act badly in public. ugh!”

“WHoo HOoo!!! WHen did the GOP purchase the NYT? Balloon payments..­.overwhelm­ing debt...Wha­t absolute crap. This current recovery act is investing in Americans - not oversea wars. Why is the debt such a big deal NOW? What happened when Bush ran thru a surplus and into debt with two wars like a drunk on a 3 day binge? Where were these yahoos then?

The GOP doesn't LIKE the 'getting along' bit - no, suddenly they have found their fiscal brain - a little late, boys. Now we need to INVEST in job creation, since the banks are busy paying each other big bonuses for surving the hell they created for the rest of us. We wouldn't NEED to borrow more money if banks would LEND -- right, this ISN"T "It's a Wonderful Life" right now there IS no Jimmy Stewart to ask people, what do you NEED? What do you Have to HAVE???

How nice it is to sit on your hands and 'not participate' and then blame this president for not being bi-partisan. Define PARTISAN to this jerks. Like a mother-in-law hating the guy her daughter married, the GOP does everything possible to make the president fail - are they so stupid they don't realize that we all go down with this ship? Scratch that, they don't, when your head is up your ass, the view is limited at best!”

“Oh Bill, get over yourself and try to remember that you are a Democrat - not Statesman of the Year.

Olberman helped raise money for Free Clinics.org because they need the money and Arkansas Congressional delegation apparently forgot that they represented people from their home state. Let's see just how many uninsured working people show up at these clinics. Only 1000 were in LA, however, numbers were limited because they couldn't find enough equipment [dental chairs, etc.] in NOLA or there would be more. There are LOTS of working people, HARD working people, who do not have health insurance. They need to come to AZ, we need them here as well.”

“Do you think Inhofe and Bachmann are related??? maybe siblings?”

“I am not surprised - for weeks it was 'Obama over-exposed to media' - then when he DOESN"T have a press conference and no prime-time shows are prempted - then it is 'Obama hasn't had a press conference in 4 months.'

Any way to make any one happy? Nope.”

“I agree. Bush let his general tell him what to do and now the public thinks that is how it goes. It is NOT how it is. The Commander in Chief is the guy that makes the decisions. JFK had the same sort of pressure from his generals, and didn't take their advice. When LBJ took over, the generals came back and got what they wanted, escalation in Viet Nam. I prefer the guy that sorts and sifts through the information and, when it hits critical mass, makes a decision. Anyone who has read "Audacity of Hope" shouldn't be the least bit surprised in how this president makes decisions. I think the past weeks have had a profound impresson on the president, each death is a life to him, not a number. We should respect the fact that he sees our military as one at time. To you it may be a photo op to some, but both he and the First Lady have looked behind the guns and bombs and looked at the families that support their serviceperson and their sacrifice. That has been action, not photos and not words. Just look at the VA, biggest increase in 30 years.”

“Coiuld you have picked a more blatent photo to use? Of COURSE our troops are exhausted and that is what this guy looks like. But blaming the 8 previous years on this president's ONE year - as well as the increase of mortality and injuries. When a war heats up - that is what happens. Compare it to the Iraq war and let's see how it looks.

Especially after watching the WWII verterans this week where they lost THOUSANDS of their buddies in HOURS. I am not saying one life is worth more than another, but we do need some perspective. We are doing exactly what was done in Viet Nam, counting bodies. Whether it is ours or theirs.

It disrespects our military to show them at their most vulnerable OR at their best. There has to be an in-between-time where they are doing their job and trying to move forward with their mission.

There is no damned quick-fix, it is a hard slog. Our reputation of walking away in Afghanistan is well founded. Let's not do it again just because we turned our resources to Iraq when we abandoned the Afghans. I wish it were different, but it isn't. Nothing hard is easily won.”

“So why would McChrystal feel 'stabbed in the back' ?? He is the one that made his speech OUT OF THE COUNTRY about what he thought the US should do. Didn't that sort of box the president into a corner and start this hoo-rahh? It is too bad he feels that way, but I have found that people often regret having spoken publically about private conversations when they find they have pulled the top off a hornet's nest.

The Afghan 'election' has truly made the situation worse. Karzai has proven he has no intention of making any changes as long as he gets the finances he wants -- apparently private funds. I don't believe Obama liked Karzai BEFORE he was president, and saw him as a slimy despot who took his country for what he could get. The fact that Mashood was killed 9/10, only goes to prove that Afghanistan lost their one great Afghan Lion, and only got this guy because he cleaned up good. If Bush hadn't protected him for 7 years, we would NOT be in yet another mess, Bush's 'easy-way-out' of every situation has brought us. Most heartbreaking is that the Afghan people have suffered fools for 30 years and all they have at the moment is a broken down country that is not that damned easy to fix.”

“Then, let's pay hell! That's how we got here, right? Dancing with the devil that talked about social responsibility to our fellow Americans was supporting Welfare Queens, instead of providing a safety net for women and children who are now on the streets and shelters.

This law was changed in '73, most young people today has no clue what life was like when the back allys and Houses of Ruth were all that stood between trying to feed the children you had, keep your job, or live on the streets. Abortion is not a contraception method for 99% of the people who get them. Since these same Right to Lifers don't support contraception methods at all - the hypocrisy is stark. Once again it is the RtLs that are going in the backdoor with their word tricks, rather than be honest that they want the US to change the law -- which they haven't been able to do legally. They have spent the last 20 years eeking their way into governance and tweaking the laws until we are here today. Reproductive rights may be the law, but if the doctors who perform them are killed - where does a woman go?”

“Whoever wrote the headline "why won't Obama give you a job" needs their ass kicked.

PULLLLLLEEEZ, it is just ignorant to blame the president for what businesses are currently doing. They are all focused on their bottom line and their shareholders, not on anyone's job but their own. Actually most of the hiring is clearly being done with federal money - so what is with that? As well as the fact the there is more stimulus money being released periodically, so more jobs will be created. Why doesn't anyone talk about the tax cut 95% of Americans got with the Recovery Act? You know, the one that showed up in our paychecks every month? Is that just another case of 'convenient amnesia? I noticed it every check, surely I am not the only one.

It is the states that are cutting jobs to meet their budget balancing - none of which is the president's fault since the GOP reduced the amount the states got. So they all got some and not enough to keep the status quo.

How nice to have a convenient target to blame for everyone else's decisions. This president lets the Congress make public decisions, rather than executive fiat like Bush did. Think about it, isn't that democracy? the making sausage part?”

“I see, you have 20 protestors, 9 of which insist upon waiting for their Senator in his office area, and they are arrested 10 min after they walk in ---- then you have the Fox News crowd out in front of the Capital building with Bachman inciting them to confront their Congress member with the media gaggle, and NO ONE IS ARRESTED? Which part of inciting to riot and civil liberties does the Capital Police have confused?

Where is the 'liberal' media when you need them?”

“'Suddenly' ??? Pullleeezz! Just because the last 8 years have been run by the Keystone Kops who canNOT walk and chew gum, does not mean that this administration is anything like it.

When you have a nation caught in the grip of 8 years of public neglect and private greed [read Wall Street and big corp raking it in by moving jobs out of the country] this is NOT anything that will happen fast. I think it is interesting that the GOP has continually put holds on extending unemployment benefits for those that are still dependent upon it.

It just seems pretty hypocritical to me that because everything is not coming up roses and champagne, that it is the president's fault or something he has mishandled. I've voted for 42 years, and this is one of the few times when a president [a former senator] chose to use legislation to fix things, rather than executive order [read Bush/Cheney]. He is letting the people speak thru their representatives, who, shock upon shock, are not used to governing. They are great at the polarizating, dividing and conquering the media moment, but not especially good at accomplishing things.

Let's see - Wall Street collapse, massive layoffs, escalating foreclosures, two wars and oh yes, two nuclear countries racing to make bombs, let alone the fact that the oceans are rising, if Obama was truly the Messiah all he would have had to do is speak a few words, and shazam! everything is fixed.”

“And this is a surprise -- - how? The only thing one can say about the Republican party is that they lie about what they WILL do, they lie about what they've DONE, they blame the president and Democrats for anything and whine about everything. Pretty much all around 5th graders in suits with microphones. SAD. Just sad. And to think I used to respect Chuck Grassley and John McCain. They've both sold their livers to the Body Parts Man - and America can drown and they'll never notice other then to blame Democrats for it all. Just what planet were they on the past 8 years? Pluto? the no longer a planet planet?”

“CT needs to fire this SOB, send him home to become an officer in some insurance company.”

“If CT hasn't figured out by now that Joe is a pimp for the insurance companies, and isn't going to help their with their insurance issues - then they deserve this jerk. As for the Dems - fire him from his chairmanship - and tell him if he doesn't get in line that he will lose it, and he won't be getting it back. Treating this jerk like he is a Democrat is just plain stupid - I'd rather have 59 Dems then add this jerk just to have 60 = one of which doesn't know which side he is on. independent he ain't - playing for time, he is.”

“why? No one apparently revolted during the 8 Bush/Cheney years of 'selecting' who got their words of wisdom. Fox News - and I use the term lightly - does your basic LYING - taking photos from 8 years ago and saying it was their March on Washington - PROVEN to be a lie. This is their administrative wing approving these falsehoods - so which part is Fact? and which part of Fox is Fiction?”

“I guess I didn't realize until today that POLITICO is clearly a GOP dupe. I thought they wrote about both sides, but apparently their readers are Republicans. Their question results are nearly always right-leaning, so I guess their only TRUE reporting is on Politico 44, where they are clearly reporting and not opining.

Good to know.”