HST's Comments (314)

“"And since Dick Cheney is a very serious terrorism expert -- mainly because more Americans died in terrorist attacks on his watch than any other vice president ever"

Needs to be repeated early and often.”

“"whatever happened to true conservative principles?"

Remember the dodo bird? They went along with them.”

“"No science just perceives itself as god. Giving false results in the abstract for profit."

Wow, where can I get a big broad brush like yours, so I can generalize like you?”

“LOL!”

“Studies show that 100% of conservatives think the earth is flat and 6,000 years old.”

“That question was already answered in the last presidential election when Obama got more votes than McSame.”

“I think I smell the scent of sour grapes here.

If you can't give reasons as to why John Mayer is on this list then maybe you shouldn't include him.
The fact that he has dated famous good looking women who may not like him anymore doesn't fly either.

It takes more than this to make a d-bag.”

“"What is it you are afraid of with Fox news"

Their lies, distortions, their editing tricks to make things appear the way they want them to and their one sided coverage that lies and says it isn't one sided.


Oh yeah and the buffoons who eat this stuff up and refuse to think for themselves.
People like you.”

“I don't know here you were post 911 but the bipartisanship was apparent in the way the Dems supported the needless wasteful war in Iraq when OBL was not there. Bipartisanship was present in the vote to strip our constitution rights away in the patriot act. Bipartrisanship was evident at the end of the Bush era when congress voted to cover the executive and their own butts with the communications act that granted telecoms immunity from the illegal wiretapping they did on behalf of the government. Bipartisanship was evident when president Bush signed into law the TARP program passed by congress.

These are all examples of "bipartisanship" that I and the rest of the country can do without.”

“+1”

“can you name the equivalent from the Dems to my post?

I don't think you can and that undercuts your arguement.”

“"There’s nothing I’ve heard the Right call the Left that I haven’t heard the Left call the Right (albeit, in varying forms - naturally, Republicans called Nazis, Democrats called Communists, etc.)."

Everything to you seems bipartisanly bad, but I have a question for you:

Which party did the politcian belong to who:

called the constitution just a g-d piece of paper

said he would get the people responsible for 9/11 and then invaded a country where there was none of those people thereby wasting a trillion dollars

said to the press, "we don't wiretap without a warrant" and then was found out to be doing exactly that

said to the press, "we don't torture" and then was found etc etc

called reasonable people friends of our enemies because they disagreed with him

had protesters bused 5 miles away from speaking engagements to "free speech zones" and arrested people for wearing T-shirts disagreeing with his policies

secretly paid people in the press to support his policies

spoke only in front of politically prescreened crowds

went through impeachment hearings cause he cheated on his wife

As president you can only pee on the constitution that you have sworn to uphold so many times until the American people get angry. That's not partisanship (the last example is).”

“"But what about that 3 day delayed response by BO..."

I'd say quicker than his predecessor:

"Bush Waited Six Days To Discuss Shoe Bomber With No GOP Complaints"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/29/bush-waited-nine-days-to_n_406307.html”

“If Napolitano is so incompetent why did repubs vote for her confirmation?

"By unanimous consent, the Senate has just confirmed Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy; Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education; Janet Napolitano, for Homeland Security, Peter Orszag as Director of the office of Management and Budget; Ken Salazar as Secretary of the Interior; Eric K. Shinseki as Secretary of Veterans Affairs; and Tom Vilsack as Secretary of Agriculture."
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/20/confirmation-update/”

“Mr.Grenell you are a Bush apologist and political hack. With Katrina many people lost their lives in New Orleans and the gulf coast due to Bush appointing an unqualified crony to an important position.
How you can seriously and with a straight face compare a single botched incident among many thousands of travel flights EACH DAY where no one died with Katrina is truly staggering.

How dare you compare Obama's brief holiday vacation with the record amount of vacation time Bush took when we were fighting TWO WARS. Maybe you think Obama should have been reading
"My Pet Goat" instead?

You sir, are a despicable excuse for a human being and have no credibility or business posting on this or any other blog. You represent a failed administration who endangered this country and set it on a path to ruin.”

“Glass-Stegall is a good start. What would be better is going back to all the banking regulations that were put in place after the last depression.


I think it says volumes about the republicants that they will campaign against reforms that won't take place until 2013 or 2014. If I were a Dem candidate I'd ask the voters how the GOP can predict what will happen in the future when they couldn't even find WMDs in the present? I'd also ask about what are the republicants plans to reform our unsustainable healthcare system. What's their alternative other than "no"?”

“The corporate media is pushing the republicant meme:

"The horrible 8 years of president Bush never happened. No foreign attacks on American soil (even Dana Perino said so). No torture occurred. There was no needless war in Iraq that sqaundered over a trillion dollars and thousands of American lives. Banks were never deregulated until they became casinos. Billions in tax breaks for the rich never added to the deficit. Bush never signed the TARP bill which gave the banks a trillion dollars."

Whatever is the case today with the economy and foreign affairs it is all Obama's fault.

If you doubt what I say see this redonkulus post: "The Obama Team Is Taking Credit For a Bush Policy in North Korea"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-grenell/the-obama-team-is-taking_b_392853.html?page=3&show_comment_id=36483983#comment_36483983”

“This should be required reading for all the I-don't-want-no-common-sense tea baggers and conservatives who value idealogy over helping their fellow man and doing the correct thing.


Did I say read? Oh well never mind.”

“I believe that the estate tax was in effect when Ted Kennedy's father passed away, so they paid their fair share back to system that made them rich.

Ted Kennedy inherited wealth, but his family didn't stiff the U.S.”

“The richest actually have a low tax rate:

The latest data from the IRS show that as income rises, effective tax rates also rise -- up to a point. The effective income tax rate levels off at 24.1 percent for incomes between $1 million and $1.5 million. For higher incomes the rate declines. For incomes above $10 million the rate is 19.4 percent.
Most of the super rich receive their income in the form of capital gains. Capital gains and qualified dividends are taxed at 15 percent (instead of the top 35 percent rate that applies to other forms of income). http://www.tax.com/taxcom/taxblog.nsf/Permalink/MSUN-7YJ5KA?OpenDocument

And it has been dropping:

Households with incomes over $1 million paid income tax equal to 22.1 percent of their adjusted gross income in 2007. This is down from 23.4 percent in 2004. And from 30.8 percent in http://www.tax.com/taxcom/taxblog.nsf/Permalink/MSUN-7YHGVN?OpenDocumentument

The bottom 90%'s income has dropped, while among the richest the rate of income is at it's highest:

The share of income held by the top 1% was as large in 2005 as in 1928. Reported income increased by 9% in 2005, with the mean for the top 1% increasing by 14% and that for the bottom 90% dropping slightly by 0.6%. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_in_the_United_States”

“I wonder in whose basement the tea baggers are gonna meet?”

“5 ways we can improve the Senate healthcare bill:

1.Remove mandate
2.Remove mandate
3.Remove mandate
4.Remove mandate
5.Remove mandate”

“The Clinton administration negotiated the Agreed Framework in 1994.

"The Agreed Framework was successful in freezing North Korean plutonium production in Yongbyon plutonium complex for eight years From 1994 to December, 2002."

Soon after the agreement was signed, U.S. Congress control changed to the Republican Party, who did not support the agreement. Some Republican Senators were strongly against the agreement, regarding it as appeasement. Initially U.S. Department of Defense emergency funds not under Congress control were used to fund the transitional oil supplies under the agreement, together with international funding. From 1996 Congress provided funding, though not always sufficient amounts. Consequently some of the agreed transitional oil supplies were delivered late.

Then Bush was (s)elected:

"The Agreed Framework between the United States of America and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea was signed on October 21, 1994 between North Korea (DPRK) and the United States. Implementation of the agreement was troubled from the start, but its key elements were being implemented until it effectively broke down in 2003"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agreed_Framework_between_the_United_States_of_America_and_the_Democratic_People's_Republic_of_Korea

You can argue around the facts, but history clearly shows that Bush and the repubs derailed a legitimate agreement with North Korea resulting in North Korea's production of nuclear weapons. A process that was frozen and incomplete when Clinton held office so spare us the "Obama is building on Bush's success" because Bush had NO success only blunder.”

“cont'd

When North Korea publicly announced that it had nuclear weapons, repeating what its representative had stated prior to September, it was reacting to these latest U.S. provocations.

During a 2002 interview, U.S. Undersecretary of State John R. Bolton took a book titled The End of North Korea off a shelf and slapped it on the table. “That”, he said, “is our policy.” Pursuit of this course “for the last four years” Kristof writes, “has only strengthened Mr. Kim and allowed him to expand his nuclear arsenal several fold.”

http://www.hnn.us/articles/10400.html

In a February 9 article in the New York Times Nicholas D. Kristof reminds us that, “as best we know” North Korea did not make one nuclear weapon before Bush became president.”

“Mr. Grenell, only an unabashed Bush apologist would claim that Bush's North Korean policy was a success while scrapping a prior sucessfully negotiated agreement and allowing North Korea to expand its nuclear weapons program. In fact history shows Bush's approach was quite a failure:

"President George W. Bush’s first step was to delay implementation of the 1994 Agreed Framework that provided for North Korea to halt its nuclear weapons program in return for fuel oil, 4.5 billion to construct two nuclear powered electricity plants that did not produce weapons grade waste and negotiations to normalize bilateral relations.

When North Korea admitted to U.S. diplomats in October 2000 that it had a secret uranium enrichment program it was an act of deterrence that Washington exploited to justify halting fuel shipments. Pyongyang then reopened its nuclear facility at Yongbyon and expelled U.N. inspectors…

Criticism of the United States grew after it rejected North Korea’s offer in February 2004 to freeze its nuclear program in return for aid at the second round of Six-Party Talks.

Meanwhile, U.S. officials traveled to Beijing to present evidence that North Korea had sold processed uranium to Libya, relying on what Selig Harrison called “sketchy data”.

http://www.hnn.us/articles/10400.html”