Waltb31's Comments (1444)

“Women play at Augusta”

“Reagan's trickle down sure helped main street...N­OT”

“It is pretty obvious that if you have had everything handed to you as a child, and when you didn't get it, you threw a temper tantrum and your exasperated parents gave in.
In the real world, you can't magically get everything you want because you say so and stamp your feet.
This has nothing to do with "drinking the kool-aid"; on the contrary, it is recognizing that there are consequences to rash actions. Your approach would be disastrous.
But in your petulance, you can't see that. There must be a logical approach to change direction, not an abrupt wild ill-conceived action.
We are turning a cruise ship, not a speed boat.”

“Yeah, that's the ticket...S­heesh”

“Magic wand...poo­f all the things you want are done today.
Predictions on the outcome?
1) Stop all wars. Pull out immediately; Iraq reverts to civil war, further destabilizing the entire region. Iran takes over, expands nuclear threat. Pakistan falls, giving nuclear weapons to Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
2) Dissolve major banks/let them fail: Financial system collapses, major chaos ensues. Major great depression; chance of rogue demagogues rising among the resultant discontent. (Hitler)
3) Stabilize the national debt??? Balance the budget? OK Drastically cut Medicare, the Military, all pork. Raise taxes across the board by 50%. Riiight.
4) provide jobs? In the face of 1-3, good luck with that.
5) Tax the rich?? See #3.
Bottom line, despite your impatience, The President has been in office only 10 months; these problems started with Reagan's trickle down (on) approach, and wad decimated by Bush's Iraq oil war and the tax cuts for the rich. It will take some time to fix this problem, as well as handle all the trouble spots around the world.
Why do you have such unreal expectations?”

“Right. And the status quo under the neocons have been soooo much better...N­OT.
The policies you are espousing keeping (no health care, no cap and trade, tyax cuts for the wealthy, deregulation) have been tried and FAILED. Why should any sane person listen to more neocon drivel.
The definition of insanity is doing the exact same thing and expecting a different result.”

“OK. What is your brilliant solution to the current economic mess?”

“OK. What is your solution? How do you force banks to lend money?
Would you have withheld funds from the banks? Welcome to the Great Depression II.
No stimulus money? Bye bye economic recovery.
So...give me your solution.”

“Deficit spending for tax cuts for the wealthiest 5% and an immoral Iraq oil war is reprehensible. Deficit spending to correct the mistakes of the Bush administration and preventing the economy from going into a depression is mandatory.
There were do "deficit hawks" objecting to the Bush tax cuts, the Iraq war or the granddaddy of all economic screw-ups, the Reagan trickle down (on) theory.”

“"Tebet"?? What is Tebet?”

“No. A good trainwreck.”

“Are you sure Todd's the only one trimming the hedges....­?”

“Funny. Traditional American values don't include lying, grifting, narcissistic revenge seeking, or moral bankruptcy.”

“What David Brooks, a TRUE conservative, said yesterday:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/opinion/20brooks.html?_r=1&emc=tnt&tntemail0=y
Try again.”

“Success? 1/2 term Governor, who quit under bogus circumstances? Multiple ethics violations? Chronic liar according to the McCain camp? A woeful speaking tour; so bad she won't allow the press, cell phones, or cameras?
You actually call this fraud a success?
Please, PLEASE let her be the Repub nominee for President in 2012. Please!”

“Revisionist history. There were NO teabag protests in 2001 when Bush started this war. SP stated on numerous occasions that SHE was for the bank bailouts. Her state receives more government money/payouts per population than any state in the union.
Without the stimulus, the economic catastrophe started by Reagan and his trickle down (on) economics, bolstered by Bush's tax cuts and Iraq oil war with NO means to pay for it would have killed the economy. Heere is what a true conservative, David Brooks said today in the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/opinion/20brooks.html?_r=1&emc=tnt&tntemail0=y
The teabaggers and assorted right winger wack jobs, and so called libertarians are no more than extremists who are a mix of poor whites duped by rich neocons. If they were truly conservative, Bush would have only lasted 1 term after the damage he did to the deficit.”

“The KKK are the teabaggers uniformed division.”

“Spending? Like Bush's off the books Iraq oil war?
Government takeovers? Even your goddess Palin supported the bank bailouts when she was McCain's running mate.
You people are just biased against the President because of your own internal bias.”

“Yes!”

“By law, he could only appoint four Democrats. He is not weak.”

“Why would she talk about Barry Manilow?”

“Defend Obama against Republicans because he appointed a Republican?
Wow. So little logic.
Face it. You just want to bash Obama.”

“Barry Manilow is not in the White House.”

“No. He said he had been involved in 57 primaries. I know you tin foil right wingers have problems with the truth, like your fearless(?) leader SP.”

“No he did not. 57 democratic primaries.
Pathetic. SP flunked out of 5 colleges.
Palin thinks Iran is Iraq (they both begin with "I"), She thinks Africa is a country, she's "waiting for Putin to rear his ugly head".
Pathetic.”