luckynewman13's Comments (617)

“Good point. There are fewer persons in power in the GOP who will condemn extremists in their ranks. John McCain is one, and he gets booed by his own supporters when he does so. Boehner is a shallow opportunist and nothing he does surprises me. Bachmann is bat$#!t cr@zy. Is she considered a leader in her party? May the gods have mercy.”

“Ugh... 9 months into the Obama Presidency and he's already finished for 2010 and 2012... Chris Matthews and Mike Elk already have Sarah Palin winning the White House in four years. And just how on Earth are we supposed to negotiate our opinions with the Marsha Blackburns of the world until she stops seeing them as tyrannical socialism and embraces them as biblically literal teachings of Christ? Should we waste the remaining 3 years trying or maybe try fighting it out on the surface? The right has spent 35 years demonizing us ... and those that bought their lies have a very positive view of the kind of cut throat capitalism that comes with severe boom and bust cycles. All of the things government can do to alleviate these effects are denounced as socialism and every pipe fitter and non-plumbing plumber is convinced he is about to become a millionaire when he buys that plumbing business he is not about to buy. Also... how can President Obama allay the fears of working class whites who fear that blacks are going to take their jobs BUT who are pleased to see illegal immigrants who are willing to undermine blacks and union workers but don't want their medical care paid for even as it hurts hospitals. It's like a spaghetti tangle of positions.­. and WE'RE supposed to work it out?”

“If you're responding to me, luckynewman, no, I have no interest in investing my time in doing that. My point is that I think its big mistake to underestimate her. And I think it's an extremely big mistake to rabidly attack her as stupid and incompetent. She didn't become the governor of a state by being stupid. I think attacks from the left, like that, alienate average women out there in America. And last I checked, women were a pretty important voting bloc for the Dems. I think people ought to start attacking her policies, and cease with the "stupid" and "incompetent" insults. I really don't think it's gaining anyone anything. And I really don't have too much trouble seeing women putting her over the top, come election day some year down the road.”

“Whaever one thinks of nixon...th­e only comparison with Palin cuts against her political success..

Nixon was usually the smartest and best informed person in the room. and was ALWAYS the one with with the deepest HISTORICAL understanding of any given issue .
Unfortunately for him and us, he was also usually the most aggressive and unscrupulous, and the one with the most PERSONAL axes to grind.....­..... much life Ms. Palin.

tm”

“>>>Sarah Palin, I'm sorry, is no Richard Nixon.>>>>

I wouldn't be too terribly sure about that. If you want to take a good hard look at the polls, those Tea Party "crazies" aren't hurting the Republican party. But the Democratic party, on the other hand, IS getting hurt. It's a bad idea to mistake your own loathing of Sarah Palin as a sentiment the entire rest of the country shares, because that really is not so. And I don't think efforts to tear her down by her by calling her stupid and incompetent, etc., is helping liberals/Democrats. I think it's infuriating a lot of women, frankly. And women are a pretty important voting bloc for the Democratic party.”

“The next time you're in a bar and pay $3 to $5 for a beer, realize it costs Miller, for example, $1.40 to make a case of their so called beer. And that is about average. Most of the cost @$1.00 is for the packaging and labor.”

“I can get to them. I guess it makes you a low information or incompetent voter.”

“Calling people names does not prove anything. It just makes you look like you dont have an argument and have to resort to name calling.”

“Corporate tax changes, excise tax for the poor, middle class and rich. I have included a couple of links you can peruse.

http://docs.google.com/gview?a=v&q=cache:r2u_m41IrdMJ:www.lanepowell.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/tax_081409.pdf+hr+3200+tax+provisions&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjGuj7dIyRvVxh7ZnjnXzI_g9gahnpEwuu04V_1NzPSdPC-M2XomNCX3zMQGgU39-vYtjT0S48vPH52TORM2aaEFceXGV3OsYpLJFRkwzhrz6g9EDFH8iGadrSHu1k2xQVaY8oE&sig=AFQjCNFuu807hhIqX1F1EyxnJzgHeU5nSw

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/27384.html

Also from the New York Post.. I dont have the link
The changes approved by the House Ways and Means Committee that Rangel chairs would strip away legal defenses and pile higher penalties on corporate and individual taxpayers facing IRS proceedings for what they claim are unintentional mistakes, experts said.

Rangel’s bill would:

* Punish those who fail to alert the IRS to potentially questionable tax exemptions.

* Bar the IRS from waiving penalties against taxpayers who clearly erred in good faith.

* Double fines in certain circumstances.

‘The bill raises penalties and eliminates many of the reasonable defenses that taxpayers have always been able to use when honest mistakes are uncovered,’ one lawyer told The Post.

In fact, the bill increases fines ‘in some cases even for honest mistakes,’ the expert added.””

“Democrats voted for Bush in both elections. Do you think condescension really proves anything substantive?”

“Read the whole page before trying to decry any statements or claims in it. Information written there is pulled from multiple sources, some of them considered to be liberal leaning. Also, dont take comments about him spending like a drunken sailor to mean he is a bad person. I think he has good intentions in general, but his methods I disagree with.

http://blog.heritage.org/2009/03/24/bush-deficit-vs-obama-deficit-in-pictures/”

“He must've gotten a lot of email complaining about that statement, and so he flipflopped.

He was for it, before he was against it.”

“That was "good" Billo - same one who wrote the Parade Magazine piece a couple months ago, praising Obama as a great role model for American kids. To stay on top, you've gotta work both sides of the crowd.”

“ah, it says he did at the bottom of the article, I should probably read the whole thing before I comment.”