sailhardy's Comments (25)

“It should take the Congressman about five minutes to replace his staff. There are so many good people out there who are unemployed, replacing a bunch of political wannabes should be easy.”

“Obama is more of a phoney than Bush or even Cheney. Lots of promises, less than 1¢ on delivery.”

“Republican hypocrisy has reached a new low: they are now tied with Democrats in the Hypocrisy Sweepstakes. It is strange, though, that Democrats who were so vile with George W. Bush can't seem to take it when their man, Barack Obama, is whacked for his Administration's incompetence. Get a life, folks. It's America, and most of us reading this are Americans. To quote the only decent American philosopher of the past decade or so, Rodney King, "can't we all get along?"”

“As long as the President believes he can get anywhere by engaging foreign leaders whose political situations do not permit accommodations with the U.S., and as long as he and his attorney general think a $75,000,000 show trial of 9/11 plotters will convince the world we are good people, he is not a grown-up. He is a three year old if he believes that nonsense.”

“It's all very well to blame Senator Lieberman for the defeat of healthcare reform, but the fact is that the bill, crafted by Democrats addressed the problem of health insurance, not health care. The problem lies with the President who had no clear idea of what healthcare reform really meant because he never wrote it down. He left that to the corrupt Representatives and Senators. This bill, and how it is crafted, is a disgrace to the entire Democratic Party, from the President down. I expected better of him.”

“Typical of the New Democrats. They no longer sympathise with working people. His fellow senators should wash his mouth open with soap.”

“There are plenty of things I can find to disagree with Joe Lieberman about. There are things he has done of which I disapprove. But I am aghast at the vitriol thrown his way because he is doing what he thinks is right. He took an oath of office, people, to this country, not to any party. He is fulfilling his oath. He was elected in what I presume were fair elections. He won because he won more votes than his Democratic and Republican opponents. It would seem some of the people who loathe him think the various means of writing healthcare bills are fine. I think they stink, are far too partisan and have loads of private interests that come before American patients and taxpayers. I agree, if you think Congress should have different rules, but neither the Senate nor the House of Representatives agrees with us.”

“Anyone who pays attention to Howard Scream is listening to much less than last year's news.”

“Does Congressman Conyers see his wife regularly in the visitor's room?”

“How many Christian churches or Jewish synagogues or Hindu temples were built in Muslim countries in the past ten years? The Swiss should do their proportionate share, and no more. It is, however, up to the Swiss, and apparently, they don't want minarets. Why should they have what they don't want? And the refugees from Yugoslavia? Quiet there now. The refugees can return.”

“Are all the little spinmeisters heard from? The fact is that scientists are no better than the lemmings of the Progressives, rushing to a consensus on global warming. Science is, of course, all about consensus. Just ask Galileo.”

“Message to Obama: It's the economy, Stupid. It's also about jobs. The latest, to pressure business people into employing more workers is straight out of the Neil Kinnock playbook. During his 1987 campaign against Margaret Thatcher, Kinnock suggested on talk radio no less that if each British shopkeeper hired one more worker, unemployment would go away. An shopkeeper called in and asked,"why should I hired more workers than I need? For you? Get serious."

I am not sure when the Obama Administration will get serious, assuming it ever will, but the sooner the better.”

“Tim Geithner is singlehandedly making people long for the Bush Administration again. At least, they didn't try to destroy the economy deliberately.”

“Since the AARP sold out to pharmaceutical firms on Medicare Part D, the organisation has zero credibility on health issues.”

“Perhaps we can send John Kerry there again. Maybe the Afghans will keep him this time. We have to look at this with optimism and hope.”

“I hope Obama's presidency is very successful. But thus far, his foreign policy ploys have been ridiculous. Sending Senator Lurch from Massachusetts to Afghanistan was a joke. He engineered a run-off election and was hailed for his triumph. Unhappily, the Afghans refused to cooperate and there will be no run-off. Lurch, typically, talked to the wrong man. Obama drew a line in the sand about ending expansion of Israeli settlements in disputed territories. The Israelis, understandably, refused to put their lives on hold, like the Palestinians, and certainly not for Obama. So, they balked. They did offer some concessions, and typically the Palestinians and other Arabs said, "not enough." So, when Hillary, our vastly experienced secretary of state trumpeted success at getting Israeli concessions, the Arabs gave the Middle Eastern equivalent of a Bronx cheer. And Libya's Khaddafi was bombed into silence by Reagan, and so terrified by the despised George W. Bush that he abandoned his nuclear venture. However, after listening to Obama, he bought the Scottish Attorney General, secured the release of the Lockerbie bomber, and organised the Libyan equivalent of a ticker tape parade for the mass murderer of Americans, after receiving calls from The White House urging no celebration. We are despised and certainly not respected. The world's only great superpower is becoming irrelevant. So is our dollar. None of this can be blamed on the Bush Administration. Yes, Obama inherited a mess. So did Bush.”

“In the interests of fairness, the Obama Administration should suspend the First Amendment for the duration of Mr. Obama's presidency. He should certainly use the full power of the U.S. government to harass and intimidate all Fox News personnel, even the janitors. The full panoply of early a.m. enhanced interrogations by the FBI; IRS audits; and forced listening to the sermons and diatribes of Obama's favourite pastor, Rev. Wright, and audio tapes of the collected writings and bombings of Bill Ayers, with a few rants from Van Jones should be thrown in for good measure.”

“Only in America would a man who didn't know a male house of prostitution was operating in his home, like Congressman Barney Frank, be put in charge of formulating regulatons for a $590+ trillion industry like derivatives or protecting consumers, or cleaning up the financial services industry, all the time accepting donations from the very people he is supposed to be regulating.”

“It's hard to believe anyone supports the measures before Congress now on healthcare. Why didn't someone start with a perfect healthcare plan, and then look at starting to get there. Now, we have our bought-and-sold Congress lining their pockets and those of their lobbyist buddies' employers. How does that help us, and doesn't that practice cost us billions? Why didn't the President start with something that was solely designed to care for Americans' well-being, instead of a process that only helps the Congressional thieves and slickies who no longer know right from wrong.

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lincoln-mitchell/what-olympia-snowes-suppo_b_320395.html”

“Since Chuck Schumer is one of the most partisan people in Congress, and is one of the more seriously compromised by the contributions he solicits from the finance industry, it is always wise to check his contributors before paying attention to anything he says. He is one of the reasons that the Democratic Party is seen as possibly even more corrupt than Republicans when they were in the majority. His performance leading to the AIG meltdown was disgraceful.”

“It's a shame people like Chuck Schumer, who has been bought so many times by people in http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/join.html?autojoin=1n=1 financial world, are in the senate, screwing up Americans' health care. The only way we are likely to get a decent healthcare system in this country is for the President to use his bully pulpit and shame our sticky-fingered Congress to have but one goal: serve the American public.”

“In this case, Meg Whitman is right to run as hard as she can from Van Jones. So should the U.S. government. However, Meg Whitman isn't a racial racketeer, but e-Bay and PayPal weren't exactly great corporate citizens, either.”

“Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell are the last people who should be outraged at what AIG does or does not do re bonuses. According to facts, the AIG bonuses ranged from $1,000 to $6.5 million. On the other hand, the average earmark was $13 million per Congressman/woman/senator. That is a figure which should disgust. Obama is disingenuous in the extreme, and thinks we are incredibly stupid, by allowing earmarks. No Congressman is worth $13 million.

What do you suppose a Congressman gets for delivering $13 million to his/her district or state. Finder's fees? You think? Sweetheart deals on their mortgages? Some already do. Waivers on laws regarding their holdings? Some already do. But they probably want more. They know what Samuel Gompers said when asked what Labor wanted.

Of course, Gompers was talking about people who worked for a living. All Congress does is take raises after helping to cause a financial catastrophe and putting thousands of Americans out of work. Did they do it alone? No, but at least that is the one bipartisan thing Congress and the likes of Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell can take credit for. They allowed a disaster to happen on their watch, and then they put their hands in our pockets yet again.

The President should be ashamed for not calling them on it, but then he is the product of the Illinois legislature and the U.S. Senate and he may not know right from wrong, either.”

“Those who think Bill and Hillary are pursued by "a vast right-wing conspiracy" should consider that was Hillary's response to the proceedings during her husband's impeachment. Note that at no time does a Clinton really take the blame for anything. The Paula Jones thing was all a GOP plot. Really? Didn't Bill have anything to do with that? Gee, I guess he did, but of course that depends on what the meaning of is is. They take us all for fools, and they did fool 18,000,000 of us again.

God preserve the Republic.”

“The flap about Senator Clinton's remarks about the assassination of Robert Kennedy should, I hope, teach her not to pounce so delightedly on gaffes from her many enemies. To give her the benefit of the doubt, it is unlikely she is hoping for someone to rid her of Senator Obama. She has repeatedly distorted the meaning of others' statements, and is very quick to point the finger. Perhaps she will stick to laying out what she would do as President with such problems as her husband's presence, and the list of supporters to the Clinton Foundation and Library. The aura of sleaze and corruption from her husband's time in The White House would have to be disspelled before she can be elected president and governing effectively. Even by Congressional standards, the profits made by the Clintons for their Administration are staggering.”