treetracker's Comments (332)

“I'm going to make every effort to free my mind of that thought while I have Christmas dinner.

EUWWWWW.”

“I"ll take your word for it, but please get rid of McCain. He gets much more air time whining, complaining, and lying, I'll be throwing a shoe through the set.

Man, does he grate on my nerves these days. I wish he'd crawl in a hole and stay there...what was it they called Saddam's hole - a spider hole? That would be just perfect!”

“At this point I'd be willing to take a crooked tea party candidate over McCain's whining and temper tantrums.

Please AZ replace him!!!”

“Yeah, me too. Too bad we can't go back and change history.”

“P. S. Then watch how fast we come home.”

“Any proposal of a draft must include no deferments. NADA - no more Dick Cheney types staying at home safe and sound.”

“Precisely.

But, most of us know it and the politicians do know it.

Those who have sold us out should be replaced.”

“Yes, both are to blame. Reid is the worst possible leader and should be replaced NOW! He is worthless.

The other sell out Dems are also worthless in my estimation.

And every filibuster the GOP uses (100 so far this year) makes them worthless, too.

Everyone gets the blame in my book.”

“No the minimum wage was not meant to be a living wage, that's why there are multiple other federal programs out there taking up the slack so people can live. --- Our tax dollars at work.

If there is work that needs to be done, there will be workers hired to do it - if the current number of employees are not sufficient. When paying OT is not longer cost efficient, other workers will be hired.

I suspect the current economic recession has more to do with businesses not hiring than the minimum wage.

But you hang in there with your ideology. We wouldn't want all boats to rise, just the elite few in their yachts.

I'm sure you'd rather race to the bottom so we can make less than those in China.”

“You can't blame just the Dems - the GOP had their hand in this as well. They have plenty of amendments that have been made part of this bill, even though they stand on the stage and pretend to have been shut out of the system.

They have abdicated their responsibility as representatives of their constituents to do more than play politics by being the party of "no."

While Rome burns, the GOP fiddles. As much as I loathe the sell outs in the Democratic Party (the so called ConservaDems) who have destroyed this legislation, I despise the GOP for playing politics rather than doing what is right for us - the citizens of this country.

They have contributed to the mess this bill has become and they deserve the blame for it as well.

A non-profit health insurance system is the only answer, but the sell outs and the GOP would rather sell us out to those whose bottom line is more important than we are.”

“Very sad that the bottom line and filling campaign coffers are more important than people's lives.

I note the "Prohibit the imposition of lifetime limits on coverage," but, of course, he failed to mention the annual caps have been reinstated with the ambiguous language of "unreasonable" -- and guess who gets to decide that? It won't be the policyholder.

Yes, we will eventually get a not for profit system, but the cost will in lives is going to be high before we get there.

Shame, shame, shame on every one of these Senators who sold the lives of their constituents for a dollar.

A pox on all their houses.”

“http://senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=1&vote=00024

28 GOP Senators who voted to allow only the states to determine their minimum wage, repealing a federal minimum wage standard.

One of their think tanks (Cato, Heritage?) is a proponent of having no minimum wage, that would effectively create a race to the bottom. No one will be able to pay their rent/mortgage if they get that wish.”

“A most excellent adventure! LOL”

“Not ever one is dishonest.

Kucinich
Sanders
Feingold
Sherrod Brown

to name a few.”

“Find progressive candidates that CAN NOT be bought. Run them against the incumbents.

This is not over yet!”

“Exactly. If they will not do what the public wants (and there has been poll after poll supporting bot single payer and a public option), then they need to be primaried.

It's time to take names and votes and see who needs to go and then take the next 6 years and get rid of as many of them as possible.”

“Based on what I've seen of these groups, yours is one of the rare exceptions. And if you're group is dedicated to disrupting a debate, rather than discussing an issue, then regardless of your knowledge, you'll still have nothing to offer.

You cannot have a democracy without honest debate. Screaming people down, doesn't cut it.”

“Yes, he sold his soul and he continues to lie. He no longer has any honor and, therefore, no longer deserves the respect I once had for him.

I hope he loses in the primary and I hope there are enough sensible people in AZ to election anyone from any party other than the "Conservatives/Republican" party. If they don't like a Dem, the vote Independent, Green, whatever - just make sure they are an honest human being that has some degree of intelligence and curiosity with no party machine ties and they can't be bought.

That's all I ask. We need to get rid of anyone in Congress who can't tell the American people the truth to win a debate. I am sick to death of all of them. We need solutions, not more lies and BS from either party.”

“My understanding is there are questions as to whether the pesticides that are part of these modified seeds may be causing the bee colony collapse. It is not confirmed and Sierra Club has requested it be studied.

You can read the Sierra Club letter here:

http://www.sierraclub.org/biotech/whatsnew/whatsnew_2007-03-21.asp”

“I believe there will be a number of Democratic challengers - people who are not party insiders - that will take on these corporate Dems. We need to lose the DLC. PERIOD.”

“My guess is that's not going to last for another 20 years...we'll see.”

“Well there's going to come a time soon when people are going to have to decide -- we can't continue to be without jobs and we can't continue the heavy debt load that Bush & the crashed economy have put us in.

So if people want to complain about the debt they'd better start offering solutions other than cutting social safety nets that people who have now lost their jobs are depending heavily on.

The I've got mine and screw you mentality needs to end...screw Blankfein and Griffiths. We're all in this together and all the boats are going to rise or surely we're all going down together.

We've got to put people back to work and stop the foreclosures or this whole thing is going to blow up. And we're going to need to do it soon.”

“My guess is the GMO seeds are the cause of the bee colony collapse. Sierra Club has sent a letter to Congress requesting this be studied. Don't know if Congress is going to take up the issue or not, but they need to.

We lose the bees and the bats and we're going to be in deep dung.”

“http://leap.cc/dia/miron-economic-report.pdf

The report estimates that legalizing drugs would save roughly $44.1 billion per year in
government expenditure on enforcement of prohibition. $30.3 billion of this savings
would accrue to state and local governments, while $13.8 billion would accrue to the
federal government. Approximately $12.9 billion of the savings would results from
legalization of marijuana, $19.3 billion from legalization of cocaine and heroin, and
$11.6 from legalization of other drugs. ($132 billion in savings)

• The report also estimates that drug legalization would yield tax revenue of $32.7 billion
annually, assuming legal drugs are taxed at rates comparable to those on alcohol and
tobacco. Approximately $6.7 of this revenue would result from legalization of
marijuana, $22.5 billion from legalization of cocaine and heroin, and $3.5 from
legalization of other drugs. ($65.4 in taxes)

$197.4 billion total. Plenty of money to put people back to work.”

“Replace him with James Galbraith!”