So it’s costing seven million to pull the tape off the walls? You’re not smart enough for this conversation, please go to IMHO and talk about your cat. Thank you.
I think Newt’s got them on permanent loan.
Tube socks run about $7 a bag at Target. Noob socks, you get whether you want 'em or not. Can’t believe that shit-for-brains actually offered Freepernoia as a cite.
We’re borrowing money from them to do things in the US. I have no problem with that, if the money is invested in America, rather than wasted on wars and tax cuts for millionaires.
Close to 20 states are trying to pass anti-union legislation. Ohio recently passed some, and they have 2x the population of Wisconsin.
So Wisconsin may be in the news, but in most states where the GOP won the state government these bills are being passed.
So there are lots of governors who need to be fucked with. The problem is the dems aren’t that great either. Obama governs like an early 90s northeast republican. The choices are an Eisenhower republican (people like Obama) vs. a Christian Coalition republican (people like Palin). So people on the left lose interest come election time.
Hopefully things like this will lead to a large scale, grass roots progressive movement that intimidates the democratic party rather than supplicates to it. The tea party was strong but they were also independent. For the most part liberal activist groups (labor, the netroots, liberals) tend to fight for ‘all’ democrats hoping the dems will support them on the issues. Then they get disappointed, and start again. I admire the tea party because they are somewhat independent of the GOP. They work through it, but they have their own agenda and interests. Liberals and labor do not have that kind of independence from the democrats.
W/o that, I don’t see enough people voting to stop this kind of behavior. The 2010 election was won in part due to apathy. Hopefully some larger scale economic populist movement comes out of these policies. Cutting taxes on the wealthy while cutting food stamps and the wages/benefits of people who make 50k a year can’t be ‘that’ popular.
Do you have any idea of the differences in size between the rallies?
But they won’t be running on that. They’ll run on the looming threat of Sharia law forcing Eagle Scouts into gay marriages.
Some people have to go to work. 
The lucky ones, yeah.
The tea party rallies were full of retired people.
Wasn’t the inauguration a national event, attended by people from many walks of life, and members of both parties?
Dumbass.
If you can quote where I’ve alleged that, I’ll respond. Otherwise, I can’t help you understand my posts.
The only number I quoted was the ~$350K reduced estimate.
If I had a cat, I’d probably do better talking to him. It appears from your posts that most cats are smarter than you are.
How in the fuck could it escalate the conflict? If they were in the state, the Repubs would have jammed it through. That is the cold hard fact. They left and it was delayed. But now, it is absolutely clear that it is a wholly Repub plan . They were taking no prisoners. It was a union busting bill from the beginning. Now they got it. I hope they pay big time.
That’s right…attack the website but don’t discuss the pictures.
You guys are teh funnay.
You’d dodge if those pics were on Huffpo.
The interest on the debt is the fifth largest Federal budget item, after Defense and Security spending ($890 billion), Social Security ($730 billion) and Medicare ($490 billion). (Source: U.S. Treasury, Interest).
This with interest rates very low, a situation that common sense tells you will not last forever.
Do you not understand how much more we could do, how much better off we’d be as a nation without paying this huge amount of interest? Interest on the debt is almost as much as the Medicare program budget!
That’s really a great plan for success. Piss your income away on interest.
Looks like the Repubs DID jam it through doesn’t it? So all the running away from the job, all the Union rallying, all the trash, all the Nazi signs, all the Walker-should-be-run-over-by-a-truck posts really made a difference there. What a great way to get a compromise.
As I said upthread, this was a sorry spectacle that left no participant looking very good. I sure don’t see it as beneficial for democratic republicanism in general. It was just one more example of dysfunctional government on both sides.
Something everyone can take real pride in; we’re destroying our system of government.
The only thing missing was the crowds burning the Statehouse. Then we could REALLY be proud of both sides for failing to work together.
What would you like to discuss about the pictures?
Before we discuss them, I’d like Unca to provide cites that those pictures are actually from the times he says they are. I’d also like additional pics of the overall grounds so we can get a feel for the distribution.
Is that okay, Unca, do you mind backing up your citations with facts?
Shhh. You’ll scare him away!