The American Mid-Term Elections: Republicans and Tea Partiers Be Warned.

[hungry101]

I think Palin will be the first woman at the white house !

The American public couldn’t elect anyone less experienced, less prepared, more partisan, and less ready to take over the reigns of government then Sarah Palin.

Hey wait a minute, I just described Barack Obama! Maybe she can get elected?

 

[hungry101]

Despite some misgivings about Mr. Gore, at least he had the courtesy to write a real benchmark book, rather than her poor attempt. No one should interpet this to be any support for Gore. Rather, I'm less than enchanted by Sara Palin. Joe Liberman is still my political hero.

What benchmark book? That crock of shit is so full of holes and so politically motivated. Listen to Mr. Gore and there will be no industy in North America and we will all be cutting each others grass with push mowers for a living. The Holywood elites better hope that the emerging middle classes in the developing nations like their movies because soon we will not be able to afford them. They will be the only middle class if we follow Gore's lead with cap in tax.

 

[CS Martin]

What benchmark book? That crock of shit is so full of holes and so politically motivated. Listen to Mr. Gore and there will be no industy in North America and we will all be cutting each others grass with push mowers for a living. The Holywood elites better hope that the emerging middle classes in the developing nations like their movies because soon we will not be able to afford them. They will be the only middle class if we follow Gore's lead with cap in tax.

Books, good or bad, are meant not only to inform, but to stir debate and discussion. I'm not a big fan of Gore. In fact, I think he's a pompus asshole. That being said, his book had impact, unlike Palin's which probably will be selling on the clearance rack soon. She made her splash, and lots of $$$$$$$$. Good for her!! If she was a serious politician, she would have stayed the Governor of Alaska using that podium to demonstrate her skills. She could have taken another route and run for Capitol Hill. She didn't, instead choosing her current course.

 

[hungry101]

Palin's which probably will be selling on the clearance rack soon..

You know I haven't checked it out yet. Winston Churchhill was one hell of a writer. somehow, I do not expect Palin's works to rival Lord Churchill's. Your probably correct.

If she was a serious politician, she would have stayed the Governor of Alaska using that podium to demonstrate her skills. She could have taken another route and run for Capitol Hill. She didn't, instead choosing her current course.

Of Course

 

[JH Fan]

There's a big difference between pissing people off and displaying ignorance.

The first games of basketball were at McGill not in Mass.

Ignorance ? sorry but the 'never heard of it' about the Alouettes was exactly the proof of it....

Sorry Grumpy but... try again !

 

[Merlot]

Hello Boys,

The first games of basketball were at McGill not in Mass.

Ignorance ? sorry but the 'never heard of it' about the Alouettes was exactly the proof of it....

Sorry Grumpy but... try again !

This is just not possible JH. Here is the reason:

At Springfield YMCA, Naismith struggled with a rowdy class which was confined to indoor games throughout the harsh New England winter and thus was perpetually short-tempered. Under orders from Dr. Luther Gulick, head of Springfield YMCA Physical Education, Naismith was given 14 days to create an indoor game that would provide an "athletic distraction": Gulick demanded that it would not take up much room, could help its track athletes to keep in shape[4] and explicitly emphasized to "make it fair for all players and not too rough."[3]

So basketball was invented and first used to solve a problem at Springfield, MA. You might try arguing where basketball was first played as a fully developed game, but the basics were set and used in Springfield, MA. Case closed.

What has this to do with this thread subject?

Palin is a head case. Of all the choices she could have made to further her career and prove herself by staying in office...she chose to become an out-of-office Tea Party ideologue/cut-rate television pop diva. That pretty much puts her in the same class as Rush Limbaugh as a loud mouth who refuses to take responsibility for what she says by preferring to flap her lips rather than be held accountable in office.

If she couldn't handle such a relatively much easier ironclad Republican Party lock that is Alaska, how can she possibly handle a far, far, far more diverse nation.

Run-Away-Sarah Falin.

Merlot

 

[rumpleforeskiin]

The first games of basketball were at McGill not in Mass.

Naismith attended McGill, but invented basketball back home in Mass.

Ignorance ? sorry but the 'never heard of it' about the Alouettes was exactly the proof of it....

While a team named the Montreal Alouettes existed as far back as the 19th century, they were not the same franchise. The current team joined the CFL on it's founding in 1958, after years as members of the Canadian Rugby Football Union.

 

[Man Spors]

What is more important, where he was born, where he invented it, where he was educated or attended university or where he took a dump ? This is all sounds like a pissing contest (pun intended!) to thump one's chest.

According to the CFL website the Montreal Alouettes were founded in 1946

 

[Doc Holliday]

Even though its founder was James Naismith, a Canadian, basketball was first played in Massachussets. However, at least 10 of the students who played in those first games were from Quebec.

Also, the very first NBA was played in Toronto in 1946, where the NY Knicks played against the Toronto Huskies. By the way, when the team had its contest to name its brand-new franchise nearly 2 decades ago, my personal choice was the Huskies. My second choice was the Toronto Towers, and third the Toronto Tornadoes. Not in a million years would i have picked the 'Raptors'.

Finally, i can't stand Sarah Pallin & i'm glad her daughter was finally booted out of DWTS. However, i can't wait for the Republican party's leadership debates to begin & i'd love for Pallin to win the nomination, which in my opinion would make it easier for Obama to get re-elected.

 

[hungry101]

Finally, i can't stand Sarah Pallin .

I would have never guessed this.

...& i'm glad her daughter was finally booted out of DWTS. .

All of your hating aside (which is perplexing) Bristol really did improve. I have to say I cringed at first when she started the competition but by the end I was really impressed. She is no where near as good as Jennifer Grey but still darn good. BTW - who would have guessed that Jennifer Grey, the co-star of Dirty Dancing could possibly win a competition as this?

However, i can't wait for the Republican party's leadership debates to begin & i'd love for Pallin to win the nomination, which in my opinion would make it easier for Obama to get re-elected.

Yes this would be bad for our country.

 

[CS Martin]

Pelosi and the Hostage Fakers

COMMENTTARY: NANCY PELOSI SHOULD BE PROSECUTED AS A TRAITOR TO HER OWN COUNTRY

Wall Street Journal

Editorial Board Member Steve Moore on the tax deal.

Pelosi and the Hostage Fakers
Republicans shouldn't make a single new tax concession.

President Obama defended his bipartisan tax deal this week by claiming that Republicans were political "hostage takers" who wouldn't budge, but it looks like he fingered the wrong suspects. The real kidnappers are Speaker Nancy Pelosi's House Democrats, and the main hostage they are taking is none other than Mr. Obama. Republicans should not pay the ransom.

House Democrats signaled their opposition to the Obama-GOP deal yesterday, leaking word of a near-unanimous voice vote of disapproval from a closed-door caucus meeting. The Speaker then insisted on "discussions" in the days ahead "to improve the proposal before it comes to the House floor for a vote." Because she controls a House majority for a (blessedly) few more weeks, Mrs. Pelosi has the power to deny a floor vote and hand the American economy a giant tax increase on January 1.

What a crew. Democrats on Capitol Hill have had two years to avoid this day of tax reckoning, yet they kicked the tough vote into a lame duck session. They proceeded to lose a modern record of 63 House seats. Then when a Democratic President seeks to spare the country a huge tax increase by cutting a deal with the soon-to-be-majority Republicans, the losers try to bust up the economy and the Obama Presidency on their way out of town.

At one level, this is a fight for power over the next two years. Re-elected by her colleagues after their epic defeat, Mrs. Pelosi is trying to show Mr. Obama who wears the pantsuit in the party. She thinks the law professor President lacks her streets-of-Baltimore grit. She's sending him a message not to count on her support if he tries to do a Bill Clinton and cut deals with Republicans to win re-election.

This is also a revealing exercise in sheer ideological willfulness. To the modern liberal mind, the Bush-era tax rates have taken on quasi-religious significance. A tax rate even as high as 35% on estates and upper income earners isn't nearly enough to honor this god. Even if all of the tax cuts are extended on lower earners, and even if jobless benefits are extended for 13 more months, House Democrats won't make the trade because their highest policy principle is to redistribute wealth and income. They want to punish the successful, no matter the economic damage.

Their problem at the current moment is that House Democrats have nothing but ideological anger to bargain with. They may want Mr. Obama to demand more concessions from Republicans, and perhaps he will follow orders and try. But why should Republicans oblige?

Mr. Obama has already announced the deal at two White House events, defending it as the best he could get and in the interests of the country. If the deal now goes down and taxes go up on January 1, no one will think Republicans are to blame. Americans will rightly conclude that Mr. Obama is so incompetent he can't even deliver Members of his own party.

As for Republicans, they have already given up an enormous amount to get what is essentially the status quo on tax policy. They get a two-year reprieve against tax increases on capital and income, and two years of death taxes at 35% instead of 55%. This spares the economy from immediate tax harm while it is still emerging from recession, but this deal is nothing close to a genuine pro-growth, supply-side tax policy.

.In return, Republicans have risked offending tea party voters by agreeing not to offset $56 billion more in jobless benefits with spending cuts. They've also agreed to extend most of the Obama-era tax credits that do nothing for growth and merely redistribute income to Americans who already pay no income taxes.

The two percentage point cut in the payroll tax is only for one year and gives no incentive for businesses to hire because it only affects what employees pay. It is merely another demand-side Keynesian gambit to temporarily lift consumption. As for the increase in business expensing for 2011 (at 100%) and 2012 (50%), this will bring investment forward in time but do little to change overall business spending.

Republicans would be fools to give Democrats a single new concession, even a token one. They certainly shouldn't let Mrs. Pelosi think she can get away with such blackmail in the next Congress. If Democrats defeat the current deal in the House, Republicans can return as a majority in January and write a bill that is better tax policy and more popular with their voters. Democrats will have been responsible for the tax increase, and Mr. Obama and Senate Democrats will have much less leverage. That's why we think the Pelosi Democrats are really hostage fakers and will fold if their bluster is called.

Apart from the near-term economic damage, the stakes in this debate are highest for Mr. Obama. In November voters repudiated the policies of his first two years, but the polls show a reservoir of respect for him as a leader. If he can be pounded into retreat by a soon-to-be-former Speaker whose approval rating is barely north of 10%, Mr. Obama is headed for the unhappy resting place for failed Presidencies known as Carterville.

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[Jman47]

Judge in Va. strikes down federal health care law

http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20101213/US.Health.Care.Overhaul.Virginia/

RICHMOND, Va. — A federal judge declared a key provision of the Obama administration's health care law unconstitutional Monday, siding with Virginia's attorney general in a dispute that both sides agree will ultimately be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.

U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson is the first federal judge to strike down the law, which has been upheld by two other federal judges in Virginia and Michigan. Several other lawsuits have been dismissed and others are pending, including one filed by 20 other states in Florida.

Hudson rejected the government's argument that it has the power under the Constitution to require individuals to buy health insurance, a provision that was set to take effect in 2014.

"Of course, the same reasoning could apply to transportation, housing or nutritional decisions," Hudson wrote. "This broad definition of the economic activity subject to congressional regulation lacks logical limitation" and is unsupported by previous legal cases around the Commerce Clause of the Constitution.

There was no immediate comment from the White House.

The lawsuit was filed by Virginia Republican Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli in defense of a new state law that prohibits the government from forcing state residents to buy health insurance. The key issue was his claim that the federal law's requirement that citizens buy health insurance or pay a penalty is unconstitutional.

"This won't be the final round, as this will ultimately be decided by the Supreme Court, but today is a critical milestone in the protection of the Constitution," Cuccinelli said in a statement after the ruling.

Hudson, a Republican appointed by President George W. Bush, sounded sympathetic to the state's case when he heard oral arguments in October, and the White House expected to lose this round.

Administration officials told reporters last week that a negative ruling would have virtually no impact on the law's implementation, noting that its two major provisions — the coverage mandate and the creation of new insurance markets — don't take effect until 2014.

The central issue in Virginia's lawsuit was whether the federal government has the power under the constitution to impose the insurance requirement. The Justice Department said the mandate is a proper exercise of the government's authority under the Commerce Clause.

Cuccinelli argued that while the government can regulate economic activity that substantially affects interstate commerce, the decision not to buy insurance amounts to economic inactivity that is beyond the government's reach.

 

[CS Martin]

http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20101213/US.Health.Care.Overhaul.Virginia/, including one filed by 20 other states in Florida.

Wow, I had no idea Florida was getting so big. If you believe this reporter in addition to our 57 counties, WE NOW HAVE 20 STATES. We should secede from the Union and declare ourselves the United States & Counties of Florida. All joking aside this gives you a glimpse of the current writing skills & intelligence of the 4th estate.....a bunch of liberal zombies.