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Consistent with my fair and balanced posting history ......

Author: conorlarkin (13507 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 6:32 pm on Mar 4, 2009
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Stage of Fools

Published: March 3, 2009
WASHINGTON
Maureen Dowd

If only Shakespeare had known how to Twitter.

There was a bit of King Lear in the scene on the Senate floor, a stormy, solitary John McCain on “this great stage of fools,” as the Bard wrote, railing against both parties and the president in fiery speeches and rapid-fire tweets.

“He’s mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse’s health, a boy’s love, or a whore’s oath,” the Fool told Lear.

And he’s truly mad that trusts in the promise of a presidential candidate to quell earmarks.

The 72-year-old senator who seemed hopelessly 20th century when he confessed during the campaign that he didn’t know how to use a computer or send an e-mail has now mastered the latest technology fad, twittering up a twizzard to tweak his former rival.

Before the Senate resoundingly defeated a McCain amendment on Tuesday that would have shorn 9,000 earmarks worth $7.7 billion from the $410 billion spending bill, the Arizona senator twittered lists of offensive bipartisan pork, including:

• $2.1 million for the Center for Grape Genetics in New York. “quick peel me a grape,” McCain twittered.

• $1.7 million for a honey bee factory in Weslaco, Tex.

• $1.7 million for pig odor research in Iowa.

• $1 million for Mormon cricket control in Utah. “Is that the species of cricket or a game played by the brits?” McCain tweeted.

• $819,000 for catfish genetics research in Alabama.

• $650,000 for beaver management in North Carolina and Mississippi.

• $951,500 for Sustainable Las Vegas. (McCain, a devotee of Vegas and gambling, must really be against earmarks if he doesn’t want to “sustain” Vegas.)

• $2 million “for the promotion of astronomy” in Hawaii, as McCain twittered, “because nothing says new jobs for average Americans like investing in astronomy.”


• $167,000 for the Autry National Center for the American West in Los Angeles. “Hopefully for a Back in the Saddle Again exhibit,” McCain tweeted sarcastically.

• $238,000 for the Polynesian Voyaging Society in Hawaii. “During these tough economic times with Americans out of work,” McCain twittered.


• $200,000 for a tattoo removal violence outreach program to help gang members or others shed visible signs of their past. “REALLY?” McCain twittered.

• $209,000 to improve blueberry production and efficiency in Georgia.

“When do we turn off the spigots?” Senator McCain said in his cri de coeur on the Senate floor. “Haven’t we learned anything? Bills like this jeopardize our future.”

In one of his disturbing spells of passivity, President Obama decided not to fight Congress and live up to his own no-earmark pledge from the campaign.

He’s been lecturing us on the need to prune away frills while the economy fizzles. He was slated to make a speech on “wasteful spending” on Wednesday.

“You know, there are times where you can afford to redecorate your house and there are times where you need to focus on rebuilding its foundation,” he said recently about the “hard choices” we must make. Yet he did not ask Congress to sacrifice and make hard choices; he let it do a lot of frivolous redecorating in its budget.

He reckons he’ll need Congress for more ambitious projects, like health care, and when he goes back to wheedle more bailout billions, given that A.I.G. and G.M. and our other corporate protectorates are burning through our money faster than we can print it and borrow it from the ever-more-alarmed Chinese.

Team Obama sounds hollow, chanting that “the status quo is not acceptable,” even while conceding that the president is accepting the status quo by signing a budget festooned with pork.

Obama spinners insist it was “a leftover budget.” But Iraq was leftover, too, and the president’s trying to end that. This is the first pork-filled budget from a new president who promised to go through the budget “line by line” and cut pork.

On “Face the Nation” on Sunday, Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, dismissed the bill as “last year’s business,” because most of it was written last year.

But given how angry Americans are, watching their future go up in smoke, the bloated bill counts as this year’s business.

It includes $38.4 million of earmarks sponsored or co-sponsored by President Obama’s labor secretary, Hilda Solis; $109 million Hillary Clinton signed on to; and $31.2 million in earmarks sought by Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood with colleagues.

(Even Barack Obama was listed as one of the co-sponsors of a $7.7 million pet project for Tribally Controlled Postsecondary Vocational Institutions until he got his name taken off last week.)

And then there are the 16 earmarks worth $8.5 million that Emanuel put into the bill when he was a congressman, including money for streets in Chicago suburbs and a Chicago planetarium.

Blame it on the stars, Rahm, or on old business. But as Shakespeare wrote in “Lear”: “This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeits of our own behavior — we make guilty of our own disasters, the sun, the moon, and the stars.”


They're not gonna catch us. We're on a mission from God.

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Thread Level: 2

It really is the stuff of Tragic Comedy... or just plain Tragedy

Author: NDIndy (998 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 12:02 am on Mar 5, 2009
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On the heels of Obama's and the Democrats' victory, a clean bill for America at this pivotal time would engender goodwill that would have a long tail - longer than tossing candy to the crying children. Instead, Obama and the Democrat Congress opts for the "we had better take it now while we can" model. Even my most liberal friends are unhappy and scratching their heads.

The leadership self-implosion cycle continues....


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It comes down tom the fact

Author: dick52 (244 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 11:20 pm on Mar 4, 2009
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that this is Nancy Pee's plan and O.B. didn't have the B's to go head to head with her

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Spot on

Author: Nigel Tufnel (5282 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 11:27 pm on Mar 4, 2009
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He has ceded control of the budget and 'stimulus' plan to Reid and Pelosi. He's stil in campaign mode. Lead, for God's sake!

You can't really dust for vomit.
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Pelosi and Reid aren't about to accept a pulled pork sandwich.

Author: TakethetrainKnute (22865 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 7:33 am on Mar 5, 2009
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What leadership experience will Obama draw upon?

Editing the Harvard Law Review? Or organizing the community cupcake sales?


Pelosi had his stones measured a long time ago. They're in a felt pouch in her back pocket.


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Re:omit the m

Author: dick52 (244 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 11:24 pm on Mar 4, 2009
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Editable subject lines.

Author: NDFaninNJ (10056 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 11:35 pm on Mar 4, 2009
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I'm only here because my firewall blocks Valhamma.
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I was miffed that they cut my pet pork amendment, a barrel full of monkeys, for the policeman's ball

Author: StoneFingers (2119 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 9:08 pm on Mar 4, 2009
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This can't be true

Author: Nigel Tufnel (5282 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 7:44 pm on Mar 4, 2009
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Tom Hynes told us BO was a man of his word, and Tom is always right. But since it's 'only' $7B+, I guess it's only a small lie, right?

"In one of his disturbing spells of passivity, President Obama decided not to fight Congress and live up to his own no-earmark pledge from the campaign.

He’s been lecturing us on the need to prune away frills while the economy fizzles. He was slated to make a speech on “wasteful spending” on Wednesday."


You can't really dust for vomit.
Thread Level: 3

I'm sure Barry just forgot to pack his "scalpel" back in Chicago...

Author: Bettis6 (1444 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 8:08 pm on Mar 4, 2009
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That doesn't excuse the fact that he could probably just borrow one of Rahm's coke razors.

Just one man's suggestion.


Thread Level: 4

Oh man....

Author: Hibakusha (3425 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 8:12 pm on Mar 4, 2009
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when you get to the "white" house you don't need no razors! The stuff comes combed and raked. Bush liked his with spoons, silver spoons.

Thread Level: 5

Hmmm, seems like I need to consider a career in politics.

Author: Bettis6 (1444 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 8:14 pm on Mar 4, 2009
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Agreed that these are absurd. But they are also a small portion of the bill....

Author: Chris94 (27088 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 6:58 pm on Mar 4, 2009
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...and no different than the pork that the GOP put on during its reign - and puts on now. About 40% of the porky business is from Republicans, as I understand it.

It is just the cost of doing business in Washington. Consider it a tax on the stimulus - there is no chance anything would pass without the pork tax, which these days is around 10%.

And to re-emphasize, I don't like these additions either. But almost 40% of the bill is tax cuts, and much of the rest is stimulative (hopefully) in one way or another.


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...and no different than the pork that the GOP put on during its reign - and puts on now.

Author: Trucker2 (1573 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 8:11 pm on Mar 4, 2009
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Tom, the old "everyone is doing it" doesn't get it. It's time we stop being Democrats dissing on the Republicans and Republicans dissing on the Democrats and start being honest Americans while we still have part of America left!! As a yellow dog Independent I can agree with you that the Republicans have tried to out democrat the Democrats. Now where does that get us??? STOP IT!!!! Democrats ... STOP IT!! Republicans ... STOP IT!!! Get your heads together and start doing what you know is good for America and to hell with doing what is good for the party!!!

McCain was not the man for the job, but neither is Obama! Up to this point the guy's administration is a train wreck!! Known and admitted tax dodgers and lobbyists for cabinet appointees after all the campaign rhetoric! If they have one clue about what to do to help the economy they've sure kept it well concealed.


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Enough about how fucking small they are. It's $7 billion of bullshit Obama promised to veto.

Author: NDFaninNJ (10056 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 7:04 pm on Mar 4, 2009
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And he didn't bat an eyelash while breaking that promise in the first damn budget bill he signed. If it was so small and inconsequential (which $7 billion isn't btw), then he should have told Congress to get rid of it. It's our money, not their little pet project piggy bank.

I'm only here because my firewall blocks Valhamma.
Thread Level: 4

Not sure you know how government works, AngryInNJ

Author: Chris94 (27088 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 7:09 pm on Mar 4, 2009
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There is no way to veto that $7 billion. There is no line-item veto. There is also no way to get senators to go along unless you buy them off - you may remember it from your civics classes as "log-rolling."

(If the pork is only $7 billion - or less than 1% of the bill - it would be miraculous. It is probably 10 times that.)

Thus it has always has been; thus it will always be.


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Wouldn't want to send a message by vetoing the whole thing I guess.

Author: jabbadoody5 (16656 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 8:12 pm on Mar 4, 2009
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Jumbotrons are for big dick playas!
Thread Level: 5

I'm almost certain I read somewhere that Obama was going to change the way Washington did business.

Author: TheIrishHammer (10336 Posts - Joined: Oct 31, 2007)

Posted at 7:22 pm on Mar 4, 2009
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I swear I did. I even think it may have been a campaign slogan.

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New Obama slogan: Hope, but no change.

Author: NDFaninNJ (10056 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 7:37 pm on Mar 4, 2009
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Hope will disappear shortly too.

I'm only here because my firewall blocks Valhamma.
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for anyone with a brain

Author: und67 (5627 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 8:28 pm on Mar 4, 2009
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there was never hope.

msm, dnc, antifa, blm: trying to kill america.
Thread Level: 7

AngryInNJ has a nice ring to it.

Author: jabbadoody5 (16656 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 8:13 pm on Mar 4, 2009
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I'm not quite sure that you are pulling off the white heat rage than I am, but it's a start.

Jumbotrons are for big dick playas!
Thread Level: 8

I think...

Author: NDFaninNJ (10056 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 8:37 pm on Mar 4, 2009
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I'll signify that AngryinNJ is in the house by writing in red, which is much angrier than your pussified green.

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I'm only here because my firewall blocks Valhamma.
Thread Level: 9

Fuck off, asshole,

Author: jabbadoody5 (16656 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 8:42 pm on Mar 4, 2009
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rage green is just the first stage of my anger. You had better hope that you never run into me when I start posting in dark orange...or God forbid, dark puke, orange.

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Jumbotrons are for big dick playas!
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My post has nothing to do w/ this thread

Author: Nigel Tufnel (5282 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 11:29 pm on Mar 4, 2009
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...but I just love the fact that we can post things like 'Fuck off, asshole' on this board.

You can't really dust for vomit.
Thread Level: 10

You mean that orange shit they pour over vomit in schools?

Author: Hibakusha (3425 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 8:51 pm on Mar 4, 2009
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Yes, the stuff that somehow makes the puke smell worse.

Author: jabbadoody5 (16656 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 9:08 pm on Mar 4, 2009
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(no message)

Jumbotrons are for big dick playas!
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Only if your'e Catholic schooled

Author: Hibakusha (3425 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 9:10 pm on Mar 4, 2009
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...or Baptist schooled....

Author: jabbadoody5 (16656 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 9:14 pm on Mar 4, 2009
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...the difference being that in Catholic school, they slap you with a ruler if you say the orange shit stinks. In Baptist school, they punch you in the face 5 times and make you eat a bar of soap. At least that has been my experience.

Jumbotrons are for big dick playas!
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The Jesuits make you stay for weekend "JUG".

Author: (unknown user)(User Info Not Available)

Posted at 9:23 pm on Mar 4, 2009
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Link: The Beauty of JUG

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From 5th thru 8th grade, I was in a group of fine, young lads responsible for maintaining the

Author: TheIrishHammer (10336 Posts - Joined: Oct 31, 2007)

Posted at 5:39 am on Mar 5, 2009
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convent grounds. Sometimes those broads even fabricated claims against us if they needed their lawn furniture painted or leaves raked. I'm told we were supposed to learn from those experiences, and I did. I learned that even a nun can get carried away when placed in a position of power.

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I went to a Jesuit college and the only Jugs I experienced were on the ladies.

Author: jabbadoody5 (16656 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 9:27 pm on Mar 4, 2009
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Jumbotrons are for big dick playas!
Thread Level: 16

So you didn't experience the "pleasure" of...

Author: (unknown user)(User Info Not Available)

Posted at 9:30 pm on Mar 4, 2009
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...being handed a pair of garden shears and "instructed" to trim the grass around the entire building, by hand? (ya' know...the grass that the lawnmower missed)


JUG a.k.a Justice Under God.


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Thread Level: 17

Are you kidding me?

Author: jabbadoody5 (16656 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 9:39 pm on Mar 4, 2009
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My dad made me do that twice a week...after he punched me in the face 5 times and made me eat a bar of soap.

BTW, my weed eater broke 2 years ago. Being that I'm too cheap to buy another one, I've been using my wife's cutlery sheers to trim my lawn ever since.


Jumbotrons are for big dick playas!
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I do hope that, like me, you brushed your teeth first...

Author: (unknown user)(User Info Not Available)

Posted at 9:41 pm on Mar 4, 2009
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...because after about 20 feet of trimming, despite switching hands, you cannot squeeze a tube of toothpaste.

Thread Level: 19

I do have a pretty strong grip...

Author: jabbadoody5 (16656 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 9:50 pm on Mar 4, 2009
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although, I suppose it's possible that my dad and I are better mowers than the groundskeeper at your school.

Jumbotrons are for big dick playas!
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Perhaps, but....

Author: (unknown user)(User Info Not Available)

Posted at 10:08 pm on Mar 4, 2009
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....I'd like to see how close to the brick wall you can cut with one of these...




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Hope, can you spare some change?

Author: The Woj (2732 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 8:10 pm on Mar 4, 2009
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Thanks for explaining the unconstitutionality of the line-item veto. There remains a "veto" though.

Author: NDFaninNJ (10056 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 7:15 pm on Mar 4, 2009
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The guy has enormous approval ratings and the country by the balls. Those ratings would have skyrocketed if he stood up to Congress and threatened to veto any bill with earmarks. Instead, he took it up the ass like a scared little bitch and now he looks like a hypocritical blowhard (appropriately enough, I believe).

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I'm only here because my firewall blocks Valhamma.
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Good points.

Author: conorlarkin (13507 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 6:59 pm on Mar 4, 2009
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They're not gonna catch us. We're on a mission from God.
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$650,000 for beaver management in North Carolina and Mississippi?

Author: The Woj (2732 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 6:46 pm on Mar 4, 2009
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I'd do that job pro bone-o...




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"Just dam"!

Author: TakethetrainKnute (22865 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 7:27 am on Mar 5, 2009
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wasn't this john edward's .... ahem.... pet project?

Author: und67 (5627 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 8:33 pm on Mar 4, 2009
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msm, dnc, antifa, blm: trying to kill america.
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