Political Hippo Circle Jerk - America, farg YEAH!

[rjs246]

A republican writing in great depth about what is wrong with the republican party and why Rush exacerbates the issue.

Look at America's public-policy problems, look at voting trends, and it's inescapably obvious that the Republican Party needs to evolve. We need to put free-market health-care reform, not tax cuts, at the core of our economic message. It's health-care costs that are crushing middle-class incomes. Between 2000 and 2006, the amount that employers paid for labor rose substantially. Employees got none of that money; all of it was absorbed by rising health-care costs. Meanwhile, the income-tax cuts offered by Republicans interest fewer and fewer people: before the recession, two thirds of American workers paid more in payroll taxes than in income taxes.

We need to modulate our social conservatism (not jettison—modulate). The GOP will remain a predominantly conservative party and a predominantly pro-life party. But especially on gay-rights issues, the under-30 generation has arrived at a new consensus. Our party seems to be running to govern a country that no longer exists. The rule that both our presidential and vice presidential candidates must always be pro-life has become counterproductive: McCain's only hope of winning the presidency in 2008 was to carry Pennsylvania, and yet Pennsylvania's most successful Republican vote winner, former governor Tom Ridge, was barred from the ticket because he's pro-choice.

We need an environmental message. You don't have to accept Al Gore's predictions of imminent gloom to accept that it cannot be healthy to pump gigatons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. We are rightly mistrustful of liberal environmentalist disrespect for property rights. But property owners also care about property values, about conservation, and as a party of property owners we should be taking those values more seriously.

Above all, we need to take governing seriously again. Voters have long associated Democrats with corrupt urban machines, Republicans with personal integrity and fiscal responsibility. Even ultraliberal states like Massachusetts would elect Republican governors like Frank Sargent, Leverett Saltonstall, William Weld and Mitt Romney precisely to keep an austere eye on the depredations of Democratic legislators. After Iraq, Katrina and Harriet Miers, Democrats surged to a five-to-three advantage on the competence and ethics questions. And that was before we put Sarah Palin on our national ticket.

[Geowhizzer]

I can't listen to Rush.  Literally can't.  His voice just grates on my nerves.

[ATV]

Fail...

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20264935,00.html

I think I would, btw.

[Diomedes]

family values indeed

[phillymic2000]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090311/pl_mcclatchy/3186392

We will Change now, oh wait not yet let me sign this ish, ok now I'm serious we are now starting Change now, seriously.

This is so fargin stoopid

Obama proposed changing the way special projects are financed, including competitive bidding for spending that goes to for-profit businesses.

But not for the way the govnerment "bids", because we can trust the Government to do it right

The bill contains 8,816 earmarks worth $7.6 billion , according to Taxpayers for Common Sense.

and yes 7.8bil out of 400 gazillion is not a whole heck of a lot, he looks like a complete ass saying this shtein and then signing it. If getting rid of Earmarks are so fargin important what in the 7.8bil did we really really need. Then again that 7.8bil will save 3.5million jobs, silly me what was i thinking?


MOTHER FARGERS STOP SPENDING MONEY WE AIN'T GOT

[ATV]

a) Obama said he didn't like it either.

b) Obama said he was going to try to find a procedure to put an end to some of this.

Both of which are an improvement over the last eight years.

[General_Failure]

An improvement is not what people voted for.

[shorebird]

a) Obama said he didn't like it either.

b) Obama said he was going to try to find a procedure to put an end to some of this.

Both of which are an improvement over the last eight years.

He said, he said... and has done nothing. This is just more of the same D.C. bullcrap, times ten.

He's going to do something about earmarks the next time, after spending billions that we do not have.

[ATV]

We'll see.

[Munson]

Stop whining about government spending.

"Tax and spend" liberalism worked in the 90's..."fiscal conservative" views have not worked since.......

[shorebird]

We'll see.

We'll see what? If he actually will do anything about the type of government and it's wild spending spree that he says isn't what the American people want but is still sitting by watching it happen??

Stop whining about government spending.

"Tax and spend" liberalism worked in the 90's..."fiscal conservative" views have not worked since.......

Yes, stop whining about billions and billions of our money that we do not have being spent on bullcrap projects that are not needed in this time of finacial crisis. Stop whining when you see the government caking itself off with billions of dollars of our money while we struggle to make our mortgage.

Munson=[sheeple]Baaaaaa[/sheeple]

The government produces no money, and doesn't stimulate the economy, only the private sector can do that. No money in any of these bills should be spent on government projects, that is what taxes are for.

[Diomedes]

I like what Obama did.  He couldn't control this omnibus spending bill because it was negotiated before his time, and he could not reject it either because the government needs to pass the legislation in order to keep running.  So he signed it, and laid out guidelines that make sense.  Earmarks are not necessarily bad.  The way they have been used is the problem.  Anonymous insertion of earmarks, insertion of earmarks ten minutes before the vote, etc.  The rules the admin has proposed will bring transparency and due process to the practice which will greatly improve their usage.  I don't understand why anyone would be so upset with this unless it's simply a matter of being against Obama no matter what he does.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

The only reason to be upset is that the country can't actually pay for it.

[Seabiscuit36]

Palin's whore daughter broke up with her hockey stick

[Diomedes]

The only reason to be upset is that the country can't actually pay for it.

Yeah, blame Obama for that.