Norm's Big Boot

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Wall Street Welfare Queens

Government didn't get us to where we are today. It was the PRIVATE SECTOR! Unbridled greed and corruption from 20 years of deregulation is to blame. We have lost confidence in the PRIVATE SECTOR! Unfortunately government has to step in to fix it. Can you imagine if we would have gone ahead and privatized SS? Until the PRIVATE SECTOR cleans up their act we have no choice. The PRIVATE SECTOR has dismantled any and all rules to play fair. It's a giant ponzi scheme.

I don't want government interference in my life nor do I want certain segments of your party excluding tax paying gay people from getting their fair share(but I digress). Maybe I've been lucky because I've never felt government breathing down my neck. Until Wall Street cleans up their act....BOO.....HOO! "

Dog - Whistle Politics

Apparently, Alabama Senator, Richard Shelby, isn't sure if Barack Obama is qualified to be President.

It's not that Shelby doubts a Black American is fit to run the White House. . . Mr. Shelby simply doubts that Obama is an American at all.

In a recent meeting with Alabama voters, the Senator declared that he opposed the economic stimulus bill Obama signed into law.

During the meeting, Shelby gave new life to an old lie by questioning President Obama's citizenship. When asked whether there was any truth to the ridiculous campaign rumor that Obama was not legally qualified to serve, Shelby carefully remarked:

"Well his father was Kenyan and they said he was born in Hawaii, but I haven't seen any birth certificate. You have to be born in America to be president."

These latest shallow comments from the deep South Senator have raised questions about his own qualifications to hold office.

Shelby has since denied the obvious implications of his statement -- saying his words were distorted and inaccurately reported in the press.

However, the Cullman Times newspaper stands by their story saying, "We reported Shelby's comments on Obama's birth certificate accurately and completely." Several people who attended Shelby's meeting have now confirmed that the Senator made his statements without hesitation and without a trace of humor.

So not only is Mr. Shelby a vicious little gossip -- he's also a big, fat liar.

Maybe the good ol boy hasn't "seen any birth certificate" but if he truly believes Barack Obama isn't constitutionally fit to serve -- then the Senator has a duty to look at the birth certificate. And it isn't hard to find.

According to the Associated Press, state officials in Hawaii checked health department records during the campaign and determined there was no doubt Obama was born in Hawaii.

Richard Shelby surely doesn't doubt that Hawaii is part of America.

And it's no surprise Senator Shelby opposes the President's economic stimulus program. Checking the records . . . Alabama's poverty rate is the 6th worst in country.

GOP Bullies

Republicans have found their voice! Now they won't shut the fuck up!

When was I young and walked home from school, I used to be bullied. I was forced to give this sycophant a piggy back ride up a steep hill. This all stopped when I CHANGED my route home.

To listen to these tax-cut-ophants is sheer insanity.

Nobody likes paying taxes. But when you continually cut taxes for the upper 2% and put the burden on the struggling middle class, guess what? Bridges collapse, pot-holes grow bigger, basic services disappear.

All of a sudden the "right" thinks they found their voice again . . . now that Obama is in charge. Where were they when they had complete control of our government?

We just borrowed another 250 billion dollars this quarter to cover Bush's budget. Bush has jumped ship seconds before we hit the iceberg. Our sworn enemy, China, now owns us.

Thank you so much for that.

CHANGE is needed NOW! Where is the proof, in your pudding, that tax cuts for the rich creates jobs? I think I'll trust President Obama over the GOP's sour-graped drivel.