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Tuesday, February 3, 2009 12:00 AM

Republican sound and fury, signifying (almost) nothing

Senate Republicans trash an economic stimulus bill that many of them will probably vote for very soon.

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Monday, February 2, 2009 07:21 PM

Party of Nothing

They have achieved a state of perfect negative nihilism. They believe in nothing. All they can do is spew venom and bile. They have no ideology. The Party of Nothing.

In a sense, they have become purified, unstrained by rationality, ethics, beliefs or anything to do with the United States as a functioning nation-state. Pure id (in the worst possible sence).

And, Mitch McChinless is one scary looking MFer. Ugly on the inside, ugly on the outside.

Monday, February 2, 2009 07:25 PM

Welcome to the U.S.S.A.

Please read related article titled "Welcome to the U.S.S.A" posted at http://www.cliffyworld.com

Monday, February 2, 2009 07:26 PM

From Stupid Greed To Smart Grid

The battery in the new breed of electric car can both give and receive, taking a charge and then, through the same electrical cord, sending some of its stored energy back to a hungry electricity grid, as needed.

Supporters see the new plug-in vehicles as a stabilizing addition. They envision thousands or millions of car batteries taking electricity from the grid during low-demand periods, such as overnight, and sending electricity back into the grid at times of heavy demand.

Better still, the car owners could be paid for the electricity they return, perhaps enough to earn back the cost of the car in a few years.

Most owners use their cars just one hour a day. In a “vehicle-to-grid” world, “the other 23 hours, that device belongs to the system,” said Jon Wellinghoff, chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).

THANK YOU !

Monday, February 2, 2009 07:32 PM

The flatulence and the fury

See all the shit rats

As they scurry...

Monday, February 2, 2009 07:56 PM

@cliffyworld

Thank you for proving my post. Please, work yourself into more of a batshit frenzy. Let me help: Workers of the World Unite! Kill Whitey! Death to all Christians! Confiscate all wealth, bibles and guns! Booga booga!

Monday, February 2, 2009 08:06 PM

Only One Question

Why does Mitch McConnell look like some ventriloquist's dummy?

Okay, one more question: who's making his mouth move and say stupid conservative things?

Monday, February 2, 2009 09:29 PM

Angry Senate Republicans in stormy blue states.

They are a fine example of walking a tightrope in a hurricane. They will desperately clutch on to the Democratic stimulus lifeline and swear up and down to their constituents how unnecessary it is.

House Republicans sleep easy knowing dittoheads will reelect them. They have no need for ports as they don't face storms.

Monday, February 2, 2009 11:40 PM

May I Toss the Match?

As a lifelong Republican who not only supported Bill Clinton twice but also worked my butt off for the Obama campaign, I am beyond worn out with these domestic terrorists who call themselves Republicans (not to mention Americans). If I cannot have my party back then I'd very much like to burn the sucker down, as I have all but abandoned hope of seeing it die quietly in its sleep. At this point the only two reasons I don't throw in the towel are that I cannot imagine myself a Democrat quite yet, and besides I am now so filled with spite for these people that I'm waiting for an opportunity to set my party credentials on fire at some GOP function, hurl a supernatural curse at the lot of them, then go quietly for the psych evaluation. These people are enough to drive anybody nuts.

There is nothing left in them but spite, so it's easy to match that with my own contempt. It's just no longer constructive (as it so often was during the recent campaign) and I'm just freakin' tired of this crap. I profoundly believe in the balance of traits and viewpoints provided by a multi-party system, but there is a dead elephant lying in the floor here, and I'd just love to barbecue the mofo.

Stick a fork in me. I'm done.

Tuesday, February 3, 2009 05:10 AM

Disagree

I am a Republican who voted for Obama. These vitriolic anti-Republican letters are amusing to me. This is not the "new bipartisanship" I voted for. The Republicans are going to regain lost ground with this stimulus package. Why? If it were full of capital spending, the kind of spending that benefits the future generations who will ultimately be paying for it, who could argue against it? Eastern cities need their crumbling turn-of-the-century utility infrastructure rebuilt; the energy grid needs to be reworked; midwestern states need new bridges; National Park Service has a long backlog of capital projects. Some of the "stimulus" plan is in the nature of capital spending. However, a large part is social spending of dubious value. I am not willing to mortgage my grandchildren's future for spending plans which will not benefit them. From my perspective, it looks like the Democratic Congress is running an enormous deficit to fund all at once every program they ever said they wanted. Obama seems very weak here -- essentially saying, I don't care what you spend it on, just spend it! Well, I do care what the money is spent on, and ultimately you should, too. This is not sound and fury signifying nothing. This is the voice of reason. Democrats better get it under control or they are going to lose ground when the next waive of Republicanism asserts itself (fiscal conservativism will be back).

Tuesday, February 3, 2009 05:36 AM

A pile of steaming turds

Repubs are a pile of steaming turds, but then again a pile of steaming turds are actually useful, ok, what do they stand for, in reality, not what they say in sound bites, they stand for nothing, they have no ideas, new or old, they believe in nothing, except of course that whatever happens they're right, they are rotten to the core, they are barely human beings, on my death bed I will convert to being a republican, just so there's one less of them.

Tuesday, February 3, 2009 05:39 AM

On my death bed

On my death bed I will convert to republicanism, so that there will be one less of them.

Tuesday, February 3, 2009 06:44 AM

@cliffyworld

I have seen somewhere that 30 per cent of Americans do not pay any income taxes. Since they do not, may we assume that they are on the lower end of the economic scale? Since there are more workers than bosses, when a business closes, more workers will be impacted than bosses.

Since lower income means less, or no, income tax, we can assume that this percentage will increase. How do tax cuts put more money in the hands of these people? The argument that money will be invested simply will not float. (If the local fast food franchise is failing, would you invest in another one?) Because profits will be greater, any money that is invested will probably go overseas.

One way to keep money flowing is to provide aid to the jobless. This is not attractive because the only result of this is that there is more money in circulation. There is no tangible societal result. A better way is for the government to invest (not spend) on infrastructure by hiring private business to do the work under rules set up by the provider of finances. This puts businesses and workers back to creating tangible items for our society. What would you rather have: A permanent underclass that receives nothing and provides nothing or, as much as possible, all Americans involved in our economic life.

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