Comments on: $42,000? Let’s Get This Party Started! http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/12/42000-lets-get-this-party-started/ Firedoglake weblog Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:51:22 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: janeinaustin http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/12/42000-lets-get-this-party-started/#comment-1331920 janeinaustin Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:27:05 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/12/42000-lets-get-this-party-started/#comment-1331920 <p>I don’t really know enough about the reps on your list to make an informed decision on who to vote for. I assume you know something about these people and I trust your judgement, so which one would you vote for? And, why not target them all?</p> I don’t really know enough about the reps on your list to make an informed decision on who to vote for. I assume you know something about these people and I trust your judgement, so which one would you vote for? And, why not target them all?

]]> By: oldtree http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/12/42000-lets-get-this-party-started/#comment-1331871 oldtree Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:46:29 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/12/42000-lets-get-this-party-started/#comment-1331871 <p>why isn’t Sylvester Reyes on the list? if not, got to get rid of Shuler. Imagine someone that has had their head beaten up so many times voluntarily. It is like McStrayCoque trying to make sense of reality. He just doesn’t have the cognitive ability any longer</p> why isn’t Sylvester Reyes on the list? if not, got to get rid of Shuler. Imagine someone that has had their head beaten up so many times voluntarily. It is like McStrayCoque trying to make sense of reality. He just doesn’t have the cognitive ability any longer

]]> By: Cujo359 http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/12/42000-lets-get-this-party-started/#comment-1331337 Cujo359 Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:35:04 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/12/42000-lets-get-this-party-started/#comment-1331337 <p>I’m late to this thread, and these days it’s pretty clear that very few people on any progressive blogs give a shit about questions like what’s possible, but I just vote for whoever we can unseat. Better still, whoever we can unseat and replace with a progressive. Come up with progressive alternatives to Carney and Shuler, and I’d be for opposing them. If they’re not, then pick the one we can win. That appears to be Boswell.</p> <p>Be smart. Pick your battles. The more you win, the more the other retrogrades will start watching behind them.</p> I’m late to this thread, and these days it’s pretty clear that very few people on any progressive blogs give a shit about questions like what’s possible, but I just vote for whoever we can unseat. Better still, whoever we can unseat and replace with a progressive. Come up with progressive alternatives to Carney and Shuler, and I’d be for opposing them. If they’re not, then pick the one we can win. That appears to be Boswell.

Be smart. Pick your battles. The more you win, the more the other retrogrades will start watching behind them.

]]> By: jiffykeen http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/12/42000-lets-get-this-party-started/#comment-1331001 jiffykeen Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:11:40 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/12/42000-lets-get-this-party-started/#comment-1331001 <p>I think you should have been doing this when there was a chance to elect a better dem for the primary. Now that some of these folks have won their primaries, the only thing you are doing is making it easier for them to be defeated by the republican in the GE. And if you think that they are no better than what the republican could be, I don’t agree.</p> I think you should have been doing this when there was a chance to elect a better dem for the primary. Now that some of these folks have won their primaries, the only thing you are doing is making it easier for them to be defeated by the republican in the GE. And if you think that they are no better than what the republican could be, I don’t agree.

]]> By: kemo http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/12/42000-lets-get-this-party-started/#comment-1330745 kemo Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:24:20 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/12/42000-lets-get-this-party-started/#comment-1330745 <p>too funny, your killing me…</p> too funny, your killing me…

]]> By: cinnamonape http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/12/42000-lets-get-this-party-started/#comment-1330731 cinnamonape Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:17:53 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/12/42000-lets-get-this-party-started/#comment-1330731 <p>Breaking News- Former New York Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro says that Lt. Governor David Patrick was “lucky” to be a blind black man at this time. “If he was a blind woman, or a blind black woman he wouldn’t be sitting on the cusp of being Governor! I was in New York for decades and never was Governor! He’s just lucky because he’s a black man! Why can’t he see that!”</p> Breaking News- Former New York Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro says that Lt. Governor David Patrick was “lucky” to be a blind black man at this time. “If he was a blind woman, or a blind black woman he wouldn’t be sitting on the cusp of being Governor! I was in New York for decades and never was Governor! He’s just lucky because he’s a black man! Why can’t he see that!”

]]> By: STTPinOhio http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/12/42000-lets-get-this-party-started/#comment-1330710 STTPinOhio Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:04:23 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/12/42000-lets-get-this-party-started/#comment-1330710 <p>“<em>Gasoline inventories also increased by 1.7 million bbls. What this says is that the price is out of wack with the market fundamentals. No surprise really since this is all about <strong>speculation driven by hedge funds and abetted by a compliant Bush Administration</strong>.”</em></p> <p>Truer words have never been spoken.</p> <p>We need a campaign to contact our representatives about this farce.</p> <p>They <em>have</em> to snatch some of the leverage (borrowing power) away from these hedge funds that are gaming the system.</p> <p>Our economy is either teetering on or currently in recession. To allow this to continue is mind boggling.</p> “Gasoline inventories also increased by 1.7 million bbls. What this says is that the price is out of wack with the market fundamentals. No surprise really since this is all about speculation driven by hedge funds and abetted by a compliant Bush Administration.”

Truer words have never been spoken.

We need a campaign to contact our representatives about this farce.

They have to snatch some of the leverage (borrowing power) away from these hedge funds that are gaming the system.

Our economy is either teetering on or currently in recession. To allow this to continue is mind boggling.

]]> By: STTPinOhio http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/12/42000-lets-get-this-party-started/#comment-1330673 STTPinOhio Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:45:20 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/12/42000-lets-get-this-party-started/#comment-1330673 <p>“<em>Any good will I have towards Pat Buchanan is always frittered away the moment he talks about race.”</em></p> <p>So damn true! Did you notice how she had his head about to explode during that segment? </p> <p>Good for her.</p> “Any good will I have towards Pat Buchanan is always frittered away the moment he talks about race.”

So damn true! Did you notice how she had his head about to explode during that segment?

Good for her.

]]> By: katymine http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/12/42000-lets-get-this-party-started/#comment-1330666 katymine Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:42:44 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/12/42000-lets-get-this-party-started/#comment-1330666 <p>I was stationed in Greece when Iran fell and during the embassy hostage situation. My ex was part of the middle east listening post (spy guys) for the USAF. I saw the political situation up close and personal…. had many American workers who were in Iran sleeping on my floor after the airlift evacuation. </p> <p>The whole middle east situation is because the good old USA cannot keep their big fat nose out of their business.</p> I was stationed in Greece when Iran fell and during the embassy hostage situation. My ex was part of the middle east listening post (spy guys) for the USAF. I saw the political situation up close and personal…. had many American workers who were in Iran sleeping on my floor after the airlift evacuation.

The whole middle east situation is because the good old USA cannot keep their big fat nose out of their business.

]]> By: selise http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/12/42000-lets-get-this-party-started/#comment-1330664 selise Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:41:33 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/12/42000-lets-get-this-party-started/#comment-1330664 <p>bless the afsc - i was very glad to be in the company of the quakers and also the catholic workers when i protested our invasion and occupation of afghanistan.</p> bless the afsc – i was very glad to be in the company of the quakers and also the catholic workers when i protested our invasion and occupation of afghanistan.

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