Right. I’m opposed to it but gimme the money. Assholes. In FL, they’re getting pissed b/c they may not get some education money from the feds. I’m not sure I get all the details. But it seems that the state has to demonstrate that it has been funding education at a certain level before it can put the arm on uncle sam for this $$$$. FL, a large state with politicians lacking the balls to pass an income tax but which does have a balanced budget requirement, has no money and has been hacking the shit out of the education budget (along with everything else) the last few years. so it won’t get fed bailout money. i live here and all, but I say good. these locals need to grow up. of course, both houses of the legislature and the state house are controlled by Republicans…. but they want that money, damnit!!!!

Good old gravy train – carrying my dollars out of town. Thanks, Texas.

More GOP asshattedness:

Economic conservatives such as Mitch Daniels of Indiana and Jim Gibbons of Nevada have set aside their qualms and generally supported the stimulus plan, with its promise of federal aid to help ease their state budget woes. “I have great misgivings . . . but I hope that it’s going to work,” Daniels told reporters Thursday in Indianapolis, saying he would work to make sure his state takes “maximum advantage” of the stimulus plan.

Small-government stalwarts such as Haley Barbour of Mississippi and Mark Sanford of South Carolina — who face their own budget headaches — have nevertheless expressed opposition, saying Obama’s plan would only throw good money after the funds wasted in the massive financial bailout bill. “I’m not sure a stimulus package is going to do much good after all the money the federal government has popped into the economy,” Barbour told the Wall Street Journal.

Barbour claims he won’t accept the three billion due Mississippi; Sanford sez he hasn’t decided yet.

The GOP: still the party of “Do as I say, not as I do.”
Sorry, babe. That sounds like more of us vs. them, which we know is not going to be the answer for our problems.
There are plenty on both sides who play that game.
And, I’m starting to get a little bile going about the We Need People To Accept Us from people who are not willing to do the same.
Tolerance works both ways.
And, No, I’m not a Texas Republican.
I love your posts, don’t get me wrong, just saying it works both ways and we should be careful about the words we use.
Everyone’s watching.

Mark Sanford…. who did he used to be…? WShat should I remember him for? sex scandal?

There are assholes everywhere.

Can we please give Texas back to Mexico? PLEASE…

Colbert said republicans should stand on principal and refuse any stimulus money…as if they have any principles.

I seem to remember states gratefully accepting money for Rural Electrification. For all kinds of things that make life so much better.
Are people just used to lives of ease and plenty? Do we really have to go back to bread lines before senators and governors will wake up?
In fact I should show the lines outside the Salvation Army shelter for dinner. Thank goodness for them.

yeah, but then, mexico will invade us!

Sweetheart, don’t you have an art piece to share to break the tension? Please?

Sorry, I was thinking of twolf…get those tsomething names mixed up.
Still…

Remember when Russert was nailing Ron Paul for precisely the same incosistency last year? Paul was utterly and forever opposed to earmarks, and he insisted his constituents have their share. It’s sort of like the owner of a dry goods store in Texas who was held up with other passengers on a stage to Waco. The dry goods guy was utterly opposed to stage robbery, but if it were to be, he hoped the James boys would stop by his store to outfit the gang for the long ride back to Missouri out of the spoils from the hold-up.

“Small-government stalwarts such as Haley Barbour of Mississippi..” Haley Barbour is for small government? He certainly wanted his head in the trough to get the casinos all fixed up after Katrina. And I’d like to know if he availed himself of the FEMA money to repair his extremely large home – or if he refused that.

Margot – Rural Electrification (and TVA, too) basically happened because the Federal Government (oh, headed by He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named)decided that having electricity was a “public good”. Electrical utilities were not interested in putting in distribution poles and electric lines in areas where the number of customers per mile was in the single digits. Without the Feds becoming involved, places like Mississippi, Alabama, Iowa and North Dakota would not have had electrical infrastructure for a very very long time.

What a great story.

It’s something I bring up to people who are opposed to doing things (like universal health care) that are also for the public good.

Awwww. Please don’t…just get rid of Good hair and a Senator or 2, or a Delay…but not TX.

Looking for art….now here is a great link. A mood fixer-upper.

http://kalman.blogs.nytimes.com/

ANderson Cooper doing a Money Show special….

Oh! I thought the same thing. And, on a BlueTexan thread. Thank you for speaking up, you AustinGirl, you.
I can’t explain other people’s comments.
It’s a good thing, I can’t

Just proof that, as y’all like to say, everything is bigger in Texas. I would say that especially goes for the stupid and crazy, but then I am a native Okie. 8-)

New post from Jane upstairs—>

Beautiful. I’m going to take a moment to step outside and listen to the singing. :)
Thank you.

Jane has an Abramoff story…Can Delay be far behind?

BLL….I’ve got to do a little thinking about my folks in the morning. Peace.

And, also with you.

Giving texas back is the best idea so far…nothing there worth a damn anyway…nothing.

I wish Molly Ivins were still around to refute that, but I will have to do so myself. The most modest thing I can say is that I wish you had met my mother….

And my grandmother.

Fantastic…I was trying to think of that warning about they came for the Jews, they came for the Texans, etc and then they came for me. I know some things about TX that gall me to my feet, but I also know some really wonderful things…like a University, diversity, a colorful environment, as we’ve said, some great people.

If I remember right, Perry is from Aspermont. It’s a wide spot in the road in west Texas that wouldn’t have freakin’ electricity has it not been for the REA. What a bozo.

If you want some really incredible reading, take a look at the Texas Republican Platform sometime. I think they have used the same one, unedited, since about 1900.

Rick Perry is a leading advocate of the GOP becoming more conservative to cure all it’s problems. The word is that he has seriously considered a Presidential run in 2012.

If “aiding the victims of hurricanes Dolly and Ike” means paying to rebuild the infrastructure destroyed by those storms, and doing it in such a way that most of the money goes to the workers doing the job, instead of being taken by companies that then subcontract and sub-subcontract for others to do the work, then I’m all for it.

So Obama could tell these guys he’s happy to work with them on hurricane relief, and we’ll make sure that the people who do the work are paid a living wage and that profiteering isn’t allowed.

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OK, so Obama should be all done pretending to bend over backwards for the GOP’ers and DINO’s. Everybody else is royally p*ssed off enough now. It’s time to spring the trap: Toss ‘em overboard and head left, solve the root problems and make conservatism a dirtier word than liberalism ever was. Reward those on board, punish the rest.

If the Red States don’t “believe” in Big Gummint and socialism for the rest of us instead of the rich, don’t give ‘em any: Not one Federal dime. Stop collecting the pittance in taxes the rednecks pay and quit subsidizing their idiot lifestyle with our money. Ignorant, ungrateful bastards! Many of those States pay less in Federal taxes than they receive in Federal spending anyway. Let ‘em go it alone. Let’s see how they do: No help with agricultural exports, oil drilling or coal mining. No more free logging or grazing on Federal lands. No money for highways, schools or hospitals. Hell, they’re all rugged individualists. They can take it. Let ‘em.

Let the folks in Warshenden and the librul media know how you feel. It’s yer munneh, yawl.
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