Comments on: Texas Republicans: Stimulus Bill is a Socialist Travesty — Show Us the Money

By: cosanostradamus

cosanostradamus — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 10:46:20 +0000

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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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By: JoeBuck

JoeBuck — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 05:08:58 +0000

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.

By: nonplussed

nonplussed — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:55:58 +0000

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.

By: hosemore

hosemore — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:44:48 +0000

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.

By: RevBev

RevBev — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:19:54 +0000

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.

By: Margot

Margot — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:16:47 +0000

And my grandmother.

By: RevBev

RevBev — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:15:05 +0000

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….

By: Winski

Winski — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:13:17 +0000

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

By: demi

demi — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:12:11 +0000

And, also with you.

By: RevBev

RevBev — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:09:19 +0000

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