Mendacity of Dope – you’ve got to tm that

GOV. TIM PAWLENTY: Well, because of this. Minnesota is a major contributor to the federal government. For each dollar that we send to Washington, Minnesota only gets about 73 cents back. So we’re not going to be feeling too bashful about accepting our share of the money, because we’ve paid for it and then some.

I believe the red states get FAR more dollars back for every dollar contributed then the (previous) blue states

we missed the boat, that’s republican welfare and we should have a real easy time going with that now that this republican opened the door

“So we’re not going to be feeling too bashful about accepting our share of the money, because we’ve paid for it and then some.”
But…we’ll hate ourselves every minute of every day for doing it.
Riiiiiiighhht

Arizona Returds have problems wih Stimulus except for accepting it. The new Repulican governor is atually thinking about increasing taxes temporarily and the nutters are exploding.

How can this be? Tax cuts solve all economic problems.

Facts never shake Republic adhearance to their dogma.

Two more *hole rethugs to add to the outhouse who’ve spent the last weeks bitch’n’moanin’ about the stimpack who will now gladly accept the government *dole* for the good citizens of their states……..and make no mention in the process that they voted against it: john mica and don young.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclat…..MBVAE8KbIF

Hell’s bells and codfish! Dictionaries just need to put an elephant beside the word “hypocrite” and eliminate all other definitions. :-(

The new Repulican governor is atually thinking about increasing taxes temporarily and the nutters are exploding.

Say Whuuuuuut? Didn’t anybody tell the dude that that. is. simply. NOT. done? s/

Well, we’d have to collect all the dictionaries printed between 2001 and 2008 to eliminate the entry where the Rethugs had a donkey put next to ‘betrayal’, ‘traitor’ and ‘anti-American’. Or, we can just stamp over those, “see Republican”, I suppose. ;)

Oh he’s a peach, our Tim-a-fee-plenty. Making pencil necked geeks look good the world over. I honestly wished for the Republican powers that be to trot him out as the new “Grover Approved” future of the Republican party–but I think even those knuckleheads realized that letting bridges fall down on your watch was a detriment in the minds of all but the most indoctrinated. Besides, Sarah Palin could not have been exceeded in terms of beauteous Republican, self-implosion. Tim-a-fee was second rate even at being second-rate. Consequently, Minnesota is still stuck with him.

If only Judi Dutcher could have remembered what E85 was, Mike Hatch would be our guy. Turns out E85 is a bust anyway, just like Tim-a-fee. Oh, irony, thy name is Pawlenty.

If he really is in a donor state then some of what he says has a ”point”.

Try coming from a blue state city – talk about donor. Can I get my money back from the red voters that allowed this mess please.

I’m going to bitch about the stimulus bill…but oh, I’ll take your money. Fucking hypocrites.

A slight aside: Is Eric Cantor really creepy, or is it just me? The guy has that serial-killer, child-molester look about him. Just makes my skin crawl.

Yes.

Lovely!

Hey PW: “The Mendacity of Dope”. That term is an Instant Classic. My problem is this: There are so many targets to which it applies that I just don’t know where to begin.

You really should TM the thing. A nickel from every use and BANG!, you’re a billionaire by the end of the month.

Thanks for reminding us about Smilin’ Tim’s other little scam: Using fees — which gosh durnit almost always are regressive — instead of taxes to fund state operations. He does this so he can say that he’s never raised taxes, you see.

Nah, it’s my gift to the world, like the Franklin stove was ol’ Ben’s. Take it and use it as you will.

I’m not crazy abou contributing to the Mississippis of the world who vote gooper and refuse to pay for schools or roads or any other damned thing and then let the rest of us pony up to rescue them from their own gooperism…It’s bullshit. Let the goopers states stay true to their gooperiness and stew in the soup goopers wrought.

You’ve thus earned yourself a very high place in the angelic choir.

Mississipi, South Carolina, Alabama, Utah, Wyoming- et al. They can kiss my ass when it comes to help….

The US govt. helps them what helps themselves.

A region known as Crackerstan.

-G

To any FDL-ers from said region, tis a joke.

The gooper strategy in the deep red states is simple:

Cut taxes to the bone- and spend as close to zero on education as possible- that way the voters won’t be able to READ anything negative about the gooper party.

Or maybe “Crak-uhhh-stan” as one emphasizes the phonetic articulation of the drawl so common in the region.

I would still like to see the economic recovery money only to go to states that voted for it in the Senate; half could go to states where the vote was split. Within a state that gets the money, only districts that voted for it should get the money. This should be done with a BIG explanation of why the money is distributed in this way. If a state or district voted against it, that entity really doesn’t want the money and shouldn’t be FORCED in any way to take it.

The beauty of the stimulus is in the headlines in our local papers:

– “Cash-strapped local school districts welcome stimulus money”

– “Rural internet users, companies hail broadband stimulus”

– “Local steel mills fill more orders for stimulus-funded wind turbines”

This is why the governors that aren’t already with the program will have to get with it, and soon. (Especially with Representative Clyburn’s amendment that compels them to allocate the money within 45 days or turn it over to the state legs — which Pawlenty won’t want to do as his state lege is controlled by the Dems.)

The thing about the stimulus is that it’s going to create lots more Democrats. People will see the shiny new schools and enjoy the broadband and the clean energy the stimulus has given them. This will especially be helpful in conservative parts of the Rust Belt.

I saw the Pawlenty prformance and wondered if PW had. It’s not just that he knows less than nothing about economics but that the NewsHour continues to promote this false balance, he said/she said form of journalism where no matter the subject they present the two sides as equal even if one of those sides contains only dribbling idiot nutcases.

It is in the interest of most politicians to forget anything that they may have known about economics- as they practice only the economics of self interest once in office anyway….They are quite capable of blabbering incoherently the gruel that they absolutely KNOW to be total bullshit if it serves their purpose.

Perhaps you make the mistake of supposing that politicians are actually trying to say true things?

This nonsense on the NewsHour is one reason I haven’t been able to watch for years. All of the correspondents seem to be neocon shills: LIEasson, juan o’reilly, gwen awful, et.al.

PW -

Have you crossed paths with a single specific linky that (1) clearly, (2) completely and (3) truly explains the ramifications behind Clyburn’s admendment?

Representative Clyburn’s amendment that compels them to allocate the money within 45 days or turn it over to the state legs