How ridiculous! “Gregg was awful—how could Obama stand it”!! Pres. Obama CHOSE Greegg! NO one made him! I didnt “get it” either. But, LaHood, Geithner, Summers, these are all ok?? Hillary Clinton that everyone enjoyed hating so much??

Hypoocrites.

“Corker Exposed the fact that once they destroy the UAW, they are coming after All Workers because Multinationals Profit margins control the Repug party.”

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Hot damn Purple Girl, you have nailed/POUNDED it right here…

“Multinationals profit margins control the Repug party.”

THEY DO!!!

That’s why repiglicans are the Anti-American Party. Not just the Anti-Government Party, but the anti-AMERICAN Government party. They became the “Threat From Within” that we were so frequently warned of at the founding.

On another note: in reality, it doesn’t actually take 9 Mexicans to do 1 American job. I’m not saying we aren’t good workers, because I believe that most of us are. But the skills of Mexicans, Indonesians, South Americans, and all of the other nationalites and ethnicities are probably pretty much equivalent in terms of the general labor that the US needs. (i.e. Mexicans can weld or build as well as the next guy or girl) So, that isn’t really the point as much as the obvious, which is that we have enough Americans who can and therefore SHOULD be doing the work, and we desperately need to employ OURSELVES to do this work.

It’s equally obvious that if Lockheed’s CEO admitted that he’d rather hire 9 Mexicans to do one American job, it’s because HE’S getting way more bang for HIS –CORPORATE- buck, which is what funds the Anti-American Party – the Repiglicans. BTW, I don’t know that he was so much ‘stupid enough’ to make the comment. That just sounds like the standard rebel party arrogance and hubris. Cheney admitted to ordering torture. It’s just the standard extended middle finger they’ve been giving us for decades now.

So Gregg is just another example of that, and if there’s any benefit at all to this exercise, it’s been a tiny fragment of a chip off of that extended middle finger that has to be castrated entirely for us to be free of them and moving in a forward and productive direction.

Bertil,

Re:By Bertil, February 13 at 7:22 am #

An Alternate Explanation of the Judd Gregg Affair

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I think you’re a trolling mole and a crackpot to boot.

Still, it doesn’t mean I don’t respect how scary you people are to the National dialog, especially as everything collapses. The environment for “Teaching Tolerance” becomes more and more challenged everyday, as evidenced by your postings among many others.

An Alternate Explanation of the Judd Gregg Affair

The real goal for Gregg being offered the cabinet position was not bipartisanship, it was getting rid of Gregg as a Senator of NH.  Next in line are Collins, Snow and Lieberman.  All I can say is good riddance.

Gregg was reeled in after posing as a nominee for the Sectretary of Commerce by a lure of making millions as a lobbyist after leaving the Obama administration, even if Obama made that ass-covering statement forbidding anyone in his adminstration from becoming a lobbyist while he remained in office.  They knew beforehand from the vetting process that Gregg did not pay taxes on the $ million he won in the NH Lottery.  Gregg is a greedy bastard.
Then all the brouhaha broke about Geithner, Daschle and Killefer.  Oddly enough, the worst tax evader, Geithner got a walk.
Obama’s puppeteers took Gregg aside and told him that he was out and that he was not going to run in 2010 and that he was going to support the Big Wall Street Bailout caper. They didn’t care how he felt about the Stimulus Plan.  As a matter of fact, it would be better if he came out against the Stimulus Plan, but after 2010 he was told to get lost.  Go to work for a right-wing think tank or something like that.  If he makes a noise, they’ll reveal to the press that he pocketed all the winnings from that lottery ticket.  Do you think his constituents would stand behind him in a cash strapped state that relies heavily on lottery income? Hell, he could go to jail.
The reason for clearing the deck in the northeast of all the so-called moderate Republicans is to form a voting bloc and eventually jettison the support for Israel and go after Russia via China.
We in the galley can just keep rowing.

Only good thing the Repugs have done for Americans in Decades. Thanks for Strong arming that SOB out of a cabinet seat! Not only have they inadvertently saved the Commerce Dept, but also granted US a Real census in ‘10!!! Yeah!!
goes hand and hand with their continue obsructionism when it comes to a Stim Package for US. the more they whin, the more they prove our Point Repugs HATE Americans. Lockheeds CEO was stupid enough to admit he’d rather hire 9 Mexicans to do One Americans Job. He not only admitted he hated the American Worker, but also it takes 9 Mexicans to do the job of One American!American Workers Give More ‘Bang for your Buck’. Corker Exposed the fact that once they destroy the UAW, they are coming after All Workers because Multinationals Profit margins control the Repug party. Heckova Job Boys!
Repugs are getting caught in their own web of “Patriotic” propaganda.Proving they have no regard for the Office of the Pres (‘Hope he fails’), care nothing about the Average American (No Stim Package before X-mas, but can push a 700 BILLION gift to wall Street in a week) and are hell bent on making this country a Feudlaistic Caste system (More tax cuts for Corps like Exxon who broke the record with 45.2 Billion profits this year…$4.00 Gallon?). They are supplying the antidote to the toxic koolaid they have been shoving down our thoats for 3 decades!Keep Up the Good Work Boys,The Dems are building on Additions to our Tent everyday!

Again let me remind everybody that besides the census, the most important thing about Commerce is that the National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST, is part of it. NIST did the major technical report on the collapse of the World Trade Center towers and WTC7 on 9/11, a report that assumes the buildings collapsed due to fire and does not even consider any other hypothesis, even though all the evidence indicates controlled demolition. This report is scientifically fraudulent. In order to expose the perpetrators of 9/11 for all time, all we have to do is get an official peer review of this report by a board of qualified engineers, architects and scientists. Such a peer review has already been conducted, but unofficially. Please see the website of the Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, ae911truth.org.

“Maybe it’s not a waste of time to talk to the Repugs if only to prove that it’s a waste of time to talk to the Repugs.”

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I ditto, ditto. But it is so incredibly painful! Oh my gosh Obama has the patience of Job and nerves of steel.

The dunderheads that bled the nation dry just had an impromptu [right] press conference on the urgent need to deal with the coming Census crisis. And that my friends is the real and only reason Gregg withdrew.

How can one support the decision by the anti-government representatives of our government, to succeed in destroying the purpose of the Census if one of their own, who was supposed to take control of the Census, saw the Census removed from the Department of Commerce and put in the White House? Seems Greggs eagerness to serve [he did actually call and request the job] was thwarted by said removal. And while everybody figures this out, it becomes clear Gregg had no wish to serve in Obamas administration beyond gaining access to control over said Census.

These destroyers of all things government [that would be you and me, since this is a government of, by, and for the people] are really easy to figure out, once you understand where they’re coming from. Greggs opinions, contradictory or not, have little value since he has clearly been unmasked for the fraud that he is. In all fairness, perhaps he had a tick of conscience, but I doubt it. More likely when the party elders realized he wouldn’t be able to slash and burn that which they wanted slashed and burned, he was ordered to withdraw.

Now he announces he will not run for re-election. Could that be an awakening to the reality of what his party is really all about? No, probably punishment for losing control of the Census in the first place. Party failure equals no funding for re-election.

A response to mill.  You are making a common mistake.  60 votes are not necessary to pass legislation.  They are necessary to close debate.  But that is not the only way to break a filibuster.  Reid has gotten so lazy he is giving a minority a veto over policy.  LET the GOP filibuster.  Obama could have gone over their heads and appealed directly to the American people.  Video images of the Republicans reading from a phone book to obstruct a bill designed to help their OWN constituents would have caused outrage.  I predict we would have lost a few days and gained a better bill.

... but it WAS useful to talk to Republicans, because nothing would have happened if the 2 Senators from Maine, and Mr. Spector from PA join Democrats in supporting the stimulus in the Senate .....

By Tony Wicher, February 12 at 4:25 pm #

Maybe it’s not a waste of time to talk to the Repugs if only to prove that it’s a waste of time to talk to the Repugs.

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I ditto Tony Wicher here. I think this is yet another opportunity to prove that it’s a waste of time and energy to deal with the repugs at all. But, Obama has allowed THEM to prove that themselves!! (which is good) You know the old saying…give ‘em enough rope…they’ll show their true colors, even to those who are color blind.

Karen, thanks for the tip on the Census. I couldn’t figure out what the Census had to do with it, because I was unaware that this is no longer accomplished by the Commerce Dept, even though I never understood why Commerce would do the Census to begin with. 

Purplewolf, you are so right that they no longer recognize reality, but that’s because they set about CHANGING the reality long ago.  Never forget Karl Rove’s statement shortly after they stole the 2000 election, “We’re an Empire now, and we can create our OWN reality.”

But, they didn’t do it on cruise control. Oh no. This ALL had to be done manually.

“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” Obama is nobody’s fool.

We only end up with more tax cuts and less social policy, like education, health care, money to states.etc.

Why accept GOP amendments when they wont even vote for it? Its a bait and switch

Maybe it’s not a waste of time to talk to the Repugs if only to prove that it’s a waste of time to talk to the Repugs.

Ummm…yeah..

By now, everyone with any experience or some mental recall, will know that it is a waste of time trying to be nice to the Repugs. They do not know how to do so. In their world, it is to go against the opposing side-Dems-no matter that when they do this they are hurting America and the expendable little people(us).

Their minds are closed so tightly that they are wrapped around their brain multiple times. That is why they no longer recognize reality as it really is and continue to go through their term in office on cruise-control.