House minority whip Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA), on Meet the Press Sunday, tried to set the record straight, saying that his party had a stimulus plan that was ignored by an unfriendly press.
"Republicans will have a plan, we had a stimulus plan. You know, part of the problem with being in the minority, David, is that sometimes your colleagues in the press don't want to cover the ideas that the minority has," said Cantor. "We had a plan on the stimulus, it was tailored to small business tax relief."
Cantor went on to attack Obama's proposed budget, saying it does not focus on job creation and short-term problems. He said by placing new taxes on energy and manufacturers, the budget would amount to a $3,000 tax for a household of four, or "essentially, an $800 man, woman and child tax."
When NBC's David Gregory pressed the Virginia representative on his concern for spending, pointing out that Republicans weren't exactly thrifty during former President Bush's tenure, Cantor acknowledged the GOP "blew it" by not being fiscally conservative.
"But that doesn't give the Democrats in power in this town the right to go in and repeat the mistakes that perhaps we may have committed in the past," Cantor said.
"You were just speaking earlier about the possibility that since we had a little bit of a better week on Wall Street does that spell a turnaround?" Perino said. "Can all the credit go specifically to President Obama? Well, I would say no. We are just going to have to take a while to let all of this settle down and let the policies that our administration and the new administration are trying to put in place have a chance to work."
Asked by CNN's John King if he believes Obama has made the nation less safe through his reversal of certain Bush administration anti-terror policies, Cheney said bluntly: "I do."
“[W]e don’t have enough votes to legislate,” said Republican leader John A. Boehner of Ohio has said. “We are not in the majority. We are not kind-of in the minority; we are in a hole. They ought to get the idea out of their minds that they are legislators. But what they can be is communicators.”
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Well I am glad you got home alright, although I would have been more than happy to go see you at the airport!
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Morning guys!Good to see you made it home ok Mala.. :hug:
WTF at that Victoria Jackson clip.. is she being serious or doing a REAL good job at making Fox look like a bunch of idiots?
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You did almost get a call :lol:
All the planes out of the ATL were running late yesterday because of the weather so our plane was an hour late from Punta Cana so we thought we missed our connection and we were going to spend the night. Turns out is was delayed also. I did sprint through immigration and customs and securety. Almost took out a family on the people mover when I didn't see the "abrupt stop" and fell up the escalator because I didn't get my shoe on all the way and got hung up on my jeans.
I'm treating it all as a learning experience :D
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You did almost get a call :lol:
All the planes out of the ATL were running late yesterday because of the weather so our plane was an hour late from Punta Cana so we thought we missed our connection and we were going to spend the night. Turns out is was delayed also. I did sprint through immigration and customs and securety. Almost took out a family on the people mover when I didn't see the "abrupt stop" and fell up the escalator because I didn't get my shoe on all the way and got hung up on my jeans.
I'm treating it all as a learning experience :D
:rofl: <--- cause no one got hurt. That sounds like a sit com episode!
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Speaking of Republican Projection, did you all catch this?
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Jon Stewart took Jim Cramer to the woodshed --- regarding CNBC.
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Jon Stewart took Jim Cramer to the woodshed --- regarding CNBC.
really? what sparked that?
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Mondo in the hizzy. Greetings from the internship. I have two monitors, net access and time to study. How good is this. Plus I get to learn stuff about Active Directory and networks. Life is good.
Welcome home Mala.
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Hey Mondo :D
I didn't know you got an intership! Congrats :)
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Mondo in the hizzy. Greetings from the internship. I have two monitors, net access and time to study. How good is this. Plus I get to learn stuff about Active Directory and networks. Life is good.
Welcome home Mala.
NICE!
Good morning!
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"Their legislation is larded with wasteful spending," Jindal said. "It includes ... $140 million for something called 'volcano monitoring.' Instead of monitoring volcanoes, what Congress should be monitoring is the eruption of spending in Washington, D.C." Bobby Jindal, in response to President Obama's address to Congress.
Why, you ask am I mentioning this?
Here's why.
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Oh yeah.. I have something to say about Michael Steele.
Last week he made a very public statement regarding abortion. The reactions in the media and from within his own party were expected - surprise and outrage respectively. In fact, there was so much outrage particularly from a certain drug-addled hot air balloon that Steele then both reserved and discounted his previous statement.
What was not seen was any praise for taking this stand, nor advocacy for him to hold his own position against the neanderthals in his own party. Why was there no show of support from anyone for this position? Why did no pro-choice Republicans, or even elected Democrats or pundits, make a statement encouraging and applauding this? Even if it was negated a few days later, the fact that Steele said such a thing in my opinion goes well beyond the need to be more politically open in order to attract people to his party - it is a sign that changes of view come to the most resistant to such change, even if they come slowly and with great opposition.
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Speaking of comedians bitch slapping weasels, did anybody see the bitch slapping that Michael Eric Dyson gave Dan(?) Breitbrat on Realtime? OH MAH GAWD. There was a smoking ruin in the chair!
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Speaking of comedians bitch slapping weasels, did anybody see the bitch slapping that Michael Eric Dyson gave Dan(?) Breitbrat on Realtime? OH MAH GAWD. There was a smoking ruin in the chair!
I just kept waiting for Breitbart to call him a n*gger. I swear, the hatred ooozed thru my TV screen.
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Oh yeah.. I have something to say about Michael Steele.
Last week he made a very public statement regarding abortion. The reactions in the media and from within his own party were expected - surprise and outrage respectively. In fact, there was so much outrage particularly from a certain drug-addled hot air balloon that Steele then both reserved and discounted his previous statement.
What was not seen was any praise for taking this stand, nor advocacy for him to hold his own position against the neanderthals in his own party. Why was there no show of support from anyone for this position? Why did no pro-choice Republicans, or even elected Democrats or pundits, make a statement encouraging and applauding this? Even if it was negated a few days later, the fact that Steele said such a thing in my opinion goes well beyond the need to be more politically open in order to attract people to his party - it is a sign that changes of view come to the most resistant to such change, even if they come slowly and with great opposition.
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Hey Mondo :D
I didn't know you got an intership! Congrats :)
You were out of town it happened pretty fast. I talked to the dude Thursdee, he said when can you start coming in? I said Mondee. So here I am
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Speaking of comedians bitch slapping weasels, did anybody see the bitch slapping that Michael Eric Dyson gave Dan(?) Breitbrat on Realtime? OH MAH GAWD. There was a smoking ruin in the chair!
I just kept waiting for Breitbart to call him a n*gger. I swear, the hatred ooozed thru my TV screen.
Here is my goodparts version for those that didn't see it
Dyson: Cogent well reasoned argument using logic
Breitbart: Waaaaaahhh Mommy! Post-structuralism, French! Bad! Derrida! Folcoult wahhhaaaa ad hominum attack on critical theory. :soils underpants:
Yeah he Breitbart was down right nasty. Not snarky, mean. When Dyson called him on his coded language Breitbart got even uglier. You are right I was waiting for the N bomb.
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Jon Stewart took Jim Cramer to the woodshed --- regarding CNBC.
really? what sparked that?
Cramer then went all the morning shows claiming that Jon was just a comedian...etc., and THEN acceped the invitation to join Stewart on the Daily show to rebutt...
And it was amazing.
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Buh By Prod Chris!
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Speaking of comedians bitch slapping weasels, did anybody see the bitch slapping that Michael Eric Dyson gave Dan(?) Breitbrat on Realtime? OH MAH GAWD. There was a smoking ruin in the chair!
I just kept waiting for Breitbart to call him a n*gger. I swear, the hatred ooozed thru my TV screen.
Here is my goodparts version for those that didn't see it
Dyson: Cogent well reasoned argument using logic
Breitbart: Waaaaaahhh Mommy! Post-structuralism, French! Bad! Derrida! Folcoult wahhhaaaa ad hominum attack on critical theory. :soils underpants:
Yeah he Breitbart was down right nasty. Not snarky, mean. When Dyson called him on his coded language Breitbart got even uglier. You are right I was waiting for the N bomb.
It was more like:
Dyson: Cogent well reasoned argument using logic
Breitbart: "code-words!" :talking point: :Red herring argument: *sputter* *disgusted look* :fight or flight flop sweat:
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Click this...
:thud:
So he is officially a former Senator now?
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The latest: Politico’s Mike Allen reports that “word on the street” is that Norm Coleman will take over as Republican National Committee chair after March fundraising numbers show that Steele has been a bust.
This rumor would seem to give the Dems a fat target. Dems around D.C. want the Democratic National Committee to use the claim that Coleman is supposedly job hunting elsewhere as a hook to renew their efforts to call on Coleman to drop his challenge to Al Franken. As Dem strategist Phil Singer puts it: “Democrats have every incentive to drive this rumor.”
Alas, it just ain’t gonna happen. A Democratic official tells me that the DNC isn’t taking the bait on this one. Says the official: “When the Republicans are forming a circular firing squad, the last thing we’re going to do is step into the middle.”
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Oh dear, Biden drops F-bomb. Where is the moral outrage? Its coming don't worry
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Tony = M.I.T (mook in training)
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Daddy make the mean DNC peopple stop picking on me!!!
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When the Ayn Rand guy comes on Thom Hartmann, why do I think of that South Park episode when Officer Bob finally learns to read and then comments on reading Atlas Shrugged and saying it was the biggest piece of crap he ever read?
"We had given AGI up to 4 o'clock today to provide the information on the latest round of bonuses that they paid out," Cuomo said. "Four o'clock has come and gone."
In the letter, Cuomo said he was disturbed to learn over the weekend of AIG’s plans to pay millions of dollars to members of the Financial Products subsidiary through it’s Financial Products Retention Plan.
He sent the letter to Edward Liddy, chairman and CEO of the insurance giant said.
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As if you needed more evidence about 'fair and balanced' Fox News
This is truly a new low.
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Come on Meghan -- you know deep down you wanna be a Dem.
I must say, I agree with her, but I truly feel like she is a fish swimming upstream --
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And you're right Raine, she so wants to be a Democrat which is worse than being curvy.
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Mark Riley, a Facebook ad I wanted to actually click on
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For those who want to savor the Dyson smack down of Breitbart again.
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For those who want to savor the Dyson smack down of Breitbart again.
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Ok, I just read the KO reported that canadians are building a "Shoe Cannon" in anticipation of *ush's visit tomorrow!! :clap:
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Rachel Maddow with the BSG shout out!:metal:
w00t!
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Rachel Maddow with the BSG shout out!:metal:
w00t!
Interesting considering that she supposedly doesn't watch conventional TV.
The only interesting thing with Chimpy going to Canada is that Bush's butt buddy Harper is still Prime Minister. When Bush was President, I kept thinking of wanting to move to Canada. Now that Obama is President and Harper is Canadian PM I wonder how many Canadians now want to move to America for political reasons?
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Rachel Maddow with the BSG shout out!:metal:
w00t!
Interesting considering that she supposedly doesn't watch conventional TV.
The only interesting thing with Chimpy going to Canada is that Bush's butt buddy Harper is still Prime Minister. When Bush was President, I kept thinking of wanting to move to Canada. Now that Obama is President and Harper is Canadian PM I wonder how many Canadians now want to move to America for political reasons?
Why give up that excellent health care system for the mess we have here?
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Ok, I just read the KO reported that canadians are building a "Shoe Cannon" in anticipation of *ush's visit tomorrow!! :clap:
Yes the nice Canadian lawyer lady explaining why Bush shouldn't be allowed in Canada.
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Ok, I just read the KO reported that canadians are building a "Shoe Cannon" in anticipation of *ush's visit tomorrow!! :clap:
Yes the nice Canadian lawyer lady explaining why Bush shouldn't be allowed in Canada.
You think he will be allowed in?
A girl can dream right?