Comments on: Choosing Sides

By: YogaforCynics

YogaforCynics — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:04:50 +0000

Yup, Jindal is another conservative “Christian” who’d rather help the rich than the poor, even when it’s clear that helping the poor will do far more to get the economy back on track (since, as you point out, money given to the unemployed is spent promptly–and, generally speaking, spent in the US). Dare we hope the nation is finally beginning to move away from government by the wealthy and for the wealthy?

By: Doug Hughes

Doug Hughes — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:50:21 +0000

I suspect the ‘fix’ is already in for BJ with the LA legislature who can overrule his decision to refuse the 90 MIL. The state (and Bobby) has to take the money to prevent news stories in 2 years about the plight of the unemployed in LA which he caused. So he wants it both ways; he gets the money & he gets to take the high ‘moral’ ground with Rush & the wingnuts that he turned it down. (Kinda like the bridge to nowhere that Palin supported but claimed she refused, but in reverse.) In this case BJ’s refusing it in public while he works the legislature to accept it. Now the Democrats are not above political posturing, it needs to be called for the hypocracy that it is whenver it occurs.

By: joanr16

joanr16 — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 02:58:32 +0000

As much as the rest of us would like to see you go, Australia won’t take you.

That may not be the case. Of course, this was roughly 45 years ago, but an American named Gibson moved his family to Australia, essentially so his sons wouldn’t be sent to Vietnam. Mr. Gibson was so right-wing in his beliefs, he was convinced the Holocaust never happened. “You want to know where the six million Jews went,” Mr. Gibson would later say, “just look at New York.”

And Mr. Gibson’s son, Mel, never did serve in Vietnam. He grew up in Australia, and learned all about Jews from his daddy. Unfortunately, Mel eventually moved back to the U.S. And we all know how that turned out.

By: moonbat

moonbat — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 02:56:30 +0000

It has been at least two years since I first tried to install a preview function. It’s, like, the end of an era.

Ah, that glorious feeling when a software project finally pulls into the station. It’s done! It is the end of an era. This real-time preview is the best I’ve ever seen! To my knowledge noone has anything like it.

By: Pug

Pug — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 02:39:21 +0000

From the LA Times on Republicans complaining about Arnold and the crossover Republicans:

“I think they could have held out. There are a lot more cuts they could have made,” said Steve Pyle, 61, who said he was so unhappy with the country’s direction that he seriously was considering moving to Australia.

Steve, get over your ignorance. As much as the rest of us would like to see you go, Australia won’t take you. You are too old. Sorry, they aren’t what folks like you might call “politically correct” down under.

By: khughes1963

khughes1963 — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 02:26:57 +0000

Jindal’s supposed principles will put a lot of people further into the poorhouse. Louisiana is also the place where unabashed white supremacist David Duke served as a Republican state representative.

By: bill bush

bill bush — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 22:48:23 +0000

Now is the time for a Democrat with a video camera to start building a library of interviews with people as their unemployment payments run out or prove too scanty to take minimal care of a family.
Jindal is playing carpe Republican primary with the lives of the unemployed. After being painted as such a virtuous reformer of Louisiana in some very flattering magazine articles in recent years, he seems too anxious for something — Rush’s approval, maybe?

By: erinyes

erinyes — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 22:40:26 +0000

BJ might want to revisit his idea before the peasants storm the mansion.
Unless he WANTS to turn NOLA into Mogadishu on the Mississippi, good luck with that Bobby!

By: maha

maha — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 20:45:59 +0000

It has been at least two years since I first tried to install a preview function. It’s, like, the end of an era.

By: joanr16

joanr16 — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 20:20:44 +0000

Louisiana’s a pretty strange place, politically. It likes its egomaniacs (see: Huey Long) and its freaks (see: David Vitter), and seems disinclined to send anyone from either party to Congress unless they’re corrupt (see: William Jefferson, Mary Landrieu). But as soon as Louisianans see one another suffering, Jindal’s going to pay for his decision. In six months, newsanchor Brian Williams ought to go down there, get “het up” all over again, and let everybody see the outcome on their teevees.

Preview function: EXCELLENT! Now I have no excuse for broken tags.