"I'm a conservative, but I'm not a nut about it."
–George H. W. Bush
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More low income people now have access to regular health care thanks to Obamacare http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/19/1346052/-Medicaid-and-CHIP-enrollments-increase-by-more-than-9-1-nbsp-million
and the website hit 100,000 enrollments on the first open day……..with 1 million unique visits. Please, R's, continue this stupidest fight against mere subsistence medical care given to the poorest among us. Maybe Mark Udall or Michael Bennet could say something.
George W. (Shrub) Bush 41 Elementary School.
My Pet Goat shall live forever……..and they wouldn't dare name an institution of higher learning, like a middle or high school, after this guy, would they?
Democrats must be bipartisan and pass Republican bills! (Unless you are a Black President.) You will get no credit from voters, but Op-Ed pages everywhere will praise you!
President Obama takes executive action on the issue of immigration and he is violating the law and betraying the constitution. He gets sued and a government shutdown is threatened George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan (Blessed be thy name) did the same thing and they were taking actions that were good and neccessary to improve legislation.
Thanks for quoting my favorite member of the Bush family! I'm old enough to remember the pro-choice moderate-conservative George H.W. Bush who correctly labeled Reaganomics and Voodoo Economics.
In 1988 and in large part due to my dislike of Michael Dukakis, I briefly entertained the thought of possibly voting for Daddy Bush. (Then he went and announced his belief that J. Danforth Quayle was the most qualified person to take over the presidency should something happen to Bush, and that was the end of that.) This was soon followed by the infamous "Read My Lips" speech and the rest is history……
By 1992, I voted for Billary Clinton enthusiastically. Daddy Bush looked, sounded like and was a loser. Then along came the Shrub, Bush v, Gore, My Pet Goat, "we'll smoke 'em out," WMD's in Iraq, "we're turning another corner in Iraq," "you're doing a heck of a job there Brownie," Rummy, Cheney, etc., etc., and Daddy Bush started to look like a towering statesman.
it kinda all depends on from which perch you are looking, doesn't it?
Just think how he will look after 8 years of president Cruz….
Can you say "Great Depression 2.0"? I knew you could…..
I did actually vote for GHW Bush the first time around. Of course, I wasn't quite as deeply involved in politics then – didn't know his CIA background, that he might very well have been behind Iran-Contra (and much of the latter part of the Reagan administration, given his later-revealed mental deterioration)…
It is my deepest suspicion that we will never again return to truly moderate Republican nominees for President – or at least we will never have a moderate Republican elected as President.
Never say never. The present GOTP could implode one day and be replaced by a more traditional version. Certainly not any time soon.
George H.W. Bush was an honorable man who sold his soul to be President–flip flopping on choice, Reagan economics and other issues to be elected President.
Oil and Gas Task Force public comments from 5-7 pm today at Ranch/Larimer County Fairgrounds, 5280 Arena Cir, Loveland, CO. I plan to go, although I don't know if I will speak.
From Weld Air & Water, http://weldairandwater.org/
MEMO
TO: The People of Buffalo, New York
FR: The Crotch Brothers
RE: Today's weather
DATE: 11/20/14
Pay no attention to the snowfall. It will stop. And eventually melt. But do not expect government to remove it. And pay no attention to all that talk about global warming or climate change. It is all a tree-hugger, liberal plot to take away our SUVs and way of life.
Congressman-elect Buck – makin' us folk in Dumphuckistan proud before he's even sworn in. Takin' our country back, one idiotic grandstanding moment at a time. No, Ken, POTUS doesn't need 35 Secret Service to eat a piece of pizza – he has the SS because folks like you inflame idiots that just can't help themselves by making threats on his life. These threats, averaging 30 per day, represent a 400% increase over George W. Bush. You do the math.
And you know that if he never left the White House, they would be bitching that he's in isolation.
So what caused this bigot to lose his appetite: the 20 Hispanic kids or POTUS?
He's a piece of work.
Lyndon Johnson said once when he was being pummeled by the press and Congress that if he were to walk across the Potomac, the headlines would read,
president can't swim.''
"When people show you who they are, believe them the first time."
~Maya Angelou
Can't he just use Yelp for posting restaurant reviews?
Pshah — does anyone believe for an even instant that Buck is capable of counting to 35?!?
An interesting post-election analysis at the Federal level from a Republican commentator. Obviously Chris Ladd is not a Tea Partier; his analysis runs contrary to the easy story of election wins, but it's got numbers on its side..
There's lots more where that came from…
Thank God he's not our Speaker!
Incoming Nevada speaker said Democrats have "Master-Slave relationship with darkies."
From what hole do these people crawl out of? And why would any people anywhere ever vote for them?
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/11/20/3595026/incoming-nevada-speaker-said-democrats-have-master-slave-relationship-with-simple-minded-darkies/
I saw that! Move over Bill Cadman….you've been eclipsed by someone more embarrassing!
About 400 people here at the Gov's Oil & Task Force public comment session. Plenty of people commenting, asking for regulation, enforcement, inspection, civility, courtesy.
The tradeoff in quality of life vs. economic boom is a continuing theme.
"Privatizing the profits, socializing the costs" – Martin Lind
Northridge HS site in Greeley, with leaks near the school. At the proposed elementary school site, the drilling company was "stunned into silence" when residents requested an air quality monitor.Is there a point of well saturation? – Maydean Worley
Nick Johnson: concerned member of Lafayette community. (which voted to ban fracking) " We understand that it's an economic boon – we also understand that it's a public health issue.We need to give more authority to our local communities."
What is being proposed is a land plan- set up land use standards before communities are built. – He's talking about how earthen berms were built to shield neighborhoods from noise and . (unknown speaker)
Rod Brueske – This commission, if they want to have legitimacy, needs to have a grand jury investigation of the COGCC, COGA, b/c of their interpretation of state regulations. These orgs have allowed reduced or no fines or fees for violations. They are acting with criminal negligence, and I highly recommend an investigation of this pattern of violations.
Jennifer ? – personal story about living next to holding tanks. I feel that I live in an industrial area now. Lights, sound, natural gas, open flames, truck traffic. Ugly, smelly, bright, noisy. Little info about long term exposure – I feel that my family are test subjects.