The Respectfully Republican Conversation

Sheri, BO sent Emanuel to meet with Reid and Pelosi a couple of nights...nights...nights ago to have a meeting.  They worked things out.  And then, as you said, RAPIDLY got out the BULL. Lindsey Graham is outraged that they do not have time to read this huge "compromise" but have to vote.  WHY DON'T THE REPUBLICANS REFUSE TO VOTE UNTIL THEY CAN READ THE BULL!  There's a dimwit speaking on C-span saying why are republicans opposed to rebuilding school..yada yada..cuz it belongs in appropriation. And he's saying, OBAMA DID NOT CREATE THIS MESS..HE INHERITED.  BUSH AND CHENEY DID IT!    No, ACORN, Obama's pet project, is partly responsible along with the dems who pused through bad loans. 

When is Rangel getting his?

Sherri, is it time for a new roof on your house?  Maybe you can call it 'weatherization' and get the government to pay for a new roof.  There ya go!

If anyone is working or not by a tv you can watch cspan live at www.cspan.org and click on the window to the right under the search box that says "watch live"........this is unreal......NO ONE HAS HAD A CHANCE TO READ THIS BILL..............Shokk

Shirley are are a Republican and even worse you are a conservative so you get nothing and in fact you have to pay for someone elses weatherzation...........(my house is avaiable)..........

You know that OBAMA HAS NOT READ THIS PROPOSED STIMULUS BILL!!!!!!!!!   Shokk

Vivre I would love to visit his library........but you are exactly right......he was a man of HIS time......minorities and women were not considered equals to white man.............I do remember thinking at the time of doing this paper that he was just a man......now granted he was very intelligent and he had those "soft skills" that he could talk just about anyone into anything..........but Mary was not the love of his life............but at that time most marriages were "arranged" by families and had more to do with land mergings and business arrangements.........making families stronger financially.........most marriages really didn't have much to do about love..........Shokk

To the Ladies of California, 

Think how great it is, Reid has found a way to spend 8 billion dollars for a way to take cash that could circulate in California, create jobs, produce tax revenue and high speed rail transport it to slot machines in Vegas.  The Amtrak has worked so well, only costing billions of dollars in subsidies because people won't pay the higher cost to ride a train than to fly.  The LA to Vegas line will be a burden on every person in the country so a handful of Gamblers and bunny ranch customers can have a night out.

Herbie -- we need the train like we need more holes in our head.

I wish California had legalized gambling like Nevada.  We have our Indian casinos but they keep their profit.  Granted they employ 1,000's of Californians and they do donate fire trucks and such.  And they do pay fees to CA for being here but it's nothing like the revenue we could have if we had big Casinos like Vegas!! 

Sending our elderly out there in a train to spend their money is foolish .. I guess they will have a bar car and private cars to host parties in on the way Lost Wages.

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Seems like it's ok for SNL to make fun of Palin because she is a woman with but Gov Paterson didn't like it when they started poking fun at him.

Gov. Paterson: SNL is Enabling Prejudice Against the Disabled
February 13, 2009 9:08 AM

After a town hall meeting in Morrisville, NY, Thursday, Empire State Gov. David Paterson unloaded on how Saturday Night Live has been mocking his blindness.

Asked by a reporter if he has any thoughts on how he's being portrayed on SNL, the governor said, "yes, but I can't repeat them."

SNL cast member Fred Armisen has portrayed Paterson as a bumbling fool, holding a chart upside down, for instance. New York Times columnist Clyde Haberman recently wrote: "Comedy writers with frat-boy sensibilities seem to feel they have a license to go for cheap laughs about blindness, as if Mr. Paterson were Mr. Magoo come to life...The level of humor might fairly be described as sophomoric were that not an insult to sophomores."

They seem to be mocking your disability, the reporter said to Paterson, who had just held a town hall meeting with students at SUNY Morrisville.

"They SEEM to be mocking my disability?" Paterson asked incredulously. "I would say that decidedly they ARE mocking my disability. And that apparently who is blind or deaf or has an ambulatory disability or any kind of physical affect that gets to a leadership position in this country is going to be portrayed as if a bunch of third graders are still ridiculing them, on Saturday Night Live."

The governor said, not quite convincingly, that "it doesn't really bother me."

But, he continued, "there's a 37 percent unemployment rate in the disabled community -- 71 percent among the blind, 90 percent among the deaf -- and yet these individuals performed by average higher in American institutions of education than their colleagues who are non-disabled. Meaning that we can educate these people but we couldn't find work for them."

Paterson said "one of the biggest problems finding work for the disabled are attitudes. And these programs which present themselves as comic relief in many ways are degrading people."

He said one protestor outside a town hall meeting on Wednesday held a sign that read "The Blind Leading the Blind."

"Now, I understand that whoever had that sign was protesting one of our (budget) cuts," Paterson said. "But I wonder if anybody would have had the temerity to walk outside in a group putting up a sign 'The Blind Leading the Blind'  when a blind governor's coming in, had not their been such seemingly approval of this kind of degrading of people with disabilities."

Paterson said, "I'll bet you that SNL would think twice if they did the same kind of routine and made fun of someone's race, religion or national origin right now.
So really, they're picking on those they think are least able to fight back."

Finally, he said, "I think they need to bring back Sarah Palin because they've obviously run out of material."

You can watch the governor's comments at NYCentral.com.

I seriously CANNOT believe this guy (Paterson) can be so STUPID as to make that last comment.

Oh  dear!  Pelosi is going to be late getting to Rome. 

Gotta watch "Trillion With a T:  How to Spend Ten Trillion Dollars" With Brett Baer on Fox this weekend at 10PM.  I think I got that right.  Should be interesting.

Yes, I watch FOX and C-span to get the best update and honest news on this Stimulus Bull.  Afterall, C-span let's the dummies do their own talking. 

This is a very sad day.

Coburn (sp) threatened to not vote until he had time to read the Bull.  I guess he decided not to wait.

Since our dear PBHO promised 48 hours for them to read this bill (and us) why isn't that happening?  Oh, I know why.  Cuz the longer you you read and hear about the Bull (Sh#t) the worse it stinks.  And he's a liar.  He has proven this over and over.  All we have to remember is the Catepillar Manufacturing Co...TOO FUNNY!  He should be embarrassed.  And his little press guy tries to explain the LIE. 

Pelosi said this was a great accomplishment for Nobama.  No, Botox Ugly Face, it's your and Reid's greatest accomplishment.  You just gave the BIRD to the American people.  How many petitions did they receive IN SUPPORT of this bill?

Aren't they wasting a lot of electricity waiting for the last couple of votes?  Heck, just close it down and say WE WON!  That's their motto isn't it?

I don't think in a situation like this, that MAJORITY wins .. it should have to be something the public supports. We know our representatives often do what they want or play quid pro quo with their votes ...  60-40 doesn't seem like a fair number when we are talking a TRILLION dollars!

The only problem is when I marry him will I have to move to Oklahoma?..............Shokk