TheDumbBlonde: At least they are in session. They could be playing golf and taping a bit on their brackets for ESPN.

And we're done.

At least they're working.

Obama is filling out his bracket after a rigorous game of golf.

Weaver95: 1. never waste a crisis
2. for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee...

God you are a pitiful man.

What should the US be doing right now for Japan? Does Japan not have a government with it's own catastrophe handling?

Again, you are a pitiful man. I don't see you crying out for the "environmentalists" and anti-nuke people at the moment.

downtownant Quote 2011-03-15 08:17:07 PM

Yeah, good idea. Post a bunch of huge dumb disingenuous pictures in some futile attempt to get your toolish partisan point across. Awesome.

Weaver95: 2wolves: Because an educated citizenry is not something the GOP truly desires.

most corporations don't want a well informed populace either. look at how they quashed stories out of Wisconsin.

What do you mean? I was quickly informed that the rabble-rousers did $7M worth of damage to the statehouse!

BroadbandGremlin: At least they're working.

Obama is filling out his bracket after a rigorous game of golf.

Working like that guy in Nigeria trying to hide a few million in grandma's bank account.

StanTheMan:
Republicans ran on cutting spending and they are doing it. Good riddance to NPR funding and taxpayer support of cash cows like Sesame Street.

Everyone knows that's where the big money is.

TheDumbBlonde: Keep it coming. This is fun! Like watching monkies fling poo.

Yeah your posts usually are.

Except for the fun part.

StanTheMan: Which half of the world is on fire, exactly?

Funny, the Dems can waste a year and a half ramming Obamacare through against public opinion, in the middle of a recession, as unemployment skyrocketed, and Harry Reid can name post offices and congratulate sports teams in late December, despite no budget and no Americans even knowing their 2011 tax rates. But suddenly, we don't have a moment to spare. Time to get serious!

Obama during campaign: "I'm going to implement health care legislation."

Obama after winning a decisive victory: Implements health care legislation.

Stan: "What the hell are you doing?"

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House Republicans during campaign: "We're going to focus on jobs, jobs, jobs."

House Republicans after decisive victory:"First we'll read the Constitution, then we'll attempt to defund NPR."

Us: "What the hell are you doing?"

Stan: "B-b-b-but OBAMA!!"

whidbey: F*ck the GOP. F*ck them long, slow and hard with a white-hot fire poker.

lol, you were one of the ones calling for civil discourse not even 2 months ago. lol at you.

whidbey: downtownant Quote 2011-03-15 08:17:07 PM

Yeah, good idea. Post a bunch of huge dumb disingenuous pictures in some futile attempt to get your toolish partisan point across. Awesome.

Pot, meet kettle.

unlikely: Barbigazi: Laser like focus on getting back at their enemies.

I'm not even sure how NPR is their enemy. They ran 24/7 infomercials for the teabaggers two weeks leading up to the elections in november.

NPR's strategy of preemptive appeasement was a sign of weakness that let Republicans know they could be further bullied and whipped.

Cpl.D: Hrm. It's almost as if the Republicans don't really care about undoing the health care bill, and are instead diverting attention away from their failures.

OR, they understand how the government works and are letting it move through the courts.

TheDumbBlonde: At least they are in session. They could be playing golf and taping a bit on their brackets for ESPN.

Or visiting Arlington National Cemetery
/Two articles down on front page

joeflood: It's pretty clear that the GOP wants to ensure more americans lose their jobs and become an even larger drain on the economy.

Why does the GOP hate working Americans?

===

All Americans work for NPR?

That's the problem!

Infernalist: Can there be any doubt left that the GOP is the outright enemy of this country?

No, seeing as how half the country would apparently spitefully vote them again back into the White House.

StanTheMan: How can you even make a case for NPR funding when we are running $1.4T deficits? I mean, do you libs really think there will be no consequences to all of this debt? Unbelievable.

What you're doing is worrying about a penny on the sidewalk when the house is about to be foreclosed. NPR actually performs a service for taxpayers, unlike some of the big ticket items in the budget. If Shrub hadn't gotten us into that mess in Iraq, we could fund NPR for about ten thousand years.

So the GOP doesn't get to whine about a useful government expenditure until it straightens out all the major wasteful useless crap it's responsible for.

MyRandomName: whidbey: F*ck the GOP. F*ck them long, slow and hard with a white-hot fire poker.

lol, you were one of the ones calling for civil discourse not even 2 months ago. lol at you.

Doubt it was me. The GOP isn't really known for "civil discourse."

Good one.

StanTheMan: MojoFraggle: As soon as you used the words "Ramming" & "Obamacare" you lost whatever point you were trying to make.

Actually, I think those words were extremely accurate. Passing a bill that turns our healthcare system upside down, regulating 1/6 of our economy, through the Senate via the reconciliation process, after a series of notorious bribes and payoffs to senators, despite polls overwhelmingly opposing it, was ramming.

The Obamacare thing is probably less accurate, since Obama's contribution was limited to late night union payoffs. Obama seems to act like he is Delegator-in-Chief. He'd rather play golf than work. "Reidcare" or "Pelosicare" or "Farking up the best healthcare in the world care" would probably be more accurate.

Best health care in the world. Huh. Yeah, you're a troll, or so dense a cubic centimeter of your flesh could serve as a gravitational focus for a few moons.

jaytkay: wyltoknow: Jobs, jobs, jobs.

If employment increases, it sinks the GOPs chances in 2012.

They have publicly admitted defeating Obama is their one and only goal.

They will be screaming and crying and throwing tantrums 24/7 until the election in order to keep Obama from doing his job and keep the media from covering anything substantive.

According to most liberals on this website, correlation equals causation and government is the only input into economic functions. Therefore if jobs increase, it's cause they won the house back.

Most of us aren't retarded enough to think this, but the liberals here sure do.

Jackdragna: Right. That's why a majority of American citizens were for the public option, a much stronger version of health care reform than what was passed.

Oh bullshiat. Americans are not for turning our healthcare system into an insolvent socialized mess like Medicare. The very fact that you libs have to use a fuzzy euphemism like "public option" instead of "socialized medicine Ponzi scheme like Medicare" proves how farked up it is. And don't even dare try to play semantics over socialized medicine as you libs love to do.

The second you explain what public option really means (destroying private insurance just as Medicare did, which means less options, worse care), they hate it. 80% of Americans are satisfied with their healthcare. The other 20% have never been to the UK.

Have you ever noticed that when something good happens in this country it happens in spite of this president and not because of him?

Did he stand behind Healthcare Reform?

Did he stand behind the repeal of Dont Ask Don't Tell?

Did he stand behind the Egyptian people?

Is he standing behind the Libyan people?

StanTheMan: MojoFraggle: As soon as you used the words "Ramming" & "Obamacare" you lost whatever point you were trying to make.

Actually, I think those words were extremely accurate. Passing a bill that turns our healthcare system upside down, regulating 1/6 of our economy, through the Senate via the reconciliation process, after a series of notorious bribes and payoffs to senators, despite polls overwhelmingly opposing it, was ramming.

The Obamacare thing is probably less accurate, since Obama's contribution was limited to late night union payoffs. Obama seems to act like he is Delegator-in-Chief. He'd rather play golf than work. "Reidcare" or "Pelosicare" or "Farking up the best healthcare in the world care" would probably be more accurate.

Really? Best healthcare in the world?

Citation please.

BroadbandGremlin: Have you ever noticed that when something good happens in this country it happens in spite of this president and not because of him?

No.

Pardon me, but it's not our half of the world that's currently on fire. What do you want Congress to do, shut down all their operations, fly over to Japan, and buy everyone a pony so they feel better?

Next on the agenda. Deport the unemployed to improve the unemployment numbers for 2012.

StanTheMan:Farking up the best healthcare in the world care" would probably be more accurate.

It's so good millions of people can't even afford it!

downtownant: whidbey: downtownant Quote 2011-03-15 08:17:07 PM

Yeah, good idea. Post a bunch of huge dumb disingenuous pictures in some futile attempt to get your toolish partisan point across. Awesome.

Pot, meet kettle.

Congratulations on finally meeting yourself.

I tilt a bit to the conservative side and I think NPR is awesome. The stories are very well researched and I always walk away more informed about the world.

If it's valuable to you (and likely others), why does it need public funding?

If we can't even cut NPR, what are we going to cut? I suppose we can just raise taxes on the rich? No unintended consequences there, right?

That's why a majority of American citizens were for the public option, a much stronger version of health care reform than what was passed.

If you're right, then you don't have to worry about future elections, Republicans and Tea Derpers will be trounced on the health care issue, since "everybody" wants Obamacare. Then you can get back to the spending spree.

I don't want the Fed involved in health care any more than it already is, so I gather the Republicans are representing me on this issue. Perhaps I'm a lone voice in the wilderness.

nytmare: Why has this suddenly become an issue now, instead of a decade ago during the GOP years?

The 2010+ GOP in a nutshell:
The GOP and its TP cousin are The Party of Envy. If you arent a banker or businessperson, you dont deserve anything. Everything that those two political groups have attacked is out of envy, which they magically cleanse by saying "it's for the forgotten taxpayer". If you attack their deities (bankers and businessfolk), they will not hesitate to call it envy.

Could someone arrange an expedited meeting of the O'smearmerchant with St. Peter? Then we'd have no more of the guy, and he gets an eternity to be a smear merchant Somewhere Else.

StanTheMan: Jackdragna: Right. That's why a majority of American citizens were for the public option, a much stronger version of health care reform than what was passed.

Oh bullshiat. Americans are not for turning our healthcare system into an insolvent socialized mess like Medicare. The very fact that you libs have to use a fuzzy euphemism like "public option" instead of "socialized medicine Ponzi scheme like Medicare" proves how farked up it is. And don't even dare try to play semantics over socialized medicine as you libs love to do.

The second you explain what public option really means (destroying private insurance just as Medicare did, which means less options, worse care), they hate it. 80% of Americans are satisfied with their healthcare. The other 20% have never been to the UK.

Uh, would you like me to go find the many polls put out by major news organizations that show you're completely full of right-wing twaddle? You're the one making up these "scary" words for health care systems that don't involve massive insurer fraud, deception and cost overruns. We pay an excessive amount for health care and insurance here, to the point where a large chunk of the population can't afford it. I guess I missed how this makes us live in health care Utopia.

Partisan douchebags.

While the Japanese were filling a reactor, Obama was filling out a bracket.

Necrosis: StanTheMan:
Republicans ran on cutting spending and they are doing it. Good riddance to NPR funding and taxpayer support of cash cows like Sesame Street.

Everyone knows that's where the big money is.

Actually, it's in entitlements, according to Obama's own deficit commission, but Obama has declared them hands-off.

But symbolism has value. What really pisses taxpayers off is this exact attitude you show in your post, "it's only a few million here, a few million there." It's real money and it adds up if every time we try to cut it, some lib steps up to say how indispensable the program is. Nonsense! Cut cut cut!

/JOIN ME!

whidbey: downtownant: whidbey: downtownant Quote 2011-03-15 08:17:07 PM

Yeah, good idea. Post a bunch of huge dumb disingenuous pictures in some futile attempt to get your toolish partisan point across. Awesome.

Pot, meet kettle.

Congratulations on finally meeting yourself.

you're a masterful jokesmith! I humbly yield.

vernonFL: Cutting NPR funding will save exactly .0001% of the budget.

But it's that much more money the Democrats will have to raise to subsidize the advertising loss.

unlikely: I'm not even sure how NPR is their enemy. They ran 24/7 infomercials for the teabaggers two weeks leading up to the elections in november.

The problem is not the content. The problem is that it's something liberals like more than conservatives. That's why they choose to attack it. Pretty much just like the Rally to Restore Sanity.

Weaver95: NPR funding just isn't on that list of things that have to be done right away.

But dude, if they don't take care of it right away, the crack will widen until everything collapses and we'll all go Kim Jong Il as a result.

fatassbastard: Obama during campaign: "I'm going to implement health care legislation create jobs"

There, fixed that for you.

Still not as shameful as having only 1 in 10 listeners contributing their own money.

If you listen to even one second of NPR and don't contribute, you're a thief, a common thief!