I remember in 2000 I said that the Clinton years would be looked back on as a golden age and everyone laughed and laughed, but here we are. Low unemployment, no stupid wars, balanced budget were the best, who cares if he got a Beej.

NowhereMon: I remember in 2000 I said that the Clinton years would be looked back on as a golden age and everyone laughed and laughed, but here we are. Low unemployment, no stupid wars, balanced budget were the best, who cares if he got a Beej.

As far as I care, he freakin' DESERVED the BJ.

"uber right-wing"

of all that is blogged i love only what a person has blogged with his blood

Maybe they should have thought twice about running a guy who had no chance in Hell of getting reelected to his only previous political post?

FFS.

The Obama administration is now releasing new regulations at the mind boggling clip of more than 6,000 per quarter.

That statement links to an article with this title:

6,125 Proposed Regulations and Notifications Posted in Last 90 Days--Average 68 per Day

Then, from that article:

Some of the proposed regulations revise regulations already on the books.

The website also links to a video of a speech President Barack Obama gave at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C. on Feb. 7, 2011, in which the president promised to remove "outdated and unnecessary regulations."

"I've ordered a government-wide review, and if there are rules on the books that are needlessly stifling job creation and economic growth, we will fix them," the president said.

Did this farkwit actually read the article he linked to? Also, what's his Fark handle?

Vodka Zombie: NowhereMon: I remember in 2000 I said that the Clinton years would be looked back on as a golden age and everyone laughed and laughed, but here we are. Low unemployment, no stupid wars, balanced budget were the best, who cares if he got a Beej.

As far as I care, he freakin' DESERVED the BJ.

My issue with that BJ is that Clinton made us look bad on the world stage with his ugly interns. If he'd been like Kennedy and tapping a movie star on the side it would have been much more acceptable.

You mean you miss the days that a Democrat in the White House just bows to pressure from a Republican controlled Congress as Clinton did. Today not only do you have a black man as President, you have one that stands up against the GOP run House masters.

That poor, poor chicken.

Actually, it's because Barrack can actually fark his wife instead of getting strange in the oval office.

"the GOP needs to get themselves off compromise mode"

They were on compromise mode??????

Yeah, Clinton compromised to work with the GOP to gut welfare and treat regulation like a joke (which, by the way, never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever turned around to bite us in the ass, isn't that right, banking disaster?) and got impeached for the favor.

Obama knows (or he should, anyway, I kinda doubt President Cavey McGive-In will think of it) what to expect as his thanks from the Grand Ol' Party for all the service he did for them over the past 4 years. I believe that was, what, 97% of what John Boehner wanted?

Indeed, he's the liberallest liberal that ever done liberalled a liberal.

ha-ha-guy: My issue with that BJ is that Clinton made us look bad on the world stage with his ugly interns. If he'd been like Kennedy and tapping a movie star on the side it would have been much more acceptable.

Hell, the French have mistresses and they have no issue with it.

Shrugging Atlas: "the GOP needs to get themselves off compromise mode"

They were on compromise mode??????

When Boehner got 98% of what he wanted during debt limit negotiations. Of course now it's all 100% Obama's fault.

Read some of his other posts. He says the Republicans haven't run a conservative since Reagan.

I personally enjoyed the section about abortion. If I may evaluate the right-wing articles I've read recently, the GOP feels they must lie to the public in order to gain votes. The pro-life stance isn't a "fanatical religious stance" but a well-reasoned belief that "all life is sacred". Good luck convincing the electorate. We have all heard the Bible quotes from your side regarding your pro-life stance. We have all witnessed the attempts to deter women from seeking abortions. We have all listened to your side publically vilify women who seek medical sound, and legal, procedures. Good luck changing anyone's mind. Maybe if you start now, the electorate 4 generations from now might buy your line of B.S.

Well, one thing I can say for the Republicans is that, rather than whine or gurgle the same whargarble they have been for the past four years, they've immediate begun outlining their plans, in detail, on how they plan to improve conditions in America. For that, they are to be commended.

clancifer: If this republic is to be saved with liberty intact, if this monstrous agenda is to be rolled back, then the GOP needs to get themselves off compromise mode, and onto full war footing.


Dnrtfa but judging by this sample, his blog sucks.

DubyaHater: I personally enjoyed the section about abortion. If I may evaluate the right-wing articles I've read recently, the GOP feels they must lie to the public in order to gain votes. The pro-life stance isn't a "fanatical religious stance" but a well-reasoned belief that "all life is sacred". Good luck convincing the electorate. We have all heard the Bible quotes from your side regarding your pro-life stance. We have all witnessed the attempts to deter women from seeking abortions. We have all listened to your side publically vilify women who seek medical sound, and legal, procedures. Good luck changing anyone's mind. Maybe if you start now, the electorate 4 generations from now might buy your line of B.S.

Ha! Me too! It's now a human rights issue. Let's see how that message "trickles down".

rufus-t-firefly: FFS.

The Obama administration is now releasing new regulations at the mind boggling clip of more than 6,000 per quarter.

That statement links to an article with this title:

6,125 Proposed Regulations and Notifications Posted in Last 90 Days--Average 68 per Day

Then, from that article:

Some of the proposed regulations revise regulations already on the books.

The website also links to a video of a speech President Barack Obama gave at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C. on Feb. 7, 2011, in which the president promised to remove "outdated and unnecessary regulations."

"I've ordered a government-wide review, and if there are rules on the books that are needlessly stifling job creation and economic growth, we will fix them," the president said.

Did this farkwit actually read the article he linked to? Also, what's his Fark handle?

Or look at those regulations.
For example, here are last 407 from last week. http://www.regulations.gov/#!searchResults;np=7;dct=N%252BFR%252BPR;rp p=25;po=0


New Jersey; Amendment No. 2 to Notice of a Major Disaster Declaration

National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plans: Revision to Increase Public Availability of the Administrative Record File

Proposed Flood Elevation Determinations for Madison County, AL and Incorporated Areas,

TFR: Safety Zones: Alliance Road Bridge Demolition; Black Warrior River, Locust Fork; Birmingham, AL (Federal Register Publication)

Twenty-fifth Update of the Federal Agency Hazardous Waste Compliance Docket

Meetings: National Institute of General Medical Sciences

etc, etc.


Guess what folks, this is a big country, we produce a lot of documents. You wanted ALL these documents put online, now they are. Guess what, its a LOT.

I wasn't a big fan of Clinton, mostly because of his two-faced slimeball routine and triangulation baloney. He also had some truly awful cabinet members - Albright, Reno, Burger. I didn't care that he banged an intern and the impeachment was the moment that I finally gave up on the Republican party and the likes of Joe Loserman and other sanctimonious democrats.

But balancing the budget and a healthy economy .... not bad. Although a lot of good programs got screwed during that era. Kid of annoying when the administration is saying that R&D needs to be cut, when it was proven over and over to pay off huge for the economy. Little things like "the internet" and "lasers" and "computers" and "satellites", or more mundane things like "batteries" and "medical technology". As much as W was a total douchebag asshole, his administration did just as much to fund science and technology as Clinton's. He even had a true Democrat as science adviser. Bizarre but true.

Really? So when Obama proposes that we return the taxes on the top bracket back to 39.2 percent, like Clinton did in 1993, you'll be all for it?

WizardofToast: gilgigamesh: Don't be fooled.

The righties allegedly pining for the heady days of the Clinton administration are the same ones who were screeching for his impeachment in 1997.

The negative behavior around Clinton is pretty much the same as Obama. Socialisms, will persecute Christians, and will let the US surrender to the UN. Goes to show that really some Republicans haven't changed after two presidencies.

No, but they'll die off pretty soon, so there's that...

NuttierThanEver: That's partly because despite your feeble protestations to the contrary Clinton was not a liberal, he was center right on most taxation issues. It was the Rights continual obsession on culture war and social issues that clouds them from seeing that there hasn't been a true progressive President in the US since FDR. What passes for liberalism in the US would be regarded as fascism in Europe. Twenty years from now when Texas is Blue enough due to population shifts for the Dems to hold both houses of congress you might see some real liberalism

Nobody seems to remember it, but Clinton won his first presidential election by running to the right of H.W. Bush. He personally oversaw the execution of a black man who was so mentally incapacitated that he couldn't understand much of anything, let alone the charges against him, and Clinton did that during his presidential run. He had several women harassed, probably raped a few more, rocketed the only facility in Sudan that produced medicine to provide a distraction from his impeding impeachment, rivaled Romney as a pathological liar, and screwed over the gay community with DADT. It's easy to see why the right is nostalgic for the guy, he has so much in common with them.

/That he's a southerner and not black probably helps a lot for them too

"The Most Liberal President of All-time"

thunderbird8804: screwed over the gay community with DADT

You realize the right's proposal at the time was a blanket ban on homosexuals in the military, right? And that's what they'd like to go back to? But yeah, Clinton was terrible.

Vodka Zombie: NowhereMon: I remember in 2000 I said that the Clinton years would be looked back on as a golden age and everyone laughed and laughed, but here we are. Low unemployment, no stupid wars, balanced budget were the best, who cares if he got a Beej.

As far as I care, he freakin' DESERVED the BJ.

"JFK aimed high-Marilyn Monroe! Bill showed his dick to a government CLERK. There's a dropoff, here..."
--Carlin

We get it. He's black.

qorkfiend: thunderbird8804: screwed over the gay community with DADT

You realize the right's proposal at the time was a blanket ban on homosexuals in the military, right? And that's what they'd like to go back to? But yeah, Clinton was terrible.

I'm aware of what the right wants now, and what they wanted then, but the fact remains that Clinton ran in 92 on helping out homosexuals, and instead he immediately relegated them to the closet, then told them "What are you gonna do about it? Turn to the Republicans? Vote Clinton in 96!" The whole thing was shameful, and I'm just glad we're finally starting to get past that unhealthy level of realpolitik.

clancifer: If this republic is to be saved with liberty intact, if this monstrous agenda is to be rolled back, then the GOP needs to get themselves off compromise mode, and onto full war footing.

It worked so well since 2010, right?

When has the GOP been in compromise mode? Did I miss that?

thunderbird8804: qorkfiend: thunderbird8804: screwed over the gay community with DADT

You realize the right's proposal at the time was a blanket ban on homosexuals in the military, right? And that's what they'd like to go back to? But yeah, Clinton was terrible.

I'm aware of what the right wants now, and what they wanted then, but the fact remains that Clinton ran in 92 on helping out homosexuals, and instead he immediately relegated them to the closet, then told them "What are you gonna do about it? Turn to the Republicans? Vote Clinton in 96!" The whole thing was shameful, and I'm just glad we're finally starting to get past that unhealthy level of realpolitik.

So you'd prefer Clinton simply allowed the blanket ban on homosexuals in the military, instead of trying to work out a compromise with a Congress who had no interest in letting homosexuals openly serve? Yeah, that'll get you real far.

qorkfiend: thunderbird8804: qorkfiend: thunderbird8804: screwed over the gay community with DADT

You realize the right's proposal at the time was a blanket ban on homosexuals in the military, right? And that's what they'd like to go back to? But yeah, Clinton was terrible.

I'm aware of what the right wants now, and what they wanted then, but the fact remains that Clinton ran in 92 on helping out homosexuals, and instead he immediately relegated them to the closet, then told them "What are you gonna do about it? Turn to the Republicans? Vote Clinton in 96!" The whole thing was shameful, and I'm just glad we're finally starting to get past that unhealthy level of realpolitik.

So you'd prefer Clinton simply allowed the blanket ban on homosexuals in the military, instead of trying to work out a compromise with a Congress who had no interest in letting homosexuals openly serve? Yeah, that'll get you real far.

Two things:

1. Strawman
2. Even if that wasn't a strawman, that wouldn't come close to being a counter argument to what I just said

Ya, I know what you mean, because the Clinton presidency was so terrible, like when he took away all of our guns and instituted FEMA concentration camps and the stock market fell to almost zero and we had unemployment over 30%. Ya, those Clinton days were just terrible.

Shrugging Atlas: "the GOP needs to get themselves off compromise mode"

They were on compromise mode??????

This is the Rush line, the last GOP house comptromised too much, Obama ran the dirties campaign in his memory, Obama lied more than any campaign in history, stuff like that.

Actually, now that I think of it, he was a bit off his game today. It was all projection for the 45 minutes I listened, no straw men, no mischaracterization, no lying about others true message. In fact, I think he only said he was right twice.

Corvus: fark you!!

You guys said Clinton was the worst (most liberal) president ever while he was president. You attacked him for everything he did manufacturing false scandal after false scandal and impeached him. Only now that he is not president and can't run again you are looking at him fairly and saying he was good. The same exact thing will happen to Obama after he is out of office.

So fark you!!!

I wish they would do the same thing with Reagan, but instead they suck his decomposing schlong.

WizardofToast: gilgigamesh: Don't be fooled.

The righties allegedly pining for the heady days of the Clinton administration are the same ones who were screeching for his impeachment in 1997.

The negative behavior around Clinton is pretty much the same as Obama. Socialisms, will persecute Christians, and will let the US surrender to the UN. Goes to show that really some Republicans haven't changed after two presidencies.

They just don't remember. The real minds behind the GOP knew they could simply recycle the lies and the base wouldn't notice or care. More efficient, it left them lots of time to plan their voter suppression strategy.

thunderbird8804: screwed over the gay community with DADT

It wasn't the ideal solution, but it was a halfway measure that allowed gays to serve without being questioned about their private lives. How is that screwing them over?

HighOnCraic: thunderbird8804: screwed over the gay community with DADT

It wasn't the ideal solution, but it was a halfway measure that allowed gays to serve without being questioned about their private lives. How is that screwing them over?

I hate to do it, but I'll just quote myself here:

thunderbird8804: I'm aware of what the right wants now, and what they wanted then, but the fact remains that Clinton ran in 92 on helping out homosexuals, and instead he immediately relegated them to the closet, then told them "What are you gonna do about it? Turn to the Republicans? Vote Clinton in 96!" The whole thing was shameful, and I'm just glad we're finally starting to get past that unhealthy level of realpolitik.