http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100919/ap_on_el_se/us_delaware_senate_o_donnell
Bill Maher digs up O'Donnell 'witchcraft' clip
By NAFEESA SYEED, Associated Press Writer Nafeesa Syeed, Associated Press Writer – Sun Sep 19, 7:02 am ET
WASHINGTON – Another unfavorable decade-old television clip of tea party favorite Christine O'Donnell has emerged, this time with the Delaware GOP Senate candidate saying she "dabbled in witchcraft." The clip spread among websites as O'Donnell canceled appearances Sunday on two national news shows. Her campaign said she had to back out of the programs because of scheduling conflicts with events in Delaware.
Since O'Donnell's upset of nine-term Rep. Mike Castle, opponents have unearthed unflattering age-old television clips. The most recent was aired by comedian Bill Maher, who dug up one of O'Donnell's appearances on his "Politically Incorrect" show in 1999. The context of what led to her comments is not clear, and O'Donnell is laughing while she talks.
"I dabbled into witchcraft. I never joined a coven," she said. " ... I hung around people who were doing these things. I'm not making this stuff up. I know what they told me they do," she said. "... One of my first dates with a witch was on a satanic altar, and I didn't know it. I mean, there's little blood there and stuff like that," she said. "We went to a movie and then had a little midnight picnic on a satanic altar."
aher said on "Real Time with Bill Maher" that he has more clips of O'Donnell and will continue to air them until she appears on his show.Her campaign didn't immediately return a telephone message Saturday, but she has in the past dismissed her previous comments. O'Donnell had been set to appear on "Face the Nation" on CBS and "Fox News Sunday." Campaign spokeswoman Diana Banister cited scheduling conflicts and said O'Donnell needed to return to Delaware for commitments to church events and an afternoon picnic with Republicans in a key county where she has solid backing.
"The priorities are back in Delaware," Banister said. "Those are people who supported her, who were very helpful to her in the campaign, and she feels obligated to be there and thank them."Banister said she was unaware of the previous commitments when she booked O'Donnell for the shows. She said she canceled with Fox News late Friday and with CBS early Saturday."We felt really bad," she said, adding the campaign apologized profusely for canceling at the last minute. Banister said O'Donnell would be pleased to appear on any Sunday news shows in the future.
On Friday, O'Donnell made her first national appearance since her primary upset in Washington at an annual Values Voters Summit. Appearances on the news shows would have furthered her national exposure.Fox News had booked O'Donnell on Thursday. Marty Ryan, executive producer of "Fox News Sunday," said in a statement that the campaign canceled late Friday, saying she was exhausted and returning to Delaware."On Saturday morning, O'Donnell called us and said: 'I got triple-booked. I had been invited to go to church and then a picnic. I have to keep my priorities to Delaware voters,'" Ryan said. "The invitation to have her appear on the show remains open."
Banister said the decision was solely a scheduling issue and not because O'Donnell wasn't prepared to go on the programs.However, the cancellations reflect a campaign of about six staffers trying to keep up after being thrust into the national spotlight. Banister said many requests are pouring in and the campaign needs a scheduler and additional aides. Separately, "Face the Nation" host Bob Schieffer said that program received an e-mail Saturday morning canceling O'Donnell's appearance without explanation. But the campaign later called to say that O'Donnell had some campaign events.
"I can't remember when anybody has canceled on us on a Saturday, but there's always a first," he said. "If she can work it in sometime, we'll be happy to have her."
How come our candidates are so boring?
Quote from: RecycleMichael on September 19, 2010, 02:21:33 PM
How come our candidates are so boring?
Hey! They regularly sacrifice choice cuts of meat on an altar, but they just call it barbecue. And they engage in ritual cannibalism called communion.
Just sayin'
Whoa Whoa whoa. I never joined a coven... I love that quote. There is a video on youtube of it. Its pretty great. I had my first date with a witch on a satanic altar and didn't even know it...
I love her quote today ""How many of you didn't hang out with questionable folks in high school?"
I mean, didn't EVERYONE lay on Satanic alter and have a blood ritual, at least she didn't masturbate. We really need to give her a break.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/42409.html#ixzz104x1d1hP
I'm think this chick and the campus charmer the Democrats have running in South Carolina would make just a really cute couple.
Quote from: swake on September 20, 2010, 09:11:16 AM
I love her quote today ""How many of you didn't hang out with questionable folks in high school?"
I mean, didn't EVERYONE lay on Satanic alter and have a blood ritual, at least she didn't masturbate. We really need to give her a break.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/42409.html#ixzz104x1d1hP
I'm think this chick and the campus charmer the Democrats have running in South Carolina would make just a really cute couple.
Do you smell that? I smell sitcom!! And Sarah Palin could play her mother! Comedy gold! It wouldn't even require writers all 3 of them would just have to talk.
(queue bronx cheer)
It's not like other politicians aren't doing business under guidance from the dark lord.
Quote from: Townsend on September 20, 2010, 09:18:08 AM
(queue bronx cheer)
It's not like other politicians aren't doing business under guidance from the dark lord.
Dick Cheney does mentor several.
Quote from: Trogdor on September 20, 2010, 09:21:32 AM
Dick Cheney does mentor several.
(http://www.tulsatrafficcirclewx.com/images/cheneyevilemp.jpg)
In related news, former President Carter shares a little too much:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-september-20-2010/jimmy-carter (fast forward to about 4:15 and wait for the lulz)
The idea of Carter flogging the dolphin is just repugnant to me.
I think I love Christine O'Donnell. She is a quote machine.
''American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains.''
—Christine O'Donnell, discussing cloning with Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly, 2007
Quote from: RecycleMichael on September 23, 2010, 10:49:29 AM
I think I love Christine O'Donnell. She is a quote machine.
''American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains.''
—Christine O'Donnell, discussing cloning with Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly, 2007
My friends, I believe we've found someone with less of a functioning brain than the half-Governor-from-Wasilla.
Maybe a mouse can donate one to her?
Quote from: RecycleMichael on September 23, 2010, 10:49:29 AM
I think I love Christine O'Donnell. She is a quote machine.
''American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains.''
—Christine O'Donnell, discussing cloning with Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly, 2007
If you give a mouse a brain....
She'll run for Senate ?
I would clearly vote for her. Out of a hundred Senators, you should have at least one comedian and one witch. We got Al Franken in...vote for her, Delaware.
She is now being investigated by the IRS for not filing the proper tax froms on her non profit church...
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/09/30/20100930Odonnell-nonprofit-failed.html (http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/09/30/20100930Odonnell-nonprofit-failed.html)
Turbo Tax probably screwed her too. Wait, screwed...?
Quote from: dbacks fan on September 30, 2010, 02:18:26 PM
She is now being investigated by the IRS for not filing the proper tax froms on her non profit church...
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/09/30/20100930Odonnell-nonprofit-failed.html (http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/09/30/20100930Odonnell-nonprofit-failed.html)
I saw her on the news vigorously wiggling her nose.
Quote from: Townsend on September 30, 2010, 02:21:18 PM
I saw her on the news vigorously wiggling her nose.
I thought she didn't believe in mastur...
If she's elected, does not filing with the IRS qualify her for Treasurery Secretary?
And apparently she has been caught lying about what colleges she attended. Very weird.
She's sounding more and more like great candidate material for Congress or the Senate. Now all we need is a plagiarism scandal and she will be perfectly suited for the seat she's running for.
Quote from: nathanm on September 30, 2010, 02:53:20 PM
And apparently she has been caught lying about what colleges she attended. Very weird.
Well she stated that the Linkedin was fake and the other college claims were not quite right. So all is fine, a-hi-diddle-diddle.
Salon claims she was a drunken slut-puppy in college:
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/09/15/christine_odonnell_had_sex
And while people who recognize her from TV may think she's always been a Christian leader and activist, that wasn't so. Her family was Catholic, but her parents weren't strict.
It was in college at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey that O'Donnell did things she regrets -- drinking too much and having sex with guys with whom there wasn't a strong emotional connection. But it was also during college that she found her faith again and chose to live a life of chastity.
Yowza...
Quote from: Conan71 on September 30, 2010, 03:08:47 PM
But it was also during college that she found her faith again and chose to live a life of chastity.
She must be a hoot at the socials.
This is all nearly as weird as O'Keefe's latest stunt.
What did O'Keefe get himself into now?
Quote from: Conan71 on September 30, 2010, 03:55:42 PM
What did O'Keefe get himself into now?
He apparently tried to seduce a CNN reporter. Here's her account:
http://siu.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/29/our-documentary-takes-a-strange-detour/
A set-up apparently.
QuoteRecently, I was the target of a failed punk. James O'Keefe, the so-called "pimp" in the ACORN expose videos, was participating in a detailed plan to "faux" seduce me on his boat. For months, I had been working on a documentary about the young conservative movement. James had called me about concerns he had regarding an upcoming shoot. He asked me to meet him to talk about the shoot. I agreed to fly to Maryland and then drive to his "office" for a face-to-face conversation with him.
When I showed up, there was no office, as promised. Instead, he wanted to get me on a boat, which we later learned, was staged as a "pleasure palace." One of his colleagues, Izzy Santa, who was in Maryland that day, told me about the plan and stopped the punk before it happened.
Izzy told me he had "strawberries and champagne" waiting for me on the boat, and that he planned to "hit on me" the entire time. She said it would all be captured on hidden cameras that had been set up on the boat and in the back yard. She said the sole purpose of the "punk" was to embarrass me, and to make CNN look bad.
I would soon learn the details of the plan, in a 13-page document titled, "CNN Caper."
Sean O'Keefe to Abbue Beaudreau on Facebook: "Yeah, I'd hit that!"
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"I'm not a witch"
I can't tell you how many times I start my conversations like that.
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/8340942%E2%8C%A9=en-us/22283834 (http://video.yahoo.com/watch/8340942%E2%8C%A9=en-us/22283834)
Quote from: Townsend on October 06, 2010, 09:31:35 AM
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"I'm not a witch"
I can't tell you how many times I start my conversations like that.
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/8340942%E2%8C%A9=en-us/22283834 (http://video.yahoo.com/watch/8340942%E2%8C%A9=en-us/22283834)
She needs her stitches tightened. Or something. LOL.
"I'll go to Washington and do what you'd do."
Except masturbate, of course.
Why does she have to be hating on witches? What's wrong with witches?
Quote from: custosnox on October 06, 2010, 01:05:45 PM
Why does she have to be hating on witches? What's wrong with witches?
Shhh, you can't say that, it's "weotches".
Quote from: Conan71 on October 06, 2010, 10:18:19 AM
"I'll go to Washington and do what you'd do."
Except masturbate, of course.
She needs to explain that pearl necklace then...
Quote from: swake on October 06, 2010, 01:27:51 PM
She needs to explain that pearl necklace then...
Oh snap.
I've been trying to come up with a clever retort. There simply isn't one. Swake wins the thread.
Quote from: Conan71 on October 06, 2010, 01:42:23 PM
I've been trying to come up with a clever retort. There simply isn't one. Swake wins the thread.
I'm still chuckling over that. Swake (for today anyway) = WIN.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/10/07/odonnell.criticism/index.html?on.cnn=1 (http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/10/07/odonnell.criticism/index.html?on.cnn=1)
QuoteNewark, Delaware (CNN) -- Delaware Republican Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell is asking voters to give her a second look. At a candidate forum sponsored by a group of local Republicans, O'Donnell blamed her campaign's recent troubles on unfair coverage in the "liberal media."
Damned liberal media and their crazy liberal schemes.
Quote from: Townsend on October 07, 2010, 11:04:03 AM
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/10/07/odonnell.criticism/index.html?on.cnn=1 (http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/10/07/odonnell.criticism/index.html?on.cnn=1)
Damned liberal media and their crazy liberal schemes.
I'm just waiting to see what Bill unearths from the 'Politically Incorrect' archives this Friday.
"O'Donnell complains of 'character assassination'"
Someone call whine-one-one and get a whaaaambulance!
Welcome to big time politics, Twinkie.
Quote from: Conan71 on October 07, 2010, 11:23:15 AM
"O'Donnell complains of 'character assassination'"
Someone call whine-one-one and get a whaaaambulance!
Welcome to big time politics, Twinkie.
I just can't understand that if she knew how many times she was a guest on 'PI' and knew Bill was still active in the political discourse, how she can complain about it when he unearths these tidbits he has. I was nearly in stitches with the first one about witchcraft.
Anyone who thinks that scientists have mutated a fully functioning human brain in a mouse deserves the ridicule. She may have been referring to a lab test done in 2008 that injected human brain cells into the brains of mice, but that's a whole different animal and she should have done some READING before spouting off.
She brings it on herself.
I think people should go to her rallies and throw water on her to prove she isn't a witch.
Quote from: RecycleMichael on October 07, 2010, 11:46:53 AM
I think people should go to her rallies and throw water on her to prove she isn't a witch.
I bet she'll turn them into toads.
Here's the lesson from all this:
If you ever plan to run for office, don't go on national television and act and talk like a total moron.
Quote from: RecycleMichael on October 07, 2010, 11:46:53 AM
I think people should go to her rallies and throw water on her to prove she isn't a witch.
I just had to.....
Quote from: Conan71 on October 07, 2010, 12:27:33 PM
Here's the lesson from all this:
If you ever plan to run for office, don't go on national television and act and talk like a total moron.
To you really have to plan on running for office for this to be true?
Quote from: swake on October 07, 2010, 01:00:15 PM
To you really have to plan on running for office for this to be true?
Apparently not. Why do you think there are so many channels these days?
Quote from: Conan71 on October 07, 2010, 12:27:33 PM
Here's the lesson from all this:
If you ever plan to run for office, don't go on national television and act and talk like a total moron.
And make sure that there are no skeletons in your closet period. File your taxes, don't bounce a check, no parking tickets, and the only drug you have ever taken is asparin.
Quote from: dbacks fan on October 07, 2010, 01:23:48 PM
And make sure that there are no skeletons in your closet period. File your taxes, don't bounce a check, no parking tickets, and the only drug you have ever taken is asparin.
If you are running as a Republican.
It's okay to snort a little blow and smoke dope if you are a Democrat. In fact, you can even become President if you admit to it. Then you can appoint all your tax cheat buddies to posts in the administration.
Quote from: Conan71 on October 07, 2010, 02:12:36 PM
If you are running as a Republican.
It's okay to snort a little blow and smoke dope if you are a Democrat. In fact, you can even become President if you admit to it. Then you can appoint all your tax cheat buddies to posts in the administration.
Keep playing the victim card, Conan...... thummebody call a waaaaaaaahhhhmmbulance.....
George W. Bush... http://www.realchange.org/bushjr.htm#fortunateson
Quote from: Conan71 on October 07, 2010, 02:12:36 PM
If you are running as a Republican.
It's okay to snort a little blow and smoke dope if you are a Democrat. In fact, you can even become President if you admit to it. Then you can appoint all your tax cheat buddies to posts in the administration.
Oh come on, Little George did his share of blow and was an admitted alky.
Quote from: JeffM on October 07, 2010, 02:16:49 PM
Keep playing the victim card, Conan...... thummebody call a waaaaaaaahhhhmmbulance.....
George W. Bush... http://www.realchange.org/bushjr.htm#fortunateson
I didn't vote for the little beedy eyed b@$!|ard, and I'm a registered Repub.
Quote from: JeffM on October 07, 2010, 02:16:49 PM
Keep playing the victim card, Conan...... thummebody call a waaaaaaaahhhhmmbulance.....
George W. Bush... http://www.realchange.org/bushjr.htm#fortunateson
Victim card? Nah, just stating the facts or did I stutter?
Quote from: Conan71 on October 07, 2010, 02:34:27 PM
Victim card? Nah, just stating the facts or did I stutter?
No worse that the public defender in "My Cousin Vinny". ;)
How about Representative Vitter, from LA? He had some very successful dalliances with prostitutes and there he sits, still in his seat in Washington. Or there's John Ensign, who slept with the wife of one of his top aides, and then had his parents try to pay her off. He's also still in office.
I worry about you, Conan. You make me wonder who you're hanging around with these days.
Well damn, I see my post about Pres. Bush didn't post. You should know by now I'm an equal opportunity offendee:
He never admitted the coke use, but highly likely considering who he ran with in those days and the period.
Frankly I'm surprised he wasn't banging a 16 year old boy or campaign aide. It's sort of requisite for Rethugs in elected office.
/edit- but nice to see the usual Obama apologists sticking together. ;)
Quote from: we vs us on October 07, 2010, 02:39:33 PM
How about Representative Vitter, from LA? He had some very successful dalliances with prostitutes and there he sits, still in his seat in Washington. Or there's John Ensign, who slept with the wife of one of his top aides, and then had his parents try to pay her off. He's also still in office.
I worry about you, Conan. You make me wonder who you're hanging around with these days.
And those two caught hell for it. I think Conan's point is the double standard. Kinda like this:
(http://iowntheworld.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/doublestandard1.jpg)
Quote from: dbacks fan on October 07, 2010, 12:29:27 PM
I just had to.....
O'Donnell weighs much more than a duck and is therefore not made of wood....
(http://www.lunatic-fridge.com/img/sameasaduck_big.jpg)
Quote from: JeffM on October 08, 2010, 10:15:50 AM
O'Donnell weighs much more than a duck and is therefore not made of wood....
(http://www.lunatic-fridge.com/img/sameasaduck_big.jpg)
And she doen't think chopping wood is appropriate.
Wouldn't mind having some of what Conan is smoking from time to time...must be really good s***!!!
He is talking about Baby Bush right down the line, then calling him a Democrat! Everybody knows Baby Bush wasn't a Democrat.
Except Conan.
Quote from: heironymouspasparagus on October 08, 2010, 10:55:08 AM
Wouldn't mind having some of what Conan is smoking from time to time...must be really good s***!!!
He is talking about Baby Bush right down the line, then calling him a Democrat! Everybody knows Baby Bush wasn't a Democrat.
Except Conan.
He spent like one on a good cocaine binge.
Quote from: Conan71 on October 08, 2010, 11:59:57 AM
He spent like one on a good cocaine binge.
Agreed. Not sure why most of the MS Republicans didn't call Bush Jr. a RINO.
Quote from: Hoss on October 08, 2010, 12:31:01 PM
Agreed. Not sure why most of the MS Republicans didn't call Bush Jr. a RINO.
I think many hoped he would be his daddy, and many hoped his daddy would be Reagan. You're right though, he was no better than a Democrat.
I heard a funny analogy a couple of days ago.
If you have a friend who is irresponsible with money, and that friend tells you he's gotten himself into some serious debt. Do you advise him to cut his spending, or do you tell him to spend even more, and ask his boss for a raise?
Quote from: Gaspar on October 08, 2010, 01:42:05 PM
I heard a funny analogy a couple of days ago.
If you have a friend who is irresponsible with money, and that friend tells you he's gotten himself into some serious debt. Do you advise him to cut his spending, or do you tell him to spend even more, and ask his boss for a raise?
Nails it.
Quote from: Gaspar on October 08, 2010, 01:42:05 PM
If you have a friend who is irresponsible with money, and that friend tells you he's gotten himself into some serious debt. Do you advise him to cut his spending, or do you tell him to spend even more, and ask his boss for a raise?
Macro is not micro, and fortunes (and empires) have been lost by losing sight of that fact.
Quote from: nathanm on October 08, 2010, 02:30:17 PM
Macro is not micro, and fortunes (and empires) have been lost by losing sight of that fact.
(http://oem.readyphiladelphia.org/Customized/uploads/Photos/AAmanBlindCane2.jpg)
The republicans really want to win this Senate seat and felt very confident against a shaky democrat in Chris Coons. But unfortunately, the republican primary winner Christine O'Donnell hasn't seemed to magically appeal to the rest of the state's voters.
Polling out last Wednesday showed O'Donnell behind 53% to 35% with 12% undecided.
Quote from: Gaspar on October 08, 2010, 01:42:05 PM
If you have a friend who is irresponsible with money, and that friend tells you he's gotten himself into some serious debt. Do you advise him to cut his spending, or do you tell him to spend even more, and ask his boss for a raise?
I hate to say it but in today's world, spend more. Don't worry about the raise. If you are only in a little trouble, everyone will expect you to make good on your debt. If you are in big time debt, there are programs to help and creditors will take something rather than risk getting nothing. Spend now. After you settle you will be expected to pay again.
Quote from: Red Arrow on October 08, 2010, 06:44:37 PM
I hate to say it but in today's world, spend more. Don't worry about the raise. If you are only in a little trouble, everyone will expect you to make good on your debt. If you are in big time debt, there are programs to help and creditors will take something rather than risk getting nothing. Spend now. After you settle you will be expected to pay again.
Vegas Economics. . .Let it roll!
Quote from: Conan71 on October 08, 2010, 02:44:21 PM
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Conan, I didn't realize you were that good looking.
Amazing how many are still so delusional about who the big spending/big debt people are! It is much more denial than that river in Egypt! (Clue for the clueless; it ain't the Democrats!)
Especially when reality is such an easy click away!
http://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/histdebt/histdebt.htm
Quote from: nathanm on October 09, 2010, 10:20:49 AM
Conan, I didn't realize you were that good looking.
That's not me, but we do look a lot alike, from the waist down, I assume.
Take a look at these figures:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704431404575067350881049536.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLETopOpinion
When the Democrats took control of Congress in 2007, the debt held by the public was 36.2% of GDP. It rose to 40.2% the next year. This year it will be about 63.6%, next year 68.6%, then 77% of GDP in 2020. And the Obama administration's budget estimates 218% in 2050.
The deficit in 2007 was $160 billion. In the next year the Pelosi-Reid Congress took it up to $458 billion, and when President Obama came into office in 2009 it hit $1.4 trillion. The current 2010 projected deficit is $1.6 trillion, which will lead to a tripling of our national debt from 2008 to 2020.
If Obama had simply kept Bush's spending policies in place, federal deficits over the next eight years would be 60 percent lower. In 2018, we'd have a deficit of just $188 billion, instead of the projected $996 billion under Obama's budget.
Quote from: Gaspar on October 11, 2010, 02:44:34 PM
Take a look at these figures:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704431404575067350881049536.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLETopOpinion
When the Democrats took control of Congress in 2007, the debt held by the public was 36.2% of GDP. It rose to 40.2% the next year. This year it will be about 63.6%, next year 68.6%, then 77% of GDP in 2020. And the Obama administration's budget estimates 218% in 2050.
The deficit in 2007 was $160 billion. In the next year the Pelosi-Reid Congress took it up to $458 billion, and when President Obama came into office in 2009 it hit $1.4 trillion. The current 2010 projected deficit is $1.6 trillion, which will lead to a tripling of our national debt from 2008 to 2020.
If Obama had simply kept Bush's spending policies in place, federal deficits over the next eight years would be 60 percent lower. In 2018, we'd have a deficit of just $188 billion, instead of the projected $996 billion under Obama's budget.
Heir neglects to note that during greater growth in debt, Democrats were in control of the HOR. From 1994 to 2002, a GOP-led house kept the debt relatively in check along with having the good fortune of a relatively stable period of foreign relations and no major natural disasters. Even during the Bush II years, until 2007 when Democrats again took control of the HOR, debt rose at a measured pace. Since then the debt has grown by $4.5 trillion, a 50% increase in just four years.
Why not vote them back in?
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http://rodgermmitchell.wordpress.com/2010/06/26/what-the-wall-street-journal-editors-want/
Finally, the WSJ editors said, "The Reagan and Clinton-Gingrich booms were fostered by a policy environment for most of that era of lower taxes, spending restraint and sound money." Spending restraint?? Have the editors forgotten how Reagan began the largest debt growth in post WWII history, and how Clinton's surplus introduced the 2001 recession?
I should commend the WSJ editors for one statement: " . . . much of the U.S. stimulus went for transfer payments such as Medicaid and unemployment insurance . . . " True, and a perfect reason why taxes ostensibly "for" Medicaid and unemployment insurance should be eliminated. Federal taxes do not pay for federal spending.
The balance of the editorial contained the usual fulmination about the size of the federal debt and deficits, with also, as usual, no facts showing how debt and deficits harm the economy. They end their editorial this way: "With the economy in recession in 2008 and 2009, we argued that some stimulus was justified and an increase in the deficit was understandable and inevitable."
So, to summarize the WSJ position: Deficits were justified when times were bad; they are not justified when times are good. Today, times are bad and deficits are not justified.
Do you wonder why our politicians are confused?
Back to the topic about the witch...
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/hl-50091017/saturday_night_live_christine_odonnell_ad_season_36/
Quote from: RecycleMichael on October 11, 2010, 04:37:56 PM
Back to the topic about the witch...
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/hl-50091017/saturday_night_live_christine_odonnell_ad_season_36/
What witch? Did someone switch witches on us? If so, which witch? Could it be a sandwich or a ditch witch? Which witch swiped my sandwich and fed it to the ditch witch? Wishy washy witches washed my sandwich dishes.
I gotta cut back on the espresso.
Quote from: Ed W on October 11, 2010, 04:53:32 PM
I gotta cut back on the espresso.
I witch you would.
Quote from: Ed W on October 11, 2010, 04:53:32 PM
What witch? Did someone switch witches on us? If so, which witch? Could it be a sandwich or a ditch witch? Which witch swiped my sandwich and fed it to the ditch witch? Wishy washy witches washed my sandwich dishes.
I gotta cut back on the espresso.
Can some one pass the Excedrin please?
I gots to get me this Christine O'Donnell Witch Doll...
http://www.mediaite.com/online/this-exists-christine-odonnell-witch-doll/
Quote from: RecycleMichael on October 11, 2010, 08:17:37 PM
I gots to get me this Christine O'Donnell Witch Doll...
http://www.mediaite.com/online/this-exists-christine-odonnell-witch-doll/
Is there an inflatable version?
Quote from: Conan71 on October 11, 2010, 09:07:10 PM
Is there an inflatable version?
Now Conan, you know she wouldn't sell her likeness for things of that nature...she knows what one might do with it.
And I'll admit it; she's an attractive woman. A bit of a cross with Tina Fey and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
Quote from: Conan71 on October 11, 2010, 03:20:08 PM
Heir neglects to note that during greater growth in debt, Democrats were in control of the HOR. From 1994 to 2002, a GOP-led house kept the debt relatively in check along with having the good fortune of a relatively stable period of foreign relations and no major natural disasters. Even during the Bush II years, until 2007 when Democrats again took control of the HOR, debt rose at a measured pace. Since then the debt has grown by $4.5 trillion, a 50% increase in just four years.
Whocouldanode that tax receipts fall during a recession? ::)
Quote from: JeffM on October 11, 2010, 04:27:54 PM
http://rodgermmitchell.wordpress.com/2010/06/26/what-the-wall-street-journal-editors-want/
Finally, the WSJ editors said, "The Reagan and Clinton-Gingrich booms were fostered by a policy environment for most of that era of lower taxes, spending restraint and sound money." Spending restraint?? Have the editors forgotten how Reagan began the largest debt growth in post WWII history, and how Clinton's surplus introduced the 2001 recession?
I should commend the WSJ editors for one statement: " . . . much of the U.S. stimulus went for transfer payments such as Medicaid and unemployment insurance . . . " True, and a perfect reason why taxes ostensibly "for" Medicaid and unemployment insurance should be eliminated. Federal taxes do not pay for federal spending.
The balance of the editorial contained the usual fulmination about the size of the federal debt and deficits, with also, as usual, no facts showing how debt and deficits harm the economy. They end their editorial this way: "With the economy in recession in 2008 and 2009, we argued that some stimulus was justified and an increase in the deficit was understandable and inevitable."
So, to summarize the WSJ position: Deficits were justified when times were bad; they are not justified when times are good. Today, times are bad and deficits are not justified.
Do you wonder why our politicians are confused?
Rodger Mitchell has some interesting views on economics, like how Federal taxes could and should be eliminated because the government doesn't need tax money to create money, they can simply print it or transfer it to your savings account with no repercussions and that debts don't matter.
"Wrong, wrong and wrong. Federal spending relies neither on taxes nor on borrowing. For today's monetarily sovereign nations, federal spending neither is constrained nor facilitated by any form of income, either from taxes or borrowing. Federal spending is accommodated by the simple device of crediting bank accounts, which the government can do endlessly. If taxes and borrowing were reduced to $0, this would not affect by even one penny, the federal government's ability to spend."
(cited from Jeffm's article)
Quote from: nathanm on October 12, 2010, 08:53:01 AM
Whocouldanode that tax receipts fall during a recession? ::)
Which means it's a bad time to
pay back the unions, *cough* er um, well... help the "American worker"
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4103/5072411199_d4f95f45ae.jpg)
Her ads are funny. . .
http://www.coonsthetaxman.com/
Quote from: Conan71 on October 12, 2010, 09:15:43 AM
Which means it's a bad time to pay back the unions, *cough* er um, well... help the "American worker"
It means it's a great time to employ people and build things while labor and materials are less expensive.
Kicking and screaming to the bitter end...
http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2010/10/christine-odonnell-claims-divine-mandate-for-candidacy.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter (http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2010/10/christine-odonnell-claims-divine-mandate-for-candidacy.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter)
On the 700 club too.
I don't have a problem with the fact she's a Christian. But... someone on her campaign staff needs to tell her to keep stuff like this to herself:
"If I didn't believe that there were a cause greater than myself worth fighting for, if I didn't believe that it takes a complete dying of self to make things right in this election cycle I would not be running," she told CBN's David Brody. "When you die to yourself you rely on a power greater than yourself, so prayer is what's gotten us all through."
Is there a quadruple or quintuple facepalm?
I see someone has been to AA...
Conan: not that I know of, but this may suffice:
(http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/jezebel/2010/10/spockorly.gif)
The Spock eyebrow arch, very appropriate.
One can only wonder which 12-step she's a veteran of, MA?
8)
Quote from: nathanm on October 25, 2010, 09:02:16 PM
I see someone has been to AA...
What's American Airlines have to do with this? :D