Politics - 7 July 2007

How, exactly, did the man distinguish himself during his time in the Senate? And how does two decades as lobbyist for hire qualify him to be POTUS?

2007-07-07 06:26:29 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

All things being equal and based on the fact that every action has an equal and opposite reaction, is this the only time that Republicans are doing anything good for the citizens of the United States?

All of their awake time activities are destructive to our country so I wondered if there was a scientific balance to their actions?

2007-07-07 06:16:06 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

There are already a dozen guys running - and the majority of Republicans still can't find a candidate they like.

http://pollingreport.com/wh08rep.htm

(BTW, 60% of democrats say they are satisfied with their choices for president.)

2007-07-07 06:09:52 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

If you like this question, please replay it, and please send to the headquarters of all political parties, my friend.

2007-07-07 06:00:42 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Then there is the obvious percentage like Indiana Senator Richard Lugar that was never a true Republican but a Rhodes Scholar Globalist like Bill Clinton.

2007-07-07 05:55:31 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Or are you going to spend your day here posting on how much you hate Al Gore or how man-made climate change is a hoax?
Enjoy the music and have a nice day all.

2007-07-07 05:53:18 · 12 answers · asked by R8derMike 6

He could do Friday Nite Standup, the man has some serious funny bone skills ya know what I mean?

2007-07-07 05:49:43 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

I used to enjoy trying to keep up with our advancements in education, economy, law. We used to be at the top of everything.

Now I notice there are a lot of illiterate people in the country that can't read or write, a lot of people seem to only speak in gibberish.

Education has become a joke. And it seems we've been going backwards so long we forgot what it was like to move forward.

I realize all of this started with Clinton trying to help the minorities but did he also destroy our country in the process?

I see no way out of his legacy so is the country doomed because of it?

2007-07-07 05:18:47 · 9 answers · asked by Sean 7

what are democrats doing to encourage welfare recipients to get jobs and stop using the government and other peoples' tax money? why do democrats think that people are entitled to other peoples' things? Im not a conservative because of christians who believe in "you reep what you sow", im a conservative because Im sick of government being everywhere and always wanting everyone's money. giving to disabled people is ok of course, thats not the issue. ever heard of private property or of ownership by any chance? is wealth "earned" or is wealth "distributed"?

2007-07-07 05:15:59 · 18 answers · asked by ♦ 1

2007-07-07 05:02:00 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-07 04:56:04 · 42 answers · asked by Page 4

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/05/AR2007070501912.html

2007-07-07 04:53:34 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

Give up the Jets, The Limos, the electricity, the expensive cars, and actually plant trees themselves instead of paying other people to do it.

2007-07-07 04:48:06 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-07 04:36:40 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-07 04:34:09 · 36 answers · asked by Page 4

Yah, I am going to trust these clowns with national security when they are afraid to go on the # 1 Cable News Network.

Liberals don't mind discussing who is more patriotic if patriotism is defined as redistributing income and handing out entitlements. Only if patriotism is defined as supporting America do they get testy and drone on about 'NEOCONS'.

2007-07-07 04:33:23 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

Do you have to make C02 to get people to use less C02? Isn't this whole live earth concert a good demonstration of what it means to be a limousine liberal?

2007-07-07 04:30:37 · 9 answers · asked by wallyshields 2

with all the electricity for lights and bands and cars going to the concerts and the tons of food and Booze being consumed are the carbon offsets in place? could we have not just all had it on the internet and saved billions of tons of CO2? Would Als' Death and subsequent lack of use of his private jet and 1/2 dozen cars and electricity used in his 3 homes make up for it?

2007-07-07 04:22:52 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

A few years back I used to date this tight little Seattle package. She looked smoking hot in her hemp skirt, cut off 'I love Castro' tank top and 7" Stiletto Heel Platform Stripper Shoes. But everytime she opened her mouth it was 'I want to have a Career' and 'You never listen to me"................or something like that. And my personal favorite 'I won't blow you because it's a POWER thing for men'! What? Plus she couldn't cook at all. How do you screw up a grilled cheeze sandwhich? Her apartment was also a mess! A Chick that CAN'T clean!!!

I couldn't take it anymore. Now I have my food prepared when I get home, the house it spotless and, allthough she is a conservative, she is very liberal in the physical attention she bestows upon me.

Am I living the DREAM or WHAT?

!

2007-07-07 04:19:15 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

Now I will not post any facts so lets see,lol

2007-07-07 04:14:25 · 5 answers · asked by Ivan 2

Then why is everyone so on board with Universal Healcare? What makes you think that the government will do a better job when they have a whole country's hospitals to take care of and maintain?

2007-07-07 03:55:58 · 17 answers · asked by smellyfoot ™ 7

"YOU ARE EITHER WITH US OR WITH THE TERRORISTS",

Sitting back and slandering..is doing nothing..they need to vote to make changes yet they talk of impeachment..lie about alliances..have a jolly good time when our troops are in harm's way.

2007-07-07 03:43:19 · 10 answers · asked by UMD Terps 3

U.S. (or really multi-national) corporations such as Drummond Coal and Chiquita Bananna have been supporting and financing militia groups that practice terror tactics in South America.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/colombia_coal_murders;_ylt=Aqa2Szir7JGcttBKGMv2Dk8DW7oF


What should the U.S. do against these corporate financers of terror?

2007-07-07 03:16:00 · 10 answers · asked by Steve 6

Dr. Rihab Rashid Taha al-Azawi (born 1957) is an Iraqi microbiologist who worked in Saddam Hussein's biological weapons program. A 1999 report commissioned by the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) named her as one of the world's most dangerous women. [1] (pdf; p. 20) She was nicknamed "Dr Germ" by UN weapons inspectors. [2]

Taha first rose to prominence in the Western media after being named in a 2003 British intelligence dossier, released to the public by Prime Minister Tony Blair, on Iraq's biological, chemical and nuclear capability. The dossier alleged that Taha had played a leading role in the manufacture of anthrax and other biological agents. [3] It was this dossier that triggered the chain of events that led to the death of British UN weapons inspector David Kelly, who was accused of telling a BBC reporter that some of the intelligence had been manipulated

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rihab_Rashid_Taha

2007-07-07 03:12:53 · 17 answers · asked by UMD Terps 3

2007-07-07 02:59:16 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am just wondering if anyone actually learned anything in the middle of it all. If you don't learn from your mistakes they get repeated and I have serious doubts about the future of the united states because of the unwilllingess to do anything other than bully and call names. so someone prove me wrong please.

2007-07-07 02:46:31 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

saying that their leaders were not smart enough to make a educated decision? How can the Libs get away with this since they all voted for it anyway?

2007-07-07 02:44:08 · 22 answers · asked by georgedarookie 1

Anyone who pays even the slightest attention to the health-care debate in this country probably knows that there are "44 million uninsured Americans." The figure was all but shouted from the rooftops during the recent Cover the Uninsured Week. It is standard boilerplate for John Kerry's stump speeches. Hillary Clinton, in her recent screed, was unwilling to round off the number: "Some 43.6 million Americans are uninsured, and the vast majority of them are in working families."
The existence of the 44-million figure is a tribute to Benjamin Disraeli's quip that "there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." If one accepts the Current Population Survey's numbers (the source for the 44-million statistic), there are in fact closer to 35 million uninsured Americans. Over 20 percent of the uninsured in this country are not citizens.
Yet there is good reason to be skeptical of the CPS's numbers. The CPS is intended to measure the number of people who have been uninsured for an entire year. One problem with the CPS statistic is that it includes both those who are insured for a short time and those who are chronically uninsured (defined as being uninsured for at least a year). Many people go without insurance for a few months often as the result of being between jobs. The CPS statistic of 44 million does not make that distinction.
Another drawback is that CPS asks respondents to recall their insurance status over the last twelve months, increasing the probability of sampling error due to respondents' memory lapses. Last year a paper from the Congressional Budget Office contrasted the CPS with two other surveys, the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) and the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). MEPS and SIPP track their respondents every few months, so the error due to memory lapse should be minimized. Interestingly, MEPS reported 31 million chronically uninsured, while SIPP reported only 21 million.
Yet even the numbers reported by the MEPS and SIPP surveys overstate the number of uninsured. Some respondents who receive Medicaid may say they are uninsured because of the stigma associated with the Medicaid program. Studies suggest that this may result in an undercounting of the insured by 12 to 15 percent. According to the CBO, "the number of non-elderly people who are enrolled in Medicaid at any time during the year could be undercounted in population surveys by about 4 to 5 million."
Another wrinkle occurs in the definition of the uninsured. There are many people who are eligible for Medicaid but are not enrolled in the program. Some argue that they should be counted as uninsured, while others argue that they should not. The latter group seems to have the stronger case, since such people can receive Medicaid coverage retroactively for health-care expenses. At present, there is no exact data on the number of people who are eligible for Medicaid but not enrolled. The most recent study, from 1994, estimated that about 2.9 million children who were uninsured were eligible for Medicaid.
Finally, it is important to note that, according to the SIPP survey, over 18 percent of the chronically uninsured say that they have gone without insurance because either they have not needed it or do not believe in it. When the various factors are accounted for, it is possible that the true number of the chronically uninsured is 12 to15 million.
Does the actual number matter? Either way, one might object, there are still millions who lack health insurance. Actually, it matters a great deal, because those who are most likely to tout the 44-million-uninsured statistic also tend to be the advocates of wholesale reform of the health-care system, usually of the government-run variety. A larger number gives their arguments more weight.
Second, understanding the actual magnitude of the problem gives us better direction in terms of policy. Of those chronically uninsured, the vast majority are poor, but over 60 percent are under the age of 35. Thus, the uninsured may be a largely healthy population that could afford to purchase health-care in a more consumer-driven system. Indeed, many of those currently purchasing insurance with health-savings accounts were previously uninsured.
Whatever the solution, we should not let inflated statistics lead us into adopting misguided health-care policies.

2007-07-07 02:39:59 · 10 answers · asked by GREAT_AMERICAN 1

1. Tax Relief for working Americans. His tax plan saved me 7K last year. I used that money to keep my kids in Private School where they learn the 3 r's.....not about heather having 2 mommies or how to put a condom on a bannana. Like they did GM & Ford, the unions have destroyed public education.

2. Honor & Dignity back in the oval office. It's important for me that my kids can look at our president and be proud. In Bush's oval office you have to wear a suit and a tie. Under Clinton, any chubby 19 year old intern could come in wearing a g-string, knee pads and carrying some k-y jelly. You have to admit LIBS. It's kind of nice having a President who does not spend all his time in front of special prosecutors, Grand Juries and Impeachment Hearings!

(Unlike Clinton, NO Prominent ELECTED official, or Major RESPECTED news outlet is EVEN calling for Impeachment hearings or Grand Jury investigations of BUSH)

2007-07-07 02:37:39 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

jobs but then refuses to deal with Communist Cuba?

2007-07-07 02:31:17 · 5 answers · asked by Second Son 2