Politics - 3 October 2007

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2007-10-03 11:17:52 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-03 11:06:26 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

A puppy stops whining after it grows up.

Please share your best jokes! (please try to keep them in good taste)

2007-10-03 11:02:39 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-03 11:02:05 · 30 answers · asked by Chi Guy 5

and their poisonous imports?

2007-10-03 10:58:04 · 11 answers · asked by Chi Guy 5

Just curious.

2007-10-03 10:56:50 · 13 answers · asked by Liberal City 6

2007-10-03 10:56:37 · 2 answers · asked by The One 2

2007-10-03 10:52:35 · 11 answers · asked by Brain 2

after all its all about spreading Christianity.

2007-10-03 10:51:56 · 10 answers · asked by 2012 4

2007-10-03 10:49:21 · 13 answers · asked by 2012 4

His very first veto was for stem cell research that could've helped a 9 yr old girl with Leukemia because he cares more about a microscopic bundle of cells. His latest veto is for expanding healthcare to cover more uninsured children in this country because 'it's too expensive'. Yet he wastes billions of dollars looking for imaginary WMD's in far away countries and lets all his buddies in Congress pass as much pork and graft as possible. He spends our money like a maniac, yet the only time he's fiscally conservative is when it might actually help the average family.

2007-10-03 10:43:16 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

ELF?

Earth First?

2007-10-03 10:42:10 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm particularly interested in those of you who claim she has no chance. Is your strategy to just ignore reality and ignore the support she keeps steadily gaining? Or is there a candidate that has proven to be so strong for the Republicans that they seem poised to destroy her?

Right now the Republican Party is in a fever trying to settle on a candidate that even represents the party line and can pull in the evangelicals and the conservatives as a whole. What is your strategy besides just repeating over and over she isn't electable despite the evidence to the contrary? Perhaps you all think if you say it often enough it will magically come true.

2007-10-03 10:37:58 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-03 10:33:24 · 20 answers · asked by metoo 7

arent the liberials those commie who cried about freedom of speech when some dirt bag wants to burn the American flag or cover it in dung..whats going on here why are the Dems behind Rush...

2007-10-03 10:27:18 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

I dont..they all can rott ...USA rules.....................just ask the 22 million illegal aliens working here right now..go ahead go to Dunkin donuts or Taco Bell and ask them..hey you with funny accent why are you here...they will reply America is dee best Man!!!!!!! USA#1.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2007-10-03 10:25:02 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-03 10:15:18 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm just wondering why it has to be us vs. them; black vs. white; immigrant vs. non; believer vs. non-believer.

why can't we try to see where each other is coming from or is that too easy?

2007-10-03 10:06:18 · 8 answers · asked by treppab 4

2007-10-03 10:05:23 · 7 answers · asked by studyinghard 1

all of a sudden, they decided to be fiscally conservative when it comes to the health of children?

2007-10-03 10:04:46 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

all of a sudden, they decided to be fiscally conservative when it comes to the health of children?

2007-10-03 10:03:06 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

EXAMPLE 1:

In response to me using data from www.whitehouse.gov proving Keynesian Democrats are superior to tax cuts for the rich supply side Republicans:

"like we believe anything the gov't puts out..... "
- badjansenn = CON
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AnXhLCiLDrnF0uFxh2lkjexIzKIX?qid=20070404133307AAyInZM

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EXAMPLE 2:

In response to citing the U.S. Geological Survey proving man produces over 150 times more CO2 then all volcanic activity combined.

""There are lies, damned lies, and statistics." Harry S. Truman, 1948.
I don't believe anything you have written above."
- regerruged = CON

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=ApQoXs9fARlzix_fgrfrAarty6IX?qid=20070405154239AA3Dlta

2007-10-03 10:03:03 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rainypenguin/45469594/

2007-10-03 10:02:48 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

A COUPLE OF EXAMPLES:

I post evidence proving the vast majority of scientific organizations engaged in climatic, geologic, and meteorologic research support man made global warming.

They say oh, they're all blatantly lying and doing it for the money OR they say that these people are part of the socialist conspiracy to destroy capitalism.

I post evidence in the form of real GDP, inflation adjusted median income, tax revenue, poverty rates, etc, showing the economy growing at a faster rate under keynesians then supply siders.

Cons say, oh well I don't trust statistics. I don't believe anything from the Department of Treasury, Census, Bureau of Economic Analyses, or even Whitehouse.org because they're all controlled by liberals and cannot be trusted.

I have saved actual posts by cons saying this. I will bring them up if needed.

2007-10-03 09:57:25 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

I live in Kentucky. I make $80,000 a year and my two children have health insurance. But, I was thinking that it would be so cool if y'all would pool your money together and pay for little Suzie and Johnnie's health insurance. I mean - it's for the children . . . the little children!
(oooh! can y'all throw in a little extra so that I can have Starbucks 3 times a week)

2007-10-03 09:37:49 · 13 answers · asked by KRR 4

Really. Where can I give Congress a "Thumbs Down" for engaging in pissing matches when we have soldiers fighting over seas, enemies plotting against us, and a whole mess of other problems?

2007-10-03 09:34:51 · 14 answers · asked by ? 6

How many have read the transcript or listened to the audio clip of Rush's 9/26/2007 show in which his remarks on "phony soldiers" are being debated?

2007-10-03 09:34:28 · 14 answers · asked by labken1817 6

Bush says.."too much money for child health' ???? What a monster of a Prez we have. Billions spent on war, no end in sight, but he vetoes increased funding for children.

2007-10-03 09:28:17 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

Democrats say that we shouldn’t worry about the cost of their bill to expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. They say that we will spend less on S-CHIP all year than we spend on Iraq in one month. That’s true, in the short run. But the Iraq War will one day end. A new entitlement won’t. Instead, it will grow and grow.

Future fiscal crises are built into the design of S-CHIP. It is funded through cigarette taxes, and will be underfunded to the extent that those taxes succeed in discouraging smoking. But that’s the least of the program’s flaws. Under the Democrats’ bill, states will be able to expand benefits and stick the federal government with two-thirds of the tab. The Medicaid program shows us how these incentives will work. Benefits will expand. When times are good, governors and state legislators will be able to offer voters $3 in services for every $1 in state taxes. When times are bad, the politicians will suddenly discover that they have to cut services by $3 for every $1 in savings.

Rich blue states will spend the most, and thus get the most federal dollars. Half of all Medicaid spending goes to nine states. Republican congressmen who voted for the S-CHIP bill are voting to transfer money from red states to blue ones.

They’re also voting for high marginal tax rates on the poor. S-CHIP, in combination with other federal programs, creates a poverty trap: Many people will find that, if they get ahead, their benefits will fall and they’ll be left behind where they started.

Expanding S-CHIP will get coverage to some children who would not otherwise have had it. Although there is little evidence that this is a cost-effective way to improve children’s health, presumably some of these kids will be able to have better preventive care. Other kids, however, will lose their private insurance and end up with worse coverage.

Insurance is unaffordable in some of the states that most want to see S-CHIP expanded. But that’s the result of those states’ own regulations. New Jersey’s insurance prices are higher than Pennsylvania’s not because of act of God, but because of acts of the New Jersey legislature.

Congressional Republicans—and especially the Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee—should have tried to reduce the regulatory obstacles to buying affordable health insurance. They should have pushed to let consumers buy insurance from out of state, thus bypassing the types of regulations that New Jersey has enacted. Or they could have forced Democrats to end the tax penalty on individually purchased insurance if they wanted any S-CHIP expansion at all.

The leading Republican on the committee, Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, instead capitulated. He said that, while he supports free-market reforms, it is unrealistic to expect this Congress to approve them. It is a pathetic excuse: He should have told his Democratic colleagues that it is unrealistic to expect a Republican president to sign such a liberal bill.

President Bush should veto this bill proudly.

2007-10-03 09:19:27 · 12 answers · asked by mission_viejo_california 2

Do you believe that Rush is being unfairly attacked. Or facts should have nothing to do with it, because the hatered against Rush should prevail?

Bonus Question:
Who thinks that Harry Reid should be attacking a private person during Senate business hours?.

2007-10-03 09:16:05 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous