Politics - 4 October 2007

2007-10-04 07:38:01 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous

Im in no way condoning what Craig did but just last weekend there was the Folsom Street Festival where people were actually committing the acts in public and I didnt hear of an arrest. How can a guy in a stall be arrested for tapping his foot and two guys can dress in bondage and whip each other in the street in front of kids and people think its a good thing.

2007-10-04 07:35:53 · 6 answers · asked by CaptainObvious 7

In Iraq.
On immigration reform.
On social security.
Afghanistan already lost...

Just to mention a few......

2007-10-04 07:32:42 · 19 answers · asked by Dream Realized 2

I took a statistics class in college and didn't understand it, but I read on Yahoo today that the latest polls show that Bush's rating on his job performance is 32% while Congress' is 22%. At the very end of the article it said this poll was conducted by contacting 1005 people by phone.

How in the heck can pollsters gauge the mood of the country by only contacting 1005 people>

2007-10-04 07:29:36 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

Hillary has chosen Ron Dellum, Mayor of Oakland, CA (remember, that is the place that would not allow returning troops to enter the airport terminal) as her head of Urban Policy Committee.
You might well ask why that matters or WHO is Ron Dellums. Please read:
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/1777/dellums.htm
In announcing her acceptance of Mayor Dellums support and his selection as her campaign's head of Urban Policy, she refered to him as, "My good friend."
When a candidate allies themselves with such an overt anti-American as this, what else are people supposed to think?
Clearly, Hillary IS the Manchurian Candidate.

2007-10-04 07:27:02 · 27 answers · asked by plezurgui 6

humorous -gay bashing Senator arrested for Bathroom footsie playing with an undercover cop - don't you think?

2007-10-04 07:24:03 · 7 answers · asked by Your Teeth or Mine? 5

It would seem to me that as long as the Iraqi citizens are exercising their right to develop thier country as they see fit, then this would be a good thing....right??

Looks like Maliki wants to be the next Saddam Hussein to me and dominate all of Iraqi under Shiite law, not Democracy.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071004/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrestsecurity_071004173342;_ylt=Ah5YxLSpfsY_OaxB0kVnWtUUewgF

2007-10-04 07:20:37 · 6 answers · asked by Becca 4

"Eligibility: Most states cap eligibility to families whose income is less than twice the government poverty level, or $41,228 for a family of four in 2006. The bill would have limited the full federal match to families with incomes less than three times the poverty level, or $61,842 for a family of four."

Why isn't a twenty percent increase enough?

"What's next: Bush has recommended a 20 percent increase in the program's size, to an average $6 billion over the next five years, and administration officials have indicated a willingness to negotiate."

http://www.star-telegram.com/national_news/story/256572.html

On C-span this morning, Republicans were saying they wanted to get the override bill vote done so they could present new legislation to get children funded. But the Democrats are stalling. Is that because they want it to appear that the SCHIP program will not be funded at all?

2007-10-04 07:18:23 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-04 07:17:20 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Everyone says vote em out of office, if both pparties are eseentially acting with their individaul best interest should we vote BOTH parties out and replace them with say moderates who are Americans VS Politicans?

Like the Repuicrats.

2007-10-04 07:13:52 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

Kentucky sues makers of OxyContin

2007-10-04 06:55:21 · 10 answers · asked by courage 6

"When the people fear the government, there is Tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is Liberty."


Who said this? ... And (today) who is more afraid of whom?

2007-10-04 06:50:18 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Harry Reid (on "the surge"):
Now I believe, myself, that the secretary of state, the secretary of defense and you have to make your own decision as to what the president knows: that this war is lost, that the surge is not accomplishing anything.

Dick Durbin (on Guantanamo):
If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime -- Pol Pot or others -- that had no concern for human beings. Sadly, that is not the case. This was the action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners.

Hillary Clinton (to General Petraeus):
[T]oday you are testifying about the current status of our policy in Iraq and the prospects of that policy. It is a policy that you have been ordered to implement by the president. And you have been made the de facto spokesmen for what many of us believe to be a failed policy.
Despite what I view as your rather extraordinary efforts in your testimony both yesterday and today, I think that the reports that you provide to us really require the willing suspension of disbelief.
John Kerry:
Education -- if you make the most of it and you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well," said Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat. "If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."

Charles Schumer (on "the surge"):
[L]et me be clear, the violence in Anbar has gone down despite the surge, not because of the surge. The inability of American soldiers to protect these tribes from al Qaeda said to these tribes we have to fight al Qaeda ourselves. It wasn’t that the surge brought peace here. It was that the warlords took peace here, created a temporary peace here.

Charles Rangel:
If there’s anyone who believes that these youngsters want to fight, as the Pentagon and some generals have said, you can just forget about it. No young, bright individual wants to fight just because of a bonus and just because of educational benefits. And most all of them come from communities of very, very high unemployment. If a young fellow has an option of having a decent career or joining the Army to fight in Iraq, you can bet your life that he would not be in Iraq.

John Murtha (on Haditha):
It's much worse than reported in Time magazine. There was no fire fight. There was no IED that killed these innocent people. Our troops overreacted because of the pressure on them and they killed innocent civilians in cold blood. And that's what the report is going to tell.

Now, you can imagine the impact this is going to have on those troops for the rest of their lives and for the United States in our war and our effort in trying to win the hearts and minds.

Edward Kennedy: Shamefully, we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management: U.S. management.
John Kerry:
And there is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the -- of -- the historical customs, religious customs.

Barack Obama:
We've got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we're not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous pressure over there.
Harry Reid:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid confirmed Thursday that he told liberal bloggers last week that he thinks outgoing Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Peter Pace is "incompetent."

2007-10-04 06:39:22 · 8 answers · asked by CaptainObvious 7

Are Americans just TIRED of hearing how horrible our country is from the so-called elite?

No, this country is not perfect, but it seems that the liberal media takes pleasure in degrading this great nation.

When will libs understand that fair news does not equate to anti-American news?

2007-10-04 06:38:10 · 26 answers · asked by Frank Dileo 3

I know cons are in a frenzy complaining they raised the income limit too high for eligible children, but wouldn't any money being saved from a family obtaining this benefit just be injected right back into the economy with more spending? Example, family "A" currently spends $10k per year in health coverage, now they are covered by a federal program, now they have an extra $10k to spend on clothes, appliances, down payment on a car, whatever. That means more profits for those companies, they report more tax, which means more revenue to the government and we are back to square 1. It appears to me that in the end, this turns out to be an allocation of revenues from the greedy and corrupt insurance companies to a whole assortment of other businesses, and with the comfort that more children will be insured by health coverage. Doesn't sound so bad to me. Thoughts?

2007-10-04 06:30:26 · 11 answers · asked by Tom C 3

Yet they gladly stifle the flow of information on this website by rampant censoring on an astronomical epidemic level and suspension of accounts.

Are the people that run this place schizophrenic or just hypocrites?

2007-10-04 06:24:02 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-10-03-smoking-bans_N.htm?csp=34

2007-10-04 06:16:05 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

When women go to the Doctor, do they say " You have a series, or "cluster" of cells growing inside you?
Or do they tell you you're pregnant?
Then what are you pregnant with? A baby, or a cluster of cells?
Is what you are carrying inside you vary depending upon if you want to keep it or not?


Thank You, as always!!

2007-10-04 06:14:47 · 8 answers · asked by Supercell 5

This is a brillian political move for the Democrats. They knew that if they loaded the SCHIP bill with lots of pork, that the President would veto it. And this will give them more politcal ammunition. So who is it that does not care for the children? I would say that the Democrats in control of Congress have shown that it is they who do not care.
I noticed that the articles in todays paper are glaringly vacant of all pertinent facts. Like the part where this program is expanded to include children in households making as much as $80,000 dollars a year. Since when is that poverty level. They also left out the part about how illegal immigrants will also be able to get these benefits.
If the democrats are going to help children, then lets make it about children. I may not always agree with what the President says or does, however, he was right to veto this. And he did it for the right reasons. He has extended his hand to make a compromise on a bill that would benefit the neediest of children and exclude the pork. There is no answer from the democrats except to sling more mud. But, then again, their approval rating is lower than the Presidents and they have accomplished less. And they have the majority.
It is about the children and not political points, right??????

2007-10-04 06:07:22 · 21 answers · asked by Texas Democrat 3

Why does everyone nowadays seem to hate everyone else?

Why is it, that people are more loyal to their political parties then to their country, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights? What in the hell is wrong with some of you people?

The approval rating for Congress is horrible, the approval rating for Bush is horrible, yet some of you people just keep following along right on their coat tails. Why not return to what made us such a great nation in the first place?

FYI: If you answer this question with blames on your rival party and or slander / degredation of the question itself you will get reported, so don't waste your breath.

"Libertarian"

2007-10-04 06:06:52 · 41 answers · asked by trevor22in 4

What? Everyone jumps on that 32% thing but no one notices the ineptness of congress @21%?

2007-10-04 05:46:59 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-04 05:31:57 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

Fare thee well Good Sir Roger!

2007-10-04 05:21:31 · 17 answers · asked by Major Deek 2

In Reno, Nevada a shop keeper flew a Mexican flag above an American flag. A U.S. Army vet cut it down. Now everyone is getting worked up over a peice of cloth. Dont they know that it is what is inside you the matter and a flag is just a piece of cloth to indentfy what country your from?

2007-10-04 05:12:20 · 27 answers · asked by Mr. Dog 4

I was at a BBQ last weekend and some republican supports were saying fox news owner was a big time democrat. They argued he has nothing to do with the republican party.

2007-10-04 05:08:50 · 15 answers · asked by john a 6

2007-10-04 05:04:49 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Also, have you ever been to SF?

2007-10-04 05:02:06 · 21 answers · asked by Liberal City 6

Everyone is obessing over what Rush said but no one is mention what this man did...some are even supporting him.

Not only did he lie about his service time, he lied about seeing first hand atrocities happening in a country he never stepped foot in.
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=36627&archive=true
http://wizbangblog.com/content/2006/05/23/the-jessie-macbeth-video.php
http://michellemalkin.com/2006/05/23/the-fables-of-jessejessie-macbeth/
Even Daily Kos calls him a fraud
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/5/27/145957/376

2007-10-04 04:57:30 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

Considering the democrates consider anyone younger than that child ie the S CHIP bill they try to pass.

2007-10-04 04:52:24 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-04 04:51:49 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous