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How could someone who comes from a secretive upbring, has never done an honest day's work in his life, who takes 18 vacations per year, plays golf nearly every week end, and makes tens of millions of dollars doing absolutely nothing be..... STUPID?
"STUPID" are the ones that PUT HIM THERE, and will probably vote to KEEP him there for a second term. That my friends is "STUPID."
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I'm still torn between an emphatic "Yes" and "Nah, just a malevolent, empty-suited troll-puppet, with no discernable skills save those neccessary for an entry-level position in Chicago machine-politics as a money-grubbing race-monger."
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
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You gotta wonder about Bambi's political skill when he throws a hanging curve ball like that for every snarky right-winger -- like us, for example-- to take a swing at. I'd say Sgt. Mom just parked it in the upper deck.
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No, Barbara - probably not, but it makes the punch-line almost too long! ;-)
[Washington Examiner] Maryland's progressive state politicians couldn't quite swallow the bitter-green energy pill that Gov. Martin O'Malley ...the pretty boy governor of Maryland... tried to shove down their throats.
Despite high-powered lobbying, old-fashioned arm-twisting, and the governor's own testimony at a legislative hearing in Annapolis, both chambers of the General Assembly wisely shelved the Offshore Wind Energy Act of 2011, O'Malley's signature environmental initiative. Following the lead of the B.O. regime, which opened Maryland's coast to offshore wind farms last November, tried to impose a Caliphornialike mandate on Maryland utilities that would force them to underwrite the $1.5 billion cost of building the nation's first wind farm offshore from Ocean City by purchasing between 400 and 600 megawatts of wind power over the next 25 years.
The measure was supported by the usual environmental and labor union suspects who claimed that it would create 2,000 manufacturing and construction jobs, while generating clean, renewable energy. It was opposed by business and farming groups who correctly pointed out that since such costs are ultimately passed on to consumers, the bill amounted to a $1.5 billion energy tax on Marylanders. If wind power was economically viable, utilities would have been using it by now. Even O'Malley's desperate, last-minute attempt to cap the increase on residential electric bills to $2 per month for the first year didn't sway skeptical politicians. Senate Finance chairman Thomas Middleton conceded there were too many unanswered questions before pulling the bill he co-sponsored before a vote in his own committee. It met a similar fate in the House.
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It is over. They ran out of other people's money. No one cared about losing a few bucks when money was plentiful. Now they care.
Game over.
Posted by: Martini ||
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Watch the plurality start to like sulpher-laden "dirty oil." Gotta love that Colorado "oil-shale."
Make a deal: for every windmill that the utility company has to underwrite, one oil/NG drilling rig goes in off the eastern shore. Tax proceeds from drilling are used in part to offset the utility tax.
If I were governor I could get that deal done in a week.
Posted by: Steve White ||
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They manufactured a global warming scam so they could pay off their buddies in the "green energy" scam. What a load of trash - the lot of em.
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Again I am reminded of the Carter years. Tip O'Neal was the real power. The Democrats did the same thing with solar power. To me this is just another program so similar and I bet money and family connections also. They don't put these things in the city because then they would have to share the money generated. I bet it's like the gambling where the state gets 65% off the top. Then the yearly permits and license fees.
[Washington Examiner] The House on Friday passed a Republican budget blueprint proposing to fundamentally overhaul Medicare and combat out-of-control budget deficits with sharp spending cuts on social safety net programs like food stamps and Medicaid.
The nonbinding plan lays out a fiscal vision cutting $6.2 trillion over the coming decade from the budget submitted by President Barack B.O. Obama. It passed 235-193 with every Democrat voting "no."
The vote sets up the Republicans' next round of confrontation with Obama and Democrats over the country's long-term deficit levels -- a standoff likely to come to a head this summer and set the stage for 2012 elections. In an interview with The News Agency that Dare Not be Named earlier Friday, the president said the Republican's budget represents "a pessimistic vision."
"It's one that says that America can no longer do some of the big things that made us great, that made us the envy of the world," he said.
Acknowledging that spending cuts would have to be made, Obama said he's pushing for "a smart compromise that's serious."
Under the House Republican plan, deficits requiring the federal government to borrow more than 40 cents for every dollar it spends would be cut by the end of the decade to 8 cents of borrowing for every dollar spent.
The plan by Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., a rising figure in the party, exposes Republicans to political risk. It proposes transforming Medicare from a program in which the government directly pays medical bills into a voucher-like system that subsidizes purchases of private insurance plans. People 55 and over would remain in the current system, but younger workers would receive subsidies that would steadily lose value over time.
The budget measure is nonbinding but lays out a vision to fundamentally reshape government benefit programs for the poor and elderly whose spiraling costs threaten to crowd out other spending and produce a crippling debt burden that could put a big drag on the economy in the future.
"Which future do you want your children to have? One, where the debt gets so large it crushes the economy and gives them a diminished future?" Ryan asked. "Or this budget ... that literally not only gets us on the way to balancing the budget but pays off our debt?"
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Why are they passing a "non-binding resolution"? The House controls spending. Why aren't they passing budget after budget, performing cuts in each and every department of government? Until they do that, I won't believe the Repuglycons are serious about "cutting the budget". The Dummycheats have NEVER been serious about cutting ANYTHING but "defense".
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HT to Ace's sidebar links. this tool is a blithering idiot, and hats off to the Congressman from Colorado for exposing it. The EPA does not consider job losses in their ideological drive to shut down the energy policy of this country.
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