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To: i-node who wrote (459884)	2/28/2009 12:07:50 PM
From: Alighieri	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576705

We know the devastation wrought by Clinton having treated terrorists as common criminals instead of warriors -- the policy was directly responsible for 9/11. Really? I hadn't heard that theory...oh well, you live long enough you hear everything. Al

To: i-node who wrote (459884)	2/28/2009 2:23:42 PM
From: tejek	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576705

The stupidity that is Jindal. His gov't wants to build a high speed rail line between NO and Baton Rouge. So then, how far apart are NO and Baton Rouge? 1000 miles? 500 miles? 200 miles? Try 69 miles. They want to build a high speed rail line for 69 frigging miles. Oh....and they plan to access the stimulus monies for their stupid project. I thought jindal said the stimulus monies were dirty pork????!!!!! Wingers: part of the problem, not the solution. February 28, 2009 MAYBE IT'S NOT SO 'WASTEFUL' AFTER ALL.... On Tuesday night, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) decried the economic stimulus package, insisting that it's "larded with wasteful spending." To bolster his case, the governor pointed to, among other things, "$8 billion for high-speed rail projects." Some of Jindal's other examples ("something called volcano monitoring") have already been proven worthwhile, and in retrospect, the governor probably should have left out HSR, too. Louisiana's transportation department plans to request federal dollars for a New Orleans to Baton Rouge passenger rail service from the same pot of railroad money in the president's economic stimulus package that Gov. Bobby Jindal criticized as unnecessary pork on national television Tuesday night. The high-speed rail line, a topic of discussion for years, would require $110 million to upgrade existing freight lines and terminals to handle a passenger train operation, said Mark Lambert, spokesman for the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development. Asked about the apparent contradiction, the governor's Chief of Staff complained about the Vegas-to-Anaheim HSR project that wasn't in the stimulus package, and "did not address the Louisiana proposal." That Jindal speech is just the gift that keeps on giving. washingtonmonthly.com

To: i-node who wrote (459884)	2/28/2009 2:46:51 PM
From: tejek	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576705

Huckabee joins the Rush madness...............and as goes Huckabee, so goes the GOP. MADNESS ISN'T ENOUGH... On Thursday, Mike Huckabee offered the CPAC faithful the kind of rhetoric they want to hear. "The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics may be dead," said Huckabee, "but a Union of American Socialist Republics is being born." Democrats, according to Huckabee, were packing 40 years of pet projects like "health care rationing" into spending bills. "Lenin and Stalin would love this stuff." The estimable Mark Kleiman, noting the bizarre remarks, said Huckabee may be "self-destructing" as a credible national figure. Yes, yes, the CPAC crowd is the extreme of the extreme. But in the YouTube era you can't go around mouthing this stuff and be taken seriously as a candidate for President. I'd really love to believe that, but I don't. A prominent conservative Republican gives a public speech in front of a large audience. He compares the Obama administration to the USSR, lies about a few policy issues, throws around the word "socialist" a bunch of times, and then throws in a reference to Lenin and Stalin. This, by any sensible measure, is absurd. It's reasonable to think candidates for national office can't get away with such pathetic nonsense. Indeed, I suspect that if a prominent Democratic office holder, in 2005, delivered a speech referring to George W. Bush's agenda as "fascism," comparing his administration to totalitarian regimes, and casually throwing in a reference to Hitler, that Democrat would have a very difficult time being taken seriously by the political establishment moving forward. Presidential ambitions would be largely out of the question. But I find it very hard to believe Huckabee's future has been imperiled by simply saying crazy things. That's just not how modern conservative politics works. In Republican circles, there's no such thing as excessive rhetoric.