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To: i-node who wrote (602928)	3/8/2011 6:25:20 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577147

I just read that Harry Reid today bemoaned spending cuts that would end a cowboy poetry festival in rural Nevada ..... and liberals think we can't cut federal spending. Oh, those mean Republicans - cutting spending on the backs of the poor cowboy poets! Here it is: ------------------ GOP set to Vaporize Tens of Thousands of Cowboy Poetry Fans March 8, 2011 - 11:34 am - by Ed Driscoll Share \| embedded by Embedded Video YouTube Direkt Let’s get the Most Important Question out of the way first: Do we know if Snoopy Snoopy Poop Dogg qualifies as an official Cowboy Poet himself? The quotable Harry Reid swings into action once again: “The mean-spirited bill, H.R. 1, eliminates National Public Broadcasting,” said Reid in a floor speech. “It eliminates the National Endowment of the Humanities, National Endowment of the Arts. These programs create jobs. The National Endowment of the Humanities is the reason we have in northern Nevada every January a cowboy poetry festival. Had that program not been around, the tens of thousands of people who come there every year would not exist.” As Guy Benson jokes, “Poof! The way Reid tells it, tens of thousands of John Wayne/Walt Whitman enthusiasts would simply fall off the face of the earth if Republicans’ mean-spirited demonstrably modest cuts are adopted.” And failing that, perhaps the GOP’s Satanic Styrofoam cups will finish them off: A group of Democrats complain Styrofoam cups in the House cafeteria could contain carcinogens. In a letter to Speaker John Boehner (Ohio) and other Republican leaders, the nine Democrats say the Styrofoam cups and other dining materials could hold chemical components that could cause cancer. The Democrats are upset with the switch to Styrofoam from recyclable materials put into place when Democrats ran the House. The letter asks Boehner to reconsider the switch away from recyclable to polystyrene-based foam containers, and warns that the health of visitors to the Capitol could be compromised. “The irresponsibility of the decision to use polystyrene foam without considering other options is all the more egregious because the cafeteria is not merely used by House members and our staffers,” the lawmakers write. “The health of constituents and visitors to the Hill who eat in the cafeteria will be impacted by this short-sighted decision.” Not to mention having both their feng shui and nitrogen footprint rating totally ruined. And their mellow harshed, to boot. But then, it’s hard out there for a cowboy poet. And needless to say, there’s no finer cowboy poet than the masterful Senate orator himself. pajamasmedia.com ------------------------- The GOP is so mean they want cowboy poets and their fans to die! SHAME! SHAME! SHAME! ------------------------- After we liquidate the cowboy poets, we'll gut Elmo and fricassee Big Bird.

To: i-node who wrote (602928)	3/8/2011 7:54:42 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577147

Inode, > Or is it your view, as it is with so many liberals, that there are no limits to the amount of money our government can and should tax* from the rich?* Fixed. Mark Zuckerberg became a multi-billionaire because the government failed to tax him enough. Man this lib s--t is easy! Tenchusatsu

To: i-node who wrote (602928)	3/9/2011 7:13:17 AM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577147

Or is it your view, as it is with so many liberals, that there are no limits to the amount of money our government can and should borrow from China? There are 30B easy money in oil tax credits to the most successful and profitable industry in the land...that money is being borrowed from china and the GOP just voted down a repeal of the credit...the defense budget has reached obscene levels but you have to go back to the 1930s to find lower marginal tax rates...the governor of fla has put forth a budget that cuts education by 1.7B but provides additional tax cuts of 1.4B...the same thing is going on in every gop led state in the land. There is a rational way to go about this and then there is the repugnican cruelty and corruption...the same one that put us in the mess we are in. Al