Comments on: The mouth that roared (and lied)

By: Harold Weeks

Harold Weeks — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Why should Obey be any different from the other cretins on Capitol Hill.

By: AustinRanter

AustinRanter — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Obey is one among many self-made Demi-gods. His behavior falls inline with the usual run-of-the-mill Demi-gods.

In other words, what he did..”What else is new?”

This is typical daily BS that is generated in Washington.

I don’t see Republican or Democrat..or even Independent labels anymore…they’re all in one giant soup made of self-will-run-riot, self-exempted from accountability self proclaimed Demi-gods.

By: Peter Ehrhorn

Peter Ehrhorn — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I feel sorry for someone who feels that democrats and republicans are the same. They are not. Republicans are nothing but hypocrites. It took a democrat to balance the budget something the republicans just talked about for decades. Republicans lie. Under Bush’s leadership I would like anyone to show me where GW has been totally truthful.

Democrats may be far from perfect but at least they don’t go around saying they must control your lives. Remember Terri? That would never have happened under democratic control. Just remember what the republicans have given you. Nothing but debt, death, and weakening of national security.

By: John Hanks

John Hanks — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The first lie was a lie by Adam and Eve against God. Lying is the cheapest of cons and the most deadly because adept liars often rise to the top. It is time to drag these people into court to defend themselves and to get their frauds on record.

By: Bonnie Aller

Bonnie Aller — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

First off I’m from Wisconsin and I thought I was a Progressive until I realized Bob LaFollette who helped agriculture apparently was a traitor. Wisconsin does not get the biggest benefit out of milk subsidies. We have small family farms and get didddly squat. Republican Californians get the benefit of the milk subsidaries, but the dairy farmers in almost every other State are losing money. The ethanol in the 1920s (all the first cars ran on ethanol) was from peanut oil. You could again use peanut oil for ethanol or at least for bio-diesel. What might seem like waste might actually have the good of the Country at heart.

I think Obey is a lot better than the loser I’m stuck with in the House, i.e., Sensenbrenner. Obey for years has been fighting for the Poor, the Farmers (which very often is the poor),veterans, and the underrepresented. Before you open your mouth look at a voting record that has been fighting for us day in day out for years.

I go to Stands for Peace and I protest for the Environment and against the War, but we have to be realistic. We need less Republicans and more Dems and Independents and Greens. Right now we don’t have enough votes.

By: Jim H.

Jim H. — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The AP story doesn’t mention one, just the headline. Unless you want to call all Democrats “liars,” where’s the untruth?

If you put a bill up there that cut off all funding immediately and/or ordered the immediate withdrawal that the antiwar people were demanding, you’d get maybe a dozen votes.

When the issues of withdrawal or redeployment were first brought up by Murtha and Feingold, the party ran from them like hell, until they realized that, whoa, the majority agreed. Each time it comes up for a vote, it gets fewer votes. In a year, it will get McCain’s vote and Lieberman’s. And five years from now, every Republican who’s still in office will be telling us that, “I was against it from the start!”

As for the “pork” charge, it was the last session of the Republican congress who were supposed to pass the Katrina money and most of the other measures that were in the bill. They skipped town, and now they charge the Democrats with pork because they keep faith with the victims of the hurricane. Revolting.

Ever notice that the accusation of “pork” starts with billions, but the stories are always in the millions? I’ll give you an example of “pork.” Last fall, the spinach producers of California lost their whole crop because of unexplained deaths from e. coli. Well, scientists have tracked that down to one farm, using DNA evidence. But the whole industry lost its shirt. $20 million just allows most to stay in business until next year. I see absolutely nothing wrong with that.