Comments on: Tea Party-backed GOP freshmen pack defense bill with pork

By: mjoppa

mjoppa — Fri, 27 May 2011 05:24:56 +0000

I don’t understand the joy that people like you get when other people are pissing on you. They are spending your money also, there is a difference between you and the people that elected what turned out to be a group of liers. The people that have lied to get into office will not be re-elected If they are it will be at far greater expense than the Cowards called the Republican party wish to spend. People like you should stop dennagrading the tea party and start cheering for them. The teaparty hates republicans as much as the hate liberals. If they make the cowards fight for every seat that opens the doors for the Libs to steal seats the cowards thought they had in the bag. So start cheering for your tea party brothers and sisters in the long run they will only help you….MJ

By: bogofree

bogofree — Wed, 25 May 2011 14:14:29 +0000

Welcome to Washington and business as usual.

By: Doug Thompson

Doug Thompson — Wed, 25 May 2011 14:02:10 +0000

Don’t know what you’re smoking but maybe you should refrain. Four references were cited at the end of the article and your comment was not taken down.

By: Almandine

Almandine — Tue, 24 May 2011 11:42:15 +0000

“We use news from established sources. We pay fees for much of that content. When we use excerpts from other web sites, we cite the source and link to the full story on that site.” … Doug Thompson, Jan 1, 2011

So when I asked for references – sources – so I could get the full story myself, m,y comment needed taking down?

Wassup with that?

By: Almandine

Almandine — Tue, 24 May 2011 02:23:16 +0000

What a joke…

By: Almandine

Almandine — Tue, 24 May 2011 00:05:29 +0000

Got references Doug?

By: Lillibet

Lillibet — Mon, 23 May 2011 23:57:13 +0000

I am shocked. Absolutely shocked. You’d think they’d have a hard time explaining this, after all those proclamations of being principled people of their word, campaigning against all that “other side of the aisle” pork, excessive spending, uncontrolled governmental growth and all. I mean, didn’t they promise not to pack on the pork? Weren’t they the campaigners assuring the public that they were different, that they were the real conservatives and that controlling spending was Job One?

Is there a special exception for GOP pork packers to allow these freshmen to then go around the country proclaiming that they are not the party of the spend-spend two-step?

How can they complain about spend, spend, spend when they are shoveling money into the trough for their porcine compadres, slurping up every available penny at taxpayer’s expense?

To quote Gilda Radner, “never mind.”

If that doesn’t work for you, how about, plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.

By: woody188

woody188 — Mon, 23 May 2011 18:06:23 +0000

You mean the tea party got used to elect more Neo-cons?

By: Keith

Keith — Mon, 23 May 2011 17:55:43 +0000

Why is anyone surprised at this?

By: Observer

Observer — Mon, 23 May 2011 15:43:27 +0000

I remember Sen. Everett Dirksen and his famous quote from a half century ago. He was voicing Republican opposition to expansion of government spending. However, he never won that battle. Government spending is popular, all across the political spectrum. (There are of course disagreements about who gets funded and who doesn’t). That part hasn’t changed.

What has changed is the alleged devotion to balanced budgets. Republicans used to proclaim their opposition to deficit spending, but since the Reagan era, Republicans in power have acted as if deficits don’t matter. They LOVE tax cuts, especially for rich people, big corporations, and their campaign contributors (but I repeat myself).