Bush’s Appointees Not As Diverse as Clinton’s
Well, that is according to a new report by House Democrats. The WaPo took the time to dissect this study
According to the report by the Democrats:
Women made up about 37 percent of the 2,786 political appointees in the Bush administration in 2005, compared with about 47 percent in the Clinton administration in 1997, according to the report and supplemental data released last week by the Democratic staff of the House Government Reform Committee. Similarly, about 13 percent of Bush administration appointees last year were racial minorities, compared with 24 percent in the fifth year of Clinton’s presidency, the report found.
And what the WaPo found:
What the report does not mention, however, is that Bush has established a record of diversity in his Cabinet. Bush’s Cabinet, which includes the vice president and the heads of 15 executive departments, currently has two Hispanics, two African Americans and two Asian Americans. Three departments — State, Education and Labor — are headed by women, and a fourth, Interior, has an acting secretary who is a woman.
Before Bush took office, no minority had occupied any of the four highest-profile Cabinet positions — attorney general and the secretaries of the Defense, State and Treasury departments. Now, Alberto R. Gonzales, a Hispanic, is attorney general. Condoleezza Rice is the first African American woman to be secretary of state; her predecessor, Colin L. Powell, was the first African American named to that post.
So am I to understand that the Democrats want less diversity in positions that matter and more diversity in positions that don’t matter as much?
Hat tip to Michelle Malkin
May 9, 2006 - 08:37 AM on May 9th, 2006
am I to understand that the Democrats want less diversity in positions that matter and more diversity in positions that don’t matter as much?
OF COURSE!!! They want their slaves on the plantation..not in the house.
May 9, 2006 - 08:50 AM on May 9th, 2006
I am starting to believe that Mike. How could any intelligent person release such drival in good consious?
May 9, 2006 - 09:20 AM on May 9th, 2006
2. “starting to believe”
come on..the proof is in the pudding, peejz. The democratic party is the part of out and out racists, there can be no denying.
Look at how they treat conservative blacks!!! “Uncle Tom’s” “Aunt Jemimah’s” the cartoons attacking condi rice??
sure, they want to keep all their slaves poor and ignorant, and believing in the “evil, racist, white male, republican” so they keep pulling the dumbocrat lever like sheep… but do they let them into the house????? NOPE!!! Will the let their children escape from the baby-sitting gulags??? NOPE!!! Do they respect their religious beliefs?? NOPE!!!
For dumbocrats, the only good black, is a drunken ignorant black…..their target demographic.
May 9, 2006 - 03:30 PM on May 9th, 2006
“The democratic party is the part of out and out racists, there can be no denying.”
Mike, how can you say that when 90% of blacks vote for the Democrats?
Or when 60% (and soon to be more!) of Hispanics vote for the Democrats??
Guy, you can pull whatever you want out of your a**, but it certainly won’t make any of it true!
Party of racists, LOL…then WHY DO THEY OVERWHELMINGLY VOTE FOR US?
May 9, 2006 - 03:36 PM on May 9th, 2006
And, btw, it is the “Democrite” party.
May 9, 2006 - 03:47 PM on May 9th, 2006
I dont’ get it, I know you explained it once, but I forgot….
whats the crite for, again?
May 9, 2006 - 09:36 PM on May 9th, 2006
As in Hypocrite.
May 10, 2006 - 06:11 AM on May 10th, 2006
4-Mike, how can you say that when 90% of blacks vote for the Democrats?
Or when 60% (and soon to be more!) of Hispanics vote for the Democrats??
Shall I go through the edit mode and confront you with all the posts that you have made in which you treat these people as a vote and nothing else?
You got them to vote for you and then you keep them down with social welfare programs. What exactly have you done to bring the poor blacks out of poverty?
May 10, 2006 - 07:13 AM on May 10th, 2006
8. Peejz..what makes you think the dumbocrats want them out of poverty?????
they LOVE poverty…they LOVE racism
without those…..they would cease to exist.. the dumbocrats are in the business of keeping ignorance, poverty, illiteracy, racism around for as long as humanly possible..to ensure those 90% numbers.
Like I told you many times, SF… you know who gets 90%+ of a vote? Saddam…Fidel….Kim Jong-Il…..
Blacks have put all their eggs in the dumbocrat basket..and what good has it gotten them? NOTHING. table scraps…worse, the dumbocrats REFUSE to let their children escape from those babysitting gulags you people call “public schools”
with “friends” like the dumbocrats, blacks hardly need enemies.
May 10, 2006 - 10:23 AM on May 10th, 2006
“Shall I go through the edit mode and confront you with all the posts that you have made in which you treat these people as a vote and nothing else?”
You must have misunderstood them, then. It’s not enough that they vote Democrat, the Democratic platform needs to be able to hold onto those voters…and they do.
The Democratic Party platform obviously appeals to minority voters.
Until your side gets even 20% of the black vote, you can’t say sh*t about the Dems not catering to the needs of minorities.
May 10, 2006 - 10:27 AM on May 10th, 2006
“Like I told you many times, SF: you know who gets 90%+ of a vote? Saddam:Fidel:.Kim Jong-Il…”
And like I’ve told you before, you’re just jealous that your party platform doesn’t appeal to minority voters.
Face the reality here guys, your ideology is just not appealing to blacks and Hispanics.
Gnash your teeth about it, stomp your feet, and call Dems racist, but until you correct your ideology to appeal to minority voters, you team will be S.O.L. on this for years to come.
Sorry.
May 10, 2006 - 10:35 AM on May 10th, 2006
11. I agree, as long as you keep your slaves poor, drunk and stupid, I’m quite sure they will be paid in Kools, driven to the polls and vote dumbocrat like sheep.
and yet we still win EVERY national election..imagine if even a quarter of blacks in america caught on to the dumbocrat rouse…..
May 10, 2006 - 10:37 AM on May 10th, 2006
10- I didn’t misunderstand anything. Your words are what I am reading. It is the promise of giving them welfare that appeals to them. I am glad to not be a party to that.
May 10, 2006 - 10:44 AM on May 10th, 2006
“…as long as you keep your slaves poor, drunk and stupid”
Well there you go right there, Mike! When stop talking about and think about these people like that and maybe you might attract some of them over to your side.
May 10, 2006 - 10:47 AM on May 10th, 2006
“It is the promise of giving them welfare that appeals to them.”
Uhhh, nooo…
Tell you what, why don’t you get out of your little republican middle-class ivory tower, in your comfortable little suburban home and actually TALK WITH SOME OF THOSE PEOPLE.
Ask around, and ask the hard hitting questions about why most of their communities vote for the Democrats all the time.
You might learn something. (!)
May 10, 2006 - 10:58 AM on May 10th, 2006
15- I just might need to do that as you don’t seem to answer as to why they do it. Should I ignore the ones that tell me it is for the welfare?
May 10, 2006 - 11:04 AM on May 10th, 2006
14-Well there you go right there, Mike! When stop talking about and think about these people like that and maybe you might attract some of them over to your side.
as opposed to the way you refer to them as a sure vote? They are your meal ticket.
May 10, 2006 - 11:33 AM on May 10th, 2006
“I just might need to do that as you don’t seem to answer as to why they do it. Should I ignore the ones that tell me it is for the welfare?”
Well, I’m not black, so I can’t speak for the group on this, but from the friends I have in the community most of them say the same things:
The republican agenda of favoring the wealthy over the poor just doesn’t appeal to them…and then there’s the whole guilt-by-association with republicans being WASP racists…
Plus, many blacks are more pro-union…
That’s just from what I hear. I can Google it a bit, if you want me to…
But, it’s not that it’s about the “free” money of welfare, but the availability of social safety net programs and the support the Democrats give to those programs.
Seriously Peejz, if there any blacks left in Western Michigan other than in Grand Rapids, try and find some to ask if and why they support the Dem Platform…
May 10, 2006 - 11:33 AM on May 10th, 2006
like I said….saddam used to get 90%+ of the vote
only the truly fooled, bamboozled, hoodwinked would so blindly follow the very people who have enslvaed them in dependency, shackled their children in child abuse factories, consistently oppose their views on religion, gay marriage and abortion….
May 10, 2006 - 11:42 AM on May 10th, 2006
I found 1
May 10, 2006 - 11:50 AM on May 10th, 2006
“like I said:.saddam used to get 90%+ of the vote”
You can say it all you want, but it’s not an accurate comparisson, Mike.
The elections in Iraq for Saddam were TOTALLY, 100% different than the elections here in the US that minorites vote in.
For one thing, we have free elections with other candidates on the ballot to choose from. (!)
May 10, 2006 - 11:54 AM on May 10th, 2006
oh really? and how do cats voting, dead people voting, vote buying with kools and malt liquor, free rides to polls, and violence by NAACP racist thugs and union goons factor into those “free elections”?
May 10, 2006 - 11:55 AM on May 10th, 2006
If there truly were free and fair elections, Bush would have CRUSHED Kohn…..
May 10, 2006 - 11:55 AM on May 10th, 2006
Peejz, a handful do exist, I won’t deny that…
May 10, 2006 - 12:03 PM on May 10th, 2006
Hey peejz..wait until you see the next governor of the great state of Pennsylvania…none other than…are you ready??? Super Bowl X MVP The GREAT LYNN SWANN!!!!
but he’s probably just an “uncle tom” eh, SF??? a house nigger????
The lie will be exposed, eventually…. Republicans ARE the party of inclusion..of equal opportunity for all, of color blindness….
May 10, 2006 - 12:04 PM on May 10th, 2006
“If there truly were free and fair elections, Bush would have CRUSHED Kohn…”
Yeeeeaaaahhh, riiight.
“…and how do cats voting, dead people voting, vote buying with kools and malt liquor, free rides to polls, and violence by NAACP racist thugs and union goons factor into those “free electionsâ€?”
The following from a republican magazine…
“Voter fraud occurs in both Republican strongholds such as Kentucky hollows and Democratic bastions such as New Orleans. When Republicans operated political machines such as Philadelphia’s Meehan dynasty up until 1951 or the patronage mill pf Nassau County, New York, until the 1990s, they were fully capable of bending ” and breaking ” the rules. Earl Mazo, the journalist who exhaustively documented the election fraud in Richard Daley’s Chicago that may have handed Illinois to John F. Kennedy in the photo-finish 1960 election, says there was also “definitely fraud” in downstate Republican counties “but they didn’t have the votes to counterbalance Chicago.”
May 10, 2006 - 12:13 PM on May 10th, 2006
22–Oh really? and how do cats voting, dead people voting, vote buying with kools and malt liquor, free rides to polls, and violence by NAACP racist thugs and union goons factor into those “free electionsâ€?
Ok, I have to see your source. I’ve never heard of cats voting….
May 10, 2006 - 12:18 PM on May 10th, 2006
“The lie will be exposed, eventually:. Republicans ARE the party of inclusion..of equal opportunity for all, of color blindness…”
LOL…sure they are Mike. Sure they are. You guys are SO inclusive with your 11% of voting blacks…
And after your mans performance during the Katrina crisis…it’s gonna be a lot harder for you guys to catch up with us.
We’ll see how this whole anti-migrant, pro-english-only thing will work out for you guys and Hispanic voters this coming election…
May 10, 2006 - 12:22 PM on May 10th, 2006
we’ve been doing pretty well in November lately…in case you haven’t noticed.
May 10, 2006 - 12:30 PM on May 10th, 2006
27..you asked for it…YOU GOT IT
The American Center For Voting Rights (which is headed by a Democrat, oddly enough) announced on Aug. 2 that Philadelphia tops the list for voter fraud and intimidation
Here’s a summary of what ACVR found during the 2004 presidential election:
Republican volunteers violently intimidated by union members, who assaulted the volunteers’ vehicle and chased them in traffic.
At least 15 new registrants found to be deceased.
Many addresses listed for new registrants were in fact vacant lots and boarded-up buildings.
Polling places located in local bars, unsafe abandoned buildings, district office of Democrat state Sen. Vincent Fumo and private home decorated with Kerry sign in window.
43 polling locations inaccessible to the handicapped and 17 in businesses or homes where voters could be intimidated.
ACT and MoveOn illegally distributed and collected absentee ballots from prison inmates in at least one Philadelphia prison, according to news reports.
City voter rolls nearly matched census estimates of the voting-age population.
ACORN reportedly put inaccurate information on voter registration forms.
The Drudge Report is saying that some voting machines in Philadelphia were found to have votes pre-planted on them before the polls opened. Drudge did not say whether the machines in question are electronic, but EFF documents say that Philadelphia Country uses Danaher/Shouptronic electronic machines.
“Election after election, political parties, election officials and the news media act surprised when fraud, intimidation and suppression activities occur. Now everyone is on notice that there’s a problem in Philadelphia and those who don’t participate in a solution will be held accountable,” said Brian Lunde, ACVR Legislative Fund board member.
You know, we used to joke about Democrats who voted twice. We joked about Democrat dogs who voted. We laughed about Democrats in crack houses voting. We cracked up over empty lots, fire hydrants and telephone poles who are registered to vote Democrat,” says Philadelphia political commentator Tom Adkins. “It’s not funny anymore. Now, they actually vote.”
May 10, 2006 - 12:33 PM on May 10th, 2006
now, if PA’s 21 electoral votes had gone to Bush, we’d be talking LANDSLIDE.
but this sort of Fraud enabled Kohn to steal philadelphia, and thus Pennsylvania, when he won only 9 of pennsylvania’s 67 counties…embarrassing.
May 10, 2006 - 12:38 PM on May 10th, 2006
“we’ve been doing pretty well in November lately:in case you haven’t noticed.”
and in case you haven’t noticed, it’s been two years nearly since the last one, and your nteam has SUNK BIG TIME since then.
Bush is polling in the low 30’s, and the republican controlled congress is polling even lower.
Wait and see…
May 10, 2006 - 12:42 PM on May 10th, 2006
PA went to Kerry? haha…I forgot! Nice, go Blue State PA!
Mike, those 60 something counties that went to Bush probably have less population than the big city, right?
Philly has 6,000,000 people, right? That’s more than the people in the other counties, right?
What’s your beef then? That the big population centers out voted the suburbs?
Good!
May 10, 2006 - 12:47 PM on May 10th, 2006
yeah, the ghettos with the highest concentration of illiterates who will vote from whoever you tell them to, if you give them a carton of kools..
congrats!
Kohn won PA by only a little over 100,000 votes with 5.6 million cast…. he won Phlly by 350,000 votes… now do the math.
If it weren’t for MASSIVE fraud, vote buying and intimidation in philly…he loses the state….and this dosen’t even address similar fraud in Pittsburgh, Allentown and other “Kohn strongholds”
May 10, 2006 - 12:48 PM on May 10th, 2006
If you remove Philadelphia from the map (and trust me, most pennsylvanians would love to)…Bush carries the state easily…
May 10, 2006 - 12:56 PM on May 10th, 2006
“If you remove Philadelphia from the map (and trust me, most pennsylvanians would love to):Bush carries the state easily…”
But since that isn’t going to happen, your team should focus on how to win over minority votes in upcoming elections…
May 10, 2006 - 01:10 PM on May 10th, 2006
..or on how to keep dead people from voting democrat..or on how to get a polling place out of DEMOCRATIC state senator Vince Fumo’s office…or on how to get moveon.org operatives from paying voters in kools…or on how to keep democratic operatives from attempting to register felons..or on how to keep dumbocrats from suppressing military absentee ballots…or on how to keep NAACP racist thugs and union goons from violently assaulting republican volunteers…
May 10, 2006 - 01:19 PM on May 10th, 2006
You see, SF.. you keep touting your 90% of the black vote as some sort of badge of honour… you accomplish it with LIES!!! We are honest about our policies
Blacks overwhelmingly are more religious – Republicans are the party that is friendly to god fearing americans (though I’m not one)
Blacks are overwhelmingly against gay marriage – Republicans are against gay marriage
Blacks are majoitively pro-life – Republicans are the pro-life party
blacks are desperate to get their children out of the failed public schools – republicans are the party of school choice.
how else can you possibly explain black support for democrats, other than a giant campaign of LIES, FEAR, Fraud and racism?
Please tell me one democratic party platform that actually HELPS black in this country??? (exterminating an entire race by murdering babies in the womb dosen’t count.)
May 10, 2006 - 01:50 PM on May 10th, 2006
27- Alyssa do some research. It really does exist!:shock:
May 10, 2006 - 02:59 PM on May 10th, 2006
“…you keep touting your 90% of the black vote as some sort of badge of honour: you accomplish it with LIES!!! We are honest about our policies”
#1. It’s NOT accomplished with lies; it’s accomplished with an overall PLATFORM THAT THEY AGREE WITH.
#2. You guys are NOT honest about your polices, otherwise you would admit that rich people OVERWHELMINGLY benefit from your fiscal polices, and that your party is unnaturally beholden to Big Business interests.
“Please tell me one democratic party platform that actually HELPS black in this country???”
affirmative action
A policy or a program that seeks to redress past discrimination through active measures to ensure equal opportunity, as in education and employment.
May 10, 2006 - 03:33 PM on May 10th, 2006
40- It makes perfect sense that those that pay more, receive more benefits. Hence: April Tax Revenue 2nd-Highest in History
Those big/small business interests keep the economy going. Rather than demonize the employer, we embrace them.
Norah Vincent said it best: Conservatives do not oppose affirmative action because they are crypto-racists. They oppose it because they deem affirmative action itself to have become racist and, what’s more, unconstitutional in its current form, an outright system of racial quotas that blatantly discriminates not just against whites but also against nonblack, Latino or Native American minorities, violating the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
May 10, 2006 - 03:52 PM on May 10th, 2006
“It makes perfect sense that those that pay more, receive more benefits.”
…to YOU it does, and your fellow Republicans, but not to Democrats.
And apparently, not to a majority of minorities, either.
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“Those big/small business interests keep the economy going.”
Sure, but the Democrats believe that it’s also the WORKERS who keep the economy going.
Democrats and a majority of minorities feel that Republicans are to close to Big Business interests and not as sympathetic to workers issues as Democrats are.
May 10, 2006 - 03:58 PM on May 10th, 2006
“(Conservatives)…oppose it because they deem affirmative action itself to have become racist and, what’s more, unconstitutional in its current form”
#1. Of course your team would think it’s racist.
#2. It has already been proven, in the right form, to not be unconstitutional. If it was, it wouldn’t be law.
May 10, 2006 - 04:20 PM on May 10th, 2006
42- from this source: Is Affirmative Action a law?
No. The US Government empowers the President to issue executive orders. Orders govern only federal agencies, employees, and persons or companies with federal contractual relationships. Executive Order 11246 issued in 1965 by President Johnson requires federal contractors to take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated
during employment, without regard to their race, color, religion, sex or national origin. American Indian or Alaskan Native, Asian or Pacific Islander, Black, and Hispanic individuals are considered minorities for purposes of the Executive Order. Therefore, equal employment opportunity and affirmative action are integral elements of a contractor’s agreement with the government. Organizations and companies without qualifying federal grants or contracts are not covered by Affirmative Action regulations.
End to Affirmative Action Upheld
May 10, 2006 - 04:26 PM on May 10th, 2006
“…:to YOU it does, and your fellow Republicans, but not to Democrats.”
No, certainly not. And not to Lenin or Marx either!
Liberals/Socialists/Communists/Democrites. All variations on a theme…
May 10, 2006 - 04:32 PM on May 10th, 2006
42-Sure, but the Democrats believe that it’s also the WORKERS who keep the economy going.
Democrats and a majority of minorities feel that Republicans are to close to Big Business interests and not as sympathetic to workers issues as Democrats are.
Well, I am not sure how you can say that with a straight face. You are all for illegals coming in and taking the jobs from these workers. Yes workers are a part of what keeps the economy going. They get paid for the job they do, but lets not pretend that the guy working on a GM line at $54.00/hr with benefits, can’t be replaced with a $24.00/hr with benefits employee. The more education one has, the more opportunities one has. And last time I checked, education was mandatory for every child under the age of 16 in this country. Schools are failing in lower economic areas not because of funding, but because the schools have become war zones. Start ridding the schools of the trouble makers and concentrate on those that want to be there and you will get success. As it stands, the trouble makers set the education standards.
May 10, 2006 - 04:33 PM on May 10th, 2006
45-
May 10, 2006 - 05:09 PM on May 10th, 2006
“You are all for illegals coming in…”
Let me stop you right there. It’s not that I am for “illegals coming in” – because just like everyone else in this debate I wish there didn’t have to be people in that situation, I just am not for harsh or ineffective counter measures to help solve the problem. Felonies for migrants, a border fence, etc…I oppose.
“…but lets not pretend that the guy working on a GM line at $54.00/hr with benefits, can’t be replaced with a $24.00/hr with benefits employee.”
Sure, I understand that, but there are issues that go hand in hand with a situation like that…higher paid jobs probably retains workers who are experienced and trained, while lower paid workers could increase turnover and might lower productivity…
It’s not black and white / lets pay the cheaper guy and expect the same results., I think.
I’m not for illegals, I’m for progressive, realistic policy to deal with the migrant worker issue.
May 10, 2006 - 05:13 PM on May 10th, 2006
Conservative/Fascist/Autocratic/Republican. All variations on a theme:
May 10, 2006 - 06:11 PM on May 10th, 2006
49. Roll your eyes all you want, your ideological brethren have made Hitler look like a Sunday school teacher when it comes to body counts.
May 10, 2006 - 07:58 PM on May 10th, 2006
49: SFL, you overuse the rolling eyes thing. And once again, you just repeat what someone else said and change it slightly.
Have you no originality? Have you no imagination? Have you no creativity?
May 11, 2006 - 01:04 AM on May 11th, 2006
39–I wasn’t saying I didn’t believe him, I had just honestly never heard of cats voting. It doesn’t surprise me, though.
May 11, 2006 - 07:19 AM on May 11th, 2006
Alyssa, there is no limit to the democratic party’s rampant voter fraud here, and i suspect other “inner cities”
First of all… don’t democrats believe in a hard core separation of church and state? If that’s the case….why, every two years, do I have to see liberal democrats (always white..shockingly), attempting to sing gospel and clap their lilly white hands, IN BLACK CHURCHES.with some racist ass “preacher” extolling his robot-like “flock” to vote for this wonderful dumbocrat??? Isn’t that the epitome of church/state????
SF??? Any thoughts? (without your usual “I know you are, but what am I? bullshit)
May 11, 2006 - 07:56 AM on May 11th, 2006
“Conservative/Fascist/Autocratic/Republican. All variations on a theme: ”
are you kidding me, SF?
Communism has killed more humans than any other ideology in human history..and yet you guys still believe it can work..if only YOU can try it.
May 11, 2006 - 10:20 AM on May 11th, 2006
“You overuse the rolling eyes thing. And once again, you just repeat what someone else said and change it slightly.”
#1. It’s a good emoticon; it conveys the right feeling without saying anything. If it really bothers you, I’ll stop…
#2. It’s called SARCASIM, Robert. When someone posts something stupid and baseless like you did, it warrants a sarcastic stupid and baseless response. I’m not trying to “copy” you; I’m making fun of the lameness of your statement. Get it now?
Robert, you shouldn’t take personally or get upset during internet political discussions. It just isn’t worth it.
May 11, 2006 - 11:10 AM on May 11th, 2006
Don’t stop using it on my account, but it is getting shopworn.
Sarcasm is fine when you use some creativity, some imagination. Just repeating (and/or slightly modifying) what someone else posts is boring.
May 11, 2006 - 11:50 AM on May 11th, 2006
I have to stick up for SF here, he is a pompous, clueless, racist, monolingual, militarily ignorant peacenik…but to attack him for an emoticon???
May 11, 2006 - 11:50 AM on May 11th, 2006
“Sarcasm is fine when you use some creativity, some imagination. Just repeating (and/or slightly modifying) what someone else posts is boring.”
Posting crap drivel like your Democrat/Communist thing BEGS for a sarcastic reply…
Same goes for crap like “Liberalism is a mental whatever”
All I’m doing is trying to show you, by reversing the words, just how F’ing lame sh*t like that is.
May 11, 2006 - 11:55 AM on May 11th, 2006
You’re good peoples, Mike Kilo.
May 11, 2006 - 11:58 AM on May 11th, 2006
Gosh, I must have hit a nerve, pushed a button. SF Lib comes out swinging!
Liberalism is a form of mental illness, and I came to that conslusion more than 10 years before Mike Weiner started his version.
Demcrites, Liberals, Socialists, Communists, all share a common theme. Some just a little more so than others. Here’s two of my favorite quotes:
A Communist is a Socialist in a hurry.
A Socialist is a Communist with no guts.
And another:
The Conservative believes what he sees. The Liberal sees what he believes.
Truer words were never spoken. Now I know these nuggets of wisdom, distilled from the collective experience of many years, are antithetical to you, like a cross to Dracula. But they are quite true, and capture the essence in just a few words (like a Haiku poem) of reality.
May 11, 2006 - 11:58 AM on May 11th, 2006
Right back at you, SF!!
You go to cha cha cha yet?
May 11, 2006 - 12:01 PM on May 11th, 2006
59: Do you suppose Mike is being…sarcastic?
May 11, 2006 - 12:08 PM on May 11th, 2006
SFL posted: “Ask around, and ask the hard hitting questions about why most of their communities vote for the Democrats all the time.”
And you’ll get some meaningless soundbyte answer like “They care about the people” or “George Bush doesn’t care about black poeple” or some other cliched version of the Big Lie that the Democrites and their MSM propaganda arm have been promoting for 60 years.
What they’re talking about are the bennies, doled out in exchange for their fealty. like we have been saying forever.
May 11, 2006 - 12:14 PM on May 11th, 2006
Robert, that’s where you kind of have to give them credit…to keep this big a lie going for this long??? You have to admire their committment!!!!
May 11, 2006 - 12:23 PM on May 11th, 2006
Well many of them do truly believe that they have the moral high ground, that they are genuinely trying to do good. They’re misguided, however.
The leadership is completely amoral, soulless, and interested only in their own advancement, promotion, and gratification. Take HilLiary, for example. I truly believe that she has (metaphorically) sold her soul to the devil in exchange for her success.
May 11, 2006 - 12:27 PM on May 11th, 2006
“Truer words were never spoken. Now I know these nuggets of wisdom, distilled from the collective experience of many years, are antithetical to you, like a cross to Dracula. But they are quite true, and capture the essence in just a few words (like a Haiku poem) of reality.”
“Do you suppose Mike is being:sarcastic?”
No, he and I are utter political opposites, but we both like the same music and that counts for a lot…it’s common ground, of sorts.
But Mike, I only like the first 6 Ozzy albums of Black Sabbath…you’re not a …>shudderDio fan, are you?
“What they’re talking about are the bennies, doled out in exchange for their fealty. like we have been saying forever.”
Oh, come on man….you’re just jealous of the Left for having such a firm grip on the minority vote.
It doesn’t mean Republicans are the party of white people, as much as it looks like it, but it just means that the majority of blacks just don’t like Republican policy.
May 11, 2006 - 12:31 PM on May 11th, 2006
“It doesn’t mean Republicans are the party of white people, as much as it looks like it,… ”
Yes, with black people in such high positions in the Bush Cabinet, it really does look like republicans are all just for the whites only, doesn’t it?
May 11, 2006 - 12:47 PM on May 11th, 2006
Hey now, SF.. I’m not completely opposed to a little DIO action!! Heaven and Hell and Mob Rules are both quality efforts, and there are some nuggets here and there from the Tony Martin era….but NOTHING that rises to the level of Master of Reality, or Sabbath Bloody Sabbath..
That’s why you don’t see Ronnie Dio’s munchkin ass in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
and we are not as politically opposite as it seems, I think we both want smart immigration law enforcement, we both think the war on drugs is an abysmal failure, we both think that Liberal=Terrorist and conservative=nazi is useless, blowhard rhetoric.
What I am trying hard to get you to see is the institutional slavery that exists in the democratic party.
Address just ONE of my points on this subject. Why can’t democrats allow Black parents to free their children from the shackles of those babysitting gulags you people call “public schools”????
May 11, 2006 - 01:04 PM on May 11th, 2006
“Why can’t democrats allow Black parents to free their children from the shackles of those babysitting gulags you people call “public schoolsâ€????”
Because as bad as the state of public education is right now, it is the universal equalizer (or it should be, if properly funded) here in America and – theoretically – allows for a kid in New York to get the same quality education as the kid in Kansas.
Now, that said, there is a huge problem with funding and neglect of schools in poor neighborhoods…
I don’t support vouchers because it takes money away from public schools and gives it to private…
I’ll get more into it with you when I get back…
I have Jury Duty in one hour…haha…:sad:
(I just need to keep telling myself it’s my civic duty, but god damn, it is sooooo boring)
May 11, 2006 - 01:05 PM on May 11th, 2006
“and we are not as politically opposite as it seems, I think we both want smart immigration law enforcement, we both think the war on drugs is an abysmal failure, we both think that Liberal=Terrorist and conservative=nazi is useless, blowhard rhetoric.”
Right on…more common ground!
“That’s why you don’t see Ronnie Dio’s munchkin ass in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.”
May 11, 2006 - 01:06 PM on May 11th, 2006
SFL, the Gov’t skools are getting plenty of money. Just not enough of it gets down to the classroom level.
May 11, 2006 - 01:11 PM on May 11th, 2006
how can it be about funding when the DC schools spend 10,000 per pupil and have among the worst result, and rural Pennsylvania districts spend a third of that and graduate everyone?
and why are you opposed to private schools? They get results. I suppose it’s better than the 30% of americans in private schools are getting quality educations and the 70% in public schools are getting horrific ones?
wouldn’t 100% of students getting quality educations in private schools be better?? Oh, but then the teachers unions would cease to have any power..and that’s really what its about.
May 11, 2006 - 01:14 PM on May 11th, 2006
you know what’s funny..I have voted in EVERY election since 1990 and I have NEVER been called for jury duty…nor do I know another single registered republican who has EVER been called for jury duty in Philadelphia…why is that?
not that I want it…but, are they avoiding registered republicans?
May 11, 2006 - 01:36 PM on May 11th, 2006
I am very fortunate to be able to send my kids to a Catholic school…in Kansas no less…I wouldn’t do it any other way. If democrats are so pro-choice, as they say they are, why not let minority and poor families choose where they want to send their kids? If there is a private school down the street, why not be given that choice? If schools had to compete for business, they might try a little harder to educate kids properly…it’s called free enterprise!
Here in Kansas, some public schools spend close to $10,000 per year to educate one student. Our private school spends $3800, and the kids get a better education!! What does that tell you? And on top of that, our “liberal” State Supreme Court says we have to spend another $500 million a year on education in the state!!! Courts are now telling us how much money should be spend where!!! My taxes are going to go up to pay for the damn schools that I don’t even use!
It’s frustrating just typing about it…I need a beer!
May 11, 2006 - 01:45 PM on May 11th, 2006
Sandy, right on the money…. why is the liberal answer ALWAYS more money???? (Don’t answer that, we all know)
Tip one up for me! I’m thinking about a Hefe-Weizen today
May 11, 2006 - 02:41 PM on May 11th, 2006
What’s bad is when we ask where more money is needed and where the money is being spent now, nobody seems to know…not even the Supreme Court. They say we need to spend a hell of a lot more, but they have no clue where all the tax dollars are being spent now. Can you imagine if we ran our businesses or our personal accounts like this? And Kansas is a pretty conservative state overall. I would hate to see the state of New York with their pathetic excuse for schools.
May 11, 2006 - 04:32 PM on May 11th, 2006
Sandy, well said!:smile: