One more time with feeling: Thank you Dede!! You liberal piece of trash. You were embraced by the party for 20 years, and when you suffer your first real setback you came out for the Democrat in the 11th hour.
Owens was brought into the Democrat fold real quick. He lied on the campaign trail, and the idiot moderates, like Charlie Brown trying to kick the football Lucy is holding, voted for the Democrat expecting him to keep his promise. Rats! Owens said he would not support a public option, well he voted for it. He broke that and three other promises the first day in office. Where is that football now Charlie? From the Gouverneur Times:
Many feel that it was unlikely Mr. Owens would have won those crucial few thousand votes if the voting public was aware of his intent with regard to the Health Care bill. The majority of residents in this district do not support the Health Reform bill as it is now written and many feel like they’ve become victims of a fraud perpetrated by their chosen candidate.
Ya think? Message to the great pho-intellectuals of the middle — read some history! Democrats migrate leftward in a flash once they reach Washington. Wishing it were otherwise will not make it so, accept reality. Read up on economics and find out that there are NO moderate economic theories. Either you are a socialist central planner, or you allow the market to make choices. Mixing the two always leads to the former squeezing out the later. Always. Wishing it were otherwise, will not make it so.
Let this be a lesson to Newt, Owens was the 219th vote. Owen’s win gave Pelosi enough ammunition to finish off conservatism in the US. Public Healthcare is the holy grail for liberals. Why, because historically it causes the country to drift ever leftward. Gingrich has mud on his face for supporting Dede, and 2012 will be harder for him.
Note to Republican leadership, try to at least run a moderate. Running leftists makes it difficult for the conservatives (who are 3/4’s of the party) to vote for the candidates you field. Scozzafava not only threw her support behind Owen, she was more liberal. I guess it would be more embarrassing if she voted for the bill, but, there was another option. The primary reason for a political party is to espouse a philosophy in the political arena, and bring this philosophy to life in legislation. Picking candidates that are hostile to this philosophy makes no sense.
This is the US, not France, not England. We are made of sterner stuff. I hope conservatives do not go quietly into the night. This vote today will seal the fate of the Democrat party in 2010. But if the Republicans cannot hold on till then, or, overturn Obamacare, we as a nation are sunk.
Dunno about all this pessimism. It seems to me that whatever they build we can tear down, if what they have built starts to hurt the people in a big way. Ask the Poles, the Czechs, the Slovaks, and others in Eastern Europe if this is not true. Ask the current residents of East Berlin. It may be tough. It may take awhile. But, tell me. Apart from that little Christmas Eve visit to Trenton, how many battles did George Washington win before he arrived in a place called Yorktown? Thus began the dismantling of European empires in the Americas. We’ve got to keep waving that yellow flag with the snake on it. It won once. It can win again. I, for one, am not about to quit.
Pretty big words there, Wolve!
Yeah, Lovisa, I had to fight to keep from throwing Abe Lincoln and George McClellan in there too. Actually, I’m thinking of asking those school kids up in Montana to send me a supply of Crow warpaint and eagle feathers. I feel downright tea partyish tonight!!!
McClellan? Curios choice..
Glad to see you pick up on this too.
http://thebulletproofmonk.blogspot.com/2009/11/ultimate-betrayal.html
“pho-intellectuals”
I didn’t realize that Vietnamese soup was such an intellectual subject, delicious though it may be…
Sorry, I couldn’t resist …
Um, yeah, seriously, McClellan?
Incidentally, this reminds me, the other day, I discovered a document where I found two ancestors who’d mustered at Cambridge in 1775, (in response to Concord), and another two who were in the 17th Maine regiment – Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, (#1 wounded, mustered out) #2 wounded in the Wheatfield at Gettysburg, where he ultimately died. Joining the several members I knew about, most on the “other” side of the war.
Given what they had to face, a few sell-out politicians who are making laws despite the will of the people seems a trivial thing to overcome.
I was wondering about that too squiddy. Jacob eats intellectuals ?
Guess others must be too stringy…
Fyi here is something I stumbled across sometime back doing some ancestral research of my own..
http://www.mainememory.net/bin/Detail?ln=4127
Pho ? I thought that was a Vietnamese soup.
Hey, cool, thanks for the photo link – what I found interesting is that my *mother’s* family name appears on that photo. While it’s a somewhat common name, (with, to my knowledge, no Maine roots), it was still a bit of a startle to see that.
Dunno about tastes; all I know is that if it comes to that, I’m gonna eat the vegetarians first…
“eat the vegetarians first”
That’s the way the food chain works..
You people are impossible. I was tired and in a hurry and typed pho in lieu of faux.My bad. The spell checker did not pick it up — go send word press a few emails.
The latin root for the word saracsm implies eatings ones own flesh. Fits you people to a T. Hopeless. Utterly hopeless.
As for eating vegitarians. They taste better with ketchup.
senior moment !
Darned simple, Dans. McClellan screwed up the war effort, and Lincoln had to find a way to fix it. Took Lincoln awhile before he found Grant. Obama and Pelosi are screwing up health care. It will take us awhile to put it right again.
jacob moment. It’s either “been up for days and tired” or “in a hurry”. The real fun, the actual fun, begins when it’s “tired” AND “in a hurry”.
I couldn’t resist this. Owens may find himself in the “pho” when that rematch comes in the NY-23rd in 2010. O.K., so I’m tired and in a hurry! Blame it all on Squiddy and Stoner.
‘The real fun, the actual fun, begins when it’s “tired” AND “in a hurry’
The results from that often wind up on youtube.
Wolverine is spot on, Owens is toast in 2010. The vote he made last Saturday was an act of Political Sepuku. Kind of like Dede’s support of him. They are both dead.
Seems to me Cao of Louisiana is the one who finds himself in the “pho”.
Lovisa, Cao can probably handle the “pho” pretty well. I figure it’ll be the gumbo that gets him.