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  1. Wahlin Scott B
    Wahlin Scott B avatar
    5/29/2013 2:05 PM
    The time to quit has got to be near when Fox "News" asks a Tea Partier, "Are you a flake?"

    Don't let the door hit you Michelle.



  2. Steven Huffstutler
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    11 posts
    6/6/2013 6:06 AM
    The stupid........it burns.....

    1. "The President of the United States will be taking a trip over to India that is expected to cost the taxpayers $200 million a day."

    2. "This [health care reform] cannot pass. What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing. This will not pass."

    3. "I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out then under another Democrat president Jimmy Carter. And I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it's an interesting coincidence."

    4. "Normalization [of gayness] through desensitization. Very effective way to do this with a bunch of second graders is take a picture of ‘The Lion King' for instance, and a teacher might say, ‘Do you know that the music for this movie was written by a gay man?' The message is: ‘I'm better at what I do, because I'm gay.'"

    5. "You have a teacher talking about his gayness. (The elementary school student) goes home then and says ‘Mom! What's gayness? We had a teacher talking about this today.' The mother says ‘Well, that's when a man likes other men, and they don't like girls.' The boy's eight. He's thinking, ‘Hmm. I don't like girls. I like boys. Maybe I'm gay.' And you think, ‘Oh, that's, that's way out there. The kid isn't gonna think that.' Are you kidding? That happens all the time. You don't think that this is intentional, the message that's being given to these kids? That's child abuse."

    6. "But we also know that the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States."

    7. "It is a brand new, billion-dollar high speed train that is going to go from Disneyland up to Las Vegas…Harry Reid, the Senator from Nevada, was behind this measure, and it makes us wonder, is he more interested in making sure kids start gambling at younger ages?"

    8. "Well what I want them to know is just like, John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa. That's the kind of spirit that I have, too" -Rep. Michele Bachmann, getting her John Waynes mixed up during an interview after launching her presidential campaign in Waterloo, Iowa, where she grew up. The beloved movie star John Wayne was born in Winterset, Iowa, three hours away. The John Wayne that Waterloo was home to is John Wayne Gacy, a notorious serial killer.

    9. "During the last 100 days we have seen an orgy. It would make any local smorgasbord embarrassed. The government spent its wad by April 26."

    10. "There are hundreds and hundreds of scientists, many of them holding Nobel Prizes, who believe in intelligent design."



  3. Ashton Alan W
    Ashton Alan W avatar
    6/6/2013 8:06 AM
    Steve,

    Thanks for those... hadn't heard most of them!

    It is better to keep your mouth closed and be thought a fool...



  4. Peter Bowman
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    11 posts
    6/6/2013 9:06 AM
    Ya, I'm sure the United States would be a whole lot worse off by now had she been elected President, rather than Barack Obama.



  5. Steven Huffstutler
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    11 posts
    6/6/2013 11:06 AM
    Peter Bowman, CGCS said: Ya, I'm sure the United States would be a whole lot worse off by now had she been elected President, rather than Barack Obama.



    Sounds just a little bitter, Pete.



  6. Peter Bowman
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    11 posts
    6/6/2013 1:06 PM
    No bitterness at all. Can't hurt to wonder what might have gone differently, or what would be different in the future had somone else been elected.



  7. Steven Huffstutler
    Steven Huffstutler avatar
    11 posts
    6/6/2013 1:06 PM
    Well, if Obama keeps it up, you may have another chance to vote for Michele yet.



  8. Peter Bowman
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    11 posts
    6/6/2013 3:06 PM
    So, if mine might have been bitterness, yours might be buyer's remorse?



  9. Wahlin Scott B
    Wahlin Scott B avatar
    6/6/2013 3:06 PM
    Peter Bowman, CGCS said: So, if mine might have been bitterness, your's might be buyer's remorse?
    I am sure it is not bitterness at all. I changed a comma on one of Pete's posts nine years ago and I am sure he will get over it any day now!



  10. Jon Gansen
    Jon Gansen avatar
    1 posts
    6/6/2013 5:06 PM
    I haven't kept up on the forums as much as in the winter, but I have to say right now that displaying Bachmans flaws now seems to be hypocritical. The critical comments should be aimed at POTUS now and his administration. Between IRS, the data that has been obtained without warrants but hunches, bugging phones of congressmen, press and who knows who. Obamacares price tag. Benghazi! (Nothing to see here folks) This seems to me to be Chicago politics flourishing in Washington. The criticism that Bush took from the media and the left during his term is nonexistent for O. Crock of ....
    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/06/06/Mainstream-Media-Did-Not-break-Even-One-of-Four-Obama-Scandals



  11. Steven Huffstutler
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    11 posts
    6/6/2013 6:06 PM
    Peter Bowman, CGCS said: So, if mine might have been bitterness, yours might be buyer's remorse?


    Well, maybe, but what were my choices, Pete?

    The first time around it was Grampy Walnuts and Snow Barbie. Honestly, I would have considered voting for John McCain despite the fact that he was too old, but once he put Sarah Palin on the ticket, I was all done.

    Then there was Mittens 1% Romney and the guy who told him what to do, Lying Ryan.......I'm sorry, no go for me.

    As far as Michele One L is concerned, there's just no excuse for that kind of stupid. Even Republicans figured that one out, despite winning the Iowa straw poll.

    Obama shouldn't have been that hard to beat and if the Republicans could manage to field a decent candidate, they may very well have won over a non party voter like me, but they can't seem to get past the Tea Party and that just doesn't play with me and it seems I'm not alone.

    Regards,

    Steve



  12. Ronald Conard
    Ronald Conard avatar
    4 posts
    6/8/2013 10:06 AM
    Steven Huffstutler, CGCS said:
    Peter Bowman, CGCS said: So, if mine might have been bitterness, yours might be buyer's remorse?



    As far as Michele One L is concerned, there's just no excuse for that kind of stupid. Even Republicans figured that one out, despite winning the Iowa straw poll.

    Obama shouldn't have been that hard to beat and if the Republicans could manage to field a decent candidate, they may very well have won over a non party voter like me, but they can't seem to get past the Tea Party and that just doesn't play with me and it seems I'm not alone.

    Regards,

    Steve


    Exactly. The Tea Party is anchor on the Republican party. I'm an independent and as long as the Tea Party is attached to the hind side of the Republican party and clinging to their ideology, without any tact or compromise, I'll never vote Republican again. I don't vote for pissed off ideologues.

    Bachmann is an idiot. Pete, simply because she is a Republican, does not change that fact, right? Being an idiot is not partisan is it? To make my point, I present V.P. Biden.



  13. Ronald Conard
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    4 posts
    6/8/2013 10:06 AM
    Testing..... pissed is a blocked word??

    Wow, we are namby pambies.



  14. Jon Gansen
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    1 posts
    6/8/2013 10:06 AM
    [quote"> The Tea Party is anchor on the Republican party. I'm an independent and as long as the Tea Party is attached to the hind side of the Republican party and clinging to their ideology, without any tact or compromise, I'll never vote Republican again. I don't vote for !%@*x& off ideologues.

    Your against the ideology of U.S national debt reduction, federal budget deficit reduction and adhering to the constitution of the United States. Is it possible that the labels of racist, gun toting, gay bashing homophobes that the media has harped on is the real reason. The idea a whole group could be labeled as such is ridiculous.



  15. Steven Huffstutler
    Steven Huffstutler avatar
    11 posts
    6/8/2013 2:06 PM
    Really Jon, it's a whole lot less about the ideology at this point than it is about the stupidity of your spokesmen.

    Regards,

    Steve



  16. Ronald Conard
    Ronald Conard avatar
    4 posts
    6/8/2013 4:06 PM
    Jon Gansen said:

    Your against the ideology of U.S national debt reduction, federal budget deficit reduction and adhering to the constitution of the United States. Is it possible that the labels of racist, gun toting, gay bashing homophobes that the media has harped on is the real reason. The idea a whole group could be labeled as such is ridiculous.


    No, not at all but I don't see the Tea Party ideology being the solution. There is more than one way to skin a cat.

    Here, the Tea Party is all up in arms over a $.75 per month increase in sanitation fees. Spare me. It's as if any and all forms of revenue or taxation is a no-no to the Tea Party. Yet, they are the first crying if their trash isn't picked up pronto.

    It's ideology pure and simple, and every Tea Party member I know clings to it so tightly I'm almost certain their aorta is going blow over things like $.75 per month. I had to check my bill to even see how much I pay that's how little care about getting my panties bunched.

    BTW how did that debt reduction work under Bush Jr.?



  17. Sandy Clark
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    0 posts
    6/10/2013 9:06 AM
    Why would anyone still want to see a new fee or a tax increase on anything? You just saw the IRS scandal and the multi-millions they have spent on large functions. You earlier saw the Health and Human Services wasteful scandal. This stuff goes on with school districts, cities, counties, states and every federal agency you can name and many we can't name. I think the Tea Party or anyone with common sense has an obligation to stand up and say no more money until you clean up your act, quit wasting what we give you and become accountable for them money you already have. Prove how you spend every dollar you already have! Now is Michelle Bachman anymore of a loser than most elected officials in either party? She might be more visible but believe me, all of these elected officials with just a few exceptions can sound pretty stupid, especially if they became as high profile as Bachman was. Trust me, most of these people have never really worked for a living. You can always pick out the ones that have because for some reason they tend to sound more logical.



  18. Melvin Waldron
    Melvin Waldron avatar
    43 posts
    6/10/2013 11:06 AM
    Sandy Clark, CGCS said: Why would anyone still want to see a new fee or a tax increase on anything? You just saw the IRS scandal and the multi-millions they have spent on large functions. You earlier saw the Health and Human Services wasteful scandal. This stuff goes on with school districts, cities, counties, states and every federal agency you can name and many we can't name. I think the Tea Party or anyone with common sense has an obligation to stand up and say no more money until you clean up your act, quit wasting what we give you and become accountable for them money you already have. Prove how you spend every dollar you already have! Now is Michelle Bachman anymore of a loser than most elected officials in either party? She might be more visible but believe me, all of these elected officials with just a few exceptions can sound pretty stupid, especially if they became as high profile as Bachman was. Trust me, most of these people have never really worked for a living. You can always pick out the ones that have because for some reason they tend to sound more logical.


    I can agree with most of your post Sandy, the only issue I might have is (and not to say we shouldn't know) is what does it cost to track every dollar? Are their better systems that can help us track every dollar but are we willing to spend to money to implement it? If you answer yes to both those questions then by all means. I would really like to see more "Return on Investment" reasons for most government spending, too much of it is either because some lobbyist group says we can increase more business by giving this deduction or investing in this or that program. Of course there are some instances that we shouldn't.

    And I do say we have elected losers in both parties, didn't her family benefit from some farm subsidies of some other form of government help that she was trying to stop? I guess the question for her is; so she got hers but they can't help others? Maybe she had an epiphany? Most likely she found a voice that worked to keep her getting elected and become a bigger national figure, which comes with speaking fees and book deals. (I know the one lady in Southeast Missouri who got re-elected then turned around and quite in less then two months, actually before her new term started had benefited from the farm subsidies).

    Mel

    Melvin H. Waldron III, CGCS, Horton Smith Golf Course, City of Springfield/Greene County MO

  19. Ronald Conard
    Ronald Conard avatar
    4 posts
    6/10/2013 11:06 AM
    Sandy Clark, CGCS said: Why would anyone still want to see a new fee or a tax increase on anything? You just saw the IRS scandal and the multi-millions they have spent on large functions. You earlier saw the Health and Human Services wasteful scandal. This stuff goes on with school districts, cities, counties, states and every federal agency you can name and many we can't name. I think the Tea Party or anyone with common sense has an obligation to stand up and say no more money until you clean up your act, quit wasting what we give you and become accountable for them money you already have. Prove how you spend every dollar you already have! Now is Michelle Bachman anymore of a loser than most elected officials in either party? She might be more visible but believe me, all of these elected officials with just a few exceptions can sound pretty stupid, especially if they became as high profile as Bachman was. Trust me, most of these people have never really worked for a living. You can always pick out the ones that have because for some reason they tend to sound more logical.


    Dogma. Look a little deeper to find those areas that are wasteful and those that are not. Just blathering "no more!!!" across the board is not effect or efficient.



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