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Bitch, please

iconWell, well, well–look what crawled up from its festering cesspool of crotch rot and megalomania to be DRA-Ma queen for the day.

“What’s in it? Have you read it? We found 30 million for mice. Got 30 million for mice. You can’t be serious. What a joke. $30 million for mice. Does that create jobs?” Price intoned.

Then she waves the stack of papers around like she read the whole thing, but clearly has not…

“There are no federal wetland restoration projects in line to get funded in San Francisco,” Pelosi spkesperson Drew Hammill said. “Neither the Speaker nor her staff have had any involvement in this initiative. The idea that $30 million will be spent to save mice is a total fabrication.”

I repeat bitch, puhleaze.

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22 responses to “Bitch, please”

  1. Zaid Avatar
    Zaid

    I’ll pass the message along: Tom Price, you’re a multimillionaire with a doctorate who can’t read.

  2. Mouth of the South Avatar
    Mouth of the South

    Yes, I “told” Price in the first comment. I kept it going until you got it as a public service. You’re welcome.

  3. Zaid Avatar
    Zaid

    BTW this topic is now about kittens

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtX8nswnUKU&eurl=http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home

  4. Zaid Avatar
    Zaid

    You so told Dr. Price by telling him he can’t read. He’s gonna go cry in a corner now and promptly disavow his party and join the progressive caucus.

  5. Mouth of the South Avatar
    Mouth of the South

    Lots of smart people cannot read. Like Genghis Kahn. Even more smart people cannot understand sarcasm. Also like Genghis Kahn.

  6. Zaid Avatar
    Zaid

    http://www.nataliedee.com/120408/a-sense-of-emptiness-in-the-wake-of-obamas-win.jpg

  7. innerredneckexposed Avatar
    innerredneckexposed

    OK OK OK! I admit it! I’m illegitimate! I can’t read!

    Now can I have my job back?

  8. Jules Avatar
    Jules

    Seems like shitty staff work to me..

  9. Zaid Avatar
    Zaid

    BTW, I like how Graham, a Republican is open to nationalizing banks but Chuck “Wall Street” Schumer isn’t:

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/15/graham-nationalizing-bank_n_167048.html

  10. Zaid Avatar
    Zaid

    Knowing him personally, he’s a very smart man, he’s not illiterate. He just wants to hook onto something to attack the Democrats with, knowing most of his constituents won’t read the fine print.

  11. Mouth of the South Avatar
    Mouth of the South

    Some very successful people are illiterate; they have learned to hide their shortcomings in different ways. It must make it that much harder for him when even the children of his youth advisory council cannot support him in this. Reading is fundamental, and everyone should do it, whether straightforward or between the lines.

  12. Zaid Avatar
    Zaid

    I was on Price’s youth advisory council when I was in high school, and I wouldn’t say it’s so much that he’s illiterate that he doesn’t mind lying and smearing.

    You’re giving these people too much credit if you just think they’re dumb. I swear liberals did a lot of credit to George Bush by acting like he or his administration were dumb (all it did was let them play the populist card against those elite liberal intellectuals).

  13. Mouth of the South Avatar
    Mouth of the South

    Illiteracy is a terrible thing. And the fact that it strikes even of our most highly placed citizens, like Tom Price, shows that nobody is immune.

    Please consider a small donation to Reading is Fundamental in Tom Price’s name.

    http://rif.convio.net/site/PageServer?pagename=whyright_landing

  14. odinseye2k Avatar
    odinseye2k

    I totally agree, John, especially with the last sentiment. All I’m saying is that we would do well to pay for them after the recovery, and while Democrats are still in power.

    Otherwise, someone might see those surpluses and decide the richies need some more of their money back.

  15. JohnRose Avatar
    JohnRose

    I agree that any increase in government-provided health care should be offset by increased taxes or reduced spending. And psychology is of course crucially important in economics. Psychology is precisely the reason why the United States has such power to incur cheap debt- because we are seen as very, very stable. There’s nothing on the horizon that seems likely to change that.

    We can afford to incur more debt if we are doing it to invest in worthwhile projects. Energy efficiency, health care efficiency, education, science- those are all investments that will pay for themselves over and over again if we invest in them now.

  16. Zaid Avatar
    Zaid

    You should try having a discussion with Paul Broun about the Middle East sometime. We over at UGA did, and hilarity ensued, which was quickly beset by the terrifying reality that this guy gets a vote in Congress.

  17. odinseye2k Avatar
    odinseye2k

    PS – what is up with Georgia having the craziest nutters that decide to go in front of a camera? Even other states that I would consider even more banjo-riffic (don’t worry, when I finally end my voluntary exile to return to the Left Coast, I’ll probably stick up for the South) than ours don’t seem to have the crazies.

    Paul Broun cut himself a new winger track recently:

    http://www.congressmatters.com/storyonly/2009/2/15/114712/941/371/640

    Yes, the guy is speaking out *against* modern medical records. Also against evidence-based medicine.

    This reminds me of an old joke:

    “What do you call the guy that finished last in med school?”

    “Doctor.”

  18. odinseye2k Avatar
    odinseye2k

    John:

    Psychology is a very powerful thing in markets (more so than your free trader / rational theorist may admit). One day we’re fine, and the next, who knows? Being fundamentally secure is better than betting on someone else’s largess or maintaining the same view of the world.

    As for the health care thing, for almost any expansion I’d ask for pretty strict adherence to a pay-as-you-go approach. Shifting the health care system is going to take a major rethink on roles of government and private expectations, so putting the price tag up front is important. There is going to be a lot of crap from the other side preventing this, but honesty will be important to cementing its legacy along the lines of Social Security.

    Zaid:

    I think the speculator tax (Bernie Sanders also brought it up for stock speculation, IIRC) is a good one. There’s probably a trade in there between how much cash is raised versus the increasing size of divergences in the market (not engaging in speculative manipulations until the difference between price and expectation gets to a certain size) or any other weirdnesses that may arise from playing with the system. As with anything, test small, study a lot, and then scale up.

  19. Zaid Avatar
    Zaid

    “Personally, I’m still worried about the debt / dollar issue. I know this stimulus is important, but we’re actually taking a bet that the fire relights before our ability to borrow money falls apart. Obama’s going to have to do some budget balancing as things get better (even if this causes a bit of a dip like it did for FDR), especially in the taxes department. Top rates are just gonna have to go up.”

    From Ralph Nader (OH NO O_O!!!!!), an idea:

    http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2009/02/ralph-nader-tax-the-speculators/

    “The most discussed and popular one is a simple sales tax on currency trades across borders. Called the Tobin Tax after its originator, the late James Tobin, a Nobel laureate economist at Yale University, 10 to 25 cents per hundred dollars of the huge amounts of dollars traded each day across bordered would produce from $100 to $300 billion per year.”

  20. JohnRose Avatar
    JohnRose

    @odinseye:

    Our ability to borrow money is not going anywhere. I’ve heard ridiculous stories of the possibility of the Treasury’s investment grade being downgraded, but that’s just silly. Right now we have everyone in the world RUSHING to buy treasury bonds at ZERO percent return. We might have more of a problem if this were just the USA economy in a depression, but this is the entire world.

    We are only at ~60% GDP of debt right now- very comparable to most other industrialized nations, and much less than some other countries (like Japan). We should definitely be trying to put ourselves on a better long-term debt footing, but that’s going to mainly mean fixing our health care system and reducing worldwide military commitments, not drastic disaster-scenario shutdowns of government.

  21. Rubyduby Avatar
    Rubyduby

    I read a fantastic idea today regarding the stimulus package and the GOP members of Congress bitching and moaning about it -let them just opt out for their districts.

    Let them come home and in a town hall meeting tell the people of their district that they don’t want the money for their district because its wasteful. I would love to see John Linder (R-Asshat Supreme) try to make it out of the hall in one piece after telling the good people of GA’s 7th (that would be moi) that he took a page out of Sarah’s book and said “thanks, but no thanks”.

  22. odinseye2k Avatar
    odinseye2k

    That, and out of an $800B package, the GOP could only find *this* to attack?

    Not even the $1B to NASA for Ares acceleration and global warming research? Not even that NIH (or was it NSF) money that Specter himself begged for?

    Personally, I’m still worried about the debt / dollar issue. I know this stimulus is important, but we’re actually taking a bet that the fire relights before our ability to borrow money falls apart. Obama’s going to have to do some budget balancing as things get better (even if this causes a bit of a dip like it did for FDR), especially in the taxes department. Top rates are just gonna have to go up.

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