Wouldn't This Be Something

uscitizen said:
you can thank me later Darla. But someone gave it a lower rating than I did becuase of less stars now. I wonder who the asshole was...
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Probably Superfreak. He gives me negative rep points whenever he can, and if Damo didn't have it set up to force you to rep other people before you could re-rep someone, he'd be doing it to me every day.

He's obsessed with me usc.
 
Darla said:
"There is a strong possibility that Barack Obama will ask Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) to serve as his Secretary of Commerce, Democratic Senate aides tell the Huffington Post.

The move would fill a vacancy that has lingered since Gov. Bill Richardson withdrew his nomination. And provided that Al Franken emerges victorious in the Minnesota recount, it would give Democrats in the Senate a 60th caucusing member, as New Hampshire's Democratic governor John Lynch would appoint Gregg's replacement.

Asked for a response, White House spokesman, Bill Burton, in an email to the Huffington Post, said the "president hasn't made a pick yet."

The potential of Gregg leaving the Senate will almost certainly set off an intense lobbying effort from his fellow Republican senators to persuade him to turn down the Commerce post. Already, a GOP operative writes in to say: "No way that Gregg takes it."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/29/judd-gregg-commerce-secre_n_162378.html
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I dunno, in some ways I'm tempted, because the seat would almost certainly go to a Dem at special election, and that would mean a straight sixty in the senate. We could pass most bills we wanted.

In another way, I don't think giving commerce to the Republicans is a good idea at all. It's better just to rely on the moderate Republicans to cushion us in the senate.
 
Watermark said:
I dunno, in some ways I'm tempted, because the seat would almost certainly go to a Dem at special election, and that would mean a straight sixty in the senate. We could pass most bills we wanted.

In another way, I don't think giving commerce to the Republicans is a good idea at all. It's better just to rely on the moderate Republicans to cushion us in the senate.
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I think your second way is the right way in this case.
 
Even if his policies were socialist you, as an American, should hope that he succeeds in making America a better place whether or not you believe in that philosophy or not. Rush is a traitor.
 
Given the way socialism is thrown around these days by folks on the right you can rest assured that Rush wants Obama to fail and that, even assuming the modifier was used, it adds no meaningful context.
 
Yes, the socialist part adds nothing of importance to the context.

It would've been OK if he would have said "I [believe] he will fail."

It's an entirely different thing to HOPE that he fails, and HOPE that he makes America a worse place. Just another example of Damo using a moderate shroud to cover for the extremists in his party. Seriously, Damo has defended some ridiculous stuff in a way I'd never expect out of anyone but those from the far, far right.
 
Rush secretly is happy when the dems gain power cause his viewership goes up. His peak was during the Clinton years.
 
I honestly don't think Rush will ever gain that kind of viewership again. Right wing radio, as a meaningful medium, is dying hard and fast. And the progressives own the internet. Hell, the libertarians have a bigger slice of it than the conservatives do.

That's one of the main reasons I think that the Dems would be wise never to touch the fairness doctrine, because talk radio is fading into oblivion and we own the new mediums.
 
I just wish my sister would stop listening to him. She thinks Obama is the anti-Christ because of him!
 
froggie said:
I just wish my sister would stop listening to him. She thinks Obama is the anti-Christ because of him!
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These demagogues have a huge negative effect on a lot of people.

If I had to list all the times I had known someone who heard about a progressive policy, liked it a little, then listened to Rush, and came back screaming obsessively as if it were the end of the world... I'd never get done.

Ron Paul also has this effect on people.

They appeal to American sensibilities to do something atrocious and nonsensical. They are mentally ill.
 
Watermark said:
I honestly don't think Rush will ever gain that kind of viewership again. Right wing radio, as a meaningful medium, is dying hard and fast. And the progressives own the internet. Hell, the libertarians have a bigger slice of it than the conservatives do.

That's one of the main reasons I think that the Dems would be wise never to touch the fairness doctrine, because talk radio is fading into oblivion and we own the new mediums.
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from what i have read and heard, quite the opposite. more people are tuning into talk radio and conservative talk radio is gaining listeners...

now liberal talk radio, that is dying and airhead america should really be dead, liberals own the news, thats for sure
 
Watermark said:
These demagogues have a huge negative effect on a lot of people.

If I had to list all the times I had known someone who heard about a progressive policy, liked it a little, then listened to Rush, and came back screaming obsessively as if it were the end of the world... I'd never get done.

Ron Paul also has this effect on people.

They appeal to American sensibilities to do something atrocious and nonsensical. They are mentally ill.
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LOL Emoboy compared Dr. Paul to Dropout Limbaugh. Nicely done! I'm sure you are aware of Limbaugh's opinion of Dr. Paul?
 
This year, news talk ranked as the most popular radio format in the United States, surpassing country music for the first time ever. Forty stations have added news talk in the last year, for a total of 2,064 that use the format, up from about 1,500 a decade ago, according to the trade publication M Street.

That means 2,064 stations need 24 hours of programming every day. Stations with tight budgets increasingly rely on programs from Premiere Radio Networks, ABC Radio Networks and other syndication companies.

Five of the most popular syndicated names in news-talk radio — Mr. Limbaugh, Mr. Hannity, Glenn Beck, Michael Savage and Laura Ingraham — signed new contracts in the last 12 months, all but guaranteeing that they will be rallying listeners for the duration of Mr. Obama’s four-year term. Mr. Limbaugh’s landmark contract, announced in July, promised a total of $400 million through 2016.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/22/business/media/22radio.html?hp

thought i would throw in a liberal source so i wouldn't scare the left wingers with that other source.

what do you say now uscitizen, watermark?
 
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