Frist Fails
Posted by TFG on May 23rd, 2005
Our long national nightmare is over — the Good Old Boys Club will remain the Good Old Boys Club. And none of the august body will have to pee in a coffee can this time around.
You can bet there will be bazillions of photons and pixels and ink and trees wasted on this, but it boils down to this: enough Republican Senators preferred not to kick over the anthill and embroil themselves in something that might actually mean something. They caved…buckled like a wet cardboard box. Now they can ALL go back to finding ways of assuring the inexorable creep of governmental power over the lives of those whom they deign to govern. Wanna take a guess what will come next? The Drumettes have an answer: HEALTHCARE….I believe that national healthcare in the United States is inevitable. Of course they believe that — they’re socialists, that’s what we expect from them. And they just got a leg up on achieving that.
Boy, you know…I really had some hope there for a couple of days. Shoulda known better.
May 23rd, 2005 at 11:46 pm
I would like t o hear more on why you think this was a bad move. To tell you the truth I haven’t made up my mind if this is a bad move. I didn’t think changing the rules was that horrible of an idea as many were arguing. after all we’ve doe it several times in the past. But on the other hand Congress has always been run by compromise. That’s one of the things that has made our government better than any other. We compromise. No one is ever completely happy but no one is ever left out in the cold.
May 24th, 2005 at 12:49 am
There’s no way to compromise with a bunch of wacked-out Leftos. The Republicans have just pulled defeat out of the jaws of victory.
Some people’s butts are going to be in the sling for this betrayal of the majority party and President Bush. It ain’t going to be pretty.
McCain and Graham (and maybe even Frist if he doesn’t suddenly grow a pair) have just flushed their national careers down the toilet. The ‘pubbie Senators’ email boxes are crammed full right now.
Listen to Limbaugh tomorrow (5/24). He has around 20 million pissed-off listeners who vote and will not be writing checks to the RNC in the near future. Frigging idiots.
May 24th, 2005 at 4:21 am
“Inevitable” is what you say about something you want but can’t have when you have no good arguments for it and what you’d really like to say is “Stop resisting, you bastards!”
May 24th, 2005 at 6:16 am
Otis, I think it’s a bad move because I want Bush’s nominees to be debated in the daylight, not in John McCain’s office by 14 Senators. The public has been denied that. Further to compromise — this ain’t no highway bill. This is Federal judges, the guys who make possible things like national health care, or more importantly to me, make it impossible siince it’s not in the bleeding constitution. If I’ve learned nothing else in my years of following politics, it’s that judges are the life-long legacy of day-to-day politics.
TJ, it’s going to be an interesting next few days, that’s for sure. I can’t listen to Limbaugh (commercials and callers drain my life force), but I do read some of his stuff and there’s no denying he’s a force to be reckoned with.
May 24th, 2005 at 6:54 am
Well Buck it’s great reading and will interesting to watch how it all falls out. I enjoy you and your well spoken friends insights. I hope there willbe much more comment , although I don’t know if the poker world can survive without your constant attention
May 24th, 2005 at 8:27 am
It certainly makes me appreciate the House Majority Leader and his ability to move a conservative agenda through HIS institution that much more….
This is a leadership failure for Frist, to be sure, and may well end his own Presidential aspirations. Thankfully, it should also end John McCain’s Presidential aspirations. Conservatives decide the Republican nominee, and McCain just ended any possibility of conservative support. That’s a positive at least.
May 31st, 2005 at 3:47 pm
I hate to sound like one of those whacked out left-wing commie bastages but it does seem to me that this country is headed backwards from stem-cell research to right to die issues not to mention a womans right to choose to have an abortion, why just this week our wonderful state legislature adjourned and all they got acomplished was new legislation making it harder to get an abortion{dont know all the particulars on that one] a ban on gay marriage[ i'm not a gay but I play one on television] and sit down for this one , they actually made the buckboard[no pun intended] the official state vehicle, they didn’t have the cajones to tackle the issue of funding for our schools or any number of things that I find important.
May 31st, 2005 at 8:11 pm
You’re getting my dander up. Show me an adult (18+) who can no longer get an abortion. Show me an adult who can’t die when and how they want to. Gay marriage, I’ll grant you, but that’s the kind of thing that needs a brake put on it until some terms get defined a little better. As far as I’m concerned they can have all the misery that goes with marriage, same as I’ve got. They should be able to get a judge to pronounce them husband and wife. But they get all the bullshit that goes with it, too, including a 50% divorce rate, alimony, child support, community property, etc. That’s fine by me.
May 31st, 2005 at 8:15 pm
As far as stem cells go, I’m not convinced that embryonic stem cells are any better than any other kind. Show me some research, and my mind can be changed. In the meantime, I’d like to hold off on my tax dollars being spent on harvesting and subsequent research. Let private industry do it. That’s what they’re there for. If it’s so important, they can make a business case out of it.
September 9th, 2005 at 1:44 am
Program on the emergence of civilization.
“14 species of large animals capable of domesitcation in the history of mankind.
13 from Europe, Asia and northern Africa.
None from the sub-Saharan African continent. ”
Favor.
And disfavor.
They point out Africans’ failed attempts to domesticate the elephant and zebra, the latter being an animal they illustrate that had utmost importance for it’s applicability in transformation from a hunting/gathering to agrarian-based civilization.
The roots of racism are not of this earth.
Austrailia, aboriginals:::No domesticable animals.
The North American continent had none. Now 99% of that population is gone.
AIDS in Africa.
Organizational Heirarchy
Heirarchical order, from top to bottom:
1. MUCK - perhaps have experienced multiple universal contractions (have seen multiple big bangs), creator of the artificial intelligence humans ignorantly refer to as “god”
2. Perhaps some mid-level alien management
3. Mafia (evil) aliens - runs day-to-day operations here and perhaps elsewhere (”On planets where they approved evil.”)
Terrestrial management:
4. Chinese/egyptians - this may be separated into the eastern and western worlds
5. Romans - they answer to the egyptians
6. Mafia - the real-world interface that constantly turns over generationally so as to reinforce the widely-held notion of mortality
7. Jews, corporation, women, politician - Evidence exisits to suggest mafia management over all these groups.
Survival of the favored.
Movies foreshadowing catastrophy
1986 James Bond View to a Kill 1989 San Fransisco Loma Prieta earthquake.
They can affect the weather and Hurricane Katrina was accomplished for many reasons and involves many interests, as anything this historical is::
1. Take heat off Sheenhan/Iraq, protecting profitable war machine/private war contracts
2. Gentrification. New Orleans median home price of $84k is among the lowest in major American cities, certainly among desirable cities.
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