The Goat Pen

Christy's orange cone-gate = The Democrats and the MSM (is if they were different entities) have calculated that Christie is the most likely and the most formidable Republican candidate in 2016. So the 4 years of nonstop journalistic hatchet jobs on him have now officially begun.

Deaths from orange cone-gate : 0
Deaths from Benghazi: 4

Hardly unexpected.....the MSM has had to sit on their hands for 5 years, or face being monitored by NSA.....now they got some red meat that is approved by Brock's SS.

And, as usual, Will nails it............



The era of Gesture Liberalism is at hand. It may be more amusing than consequential.

Americans who exercise consumer sovereignty wherever Barack Obama still tolerates it are constantly disappointing him. For generations they persisted in buying what he calls “substandard” policies from what he calls “bad apple” health insurers. They stopped only when he forced them to stop — when he rescued them from their ignorance by banning their benighted preferences.

Have consumers thanked him for trying to wean them from their desire to drive large, useful, comfortable, safe vehicles that he thinks threaten their habitat, Earth? The 2013 numbers tell the tale of their ingratitude. In 2013, for the 32nd consecutive year, the best-selling vehicle was Ford’s F-Series pickups. This supremacy began, fittingly, in the first year of Ronald Reagan’s deregulatory presidency.



Today’s consumers, who cannot get it through their thick heads that they are supposed to want wee vehicles such as Chevrolet’s Volt, bought 763,402 F-Series trucks. That is 740,308 more than the number of Volts General Motors sold.

That coal company will get hammered for the spill - and should.

In a Republican America, environmental regulation is unnecessary because companies will do a good job policing themselves. Because FREE MARKET will punish them if they don't.

Let's see...Who created the EPA? I seem to have forgotten.

Every month when the job reports come out all we hear from the media and tick is how wonderful the Obama economy is doing. This month, all of a sudden, it's awful...even though the unemployment rate is down to 6.7%....6.7%! Tick should be excited. Oh wait, yeah, we have to argue that we need to extend unemployment benefits...bad, BAD economy.

10ac wrote:Let's see...Who created the EPA? I seem to have forgotten.

Hasn't your party completely disowned Nixon? And does the tea party wants to keep the EPA? That'd be news to me

I wouldn't mind keeping the EPA as an advisory board to the states - along with a whole bunch of changes to the personnel that staff the agency

Thank god they mandated no vents on gas cans!

The real reason for poverty in this country.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1 ... 2404877612

10ac wrote:Thank god they mandated no vents on gas cans!

Fu!kin' peanuts! Ethanol will save the planet, you heard it here first.

Dr. Strangelove wrote:In a Republican America, environmental regulation is unnecessary because companies will do a good job policing themselves. Because FREE MARKET will punish them if they don't.

If only the free mkt could work like this....


Gov. John Kitzhaber said Thursday the state has hired a firm to conduct an independent review of what went wrong with Oregon’s troubled health insurance exchange.

Several states and the federal government have struggled with exchange technology, but none as much as Oregon. Cover Oregon’s online enrollment system still doesn’t work more than three months after it was supposed to launch, and the state has hired or reassigned hundreds of workers to manually process applications. Officials say they hope the online system will be operational by March.

Whereas Massachusetts, the birthplace of obamacare, runs like a well-oiled machine.

It's obvious now, but had they kept the name romneycare then everything healthcare-wise would be kopacetic.

sardis wrote:The real reason for poverty in this country.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1 ... 2404877612

And yet rightwingers fight abortion, contraception, and sex ed at every turn. Or ignore 'em if it suits them, as the author did. So children of poor unwed mothers are the real reason for poverty in this country? Obviously the answer is to kill Planned Parenthood, and tell the little wimmin to hold an aspirin betwixt their knees.

Breaking News: US Supreme Court Strikes Down Arizona Abortion Ban

The tea party taliban won't take that lying down.

Really? The reason we have so many single parent families is because people don't have access to contraception or aren't educated enough about contraception?

You really don't believe that, but you have to be dishonest with yourself to tow the party line.

Attempting humor to cover ignorance is like trying to cover a football field w/a hanky in this case.

sardis wrote:Really? The reason we have so many single parent families is because people don't have access to contraception or aren't educated enough about contraception?

You really don't believe that, but you have to be dishonest with yourself to tow the party line.

No, the reason we don't have a few more million single families is precisely because the rwnj's haven't been all that successful in thwarting women's reproductive options. And that's the irony of that article you posted, all that whining about bastard kids. That kind of crap-and-fall-back-in-it post is something we've come to expect from toe; sorry to see you drop to that level, sardis.

That makes no sense. Back in 1964 the rwnj's were successful in thwarting women's reproductive options, yet kids born out of wedlock were far less.