The Goat Pen

Scarborough was one of a group of about 40 freshmen Republican legislators who dubbed themselves the "New Federalists" after the Federalist Papers. Scarborough was elected Political Director of the incoming legislators. The New Federalists called for sweeping cuts in the U.S. government, including plans to "privatize, localize, consolidate, [or] eliminate"[10] the Departments of Commerce, Education, Energy and Housing and Urban Development, but were largely unsuccessful in their goals.

While in Congress, Scarborough received a number of awards, including the "Friend of the Taxpayer Award" from Americans for Tax Reform; the "Guardian of Small Business Award" from the National Federation of Independent Business; the "Spirit of Enterprise Award" from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; the "Taxpayer's Hero Award" from the Citizens Against Government Waste

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Scarborough

Scarborough sponsored a bill to force the U.S. to withdraw from the United Nations after a four-year transition

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Hacksaw wrote:...so, basically a dem.

Let's recap the ring-kissers' logic here.

1. Everything Obama has done can be blamed on George W. Bush.

2. Anyone who criticizes Obama is a racist.

That about sums it up.

Republicans obsess on [Obama's] eloquence because it allows them to pretend they lost in 2008 because the American people were gulled by pretty words. The truth is he won because he seemed the furthest thing possible from the Republicans who'd presided over two unwon wars and the great recession.

With just more than 130 days to go, Mr. Romney has to start pulling from his brain and soul a coherent and graspable sense of the meaning of his run. "I will be president for this reason and this. I will move for this and this. The philosophy that impels me consists of these things." Only when he does this will he show that he actually does have a larger purpose, and only then will people really turn toward him. He has to tell Americans why they can believe him, why a nation saturated with politics, chronically disappointed by its leaders, and tired of promises can, actually, put some faith in him.

The president has wrestled for the past six months with themes. He's jumped from one to another. They are:

It's not so bad—this indicator is up, and that one.

OK, it's bad, but it could have been worse—my actions kept us from tanking.

It's bad, but it's Bush's fault.

It's bad, but it's the congressional Republicans' fault.

I have made it less bad, and I need more time to make it even less badder.

Rich people have fancy cars and car elevators, I stand for jalopies and street parking.

None of it has worked.

What does it say of a crisis presidency at a dramatic moment that a president can't make the case for his own re-election, can't find his own meaning?

It says the other guy can win—if he has meaning. And isn't just a handsome stranger who says, "I'm not the last guy, I'm not the guy you don't like."

That won't do this year.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 56184.html

Jungle Rat wrote:

Hacksaw wrote:...so, basically a dem.

Let's recap the ring-kissers' logic here.

1. Everything Obama has done can be blamed on George W. Bush.

2. Anyone who criticizes Obama is a racist.

That about sums it up.

I don't blame GWB for the past year & a half. I blame Republicans. If you can't admit Obama was handed a turd when he walked in office though you are a fool.

Professor Tiger wrote:Peggy Noonan (or, as I consider her, the unofficial Mrs. George Will) summarizes it well:

Republicans obsess on [Obama's] eloquence because it allows them to pretend they lost in 2008 because the American people were gulled by pretty words. The truth is he won because he seemed the furthest thing possible from the Republicans who'd presided over two unwon wars and the great recession.

With just more than 130 days to go, Mr. Romney has to start pulling from his brain and soul a coherent and graspable sense of the meaning of his run. "I will be president for this reason and this. I will move for this and this. The philosophy that impels me consists of these things." Only when he does this will he show that he actually does have a larger purpose, and only then will people really turn toward him. He has to tell Americans why they can believe him, why a nation saturated with politics, chronically disappointed by its leaders, and tired of promises can, actually, put some faith in him.

The president has wrestled for the past six months with themes. He's jumped from one to another. They are:

It's not so bad—this indicator is up, and that one.

OK, it's bad, but it could have been worse—my actions kept us from tanking.

It's bad, but it's Bush's fault.

It's bad, but it's the congressional Republicans' fault.

I have made it less bad, and I need more time to make it even less badder.

Rich people have fancy cars and car elevators, I stand for jalopies and street parking.

None of it has worked.

What does it say of a crisis presidency at a dramatic moment that a president can't make the case for his own re-election, can't find his own meaning?

It says the other guy can win—if he has meaning. And isn't just a handsome stranger who says, "I'm not the last guy, I'm not the guy you don't like."

That won't do this year.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 56184.html

Hacksaw wrote:

Jungle Rat wrote:

Hacksaw wrote:...so, basically a dem.

Let's recap the ring-kissers' logic here.

1. Everything Obama has done can be blamed on George W. Bush.

2. Anyone who criticizes Obama is a racist.

That about sums it up.

I don't blame GWB for the past year & a half. I blame Republicans. If you can't admit Obama was handed a turd when he walked in office though you are a fool.

Heh...there's that unaffiliated guy who is not interested in politics, once again slamming the Republican and defending the dem.

Toemeesleather wrote:Here's the intellectuals at the White House...