DeMint Shines, Graham Flops In Pro-Growth Rankings

By James the Foot Soldier on April 25th, 2009 at 10:24 am

It didn’t take THAT much effort – put down your ghanga and click on the votes and you would find:

Ron Paul voted for the Highway Fund bailout, voted AGAINST cutting earmarks, and voted AGAINST free trade with Colombia (trade other than cocaine and ghanga).

Face it – Ron Paul is a NUTJOB that gets scarier with age.

By Liz on April 25th, 2009 at 11:47 am

Graham sucks.

By James the Foot Soldier on April 25th, 2009 at 12:08 pm

The truth is Gillon MASSIVE state and federal spending and ginormous borrowing from my grandchildren has led to the mess we as a state face while the USA is by any financial measure BANKRUPT.

Social in-Security – unfunded ponzi scheme.
Medicare – unfunded guv’ment health care.
Welfare – mo’babies = cadilla escalade.
Public edcuation = a failure for millions of children

I’m sure you’re quite proud of your socialist programs, eh Komrade Gillon?

By GGIH on April 25th, 2009 at 12:31 pm

Jim DeMint is exactly like Mark Sanford — an ideological egghead with no concern for real people working in the real world. He is 100 percent pure, and 100 percent ineffective — just like the Governor.

By Is Lindsey Graham a Socialist? on April 25th, 2009 at 5:50 pm

Sen. Lindsey sure seems to love growing a bigger government – I guess it must make him more powerful. Spend spend spend Lindsey – give our money to the big banks no strings attached – do it in a hurry and scare us that the world will end if we don’t fork over trillions –

Calling Lindsey a fiscal conservative is like calling my hound dog a purebred racehorse.

By Old Bike Dude on April 25th, 2009 at 8:53 pm

Thanks to Sen DeMint I’ve been able to feed my family and make my mortgage payments by selling colorful toys to children. Of course they are painted with lead base enamel and are all choke hazards but hey it’s a rough and tumble world out there. So what if you’re three years old. HTFU you little tike.

By Get a grip on April 25th, 2009 at 10:49 pm

Look at the wealthiest states, and think a little bit about how they got that way. Show me a state that DeMinted its way to wealth? Thought not. How about the richest countries? Hmm, no DeMinting there either.

By cecil on April 26th, 2009 at 8:42 am

Which one of ya’ll geniuses can recall which U.S. president lobbied and signed Nafta? Hmmmm..

Which one of ya’ll geniuses can recall a candidate in 1991 say,” I guaraantee I will not do business with the Butchers of Bayjannggg!” (to thunderous applause)

Answer: Bubba Clinton

By Gillon on April 26th, 2009 at 11:09 am

The 1985 Textile and Apparel Trade Enforcement bill and the Textile and Aparel Trade Act of 1987, both of which would have severely limited textile imports and in the process saved thousands of SC jobs, were both vetoed by free trade champion Ronald Reagan, despite the energetic efforts of Senators Hollings and Thurmond. A similar bill was re-introduced and passed in 1990. It was also vetoed–this time by free trade advocate George H. W. Bush. Governor Carroll Campbell of SC supported the Bush veto. As you state Bill Clinton supported NAFTA, as did the second George Bush. President Obama has pledged to implement “fair trade” policies that incorporate many of Senator Hollings’s ideas. I’m sure he could use Jim DeMint’s help. although it’s too late for those thousands of SC textile workers whose jobs have gone overseas thanks to this nation’s free trade policies regarding the textile industry. But hey, China and WalMart are very happy.

By Old Bike Dude on April 27th, 2009 at 8:07 am

So James what’s up with the aircraft carrier pic. Shouldn’t a “foot soldier” have a pic of something…say… a little more soldier like. I’ll be glad to send you some.
Oh…W spent 8 years getting the country in this mess. Give O a little time.
Resist the current fad among Republicans who cry nanny nanny boo boo. The evolution of the GOP in my lifetime has been from segregationist, to fear mongers, and now juvenile ADD.

By Gillon on April 27th, 2009 at 2:09 pm

Good for you Hermann–it’s good to have an interest in history. I guess then you probably already know that the Republican party did indeed end slavery with the Emancipation Proclamation 1in 1863. But then it only applied to the eleven seceded states, not to the four border states than in the union and was as much of an attempt to keep Britain out of the war as it was a humanitarian gesture. The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments were all passed during Radical Republican rule in the post-civil War era, and were certainly a good step forward toward human freedom, but I’m sure you also know that among their other goals was to disenfranchise Southern leaders while at the same time enfranchising blacks so they could keep the Republican party in power.
And you are of course right when you say that the Democrats had aspects of Jim Crowism until well into the twentieth century, but then so did the Republican. The key turning point comes with the civil rights movement of the 1960’s. I’m sure that you already know that this is when the Republican Party failed to stand up and be counted for black Americans. Check which party pushed through the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965 and which party, including their Presidential candidate, of 1964Barry Goldwater, stood in opposition.
You probably also know that this decade marked the birth of the Republican party in SC as leaders such as Democrats Strom Thurmond and Floyd Spence switched parties over that issue.
And course you are correct in stating that Senator Robert Byrd of W. Va. was at one time a member of the KKK. But he was hardly the Grand Dragon and was in for only a short period which he later apologized for. As a comparison you might also research, if you haven’t already, the father of SC’s Republican party, Strom Thurmond’s comments on race when he ran for President as a segregationist Dixiecrat in 1948. Thurmond never apologized.
Finally, the last time I checked, the Republican party has a majority in both houses of the SC Legislature. If they wanted school choice, all they have to do is vote for it.
But keep plugging along Hermann, you’ll get there, and remember: “We cannot escape history… We will be remembered in spite of ourselves.” A. Lincoln, 1862

By Old Bike Dude on April 27th, 2009 at 3:59 pm

Uhhh herm my man. Care to venture a guess why so many South Carolinians (once part of a democratic south) including Ol Strom jumped ship. C’mon talk your bs to those educated here in SC. They would mostly be dumb enough to believe your ilk.

By James the Foot Soldier on April 27th, 2009 at 5:40 pm

Old Bike Dude:

The aircraft carrier in the avitar is the CVN-76:

http://www.battle-fleet.com/pw/his/USS_Ronald_Reagan.htm

PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH

By Gillon on April 27th, 2009 at 6:47 pm

My grandfather was a Republican when he died. During the Depression he had worked for the Civilian Conservation Corps while his father was able to keep bread on the family table with a job under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration. After World War Two he was able to finish college with help from the G. I. Bill. He bought his first house with a loan guaranteed by the Federal Housing Authority. He sent his children to college with the help of Pell grants. When he was laid off once for several months, he received unemployment compensation until he found another job. His retirement was made more comfortable with the help of a Social Security check and Medicare. I remember once asking him why he voted Republican. His response was: “What has the Democratic party ever done for me?”