Casual Observation

7 Comments

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   boran2 on May 5, 2014 at 9:13 am

   Maybe the reporter wrote one too many blahs.  

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     NickT on May 5, 2014 at 8:40 pm

     I suspect the reporter was remembering Rick Santorum and his remarks about “blah” people.  Understandable, when dealing with these right-wing crackpots.

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   karl pearson on May 5, 2014 at 9:44 am

   For decades, the GOP has been attracting too many candidates who are simply jerks. As a matter of fact, several of these jerks have been elected to state or federal office. These people are hostile and oppositional to anything that they disagree with, especially the Federal government. The current GOP party prides itself on exhibiting outrageous behavior and this behavior is then reinforced by the right-wing media and some MSM outlets. Until this behavior becomes a serious liability or is no longer “popular”, we’ll see more of it.

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     BooMan on May 5, 2014 at 10:04 am

     that’s true, Karl, but admit it.

     That article is hilarious.  

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     Deathtongue on May 5, 2014 at 11:17 am

     Conservatism has always been attracting jerks. Which isn’t surprising, since the core principle of conservatism throughout the ages — arbitrary hierarchical domination — only appeals to cretins and/or wannabe tyrants possessed of the worst instincts. This isn’t just a phenomenon of the New Right; pre-Buckley conservatives have always been putting out drivel that will turn your stomach.

     “I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and duty of the general government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit. A prevalent tendency to disregard the limited mission of this power and duty should, I think, be steadfastly resisted, to the end that the lesson should be constantly enforced that, though the people support the government, the government should not support the people.”

     — Grover Cleveland, vetoing the Texas Seed Bill

     “Would you dare to claim that the size of your pay check was created solely by your physical labor and that those rails were the product of your muscles? The standard of living of [a medieval] blacksmith is all that your muscles are worth; the rest is a gift from Hank Rearden.”

     — Ayn Rand, masturbating publically.

     If you don’t, this program I promise you, will pass just as surely as the sun will come up tomorrow and behind it will come other federal   programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have known it in this country until one day as Normal Thomas said we will wake to find that we have socialism, and if you don’t do this and I don’t do this, one of these days we are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children, what it once was like in America when men were free.

     — 1961 Reagan, on Medicare

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   MikeInOhio on May 5, 2014 at 10:29 am

   What??? No extensive questions on BENGHAZI??  Obviously a liberal rag.

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   cruzy on May 5, 2014 at 10:36 am

   LOL, bounced by Willamette Weekly. Go drown your sorrows in a good Oregon Pinoit Noir, buddy.