Why I hate republicans

4 More Years of Clinton?

That's the heading of of an email I just received from Mike Duncan, head of the RNC.

Here's the first paragraph of the email.

Last week, Hillary Clinton voted against a resolution condemning MoveOn.org for its vicious personal attack on General David Petraeus, the highly-respected leader of our Armed Forces in Iraq. Now, Bill Clinton is joining in, but - typically - he's taking it even further, angrily attacking those who condemned the ad:...

What's wrong this email? No where in the entire damn email does he address what the hell the GOP plans for the next administration.

It's clear to me, the GOP plans to run a campaign that consists of "At least we're not Hillary".

Mike, if you don't give people a reason to vote for you, they'll just stay at home. Conservatives don't vote for people just because they're not democrats. They vote for people that espouse conservative principles and that includes more than just gay marriage.

So get it through you're head and start running a party about principle over power or we're all going to be shouting "Heil Hillary" in January, 2009.

DUI checkpoint

Tonight's DUI checkpoint (aka a Bengals Reunion) will be held on Ohio St Rt 73, west of I-75.

If you are a Bengal, Bear, Falcon.... Jesus. Let's just say, if you play in the NFL and your teams nickname is an animal, stay clear of this area.

Unless, of course, you're Michael Vick... They're expecting you.

Products of the NEA

Hat Tip to Mike McConnell

Looking at the wear on the paint, it looks like this has been there a while.

Friday humor

I don't know Norm McDonald can keep a straight face

When winners endorse

Hillary picked up another key endorsement on her road to the White House.

Apparently, George McGovern is set to endorse the Hildebeast. Don't remember George? Don't worry no one else does.

But to brush you up on history, he was an anti war democrat, who in 1972 lost to Richard Nixon in a landslide. It was uglier than than Grossman on 3 and 10.

So I can see why Hillary would want such a key endorsement.

This is the list of some of her endorsements to date and the voting bloc they will bring.

Jenna Jameson, porn stars
Larry Flynt, porn distributors
Heidi Fleiss, hookers and Bill's girl friends
OJ, murderers who get off (Phil Specter and Robert Blake)
George McGovern, Anti war losers.

We're still awaiting an endorsement from Fidel Castro so she can pull in the dead, or not, communist dictators.

Edwards consents

In an effort to fund his never ending need for hair care supplies, the Breck Girl will now seek public financing of his campaign.

In a speech to supporters Edwards said "I want to bridge the gap between the two America's so I've decided to accept welfare for my campaign so I have a better understanding of what it's like to feel destitute."

Told that he lives in a home 8 times larger than the average American, Edwards responded "I'll have you know, my home is much smaller than average ghetto community".

It looks like it's down to Obama and Hillary now.

Tiger poop

The Bengals want permission to shoot pigeons in the stadium because they're "pooping" on fan's food and drink during the games.

First, poop on stadium food would be a plus. Poop in the draft beer might actually cool it down to room temperature.

Second, I think the Bengals should worry more about the poop on the field (aka the team).

Third, wait until the fans get there season tickets renewals. The way Mike Brown "poops" on the fans, I think they'll prefer the pigeon poop.

joe cocker john belushi feeling allright

Last weekend I was telling the future Mrs. Gekko how I thought this was the best performance on SNL ever.

Yesterday, I saw it on Nasty, Bruthish & Short. So here it is.

Law enforcement

A car circles a high-rise three times. Someone leaves a backpack in a park. Such things go unnoticed in big cities every day. But that could change in Cicago with a new video surveillance system that would recognize such anomalies and alert authorities to take a closer look.

That's incredible. Maybe they'll be able to detect dead people voting.

Get those smugglers

The state of Tennessee recently passed a cigarette tax increase from 20 to 62 cents a pack and guess what, people are buying smokes from other states and bringing them back to the volunteer state.

So instead of making their tax competitive with other states so people aren't incentivized to go elsewhere, they're installing video surveillance sytems to bust smugglers.

Starting today, state Department of Revenue agents will begin stopping Tennessee motorists spotted buying large quantities of cigarettes in border states, then charging them with a crime and, in some cases, seizing their cars....

“This shows once again that Reagan Farr and the Department of Revenue are more interested in turning Tennessee into a police state than doing their job of collecting taxes,” said Drew Johnson, president of the Tennessee Center for Policy Research.

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Thank God they're spineless

Whenever I get down on republicans, which occurs quite frequently here in Ohio, I always look to the democrats to see what real spineless politicians look like so I don't quite feel so bad.

If you are a democratic congressman who opposes the war, why aren't you doing more to stop it?

The Politico has this piece

Excerpt

The vast majority of Democrats in Congress are powerfully clear about what they think about the war in Iraq. It is the greatest strategic blunder of a generation.

It is a lost cause. Above all, it is immoral — with more men and women
dying each day for a war that many Democrats concluded years ago was a terrible mistake.

But clarity gives way to muddle when you pose a simple question to
Democrats: After eight months in power on Capitol Hill, why have you not done more to end the war?

Most answers come down to some version of “There’s nothing we can do.”

But if you truly believe that each and every life lost in this war is for some kind of Quixotic Bush Imperialism couldn't you muster up some kind of courage to get the boys home?

The article basically states that Pelosi and Reid could shut down all business in the house and senate until the administration agreed to a withdrawal.

The bottom line is principle & courage. So you have to question whether or not democratic reps have the courage to sacrifice a political carer to stand on a principle in which innocent Americans are being gunned down in Iraq.

And if you are Harry "the weasel" Reid the obvious answer is... "My political career is more important than a few guys dying."

No Texan Left Behind

Offering a grammar lesson guaranteed to make any English teacher cringe, President George W. Bush told a group of New York school kids on Wednesday: "Childrens do learn."

Bush made his latest grammatical slip-up at a made-for-TV event where he urged Congress to reauthorize the No Child Left Behind Act, the centrepiece of his education policy, as he touted a new national report card on improved test scores.

HillaryCare

Dick Morris asks Hillary some tough questions:

Question: You say that your healthcare proposal will leave alone those who are happy with their current insurance. But if you provide health benefits for close to 50 million new people, thereby generating huge new demand for medical care without any increase in the supply of doctors, nurses or hospitals, it will drive up prices radically. Won't that force you to institute cost controls by limiting the care those now on health insurance can receive?

Question: You base your healthcare proposal on the need to cover 47 million "uninsured Americans." Since about a third of them are illegal immigrants and another third are eligible for Medicaid right now and just don't apply for it, aren't you overstating the problem?

Question: In 2005 you co-sponsored legislation to provide health insurance to the children of illegal immigrants who have lived in this country for five years. In other words, their children would get subsidized healthcare under the State Children's Health Insurance Program as a reward for dodging the cops for five years. Do you still support that proposal?

Prophet

Gordon must be a prophet.

After my post where I talked about my old neighborhood that's deteriorated into a ghetto, lo and behold 2 UC students were robbed at gunpoint. Right at the address where I lived, 2900 Euclid Ave.

But I'm sure that anyone that would refuse to live there would be discriminating against the neighborhood.

Rank & File get screwed

GM, UAW Win in Contract Deal

Is the headline in this AP article about the GM strike

But with every winner there must be a loser. Who is the loser here? It's going to be the rank and file members getting the screwing of a lifetime by their leadership. Why?

Because of this

The two sides tentatively agreed Wednesday to a groundbreaking agreement that allows GM to move its unfunded retiree health care costs into an independent trust administered by the UAW.

As a guy who watched the Teamsters systematically steal his father's pension, I can guarantee a huge chunk of this money will be siphoned off to political candidates, I can hear John Edwards licking his lips as I type.

Still not enough proof? How about the NFLPA who administers the disability payments for it's members. Remember the quote from one of their members about the president

I won't stop until that bastard's gone or in jail. He's a disgrace to every player, past and current.

Good luck UAW members.

Bill Wirtz RIP

For those who are not hockey fans, the name Bill Wirtz doesn't have much meaning but if you are a Chicago Blackhawks fan, the name has a lot of meaning; and it's not positive meaning at that.

He's most known for his refusal to telecast home Blackhawk games and his tightness with money. This is what a fan had to say about Mr. Wirtz who dies today.

His funeral will not be televised in this market, as the late Mr. Wirtz considered it unfair to potential "home" mourners.

Nice legacy Bill. RIP.

KC WOLF

I wish it was Grossman

Let's discriminate, I mean choose.

It's against the law for landlords to discriminate based on the color of a person's skin. But can they reject you because of what's on your skin?

That's a question posed by this TV station related to an apartment building that won't rent to people with tattoos.

My answer, hell yes. Why not?

Because Gordon it's not right to discriminate for something like tattoos.

Look I have a tattoo. It's not visible but I could understand why someone wouldn't want to rent to someone with a body full of them.

And this is what I've never understood about discrimination. If you had a bunch of tattoos, why would you want to rent from somebody who feels that way about them. I wouldn't want my money going to a "bigot".

The other thing I never understood about discrimination is that we all do it, especially in housing.

Well I've never discriminated Gordon.

Then you are a liar. I remember getting out of college and looking for my first apartment. The complex I went to looked nice and I was all set to sign the lease when my ultra liberal girlfriend said "did you notice all the junkie cars in the parking lot".

To which I responded "did you happen to notice my car? it's pretty junkie". So I signed the lease and wouldn't you know there was a reason all those cars were heaps of crap. Because no one had jobs and because they didn't have jobs they partied all damn night not affording Gordon a justified good night sleep.

But Gordon, you're talking about cars not tattoos.

So what, same premise applies. We all "choose" based on lots of criteria. But when we choose it's OK but when someone else chooses, especially when they don't choose us, it's discrimination.

Last weekend, I drove through the neighborhood I lived in while I was attending college. I was half scared for my life. Why, because all you had to do was look at all the auto glass on the streets, windows boarded up, bars on the windows. The neighborhood is now a first class ghetto.

Yet, when I was in school the same neighborhood looked old and urban but it was a fairly safe neighborhood and it probably had the same ethnic makeup as it does today.

There's no way in hell I would rent there today.

So for you libs that are all about not choosing I challenge you to buy the first house you see. We'll see how quick you are to discriminate in your choice.

She's at rock bottom

So let's assume you're a news anchor for a broadcast few people watch.

What do you do to get people to pay attention to your broadcast?

Play the " I Hate Bush Card".

Don't you just want to pat little Katie on the head and say "It's alright honey, now go back to bed".

Really?

From the Gekko Institute of Useless Polls and Surveys (GIUPS)

Apparently, Democratic Pollsters have learned that Hillary

could lose the 2008 election because of her "very polarised image".

Who would have thunk it?