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2009-03-13 -Lurid Crime Tales-

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Posted by Omoter Speaking for Boskone7794 2009-03-13 11:17|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 All marching smartly, all working together, then the 'deer in the headlights' moment, when it finally sinks in. "What have I done."

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-03-13 12:57|| 2009-03-13 12:57|| Front Page Top

#2 Best bumpersticker so far:

"YOU voted for Obama, now YOU pay the price."

Posted by Anonymoose 2009-03-13 13:35|| 2009-03-13 13:35|| Front Page Top

#3 "YOU voted for Obama, now ~~YOU~~ WE ALL pay the price."

Posted by Solomon Gruger6132 2009-03-13 14:55|| 2009-03-13 14:55|| Front Page Top

#4 My proposed bumpersticker

Thank A Democrat...

Posted by Clineck Smith6591 2009-03-13 15:23|| 2009-03-13 15:23|| Front Page Top

#5 How about "Affirmative Action in the White House + 401K = $0"

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2009-03-13 16:29|| 2009-03-13 16:29|| Front Page Top

#6 Fuck you, Taranto. I, for one, think that the majority made the wrong decision by voting against John McCain. I wouldn't have wasted three fucking months of my free time calling thousands of strangers to badger them into voting for the old so-and-so if I hadn't thought he was the better choice.

As foolish and AGW-addled as McCain can be, he's still a Republican, and favors roughly-Republican financial solutions. He would have kept the rush-to-stimulus under some sort of control, and had a better time filling the Treasury Department than Obama, if a worse time on every other department. Most importantly, he wouldn't have laid this deadening, suffocating weight of the Democratic potential which is what is really killing the general economy. Financial crises are financial crises, but depressions are born when you kill the entrepreneurial future, and that's what the prospect of an openly leftist administration is doing.

McCain's still the better choice, and it's a damned shame the US system doesn't offer the no-confidence do-over that is one of the saving graces of the parliamentary style of government.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2009-03-13 16:33|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2009-03-13 16:33|| Front Page Top

#7 McCain's still the better choice, and it's a damned shame the US system doesn't offer the no-confidence do-over that is one of the saving graces of the parliamentary style of government.

I agree with the first clause, Mitch, but disagree with the second. The possibility of a do-over allows voters to engage more easily in posturing, as does that incredibly stupid minor party nonsense. If Israel had a simple first-past-the-post system like the U.S., future-PM Netanyahu wouldn't have spent the last month bargaining with idiots to put together a viable coalition to govern Israel.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2009-03-13 17:18|| 2009-03-13 17:18|| Front Page Top

#8 Barry won't last four years. With what we've seen already, I just can't see him finishing the race.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-03-13 18:26|| 2009-03-13 18:26|| Front Page Top

#9 TOPIX > OBAMA: US ECONOMIC CRISIS NOT AS BAD AS BELIEVED.

Thusly clearly, of course, the Bailouts, etc. must continue.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-03-13 18:28|| 2009-03-13 18:28|| Front Page Top

#10 If Israel had a simple first-past-the-post system like the U.S.

Funny people Americans: all the time complain how their elected representatives don't give a damn what they want, all the time sing hosannas to their winner take all/POTUS king for 4 years system.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-03-13 18:42|| 2009-03-13 18:42|| Front Page Top

#11 Grom, we think y'all's political system is nuts and y'all think ours is nuts.

Maybe we're both right. ;-p

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-03-13 19:03|| 2009-03-13 19:03|| Front Page Top

#12 I'm just plain old remorseful. Has nothing to do with "buyers remorse."

Posted by JohnQC 2009-03-13 19:37|| 2009-03-13 19:37|| Front Page Top

#13 PERSONALLY, I'm angry as he$$, and want to beat some heads in. With Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Reid, Dodd, Frank, Murtha, and a few dozen other assorted sleezeballs, the hard choice is what to do first.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2009-03-13 22:52|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2009-03-13 22:52|| Front Page Top

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