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Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

February 13, 2010 06:27 AM Forum: Politics

The February 25th Event

Posted By Rod Kaufman
The invitations are out and it appears the GOP leadership can't decide whether or not to attack the event before it happens or actually attend it with the intention of making it a productive meeting:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100213/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_care_overhaul
It appears the senate Republican minority leader has stopped crying over the loss of his aide long enough to think it might be a good idea to actually take the president of the United States at his word and work on a bipartisan health care proposal for the betterment of the nation. Who'd have thought?...

February 14, 2010 09:32 PM Forum: Politics

Biden Versus Cheney

Posted By Rod Kaufman
Cheney stated today the Obama administration was "dead wrong on Iraq". Are you kidding me? Has he forgotten about the WMDs that didn't exist? Has he forgotten about the smoking gun in the form of a mushroom cloud? Or his infamous statement that the US would be welcomed into Iraq "with rose pedals at our feet" Cheney, the inventor and the one and only leader of the fourth branch of government, needs a serious reality check...
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/02/14/biden.cheney/index.html?hpt=T1

February 19, 2010 05:30 AM Forum: Politics

Golly, What Would They Pick?

Posted By Rod Kaufman
The Tea Bag Party needs to pick a party.
Gee, wizz. Which party might they pick?
The answer evidently eludes Sarah:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/02/17/palin-tea-partiers-need-to-pick-a-party/?fbid=f9Gbf1i2IyA

February 20, 2010 04:54 AM Forum: Politics

Hatch Outraged: Utah Land Protected

Posted By Rod Kaufman
The Obama administration wants to consider potential monuments in Utah to prevent the land from being plundered by corporate interests and Oral Hatch is outraged? It doesn't appear from the comments in the article that too many seem to agree with him so just who does he really represent?
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_14435850
Can't you just wait to see Flip Romney elected so he can stand there with Oral and shovel the first scoop of earth that turns the natural arches in Utah into a gravel pit?

February 23, 2010 02:54 AM Forum: Politics

What a coincidence...

Posted By Rod Kaufman
Well, it looks like the repair process of broken government has begun, thanks to the newest member of the senate, you know the guy who wouldn't advertise himself as a Republican when he stumped for office:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-jobs-vote23-2010feb23,0,3824155.story

February 24, 2010 03:21 AM Forum: Politics

"Benedict Brown"

Posted By Rod Kaufman
How quickly the pendulum swings, especially when it's being slung at one of your own...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100224/ap_on_go_co/us_congress_jobs_gop_turncoats

February 25, 2010 04:54 AM Forum: Politics

Senate to NASA: Go somewhere...

Posted By Rod Kaufman
I think NASA ought to continue to develop and implement robotic technology for exploring Mars. It would allow for R/D in propulsion systems and advanced robotic applications which would yield more data when the spacecraft(s) land on the red planet(or elsewhere), certainly a worthy goal...

February 26, 2010 03:36 AM Forum: Politics

Just What Do These Guys Do?

Posted By Rod Kaufman
To deserve the bonuses they get?
http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/wall-street-bonuses-surge-17-in-%5C09/86707/on
I mean do they negotiate the sale of American companies to China? Discover a cure for cancer? Reduce the unemployment rate? Sustain the national economy and improve the gross domestic product? What?
http://themoderatevoice.com/54417/wall-street-bonuses-%E2%80%94-are-you-angry-yet/

February 27, 2010 04:44 AM Forum: Politics

Lessons in Hypocrisy: Utah Again

Posted By Rod Kaufman
Utah is back at it. First, we had Hatch calling the White House whining about the mere possibility that the federal government might want to create a national monument from federal land. Today we get this: "There are times when the state needs to push back against continued encroachment from the federal government". So they enact some cockamamie gun bill:
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_14477838
Yesterday, however, Utah was screaming for the feds when a private company wanted to dump nuclear waste(you know the kind of waste you might get when you do what Republicans want and build nuclear power plants all over the place)into the state:
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_13414863
Same thing with the stimulus funding:
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/john-farrell/2010/02/09/republican-stimulus-hypocrisy-they-knew-it-would-work.html
and:
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700010130/Stimulus-brought-18K-Utah-jobs-19B-for-projects.html

February 27, 2010 08:50 PM Forum: Politics

Hope and Change at Fannie Mae

Posted By Rod Kaufman
76.2 billion? Is that all?
It's dwarfed by the 500 billion bailout of the financial industry:
http://money.cnn.com/2010/02/27/news/companies/berkshire.accountability.fortune/index.htm?hpt=T2
And I don't believe most of those fat cats are liberals, either...

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