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  1. Dutchboy1

    Dutchboy1 said, 27 days ago

    Let me guess, they’re all sitting quietly in the dark.

  2. nomad2112

    nomad2112 said, 27 days ago

    Ironically this just showed up in my in-box tonight.

    THE COW AND THE ICE CREAM
    ONE OF THE BEST EXPLANATIONS
    OF WHY OBAMA WON THE ELECTION

    From a teacher in the Nashville area

    “We are worried about ‘the cow’ when it is all about the ‘Ice Cream.’

    The most eye-opening civics lesson I ever had was while teaching third grade this year…

    The presidential election was heating up and some of the children showed an interest.

    I decided we would have an election for a class president. We would choose our nominees. They would make a campaign speech and the class would vote.

    To simplify the process, candidates were nominated by other class members. We discussed what kinds of characteristics these students should have.

    We got many nominations and from those, Jamie and Olivia were picked to run for the top spot. The class had done a great job in their selections. Both candidates were good kids.

    I thought Jamie might have an advantage because he got lots of parental support. I had never seen Olivia’s mother.

    The day arrived when they were to make their speeches. Jamie went first. He had specific ideas about how to make our class a better place. He ended by promising to do his very best. Everyone applauded and he sat down.

    Now is was Olivia’s turn to speak. Her speech was concise. She said, “If you will vote for me, I will give you ice cream.” She sat down. The class went wild. “Yes! Yes! We want ice cream.”

    She surely would say more. She did not have to. A discussion followed. How did she plan to pay for the ice cream? She wasn’t sure. Would her parents buy it or would the class pay for it. She didn’t know. The class really didn’t care. All they were thinking about was ice cream.

    Jamie was forgotten. Olivia won by a landslide.

    Every time Barack Obama opened his mouth he offered ice cream and 52 percent of the people reacted like nine year olds.

    They want ice cream. The other 48 percent know they’re going to have to feed the cow and clean up the mess.

  3. cdward

    cdward said, 27 days ago

    Only Obama did not offer ice cream (tax cuts). He offered a difficult road ahead. That’s what the adults understood when they voted for him. But when you equate adult voting with nine-year-olds then you truly don’t get it.

  4. scottfreitas

    scottfreitasGenius_badge said, 27 days ago

    C-SPAN would love to carry coverage of both the House and Senate debating and devising “health care reform.”

    The Demoncrats simply refuse to allow it…

    Funny how your average Demoncrat voter is never alarmed by such behavior. :/

  5. believecommonsense

    believecommonsenseGenius_badge said, 27 days ago

    I give Morin kudos for commenting what appears to be lack of transparency. However (and there is one) the committee debates, discussions were on air live, and the floor debates will be covered live too. What isn’t being covered is a small group of people reconciling the various versions. Now, if this got expanded to a lot of people and carried live we’d have the usual delay tactics, hundreds of amendments, some intended only to create a single vote aye or nay for the next election cycle, and the usual posturing and asking for a 72 hour delay for each amendment. They’d still be at it in 2010. I’m not appalled that this point of the process, the reconciliation is taking place behind closed doors. The final floor votes, lots of attempts to amend, will be televised.

  6. believecommonsense

    believecommonsenseGenius_badge said, 27 days ago

    scott, you are grossly uninformed but I suspect that’s the w ay you want it. Facts, context and historical perspective have no place in your universe of hate and intolerance.

  7. scottfreitas

    scottfreitasGenius_badge said, 27 days ago

    Oh spare me the usual Orwellian buzzwords you Leftists throw around. We all saw the love you had for Bush and the GOP, and your tolerance towards Christians and everyone else who doesn’t unconditionally surrender to your radical agenda is legendary…

    The Demoncrats have full control over what C-SPAN is allowed to cover. Of course they’ve used it as a propaganda tool (as much as they can with no Keith Olbermann “journalists” to provide commentary), same as they always do.

    But the committees where everything actually gets DONE will never be shown. You made valid points about all the political posturing involved, but it doesn’t change the fact we’ll never get to hear any of the discussion taking place in which things actually get DONE.

    The actual decisions will always be made where we can’t see or hear them. Really I don’t even expect any better, I just hate how Demoncrats will pretend they are doing things “openly” and brag and posture about it on camera, all while claiming the GOP does everything in dark alleyways huddled together under Dick Cheney’s fanned-open raincoat…

  8. HOWGOZIT

    HOWGOZIT said, 27 days ago

    If you don’t concur with cd and BCS the answers are always “You do not get it/you are sorely misinformed.”

  9. omQ R

    omQ RGenius_badge said, 27 days ago

    ^ And yet they often provide sources whenever they say so to back their assertions. Do you?

  10. HOWGOZIT

    HOWGOZIT said, 27 days ago

    Do not need to Q when it is the SOS day after day.

  11. motivemagus

    motivemagus said, 27 days ago

    In other words, no.

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  13. petergrt

    petergrt said, 27 days ago

    “What isn’t being covered is a small group of people reconciling the various versions.”

    Correction:

    What isn’t being covered is a small group of DEMOCRATS reconciling the various versions.

  14. believecommonsense

    believecommonsenseGenius_badge said, 27 days ago

    scott, the committees WERE covered on C-Span live. Just because YOU didn’t watch, doesn’t mean it wasn’t covered. (I watched.)

    One other thing, if you believe in the teachings of Christ, it would be evident in what you say (write) and you would not need to proclaim your religious faith so incessantly. It should be manifested in words and deeds.

  15. scottfreitas

    scottfreitasGenius_badge said, 27 days ago

    Don’t blur the lines between the small number of comittee meetings where the Demoncrats allow cameras in, versus the larger number where they DON’T.

    I know where all the deals are being cut… and it isn’t in front of the cameras.

    Typically true of GOP meetings too, only they never pretended otherwise. But with Donkeys, even a trip to the john to take a whizz must be politicized…

  16. Libertarian1

    Libertarian1 said, 27 days ago

    cdward: Only Obama did not offer ice cream (tax cuts). He offered a difficult road ahead. That’s what the adults understood when they voted for him. But when you equate adult voting with nine-year-olds then you truly don’t get it.

    46% of the American public does not pay one penny in federal Income Tax. Of course Obama didn’t promise tax cuts to this group. What could it possibly have gained him? What he offered to them instead was free health care, dollars for clunkers, home loans etc which are going to be paid for by the those who voted against him. Many many of his votes were indeed ice cream votes cast by children.

  17. Machado

    MachadoGenius_badge said, 27 days ago

    And guess what happens to the cow once the ice cream is gone….

  18. petergrt

    petergrt said, 27 days ago

    The Iron Lady said:

    The problem with Socialism is that you eventually run out of the other people’s money.

    Sweden is lowering taxes - on the rich. What the hell are they smoking?

  19. petergrt

    petergrt said, 27 days ago

    Going back to the toon:

    0bama kept yapping about openness and transparency, and etc.

    How did the 787B ‘stimulus’ become a law?

    The process was so transparent as to require a revision of the word’s meaning.

    Why should we expect anything better relating to the ‘health-care reform’?
    After all, the accounting machinations got its cost down to less than 900B - over 10 years, which makes it on a per year basis, a much cheaper boondoggle than the ‘stimulus’ hoax.

  20. nomad2112

    nomad2112 said, 27 days ago

    cdward, Letting the people keep THEIR money (tax cuts) is not promising ice cream.

  21. Magnaut

    MagnautGenius_badge said, 26 days ago

    there is lots of transparency…if you have RIGHT vision rather than WRIGHT vision you can see right thru him

  22. parkersinthehouse

    parkersinthehouse said, 26 days ago

    wow - when you said cow and the ice cream: how obama won the election i started this crazy thought stream like

    obama = cow
    promises = milk
    working = processing
    strengthening = blending
    refining = sweetening
    accomplishing = ice cream
    ing

    sorta like

    looking at the cow and seeing
    it half full of ice cream

  23. charliekane

    charliekane said, 25 days ago

    Cow and ice cream. Sounds like more of a parable than a thing that happened.

    More food for thought: sausage and legislation.

    The end product may be palatable. The making of it most definitely is not.

  24. parkersinthehouse

    parkersinthehouse said, 25 days ago

    oh you are so good kane

  25. comYics

    comYics said, 20 days ago

    <<Still waiting for my cut of that Stimulus Package.