Poof Goes the Purple Dream

You can't kill something that was already dead. the so called bi-particain is a figment of one's imagination. The majority has always rejected proposed amandment by the minority. the very fact that only a simpleone vote majority in committee or on the floor in almost all legislation shows this to be true. The majority holds the one vote and rarely needs a minority vote.

What the call biparticianship is merely allowing the other side their say and then imposing the majority rule.

How on earth could anyone expect anything less? We're talking about politicians who attach each other and their families in the most vicious way during campaigns. Do we expect that is all forgotten when the election is over?

The topic to discuss is your article related to Africcan American History Month and North Lawndale.. When Dr. Martin Luther Kind amde his historic stand in North Lawndale to publicize the "deplorable living conditions" in North Lawndale - the conditions here were not as deplorable as was reported in the major news outlets.

Most of the homes were owned by the people who lived in them and they were kept up and well maintianed. The vacant lots and abamdoned buildings were not nearly as prevalent then as now and most abandoned bnuildigs were abandonded synogues, left vacant and decaying by a Jewish population moving to the suburbs where the scost of living was cheaper. Actually, Dr King's actions were esented by many of the residents who knew the problem was being exaggerated but many suppoorted his efforts to better the residents where blacks live.
Moreover, North Lawndale was a vibrant area teeming with businesses owned by residnets, for example, in a four block radius, there were two black owned gas stations, it is nearly impossible to find a black owned gas staiton in the enitre city of Chicago presently for two reasons, more people of different cultures owing businesses in commmunities where most of the residents are black, and because of "black flight". Once again, black are fleeing in large numbers backjto the south and other parts of the country where there is less violence and better economic opportunities.

As for crime in North Lawndale, the biggest misconception is that blacks, who are 75% to 80% of the convicted criminals,are the culprits is wrong, wrong, wrong. When a crime is cpommitted in this area- everyone automatically thinks the suspect is black, but as seen recently, when a car was stopped with two white inhabitants - they were found to have large amounts of cocaine in their possession and ran tover he police officer who stopped them in an effort to escape arrest. Nothing was printed in the major news outlets, so far as I know about what their punishment was or the outcome of this crime, but the point is that it was unusual for these people to even have come under suspicion if not for the efforts of people like myself who have seen and reported the criminal acts being committed by interrracial gangs who are allowed to operate freely in our communities.

North Lawndale is currently experiencing a re-vitalizing effort, which for the most part is succeeding, but I wanted to clear up a few of the misconceptions that abound regard ing this vibrant, alive area.

Lastly, Unlike the south sections of the city, North Lawndale was always an integrated neighborhood too and that may be why there are so many misconceptions about the area.

PiYush Bobby Jindal: Is Jimeny Cricket Come to Life !!

PiYush Bobby Jindal: Is the Product of an Extra Marital Affair, Involving the Late Fred Rogers, known to all Americans as [Mr. Rogers]

PiYush Bobby Jindal: Is Cecil The Turtle's Love Child.

PiYush Bobby Jindal: Is Eddie Murphy's Mr. White Come to to Real Life, Minus the White Make Up and Prosthetics.

Note: PiYush Jindal, had better change his Name Legally to [Bobby] or better still, Bobby had better start using his Legal Name [PiYush Jindal]

Great Presidents with Great Oratory Skills, that Americans Connected with...

1. President: Barack H. Obama

2. President: John F. Kennedy

3. President: Ronald Wislon Reagan

4. President: William J. Clinton.

5. President: Franklin D. Roosevelt

6. President: Harry S. Truman

7. President: Teddy Roosevelt

8. President: Abraham Lincoln

PiYush [[Bobby]] Jindal is Mr. Rodgers and I don't want Mr. Rodgers Near the Oval Office, only as a Visitor...

Nor do I want the Alaskan Earmarks Queen of the Frozen Tundra

[[Sarah Palin]]...

No Where Near The White House...Period

PiYush [[Bobby]] Jindal actually Believes he is the Next Ronald Wilson Reagan.

You know, Fat Boy, Rush Limbaugh has touted PiYush Jindal as the...

"Next Ronald Wilson Reagan"

Now PiYush Jindal appears to Believe his Fat A!!

Bland & Boring [[PiYush Bobby Jindal]]

PiYush Jindal: A Few Weeks Ago said..

"I will take the Money, from this Stimulus Package, but if I were still in Congress, I would've Voted Against it"

What a Contradicting, Hypocritical and Double Faced....Low Life !!

Note: If you are Against the Money being Allocated to Your State, Don't Accept It...Period.

That Or Shut Your Mouth, Take the Money and take it with a...

BIG A!! SMILE !!!

But Never, Ever Double Talk.

You will still be Accepting the BULK of the MONEY, so what Principle have You Displayed, when you Speak of..

[[Conservative Republican Principles]]

Borderline -Bull Spit and Political Ambition Above the State and the People, Jindal is suppose to place..

FIRST

The New Deal did not get us out of a depression. The employment rate went down because so many were drafted and the depression did not end until after the war when the government cut spending greatly. Government spending does not work.

The New Deal did not get us out of a depression. The employment rate went down because so many were drafted and the depression did not end until after the war when the government cut spending greatly. Government spending does not work.

Two points: (1) Turnouts for primary elections are depressed not only by extremist politics but by the lack of contests. In New Jersey, where I live, the past five primaries were not worth a vote since not one office was contested. In part, this is due to the difficult task of overcoming entrenched political machines. (2) Your New Jersey commenter who blames Gov. Corzine and the Statehouse Democrats for raising property taxes is overlooking that these taxes are set by municipal and county governments and local school boards. Nearly 60 percent of property taxes goes to the schools. State taxes send more than $10 billion back to these local taxing entities to keep property taxes down. Perhaps is Gov. Corzine balances the state budget by reducing these transfers, the localities will be compelled to make cuts that would please our correspondent -- but few others.

Two points: (1) Turnouts for primary elections are depressed not only by extremist politics but by the lack of contests. In New Jersey, where I live, the past five primaries were not worth a vote since not one office was contested. In part, this is due to the difficult task of overcoming entrenched political machines. (2) Your New Jersey commenter who blames Gov. Corzine and the Statehouse Democrats for raising property taxes is overlooking that these taxes are set by municipal and county governments and local school boards. Nearly 60 percent of property taxes goes to the schools. State taxes send more than $10 billion back to these local taxing entities to keep property taxes down. Perhaps is Gov. Corzine balances the state budget by reducing these transfers, the localities will be compelled to make cuts that would please our correspondent -- but few others.

A wonderful idea, this "Purple Dream", and kudos to Gov. Terminator for supporting the idea in California.

More worries.

The tax revolts begun in the West are now spreading east,where livid New Jerseyites woke to find that their Democrat Legislature and Governor has now slapped them with a 47% increase in their property taxes. The MSM deftly deflects the fact that the Stim Package contains within it,no assistance whatever for Katrina-caused repair of still-extant damage in Louisiana and Mississippi. Burris becomes the corrupt Democrats albatross,while Jack Murthas [D-Pa] PMA pals are being served with warrants by the FBI as we write,and we find at the same time,Chris Dodd [D-Ct] was not only up to his bushy eyebrows with COUNTRYWIDE as a ''Friend of Angelo''[Mozilo],but also another Angelo pal,one R.Allen Stanford,fugitive financier who has just been roped in and served his papers by the feds.[and a huge Democrat Party contributor. The Center for Responsive Politics whose website will follow has a full roundup of the Friends of Stanford that will include Pelosi [D-Ca] and Reid [D-Nv] among Dodd and others].
Merely having a scribbler for HUFFINGTON POST as a portion of the Washington Press Corps ,and being called upon by Obama is not assisting them in the journalistic veracity Dept. as discovered by a sharpeyed conservative blogger named ''Johnny Dollar'' who found out that a video used by HUFFINGTON to blast FOX News over the ''monkey-Obama-racism-NY Post'' controversy that was picked up by last nights COUNTDOWN [ MSNBC W/ Keith Olbermann] was a doctored fraud. Dollar has the video,which has been removed by HUFFINGTON and the actual video and remarks by FOX anchor John Gibson. You may view the lame apology by HUFFINGTON on their website. [the ''intellectual poverty''addressed elsewhere on these boards].
Jim Clyburn [D-SC] now insinuates that ''racism [anti-black] is behind''the refusal of several GOP governors to take Stim dough,not bothering to add that The Hamptons has more African Americans than all of Alaska,whose GOP governor is also turning the money down.[more ''intellectual poverty'' as weirdly addressed by AG Eric Holder]. And this is all for just this morning. What will the afternoon bring I wonder?

www.opensecrets.org The Center for Responsive Politics ''The Public Eye'',Stanford,R.Allen

The Chicago Tribune Feb.20,2009 :''The Silence Of The Dems''

The HUFFINGTON POST www.huffingtonpost.com

FOX NEWS Feb.20,2009:''John Gibsons Response To HUFFINGTON POST''. www.foxnews.com

BTW Michael Steele, wonderboy for the RNC, yeah he's under federal investigation for FRAUD....DOH!

The only possible way for there to be purple is if we had a stimulas bill to address, intellectual poverty, as well as economic poverty.
Both are rampant in this country.

Many have made the statement, The Bush Presidency is a failed Presidency.
The fact is, GW Bush did not fail, he himself said his only mistake was the Mission Accomplished banner.
Bush advanced the GOP agenda significantly, many republicans have proudly proclaimed there is no turning back.

The only clear failure was he failed to move the SS Funds to Wall Street. For most people that crash was a loss in retirement funds, for the few it was huge gain. Money does not disappear, it moves to new pockets.
Considering the size and scope of the Bush Black Friday, Reagans black Monday was just practice by comparison. Reagan called it profit taking, Bush just said, get over it.

Oil companies enjoy record profits. Halliburton was a smallish oil field maintenance company and KBR an incompetent joke in the construction industry. Both have made incredible profits that are largely tax free.

Average wages are $2000 lower, 5 million people are unemployed, and 3 million or more have lost their homes while the CEO of Countrywide for example, walked away with $632 million, and successfully blamed the poor as the cause of the housing crisis.
The educational system is producing degrees in Sunday school, so we now go to India to find technically qualified people.

Manufacturing that once provided 28% of the population with a living wage is now at 8% and manufacturing is moving to Canada because Canada has easier immigration policies for the importation of those technically skilled people.

Thousands of profitable manufacturing companies have been bought, drained of cash, gone into bankruptcy and sold for parts. The Bushs and Romneys and others who engaged in this practice call it venture capitalism, even thought it appears to some as a looting of Americas successful small business???s.

The Republican agenda has, to a significant extent moved forward but still has a way to go.

We have Eric Cantor the champion of the middle class with only his goal of more corporate tax cuts to offer as evidence of that middle class support.
John Boehner targeted Social Security even before he discovered tanning beds.
The insanely hilarious or should I say hilariously insane Michelle Bachman worried about the rich disappearing.
Then we have the Corkers, McConnells, and McCains who proclaim the attempt at helping 90% of America as theft.

These people will carry on the Reagan/Bush/Republican vision for America, perhaps someday succeeding in eliminating the evil entitlements like Social Security, food stamps, unemployment benefits, higher wages etc. Then we can all get our jollies watching old people starve. It may require one more Republican President.

The Republican vision for America is alive and well. Bush moved that vision forward. He has outdone Reagan, not just in the economic transformation of America, but also by making himself a war time president.
Perhaps if Bush had better oratory skills he would be up there with Reagan in the Presidential rankings.

Alter [or NEWSWEAK,or both],displays evident confusion in the ''Poof'' subtitle.

The GOP does not use ''Superdelegates''. These are the very ''handful of activist voters'' ushered in by Bob Schrum and Bob Beckel in the early 1980s that is currently wrecking the system virtually guaranteeing,insofar as the Democrats are concerned,that ''the smoke-filled back room deals'' of the ''All The Kings Men''era will continue,and also made a mockery of the political system in states such as Michigan and Florida.
Obviously, Alters diatribe against the GOP cuts both ways. Libertarians of the ''Terminator''mold are already aligning themselves with the renegade Republicans who rightly saw that the Big Three for instance,would continue demanding more money to prop their ailing fortunes [such as subsidizing 46-48 year-old UAW retirees for one example].
Then the new mantra from Obama and the new FDIC Chairwoman that those who were able to muddle through the mess ,keeping their jobs and paying faithfully on mortgages on modest homes would have to suck it up for the mixed bag of those who tragically lost jobs and home,scofflaws who gamed the market,those who engaged in purchasing far out of their league in order to get into tonier zip codes,and those who persisted in housing speculation.
Those of us who will have to shell out for all of these are a restive bunch,as hundreds of protesters in Mesa and Denver attested to while Obamas motorcade drove through. There is two trains of thought here. One,that the administration does not know what it is doing with the stim package cracking it wide open to fraud and abuse,and two,that the ''culture of corruption''that led Democrats to victory over the GOP has been replaced by more corruption,angering Arnolds ''middle roaders'' and libertarians this much more. Tax revolts are breaking out everywhere,California is a broken mess, feds are closing in on Democrats on all fronts, while the trivial [monkey cartoons -as-racism],outperforms meaningful dialogue on the stimpackage issues.

www.realclearpolitics.com REAL CLEAR POLITICS Issues and the days news from a non-partisan perspective.[esp. The Stimulus Package].

The Associated Press Feb.19,2009:''Democrats Self-Destructing Over Corruption''.

The State of Washington has instituted the top two vote getters iniitiative. Not every good idea comes from California.

Silly man.The Republicans won't break the Great One's momentum,Demonstrating that he is inconsistent and incompetent won't sway the faithful and the terminally credulous. Only a catastrophe can do that. Unfortunately for us all, this fraud is more than capable of providing the country with one.

Harley, Davole, drop it.

You do realize that you both are unhappy with the current Republican Party, though for different reasons. You two could be working together to change your party for the better.

Harley, you clearly have a vendetta against Bush and his supporters and there is some merit to this. Davole has a disagreement with this and understandably so. You two will never see eye-to-eye on this. Moreover, this argument has overtaken many discussions on Newsweek already and is frequently off-topic. This is simply stupid.

Now we could waste more negative energy on this nonsense, or you could move past this is actually discuss the topic at hand, namely Alter's article on bipartisanship. It's up to you. If you want to move past this, just stop engaging in this disagreement and ignore it when the other doesn't.

That said, if anyone is willing to explain why I should support open primaries, I'm all ears.