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If you are tired of

by John Cole|  July 17, 200210:04 pm| Leave a Comment

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If you are tired of pop-up ads and you use windows, send me an email and I will send you a hosts file that will eradicate most of em.

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Lawrence Kudlow just made Public

by John Cole|  July 17, 20029:47 pm| Leave a Comment

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Lawrence Kudlow just made Public Citizen’s Tyson Slocum look like a complete jackass on Hardball. Slocum was clearl out of his league, and, honestly, was shown that he doesn’t know his ass from a hole in the ground.

BTW- The topic was the current Democrat smear about Cheney and Halliburton. I would recommend watching the late viewing or reading the transcript for a laugh.

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Well Surprise, Surprise, Surprise John

by John Cole|  July 17, 20021:19 pm| Leave a Comment

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Well Surprise, Surprise, Surprise

John Corzine might actually be a stock cheat and scam artist, unlike the false allegations the Dems are throwing up about Cheney and Bush.

Sen. Jon Corzine, whose Wall Street expertise plays a key role in Democrats’ strategy on corporate responsibility, led an investment banking firm that is being accused of inflating stock prices in the 1990s and contributing to the market crash.

Two Points:

A.) There is no more evidence to this than there is anything regarding Cheney and Bush.

B.) Democrats will not utter a word and continue their full frontal assault on the economy, business, and this adminstration.

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I am waiting for the

by John Cole|  July 16, 20023:44 pm| Leave a Comment

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I am waiting for the outrage from liberal bloggers when they hear about the shady business dealings of Terry McAuliffe. It is not limited to Global Crossing, as this little piece points out:

“In one deal, McAuliffe and the fund officials created a partnership to buy a large block of commercial real estate in Florida. McAuliffe put up $100 for the purchase, while the pension fund put up $39 million. Yet McAuliffe got a 50-percent interest in the deal; he eventually walked away with $2.45 million from his original $100 investment. In another instance, the pension fund loaned McAuliffe more than $6 million for a real-estate development, only to find that McAuliffe was unable to make payments for nearly five years. In the end, the pension fund lost some of its money, McAuliffe moved on to his next deal, and fund officials found themselves facing the Labor Department’s questions.”

I know I will be waiting for a while, because there really is no outrage over Bush and Cheney- it is merely partisan politics. Remember, this is the party that has multiple definitions of the word ‘is.’ To prove it, Democrat flack addresses why Dems are not worried about the DNC chair’s business dealings:

A Democratic-party spokeswoman dismisses suggestions that McAuliffe’s record might damage his credibility. “First of all, Terry McAuliffe isn’t president of the United States,” says the DNC’s Jennifer Palmieiri. “He doesn’t have the responsibility or the ability to restore confidence in the markets.” Second, Palmieiri says, “We’re holding Bush to Bush’s standard – the standard he has laid out for corporate CEOs. He should follow that example. He has not been upfront with what his own situation was.” Finally, Palmieiri says, the business records of Bush’s Democratic critics are far less important than the fact that they support the Sarbanes corporate reform bill. “Whatever their business dealings are, and whatever they have done in the private sector,” Palmieiri says, “they still want to support the most responsible reforms available.”

My favorite line:

“Whatever their business dealings are, and whatever they have done in the private sector,” Palmieiri says, “they still want to support the most responsible reforms available.

Translation: It does not matter if Democrats were lying, cheating, dirtbag, screw-the-poor moneygrubbers in the past. They have now seen the light and realize that massive government intervention and a number of new layered laws can fix the problem.

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BTW- Rush had a good

by John Cole|  July 16, 200212:49 pm| Leave a Comment

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BTW- Rush had a good point today. Although Dems are trying to make hay over the Cheney-Halliburton non-story, remember who it was that made Cheney exercise his options when he did. That is right, it was the press and Democrats who made him sell then, so he would not have a conflict of interest.

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Some people are so obnoxious,

by John Cole|  July 16, 200212:36 pm| Leave a Comment

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Some people are so obnoxious, thick-headed, elitist, condescending, snide, and sure of their own superior intellect that it is just painful to read their fatuous proclamations. This jackass is one of those people.

Even worse, he is teaching the next generation of Guardian hacks.

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One thing I do have

by John Cole|  July 15, 20027:24 pm| Leave a Comment

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One thing I do have to comment on for today (other than I think the Lindh sentence is fair- that is really what the justice system is all about- some av erage schmoe like me can hear the sentence and say ‘That sounds reasonable” and then I can move on and not have to hear about the despicable prick or his wacky parents for 20 years). On MSNBC today, they actually had a debate titled (with the snazzy little graphics at the bottom of the screen) “Corporate Scandals- Is President Bush part of the solution or part of the problem?” The clear implication being that Bush and Cheney have done something wrong with Harken and Halliburton. I know you lefties like to lie and fool yourselves about bias in the media, but c’mon. The only thing dumber than expecting the President being able to talk the economy sound is blaming the President for these corporate scandals. Morons everywhere, I tell ya.

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