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Author    Post   twotap F L I N T O I D 378 Days until Election Day MORNING UPDATE: The budget debate continues…after the Democrats jammed through the largest tax increase in Michigan’s history…they are balking at dealing with any of the promised cuts and reforms. Republicans are standing strong, demanding reforms and savings to live within our means. We now have the largest overall budget in the history of Michigan…with the highest unemployment in the country, the highest foreclosure rates and in a single state recession. Thanks to those of you who voted for the Democrats! Thu Oct 25, 2007 9:23 am  yaryrret F L I N T O I D quote: twotap schreef: 378 Days until Election Day MORNING UPDATE: The budget debate continues…after the Democrats jammed through the largest tax increase in Michigan’s history…they are balking at dealing with any of the promised cuts and reforms. Republicans are standing strong, demanding reforms and savings to live within our means. We now have the largest overall budget in the history of Michigan…with the highest unemployment in the country, the highest foreclosure rates and in a single state recession. Thanks to those of you who voted for the Democrats! Are these the same democrats supporting Dayne Walling? Thu Oct 25, 2007 10:00 am  Dave Starr F L I N T O I D And, Rep. Charlie Rangle, D-NY, has proposed the largest tax increase in the history of the Country!. _________________ I used to care, but I take a pill for that now. Pushing buttons sure can be fun. When a lion wants to go somewhere, he doesn’t worry about how many hyenas are in the way. Paddle faster, I hear banjos. Thu Oct 25, 2007 10:32 am  twotap F L I N T O I D They are democrats just being democrats.guess we should go easy on em. Thu Oct 25, 2007 11:18 am  Adam Ford F L I N T O I D I don't think we should even any income taxes for Flint, Michigan or the U.S.A. Although Dayne is a card-carrying democrat we are already pretty much maxed out in Flint on what we can legally tax people anyways so I don't think he would raise taxes. When I heard him speak he mainly talks about using money more effectively or ways of saving money. To be fair their are some conservative democrats in this area and Republicans are supposed to be conservative but we have spent as bad if not worse as liberal democrats recently on the national level. _________________ Adam Ford Thu Oct 25, 2007 1:22 pm  last time here Guest thanks to krispy kreme johnny engler. _________________ Guest post Thu Oct 25, 2007 5:23 pm  twotap F L I N T O I D Damn LTHere your like a broken record everytime their is a thread that exposes tax and spend democraps you blame J Engler. Well OK how about some facts and figures to back up what your saying. You seemed more refined than most libwhiners at first but I dont know as things progress you seem to be falling into the Blame Republicans for everything mode. Lets face it your little leftist from Canada governor has had 5 years to straighten out any thing which the previous gov left her and as was pointed out factually in another thread by FC she blew it. Figures dont lie unless a lib whiner is trying to interpret them. Thu Oct 25, 2007 5:36 pm  last time here Guest send engler another donut!! _________________ Guest post Fri Oct 26, 2007 3:49 pm  twotap F L I N T O I D Lt here I like your style give me a call. Fri Oct 26, 2007 6:31 pm  last time here Guest HOW COULD YOU!!!!! a good democrat like that!!!! _________________ Guest post Fri Oct 26, 2007 10:35 pm  FlintConservative F L I N T O I D quote: twotap schreef: Damn LTHere your like a broken record everytime their is a thread that exposes tax and spend democraps you blame J Engler. Well OK how about some facts and figures to back up what your saying. You seemed more refined than most libwhiners at first but I dont know as things progress you seem to be falling into the Blame Republicans for everything mode. Lets face it your little leftist from Canada governor has had 5 years to straighten out any thing which the previous gov left her and as was pointed out factually in another thread by FC she blew it. Figures dont lie unless a lib whiner is trying to interpret them. LT doesn't have any facts. Sat Oct 27, 2007 9:51 am  FlintConservative F L I N T O I D quote: last time here schreef: HOW COULD YOU!!!!! a good democrat like that!!!! HA! Good Democrat? You mean typical Democrat hypocrite. Kennedy doesn't play by the rules By Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist | May 7, 2006 IF THERE is one thing that Senator Edward Kennedy is adamant about, it is that government officials play by the rules. ''The vast majority of Americans share our commitment to basic fairness," he lectured his fellow senators last May, when Republicans were threatening to trigger the ''nuclear option" -- changing the Senate's rules to prevent judicial nominations from being filibustered. ''They agree that there must be fair rules, that we should not unilaterally abandon or break those rules in the middle of the game." There was nothing clandestine about that no-filibuster threat. Senate Republicans had been discussing it publicly for more than two years. Nevertheless, the senator from Massachusetts blasted the idea. ''Every child," he thundered, ''knows that you don't change the rules in the middle of the game." But, it turns out, Kennedy's antipathy to furtive rules changes and backroom power plays stops at the water's edge -- specifically, the waters of Nantucket Sound, which separates Cape Cod (where the Kennedy family has an oceanfront compound in Hyannis Port) from the islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard. A shoal in the center of Nantucket Sound is where Cape Wind Associates hopes to build the nation's first offshore wind farm -- an array of 130 wind turbines capable of generating enough electricity to meet 75 percent of the Cape and Islands' energy needs, without burning any oil or emitting any pollution. The turbines would be miles from any coastal property, barely visible on the horizon. In fact, Cape Wind says they would be farther away from the nearest home than any other electricity generation project in Massachusetts. But like a lot of well-to-do Cape and Islands landowners and sailing enthusiasts, Kennedy doesn't want to share his Atlantic playground with an energy facility, no matter how clean, green, and nearly unseen. Last month he secretly arranged for a poison-pill amendment, never debated in either house of Congress, to be slipped into an unrelated Coast Guard bill. It would give the governor of Massachusetts, who just happens to be a wind farm opponent, unilateral authority to veto the Cape Wind project. When word of the amendment leaked out, environmentalists were appalled. The wind farm proposal is supported by the leading environmental organizations, and they never expected to be sandbagged by one of their legislative heroes. Even if Kennedy would prefer to see Cape Wind plant its windmills in somebody else's sailing grounds, he has always claimed to support the development of wind power (''I strongly support renewable energy, including wind energy, as a means of reducing our dependence on foreign oil and protecting the environment" -- Cape Cod Times, Aug. 8, 2003). And what happened to all those righteous words about not throwing out the rulebook in the middle of the game? If ever a project and its promoters have ''played by the rules," Cape Wind has -- and in spades. Its plans have undergone more than four years of scrutiny by federal, state, and regional regulators, with another year or more of evaluations, hearings, and studies to come. At least 18 government bodies -- from the Army Corps of Engineers to the Environmental Protection Agency to the Massachusetts Coastal Zone Management Office -- have been involved in reviewing the wind farm proposal. Cape Wind has had to surmount an astonishing variety of regulatory and due-diligence hurdles. So far it has successfully met every one. The list of permits, approvals, licenses, and reports that regulators are requiring Cape Wind to file or obtain would overload a library. First and foremost, there is the exhaustive environmental impact statement required under federal and state law, the first draft of which, 3,800 pages long, was released in November 2004. But there is also the Approval to Construct Jurisdictional Facilities from the Massachusetts Energy Facilities Siting Board. The Chapter 91 Waterways License from the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection. The General Stormwater Permit from the US Environmental Protection Agency. And too many more to to list here. Cape Wind has invested millions of dollars in this project, and no small part of that cost has gone to dotting every legal ''i" and crossing every regulatory ''t." But if Kennedy gets his way, all of Cape Wind's time, money, and effort will have been for naught -- crushed in a naked abuse of political power. And it isn't only a Nantucket wind farm that will be dead, but a little more of the public's faith that the men and women it elects to office can be trusted to do the right thing. ''Every child knows that you don't change the rules in the middle of the game," Kennedy says. Grown senators are supposed to know it too. http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/05/07/kennedy_doesnt_play_by_the_rules/ Sat Oct 27, 2007 9:56 am  last time here Guest i will admit i do have a problem with his and others stance on the illegal immigration problem in america. i tend to agree with lou dobbs. then again, as an independant i can do that while FC and 2tap parrot everything lush rimbaugh yells!! _________________ Guest post Sat Oct 27, 2007 1:10 pm  Dave Starr F L I N T O I D Better that than parroting media matters, move on, & the daily kos. _________________ I used to care, but I take a pill for that now. Pushing buttons sure can be fun. When a lion wants to go somewhere, he doesn’t worry about how many hyenas are in the way. Paddle faster, I hear banjos. Sat Oct 27, 2007 1:37 pm  twotap F L I N T O I D I believe LT here has been watching the View a little too much. Independant aye LT give us the name of one Republican you ever voted for. Ill bet he's never listened to Rushs show in his entire life. Course if Rosie and Whoopie say its bad or good well the sheeple just fall into lockstep kinda like my two lib sisterinlaws. Not to worry though cause the hildabeast will provide all lifes necessities for the LTs out there. Sat Oct 27, 2007 2:22 pm    Display posts from previous:   All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First

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