Too funny!

[Undertoad]

My quote of Ron Paul also came from the entry about him in Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Paul . Three paragraphs below yours.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by SamIam

OK, UT and Foot. Here’s more info than I bet either of you ever cared to know.

OK, I retract my earlier post and submit that this thread should be re-titled:
I read it in Wikipedia so it must be true

[monster]

I read in Wikipedia that footfootfoot believes that he could whoop merc's ass with the entrails of a dead rabbit and invites him over if he reckons not to be scairt.

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Speaking of Bachmann.

Originally Posted by BigV

Right. Michelle Bachman.

Bachman apparently has the same kind of spirit as John Wayne... Gacy.

[classicman]

Originally Posted by SamIam

Since Merc and Classic are always posting stuff from right wanger blogs and heavily biased ARTICLES from conservative fairy tale collections ...

Wow just found this thread - SamI'mnot - I'm calling you out on this. I rarely read, let alone cite "right wanger blogs and heavily biased ARTICLES" unless yuo consider CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, Politico, WSJ, and Huffpo as fitting your description. Please provide some sort of proof or recant.

[TheMercenary]

Here is a great one by Obama.

“First time I saw the 10th Mountain Division, you guys were in southern Iraq. When I went back to visit Afghanistan, you guys were the first ones there. I had the great honor of seeing some of you because a comrade of yours, Jared Monti, was the first person who I was able to award the Medal of Honor to who actually came back and wasn’t receiving it posthumously,” the president said.

Jared Monti was actually killed in Afghanistan on June 21, 2006.

Well DONE Mr. Commander in Chief!!!! You just earned the respect of a whole Class of graduating soldiers from West Point.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpu...or-winner.html

Where did they find this fool?

[footfootfoot]

Merc, I think your expectations of politicians in general are too high. Not to put too fine a point on it, but aren't an awful lot of them lawyers before they get into politics?

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

Merc, I think your expectations of politicians in general are too high. Not to put too fine a point on it, but aren't an awful lot of them lawyers before they get into politics?

Not nearly enough missing arms and watches.

[footfootfoot]

haggis again! out loud.

[classicman]

Snippy reporter gets schooled.

[classicman]

And then HAMMERED by, of all people, Al Sharpton.

[SamIam]

I love this one: http://youtu.be/9JnDY2Gv5YQ

[TheMercenary]

This one is great!

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies.

Over the past 5 years, our federal debt has increased by $3.5 trillion to $8.6 trillion.That is “trillion” with a “T.” That is money that we have borrowed from the Social Security trust fund, borrowed from China and Japan, borrowed from American taxpayers. And over the next 5 years, between now and 2011, the President’s budget will increase the debt by almost another $3.5 trillion.

Numbers that large are sometimes hard to understand. Some people may wonder why they matter. Here is why: This year, the Federal Government will spend $220 billion on interest. That is more money to pay interest on our national debt than we’ll spend on Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. That is more money to pay interest on our debt this year than we will spend on education, homeland security, transportation, and veterans benefits combined. It is more money in one year than we are likely to spend to rebuild the devastated gulf coast in a way that honors the best of America.

And the cost of our debt is one of the fastest growing expenses in the Federal budget. This rising debt is a hidden domestic enemy, robbing our cities and States of critical investments in infrastructure like bridges, ports, and levees; robbing our families and our children of critical investments in education and health care reform; robbing our seniors of the retirement and health security they have counted on.

Every dollar we pay in interest is a dollar that is not going to investment in America’s priorities.

Senator Barack Obama
Senate Floor Speech on Public Debt
March 16, 2006

[TheMercenary]

Harry Reid on raising the debt ceiling in 2006:

“If my Republican friends believe that increasing our debt by almost $800 billion today and more than $3 trillion over the last five years is the right thing to do, they should be upfront about it. They should explain why they think more debt is good for the economy.

How can the Republican majority in this Congress explain to their constituents that trillions of dollars in new debt is good for our economy? How can they explain that they think it’s fair to force our children, our grandchildren, our great grandchildren to finance this debt through higher taxes. That’s what it will have to be. Why is it right to increase our nation’s dependence on foreign creditors?

They should explain this. Maybe they can convince the public they’re right. I doubt it. Because most Americans know that increasing debt is the last thing we should be doing. After all, I repeat, the Baby Boomers are about to retire. Under the circumstances, any credible economist would tell you we should be reducing debt, not increasing it.Democrats won’t be making argument to supper this legalization, which will weaken our country. Weaken our county.”

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/01/05/fl...#ixzz1UYG7UBBz

[classicman]

lol - just noticed thats from last march. Still very funny.

and here is Beck's followup - for what its worth