Kerry Gets His Revenge

[razorsharp]

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More than two years after losing his bid for the White House, Democratic Sen. John Kerry exacted a measure of revenge against his political foes Wednesday by helping derail the diplomatic nomination of a Republican fundraiser.

<a href=“http://www.localnewswatch.com/benton/stories/index.php?action=fullnews&id=87767[/url]”>http://www.localnewswatch.com/benton/stories/index.php?action=fullnews&id=87767&lt;/a&gt;
I guess that will teach them for pointing out that Kerry lied when he said he was sent to Cambodia by President Nixon. </p>

<p>So much for being a Stateman and above it all.</p>

[VoxDei]

<p>Indeed. What a small, insignificant man. Too think he almost became our President.</p>

<p>God really does watch over our country.</p>

[conyat]

<p>So you think God wanted the US to ignore the warnings in the summer of 2001 that bin Ladin was planning something?</p>

<p>That God wanted us to invade a country that was no threat to us and cause over a half million deaths there?</p>

<p>That God wanted FEMA so gutted and looted that it was unable to effectively respond to Katrina–actually turned away offers of search and rescue from other federal agencies, even as people were drowning and dying of dehydration in their attics and on rooftops?</p>

<p>That God wanted us to borrow so much money from China that in 20 years, our entire annual federal revenue will not be enough to even keep up the interest payments?</p>

<p>I guess you must be in the End Timers’ camp. Because no one who believes that God isn’t about to destroy the world could believe He was behind such things.</p>

[xiggi]

<p>Oh, what a gem of objectivity the above post is! Out of curiosity, what are your projected figures for our entire federal revenues in 20 years and our alarming debt to China? And for that matter, what are your projections of Debt/GDP --or statistics since 2001? Where is Senator Everett Dirksen when we need him.</p>

<p>Of course, there is always hope that repeating the same leftist blogs’ lunacies over and over might make them true.</p>

[conyat]

<p>Xiggi, you need to do some actual research.</p>

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The Interior Department offered the Federal Emergency Management Agency the use of personnel who were experienced in water rescues and also offered boats, helicopters, heavy equipment and rooms, the documents say. </p>

<p>Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, chairwoman of a Senate committee with jurisdiction over the Department of Homeland Security and FEMA, said the additional resources may have saved lives.

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<p>The offer was refused.</p>

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Collins said she is particularly concerned by the fact that the offer of help was from the federal government.</p>

<p>“Now, you might be able to understand if it came from outside government,” she said. “But this is another federal agency, an agency that was offering trained personnel and exactly the assets that the federal government needed to assist in the search-and-rescue operations.”

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<p>However comforting you find it to ignore facts and cling to your prejudices, you’re just making yourself look silly to anyone who’s done his or her homework.</p>

[xiggi]

<p>Conyat, you are just hilarious! Any luck with finding your projections yet?</p>

[conyat]

<p>Xiggi, I meant that in 20 years, we won’t be able to pay the interest on the entire national debt, which has skyrocketed due to Bush’s borrowing from China. </p>

<p>Thanks for pointing that out so I could clear it up. Look up what the GAO is saying about the national debt and the looming economic disaster–if you can bear to do homework on such a bright, sunny Saturday.</p>

<p>You will admit at least that in the 6 years of the Bush43 presidency alone, the national debt has gone up something like 50% and still climbing? Or is it part of your mythology to deny that too?</p>

<p>And please explain why you deny Republican Senator Collins’ finding that FEMA turned away search and rescue offers from other federal agencies. Are you privy to some secret information that a sitting US Senator in the then-majority party was not?</p>

[Dorothy_ParkerX]

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if you can bear to do homework on such a bright, sunny Saturday…Or is it part of your mythology to deny that too?

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<p>First let’s clear up an indisputable fact–no myth–it is Friday, not Saturday: The God’s honest truth. </p>

<p>It is, I am sure, easy to loose track of time dazzled, day after day, by the blue haze of a flat screen condemned to read your own near-lucid repetitions on a college chat site.</p>

<p>Friday, amigo.</p>

[conyat]

<p>Given that Xiggi still thinks FEMA didn’t turn away offers of help from federal agencies (even though it was determined by our own government more than a year ago that they did), I figured it would take him at least a day for my post to sink in. :)</p>

[xiggi]

<p>FYI, here are the numbers for revenues, expenses, deficit, debt held by the public, and GDP. Table E1 and E2 are particularly descriptive.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.cbo.gov/budget/historical.pdf[/url]”>http://www.cbo.gov/budget/historical.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

[conyat]

<p>I figured you didn’t have any actual projection data to show that we can continue to afford the Bush borrowing spree (2 trillion in 6 years–more than 1/3 the total national debt). There simply isn’t any.</p>

<p>Here’s a link that explains where the Government Accounting Office thinks we’re headed if something isn’t done to reverse the course Bush has us on:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/28/ap/business/mainD8L1OC5G0.shtml[/url]”>http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/28/ap/business/mainD8L1OC5G0.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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To show that the looming fiscal crisis is not a partisan issue, he [the head of the GAO] brings along economists and budget analysts from across the political spectrum…Their basic message is this: If the United States government conducts business as usual over the next few decades, a national debt that is already $8.5 trillion could reach $46 trillion or more, adjusted for inflation. That’s almost as much as the total net worth of every person in America _ Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and those Google guys included.</p>

<p>A hole that big could paralyze the U.S. economy; according to some projections, just the interest payments on a debt that big would be as much as all the taxes the government collects today.

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<p>Story Headline: GAO Chief Warns Economic Disaster Looms</p>

[kluge]

<p>Thanks, Xiggi. The Reagan/Bush1 doubling of the deficit as a percentage of GDP is pretty dramatic, eh? And after it declined by 30% under Clinton, BushII has only increased it by 10% so far as a percentage of GDP. Of course, there’s a clear lag time/momentum element at work when you view the numbers; I imagine that the deficit will rebound into the mid-40’s as a result of my generation’s greed and short-sidedness just in time for your generation to try to figure out how to deal with things like Social Security, etc. (Of course, without the large SS surpluses generated by a regressive tax on wages papering over the gap between income tax revenues and outlays the overall deficit would be even greater, but the answer down the road will be to try to break the SS benefit promises due to fiscal “necessity”.) </p>

<p>As you know - the fiscal irresponsibility of the Boomer generation pandered to by the free lunch crowd at the RNC is what ticks me off above all else. Your generation has been short-changed, and the full reality of that fact won’t hit you until it’s far to late to do anything about it.</p>

[conyat]

<p>Here’s a graph that illustrates Kluge’s point. It’s pretty striking:</p>

<p><a href=“http://zfacts.com/p/318.html[/url]”>http://zfacts.com/p/318.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;