Oh Piggy, it's time to go oink yourself.

Why don't you comment instead on the Progressive PORK added to the recent cliff deal?

Those Progressives presented NASCARurage the purchase of electric scooters, a cherry of a tax break, estimated to be $46M this year, thganks to it's creator, Rep Mike Thompson, D-St. Hlena; a $7M tax subsidy to encourage the purchase of electric scooters, Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore; and a $200M toast to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands for their Rum industry; and a whopping bonus to the husband of Nancy Pelosi for his business in American Samoa.

Now I was under the impression that the Barry was against PORK. Campaigned against it, didn't he? Why then is this PORK in the legislation and passed?

Those folks who experienced Sandy could have had those funds for their recovery, and more needed that what was sent to Hollywood and those other folks.

Pigotry - interesting development!

The Republican Main Street Partnership, a Washington-based group that has promoted moderate GOP lawmakers and policies, will remove the word "Republican" from its title and welcome center-right Democrats in 2013, Yahoo News has learned.

The organization's board of directors voted Tuesday morning to scrap party identification from its title and be known simply as "The Main Street Partnership." The group's new president, former Ohio Republican Rep. Steven LaTourette, told Yahoo News that he plans to begin conversations with Blue Dog Democrats and centrist groups in the coming months.

"The goal is to try and fill the void that is the middle," LaTourette, who resigned from Congress this year, said. "The American political system is like a doughnut: You've got sides, but you don't have anything in the middle, and it would be my goal to work with Republicans and Democrats who want to find the path forward to getting things done and compromise."

It will be interesting to see how this works out!

Back on topic - well said Governor Christie!

Donut !!! Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

Seeking, don't mention donuts to me, a pig, U R getting me hungie ?? But I am on a diet, right now, OK, I will just eat the imaginary center of the donut today.

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Seeking, Thanks for the info. It's been political suicide by the GOP in forsaking the center in the last few years; but I am glad some common sense is coming back to some Republicans. I do like this two-party system. But don't count on it, there are some pigs inside the GOP who will never learn.

Pigotry - LOL! Should have KNOWN you'd go straight to the donut reference!

OH, donut holes are sooooo good! We usually get a box of 48 for the office! Oops! Not helping, am I????

Yes, Republicans are always for big government and social welfare when it benefits them directly. Otherwise they want to take money from the poor and give it to the rich, or the military industrial complex.

WOW I see the iGNORANT are out today, If the IGNORANT dems would get the PORK out of there bills maybe they would get passed. When you have that much PORK in the bills it is in no ones best intrest to pass them. Sure the folks in NJ need the help so quit ttrying to add stuff for your state also.

steve-1962

WOW I see the iGNORANT are out today, If the IGNORANT dems would get the PORK out of there bills maybe they would get passed. When you have that much PORK in the bills it is in no ones best intrest to pass them. Sure the folks in NJ need the help so quit ttrying to add stuff for your state also.

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It would at least be nice if you actually looked at the markups to the Senate Bill and see that a vast majority of that 'pork' are from Republican Senators used to garner their vote and passage of the bill...but as usual, presenting a fact based argument is never quite as easy, nor fun as just typing to saying whatever you want.

On a tangible note with Christie, related to his comments about the Congress, absolutely. But related to the ADD of the Country and the media. I've still never understood how a President can be held more responsible than a Governor of a State when that State has a 9.8% unemployment rate and the highest rate of Residents leaving the State to live and work elsewhere and he's been there since 2010.

The Occupy Movement has launched to program to recruit more volunteers to help victims of hurriCane Sandy - it's called Occupy Sandy.

Please contact them if you are interested. Just google 'Occupy Sandy,' you will find them.

Hey, Adler-273784

Amazing that I find myself in the unique position of agreeing with Governor Christy.

Do you mean...hurriCane Christy??

"Americans are tired of the palace intrigue and political partisanship of this Congress, which places one-upmanship ahead of the lives of the citizens who sent these people to Washington, D.C., in the first place.

Absolutely spot on by Gov Christi. Floods, fires, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, droughts...Mother nature at it's finest hours. Whatcha' gonna do with the right-wing simpletons who voted NO..not to worry!

Bad boys, bad boys, whacha' gonna do when mother nature visits your state, your constituents.

Occupy Sandy? What are they going to do? Trash the place and crap on the sidewalk? Dont think anyone would notice their "help".

Progressive-forward,It is not the governments job to bail people out every time there is a natural disaster.Americans have become more demanding of,"I want my fair share",due to our tax dollars being used to bail out banks,automobile manufacturers and boatloads of foreign aid funded by our tax dollars.We all wonder why this government is broke.

People expect bailouts at this point. So they are no longer buying homeowners or flood insurance because the taxpayers will bail them out. Dependency on government is now looked at and expected as a right. Why should anyone pay for anything when the government buys it for you because they like spending money even if it is not theirs.

1FG. blah, blah, blah. You do realize you stinking conservative fascist hold a majority in the H of R. don't you? That so called pork was passed there too. You might want to ask that very same question of yourself.

Here you go unfunnygirl... Billions with a "B" baby!!! Educate yourself. Your patriotic vote-sellers are hard at it...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2013/01/03/pork-holding-up-senate-sandy-relief-bill-funneled-into-the-troughs-of-gop-deficit-hawks-you-betcha/

chick - I see you're trying to converse with neverbeenfunnyb*tch - It's a losing proposition. Many of us have her on ignore because she just keeps repeating the same nonsense over and over again - no basis for anything and never any facts. Just a heads up! Hope your 2013 is going well!

ifunnygirl On the Daily Show last night Jon Stewart showed the bill it was two paragraphs. Tell me how much pork can be fit in 2 paragraphs? Your full of $hit & I believe the Daily Show before anything you call right wing news.

Smitty: The bill passed did indeed have two paragraphs!! That bill is for about 9 billion for FEMA. The original 65 Billion bill couldnt get through the HR because of all the pork. The only reason the Senate approved the 9 Billion is because if they stalled any longer, trying to get their 50 Billion for pork, the public MIGHT actually find out that they were the ones actually screwing the pooch all along.

The Dims are safe though. Christie pulled them through again. Christie might be the next Dim pres. nominee.

Why pork...do you have to kill a pig to get pork...

Nooooooooooooooooooooo...I mean....N-o-i-n-kkkkkkkkkkkkk

They'll eat anything.

Interesting concept Danger !

dangerfield,

Interesting concept indeed. Care to elaborate?

One day possibly there will be a catastrophe hitting the H of R, say a tornado, and that will be considered a national security issue. Anything else is below that. Die people, die.

Alan Fischer - source please!

Alan Fischer posts that:

Obama ---last week---gave Burma--Myanmar---$125,000,000.00--Myanmar did not have to wait for their money

I'm with you SS.........

Alan........... I tried to find what you posted, couldn't........, can you provide a link?

Alan Fischer - OMG you are dense. USAID was set up by John F. Kennedy in 1961. Try to at least show a modicum of intelligence!

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is the United States federal government agency primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid. President John F. Kennedy created USAID in 1961 by executive order to implement development assistance programs in the areas authorized by the Congress in the Foreign Assistance Act.^[3] The Congress updates this authorization through annual funds appropriation acts, and other legislation. Although technically an independent federal agency, USAID operates subject to the foreign policy guidance of the President, Secretary of State, and the National Security Council.^[4] USAID's Administrator works under the direct authority and foreign policy guidance of the Secretary of State. ^[4]

There you go, SS....causing trouble by citing facts.....shame, shame ;-)

chilled - sorry - a mind is a terrible thing to waste! And, clearly Alan is wasting whatever he has!

Exactly SS!

Alan seems to be a sterling example of the low-informed, pushing untruths (lies).

Mr. Obama has tried to play nursemaid to the opening of Myanmar by sending the first American ambassador in 22 years, easing sanctions and meeting with Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi at the White House. During his visit, he announced the return of the United States Agency for International Development along with $170 million for projects over the next two years.

The embrace of Myanmar fits into a larger effort by the Obama administration to reorient American foreign policy more toward Asia and to engage the countries on China’s periphery at a time of nervousness in the region about Beijing’s increasing assertiveness. Myanmar was for years locked solidly in China’s orbit, but its move toward the West in the last two years has been driven at least partly by resentment of Beijing’s rapacious exploitation of natural resources here.

The New York Times - January 8, 2013

Alan seems to be right.

Hi there GOPisextinct......

As for Alan, SS took care of that.

Hi ya" Chilled!!

Hope this New Year finds you well.

Too true Bali, We can only hope !

Thank goodness we had them there to get the EXCESS PORK out of the bill before passing it at taxpayer expense.

I take it you have no skin in the game as you do NOT care if they save the taxpayers some cash. I heard we are having a revenue problem in the US, yet these ignorant demorats want to keep putting there states ahead of the rest of the country. QUIT WITH THE EXCESS PORK on the bills.

Why would they add those EXTRA's and then blame it on those that want a clean bill to come through. I say BLAME those that put the PORK in the bill. IGNORANT DEMS.

Da Noid ...

Jon Stewart's show last night was EXCELLENT! One that needs to be shared with many!

Happy New Year!

Palozzopalooza was fun to watch...

I respect them for voting NO. Get a clean bill, one NOT filled with EXCESS spending. CUT OUT THE PORK. When will those IGNORANT demorats figure it out. Try passing a bill to help there state along with helping those in need, HOW SHAMEFUL.

Governor Christie is like Republicans were, like Ronald Reagan was. They were much more progressive. Unfortunately with the tea-party take over these great men and women were labeled with the term RINO(Repulican in name only). Many progressive Republicans have quit the party

Former two-term Republican senator Chuck Com of Nebraska, who left the Senate in 2009, said he was appalled at the “irresponsible actions of my party, the Republican Party…. I had never seen anything like it in my, in my lifetime. I think about some of the presidents that we’ve had on my side of the aisle—Ronald Reagan and George Bush senior, and go right through them, Eisenhower. They would be stunned…. I was very disgusted in how this played out in Washington, this debt ceiling debate. It was an astounding lack of responsible leadership by many in the Republican Party.”

Six months later, Maine’s Olympia Snowe, a moderate Republican, voiced similar anger when she announced last February that she was quitting the Senate after thirty-four years in Congress and would not seek reelection despite being a strong favorite. “I find it frustrating that an
atmosphere of polarization and ‘my way or the highway’ ideologies [have] become pervasive in campaigns and in our governing institutions,” Snowe declared. Seeing no realistic prospect for change, Snowe said bluntly: “I am not prepared to commit myself to an additional six years in the Senate.”

Some mainstream Republican senators such as Orrin Hatch of Utah and Richard Lugar of Indiana, like GOP presidential candidates playing to the hard-core Right in the primaries, swerved to adopt hard right positions in their reelection campaigns to ward off Tea Party purging. Hatch survived the initial Tea Party purge, but Lugar was knocked off.

From Who Stole the American Dream by Hendrick Smith

In other words, he's doing his job.

It's not just the Domecrats, there are many Republicans that feel it's all the Dems fault and Reps can do no wrong. There have always been fringe elements on both sides that felt this way, this is their base. The difference is now the tea-party base has become the voice of the Republicans. The moderates in the Republican party are being labeled as RINOs and being thrown out of or office or leaving because they can't stand the stupidity anymore (see post 14.1). America used to work because both sides could come together somewhere in the middle, but now until the tea-party removed DC will always be in a state of gridlock until the next crisis comes along.

Bad thing mike, is that the demorats are quick to play the blame game. I did NOT hear Bush talking about how bad the demorats screwed up, with the housing and financial policies that put in place. Yet I hear alot that its Bush's fault, Sure it fell apart on his watch, even though he tried to get Barney Frank & Chris Dodd to rein in Fannie & Freddie, that was when Barney told everyone that there is NO need to worry Fannie & Freddie would NEVER need government assistance. Yet here we are over 180 BILLION of taxpayer dollars wasted on them.

Fannie & Freddie are there own worst enemies, They screwed themselves and there shareholders out of at least 60K for NOT working with me on my mortgage. I offered them 75K they turned it down so I took my house and moved. They sold the property for 18K with financing would of taken 10K cash. BRILLIANT JUST BRILLIANT. I now have 9.5 acres and only owe 62K Thanks Fannie & your stupid ass workers.

They should have INSURANCE to cover there loss, that is what they have INSURANCE for right.

Sure the city or county may need some help to get the lights and gas back on, get the streets fixed. the people of NJ should have insurance like the rest of us in AMERICA.

Hell maybe OBLAMER will force everyone to purchase property insurance to protect your own property.

Hell some of those RICH people do NOT have insurance as they self insure ALL of there stuff.