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Posts Made By: Tom Dubois

October 26, 2009 08:22 PM Forum: Politics

Public Option: States Can Opt Out

Posted By Tom Dubois

Those tea baggars????

Been taking hits off the old Oberman bong Rod? smile smile smile

November 6, 2009 06:21 PM Forum: Politics

November 23, 2009 11:13 PM Forum: Politics

Criticism of US military by Navy vet

Posted By Tom Dubois

Personally I think the guy is a knucklehead with a chip on his shoulder. Many may share his views, but hopefully many more do not. My $.02.

November 30, 2009 08:58 PM Forum: Politics

Anti-Minaret Proposal APPROVED

Posted By Tom Dubois

The king called up his jet fighters
He said you better earn your pay
Drop your bombs between the minarets
Down the Casbah way

Rock the Casbah, The Clash

At least this article anwers the question Thousands of Clash fans had in the 80's "what the hell is a minaret?" smile smile smile


smile smile

December 21, 2009 03:32 PM Forum: Politics

PolitiFact's "Lie of the Year" Award

Posted By Tom Dubois

So I wonder what the taste in Americans mouths is after swallowing all these lies during Obama's Campaign after the vote last night. We will be living with ramifications of Obama's big lies for years to come:


- "So here's John McCain's radical plan in a nutshell: he taxes health care benefits for the first time in history... Well, I don't think that's right."

- "The main difference between my plan and Senator Clinton's plan is that she'd require the government to force you to buy health insurance and she said she'd 'go after' your wages if you don't."

- "I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."

- "As Justice Louis Brandeis once said, sunlight is the greatest disinfectant. The more people know about how federal laws, rules and regulations are made, and who's making them, the less likely it is that critical decisions will be hijacked by lobbyists and special interests. I think the current administration knows that, too, which is why it's been the most defiantly secretive government in modern times. It's time to change that. When there is a bill that ends up on my desk as President, you will have five days to look online and find out what's in it before I sign it."

- "That's what I will do in bringing all parties together, not negotiating behind closed doors, but bringing all parties together, and broadcasting those negotiations on C-SPAN so that the American people can see what the choices are, because part of what we have to do is enlist the American people in this process,"

- "Let me also address I think a misperception that's been out there that somehow there is any discussion on Capitol Hill about reducing Medicare benefits. Nobody is talking about reducing Medicare benefits. Medicare benefits are there because people contributed into a system. It works. We don't want to change it."

Palen Smalin....

December 22, 2009 07:00 PM Forum: Politics

Nebraska Exception

Posted By Tom Dubois

So let me get this straight, Lieberman says he has a problem with expanded medicare, gets Reid to pull it thereby making it so Lieberman could vote for it, and he's a traitor?

Nelson has a problem with the fact that it publicly funds abortion, Reid keeps the funding in yet gives Nebraska a sweetheart medicaid deal and he's a hero?

Strange days indeed.


January 6, 2010 07:14 PM Forum: Politics

Dem Party soon to be a thing of the past...

Posted By Tom Dubois

I found it quite amusing in November when the Obama and the Dems were swept into power the number of people that expressed the same thoughts about the GOP being dead. If there's one thing surer than death and taxes, it's that the party in power eventually oversteps it bounds and the other guys come back in. I will happen again and again to both parties because power does that.

At the end of the day Obama will have a health care bill that is unpopular with the independents and the extreme left, an empty coffer that use to be full of political capital and a notch on his belt for muddling through on health care. Voters will start feeling the sting of higher taxes with no real tangibles for years to come and both houses are going to need to vote on extending the debt ceiling real soon. Clinton was able to right the ship by moving to the right, do you thing Obama has the political savvy to do the same?

January 10, 2010 05:05 PM Forum: Politics

McCain's New Ad

Posted By Tom Dubois

"So what's he doing with putting poop like this on the air? "

The electorate has had a year of hope and change poop.....it's probably more receptive to the message.

January 20, 2010 07:55 PM Forum: Politics

Exhibit A that Obama still does't get it:

Posted By Tom Dubois

BTW I do think Obama gets style points for telling his party to wait until Brown is seated to move forward on HC. It's the right thing to do and it makes me think that even he believes the American public wouldn't have a stomach for it. Good move.

March 8, 2010 03:58 PM Forum: Politics

Massa strikes back

Posted By Tom Dubois

Hello America, I'd like to introduce you to Politics....Chicago style.

Massa's my Rep, I didn't vote for him but have written him and told him not to give in to these goons.