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Rendell as Gov. Goldfinger: jokes about gassing legislators
Commonwealth Confidential ^ | 8/11/09

Posted on 08/12/2009 7:48:56 AM PDT by Born Conservative

Note to Gov. Rendell: When trying to negotiate a final budget with legislative leaders, it’s perhaps not a good thing to utter publicly that you have daydreamed about killing a roomful of them.

You might think it, governor. Just don’t say it out loud.

But he did just that this morning.

Rendell told reporters that he was frustrated with the way the conference committee of legislative leaders charged with finalizing a budget bill was progressing.

The initial two committee meetings were held in public with Democrats and Republicans spending most of the time bickering about procedure and making little if any progress toward a handshake.

Rendell said it all reminded him of a scene from Goldfinger, the 1960s James Bond classic in which the villain kills a room filled with gangsters in one fell swoop.

“He just filled the room with poison gas and knocked them all off,” Rendell said with a snap of his fingers. “You might have thought after watching those two (conference committee) days that that would have been a good idea.”

(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: fasteddie; goldfinger; rendell

1 posted on 08/12/2009 7:48:56 AM PDT by Born Conservative
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To: Tribune7

Fast Eddie ping.


2 posted on 08/12/2009 7:49:46 AM PDT by Born Conservative (Working hard so those on public assistance don't have to.)
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To: Born Conservative

that’s beautiful....just confirms our worst fears that our Governor is still the same crude, low-class thug who used to find himself in Eagles Court for boorish fan behavior at Veterans Stadium.


3 posted on 08/12/2009 7:54:35 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Born Conservative

Slowly the blinders are being pulled away and the enemies of humanity are being exposed as the monsters they truly are.

Liberalism is a dangerous mental disorder


4 posted on 08/12/2009 7:58:04 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Born Conservative

Ed Rendell is a pompous, arrogant, bitter, ugly, venomous, jerk. He is ruining PA. Other than that, he is a great guy.


5 posted on 08/12/2009 7:58:58 AM PDT by LeonardFMason
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Your ignorance of facts and history fits well with most Philadelphia bashers. Please tell me when Rendell was in Eagles Court. Rendell was slighly involved in a snowball incident at Bounty Bowl 2 in 1989 (as a former DA):

“The then-former Philadelphia district attorney and future mayor and governor had bet another fan $20 that the fan couldn’t reach the field with a snowball; Rendell lost.”

Eagles Court was established in 1997. It seems clear to me that you’re a Philadelphia hater who knows only tidbits and mashes them up to create what you think is the truth.


6 posted on 08/12/2009 8:03:19 AM PDT by samson1097
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To: Born Conservative
Papers please, and turn in all food and gold, and pay your Breathing Air Tax Now!


7 posted on 08/12/2009 8:03:37 AM PDT by timestax (CNNLIES..BIG TIME)
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To: Born Conservative

Why are Dems so sensitive about being called socialists and Nazis, again??


8 posted on 08/12/2009 8:15:41 AM PDT by TNdandelion (I'd rather have FedEx run my healthcare than USPS.)
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To: Born Conservative

NAZI-HITLER-RENDELL


9 posted on 08/12/2009 8:38:29 AM PDT by JSDude1 (www.wethepeopleindiana.org (Tea Party Member-Proud), www.travishankins.com (R- IN 09 2010!))
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To: LeonardFMason
Ed Rendell is a pompous, arrogant, bitter, ugly, venomous, jerk

Seems like that makes him qualifed to run the state, given PA voters' penchant for re-electing people who ruin everything around them (read: Murtha).

10 posted on 08/12/2009 8:43:47 AM PDT by ScottinVA
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To: Owl_Eagle; brityank; Physicist; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; GOPJ; abner; baseballmom; Mo1; Ciexyz; ...

Eddie “Goldfinger Gov X” Rendell ping


11 posted on 08/12/2009 9:17:26 AM PDT by Tribune7 (I am Jim Thompson!)
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To: samson1097; Buckeye McFrog
While buckeye may have exaggerated a bit on the Eagles Court, the mere fact that a court is NEEDED at a ball field is more than enough ammo to bash a city.
12 posted on 08/12/2009 9:44:53 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
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To: Tribune7

Governor Rendell, Why do you want to kill people? And gassing them reminds us of the atrocities in Nazi Germany!


13 posted on 08/12/2009 9:46:43 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
Governor Rendell, Why do you want to kill people?

He wants to be a James Bond villain. That prostitute who squealed on him is lucky he didn't paint her gold like in the movie.

14 posted on 08/12/2009 10:49:21 AM PDT by Tribune7 (I am Jim Thompson!)
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To: Tribune7

Has anyone told Rendell that when James Bond was “screwing people” it didn’t mean stealing from them via the government?


15 posted on 08/12/2009 3:13:28 PM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
Oh he knows he can't be James Bond. He understands he is a villain. That's why he wants to be Goldfinger.

But he's really more like:


16 posted on 08/12/2009 4:00:00 PM PDT by Tribune7 (I am Jim Thompson!)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
Oh he knows he can't be James Bond. He understands he is a villain. That's why he wants to be Goldfinger.

But he's really more like:


17 posted on 08/12/2009 4:00:34 PM PDT by Tribune7 (I am Jim Thompson!)
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To: Tribune7

So funny it’s worth two posts....


18 posted on 08/12/2009 4:11:04 PM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

:-)


19 posted on 08/12/2009 4:12:04 PM PDT by Tribune7 (I am Jim Thompson!)
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