Posted on 12/25/2013 4:11:45 PM PST by Kaslin
Republicans have learned to fear being on the wrong side of libs; we need to retrain them to fear being on the wrong side of US!
I think what Williams is saying is, a smart politician tells voters what they want to hear and a dumb one doesn’t. There’s no relationship between actual intelligence and ability to do this, especially when an army of advisors is available to the candidate.
Put another way, America is getting the government it deserves.
Wow, two people who actually get the point of Dr. Williams’ piece.
Well, three if you count me /grin
We got to dumbass chicks for Senators here in the state of euphoria (WA).
It’s all about Pork. Bringing home the Bacon!
Oh, and a former congressman for Governor to boot.
MmmmmmmmBacon!
Print more bacon please.
More prevailing wage jobs please. Oh and don’t forget the boeing tax breaks.
Win the unions win the state that’s where were at here.
(ramblings of wash state conservative during cybalta withdrawel.)
Hey at least she remembers that our astronauts planted an American Flag on Mars. I had forgot all about that. I’m sure you forgot too. I would wager that most Americans don’t remember the manned missions to Mars.
Hank Johnson may be the winner for dumb, although there are many DemocRAT entries. Hank worries about the island of Guam tipping over and capsizing. That performance eclipses by a substantial amount Sheila Jackson Lee, who is on the Space subcommittee, believing U.S. astronauts planted a flag on Mars.
ENJOY MOCKING HANK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNZczIgVXjg
See my post#12
See my post#12
And Debbie Stab-me-now (D-SpecialTown) knows that global warming is real cause she can feel it when she flies on airplanes! How can we poor foolish hobbits compete with stunning intellects like these??
See my post#12 these “progressives” can not win an honest election. They need the ignorant to help them
How do you explain Joseph E. Biden?
“And I’ll raise you a Barbara Boxer.”
And, I’ll happily front you the chips on that bet for a
small piece of the action. BTW, you do realize that
Babsie worked hard to earn the title ‘Senator’.
Must see YouTube video! (no joke--he was dead serious!)
March 2010:
Democrat Representative Hank Johnson fears Guam may "tip over" and "capsize" due to overpopulation!
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
Garfield had so much to offer this country.
Thanks, I’ll look for it.
Sheila Jackson Lee
Member of the U.S. House
of Representatives
from Texas's 18th district
On a visit to the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2005, Jackson Lee made embarrassing news by asking if the Mars Pathfinder had taken an image of the flag planted there in 1969 by Neil Armstrong.[2]
Prior to the 110th Congress, Jackson Lee served on the House Science Committee and on the Subcommittee that oversees space policy and NASA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Jackson_Lee#Political_career
It’s a comforting thought but it’s wrong.
The congress and senate are packed with some of the dumbest people walking the streets of America.
They may be sly and manipulative enough to mislead and cheat hordes of people or have enough smart and wealthy backers to weasel their way into office.
But that doesn’t mean they posses usable wisdom or intelligence.
Barack Obama:
Calls a Navy corpsman a Navy Corpse-man.
Thinks Austrian is a language.
“Were the country that built the Intercontinental Railroad.
“I’ve now been in 57 states - I think one left to go.”
Refers to Hawaii as being part of Asia
Congressman Hank Johnson:
Worries that overpopulation could cause the island of Guam to tip over.
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee:
Today, we have two Vietnams, side by side, North and South, exchanging and working.
Asked NASA about the American flag flying on Mars
Veto Message - February 16, 1887
House of Representatives:
I return without my approval House bill No. 10203, entitled “An act to enable the Commissioner of Agriculture to make a special distribution of seeds in the drought-stricken counties of Texas, and making an appropriation therefor.”
It is represented that a long-continued and extensive drought has existed in certain portions of the State of Texas, resulting in a failure of crops and consequent distress and destitution.
Though there has been some difference in statements concerning the extent of the people’s needs in the localities thus affected, there seems to be no doubt that there has existed a condition calling for relief; and I am willing to believe that, notwithstanding the aid already furnished, a donation of seed grain to the farmers located in this region, to enable them to put in new crops, would serve to avert a continuance or return of an unfortunate blight.
And yet I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan, as proposed by this bill, to indulge a benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds for that purpose.
I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and duty of the General Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit. A prevalent tendency to disregard the limited mission of this power and duty should, I think, be steadfastly resisted, to the end that the lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government the Government should not support the people.
The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow-citizens in misfortune. This has been repeatedly and quite lately demonstrated. Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the Government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character, while it prevents the indulgence among our people of that kindly sentiment and conduct which strengthens the bonds of a common brotherhood.
It is within my personal knowledge that individual aid has to some extent already been extended to the sufferers mentioned in this bill. The failure of the proposed appropriation of $10,000 additional to meet their remaining wants will not necessarily result in continued distress if the emergency is fully made known to the people of the country.
It is here suggested that the Commissioner of Agriculture is annually directed to expend a large sum of money for the purchase, propagation, and distribution of seeds and other things of this description, two-thirds of which are, upon the request of Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in Congress, supplied to them for distribution among their constituents.The appropriation of the current year for this purpose is $100,000, and it will probably be no less in the appropriation for the ensuing year. I understand that a large quantity of grain is furnished for such distribution, and it is supposed that this free apportionment among their neighbors is a privilege which may be waived by our Senators and Representatives.
If sufficient of them should request the Commissioner of Agriculture to send their shares of the grain thus allowed them to the suffering farmers of Texas, they might be enabled to sow their crops, the constituents for whom in theory this grain is intended could well bear the temporary deprivation, and the donors would experience the satisfaction attending deeds of charity.
GROVER CLEVELAND
You wrote:
"Dumb article."
Then you went on after your criticism against Professor Williams
"The rest of the article is fine, but the title and first paragraph are like Al Gore or Karl Rove wrote them."
Either you find the entire article dumb and not just the title and the first paragraph but you can't say the article is dumb
Sorry, but can't have it both ways. So make up your mind
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