Mark Sanford just burned his wife and kids over and over, as though they didn’t exist.

It was brutal to watch as he waxed moronic about his true love, oblivious that his family might ever hear his idiotic blather.

I only heard one person in the media coverage come close to addressing the callous nature of his behavior, and it was a family friend who simply said “poor Jenny.”

It was as though the media started creaming over the potential “love story” tripe Sanford orchestrated, and just decided to run with that angle.

I think this absolutely unbelievable hypocrite is as much of a sleazebag as Daniel Craig.

The most galling part is the hypocrisy of these dirtbags who shroud themselves in religious moral fervor until they themselves are busted.

When will Conservatives wake up to the true nature of politicians? The louder their indignation and righteousness, the less they should be trusted… that simple truism puts Lindsey Graham and John Boehner at the top of the list.

Who can forget the photo op of Clinton exiting church on the front steps, Hillary at his side, Bible tucked under his arm after the Monica story broke…

467,000 jobs were lost in June, the unemployment rate rose to 9.5% (a 26 year high), the largest state California, is on the verge of bankruptcy. What is Obama’s plan to solve these problems? He can’t keep blaming Bush forever.

What in the world are we doing in Afghanistan?

Terrorising the mountains and rocks, just like the Russian troops did, before they left Afghanistan without understanding why they were sent there.

Marines are in the middle of a huge offensive with millions of pounds of gear and weapons flown from the US.

Why don’t we declare all out war against the potholes in my street; or the mortgage crooks who stole our money; or the fraudulent credit card contracts which screw us every month (with a $49.00 late fee, believe it or not).

A pox on both their houses. The republicans for creating it and now trying to blame Obama for what was Bush’s legacy. Obama for not dealing with this crisis with more strength. Obama should have had a larger stimulus package in the first place. He should have used his political capital to get what he wanted. He should have given money to sates to prevent what is happening to California.

Instead he gave the banks billions and billions of our tax dollars and is letting the states sink. If there was ever anything that the federal government should be doing now it is backing up the states. Laying off teachers, fireman and police is the worse thing.

Obama is now sounding like a middle of the road president. He is failing as far is I’m concerned.
To say the stimulus is working is a joke. Unemployment, if you count all the people out of work, plus the ones whom have stopped working and the ones that have given up it’s more like 18% or 20%.

I agree with Steve Chapman health care is dead in the water and everyone is taking shots at the dieing duck.

Obama, change, well I’m beginning to think the change we the people will be getting is spare change.

Obama is turning into a huge disappointment, huge to progressives.

Your assessment of Obama is correct Putney Swope. I’m afraid the disappointment in Obama will only deepen before his term is over. The “change” seems to be going from bad to worse.

With all due respect to the people of South Carolina this is not news. This is tabloid tripe. I don’t care about Sanford’s love life. He’s a sorry excuse for a man and he’s your governor and he refuses to step down. You all need to march him out on a rail.

It’s the economy, if this is not fixed we are doomed to a deflationary decade or more.

I would also like to put equal blame on the democrat’s in both houses of congress. The republicans are to much of a joke to even take seriously.

It’s also the dems in congress who are creating the problems. The centrist in the senate stripped out the money from the stimulus package for the states.
The question is, do these people have any idea what is going on in this country? People are sinking into the abyss of unemployment and losing their homes.

It seems that the banks do run the show.

Thanks to Jack Beatty for bringing up the continued discharge of LGBT members of the military under Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Pursue. One correction: Mr. Beatty mentioned 20 as the number discharged since President Obama took office. According the the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (among others), as of today, that number is actually at 279.

Here is Joe B.’s logic:

I loan someone my terrific car, and after a while they give it back as a ruined lemon.

Now I have to keep dumping money into it, but it’s still a lemon no matter how much I spend.

Joe’s logic:

It is my fault it’s a lemon, because the person I loaned it to gave it back. They have no blame for having ruined my terrific in the first place.

Here’s my logic:

BUSH WILL ALWAYS BE THE ONE WHO DESERVES THE MOST BLAME FOR THE RUINED ECONOMY!

He inherited a teriffic economy and federal budget, and ruined it through mismanagement, a war of choice, tax cuts for the wealthiest americans, and the inability to see a trainwreck headed right at us and change its tracks (with plenty of forewarning had he heeded the right voices).

Remember this:

Bush had already commited hundreds of billions to a course of corporate welfare. If Obama had said simply “no more corporate welfare” when he took office, all the hundreds of billions spent by Bush and pals would have been utterly wasted. Obama’s hand was forced into continuing the bailout policies of Bush, because the alternative would have been to tell taxpayers that the previous administrations spending spree program was just going to be scrapped, and nothing would ever come of it.

I hate this corporate welfare as much as anyone, but it is certainly not Obama’s fault.

BUSH WILL INDEED OWN THIS MESS FOREVER, NO MATTER HOW THE “CONSERVATIVE JOES” EVER TRY TO SPIN IT!!!!

JP I partly agree with you, I think Bush is the worse president since Caligula.

However Obama is not a progressive. He hired the foxes to deal with the hen house that is our economic mess.

Yes, Obama inherited a mess from Bush, but he has not moved with enough force and while I think what he has done was better than nothing, he let both houses dictate the stimulus package which was huge mistake.

I think the mess is Washington, these guys have great health care payed for by you and me. It’s real rich for senators to sit around and say that a national health care system is not good enough for us when they have one. I’m not impressed, I’m pissed off, I’m sick and tired of these bloviating wind bags from both sides of the isle.

Give it up, folks…the power brokers and money men call the shots in this country…right, Put?

Can anyone out there explain to me why Sanford was cleared of any illegal activity? It seemed by repaying some $3,300 for the Argentine leg of an overseas trip he was admitting that jaunt was solely for personal reasons.

So why is swindling $3,300–until caught–not punishable? Just repaying money doesn’t get criminals off the hook, in the real world, anyhow…

Maureen, it’s politics which is not the real world.

Hm. I just read Sarah Palin agreed to reimburse Alaska $8,100 for trips taken with her children in regards to one of the resolved ethics probes against her.

I guess, it is enough for a governor to just hand it back. Still strikes me as very odd. Even with a valid credit card you at least pay interest.

She is also stepping down as governor at the end of the month.

I would say almost all politicians are dirty in some way or another. The only politicians that impresses me is Senators Bernie Sanders and Patrick Leahy which makes me wonder why don’t live in Vermont.

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

In all the discussion on the economy on the show of Friday, July 2, none centered on a real problem that I hear from local businessmen, friends and acquaintances, namely liquid money or available money to borrow. Many business need to borrow money to buy inventory; farmers borrow to set their crops; consumers borrow to buy expensive items such as cars and houses. Everywhere I go I hear that these people can’t find a bank to loan them the money they need to continue in business even if they have good credit, so they sell out or simply go out of business and of course that adds to the unemployed rolls. Consumers with good credit are being denied loans also. All the while we are thinking the banks, insurance and auto industries are getting all the bail out money and none of it is helping anyone but the banks balance sheets. Very simply, where did all that money go and why aren’t the small businesses and the consumers seeing any of it? Without it people are not going to be spending at the rate the economy needs us to. By the way you are not alone. I haven’t heard any other news program talking on this subject except on CNBC’s Fast Money.

Clayson did great this week, whoo!

One can not help but reflect on the state of the union on the 4th of July. I was sitting around with friends and we were discussing our health insurance policies. One mentioned that they pay over $4000 a year towards HMO Blue and that every time she uses her insurance it’s a fight between the doctor, the patient and the HMO.

This time she has some problems with her knees. Now it’s a well established fact that most of us have two of them.
Well some bright schmuck working for Blue Cross decided that they will only pay for one leg as it relates to any physical therapy session related to the lower limbs.

What? Are they kidding? Are they serious? Not only that her doctor wrote a prescription for 12 sessions. HMO blue said they would only pay for 8. OK here’s how the insurance company has gamed it against us. First they will only pay for one leg, then they will only pay for what they deem is a necessary number of treatments without ever seeing the patent or even talking to the doctor.

I keep hearing from the politicians from both parties how a national health care system will only lead to rationing of health care. Sorry to let these idiots in for reality check, but the above real life story shows we already have rationing. The Health insurance companies are at war with us, the citizens of America.
They play this game with our lives and they know deliberately deny treatment for profit. What other reason for only covering one knee?

It’s real rich when I hear Montana Senator Max Baucus, the chair of the Senate Finance Committee say that a single payer system is off the table when he and his family have a gold standard of national health care paid for by our tax dollars. This man is on the take and receives huge campaign contributions from the insurance companies. Give me a break, Baucus as far as I’m concerned your part of the problem and should be removed from office.

People are going bankrupt and losing their houses due to medical bills. Why? Why is that a country as wealthy as ours can’t get this right? Why?

Doctors, Nurses and Activists Arrested Again for Protesting Exclusion of Single-Payer Advocates at Senate Hearing on Healthcare.

This our democracy at work this man Senator Max Baucus is against the citizens he accuses doctors and nurses of being rude for interrupting his committee, well in the spirit of liberty and the founding fathers he is wrong.

All these people were arrested fro speaking out.
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/5/13/baucus_raucus_caucus_doctors_nurses_and

This is an outrage, this man is BS’ing the nation.

This is Obama’s failed economy. When he took office, unemployment was below 8%, that level has climbed to 9.5%. In addition, during the election Obama claimed his “hope and change” message had all the solutions to fix the economy. The only thing Obama has delivered has been excuses,failure and Wall Street bailouts. It’s six months into the Obama presidency, and over two million jobs have been lost!!

Again, here is Joe B.’s logic:

I loan someone my terrific car, and after a while they give it back as a ruined lemon.

Now I have to keep dumping money into it, but it’s still a lemon no matter how much I spend.

Joe’s logic:

It is my fault it’s a lemon, because the person I loaned it to gave it back. They have no blame for having ruined my terrific in the first place.

Here’s my logic:

BUSH WILL ALWAYS BE THE ONE WHO DESERVES THE MOST BLAME FOR THE RUINED ECONOMY!

He inherited a teriffic economy and federal budget, and ruined it through mismanagement, a war of choice, tax cuts for the wealthiest americans, and the inability to see a trainwreck headed right at us and change its tracks (with plenty of forewarning had he heeded the right voices).

Remember this:

Bush had already commited hundreds of billions to a course of corporate welfare. If Obama had said simply “no more corporate welfare” when he took office, all the hundreds of billions spent by Bush and pals would have been utterly wasted. Obama’s hand was forced into continuing the bailout policies of Bush, because the alternative would have been to tell taxpayers that the previous administrations spending spree program was just going to be scrapped, and nothing would ever come of it.

I hate this corporate welfare as much as anyone, but it is certainly not Obama’s fault.

BUSH WILL INDEED OWN THIS MESS FOREVER, NO MATTER HOW THE “CONSERVATIVE JOES” EVER TRY TO SPIN IT!!!!