Thursday, July 2, 2009
Politics / Woods Blackburn Dons Clown Shoes, Joins the Obama Birther Cause
Posted by Jeff Woods on Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 5:39 AM
"Most Americans are probably surprised that they don't" have to document meeting the requirement. "A lot of people expressed surprise to her since (last year's presidential campaign) that people don't have to actually document anything."But Rhodes College political science professor Marcus Pohlmann says that by raising the issue, "she certainly is painting herself into the far right corner. Normally you don't propose a solution unless there's a problem; so what's the problem?...It seems an odd one to pull out of the blue in a preemptive way." Um, professor, Blackburn lives in the far-right corner. She never comes out of there. Did you see what she said about cow farts?
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Ah, how I long for the days when just mentioning the word "birther" brought em out of the woodwork in droves. Where'd they go?
Nothing made me happier than moving out of my gerrymandered South Nashville neighborhood, because it meant I was moving out of Marsha's district.
It saddens me that the Republican Party has been overtaken by its lunatic fringe. Our nation needs a party in opposition, but it needs one that is adult enough to deal with the real problems facing our government.
Marsha and her cohorts demonstrate that this Republican party is just not up to the job.
The real question is, why doesn't Obama just make all these people look stupid by submitting a legit birth certificate? Conversely, he's done eveything legally possible to prevent that. Birthright citizenship is a Constitutional requirement to hold office as President. If the people consider that unjust then they, through their represenatives, should ammend it.
Economic Stimulus. H.R. 5140, the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008, passed 385-35 on January 29, 2008 (Roll Call 25). It would provide about $150 billion in economic stimulus, including $101.1 billion in direct payments of rebate checks (typically $600) to most taxpayers in 2008 and temporary tax breaks for businesses. Creating money out of thin air and then spending the newly created money cannot improve the economy, at least not in the long term. (If it could, why not create even more money for rebates and make every American a millionaire?) The stimulus has no offset and thus increases the federal deficit by the amount of the stimulus because the government must borrow the rebate money. A realistic long-term stimulus can only be achieved by lowering taxes through less government and by reducing regulatory burdens. Marsha Blackburn voted FOR this bill.(Source: The New American – July 21, 2008)
Marsha Blackburn is my Congressman.
She is no conservative.
See her unconstitutional votes at :
http://bluecollarrepublican.com/blog/?p=614
Mickey
Big Government versus Small Government again? So sick of that debate. Ronald Reagan has been dead for years yet his framing on the national debate. I agree with Barack Obama, Effective Government versus Ineffective Government. If Small Government means one scandal after another (Iraq War, response to Hurricane Katrina and to the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse, NSA warrantless surveillance, Minerals Management Service accepting bribes and sexual favors from energy lobbyists, Plame affair and Guantanamo Bay detention camp controversies, etc...), then how can anybody vote for that?
How can Blackburn expect anyone to take her seriously, now that she's officially added "loony" to her already unimpressive resume` by joining the "birther" movement? President Obama's birth certificate was long ago made public. Was the state of Hawaii's official certification enough for the wing-nuts? No. They insist that the certificate of live birth issued by the hospital must be produced. Never mind that even in Tennessee a hospital-issued birth certificate is not accepted as a valid ID when applying for a driver's license, marriage license or passport. Only certificates bearing the state seal are. And then, there's that pesky little birth announcement unearthed by (gasp!) a researcher for an Obama primary opponent (Clinton) digging for "dirt" in July 2008. Published in the Honolulu Advertiser on Sunday, Aug. 13, 1961:
Mr. and Mrs. Barack H. Obama
6085 Kalaniana`ole Hwy.
son, August 4
I suppose Obama's parents or grandparents could have planted the announcement just in case he needed to prove his U.S. citizenship in order to run for president, 47 years hence. And I suppose various state governments could have conspired, with uncanny prescience and over several decades, to issue Obama a driver's license, social security number, voter's registration card, marriage license, and passport. Forgive me if I don't choose to go down that path with the folks in the tinfoil hats, even as I fervently hope that Marsha's allegiance to the loonies will be her undoing. Tinfoil suits her as well as it suits any person who can claim with a straight face that a conspiracy to elect Barack H. Obama was hatched in 1961.
