Those of you in Tennessee already knew that. But today when she speaks at the 9-12 March on Washington she will clue in the rest of the world.
“Revolution.” “Succession.” “A New Civil War.” It’s all part of a days work (cha-ching!) for the sponsors of the march. And, apparently, for Blackburn.
Frankly, I’m not surprised. Congressman Blackburn was more than willing to appear on the local mouthpiece of the most extreme wing of her party, Michael DelGiorno, who every day demonstrates how irresponsible he is as a broadcaster by insinuating that the President is a very scary man who is working towards a dictatorship, trying to indoctrinate your children, and using the tactics of imperial Japan and Nazi Germany to overthrow the government. Oh, and Harry Reid is coming to kill you and Barack Obama is the antichrist.
Frankly, Congressman Blackburn is exactly where I would expect her to be today – cozying up to the most extreme members of her party who are so afraid of Barack Obama’s “otherness” that they bring guns to his public events and scream “You lie” to his face in very inappropriate settings.
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Republicans consider themselves to be very financially prudent when it comes to social programs. Of course, when it comes to preemptive wars based on faulty information, they’ll spend like drunken sailors. The fact that no Tea Parties arose while were spending $1 billion/day in Iraq makes these people hypocrites.
The fact that Marsha Blackburn bought into the birther movement puts her on the fringe. Until I see evidence to the contrary, I must assume she is part of the angry, white conservative movement that is destroying the Republican party.
BWLIB, I agree.. ACORN is a great organization. Too bad they need government funding to keep their head above water though, huh?
If Marsha Blackburn is such a horrible congressman, do you really think she would win her district in overwhelming fashion every time she runs?
You see, Mrs. Blackburn is what a congressman should be. Someone who listens to the people that vote for her. She isn’t afraid to stand up for what she believes in.
BWLIB, I understand why you have a problem with her. I however, can’t understand the difference in Republican and Democratic fiscal irresponsibility. You are so quick to call someone a liar, as long as it’s not someone in your party. You are the only liar on this board…
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I don’t know where they Tea Party protesters were then, Mark, but they will tell you that it’s not a Republican or Democrat thing and that they are just now protesting because it took them a while to get to their tipping point. Which would make them all liars.
Eric, And it’s also pretty funny that you probably never heard of ACORN until your brother in NY told you about them. They’re an organization that has been around for a long time doing good work. If they have a bad employee or manager that screwed something up then they should be fired – just like in any organization – and they should re-evaluate their business model – also just like any organization.
Michael DelGiorno, Michael (Weiner) Savage, Phil Valentine, and the rest of the Right Wing talk show hosts typify what is wrong with our Congress when it comes to solving problems….. they only talk! Now it would be okay if the conversations they had moved us toward solving the multitude of problems we have with health care, banking, wall street, wars, terrorists, and so forth. However their agenda seems to be more about creating more problems. For the record…Reagan added 3 Trillion to deficit, so much that H W Bush had to raise taxes and lost his bid for a second term. Let’s not forget that 780 billion surplus that went away with Bush Jr. followed by 6 trillion in debt for 8 years of governing. Or the added costs to the government for medicare prescriptions so Czar Bush could look like a god to the old folks. Where were the TEA PARTY’S then?
Well, to be perfectly honest, MARY, I have never called the President a socialist or a communist. So I really have nothing to be ashamed of, do I? And what kind of comeback is that anyway? You should be defending ACORN, spewing out your usual liberal nonsense about how those journalists broke the law and whatnot. I’m sure there is some kind of loophole you could find. I thought the whole thing was hillarious myself. It’s funny how dirty an organization like that can get…
Looking forward to having Dr. Greg Rabidoux on the show.
TNAutry – It’s about power and Marsha Blackburn will be as intellectually dishonest and partisan as she needs to be to get it back. If that means selling out the entire country and fooling folks with lies about Death Panels, then so be it.
Eric, And you should be ashamed at yourself. What are you calling the President today – a communist, socialist or secret Muslim?
Mickey, Even though I don’t agree with your solutions for long term deficit reduction, I do agree that Congressman Blackburn’s concern for fiscal irresponsible stops at her own party’s front door.
The Republican Party has been the party of fiscal incontinence for 8 long years and not a peep out of her.
Why she is talking about it now and not then is beyond intellectually dishonest.
The people of the 7th deserve better. Blackburn must be held accountable for her actions. She is not representative of her district, she is another detached, well funded extremist. Thank goodness her days in office are numbered. Thank goodness there is a strong contender going after her seat in 2010. Dr. Greg Rabidoux will represent the people of the 7th with informed, educated and experienced leadership. And I promise you this, you won’t find anything as utterly ridiculous as decorating a Dillards store window on Rabidoux’s resume.
“she so crazy” Blackburn is just another “unfit” sore loser Republican Congress person. Can’t wait to hear what they will drag out of their butts to scare our most honorable generation,our senior citizens, today. Would not surprise me if a “Hole in the wall panel” is announced. In the Obama Health Care plan, holes will just appear in the walls, and swallow our senior citizens, whole. That would make as much sense as a President raised by his grandmother,with his children’s grandmother helping raise his children, setting up a Health care plan with a tenet to establish death panels to kill grannies. Sometimes, you just have to break it down.
Coming soon, “I am stupid, and would rather attempt to destroy a great nation paid for by the blood of thousands,DEMOCRATS,REPUBLICANS,and INDEPENDENTS, than support a bi-racial President, panel. If I am going to “tell it”, I am going to tell it all. In Tennessee, it not about being pro-life, if it were, why does our state have one of the highest infant mortality rates in the country? It is not about spending,if it were, why did the Republicans run up the defecit for eight years? We were spending millions a day fighting a war with the wrong country because lying Chaney, “said so” It is not about lying, if it were, why do they lie? It certainly is not about the whole truth, because if it were, they would be asking themselves, why did Obama have to pump so much money into the economy in the first place? Did they want the economy to completely collaspe? Did they want even more millions unemployed? It is not about our children’s future, and teaching them civic/fiscal responsibility, If it were, Why are Republicans not accepting responsibility for the mess they created by working with the President to clean it up? Not everyone suffering,not everyone seeking help in Tennessee, and this country, is a Democrat.
Marsha Blackburn is part of the problem that landed us in the mess we are in. Her solution is now “trust the problem…me, to corrrect the problem, by underminding the stability of our Democracy by any means necessary? Only the foolish, is being fooled.
Hey, so how about this ACORN scandal? You liberals ought to be ashamed of yourselves!
Why is Marsha Blackburn speaking? She is part of the problem. Why are any politicians speaking?
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
I don’t expect she’ll put this on her YouTube channel, so I’m hoping to catch her on CSPAN rallying her anti-government congregants. It’s wonderful we have the technology we do to make sure politicians can no longer narrow cast and hide their pandering. The more political pandering is memorialized for all of eternity, the less politicians will be willing to risk their reputation for the pathetic personal and partisan short term returns.