Comments on: Your tax dollars at work

By: deadrody

deadrody — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:13:11 +0000

More brilliance (although, this time not from Pete):

-Home heating oil number 2 is just BARELY cheaper than a gallon of milk.

Imagine that. Something that has to be drilled into and pumped out of the ground, sent halfway around the world and refined BARELY costs less than something you can milk out of a cow.

By: deadrody

deadrody — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:10:51 +0000

~~~~Yeah, what a dope I am. Iâ€™m worried about kids leaving Iraq in coffins…~~~~
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Oh THAT is awesome. Hell, I’m not sure I’ve seen anyone betray the mission our troops are on in Iraq in such a naive, simplistic way. Way to go.

So I suppose you are a “No War” peacenik, eh ? Like if we just think happy thoughts about flowers and puppies, the world will just become a super nice place to live and all the bad guys will just lay down their guns and join a quilting group.

The funny thing is, it’s not so much the liberal sentiment that bothers me, but the arrogance in thinking, “Duh, everyone with a brain thinks this way”, like only idiots support the war in Iraq.

If people like you, Pete, were running this country in the 1930s and 40s, we’d all be speaking German now.

By: Tantron Willoughby

Tantron Willoughby — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:32:43 +0000

Peter

Investigating MLB players isn’t good for business…that’s the truth for writers as well as players and it is quite painful to point the source of your pain: the overly zealous self-righteous DEMOCRATS . You need to hold the Demoncrats responsible for the excessive investigation, but you can’t. Your boss is a lib and wouldn’t accept the inconvenient truth. Pity.

By: george

george — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:10:17 +0000

Pete’s basic point about Congress is correct; they use various techniques to distract the public from what they really are, or are not, doing. A circus such as the Waxman hearings being the perfect example.

and then there’s the money issue – taxpayers pay for Congress’ activities, such as the investigators, etc. it all adds up. you want your taxes to go down without cutting essential services? part of that is for gov’t to spend every dime wisely.

By: Silas Barnaby

Silas Barnaby — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:58:39 +0000

One dollar spent on Springsteen tickets is too many when you pass homeless people on the street to get there!

You have to love it when someone with the most non-essential job in the world calls out people for wasting time and resources.

By: RyanM

RyanM — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:38:07 +0000

And Pete, why aren’t you talking about Baseball right now? Why are you posting political posts? Because you can’t talk sports all day, there just isn’t enough Yankee news for you to post about. Same with Congress. They don’t need to spend 24/7 working on Iraq stuff, in order to adaquately addres the issue.

By: RyanM

RyanM — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:34:26 +0000

Pete: Do you honestly think a single thing would have been done regarding Iraq, if they hadn’t looked into steroids? Do you think these kids in Iraq would be home? Until January 20th, 2009, and only if McCain doesn’t win, these kids are going to be in Iraq, no matter if Congress is looking into pimples on Britney Spears face in How I Met Your Mother, Steroids, or Iraq issues.

By: george

george — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:15:20 +0000

sure, it shouldn’t have been in Congress at all, no doubt.

but now that Waxman brought it to Congress, it is good that Davis is balancing the record. bad job by Pete to characterize this particular one as the act of ‘nitwits’.

since Pete is tossing around the term “nitwits”, the biggest nitwits in this have not been Congress. Rather, they have been the baseball writers, who have basically rewritten Mitchell’s & Waxman’s talking points and passed it off as “reporting”.

Being a bigger bunch of nitwits than the current Congress – congratulations baseball writers, that really is hard to do.

By: JMO

JMO — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:56:44 +0000

Peter, I am perfectly happy with Congress keeping busy with meaningless stuff like Clemens. It will prevent them from doing real damage by continuing their long term trend of consistently screwing up important issues.

I can’t recall exactly but either Thomas Paine or Jefferson said “The government is best which governs least.”

Bring on more steroid investigations.

By: Peter Abraham

Peter Abraham — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:31:42 +0000

One minute investigating baseball is one minute too many as long as we’re at war and there are homeless people in our country. Or people who can’t read, etc.

This is total needless grandstanding and those responsible should be ashamed of themselves.