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Dec 2nd, 2008 07:57 PM
Dr. Boogie
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Originally Posted by Kulturkampf View Post
Did you see the aging that occurred on him while being President?
KK's ironclad argument for how he knows the president is a hard worker: he continues to age, despite being the president. Priceless.


It's good to have you back, KK.
Nov 30th, 2008 10:33 PM
ZeldaQueen
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Originally Posted by Blasted Child View Post
Let's be thankful Bush didn't spend more time in his office making decisions
Oy, what a thought.
Nov 30th, 2008 01:35 PM
Blasted Child Let's be thankful Bush didn't spend more time in his office making decisions
Nov 26th, 2008 10:22 PM
Jeanette X
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Originally Posted by Colonel Flagg View Post
Carter - 79 days in 1 full term
Reagan - 335 days in 2 full terms
Bush I - 543 days in 1 full term
Clinton - 152 days in 2 full terms
Bush II - 418 days as of 8/7/2007 (532 days left in office)

Actually, Dubya doesn't hold a candle to his dad. However, he does make Ronald Reagan look like a workoholic.

Reference: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php...sing_in_Action
My apologies, I stand corrected.

Funny how the Democrats took the fewest, eh Kulturekampf?
Nov 26th, 2008 02:53 PM
pac-man That's why Bubba was getting BJs in the oval office- he didn't want to take a day off.
Nov 26th, 2008 01:07 PM
Colonel Flagg
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Originally Posted by Jeanette X View Post
[Dubya] has taken the most vacation days of any sitting president.
Carter - 79 days in 1 full term
Reagan - 335 days in 2 full terms
Bush I - 543 days in 1 full term
Clinton - 152 days in 2 full terms
Bush II - 418 days as of 8/7/2007 (532 days left in office)

Actually, Dubya doesn't hold a candle to his dad. However, he does make Ronald Reagan look like a workoholic.

Reference: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php...sing_in_Action
Nov 26th, 2008 11:43 AM
ZeldaQueen
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Originally Posted by Kulturkampf View Post
So Pres.l Bush is wrong for continuing to the very end?

Liberals reward the lazy with welfare... I guess they do no tsee hard work as a virtue.
Dude, just because someone doesn't have a job doesn't mean that they're "lazy".

Ever read Les Miserables? The character Fantine's a very hard worker trying to support herself and her daughter. She's dirt poor because there's a social stigma against being a single mother. In today's world, she'd probably have been under welfare. Would you say she's lazy?
Nov 26th, 2008 11:12 AM
Jeanette X
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Originally Posted by Kulturkampf View Post
So Pres.l Bush is wrong for continuing to the very end?

Liberals reward the lazy with welfare... I guess they do no tsee hard work as a virtue.
Typical. You can't defend the regulations on their own merits, so you construct a straw man argument, and a rather poor straw man at that, since he has taken the most vacation days of any sitting president.

Why do you still come here?
Nov 26th, 2008 12:38 AM
pac-man Because no president ages while in office.

Nov 26th, 2008 12:34 AM
Kulturkampf
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Originally Posted by pac-man View Post
Oh, and George W. knows all about hard work.

Did you see the aging that occurred on him while being President?

I know Pres. Bush wasnt a prestigious community organizer but oh well.
Nov 25th, 2008 10:03 PM
pac-man Oh, and George W. knows all about hard work.

Nov 25th, 2008 04:35 PM
Kulturkampf So Pres.l Bush is wrong for continuing to the very end?

Liberals reward the lazy with welfare... I guess they do no tsee hard work as a virtue.
Nov 22nd, 2008 10:40 PM
Jeanette X
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Originally Posted by ZeldaQueen View Post
Exactly!

Edit: It's not that I think that Obama's the end-all savior of our country. I know he's bound to have screw-ups too. But we've had Bush screwing up for the past eight years and I just am so tired of it I at least want someone else screwing up now.
I agree. Worst case scenario, Obama turns out to be Carter, well-intentioned but ineffective. I'll take that over Bush any day.

So did this get passed or what?
Nov 22nd, 2008 10:37 PM
Jeanette X *snip*

Double post.
Nov 22nd, 2008 07:55 PM
ZeldaQueen
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Originally Posted by Tadao View Post
Yes, Obama is the light at the end of our tunnel and will not fail us or do us wrong.
Exactly!

Edit: It's not that I think that Obama's the end-all savior of our country. I know he's bound to have screw-ups too. But we've had Bush screwing up for the past eight years and I just am so tired of it I at least want someone else screwing up now.
Nov 22nd, 2008 03:03 PM
pac-man
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Originally Posted by Tadao View Post
Yes, Obama is the light at the end of our tunnel and will not fail us or do us wrong.
Now you're coming around.
Nov 22nd, 2008 02:04 PM
Tadao Yes, Obama is the light at the end of our tunnel and will not fail us or do us wrong.
Nov 22nd, 2008 10:11 AM
ZeldaQueen Why can't he just stay in Peru until Obama takes office? Why?
Nov 22nd, 2008 02:29 AM
DevilWearsPrada heh, good catch.
Nov 22nd, 2008 02:17 AM
HappyHamster But its Saturday...November 22... isn't it?
Nov 22nd, 2008 12:06 AM
DevilWearsPrada
Midnight Regulations

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/200811...ws/ynews_pl158

Quote:
Originally Posted by Yahoo
In what has become a kind of presidential right-of-passage, the president (or really, the federal agencies that answer to him) has been pushing through a series of last-minute regulations that have the force of law. Everything from pollution controls to family-leave standards can be set by these rules.....These de-facto laws are called "midnight rules" or "midnight regulations" because they happen at the end -- or midnight period -- of an administration. If the rules are published in the Federal Register by Friday, Nov. 21, they'll be very hard for President-elect Obama to reverse when he gets into office.

And that's the point. Sure, the administration had eight years to get a lot of this stuff accomplished. But according to senior research fellow at George Mason University, Veronique de Rugy, most midnight regulations "cater to special interests" and "that is why they are hurried into effect without the usual checks and balances."


...In recent days, the Bush administration announced new rules to speed oil shale development across 2 million rocky acres in the West. It scheduled an auction for drilling rights alongside three national parks. It has also set in motion processes to finalize major changes in endangered species protection, allow more mining waste to flow into rivers and streams, and exempt factory farms from air pollution reporting.
If what this says is true, bush may finally stage the fabled corporate coup that we've all been expecting

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