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Started by Townsend, August 27, 2012, 02:24:40 PM

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Townsend

It's started and so far:

QuoteRush Limbaugh, while repeatedly insisting he is "not alleging a conspiracy," suggested Monday that the National Hurricane Center's forecast models for Tropical Storm Isaac were altered to help President Barack Obama and "cast a pall" over the Republican National Convention.

Rush Limbaugh: Hurricane Center is 'Obama'

QuoteRush Limbaugh, while repeatedly insisting he is "not alleging a conspiracy," suggested Monday that the National Hurricane Center's forecast models for Tropical Storm Isaac were altered to help President Barack Obama and "cast a pall" over the Republican National Convention.
"I'm not alleging conspiracies here. The Hurricane Center is the regime; the Hurricane Center is the Commerce Department," Limbaugh said on his talk show. "It's the government. It's Obama."


The conservative talker suggested early forecasts, which showed the storm hitting Tampa, the convention's host city, were intended to cause Republicans to cancel the first day of their convention. Newer models showing the storm striking New Orleans, he said, are intended to link the convention to memories of Hurricane Katrina, which made landfall seven years ago this week.

In between the models showing the storm striking Tampa and the models showing the storm striking New Orleans, Limbaugh claimed there was "one of the biggest, one of the largest shifts in model forecast I have seen since 1997 when I moved down [to Florida] and started caring about this stuff."

"I know full well that if you give these people the slightest chance and they're gonna turn this into Katrina and they're gonna scare the hell out of New Orleans and they're gonna revive, 'Bush doesn't care about people' and revive all of it," Limbaugh said, according to a transcript. "They're gonna politicize everything 'cause they do it. And now they had the model runs allowing them to do it."

A spokesman for the National Hurricane Center hasn't responded to an email seeking comment.

So shoot yeah, dude.

Conan71

Hmmm, I guess he's still not off the oxycontin.
"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first" -Ronald Reagan

Teatownclown

They don't need no hurricanes to cast a pall over their convention.

Too many clowns.

Teatownclown

You can hear the smell but you see little conductivity....

Are the delegates in place?


QuoteRepublican Convention Taking Place In City With America's Highest Homeless Rate
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/08/27/751981/tampa-bay-homeless-convention/
As Republicans gather for their national party convention in Tampa, they will be aware of the stormy weather but may not see another issue clouding the city.
The Tampa-St. Petersburg metropolitan area has the highest rate of homelessness in the nation, according to the National Alliance to End Homelessness in a report issued earlier this year — 57 homeless for every 10,000 residents.
There are about 16,000 homeless people in the Tampa area, and one in five of them are children.






circus....

erfalf

What exactly would be considered a job creation bill?
"Trust but Verify." - The Gipper

Teatownclown

Quote from: erfalf on August 28, 2012, 11:10:14 AM
What exactly would be considered a job creation bill?

Rebuilding the overpasses in Tulsa's IDL?

carltonplace

Quote from: erfalf on August 28, 2012, 11:10:14 AM
What exactly would be considered a job creation bill?

I guess we could build some guns and ammo factories

AquaMan

Quote from: erfalf on August 28, 2012, 11:10:14 AM
What exactly would be considered a job creation bill?

Closing tax loopholes that hurt employment by allowing corporations to move their operations overseas yet still receive preferential grants and loans?

Passing laws that discourage companies from buying other companies and raiding their assets, converting them to cash which is then kept overseas in Swiss accounts?

Rebuilding the infrastructure of the country that has been decaying?

Passing a jobs bill?

Passing anything other than morality laws? Like a budget?

Nah. Those things make "that one" look good. We'll just wait.
onward...through the fog

Hoss

Quote from: AquaMan on August 28, 2012, 12:29:46 PM
Closing tax loopholes that hurt employment by allowing corporations to move their operations overseas yet still receive preferential grants and loans?

Passing laws that discourage companies from buying other companies and raiding their assets, converting them to cash which is then kept overseas in Swiss accounts?

Rebuilding the infrastructure of the country that has been decaying?

Passing a jobs bill?

Passing anything other than morality laws? Like a budget?

Nah. Those things make "that one" look good. We'll just wait.

Remember who you're talking with here. The guy who thinks the current Republican party is more liberal than Reagan. Bizarro.

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swake

What an idiot.

Looks like a direct hit on New Orleans to me

erfalf

Quote from: AquaMan on August 28, 2012, 12:29:46 PM
Closing tax loopholes that hurt employment by allowing corporations to move their operations overseas yet still receive preferential grants and loans?

Passing laws that discourage companies from buying other companies and raiding their assets, converting them to cash which is then kept overseas in Swiss accounts?

Rebuilding the infrastructure of the country that has been decaying?

Passing a jobs bill?

Passing anything other than morality laws? Like a budget?

Nah. Those things make "that one" look good. We'll just wait.

So I guess to make a more fair assessment, I would need to know how many tax bill the democrats have authored.
"Trust but Verify." - The Gipper

Townsend

Quote from: erfalf on August 28, 2012, 12:52:48 PM
So I guess to make a more fair assessment, I would need to know how many tax bill the democrats have authored.

http://www.govtrack.us/

AquaMan

Read much Erfalf? None of what we are saying is state secrets. Type in Boehner way back in 2008 and see what his plans for Obama legislation were. No. Ixnay. Nyet. Lots of opportunity squandered with silly stuff.

They can't even pass a budget.
onward...through the fog

Townsend

Rush Limbaugh: Democrats want Hurricane Isaac to hit New Orleans

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/80284.html

QuoteDemocrats are hoping Hurricane Isaac strikes New Orleans, Rush Limbaugh said Tuesday, farcically suggesting the GOP send "bags filled with money to the shore up the levees."
"It's the Democrats' wet dream that this thing hit New Orleans," he said, according to a transcript.

"It will show our compassion," the conservative radio host added later. "And it'll do something else: Once we publicize that we have sent 500 bags of money — well, whatever number of bags — bags filled with money to shore up the levees, what will happen? The poor of New Orleans will storm the levees and steal the bags, thereby putting themselves at risk for the eventual flooding that'll happen once they remove the bags. That way Republicans can get rid of even more Democrats in Louisiana and shore up the state for themselves."
On Monday's show, Limbaugh suggested the National Hurricane Center, which is part of the Commerce Department, was manipulating their Isaac forecasts to help President Barack Obama

His producers and he must think his audience is full of loons.

erfalf

Quote from: AquaMan on August 28, 2012, 01:13:03 PM
Read much Erfalf? None of what we are saying is state secrets. Type in Boehner way back in 2008 and see what his plans for Obama legislation were. No. Ixnay. Nyet. Lots of opportunity squandered with silly stuff.

They can't even pass a budget.

Possibly he thought the Obama plans were pretty bad. And in 2008, Boehner was nothing more than a minority leader in the house. If you want to pick on him though, he did author the 1996 Farm Bill, the 2006 Pension Reform Act, No Child Left Behind in 2001, and a successful school voucher program in D.C. While I may not agree with all of those pieces of legislation I would hardly consider any of them a waste of time.

Oh, and in 2008 he was voting for TARP and the bailout.
"Trust but Verify." - The Gipper