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Re: Perdue presses for stimulus in Va.

j1c2kp — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:55:50 -0500

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/05/campbell.brown.congress/index.html?iref=mpstoryview#cnnSTCText

Congress retreat. Guess all politicians are clueless as to how bad it looks while slapping the financial worlds hand and then going off on your own retreat at resorts.

Re: Perdue presses for stimulus in Va.

FFC1304 — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:32:07 -0500

How about Barbara Mandrell instead? Or, Dolly Parton who defended her crook brother Randy!

She should be ashamed to go begging the taxpayers for money, when her party has kept NC in slavery for decades!

Re: Perdue presses for stimulus in Va.

cornbread — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:26:56 -0500

Getting money from the feds for Medicaid to balance the budget is well within what a chief executive in NC is charged with doing. Yeah, that balancing the budget constitutional thingie.

So sorry you're sad that a woman is doing the job she was elected to, but McCrory lost.

Re: Perdue presses for stimulus in Va.

ThoughtCrimes — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:13:56 -0500

Hmmm. There must be some mistake. Looks to me that one of NC's govt's private jets is heading north!

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N122NC/history

No way Bev would be stoopid enough to take a private jet to go beg for scraps from the DC pigs, right? I mean, the press would have a field day, right? Remember how the press had a field day on the Big3 execs for doing the same thing? Nope, No hypocrisy here!

I wonder if there was champagne and caviar on board? Of course she deserves it. Because... she uhhhh... did..... the state is doing so well.... there's a surplus and we need a way to squander it?

OK, anyone who doesn't get it: it costs more to just to taxi this pig out to the runway than it would to fly round trip on a commercial flight. Way to save, Bev!

Re: Perdue presses for stimulus in Va.

jonoflocke — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:19:12 -0500

I wonder if Barbra Streisand has responded to the offer to play Perdue in the upcoming musical Rent Seekers?

Re: Perdue presses for stimulus in Va.

j1c2kp — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:03:20 -0500

So how much is the resort charging for this event? Are there no government buildings suitable for a mtg of this kind?

Governors

James_Protzman — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:50:45 -0400

Two of them had other commitments during the Obama speech.

So many governors, so little time to keep up with them all?