Comments on: A.M. Roundup A behind-the-scenes look at New York politics. Thu, 13 Mar 2014 23:20:19 +0000 hourly 1 By: iknowtruthismine Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:58:39 +0000 AlbertJ – Those you have supported for the last eight years have already thrown the country under the bus, a bus you seem content to sit in and fling your further support for more of the same. The difference between your president and our real president is that ours actually gives a rat’s butt about all the people, not just a small rich segment of them.

By: AlbertJ Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:07:06 +0000 “Be careful what you wish for, you might just get it”, is a caution you should seriously consider. This American system provides for periodic changes in direction, but historically only those changes that prove themselves as workable get an opportunity to continue, beyond the next periodic reassessment through re-election.





By: AlbertJ Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:53:26 +0000 Just for once, INTIM, put your accusation of my ignorance of, “all, crimes of the lying, thieving, fraudulent regime of the last eight years to anyone so ethically and morally devoid of conscience that they can stand in the light of day and act as a shill for what will go down as the lowest, most despicable point in American history”,
aside and provide some detail explaining all your accusations.

The, “if you’re to dumb to know, I’m not going to explain it to you” defense you have relied upon since forever, about everything you insist on whining about in the most exaggerated terms possible, just doesn’t cut it.

What, specific, crimes of the lying, thieving and fraudulent activities are you referring to, so I can determine which may be credible accusations or which are just excessive political rhetoric that can’t be substantiated. Not a difficult challenge, if of course, you actually have some detail to back up your assertions.

By: iknowtruthismine Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:10:45 +0000 AlbertJ – I do not have to defend the blatantly obvious, known to all, crimes of the lying, thieving, fraudulent regime of the last eight years to anyone so ethically and morally devoid of conscience that they can stand in the light of day and act as a shill for what will go down as the lowest, most despicable point in American history.

By: AlbertJ Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:41:59 +0000 With all your bluster, all your indignations, INTIM, you still haven’t defind your argument. It’s so easy to call President bush an “unelected dufus”, but the fact is he was elected, then re-elected and steered this nation through some pretty serious times. What you choose to call a “fradulent resource war” was viewed by the majority of this nation’s citizens as an appropriate step to eliminate a serious threat.

Now you add the preposterous suggestion that the Islamic extremists we are currently fighting were “empowered by Reagan, which is an absurd exaggeration. The Democrat party, as is there long standing habit does exactly what they criticize.

You find ir so easy to call those you disagree with the vilest of names, but never offer and facts to back up your outrageous claims. Now you whine those you disagree with, “have led the world to the brink of economic and ecological disaster” yet provide not a shred of argument, much less evidence to substantiate what you claim.

Once again you show your argument to be totally devoid of fact or reason and totally lacking in credibility.

By: iknowtruthismine Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:28:37 +0000 AlbertJ – Having, for the last eight years, been the recipient of one-sided, partisan, hate driven attacks by right-wing dogma wonks, who allowed an unelected doofus to lead us into a fraudulent resource war in Iraq, by playing on the national angst of an unrelated attack by a group armed, trained, and empowered by the Reagan regime Muslim fanatics, the Democratic party has every right to hold your side up to close examination and restraint because your side still clings to the ridiculous notion that what you did was somehow honorable and should be further emulated. The only break the right-wing should be given is the one that snaps the back of your chosen bunch of the thieving thugs that have led the world to the brink of economic and ecological disaster.

By: AlbertJ Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:58:51 +0000 Give me a break! Such flowery prose and pompous indignation fueled by the arrogant presumption that expanding home ownership is a “good Democrat idea” amounts to just more of the same old nonsense and, for lack of a better word, “BS”.

No doubt there was an example of unmitigated greed and many in the private sector who chose to take advantage of the lunacy allowed, if not demanded, by out of controll politicians whose only focus appears to have been pandering to a constituency who usually votes as a solid block. The poison was created and fed to the masses by two politically controlled entities who failed miserably to accomplish what they were created to do by tearing down the common sense rules, checks and balances that were designed to allow them to manage what they were created to do.

When questioned about really stupid decisions that were being made, rather than review their actions, they hunkered down and circled their largely Democrat political wagons, which as always are focused on political agenda designed to absorb more power and control. Chairmen Dodd (D-CT) and Frank (D-RI) blocked any and all efforts to rien in policies and practices that were obviously counterproductive. A gaggle of Democrat big shots from the Clinton Administration, with little banking or housing experience, were ushered in, through and out of high ranking executive positions, just long enough to get their tickets punched for golden parachutes.

The “Free-market” does just fine when left to deal with practical and real ebbs and flows. It’s when pure politicians exert purely political obstacles and loop holes designed for their own politically motivated agenda and objectives that the trolley tends to come off the tracks.

I seriously doubt that you will ever be able to comprehend, or understand the most basic certainty, that there are good-bad, honest-dishonest, fair minded-cheaters, innocent-guilty on both sides of every issue. What you continually fail to grasp is that demonizing everyone side of the spectrum, while annointing everyone on the other side is exactly what the negative elements in either side hope for.

Of course it’s always easier, and takes a lot less effort and thought to attack an entire segment with general, undefined accusations than to spend the time to understand exactly where specific problems reside within a group.

By: iknowtruthismine Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:20:30 +0000 AlbertJ – Your world must be a wondrous place where all that has happened can be ignored, denied, and double talked away. The world you defend is based on unmitigated greed on the part of an uncontrolled and out of controlled banking industry, given a free ride to take a good Democratic idea to expand home ownership (the old American dream crap)and spin it into a funnel to suck wealth out of the system into the pockets of the rich, so that all that remained was a hollow house of cards for the peon investors and the unfortunate home buyers. This stink is a direct result of the so called free-market mantra espoused by the right-wing and no spin you try to place on it is going to wash that greed driven stink off the side you continue to shill for.

By: AlbertJ Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:02:51 +0000 I don’t expect anyone, with a brain, to forget how out financial house of cards started falling. Sorry, INTIM, “All that doctrinaire right-wing dogma” had very little to do with it. Although the Bush Administration should have pushed harder, they did try and get congress interested in tightening controls on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as far back as 2003, but a resiliant Demorcat minority, on it’s way to becoming a stubborn majority under the leadership of Dodd (D-Ct) and Frank (D-RI) blocked every move.

Of course stuffing the upper management jobs in both organizations with Clinton Administration retreads, affording them opportunities to acquire golden parachutes didn’t help much either, any more than a new Senator from Illinois, who was welcomed as a friend and benefactor and supporter of lax management.

If you want to find someone deserving of your frustration, those two Congressional chairmen are perfect targets. You would think, after their dismal and utter failure, they would be replaced as chairmen of their respective powerful Congressional committees. This is where “Change” would have been oh, so appropriate, but no, these two “Foghorn Leghorns” are still in charge, still lecturing about what everybody else has done wrong and still have no clue what they’re talking about.

Why is you keep building on your effort to raise Rush Limbaugh to leader status? He’s a radio celebrity, not a party leader or elected official. Could it be that’s because you really can’t argue facts, so speculation and imagination is all you have left?

For the umpteenth time, you have yet another opportunity to explain what you mean by, “Neocon and right-wing rule” and what about it might be responsible for, “the further destruction of the country”. Most likely the best you can offer is another, “If you don’t know, I’m not going to waste time explaining it”, because you have no idea what your repetitive rhetoric actually means.