Gregg's Stereotype Goes Terribly Awry

I wish (4.00 / 3)

we could trade Gregg for Sanders. We could include a player to be named later or a draft pick. But I doubt VT would be interested. Like trading Kevin Sloan and James Catusco for LeBron James. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_...

...the Doo Dah Man once told me you've got to play your hand. Sometimes the cards ain't worth a dime if you don't lay 'em down.

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by: rambler american @ Mon Mar 30, 2009 at 05:05:04 AM CDT

We will soon, (4.00 / 5)

for Hodes straight up.

J

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by: Gearfish @ Mon Mar 30, 2009 at 07:47:28 AM CDT

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Sanders owned Gregg. (4.00 / 8)

Gregg is an embarassment, just as I felt Bob Smith was at the time with his wacky utterings.

And Gregg is playing his role of "spoiler" "representing" a state that voted overwhelmingly for Obama. He's not running again, so he doesn't care about answering to the voters. he's probably angling for a lobbying or RW "Think Tank" job somewhere to add to his fortune.

He, like Bush, needs to be hung around the neck of the Republican who runs for the seat in 2010.  

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by: Jennifer Daler @ Mon Mar 30, 2009 at 05:27:01 AM CDT

A thing of beauty. . . . (4.00 / 2)

I love Bernie.  What a cool dude.

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by: Dartmouth Dem @ Mon Mar 30, 2009 at 06:10:32 AM CDT

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How bad off is the GOP? (4.00 / 4)

Look at their blind groping for a national voice.

President Bush? No!!! You just enjoy your retirement, sir!

Rush Limbaugh? He's a stupid buffoon! That is, what I meant to say, the respected radio star is not really a partisan figure and we can't ask him to spend his valuable time...

Chairman Michael Steele? Pass.

Vice President Cheney? Can we help make your undisclosed location more comfy, sir?

How about an unpleasant WASP stereotype who reminds you of a banker looking for faulty paperwork that would let him foreclose the family home? A Senator with ethics problems who knows he would lose re-election, who embarrassed himself by first signing onto then dissing the new administration?

Makeup! That's our boy!

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by: elwood @ Mon Mar 30, 2009 at 05:36:10 AM CDT

Saw Gregg on TV yesterday (0.00 / 0)

Highlights:

- The Obama budget proposal and the Democratic Congressional budget proposal are "mirror images" of each other (His point being ... ?)

- The clearly practiced "More in sorrow than in anger" look and tone

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by: JimC @ Mon Mar 30, 2009 at 05:55:48 AM CDT

Judd's a lame duck who is truly lame n/t (4.00 / 2)

Doing my best to elect NH Democrats since 1968 and getting better at it every year!

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by: Ray Buckley @ Mon Mar 30, 2009 at 08:09:48 AM CDT

Comment on the rich and powerful (0.00 / 0)

"It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes." Andrew Jackson, July 1832.  

Without deviation from the norm, 'progress' is not possible.

~Frank Zappa

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by: JonnyBBad @ Mon Mar 30, 2009 at 09:01:29 AM CDT

Pity Poor Judd (4.00 / 1)

http://www.unionleader.com/art...
snip

All four members of the New Hampshire delegation pull in the same yearly salary: $174,000.

But it does come with a burden above and beyond worrying about the nation's future and security, according to New Hampshire's senior senator.

"Right now, most members of Congress, on the pay they receive, which is very generous, have to maintain two homes, at least two places to live, one in your district and one down here. And that gets pretty expensive, but you don't get to deduct it," Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., said.

Congressional compensation does not stop at their salaries. Members of Congress have plum health insurance plans and safe pensions.

Senate offices can be sweeping suites, with high ceilings, multiple rooms and even working fire places.

But Gregg said that most of the perks that raised the ire of taxpayers have been eliminated.

"There's been a significant change in the area that you might call perks in that most of them have been eliminated, to the extent that they existed, over the years," said Gregg, who started in the House in 1981.

"There are issues that are still out there I presume; I can't think of any significant ones. You know, things like the traditional issues everyone used to hear about, meals, and all that sort of stuff, that was an issue, and those have all been eliminated."

While many small businesses have trouble providing health insurance to their employees because of high costs, members of Congress have access to the health benefits available to all federal employees.

Without deviation from the norm, 'progress' is not possible.

~Frank Zappa

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by: JonnyBBad @ Mon Mar 30, 2009 at 09:11:56 AM CDT

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Staggering (4.00 / 2)

Also worth noting that Judd Gregg (a) lives off of inherited wealth, and (b) voted for a congressional pay raise while our nation was at war.

I'll use my empathy elsewhere.

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by: Dartmouth Dem @ Mon Mar 30, 2009 at 10:18:57 AM CDT

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Piece of Work (4.00 / 3)

The two things about Gregg that stick in my craw every time I hear his name:

1.  He sued a woman with cancer to keep her $90k deposit for the purchase of his home.

2.  He plays the freakin lottery.

Totally irritates me.

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by: j cicirelli @ Mon Mar 30, 2009 at 16:52:57 PM CDT

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just a few weeks ago (0.00 / 0)

Judd was bemoaning the "France-ification" of America, in an op-ed
for the Washington Times.
here's the link to the op-ed: http://www.washingtontimes.com...

I'm amazed that an adult man can say this sort of thing and not be publicly ridiculed for it. Dean's comments about the lack of responsible reportage are right on.  

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by: susanthe @ Mon Mar 30, 2009 at 10:19:32 AM CDT

It was, however, reported (4.00 / 2)

HERE

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by: hannah @ Mon Mar 30, 2009 at 10:29:21 AM CDT

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A new assignment? (4.00 / 1)

Perhaps Judd can become our Ambassador to NATO, where he can repair the damage to our multinational security infrastructure wrought by his hero President Bush?  Judd's obviously good at building relations with our European allies, whom we need to support President Obama's Afghanistan plan.  

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by: Dartmouth Dem @ Mon Mar 30, 2009 at 12:07:13 PM CDT

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A more active media would point not let him get away with that. (0.00 / 0)

Promoting European standards of debt control while constantly whining hyperbolically about Europe's taxes.

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by: This Was The Moment @ Mon Mar 30, 2009 at 19:50:05 PM CDT

Video (4.00 / 2)

Found the video of this exchange. I can't post this on DailyKos because I just registered. Anyway it is epic. (If it doesn't work, the exchange starts at 43:00 minutes on this clip and goes on for 3 minutes.

Direct link to exchange:

http://www.c-spanarchives.org/...

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by: fromdkos @ Mon Mar 30, 2009 at 23:05:27 PM CDT

Thanks! n/t (0.00 / 0)

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by: Dean Barker @ Tue Mar 31, 2009 at 04:38:03 AM CDT

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Judd (0.00 / 0)

What a tool!

Thanks for the link.

...the Doo Dah Man once told me you've got to play your hand. Sometimes the cards ain't worth a dime if you don't lay 'em down.

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by: rambler american @ Tue Mar 31, 2009 at 14:55:28 PM CDT

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