 | Mrs. Gregoire and her handlers have finally realized that most of the people in the state don't like her very much, so they are giving her an image makeover. |
they've freed up her schedule to put her on the road -- a lot -- for policy meetings, city tours, school visits and photo ops. She's relaxed, smiling more, and sometimes shelves her trademark intensity to include laughter, colloquialisms and references to her compelling life story.Compelling life story? Well, there's her term as president of a segregated sorority. And then there was the stolen "election" which she praised as "a model to the rest of the nation and the world at large.
Meanwhile, the "new Gregoire" who recently called for fiscal restraint is now proposing a whole porkload of new spending: "Gregoire's wish list nears $200 million"
You're such a GLOOMY GUS Stefan...
Posted by: Winston Smith on December 19, 2005 07:36 AMTypical.
Posted by: Balkstar on December 19, 2005 07:42 AMI didn't see using the one billion for the new Viaduct that may fall down at any moment (wink! wink!).
For a while the last couple of years, I thought the Rs had lost their moral compass when they starting spending like drunken sailors in port after six months at sea. The Ds claimed to ususrp that mantle. Until..... time passes by, their true colors come out.
In DC, the Rs even took some spending increases out of the budget while the Ds fought them. Now, maybe the world is right side up again.
Posted by: swatter on December 19, 2005 07:55 AMStolen election? Holy fraud, Batman! See Bush v. Gore for the book on stolen election. It this election all voters in Florida had their vote cancelled and 5 folks in Washington, D.C. chose for them.
Stolen election? ROFLMAO!!!!!
Dug
Posted by: DugoutNut on December 19, 2005 08:22 AMYour multiple personality disorder apparently allows you to put lipstick on a pig....and not see a pig.
Using multiple posting identies does little to hide your lack of sense of humor for ALL your many identities.
A pig is a pig....
And a KLOWN is a KLOWN. Posted by: Mr. Cynical on December 19, 2005 08:27 AM
IN THE WORDS OF FORREST GUMP, STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES. Posted by: TACOMA PHLASH on December 19, 2005 09:15 AM
183 million in new projects for Gregoire. Only half of the bike and sidewalks that are on the State's list are funded, it will take another 75 million just for the current list. The millions for WASL is just a drop in the bucket for the spending in education that they want. Our legislators have their own pet projects too!
Downpaying the looming debt? Hah!
Posted by: sgmmac on December 19, 2005 09:22 AMAs funny as the idea of the 100 clowns as LIBERAL demonstrators was, you must realize that on a local as well as national basis we are taking yopur party apart. We may be clowns to you, but we definitely have a serious purpose that you have not seen in Democratic circles in many a year.
The last thing the baby -boomers are going to do before NOT going gently into that good night is hand you Reps. your hats as well as a new a**hole.
"The time has come today.
There are things to realize!"
Chambers Bros.
I suggest you listen to the long version.
Posted by: Winston Smith on December 19, 2005 09:28 AMI WENT ON LINE TO LOOK UP "CHROME PLATED DOG TURD"...IT WAS ALREADY TAKEN, BY THE TACOMA CITY COUNCIL! SPEAKING OF PIGS...MY GRANDFATHER ALWAYS TOLD ME "IT DOSENT MATTER HOW MUCH LIPSTCK YOU PUT ON A PIG ...ITS STILL A PIG!!
Posted by: TACOMA PHLASH on December 19, 2005 09:35 AMThe irony of your little pseudonym, used as it is by someone whose political party has done more to advance the cause of socialism--and therefor tyranny--than any other group outside of the CPUSA would be amusing if it didn't make me nauseous.
Secondly, please *DO* keep whistling past the graveyard about your electoral successes.... just be careful. Delusional behaviour could get you involuntarily medicated. Remember your heroes in the former Soviet Union and China with their re-education camps? Oh, I forgot--I'm sure you approve of those.
Posted by: libertarianobserver on December 19, 2005 10:24 AMSure, we have money now that can be used to start new programs, but that money may not always be there and then we will be faced with a decision - cut existing programs of increase taxes. Which route do you think this legislature and governor will take?
Posted by: SouthernRoots on December 19, 2005 10:33 AMhttp://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041019/NEWS09/410190343
And then we have the entire Democrat leadership of the St Louis party convicted (hint to liberals - that is what happens AFTER an indictment. Something you will NOT see happening to Ton Delay):
From http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/12021188.htm
Convicted of one count of conspiracy to commit vote fraud during the Nov. 2 election was Charlie Powell Jr., head of the city's powerful Democratic Central Committee and a former city council member. He faces five years in prison.
Convicted of conspiracy and vote fraud and facing five years on each count were:
• Kelvin Ellis, a Democratic precinct committeeman and former East St. Louis city government department head who served a federal prison term for extortion in the early 1990s.
• Yvette Johnson, secretary to the city Democratic organization.
• Democratic precinct committeemen Sheila Thomas and Jesse Lewis.
All except Ellis were allowed to remain free on previously posted recognizance bonds to await sentencing in about three months. Ellis, who has been held in custody and faces other charges in connection to another FBI probe of East St. Louis government, was returned to jail.
Posted by: pbj on December 19, 2005 10:45 AMBeware of the stampede in January, they are all headin back out to clean out a full trough, then they will be diggin much further into your pockets if you have anything left!
Snork Snort
Posted by: GS on December 19, 2005 10:57 AMWhat would be wrong with fixing some problems like the pension mess and others without adding new state programs?
Since when do kids need extra help in passing the WASL? No one ever gave my generation extra help to pass a test that was supposed to check what they have already learned. It's just more money grabbing by the teachers' unions.
Why do pre-schoolers need more money? Why does the state have to provide more health insurance? Why does the state need more bike trails? I see so few people on bikes that it's criminal to waste more money on them for a small minority while the highways are clogged full of cars.
It seems that the priorities of the governor and the legislature don't reflect that the majority of voters want lower taxes and less spending.
Posted by: Clean House on December 19, 2005 12:18 PM"Nice lipstick and pearls." Posted by: M on December 19, 2005 01:05 PM
ANWR is 19 million acres. In 1980, a democratic controlled congress, at the behest of President Jimmy Carter, set aside area 1002 which is 1.9 million acres of ANWR for future energy exploration. The actual work of drilling and exploration will be done on a 2000 acre site during winter so little if any "footprints" by humans will be left. There are no trees, the closest mountains are 50 miles away and the area consists of permafrost tundra and rocks.
All the same concerns of the Trans Alaska Pipeline have proven to be false. The caribou herd in that area has grown from 5,000 to 31,000.
The United States has the best technology and the highest enviro standards in the world. Would you prefer we invest in foreign countries who do not have the same standards and don't care about enviro impact?
As far as the Florida elections go, seveal news organizations recounted those ballots a year or two after the election and found that Bush won without a doubt. But no one from your side of the fence seems to remember that part. Posted by: Robert J on December 19, 2005 01:57 PM
FOR SETTING OUR FRIEND WINSTON STRAIGHT (IF HE IS STRAIGHT).I DID NOT GET A CHANCE TO DO THE HOMEWORK ON THESE FACTS BUT AS I REMEMBER THEM, YOU HAVE IT RIGHT.
Posted by: TACOMA PHLASH on December 19, 2005 04:33 PMMisty: Can't say that I have heard that comment, but it makes sense considering the history.
Posted by: Robert J on December 19, 2005 11:06 PMYou should have seen the picture of her on the front of the Spokesman. She was hugging a little girl and look so uptight, even the dems in my office commented on it. Posted by: cc on December 20, 2005 12:53 AM
Dug says, ”See Bush v. Gore for the book on stolen election. It this election all voters in Florida had their vote cancelled and 5 folks in Washington, D.C. chose for them.”
Off-topic, nonsensical, utterly illiterate, shallow, childish, illogical, and absurd.
That’s dug for you.