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The Rocky Mountain News editorial on the Democrats’ utter failure to truly reform earmarks (“Waffling on an ‘earmark’ pledge,” June 15) reminds me of the story of the frog and the scorpion:
The scorpion asks for a ride across the river and the frog hesitatingly obliges. Halfway across, the scorpion stings the frog and, as they are both sinking to their watery deaths, the frog asks the scorpion, “Why did you sting me, knowing that it would kill us both?” The scorpion replies simply, “It’s my nature.”
Raising taxes, wasting money and buying votes is simply in the Democrats’ nature. They know no other way, and it is the height of folly to expect anything from them other than failing on pledges aimed at fiscal responsibility or simple good government.
Democrats are proving once again that the best argument on behalf of Republicans is Democrats.
Until the GOP gives an even better reason to vote for Republicans, however, we may be stuck swimming with political scorpions. Just don’t be surprised when you feel the sting.

Ross Kaminsky, Nederland

READER COMMENTS

very true.
now ross get ready to be blasted for your truthfulness, as the libs will be after you real soon.
I guess its the truth they cant stand.

(D-Punjab) Gov. Ritter is just as bad as the rest of the Dixiecrats. He lied, when he stated, he favored unions and all organized labor. Ritter's favorite "illegals" aren't Mexicans, they are criminal illegal Hindu-Indians. Little did I know, when Lou Dobbs (CNN) was howling about illegal Hindu-Indians illegally (20K+) displacing qualified American workers, he was talking directly to Ritter.

In violation of federal and state appropriation laws (procurement, contracting, and hiring), Ritter has knowingly contracted and hired these Indians, who are employees of Dataman, Inc., an India based and owned company. These crooks came into this country under the guise of "hi-tech" employees. Ritter has outsourced to them, Metro State College's hring and recruiting function.

The one's I met could barely speak English. They did speak "enuff" English however, to let me know they were stealing my federal 10 point job preference in Metro's VP Info Tech job, earned by my serving in 3 deployments to Vietnam and speding 23 years of life, on and under the oceans of the world, for the greater good of all American citizens.

Black disabled Vietnam veterans were sucking "hind-tit" (contracts and jobs), during Billie Mae Owens' draft-dodger) administration and nothing has changed on Ritter's watch. Hiding under their desks, while "share-cropping" runs amuck, is the Judas band of brothers and their sisters; Groff, Marshall, T. Carroll, Jones, Bennie Milliner, Richard Poole, and Denver's Hancock and Wedgeworth-less, who let J-Loop (draft-dodger) steal federal earmarked jobs and contracts from us too.

These "field hands" were moot while Owens turned the federal funded T-REX, Fas Tracks, and Fitz redevelopment projects, into lavish cash-cows for whites. "Bible-thumpers" like Groff and Carroll, had nothing to say while companies owned by Mormons, got the lion's share of jobs and contracts at Fitz. Keep apologizing Rev. Al.

Phil Washington (RTD's AGM), didn't hear Oprah's commencement speech, at Howard University either. It was titled, "BLACKS SELLING OUT BLACKS". He (vet) is selling out highly qualified and educated black disabled Vietnam vets, just so he can continue to get his insane $160K salary, which Kofi must have negotiated for him. They are all chauffer's for "Driving Mr. Ritter".

Centennial Mayor Randy Pye, has a dixiecrat streak in him too. His "pye in the sky" is very expensive and he supports foreign welfare at taxpayers expense. Pye started his program of "Sidewalks to Nowhere".

He recently ripped out huge chunks of sidewalks in the Piney Creek subdivision, under the guise they were heavily damaged by homeowners snow shovels, during our recent blizzards. Most of these "damaged" sidewalks are less than 20 years old and folks in the 'burbs", don't walk anywhere. If the did, they would give the "burbs" a bad name.

The reality is, Pye created this candy-store for Brannan, Inc. and their criminal illegal Mexican concrete workers. I can't take it anymore. Pat Bowlen (Canadian) is robbing me blind with his illegal (not approved by the US Congress) stadium cash-cow. The Vatican, Mexican gov't, Wal-Mart, US Chamber of Commerce members, GOP, etc., are pimping me with their criminal illegal Mexicans, and insult to injury is, (D-Punjab) Gov. Ritter, and his criminal illegal Hindu-Indians. I'm tired of being a "nappy-headed HO".

I'll take tax-and-spend liberals over borrow-and-spend conservatives any day.

Conservatives claim government is incompetant and then run for election so they can prove it.

Thank god we have the super compitent, always truthful, never backstabbing, peaceful, and thrifty republicans leading us.

Oh yes Repgunants always talk about small government and less spending yet they have managed to do neither when in power. Twelve years of Reagan and J.W Bush plus 6 years of W. Bush has seen enormous increases in spending and the size of the government. At least Democrats act as though money DOES NOT grow on trees as the Republicans do. The last six years of Republican domination as seen utter increase in pork-barrel spending. From a bridge to nowhere in Alaska to an indoor tropical rain forest in the North East US. And has Bush vetoed one of these bloated budgets. Heck no, because he is too busy buying votes.
So go on calling Dems "tax and spend" and remember that it was Clinton who gave us budget surpluses and it was Bush who spend those surpluses like a drunken sailor on shore leave.

Clinton didn't give us budget surpluses. He just reaped the rewards from the great jobs that Bush Sr. and Ronald Reagan did.

And George W. is paying the price for the poor job that Clinton did.

The economy always takes several years to feel the impact of a president. That's why the Democrats are usually in office when the economy is good, and the Republicans are usually in office when it's bad.

Get a clue.

Oh how I forget how the right-wing loves to put St. Reagan on a pedestal and worship him even though he ignored the AIDS crisis, homelessness and deficit spending. But I will concentrate on deficits and the fact that this God of the right-wing did not have a clue about economics. Lets see, Reagan made a campaign issue about the deficits of Carter and then went ahead and raised the US deficit to 6% of GDP, that is a whole lot billions.
Bush Sr. can thank Reagan and the mess he left as one of the reasons he did not get reelected.
But it is just like the right-wing to deflect all blame and take no responsibility.

Republican Dude, you keep telling yourself that little ditty of a myth, my man. I'm sure it makes you feel good.

Always nice to hear from an idiot with blinders on. Now grab your tar brush and tell us what Republicans stand for, Ross, and try to keep a straight face while you lie through your teeth.

Uh oh, what's this?

Bush personally requested 93 of the 321 earmarks in the new Interior Dept funding bill?

Republicans hypocrites? naaaaaaaaaaah!

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/bush-called-out-for-his-earmarks-2007-06-28.html

Now I know why I am a Libertarian

Holy cow, Republican Dude.... are you serious?! Is your line of thinking THAT simplistic?!? Either you are truly stretching to be a party apologist, or you get all of your news from Limbaugh soundbites.

I am a conservative republican and there isn't anyone in DC representing me. GW is a RINO if ever there was one. Tax cuts are nice but shrink the govenment don't bloat it.
Save money don't throw it out the window. I don't even see a candidate I could support.

Heck both sides are right about the lack of leadership in DC today. Send us a real leader who knows how to govern and not just spend spend spend in the hopes of gaining votes and a "legacy." I don't care what party a real leader is from either.
I voted for Bush but if you let me define his legacy I'd say HE was the one asleep not Reagan.

TBone - Why did the dems want to renege on their pledge in January to make all earmarks transparent?

momma y said:

"I am a conservative republican and there isn't anyone in DC representing me. GW is a RINO if ever there was one."

Were you dumb enough to vote for him? To many of us, it was painfully obvious what George Bush was as soon as he opened his mouth. So blame yourself if you voted for the fake cowboy, silver-spoon fed, ivy-league blue-blood idiot.

It is unfortunate so many voted for GW.

If the Democrats could have offered us a legitimate presidential candidate in that last election who could find his ass with even one hand, maybe things would have been different now.

But Kerry was the best they could conger up.

Hopefully an Independent will someday come around who the American people will elect as a statement against both political parties who are raging war against us average citizens,

(From the original letter's author, Ross...)

Those of you who ask me to defend Republicans must not have actually read my letter, or at least not to its end.

The Republicans have been a disaster, and got what they deserved in the last election. The problem is that Democrats will always be the disaster they are now, whereas the Republicans have historically showed at least a hint of ability or interest in limiting government...just not recently.

So, as I said, the GOP has to give us a better reason to vote for them than just that they're not Democrats.

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