February 20, 2009 9:35 AM
What would Jesus do - about the stimulus?
A conservative group is attacking the administration's economic stimulus plan by invoking Jesus and the three wise men.
The American Issues Project, which briefly aired a TV spot in last year's presidential race, will go up on Friday with a TV spot that marks the dollars spent with the passage of time."Suppose you spent $1 million every single day starting from the day Jesus was born -- and kept spending through today," says the announcer as an image of the three wise men flashes on the screen. "A million dollars a day for more than 2,000 years. You would still have spent less money than Congress just did."
According to Chris LaCivita, an AIP consultant, they are spending just under $1 million on the ad, which will be aired on national cable.
The 60-second ad also singles out an eyebrow-raising statement made by Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on the Senate floor.
"Let me say this, to all of the chattering class that so much focuses on those little tiny, yes, porky amendments -- the American people really don't care," Schumer said.
Then, echoing one of Obama's signature campaign slogans, the announcer asks: "Is this change you can believe in?"
Fair? Should Jesus be used in partisan political ads?
February 20, 2009
10:03 AM
jay writes:
the first contestant who brings up the bible or the nazis automatically loses.
February 20, 2009
10:13 AM
Matt writes:
You just lost jay.
February 20, 2009
10:29 AM
LCDR Mandingo NAM vet Field Negro writes:
He would HANG Nazis like GWB, Lott, Delay, Olmert, Sharon, Boehner, Blair, Phallic Cheney, and Hastert for Iraq, Lebanon, and Gaza war crimes (chemical weps).
Next, he would stop Black folks from paying for "whites-only' welfare in ranching, farming oil &gas, water, and mineral extractions federal subsidies. FLDS-LDS & criminal illegal Mexicans too. Ranchers and farmers are the biggest pipmps of oppression in America. Blacks are still share-croppers!!
February 20, 2009
10:30 AM
SASQUATCH writes:
Jesus would probably continue to "short" the Obama stimulus; behaving no differently than the rest of the global investment community. Jesus would be "long" gold. HE would have a very low opinion of some clueless empty-suit and socialist dividing America into "victim" versus "villian" camps.
Jesus would be very suspect of Obama having arrived on the investment scene just when Madoff and Stanford have been exposed. HE might believe that Obama is just yet another phony fraud just like those guys who stole America's trust.
Jesus would then arrange for a Republican landslide in 2010 and thereby rescue and save the remaing unspent 60% of the stimulus. After all, Jesus is our savior and saving $600 billion counts too.
February 20, 2009
10:31 AM
Anonymous writes:
yeah, jay is that stupid.
February 20, 2009
10:34 AM
Shaggy writes:
""Let me say this, to all of the chattering class that so much focuses on those little tiny, yes, porky amendments -- the American people really don't care," Schumer said."
Typical Liberal strawman!
In fact, the longer The Porkulus gets exposed, the more it stinks of rotten partisian pet projects.
Any state that excepts any of this money will have traded their sole to the socialist devil to own and control.
February 20, 2009
10:40 AM
LCDR Mandingo NAM vet Field Negro writes:
He would HANG Blair, GWB, Delay, Olmert, Boehner, Lott, Sharon, and lard-a$$es Phallic Cheney and Hstert for their Iraq, Lebanon, and Gaza war crimes. He would be exponentionally peeved these Nazis used chemical weps to vaporized, BBQ, and exterminate more than 500K Arabs (Coloreds).
Next, he would stop Blacks from paying for "whites-only" welfare in ranching, farming, oil & gas, water, and minerals extractions. Blacks are still sharecroppers. FLDS-LDS members and criminal illegal Mexicans are also pimping and exploiting us too.
February 20, 2009
11:07 AM
Iceman7 writes:
Jay jay jay,
What are we to do with you?
You keep posting idiot remarks over and over.
Ice
February 20, 2009
11:10 AM
SASQUATCH writes:
AFTER THAT, JESUS WOULD HOLD A SERMON ON SOME MOUNTAIN--OR ON A FIRE ESCAPE FROM SOME INNER CITY TENAMENT:
Jesus would say, "Listen up you slackers, "victims" and deadbeats--no fish or wine for you unless you bring your own. What the hell do you think I'm doing here, running a soup-kitchen for a bunch of stumblebums? Get out of your welfare hammocks, put down that bottle of Ripple, and get your sorry ass to work like the rest of America."
"You deadbeats and slackers need to become accountable and responsible for yourselves, the rest of us owe you nothing--nothing. Stop your whinning and complaining, what the hell did you do with your share of that $7 trillion I pssed away on my "War on Poverty" over the past 40 years, anyway?"
"And please, learn how to speak english, stop wearing baggy pants that show your ass-cracks, lose those $5,000 sneakers and that dew rag, quit the drive-by shooting, visit your old ladies and hoos and find out who your children are and cease and desist with the crack. Now. Because if you don't, the next time you are in the shower I will pay each and everyone of you deadbeats with an electric cattle prod."
"Understand where I'm coming from, bro? You got a problem with that? Now get your sorry ass in gear and get to work."
Your pal,
Jesus
February 20, 2009
11:48 AM
history buff writes:
Jesus wouldn't go to Squat's house for a bar-b-q, that is for sure, because Squat would complain about the lepers, poor people, and other suspect characters who would show up with the savior.
But Jesus might feel compelled to cure Squat's mental infirmity, much like he did by making the crippled walk and raising Lazarus from the dead.
Jesus might also suggest that the AIP take the log out of its eye before it tries to take a spec out of our President's eye. After all, it was the deadbeat and spendthrift Republicans who cut taxes during wartime that caused the major part of our credit crisis. The Bushistas apparently thought they were smarter than the giants who preceded them. Of course, any first year psychology student would understand why a pygmy would try to project a false image of a giant.
But it is hard to understand why Jesus would take a position about the use of money. He pretty much said that money was irrelevant where he was going, and should be to us if we want to follow.
February 20, 2009
11:56 AM
DawnMarie writes:
Sasquatch! That was inspiring!
Jesus would remind us that debt is a sin regardless of which party is spending the money. He would also remind us we have a responsibility to the elderly and disabled, not the lazy.
February 20, 2009
12:34 PM
Obamazombie writes:
I thought Jesus is the one promoting this spending program.
February 20, 2009
1:00 PM
SASQUATCH writes:
AND IF JESUS GETS PISSED-OFF, THEN HE WOULD DO A RANT:
"Hey you..I'm talkin' to you, bro. What's this shit I be hearin' about 55% of you re-defaults returning to the scene of the crime in just 6 months. Six-months and 55% of you chimps be back into the crapper lookin' for a second bail? A rebail of your original bailout? 55%? In just 6 months? Sheeiit boy, man-up why don't you"
Tell me what's up with that, bro? Where did you learn that trick, San Quentin, Attica? Where? If I catch you doin' that shuck-n-jive again, bro, I'm comin' back and I'm goin' to kick your sorry ass from here to The First National Bank of Detroit. Understand?
Go catch your own fish and grow your own grapes for the wine--this ain't no soup kitchen. Go pull your baggy pants up over your ass-crack and walk your $5,000 sneakers down to the employment office. If I be catchin' you hangin' here again, bro, you might get a heart attack or get hit by an ambulance, understand what I'm sayin'? Worse yet, I'll have CNBC's Rick Santelli pay you and your knee caps a visit. Get my drift, bro?"
Your pal,
Jesus
P.S. Watch your ass, bro, I'm always watchin'.
February 20, 2009
1:03 PM
history buff writes:
OBAMA JUSTICE DEPARTMENT STRIKES AGAIN
One day after closing down the crooked dealings of ponzi scam artist Allen Stanford, the Obama Justice Department forces Swiss bank to reveal records of US tax evaders and pay fine to Department of Justice. What would have been a charade during the Bush years is turning out to be prosecution with teeth.
http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/swiss-bank-ubs-to-disclose-secret-account-details/00/21/349596/
February 20, 2009
1:28 PM
SASQUATCH writes:
OBAMA IS A DEADBEAT TOO:
CHICAGO SUN TIMES: Chicago has yet to recoup the $1.74 million cost of President Obama’s victory celebration in Grant Park — despite a burgeoning $50.5 million budget shortfall that threatens more layoffs and union concessions.
“The Democratic National Committee has not yet paid us,� Peter Scales, a spokesman for the city’s Office of Budget and Management, said Thursday after questions from the Chicago Sun-Times.
CNBC'S RICK SANTELLI SHOULD JUMP ONTO THIS ONE
February 20, 2009
1:40 PM
Anonymous writes:
sas, get some help, really
February 20, 2009
1:41 PM
HolierThanThou writes:
The conservative economic "stimulus" consists of three primary movements of money:
1. Tax cuts for the wealthy that are paid for by deficit spending, increases in local fees, and negligence to domestic needs such as transportation infrastructure, healthcare, and other services.
2. War that fills the coffers and foreign bank accounts of conservative war profiteers and professional murderers such as Blackwater (now Xe) and Halliburton (Cheney's outfit).
3. Executive bonuses paid for with the wages and salaries of working Americans whose jobs have been stolen and sent offshore.
The results of the conservative economic "stimulus" are plain to see as rising unemployment, the avalanche of foreclosures, and the nationalization of bank failures.
The good news is that the money has not disappeared entirely. Your money has gone somewhere. It's in the bank accounts of those who profit from the blood and misery wrought by conservatism.
The conservatives are now on their knees praying for the furtherance of failure. They're wasting their ill-gotten gains on spreading lies in the media. Conservatives are fools praying for the destruction of America. They're no different than the slave-traders of the antebellum South, inciting an insurrection that would ultimately cause millions of killings, and maimings, and the destruction of their own homes. Those slave-traders founded the conservatism of modern times and it hasn't changed even one iota at its core.
President Obama's economic stimulus package is only the first step in the remedy. This package will create local jobs that cannot be offshored. It's a beginning to energy independence that will finally give America the power and leverage to bring peace to the Israelis and their neighbors.
A junkie is not the boss of his drug pusher. He must come clean if he wants his freedom back. For American to thrive, we must also come clean. We must put our own people to work. Create value for ourselves and posterity. President Obama's stimulus plan only looks like deficit spending.
The second part must involve accountability, which means we tax those who made the mess in the first place. This is why the conservatives are so afraid of the solution even though they have nothing new to offer. Wealthy conservatives have stolen a huge amount of money from America. Some of them have already stashed it in places like Dubai, the new HQ of Halliburton. They're fleeing the country with our tax dollars but there is no guarantee that they will get very far. After all, conservatives have no friends in the world except the ones they buy.
February 20, 2009
1:56 PM
SASQUATCH writes:
STIMULUS UNDER THE DEMOCRATS:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_crgp_V2EuR8/SZ7gru_KEYI/AAAAAAAAAQg/ymcStJpPTHU/s1600-h/toon022009.gif
DON'T COMPLAIN, ITS "SHOVEL-READY."
February 20, 2009
1:58 PM
history buff writes:
New York Atty Gen Cuomo (D) seeks return of $3.6 Billion paid as bonuses by Merrill Lynch from Bush taxpayer giveaway while firm was insolvent.
How high is the water, papa? $60 Billion and rising.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/4735329/Bank-of-America-chairman-Ken-Lewis-gets-subpoena-over-Merrill-Lynch-bonuses.html
February 20, 2009
2:20 PM
SASQUATCH writes:
CNBC's RICK SANTELLI (PRESS SPOKESMAN FOR JESUS):
"The government and Obama are promoting bad behavior! Achievers are being punished as deabeats are being rewarded. How is this, president and new administration, why didn't you put up a website to have people vote on the Internet as a referendum to see if we really want to subsidize some deadbeat's mortgages or would we like to at least buy cars and buy houses in foreclosure and give 'em to people that might have a chance to actually prosper down the road and reward people that could carry the water instead of drink the water. This is America! How many of you people want to pay for your neighbor's mortgage that has an extra bathroom and can't pay their bills? Raise their hand. (loud boos from hundreds of traders on the CBOE floor) President Obama, are you listening?
February 20, 2009
2:47 PM
SASQUATCH writes:
"OK, I got your message. I'll just rewrite the stimulus":
http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/Chimpanzee-Head.jpg
Your pal,
TRAVIS
February 20, 2009
3:38 PM
am 760 writes:
holier, excellent post
February 20, 2009
4:49 PM
Jesus writes:
I support the stimulus.
February 20, 2009
6:04 PM
LetsThink writes:
Jesus is God.
So this financial discussion is rather pointless.
Our duty is to worship Jesus and obey His commands.
That will cure the horrible moral and economic morass that America is drowning in.
February 21, 2009
4:39 AM
Jesus would support the stimulus to help the poor writes:
Jesus would tell sasquatch shaggy and all the other right wingers to sell all their possesions and give it to the poor and follow him.
They would freak out and call him a lefty loon.
February 21, 2009
7:01 AM
SASQUATCH writes:
JESUS WOULD BAN non-stop gloom and doom, 1929, Great Depression, crisis, Tobacco Road, catastrophe, sky is falling, the end is near, The Grapes of Wrath puke being spewed from the affirmative action empty-suit in the oval officE. JESUS WOULD PROHIBIT any talk that promotes and spreads Jimmy Carer's GREAT MALAISE.
JESUS KNOWS tnat in just 4-weeks the socialist and empty-suit has divided America into "victims" (deadbeats ans crooks) and "villains" (capitalism and business). JESUS KNOWS that this moron is rewarding bad behavior and punishing success. And JESUS ALSO KNOWS that this is all based on the empty-suit's unresolved personal issues regarding race, a major component of the platform upon which he campaigned.
JESUS KNOWS...HE's watching and HE has plans.
February 21, 2009
7:31 AM
Matthew writes:
Jesus would also ask george bush and the greedy republicans to return all the money they stole from the people to them. He would ask for peace in Iraq and Afghanistan.
and he would tell Sasquatch to sfu
February 21, 2009
7:50 AM
SASQUATCH writes:
JESUS will be watching over the 17,000 tropps the affirmative action, empty-suit imbecile has commited to Afghan and HE has turned the 3-minute egg-timer over on the empty-suit regarding his campaign promise to bring all the troops back from Iraq within 16 months (now 15), a promise that HE knows that the empty-suit will not keep.
Jesus also knows that America will be at war with Iran with 2 years. HE knows that the inexperienced and unaccomplished and linguini-spined empty-suit will display the needed weakness and cluelessness required to drag America into another war.
JESUS is watching...HE knows.
February 21, 2009
8:15 AM
Tom writes:
What IF you have a near death experience and meet Jesus and he looks much different than you thought?
http://nortonrelease.com/pictures/al_sharpton_cartoon.jpg
would that change your mind?
February 21, 2009
10:00 AM
Allison236 writes:
The liberal MSM is tripping all over themselves about this ad. The "jesus" reference was obviously a timeline marker. Our everyday calendars hinge on the date of his death.
Too funny that the mere mention of his name elicits the typical knee-jerk (heavy on the jerk) reaction from the brainless sheeple who have long lost the ability to think unemotionally.
February 21, 2009
10:11 AM
ditto writes:
At the present time this country’s actions are an embarrassment to Jesus. Those of you who think Jesus and God support this stimulus are wrong.
Read the Ninth Commandment:
“Thou shalt not covet they neighbor’s house.
What’s does this mean?
We should fear and love God that we may not craftily seek to get our neighbor’s inheritance or house, nor obtain it be a show of right, but help and be of service to him in keeping it.�
This is what God said about the redistribution of other wealth. We may not craftily seek.
God provides all us with what we have, but God want us to give Him the power and the credit, not Obama. Instead of raising the poor up, like Jesus did, Obama and his liberal cohorts want to bring productive people down while increasing their power. They’ll pay.
February 21, 2009
10:54 AM
Michael writes:
"The good news is that the money has not disappeared entirely." - HTT
Another display of ignorance in a long string of displays from HTT. The money HAS disappeared, or evaporated might be a better word. We have lost about 6500 points from the DOW Jones industrial average. That translates to TRILLIONS of dollars that were not stolen, are not in someone's bank in the Caymans or Switzerland, or are anywhere else. THAT $$ IS GONE!!!! That wealth, that savings, those retirement accounts, IRAs, those 401Ks are maybe half of what they were worth a year ago. It might recover and that wealth might return, but it will take years.
Yes some of it was swindled by Madoff and those like him, but that is a small percentage of the total wealth the globe has seen evaporate in this economic collapse. And to be clear, I blame both political parties, the Wall Street banks and investment houses, the mortgage industry, and the people who took out mortgages that they never could afford and never should have been allowed to have. There is more than enough blame to go around.
February 21, 2009
10:58 AM
Michael writes:
"The good news is that the money has not disappeared entirely." - HTT
Another display of ignorance in a long string of displays from HTT. The money HAS disappeared, or evaporated might be a better word. We have lost about 6500 points from the DOW Jones industrial average. That translates to TRILLIONS of dollars that were not stolen, are not in someone's bank in the Caymans or Switzerland, or are anywhere else. THAT $$ IS GONE!!!! That wealth, that savings, those retirement accounts, IRAs, those 401Ks are maybe half of what they were worth a year ago. It might recover and that wealth might return, but it will take years.
Yes some of it was swindled by Madoff and those like him, but that is a small percentage of the total wealth the globe has seen evaporate in this economic collapse. And to be clear, I blame both political parties, the Wall Street banks and investment houses, the mortgage industry, and the people who took out mortgages that they never could afford and never should have been allowed to have. There is more than enough blame to go around.
February 21, 2009
11:13 AM
Michael writes:
"The good news is that the money has not disappeared entirely." - HTT
Another display of ignorance in a long string of displays from HTT. The money HAS disappeared, or evaporated might be a better word. We have lost about 6500 points from the DOW Jones industrial average. That translates to TRILLIONS of dollars that were not stolen, are not in someone's bank in the Caymans or Switzerland, or are anywhere else. THAT $$ IS GONE!!!! That wealth, that savings, those retirement accounts, IRAs, those 401Ks are maybe half of what they were worth a year ago. It might recover and that wealth might return, but it will take years.
Yes some of it was swindled by Madoff and those like him, but that is a small percentage of the total wealth the globe has seen evaporate in this economic collapse. And to be clear, I blame both political parties, the Wall Street banks and investment houses, the mortgage industry, and the people who took out mortgages that they never could afford and never should have been allowed to have. There is more than enough blame to go around.
February 21, 2009
4:07 PM
Chris writes:
Right to the point allison. This is another non-story concocted by the liberal msm to divert attention from Obama's major missteps so early in his reign.
Anyone care to comment on his lack of clothes?
February 21, 2009
6:41 PM
history buff writes:
Chris, this is a non-story. Mark posted it on this blog because he likes to stir things up. If someone connects Jesus to the stimulus plan because of this video, they would be flaky indeed. And if that was the intent of the people who created this video, they also are flaky indeed.
Actual history will place primary blame for this crisis on Bush and the GOP Congress that cut taxes during wartime. A real Christian knows when it is a time to sacrifice. That is why the Christian world is on top. And that is why I doubt the faith of a lot of people who think they are so holy.
February 22, 2009
3:20 AM
GWB writes:
"Sasquatch! That was inspiring!
Jesus would remind us that debt is a sin regardless of which party is spending the money. He would also remind us we have a responsibility to the elderly and disabled, not the lazy"
yeah so lets put Social security into the stock market. Privatization is good!
February 22, 2009
8:43 AM
Chris writes:
History will indeed reveal the source of our pain. Bush did spend a lot of money and resources in the war. And he did cut taxes. But he was not responsible for the mortgage and banking meltdown any more than the democratic heads of congressional oversight committees on whose watch these disasters occurred.
The historical porkulus spending spree and tax increases during a crashing economy is a time-tested recipe for further disaster. And that set of policies will have only one person/party culpability.
Lets wait and see.
February 22, 2009
9:55 AM
Anonymous writes:
http://www.photographersdirect.com/buyers/stockphoto.asp?imageid=1486328
February 22, 2009
1:47 PM
RegLib writes:
From what I've read of him, I don't think Jesus would have much good to say about the people who are worried about poor people getting some of their money. It appears that the only times he gets pissed off is when someone is obsessed with money and profit.
What would Jesus do? Probably nothing, he'd be too busy being drummed out of the country by the Right for his Communist ideology.
February 23, 2009
8:19 AM
JMH writes:
Thanks to Charlie Brown (Sas) for proving he is totally out of his mind...
Ya, Charlie Brown, Jesus would be wearing pinstipped suits, $2000 loafers & be upset that the super-rich aren't getting more money from a bill designed to help the working class and the poor in this country! Just ignore everything Jesus has been quoted as saying... LOL. Oh and BTW, you are late for your Klan meeting!
This whole ad is nothing more than the country club, champaign sipping, lily white wing of the GOP trying to keep the trailer trash, country bumpkin wing of the GOP on their side... even though the Stimulus will help these very same people!
Religion was always used as a tool to keep the poor from overthrowing the rich & powerful. This trick has been used to keep the ignorant in line for thousands of years... invoke a "creator" and tell the peasants that God put them in their position of power and greed and to question it, would be questioning God!
February 23, 2009
1:48 PM
GenBalthus writes:
Are you so completely clueless you can ask this quesiton iwht a straight face?
"Render unto Ceasar that which is Caesar's."
Idiot, the guy barely even mentioned political events of the Augustinian/Tiberian Age...
Sas, I honestly think you have lost your freaking mind talking about Jesus Christ in that manner. I'm not even a believer and still I'm offended for all the believers out there.
And NO, political ads should NOT use Jesus. NEITHER side's ads.
February 23, 2009
2:06 PM
KW writes:
When Jesus entered the congressional buildings and found politicians at their tables, selling and exchanging favors with such an enormous amount of taxpayers money (spending bill), He fashioned a whip out of cords and overturned all the tables, driving out those who would dare use the entrusted public's money in such foolish manners. And He proclaimed "how dare those elected to serve, instead chose to turn the capital of the greatest nation into nothing more than a den of thieves and robbers."
February 23, 2009
3:43 PM
history buff writes:
KW, we have separation of church and state in this country. The forefathers saw your type coming centuries away. Jesus was concerned about commerce in the temple, a holy place. No one in his right mind would consider the halls of Congress holy. Not even Jefferson Smith.
February 23, 2009
10:26 PM
RegLib writes:
KW,
Sasquatch likes to tweak peoples' noses to see whom he can get to squawk. Your post, on the other hand, is not nearly over-the-top enough. You're in danger of making people think that you actually believe what you're saying.