I challenge you to go two weeks without a “I know you are, but what am I?” style post?

Yawn.

What in the world are you talking about?

Defeating facists like you is the number one priority. Facism will not win. What ever it takes to defeat you and your ilk I will do.

I realize you will have trouble comprehending this but just think of it this way, I am willing to go as low as you or even lower to win.

2010 is going to be a great year for conservatives.

Since we are playing games with other peoples names I thought I would join in the fun. Maybe I will call you Rick. Or is it Doug. Maybe all three names. How much can it cost? Less than $50 for 100 pieces?

You want to dance? Lets dance.

You go ahead and mail my posts “anonymously”. Since I am not the person you say I am it will not matter. You claimed to have proof but you do not since it is impossible to prove something that is not true.

You will not post any so called proof that you claim to have because you know it would expose your true identity to everyone here.

You are what you claim I am, a creepy political operative who defames people on websites under an assumed name. I take pity on you, you have money and glory but you are still a worthless stooge manipulated by the left. You think you are in control but you are not, they control you and will push you aside the minute you do not dance to their tune.

You are nothing more than a Fascist attempting to silence me. It will not work.

You are a creepy political operative who defames people on websites like this under assumed names that you believe provide you with cover.

All I am doing is ripping that cover back, and making your participation known. If you are truly proud of the things you have posted on here, then you should have no problem discussing the stack of comments I call Pete’s Greatest Hits which will be mailed anonymously to any candidate who appears to even be thinking of hiring and/or accepting a political contribution from you.

Since you brought it up I have contacted Fordyce and passed on information to him. He is not surprised that people like you would be after him. He figures it is par for the course and would expect no less from the radical left.

Like I said you people must really be afraid of this dude. You are a coward without honor Leroy.

You guys must really be afraid of that guy.

“Party brass and a number of potential candidates have been made aware of your actions on here”. so you are slandering someone based on a guess? I will pass that on, I am sure it can only help.

Once again you prove the DFL is the party of hate and personal destruction.

“I simply want you to proudly stand behind your lies and attacks on this site”. This from someone who posts as a character in a video game.

I don’t have it in for you, Fordyce. I simply want you to proudly stand behind your lies and attacks on this site as you work rather unsucesdfully to get Republicans elected. Party brass and a number of potential candidates have been made aware of your actions on here, and as the election draws closer, your smears and lies WILL become a campaign issue for any candidate who chooses to hire you.

The bottom line is, a candidate is only as good as the people with whom he or she surrounds themself. And to that end, there is no room for you in the electoral process. I plan to personally see to that.

A. I am not an “unemployed computer geek”.
B. I am always conducting job searches. It would be foolish not to look for better opportunities.
C. I have not supported conservative policies all my life. You can thank Jimmy Carter for turning me against liberal policies and Ronald Reagan for leading me out of the darkness.
D. Now would be a wonderfull time to be unemployed. There is plenty of money available for education for people who have been displaced.

Leroy, you really do need to keep up with what is happening in the world today. I know someone who had their job eliminated in Montevideo and is receiving two years of schooling. And apparently when you are in school you are considered temporarily employed.

Frankly that would be nice, free training and an income while you are doing it. Maybe I should fire myself and take advantage of that – for once in my life get something back for all that I have contributed.

Is it because he caught you trying to work your way into the local Republican party so that you could sabatoge the district and state convention? According to my sources you even did a little work on the Mike Bredeck campaign. Is that true?

Are you really a person named Lydia that works at the local dollar store?

I would think that an unemployed computer geek such as yourself would be pulling like crazy for the Obama economic recovery to be a success so that you can maybe someday get back to work.

A month into the job search, you have to be concerned that maybe you are in the wrong line of work. Too bad college has become so expensive under the Pawlenty watch. Now even if you wanted to get additional education, the option is all but gone, as college is becoming a fleeting dream for those who need it the most.

First the Bush economy knocks you out of work, and then the Pawlenty economy makes it next to impossible for you to get back in.

How many times is karma going to have to crack you in the skull before you recognize that the policies you have been supporting all your life are the very ones that are keeping you down?

When things are going well, it is easy to be a republican. When things go to hell, it is much easier to see the flaws in their dogma.

Where does this girl get this stuff anyway?

I do find it kind of funny that republicans have apparently abandoned being tough on crime and helping the elderly from their playbook.

As for the PeteF stuff, there were no threats made that should concern anyone but the person posting as PeteF. Apparently the great Bush economy made you expendible at work and now you spend all day while you should be job hunting replying to me.

Sad. Truly sad.

“This is where you once again run and hide and pretend you didn’t make a claim that you are incapable of supporting.”

You are obviously thinking of danbrome.

Leroy, stop being such a pussy.

Threatening someone like that is not a good thing Leroy, who knows what actions the person threatened may take…

Leroy-the-jackass is a pathetic troll.

How about one example. ONE example of something I posted here being a word for word reproduction of any DFL writing you can find. Hell, I would even settle for an example of something I have written being vaguely similar to the DFL talking points.

(CLOSED CAPTION TO PETE) This is where you once again run and hide and pretend you didn’t make a claim that you are incapable of supporting. (/cc)

Obama has taken the mess created by congress over the last 2+ years and made it even worse.

Bottom line. Obama was handed a country in near ruin and asked by the people to fix it. The change may take time, but the people of this country believed that the republicans had led us down the wrong path for far too long, and they said so with their votes.

I don’t know if Obama will be able to fix the seemingly irreparable harm that Bush caused. But when his first order of business is to reject the failed policies that got us where we are, I guess I have a reason to believe he may have a vision for getting us out of the ditch and back on the road to prosperity.

It is good comedy though!

President Obama signed legislation to jumpstart our economy, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, less than a month after his inauguration. The plan will save or create 3.5 million new jobs, make critical investments in our infrastructure and give 95 percent of working Americans a tax cut.

A new housing program has stabilized the market, preventing more foreclosures and helping millions more re-finance at historically low mortgage rates. The Administration is also moving forward with its plans to get credit flowing again to businesses and families, and to reform our regulatory system so we have a set of 21st century rules to match 21st century financial markets.

By making bold and wise investments in healthcare, energy and education, and restoring fiscal accountability to government spending, we will cut costs for American families and businesses, create good jobs that can’t be shipped overseas, give our children the education they need to be competitive in the global marketplace and leave our grandchildren a legacy they can be proud to inherit.

Obama’s attempt to create jobs is to the extent that he wants government employees. His involvement in the auto industry will lead to the closing of auto plants and dealerships this year, resulting the loss of hundreds of thousand of jobs. He will likely spend more that one hundred billion dollars this year on his plan to down size the U.S. auto industry.

Leroy, you jackass, you already no that the facts I presented are true or you wouldn’t have agreed to the fact that you are a liar. If, you want to prove me wrong Leroy, find your own links, you jackass.

Leroy notice in post #67, I provided this link

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123431484726570949.html

Notice that the link inludes article. Notice that the article is an opinion piece. Leroy, you jackass, you’re the one who threw a temper tantrum when Ryan recently referred to an op/ed piece as an article. Turns out that Ryan was correct, and once again you were wrong.

Once again you fail to explain how Obama’s so called “plan” will:

1. Grow the economy
2. Create jobs
3. Curtail inflation
4. Keep interest rates low

Stop being a whimp and answer the question Leroy.

Saying defend Obama is rather broad. It would be like asking me to defend oxygen.

You claim I am working off of talking points, and yet everything I read from either of you is the same tired rhetoric that I read that is written by conservative pundits in the opinion pages of the Times, the Post or the WSJ weeks ago. All it proves to me is that you two are apparently far enough down the media stream, you only absorb the stuff that is eventually compiled for you by Fox News and/or Rush.

danbrome is just a troll who never contributes anything to the discussion. He has a man crush on me and can’t seem to let go, sad really…

Pretty amazing, isn’t it? Dumbass supports policies that have failed miserably in the past, but can’t give any reasons as to why they will work now, and tries to offer revisionist history about Reagan.

At least brome was smart enough to get out of the debate immediatley. Leroy was just too stupid, made a complete fool of himself.

I agree that Obama would not be expected to solve all problems that have occurred since the Democrats took over Congress but I would think that Leroy could come up with at least ONE problem that Obama has fixed. This of course would be something that all of us would agree was a problem that needed to be resolved.

I wonder how Leroy will try to dance around this one…

I am pretty sure you answered your own question. You wanted to know how Obama’s plan, which as you say, is diametrically opposed to the Reagan plan is going to work. By showing how those four planks of the Reagan plan failed, by definition didn’t I show how Obama has learned from the past and will not be making the same mistakes?

If you intend to argue that Reagan’s four points were a success, well, then I guess we will have to just agree to disagree. While I have facts on my side, your fuzzy feelings for the Gipper apparently allow you to overlook the overwhelming evidence that his economic plans were a mixed bag at best.

And to argue that the democrats controlled congress is a double sided sword. If you blame them for everything that Reagan didn’t accomplish, then you also have to credit congress for everything he did accomplish. In the end of the day, the president has the power to veto, and any laws that went into effect under his watch were the direct result of his leadership.

Chile-

I agree. Unemployment was below the average for Reagan’s presidency when he left office. But if you demand that Obama fix all problems within the first 140 days of his term, and then cry when anyone doesn’t give Reagan his entire eight years to change something, well, you tend to sound a bit like a double standardist, wouldn’t you agree?

And if you want to cite numbers, cite numbers with credible resources to back them. No offense, but you don’t really inspire trust for the accuracy of the things you say on here. And no, I wouldn’t consider an opinion piece penned by a former Reagan administration staffer to be a credible resource.

Carter left office with a 7.1 percent unemployment rate. Reagan left office with a 5.5 percent unemployment rate.

Reagan: Reduced inflation by more tham 60%
Reagan: Lowered the unemployment rate by more that 20%

Reagan proved that there wasn’t an inherent trade off between unemployment and inflation. Economic text books were rewritten.

How can Leroy-the-Jackass say that “Unemployment rose in an almost direct proportion to the fall in inflation”, when both fell? Because he’s a lying jackass, that’s why.

And Leroy, you jackass – as far as the size of government:

“Even with the Reagan defense buildup, which helped win the Cold War, total federal spending declined to 21.2% of GDP in 1989 from 23.5% of GDP in 1983. That’s a real reduction of 10% in the size of government”

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123431484726570949.html

1. Grow the economy
2. Create jobs
3. Curtail inflation
4. Keep interest rates low

Why can’t you seem to understand simple questions? It shouldn’t be that difficult, even for you.

Reagan’s plans all worked and saved us from the Carter debaucle. You profess to support Obama’s socialist agenda and his $10 trillion deficit, so please tell us how this is economically going to work. It’s impossible to just print more money and devalue the country’s currency without inflation. It has never been done before in any country that has taken this approach. Why do you not explain how this isn’t going to happen?

Your attempt to cut and paste snippets totally ignores the fact that Democrats controlled the House and Senate during Reagan’s presidency and caused the government to grow.

If you don’t have the answers, just say so, nobody here can think any lower of you, it’s not possible.

1. Reduce the growth of government spending
While overall government spending ebbs and flows, one consistent marker that can be used to track the relative size of government and the administration’s priorities therein is the number of people employed BY government. In looking at the number of government employees over the past forty years, the number of employees has been on a steady decline. Only one president in those forty years has had multiple years of increases in government jobs. Care to wager guess? That’s right. It was Reagan. The number of government employees rose over the previous year’s total in 1983, 1984, 1985 and 1987. The only other administrations to see that happen each did it only once, Nixon/Ford in 1974 and Bush Jr. in 2003. So, on his first bullet point, Reagan was a massive failure.
SOURCE: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2008/sheets/hist17z5.xls

2. Reduce marginal tax rates on income
With the passage of the Kemp-Roth tax package of 1981, Ronald Reagan ushered in the era a credit card budgeting. One need only look at the impact that this bill had on the federal deficit to understand this basic fact. If the tax cuts had been successful and followed the republican myth that is the Laffer curve, one would assume that the increased tax revenues created by the increase in economic activity would offset the tax cuts. This did not occur, and you can see the budget deficits begin to skyrocket under president Reagan. Indeed, the budget deficit has always grown under republican presidencies and leveled off during democratic administrations. So, I guess strike two for Reagan’s plan.

SOURCE:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_by_U.S._presidential_terms

3. Reduce regulation
Even Alan Greenspan, who was appointed to the Fed by Reagan, has come out to publicly state that a decrease in regulation was a root cause of the current financial mess. One need look only so far as Wall Street to see what happens to our money when we allow banks and corporations to run fast and loose with the rules.
SOURCE:http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ah5qh9Up4rIg

4. Reduce inflation by controlling the growth
of the money supply I will admit that under Reagan, the rate of inflation decreased from 12 percent when he took office to 4.5 percent when he left. But the move came at a major cost to the country. Unemployment rose in an almost direct proportion to the fall in inflation, as tight money had a similar effect that it is having currently on the economy with business not having the access to credit they need to maintain employment levels. Over the term of his entire presidency, Reagan had a 7.5 percent unemployment rate.
SOURCE: http://www.heritage.org/research/economy/wm675.cfm

So, as you so often like to do, I will provide the score:

Leroy: 4, Reagan/Dash: 0

Leroy can look stupid all by himself, he really doesn’t need your help, but thanks for chiming in and looking clueless also.

“dairy price supports” does not equal the price of milk. The price of milk would not necessarily rise or fall because of this bill.

Please take a few minutes and review the bill then let me know where in the bill it addresses the price of milk. Then we can talk, until then I will ignore you on this topic.

BTW, That did not come from your “crazy dictionary”. It comes from common sense, something I’m pretty sure you don’t have AC.

And you refer to those as “pointed” questions. Zing! Those are indeed deep, probing questions. Look out Charlie Rose, here comes Dash!

I gave you 4 Reagan policies that Obama directly opposes, and asked how the Obama policies will grow the economy, create jobs, curtail inflation, and keep interest rates low when they are in direct contrast to the Reagan objectives. Reagan achieved all of these, and I am asking how policies directly opposed will work. Surely you understand the questions? Please provide the answers. I know you are not that bright, but how much more simple can I make this?

The questions have been asked repeatedly,and they aren’t that difficult. Surely someone who is as smart as you claim to be can provide us with some answers?

Please let me know what you don’t understand about the questions. I’ll be happy to explain for a 3rd time.

Dumbass fits your perfectly. Dumbass, Flounder, and Brome, the 3 liberal stooges.

You got your ass handed to you.

Dash 1 Leroy 0

Not that you ever had any.

I obviously know that my words have likely hurt a great number of people, so I would like to take a moment to apologize. To the cheese makers who provide the middles of so many grilled cheese sandwiches every day, you have my deepest apologies. To the makers of dried milk, whose timeless flavor can be found in recipes copied from ancient cookbooks, your contribution to society deserves better than what I gave it today. To the makers of ice cream, I simply don’t know where to start. Like many Americans, lactose issues keeps me from enjoying your wares, but that is no excuse for my serious misstatement. My apologies are yours. To the makers of yogurt, your contributions to the dairy sector, especially in the form of advanced packaging methods are recognized and greatly appreciated. My condolences for any loss my words may have cost your industry. To Reagan historians who frequent this site, your faith in your own research abilities must have been shaken to the core +by this short lapse in the truth. Please accept my regrets for any problems my misstatement may have caused. To the doctors at Johns Hopkins, who saw the president sign the bill, I worry that my mistake may have caused you to begin questioning your ongoing competence to practice medicine. Please do not retire as a result of what I have written here. The world needs talented doctors. And to anyone else who, for a full seven hours and thirty five minutes, were under the impression that the bill was about milk prices rather than dairy support payments, please know that I have been humbled by this experience, and I intend to insure that I never make such a terrible mistake ever again. The confidence of the readers of this board, the state, and likely the entire world has been shaken by this mistake which was driven by a desire to respond with haste. I feel as if I have let the world down today, and so if you were in anyway impacted by my poor choice of words, please know that you have my most heartfelt and sincere apology.

Reagan’s brave action led to a new career for Ted Koppel as the host of Nightline.

Correct Leroy! It’s a fact!

He signed his first bill while still in the hospital. Not that you need to, but you can look it up.

Dash-

Here is a suggestion. If you want an answer, ask a question. You have several diatribes on this thread that are chock full of wild eyed conservatism, but none seem to contain any questions. And then you get all indignant when no one will answer your questions. If you would like to ask a question, ask one.

Ronald Reagan was right and Jimmy Carter was wrong is NOT a question.