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Though most Faubus dems are dying out, they are being replaced by DINOs who lust after the campaign contributions the Repugs are getting. Political ideals are jettisoned in order to hop on the gravy train.

They've colluded in the branding of "traditional" (e.g., labor, civil rights) Democrats as "socialists" and have portrayed the social and economic policies of Goldwater Republicans as being the new left, leaving many Arkansas voters out in the wilderness. Thus the dems' dwindling share of office-holders.
Posted by YossarianMinderbinder]]> Sat, 02 Mar 2013 10:34:42 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by plainjim]]> Sat, 02 Mar 2013 09:39:00 -0600 Arkansas Times
I learned long ago that if you want a real Democrat in office, you have to ignore the county and state committees, file as a Democrat without their blessing, and go directly to the voters. Despite what plainjim and other hidebound dems contend, the party has abandoned all those groups - labor, civil rights, women, environmental people, LGBT, and others - that brung them to the dance. And those groups are looking for candidates to support instead of the committee-designated DINO.
Posted by YossarianMinderbinder]]> Sat, 02 Mar 2013 09:08:42 -0600 Arkansas Times
The Conservative Political Action Conference has picked Ted "Tail-gunner Joe" Cruz for their keynote speaker. They did not receive the memo about a kinder, gentler repub party that appeals to women and minorities. They are doubling down on the crazy.
Posted by the outlier]]> Sat, 02 Mar 2013 07:07:38 -0600 Arkansas Times
Again, willingness is the biggest hurdle. As long as we limit our political zeal to just writing acerbic complaints, the idiots will continue to wreak havoc in the Ledge. If there are physical or legal impediments to our being candidates, we should harangue every rational acquaintance to step up. Otherwise nothing will change for the better.
Posted by YossarianMinderbinder]]> Sat, 02 Mar 2013 02:27:02 -0600 Arkansas Times
If someone can vocalized over and over that he's nothing but a government welfare taker it may result in a homerun. He's got a very deep sense of entitlement. Makes no bones about it.
Posted by eLwood]]> Sat, 02 Mar 2013 01:33:40 -0600 Arkansas Times
Gallows humor helps too.
Posted by YossarianMinderbinder]]> Fri, 01 Mar 2013 22:24:26 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Quid pro quo]]> Fri, 01 Mar 2013 22:01:29 -0600 Arkansas Times
What right does SVI have to withhold information from the people of Arkansas in this matter? Arkansas spent our tax money to obtain the whole study, not just the pages SVI deems are favorable for them. Yes, SVI paid part of the cost, but that does not make the document any less a public document.

This is an example of the heavy-handed, my-way-or-the-highway tactics SVI will use in any future "cooperative" arrangement. Once we are committed to the point of no return, they will impose their own dictates, despite any promises they make now. They cannot be trusted. The devil's in the details, especially the redacted details.
Posted by YossarianMinderbinder]]> Fri, 01 Mar 2013 21:29:53 -0600 Arkansas Times
I guess I am just a bleeding heart. At my age, I don't care if you call me that. I have been called much worse. I do worry about all the misery that our Arkansas legislators are going to cause for so many people who don't need more problems. What is sadder is that many of those people gave their votes to the lawmakers who are going to screw them over. And all the voters got back in return was guns to kill each other with.
Posted by plainjim]]> Fri, 01 Mar 2013 20:30:01 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by couldn't be better]]> Fri, 01 Mar 2013 19:51:54 -0600 Arkansas Times
why was there drilling in Fla panhandle?
Posted by eLwood]]> Fri, 01 Mar 2013 19:33:58 -0600 Arkansas Times
One really needs to think of Florida as a really long and wide sandbar jutting out into the ocean. There is not a lot of real solid gelogical formations when you're on the coast.

I worked on a drilling location in the Florida Panhandle about fifty miles inland, the 120' tall rig almost fell during the surface hole portion of drilling. The turbulence of the drilling fluid eroded the "formation" in the first 500' of drilling to where it took about 15 truckloads of cement to fill in the "sinkhole."
Posted by wannabee conservative]]> Fri, 01 Mar 2013 19:05:20 -0600 Arkansas Times
Arkansas' Repbulican led General Assembly Motto: "We're not at the bottom yet, but we'll get us there!"

Thanks to Jason Rapert, "Split Tongue" Missy Irvin, and Davy Carter!

http://www.nbcnews.com/business/americas-h…
Posted by spunkrat]]> Fri, 01 Mar 2013 19:01:33 -0600 Arkansas Times
"Eric Cantor Admits That He and Paul Ryan Were the Driving Force Behind the Sequester"

Eric Cantor has confirmed that he and Paul Ryan talked John Boehner out of accepting a “Grand Bargain” with Obama in 2011. It was this rejection that led to the sequester.

http://www.politicususa.com/eric-cantor-ad…
Posted by eLwood]]> Fri, 01 Mar 2013 18:48:30 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by GrizLee Blackbear]]> Fri, 01 Mar 2013 18:42:11 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by zebedee duda]]> Fri, 01 Mar 2013 18:39:39 -0600 Arkansas Times
This current session may have you wishing the State Capitol building would fall into a sinkhole, back to the subterranean realm where many of its denizens come from. Unfortunately, it wasn't built over a karst formation.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/arch…

Instead, the Capitol building replaced the state penitentiary on that same site. Now the inmates run it.
Posted by YossarianMinderbinder]]> Fri, 01 Mar 2013 18:13:25 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by radical centrist]]> Fri, 01 Mar 2013 18:13:03 -0600 Arkansas Times
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-febr…
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Fri, 01 Mar 2013 18:02:01 -0600 Arkansas Times