Get us out of the U.N.!
I guess it was too much to ask that once elected, Jason Chaffetz would cease playing to Utah County right-wing nutjobs and become a rational human being.Right out of the box, the soon-to-be freshman congressman is spouting horse apples:
As [Barack Obama] tries to bring us closer to socialism, I will be a strong voice in opposition.If Chaffetz (who doesn't even live in his district) really wants to play the fear card in Happy Valley, he can denounce — a la Joe McCarthy — Obama's secret plot to nationalize the scrapbooking and diet-supplement industries.
And you thought the last member of the John Birch Society cut the earthly cord in the state hospital in Provo in the 1970s.
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Let's see. Does Obama want to bring us closer to socialism?
- single payer health care?
- more taxes on oil to fund alternatives?
- higher taxes on upper income (we'll see what "upper income" means) to provide refundable credits for everyone else?
- bailouts for Detroit?
- bailouts for Wall Street?
Yep, I'd say Obama (and a lot of other people) are moving us towards socialism.
Does anyone have Chaffetz' mailing address? I want to write to him and explain just how much clout a minority freshman has.
Um, perhaps you should look in the mirror to see what an irrational nutjob looks like. There are a whole lot more freedom-loving, rational people there than in your office.
Chaffetz will be a freshman member of a discredited minority party from a state with absolutely no relevance on the national political scene. He isn't going to have clout. He'll be replaced by another whack-job when the districts are redrawn in 2012, if not before.
Utah is the biggest Socialist state in the country. Half the state works for the government and you have to be a member of the Aryan Jesus club to get the nepotism and favoritism required to get that government job.
Then they starve you until you do join the Aryan Jesus club and upon joining and waiting for your new government job you get to eat Deseret Hamburger.
Classic straw man attack, putting words into Jason's mouth.
Way to Go Jason. He doesn't want us to move closer to socialism. See definition below and see if it applies to any of Obama's ideas?
Socialists mainly share the belief that capitalism unfairly concentrates power and wealth among a small segment of society that controls capital and creates an unequal society. All socialists advocate the creation of an egalitarian society, in which wealth and power are distributed more evenly, although there is considerable disagreement among socialists over how, and to what extent this could be achieved.
That said, Glen, don't you have someone else to pick on. Jason didn't say anything about communists, or the UN in his comment.
He did say he was going to be a check on Obama - something the constitution says he needs to do.
We don't want a King. If the Court and the Legislature just rubber stamp all of Obama's ideas, we have a problem.
Glen, I read your column occasionally, and to tell the truth you’re the nut job
You tell them comrade.
Dear Glen,
Us right-wing nutjobs are actually to be found beyond the confines of beautiful Utah county. We are everywhere brother -- under every rock, behind every bush.
Please be careful not to step on one of us when you go off the beaten path. Okay? Thanks, buddy.
Love,
A.W.
"We don't want a King. If the Court and the Legislature just rubber stamp all of Obama's ideas, we have a problem."
We don't want a one party system? Is that what I'm reading? Yet Utahans consistently elect Republican governors with supermajority Republican legislatures. That sounds a lot like a rubber stamp to me.
Consistently electing a majority of Republicans to office here in Utah says that the majority of people living in Utah are conservative and want to stay that way.
When Democrats outnumber the Republicans in Utah, things can change. But don't be surprised if, when that happens, the conservative base deserts Utah like they did California.
awww, Glen, still full of vitriol and piss-vinegar, eh? Except your diatribes are becoming more personal and taking on a decidedly nasty edge.
Get a clue, why do you think they moved you out of the newsroom and have you writing random raving blog posts?
How long do you think it will be before they figure out that your blog is hurting the newspaper's "fairness" and nix even this?
Maybe you can get on over at the Salt Lake City Weekly, where this kind of stuff is expected (and ignored by most grownups).
I don't know what Jason is worried about. He doesn't have enough money to rent a room at some rich sugar daddy's house like Norm Coleman, so he's gonna sleep on a blow-up mattress in his office. I doubt he made enough huckstering Nu-skin or whatever bogus snake oil consulting service at Maxtera. Sounds like he'll escape any tax increase under the Obama plan.
Think of the dumbest, goofiest, most disingenuous, self-serving and mean-spirited person you know.
Get the picture?
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