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• Anonymous

  Every time LePage opens his mouth, I like him more….

• http://lighthouse-news.com/ Sue (Michigal)

  And every time he opens his mouth, he embarrasses me more….

• Millicent

  well, at least the next four years will be comical :)

• Anonymous

  Dr. King’s dream of getting past skin color and going to the essence of the person is diametrically opposed to the Monochrome Coalition’s goal of permanent black victimhood.

• Anonymous

  Is the BDN seriously showing us clips from Comedy Central? Wow, that’s some great journalism.

• Centaurmyst

  I will never forgive Maine Republicans for nominating this level of stupid…

• Anonymous

  Okay…that is pretty funny that Stephen Colbert opened his show with that. On the other hand, LePage might want to start to censor himself. He’s quite “off-the-cuff” for being a professional business man, let alone the Governor of our state. Yikes!

• Anonymous

  LePage continues to astound. The depth of his profound understanding of America’s social scene. His barnyard wisdom. His quick and agile mind. All point to a man well qualified to care for animals or tea parties.

• Anonymous

  What can you expect when you elect a redneck to office.

• Anonymous

  I guess you prefer him to kiss their butts as politians have for the last 50 years.

• Anonymous

  I’ve been waiting for Colbert to “discover” LePage. Now LePage is no longer just a Maine embarrassment, he’s a national/international embarrassment!

• Anonymous

  His show may be on “Comedy” Central, but Colbert is white-hot as a political commentator and he’s pulling down lots of awards.

• Anonymous

  Yes, but. The point is that LePage’s stupid comment has gone viral, and it’s been discussed non-stop around the country since he tossed it off. Just this morning I heard it being hashed over on NPR while I was driving to work. (And I’m a lifelong Mainer, now living in Texas so I COULD have a meaningful job, but that’s another story.) It matters because LePage clearly had no idea, nor did he care, how that comment would play out in the real world, which is disturbing. It wasn’t ballsy, it wasn’t smart, and it made Maine look really bad.

• Anonymous

  NAACP is a racist organisation.
  At least he calls a spade a spade.
  The more the left is upset with him the better I feel.

• Anonymous

  we have been an embarassment for the last eight years finally someone will speak up for us not just suck up.

• Anonymous

  well the left has been trying to turn civilization into wild kingdom.

• Anonymous

  “Barnyard wisdom”…..Good one!

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SHNOU64ZBOBIKWUF5IM6WSH7WA entitled4life

  Well if you are comparing LePage to Baldacci, then its no contest. Baldacci was the most incompetent governor Maine has ever seen and he followed the previous most incompetent governor that Maine had ever seen. Neither of those two were even qualified to tend animals much less smart enough to understand the tea party movement. I guess that says a lot about you.

• Anonymous

  lis as usual ,try investigating and writting not reading from the left playbook.!

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SHNOU64ZBOBIKWUF5IM6WSH7WA entitled4life

  Whatever the BDN can do to discredit the governor, they will do. The BDN protects its own, and LePage is not part of the family.

• Anonymous

  So typical. Not a fact to be found just more empty emotion.
  Since the tea party movement centers its positions on fealty to the Constitution without understanding one word of it, understanding them is pretty simple – ignorance elevated to endless hypocrisy.

• Anonymous

  “NAACP is a racist organisation”. I repeat ignorance elevated to endless hypocrisy.

• Anonymous

  once again the rest of the country looks at Maine and assumes we’re a bunch of rednecks. Thanks LePage

• Anonymous

  Amen.

• Anonymous

  From the NAACP Website:
  “Vision Statement
  The vision of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to ensure a society in which all individuals have equal rights without discrimination based on race.

  Objectives
  The following statement of objectives is found on the first page of the NAACP Constitution – the principal objectives of the Association shall be:

  * To ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of all citizens

  * To achieve equality of rights and eliminate race prejudice among the citizens of the United States

  * To remove all barriers of racial discrimination through democratic processes

  * To seek enactment and enforcement of federal, state, and local laws securing civil rights

  * To inform the public of the adverse effects of racial discrimination and to seek its elimination

  * To educate persons as to their constitutional rights and to take all lawful action to secure the exercise thereof, and to take any other lawful action in furtherance of these objectives, consistent with the NAACP’s Articles of Incorporation and this Constitution.”

  Yup. Real “racist” alright.

• Anonymous

  How about an AMEN to that!

• Anonymous

  LePage has done more harm to Maine’s business climate in one month than the past 50 years of environmental regulations. Shame!

• Anonymous

  They could of brought in Ricky Gervais to give some advice to Mr. LePage, since he did such a good job at the Golden Globes…..
  I thought some of them actors were going to start crying…

• Anonymous

  I don’t think the left would ever want wild kingdom as that would mean survival of the fittest. And nature is pretty stark when it comes to the evolutionary success of collectivism.

• PabMainer

  Does anyone really care what Stephen Colbert has to say??

• Anonymous

  Do you believe everything else that you read on the WWW too?

• Anonymous

  LePage will be a wealth of material for Colbert and Stewart.

• Anonymous

  Paul LePage is the Kanye West of politics.

• Anonymous

  The BDN discredited the governor by reporting what he said? I thought the governor himself did a good job of that all on his own.

  I’m looking forward to more gaffes from him. I think they are pretty comical. I don’t see how you can blame the BDN for his mouth engaging before his brain does.

• Anonymous

  Prejudiced much?

• Anonymous

  Ummm, I don’t. I didn’t even look at the clip. But there are lots of people who do. I’m presumming none of them are Rush fans, though.

• Anonymous

  I don’t recall Rebublicans asking for your forgiveness. Frankly, we don’t care. Moreover, nothing can top the stupidity of all the previous democratic administrations.

• Anonymous

  LePage is his own worst enemy. He doesn’t need any help making himself look bad.

• Anonymous

  Until now…

• Anonymous

  Nope, but if I want a good laugh, all I need to do is look-up a politician’s website (regardless if they have an R or D after their name) and read all the lies there.

• Anonymous

  I find it humorous that you moved to one of the most conservative states in the country to find a job. You are the poster child for why Maine elected LePage, jobs and a better business environment is what he is worried about not what toes he might step on during the trip to prosperity.

• Anonymous

  When we want or need forgiveness, we know who to ask for it and it sure isn’t you. We however will forgive you for your hatred and mean spirited comments about our governor and our beliefs.

• Anonymous

  Preach on, brother!

• Anonymous

  The Tea Party movement is founded in the that the federal government has too much power and that based on our form of representative government (we do not have a democracy) that the people can change anything as long as a big enough number of people agree. Thus the movement is founded in the constitution. If we as Americans do not want all the social programs and are tired of the government making the problems worse, we will vote out those who disagree with us and vote in people who agree with us. it started Nov 2

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3X7SFRHODRS2WLWYPQD5G5DEAY bmy

  IMPEACH Paul LePage!

• Anonymous

  Got his mouth in gear and his mind in neutral….

• Tedlick Badkey

  God bless you Stephen!

  You are truly a great American hero!!!

• Tedlick Badkey

  There was no adoption… LePage lied.

  http://www.pressherald.com/news/jamaican-joined-lepage-household-as-teen_2011-01-16.html

• Anonymous

  Your conclusion is unjustified. Yes, we are a republic and yes if enough people agree anything can be changed, but that does not make the movement based on the constitution. The idea that if enough people agree they can change anything is not a constitutional principle. Its not found in the constitution anywhere nor is it implied. The idea comes from the Declaration of Independence which is not a legal document and is not binding on anyone nor is it a basis for the Constitution. The Supreme Court ruled in Texas v White in 1869 the individual states have no constitutional right to secede from the Union. But it also commented that if all states (not some, not a majority, all states) agreed to a new constitution or to dissolve the union that might be permissible.
  The Federal Government today has no more power than it did in 1788 when it was ratified except those amendments ratified under the Constitution. The social programs you rail against have all been found to be constitutional.
  The Federal Government has not made the problems worse. Particularly in the economic sphere, where the 1800′s brought choas that undermined US sovereignty, weakened the national defense, and injured a majority of Americans, the reforms of the 20th century brought stability, a strong national defense, and economic properity for a majority of Americans – precisely the goals demanded of the Congress in Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution.
  The Tea Party movement is founded on anti-constitutional principles.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WUXQMOMFW26EODLA7I3WZLSNPM Jeff C

  I dont see the argument here. Lepage said he had nothing to do with the Tea Party, Then he said hello to the Tea Party, but then he said he didnt mean to, but then he said he hoped they would have a nice day, and then again, not too nice a day…I dont see any reason to be confused here at all.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WUXQMOMFW26EODLA7I3WZLSNPM Jeff C

  Are you telling me that the stuff we read on the net isnt true? Cmon man, that is like my bible to life. I know dang well that Paris Hilton is actually playing dumb so nobody will suspect her when she runs for governor of California…and Charlie Sheen is really a nice guy. I also believe that the Aliens of V are coming down soon and that we will all be fine once the planet turns red…LOL

• Anonymous

  I would use the word “reporting” loosely. It’s easy for anyone to pull a few words out of context to totally change the intent or meaning of something. He was referring to the NAACP pulling the “race card” on him because he was more focused on working on our states issues (which is what he was hired to do) then to making appearances to appease special interest groups.

  If someone tried to call me a raciest because I wasn’t attending their anti-racism event, even though I have a black son and I’m staying home because I have work to do, I think I would have a lot worse things to say than “Kiss my butt”. I applaud him for his self control.

• Mungo Munro

  ….HAHAHA chuckle chuckle< AhWWW . Look everybody. Dan Dan Demerit is up set at my crude remarks. Boo Hoo chuckle chuckle………………….. Governor of Maine Paul Lepage heaping ridicule on best friend in front of a local TV news camera………………….. No wonder Lepage has to find comfort hanging out at the local bar.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WUXQMOMFW26EODLA7I3WZLSNPM Jeff C

  Well when we have a Governor that is as laughable as Lepage is, we need to have a good comedy relief to get away from the fact that he is only beginning what could be the most horrendous four years this state has ever seen.

• Anonymous

  Judging by the comments after the other articles, they assume correctly…

• Anonymous

  “”NAACP is a racist organization,” you say. This is what the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary says: “racism: a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.”

  Now, what has the NAACP done to fit this commonly accepted definition to merit your describing it as racist?

  And with that definition in mind, what is anyone to think of your choice of descriptive term in the second line of your comment?

• Anonymous

  Please provide the law in the constitution of the state that Gov LePage has broken that provide the legal basis for your request. If you can provide one I will stand beside you in requesting the same thing. I will be waiting for your response.

• Anonymous

  the nazis were proponents of social darwinism and survival of the fittest….are you suggesting that the us embrace that ideology? and as “one nation under god” and “in god we trust” what were the thoughts of the prince of peace concerning helping the less fortunate or, as you refer to it, “collectivism?”

• Anonymous

  Baldacci ncompetent? Perhaps. But LePage brings a whole new level of clownish buffoonary to the table. Effective or not, he’s an embarrassment…

• Anonymous

  Wow, what an ignorant statement. You have the right to make it, of course, but it is still really, really, ignorant.

• Anonymous

  I did not vote for Governor LePage to chum around with Portlands liberal groups, having teas all the while with the LAMESTREAM LIBERAL MEDIA drooling over what a great story that makes! I want a Governor that is as tough as nails, does what he says and opens this God forsaken, formerly liberal state for business! We need JOBS in Maine! We dont need liberal whining! MAN UP!

• Centaurmyst

  I’m not a Democrat…I’m an Independent swing voter who usually votes for Republicans about half of the time. Maine Republicans have gone more radically right than the Maine Democrats have ever gone left. What an embarrassment to the state of Maine…

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_5CXTGWD7AAROYSPM2PBZDZFW3U David

  No, I disagree. I can’t think of anything that can top his series of miscues and ignorant rants.

• Anonymous

  “The idea that if enough people agree they can change anything is not a constitutional principle.” We get to vote on a regular basis for those who will represent our wishes, and I believe that is in the Constitution. The Tea Party is not anti constitutional in any way, we believe that the the government has over stepped that article and section by mandating every person buy insurance. Yes the government can tax me, but require me to buy something is over the line and the courts are already ruling it unconstitutional, and that is why our own AG is joining the fight.

  This is my personal opinion and I want to be clear. People are being disabled through social programs as they have lost the ability to stand on their own and take care of them self and their family. We need to make people stand on their own 2 feet and do what it takes to support them self. I understand that people need help and that is fine but we have provided so many ways for people to be supported for issues that are so ridiculous. People need to step up be an adult and push through and stop depending on others to help them.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_5CXTGWD7AAROYSPM2PBZDZFW3U David

  No, I disagree. I can’t think of anything that can top his series of miscues and ignorant rants.

• Anonymous

  ‘A spade a spade” is a very racist comment. This is 2011 ,pity ,some people never move on.

• Anonymous

  I wish we could just stick to the real problems of maine no1 would be drugs that the doctors are giving out like candy no.2 the trucks getting back on 95 and jobs then after we settle all that then lets play games

• Anonymous

  A Comedy Central clip makes the BDN ?? ROFLMAO…In an attempt to embarass LePage they embarass themselves.. PRICELESS…

• Anonymous

  I suspect that a lot of people do care what Colbert says.He tends to be right on.

• Anonymous

  Such a scholar, the tea party consists of democrats, independants, and republicans and was founded on the same principla as the last Boston tea party. Taxation without representation and our founding fathers happen to be members.

• Tedlick Badkey

  I fail to see how “they embarrassed themselves” at all…

• rumrburns@aol.com

  Gov LePage is a balsy shoot from the hip speaking politician. We’re just not used to it yet but we’ll hear alot more about him in the national media. Calling a Spade a Spade may not be nice but its true the NAACP is as Racist a group as they get and they can kiss My White Maine Butt as well. News at 11 on BET ” release the hounds “

• Anonymous

  There is a certain level of stupidity I’d take any day over one being educated beyond their intelligence.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IJTMJXVK74Z2VJ47L6TBL74RVU Brett

  If you speak without thinking…You might be Paul LePage;
  If you tell people to kiss various parts of your body…You might be Paul LePage;
  If your model of business acumen and admiration is an indoor garage sale…You might be Paul LePage;
  If your intent is to embarrass a state that has no trouble embarrassing itself on its own…You might be Paul LePage.

• Anonymous

  I understand Benjamin Franklin was born on this same day. As much important to this country as Martin Luther King…. Also what about the state trooper, Lepage was going to his funeral, which was far more important than martin luther day… Funeral happen once ..MLK day happens every year… What about columbus day???? where are all the Christopher Columbus and George Washington decendents and why don’t they complain…. why is it only american white people can be racist..

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_B6MYUMB47NHIYQD62Q3CTIA7YA Diane Beal

  I wonder if BDN staff realize that only 2 out of 100 of their readers know who Colbert is?
  Hell BDN staff probably sent their “story” to the comedy channel to begin with!
  That would be their idea of “reporting”.

• Anonymous

  ve

• Anonymous

  Jesus spoke of Personal responsibility and the churches obligations. And the Bible also says that if you don’t work you don’t eat.

• Anonymous

  How’s that? Business people tend to be politically conservative since they bear a disproportionate burden from environmental laws, taxes and other regulations. The potential benefits to them from LePage’s administration far outweigh a few Bidenesque gaffes.

• Anonymous

  I guess the fact that a COMEDY CENTRAL CLIP made the BDN , a supposedly SERIOUS news paper isn’t embarrassing themselves…LOL..It exposes them as the agenda driven buffons they really are…Better than anything else so far..Again PRICELESS…

• Anonymous

  Yes, Baldacci was Ncompetent, much like your spelling…..

• Anonymous

  You got me. I made a typo. Good thing I’m not governor!

• StillRelaxin

  Up till now I’ve always though Stephen Colbert was very funny. Not this time though. I was already embarrassed by Mr. LePage, now I’m outright ashamed of my State. Let’s hope that for just a little while Mr. LePage can keep his crass thoughts within his own brain so that his beliefs cannot be once again known outside of our State and thus becoming the “butt” of Mr. Colbert’s or others jokes. Sadly I fear much more of this is coming our way. From now on when we travel we’ll have to start telling folks we’re from New Hampshire to avoid being made fun of.

• Anonymous

  Wow.. Is this Liberal tolerance we hear so much about.. oh wait that is if everyone agrees with you. Sorry I forgot. Carry on you with your tolerance. I am sorry for interrupting.

• rumrburns@aol.com

  This day was also known as Lee/Jackson Day in Virgina for many years They should be the ones offended. But I’m a white American AKA ‘racist’ so what do I know?Keep shooting from the hip Gov. LePage or mouth.Jesse Jackson and the NAACP always have,and look where thats taken us.

• Olde Hippie

  Truly an em-bare-ass-ment.

• Anonymous

  And I am embarrassed for the following-

  For every report of a Maine Business Success like Cianbro in Brewer we hear of many more closings, and layoffs.

  That the last legislative session had proposed bills making toilet paper seat covers mandatory in public restrooms, and outlawing the production of fFattenend Duck Liver.

  That our Democrat Controled State could not find enough money to keep an interstate restroom open and yet allowed the purchase of a railroad line that a private business could not operate for a profit.

  That many of our state highways are in such horrible shape that it would make sense to turn them back into dirt roads.

  That the best way our Democrat Controled State Government could come up with to close budget gaps was to create new taxes on Birthday Clowns, Strippers and Car Repairs along with 100 other things.

  Im embarrassed to read that after many years of Democrat Control our state is rated last to do business in, rated very low in education and not meeting many of the health goals that other states have met.

  Im embarrassed that senior citizens like my grandparents have decided to live in Florida for 6 months and 1 day in order to avoid massive taxes in the State of Maine.

  And the list goes on and on.

• Anonymous

  I disagree with you. There are plenty of rants and miscues to go around.

• Anonymous

  Hey, I still disagree with you. Quit the doubletalk… are you trying to confuse us all?

• Anonymous

  Lighten up everyone is was pretty funny. Colbert was actually making fun of what MLK Day has really become. Also let’s get real here, when was the last time Maine has had any relevance to the rest of the country. We’re a poor rural state going nowhere, thanks to what the Dems did to this state.

• newportres

  “I’m an Independent swing voter”
  Yeah Right!

• newportres

  The only mouth that can embarrass you is your own.
  I’m guessing that’s the real issue here.

• Anonymous

  Maine has elected a Governor who is a regular guy. Not somebody who went to Harvard, not someone with ties to the Clinton Administration like Baldacci, or to Jimmy Carter like Eliot Cutler. They voted in a man who is not a 40 year Augusta Feature like Libby Mitchell. LePage is not tied Billionaires or Movie Stars.

  Liberal minded political supporters cannot stand this. They have to explain it as the work of trailer trash, uneducated people. LePage got elected by racists, xenophobes and people who cant read is the response they give. Well how about looking at the issues that might have cost Democrats elections? Maine has a Republican Governor, a republican controled legislative branch. And the trend happenend not only here in this state. Why do you suppose that happenend?

• newportres

  “and yes if enough people agree anything can be changed,”
  We’re working on it.

• newportres

  Nazis were socialist.
  Much like your president.

• Anonymous

  Your enemy is not the government, nor the liberals. The enemy of just about all of us is the large corporations that run the government for their benefit such as big banks, investment banks, insurance companies, oil companies and defense contractors. THEY are increasingly determining electoral winners, and controlling the writing of regulations. Too much regulation?? HOGWASH! The financial crisis of 2008 was caused by TOO LITTLE regulation and the financial companies ran the economy into the ground, left the tab to the taxpayer, and two years later earned more money than ever before and gave themselves huge bonuses. What did YOU get out of the financial crisis? Probably nothing, like the rest of us.
  A tactic used by the super rich and their corporations (Google Charles and David Koch) is to intimidate incumbents with the threat of opponents, thus coercing politicians, such as Collins and Snowe, into more right wing positions than they would otherwise take.
  Finally, just about every American, teapartiers included, benefit from some government program. Would you cut Veterans benefits, Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid, etc., etc?How about if the program you benefit from is the first one cut? Would you support that? Generally, any program that robs Peter to pay Paul will have the support of Paul. And your program will be cut way before corporate welfare will be cut. Watch this debate on cutting corporate income taxes and see who the winners are. The ordinary taxpayer or the large multinational corporations with their wealthy and powerful executives?
  The super rich have the poor and middle class teapartiers carrying their water, and the teapartiers don’t even know it!!! THEY are your enemy. Not “The government”!!

• Anonymous

  Funny how Mr. Colbert likes to be able to play both sides of the coin.

  http://theamericano.com/2010/09/27/colberts-comments-congress-offended-hispanics/

• Anonymous

  Bah, the Aliens of V will have a tough time conquering our planet ’cause our “Fluffy Masters” ™ have a plan to save the world. Of course by then we’ll just be slaves to the Evil, Intelligent Devilbunnies (aka the Fluffy Masters) anyway. (http://www.devilbunnies.org) :)

• Anonymous

  Kind of like your emotional statement about a political movement you dont like and the disparaging words about a man only fit to attend to animals.

  Dairy Farmers work hard in this State, work to support families and provide a healthy product vital to nutrition. I suppose that they arent really worth any respect however, being just plain simple folk who do manual labor.

• Anonymous

  Do you remember Colbert mocking the work of migrant farm workers in the skit he put on this past summer in Congress? What was your reaction to that?

• Anonymous

  so typical. Not a fact to be found just more empty emotion. I forget the double standard of the left but i think you make clear for us all to see.

• Anonymous

  Redneck- a term that mocks people. Liberals are suppossed to be the group that cares and loves everyone regardless of any circumstance. I bet a lot of the latin american blueberry rakers downeast have gotten rednecks. I bet our hard working construction workers have gotten a few rednecks in their time. So go ahead, use a word that mocks people.

• Anonymous

  Note to BDN..when did you slip the bonds of reality and become a tabloid?

• Anonymous

  You need to watch that again because you didn’t “get” it. He was not mocking the migrant farmer workers; just the opposite.

• Anonymous

  Still waiting to see the article that appeared in last weeks Ellsworth American. The one that reports that cost of legislative aids in the overall senate and the cost of operating the Secretary of the Senate Office has been decreased by nearly 30 percent. But thats a positive thing that Republicans have done and of course will not be reported on here.

• Anonymous

  I absolutely LOVE your post!!! I am an “undeclared” voter, but you have to admit that what LePage has let spill out of his mouth is LESS than professional; regardless of his political party affiliation.

• Anonymous

  LePage didnt want to go to an event at a Prison held by a Political Group. That is his right. When pressed about it by the group and being accused of being a racist he made a remark that I know I would make too. The fact is that the group was the NCAAP and that they have been involved in racial affairs for many years. Their protests of anything carry the implications of racism. Just like the Sierra Clubs protest of anything carry an environmental implication.

  If a Democratic Governor refused to meet with an anti-abortion group what would people think about that? What would the response be in the anti-abortion group said that the Governor was not meeting their concerns and showed a continued bias against them? We all have the right to dislike Political Organizations that dont adhere to our own beliefs.

• Anonymous

  You scare me so much. This is exactly the mindset that the left is trying to instill in people. Profits are not a bad thing, and you need to stop demonizing the companies that have brought you all the advancements over the last 100 years.

• Anonymous

  Who said I was part of any party @#*wipe.

• Anonymous

  tv

• Anonymous

  Come out of denial.

• Tedlick Badkey

  I think it points to how big a buffoon our governor made of himself. BDN is right to point that out, as was Colbert…

• Anonymous

  I think he is a regular guy who says some of the things I might say. That being said I am just a guy who sells and ships seafood not a public figure. At times restraint of ones comments regardless of the circumstance is the better choice to make.

• Anonymous

  Do you think Colberts comments about this event honor MLK in anyway or that he continues it on by making big jokes out of it. Kind of like how he made a big joke out of migrant farm workers and the explotions they face.

• Anonymous

  LMAO……The real sad and embarrassing part of this narrative is that all the progressives on this post who paste targets all over republicans and true defenders of American freedom actually consider Colbert, Stewart, and the Huffington Post their daily gathering of factual news! What’s even sadder is that they ALSO go to college and then act as though the education they have acquired provides them some sort of intellectual authority over anyone who would question their ideas and the “facts” that they have gathered pertaining to American government and the history of this once great nation.

  Read the latest on our failing educational system and the “intellectuals” that it produces, seemingly now nothing more than a mere training ground to establish the new flock of Colbert/Stewart moonbat viewership:

  http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2011-01-18-littlelearning18_ST_N.htm

• Anonymous

  I would much prefer the Governor’s mouth; then to see obamalama apologize to the world for Americas existance, and bow to anyone he thinks is better than us, especially some uselss king in a country no American gives a damn about! now obama is an embarrasment to US !! I am proud to be American, God Bless America !

• Anonymous

  How come you got it but I did not?

  I probably didnt get it becuase I am a redneck, trailer trash, unread and uneducated LePage voter. Thats whats wonderful about the US. Two people can share a different opinion on something a third person said. And no one will be arrested, put in a prison camp or executed.

  Does it drive you nuts that people who dont agree with your politics exist?

• Anonymous

  What upset me about Mr LePage, that he is the National voice for this state…and when he, or any Gov. for that matter say those things, it makes us all look bad….also when he says off color remarks…it’s going get picked up by the media…did you see the twinkle in his eye when he said it…he knew what he was doing..you don’t have to be a billionaire, to know better then say such things. He should also know when you open your mouth, and put your foot in it…that there might be poop on the bottom of your boot

• Anonymous

  So you call me a–wipe? And yet you call LePage a redneck for making a comment a lot like yours. Pretty funny how the hypocrisy comes out at times.

  I think your a whinny liberal puke who cant stand the fact that some other whinny liberal puke isnt the governor and so you can ¨Kiss my butt¨and after that you can wipe it too.

  Why dont you find some political group to advocate for your hurt feelings?

• Anonymous

  Maybe I get it because I’ve been watching Colbert for at least a year and I understand the character he plays and his brand of sarcasm. Notice that I didn’t call you names, you called yourself names.

• Anonymous

  I don’t mind that he’s exploiting the blue collar image — what gets me is when people praise a lack of credentials.

• Anonymous

  You are right, he may say something that I might say in the same circumstance and yet I am not the governor and there does need to be a higher level of how someone conducts themselves in that position. He does seem to be inclined towards controversy and that is a good thing at times.

• Anonymous

  Watch it again. He is not making a joke of MLK, he is making a joke of us (the American Public.) He said “And, there are other signs that we are giving this Civil Rights Hero the same reverence we bestow on Washington and Lincoln on their birthdays.” This is when they showing the tape on the MLK Day sales. He’s mocking us by saying we’ve turned his (MLK’s) holiday into a reason to have sales just like we turned Presidents’ Day into a big day for sales.” That’s a dig at us (the American public) for getting away from the true reason for all of those holiday, not at MLK. I think MLK would agree with him.

• Anonymous

  No you didnt call me any names. Our opinions differ on what is said by Mr. Colbert and the meaning of it. Luckily we have the right to do differ.

• Anonymous

  don’t blame the BDN because our governor made national headlines.

• Anonymous

  What drives me nuts is that people don’t educate themselves. No, I’m not saying you have to get a PhD, but folks don’t read newspapers or follow the news on TV, but instead depend on chain emails filled with misinformation/lies (and I know they exist because I have friends and relatives who send them to me.) What else drive me nuts are politicians who make up things (Sarah Palin and her “death panels” comes to mind) and use these lies to sway voters who don’t know better (because they don’t educate themselves.) What drives me nuts is that some TV “news” casts are not neutral, and entire networks like Fox (and MSNBC) have agendas supporting one side or the other and that blow hards like Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and yes, Keither Olbermann hold sway over too many voters.

• Anonymous

  He must be doing something right to get mocked by the liberal glitterati. Go LePage!

• Anonymous

  We have the right to disagree, but that still doesn’t make your interpretation correct.

• Anonymous

  I’m a registered dem and consider myself an independent swing voter too. I sure wish BOTH parties would stop with the extremes. I blame the dems (for LePage’s victory). If they had nominated Steve Rowe, someone more in the center than Libby, we might have had a better choice.

  Alas.

  What *really* gets my goat though, is all the mud slinging. I’m an independent voter, you’d think people would want to persuade us, not insult us all the time.

• Anonymous

  Credentials can be a matter of opinion. Both Baldacci and LePage worked in Private Businesses. Baldacci was a State Senator and LePage was a Mayor. Before that both of them served as city councilors in two of Maine´s largest cities. Baldacci has a B.S. in History. LePage has a B.S. In Business, Finance and Accounting and has a M.B.A. Both found themselves in a position to run for a high political office and both won.

• Centaurmyst

  I am a registered Independent and I am a swing voter. I am not fond of either party. I vote for the most moderate candidate. Sometimes that is a Republican and sometimes that is a Democrat. Once in awhile it is an Independent. I can’t stand the radicals on either side. LePage is radical, well, he is worse than radical. He’s also stupid and obnoxious.

• Anonymous

  This guy is just plain awful. How embarrassing for Maine. Like we don’t have enough problems without this buffoon making us out as the Appalachia of the east

• Anonymous

  I agree as well. Its not anything to do with honoring the man that MLK was or what he did. And perhaps that is why LePage first said he wasnt going to a NCAAP event. That in his opinion it wasnt an event honoring MLK but a an event held by a group who has a political agenda.

• Anonymous

  I *sincerely* wish they would find a way to stick to that message and come out against the insults and vitriol that they seem to better known for.

  Theirs is a relevant message lost amid the Kool Aid and tin foil.

• Anonymous

  Where have you been all this time? Everything you say here makes so much sense. People call LePage the 38% governor and dont realize that Baldacci won with the same 38% in 2006. People follow the Radio Personality they like and accept it all as truth. They rail against Fox as being owned by a conservative billionaire when CNN is owned by a liberal billionaire.

  At times I try to get people to think in a way that you do by being sarcastic or using language that might start a different line of thought. My attempts are clumsy at times. Thanks for responding back to me.

• Anonymous

  You do understand Colbert is a character, developed by an actor and writing team who use sarcasm as a dramatic device?

• Anonymous

  Its enjoyable debating with you. Maybe one day we will both have the same take on things.

• Anonymous

  There was this article a few months back re: Conservatives who think Colbert is an actual person and do not understand that he is a character developed by a team of writers. Very similar to Archie Bunker, who was the darling of the right, even though All in the Family was making huge fun of social conservatives.

  http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_04/017947.php

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_RLJ7FIOHBK3XZVBOTR4BW7R5UM Jay Ebay

  If_you_ask_me dont bother explaining this to SalArg, he just doesnt get it. Thought you would have got that by now after reading his first post mocking himself and other Lepage supporters…. thing is he probably wasnt mocking but really is what he said he was.

• Anonymous

  I don’t understand what folks want to be led by “regular guys.” I want to be led by the best. That’s what being a leader is all about. I want my leader to be smart, have class, know how to conduct himself in difficult circumstances. I want the cream of the crop, not the run of the mill. In the last couple of years politicians have engaged in an effort to establish they are “just like me” but I don’t want a leader just like me. I know my own shortcomings and I want better.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_RLJ7FIOHBK3XZVBOTR4BW7R5UM Jay Ebay

  Cerburus please explain why the NAACP is a racist organization? No one else need reply to this question…. I think he’s probably just a minion typing what he sees

• Anonymous

  One of the most conservative states with the largest budget deficit in the nation. I wonder if there is a connection. Might be the conservative mantra of buy it now and let our children pay for it.

• Anonymous

  I repeat “The NAACP is a racist organisation.
  The left’s duplicity is what has been elevated to endless hypocrisy.
  Operative letter is the “C” which stands for “Colored” and not all people.
  NAAWP ok with you.
  White Congressional Caucus agreeable to you?

• Anonymous

  I didn’t know that Tea Partiers weren’t allowed to vote. When did they take the vote away from them? Or is this just more inane hyperbole from the Tea Partiers about taxation without representation?

• Anonymous

  Ladybaroque,
  Please try to open your eyes and see the institutionalized racism that the left has created.

• Anonymous

  sibleypd
  NAAColoredP. Not all people Would the NAAWP be racist?

• Anonymous

  How’s that? He’s the new prominent face of Maine – crude, foul-mouthed, bigoted, ignorant and obese. And where there’s in-your-face nepotism – there’s likely more corruption not far behind. Not what forward-looking, high-tech CEOs are attracted to as they expand.

• Anonymous

  “out of the mouths of Babes”

  He’s kinda built like Babe Ruth, but I’ll bet his radio call sign is “Bulldog”

  What will he say next next?, stay tuned!

• Anonymous

  If you’re the Governor of Maine, …

  LePage is my kind of guy. I’m SO sick of politicians who are scared to death that they’re going to offend someone that they can’t speak their minds, so we get pablum from them.

  The Bill of No Rights says something like “You do NOT have the right to not be offended”.

  There’s no protection in the Constitution against having your feelings hurt, folks, believe it or not, so just get over it and move on.

• Anonymous

  Maine is an embarrassment with 1 of 4 on public support

• Anonymous

  Oh no, I just did a Google search for: Maine Kiss My Butt. Results indicated about 378,000 results.

  Now we’re going to have to change the sign on I-95 as you enter Maine and maybe even our license plate motto.

• Anonymous

  Stuff like this: http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/01/glenn-beck-the-jews-killed-jesus/69715/

• Anonymous

  Jay Ebay
  The reason that it is a racist organisation is because it is not for the advancement of all people, just colored. Please explain why NAAWP, White Congressional Caucus are not acceptable. Why are you people blind to the double standard. You are against racism but in favor quotas. Please say duplicity.

• Anonymous

  so you believe the government will cover everyone without question? not going to happen they will have a panel that will decide life or death when they are paying AKA DEATH PANELS

• Anonymous

  In character or not it can still be considered offensive. See the link below.

  http://theamericano.com/2010/09/27/colberts-comments-congress-offended-hispanics/

  It is a travesty to the system of government we have today to have a comedian testify before congress as an expert no less. The topic at hand that day wasn’t a joke and yet his character was given the opportunity to make a joke of it. The people that asked him there should really be looked at for making a mockery of the system and if Colbert really cared about the plight of the migrant worker he should have left his character at home.

• Anonymous

  Maine doesn’t need LePage to look bad. I’m from away and Maine has always had a reputation as a welfare state and generally backwards but a very pretty place

• Anonymous

  the country should be looking at the racebaiting naacp trying to say he is a racist.They have to fit in like the rest of us not get special treatment.If you want to be part of society and accepted that way.Running around screaming at everyone and telling them how bad they are is not they way to be included.Get out make something of ones self and pitch in not sit back and complain is what i believe lepage was saying .if you take the time tto watch the whole interview not cherry pick it for political points.

• Anonymous

  Read my lips: THERE ARE NO DEATH PANELS. This is something Sarah Palin made up, it’s a complete lie. There are no panels to decide if Grandma lives or dies. Read this: http://www.factcheck.org/2009/08/palin-vs-obama-death-panels/ Not convinced, check out Politifact which called it 2009′s Lie of The Year. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2009/dec/18/politifact-lie-year-death-panels/ Thank-you, Sarah.

• Anonymous

  you really do not think the modern naacp is not bias against conservatives.?They are a left leaning special interest group forwarding the democratic agenda.Using racebaiting to get their way.Just listen to rev Al every time he opens his mouth he is racebaiting to justify his job.Got to keeep peeople stirred up or he is unemployed.

• Anonymous

  Let’s not forget the tea party represents only a minority of Maine not all Mainers. The tea party is apparently very high profile as we have seen here and in other states where they have governance. Maine is not the only state having a hard time swallowing the bitter tea being poured into our cups.

• Anonymous

  please be specific.AS a small business owner very excited about lepage please enlighten me.

• Anonymous

  It doesn’t matter the intent. The only thing the rest of the country reads is the “kiss my butt” quote

• Anonymous

  just to bad they forgot the facts to go with it.But liberals and facts do not mix.

• Anonymous

  well he is doing his job.Liberals are going back to N.H.bye-bye

• Jollyroger

  I raise my cup of tea to Stephen Colbert…!!!

  HA! As we say in Maine, wicked funny.

• Anonymous

  Still amazes how baldacci was so against small business.

• Anonymous

  Don’t be such a drama queen – if you want to help the less fortunate, take out your wallet and walk the walk. If I want to, I’ll do the same. What I don’t want is for you to tell me that because you think it’s a great idea, we all are forced to do it.

• Anonymous

  I think our government is full of people who have lost touch with the regular guy. I dont care if you went to Harvard or to UMO, I want someone who makes sense. I want a legislature full of people who had to work for a living or run businesses before they vote on tax legislation that effects the regular guys paycheck and the regular guys plumbing business or the regular guys restaurant. I want someone who calls the MDOT and tells them to stop ripping out the property markers that run along the railline downeast and screwing up the property lines of regular citizens.

  I dont want someone who got a political science degree and then served as a fundraiser on their mothers senate campaing and as a political magazine director who introduce bills that would let us know McDonalds food is fatty. I dont want a guy who proposes taxing my heating oil to make a point about global warming.

  I want a governor who realizes that when it snows regular people still go to work and so state workers should go too. He knows this becuase he had to go to work in the private sector as well sometime during the last thirty years.I want a governor who says that the Federal Government doesnt really have a clue about Fishing in Maine and so I am going to stand up for you and get ugly with them in words that relate to fishermen. I want a governor who isnt going to go around kissing every last persons rear end and say ÿour opinion is different than mine and thats allright¨. That is a something a regular guy would do.

  A regular guy might suggest something as reduced spending when he was told the state has to close a budget gap. I dont think he would suggest birthday clown taxes or stripper taxes. I want a politician who admits that state cant run an intersate bathroom and so the state should not be buyng a raildroad. A regular guy might realize that. A regular guy might realize that in 1992 grocery stores were using scanners for food purchases and not ringing them in by hand. George Bush the Elder didnt know that, having been the cream of the crop politician that he was. A regular guy knows that when you lie to people it ticks them off, something the brilliant Bill Clinton didnt know. Nor did Richard Nixon.

  And LePage the regular guy has a foul mouth at times. So did the career politician LBJ.

• Jollyroger

  That’s the image you want for the state of Maine? Shameful. Sad. Pathetic.

  Oh, and what terrible role modeling for our children.

• Anonymous

  Yea ,it is great some even want to leave.All he has to do is cut off their welfare and bye-bye.

• Tedlick Badkey

  What facts are missing?

• Anonymous

  what am I in denial about??? I hope you are not saying that I am in denial about the fact that Liberal policies are a good thing. I hold 3 very strong beliefs, 1. God is the rock that this country was founded on and when we get back on that rock we will get better. 2. The Government is never going to make life better for the people that will be done by the people. 3. Social programs should be managed and funded at the most basic level, the community in which you live. People fall on hard times but if you have to look the person who is helping you up in the eye and say thanks for the help you will work that much harder to give back.

• StillRelaxin

  On NO! Who will do your errands and work in your businesses? The conservatives in N.H. must be cheering LePage on.

• Anonymous

  First off, learn what socialism is. Secondly, if you call Obama a ‘socialist’ which is ridiculous, then you have to call George W. Bush a socialist too… even though that is a completely ridiculous statement. Do you know what socialism is?

• Anonymous

  not at this time maybe.There will be when this atrocity gets rolling just watch.The government will be deciding who gets what.Please take off the obama glasses and look at the cost of this mess.It has not even started hardly and already saying it will fail if not everyone(exceept unions obama friends and others excluded)do not enroll.They wwill have to cut and end of life will be part of it. watch.

• Anonymous

  Sorry buddy, you either didn’t watch it, or you didn’t understand what he was saying… he was not mocking farm workers at all, he was doing the complete opposite.

• Anonymous

  Brilliant: If the facts aren’t are your side, just argue that the facts will surely change.

• Anonymous

  Where did you get this information? Because no where, anywhere, ever has this stupid myth been shown as fact. Please tell me where i can find fact that there will be “death panels”, I’d be very interested in it. Please show… oh right you can’t!

• Anonymous

  This from Colbert, a dyed in the wool Palin/intellectual sort of conservative. Is this man not a Patriot?

• Anonymous

  Materialism at its best.

• Anonymous

  non butt kissing people that want to work not live off the lefty entitlements.Can not wait.

• Anonymous

  Both parties are equal in their hypocrisy. I will never vote for either again. Furthermore I can never live in Maine again. I cannot afford the taxes and fees. I would encourage all young people to flee the state of Maine. Maine does not deserve it’s youth or it’s tax base. Let the government’s money supply wither away until they are jobless caretakers of the elderly.
  That being said so far I like Lepage. A good man cares not about what others think of him when he knows he is right.

• Anonymous

  I am not a conservative, but I agree with this.

• Anonymous

  institutions of indoctrination.Absolutely no common sense

• Anonymous

  This is because you hold inaccurate stereotypes of other people. You label them and judge them without ever really taking the time to listen to what they have to say. Many, many who call themselves Christians are also very liberal minded. Conservatives are not the only ones who are Christians.

  Christ is the most well known liberal in the history of humanity. He brought his new age, liberal ideas to a civilization of people rooted in a very rigid way of thinking and being. He turned humanity upside down with his liberal ideas but thank God that he did because we no longer live and eye for an eye like we did before he taught the message of redemption, repentance and forgiveness.

• Anonymous

  Seriously? I’ve bet you’d also agree that Democrats __________ (insert mindless pointless nonfactual argument here).

• Anonymous

  Libby should’ve “manned-up” and fallen on her sword two weeks before the election when she and her handlers, knew the jig was up.

  Still, I’m loving LePage. He’s off the charts funny with his Mardens snow days, his “Obama can kiss my a**”, heck, I can’t even write that here, and now this….The whole “adopted son” thing probably shouldn’t have been mentioned by him but I think he speaks first, thinks 2nd. That’s what’s so lovable.

  We needLePage bobbleheads made up…maybe that place up in E Corinth, Berg’s, can make some up.

• Anonymous

  We have a strong national defense yes, but now we have an Industrial Military Machine we can’t get rid of. An Industrial Military Machine that influences policy. An Industrial Military Machine that Eisenhower warned us of as he left office as the President of the United States of America.

• Anonymous

  George Bush put a lot of socialist ideals into place during his presidency. Borrowed money for tax cuts without reducing spending is one of them.

• Anonymous

  Like Palin? Our founders were one and all intellectuals, spoke 3 + languages, lawyers, etc. Just think of Ben Franklin.

• Anonymous

  Next stop…an appearance in an opening skit on SNL.

• Anonymous

  Rated last by Forbes, a republican rag a couple of weeks before a potentially winnable election by a tea party candidate…..I’m pretty suspicious of that rating.

• Anonymous

  I don’t recall telling my representatives that I wanted to be taxed out of the state. I don’t remember voting for anyone that wanted to make us pay a 200 dollar minimum fee to register a vehicle.

• Anonymous

  facts are the cost of this atrocity are to high cuts will happen.The gov has no stake in granny when it gets to expensive to keep her they will cut the cord.Their is one hope this might not happen.That is if we use this awful thing called ocare and can possible get through the population of aging boomers in the next thirty or so years it might make it without drastic cuts.Facts that i use are common sense and reading the cost of this bill .it is unsustainable with a big portion of the population using it and not working.

• Anonymous

  If God was your rock then you would be trying to help those who need help instead of being a spokesperson for the corrupt corporate system that is bringing this country to its knees. Perhaps if you spent more time focusing on the principals of Christ’s teachings rather than shopping you wouldn’t come across as such an angry person.

• Anonymous

  I think his political show is a joke and his sarcasm mocks anything he ¨reports¨on regardless of what point he is trying to make. Someone said my opinion was wrong. Often times when I disagree with a more liberal minded person I am listed as a retarded, trailer trash for expressing my opinions. You make that point as I stated I voted for LePage and your suggestion that I am really what I said I was, trailer trash, ignorant, etc, etc.

• Anonymous

  do not care left or right making a bill like this is unsustainable.

• Anonymous

  So by representation you mean that you personally should get to dictate what our representatives believe and what our country stands for? Good to know. Also, I just registered my car, it cost less than $150.

• Anonymous

  Damn me and my college education! Facts are so overrated anyway… science another waste of time… ethics, no need for them either…

• Anonymous

  AMEN…BOTH parties are an insult to the citizens of this once great country.

• Anonymous

  My opinion is that his whole act is big frigging joke and adds to why we have so many politically misinformed people in this country.

• Anonymous

  And maybe even SNL. Someone should send something to the writers of SNL.

• Anonymous

  Funny, he has only been governor about two weeks.

• Anonymous

  Attacks about his appearance and mannerisms. Nothing about actual governmental policies he has adopted to discourage business development. The nepotism thing is a good point though. I didnt like that either.

• Anonymous

  Much like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh…characters developed by writing teams who use sarcasm as a dramatic device.

• Anonymous

  Christians are suppossed to be the group that cares and loves everyone regardless of any circumstance…but I don’t see evidence of that here.

• Anonymous

  Professional? Hmmm,………………. it’s probably what he said to his employees if they dared ask for a raise.

  The guy’s nothing, but a redneck in a suit. One of those Trailer Park Boys from Canada

• Anonymous

  A good man cares not of other’s opinions when he knows he is right. I voted for Obama, but will not again unless he remembers this.

• Anonymous

  i’ll use your logic….if you want to pay for tax cuts for the rich, or if you want to pay for the senseless stupidity in iraq, take out your wallet and walk the walk….if i want to, i’ll do the same….what i don’t want is for you , george bush, dick cheney, sean hannity and the rest of the neocon right to tell me that because you think it’s a great idea, we are all forced to do it…capishe?

• Anonymous

  Me thinks the ants might disagree. Probably the schools fish too. And then of course all those microbes that live in us and keept us going. And then there’s ……… well really LIFE is all just one big collective if you must know. We all got here together – coevolved ….

• Anonymous

  No they are not racists. That is plain to see. They are a money making machine that hides behind non-profit status. Their leaders care more for their own image than they do for bettering the suffering of others.

• Anonymous

  And, let’s see, that leaves you and about 30% of the current voting population left. Gee, who’s going to plow the turnpike ? Oh, I forgot. You’re the anti-intellectual. Guess that you travel Route 1. Note to timjy: the only people left in this country who value and defend our civil rights are those in the ACLU. And would you believe that they tend to be Independents.

• Anonymous

  I wonder why after two years Sara Palin is still such a hot target for liberal media and supporters. I dont remember any conservative media going on about Joe Lieberman in 2006. If she is so dumb and so foolish, what do they have to worry about.

  So far the criticism of LePage has been over something he said. And the fact that he wants state workers to go to work when it snows like other people. The criticism that he believes the laws against illegal aliens should be enforced is something that shows up. And of course he is a bigot as no woman are in his cabinet yet.

  The only real criticism that appears to have any ring of truth in it is the hiring of his daughter.

• Anonymous

  Indeed!

• Anonymous

  I am from Maine and more or less agree. I had to leave.

• Anonymous

  That type of talk drives liberals nuts. And its the type of message I love!

• Anonymous

  Oh, I think that it was just topped. Have you ever been in a Marsdens ? Or do F4 drivers not stoop that low. (this from a P2 driver).

• Anonymous

  Well he is a comedian… How often do you watch? If you did watch Stewart and Colbert often you would see how often they catch politicians on both sides and news agencies on both sides contradicting themselves and lying. They do this while almost all news agencies do not show politicians doing this nearly as often. They do play a lot on the fact and exaggerate some aspects, but they do it obviously for satire while still getting their point across.

• Anonymous

  Only if you count those on Social Security. But they really don’t count, do they.

• Anonymous

  `Polls and Surveys are not the be all, tell all of course. As a business owner I will tell you that things are hard in Maine. Some things that dont make sense. But that is jsut in my mostly republican leaning mind.

• Anonymous

  Your right. Billy Graham said that being a Christian was living your life as close to the perfect image in which Jesus did so. I have never come close. With all the name calling here, the lack to have a meaningful conversation, it seems that a lot of us are failing.

• Anonymous

  Now that I’d like to see ! Being educated beyond intelligence. Do you really proscribe drugs to flys, or is that just a “stupid” rumor ?

• Anonymous

  So do you consider Bush a socialist?

• Anonymous

  You can sure convolute. Don’t have to be asked for forgiveness or not. Have to agree with you on baldaci .

• Anonymous

  May you never get old.

• Anonymous

  I consider him to be someone who tried to play the middle. He choose to be conserative in some areas like national defense and to take a very socialist lean in things like spending and the economy. His no child left behind act put a huge government mandate into every school in American. His spending was way out of line with what the government was taking in for revenue.

• Anonymous

  There are those who vote for the person rather than being herded around like a flock of sheep. You may not have met anyone like that.

• Anonymous

  “God is the rock that this country was founded on and when we get back on that rock we will get better.”

  Weren’t you bleating about the Constitution higher up in this thread? Perhaps you’re not familiar with the First Amendment, where the initial notion of separation of church and state came from, or the Supreme Court cases since then that have repeatedly upheld this essential concept? Your imaginary friend has NO PLACE in politics or political discourse.

  Go reread your Constitution, Captain Tea party.

• Anonymous

  I wish both parties would do something for people instead of just corporations. The middle has been long gone. Really cannot remember a bill passed that 100% was good for US.

• Anonymous

  Education is not well thought of in certain right wing circles. It makes them feel smart.

• Anonymous

  Then we shouldn’t “demonize” profit-making companies like Lehman Bros., Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Chase, Wells Fargo, etc., etc. How about the mortgage company Countrywide ? No – don’t demonize them. Continue to let them do it to you and just say “yes sir, no sir, and how deep sir.

• Anonymous

  What would help Maine business more than anything else? Pass laws to support farmers and fisherman. Stop with the stupid idea that wind energy brings jobs to Maine. It runs them out. Universal health care. Much as it would make certain ones hear bristle about the commies, ask a business owner how much better off he would be without the expense of health care for employees. All the rest of the industrialized countries have it. Some not so industrialized. For profit health care does not even work. We are ranked #37 in the world in quality.

• Anonymous

  Me too.

• Anonymous

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSE_saVX_2A

• Anonymous

  That is actually not true. Can’t imagine where you got that figure maybe a Right Wing propagana group. Just try and get help if your sick or disabled. But Mr Lepage is going to drive a lot more of the working class into poverty if he pushes through his agenda.

• Anonymous

  Wonder how many tea partiers on the national scene will renew the Patriot Act. Remember from g bush’s reign? It repeals Habeas Corpus . We can be slammed in jail without a charge. That is the problem, among others. Not the way our gov. expresses himself . We are conditioned to emote on the small stuff and ignore the real issues of the day. I am sure LePage learned an important lesson. Being gov. is different than sitting around with your buddies.

• StillRelaxin

  Leaching like the 41K our taxdollars for Lauren LePage’s salery? Perhaps we should send ALL government leaches to N.H. starting with her. I think you just want a shorter line so that you can PUCKER UP behind LePage sooner and more often. I suggest buying lots of chapstick (For his pleasure) and lye soap (For your own health).

• Anonymous

  Lapage is a radical right wing extremist out to destroy the working class. If you have work for a living Lapage is not your man.

• Anonymous

  Do you think social security is an entitilement? It is an insurance program with people paying in all their working lives. The reason it is called an entitlement is the gov . has been stealing from the fund for some time now. They want to cut back so it won’t be found out that money has been stolen from it.

• Anonymous

  The old can have it. It’s the 18 year olds who brag about their mother’s telling them what to say to get SSDI. It’s the woman who “has chronic pain in her dominant hand” and is therefore declared “disabled.” It’s the man who is “disabled” because he has an “Anger-management” problem AND gets three “Therapy cats” to help him with his problem. Of course, the tax payers fund the pets, pet food, kitty-litter, vet bills. That guy talked about it like it was no big deal while my jaw sat on the floor. THAT is who he was referring to.

• Anonymous

  I would join the Tea Party if instead of being so concerned about social programs , they were even interested in corporate welfare . The US does not have nearly the safety net most other countries have. Do have some of the same concerns as the
  Tea Party.

• Anonymous

  Yes , the Democrates have failed us miserably because they could not protect us from a very dangerous Republican party. Modern Democrates are right of the old Republican party. If you call Obama asocialist then Eisenhower and Nixon were Marx and Lennon. Even Reagan would be liberal compared to Lepage and these modern Republicans.

• Anonymous

  You are so correct. I feel we have ineffective programs (let’s take welfare, for instance). We want to stop poverty, but not really, so we end up just perpetuating it.

  Let’s be careful what we ask for, the most efficient form of government is a dictatorship. Given the choices, I will stick with the two party form of representative democracy we have.

  I just wish we could stop with the insults. It’s hard to build consensus when the guy on the other side of the aisle is a ‘moonbat’ or ‘hates America’.

• Anonymous

  I was with you up until ….People are being disabled through social programs as they have lost the ability to stand on their own and take care of them self and their family.

  NAFTA sent industry overseas. Our laws make it hard for the small businessman to make it. When people are unable to work because of their govt.’s laws , it very very different from laziness. Blaming the victim is an age old ploy to excuse criminal conduct. ie rape..short skirt ..had to do it. Do you see what I mean? I think we as human beings are much happier working. Idleness at a young age is absolutely horrible on the individual and society.

• Anonymous

  Steve Colbert for Gov.!!!

• Anonymous

  ok…it must be 4 out of 5 then? I know at least 30 people on welfare for years…and 28 of them have been frauding the state of Maine. That is only the ones I know! It doesnt pay to complain or report them…it has been done numerous times over the years and not one single state worker investigated any of them!!! There is your statistics!

• Anonymous

  too funny.
  ;)

• http://katahdin.myopenid.com/ FrankC

  You really should take it up with the liberal media and the inflammatory inaccurate headlines. If LePage was a democrat his comment wouldn’t even have made the inside blubs section.

• Anonymous

  it doesntmatter if your old. I am only 47, worked from age of 16 to 43, I have Cancer, Diabetes, COPD, Neuropathy, degenerative Disc disease…and I dont qualify for it now let alone when I am older. The state of Maine told me I never worked enough in my lifetime, which is hogwash. This state will keep every penny that is earned…as long as it isnt coming out of their pockets.

• Anonymous

  So is he socialist? You personally have not directly said Obama is, but newportres did and you seem to be defending his stance.

• Anonymous

  if you pick a party you can participate in the primaries. that would be a good thing, s_mom, because you seem pretty level headed. primaries are driven by the more extreme ends of the party. people like you could help change that.

• Anonymous

  thank you sal. that was a very wise thing to say.

• http://katahdin.myopenid.com/ FrankC

  Quick, who were the last three pubs you voted for?

• http://katahdin.myopenid.com/ FrankC

  So why do you keep voting for the dems? or phony independents ? for the last 30 -40 years..

• Anonymous

  I think that Obama too displays a lot of Socialist ideals. Is he 100% a socialist, no. Neither was Bush. Perhaps the proper thing is to call them both progressives. People who want to grow and grow government, spend lots of money.

• http://katahdin.myopenid.com/ FrankC

  Politically she should have, but that would not have helped Maine. Just possibly she knew deep inside that she’d been part of a ruinous system which needs a kick in the butt. Another phrase for “real change” which we voted for in 08 and again in 10.

• Anonymous

  i know!! the funny thing about calling obama a left winger/socialist/what-have-you is that the people that dislike him the most are the progressive dems.

  i’m pretty sick of them too. they get mad at me around the kitchen table almost every time there’s a debate.

• Anonymous

  “Death Panel” is a euphemism (don’t ask, look it up). Altho I’m definitely not a Palin fan, there is ample evidence to back it up. Almost every health insurance company has a group (panel ?) who meet in the back room and decide whether to pay for certain procedures, many of which can be life saving. Even Medicare uses statistics to determine which procedures and drugs it will pay for, based on life expectency. Example: no colonoscopy over age 75 to detect colon cancer.

  Perhaps the latest and most public example is the refusal of the Republican-dominated Arizona legislature to use it’s federally-funded Medicaid program money for life-saving organ transplants. At least two people have already died because they are not independently wealthy and couldn’t come up with the $200G down payment. You can call it a myth – you can call it a lie – whatever. But conservative or liberal, you can also call it what it is – fact !

• Anonymous

  you are right again!!!

  Everyone seems to forget that it was the automakers/Detroit who asked for national health care plan.

• Anonymous

  Not quite me, but certainly the State of Maine…..(although I agree with you)

• http://katahdin.myopenid.com/ FrankC

  Interesting. Where’s the facts in your post?

• Anonymous

  he is on the comedy channel, so big jokes are what he is supposed to make.

  though, i agree wholeheartedly with your comment above that it was a farce to have him testify before congress.

• Anonymous

  at least Colbert is on the comedy channel. these other guys are on ‘news’ networks, it muddies the water, and a lot of folks are taking it seriously.

• Anonymous

  I don’t recall giving a definition of representation. Maybe that is what you mean? What I mean is the folks we vote for often say one thing during campaigns and do opposite things when in office. I pay less then 40 dollars to register my car in Colorado. Your sarcasm is wasted on me. Save it for your comedy bit.

• http://katahdin.myopenid.com/ FrankC

  You still waiting for that “Obama check ” ?

• Anonymous

  Steve Rowe was my choice as well (primary.) Some said his personality was too “low-key”! Kind of ironic, don’t you think!

  And I believe you and Centaurmyst. You know what you think. You know who you vote for . If you say you are basically an Independent voter, then you are. Some must lie themselves, if they are always so quick to tell others that they are. Only faceless disembodied voices insinuating they know what your voting preferences are more than you do. Amusing, if not a farce.

• http://katahdin.myopenid.com/ FrankC

  Google Soros..

• Anonymous

  every comment of yours that i read, i respect you more and more. you hold your views, yet don’t toe the party line.

  agreeing to disagree is a good thing. i wish you all the best.

• http://katahdin.myopenid.com/ FrankC

  Did you just make that up?

  I’ve appreciated your posts, but that doesn’t make sense. Please support that.

• Anonymous

  Yeah, and you are only a patriot if you belong to one country. Ridiculous.

• Anonymous

  Error: Meant to say….”only a patriot if you belong to a certain party.”

• Anonymous

  …”Meant to say, of course,…..’only a patriot if you belong to a certain party.” Ridiculous.

• Anonymous

  Gosh, this is painful to watch…

  Didn’t you smell the troll?

• http://katahdin.myopenid.com/ FrankC

  Google analogy.

  From an atheist.

• Anonymous

  Hmm…..I am not what you describe…but I think you might be very surprised to see how many of them will stick by him, and vote for him next election…

• Anonymous

  Smile…..elitism, don’t you know….

• http://katahdin.myopenid.com/ FrankC

  I think he’s a TP person, thus I think he’s against the corrupt system. I don’t think having a believe in God is negative to that end.

• Anonymous

  While I believe social issues are important , I do agree with you regarding corporate welfare.

• Anonymous

  I agree. Want to be able to admire them and have them be a good role model to young people.

• http://katahdin.myopenid.com/ FrankC

  Funny but that is exactly what the TP folk I know say !

• Anonymous

  Are you saying you want me to Google the word “analogy”? If so, no need. I “get” the analogy and that wasn’t the part I was objecting too.

  Good for you that you’re an atheist, but I’m not sure what that has to do with my comment, as I am not?

• http://katahdin.myopenid.com/ FrankC

  No we’ve been trying to make it fiscally sound since the early ’80′s

  FYI, In the ’80′s it was the democrats who were saying that.

  Why.

  1. because it was good political rhetoric
  2. because everyone knew it was true
  3. Neither party wants to be in power when the dam breaks.

• Anonymous

  I am right there with you on that one. Thank you so much for your eloquence. Penguin is a disaster.

• http://katahdin.myopenid.com/ FrankC

  Mainly non Christians here.
  Mainly liberals here.

  A few days ago I put out a statement that maybe we should all get together have a beer or glass of wine or seltzer and bypass the easy put downs and quips. I think folks here in person would be quite interesting and not anywhere as nasty as others think.

  Just as long as they check their hardware at the door! LOL

  Anyway – There was no responses or any likes.

• Anonymous

  Stewart/Colbert 2012!

• http://katahdin.myopenid.com/ FrankC

  Nope – go to the UK

• http://katahdin.myopenid.com/ FrankC

  I think you’ll change your mind about If_you_ask_me. Temporary insanity.

• Anonymous

  Arrogant elistist humor is obviously welcome here at the BDN.

  LePage is funnier in one statement than Colbert and the BDN is in ten column inches.

• Anonymous

  Unless UK is the postal abbreviation for a state I haven’t heard of (maybe one of those extra states that brings the total to 57?) what happens in the UK is irrelevant to the USA. However, if you want to blow this wide open and start talking about other countries, then let’s bring in solid figures that show we spend way more per capita than the UK for much poorer results. See http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=110997469

• Anonymous

  And you are a damned joke.

  Now that is funny!

• Anonymous

  Sweetheart, I already am. That’s why the scarcasm. I remember when Chesuncook dam was just a log jam. Even knew the guy who invented the Peavey. May you make it as far as I have.

• http://katahdin.myopenid.com/ FrankC

  the NAACP has transformed from an organization for justice into what is, effectively, a PAC – political action committee.

• Anonymous

  i think it’s about willingness to compromise, and less about ideology.

  ideologically, i’m further to the left. i hope i am pragmatic enough, tho, to appreciate what the right has to say. and that puts me closer to the middle.

• http://katahdin.myopenid.com/ FrankC

  Charlie is a nice guy. He just can’t control himself.

• http://katahdin.myopenid.com/ FrankC

  Don’t call Chris Christie obese.

• http://katahdin.myopenid.com/ FrankC

  Plus now that I think about it – you are clueless. At least based on your posts. RINO indeed. You insult Susan Collins.

• Anonymous

  Frankly, I’m bored. Oh, a left-leaning comedian is making jokes and being cynical about a republican politician, wow, now that’s news! It seems like these so-called comedians have to keep going back to the political well, so to speak, for material. Where is the creativity? Instead of calling it humor, I’d call it laziness………

• http://katahdin.myopenid.com/ FrankC

  If you’re serious, I don’t think “they” have an entrance fee or examination, but welcome all ideas, especially if they are NOT the current pablum.

• Anonymous

  I think you need to read your Bible a little closer. If you did you would find that God likes Democrats better than Republicans.

• Anonymous

  Now finish the sentence…….”…he’s a national/embarassment and Colbert is a comedian..an entertainer feeding on folks who enjoy watching others diminished. Sorry, I would not wait for a comedian to tell me how to think. Sleep well. I do not think Colbert has the power you appear to think he has. It’s only your perception.

• Anonymous

  Believe me, there’s no need to compare him to Baldacci – he’s fully capable of looking terrible on his own. Just stand back and watch this clown bobble your hopes for his agenda. I still can’t believe we got stuck with him.

• Anonymous

  I know people who are perfectly able to work, nothing is preventing them. Why work though? They live off the state, the pop babies out like its going out of style just so they can have more welfare money. The 1st of the month comes, and they go out and buy drugs and with whatever money they have left they will attempt to pay their bills. Over the summer that had to run off a generator cause instead of getting a job when their welfare got shut off for a few months, they sold drugs to get enough money for gas to put in the generator. They will even trade their foodstamps for drugs. They are pros are working the system. Its sad it really is.

• Anonymous

  Instead of being cynical I’d call it brilliantly hiliarious!

• http://katahdin.myopenid.com/ FrankC

  Just today.

  UK’s Nationalized Health Care to Modernize

  Already, certain types of operations—hernia, hip replacement, and tonsils, to name a few — are being downgraded to “elective” surgeries.

  http://goo.gl/eYlbZ

  Read more: http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/01/17/britain-to-make-healthcare-changes/#ixzz1BROutXem

• Anonymous

  Estimates are his rally on the Mall drew more than Glenn Beck’s. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2010/10/31/2010-10-31_jon_stewarts_rally_to_restore_sanity_drew_200000_beating_estimated_attendance_at.html

• Anonymous

  Defending LaPage by calling SOMEONE ELSE arrogant? Hiliarious! Mis-spelling Elitist? PRICELESS!

• http://katahdin.myopenid.com/ FrankC

  Number like that you need to source.

  Quite sure we’re in top 3 for innovation and #1 in availability.

  #37 is a faulty statistical BS

• http://twitter.com/Cpt8Ball Sofanda Cox

  Serious question: why are we all so mean on this forum? It doesn’t make our state look very friendly.

• http://katahdin.myopenid.com/ FrankC

  More like automakers/Detroit who bought Obama.. Give me a break.

• http://katahdin.myopenid.com/ FrankC

  You just might appreciate reading Kevin Jackson at: http://goo.gl/edXK4

• Anonymous

  Tax cuts for the rich? On welfare?

• Anonymous

  Absolutely!

  He is just another citizen, he says things that many of us may think or feel, but as you stated, as have I, there is a time and a place for remarks such as the ones he’s made (maybe to his wife-behind closed doors). To reporters, or what-have-you, was certainly not the best choice.

• Anonymous

  You know, I did just that this year because I felt it was vital to do so. But with that being said, I still lingered on the choices I made this past voting session. I did a lot research on each candidate, and once I was in that voting booth, I literally took 20 minutes to make my decision.

  I did not vote for LePage simply because some of his comments were quite unsavory. I do, however, feel if he just shuts up and follows his platform he can do great things for Maine. He has a substantial and proven track record with Waterville. I am willing to give him a trial run for 4 years. He just needs to be quiet LOL!

• Anonymous

  he’s only been on the job for two weeks and look how much trouble he has already got himself into. Disgraceful. Lets file the impeachment papers now. An absolute disgrace to the state of maine. he acts as if his new job is a joke, not acting and speaking professionally. Its one thing to talk like this at home, but not in a professional environment and to the media.

• Anonymous

  Nah like most liberals I go to work or work to advance my station in life. I don’t need to sit around and wait for an Obama check or ask “what’s in it for me.” Instead I focus on what’s good for the health of our country and all of it’s people, not how can I save a few bucks by kicking people who are already down.

• Anonymous

  That’s a stretch of facts if I’ve ever seen one. Wow…really? Maybe it is you that should read your Bible…maybe?

• Anonymous

  It’s about time he is recognized for his stupidity….

• Anonymous

  it’s about time he is recognized for his stupid remarks, why do we have to pay for his lack of social graces…:( Thank you Maine for voting in this one…

• Anonymous

  Exactly.

• Anonymous

  LOL!! Sarah Palin lives in a world of her own. She even made up her own word…”refudiate”….the combination of “refute” and “repudiate”. I wonder just where she figures that makes any sense.

• Anonymous

  it’s about time he is recognized for his stupid outbursts, why do we got to suffer for his lack of social graces…thanks Maine for voting in this one…:)

• Anonymous

  sounds like you got first hand experience…way to many details..things that make you go hmmmm…??? just saying..

• Anonymous

  Bravo. Especially like your last sentence there!

• Anonymous

  President Eisenhower had quite a powerful message there; it would behoove us to heed it more.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZHX45U2CXGSVSENJWFP5DMZWLI Jason

  The problem with the Democrats including Steve Rowe they keep wanting to expand the failures of the last 40 years expanding welfare, high taxes, more borrowing, failed enviromental policies and want to reverse what voters have voted in like repealing Gay Marriage, Casinos. When the Dem. Party decide to run conservative candidates they will always be out of touch, arrogant, ignorant, elites who want to ram their socialist economic and crazy sick perverted social agenda down our throats.

• Anonymous

  Amen.

• Anonymous

  I wish there were an icon that inserted sarcasm into a post…hence the follow up of “Yikes!” Maybe I should have added this: Yikes! =S

• Anonymous

  Don’t some of these people understand what satire is? Unbelievable….

• Anonymous

  I totally miss your point 50srock. You argue that insurance companies in fact DO have death panels. And, repealing the Healthcare Reform puts us back to the mercy of our insurance companies? If you are ANTI- Death Panels, shouldn’t you then be PRO healthcare reform? Because I’ve already established for you with links to two different reputable sources that there is nothing in the Obama legislation that creates Death Panels.

• http://katahdin.myopenid.com/ FrankC

  I don’t think how he used “God is the rock ” has anything to do with “notion of separation of church and state came from, ”

  That’s all.

• Anonymous

  Oh well, don’t feel too bad…liberals are called “Libtards” on here quite often. Maybe you never noticed that…

• Anonymous

  I think you are referring to those who post on the BDN comment pages who talk about their Christianity and then in the next breath, wiggle out of any responsiblity or great concern for the less fortunate, etc. You likely have picked up on that after a while. There is that, and then there are those who are conservatives without being religious…just as there are Christians who are more liberal, and liberals who aren’t particularly religious. Not all one thing….

• http://katahdin.myopenid.com/ FrankC

  ooops , I apologize — I meant to post this headline & link to the BBC just today
  In the UK I believe that “Public Sector” is our private practice MD’s

  David Cameron: Public sector reform cannot be delayed
  http://goo.gl/1Djek

  Since 2006 they have been allowing more private practice medicine – I believe that is the same as in Canada . Both UK and Canadians will protest that they have the best system and will NOT give it up, even as they go to private (non HNS) doctors.

• Anonymous

  Lol.

• Anonymous

  Clever too.

• Anonymous

  Smile…

• http://katahdin.myopenid.com/ FrankC

  I think he has quite an influence on the 30-35 & under segment

• Anonymous

  What Mr. Colbert said is fact. We have the video to prove what he said. What he said is not subject to opinion. The sky is blue. That’s a fact.

  You may not like Mr. Colbert’s form of satire, that’s your opinion, and you are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to a different version of the facts.

• Anonymous

  Could not disagree more.

• http://katahdin.myopenid.com/ FrankC

  You’re invited to the beer & wine soiree !

• Anonymous

  HAHAHA!!! Count me in!

• http://katahdin.myopenid.com/ FrankC

  You sound like the TP folks I know. Good. I might have confused your posts with someone else – lots of email.

  Did you see my link to KJ – you might appreciate his blogs.

  goo.gl/edXK4

• Anonymous

  well i have no kids, so not me but i did however rent a place out to people like that. i could give names and addresses of numerous people who do it. but why embarrass them on here they do a good enough job by waking up every morning living like that.

• http://katahdin.myopenid.com/ FrankC

  And medicare has to allocate resources also. And now the beloved example in the UK – the NHS is adding more privatization BUT they can’t say it! They have to use euphemisms.

  Have personal recent knowledge of friend who vehemently supports the UK NHS , needed an non emergency operation. Scheduled for 3 months out ! After about two months – still no specific date, she went to a private doctor. Still won’t say anything negative about the NHS.

  Did you read the link I gave you ?
  Your link was very informative.

  I did notice from your link that in the UK they say: Coverage: Universal coverage. All citizens and legal residents.

  How did that end up in Obama Care? yes or no to 10 -30 million illegal aliens.

  Where’s the resources millions of illegals? They’ve been talking about the shortfall in MD’s for several years before Obama was elected. Polls indicate that as Obama Care is implemented that about 100,000 md’s expect to retire. My PCP closed his sole practice primarily because of issues mandated via medicare/medicaid and increasing as of Jan1, 1011.

• Anonymous

  what if you were kidnapped, put in the bottom of a ship…made to live in your own feces and urine..
  what if you were sold to the highest bidder
  what if you where made to watch your wife and daughters gang raped
  what if your child was taken from your arm and sold like a puppy!
  what if you could be killed if people knew you could read and write

• http://katahdin.myopenid.com/ FrankC

  Where you referring to this ? from NPR

  Compare International Medical Bills http://goo.gl/jxYdi

  Biggest challenges: Government doesn’t cover care that it deems cost-ineffective

  I will need a heart transplant within 5 years. True I’m paying big bucks and using up my saving for BC/BS insurance – hope that 3 million cap will cover it. But now if anthem refuses, then I do have state ins agency. If the gov is the payer, who do I see?

• Anonymous

  I doubt it. He certainly can do no worse than what we just got rid of.
  And it’s Mardens, and yes I have been to our local store.
  P2 driver? I thought all the Neptune drivers had died!

• http://katahdin.myopenid.com/ FrankC

  Yup – something like 30% of wait staff have a college degree. At least you should be getting a good description of your meal and wine.

  Or is todays college education on line with yesterdays HS education.

• Centaurmyst

  Susan Collins, Jim Douglas, Jim Jeffords (when I lived in Vermont). I voted for the first Bush for president as well.

• Centaurmyst

  LePage IS a bobblehead…

• http://katahdin.myopenid.com/ FrankC

  Good job – All dems I see. … ;=}

  Did you know that OBama Care is the same as the health care bill that Bush I proposed back in ’91?

  To save a couple posts, Mike Michaud actually refered to it in his MPBS debate with Levesque. Did you watch it?

• Anonymous

  My point was simply to illustrate the fact that death panels (or equivalents) DO exist. Don’t misunderstand – I’m 100% behind health care reform, and the so-called Obamacare is the best thing we’ve seen since Clinton, Regan and Bush proposed their versions. Although almost none of the earlier versions made the cut (Bush did enact Medicare Part D – with no way to pay for it except dropping the costs into the abyss of national debt), at least the present law is something. And I will not benefit except to face the effects it will produce in Medicare. But someone (30 million someones) will. And, after slogging through the bill, I could find nothing that directly presented itself as “death panels.”

• Anonymous

  So , you’re looking for a king , not a governor.

• newportres

  MO I haven’t.
  What I have seen a lot of though are Democrats who call themselves “Independant Swing Voters” while still walking and talking like the liberals they really are.
  It is the new in thing to call yourself if you are a fashionable liberal voter today.
  You people can keep remarketing yourselves however you wish but as long as you still walk like a duck and talk like a duck…

• Anonymous

  Lingering on your decision is a good thing! I did not make final decision for president or governor until the voting booth. and I (very much) agree on your take of LePage.

• Anonymous

  Congratulations, I think you’ve managed in this post to include every single right-wing cliché I’ve heard.

• Anonymous

  Sorry, I do disagree with you on this one. Here is an article regarding the relationship between the US’s ability to be competitive on the international market and healthcare reform.

  https://news.fidelity.com/news/article.jhtml?guid=/FidelityNewsPage/pages/viewpoints-healthcare-economy&topic=saving-for-retirement

• Anonymous

  He doesn’t have a black son. It was just (yet another) lie.

• Anonymous

  Taking after our Governor? Go to hell! Kiss my butt!

• Anonymous

  And yet these “so-called comedians” can pull big crowds than Glenn Beck. Sounds like it’s not boredom, just a lack of a sense of humor. Lighten up, pal.

• Anonymous

  Hahahahahaha

• Anonymous

  Not a Republican, tea party.

• Anonymous

  What do you mean, ‘we’? Some of us are intelligent people who provide information while being largely polite. A significant share are ignorant racists who defend LePage. Others fall somewhere in-between.

• Anonymous

  But, not intentionally. LePage is fool and doesn’t know it.

• Anonymous

  Maine, the kinky state!

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Teri-Lippincott-Veazie/1158436746 Teri Lippincott Veazie

  Once again, Gov. LePages comments were reported out of context, and the whole truth of the situation has not been reported.

• free2bee10

  The NAACP was founded when discrimination based on any skin color other than white was the norm. That was when the NAAWP was at its’ height. By the way – all people are colored – white is a color.
  Jack

• Anonymous

  I’ve tried to talk to TP folks before. I was so overwhelmed by the racism and bigotry. I’m certainly not accusing you of that, but it was really, really hard to discuss libertarian values when I was being called ‘UnAmerican’ and all that. My fundamental problem with the TP is they say they are libertarian but are against marriage equality and a mosque being built in Manhattan. I know those are inflammatory issues, but if the TP believes in libertarian values they would not want laws that prevent adults from practicing their religion or pursuit of happiness. The hatred trumped their ‘less government’ stance. (for me).

• Anonymous

  I think LePage will be asked to explain his relationship with Devon. That did not work out very well when Jim West, the late mayor of Spokane, another bullying Right Wing pol, was asked to do the same thing. He was eventually impeached. The gay guys say their gaydar is ringing non-stop regarding the Paul and Devon situation.

• Anonymous

  Are you plumbing him for a date?

• Centaurmyst

  No, they aren’t all Democrats. They are/were all MODERATE Republicans, which is exactly the type of politician I said that I vote for. I voted for Jeffords before he left the Republican party. They had moved too far right so he left the party.

  No I didn’t watch any of the debates. I was either working or doing homework most of the time period they were taking place. It was a hectic few months.

• Anonymous

  Ignorance.

• Anonymous

  The name is National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, right? Nothing in there about it being limited to people of color – that’s not part of the mission. Membership is open.

• Anonymous

  specious.

• Anonymous

  Keep repeating to yourself that the governor humiliating himself nationally is A Good Thing and maybe you will come to believe it. But, no intelligent person does.

• Centaurmyst

  No, you assume someone is liberal every time they disagree with you on anything. There are some of us that have mixed views based on the subject. I support same sex marriage and believe in social programs to help those who need help. I also support gun rights, the death penalty and am vehemently opposed to drugs. I am not a fan of unions most of the time, either. I am neither liberal nor conservative.

• Anonymous

  The odd thing about the state trooper is LePage knew a month in advance, when he declined the NAACP’s invitations, that the fellow was going to die. Weird, no?

• Anonymous

  You are confusing FIGHTING racism with groups that oppose extending full rights of citizenship to all Americans. The NAACP has been fighting racism, starting with its campaign against lynching in the South, for more than a century.

  One wonders why a person so completely in over his head keeps commenting.

• Tedlick Badkey

  *begin theme music to Speed Racer*

  Go Tea Baggers, Go Tea Baggers, Go Tea Baggers GO!!!

  * end theme music to Speed Racer*

• Anonymous

  I had heard LePage is a drunk, too. So, it is true?

• Anonymous

  Nah, TP’ers are the ones with their hands out. “Keep the Government out of my Medicare” folks. I have never met a TP’er with a legitimate concern with their fellow man. I do no a disproportionate amount of them are on Welfare (social Security). They have contributed no constructive ideas to the debate. In terms of KJ, he seems like so many others, he got his, and instead of reaching back to help others (of all colors) he decides instead it is time to pull up the ladder.

• Anonymous

  Then you are just as bigoted and just as nutty as he is.

• Anonymous

  I will never forgive Maine Dems for the last 34 yrs of stupid waste and abuse

• Anonymous

  It started before he was governor.

• Centaurmyst

  If the people of Maine understood just how much legalizing same sex marriage would help Maine’s economy they would never have voted to overturn it. I actually lived in Vermont when Civil Unions was signed into law there. It was the first place in the nation to recognize same sex unions. Vermont is very much like Maine in that it is a tourist state. Once Civil Unions became law there was a massive boost to tourism and it created not only a ton of new jobs but also a whole new industry…destination weddings for same sex couples. The law did NOT change the way of life for anyone in Vermont, either. I was genuinely concerned about that and initially I opposed even civil unions for that very reason. I was scared of how it would impact my children. Turns out that it did not impact them negatively at all. It did, however, make it easier for them to get jobs when they became teenagers, because businesses were making a lot more money due to tourists in the area for those destination weddings/civil unions.

• Anonymous

  Finally, we’re on the national stage for something! And it’s not something embarrassing like when that RHINO Collins championed the repeal of DADT! Ughhhhh

• Anonymous

  Truth that. High tech companies are pretty diverse. Microsoft, HP, Apple, etc., are not going to subject their visa workers to an environment Paul LePage is admired in.

• Anonymous

  Have you noticed which network The Colbert Report is on? Lighten up.

• Anonymous

  Demonizing the very demure NAACP is what LePage tried. It failed. And, the more you do it the less credible you look.

• Anonymous

  Are you really such a dimwit you don’t know people of color have suffered centuries of discrimination and white people have not? Civil rights groups focused on people of color because they were the ones suffering massive abuse by their fellow citizens.

• Centaurmyst

  I’ve never been registered as a Democrat or a Republican. For over 25 years I have been registered as Independent.

• Anonymous

  You can repeat it until the cows come home. But, it still will not be true.

• Anonymous

  Because you wish to stuff something in it?

• Anonymous

  You are welcome.

• Anonymous

  I am going to ask the question every time it is mentioned, what law has the Governor broken to being the process of impeachment? I don’t expect a response because he hasn’t but if he has I would be happy to support it.

• Anonymous

  You say it like it bothers us to be called Tea Party. We believe in what we are doing and are not ashamed of it, are you ashamed of your beliefs?

• Anonymous

  Colbert doesn’t get a 10% of the ratings that Glenn Beck gets.

• Anonymous

  Perhaps we can all agree to disagree that regardless of LePage’s political background..that was ridiculous. If he were democrat it would be ridiculous…repulican…ridiculous. See what I’m saying? Bad judgement call all around.

• Anonymous

  Actually I think you meant to post this to someone else. I was just making a comment regarding Sarah Palin….I think I posted under the wrong comment though. I see the Sarah Palin comment a couple of posts up.

• Mungo Munro

  His Irritability and inability to focus would lead on to think he is or has been an a heavy drinker

• Anonymous

  Check the attendance of both their rallies last year and get ready to start weeping like your boy Glenn Beck.

• Anonymous

  You are welcome to your views. Nor am I ashamed of my beliefs. I believe in democracy and feel that at the tea party’s core is the corporatist view of its principals the Koch Bros. To me all the left right stuff is silly, you either support a democratic system or you’re supporting a corporatized system. When corporations use their power and money to influence legislation that benefits their interests that’s not capitalism it’s corporatism. Corporatism vs. Democracy is the Issue.

• http://katahdin.myopenid.com/ FrankC

  Thanks for the link. I have started to save some links.

  Did you read the article? They defined the culpirt as : health care cost inflation – not insurance inflation. Their conclusion near the end includes several proposals that actually the republicans were attempting to be heard last year, but Obama kept the doors closed on any reasonable reforms.

  Please re-read the article. I think you just interpreted the headlines to mean what you wanted.

• http://katahdin.myopenid.com/ FrankC

  LOL – please troll somewhere else. AS you say, you are obviously too smart to be a Mainer.

• abetterplace

  Come on Gov. LePage, you have every opportunity to be a “good role model” for Maine kids, you know the ones that are in similar situations like you found yourself in at their age! I hope your communications skills improve for their sakes and all Maine people!!

• Anonymous

  Well…that’s an easy fix. You need to start drinking in excess.
  Alcoholics can qualify for social security. I knew one personally, 36 years old, until he died recently from an overdose of drugs. Saved us a lot of $$$.

• Anonymous

  Oh perfect. We didn’t put him in there to please the liberals, just the opposite actually.
  Get used to it for another (8) years LOL. The liberal whining is music to our ears.

• http://katahdin.myopenid.com/ FrankC

  Did you miss the smilie face? But I don’t concur – they were always considered to be liberal pubs. Altho it doesn’t matter.

  Whether you watched the debates or not it was just to have a reference point for:
  Did you know that OBama Care is the same as the health care bill that Bush I proposed back in ’91? Your homework is to figure out why the dems led by Daschle and Gephardt deep sixed it, since the dems are always for the people?

• Anonymous

  We are not a Representative democracy we are a Representative republic, as stated in the constitution in Article IV. The Federalist paper 10 even called a democracy as a spectacle of turbulence and contention, and incompatible with personal security or the right to own property. Personally I don’t want a democracy I want what the constitution promises, smaller central government and more local control of social needs.

• http://katahdin.myopenid.com/ FrankC

  amazes me too !

  But he allowed the different state agencies to NOT make things easier for small businesses.

  But looks like he was just waiting to get his cut from the wind industry.

• Anonymous

  was that called for…

• http://katahdin.myopenid.com/ FrankC

  I’m pleased that you looked at KJ blog tho I don’t think he’s sold enuf books to pull up any ladder. My guess is that his wife works. Read some of his earlier posts. Some good, some not, some egggh. Different view-point.

• Anonymous

  OMG — it must be in the ‘genes’ of newly elected govs — check out recently elected Gov Robert Bentley of Alabama for his offensive comments……..(perhaps Robert and Paul are related????)

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SHNOU64ZBOBIKWUF5IM6WSH7WA entitled4life

  A liberal democrat mocking LePage is news? Makes me laugh at the BDN for even going there.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SHNOU64ZBOBIKWUF5IM6WSH7WA entitled4life

  Even though you will not forgive me, I will let you enjoy the prosperity that LePage brings to the State of Maine, right along with us republicans.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SHNOU64ZBOBIKWUF5IM6WSH7WA entitled4life

  If you talk like a democrat, you are a democrat and all of your posts are liberal posts. Call yourself what you wish but as Tim Sample once said, “if your cat had kittens in the oven, would you call them biscuits?”

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SHNOU64ZBOBIKWUF5IM6WSH7WA entitled4life

  Actually, he is your man. Maine has driven business out of this State for 40 years under democrat rule, how is it you think they are better for you? Be specific.

• http://katahdin.myopenid.com/ FrankC

  Yes and no – you were responding to his post, I actually read his NPR link – which basically supports Palin. Altho the UK doesn’t call it death panels, they do have to allocate limited resources to what appears to be unlimited needs.

  That’s why I quoted from the article he wanted to use to make an invalid point:
  Biggest challenges (for the UK NHS) : Government doesn’t cover care that it deems cost-ineffective

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SHNOU64ZBOBIKWUF5IM6WSH7WA entitled4life

  What’s odd about the comments on this page is the amount of “hate” that the left shows for LePage. That’s okay though because it is coming from the left. When it comes from the right, it is front page news at the BDN. Go figure!!

• Anonymous

  OMG?????/
  Pretty good……

• Anonymous

  he is a buffoon not a racist….leave him alone……

• Anonymous

  Sorry pal, that’s not how the Constitution has been interpreted. If you’re such a Constitutional scholar, why don’t you go back and read some of the Marshall court opinions.

• Anonymous

  Making fun of isn’t the same as hating.

• Anonymous

  What does the H stand for in RHINO?

  For that matter, what’s wrong with our senators doing the right thing?

• Tedlick Badkey

  Why thank you SD!

• Anonymous

  tax cuts that this country can’t pay for that add to the national deficit and debt…..

• Anonymous

  Well, a “so-called politician” got elected as Governor in Maine…!

• Centaurmyst

  Anyone who honestly believes that all of my posts are liberal has to be a radical right winger.

• PabMainer

  I agree with your thought on Mr. Colbert…..

• PabMainer

  I agree with your assessment of Mr. Colbert…..

• Anonymous

  Ok…I was actually making fun of Palin for her failed attempt at trying to sound educated LOL!

  I try not to get involved when it comes to debating this Healthcare Bill that everyone’s all wound up about. None of the jargon makes any sense, and what parts I do understand of it, it just doesn’t seem to be beneficial to anyone. I don’t really know what the point of it is anyway. The government cannot force people to buy insurance…even if the cost to the individual would be a discounted price, the deductibles alone would sink their ship.

  I was speaking with a nurse that works at EMMC a few weeks ago, and their healthcare plan through the hospital (which is self-insured) has a deductible of $8,000.00!!! That’s insane! I’m not even sure if healthcare can be “fixed”…it’s been such a mess for so long now.

• oldgrump

  If the man that Christians claim to follow was to have come today, instead of 2000 years ago, most of those same “Christian Fundamentalist” would call him a liberal, bleeding heart, socialist, hippy.

• Anonymous

  Your statement proves my point, most alreadyt know this and is exactly my point..

  “Personally I don’t want a democracy”

• Anonymous

  I am not in any position to judge your intelligence and you are in no position to judge mine. Until people can be jailed for their opinions you have your right to post yours and so do I.

• Anonymous

  Not only are people in Maine ignorant, but people in other states like New Hampshire, Florida and South Carolina are ignorant too. Only people in Massachusetts and California are smart as the majority of them voted to return their democratic leaders to office. Wow, 48 states populated by a majority of ignorant people!

• http://katahdin.myopenid.com/ FrankC

  It is crazy – my deductible is $15k and eating up my savings.

  It appears that they can, unless our reps smarten up and get together to work on health care costs instead of HC insurance.

  There are a few good threads over on http://www.bangordailynews.com/story/Statewide/Maine-5-other-states-to-join-Obama-health-care-lawsuit

• Anonymous

  Are you going to reply with anytype of rational response?

• http://katahdin.myopenid.com/ FrankC

  This must be my lucky day – two conversations without any nastiness !! LOL

  That’s who I’ll pick for the beer & wine soiree where we find out who’s who and maybe solve some of the issues ! yea – right .. lol

• Anonymous

  There has never been a true democracy that has survived, We have a representative republic form of government where the politicians work for the people that elected them. If we had a true democracy Obamacare would have been repealed already, as the people clearly do not want it.

• Anonymous

  If you say we believe in the right of the people to govern themselves than we agree. What I do not agree with is the lack of accountability of the professional politicians in washington, I was watching the debate today of the repeal of ACA and I realized that all the Dems are arguing to save in the law is in 10 pages but the bill is over 2000 pages, wish I had time to read the rest.

• http://katahdin.myopenid.com/ FrankC

  If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today.
  Thomas Sowell -11/23/1998 His columns: http://goo.gl/IaW18

• Anonymous

  Oh boy! Stevie Colbert! The guy who made a fool
  of himself and the Dem party for letting him testify
  for them. The same hillarious guy who made a fool
  of himself at Schultzie’s failed march. Even John
  Stewart was embarrassed by him.
  Thank you BDN for bringing the Colbert show to
  your news. Whatever would we do without it.

• Anonymous

  Everyone is frustrated, but the tea party has painted the government the bad guy and there is some truth to that. But it’s the corporations who subvert democracy and bend it to their needs, and it is enabled by politicians. So if you get above the wedge issues which are generated by the same people who stand to gain from the confusion they create, you will see corporations and their lobbyists playing with democracy.

• Anonymous

  Well if the whole truth hasn’t been reported then how was it taken out of context? And if the truth was not reported then how exactly do you know what the truth is?

• Anonymous

  It ain’t the taxes not collected Adam – it’s the spending that creates the deficit and debt. I wish I made the kind of money that put me in the $250k bracket but I’m not eaten up with envy of those who work hard, make the tough decisions, and take the risks that get them that sort of compensation. There’s something fundamentally wrong with envy. And your assumption that I support the war in Iraq and am a neocon is completely bogus, dude.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZHX45U2CXGSVSENJWFP5DMZWLI Jason

  The Democrats their best hope of winning the last election Rosa Scarcelli lost during the primary, the Libs ran everybody affiliated with what was wrong with the economy for the last 40 years in this state. Now with the problem’s Scarcelli, her husband , Dennis Bailey are having I don’t see her winning any election ever and that is a good thing for us Independents (myself) and Conservatives.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZHX45U2CXGSVSENJWFP5DMZWLI Jason

  Maine needs good paying jobs not anymore of the Democrat Party’s failed economic & social agenda.

• Anonymous

  Good question. My guess is that it makes them feel better about themselves to put other people down. Just a guess though.

• http://katahdin.myopenid.com/ FrankC

  Let’s try this again, there were no tax cuts.

  Obama decided NOT to raise taxes.

• Anonymous

  Corporate America is destroying America. They will be the reason for our downfall…along with our corrupt political and religious leaders.

• Anonymous

  So lets have the government take over every corporation in the country and run it themselves. Then we would not have to worry about the economy as it would all be great as we would all have jobs and all the money we need to live comfortably and we would again be the leaders in the world, we would have the utopia that everyone is hoping for… no religion, no war, no hate, everyone happy and all because the government is running everything. Sign me up..

• harry H Snyder

  This board is humorous. More people think label (Dem Repub, Liberal Independent or conservative) more important than their personal position on an issue.. Phew partisans.

• Anonymous

  Even better! The left is making fun of the “tea party”, who could have seen that coming??

• Anonymous

  When did they draw a bigger crowd than Beck? If you’re referring to the rallys last year, maybe you ought to look at the untouched ariel photos or maybe get some glasses. Personally, when I listen to a comedian, I want to laugh about something totally unrelated to politics. I get enough of the serious stuff in a normal day, so when I watch or listen to a comedian, I want to be entertained, not reminded of how bad off the country is now. To me, that’s not funny, it’s just pathetic…….

• Anonymous

  Don’t tell me, you get your news from Stewart?

• Anonymous

  Why is it pathetic? I think it’s pathetic that you confuse personal preference with general consensus. What’s right for you isn’t right for everyone. People find Colbert funny, it’s pathetic that you can’t learn to deal with it.

• Anonymous

  Funny how you ignore that comments that you have no retort for. Read the Marshall opinions, they’re the Constitutional law of the land buddy.

• Anonymous

  You need to apply for social security disability (not state) if your Doctors back up your statement of degree of disability you will get federal disability.

• Anonymous

  The Dems are for themselves and since they have no term limits they can be for 50 years.Dems and socialists want total control and they will promise anything to get it.

• Centaurmyst

  Anything that brings in more tourists to Maine creates jobs. Destination weddings are all the rage. Every state that is a tourist state that allows same sex marriage does extremely well with tourism. Allowing same sex couples to get married doesn’t harm the way of life or impact children negatively. I know this for a fact because I lived through the whole process in Vermont while my children were young. I USED to be very much opposed to even civil unions before seeing for myself that the only changes were positive.

• Anonymous

  I was waiting to see if you were going to cite specific cases or just regurgitate what the MSNBC talking heads have been spewing. I assume you are referring to McCulloch v Maryland? Yes John Marshall had the opportunity to preside over several land mark decisions and shaped the constitution and how it was interpreted, however, I do not believe that he could have imagined the scope the federal government has grown too. Based on the wording of many of his opinions I think that he would find in favor of the states who are suing the government over Obamacare and the mandate.

• Centaurmyst

  LePage won’t get a second 4 years. He only got the first four because it was a 3 way race. The overwhelming majority of Mainers did NOT vote for LePage and would vote for a rock over LePage.

• Anonymous

  The party or person that follows our Constitution to the maximum is a True Patriot to me.

• Anonymous

  I agree with you Jason!!! You are 300% correct. Go Jason, a man with a brain.

• Anonymous

  I am a Maine businessman…..

• Anonymous

  yeah, i read the article, but i am probably guilty as charged.

  :) i will go back and read it more carefully

  to me, one of the (confusing, yet core) issues is the separation of health insurance and health care access.

  but to your point, as a small business owner, my interpretation of insurance costs not inflating is due to a decrease in available services.

  I think we can all agree on two things:

  1. The healthcare & education reform act needs improvement.
  2. some of the included benefits like not denying coverage for pre-existing conditions, portability, college students, etc. are all good.

• Anonymous

  Huh?

• Anonymous

  Hahaha, you’re a joke. You know nothing about our country and the history of the Constitution. Of course Marshall presided over land mark decisions, he was one of the first Supreme Court justices! You should also know that he didn’t preside over that many cases though because he wasn’t on the bench for an extensive period of time. Further, he established a point that the federal government is supreme over the states. That’s the biggest DUH in the the world, but Tea Partiers don’t seem to get that because they don’t seem to get anything beyond what they hear on Glenn Beck. You can’t look at the words of the Constitution in isolation. You have to look to the history of the document and how it has been interpreted from then on. Duh.

• Anonymous

  good point,
  But remember you can change your affiliation as soon as the caucus is over. I was a “walk in” at the Dem caucas for the presidential elaction, as an unaffiliated voter I was able to sign up as a Dem and participate ( It was very interesting). The very next week I stopped by the town office and went right back to Independent!

• Anonymous

  I agree that we should concentrate on food production, fishing (including fish farming). but don’t discount the wind turbine fabrication sector. Even if you don’t agree with installing wind turbines in Maine, there is no reason we cannot manufacture them here and sell them!
  The mill jobs (paper, textiles, shoes) are gone to 3rd world countries, we cannot compete with slave wage labor (nor should we want to)
  I see ships comong into US ports every week carrying nothing but wind turbines, that is an entire 700′ ship with nothing but windmills! Why are we buying something from the Dutch and Germans when we can be manufacturing it here! These are highly skilled manufacturing jobs that we need. If Cianbro can do it building modules in Brewer, and ship repair/refit in Portland than we should be able to build wind turbines in Brunswick!

• Anonymous

  You are so full of penguin milk and you really need to curtail your namecalling weakness.

• Anonymous

  Honey, if you didn’t vote for him say so, and don’t be embarrassed.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_64QIX7TB4QCEVRVSVKQMR43J3U Doc

  liberal

• Anonymous

  Maybe we have the same challenges. Perhaps not. I would be interested to hear your challenges in running your business.

• Anonymous

  If you don’t know what I was referring to,
  then I would suggest reading a little more
  than BDN.

• Anonymous

  Maybe you should check out his performance before a Congressional subcommittee concerning immigration, it was an embarrassment. People have the right to watch or listen to anybody they want to, lame or not…….

• newportres

  Nazis stands for National Socialism.
  Yet you say they were not socialist.
  Eityher you or theym were very confused.
  Nazis:
  A member of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, founded in Germany in 1919 and brought to power in 1933 under Adolf Hitler.

  Wow! The dictionary is confused too!

  Socilism explained-
  a stage within which the capitalist economy is controlled by a pro-worker government that gradually puts into place the conditions for communism. Some have further defined socialism as implying a change in property ownership, such that the major capitalist enterprises become state capitalist enterprises (owned by the state and used for the purpose of bringing about the aforementioned transition). Socialism can also be defined, in a non-Marxian manner, as simply implying a pro-worker government that will use state policies to improve the lives of working people without any presumption that the state will try to create communism. Indeed, some socialists (defining their socialism in this non-Marxian way) might even be opposed to communism and simply favor a more benign form of capitalism (the Swedish “Middle Way,” perhaps).
  http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/sgabriel/socialism_defined.htm

  Socialism starts when the government starts taking over Businesses but it goes much further than that in the end. Think Welfare on steroids and one step away from “from each according to his abilities, to each according to0 his needs”.
  OK so now we are to the question is Obama a Socialist.
  Well what is The New Party?
  I guess we have to answer that question first since he was a member in 96 right?

• newportres

  Yeah and some people get their opinions from Comedians!
  Nuts aint they!

• Anonymous

  His studio audience is very young, but many of my 50-something friends are ardent fans.

• Anonymous

  You just don’t get him. Unfortunately, you’re putting too much stock on the fact that the Comedy Central network carries him. You must think Bill Maher is a movie star because he’s on HBO?

• Anonymous

  The one time I heard him say anything I though he was just making a big joke of a serious issue. I get that he is a comedian but I dont care to listen to him. I think its funny that people here are posting about him here like he some sort of big news reporter or political insider. I think its sad that some people choose to get educated in politics based on this guys comedy program.

• Anonymous

  Hey smart guy, i wasn’t talking about the Nazi’s being socialist, (having that in their name makes that pretty evident) i was talking about your claim that the Obama administration is socialist. To compare Obama to Hitler is the most outrageous, ignorant, and insulting thing i have ever heard. Even worse is the fact that you are not the only one to make this repugnant claim, thanks to Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and their cohorts.

  Secondly, if you truly believe that the workers in this country are creating a socialist uprising thanks to Obama, you once again are incorrect. By looking at Wall Street it is pretty evident that this is not happening. Socialism to a point is in any democracy, hence public schools, library’s, roads, police, fire protection, etc.

  These things work like a pendulum, more liberal governments tend to lean that way, and more conservative governments lean the other way. By saying just because the Obama administration tends to lean more liberal than others is again a false claim. I’m sure, according to your rhetoric, that you were a Bush-Cheney fan. If you weren’t then never mind, but it seems you were with your wild claims. Bush was as much a ‘socialist’ as Obama is, if you look at the facts he started the government bailouts, he got the federal government involved in the state education system, and so on.

  So please, for the good of everyone, regardless of your political leanings, do not compare a man and a regime that murdered millions of innocent people because of their identity to a man who by no means is evil. You may not like him or his policies, but by making wild claims like these you do a disservice to everyone and continue to keep the U.S.A. muddled in the rut we seem to be caught up in currently.

• http://katahdin.myopenid.com/ FrankC

  I was surprised that they passed ObamaCare. I had hoped that they would get some of the truly brilliant people we have in America to get together and come up with common sense plans to address your 2nd point. And do that in the open, not behind closed doors. Not ‘reading” evaluating the bill , to me, is grounds for firing our reps.

  The only sense is that the dems are using it for power.

• Anonymous

  the bush tax cuts were indeed tax cuts that were set to expire in 2010…..
  obama signed a bill passed by both houses of congress to extend the tax cuts for 2 years….

• http://katahdin.myopenid.com/ FrankC

  I saw the paper – this was just in tidbits !! You’d think it was front page !! LOL

• Anonymous

  You know, the part that really baffles me is that they want everyone to carry this Obama-care health coverage, but the deductible would make them more in the red than they already are. It just doesn’t add up. I’m not a Republican, but I can certainly see why they want this healthcare bill revised or repealed.

• http://katahdin.myopenid.com/ FrankC

  Effectively – the current tax rate is the current tax rate.

  Anything else is political BS.

  Not making it permanent is a failure on for the pubs.

• http://katahdin.myopenid.com/ FrankC

  The terminology that’s been used is mis-directed it seems. I don’t know..

  One problem is that there are mainly lawyers in DC and Augusta. Even you love them, they just like to mess stuff up and be in control. But seriously, the lawyers make these rules and regulations that takes another lawyer to figure out.

  I tried to read the ObamaCare bill, but it was just all BS. No wonder Pelesi couldn’t read it ! It makes no sense. Wasn’t there clear language bills passed back in the 80′s ? Ooops – before you were born ;=}

  Oh well.

• Anonymous

  I was born in the 70′s LOL! But yes I was too young to know what was going on in the early 80′s. I get what you are saying though…it makes no sense…just none!

• Anonymous

  I am not sure why it got the moniker, Obama Care. It’s more like ‘Insurance Company Care’. The boys and girls at insurance companies lobbied our reps *hard* for the mandate without the single payer, public option. That gives them millions of new customers and guts the intent of the program.

  I understand the plan looks pretty similar to what John McCain had drafted. I hope they (our reps) can put the partisan politics behind them and fix what’s broken, keep what works.

  take care, nice talking to you

• Anonymous

  It is your personal opinoin based on your personality; your assumptions about how humans react to situations; and your assumptions about our economic situation. Your conclusion is not backed up by any facts. Your conclusion is essentially your personal mind game with nothing external to you mind to verify the objective correctness of your views.
  Our social programs have done nothing to make people less self-relient. One of many mountains of facts to prove this is that the recipients of TANF (support for women with children) on average stay on the program for less than a year. Many of these recipients are young women who move into jobs with which they can support their children.

• Anonymous

  MaryBelle,

  The Tea Party is made up of the extreme right-wing of the Republican Party. Its a combination of libertarian, racist, and wealthy Republicans who primarily want small government so that they can dominate society, control the economy, and eliminate the middle class. They are the reverse of the Madisonian principle that the larger a republic is the more stable and uncorrupted it is.
  All of us share an analysis of our society that says that society has been corrupted to the point that we can’t benefit as we should. The libertarians say that government has corrupted business through red tape, regulations, and laws. The Constitutionalist say that business (the unconstitutional concentration of wealth and power) has corrupted government through the revolving door between business and government, through financing of elections, through volunteers in campaigns, and through an organized propaganda campaign (Fox News, many of the colleges and think tanks,) designed to justify the destruction of the middle class (reduce their standard of living, destroy unions, export our manufacturing, globalization, etc).
  The issue is that simple. Do you support the middle class or do you support corporate supremacy (fascism).

• Anonymous

  None necessary, but if you want sources – 2010 Maine Republican Party Platform which itself declared it was a Tea Party Platform. The platform clearly and unambiguously states the Tea Parties fealty to the Constitution. Then it lists more than a dozen proposals that are explicitly unconstitutional and several that are anti-constitutional. For example, supporting a bill to set Congressional term limits. Qualifications for Congress are set in the Constitution therefore only a constitutional amendment can change the term limits of a Congresspeople not a law. Clearly shows they do not understand the Constitution at all. Another, Tea Party Congress people have submitted more than 40 Constitutional Amendments. How can you proclaim your fealty to a structure of government while proposing more changes than have been adopted in 220 years.
  Lastly, the platform calls for the restoration of “Austrian” economics. First, the US and no other country have ever adopted “Austrian” economics. Second, “Austrian” economics is a cult based not on empirical evidence but on “mind games”. Or If I believe its true it is. Lastly, the responsibility outlined in the Constitution of Congress is to “manage the national economy” to use Edmund Randolph’s phrase from his speech in the Virginia ratifying convention. “Austrian” economics prevents that responsibility from being fulfilled and is therefore unconstitutional.

• Anonymous

  Exiled_Mainer, that’s self-exiled. Except LePage is wrong about everything.

• Anonymous

  MaryBelle,

  The Republican Party is split between the Tea Parties (wealthy, libertarian, small government, racist, nationalist republicans) and the Country Club Republicans (wealthy, big government, elitists, and egoists). The only share the positions that business should rule America and the Constitution revoked or so radically changed that we are no longer a republic. The Country Club Republicans will support the Patriot Act. The racist Tea Partiers will support it. The libertarian Tea Partiers will oppose it. The Nationalist Tea Partiers will support it. That’s somewhere in the neighborhood of 75% of all republicans will support retention of the Patriot Act.

• http://katahdin.myopenid.com/ FrankC

  “(wealthy, big government, elitists, and egoists)”

  Funny – that describes many of the liberals I know to a tee ! If you change wealthy to moderately well off, then it makes it all of the liberals I know.

• Anonymous

  Yes, I was talking to my 86 year old grandmother the other day about LePage and his recent antics. She said that she had seen the KMB interview with him on CNN the previous day. She lives in the mountains of northern California. Unfortunately, Maine is talked about now more for our goofball governor than anything else.

• Anonymous

  Interesting.

  Just saw a video of Ralph Nader and Ron Paul. They agreed on more than they disagreed on. Can’t understand why any party would not want to repeal the Patriot Act.

  It sets us back to pre Revolutionary War thought , doesn’t it? Repeal of Habeas Corpus which gives law enforcement the right to throw us in jail without charges or trial. If this sounds anti constitution, it is.

• Anonymous

  Bobby Moynihan could play him. Perfect!
  http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/bios/bobby-moynihan.shtml

• newportres

  Get back on your meds Skimo.
  You asked me to defend my position not to defend it in a way you would like it to be said.
  “First off, learn what socialism is. Secondly, if you call Obama a ‘socialist’ which is ridiculous, ”
  Your first mistake was assuming your definition of socialism was the only one out there.
  As for the Hitler ref: Mentioning anyone aspect of the political regime out there does not equate every person you compare it to with the murder of jews. You can not taboo a whole political spectrum from conversation because of what one group of people did with that name.
  As for Obama, when it comes to sociliast tendencies the shoe fits. Bush at least was never a card carrying member of the party, he did bail on the bailout issue but as I pointed out that was because he was ballless not socialist and he allowed himself to be led around by the nose by the socialist in charge of the house and senate at the time.

• Anonymous

  I’m not a bit surprised. As I noted the “problem” is generally agreed upon. The solution isn’t – libertarians (Nader is a leftwing libertarian, Paul a right-wing libertarian) solve the problem by decentralizing (left-wing libertarians rely on the individual to make everything better (sitting around a campfire making baskets to sell), the right-wing relies on the individual operating through business to make it all better). Both ignore the realities of political life. Madison rested the constitution on two great principles – larger republics are harder to corrupt and more stable and all human political activity must be checked (ambition checks ambition). Decentralization ignores both principles. Specifically, the right-wing libertarian wants no regulation (no checks and balances) by government of business. They think business will operate just fine through the workings of a “free market”. Problem is “free markets” don’t exist, haven’t ever existed, and can not be created. Free Markets are a gross oversimplification of real markets. The former CEO of GE and present guru of business management, Jack Welch, has confirmed that by his first law of business (if you are not first or second in a Market, get out. Meaning that all markets should be monopolies and therefore by definition not free. Since all markets will be monopolies in an unregulated libertarian world, all consumers will be subject to the absolute domination of the business in that market. The political system collapses into a business dictatorship.
  Only government has the size and power to protect us against corporate dictatorship. In 1901 J. P. Morgan bought out Andrew Carnegie’s steel companies and formed the US Steel Corporation (then a monopoly) and in so doing stopped the recession then running through the economy. President Teddy Roosevelt stated, “no man should have such power”. Roosevelt then began a campaign to break up the Morgan holdings. He failed.

• Anonymous

  No Frank that’s how you see everyone who disagrees with you.

• http://katahdin.myopenid.com/ FrankC

  Huh – so they’re liberal because I don;t agree with them?

  forget it..

• Anonymous

  Thanks for the coherent answer…. I don’t see debating with you is getting anywhere… good luck with life and your delusions… i just hope that you would read facts, not listen to Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh all the time… People like you are harming this countries prosperity, and separating us apart more and more.

• newportres

  Working people don’t have time to listen to the radio and TV.
  Is that the only possible reason you liberals can believe that we disagree with Obama and his policies?
  Because some other guy told us to?
  You honestly believe that only those from your party have the ability to form thoughts and opinions on their own?
  If the answer to those questions is yes then there is no wonder that we can never manage to meet in the middle. If you start by discounting our opinions as not our own in reality why do you even attempt to speak here. Just go to the websites of Rush and Beck and talk to them.

• Anonymous

  Meet in the middle? I do believe you are the one calling our president a Nazi. By the way i do work, and i work hard. I also go to school full time, so thanks for the unjust insult! NO if you can read what i read, i said even if you dislike his politics and disagree, by making extreme comments like that you are pulling the country down with you. By no means does calling the president, nor his administration Nazi socialists help anyone, because it is so asinine and ignorant. I am a moderate, i believe in a few things conservatives believe in, and i believe in a few that liberals believe in, but by going to extremes to either the right or the left nothing can ever get done! Read the facts then, if you don’t go by what other people told you, then where in the *&(*& did you come up with your Nazi comparison? If you came up with it completely on your own, then you have one twisted and incorrect mind.

• newportres

  I told you that I work for a living so do not have time to listen to the shows you claim feeds me my views and you take that as a personal attack on you?
  I see your views are twisted and incorrect enough where you have even loss reading comprehension skills you may have had at one point.
  Not much use discussing the rest with you but if you are interested in research on your own you could look at how Hitler came to power and what some of his initial actions were when he first came to power and you may see some similarities.
  Judging from what you have been unable to bring yourself to see so far though I have my doubts.

• Anonymous

  You can find just the same similarities with any president if you really want to look into things like that… if you work for a living as much as you claim, how come you’re not at work right now? Well if you claim i have poor reading comprehension skills then you do too because you haven’t answered my questions… but whatever man, we obviously have different view points, it’s hard to argue with someone who claims a president who is very much like his predecessor is a Nazi because you don’t like his politics. I study quite a lot of history, especially WWI and on, and there are WAY more differences between Hitlers regime and what has gone on in the USA ever. The closest that ever happened was back before WWII when there were Nazi party rallies in NYC and other cities that drew over 20,000 people. The only extremist party we have these days is the Tea Party, and they are not even close to how extreme the Nazi’s were. Have fun at work ;).

• newportres

  I guess you don’t get to take long weekends?