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On Wednesday we can all say, “Let the healing begin.”
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What healing? Are you kidding me? You make it sound like the Democrats are at no fault with anything. You liberals up here and around the country need a freakin clue!
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Up here?
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What about up here?
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Your post name is certainly, not intended to be an oxymoron, but it is. Please, take a look at what you have posted. “Need a freakin clue” ? So, the whole electorate needs a “freakin clue”? Therefore, you are right and the voter’s are wrong?
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Just think 30 days after the new legislature is sworn in then the investigations of The Governor’s Office can begin.
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And what are they going to investigate?
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only time will tell jd.
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Are you suggesting a witch hunt? Just investigate and see what they turn up? Talk about gridlock.
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I think that the investigation will be about how Maine voters can be so ignorant in electing democrats but it will never find the reason why.
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Maybe we’ll find out where the mural went and who stole the open for business sign . . .
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I have the mural and the sign heating my house tonight. Gonna sit here in front of the fireplace while I eat the last of the twinkies.
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Same ole, same ole, no change. Nothing new.
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“Tracker” hired by the Dems. a great way to start the healing.
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What is that supposed to mean? Maintain the welfare state the Democrats have kept Maine in? No growth? Increased welfare benefits? More methadone clinics? Stop paying the hospitals back. Exactly what have the Democrats done for this state?
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you understand that “helping others” is a christian notion and we are a christian nation, right??
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We are not a Christian nation. We are a nation with freedom to worship as we please.
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You understand that businesses have to want to be here to enable that “helping others” thing.
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Hey – does Douglas have a calculator this time? Last time she needed classes.
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matt dunlap is a good qualified choice. neria douglas is a horrible choice. she is totally incompetent
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Some good choices from the Democrats. Glad to see Matt Dunlap in that position again.
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Debra Plowman couldn’t figure out legislative diplomacy……she couldn’t figure out how to work with anyone other than the majority……..Debra Plowman needs to worry about money, that’s what she is best at.
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You described her to a “t”.
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Do you honestly think Matt Dunlap is any less partisan? You’re joking, right? Driver’s licenses for illegals – one of whom, as you’ve conveniently forgotten, went on to rent a car, buy a firearm, and rob a bank. He was aided by an official in the bureau of motor vehicles, Bob O’Connell (‘membah?) in obtaining the license. And Dunlap backed him up. O’Connell is still in place. No repercussions. He’ll retire and pull down his cushy state pension. It is just soul-deadening to watch these leeches prop each other up year after year after year.
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So sad and regrettably true. The concept of a legislature comprised of regular, hard working citizens essentially volunteering a portion of their time and energy towards the public good is cashiered by perennial political hacks like Dunlap who appear to feed at the public trough at every opportunity. “Careerism” at its worst.
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What?
Familiar faces?
More like the usual suspects.
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i agree, maybe the end of the world is closer
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Posting Test.
The humble Farmer
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BOOM goes the dynamite !
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Next comes the VETO.
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janet mills claimed it was OK for George hales radio show to sell ads to the Slots parlor while he was sitting as chairman of the gambling board.
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Actually what she ruled was that it was ok for the station that George Hale worked for to sell advertising time to Hollywood Slots. It was further noted that Hollywood Slots didn’t specifically buy time on Hale’s show but bought what is called run of station time which could be placed anytime during the broadcast day. I suppose that using your reasoning that if Hale had driven a truck for Dead River and Hollywood Slots happened to buy heating oil from Dead River that would have been wrong as well.
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Ah, the revolving door. Might have been interesting for the Dems to have picked some fresher brains for the constitutional offices, but the old crowd can’t seem to move over. Oh, well, no harm done – they’re competent enough, and after all, ambition dictates keeping a fairly high profile for a higher reach in two years’ time.
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EXPERIENCE matters. No on the job training needed.
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Fair enough, As I commented, they’re competent enough.
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Well…one thing is for sure….higher taxes are on the way…thank a democrat for that gift!
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Do you think anyone is going to believe you here anymore? I hope you see higher taxes and hopefully you pay a hefty use tax like I did under LePage Marry Christmas and Happy Kwanzaa
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Um, LePage didn’t invent the use tax, he’s just trying to get you to pay it. Are you saying you prefer Dems because you can cheat on your taxes more easily? Klown.
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The countries in this world with the highest standard of living have the highest taxes. Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Holland and so on. You know the list.
In countries with the lowest standard of living (where only foreign corporations have the money to pay taxes) the natives cook their food over rubber tires on street corners. Plastic garbage fills their waterways and canals. In some of these areas, machine gun toting guards escort Americans who work there to their jobs. I spoke with one of them two days ago.
Most rational people would rather live in countries where there is no poverty, excellent education, the best of healthcare, nice homes and new cars. And the reason there are no unpainted buildings or falling down barns is because taxes are high. Everyone pays his share. Nobody wiggles out of it by tax loopholes.
All these good things cost money. Here, some Maine people buy another home in Florida and change their residence to get out of paying the Maine state taxes that the rest of us pay to repair Maine roads.
People who have been to Africa and Europe — as well as Maine — have a fairly decent comprehension of the purpose of taxation and why it is necessary.
A woman in Rockport wrote to me today and said that her son wants to move to Finland. My father moved here from Sweden over 80 years ago thinking he’d find a better job. Most of us are only here because our ancestors thought the same way. Now that the economic situation has turned 180 degrees it might be time for young people who are looking for opportunity to move to Sweden or Finland where incomes and taxes are very high.
The humble Farmer
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TLDR
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Do you get the impression that neighbor Bill espouses that radical totalitarian political philosophy that combines elements of corporatism, extreme nationalism, anti-liberalism, militarism and authoritarianism?
The humble Farmer
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Hey…I just want the US to get back to the Constitution!
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Well of course Lepage will be needing more tax cash, he still has at least 2 family members not on the dole yet.
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Higher taxes for the wealthy! Yes indeed! It’s about time.
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Great! The Democrats elect the same people who never exposed the corruption at the MTA or the MHA. Just what we need.
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Spot on assessment……going backwards instead of moving forward…..
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The MTA investigatoin started under Baldacci. Were you living in Maine then?
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After all the attacks from the spend and pocket crowd.Now they are taking credit for outing the thieves in MTA and MHA.What a bunch of ideologue hypocrites..
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Nope. Wrong again. No one is taking credit. It is the FACTS that are there that the investigation started then.
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Ah, the good old boys back in power. Pat my back and pass the champagne.
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“This nomination is somewhat symbolic, but it does demonstrate that we, as Republicans, intend to stand by our principles of limited government,”
Limited government is another way of saying the removal of regulations which is another
way of saying a license to steal.We have friends and relatives who lost their homes when the removal of regulations permitted financial institutions to operate irresponsibly and without oversight.
The humble Farmer
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The only way your friends and relatives could have lost their homes is if they stopped paying their mortgages.
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Because the payments skyrocketed due to clauses worked into contracts by a platoons of the best lawyers in the country…. yeah, that’s just the kind of predatory business we need.
That and a vulture capitalist in the WH.-
ummm let me see buy a $300K house pay $600 a month in mortgage payements, then act surprised when the payments balloon after 5 years! Didn’t see that coming!
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The removal of regulations permitted borrowers to borrow irresponsibly. Don’t borrow if you can’t pay it back.
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Actually The removal of regulations allowed banks and investors to make money of mortgage losses removing the incentive for Banks to work with homeowners who were in trouble.
The long version of this explanation would take more words than anyone would read, or that I am willing to type, but if anyone is interested they can go here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative
and here:
http://www.stanfordlawreview.org/online/misconceptions-about-lehman-brothers-bankruptcy
and then here:
http://seekingalpha.com/article/95917-aig-and-the-derivative-nightmare
I doubt that anyone will take time to read through all this, but it gives a non-bias look at what happened when the unsecured derivative market crashed.
The short story is that the large banks could make more money by holding failing mortgages than they could if the mortgages were paid off in a timely manner.
Read and learn.
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The repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act was signed into Law by President Bill Clinton. Last time I checked he was a Democrat. Roosevelt, Kennedy and Johnson would have kicked his butt back to Arkansas.
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Goodbye Poliquin and Schneider. Idealogues lose. Maine people win.
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Was our neighbor Bill relegated to the memory hole? Aren’t stimulating comments from people like Bill the only reason some of us read these pages?
If any letters were to come under the editor’s knife, should it perhaps be those excellent letters that are somewhat soiled by name calling?
“The P….” ?
Astute commentary stands on its own feet.
The humble Farmer
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Posting Test.
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Thank God sanity and normalcy is back !!!
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Bye Bye Charlie Summers – no more stupid Voter Fraud Snipe Hunts from you.
Bye Bye William Sneider – no more wasting taxpayer money tilting at Obamacare windmillls.
Bye Bye Brucie Poliquin – no more breathless self-aggrandizing blogs from you tax cheat.
Good riddance to bad trash.
Yessah
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retread city
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So the Democrats learned absolutely nothing from their trip to the desert? The people spoke in 2010. They rejected the Baldacci Mills Dunlap leadership in favor of ANYTHING else. So now the Dems are given a second chance, and they believe that the voters made a mistake?
The party’s rejection in 2010 was NOT a mistake. It was a message that the Donkeys obviously did not hear. Didn’t you finally get the point when Democratic loyalists threw John Martin on the scrap heap?
The people of Maine want CHANGE! Not your same-ole crooked back-room shenanigans.
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The people came and took their state back in 2012.
2010 was a fluke – and the GOP will lose the Blaine House and another Senate seat in 2014.
Yessah
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So your thesis is that the majority of voters in 2010 from widely diverse communities like the potato farms in Aroostook to the liberal bedroom communities around Portland accidentally voted for Republicans?
Also I am interested in “the second district senate seat” Is that the one held by Angus King, or the one held by Susan Collins? I had no idea that Maine apportioned Senate seats. Imagine that.
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We had two years of Tea Party/LePage misrule.
We have seen their stripes – and we sent them packing.
And will again in 2014.
Yessah
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But what is your thesis? That 2010 is meaningful and that 2012 isn’t? That diverse communities didn’t vote this past election?
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LOL, the people spoke in 2010, but they didn’t speak in 2012? Come on.
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2010 will never happen again. It was a fluke and people have seen how dangerous the Tparty is.
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just wait out two years if we do not get the bunch out before that.The graveyard and college vote got the extortionist’s back in.Their spend and pocket policies will get them out.
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Why can’t you accept that you lost? Do these obviously false conspiracy theories really help you feel better?
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30 years of job decline, MTA and MHA are theory’s?Delusional maybe.Did the marriage vote push the Dems over the top?I know the popular thing for the party of presents for votes like to think not.As usual reality is not a place progressive extort their neighbors ever visit.
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You are delusional.
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Wow – the GOP is still delusional.
You forgot the hordes of rampaging black people stealing votes in rural Maine.
lol
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You ‘guys’ are oblivious to what hit you all in the face in the election.
Your message stinks and people voted your message down.-
The college students should start seeing just what they voted for.When they graduate from indoctrination high with 30 grand of bills.The only jobs the dems spend and pocket programs produce is part time welcome mat at wally world.The selfish culture Obama has created is spending their parents legacy and financing their laziness with their childrens future.
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Indoctrination high?
Is that what the koolaid drinkers are calling it now?
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You forgot all the black people, who I’m sure you also play basketball with but don’t want voting.
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Headline: “Dems go back to everybody that led Maine to this democratic led Fiscal and welfare mess for 40 years”…hey, I should be a reporter….
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You would be forced to quit.No reporting reality a reporter must carry the progressives water.If the media would do their job the president would have been gone in his first two years.When news organizations wait for the White house to get their marching orders the latest election is what happens.They gave up journalism for partisanship.
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The only ones carrying water are the Bagger party, just carrying it long enough to load it onto the backs of the poor.
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Maybe republicans should take a lesson from the Dems.Time to wade in the gutter with personal attacks.It must work the inmates are back in Augusta.
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Mason? The LePage marionette who just barely eeked out a win in a contest (30 votes I think was the difference) in which he was heavily favored…interesting choice.
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People of Maine can breathe again and feel relief.
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Just watch the lack of media over sight on this bunch of crooks.Time this bunch gets a few trackers.Republicans need to use the dems own game.anything they say publicize it and use it against them.Personal attacks seem to work.Just look what these scumbags did to nickki.Seems a good part of Maine just do not want to hear the truth.
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Good way to address the state’s problems, just recycle the same old, same old back into their positions again. What could (continue to) go wrong?
Comments for: Dems choose familiar faces for secretary of state, attorney general
AUGUSTA, Maine — Legislative Democrats on Tuesday turned to their former secretary of state and attorney general to take over the jobs they left behind two years ago when Republicans took control of the House and Senate. Back in the majority this year, Democrats nominated Matt… Read More
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