I think Ford is right on, except he left out gold-shitting Unicorns for everyone!

Thanks, librul medee-duh, for once again serving the public good.

"Mr. Ford, the Reagan 80's are calling. They want their policy proposals back."

He forgot, "...and give every American a pony!"

former Tennessee Rep. Harold Ford Jr. (R)

There. Fixed your typo for you. Otherwise nothing in your post made sense.

They don't complement one another, they contradict one another. And yes, he's an idiot who needs to be laughed at and mocked, not taken seriously or voted for.

I'd say he's running in the wrong party primary, but considering the behavior of leading Dems this past year wrt HCR and many other issues, I suppose it really doesn't matter. Big Business will completely own both parties, as opposes to 100% of Repubs and only 75% of Dems.

The best thing about the lurch to the right a year out from the midterms, is that it will demonstrate how flawed this idea is when Dems suffer horribly at the polls. The Sunday gasbags will, of course, take it as a sign Obama needs to move more right, but it will make them look more clueless than they already do.

I don't expect the Titanic to turn quickly, but I do expect the new captain to turn the wheel. And if they go full speed ahead, I can at least hope we learn something from the inevitable outcome.

The best scenario would be for Dems to recognize they need a success, and without 60, HCR is the only possible accomplishment between now and the midterms unless they make the GOP filibuster or fix the rules, which they won't.

Yippiee!!!! I love the bomb!

If you utter the correct incantation, you can get voters to materialize. You don't have to understand it, and they don't have to understand it. You just have to say the spell correctly.

My favorite is one they don't teach at Hogwarts: Wastefraudandmismanagement!

I held my nose and voted for Ford when he ran for the senate against Corker. But now I think it's time for him to come out of the closet, go down to Texas, kiss George Bush's ass and declare "I'm home, I'm a republican and I'm for sale."

"probably because he's not especially serious about public policy."

What gave you your first clue?

And reduced, we have enough idiots running around loose here. We don't need anymore, thank you very much.

Well, at least he didn't parrot the GOP mantra of "CUT SPENDING!"

And, on that item, one wonders why NONE of the media talking heads ask the follow-up question: "What spending do you think we should cut?"

After Defense, Entitlements, and interest on the debt there ain't much left. . .

There are a few fields of employment which, while they contain honourable and hardworking men and women, when your mother says that's what you do, her friends wonder why you weren't able to get a real job. Politics has joined this category.

Once (not in living memory, unfortunately), politics (except then it was known as public service) called to the best abnd brightest among its citizens - men and women who had already made their mark in other endeavours and had proven they knew how to succeed.

Now politics is the refuge of those who otherwise would have to cram all night before the interview to get a job in a car wash. The only people stupider than many politicians are those who vote them into a high-paying job with no real entrance requirements. Dan Quayle proved you didn't even have to be able to spell in the only language you can speak, and the quality has only slid since.

I have no problem dropping the tax rate...if the corporations were actually required to PAY the 25%...

"Democrats" like Ford, Baucus, Nelson, Feinstein, and Obama are a reason I am changing my party affiliation to Independent this year. I will never vote for a Thug again in my lifetime, but I am damned if I will bother going to a ballot box to elect a jackass like these guys.

Texas Aggie, "And reduced, we have enough idiots running around loose here. We don't need anymore, thank you very much."
You have my sincere sympathy. We don't need anymore in Tennesse either but they're spouting up around here like dandelions in March.

Harold Ford should switch parties today! I really don't think the DLC would mind one bit.

As long as Gillibrand does a decent campaign, she will hold her 43%-24% polling lead.

I would cherish watching Helicopter Harold lose...

I agree with those who suggest that Ford switch parties. Anybody who believes that capital gains/dividend tax cuts are a high priority is a fucking idiot (i.e., a Republican).

Publick Moron Harold Ford is one of the best arguments against hereditary politics there is. This brain-dead failure would be living in a cardboard box under a freeway overpass were it not for the accident of his birth into a political family. He couldn't even get elected with his daddy fixing the vote for him in Tennessee. This PoS was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple.

What. An. Idiot.

Ford is so stupid, he makes Evan Bayh look like someone with an IQ above room temperature.

HAROLD FORD -- the Future of the DIMOCRATIC Party

Seriously folks, if anyone can align our Corporate Masters and extract them from the Repugnant Party, it is corrupt, arrogant assholes like Harold Ford.

Face it... he's our only logical choice under oligarchy...

I smell the Israel Lobby looking to get a Black man in the Senate who will advocate for bombing Iran.

The DLC is where the corporatist and Israel hawk Dems both dump their money. Ford was there.

The plan is to get Ford enough votes from Jews, Blacks and the Wall Street assholes.

Since the Supreme Court has now decided that corporations are persons, I would like to personally adopt the corporate tax code: generous deductions for everything relate to paying the typical bills: utilities, insurance, rent, travel expenses, educational expenses, etc. If anything is left over, that is my income. Pay corporate taxes on this, which is 15% of the first $50k.

tomj for president! Tom, I hope that wasn't just a campaign promise!

FORD: "[C]ut taxes for businesses -- big and small"

Big business pays little or no taxes now.

Cutting taxes for small businesses is a FAILED Supply-Side proposal as we are a Demand economy.

Actually, we could cut base rate taxes a little, if we did sensible things like bring CG rates back up, tax securities trades, etc. - will Democrats do that?

"This PoS was born on third base but is now on second, heading for first, yet he still thinks he hit a triple."
Posted by: TCinLA on January 25, 2010 at 11:59 AM

FTFY.

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