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Boehner's 'Dear Charlie' letter to Rangel: Step down

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Posted by Fred 2009-09-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 sweet. Now FOAD, Charlie. I am not your friend, and can thus speak more honestly, you cheating lying pompous race-carding asshole. I guess I can't serve in Palin's admin, huh, Liberal hawk?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-09-05 00:29|| 2009-09-05 00:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Nor anyone else's, I should think, Frank. Shall we think together about why not many engineers go into politics as a full time profession? ;-)

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-09-05 02:48|| 2009-09-05 02:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Heh

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-09-05 08:13|| 2009-09-05 08:13|| Front Page Top

#4 Boehner needs to do a lot more than this letter if he wants it to happen. And I hope he does. The culture of corruption needs to be rooted out. Of both parties.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2009-09-05 08:15|| 2009-09-05 08:15|| Front Page Top

#5 Shall we think together about why not many engineers go into politics as a full time profession? ;-)

Well, there WAS Jimmy Carter .....

Posted by lotp 2009-09-05 08:47|| 2009-09-05 08:47|| Front Page Top

#6 That's gonna leave a mark.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2009-09-05 08:52|| 2009-09-05 08:52|| Front Page Top

#7 I've often wondered why Mr. Carter became an engineer, lotp.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-09-05 09:12|| 2009-09-05 09:12|| Front Page Top

#8 Well, whaddya know ... signs of the Republican leadership finally growing a pair. Small, barely perceptible, but distinct signs of a pair!

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2009-09-05 09:48|| http://www.celiahayes.com]">[http://www.celiahayes.com] 2009-09-05 09:48|| Front Page Top

#9 I guess I can't serve in Palin's admin, huh, Liberal hawk?

No. However, if you used 'teabagger' a few times, I'm sure he'd recommend you for a job with the Rodham administration.

Posted by Pappy 2009-09-05 10:07|| 2009-09-05 10:07|| Front Page Top

#10 #8 Well, whaddya know ... signs of the Republican leadership finally growing a pair. Small, barely perceptible, but distinct signs of a pair! Posted by Sgt. Mom

Are you certain Sgt. Mom? I still can't see'um. Does this mean I need trifocals?

Posted by Besoeker 2009-09-05 10:10|| 2009-09-05 10:10|| Front Page Top

#11 Magnifying glass,B. Magnifying glass.

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2009-09-05 11:04|| http://www.celiahayes.com]">[http://www.celiahayes.com] 2009-09-05 11:04|| Front Page Top

#12 My Dad was a fairly high-up engineer he said that he wasn't interested in politis because it was "Chaotic" exactly the opposite of good engineering.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2009-09-05 12:31|| 2009-09-05 12:31|| Front Page Top

#13 There is hope! Go,
Charlie, go!!!! Next, Van Jones. Senator Byrd also wrote a letter to the Prez expressing concern over all the czars being unconstitutional, tilting the balance of power toward the executive office. I just wish they could uncover some impeachable dirt on the Queen of the Limousine Liberals--hypocrisy is not a felony unfortunately.

Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2009-09-05 12:58|| 2009-09-05 12:58|| Front Page Top

#14 Shall we think together about why not many engineers go into politics as a full time profession?

I can think of a couple reasons off the top of my head:

Engineers like building things. They prefer concrete (heh) accomplishments to standing up in front of a crowd telling people what to do.

Engineers, by training, don't lie to themselves with numbers. Politicians do. As the great Richard Feynman said, Nature cannot be fooled. If your bridge or web server can't handle the load, it falls down. Usually publicly. If your economic Five Year Plan is based on numeric hand waving, you can always blame its failure on external factors or the previous administration.

Posted by SteveS 2009-09-05 15:38|| 2009-09-05 15:38|| Front Page Top

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