Comments on: Tea Party Protests Obama’s High Speed Rail In Florida

By: IrishAmerican

IrishAmerican — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:33:06 +0000

Notice the young man didn’t offer an opposing view, he went on the attack just like he has been used to seeing others who do not want to debate issues.

By: clemintine

clemintine — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:16:57 +0000

one of the “unintended” consequences of this rail line will hit the towns between tampa and orlando very hard. florida depends on the tourist industry and those small (and large) towns along that route depend on cars full of travelers stopping off on their way to eat lunch, etc……

By: Kathy

Kathy — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:05:24 +0000

Actually I was referring to the County Supervisor not the State. Yes there was a lot of controversy about how the recount was handled . The County Supervisor was under attack because some people in Palm Beach County could not figure out how to read the ballot. She was a Dem and you would think she had some hidden agenda to trick people into voting for Bush.

I guess this was more of a local issue especially after the whole state recount debacle got started.

By: brityank

brityank — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:18:01 +0000

Did anyone see anything about the TeaParty Convention, where Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann were slated to address? I just heard that Michele backed out, due to ethical problems with it being run by a lawyer as a profit-making operation.

The thing I find appealing about the TeaParty movement is that it isn’t a top-down organisation, but merely separate groups using the same points in their local venues. As others have noted, the TPM isn’t about Party – it’s about Society – OUR society under the Constitution and Capitalism.

By: brityank

brityank — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:03:57 +0000

Kathy: As I recall that Supervisor of Elections was vilified because she failed to follow the States Laws on the Recount requests. The Dems only wanted a recount done in the Democrat controlled areas of the state, and your State supreme Court went along with that which is why it ended up in the US Supreme Court, which ruled 7-2 that both the FlSC and the SoE decisions were illegal based on the Fl Laws.

As for me, if you either cannot read English or understand the ballot process, then you have no ‘right’ (It’s really a PRIVILEGE of Citizenship) to vote. I also believe that the AP ran a recount and determined that Bush did narrowly win over Gore.