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    Who are the NERD fund donors Mr Snyder?

    Raise the curtain.

    Repeat History?


    By DMOnline, Section News
    Posted on Sun Sep 30, 2007 at 09:50:24 AM EST
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    Here's a little tidbit that's sort of interesting...

    On this date (9/30) in 1990, President George Herbert Walker Bush (Bush Sr.), broke his "No New Taxes" pledge and raised our taxes to cut the federal deficit.

    We all know what happened to him in the 1992 election.

    What will happen on this historic day in Lansing?  And just which of the Republicans will commit political suicide?

    Do we ever learn from history?

    < T-Minus 15 Hours | Battle lost. War on to be Lansing's biggest But! >


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    Repeat History? | 7 comments (7 topical, 0 hidden)
    That lesson hasn't been lost on us... (none / 0) (#1)
    by KG One on Sun Sep 30, 2007 at 10:11:40 AM EST
    ...why do you think most people are so ticked off right now?

    Speaking of history, you should've gotten a chuckle at the comments made at the Historical Society of Michigan conference yesterday at MISD by Carmella Sabaugh on why Governor Granholm is treated the way she is right now

    She said that if anything, the guv has been too nice so far and that the fact that she's being vilified has more to do with the fact that she's a woman more than anything else.

    Only a major miracle.. (none / 0) (#2)
    by DanaP on Sun Sep 30, 2007 at 10:23:02 AM EST
    could get no tax hikes in the budget.  There will be mass recalls, to be sure.  Whatever happened to listenting to the voters?  Why do they make us out to be idiots?

    Overwhelming people say NO to tax hikes!  Gee, even the Michigan Citizens can be smart.

    Overwhelmingly (none / 0) (#3)
    by mipt on Sun Sep 30, 2007 at 10:29:59 AM EST
    both sides of the public say no to new taxes, yet here we are being taxed more to "save" Michigan.
    What do these Yahoos thing they are going to do next year?  
    I'll be out of state by then but watching from afar, like many.

    Right (1.00 / 1) (#4)
    by Communications Guru on Sun Sep 30, 2007 at 10:31:54 AM EST
    Right. I agree, and I am not going to vote for Gov. Granholmm in 2004. How dare she try and make the Legislature do their constitutionally required duty and draft a balanced budget. The person not to vote for in his bid for governor is Mike Bishop, who has stood in the way of a balanced budget and cheered for a shutdown since way back in February when he rejected the Governor's Executive Order to balance the current budget without a plan of his own, then held on to a top secret speakat plan for months to taking a two-week summer vacation over the Governor's objections. Anytime you see a delay, obstruction, a renege or a broken promise Bishop's hand can be seen.

    • Funny that... by John Galt, 09/30/2007 02:17:38 PM EST (none / 0)
    I found it. (none / 0) (#5)
    by KG One on Sun Sep 30, 2007 at 10:43:25 AM EST
    Speaking of history, there was an article that I caught in this am's paper that you might find interesting. It involves the future goals of a Michigan guv who orchestrated the last shutdown of Michigan Government.

    http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070930/NEWS06/709300603

    And that was your History Channel Trivia Minute...

    where have you been for 16 years? (none / 0) (#6)
    by geek49203 on Sun Sep 30, 2007 at 12:29:27 PM EST
    You're griping 'cause we have a tax increase?

    Well, where were you for the years when the GOP took the budget from $29 million to $41 million?

    Where were you during those accounting tricks, tobacco settlement spending orgies, and that Speaker Johnson notebook computer program?

    I'm not ashamed to say it -- I voted for the DEMOCRAT who promised to actually make the State leaner and meaner.  My GOP guy, who claimed to be a conservative, prided himself in how much money he brought home from Lansing.  

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