Here is who will almost certainly replace Craig

[IDemo]

Assuming Craig resigns shortly, a pretty safe assumption despite all of his protestations, Governor C. E. "Butch" Otter (cue laugh track) will appoint current Idaho Lieutenant Governor Jim Risch to replace him. This would make a good time to return the favor to Risch for not running against Butch last election, and would make Risch the incumbent in the next election, where he will face former representative Larry (ha, stop it) LaRocco (Democrat).

DU'ers may remember when Risch, as acting governor after Dirk Kempthorne was tapped by Bush (laugh track) as the Interior Secretary, offered these words following Katrina:

"Hurricane Katrina - they heaped that on George Bush!

Here in Idaho, we couldn't understand how people could sit around on the curbs waiting for the federal government to come and do something. We had a dam break in 1976, but we didn’t whine about it. We got out our backhoes and we rebuilt the roads and replanted the fields and got on with our lives.

That’s the culture here. Not waiting for the federal government to bring you drinking water. In Idaho there would have been entrepreneurs selling the drinking water."

[aquart]

1. Sounds like a favorite Idaho son. Does he use men's rooms?

[IDemo]

9. There ain't no men's rooms here in Idaho

We gots one-holers or two-holers. Oh wait a minute, let me rephrase....

[blitzen]

20. Au contraire, mon frere:

http://www.planetout.com/news/history/archive/10251999.html


From the very beginning, tearooms fell under police scrutiny. The first arrests in Manhattan occurred soon after the opening of public facilities in 1896. To circumvent arrest, one man would often remain outside the restroom as a lookout, warning those inside if a policeman was approaching. An arrest could ruin a man's life: When newspapers published the names and addresses of those arrested, men lost families, jobs, and housing.

More intricate surveillance techniques soon came into use. In 1920 in Boise, the men's room at one downtown building, the Boise Valley Traction Company, was a popular tearoom. During the summer of that year, the management hired one of its employees to spy through a hole in the men's room ceiling. His surveillance resulted in the arrest and conviction of two men, who were sentenced to five years each in the Idaho State Prison.

[liberaldemocrat7]

25. I watched Washington Journal today and several Republican Jababa f*cknuts called in and said:

I watched Washington Journal today and several Republican Jababa fucknuts called in and said:

Why do the people of New Orleans have to sit around and wait for the government to help them?

Why do the people of New Orleans whine about not getting help and do it themnselves?


Meanwhile these Republican Jababa fuckneuts call in and whine about people who needed help and got none from the Federal Government for 6 days and some of them died.

Some of these Republican need an education in compassion and they should pay their fucking taxes and stop complaining. If anyone gets blame, how about these Republican Jababa fucknuts blame their cheap labor boss.



Prospective Republican voter: Hey these tax cuts really don't help me much. I have a difficult time keeping up financially. Why should I join the Republican party?

Republican party recruiter: Well we hate N*GGERS, KIKES, SPICS, HOMOS and baby killers and those who want to raise your taxes further with Whellllfare programs.

Prospective Republican voter: Ok, I'm in.

[terisan]

2. Why are those self sufficient Iowans demanding those farm welfare billions. Not just Craig in denial

Iowans!!!!!! Just say NO to welfare......you are draining the rest of us.

[havocmom]

6. Because they are not Iowans, but Idahoians?

Same letter to start with, miles and miles apart.

Have you met the new Miss Teen Age America by any chance?

[terisan]

8. Forgive me !!!!!!!!!!!! Let's end the Farm Welfare though--in the East as well as West.

....and hey I liked that Miss SC--especially her good-natured Geography Quiz video with People Mag. Alas I did get 3 of the 7 wrong>

[IDemo]

12. You're not the first, nor will you be the last

http://www.idahostatesman.com/woodward/story/77032.html

[havocmom]

16. Hey, IDemo, ever see a copy of New Mexico Magazine?

They have a regular feature: One Of Our States is Missing. It has tales of people who think New Mexico is in a foreign country. It is a hoot

Makes me sad though, so many don't know much about the states that make up this wonderful place called America.

[IDemo]

21. Never have, but nothing surprises me anymore

But one of my co-workers told me a while back that he couldn't convince his teen daughter that New Mexico isn't part of Mexico. He's got himself a future teen pageant contestant!

[Mind_your_head]

18. Oops...first time I read that, I thought I saw "idahospudsman.com" n/t

[havocmom]

26. OK, I just HAD to type that into the address bar. I like adventure in the morning.

No such site, evitently. Sorta surprising.

idahospudsman.com :rofl: That SHOULD be a site!

[havocmom]

15. 'Farm Welfare' ? You mean some bit of relief for the fact that farmers can't sell for what it costs?

They have to buy retail and sell at less than wholesale, with some other asshats setting the prices, then pay transportation charges, sometimes with surcharges.

Husband works with FOOD PRODUCERS trying to help them stay in business. Our house rule: don't bitch about farmers with your mouth full of cheap food!

Now, welfare to huge, multi-national mega-corporation farms.... different subject.

The farmer defended, I will admit I HATE it when white-bread communites that think a small flood or a blizzard is ANYWHERE near the problem the flooding from Katrina and broken levies created. I tell any and all my neighbors up here in the north and west that snow is NOT the same as having to claw your way through your roof or drown.

Re Iowa and Idaho, if you have a safe PO box address somewhere, I can send a map ;) I hear there is some sort of shortage or something.... *

* The young miss from SC scares the shit outta me, because her name is Legion.

[valerief]

3. What a major douche. nt

[AllyCat]

4. That's because in 1976, their backhoes and personnel weren't in

some desert country across an ocean and thousands of miles away to use in a war that we shouldn't be fighting with all of our nation's monetary resources. But, you know, beyond that, I'm sure he handled things much better than those blue voters in the south, you know, being from a red state and all.

[Left Is Write]

5. Rife with assholes around here, aren't we?

[Elwood P Dowd]

7. Did the dam flood a city with a metro population of more than one million?

Are there even fucking one million people in Idaho?

[Left Is Write]

10. Yes, there are, but there weren't in 1976.

Which is beside the point, of course.

If Jim Risch doesn't consider hurricane Katrina an emergency worthy of FEMA, I wonder what kind of emergency would be. The stunning arrogance demonstrated by his quote above is beyond comprehension.

[muntrv]

11. Uh Risch, Idaho was not under 20 feet of water like New Orleans. And you're

gonna tell me that no one from FEMA came over?

[vireo]

13. No dependence on the feds?

Typical Repug revisionism.

Failure of Teton Dam left Reclamation with a situation never encountered in the agency's history. Legal experts concluded the Federal government was not legally liable for damages caused by the dam's failure. The Ford Administration took a different stand. The President decided the government had a moral responsibility to pay restitution to the flood victims. Within a week after the disaster, President Ford requested a $200 million appropriation for initial payments for damages, without assigning responsibility for Teton Dam's failure. The appropriation was attached to the annual Public Works Appropriation Bill then working its way through Congress.

http://www.usbr.gov/dataweb/html/teton.html#Aftermath

[Left Is Write]

14. And there's more that bothers me about this quote.

"In Idaho there would have been entrepreneurs selling the drinking water."

This is an excellent example of the difference between Republicans and Democrats.

[IDemo]

19. "Market-based survival" would probably get a thumbs up from many pugs n/t

[muntrv]

17. How the fuck could the people of New Orleans sit on the curb when it was

under 20 feet of water, Risch?

[peekaloo]

22. (s)Pud. nt

[libodem]

23. Risch

is exactly who I thought of, I hope he has an actual conscience, because he is dyed in the wool conservative. He will parrot any GOP inspired ideology straight down the party line. God, not another lap dog.:cry:

[Bluebear]

24. He looks right out of central Republican casting. nt