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72% of Conservatives Still Support Bush
by Barry Ritholtz - December 28th, 2008, 4:30pm
I am still very surprised at this:
"George W. Bush remains popular among conservative Republicans (72% approve of him) despite his low overall approval rating. Meanwhile, moderate and liberal Republicans are as likely to disapprove as to approve of the job he is doing, and Democrats of all political orientations hold Bush in low regard."
It raises the question: Short of being caught in bed with a live boy or a dead girl, what does President Bush need to do for this group to disapprove of his performance? Is there anything?
Blind obsequiousness appears to be this group's motto. 72% is a very strong rating — I'd like to ask what he would need to do to get this cohort's approval rating even higher than 72%. Asked another way, where does his record need improving?
Conservative Republicans Still Widely Support Bush
Jeffrey M. Jones
Gallup, December 11, 2008
Category: Politics, Psychology, Really, really bad calls
Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor implied. If you could repeat previously discredited memes or steer the conversation into irrelevant, off topic discussions, it would be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.
79 Responses to "72% of Conservatives Still Support Bush"
Lars39 says:
Too bad Bush is not a conservative.
Bob A says:
Ever notice how people with bad breath, or body odor, don't know they have it?
It's a survival mechanism. because if you didn't adapt to the smell, you'd have to kill yourself.
John_aka_bozo says:
The actual number is (probably) 40%. That's who voted "conservative" (really fascist) in the last election. But, 40% is (probably) the number that would always vote "liberal" (really socialist). Most people vote based on how their brain is configured to worship authority. As some dude put it "loyalty to power wins out over truth and doing what is right". "Loyalty to power" is what the majority have always wanted; the only dispute is which power; the kick-ass daddy parties or the smothering mommy parties. 'Loyalty to power" is why the US is the perfect corporate culture.
Tom K says:
The poll is meaningless because "conservative" isn't defined. Fiscal (small government, low taxes)conservatives are not at all happy with Bush or most of the people in congress who go by label of Republican.
BR: I believe the way Gallup polling method works, they are self-identified as Conservative, Liberal, GOP, Dem, etc.
fenner says:
I'm a liberal, knew Eugene McCarthy, Ella Grasso, met Hubert Humphrey to give you some dates. I'm surprised at the liberals blind support of Obama, whose record is in my opinion thus far almost as conservative as George Bush senior. There is blind love for this guy that is the converse of the adoration of Bush. Bush as it turns out is the biggest spender in history. As we know, he screwed up every thing he ever touched but was always bailed out by his father. Now he's being bailed out by us, that is the taxpayers and the military in almost every endeavor he's put his hands on. But to the ultra right wing, they still hold on to the notion that he's somehow a conservative, free market thinker, 'one of us.' With Obama it's only slightly different. Robert Gates, boosting the troops in Afghanistan, likely bailing out the ethanol industry despite its nonsense, Geitner. Go through the list of people he's gathered around him, including Colin Powell. If you mention this to any given New York liberal, you'll be told that he's acting mainstream or even conservative while secretly plotting to put forth his liberal agenda. Unfortunately, you cannot send 30,000 more troops into a country like Afghanistan and secretly have a liberal agenda. He's also well to the right of the health insurers who are now urging him to make health insurance a mandatory. Like Bush, he'll throw the liberals a bone here and there, but at heart, he appears, thus far, part of the main stream machine and quite depressingly not any change at all. Just more of the same. Basically there is a huge faction of the country on both the right and the left that are akin to Moonies. How can anyone defend Bush? It's beyond comprehension but ask a conservative and they'll dream up something. How can anyone defend keeping Robert Gates on, the propagandist from the 80′s who is now spreading the same lies about Afghanisan as he did about the Russians' advanced technology back then? Ask any liberal you meet. They'll look at you just like the Moonies would do in any airport in America back then. "He's one of us."
Winston Munn says:
The interesting result is not the 72%, but that only 22% of self-proclaimed conservative Republicans are capable of rational thought.
RW says:
Can't help it, the segue from above comments is a natural: It's fascinating how many former fans now claim Bush wasn't really a conservative, like people who want to create some distance or engage in vigorous hand waving so no one will think they were the ones who farted.
The truth of course is that Bush was the perfect movement conservative, quite literally the answer to their prayers, hence the survey results: Pro-God and guns, crony capitalist, incurious and disdainful of expertise or intellect, utterly certain of his own moral rectitude, anti-tax, anti-regulation, anti-government (unless it supports cronies of course), contemptuous regarding most conceptions of a common good and generally indifferent to the fate of the poor or anyone else whose luck runs bad (negative outcomes are part of the self-affirming and self-righteous morality play, they are earned just like good outcomes are even if, or perhaps especially if, you were born into them).
Winston Munn says:
@ fenner,
The breakdown is fairly simple. There is only one political party. In Congress it is the party of the incumbent. In the Executive, it is the party of the status quo.
The elections are simply grand scale American Idol.
God bless Amerika.
fenner says:
It's taken many years and many disappointments to learn that…
SWMOD52 says:
I'm a conservative and I agree with my good friend who said "we had a chance and we s#@t the bed". That said I like W as a person. Does that mean I support him as president not really.
I've been trying to figure out what went wrong and it seems to me a lot has to do with non enforcement of regulation and some bad deregulation (ibanks) made what was already going to happen, deleveraging, much worse.
VennData says:
Genuflectors. GOP Genuflectors.
It's a religion. They do not look at all sides. They refuse to accept alternatives, they buy into the "fact" that the New York Times is biased and don't listen to anything else. Then… when you get them into an argument and shred their facile FOX news position…
Let me give you an example. Kasich, media-scrounging hog from Ohio said on FOX ( I had to watch I was on lay-over at DFW and all they had on the motel TV in Dallas was FOX… imagine that) said "all atheists are angry"
"All Athesits are angry?" Really? All of them? Every one? You've tested each and every atheist and found they're ALL angry? Really? What an insight. You should write a peer-reviewed academic paper.
Oh.. you CAN"T prove what you said? You just "feel" it? How interesting to state on FOX news things that you can't prove. What a novel concept. Kasich is a tool. Anyone in Ohio who voted for him is a tool. yes… you.
Think critically before watching FOX. Think critically before voting. We are in a depression thanks to you.
jwc says:
I signed up just to comment on this… wanted to get in before the howls started.
It amazes me. I have Repbulican members in my family. My SIL laughingly told me that Bush was an idiot, but voted for him again in '04. My fundi brother thinks he is wonderful, and is probably among the conservatives who approve. My fundi son voted for him twice, and "feels sorry" for him, that things turned out so bad. (Probably, if asked he would have to admit that he disapproved of the job that he did.) He told me in '08 that he knew that the Bush policies were probably not good for his middle class family, but since Kerry was a baby killer he just couldn't vote for him. This year my son voted for Obama, cause his job was iffy and he was very concerned about health insurance – (He lost his job last week.)…
Personally, I think he was the worst president I have seen in my years, and I remember Harry Truman. I'm worried about my son at almost 50, unemployed, and a wife with a chronic disease. But in the dark of the night, I remember that he and many others like him, voted for the "idiot" twice. First time I will give them a pass, but not the second.
dss says:
There is also a strange dichotomy among conservatives that I know; they love him for the tax cuts, still support the war, hate his big government spending and huge increase in the size of government, but the really crazy thing is if you ask if they would vote for him again, they said yes.
Any conservative is better than any liberal or moderate, no matter how disastrous and damaging their administrations have been. Reagan worshipers fall into the same category.
The same went for McCain, the conservatives hate, hate, hated him, but they voted for him anyway.
Go figure.
mhm says:
Lou Reed had some wise words in Last Great American Whale [plus my comments]:
They [Dem/Rep] say things are done for the majority
don't believe half of what you see and none of what you hear [CNN/FOX]
It's like what my painter friend Donald said to me [or most here]
"Stick a fork in their ass and turn them over, they're done [americans]"
AGG says:
Often the government blames the previous, outgoing administration. However, consider that the incoming Bush administration replaced all the senior Clinton political appointees except: the Comptroller of the Currency, John D. Hawke; IRS commissioner Charles Rossotti (formerly of AMS); Comptroller General David Walker (Formerly of Arthur Andersen and CIA director George Tenet. In short, the key positions necessary for the control of the federal credit, financial control, audit and intelligence.
Comptroller of the Currency, John D. Hawke —->control of the federal credit
IRS commissioner Charles Rossotti —-> financial control
Comptroller General David Walker —-> audit ( resigned in 2007 after this article was written)
CIA director George Tenet —-> intelligence
This undisturbed transition from Democratic to Republican administrations represents a remarkable cross-party consensus, and highlights the real positions of power. With the exception of Rossotti, all these men are still in place in 2004. And Rossotti? He left the IRS to become a senior adviser to the Carlyle Group for information technology. A more richly symbolic and meaningful job move could scarcely be imagined. Carlyle's business is global venture venture capital, which is to say it invests in corporate acquisitions all over the world with a speciality in arms manufacturers and technology. The large levels of undocumentable transactions at HUD and the Department of Defense inevitably inspire curiosity. Where is the money associated with those transactions? It is no great leap of imagination to wonder equally where the Carlyle Group raises the money with which to finance its acquisitions.
Just when are you, the politically polarized people, going to wake up? If you don't give a shit, be honest enough to admit it and get the hell outa here. This is a place for people looking for solutions, not sniper targets.
km4 says:
Cheney: 'I Don't Have Any Idea' Why People Don't Like Me
Only 29 percent of Americans approve of the job Dick Cheney is doing as Vice President
Cheney is still holding out hope, however, that the polls will turn his way. He said recently, "I'm personally persuaded that this president and this administration will look very good 20 or 30 years down the road in light of what we've been able to accomplish."
'Deluded reality' is the glueware of conservative republican assclowns.
Winston Munn says:
First we had George I'm a uniter, not a divider Bush.
Now we have Barrack I'm a changer, not a rearranger Obama.
We haven't been this polarized politically since the Civil War.
And the more things change the more they stay the same.
Go figure.
gms777 says:
Bush's record in history hinges on whether Iraq becomes some sort of democracy. We may not know the answer to that question for 20 years or longer.
Guys who win wars tend to do well in the history books.
There is a noble streak in us Americans. We appear to have liberated 40 million people from a evil dictator.
A lot of people thought the civil rights battles of the 1960s were mad foolishness. Forty years later we have an African-American president.
Ramstone says:
They self-identify as Conservatives, so of course it's meaningful. If many of them mouth-breathe and "root for the team", well, that's your problem.
neljmar says:
Now do you see why you usually avoid partisan posts? The blather of politics, unrelated to economics, is blaaaaaaa. Thanks for the site and thanks to all who post on non-political themes.
hswalj says:
I reiterate: never vote for an incumbent.
Tom K says:
"The same went for McCain, the conservatives hate, hate, hated him, but they voted for him anyway. Go figure."
Wrong. Conservatives voted AGAINST Obama, not for McCain. Conservatives prefer incompetent, big government Republicans (McCain/Bush) over potentially competent, big government liberals. How is that hard to figure?
The big lie being spread in the MSM and blogoshere is Bush was somehow a free-market capitalist, fiscal conservative, AND that the current financial and economic crisis is somehow the result of said ideology. RW, the historical record shows conservatives have repudiated Bush for his lack of conservative principles long before the economy went south:
William Buckley – July 2006
"I think Mr. Bush faces a singular problem best defined, I think, as the absence of effective conservative ideology — with the result that he ended up being very extravagant in domestic spending, extremely tolerant of excesses by Congress,"
George Will – July 2003
"Actually, the administration is eager to approve the largest expansion of the welfare state since the Great Society 40 years ago."
Veronique de Rugy – August 2002
"President Bush has signed a bill to regulate political speech, issued protectionist taxes on imported steel and lumber, backed big-spending education and farm bills, and endorsed massive new entitlements for mental health care and prescription drugs."
Clyde Prestowitz – May 2004
"Historically, conservatism in the United States has meant support for small government, balanced budgets, fiscal prudence and great skepticism about overseas adventures. What I see now is an Administration that's not for any of these things."
Jacob Sullum – Reason Magazine – November 2003
"Looking at the president's record during the last three years, one is hard-pressed to see any affinity between his agenda and that of conservatives who respect the Constitution and believe in limited government. In particular, Bush repeatedly has forsaken the conservative principles of fiscal restraint, free trade, and federalism."
- Harry Browne on Bush in 2004: http://www.harrybrowne.org/articles/fiscalconservative.htm
- Bruce Barlett's book from early 2006: Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy
- Richard Viguerie's 2006 book: Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause
- Tanner's book: Leviathan on the Right: How Big-Government Conservativism Brought Down the Republican Revolution
JohnB says:
Barry -
I hope you will leave pointless politics off your site in the future.
Lynn says:
I once read that, regardless of the situation, 20% of people will disapprove of war and 30% will always approve. It's the middle 50% that take the facts into account before making up their minds. I guess it's the same in politics, a percentage of people will always approve of the president, regardless of his actions (or inactions).
equiv says:
Lars39 Says:
December 28th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Too bad Bush is not a conservative.
All that needs to be said….
donna says:
I'm amazed at the conservatives like those above who don't realize it wasn't Bush that was the problem, but their own ideology.
BG says:
The fact that 72% of Republicans would probably vote for Bush again reminds me that the people of this Country are no longer doers of anything of any significance; but, rather artful debaters of most any given topic. They spare with each other all in hopes of winning the debate. It doesn't matter if they are actually right in their opinion, only that they win their sparring match with their opponent. Continued support of Bush is along these same lines.
We have become so singular in our views, we have become a society who no longer has any common sense and instead rely on who ever can provide the best-sounding position on the issue regardless of whether it contains one shred of truth or accuracy.
It seems to me that we make issues overly complicated than is actually necessary in many cases. Many topics are shades of gray, true; but, even the ones which are clearly black and white we still argue about their merits. We have reached the point to where we as a people are unable to do or agree on anything. Our enemies must be truly amazed at how the US has imploded in almost every area in the last 10 years. I think it is going to take a massive shock to ever bring the conscience of the US people back to reality.
Marcus Aurelius says:
To conservatives, this is a question about their own intelligence and self-esteem. Similar to people who will hold a stock to the bitter end on the logic that they chose it, so it must be good. They will never accept the idea that they've been had.
The first rule of Republicanism: Never admit you are wrong – even when that fact is painfully apparent to everyone.
Marcus Aurelius says:
equiv Says:
December 28th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
Lars39 Says:
December 28th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Too bad Bush is not a conservative.
All that needs to be said….
…is that conservative Republicans elected him (twice), and championed his every crime.
Mannwich says:
Not that surprising to me. A good solid portion of this country is clearly still in denial about a lot of things, one of them being the truly dismal record of the fiasco that is Bush.
Marcus Aurelius says:
gms777 Says:
December 28th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Bush's record in history hinges on whether Iraq becomes some sort of democracy. We may not know the answer to that question for 20 years or longer.
Bush's record in history hinges on whether America reclaims some sort of democracy. We may not know the answer to that question for 20 years or longer.
Carol says:
It is certainly the fashionable pose to ridicule the outgoing President, and any who might support him. Lord knows this open-minded non-Christian has had her frustrations with him. The worst has been his latest role in the financial meltdown where he's acting like a Democrat!
But if you have been paying attention lately, surely you wonder who indeed has been hoodwinked by lies and rabid partisanship.
Try to keep your eye on shell that holds the prize:
* Item 1: FISA, the foreign phone call listening issue so shrilly denounced, was passed this summer by Dems with barely a whisper.
* Item 2: Guantanamo detentions, that "shameful shredding of the constitution" according to the New York Times in countless articles and editorials, is now Vital and Necessary, according to the front page analysis in — the New York Times! — of Nov. 3 (interesting timing, and "never mind about all that we said before").
* Item 3: The Iraq War is over. (we've won, and the world is a much healthier place for it. The new administration and Congressional majority will change some t's and dot some i's, do some throat-clearing and fussy-butting, but then continue in the direction we have been moving in for the last 20 years — bully for Bush that he got it done).
* Item 4: Dec. 27, "Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit harshly censured Hamas today placing responsibility for the current situation on Hamas." (hat tip, Instapundit) Wow, that's different. How can that be? See item 3, and consider the formidable shift in awareness and possibility for millions in the Middle East because of George Bush.
As Jules Crittendon blogs in reference to item 4, this "could be another promising area of foreign policy for Obama to lift wholesale from the Bush admin."
Read that quote again, because that's how the pea is moving under those shells, dear righteous ones.
I pray Obama will be a great president. I believe George Bush has achieved it already.
BR: Alex, I'll take Cognitive Dissonance for $100 . . .
bobby says:
maybe it's because people are kinda funny….
Dictator Stalin voted third-greatest Russian (headline on MSN)
Winston Munn says:
"There is a noble streak in us Americans. We appear to have liberated 40 million people from a evil dictator."
There it goes again – that we-wear-the-white-hat exceptionalsim that justifies murder and war crimes in the name of the Holy Rightness of Me-Ism.
"Bush's record in history hinges on whether Iraq becomes some sort of democracy."
Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Addington, et al, – their record in history will depend on whether it is written by historians who abhor war crimes or by the Ministry of Truth, who sees all conquests as liberation.
Mannwich says:
Not even sure why I'm wasting my time pointing this out, but our "liberating Iraq" had little to nothing to do with any such "noble streak" in the U.S. It's time that everyone in this country grow up a little and stop painting everything with a "good guy/bad guy" Disney-ified brush. Please grow up. Please…….
with this: "whether it is written by historians who abhor war crimes or by the Ministry of Truth, who sees all conquests as liberation."…. no kidding.
obviously, Cheney is betting on the "Ministry of Truth"-version of events to hold sway..
Bush's record in history hinges on whether America reclaims some sort of democracy. We may not know the answer to that question for 20 years or longer."–Marcus Aurelius, above..
No Doubt.
Winston Munn says:
"Item 3: The Iraq War is over. (we've won, and the world is a much healthier place for it."
O.K. New lifetime goal Find me a connection for that shit you been smokin'. Goddam! I just got back from Amsterdam, but that is some serious shit, there…..
Carol says:
Sure, Winston, meet me out back in
harold hecuba says:
why even wonder? look at the polls of the latest election. it is not exactly a runaway for the new president elect. quite frankly it was like a bit more than 6% difference in popular vote. don't tell me that the country is all gung ho this obama guy. this country is DEEPLY divided.
usphoenix says:
@BR Thanks for the bait. I am enjoying this, as long as there's a certain dose of smart, logic and food for common thought.
@JohnB If you can find a way to separate politics from economics, and economics from society, I'd love to hear it. That's the short comment. Would you like the long? When you can report a stock market day that does not pivot on politics and D. C., please email me.
@BG agree.
Has anyone ever read Lakoff? Liberal effete that he is. He solved the puzzle, kind of, for the Dems.
Word play. And whose words.
The REPS did a great job of merging conservative with FUNDAMENTALIST. And GW was their tool, because he had failed at everything but drinking, drugs and cheer leading. Ooops. Sorry. He did a great job of picking his father. And Cheney is not so good at hunting from what I've heard. When you exclude fundamentalism, conservatism is just a bunch of good old rich boys drinking at their business club, and ##### . So, regardless of what they do during the week, as long as they're contritely at church on Sunday, they can appeal to truly religious poor people. This works for Dems as well. (for a limited relevant history of our leaders try USPhoenix.net. Use the literature link for William Jefferson Redneck III, and an article titled "Sequim Love". It includes Cheney's college career).
sinful mistress says:
Cognitive dissonance with a dollop of ethnocentrism.
Carol says:
whoops! heh! as i was saying, Winston, meet me out in the parking lot about 2020, and we'll see which one of our pipes brought us Clarity back here in the "oughts".
RW says:
What Winston said @ 8:38
I mean, I'm reading a post involving a search for a metaphorical pea underneath four mythical shells which appear to be intended to represent real events (the giveaway being there are no direct links to any primary data sources) and am thinking to myself, I'd really like to know what s/he is smoking but …could I handle it if s/he told me? I mean clearly there is a significant risk of delusional hallucinations or even a full psychotic break but, still… it could be fun going mad, eh?
On a slightly more serious note, I see a number of comments essentially asserting that all political parties are the same and/or all politicians are as bad as Bush so no difference either way. This appears to be a ploy in most cases, a variation on the "I wasn't the one who farted" approach: Rather than pretend that Bush is not a conservative the pretence is that it doesn't matter and that those of us who think it does matter are a little stupid or dupes of some kind; this is still clearly a dodge around the central empirical fact that the country (and the world) is in a hell of mess and the policies of Bush led Republicans not only did not help us avoid it but probably made it worse. But whatever.
OTOH those who really do believe it doesn't matter may want to get busy and start their own party: Politics is the only means we have to resolve dispute in an arena of insufficient data and, to paraphrase Plato's famous epigram, those too wise to engage in politics are henceforth condemned to governance by the foolish. Probably already been enough of that, eh?
deanscamaro says:
Politics! Greed! Ego's! Politics! Greed! Ego's! Politics! Greed! Ego's!
Keep repeating that, so that you will remember what runs this country, including Bush. He falls into one or more of those categories.
theorajones says:
A couple years ago, I read a hillarious blog entry on exactly this point. The jist of it was that 27% of voters are simply batshit insane. And the reason we could so confidently know this number is that it's the number of people who chose Alan Keyes over Barack Obama in the Illinois Senate race.
The simplest reason to choose Alan Keyes over Obama is batshit insanity. I mean, what's the rational reason? Keyes was a carpetbagger, so it's not like the voters found him more familiar than Obama. He was a black guy, so the race issue was pretty mitigated. And even if you agreed with his policies over Obama's, when Keyes explains why he holds these positions, it's a bunch of crazy talk. I may be pro-choice, but I really do think I'd vote for a pro-lifer over a pro-choicer who justified his position by saying "well, the aliens who abducted me told me to take this position." Keyes wasn't quite that bad, but he was pretty close.
Anyway, when I see polls like these, I have always taken comfort in the idea that 27% of the electorate is simply batshit insane, and so when I see Bush is under that number in the general electorate, I take great comfort that all the sane people are in agreement on this one.
theorajones says:
We appear to have liberated 40 million people from a evil dictator.
The jury is still out on Maliki. Or whoever knocks him out.
And from my point of view, it seems in 2003, the only person in Iraq who really held us responsible for his troubles and had a beef with us was Saddam Hussein. And frankly, Saddam he had bigger problems closer to home than us–Iran, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and a couple million Iraqi shiites and Kurds. We've traded that situation for one where pretty much EVERYONE in Iraq holds America at least partially responsible for their troubles.
I don't see this as a good ROI on $900 billion and thousands of American lives.
Maybe Bush should have listened to Colin Powell when he explained: "you break it, you own it."
Ventura2012 says:
Aren't you being a little tough Barry, you said Dow 6800 in 2007 and Dow 13,500 for 2008 and 72% of your blog readers still approve of you.
BR: You are comparing price forecasts for stocks one year hence versus whether or not people believe the actual performance of a president was good or bad? That's about as disingenuous as it gets.
But since you brought it up: Look at the analysis that underlay those 6800 forecasts — nearly all of it came to pass — housing, credit, recession. The precise timing of the market was wrong (as I have always claimed they would be).
Have a look at the warnings for 2008 about what was happening, long before it was fashionable. Even the 2008 Dow forecast included a major sell-off midyear. before a recovery. The rest of the street was looking for 15-20% gains.
My "breakeven Dow" 2008 forecast may have sucked — but it sucked a lot less than the usual Wall Street cheerleaders. And it had the advantage of being an honest, as opposed to corrupt forecast.
aerodynamichaircut says:
BR -"I'd like to ask what he would need to do to get this cohort's approval rating even higher than 72%. Asked another way, where does his record need improving?"
LOL. Or conversely- what sort of disaster, beyond what we're experiencing, would it take to coax these guys into admitting they have been wrong all along? Short of a baseball bat to the head, these folks would probably damn the alternatives to their dying day. Forget about waiting 20 years for Bush policies to be proven correct- on an ongoing, daily basis, they continue to be proven wrong. Guess these guys ev been too busy kicking empty beer cans off their back porch over the last few years instead of reading the news. What's their rationale?
When there are two alternatives, we cannot show one is good by proving the other bad. That i acknowledge. Both may be equally bad, and thats the waiting game both sides are forced to play.
Patrick Neid says:
First I don't trust this particular poll. Partisanship is blind, even here, but if you go to any number of supposedly conservative blogs Bush has very low numbers. Other than the war, Supreme Court appointees and his original tax cuts everything else he did for the most part was not supported by conservatives. Did he get their votes in 2004, of course, the alternative being Kerry.
Same goes for McCain. He is not liked by conservatives for countless reasons. Conservatives either voted for him or stayed home because the other choice(s) were Obama, Pelosi and Reid.
I personally have not seen any support for Bush from fiscal conservatives–and I mean none. What you have today are poseurs–folks who claimed to be fiscal conservatives who just this once, because of imagined horrors, are supporting this trillion dollar mania that is sweeping the land. They even pretend to have solutions. In the end they are just closet case big government types– as long as it's their big government.
ButtoMcFarty says:
so Iraq is/will be a beacon of freedom in the ME??
Christians in Iraq face a "bleak future," said Kassab, executive director of the Chaldean Federation of America, a nonprofit group that helps Iraqi Christians.
"We are heading for a demise," he said. "It's getting to the point where it might be an ethnic cleansing in the future."
Any of you folks ever read much ME history??
Does it usually work out well for the masses??
At what price have we achieved this "bastion of freedom"??
How many dead?
How many injured requiring lifetime care?
How many children/families displaced or destroyed?
How much money?
How much stolen through fraud, waste, abuse?
We'll never know the true damage of the debacle.
If you think Iraq is going to be a democracy in 20 years you should start investing there now.
Let us know how that works out for you.
"What you have today are poseurs–folks who claimed to be fiscal conservatives who just this once, because of imagined horrors, are supporting this trillion dollar mania that is sweeping the land."–Neid, above
"…because of imagined horrors,"
so reminescent of:
Antifederalist No. 2 "WE HAVE BEEN TOLD OF PHANTOMS"
DL says:
It wasn't until Bush became a Socialist earlier this year that I joined the ranks of the Bush-haters.
gogreen says:
you can't expect conservatives to easily give up the man that became their poster boy. even if moderate republicans have turned against him, i think it's ridiculous to think that conservatives would do the same.
either way, it doesn't change my opinion that Bush is the Worst President EVER. Here are more reasons why: http://tv1.com/playlists/105
Pat G. says:
You only had to look at Bush's employment history at Harken Oil to realize how inept he was going to be as President. The Supreme Court actually awarded him his first four years. The second four years were awarded to him by the Democrats who couldn't field a legitimate Presidential contender.
v. this piece of hoary self-delusion: "* Item 3: The Iraq War is over. (we've won, and the world is a much healthier place for it. The new administration and Congressional majority will change some t's and dot some i's, do some throat-clearing and fussy-butting, but then continue in the direction we have been moving in for the last 20 years — bully for Bush that he got it done). "
"The Washington Post Sunday published an extraordinarily blunt opinion piece by a former assistant secretary of state in the Bush administration, Thomas Schweich, on the increasing dominance of the American state by its military apparatus.
"Our Constitution is at risk," wrote Schweich. He warned that the elevation of an unprecedented number of former senior officers into Obama's cabinet could "complete the silent military coup d'etat that has been steadily gaining ground below the radar screen of most Americans and the media."
Schweich, who served as an ambassador for counter-narcotics in Afghanistan and then oversaw international law enforcement affairs at the State Department, wrote that he "saw firsthand the quiet, de facto military takeover of much of the US government," which in Iraq and Afghanistan, he said, "was, in theory, justified by the exigencies of war."
He stressed that what began abroad is coming home. "Now the Pentagon has drawn up plans to deploy 20,000 US soldiers inside our borders by 2011, ostensibly to help state and local officials respond to terrorist attacks or other catastrophes." This mission, he warned, "could easily spill over from emergency counter-terrorism work into border-patrol efforts, intelligence gathering and law enforcement operations."
A report that appeared in a magazine published by the US Army War College last month, just weeks after the election, indicates that the Pentagon is preparing its own "transition," a process that is being driven not by Obama's vague promises of "change" but by what the military command sees as a historic crisis of the existing order that could require the use of armed force to quell social struggles at home.
Entitled "Known Unknowns: Unconventional 'Strategic Shocks' in Defense Strategy Development," the monograph was produced by Nathan Freier, a recently retired Army lieutenant colonel who is a professor at the college, the Army's main training institute for prospective senior officers. According to the magazine, he "continues to provide expert advice to key actors in the security and defense policymaking and analysis communities."
One of the key contingencies for which Freier insists the US military must prepare is a "violent, strategic dislocation inside the United States," which could be provoked by "unforeseen economic collapse" or "loss of functioning political and legal order."
He writes: "To the extent events like this involve organized violence against local, state, and national authorities and exceed the capacity of the former two to restore public order and protect vulnerable populations, DoD [Department of Defense] would be required to fill the gap."
Freier continues: "Widespread civil violence inside the United States would force the defense establishment to reorient priorities in extremis to defend basic domestic order … An American government and defense establishment lulled into complacency by a long-secure domestic order would be forced to rapidly divest some or most external security commitments in order to address rapidly expanding human insecurity at home."
In other words, a sharp intensification of the unfolding capitalist crisis accompanied by an eruption of class struggle and the threat of social revolution in the US itself could force the Pentagon to call back its expeditionary armies from Iraq and Afghanistan for use against American workers…."
super_trooper says:
"Carol Says: December 28th, 2008 at 8:08 pm" "It is certainly the fashionable pose to ridicule the outgoing President, and any who might support him."
I'ld much rather be ridiculing Bush for getting a bj from some intern or choking on a peanut. Those were the innocent days.
History will be good to Bush. I can't remember Nixon for the lying sob he was. And I can't say I disapprove of him. If Russians can vote Stalin third most popular Russian", we might put Bush up there with FDR, Washington or Lincoln. Even Cheney might be viewed in a favorable way…. 50 years from now.
OnlineBrokerReview says:
There are plenty of people who approve of Bush simply because he lowered tax rates and kept them lower. Whether you want to debate if they were real tax cuts because spending was increased as the same time is a non-starter. They don't know and they don't care as long as they pay x dollars less than they did under Clinton they will support Bush. End of debate.
Jojo99 says:
Fred says: [lol]
Conservatives, Barely. Maybe. But I Doubt It.
A Question of Semantics
December 13, 2008
I am trying to understand conservatives. The word has got to mean something, unless of course it doesn't. For years I thought it meant someone like my grandfather, a professor of mathematics at a small college in the South. He embodied courtesy, respect for learning, personal responsibility, compassion for those in the town who found themselves in distress, dignity, a love of the language, a morality opposed to promiscuity and bastardy, and a quiet Christianity having nothing in common with the cruelty and hostility of today's unlettered evangelicals. I thought it a pretty decent package, though I had problems with the part about avoiding promiscuity.
Over my years of writing this column, I have received a great deal of mail from people, entirely male so far as I can remember, calling themselves "conservatives," yet having nothing in common with granddad. (I use quotation marks, though I will omit them in what follows as being annoying, because there are many people who regard themselves as conservatives but are decent people.)
These email conservatives are a specific type of person, characterized by:
(1) Hostility to other groups–blacks, Mexicans, homosexuals, and Jews for example. In earlier times they would have detested the Irish, Italians, Asians, and Slavs;
(2) A view of life as conflict, struggle, and war. We must arm, arm, arm. Commerce also is a fight to the death in which we must prevail by any means. We must not become soft and weak, as only the strong and resolute will survive in this dog-eat-dog world; this finds philosophical support in Social Darwinism, which says let them starve if they can't keep up. Further, we must breed like incontinent oysters or the Chinese (Moslems, Africans, etc) will overwhelm us. This often shades into:
(3) Subclinical paranoia. The (pick one) Jews, communists, Russians, Chinese, Moslems are insidious, fiendishly patient–waiting, waiting for us to falter so that they can take over and enslave us. You have doubtless heard this sort of thing: The gates of Vienna, what Lenin said about probing with a bayonet, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Strange shapes twist in the inner fog. Spies are everywhere, traitors await their chance, dissent is not dissent but a prelude to treason.
(4) An obsession with profits and economic growth for their own sake. "For their own sake" is a key qualifier. They do not ask "How much growth of what kind where for what purpose?" Nor do they ever use the phrase "quality of life." They want more housing starts, more construction, more population to buy the houses without regard for anything else. People exist to serve the economy, not the other way around. On libertarian sites this sometimes approaches belief in capitalism as a supernatural force: The Invisible Hand of the market. This view is facilitated by:
Since many democrats are ethically challenged, how do you know they are not lying to pollsters in order to propagandize the population?
BR: Ha! The Dems are not that clever, and they certainly are not that organized — but I like the way you think!
NA1NSXR says:
This blog used to be interesting. At first I just stopped reading the comments section. I've resisted giving this blog the axe on my RSS subscriptions list but this seals the deal. This is straight up bandwagon type garbage.
BR: See ya! I guess you don't want to comment anymore either — let me fix that for you . . .
wunsacon says:
>> Tom K Says:
>> December 28th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
>> The poll is meaningless
Tom, I understand your point about people mislabeling themselves. But, unfortunately, it is not meaningless. People who call themselves "conservatives" overwhelmingly support Bush. That means it's TIME FOR YOU TO IDENTIFY YOURSELF DIFFERENTLY. "Goldwater conservative"? "Ron Paulist"?
Whatever you choose, you can't call yourself a "conservative Republican" anymore. Unfortunately, the majority of your party ruined your brand name.
I'm a registered Republican but call myself a liberal. Go figure…
wunsacon says:
NA1NSXR, are you not astonished by the "72%" figure? I expected that — by now — all conservatives had found some way to differentiate W from their own ideology ("W is really a librul"), so that they could disapprove of the job he's done without disapproving of conservatism. But, to still support W? That's amazing. Certainly very contrary to my expectations.
Rob Slater says:
Those are the authoritarian followers in the Republican party. He's the leader, and the leader can do no wrong. Bob Altemeyer at the University of Manitoba has done research into the personalities and values of followers and leaders of authoritarian movements. Their adherence to traditional authority leads them to conservative political parties, which in the US is usually the Republicans. Altemeyer's book for laymen describing his research is available at http://www.theauthoritarians.com
wisedup says:
now, let's get really dirty.
How many investors, burned by the Madoff debacle, are still willing to throw money at the next "sure thing"??
Come on, now. 'Fess up
mark17 says:
nice to see everyone imposing ideas on those who are conservative. "they" and "them" and "he", why don't you keep your theories to yourselves if you aren't a conservative? nobody cares what you "heard this guy said one time". i am not conservative, but i am closer to a conservative than to the pep rally you guys are having for yourselves on here. i am fine with voting for bush twice. i have friends and family in the military, and they like bush as well. i have friends and family in business, and they like bush as well. i have friends and family in many nations around the world, and they like bush as well. just because the vast majority of you who gather here are of the same demeanor and belief, doesn't mean everyone outside your sphere is unintelligent or incapable of rational thought. do you honestly think if gore or kerry won the economy would be better? right, cuz they woulda had the stones to challenge everyone and fix everything while it seemed to be going good. whoever was alluding to amsterdam above should wake up and quit pretending he knew what was coming. if they, and by they i mean all those leaders of the democrats, knew the financial storm was coming, how come all the democrats as well as republicans as well as independents got swept into the storm?
but back to me, in an answer to why i like bush: he did what he said he would and he didn't quit just because it got difficult and whiny entitled people complained. his methods have not worked well because he didn't have an exit strategy. i think he believed that saddam was a threat to US security, but that he was probably acting on inaccurate intelligence. but instead of running away so as to be approved more, as your boy clinton and many politicians concerned with ratings would do, bush has tried to finish what he started rather than leave the nation. clinton didn't go to africa because he knew it was right but he was afraid of the people and polls being unhappy. bush tried to be bi-partisan, but the dems smelled blood in 2005 and would have none of it.
Scott F says:
He tried to be bi-partisan?
Bush totally politicized the post-9/11 environment, and used it as an excuse to invade Iraq. Instead of reaching across the aisle, he used the attacks as an excuse to ram thru more irresponsible tax cuts (as in w/o paying for them via spending cuts)
We know that on 9/12 Cheney was running around trying to pin the terror attack on Iraq.
Had he caught Osama bin Laden, he might have had a chance to redeem himself — but instead, he moved men and material from the real war on terror — Afghanistan — to the war against his daddy's boogie man.
I disagree with those who think history will redeem W. I believe he will end up being rated below Hoover — same economy, plus a bad war.
seobook says:
yeah he meant well, but was entirely wrong. At least he had the decency to joke about his failure
Every child has a right to birth (and to die in the military, on a conquest for oil). Those scumbags have no respect for human life. Simple as that. Anyone who overlooks that is either uninformed and/or a piece of garbage that deserves to "support the troops" by standing on the front line getting killed or wounded.
Mindblowing that people forget that the same sleazy politicians (Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, etc.) have had a history of pushing fake information to cause wars that push their idealism. Really worth watching the documentary the power of nightmares if you care to have a bit of perspective…though most hard-core conservatives do not.
Concerned American says:
Anyone that backs Bush has been brainwashed by Faux News?
Can anyone on here that honestly backs Bush honestly say the majority of their news doesn't come from Faux News?
Does anyone here that opposes Bush watch Faux News 24 x 7?
I can almost tell you if a person TV is set to Faux News anymore. I used to be the same way until I lost my fear to look elsewhere at other news sources too.
I will NEVER underestimate the power of TV after Faux and Bush. I will guarantee that all 72% watch Faux News.
Che Stadium says:
On the other side of the coin, liberals have seen Bush enact a massive increase in the federal budget, the Patriot Act, Sarbanes Oxley, a new entitlement program, and unprecedented interventions in the market. Despite those small details, hardly a day goes by that I don't read that Bush is a free market extremist trying to dismantle the government.
dead hobo says:
From Above:
Fred says: [lol]
Conservatives, Barely. Maybe. But I Doubt It.
A Question of Semantics
December 13, 2008
Put this into the category of things I wish I wrote. The only characteristics left out were a few I've written about in the past:
1) Live on borrowed money and stick someone else with the bill
2) Believe what you're told and never question your leaders or favorite right wing radio or TV host
3) Dream of returning to a time that never was and a place that never existed
4) Believe at the visceral level that it's ok to be stupid if your ideals are pure ('pure' at least to you, others might see you are somewhat dangerous). Your superstitious belief in religion will protect you because you're on the right side of things.
5) Be afraid of anything new or different, especially if it challenges an idea held in your mainstream.
6) Honestly believe it's ok to lie if it furthers the conservative agenda of the moment.
wd78 says:
These type of polls are meaningless. Nobody defines terms. What is a conservative? What is a liberal.
In the U.S. (BR is a good example) we really define liberal and conservative in our minds as donkey and elephant. In reality, there is not much difference between the parties and they both do whatever is necessary to get into office and stay there. For example, look at the swings that Obama and McCain took during the campaign going from left or right to center. Does anybody really believe that they heard their true positions? Does it matter to anybody when they say one thing and do another? It does not seem so.
The electorate is in large part a herd of sheeple and until that changes we are headed down into a deep black hole from which we might not be able to ever climb back out.
Election after election we do our thing and get what we deserve in government. Nothing will change until we do.
In the immortal words of Pogo, "We have met the enemy and he is us."
arcticpup says:
Come on… Let's stop this George W. Bush bashing, just imagine the disasters we could have had with either Al Gore and his global warming issues… or John Kerry… we'd be in the same boat pretty much now… and we wouldn't have the messiah Obama rescuing us from our financial doom. A republican would be… and we would have never met Sarah Palin or her discussed her teenage daughter Bristol.
And… would we discussing the fact that 72% liberal democrats still loved their beloveth.
We will miss Bush, if flip-flopping Obama is worse… less hope not.
Moss says:
What other option would Conservative Republicans have? To disavow Bush is akin to claiming they have no beliefs no soul. The only 'out' for them is expressed by DL who claims that Bush is now a socialist for the numerous bailouts he supported. This cop out is typical since the Conservative Republicans cannot accept the fact that the ideology at the root of the Conservative movement has been exposed for what it really is.
colion says:
I agree wd – sheeple it is.
It is far too simplistic to paint everything black and white. Bush has screwed up in a number of ways and did good in others. Obama will screw up in a number of ways and do good in others. The "Ritholtz" position of being shocked that anybody could support Bush is infantile in the extreme. At the very least, one has to know how they rate performance for each issue and then indicate how they weight the importance of each.
If one does not go through this type of process (as some polls attempt to do) then you can end up on at the non-thinking position that all who support Bush are wrong and those that don't are right. A good example of non-critical thinking.
brentquinn08 says:
I am so puzzled by all of this. I am a libertarian, but I am pretty socially conservative. I think Bush is no more a conservative than Nancy Pelosi. (I dislike BOTH of them.) I think it all comes down to folks who have neither an understanding of what conservatism is, nor a true grasp on politics and economics.
Not only has Bush been a BIG SPENDER, but he has trashed the US Constitution, destroyed Civil Rights, and invaded a country which had NOTHING to do with 9/11.
Those who would still approve of him would vote for a potato if it had "GOP" stamped on its side. (Similar to those who were ready to vote for Huckabee.)
Tom K says:
@wunsacon – I've never called or considered myself a Republican. The closest label that fits me is fiscal conservative / pragmatic Libertarian. I'm an anti-death penalty, religious agnostic, fine with gay marriage and drug legalization.
That said, voting has become an exercise in choosing the lesser of two evils. I consider proponents of big government (socialists, "liberals", "progressives"), whatever the latest code word, the greater evil. Liberals categorically reject the basic tenets of liberty: personal responsibility, accountability and the right to defend one's life and property (they reject the whole concept of personal property for that matter). They believe people are inheritly stupid and incapable: unwashed masses who need to be farmed and nutured by the enlightened few.
I'll never vote for a politician who sees their role as using the apparatus of government and the force of law to redistribute property from one citizen to another.
Rich_Lather says:
This does not surprise me in the least. Have you ever met someone who will never admit to being wrong in spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary? I think they are by definition "conservative". Resistance to change may include resistance to changing one's mind.
Scott F says:
Add Up the Damage of the Bush Administration
When Mr. Bush officially takes his leave in three weeks (in reality, he checked out long ago), most Americans will be content to sigh good riddance. I disagree. I don't think he should be allowed to slip quietly out of town. There should be a great hue and cry — a loud, collective angry howl, demonstrations with signs and bullhorns and fiery speeches — over the damage he's done to this country.
This is the man who gave us the war in Iraq and Guantánamo and torture and rendition; who turned the Clinton economy and the budget surplus into fool's gold; who dithered while New Orleans drowned; who trampled our civil liberties at home and ruined our reputation abroad; who let Dick Cheney run hog wild and thought Brownie was doing a heckuva job.
The Bush administration specialized in deceit. How else could you get the public (and a feckless Congress) to go along with an invasion of Iraq as an absolutely essential response to the Sept. 11 attacks, when Iraq had had nothing to do with the Sept. 11 attacks?
Scott F:
with this: "who trampled our civil liberties at home"
and your other examples of BDS, spare us..
We, are to Blame, We, allowed this stupid s*it to occur..
Simply, it was our Simple selves, asleep, that forgot–the Price of our Liberty.
If, Bush&co. were clever enough to continue, to be allowed, to drag our Republic through the dirt, he/they should be appreciated for their Intelligence, not Blamed for our Stupidity..


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to raise {verbo}
plantear · aumentar · elevar · levantar · alzar · recaudar · educar · encaramar · izar · suscitar · criar · empinar · erguir
Traducción inglés-español para "raise"
"raise" en español
raise {sustantivo}
In spite of the rise in the population's life expectancy, the solution is not to raise the compulsory age of retirement.
Moving to 30% would potentially raise EUR 8 billion for European budgets by auctioning quotas.
To my mind, the thresholds are at present unacceptably low, given the huge amount of bureaucracy - hence the need to raise them.
This is an indication of how essential it is to raise the level of demand and increase purchasing power.
Consequently, an increase in the use of biofuels would raise both EU energy costs and the price of food.
to raise {verbo}
to raise [raised|raised] {v.t.} (también: to suggest, to set out, to pose, to propose)
In this regard I should like to raise two aspects that I consider fundamental.
(PL) Madam President, there are three issues I would like to raise in this debate.
As a former chairman of the Lithuanian JPC, I must raise the issue of Kaliningrad.
I should like to raise a few minor points regarding the implementation itself.
Does the Council really need to have the support of Parliament to raise this issue?
to raise [raised|raised] {vb} (también: to gain, to improve, to enhance, to enlarge)
As regards the immediate future, we are going to have to raise the intervention stocks.
That will help us raise the level of mutual understanding and interconnection.
One very effective way of achieving this would be to raise the effective retirement age.
We must promote actions to inform and raise awareness among consumers.
Under Main Volume, move the slider up or down to raise or lower the volume.
to raise [raised|raised] {v.t.} (también: to upraise, to increase, to lift)
Mr Wortmann-Kool asked whether the Commission could raise the threshold.
I cannot even raise this complaint against you as I clearly understand your problems.
Parapet mounts are used for roof-mounted housings or to raise the camera for a better angle of
Energy conservation therefore makes it even easier for us to raise our climate target a little.
We need to take advantage of this opportunity and raise our sights.
to raise [raised|raised] {vb} (también: to erect, to cause, to lift, to hoist)
I have always said that we should not so much as raise a hand against another.'
It only takes a single case of non-respect for human rights to raise a concern.
The report seeks above all to raise the profile of the environment.
To raise the embargo would give totally wrong signals.
Let us actually raise our vision and get this agreed.
to raise [raised|raised] {vb} (también: to elevate, to lift, to uplift)
Therefore, we should raise the alarm in every instance of drastic violations in this area.
We need to raise the Union's international profile and reinforce its international presence.
Yet again we are compelled to raise our voices to condemn the atrocities committed in Burundi.
However, we should not just raise our voices and then carry on as usual.
The European Parliament has always endeavoured to raise its voice for the rights and dignity of man.
to raise [raised|raised] {vb} (también: to collect)
If we put in place this tax to raise money, what message will it give to banks?
Can you tell me please, honestly, if this is the case, and how you intend to raise such taxes?
An interesting idea is the proposal to create project bonds, which will allow businesses to raise funds.
We will have to raise an estimated figure of some EUR 8 billion for the 3 300-kilometre pipeline.
The museum is working to raise private funds for the exhibition, which is scheduled to open in 2014.
to raise [raised|raised] {v.t.} (también: to bring up, to train, to educate, to teach)
to raise the children as Christians Fatherhood and motherhood represent a
If we are to raise a new generation that is not steeped in fear and intolerance, we must build institutions that will ensure peace in the long term.
Despite being urged to do so, Parliament failed to insert a clause underlining 'the right of parents to raise their children in accordance with their own religious beliefs'.
The sister is being abandoned in a situation in which she has to raise the child as a single parent and is for the most part subject to considerable stigma in deplorable social circumstances.
The pride of parents in raising their children, even in extreme poverty, cannot be measured quantitatively.
to raise [raised|raised] {vb}
to raise [raised|raised] {vb} (también: to run up, to hoist)
Madam President, you would want to raise the flag and a glass of champagne because, when a populace is able to vote through its own independence, that is only right and proper.
The ceremony of raising the ten new flags yesterday was wonderful and moving, but the image it presented was exclusively white.
(HU) A flag belonging to other states is not usually raised amidst a military parade, as in this case, while playing the anthem.
The European flag, adopted by Community institutions, is raised for the first time in front of the Berlaymont building to the music of the European anthem.
In Strasbourg, prior to the first sitting, the EU flag was raised and the EU anthem was played, along with a military parade.
to raise [raised|raised] {v.t.} (también: to cause, to arouse, to provoke, to stir up)
On the prevention side, however, I want to raise a question which is not an easy one.
Madam President, in today's debate I would like to raise three issues.
These are the worries and fears that some people are trying to raise.
In short, we should not raise any false expectations but we should not turn our backs on the East either.
Lastly, I should like to raise another point: what can we do about the proliferation of agencies?
to raise [raised|raised] {v.t.} (también: to breed, to bring up, to rear, to nurture)
This is nothing more than the right of farmers to raise their livestock and to sow their seed.
Yet they see the EU failing to be rigorous in dealing with countries where they are clearing rain forests to raise cattle.
Families must be able to raise their children in societies free from hatred, violence, bloodshed and fear.
Go anywhere in Africa and see the AIDS orphans and see and meet the grandparents trying to raise the grandchildren because the parents are dead.
Perhaps they interrupted their careers to raise children and part-time work has reduced their income over the course of their entire working life.
to raise [raised|raised] {v.t.}
to raise [raised|raised] {v.t.} (también: to lift, to straighten)
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I have a second reservation to raise in relation to the factor of labour costs.
Mr Morris, this question has already been raised and has been given a response.
Thirdly, the question of transparency and participation by all groups was raised.
Allow me, however, to comment on certain issues raised by the honourable Members.
I have classified the issues raised by the honourable Members into four groups.
The report before us does not raise any objection to the Commission' s proposal.
Mr Gallagher, you know perfectly well this is not the time to raise this matter.
The second issue I would like to raise is that of aid for upgrading vineyards.
To avoid this, the parties had raised the possibility of an amicable solution.
The European Union owes its success to the gradual raising of economic barriers.
Mr. President, this point concerns the same issue raised just now by Mrs Lindholm.
I hope you will allow me to comment very briefly on some of the points raised.
There is the question raised by Mr Cornelissen relating to the dredging industry.
This therefore conveniently responds to the objection raised by Mr Fabre-Aubrespy.
the Second Vatican Council, has raised the need for a good synthesis regarding
seeks in that richness a response to the questions constantly raised by our age.
I raise the issue of the creation of future inequalities in the internal market.
I also wish to raise the subject on behalf of the Committee on Women's Rights.
Thirdly, I should like to raise the matter of the Standing Committee's remit.
Let me now raise a number of points which have an important bearing on this debate.
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) Mutant Characters
A special sneak peek at the mutant characters from X-Men Origins: Wolverine courtesy of USA Today. They also did a great run down on each character shown and it here below or check out more at the site:
Wolverine (Jackman): Wolverine is very much the lead in this movie, Hood says. It's his story. Wolverines history with the Weapon X program was seen in brief flashbacks in the prior X-Men movies, but youll get to see the whole transformation from man to near-beast in his solo film debut.
Col. William Stryker (Danny Huston): According to Hood, the military man puts together the black-ops Team X, a group of mutants that Wolverine joins for a short period of time. Brian Cox played an older version of the character in the movie X2.
Emma Frost (Tahyna Tozzi): Those who follow X-Men comics know this popular character as an adult. In the film, shes a teenage telepath who can turn her skin into diamond.
Gambit (Kitsch): A card shark with the power to charge any object he touches with explosive energy, he features later in the film as a character Wolverine tracks down to help him in his search for someone who may or may not be the murderer of his lover.
John Wraith (Will.i.am): A close friend to Wolverine, hes a teleporter much like Nightcrawler, a character also featured in X2.
The Blob (Kevin Durand): The man also known as Fred Dukes is a 700-pound wrecking crew whos pretty much immovable when his feet are touching the ground.
Deadpool (Reynolds): A sword-wielding motormouth, mercenary Wade Wilson is another member of Strykers team who wont be the same man by the end of the film.
Agent Zero (Daniel Henney): Another Team X-er, this guy is one heck of a tracker and an even better marksman. He and Wolverine dont exactly see eye to eye.
Sabretooth (Schreiber): Wolverines half-brother Victor Creed is a feral villain whose long history with Wolverine made Hood drool with delight. "That is just great emotional backstory and baggage: Youve got two guys who are actually related, who hate each other and who are struggling with each other? Im in!
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- Posted: April 17, 2009
- Director: Gavin Hood
- Writer: David Benioff
- Studio: 20th Century Fox
- Release: May 1, 2009
- Cast: Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Ryan Reynolds
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No better example of that came in the team's conference semifinal series with the Boston Bruins.
The Flyers, who only got into the playoffs with a final-day shootout win against the New York Rangers, became the first team to advance to the second round with a five-game first-round series victory against the New Jersey Devils. That meant a nine-day layoff, and the rust showed early.
Arron Asham gave the Flyers the lead 2:32 into the game, but the Bruins scored the next four for a 4-1 win and a dominant 3-0 series lead.
Only two teams in NHL history had come back from a 3-0 series deficit -- the 1942 Maple Leafs and 1975 Islanders. Odds on the Flyers becoming the third team to do it weren't good, and got worse when Mark Recchi's goal with 31.5 seconds left tied Game 4 at 3-3 and forced overtime.
Despite those long odds, the mood in the Philadelphia locker room surprisingly was positive.
"It's almost like we said we've got nothing to lose," said Gagne, who returned for Game 4 from a broken foot suffered in the first round. "Nobody expected us to get back. It was positive. We had the feeling it was going to happen."
Gagne made it happen, tipping Matt Carle's pass under Tuukka Rask at 14:40 of overtime to give the Flyers another breath.
They nearly had wind knocked out of them in Game 5. Just 4:31 into the second period, goalie Brian Boucher was bowled over in the crease and had to leave the game with sprained ligaments in both knees.
That game, however, was the first one back for Michael Leighton, who had missed two months with a sprained ankle. But Leighton was flawless, finishing the 4-0 shutout that made the Flyers' series deficit just one game.
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"It's nice, but we haven't done anything yet," Mike Richards said the day before the game. "We've fought all the way back to tie it, but we still need one more win. Obviously, it's a Game 7 and it's going to be tough. We have to be prepared for it."
They didn't look prepared early, though, as Boston bolted to a 3-0 lead just 14:10 into the game. After the third goal, coach Peter Laviolette called time out, gathered his team at the bench and delivered a Rockne-esque speech that hit just the right note.
"The message was, 'Just score one goal,'" said Laviolette. "Get on the board, get in the game. That first goal, for me, was huge."
Moments later, James van Riemsdyk scored that first goal, banking a shot off the stick of Bruins defenseman Mark Stuart and past Rask. Scott Hartnell's backhander 2:49 into the second made it a one-goal game, and then Danny Briere's wraparound tied the game at 8:39 of the period.
Stunned Bruins players only could watch as Philadelphia's momentum continued to carry them. At 11:10 of the third, the Bruins were whistled for having too many men on the ice.
On the ensuing power play, Richards shot the puck into traffic that bounced to Gagne, who snapped a shot past Rask with 7:08 left in regulation for a 4-3 Flyers lead.
"After Game 1, and even after 3-0 tonight, we could have quit," Gagne said that night. "We just said, 'Let's put one in and you never know what happens.'"
The Flyers rode that wave all the way to the Cup Final. But without that total team effort in coming back against Boston, it never would have been possible.
"I'm really proud of them … I'm proud of the way they played," said Laviolette. "I'm proud of the way they represented the organization. I'm proud of the way they represented themselves."
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VINELAND — The lineup for the newest city-sponsored public event is nearly complete with days left until the inaugural Fourth Friday Family Fun Fitness Festival.
The 600 block of Landis Avenue will close to traffic for the two-hour festival, which starts at 6:30 p.m. Friday. The festival will return July 26, Aug. 23 and Sept. 27.
The city also hopes to repeat it next summer.
Were working on the schedule of events, the manpower, setting up, City Councilwoman Maritza Gonzalez said.
Gonzalez, who took office in January, suggested the festival in March. The event is intended to emphasize better health, encourage adults and children to do more outside activities, and combat obesity. The city Health Department took on the organizing task.
In the beginning, we didnt get a lot of calls, Gonzalez said. The mayor put a lot of information on his Facebook this weekend. Now, were getting a lot of calls. The mayor was able to get a moon bounce for the kids. Of course, these things always come together at the end.
While the festival stresses fitness, exercise is just one component. Landis Avenue also will be sprinkled with places to stop to eat or pick up some recipe tips.
The city is recruiting food vendors, with Bains Deli, Best of Southern Cooking and Organo Gold among them.
Mayor Ruben Bermudez and Councilman John Procopio will be cooking.
Procopio is going to do like a summer vegetable stew, some mojito chicken tacos, Gonzalez said. He loves to cook. Hes done fundraisers with my husband and they cooked at the North Italy Hall.
A New Jersey National Guard Unit, the Pomona-based 177th Fighter Wing, and Vineland firefighters are among eight groups providing staff to lead fitness exercises. Others are the YMCA, Inspira Health Systems STEPS for Kids; Cross FIT; South Jersey Young Marines/Marine Detachment of Vineland; the Vineland High School football program; and Vineland Mini Wrestling.
Emma Lopez, a city health educator, said National Guardsmen will man an obstacle course that Procopio laid out, and firefighters will operate a challenger course.
Were going to demonstrate to our youth some of the things theyll do if they choose those career paths, Lopez said.
The city received donations for the event from Dendrinos Medical Associates, Music Central, Landis MarketPlace, Rental Country, Rental City, Walgreens, ShopRite, Center for Diagnostic Imaging, DeLouise Signs, Tom Pontano & Son Farms and Tri City Paper.
In the event of bad weather, city officials said, residents should tune in radio station 1630 AM or the Health Department Facebook page for information.


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Cane toads eats cane toad in Top End cannibalism at its finest
- From: NT News
- April 09, 2014
WHAT do you get when a big toad meets a little toad? Dinner apparently.
Cane toads are coming, and they're so ferocious they've started turning on themselves.
Only the biggest, fastest, fittest toads will ever survive.
This terrifying photo was sent to the NT News by regular snapper Scott Murray.
He didn't tell us how big the hungry toad was, so we've been forced into employing our own back-of-napkin calculations. And they're conclusive.
This toad is the size of a small dog, but weighing twice as much.
This journo believes they'll be coming for us soon.
FrogWatch co-ordinator Graeme Sawyer said both frogs and toads have been known to be cannibalistic.
"The big toads, if they're hungry enough have been known to eat smaller toads, or even their young," he said.
Cannibalistic toads who eat their own young? Horrific.
"It doesn't happen as often as we would like though.
"I've only seen it a few times."
Mr Sawyer said he had performed stomach autopsies on hundreds of toads and had only found the remains of other toads a "couple of times".
"When they're really hungry, they will eat anything.
"Green tree frogs are the same."
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Ken of Nightcliff Posted at 7:50 PM April 10, 2014
Cane toads turning on each other ⦠maybe these could be the mascot for the CLP :-)
Ms. Olive Oyle of Adelaide Posted at 9:15 AM April 10, 2014
The Greenies love this sort of thing, saving animals so send them all down to Christine Milne in Canberra and she can deal with it.
Brett Jeffries Posted at 7:58 AM April 10, 2014
The university of Qld have found that the poison from the glands of an adult toad can actually be used as an attractant/bait in trap for cane toad tadpoles. Best part is it deters our native tadpoles. I can confirm it works!


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THERE BE LIGHT Its now less than nine months until the official
opening of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institutes opening of the
Media and Performing Arts Center. The
curators at EMPAC, the organization, arent waiting for the
opening to showcase EMPAC, the building, under construction.
Beginning this weekend, internationally renowned lighting
Jennifer Tiptons installation,
Light Above the Hudson will dazzle Troy (and beyond)
every night from dusk to 10 PM through Feb. 3.
Reached by phone at the EMPAC offices, Tipton explained that
while the installation of the lights began last Friday (Jan.
4), the computer programming that will direct the lighting
had just begun.
will proceed over these four days to program the cycle of
lighting events that will happen on and in the building during
the cycle of the evening.
Asked about the structure-in-progress, Tipton enthused, I
think the building is just spectacular. I wanted very much
to reveal some elements of the building that perhaps were
not visible before.
Unfortunately, she explained, changes in construction necessitated
a change in plan. Tipton had wanted to highlight the beautiful
ship-like structure of the main theater space, but thats
not quite going to happen.
never mind: The new plans are just as beautiful as the old
plan, she said
the other side of the building, the artists studios, I intend
to have lights reflecting off of the side of the building,
moving and changing color and, perhaps, delivering messages
in Morse code. That will come to a crescendo in the cycle
at some point, and one will be aware of what seems to be movement
in the studio space, she said, adding that it will be a
harbinger of what is to come.
The first tests upon her arrival were promising: I programmed
some things, and then we drove around Troyand across the
river from Troy, to gauge how the installation will look
from a myriad of angles.
There will be a free, open-to-the-public opening reception
tomorrow (Friday, Jan. 11) from 5:30 to 7:30 PM at the EMPAC
construction site on the RPI campus. Refreshments will be
served. For more information, visit empac.rpi.edu.
NEW DIRECTIONS Our critic Meisha Rosenberg pretty much summed
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The Ulsterman Report: Contempt Charges Coming Against Obama DOJ?
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On Monday, Republican Congressman Darrell Issa laid out the historical and legal justification for contempt charges to be filed against the Obama Department of Justice.
For those unfamiliar with the political hearing process, Monday's Darrell Issa-initiated investigation of the now infamous Gunrunner project may have appeared a tedious, long-winded affair. Not so. By D.C. standards, what Issa pulled off was brilliant political stagecraft, which ultimately may prove highly damaging to the Obama administration.
In a 90-minute time span, the terms "cover-up", "Watergate", and "Iran-Contra", were repeated numerous times as a table of constitutional scholars appeared unanimous in their opinion that Obama's DOJ was in violation of the right of Congress to make applicable requests for information – in this case information surrounding Project Gunrunner that resulted in the death of U.S. border agent Brian Terry and likely hundreds more civillians just across the Mexican border. Since 2009, thousands of guns were allowed to be sold to Mexican drug cartels – guns that were in turn used against U.S. law enforcement, civilians, and their Mexican counterparts. Attorney General Eric Holder testified before Congress he knew nothing of the program, but that he would launch "an internal investigation." Since that time, no findings have been disclosed, as Holder continues to ignore Congressional requests for further information.
On Monday, June 13th, Republican Congressman Darell Issa led the first of two scheduled hearings this week surrounding Project Gunrunner and the implied cover-up being undertaken by top-ranking ATF officials, and the Obama Department of Justice. This first hearing centered on the right of Congress to receive requests for information from the Executive Branch in a timely manner, even if those requests could prove politically damaging to Executive Branch officials. And while Democrat Congressman Gerald Connolly attempted to paint the actions of Issa and his fellow Republicans as being unreasonable against the Department of Justice, this claim was roundly dismissed by the constitutional scholars providing testimony. In fact, these same scholars indicated there was no applicable reason for the Obama DOJ to not be providing the information being requested by Congress, leaving the ever-growing spectre of a possible cover-up looming over the proceedings.
On Wednesday, Issa will be calling the mother of slain border agent Brian Terry to testify. Her testimony will most certainly provide a powerful emotional component to the proceedings, while further heightening the questions of what Attorney General Eric Holder has been hiding from Congress, and giving more reason for Congress to proceed with official charges of contempt against Holder, and possibly even President Obama, if the administration continues to actively stonewall the ongoing Project Gunrunner investigations.


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The Lourdes community brings learning, reverence and service to life. In this four-part series, we will share our Franciscan values and how our faculty, staff and students carry out our mission.
From providing art-therapy to residents at a local shelter to helping burn victims in Peru, the Department of Nursing lives Lourdes College's Franciscan values through service to the community and beyond.
"Lourdes challenges us to serve those in need and to share our gifts with the broader community," offers Judy Didion, PhD, Dean of the School of Nursing. "We meet this challenge by incorporating service learning in our coursework which provides an enriched experience for students while at the same time benefiting others."
Nursing faculty and students have provided service to a variety of schools and organizations including:
As a means of art-therapy, students assisted residents who were victims of domestic violence. Together they created a piece of art for Safe Haven's community room.
"Helping the residents create artwork for their meeting room was a great way for the student nurses to build trust and to inspire a sense of hope and accomplishment," says Joy Lauerer, Assistant Professor of Nursing.
Students enrolled at the Lourdes Sandusky site visited Kelleys Island where they provided education to school children in collaboration with the school nurse. Residents of Kelleys Island have limited transportation to the main land during harsh weather.
"This opportunity enabled our nursing students to experience the health needs of an isolated population," notes Kathy Perzynski, Associate Professor. "At the same time, Kelleys Island residents benefitted from the added exposure to health information and became better equipped to improve the wellness of their community."
Acting on a global level, Associate Professor Martha Gallagher, PhD, has taken Lourdes students on a number of mission trips to evaluate the medical needs of communities throughout South America.
"Having been given so many blessings, I feel that I must give to those who are in need," says Dr. Gallagher. "By allowing me time away from my teaching schedule, Lourdes has embraced these missions and therefore enabled me to continue to travel with students and provide aid to those who need it most."
During the missions, students work with doctors to provide healthcare to local residents who have typically never had proper medical attention.
"As a nursing student, I was very thankful to be given an opportunity to help others by participating in a mission trip," said Jennifer Vernier, ('08, BSN, Nursing). "Lourdes has truly taught me the importance of service to others."


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Fifty families in Royal Oak are getting free netbook computers and high-speed Internet service courtesy of a unique program involving Comcast, the public schools and a local nonprofit group.
Another 50 households will be brought online with the small laptops in the second phase of the program, which is open to families with children in Royal Oak's public schools who are enrolled in the federal school meals program.
The $40,000 cost to provide the 100 netbooks and Internet access is being picked up by the Royal Oak Foundation for Public Education, a charitable volunteer group that raises money to enhance learning with instructional tools and programs.
Pam Shewchuck, foundation president, said the investment represents a few years of golf outing benefits -- the next one is June 24 -- but will pay big dividends for eligible families.
"We're trying to close the digital divide," Shewchuck said, adding her children, who are in the eighth and 11th grades, use the Internet daily for everything from research to checking assignments to turning in homework and looking at grades and teacher websites.
"Some families have smartphones and limited data plans but no Internet access at home. They have to go to the library or just miss out," Shewchuck said.
Comcast has been offering reduced-price netbooks for $150 and low-cost Internet for $9.95 a month to families as part of its Internet Essentials Educational Partnership. However, the Royal Oak program marks the first time in Michigan it has partnered with a school district and a nonprofit foundation to do it for free.
"The foundation is taking a low-cost program and making it a no-cost program," Superintendent Shawn Lewis-Lakin said.
In addition to the netbook and two years of Internet service, the families are getting a modem and free subscription to a $360 Comcast service that protects against viruses and identity theft.
Foundation member Rita Walker helped hand out most of the netbooks and self-installation kits to parents on Monday. The retired principal said it was a gratifying experience.
"I never felt anything like this," Walker said. "One lady said, 'Thank you so much. I just lost my job.' She had money from her parents and she was prepared to pay. When I told her there was no charge she burst into tears. She was so excited. A lot of people said you can't imagine what this means to my family. I am so thrilled we can do this. I can't imagine a better way to spend our money."
School officials also suggested ways for Comcast to make registration in Internet Essentials easier, Lewis-Lakin said.
"There were more challenges than Comcast recognized from an end-user perspective," he said. "As we talked to get connected to the program, we identified some barriers that were limiting participation."
The district wants to review how the first phase of the program goes before it brings the next 50 families on board.
Since it was launched 17 months ago, Internet Essentials has brought more than 150,000 U.S. households into the digital age. The goal is to connect 2.6 million families.
"Internet Essentials is not just about people getting access to the Internet at home; it's also about what having the Internet at home can do to help families get ahead" said Tim Collins, Comcast's regional senior vice president. "With it, a father can apply for a job, a mother can research health care services, a teenager can study for the SATs or a youngster can learn to read or do math."


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Hi guys,
Just back from a 14 day tour on my Bacchetta Corsa Recumbent. Started in Windsor (Sydney) and rode to Adelaide with stop overs at Mittagong, Goulburn, Yass, Gundagai, wodonga, Shepparton, Bendigo, Ballarat, GlenThomas, Mount Gambier, Millicent, Kingston, Meningie, then through to the Baroosa Valley and back down to Adelaide. We had a wedding to attend in Adelaide so took the opportunity to ride the distance while my wife flew down. I used Ortelieb bags (underseat rack). Being a regular rider of standard mountain bikes as well as road bikes, the recumbent was beautiful to ride for the long distance tour. I would not tour on anything else. The underseat rack kept the weight low and the extra 14 kg of weight (my stuff) didn't affect the balance and handling of the bike. No aching bits at all. The only problem was on the longer days (190 km or so) the toes started tingling at about the 150 km mark. Got off the bike for 5 minutes and the problem was fixed. The ride was a blast and I'm looking to a future plan to do the full lap. Worst day was Millicent to Kingston with howling head winds the whole way. I was able to reduce the effect of the head wind by reclining my seat a few more notches. I've been riding the recumbent for about a year now and I'm a convert. Looking to get one a bit more suited to off road stuff. Beautiful way to see the country.