Secretary Napolitano should be ashamed!!

Now she thinks if you're against abortion, you're an "extremist".  If you don't like the government's crap, you're an "extremism".  If you want LESS government, you're an "extremist".   If you're a veteran, you're a LOT more likely to be an "extremist".   This is just the kind of garbage mentality running our country!!!   We now let our "extremist" government decide who are the "bad" groups?  According to them, ANYONE who opposes their spending activity is an "extremist"!! 

She could have just as easily stood at her little podium and stated that all these people have EVERY right to be heard and express themselves, but she didn't.  She demonized anyone who doesn't like our present administration or any administration for that matter.............  absolutely pathetic!

• Secretary Napolitano should be ashamed!! - MsMT
  • Not as pathetic as your interpretation of - what she said. -Twisted Much?
    • I heard EXACTLY what she said and understood her - spin all too well!! nm
    • Spinning the report won't change it. - TechSupport
      • Good grief! If you are not a fringe-element - extremist, then -AR
        • As a former cop, I'm afraid I have to disagree with your assessment. - TechSupport
          • Wow. - sm
            • We didn't receive moronic reports like this back then. Let me explain. - TechSupport
              • Please don't bother.... - Nobody Cares!
        • I am sorry for your loss. - Kim
      • Hmmm, doubly interesting that the one - on Leftwing Extremists
        • That doesn't even exist!!! - Oh Please!!!!
  • She ran our state into debt. - And that is not all.
  • She is a MO-ron. nm - MSMT
    • Yep, and an embarrassment - Just like our president. nm
  • Well, Obama picked her? - Nuff said. scary bunch, huh?nm
    • Look at Rosa Brooks' appointment - and her mindset...... see message
      • I read about her yesterday. Obama proves again - how radical he is when he chooses nuts.nm

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A Lavish Bathroom at Interior -

If Sen. Ken Salazar (D-Colo.) is confirmed this month as interior secretary, he'll have a snappy, scarcely used bathroom in his fifth-floor office, thanks to Dirk Kempthorne, the outgoing secretary.

Seems Kempthorne spent about $235,000 in taxpayer funds renovating the bathroom a few months ago, which included installing a new shower, a refrigerator and a freezer and buying monogrammed towels, department officials told our colleague Derek Kravitz.

The General Services Administration approved and partially funded the project, an Interior Department official said. The GSA paid about half the cost to refurbish aging plumbing, which needed to be replaced within four years.

But department officials say much of the money was spent on lavish wood paneling and tile. Among the choice items found in the new bathroom: wainscot wood panels extending from floor to ceiling and cabinet doors revealing a working refrigerator and freezer.

"If Gale Norton needed to shower, at least she was conservative enough to go to the gym in the basement of the building," one career employee quipped, referring to Kempthorne's predecessor.

An initial investigation by the department's inspector general, Earl B. Devaney, found no wrongdoing on the secretary's part because the GSA had approved the project.

A department spokesman, Shane Wolfe, did not return messages seeking comment.

Incoming Cabinet officials often waste absurd amounts of money redecorating perfectly posh offices to their tastes. Watchdogs generally decry the waste of money. But if the projects are part of the stimulus package . . .

You don't seem to think much at all.  You probably listen to faux news and Hannity.  Have you not seen what Bush did the last 8 years?  He is a criminal.  AL Queda is not in Iraq.  That war is about oil.  Cheney has the contract to rebuild Iraq for $5 billion for his Halliburton company.  He still gets money from that company.  The English being the official language is way more complicated than a small mind like yours can comprehend.  The fact is that right now we do not have an official language.  The reason they won't make it an official language is that if someone of hispanic origins comes to the emergency room, they wouldn't be able to communicate if things were only printed in English. 

Bush destroyed our country.  Palin is a dumb person who can't answer a straight question and so hides from the media unless it's the haters like Rush and Hannity.  That discredits her even more.  Fox news shouldn't even be legal.  You can say the media is biased but Fox News outright lies.  They take pieces of text out of context and try to make something of it.  Obama is not palling around with terrorists.  Bill Ayers was working with the Mayor of Chicago.  You are a complete moron and unfortunately, there are a few like you out there.  You sound like a stupid hillbilly.  You think Bush was a conservative and look what he did in his time as president.... he turned the banking system into socialism. 

McCain ditched his first wife who waited for him while he was in prison.  That's just not nice.  Cindy McCain is all botoxed out... $100 million a year she makes and so I seriously doubt she is a regular person.  They are insulated from the problems of common idiots like you, yet you stick up for them.

NM

I wholeheartedly agree with JTBB.  I think people see different things when they see Obama.

What I see is someone who is also half WHITE.  I see someone who wouldn't even have been allowed to EXIST in this country not very long before he was born because interracial marriage was against the law.  I see how far our country has come, despite all the bigots and racists, some of which obviously linger (but hopefully will go by the way of the dinosaur).

Most of all, I see someone who represents the BEST in most of us, instead of the LEAST in the few of us.  By acknowledging my EXISTENCE (and I'm white) as someone in America who isn't a millionaire, by acknowledging the EXISTENCE of a healthcare problem and by acknowleding the EXISTENCE of all the other problems that plague people who were once part of the almost extinct middle class, he is acknowledging the existence of most of us, which is much more than has been done by the Republicans during either the last eight years or even during the 2008 Presidential campaign.

I have great faith in him, especially when I see him with his children, that he truly wants what is best for everyone in this country.  I have no idea why so many people are so threatened by him.  I truly see hope for a better future, even though I've been "programmed" to live on edge and wonder what the "President" is doing next to stick it to the little guy.  Hopefully, I'll get over that "reflex," and hopefully he won't give me a reason to question or criticize him.