The Rex files: Rammell plans news conferences to discuss 'Obama tags' controversy
Gubernatorial candidate Rex Rammell has scheduled news conferences Tuesday to discuss what he calls "the 'Obama Tags' controversy."
That would be, of course, his unabashed and tasteless jokes last week about selling hunting tags targeting a president. That stuff tends to be controversial — and in this case, Rammell has drawn the scorn of just about everyone in Idaho Republican leadership.
What can we expect Tuesday? Here's an excerpt from an e-mail Rammell sent to reporters Monday:
I will be responding to the criticism and demand for an apology by the GOP leaders.
I promise, you will have plenty to report on.
Something to look forward to.
Rammell will have a news conference at 11 a.m. at Boise's Capital Park, and 3 p.m. news conference in Idaho Falls.
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he won't be taking any questions if he is going to be in Idaho Falls by 3.
If it was anybody but Rammel, say Risch or Otter before they
were elected, they'd be on a corporate jet, some contributor who would be getting billions of $ or tax cuts we as individuals would absorb. Like otter's buddies at the Tax commission or who Lowe wouldn't give contracts at IDT.
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This entire mess is being blown out so Rammel is out ASAP rather than later. Rammel make the republcian party look like the republcian party. I don't see any difference between Rammel going along with a joke about wolf tags after the repbulican party said all that scrap at the GOP convestion. The republican oparty used to take children, boys from Boys Town in Omaha, NE & sexually abuse them at GOP conventions in the 1980s, Read the Frankln Cover-up by John DeCamp.
The American Dream as defined in Webster's is an American social ideal.
Ha, ha, ha, republican fools, rewrite the dictionary, admit you don't know squat, or admit republicans are all socilaist, & didn't even know it. HAAAAAAAAAAAAA.
I can't believe the republican party & their games. After the last eight years of complete failure costing US trillions of $ & now caught calling Obama the Ameican dream, they must really feel like the fools they are. I suppose they will say, just because Webster's defines American dream as an American social ideal, it doesn't mean that's what the republican party considers the American dream to be? That make a lot of sense, use Websters your entire life & suddenly suggest the meaning of American dream makes the dictionary wrong?
If you look up liberate or conservative you'll find more of your beliefs aren't American either. In fact, if you are a conservative I would suggest using Webster's as a guide would be a very traditional view? If not mistaken Webster's is & has been used in public education, {a very social ideal in itself} for a long time, Webster's no doubt in WY2K's house, as well as the White House, & I would bet promoted through no child left behind.
I recall being told to look it up on several occasions & Webster's was the dictionary?
If the republicans crying about socialism gave any thought to health care reform instead of being manipulated into yelling socialsm, kids repeating what republican Idaho dad said, assasinate Obama, or any of the rest of the lies conjured up to destroy America as long as the republican party wins, they would realize they've been taken & made the fool.
This Rammel thing is very much Idaho & republcian! I don't care who it is, Otter, Simpson, Crapo, Risch, or any of the others, they can't lie their way out of who they are. They can pretend Rammel is not one of them but he is, republican to the core, Idaho to the core, & reneck racist to the core!
If people were given the opportunity to buy into an option, how much would insurance companies paying a million dollars a day to stop reform stand to lose? They contribute millions to campaigns, give millions to retired representatives, now lobbyists, millions to lawyers, accountants, & who knows where all, & do the working class think these millions come out of the blue sky?
The $ comes out of what you pay for health insurance! How much would health insurance cost if you weren't spending a million a day to stop health care reform, millions to lobbyists, & the rest? How much do insurance companies stand to lose that they would spend this kin dof money? It oisn't rocket science, ask your fifth grade son por daughter if you can't o the math. It's their future you're screwing up by listening to the lies told by the people who have billions to lose.
The two parties are both taking $ from these crooks, they are all in bed together costing US trillions, we carry it as debt.
I kick republicans the ost because they failed the most the last eight years. Whern Clinton was in office I kicked him every day because he was a crook with the two heads is better than one mentality. I'm not cutting any of these crooks any slack because I know they robbing me. I'm not going to cut any body else any slack either, republcian or demcorat, I think both paryties need to be eliminated & campaign finance taken for the general fund like the $ our mis-representatives stole from Social Security they won't address as a major problem due to the fact both parties have been robbing it for years!
Demadn full finacial disclosure & if it happened the people of both [arties would probably lynch the menmbers of their parties after we all found out the truth about how much they stole from US while making millions.
I hear people ask who would run the country if you take over governmeny & cry about the little things that make no sense. First of all if the crooks on our payroll in DChave so much control we can't get rid of them, we have a more serious problem than anyone imagines. Second, why would we let them walk away? Make them do the job they were elcted to do. Cut their pay, eliminate their health care, & retirement, & campaign finance. Let pliticians have air time in exchange for campaign contributions put in the general fund. Tell contributors they can still send their ideas, things they need, in a suggestion box with no name or identity so our representatives can still see all there is to see & make decisions based on what we need, no favors, no way to invest in defense or banks & no regulation leading up the the current finacial crisis? A capital offense! Hang the crooks by sundown, right or wrong if they're caught stealing from US, they die! No appeals, no speacial execuative privilage.
The American people don't care how many innocent people WY2K & Dick killed in Iraq with our military, $, & in our name, why would they care if we accidently wasted a deadbeat terrorist like one of our mis-represnettaives for stealing from US. They are the terrorist we need to fear the most, not the little kids they liberated/murdered in Iraq.