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10.17.2008

 

Ever-shrinking world

It is a small world, after all.

This morning, Gaye Symington levied the charge at Jim Douglas that his highway project planning was so bad he was at risk of losing federal transportation money.

Douglas' people say it isn't so, the money has no expiration date.

So I sought to find out whether there is one or not and turned to the Federal Highway Administration's Vermont office, where I left a message for Larry Dwyer. He happens to be the husband of Carolyn Dwyer, who is Rep. Peter Welch's campaign manager, and sits about 13 inches from Symington's campaign office.

Larry Dwyer passed my message along to the FHA's spokesman, who called me back. That is Ian Grossman, who was once Jim Douglas' campaign manager and a spokesman for the state Agency of Transportation, before moving to the federal agency.

It's like you're playing pinball and you set off in a direction you bump into someone who's connected to someone else.

Grossman says there's no expiration date. Theoretically, Congress could create one.

- Terri Hallenbeck

Comments:
I can't believe I donated to this campaign. I was hoping my dollars - which I don't have a lot of to spare! - would go to paying competent campaign staffers. And it is their job to research this kind of stuff so the candidate is not embarrassed!

Gaye has been very, very poorly served by her team.
 
Too bad her staff can't train her to talk in complete sentences as well....duh
 
Hey, mr p., don't be bitin' the hand that feeds your ignorant anonymous ass, little fraudulent fella. Blithering idiocy is central to psycho sarah's appeal and it's made her what she is today.

Another clueless, corrupt, gop-slime, Alaska politician tryin' to cop her losses, cop a plea and finagle house arrest.

It's either that or "Leave the gun. Bring the moose burgers." and "Sarah! Ya won't be seein' sarah no more.

Come January, when all the gop-slime have been exiled to ANWR, I'm gonna go on Safari and hunt me some gop-scum from a helicopter.

They've got a better shot than the dickster's quail quarry, but there's not exactly a lot of tree cover up there, so it's just a question of whose head gets stuffed and mounted above the mantle.

Say goodnight, greasy.
 
coop, you are worse than the crowds at the palin rallies screaming "off with his head." you can argue with people all you want, but do not talk about mounting their heads on a wall. someone, please, arrest this psycho already.
 
JWCOOP.... #1 customer of Wild Irish Rose.

Coop you are incoherent. Lay off the sauce.
 
I think big, bad, tough guy Coopy is afraid of little Sarah P.
 
Gaye is pitiful. The shame of it is that what you see from her is a representation of the pitiful D's in VT.

You see it in every posting JW makes. They live on made up facts hoping if they say it loudly and oppressively enough people will believe its true and when they lose... they play the victim card.

The D's have been positioning this upcoming loss even before Gaye was in the race. How many times have the D's blamed Pollina for ensuring Douglas' victory? Perhaps the time would be better spent developing a compelling platform that the residents of the State could believe and support.

And just for fun, where are the rest of the Party leaders? If they had any concern or desire to win why aren't they out there pushing her run. Schumlin has certainly left her out to dry.

The VT D's represent everything wrong with the Party today. They expect things to be given to them, not earned, and when things don't go their way they blame the ones that worked hard to be successful. You know, what was it Barack said? Something about its good to redistribute the wealth.

Captain America
 
Don’t worry about Dad shooting anyone. Firearms are very high on the long list of things he is terrified of.

When we were kids my brother Rod got a B-B gun.

Dad was all upset and bawling that Rod was going to kill people. Finally he called the cops on his own son he was so scared. Thing is he told the cops Rod had a gun not a B-B gun.

The cops come racing up believing Dad. Picture this, half a dozen cops demanding to know where the gun is. Rod was ten and I was eight so we were terrified. Dad is screaming obscenities about how the guy that sold his son a weapon and made him into a murderer being thrown into prison so he can be gang raped every night.

Finally Mom got home. She listens for about five seconds, tells them all to shut up then yells at the cops "IT'S A F-ING B-B GUN!"

She gets it out of our room and shows it to the cops. They apologized to Rod and I then took dad off to talk to him. Now he is the one crying in terror of the cops. IDIOT!

So don't worry about him going hunting for “Gops” or anyone else. He's so afraid of guns he faint if he had to touch one. He's also afraid of heights so you'd never see him in a helicopter ether. Mom's high heels are as far off the ground as he dares to get.

Gran's right she should have drowned him when she had the chance.
 
Actually, Gaye is right on this one....

The state has Approx $140 million that only needs the 10-20% match to move them.

These are inportant infratstructure projects that our Congressional delegation were able to secure the dollars for.

The problem is that Gov Douglas, and Neale Lunderville want to use the money as they see fit - not necessarily to fund the project appropriated to.

Bt delaying, the Governor is driving the costs higher to teh tune of about 10% per year.

This means the state will have to find more money and local governments will have to raise prop taxes to pay for these important infrastructure needs.

What the Governor should be doing is finding a way to bond for the $25 million or so that is needed to get these projects moving - which by the way, will help the private sector and put people to work!
 
Actually, Gaye is wrong just as Douglas is wrong.

This was not a concern to Gaye in April/May when she rushed the legislature to close, and instead focused on running a losing gubernatorial campaign.

In May Gaye was left silent, so in other words she is just as responsible as the Douglass. Anything she attacks Douglass for is her fault.

Vermonters want something different, that is why Pollina is gaining support everyday.
 
Anonymous said...

"coop, you are worse than the crowds at the palin rallies screaming "off with his head." you can argue with people all you want, but do not talk about mounting their heads on a wall. someone, please, arrest this psycho already."

For what, schmuck, pummeling ignorant anonymous-trash slime who pretend to post as my mother and my wife with the facts?

Either get yourself a name, a case and a clue or go cheney yourself, punk.

Dismissed.
 
Auntie-amerika's ever-shrinking ties to reality.

"Anonymous..

Gaye is pitiful. The shame of it is that what you see from her is a representation of the pitiful D's in VT."

Ya mean the folks who control both houses of the legislature and are about to hold doogie's feet to the fire with a veto-proof majority for his last two years of entergy apologies, fiscal mismanagement and just plain imposing his incompetence on the State of Vermont in general, crazy lady?

"You see it in every posting JW makes. They live on made up facts hoping if they say it loudly and oppressively enough people will believe its true and when they lose... they play the victim card."

Such as? That's what I thought.

"The D's have been positioning this upcoming loss even before Gaye was in the race." How many times have the D's blamed Pollina for ensuring Douglas' victory? Perhaps the time would be better spent developing a compelling platform that the residents of the State could believe and support."

Ya mean like the one that's got them poised to finally gain a veto-proof majority in the legislature, crazy lady?

"The VT D's represent everything wrong with the Party today."

"They expect things to be given to them, not earned, and when things don't go their way they blame the ones that worked hard to be successful."

No, that would be Pollina, entergy and the doogie/dubie debacle, crazy lady. Just what have they done to earn anything they're demanding?

"You know, what was it Barack said? Something about its good to redistribute the wealth."

That'll be President Obama to your ignorant anonymous ass soon enough, little factually-challenged/fundamentally-dishonest/fraudulent lady.

Just as soon as they fumigate the White House, delouse the joint, clean up the toxic waste left by this inept, illegitimate-trash administration and begin the process of restoring honor, dignity, integrity and intellect to the place, auntie amerika.

Always a pleasure.
 
Anonymous...

"Actually, Gaye is wrong just as Douglas is wrong.

This was not a concern to Gaye in April/May when she rushed the legislature to close, and instead focused on running a losing gubernatorial campaign."

Nice try, nitwit. Every time the Dems passed something the majority of Vermonters support, doogie vetoed and, thanks to the gop-slime majority in the House who doesn't' give a damn about Vermont or their constituents, the House fell a vote or two short in the House to override his idiotic, unproductive and unnecessary vetoes.

Doogie screwed us with entergy and the decom fund and campaign finance reform and he would have screwed us and left the taxpayers on the hook for his incompetence on this, too, while the lunatic-fringe likes of you blamed Symington for the gop-slime majority carin' more about doogie and the gop-slime society than their constituents and Vermont taxpayers.

What's more, ya don't just blame Symington while ignorantly and dishonestly insisting that Progs are Dems and 93 equals 100, ya blame Shumlin for not getting the other 22 Dem members of the Senate to bow to the tyranny of doogie and the clueless, incompetent, gop-slime majority.

If Symington had held the Legislature in session to press this issue, doogie would have vetoed it and you and the rest of nameless-nitwit nation would have bitched and whined about that, too, so get yourself a case and a clue or tell your story walkin' and take it where the climate suits your sheet, schmuck.

Disappear.
 
"For what, schmuck, pummeling ignorant anonymous-trash slime who pretend to post as my mother and my wife with the facts?"

Ah Mr. Rocket Scientist: If someone was pretending to make posts they would only exist in their minds, not here on the website.

Still can’t wrap your tiny brain around it Jiffy?

It’s kind of like your “brilliance” it is only a figment of your imagination. It does not exist on this website or anywhere else in the real world. The only place that laughable fantasy can be found is in that moldy tapioca sloshing around between your ears.

Same deal with your dreams of “pummeling” anyone with “facts” when you go on one of your profanity filled tirades. Sorry to clue you in Cooper but you are about as impressive as a four year old kicking and screaming on the floor because they are not getting their way. Hey same action, same reaction. Simple enough math so even a clown like you should be able to get it.

Yah dig pussycat?

Sorry to inform you Jiffy but you are a big fat, unemployed, drunken ZERO. No amount of idiotic nattering on your part is going to change that. Throw all the tantrums you want. Tell your lies. Do whatever stupid little stunt you want. Nothing is going to change.

If you had balls enough you might be able to improve yourself to the level of something vaguely resembling an adult but that is one hell of a big if.
 
Iggy slop's ever-shrinking stones.

Anonymous...

"For what, schmuck, pummeling ignorant anonymous-trash slime who pretend to post as my mother and my wife with the facts?"

"Ah Mr. Rocket Scientist: If someone was pretending to make posts they would only exist in their minds, not here on the website."

Ya mean like your ignorant anonymous ass is pretendin' to have something of value rooted in fact and evidence to say in the nameless-nitwit nonsense post I'm , little fraudulent fella?

Nice try, schmuck. No sale.

That nameless-nitwit notion would be confined solely to the confines of your own clueless-cretin cabeza while another heapin' helpin' of your standard psychotic-slop shows up here.

You've made it abundantly clear that the only thing your ignorant anonymous ass is capable of is repeatedly posting my name and address, periodically threatening my wife like the gutless slime you are and pretending to post as me or a living or dead member of my family.

Of course, if the clueless-cretin cupboard in my cabeza was as bare as yours, I'd be tempted to post as ignorant anonymous trash and anyone but myself, too.

As states of consciousness and forms of existence go, that's really gotta suck, little fraudulent fella.

Once again, you've managed to earn a small measure of my compassion along with my contempt, little clueless-cretin fella.

"If you had balls enough you might be able to improve yourself to the level of something vaguely resembling an adult but that is one hell of a big if."

Ignorant anonymous trash with bupkis and a well-documented history of postin' other people's names and addresses while makin' threats against their wives talking to me about "balls" and "adult behavior"

That's a good one, little factually-challenged fella.

Those invisible anonymous "little fellas" may exist within the confines of your clueless-cretin cabeza but they sure as hell don't swing 'tween your legs or on any other plane of existence, little fella.

Always a pleasure.
 
You follow orders well Coop. Ya did just what I told you to do.

Go tell Mo I said you could have some ice cream for being such a good little moron.
 
Thanks large Mac;

Now blubber boy wants ice cream and since there is none in the house I hvae to drive to the store and get some.

Next time you want to put the idea of food into his pin head deliver it for crying out loud.
 
The Symington campaign has to work with the candidate they have. This is a sad one. Let's just put it out of its misery. Shumlin will NOT help anyone - its only about him.
 
Ah, so that's what your mama gets your ignorant anonymous ass when you're a good little bupkis boy.

Take out the garbage and she'll mix ya up some bosco, bozo.

Stick to threats, schmuck. That we know ya can handle. That and pretendin' to be busy with "customers".

Always a pleasure.
 
Anonymous..

"The Symington campaign has to work with the candidate they have. This is a sad one. Let's just put it out of its misery. Shumlin will NOT help anyone - its only about him."

In other words, you're still dumb, you're still scum and your ignorant anonymous ass has still got bupkis.

Thanks for goin' on record, little fraudulent fella.

For someone who's so sure Symington's a loser, you sure are obsessed with her, little factually-challenged fella.

What's up with that, schmuck.

Assuming you're old enough, eligible and registered, you'll get to vote on 11/4 like me and the rest of Vermont voters, little fella.

If I can wait that long to vote for Obama and put mcsame out of his misery and Welch - well, Welch doesn't have any opposition, but if he did, you and the rest of nameless-nitwit nation could vote for them on 11/4, too.

With Pollina in the race and dubie all but invisible, odds are the doogie/dubie debacle will have another two years to continue running Vermont into the ground.

They'll just finally have a competent, legitimate President in the White House for a change, a Dem/Indy Congressional Delegation and a veto-proof Dem Legislature to slow 'em down a bit.

Keep your shirt on, little fraudulent fella.

The change we need is comin'. Just be patient.

Always a pleasure.
 
Hey you're doin' good tonight Jiffy!

7:49 on Sat night and you haven't passed out drunk yet.

Way to go Dud!
 
The freakshow finally passed out thank god.
 
Anonymous...

"Hey you're doin' good tonight Jiffy!

7:49 on Sat night and you haven't passed out drunk yet.

Way to go Dud!"

Way to go Dud!", eh, little factually/grammatically-challenged/fraudulent, fella?

Attaboy! Your ignorant anonymous ass can't even manage to spew Dude without fookin' it up six ways to Sunday.

And the ignorant anonymous trash train rolls on into the nameless-nitwit night towards its appointed destination with scum vote oblivion.

Roll on, little trash-train that couldn't do that either. Roll on.

That's entertainment.

So, who's your ignorant anonymous ass gonna pretend to be now, Uncle Sol, schmuck.

Always a pleasure.
 
HA, HA, HA, HA!!!!

You forgot this one though:

A bomb, shell, or explosive round that fails to detonate.

Odds are he won’t be able to figure out what that means either. He’s just as delusional in the bedroom as he is in the blogs.

Jeff is a DUD for every season and every reason.
 
You all have forgotten the issue -- Jim Douglas is mismanaging the dollars available for infrastructure needs and Vermonters safety on the roads.

Jim Douglas' policy is actually costing the state more to complete projects and will continue to drive up local property taxes as he seeks: 1) to CUT State Highway Aid to Local Communities, 2) increase the cost of local share as projects delay year to year.

Jim Douglas is not a good fiscal manager - he just portrays that appearance.
 
“So, who's your ignorant anonymous ass gonna pretend to be now, Uncle Sol, schmuck.”

Jeff I’d have thought you would have realized that Sol was not your Uncle years ago! He was our landlord and I was paying the rent to him.

Just incase you’re being thick about everything else I suppose I should tell you that if he were really giving me the Heimlich maneuver that day you caught us we would have not been naked.
 
Coop,

Your 2:14 posting from yesterday has victim written all over it. You are so in the tank, you really don't get it.

Maybe an example will help. Politics isn't the same as your welfare entitlement. You actually have to work to build consensus among differing opinions. It isn't just given to you.

I know statesmanship and diplomacy are foreign topics to you and the Daily Kos crowd but at one time there really were true politicians among the D's that could work with those of differing points of view. Somewhere you all have lost your way. Shouting , insults and attempted bullying are not effective ways to building consensus.


Captain America
 
YOU LIE MOMMY!!!!!

Sol was so my Uncle and every time he gave me the Heimlich maneuver we were naked too.

SO THERE!!!

I suppose next you’re gonna try to tell me that other thing he did wasn’t really to keep me from falling down if I started feeling faint.
 
And the ignorant anonymous-trash train of nameless-nitwits with bupkis spewing auntie-amerikan, psychotic-slop while pretending to post as me or my family rolls on towards its 11/4 date with oblivion and take-back-vermunt-trash, scum-vote irrelevance.

Roll on little train that couldn't. Roll on.

That's entertainment.

Always a pleasure.
 
Did that last rant even make any sense to you JW?

If it did it's time to get back on your meds loony boy.
 
Thanks, as always, for that ignorant anonymous trash perspective, little factually-challenged/fraudulent fella.

That's entertainment.
 
Tom Costello for Lt. Gov!!!
 
Pollina for Governor
 
Gee Jiffy you're slipping.

I thought we'd see at least one of your three hundred word nonsense rants.

You sick little "fook"wad?

I mean ill. You're one sick little monkey on your best day.
 
Gee, thanks, little fraudulent fella. Always nice to hear from my fans in the ignorant anonymous-trash/scum-vote community.

Always a treasure, always a pleasure.
 
Go fall down ya lush
 
You forgot flaccid and flatulent.

While we’re at it:

Fearful
Foolish
Friendless
Fungal
Foppish


I’m sure there’s more. Maybe we could have some sort of contest to see who can come up with the best list?
 
Anonymous

"You're a fat, useless, unemployed drunk."

No, that would be the ignorant anonymous trash residing in your mirror, little fraudulent fella.

"What the hell makes you think you could scare anyone you moron?"

Ya mean, besides the fact that, unlike your ignorant anonymous ass, I don't feel the need to post as anonymous or pretend to post as other people when I'm not threatening them or their family members while posting their name, address and phone and offering google map directions to their house like the caseless, clueless lunatic-fringe likes of your sorry take-back-vermunt-trash butt, little fraudulent fella.

You're dumb, you're scum and ya got bupkis, no matter what ya call yourself or where ya do it, punk.

Take your tedious-trash song and dance and nameless-nitwit nonsense back to the TA with the rest of the none klan and whine about your missing mcsame signs, schmuck.

Always a pleasure.
 
From the bottlers of Wild Irish Rose:

All of us at Centerra Wine Company would like to thank JWCOOP10 for his dedication to our brand and his personal efforts to help us reach our 2008 volume goals.

This weekend was a particularly strong sales weekend for us in Central Vermont.
 
"I’m sure there’s more. Maybe we could have some sort of contest to see who can come up with the best list?"

OK!

Gassy
Greasy
Gibbering
Gibbon
Gelded
Goof
Goldbrick
Gonadless
Gum-snapper
Girly
 
How about "childish" for the name-calling listers?
 
You’re still a bitch boy Jiffy.

You would need a change of shorts pretty fast if you ever got out from behind that computer and had to go into the real world.

You’re so typical of your ilk it’s laughable. Right down to the obsession with sports.

You were a loser as a kid and you’ve worked hard to stay a loser as an adult. The only difference is you don’t get your head shoved into a toilet every day or get shaken down for your milk money.

Bawl out any stupidity you want. Move half way around the world. You’ll still be the same useless lump you always have been. Even when you are worm food you’ll still be a complete and total waste.

Your only success is being princess of the a-holes. You won big time little on that. Everything from here on out is going to be a down hill slide so quit while you’re on top. If the idea of a shotgun blast gets your panties in a knot you can OD on your meds or gas yourself in the car.

Up to you little fool. Just do it so we’ll all feel so bad when you’re gone.

Then you’ll be laughing, right jif-jif?
 
There you all go again...
You continue to miss the issue of this blog report.......

Simply put, Jim Douglas is mismanaging Vermont's transportation dollars available for improving infrastructure, improving Vermonters safety on the roads, saving money for taxpayers, and putting people to work!

Jim Douglas' policy is actually increasing transportation costs to taxpayers and as aresult is actually driving up local property taxes as he seeks: 1) to CUT State Highway Aid to Local Communities, and 2) increase costs of local share as projects delay year to year.

Jim Douglas is FAILING at transportation fiscal management, and improving our very badly in need infrastructure!
 
Anonymous said...

"..You would need a change of shorts pretty fast if you ever got out from behind that computer and had to go into the real world."

Said the nameless-nitwit with bupkis spewin' psychotic-slop he can never substantiate and frequently can't spell from the anonymous safety behind his keyboard from his fortress of solitude next to the washer and dryer in his Mommy's basement while taking a break from making ignorant, idle, anonymous threats to glance lovingly at his new mail-order, inflatable bride.

Go cheney yourself, chump. No matter what you and the rest of the stoneless wonders in the scum-vote/nameless-nitwit community do, I'm sure to be laughin' soon enough.

Always a pleasure.
 
Anonymous said...

"There you all go again...
You continue to miss the issue of this blog report......."

They're not missin' anything, pal. The scum vote's just ignorin' ya because they're dumb, they're scum, they've got bupkis and they don't have any answer for ya.

Where ya been? They're not interested in any reports or factual evidence, for fook sake.

Bubbakis's brain-dead bupkis brigade has got their delusional dreck tales to tell and they're stickin' to 'em no matter what evidence ya present to them. Christ, you should know that by now.

Just what in your dealings with bubbakis and the brain-dead bupkis brigade would lead you to believe that they would be swayed by reason, fact and evidence, pal?

Nekkie boy still thinks mcsame's gonna carry NJ, DE, VA, PA, MI, MN, OH, IN, NM, NH, ME, and PA for christ sake!

Get a grip.

As for Doogie, he's fiscally mismanaged everything else over the past six years, what the hell made ya think transportation funds would be any different!

You can explain Federal/State Funding splits until you're blue in the face. It's not gonna make a damned bit of difference.

Don't confuse them with the facts. They're scum-vote doogie disciples and gopologists for cryin' out loud. They start at short-sighted and stupid and go downhill from there. Rapidly.

Doogie only cares about doogie, runnin' Vermont into the ground, the preservation of power to keep runnin' Vermont into the ground, makin' excuses for entergy and stickin' Vermont with the tab for their criminal negligence.
 
Coopy said "Said the nameless-nitwit with bupkis spewin' psychotic-slop he can never substantiate and frequently can't spell from the anonymous safety behind his keyboard from his fortress of solitude next to the washer and dryer in his Mommy's basement while taking a break from making ignorant, idle, anonymous threats to glance lovingly at his new mail-order, inflatable bride."

Finally Coop speaks as the authority!

The topic: Life in mom's basement.

These may be the first factual sentences Coop has posted in his months on this blog.
 
Anti-Semitic and intolerant, eh?

Good luck makin' that case, little nameless-nitwit fella.

Ban the ignorant anonymous trash posters who repeatedly post the names, addresses and phones of other people while offering google map directions to their homes and threatening them and their families and pretending to post as someone else.

You've got their IP addresses and identities, I don't. If you're gonna ban anybody, ban that ignorant anonymous trash.

Moreover, I'll go ya one better. If you can prove I've been posting the actual names, addresses, phone numbers and offering google map directions to the homes of said nameless-nitwits with bupkis without authorization, threatening them and their families while pretending to post as them or members of their family in retaliation for them doin' it to me, then ban me, too.

If not, don't. Fair enough? Fine. Works for me.

I'm gonna miss you factually-challenged/fundamentally-dishonest/ignorant anonymous scum-vote schmucks.

It's always been a pleasure.
 
Ah bitch boy,

You've yet to provide a link to one of those threats you keep screaming about.

All anyone needs to do to see you making threats is to scroll up on this page.

All you're going to do though is keep posting the same stupid garbage you have been for months.

What more could be expected from a worthless pile of Coop that has never been able to hold a job but can keep one hell of a grip on a bottle.

Kill yourself Jeff. It'd be the first worthwhile act of your life.
 
Tom Costello for Lt Gov
 
JWCOOP10 for Village Idiot
 
Jim Douglas is JWCOOP!
 
jw is already Village Idiot for life - like Supreme Court justices, he does not need to run.
 
1:30pm and no JWCOOP postings.

His mom must have taken away is internet privileges again
 
I think the mobile methmobile is servicing Montpelier today.
 
Bubba.... very nice. You make me laugh.
 
Tom Costello for Lt Gov.
 
And Martha Abbott for Treasurer, I suppose.
 
Does anyone remember the Bob Newhart show from the 80's? The one that took place in Vermont and all the characters were really dumb...
 
Darryl? Is that you or is that your brother....Darryl?
 
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