Frustration

9 Comments

1. 

   seabe on August 12, 2011 at 9:21 am

   Well I’ll provide you with what was said:

   States should be in charge of their own affairs…except for gay marriage (we need a fed amendment for that). Individuals should be in charge of their own choices for schools, jobs, gun ownership, etc….except for women who don’t want to be pregnant, gays who want to be married or (for Herman Cain) ppl who don’t want to be Christian. We’re a military junta that should always respect our military before our Commander-in-Chief. All taxes are evil and we should eliminate most of them and institute a 10% flat tax. Oh, and “the Fed is evil,” and we’ve never had a bust-boom cycle on the Gold Standard (besides the constant string of depressions occurring every 5-10 years between 1820 and the creation of the Fed).

   A transcript isn’t yet available. Although this was the most entertaining part of it:

   http://foxnewsinsider.com/2011/08/11/transcript-pawlenty-bachmann-spar-over-credentials/

   Bachmann kicked the shit out of him. She would have done better if she didn’t take time away from Ricky Santorum. That hurt her a little. But she’s still in a league of her own with the rest of them. When the candidates are whittled away, we’ll see how she handles it between just her and Romney.

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   utried on August 12, 2011 at 9:22 am

   Didn’t find it through Yahoo search either.

3. 

   Suranis on August 12, 2011 at 10:08 am

   Some commentary

   http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_08/tentoone_isnt_good_enough_for031484.php

   For those who can’t watch clips online, Baier phrased it this way: “I’m going to ask a question to everyone here on the stage. Say you had a deal, a real spending cuts deal, 10-to-1, as Byron said, spending cuts to tax increases…. Who on this stage would walk away from that deal? Can you raise your hand if you feel so strongly about not raising taxes, you’d walk away on the 10-to-1 deal?”

   All eight candidates raised their hand. Literally all of them, if offered a debt-reduction deal that’s 10-to-1 in their favor, would simply refuse.

   Let’s note for context that in March — just five months ago — Republicans on the Joint Economic Committee released a report on deficit reduction. In it, House GOP officials outlined their ideal cuts-to-revenue ratio, and concluded that “successful” attempts at deficit reduction meet this goal: “85% spending cuts and 15% revenue increases.” Roughly speaking, that’s about a 5-to-1 ratio in Republicans’ favor — and this is what GOP officials characterized as their ideal earlier this year.

   And yet, as of last night, every Republican running for president believes a 10-to-1 ratio simply isn’t good enough. What’s more, as the video shows, the crowd of Iowa Republicans roared with approval.

   http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_08/tentoone_isnt_good_enough_for031484.php

   The most telling moment of Thursday’s GOP debate wasn’t when Michele Bachmann cooly stuck a knife between Tim Pawlenty’s ribs, or when Rick Santorum plaintively begged for more airtime, or when Mitt Romney easily slipped past questions about his record on health-care reform. It was when every single GOP candidate on the stage agreed that they would reject a budget deal that was $10 in spending cuts for every $1 in tax increases. Even Fox News’s Bret Baier couldn’t quite believe what he was seeing. He asked again just to make sure the assembled candidates had understood the question.

   California here we come, right back where we started from…

4. 

   cantelow on August 12, 2011 at 10:44 am

   The debate is there on youtube, in about 8-minute sections.  I tried the technique of transcribing a few oddball sentences and phrases out of one of the segments, into the google search box, with quote marks around them.

   Nada.  Google says those phrases don’t exist anywhere.  Google doesn’t work as well as it used to, but usually by giving you things you don’t want, rather than nothing at all.  I think.

   It’s funny that no one bothered transcribing it, or that it was consciously held back.  Hope the youtube videos don’t disappear too!

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     BooMan on August 12, 2011 at 12:28 pm

     It’s like Fox knows that their words are toxic if seen in written form.

5. 

   seabe on August 12, 2011 at 12:53 pm

   Here’s your transcript:

   http://foxnewsinsider.com/2011/08/12/full-transcript-complete-text-of-the-iowa-republican-debate-on-
   fox-news-channel/

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     cantelow on August 12, 2011 at 3:46 pm

     Interesting, if you retrieve the foxnewsinsider.com robots.txt file, you find that large parts of that site are disallowed to search engines such as google.com.  The search engines can tax a server when they come there to index, that could be the reason or part of the reason.

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       cantelow on August 12, 2011 at 4:02 pm

       Sorry, made a mistake- it does allow “googlebot” at the end of the robots.txt file.  Just not any other search engines.

6. 

   Oui on August 12, 2011 at 12:59 pm

   .
   Complete Text of the Iowa Republican Debate

   VIDEO

   "But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."