Abraham Lincoln once said of people seeking cushy government jobs, (paraphrasing) “There are too many pigs and not enough tits.” it sounds to me like Simpson’s comment is possibly a rephrasing of Lincoln’s and, in any case, is a farming reference, not a sexist one.

hey tommy i know youve never seen a real womans breast but thats not what simpson is talking about…

^^^^^ LOL

The title of this article is pretty inflammatory, implying that the comment was about American women and not about people abusing the Social Security system. Also, Alan Simpson sent a letter of apology to Ashley Carson, which can be viewed here http://library.constantcontact.com/doc209/1102372204926/doc/nP49Pz07tDokfhHd.pdf

Also, while the argument first started over his use of the term “Pink Panthers,” he’s been calling elderly men that are politically active regarding Social Security “Grey Panthers” for just as long.

I just need two (preferably Pamela Anderson’s).

Good to see Tommy covering the really important stories while Major Garrett leaves the White House Press Corps today.

Why is Steve K. getting that interview with Garrett? If Tommy’s so tight with his colleagues in the Brady Room, shouldn’t he be getting that Q&A? The answer is most likely that Garrett wouldn’t either (A) Know who Tommy is if he fell on him, or (B) Knows Tommy is a hack who isn’t taken seriously by one person in that room.

What’s next, Tommy? A review of Olbermann’s Worst Persons’ List tonight?

Once again a typical Republican barely contains his/their disdain and disgust for the 95% of Americans who actually work for a living.

Actual economists are deliberately and routinely ignored who tell any who will listen S.S. is not in trouble, life expectancies are no longer now than in the past but children die less frequently so they claim it anyways, and since Simpson’s BFF Masters Of The Universe stole America’s wealth and deposited it all in foreign bank accounts they don’t want to pay it back from where they stole it in the first place – Social Security.

Given that 60% of S.S. recipients currently derive 84% of all their income from S.S. and now that Republicans have finally bankrupted the nation that will only get worse, Republicans want Grandma & Grandpa to suck it up and pay off their gambling debts.

You were bad enough before you became senile, Senator Simpson; time to hang it up and go away so we can clean up your trickledown mess.

jim you poor loser, didnt anyone teach you how to make it on your own? it must suck to be such a failure at life.

At least he picked an even number.

Jim R said:
now that Republicans have finally bankrupted the nation

Yeah, right. What about that that Democratic Congress we have had since 2007. Surely they have no responsibility at all.

Jim is typical progressive…95% of Americans don’t work…Google it and you will find that about 50% actually work. This is a society of major non workers and union help…between the two they are a major drain on the economy. I have worked for 50 years and continue to work. I draw SS, and I also pay $5000 a year in SS taxes…and my SS check has not gone up a dime in the last two years. I am also on Medicare and pay $110 a month for that plus I am taxes $110 a month for Medicare…why? I am also taxed on 85% of my SS…who ok’ed that…V.P. Gore in 1996. Congress has raped SS which was never intended to be the private piggy bank of congress. Who was in charge of congress when the initial stimulas went to Bush…better yet, how about the recession that Bush inherited from Clinton…and then 9/11 that he also inherited from Clinton and his gutting of security during his eight years. Funny, after 9/11 we had 59 months of unprecedented growth in America, unemployment of 4.2% and the stock market at almost 13000…oh, and then Barnet Frank, who was in charge of oversight on Freddie, Fannie and all the Wall Street firms was having too much fun with his Wall Street boyfriend and allowed the whole thing to collapse. Presidents dont cause things to be better or worse…congress does and Pelosi and her gang of thieves have had the reins since 2006…Simpson is an idiot, but so are people who continue on this path that you go down. Get rid of illegals…look at the majority of babies being born and the amount of criminals in border states, get rid of unions…they had their place in the 1800′s and early 1900′s, then give companies tax credits to bring outsourced manufacturing back to the U.S. and pull our troops out of the Mideast and watch our country become great again…

Alan Simpson is correct. Tommy doesn’t like it so it’s sexist. New day, same ole’ isms.

And Pat is a typical conservative, always wrong and loudly so. Where to start, oh wait. Recent studies by no nothing college professors and universities have proved rebutting your boringly false talking points only acts as a literal inoculation from the truth, like an anti-fact serum.

Oh well, just a few then because I’m bored.

First off, 90% of Americans shouldn’t work at all in protest of the fact that in 2007 the top ten per cent own 71.5% of all the nations wealth and 90.3% of all the stocks, bonds, and mutual funds – and it got that way by working schmoes like you supporting the aristocracy and blaming your fellow schmoes for the inevitable results.

Your S.S. didn’t go up because the Democratic COLA couldn’t overcome the Republican Great Recession – What’s your answer vote in more republicans and keep blaming unions and Democrats that haven’t totally sold out to corporate fascists like the Koch brothers?

Bush’s 1st recession started in March, 2001, shortly after the financial markets figured out Cheney/Bush were actually serious about going back to failed Reaganomics on steroids.

Bush ignored the blaring multiple alarms from Clinton regarding Al Queda, with Richard Clarke saying he “practically held a gun to her head”; when Bush finally deigned to let him speak to National Security Adviser Rice on September 10, 2001, less than a month after Bush said “okay, you’ve covered your ass now” to the CIA agent who delivered the PDB titled “Bin Laden determined to strike is U.S.

Fannie, Freddie, the CRA and anything else you can dream up pale in comparison to the failed Republican laissez faire trickledown policies and outright theft by Wall Street – Bush’s base in other words.

Bush’s “job creation record” is the worst since the Great Depression, your fault, deal with it. They’re your people. You obviously support rich billionaires like the Koch brothers running the economy into the ground.

Bring manufacturing and all of our troops home, let’s agree there.

P.S. All legislation passed so far under Pelosi or Obama or whoever you want to blame it on, constitutes 10% of our budget deficit the next ten years. So I just know that nine times more mad at Bush, Cheney, and the Republican controlled House & Senate that trashed our economy, and then made you like it

Jim R said:
P.S. All legislation passed so far under Pelosi or Obama or whoever you want to blame it on, constitutes 10% of our budget deficit the next ten years. So I just know that nine times more mad at Bush, Cheney, and the Republican controlled House & Senate that trashed our economy, and then made you like it

That 10% figure relies on certain facts not yet in evidence. It requires appropriations be frozen for the next 3 years, which hasn’t actually been done yet and will be a tough sell when Congress actually drafts the budgets. Assuming they do stick to the plan, in 2019 60% of the deficit will be the result of Bush administration tax cuts that weren’t paid for by reduced spending and servicing the debt of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. That also assumes that we don’t build war debt at a higher than expected rate, which seems unlikely to me, given the continued buildup of forces in the Middle East and the continuation of imperialistic policies under the Obama administration (new bases in South America and Africa, continuation of the F-22 Raptor program, reconstitution of the 4th fleet, etc).

Former Senator Simpson is a Republican; had he been a democrat Tommy would be justifying his comments and calling anyone who speaks out against his comment an idiot or something worse.

Apparently NOW is having a hissy fit as well — funny that, the same NOW who had no problem with Bill Clinton having “sex” with an intern. Too funny.

JIm R sure has his liberal talking points down pat.

Simpson is correct. We are becoming a country of moochers and parasites. Nearly 50 percent of the workinmg population pay no federal income tax. Then many of them get checks written to them at tax time.

We’ll be France in a few years if we continue on this path.

hey Mr. Simpson, if 310 million people paid into Social Security, then 310 million people will be expected to withdraw from it….Quit spending other people’s money Alan, you idiots in Washington DC spent all the Social Security trust funds on political IOU’s…now it’s time to collect…the money should have been invested in AAA corporate bonds to create jobs and build the economy.

we’re all screwed..high taxes, and all the entitlements the middle and upper class paid into will be bankrupt or means tested so we don’t get them anyhow. …told ya!

TEA PARTY RULES !!

Simpson is wrong on the facts, as are you, Dave Richards.

The 50% of “moochers” too impoverished by Republican trickledown economics to pay Federal Income Taxes pay a vastly highly portion of their income in regressive payroll, sales, & property taxes and fees than the wealthy elite you apparently worship.

Federal income taxes are at historic lows, corporations went from paying 36% of all federal income in the late fifties to 6-7% today, 66% of all corporations pay no income taxes whatsoever in any given tax year, the top Fortune 100 companies paid an average of 2-3% in income taxes last year, etc, etc, etc.

The statistics and facts that a thirty-year Republican jihad on taxes and regulations have destroyed our economy and the middle class are as overwhelming as the ability of their enablers, like yourself, that read straight from the billionaire Koch brother’s playbook in distorting facts and manipulating ignorance among average Americans in order to complete their takeover of our country.

Carry on, dupe; we’re onto you and we aren’t shutting up about it. You conservatives will pay for generations for your greed, avarice, and despicable demonizing and scapegoating of the poor, minorities, women, and anyone else who gets in the way of your elite corporate agenda, hopefully our country won’t have to.

And? I think his count is a little low.

Simpson has always & forever been one disgusting, ugly, nasty SOB.

I’m no Simpson fan, but I’m enough of a country boy to understand he’s referring to cows, not female humans. In other words, GET OVER IT!

Jim R…….too impoverished?? It is somehow the Republicans fault that these leeches don’t have a decent education or job?

Get a grip on reality.

JR, tell us all exactly which party it was in 2005 that would not allow the overhaul of Fannie and Freddie. These entities are far more responsible for the housing crisis than anyone else. And who runs these entities? I’ll give you time to look up the matter and regale us with your stupidity.

Okay, I’ll amuse you on the second falsehood, the first being beneath me and I never get in the way of aristocrats’ self-immolation.

Fannie and Freddie need reforming, Democrats are in bed with the players and don’t want reform, touche.

Of course, smart people that study economics and self educated citizens also know they were late comers to the ongoing orgy and the 250 billion dollar price tag doesn’t come close to accounting for the 3 trillion dollar gambling fraud.

Forget TARP & The Stimulus, the Fed Window is still loaning to their country club bankster foursomes @ 0% so they can in turn make billions in bonuses loaning at 2-3% instead of investing in American business and the subsequent jobs that would result.

And just to head you off at the pass, the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act only covered two of the twenty-six institutional perpetrators of the mortgage fraud that Wall Street used as an excuse to steal the remaining national wealth that the Reaganites left behind.

As to the “leeches” that don’t earn enough to pay any federal income taxes, that would include most couples with a kid or two earning in the neighborhood of $ 36,000 annually.

Please, by all means, regale them and us (about 270 million strong) with your dripping disdain and disgust at their very existence.

I think someone has a lot of self-hatred and should talk with someone about it; Republican much?

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