bills_fan

Point taken. By conservative do you mean social conservative or fiscal conservative? Cause Bush spent like a drunken sailor, he was horrific to small gov't advocates. If you mean social conservative...well that will only further marginalize and regionalize the party and you will see very little gains in 2010. If the Republican party wants to turn it around they MUST embrace small gov't and balance the budget. That has to be their message; anything else is far too divisive. Many Republicans (except maybe the defense industry NeoCons), some Blue Dog Dems and a ton of Independents can agree on smaller gov't. Once the tax hikes from Obama hit, the Republicans will have a chance to position themselves as the party of lower taxes and smaller gov't. If they can draw off some Obama independents (due to the size of the tax increase and the profligate spending), they have a chance to make a comeback. Embracing social conservativism or NeoCon foreign policy will kill the party, IMHO.

Many on this board are not the "too far to the right" Republicans of whom you speak.

My thought as well, a party centered around fiscal conservatism and social liberalism, but well-funded enough to be taken seriously and begin winning seats in Dem territory.

Seriously, we really need to term limit these azzholes right out of office.

You've got to be kidding me...I'm no R (or D for that matter), but permitting one party to have the WH, House and filibuster-proof 60 in the Senate is a really bad idea. We turn our lonely eyes to the only entity left that can control Obama spending...the bond market.

Given our failure to upgrade WLB, sign him up!!

It was authorized by the WH. Specifically, the WH Military Officer Louis Caldera. His statement... "Last week, I approved a mission over New York. I take responsibility for that decision," White House Military Office director Louis Caldera said. "While federal authorities took the proper steps to notify state and local authorities in New York and New Jersey, its clear that the mission created confusion and disruption. I apologize and take responsibility for any distress that flight caused." Of course, this is the same Louis Caldera who served board of directors for IndyMac Bank from 2002 until its failure and subsequent seizure by the government in July 2008. In other words, he was there for the entire housing bubble while the bank destroyed itself. Apparently, the problem was that the WH informed certain agencies in the city and told the city if they made it public it would be a Federal crime. Working in Lower Manhattan for a large company, we get email messages all the time about various government operations/mass transit etc. If this email had been disseminated prior to 10 AM, noone would have cared or jumped. As it is, below is a copy of the email I received (note the time, after the flyover)... Here's a link to the Post story about what happened. Big communication fumble here. http://www.nypost.com/seven/04282009/news/...city_166544.htm

This story did not make much of a national ripple today (to my knowledge), but someone's head really needs to roll here. Not a very good idea to have a low flying jumbo jet across lower manhattan that looks like it is being chased by an F-16....no, not a good idea at all. The video of it... http://www.businessinsider.com/first-video...ne-video-2009-4

LT Jones LG Wood C Hamgartner RG Butler RT Walker with Levitre, Chambers, Simmons and Bell on the bench... me likely!

Care to share any experience of watching this guy firsthand?

Not Jonas (even for 8 games)?

Anyone who does not work out ends up as an "F." If Pennington was even remotely decent, the Bills would not have cut him after 7 games or another NFL team would have picked him up. Teams do find useful players in the 7th round, especially special teamers. We have not done that in the 7th round in the two drafts you mentioned.

Three years ago ('06): 1 (8) - Donte Whitner, S - B 1 (26) - John McCargo, DT - D- 3 (70) - Ashton Youboty, CB - C 4 (105) - Ko Simpson, S - D 5 (134) - Kyle Williams, DT - B+ 5 (143) - Brad Butler, OL - A- 6 (178) - Keith Ellison, LB - B 7 (216) - Terrance Pennington, OT - F 7 (248) - Aaron Merz, G - F Two years ago ('07) 1 (12) - Marshawn Lynch, RB - A- 2 (34) - Paul Posluszny, LB - C 3 (92) - Trent Edwards, QB - B- 4 (111) - Dwayne Wright, RB - F 6 (184) - John Wendling, S - B- 7 (222) - Derek Schouman, TE - C- 7 (239) - C.J. Ah You, DE - F

Not gonna argue, more time to play 18 before the game in the nice weather.

Has anyone watched this guy play? Is he good? He seems to be decent by virtue of SEA's franchise tag and the 81 tackles in 12 games, but I was hoping for a bit more of a first-hand view.

I know we really didn't get much from the draft regarding LBs. After taking Curry, SEA took the tag off of LeRoy Hill, their starting WLB. Since we have a need, is this a guy we should look at? I ask because I have never seen him play. http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news;_ylt=AjGT...p&type=lgns EDIT: Sorry Mods, I missed the otehr thread, please delete.

I love the "won't please the fans" or "not the sexiest pick" in regards to OL....we've all been screaming for OL for years.

Id love McKenzie

Because Texas players make crappy pros.

Who are the 4 idiots who voted against this?

Finally!! Now take Britton in Round 2! No DBs until the 6th...if at all. Big guys, big guys, big guys....

Steamer?

It will be Ayers and Pettigrew at 28. I actually would not be suprised if there was a bit of discussion between the Bills and Eagles over 21, Bills saying we'll take 28 if you agree not to grab Pettigrew at 21, Eagles say...OK, because staying at 21 gives them a better at RB Moreno or Wells.

I completely agree. I read another interesting piece concerning how a state like MD may clear quicker than others because of their laws regarding tax liens. This piece explains the process a bit, I have to say I'm a bit intrigued.

I think Cuomo was trying to score some cheap political points against Lewis and ended up digging up a big fish.. The summary... Lewis claimed Paulson threatened his job if he did not go through with the Merrill deal. Paulson told Cuomo that Bernanke made him threaten Lewis' job. Lewis, thoroughly disregarding his fiduciary duty to shareholders, go ahead with the Merrill deal, furtehr killing BoA stock price. Cuomo sends angry letter to regulators (attached below). Paulson recants statement that Bernanke authorized the threat. I think we may have a problem here....get ready to spend some TARP money on criminal lawyers. http://www.scribd.com/doc/14564832/BofAmergLetter Marc Rich says Switzerland is wonderful for about a decade.