Hawaii GOP sees good omen in mainland victories - Hawaii News

they was the anointed one has run this country with no improvement in our bad economy may be right. The only way to equally take care of every US citizen is to socialize everything. Make everyone equal, wear the same clothes, eat the same food, earn the same money no matter what profession you're in, etc.

Make us Zombie's

whoops again, I'd better go take a nap as its way past my bedtime.

good morning everyone

The GOP, now the party of racial intolerance, class discrimination, gun nuttery and magical thinking about the effect on climate by human industrial activity, is capable of great self delusion. It's future is just about as promising as the future of the Federalist party in the 1830s. It is in its death throes.

Omen?

No omen. Everybody who loves Freedom, HATES the Hawaii Democrats.

Here's some "slam-jive" rap so popular today:

Political hack
Democrat
Rat

Union ho
Hawaiian in toe
Mufi on knees
blow, blow, blow

No vote
Give up
Hack in da house
as right, yup

Better chill
Akaka bill
make you ill
sewer spill

Train
down the drain
tax payer rip off
you in pain

Ala Wai
full of kukae
honor ancestors
candles and lanterns
float nearby

Think you high
no, das fumes from
da Ala Wai

kanaka why why
from the see to da sky
no block traffic
county workers
make you cry.

West side is still Waianae
Hip hop junk
full of light weights p.u.n.k.

You get mahu motion
go jump in da ocean
take your meat
down to Hotel Street

If Hawaii's GOP sees a good thing on the mainland, they haven't looked at the picture very well. Take the election in New Jersey as an example. New Jersey has the highest property taxes in the nation. The people are drowning in taxes. The state is drowning in debt. Much of that debt is to public employees. A house in (example) Montville, New Jersey assessed at 500,000 dollars has property taxes of 7,500 dollars for this year. That is why the people voted Republican. The problem is, the Republican will make no change either. The taxes have been high since the last Republican, Christy Todd Whitman. So, local GOP, do your homework before you spout hopes.

Only 20% of the US population admits to being Republican. The GOP failed miserably since 2001 and there is no light at the end of the tunnle for the "party of no".

The Democratic Party is not much better, but who really wants illegal wars, torture, war crimes, abhorent family values and the lying to the American People that the GOP thrives on.

Sorry GOP - you have no leadership, you have no plans for healthcare or Afghanistan and you have no followers. Palin, Limbaugh and a host of neocons tried to sway the New York 23rd district race and they lost. NJ and Virginia were votes for change from the aristocratic Dems, nothing more.

governor lingle has single handedly killed the republican party in hawaii.
i am a conservative. but i don't believe in cutting classroom day for the keiki or laying off dedicated workers. at the same time raising taxes and spending billions on a rail system that we all know will do nothing to ease traffic.
i predict hawaii having NO republican legislators after the next elections.

Gubernatorial is the States politics!
Next Year will be interesting.
Politics! the Rhetorics! the mudslinging! Elephants beware!!!!

This is a one Party state. The Lingle experiment is a miserable failure. I voted for her twice. When she dumped Awana, everything changed for the direction of the Administration. She is a bitter woman hurting the children now. The GOP is a non-entity and we all know it. The Hawaii Democratic Party is a big enough tent for Conservative Democrats, too. The roots are in the 442. They are not so different from local Conservatives. Mufi is our next Governor and the GOP will shrink in both Houses because of Lingle's personality disorder. Have a nice day. :)

If you did some research on google which states have the highest tax and strong union there is a common denominator. Hawaii has the highest tax according to Forbes magazine.

Until the Hawaii GOP can convince the non-Haole business owners that their financial future is more important their ethnic allegiance, the GOP in Hawaii will continue to be a fringe, Kahala-Hawaii Kai Haole super minority.

As small business is constantly under assault by the Union loving Plantation Asian Democrats, there is never a base of small business owners large enough to create a viable second party.

Not to mention, I think those 2 republicans in the house and senate actually enjoy being the only republicans because it automatically gives them more power than they would have as a no-seniority Democrat.

The Hawaii GOP can go fly a kite.

Truth Hurts wrote:

This is a one Party state. The Lingle experiment is a miserable failure. I voted for her twice. When she dumped Awana, everything changed for the direction of the Administration. She is a bitter woman hurting the children now. The GOP is a non-entity and we all know it. The Hawaii Democratic Party is a big enough tent for Conservative Democrats, too. The roots are in the 442. They are not so different from local Conservatives. Mufi is our next Governor and the GOP will shrink in both Houses because of Lingle's personality disorder. Have a nice day.:)

well true. Lingle has destroyed the Republican Party. She was always about herself, never about Hawaii or the hapless Republicans.

The country suffers while dumbama golfs, tennis, and goofs off. :)

alice wrote:

<quoted text>well true. Lingle has destroyed the Republican Party. She was always about herself, never about Hawaii or the hapless Republicans.

yes..she could nopt care less about Hawaii.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

State income tax is an income tax in the United States that is levied by each individual state. Seven states choose to impose no income tax. These states are Alaska, Florida, Nevada, South Dakota, Texas, Washington, and Wyoming.

As of May of 2009, the highest rate of state income tax is that of Hawaii, with a maximum rate of 11%. Of those states which impose an income tax, the lowest maximum rate is that of Illinois, which levies a flat tax of 3%. Most states (34) have a progressive income tax, where the rates rise as the income grows higher. In California, for instance, the rate for a single person begins at 1% at $6,622 in income and rises to 9.3% over $44,814[2]. In 2005, California added a mental health tax of 1% on incomes greater than $1 million, making the marginal income tax rate in that state 10.3% at the extreme income ranges

Truth Hurts wrote:

This is a one Party state. The Lingle experiment is a miserable failure. I voted for her twice. When she dumped Awana, everything changed for the direction of the Administration. She is a bitter woman hurting the children now. The GOP is a non-entity and we all know it. The Hawaii Democratic Party is a big enough tent for Conservative Democrats, too. The roots are in the 442. They are not so different from local Conservatives. Mufi is our next Governor and the GOP will shrink in both Houses because of Lingle's personality disorder. Have a nice day.:)

If we are stupid enough to elect his "honor" as governor we deserve to be a bankrupt state. Most want him out of office NOW as he is forcing this train and the billions of dollars of debt on taxpayers who do not want the thing. And there will be no money to pay this debt, it will be the kiss of death for tourism if the runaway construction he promoted for his developer and union pals has not done that already.
Runs in the family, brother spent $13 million sent to American Samoa for warning system on vehicles, flat tvs and furniture. Said deaths from tsunami due to no warning are NO BIG DEAL.

Wonder who pays for this little operation?
"Gus Hanneman & Associates Business InformationClaim This Profile
Gus Hanneman & Associates is a private company categorized under Consultants-Business (Unclassified) and located in Honolulu, HI. Current estimates show this company has an annual revenue of $200,000 and employs a staff of approximately 1."

Lingle signed into law Mufi's enormous tax bill. The economy has been heading south ever since...check the stats on this.

Supporters of the Republican and Democratic Parties are cherry-picking Tuesday night's election results. They are focusing on examples that support their conclusions, but they are ignoring contradictory evidence.

Democrats expectedly lost two governorships (Virginia and New Jersey). And they unexpectedly won the 23rd District Congressional election, and they are gratefully thanking Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and the Tea Bag Party activists who bit themselves in the okole and took a chunk of flesh. If the Republicans lose legislative roll call votes by one or two votes in the House of Representatives, they can thank themselves. However, the Democrats will probably lose the 2010 election in the traditionally-Republican 23rd Congressional District, just as they will probably lose Congressional seats won by by less than 1 or 2% in 2008.

If voter turnout by people over age 18 on Tuesday is any indicator, a majority of voters are less than inspired by BOTH of those political parties.

Even in the 2008 Presidential Elections, the percentage of people 18-30 who voted was up only a smidgen compared with the previous election.

If the Tea Bag Party runs candidates in 2010, they should hope that the same thing happens to the Democrats.

Meanwhile, voters who convinced themselves that Obama was some kind of an anti-war candidate in 2008 may or not vote for him or his endorsed candidates in 2010 and 2012.

On the one hand, if the economy gradually continues to improve and if voters can sense the improvement, that will be to Obama's advantage.

Right now, Obama's closest advisors seem to be calibrating the economic stimulus, the minimum numbers of currently uninsured people who will get health insurance, and the minimum number of additional troops to Afghanistan that won't piss off too many voters. Clearly, Obama wishes to avoid ending up like Lyndon Johnson in 1968.

justice wrote:

governor lingle has single handedly killed the republican party in hawaii.
i am a conservative. but i don't believe in cutting classroom day for the keiki or laying off dedicated workers. at the same time raising taxes and spending billions on a rail system that we all know will do nothing to ease traffic.
i predict hawaii having NO republican legislators after the next elections.

Single handedly? No offense, the year before she took office there were two senate republicans and a handful of republican reps. All four of the congressional delkegation were democrats. Nevermind that since Quinn, no Republican had ever came close to winning the Governorship. Republicans killed the republican party. That would include all of us. The Governor actually just delayed the inevitable.