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Monday, November 10, 2008


Diane Feinstein Wants To Make Free Trade A Crime

If Senator Feinstein gets her way, if you sell your ticket to Obama’s inauguration to someone else you should be guilty of a federal crime.

WASHINGTON (AP)—The senator overseeing Barack Obama’s swearing-in ceremony is writing to Internet sites like eBay asking them not to sell scalped inauguration tickets.

Senator Dianne Feinstein of California is also writing a bill that would make it a federal crime to scalp tickets to the historic event January 20.

Feinstein, who chairs the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, says she foresees overwhelming demand for the 240,000 available tickets and has heard reports of them being sold for as much as $40,000 online.
The tickets are supposed to be free to the public and distributed through congressional offices. The offices won’t get the tickets until shortly before the inauguration, to try to prevent scalping.

But what if some poor person sells their ticket and uses it to buy food?  Or pay down their credit card debt?  Doesn’t that stimulate the economy?

Why can’t free citizens trade with other free citizens without US Senators getting involved?

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The message is obvious! It’s alright for our politicians to suck money out of everything that passes through their hands, but not for the ‘common citizen’.

Who does it harm to sell a free ticket to a willing buyer?

Typical elitist attitude…. get used to it…. plenty of hypocritical, nanny-state, crapola to go around…
 
Personally, I would like to see that only households that have paid income tax during the current election cycle have an eligibility to vote. No parasites allowed to influence public policy!

Additionally, I would move the income tax filing date to the Friday before the election…...

but that’s just me….
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Rabid American on November 11, 2008 at 05:03 am
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Those who have the ability, also have the responsibility. Presidential Succession Act.  Figure it out.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Succession_Act .

6ftRabbit on November 11, 2008 at 05:42 am

Who would be stupid enough to pay for free tickets? Oh, yea. Democrats. What morons.


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2Hotel9 on November 11, 2008 at 05:49 am

False idol worship

Mickey on November 11, 2008 at 06:07 am

Yeah, Mickey….... and they’re willing to pay for it too…..
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Rabid American on November 11, 2008 at 06:33 am

That face should be a crime.

I mean, I’m no sunny day at the beach but….yeesh.


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Pilgrim on November 11, 2008 at 06:43 am
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Do you think that maybe Di-Fi is trying to keep out the riff raff? Recent history tells us that certain members of her party were willing to sneak members of Code Pink into Senate hearings and infiltrate the Republican convention.

Maybe she’s afraid that the same tactic would be used by dissident (and rowdy) voices in the Democratic coalition, if they had access (and cash for a ticket), to raise a banner or two, maybe voice a contrarian point of view and mar the coronation of King Obama I ?

William “Cold Cash” Jefferson would probably sell his tickets for cash in a heartbeat!


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Proof on November 11, 2008 at 06:54 am

Hey, guys! This is a “Historical” event. Isn’t Obama the first 44th male President to be inaugurated?  It is 44 isn’t it?

Zsa Zsa on November 11, 2008 at 08:20 am

But what if some poor person sells their ticket and uses it to buy food?  Or pay down their credit card debt?  Doesn’t that stimulate the economy?

What if some poor person robs a bank or steals an old lady’s purse and uses the money to buy food? Doesn’t that stimulate the economy?

Oswaldo on November 11, 2008 at 11:18 am
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What if some poor person robs a bank or steals an old lady’s purse and uses the money to buy food? Doesn’t that stimulate the economy?

If it wasn’t for ad absurdum, Oswaldo would have no reductio at all!


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Proof on November 11, 2008 at 12:22 pm

osmoron, that is the position of your Party, the Democrat Party. Moral relativism. That is your morality. You most be so proud of your Party, the Democrat Party.


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2Hotel9 on November 11, 2008 at 06:16 pm

Diane Feinstein should butt out. If someone is stupid enough to pay $2,000.00 for a free ticket, its his money. People do shit like this every day. It is no crime.

ollie-B on November 11, 2008 at 09:30 pm
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Diane Feinstein should butt out. If someone is stupid enough to pay $2,000.00 for a free ticket, its (sic) his money. People do shit like this every day. It is no crime.

Oddly enough, I agree with ollie! (His sentiment, not the language or the punctuation!)


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Proof on November 11, 2008 at 10:10 pm
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I can’t believe I’m agreeing w/ Ollie, also. Pilgrim, you were right about Feinstein. Her face along with Pelosi’s and Sheehan’s are nightmare inducing. The three of them make Hillary look like a babe, and that’s saying something!

di butler on November 12, 2008 at 12:40 am

DiFi’s problem with all this is she ain’t getting a cut. Give her a % off the backside and she will be silent as the grave and happy as a clam in mud.


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2Hotel9 on November 12, 2008 at 03:59 am
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Did Feinstein’s bill pass? Is it illegal to see inaugural tickets? Got a link to this info?

nick on November 24, 2008 at 09:30 am
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