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To heck with Vermont and the Dairy Compact!
Vanity
| 11/7/02
| DWPittelli
Posted on 11/07/2002 12:05:41 PM PST by DWPittelli
Now that the Senate is run by Republicans, I say it's time to take revenge on perhaps the two most obnoxious U.S. Senators; both, as it happens, from Vermont: turncoat Jim Jeffords and Judiciary obstructor Patrick Leahy.
Now, I'm not saying we should send in troops to rape and loot their state. Or even that Vermont shouldn't get what should be coming to them like any other state (e.g., highway funds). But why should we maintain a Socialist scheme that was created merely to subsidize Vermont's dairy farmers?
I say the Senate should insist on totally eliminating the Dairy Compact. It's bad enough to have to pay off your "friends." Why pay off your enemies? Milk is sweet. Revenge is sweeter.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Vermont
KEYWORDS: jeffords; leahy; milk; vermont
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To: DWPittelli
> I'm not saying we should send in troops to rape and loot their state.
Any particular reason why not? Sounds like a plan to me.
Then give bovine growth hormone to all the cows so that liberals will have to boycott Vermont dairy products. Too bad, Ben and Jerry.
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posted on
11/07/2002 12:11:20 PM PST
by
T'wit
To: DWPittelli
Why pay off your enemies? Milk is sweet. Revenge is sweeter.
Milk isn't even sweet. It's heavy and mucusy and fatty and fit to consume only if you steam the hell out of it and add a few espresso shots. Oh, and only if it flows comes from the Midwest, the red zone, the Bush belt, God's country, the heartland, the land-o'-the-big-sky, where the free and the brave frolic like cheribum amidst hearts and stars and rainbows and feelings of general good will for all humankind.
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posted on
11/07/2002 12:12:32 PM PST
by
Asclepius
To: DWPittelli
Even better, use the threat to control Leahy on judicial appointments.
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posted on
11/07/2002 12:13:20 PM PST
by
BuddhaBoy
To: DWPittelli
Midwestern farmers would love it. Jeffords needs to be punished severely.
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posted on
11/07/2002 12:18:19 PM PST
by
Solson
To: BuddhaBoy
What does the ranking
minority member of the Judiciary committee have to do with judicial appointments?
He can't stop them now.
To: T'wit
I'm not saying we should send in troops to rape and loot their state.
Any particular reason why not? Sounds like a plan to me. Well, my father has a ski house near Rutland. It's already been looted by burgulars.
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posted on
11/07/2002 12:18:46 PM PST
by
JAWs
To: DWPittelli
Do it for the children!
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posted on
11/07/2002 12:19:17 PM PST
by
JAWs
To: JAWs
Sounds like a plan.
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posted on
11/07/2002 12:20:35 PM PST
by
B-bone
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To: DWPittelli
But why should we maintain a Socialist scheme that was created merely to subsidize Vermont's dairy farmers? Of course it was Ben and Jerry that was behind this legislation, another reason to boycott Ben and Jerry's.
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posted on
11/07/2002 12:24:19 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: DWPittelli
One problem. It no longer exists. The federal legislation authorizing the Compact expired in September 2001.
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posted on
11/07/2002 12:25:32 PM PST
by
NC28203
To: DWPittelli
I have remarked before that it is too bad Vermont does not have a coastline. We could use it as a replacement for the controversial naval bombardment range at Vieques, Puerto Rico.
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posted on
11/07/2002 12:26:18 PM PST
by
blau993
To: DWPittelli
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posted on
11/07/2002 12:32:49 PM PST
by
Grit
To: NC28203
So if we do nothing, then the compact goes away?
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posted on
11/07/2002 12:35:43 PM PST
by
fooman
To: fooman
It's already gone.
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posted on
11/07/2002 12:39:29 PM PST
by
NC28203
To: Grit
http://www.dairycompact.org/
Congressional authorization for the Northeast Dairy Compact has expired. The Commission is
no longer doing business. For information please contact the Center for New England Dairy
Compact Research, Inc.
(802) 229-0620
64 Main Street, Rm. 21
Montpelier, VT 05602
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posted on
11/07/2002 12:40:11 PM PST
by
UB355
To: DWPittelli
To: NC28203
Best for us to stay quiet on this issue. The farmers will blame Jumpin Jim.
We have to take him out in 06 now and we do not want antognize the voters.
If the gov is likable maybe Carl R will give him the call in 06.
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posted on
11/07/2002 12:44:02 PM PST
by
fooman
To: DWPittelli
The dairy compact was (and its replacement is) an effort to turn Vermont farmers, into welfare cases. Vermont, since the Civil War, had been staunchly Republican. Only after an influx of Massholes and big government giveaways to farmers did VT become so liberal.
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