I've spent my last money at Home Depot

[Dees]

After watching Bob Nardelli sucking up to monkeyNuts today on C span.

[WindRavenX]

1. good

Home Depot gives almost exclusively to Republican donors.

[BattyDem]

5. Oh shit! I didn't know that

I'm running out of places to shop, LOL!

[donheld]

9. We all are

Is there any place that is Democrat friendly?

[Digit]

2. Geez, at first I thought you were SPENDING money there...

I jumped in to warn you.
Carry on.

[GainesT1958]

3. That jerk got just what he paid for from Dub...

AND all his Repub buddies in Congress with that $44 million tax break to import all those ceiling fans from China. Wish I could get $44 million to make something--anything--over HERE!:mad:

SUUURE the economy looks great to HIM...until the bottom drops out of the housing market, of course!:eyes:

B-)

[Bozita]

4. I don't shop at places that go through my bags after checking out

There are more effective, less intrusive ways to control theft.

[Stinky The Clown]

6. What's the Lowedown on Lowe's?

I have both near me. I need to shop at one of them. I **know** Home Depot (and their high money/robber baron sub, Home Expo) is BushBlowJobber. What about Lowe's?

[blue sky at night]

7. walmart owns..........

lowes, i am almost certain, but I am still looking into it. They are almost alway adjacent when new stores are built.

[stranger_with_candy]

12. i think that's just an urban legend

where i live all the new lowe's go up next to target. i think the only similarities between lowe's and wal-mart are that they are both painted blue.

[Liberty Belle]

8. Lowe's is as bad as Home Depot!

I found this on "Smirkingchimp.com":

I'm targeting Lowe's because Robert Strickland, a longtime executive with the company who helped build Lowe's, is on the business advisory board of the Federalist Society. The society is celebrating 20 years and has brought us such closet Nazis as Antonin Scalia, Ted Olsen, Kenneth Starr, and Robert Bork. Moreover, the society has continually hounded Clinton with frivolous lawsuits and pushed for many un-democratic laws to benefit an elite few. The group is a cancer on our country.

I'm targeting Home Depot because co-founders Bernard Marcus and Ken Langone were two of the biggest individual donors to the RepublicaNazi Party between 1997 and 2000, helping it subvert democracy and steal the White House in 2000. Marcus gave a whopping $503,550 to Republican committees and candidates during those years, while Langone gave about $100,000. If I target Lowe's it's only fair I target one of their biggest competitors that is just as close to the far right.

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/article.php?thold=-1&mode=nested&order=0&sid=8031

So, where the heck do we buy all our home improvement stuff?

[Stinky The Clown]

11. Sheesh

I have a large Ace Hardware close, too. But they just don't have as much stuff as either Lowes or the Depot. I *do* go the the Ace first if there's a chance they'll have what I need. But alas, we're homeowners in the middle of a whole house remodeling (been ongoing for a few years) and we also own a rowhouse in Baltimore that my son and I are rehabbing. I may just be willing to go to several local businesses that specialize in different trade needs. That's a pain in the ass, but its probably better than feeding that damned beast.

[Dees]

10. It's getting bad. No Lowes, Home Depot, Sam's,

or Supercenter. Costco is Dem friendly but I think they are just a big box and carry little hardware. I would love to shop local but honestly the local hardware stores don't carry jack squat. Really going to have to get inventive.

[GRLMGC]

13. They also have questionable employees

I know this probably doesn't go here but it's a good Home Depot story nevertheless. My friend sells carpeting and a woman he was selling carpeting to relayed this story to him.Keep in mind that this woman is a little chubby. Basically, she said she was never shopping at Home Depot again because of this following conversation:
Her: Can you put carpeting over tile?

Employee:Sure, we can put carpeting over anything. We can even put carpeting over you. Size doesn't matter.

Her: Okay, I'm leaving

Emp: What did I say?

[Dees]

14. More....

Cronies Converge

The White House claims this week's economic conference will feature a "wide range of people from the business community." In fact, it is little more than a gathering of corporate cronies, ex- campaign surrogates and political contributors. (The event does provide insight into Bush's priorities. He has made time on his schedule to attend panel on Social Security privatization and tort reform, but will skip the panels on "Making Health Care More Affordable" and "The State of Our Economy.") All told, the 35 individuals participating in the conference, and the companies they represent have showered the president with $388,340 for his presidential campaigns. The elite group will undoubtedly paper over the disastrous effects Bush's economic policies have had on the middle class. Here are some things you might not know about a few of the participants:

AT HOME IN THE WHITE HOUSE: Home Depot's CEO, Bob Nardelli, will need no introduction when he sits with President Bush on the panel on "lawsuit abuse" today. Nardelli hosted a fundraiser with Bush in May, pulling in $3.2 million for GOP candidates. Nardelli's company, Home Depot, has donated $1.5 million to the Republican Party since 1999 and "during that time, no candidate has benefited from Home Depot's largesse more than Bush." But Home Depot has received a great return on its investment: in October, Congress secured a $44 million subsidy for Chinese ceiling fans, of which Home Depot is one of the main beneficiaries. Nardelli and his wife, Susan, have donated $76,000 to GOP coffers.