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Getbig Main Boards => Politics and Political Issues Board => Topic started by: Soul Crusher on August 06, 2011, 10:19:37 PM
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http://www.theblaze.com/stories/small-businesswoman-rips-obama-and-calls-on-him-to-apologize-to-america
Wow. Awesome clip. She nails that commie dirtbag to the wall.
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Bump for blacken.
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it would be a little more truthfull if she was on 8 years ago when this thing was really getting out of control.now it just looks like repub talking points.oh was that on fox news :D :D
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it would be a little more truthfull if she was on 8 years ago when this thing was really getting out of control.now it just looks like repub talking points.oh was that on fox news :D :D
Tell me what she is wrong about.
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she sould have been saying this 8 years ago
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she sould have been saying this 8 years ago
Maybe she did. Again, what is she wrong about.
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Maybe she did. Again, what is she wrong about.
Notice this clown never actually refutes anything? Nothing but straw man arguments.
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she makes it sound like it's happen in the last two years,why don't she ask bush to apologize she comes across as a repub hack. she says we need true leadership,so was bush a true leader.fox news need i say more ;D
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she makes it sound like it's happen in the last two years,why don't she ask bush to apologize she comes across as a repub hack. she says we need true leadership,so was bush a true leader.fox news need i say more ;D
It DID happen in the past two years !!!! Blacken, are you a fucking financial ignoramous??? Do youknow how to read a fucking balance sheet? Do you go your entire life without ANY debt? Most people dont. Its ok to have SOME debt. Get it??? In 2000 when we were running surpluses, buyers of bonds were complaining that there werent enough treasuries to buy!!! Now, granted, that's a good problem, but the point is that SOME debt is ok, managable, and even GOOD. Deficits under Bush were OK and MANAGABLE. Do you understand anything about fucking scale? Do you know the difference between $450 billion and $1,500 billion????? Can you fucking add and subtract? Do you know math? Do you think math is fucking racist???? Face it. Your hero is a failure.
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It DID happen in the past two years !!!! Blacken, are you a fucking financial ignoramous??? Do youknow how to read a fucking balance sheet? Do you go your entire life without ANY debt? Most people dont. Its ok to have SOME debt. Get it??? In 2000 when we were running surpluses, buyers of bonds were complaining that there werent enough treasuries to buy!!! Now, granted, that's a good problem, but the point is that SOME debt is ok, managable, and even GOOD. Deficits under Bush were OK and MANAGABLE. Do you understand anything about fucking scale? Do you know the difference between $450 billion and $1,500 billion????? Can you fucking add and subtract? Do you know math? Do you think math is fucking racist???? Face it. Your hero is a failure.
hahaha so all this happen in two years. the dumbing down of the repub party
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hahaha so all this happen in two years. the dumbing down of the repub party
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Love that guys clips.
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LOL just noticed the end of the clip has a website come up called "politicalMATH..."
maybe blackass thinks math is racist too?
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333... and tonyctones
I always think of this when I see you guys talking to each other on a thread.
Just vile haters who spew wickedness from about 6 in the morning to 10 at night.
Seriously guys, go outside or something.
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A Failed Presidency -- The American Problem
Yahoo ^ | 8/6/11 | John Mariotti - Forbes
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Few Americans needed Standard & Poor to confirm the mismanagement of the United States government and its finances. The downgrading of American credit will raise interest rates on America’s huge debt and ultimately on all Americans. Popular polls say that most Americans blame Congress—but that’s too simplistic. As much as Barack Obama would like to shift that blame onto Congress, the fault lies squarely on the shoulders of President. It is first and foremost a leadership problem that is crippling America—and the leader is President Barack Obama—not the many members of Congress.
No matter how many speeches he makes, the conclusion is clear: Obama’s greatest failure is spending America into enormous deficits, and being clueless about how to get the economy to recover. His speeches, riddled with “I” and “We” are mostly serving to indict him for his failings. Appearing on TV more than any other sitting president, Barack Obama is constantly “explaining” why things aren’t working, when he should be working on what to do different and better.
Instead he is “campaigning,” which is the only thing he knows how to do reasonable well. But he can’t fix the economy; he has neither the experience nor the knowhow to do it. His failed, misguided policies have only exacerbated the size of his mistakes and shortcomings.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
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Funny too - when he gave that bogus speech on the jobs numbers it was all we and they, not I and me.
Does this fraud really think we don't notice these things?
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hahaha Speaker Tan Man said he got 98% of what he wanted in this bill...hahahahah "oh well blame Obama anyway"...hahahahaha
Shit it hilarious...
"it only started 2 years ago"...HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA please tell me youre joking..ahahah...ok,,time to get up and go to work...good early morning laugh
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hahaha Speaker Tan Man said he got 98% of what he wanted in this bill...hahahahah "oh well blame Obama anyway"...hahahahaha
Shit it hilarious...
"it only started 2 years ago"...HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA please tell me youre joking..ahahah...ok,,time to get up and go to work...good early morning laugh
Hey moron - had obama simply got behind his own simpson bowles commission, got behind paul ryan's plan, or got behind cut cap and balance, we would have retained our AAA rating.
And what did this piece of garbage spend two years doing? Health Care, Cap & Trade, spending money like a crack whore in harlem who won lotto, starting new wars, etc.
He has no one to blame but himself.
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Hey moron - had obama simply got behind his own simpson bowles commission, got behind paul ryan's plan, or got behind cut cap and balance, we would have retained our AAA rating.
And what did this piece of garbage spend two years doing? Health Care, Cap & Trade, spending money like a crack whore in harlem who won lotto, starting new wars, etc.
He has no one to blame but himself.
more party line thinking the dumbing down of the repub party do you know who said that give you a hint it wasn't a dem
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hahaha all this happen nothing was made worse in the last two years. the dumbing down of the repub party democratic party.
FIXED.
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FIXED.
retard :D :D :D alert
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Awesome clip. Nails ObamAA+ to the wall.
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retard :D :D :D alert
Your mother should have swallowed. Or aborted you.
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Ah, nice to see you up early, bro.
I think if you work really hard today (and take a little breather from all of your lawyer duties) you can post at least 750 objects on these bodybuilding message boards.
Just think it's great that you have such an understanding girlfriend and that your business can be put on hold (for years at a time) while you change the world on here.
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Ah, nice to see you up early, bro.
I think if you work really hard today (and take a little breather from all of your lawyer duties) you can post at least 750 objects on these bodybuilding message boards.
Just think it's great that you have such an understanding girlfriend and that your business can be put on hold (for years at a time) while you change the world on here.
Woosh
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Woosh
When you cant refute anything, attack me personally. how original. ::) ::)
Hey by the way - you always attack me for saying the sky isd falling. well, we just lost our AAA rating due to your messiahs' reckless disregard for basic math over the past years.
Employment is getting worse.
So at what point do you admit you were wrong?
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When you cant refute anything, attack me personally. how original. ::) ::)
Hey by the way - you always attack me for saying the sky isd falling. well, we just lost our AAA rating due to your messiahs' reckless disregard for basic math over the past years.
Employment is getting worse.
So at what point do you admit you were wrong?
John Boehner got 98% of what he wanted.. correct
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SPEAKER JOHN BOEHNER – FAIL
posted by AWD 4:10 PM
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
BOEHNER - TEARS OF JOY WHILE AMERICA WEEPS!
The fact that Speaker of the House John “Boo Hoo” Boehner says he got 98% of what he wanted in the debt limit deal tells us he is the wrong person to be the House Speaker! It also shows Boehner is the wrong person for membership in the Republican party. Three years ago, the Great American RINO Newt Gingrich said the Republican “tent” needs to be large enough to include turncoats like Colin Powell. The Republicans needed “moderates” (read: Democrats) to be successful in winning elections. Wrong! The days when RINO “good ol’ boys” reach across the aisle to work with their good friends on the left to screw America are over! Almost. Many more lifetime corruptocrats will have to be retired before we have the right statesmen to lead us. This terrible deal to give Obama another $2 trillion to “spread around” before the 2012 election may end up finally destroying the full faith and credit of America. If not, well, they certainly have given it their best shot!
The debt deal is a total disaster zone. There will be no spending cuts. Already, they are counting money they don’t plan to spend in foreign wars in ten years as spending cuts! That’s like saying “I didn’t buy a Mercedes today and I won’t for the next ten years so I just saved one million dollars!” The baseline budgeting process used by the federal government automatically increases every budget from 3% to 10% each year! So government is in perpetual growth mode. Future congresses are not bound by the current one. So these promised spending cuts are nothing more than vapor. Vapor cuts!
Boehner brags there will be no new taxes. Right! The Bush tax cuts expire in January 2013 and were not included in this agreement. Think the “super Congress” of 12 Washington corrupt insiders will include any fiscal conservatives? Hell no! The tools named to the super Congress will most likely jack up taxes further destroying our weak economy so Boehner can shrug his narrow shoulders and say, “hey, wasn’t me!”
John Boehner lied to us before and he will lie to us again. The Republicans promised to cut spending in 2011 by $100 billion if returned to power in the House. Actual laughable cuts during the Continuing Resolution process were $353 million! We have a deficit if $1.65 trillion this year!! Why even bother? Republicans also committed to post each bill online for 72 hours before voting. This debt limit deal was rushed through and we still don’t know what’s in it. Just like what occurred with the Stimulus and ObamaCare!
This debt limit deal was done behind closed doors with 4 people negotiating a $2 trillion increase to Washington’s credit limit. Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell and John Boehner. I wouldn’t allow any of those people around my children! And Obama will spend every penny before the next election! It is a total destruction of the American dollar!
(The following is shamelessly plagiarized from an Ann Barnhardt American Thinker article titled “ We The Stupid” with the words changed around so you will think I’m the author of this brilliance when I’m really not. It was the best of plagiarisms…it was the worst of plagiarisms) Does anyone really think about how much money $2 trillion is? For reference, the total GDP of China is $6 trillion. The GDP of Canada is $1.54 trillion. Russia, $1.46. Who is going to lend us $2 trillion? If any country was stupid enough to do so, they wouldn’t have the money to make it happen! So, where will the money come from? Answer? The Fed. The Fed will click a computer button and, magically, two trillion dollars will appear out of thin air. Isn’t pretend money wonderful? But there will be no pretending when gasoline is $7 per gallon and milk is $8. Or higher.
John Boehner is 98% satisfied with this disastrous bill which signals he is 98% the wrong man to be in Congress and 100% the wrong man to be Speaker! Every Republican who voted for this bill, including the so-called “tea party” Congressmen, must face a primary challenger and be defeated. Once again, the Republicans have sold us out and played into the hands of the Democrats. Some things are as constant as Rosie O’Donnell is ugly. Wussypants Republicans selling out conservatives more predictable than Rosie and her bad case of ugly!
The mainstream press is busy today saying the tea party won. That means the tea party lost. No, the tea party didn’t win. The debt limit was raised and no cuts to spending will occur. We lost. America lost. Big time. The tea party will win when RINOs like John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, John McCain, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Orrin Hatch, Lindsey Graham, Olympia Snowe, Kay Bailout Hutchinson, John Cornyn and other RINOs too numerous to write are gone! We then can begin rebuilding from the destruction of the greatest wealth creation machine in history at the hands of incompetent and corrupt politicians.
John Boehner. 98% satisfied. FAIL!
http://angrywhitedude.com/2011/08/speaker-john-boehner-fail/
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John Boehner got 98% of what he wanted.. correct
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And what does that say that Obama agreed to it?
hhhhmmmmm????
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http://www.truth-out.org/news-thom-hartmann/1312296063
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Thom Hartmann here – on the news…
You need to know this. The right-wingers are gloating. After the Republican-written debt-limit deal passed the House of Representatives yesterday with half of the Democratic caucus giving in – Republicans are soaking in their victory. The deal still has one final hurdle in the Senate with a vote set for noon today – but in an interview with CBS News – Speaker of the House John Boehner bragged that he got 98% of what he wanted in the debt-limit deal. And Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told Fox so-called News that since the hostage taking worked – they’d be trying it again soon. McConnell said about the debate, “It set the template for the future… we’ll be doing it all over [again].” So here we had a clean debt-limit hike offered by Republicans a few weeks back and shot down by the President – and then a debt-limit hike that included 15% revenue raisers shot down by the President – so one has to wonder if this REALLY was the best deal Democrats could have gotten? Not only that – Vice President Joe Biden admitted yesterday that the President was willing to use the 14th Amendment to raise the debt-limit himself if all else failed. If that’s true – then why did Democrats have to eat the “Satan sandwich” and pass this deal that will kneecap our crippled economy, thus giving Republicans a huge election issue heading into 2012?
Too easy Drill Sergeant.. too easy
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Too easy what? I did not like the bill as it did not cut enough.
AGAIN - WHERE WAS OBAMA'S PLAN YOUR MORON?
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http://speakerboner.com/
Boehner’s 98% win on debt deal masks only 33% who approve of his GOP approach
Monday, August 8, 2011
By John Michael Spinelli
Columbus Government Examiner
John Michael Spinelli is a communication professional and former credentialed Ohio statehouse journalist. His professional background in economic…
Article source: http://www.examiner.com/government-in-columbus/boehner-s-98-win-on-debt-deal-masks-only-33-who-approve-of-his-gop-approach
Downgrade verdict: Stop the blame game, balance the budget
Monday, August 8, 2011
It took Washington’s professional politicians about two seconds to begin issuing accusatory statements in response to SP’s downgrade of the U.S. credit rating. Predictably, those statements sought to shift the blame to somebody else. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid blamed Republicans for refusing to consider tax hikes as part of the debt-ceiling deal. House Speaker John Boehner condemned Democrats for demanding a debt-ceiling hike with no spending cuts or entitlement reforms. Whatever else we might say about them, our political leaders certainly know how to point fingers at each other.
But playing the blame game won’t fix the economy. And the economy cannot be fixed without addressing Washington’s spending addiction. As Sen. Jim DeMint, R-SC, notes, tax revenues flowing into the U.S. Treasury since 2003 – the year of the biggest Bush tax cuts – have increased 20 percent, but government spending has skyrocketed 60 percent during the same period. That is the main reason why the U.S. government now has a national debt approaching $14.5 trillion, an amount equal to the value of the nation’s entire economy.
The debt-ceiling deal signed into law Tuesday by the president was historic in the sense that, if it is carried out as promised, it will result in the first year-to-year reduction in discretionary spending since 1953. But the SP downgrade points to two undeniable facts about the deal: There is immense doubt that it will live up to its terms, and even if it does, it won’t cut spending nearly enough. As SP said in its downgrade statement:
“We view the act’s measures as a step toward fiscal consolidation. However, this is within the framework of a legislative mechanism that leaves open the details of what is finally agreed to until the end of 2011, and Congress and the administration could modify any agreement in the future.” Even under the best of circumstances, according to SP, “the plan envisions only minor policy changes on Medicare and little change in other entitlements, the containment of which we and most other independent observers regard as key to long-term fiscal sustainability.”
Our fiscal plight is the clear result, not of Americans paying too little of their hard-earned income in taxes to the government, but of government spending trillions more dollars than it receives. The solution is equally obvious: Stop spending more than the government receives in tax revenues. The debt-ceiling deal established a congressional super committee tasked with finding $1.2 trillion in additional spending cuts. Why stop there? It’s past time for our leaders to stop blaming each other and get on with the job of balancing the nation’s budget.
Article source: http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2011/08/downgrade-verdict-stop-blame-game-balance-budget
Too easy Drill Sergeant..its just too easy
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Too easy what? Bro - you really should be ashamed of yourself for being this criminally ignorant and stupid.
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Boehner's 98% win on debt deal masks only 33% who approve of his GOP approach
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John Michael Spinelli, Columbus Government Examiner
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (CGE) - When Ohio Congressman John Boehner smiled wryly for the camera and said he was pretty happy that he got 98 percent of what he asked for from the recent debt deal agreement with congressional Democrats, he may have thought that a solid victory for him and his party. And to him and his GOP colleagues it may be, for the present.
But while Boehner and his bargaining buddy, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, may feel satisfied that they once again snookered the loyal opposition and its leader in the White HOuse into capitulating on spending cuts versus raising revenue, it appears post-deal polling shows Boehner and McConnell, and their tea party cohorts, fared far worse than the President and Democrats.
Many GOP and tea party inspired Senators and House Members didn't like the deal because it was a deal, while many Democrats and liberals didn't like the deal because it was a one-sided deal with no revenues versus all spending cuts.
According to a CNN Poll, approval/disapproval of the Debt Ceiling deal, by party broke this way [for/against]:
Democrats: 63/32
Independents: 35/62
Republicans: 35/58
A Gallup poll, dissecting the electorate according to ideology, found liberals (51 percent) twice as likely to express support for the deal than conservatives (25 percent).
A CBS/NYT poll confirmed similar findings: Democrats were far more inclined (49/44 support) to approve of the deal than Republicans (42/52).
One advantage Republicans had over Democrats was their belief that defaulting was a relatively painless decision, that some even thought would have no consequences to it. According to a July poll conducted by CNN/ORC, a majority of conservatives (53 percent) felt that a default on the debt would either cause "minor problems" or "no problems at all."
This stark reality was contrasted by 77 percent of liberals and 70 percent of moderates who believed that a default would either generate a "crisis" or at a minimum create "major problems."
Although the real shake out of what happened last week will take a while to reveal itself, what the White House and Democrats can take away from the complicated and befuddling theater that surrounded the debate fiasco is that the GOP's brand name suffered a big blow. Steve Singiser, a polling expert, noted Sunday that a CBS/NYT poll found that 47 percent of voters were "more inclined to trust the president on the economy, as opposed to just 33 percent who favored the Republican approach."
That 14-point gap, he wrote, is quite a bit wider than what was seen before this whole process kicked off. "What's more, even as the president's job approval has hit the skids a bit, public esteem for the GOP Congress as fallen at an even more sharp rate."
"The sole element of Democratic 'victory' here may prove to be that, with everyone watching, the Republican agenda was laid bare for the nation to see," wrote Singiser at Daily Kos, a progressive website. "And the nation does not appear to be pleased with what they saw."
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HAHAHAHA Blame Obama.. for something the House speaker wanted.. Man... Too easy drill Sergeant..its just too god damn easy sir
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Have you ever taken a civics class in your life?
Yes or no?
I find it hard to believe that someone who went to school can be as uninformed and ignorant as you are.
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Have you ever taken a civics class in your life?
Yes or no?
I find it hard to believe that someone who went to school can be as uninformed and ignorant as you are.
Im informed that this deal is what The Republican speaker of the house wanted... dont get mad at me cha cha.. This one is on your team
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Im informed that this deal is what The Republican speaker of the house wanted... dont get mad at me cha cha.. This one is on your team
No, the house of reps passed the ryan budget as well as cut cap and balance that Obama issued a VETO THREAT on.
CUP CAP AND BALANCE would have retained our triple A rating.
Again - I find it hard to believe that someone who went to school can be as uninformed as you are.
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No, the house of reps passed the ryan budget as well as cut cap and balance that Obama issued a VETO THREAT on.
CUP CAP AND BALANCE would have retained our triple A rating.
Again - I find it hard to believe that someone who went to school can be as uninformed as you are.
hahaha you are a fucking retard.. this deal is so republican its not funny.. only cuts cuts cuts.. with no revs.. hahahah "but this deal is commie obamas".hahahah what a fucking idiot you are.. im done wid dis guy
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hahaha you are a fucking retard.. this deal is so republican its not funny.. only cuts cuts cuts.. with no revs.. hahahah "but this deal is commie obamas".hahahah what a fucking idiot you are.. im done wid dis guy
Again - I know that you are ignorant and mentally deformed, but lets do this again so you get a freaking clue:
The House of Reps passed CUT CAP AND BALANCE.
Reid refused to take it up. Obama threatened to veto it.
After that, Obama refused to put any plan up of his own and then rejected a joint Boehner Reid bill that had 800 billion in new revenues.
DO YOU NOT REMEMBER ANY OF THIS?
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Rick Santelli: If Not For Tea Party, U.S. Would Be Rated BBB
Related Videos | expand Playing rick santelli if not for tea party us would be rated bbb
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/08/08/rick_santelli_if_not_for_tea_party_us_would_be_rated_bbb.html
"You know what leadership means? It means that it doesn't really matter what S&P says. We all know deep inside that no country is the same as it was 5 years ago. And the market seems to be okay with it. And as for stocks going down we were already Ralph Cramden (of Honeymooners) on thin ice. Now an infant jumped on our shoulders. It’s just even more weight.
"In the end, in the end we need to address problems we know exist. A Treasury Secretary or a President should be out here not fighting S&P, not grabbing the other coach and slapping him around, taking the umpire behind the barn. He should be getting the team psyched to overcome.
"See I remember I had a professor in college. I wrote a great paper. Could never please this guy. But it made me better. Okay? We’re better than this. Don’t get caught up in the minutia. All this BS. We’re better than this. We need to prove it. We’re off the track. Whether we're better than some other country or not, the real issue is we're on the wrong path.
"Blame the Tea Party? Geez, no wonder Kerry did so well in an election. If it wasn't for the Tea Party, they would have passed the debt ceiling thumbs up, we would have been rated BBB."
(source: The Right Scoop)
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hahaha you are a fucking retard.. this deal is so republican its not funny.. only cuts cuts cuts.. with no revs.. hahahah "but this deal is commie obamas".hahahah what a fucking idiot you are.. im done wid dis guy
I'm sure Boehner's on a political brag fest, but I wouldn't count this as a win for Repubs - yet. Remember, there may very well be increased revenue depending on what happens with the joint committee and the cuts actually have to be triggered - they're not just automatic cuts.
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August 11, 2011
Obama's Undignified Transparency
By Jeannie DeAngelis
If the American people were doubtful about the manipulative nature of Barack Obama, his undignified behavior at the "dignified transfer" of the remains of 30 American troops killed by Taliban insurgents in the worst single loss of life in 10 years of the Afghan war should extinguish any remaining doubt. It's confirmed -- Barack Obama is willing to disrespect the families of dead war heroes if doing so assists in his desperate bid for reelection.
After the tragedy in the "forested peaks" of Wardak Province, 60 miles southwest of Kabul, Pentagon officials had said that because 19 families of the deceased 30 soldiers objected to media coverage of the remains coming off a plane at Dover Air Force Base, no images would be taken. The Pentagon was so emphatic about the sensitive nature of the event, they even "rejected media requests to take photos that showed officials at the ceremony but did not depict caskets."
Doug Wilson, head of public affairs at the Pentagon, said that not even the photographers who generally accompany the Defense Secretary and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff were permitted to attend. The Pentagon was committed to fully respecting the wishes of the fallen soldiers' families; they deferred to the bereaved and refrained from chronicling the event with official photos of the solemn occasion.
Ordinarily, if 11 out of 30 families didn't mind having the flag-draped caskets photographed, they could be, after which they'd be "ushered away" before the remains of any troops whose families were too devastated to want to be a public spectacle were unloaded from the plane.
The difference in this case was that when the nearly three dozen soldiers, 21 of whom were DevGru SEAL members, arrived from overseas, prior to being formally identified by Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations, "any given case could contain the remains of troops whose families did not want coverage." So taking pictures was strictly prohibited.
What the Pentagon didn't anticipate was the President's falling poll numbers putting him in dire need of a good saluting-dead-soldiers photo op.
Unbeknownst to those caught up in that heartrending moment, a White House photographer accompanied the President to the ceremony -- incognito. By that night, "an official White House photo of a saluting Obama was distributed to news media and published widely. It also was posted on the White House website as the 'Photo of the Day."
Don Wilson said he "did not know the White House photographer was present and had no idea a photo of the event was being released until it became public."
The snapshot portrayed "Obama and other officials in silhouette and did not depict [the] caskets." In an attempt to give Barack Obama the stature he lacks as a leader, the photo was shot against a gray sky, under the wing of an aircraft, outlining a saluting President from behind, standing ramrod straight, two heads above four other men whose hands were over their hearts.
The issue here is not whether Obama was saluting or not; it's that the President's unrelenting quest for attention was the sole reason that the crushed parents, brokenhearted wives, and confused children whose loved ones' bodies were rolled off a cargo plane into a concrete hanger were denied the simple request for a private moment of grief.
After the Navy SEALS successfully carried out Operation Neptune Spear and sent Osama bin Laden on a one-way journey to 72 Virginsville, the soldiers were uneasy about confidentiality and the details that were slowly leaked. The concern was how exposing the identities of the covert team could potentially impact the safety of the SEALs' families.
Now, upon the deaths of 21 of those Seal Team Six members, the President's narcissistic self-absorption has usurped honoring the express wishes of men lying silent within metal tombs who asked nothing from the country they died defending except that above all, family comes first.
Ironically, in March 2009, the Obama administration chose to reverse an 18-year-old moratorium, renewed by George W. Bush, that banned photographing the caskets of US soldiers returning home from war. The newly-enacted Pentagon policy specified that, upon notification of a loved one's death, the "primary next of kin" has the right to make the "family decision regarding media access to dignified transfers at Dover."
By toting along a photojournalist to an event that banned photographs, Barack Obama, the man who approved the "primary next of kin" policy, decided once again to exempt himself from a rule he made for others. The President chose to disregard the wishes of 19 military families and violated a stipulation that was included with his authorization.
When asked about the picture, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said that it was "carefully taken so that it did not show the cases containing remains." Which really means: We knew the families were against media coverage but the President made an executive decision to secretly attempt a tactful photo op.
Carney should have stopped there, but he kept on explaining - "In this case, the White House released the photo, in the interests of transparency, so that the American people could have as much insight as possible into this historic and sobering event." The President is so wary that he didn't even invite the press to his transparency award ceremony. The most opaque, non-transparent presidency in the history of the nation decided to be transparent on the one occasion when total discretion was of the essence.
If President Barack Obama wants to be transparent, maybe instead of invading the homecoming of dead war heroes with a hidden camera he could start with a more benign effort like releasing his college transcripts and following his own rules.
Author's content: www.jeannie-ology.com
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Judge Napolitano: Does Obama Wait For Congress To Be On Vacation To Break The Law?
videoby Frances Martel | 8:26 pm, August 10th, 2011
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/judge-napolitano-does-obama-wait-for-congress-to-be-on-vacation-to-break-the-law
Judge Andrew Napolitano sees something suspicious in the timing of President Obama’s major executive announcements: they seem to happen whenever Congress isn’t in session. On last night’s Freedom Watch, the Judge and Reason.tv editor Nick Gillespie debated the relative constitutionality of President Obama’s proposed No Child Left Behind overhaul and agreed– it’s about as constitutional as our “kinetic activities” in Libya, and also announced when Congress is on vacation.
Judge Napolitano seemed a bit perplexed at how the President’s voucher proposal without Congressional approval would meet the requirements of the Constitution, asking how the President would be able to get away with it. Gillespie retorted that he would likely in “the same way he got away with not consulting Congress about bombing Libya.” Comparing President Obama to President Bush, Gillespie noted that he was “following suit in a lot of ways” with the Bush doctrine of “excessive use of executive power and just trampling the Constitution.” He added that, in this specific case, it was worth noting that “No Child Left Behind is a terrible law in virtually every way,” so a reform may be helpful but, as Judge Napolitano added, the real problem was the federal government involving itself in K-12 education at all.
Then the Judge proceeded to continue to link Libya to the No Child Left Behind proposal. “He announced this today,” he noted, “Where’s the Congress? On vacation? When he bomed Libya, where was the Congress? On vacation. Is this a new pattern?” Gillespie wasn’t as quick to blame this on the President, instead accusing Coungress of “not holding to their constitutional obligations” by making the President stay accountable to them. “Maybe the problem is that Congress is taking too many vacations,” he added, though on a serious note warning that the growth of executive power was, according to him, facilitating America’s “rapidly becoming a banana republic.”
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Rick Santelli To Obama: "We Need to Create Jobs"
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"Listen, the President of the most powerful country ever to occupy the planet needs to do things quickly. We need to get rid of things like Sarbanes-Oxley, Dodd-Frank. We need to create jobs. And there are many ways to do it. Just these aren't ways that are palatable to the ideology to the President's base. And that is what needs to be talked about," Rick Santelli said on CNBC.
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I'd definately hit it.
http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/1094454772001/tax-the-rich-more-and-theyll-stop-spending
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She is on fire.
http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/1099390924001/americas-downgrade-distress
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So, what all did you do today?
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I can't figure out whether to hate you or pity you, but I'm glad I don't have to be you.
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I can't figure out whether to hate you or pity you, but I'm glad I don't have to be you.
You voted for this shit show - take ownership of your disastrous mistake.
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You voted for this shit show - take ownership of your disastrous mistake.
When's the last time you worked?
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When's the last time you worked?
As we speak. Lawyer client just gave me a 25k judgment to collect on for a deadbeat. Sending out papers to the Sheriff for execution.
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Of course.
How's the gf and your buddies in Texas?
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Of course.
How's the gf and your buddies in Texas?
Doing fine - a lot better than your hero Obama
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A job, get one.
We are tired of supporting you.
Life is not a Sims game. You don't get cash for your fantasies. You can't constantly and obsessively make Obama threads AND work for a living.
The workers of this country (whom you label communist traitors) are tired of supporting you and your welfare lifestyle.
Work for a living, god damn it.
Perhaps you could start on a farm, in the sun.
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Doing fine - a lot better than your hero Obama
I don't sit around thinking about Obama 24/7. Wanna know why? I have personal relationships. I leave my house and work and see other people and accomplish things.
I participate in the human race.
It's fun. Try it sometime.
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Honest question - Would you rather get laid or post Obama stuff?
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Opinion
While America Burns, Obama Campaigns
By Peter Morici
Published November 22, 2011
| FoxNews.com
President Obama and his supporters are portraying the failure of the Super Committee to slash the budget deficit by $1.2 trillion over ten years as endangering the already weak economic recovery. This is absolute sophistry.
A deal acceptable to Democrats would have raised taxes on the wealthy and corporations by $25 to $50 billion, annually, and cut spending, disproportionately on defense but some other programs too by $50 to $75 billion, for a total savings of about $100.
Apparently, according to liberals, raising taxes on folks they believe the government spoils—millionaires and corporations—and cutting spending they deem unnecessary—defense and other civilian programs—doesn’t reduce overall spending by consumers, businesses and government, and hence, demand and GDP. Nowhere in the textbooks or journal articles economists read, is such a proposition demonstrated. In fact, the reverse is true: Super Committee spending cuts and tax increases would have slowed growth.
In the next breath liberals argue the failure of the Super Committee to reach an acceptable compromise ensures Congress will not extend the two percentage point Social Security tax holidays beyond the end of the year, and that endangers prosperity too.
The Social Security tax holiday is a separate legislative issue and could still be enacted, but let’s suppose it is not. Had the Super Committee succeeded and the holiday consequently extended, spending would have been cut and taxes raised for some people—slashing demand—and the taxes cuts extended for others—boosting demand. Overall, the net impact on GDP is close to zero.
What is really going on is the president is going about his old tricks. The economy is not performing and unemployment remains too high—and with conditions in Europe as they are, the whole global economy may be headed for another recession in 2012.
Europe notwithstanding, structural problems—the trade deficit with China and on oil, Wall Street banks that won’t lend and the Dodd-Frank reforms that don’t reform, health care reforms that didn’t lower costs but instead raised them, and a federal regulatory apparatus that drives investment and jobs offshore, together, handicap the U.S. economy beyond all recognition by the Oval Office and its allies on Capitol Hill.
President Obama never intended for the Super Committee to succeed. He and Speaker Boehner created it in a compromise last August, but he never demonstrated any leadership or intention to negotiate seriously. The President never moves off his soak the rich and scapegoat oil company campaign message.
Now, he can blame the failure of the Super Committee on Republican unwillingness to tax millionaires, and urge voters to blame the GOP for a lousy economy, when he bears considerable responsibility for high unemployment.
Sadly, Speaker Boehner is outclassed. He negotiated a bad deal—and gave the President a winning hand—when he agreed to the Super Committee last August, and he continues to let Mr. Obama out-speak and out-maneuver him.
The President spends all his time campaigning, while the nation’s economic problems go unaddressed. For Mr. Obama, the fact of his presidency is more important than solving the problems he was put in office to fix.
Peter Morici is a professor at the Smith School of Business, University of Maryland School, and former chief economist at the U.S. International Trade Commission.Follow him on Twitter @pmorici1.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/11/22/while-america-burns-obama-campaigns/#ixzz1eZ0HZYL5
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http://www.realclearmarkets.com/video/2012/02/16/santelli_disses_obama_on_taxes.html
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Notice this clown never actually refutes anything? Nothing but straw man arguments.
notice you never explain anything or offer solutions when asked to do so..HYPOCRITE
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notice you never explain anything or offer solutions when asked to do so..HYPOCRITE
Tell me the problem - an I will offer you a solution. My first solution is to ship you off somehwere w benny, blacken, straw, licker, et al where you can have your communist utopia.
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Tell me the problem - an I will offer you a solution. My first solution is to ship you off somehwere w benny, blacken, straw, licker, et al where you can have your communist utopia.
Remember he is black. Very sensitive folks. Any sentence with the word "ship" is an insult.
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Remember he is black. Very sensitive folks. Any sentence with the word "ship" is an insult.
I would put andre in the bilge a container ship and send him to Antactica. We would be able to track him from google earth he would be so noticable.
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haha The Italians aren't afraid of calling a spade a spade or being afraid of being labeled 'racist' like some of these cowering wasp.
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I think you guys need to ask yourselves why the obsession with black people???...you guys are really spending so much time on the subject..WOW..get a life!
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Huh? This is about thugbama, not black people.
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Obama's faith-based liberalism
Santorum may have mischaracterized the president's religious views, but he's right that something like theology drives his policy decisions.
By Peter Morici
10:55 a.m. EST, February 20, 2012
Rick Santorum's assertion that President Obama's agenda is not about the quality of life or jobs but "some phony ideal. Some phony theology" may not be an appropriate characterization of his religious views. However, it is an accurate description of what is wrong with the hard left in American politics — and the thinking that drives domestic policy in the Obama administration.
Too often liberal policies are based more on faith than reason — they are often premised on assertions having little foundation in facts or modern economics. Consequently, the president advocates or imposes solutions that make the nation's problems worse, and when confronted with disappointing results he often tells us what he believes without offering the data and logic that brought him to those conclusions.
Regarding the financial crisis, the president assigns blame to the lack of regulation. The facts are banks got into trouble making loans on real estate assigned inflated values to borrowers who could not repay. Loans were bundled into bonds and sold to investors. When not enough unwitting fools bought bonds, the big Wall Street banks put unsold securities into offshore special investment vehicles whose potential losses were not supposed to be a claim on bank capital. Other firms, like AIG, sold insurance to against potential losses on bonds without sufficient assets to back up that protection.
Jimmy Carter When the loans and bonds failed, it turned out those special investment vehicles were indeed a drain on bank capital, and Citibank, AIG and others needed bailouts to avoid the complete collapse of bank credit available to the economy.
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All this was a massive accounting fraud, something big public accounting firms were supposed to catch in audits of banks but didn't — a failure Sarbanes-Oxley regulations, passed in 2002, were supposed to avert.
The solution imposed by the Dodd-Frank bill is to ban propriety securities trading by banks and impose burdensome lending regulations on surviving community and regional banks, who were more victims of the bubble than malefactors in the crisis.
Proprietary trading had little to do with instigating the mess, and profits from trading actually helped big banks rebuild balance sheets more quickly. And now onerous regulations have hamstrung community and regional banks and are forcing them to seek buyouts by larger Wall Street banks, which caused the crisis and have little interest in lending to small and medium sized businesses that create jobs.
When faced with resulting problems, the president explains he is saving the country from unstable growth of decades past. Yet, economists of all stripes refer to the 20 years prior to the crisis as the "Great Moderation," owing to exceptional stability in economic activity and employment not before experienced in U.S. history.
President Obama persistently preaches that solar, wind and other alternative technologies will make America energy independent and sustain economic superpower status. Yet, any reasonable reading of the prospective economic viability of these technologies, and any assessment of the likely transition of the automobile industry to hybrids and electrics, indicate the nation will remain significantly dependent on petroleum for at least the next two decades.
Yet, with oil above $100 a barrel handicapping the U.S. economy, the president imposes regulations that all but shut down deep water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and other off-shore locations where the real potential for new American oil supplies lie. Instead, he plows money into projects like Solyndra that independent financial analysts predicted would likely fail.
Americans pay at least 50 percent more than Europeans for health care, often with less satisfactory outcomes, because the federal government pays for more than half of health care but does not impose price and access controls as effective as those in Europe.
ObamaCare simply doesn't fix what's broke. Instead, it raises taxes to provide more subsidies and imposes more mandates on businesses. Any economist will tell you subsidies and mandates to purchase a product raise its price, and health care is no exception.
When critics opposed ObamaCare, Jimmy Carter called them racists, and he was not alone in spewing such venom.
Among intellectuals, media personalities and senior policymakers that form the priesthood of the left, conservatives are not merely wrong but evil.
Beliefs over facts, assertions in place of reason, vilification of opponents: That looks a lot like religion — the worst kind.
Peter Morici, a professor at the University of Maryland's Smith School of Business, is former chief economist at the U.S. International Trade Commission. His email is pmorici@rhsmith.umd.edu. Twitter: @pmorici1.