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Posted By pc25 10 months, 3 weeks ago in Political NewsPresident Barack Obama's honeymoon period seems to have ended quickly. That's because Mr. Obama doesn't grasp the essentials of presidential leadership. Rather than making a compelling case for his economic policies, he has resorted to curt rebuffs, such as telling House Republican whip Eric Cantor, "I won." House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the same thing the same day: "We won the election; we wrote the [stimulus] bill." This is the trope of a party that has lost its ability to make an argument.
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pc2510 months, 3 weeks ago
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Barack Obama's heavy handed approach on the stimulus is beginning to take it's toll on the approval ratings of the Democrats.
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http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/pol...
Are Republicans winning the public relations battle over spending in the $800-billion-plus economic stimulus package? Democrats and Republicans are nearly even in this week's edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone surveys found that the Democrats’ lead is down to just one percentage point. Forty percent (40%) of voters said they would vote for their district’s Democratic candidate while 39% said they would choose the Republican.
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pc2510 months, 3 weeks ago
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hey Psycho.....
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the poll speaks for itself unless you have you own numbers to refute it's results.......
2010 is starting to roll around quickly for the Republicans and after only 3 DISASTEROUS WEEKS IN OFFICE........imagine what happens 6 month down the line-
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GWHayduke10 months, 3 weeks ago
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He likely negged your asinine comment for the same reason I did - not because he doubts the statistics, but because he is opposed to your willful negligence in wanting America to fail.
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Why, exactly DO you hate a successful America? Is your hatred for success based solely on ideology?
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jeffieny10 months, 3 weeks ago
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Didn't previous administration passed a bill twice as big as Obama few months ago?
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Republican politicians didn't have any problem with that.
What a disgusting, partisan attitude. They once again prove that they are there with selfish interest rather than saving US. On the other hand you see Senator Kennedy, a Democrat SELFLESSLY returned to the Senate in the midst of his battle with brain cancer Monday to vote for our new President's economic stimulus package.
http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/swf/mvp.swf?8%3A143158=...
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pc2510 months, 3 weeks ago
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http://hotair.com/archives/2009/02/09/good-news-fo...
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Good news for Republicans?
Michael Barone sees some good news for Republicans in a few places where they rarely find it. In New York, New Jersey, and even in Barack Obama’s Illinois, Barone finds Republicans taking surprising early leads in important races. And Virginia may have drifted back into the red column as well:-
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nostalgia10 months, 3 weeks ago
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Looks like the Commerce Dept is going to be a difficult job to fill
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OBAMA BURNED: GREGG WITHDRAWS AFTER POLICIES TOO MUCH TO STOMACH
However, it has become apparent during this process that this will not work for me as I have found that on issues such as the stimulus package and the Census there are irresolvable conflicts for me. Prior to accepting this post, we had discussed these and other potential differences, but unfortunately we did not adequately focus on these concerns. We are functioning from a different set of views on many critical items of policy.
http://www.drudgereport.com/flashgg.htm
"there are irresolvable conflicts for me"
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pc2510 months, 3 weeks ago
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The same mentality as Peggy the Moocher
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pc2510 months, 3 weeks ago
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hey mensa boy you need to check out the latest Rasmussen poll on the approval rating of the Democrats. The stimulus is going over well. If the 2010 elections were held tomorrow Obama, Reid, Pelosi and the rest of the scurvy little dems would be out on ther butts.
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slate10 months, 3 weeks ago
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Did you see where he pointed to teh head of a caterpillar company president and said this man told me that if we get this out (he) can start hiring people again, then afterward the president said he wasn't sure if that's true or not.
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crespi10 months, 3 weeks ago
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Yeah, the head of caterpillar had lied to Obama. Must be a Republican.
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And President Obama stumps to the American people instead of having secret meetings and then forcing things down our throat like Bush did.
Did you like it when Bush did that? Or would you rather have a President who explains and includes us.
I'LL take the latter, thank you.
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ADAGUY10 months, 3 weeks ago
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You truly are a piece of work. You want the economy to get worse just so you can say "I told you so".
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The Limbaugh crowd has constantly said that the recession would not be s bad if it weren't for the naysayers. But look at the way they talk when their guy is no longer in charge. I don't see a one of you being the positive thinker that you urged the rest of society to be.
Well I gottta hand it to you, you once said that I would still be harping about Bush long after the election was over, and he was no longer in office. I told you that I would direct my attention at the new pres. not one who had left office.
But since then we have had bank failure after bank failure, the layoffs have become astronomical, and the US economy is really looking like $hit thanks to the GOP. You wanted deregulation fot the last 30 years, and now you have it, along with all the fun that goes along with it. But I gotta admit, now that I see the magnitude of the GOP disaster, I have to tell you that you were right. I still blame Bush.
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GehlLady10 months, 3 weeks ago
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Adaguy,
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I didn't vote for Bush,and no one wants this to work more than I do, but I saw the interview of Jim, the cat guy. I didn't hear what his political party was, but I find it hard to believe he would lie to Obama just to turn around and make the statement to the press he made. During the press briefing today, Gibb was asked about it, and said the statement by Jim "was consistent" with Obamas. The only way that's true, is if you leave out the part where he said that there would be more layoffs before anyone would be brought back because it will take too long for the stimulus money to be effective.
I don't think the man lied, I think Obama was trying to make the situation sound better than these people know it is.
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nostalgia10 months, 3 weeks ago
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Good Old Harry Reid seems to have scored a train for himself too
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In late-stage talks, Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., pressed for $8 billion to construct high-speed rail lines, quadrupling the amount in the bill that passed the Senate on Tuesday.
This of course exposes the little game the President is playing with the public. He tells everyone there are no earmarks in the bill but then turns around and either (a) gives the money to the states, which he knows will fund the earmarks, or (b) instructs his agencies to fund the earmarks directly. It's all very clever, if not deceptive.
Reid's high-speed gambling train not only violates the President's guiding principles for this bill, it also violates American taxpayers.
This so-called MagLev train (magnetic levitation) is estimated to cost $12 billion. Reid earmarked $45 million last year for the public transportation project from California to Las Vegas, which is in direct competition with a private high-speed train company, DesertXpress, which is building a train on a similar route with all private funding. It's not just an earmark, it's a job killing earmark.
http://spectator.org/blog/2009/02/12/reids-gamblin...
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Klarissa10 months, 3 weeks ago
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I heard somewhere that, "Obama is still the candiate, he hasn't taken on the presidency".
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I think the first mistake was missing the chance to sit down with Dems and Repubs and come up with Obama's own plan. It appears that he still does not have any thoughts of his own.-
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JamesMarcus10 months, 3 weeks ago
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Michael Barone is a smart man. But that doesn't mean he's always right when he gazes into his crystal ball. Boys and girls, let's turn back the clock to October 29, 2008, when he saw Obama's lead crumbling away:
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"Hypothesis: The McCain 'Joe the Plumber' high-taxes issue is having some impact. So are doubts, kindled by a typically verbose Joe Biden comment, about how Obama would handle an international crisis. Is this the beginning of a McCain surge? Possibly. It's beginning to look like something more than statistical noise."
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wtagg10 months, 2 weeks ago
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Everyone should have the opportunity to contribute in the best way they can.
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It is your opportunity to dispute anything you disagree with and there is piles of ammunition at your feet. Use it effectively, even if it means that it is as simple as shooting ducks in a barrel.
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pc2510 months, 3 weeks ago
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he assigned Pelosi the task of writing the stimulus package. Of course she included kickbacks to all the unions that helped Obama get elected. Social engineering plain and simple. The stock markets tanked even further after Geitner's speech the other day. Why that guy is not in jail is beyond me. There is no investor confidence in this package at all.That town hall meeting the other day was absolutely ridiculous, it was like he is still campaigning. Apparently he needs the adoration of all the Obamainoids...........Julio, sit down and shut up you looked liked an idiot but Obama sure ate it up........I heard a commentator on the radio the other day state that the government is now being run by children........he is not to far off the mark
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pc2510 months, 3 weeks ago
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They will never learn, pie in the sky
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THE CULT OF PERSONALITY.......Obama the A Rod of Politics.........all flash no class......the ends justify the means........how we cheer for our FALSE IDOLS......what he accomplished was done by breaking and bending every rule possible.......ACORN SEIU...........voter fraud, kickbacks, corrupt Chicago Political Machine......but how they cheer their HERO, however CHILDREN are always attracted to bright objects........
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nostalgia10 months, 3 weeks ago
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Some people are going to get a rude awakening
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Sometimes people send things into our offices at Western Capital that words can not even begin to explain, and this is absolutely one of those moments. Watch this video of an auto repression in action. Watch as this lady is thrown from her car by the repo man. Listen to the voice mail that she sent to the loan company. And finally listen to the words ring out, We Not Rich Like y'all, but one day this year WE WILL BECAUSE WE HAVE BARACK OBAMA!
http://current.com/items/89782656/go_ahead_and_rep...
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Klarissa10 months, 3 weeks ago
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Going around the country talking with people in Indians and Florida is a strange use of his precious time. He is not the salesman for Pelosi and Reid, he is the President. He is still acting like the local get-out-the-vote person.
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One thing about the stimulus that really worries me is, "What is ACORN going to do with all of that money?" Are they going to set up state enforcement agencies??
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pc2510 months, 3 weeks ago
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2 weeks in office and he had to take days off as he put it "some times you have to get away."
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Seems we elected a talking instead of doing President.
I wonder if the libs will complain about the extravagant use of Air Force One when he flies his whole family to Hawaii during the Easter Holidays.....-
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nostalgia10 months, 3 weeks ago
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Remember what Obama wrote in his own book
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"I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views. My treatment of the issues is often partial and incomplete."
He really doesn't have a clue that why he described himself as a "blank screen"
Then all of those "present" votes - no stand on any difficult issues
He's a front man for the powerful people behind him. He is doing what he is good at - campaigning
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jeffieny10 months, 3 weeks ago
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You have no shame what so ever. I am sure you don't even feel a tiny bit of guilt after this mess you all republican cheerleaders herded us in. You are to blame. You didn't let us warn or criticize previous administration with your bias, manipulative, theatrical cheers and deceitful foxy crap. Shame on you, all of you. It is no one, no voter but you to carry the heavy burden of the pain of those who lost their sweet homes, jobs and dreams. Young, bright, brightest dearest soldiers abused, committing suicide, having to have therapy for the rest of their life. But again it is very expected of you to wash your hands with the perfume of Arabia and having the face to keep on writing in your usual disgusting manner here. Do us all a favor and just get lost you heartless clown.
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pc2510 months, 3 weeks ago
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here is an interesting take on that going back to the middle of Dec.
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/12/16/pelosi-smell...
Pelosi smells blood
In talks with Emanuel and others, sources say, Pelosi has “set parameters” for what she wants from Barack Obama and his White House staff — no surprises, and no backdoor efforts to go around her and other Democratic leaders by cutting deals with moderate New Democrats or conservative Blue Dogs.
Specifically, Pelosi has told Emanuel that she wants to know when representatives of the incoming administration have any contact with her rank-and-file Democrats — and why, sources say.
During the Bush years, the White House set policy, and Republicans on Capitol Hill were expected to follow it.
Obama hasn’t yet been sworn into office, and we already have the makings of a power play. Somehow, I doubt Team Obama will sit still for this, although they probably won’t get terribly confrontational about it, either.
be prepared.......it will eventually be be a rockem sockem STEEL CAGE DEATH MATCH
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nostalgia10 months, 3 weeks ago
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Looks like there is also a power struggle between Pelosi and Reid
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Did Reid roll Pelosi?
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid played a little high-stakes chicken with each other at the tail end of Wednesday’s shotgun stimulus talks.
It’s not clear who won – or who blinked.
According to a half dozen Congressional aides and members, Reid went before the cameras Wednesday to announce a stimulus deal before Pelosi had agreed on all the details of school construction financing.
“It’s ruffled feathers, big time,” said a House Democrat speaking on condition of anonymity. “The speaker went through the roof.”
Added one House Democratic aide: “He tried to roll her and she knew it.”
A few minutes after Reid announced the deal, Senate Appropriations Chairman Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) convened a public meeting of the House-Senate conference committee.
It was supposed to be a glorified photo op. But there were no House Democrats in the room – and Inouye hastily announced the meeting would be scrapped pending a Pelosi “briefing” of members on the details.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0209/Did...
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BB6410 months, 3 weeks ago
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Bacon Obama misread the election. His team feels they have a mandate when they really didn't. They do control the House, Senate and White House but most people I know feel the huge left swing we're taking is a terrible move.
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StevieGee10 months, 3 weeks ago
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Far from being heavy handed, Obama tried to include Republican participation and ideas into the stimulus package. They, however, felt obligated to continue their obstructionist tactics. As you know the bill was passed with very few Republican votes. While I think the bill is far from perfect, it's clear that something needed to be done. As far as Reagan is concerned, his deregulation and trickle down economics coupled with huge deficit spending is what started us down the road to the problems we have now.
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Wolfie200710 months, 3 weeks ago
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Take you silly spin somewhere else, you're not addressing liberal progressive democrats. Remember we are the guys who didn't drink the kool or kook ade. Yeah, Obama was really bi-partisan he called the republicans up to the WH and said here's what I want and I'll get it because I won and too bad for you. You have a really poor grasp of 20th century history, too, by the way. -
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icono110 months, 3 weeks ago
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Obstructionist: deliberate interference with the progress or business especially of a legislative body.
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It is part of the business of the opposition, the Republicans in this case, to question and find fault with any type of political deal that will affect the lives of the people they represent.
Bipartisanship( marked by or involving cooperation, agreement, and compromise between two major political parties)
implies that both sides of the political divide work together on issues and come to a compromise position on issues that is satisfactory not only to the politicians but the consituency they represent.
Now with 0Bamas' and the Democratic congress's view of bipartisanship, if a politician especially a Republican, finds legitimate fault with his pet project, the Stimulus Bill, then they are viewed as obstructionist.
So by negation of the definition of bipartisanship by refusing to a compromise on major elements of the Bill, the word 'bipartisan' is being used as a propaganda ploy to sway the public into thinking that those who do not support the bill are being obstructionist and therefore ant- American. When in essence it is the Democrats that are being obstructionists.
This is a classic use of people's ignorance against them to gain a political advantage.
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StevieGee10 months, 3 weeks ago
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The good news is that we can pass bills without the Republicans. For the last 2 years nearly nothing got done because of these obstructionists. The only thing that could pass was what Bush wanted. The shoe is on the other foot now.
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djn3nunez310 months, 3 weeks ago
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The good news is that we can pass bills without the Republicans
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Sorry Stevie but it takes 60 votes to stop a filibuster. And I have a sneaky feeling that we're going to see quite a few filibusters in the next two years. Hopefully the American public will soundly reject the Republicans again in 2010 and give the democrats the super majority they need.
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pc2510 months, 3 weeks ago
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the strike was against the law
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http://eightiesclub.tripod.com/id296.htm
On August 3, 1981 nearly 13,000 of the 17,500 members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) walked off the job, hoping to disrupt the nation's transportation system to the extent that the federal government would accede to its demands for higher wages, a shorter work week, and better retirement benefits. At a press conference in the White House Rose Garden that same day, President Reagan responded with a stern ultimatum: The strikers were to return to work within 48 hours or face termination. As federal employees the controllers were violating the no-strike clause of their employment contracts. In 1955 Congress had made such strikes a crime punishable by a fine or one year of incarceration -- a law upheld by the Supreme Court in 1971. Nevertheless, 22 unauthorized strikes had occurred in recent years -- by postal workers, Government Printing Office and Library of Congress employees, and by air traffic controllers who staged "sick-outs" in 1969 and 1970. -
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Wolfie200710 months, 3 weeks ago
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President Reagan fixed that problem without losing a plane. You and your union shouldn't have ****** the President off and you deserved what you got.
Oh yeah, remember who was President before Reagan don't you? It were Carter(D) and it was so great under Carter, double digit interest and inflation rates and unemployment up to 10%. Then there was the fake oil crisis and then the take over of our embassy in Iran. Gee, to return to the good ol' pre Reagan daze. LSHIPMP-
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pc2510 months, 3 weeks ago
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Carter leadership personified. He sure was reassuring in that cardigan sweater in front of the fire place during the oil embargo wasn't he. He was even more assuring during the Three Mile Island crisis when he appeared for a public photo op wearing his little yellow construction hat and his little yellow nuclear decontamination boots........he looked like a member of DEVO
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxH39QlRuhg
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JimBland10 months, 3 weeks ago
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Personally, I'm getting sick of all this "bipartisan" garbage. I don't want to be "bipartisan" with the people who spent 12 years looting the treasury and getting the country,(and world) into the present crisis. Do what has to be done and ignore the sore loser whining from the right. Bill Clinton made the mistake of trying to be pals with everybody - it won't work.
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frctm510 months, 3 weeks ago
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Obama just has to learn that placating the Republicans just isn't that important. They have nothing to offer but complaints, whining , and criticism. Rush Limbaugh is their new lord and master and he is a full blown jack ass. Some times the measure of success is the idiots you **** off. Go Obama!
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Wolfie200710 months, 3 weeks ago
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Since Obama has no hope of succeeding anything but a catastrophe with his Pork Spending Bill what will be your measure of success then? You and Obama both couldn't make a full blown jackass all you could possibly make would be just the north end of the jack going south.-
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frctm510 months, 3 weeks ago
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I don't share your opinion of this bill. My measure of success is creating jobs and rebuilding infrastructure that is long over due. The Society of Civil Engineers estimates we need to put 2.2 trillion dollars into our infrastructure just to bring it into decent shape. You go to Europe or Japan and you'll see that our infrastructure is way out of date and in pathetic shape. Republicans only support spending billions on infrastructure if its in Iraq and in the form of no bid contracts passed out to friends of Dick Cheney. We spend half a trillion on defense every year to keep nuclear submarines patrolling the seas, maintain seven carrier battle groups and maintain bases all over the world in homage to the cold war. I say we cut defense spending in half and that by itself would cover the cost of this bill.
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frctm510 months, 3 weeks ago
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When your country is facing the worst economic crisis since the first great depression, you don't have time to play nice. It's like abandoning a burning house. If some one gets in your way, you knock him down because there's no time to debate the merits of not burning to death. We need this bill, and while it isn't perfect, there is plenty of time to tailor it later. The society of civil engineers estimated that we need to invest about 2.2 trillion in our infrastructure just to bring it to a level that is decent. Republicans would rather let the country rot than raise taxes. The drove the economy over a cliff and have no credibility left.
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tschrnywolf10 months, 3 weeks ago
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I THINK WE ARE WITNESSING THE REPUBLICAN REVENGE , OR GETTING EVEN FOR HAVING BEEN DEFEATED ELECTORALLY.
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BUT IRONICALLY, THEIR NEGATIVE ATTITUDE IS BOUND TO HURT THE MIDDLE CLASS AND WORKING AMERICANS.
LET THE CYNICS LAUGH, NOW THEY GOT THEIR DISGUISED TAX CUT: THE 700 BILLIOH BAILOUT. BUT IF AMERICA'S ECONOMY FALLS, SO WILL WALL STREET. EVEN FOREIGN COUNTRIES WOULD BE HIT. THE REPS GOT HO PLACE TO RUN AND NO PLACE TO HIDE IN THE LONG RUN. -
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tschrnywolf10 months, 3 weeks ago
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I THINK WE ARE WITNESSING THE REPUBLICAN REVENGE , OR GETTING EVEN FOR HAVING BEEN DEFEATED ELECTORALLY.
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BUT IRONICALLY, THEIR NEGATIVE ATTITUDE IS BOUND TO HURT THE MIDDLE CLASS AND WORKING AMERICANS.
LET THE CYNICS LAUGH, NOW THEY GOT THEIR DISGUISED TAX CUT: THE 700 BILLIOH BAILOUT. BUT IF AMERICA'S ECONOMY FALLS, SO WILL WALL STREET. EVEN FOREIGN COUNTRIES WOULD BE HIT. THE REPS GOT HO PLACE TO RUN AND NO PLACE TO HIDE IN THE LONG RUN. -
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tschrnywolf10 months, 3 weeks ago
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PRESIDENT OBAMA WARNED US. BEFORE THINGS GET BETTER, THEY WILL GET WORSE. TOUCH BOTTOM. STRONG SYSTEMS BEGIN AT THE BOTTOM. SO WHAT IS HAPPENING IS NORMAL.
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AMRICA HAS CONFRONTED SERIOUS DEPRESSIONS BEFORE. WE CAN RECOVER IF WE UNITE.
WILL MCCAIN ENDORSE UNITY? EVEN PREZ LINCOLN TOLD US TO REMAIN UNITED.
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crespi10 months, 3 weeks ago
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Yes Reagan did.
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I was there and the ultra-conservatives openly crowed how they now "could do whatever they like."
pc25, your Neocon think tank is FAILING at revising history, and the lies are becoming transparent.
Why don't you try to HELP America instead of paterning yourselves after the Taliban as that conservative congressman recently revealed you are trying to do?
Why must you be ACTUAL traitors to Democracy? What do you gain by the destruction of our American economy and freedoms?
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coolslow10 months, 3 weeks ago
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It was a great week. We had a perfect storm: Obama on the campaign trail, the Senate passing the stimulus bill, and Giethner announcing his plan. That should have been terrific for spreading a little sunshine. Instead, while Obama and Geithner, (According to some, the only two men in the world who are smart enough to save us), were talking the markets were dropping. Literally, straight down, like a stone in a well. Please tell me, without resorting to Bush/Republican and greedy rich bashing or giving Obama a chance arguments, exactly how anyone thinks the spending in this bill, (You've all heard about the mouse, STDs, Milwaukee schools, weather proofing, $8-13 tax beak, etc.) is going to solve the housing crisis, loosen credit and create jobs.
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coolslow10 months, 3 weeks ago
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It was a great week. We had a perfect storm: Obama on the campaign trail, the Senate passing the stimulus bill, and Giethner announcing his plan. That should have been terrific for spreading a little sunshine. Instead, while Obama and Geithner, (According to some, the only two men in the world who are smart enough to save us), were talking the markets were dropping. Literally, straight down, like a stone in a well. Please tell me, without resorting to Bush/Republican and greedy rich bashing or giving Obama a chance arguments, exactly how anyone thinks the spending in this bill, (You've all heard about the mouse, STDs, Milwaukee schools, weather proofing, $8-13 tax beak, etc.) is going to solve the housing crisis, loosen credit and create jobs.
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djn3nunez310 months, 3 weeks ago
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Who said this?
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“I earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it.”
Obama misread nothing. Nor is he giving up on bipartisanship either. The GOP however is going to do everything they can to make America fail under President Obama, it's what they hope to do anyway. I think we will all be suprised at what the next 4 years brings. -
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