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Well, let's publicize that all homeless shelters across the United States will be renamed Boehnerville, Cantorville and McConnellville!
Yes, I'm sure Obama will stand up to the republicans and the other fascists. And do you know why? I'll tell you why: I'm taking up a collection for Obama to go to China a get a cojones transplant- they'll remove those two tiny little things that have atrophied because he's never used them, and they'll give him a huge set from a very tough guy who got run over when he head-butted a railroad train. Yessir, you'll see a new Obama, he'll be the scourge of the republicans.
here's a scenario for you
the USA keeps bickering ..with nothing getting done ..while other countries slowly get smarter ..and wealthier ... and ...we become more like Mexico (that place had it together 200 years ago) ..and when the price is right,they come in and buy this country ( they have already started ) ..
how do you like that?
- dems vs republicans ... thats where it ends ... if we keep this up
the UNTIED STATES OF AMERICA ... ( typo on purpose )
its nowhere either party will want to bring up kids ...
...from the wall street journal...Repubicans have argued that any revenue raised from closing loopholes should be used to lower tax rates, not for more government spending....
boehner is a true American idiot. As are all who would believe for one minute in the sheer level of crap the tea baggins feed people. think about it! the statement itself is stupid. ...Used to lower tax rates? hu, wha? seems the loopholes should be closed first and foremost to dig us out of the hole a certain contingency of both right and left wing corporate shills have put us in!!! Oh and by the way?? catch The Hell A times (L.A. Times) and read about how the bankster ahve managed not only to rip us off but how the fore closure situation is having a shittier effect on those of us "WHO" are financially responsible. Where the hell is my bail out.!
and for those who keep baggin on the brotha. I am dying to hear your solution! for all the bloggin from the noggin I've read here rare have I read any real ideas. Save for my own and some other really good ones. The man has been getting the shaft by a bunch of fat white cats that have yet to freekin evolve and even moreso with the level of dissent they have created may not only succeed in getting rid of him but of the dumoquaks don't start standing up and getting on the same page then we, for sure, will be headed toward darker ages.!!!
whose going to sit on the fence with me in the center and drink beer when it all hits hte fan. MORONS,MORONS,MORNOS,MORONS, Gosh dag nab it, I made my head hurt again!lolol;
Like I said. Obama's biggest problem is not the Republicans. It is the Democrats. The Senator has chosen to separate himself from Obama because he thinks Obama's chances of re-election is waning. As badly as I detest Republicans, they don't ever fail to support their leaders, regardless of how bad their position is. There is no Democratic Party but a lot of people with a sort of country club relationship. What the Senator does not seem to grasp, the Republicans have declared war on American citizens who do not support the REpublicans platform that unions are a disease, the leaders of corporate America are Gods, American citizens do not deserve a reasonable standard of living that provides reasonable protection for their families' support as do the executive of this country, the elderly do not deserve a safety net that allows them to live out their lives outside poverty and charity, the corporations have the absolute right to maximize profits by polluting out land, air, and water, they have the right to steal our investments and gamble with our money to support an amoral life style, they have the right to charge whatever interest rate the market will bear, they should be immune from prosecution from fraud or producing products that kill Americans, etc. Casey has not gotten the message that Republicans have established they are bought and paid for by Corporate America, and will never again allow Democrats to pass legislation that is not consistent to what Corporate America wants. Playing nice with Republicans is gone. They started this. If we don't finish it by Americans getting in the street and demanding equal treatment with the corporations, our way of life is over with. If you don't believe me, wait a few years and look around at what will stay with us for many years.
He has no choice. He closed a lot of doors when he caved to the Republicans on multiple issues. His biggest obstacles to re-election is not the Republicans. It's Democrats who state they are disappointed with Obama and will not show up at the polls. This happened in 2010. In addition, there are those brain dead individuals who want to throw out all currently in office irregardless of their individual records. Look at what happened in District 9 in New York where the Jews bought into the garbage that Obama is not supporter of Israel. As a result I have moved from a supporter of Israel to a non-supporter because it is difficult to support stupid. Obama is in trouble because the majority of Americans have no clue as to reality. They seem not to comprehend Bush and REpublicans created all of the mess we are currently in but still offer only the same solutions of cutting taxes for the wealthy and deregulating Corporate America which caused our economy of nearly crashing. How do you run against ignorance?
I like to think outside the box. Mostly about how I got stuck inside the box in the first place. Did I bring a boxcutter? What if it's not cardboard, but petrified wood, do I have a sawzall? And then will the Dust Nazis at the EPA fine me, and I'l have to go on the lam, eating lamb chops and wearing Jiminy Glick glasses like a certain Press Secretary. Hmmm, what would Chef Shippe think of those lamb chops anyway. Has America finely awakened from its coarseness. Were Nevada and New York just the begining, or the end if you consider the sublimation of those 63 other House seats that those Mommy Boys vacated. Did Pelosi secretly cause the massive turnover from center dotted left lineage to far right political patronagealistic wocka wocka zim boo baaah. Natzee Nanzee caused the loss of leadership in the House because they were staring at her botox and her giant bosoms. They gnu specificalliness that they were gone. We are now happiness as a Nation. 63 + 2. THE SENATE WILL FALL in November 2012 along with the lost radical, left wing, Muslim, ideologue ev-ah. And finally the Country will be back, Jeem.
"...now he can put his Harry Truman hat on – and run against the Republicans in 2012 – as the Party that’s against job creation in America."
Sheesh Thom, you mean he's not going to run on his glowing record?
Where do I sign up for one of those $235K jobs? - and I absolutely wouldn't mind paying my fair share of taxes on it either!
Senator Casey Breaks With President Over Jobs BillSeptember 15, 2011 8:32 PM
(Credit: KDKA)
Reporting Jon Delano
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Pennsylvania’s senior Democratic official is breaking away from President Obama when it comes to his jobs bill.
U.S. Sen. Bob Casey says the president’s legislative strategy won’t work.
Casey was one of the first Democrats to endorse Barack Obama, but now he thinks the president’s jobs bill needs to be broken apart, he told KDKA Political Editor Jon Delano.
“I’m afraid if we tried to pass one big bill, I think there’s a lot of skepticism about big pieces of legislation with all kinds of different component parts. We should break this up.”
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Casey says Washington is gridlocked with too much politics to allow passage of a single jobs bill as pushed by the president.
“Even without presidential politics, it’s complicated by the politics of Washington. You’ve got too many people here that spend their whole day trying to score political points instead of working together.”
Casey says given the politics, the only way a Republican House and Democratic Senate will enact any jobs legislation is a different strategy that allows all ideas to be considered separately.
“I believe it would be much more likely if we break it up,” says Casey. “Why not have a series of votes on job creation strategies – five votes, 10 votes, I don’t care if it’s 25 votes.”
“We should stay here as long as it takes to vote over and over on the most important issue that faces the American people and that’s jobs.”
Casey says he doesn’t support everything in the president’s bill but thinks one idea could pass — the extension of the payroll tax cut for working Americans which he says led to job growth earlier this year.
“One of the reasons is that we passed a payroll cut that put a thousand bucks in the pockets of most working families.”
Obama Predicts: His Plan Will Cost $235,263 Per JobBy Fred LucasSeptember 16, 2011
(CNSNews.com) - President Barack Obama said at a fundraiser held in a private residence in Washington, D.C., on Thursday evening that the $447 billion American Jobs Act he has proposed will create 1.9 million American jobs—which works out to a cost of about $235,263 per job.
“It’s estimated that the American Jobs Act would add two percentage points to the GDP, and add as many as 1.9 million jobs, and bring the unemployment rate down by a full percentage point,” Obama said, according to the official White House transcript of his remarks.
Obama did not say who made the estimate in question, but his remarks mirrored the conclusions of an analysis made by Mark Zandi, the chief economist for Moody’s Analytics. “The plan would add 2 percentage points to GDP growth next year, add 1.9 million jobs, and cut the unemployment rate by a percentage point,” Zandi wrote.
In a fact sheet published by Office of the Press Secretary, the White House itself has estimated that president’s new jobs plan will cost a total of $447 billion.
$447 billion divided by 1.9 million equals approximately $235,263.
Gee Boehner says the Job creators are on strike, because they want more tax cuts before they hire anyone! Once again the party of no won't play fair, well my latest What Now artoon is all about these so called job creators and all the tax cuts they have already received!
It's up on my site now
www.whatnowtoons.com
left of center political cartoons!
Unless the President grows a pair and liberally uses his veto the republican version will probably prevail. If it does how long will it be before we see an 'American Spring' with rioting in the streets and police and National Guard shooting Americans in the streets?
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Superstition is harmful to Children and other living things
if you are in a demografic with a longer then average life expectancy and you have other sufficient income resources then it would be fair and equitable to forgo colas in social security and if one has the desire and ability to work later in life, then ther must be incentives that would allow that and save the system money.
about oil speculation, I think that the comodities market is a pipeline with the potential of allowing a small group of wealthy investors to create a short term monopoly. we as a people are dependant on oil and gas. The demand rises and falls with the expansion or contraction of the economy, but the price is determined more by what we can afford to pay. When the population recieves a sudden rise in income there is a formula that will determine how much we can afford. So if a major investor can by up enough supply to effect prices ,that is what they are going to do. If you give the publlc a a raise in income through tax cuts in this time of computer technology then wall street will find a way tap into it without expanding the economy. On the other hand if we let the Bush tax cuts expire then wall street speculators will pay back some of the easy money and the price of gas and oil will drop with our ability to afford it. This will counter the effect the sudden loss of income .And/Or we put a progressive tax on profits from market speculation of essential commodities and use that money to support alternitive energy sources. Any taxes recieved from food product speculaion should be used to maintain stability in the farming industry. My point , if you give the public a tax cut without measures to minimize the predictable effects of commodity speculation, then you may be doing more harm then good.
Very Well Said! If only the Democrats were as good at staying on message as the Republicans. I'm Facebook posting that right now, and I hope everyone does!
Repubs not so much for less government in my opinion as they claim to be, if they truly were they wouldn't be so insistant on garnering/maintaining the control over all faculties of this countries government offices at ANY cost both federal and state levels. Cause for alarm, total control looms in the distance? Current circumstances reminds me of saying from a friend years ago when times were tough and I needed a push to get moving "When you decided you've suffered enough, you'll get up and do something about it" --- (Yep, I'm there made that decision to do something about it, now it's time to see just what I CAN DO/WE CAN DO (any other takers?) to help get some assemblence of order back to OUR HOUSES and COUNTRY. Time to organize I do believe and let the Tea Party know that their Party is OVER...But are welcome to join in on the discussions to fix OUR problems in this country at the NEW OPEN HOUSE PARTY OF THE UNITED "NOT" DEVIDED STATES GOVERNMENT come next election, just hope we can hang on that long... Proud of Obama for stepping up the other day!
I think an important difference between Wisconsin and all the other states with horrible Republican governors is that Wisconsin had Democratic heroes to rally around--the 14 Democratic state senators that left the state to prevent passage of the budget. There's no one like that in Michigan or Florida.
GOP schemes never change from Reaganomics onward . Same old push for corp tax cuts , loopholes & Oil subsides, more deregulation. The very wealth favoring policies that led to Bush Cheney crash / Paulson TARP scam on taxpayers, 2 very long failed wars, wasting lives & 3 trillion, huge unfunded debt, lies, greed and trying to starve the Beast ( SS / Medicare .) Call their bluff Vote Dem 2 yrs 8 months is NOT enough time to undo 28 yrs of GOP toxic policies...
GOP Tea Vangelicals are taking us back to the 19 th Century or further back to the ' Gilded Age' when Robber Barons ruled us all. Be careful of who's lies you believe and who you vote for ..Perrys past record is full of PAy to Play in TX . Most folks there do not like him. The Other pretty boy..Mitt has flipped so many times I lost track His career was mostly cutting jobs in the privite sector DO not expect the corp run media ( Or FOX for sure ) to give the facts
Too late We have already been screwed, duped, manipulated for years Reaganomics Deregulation, debt, Bush 2008 crash TARP joke on taxpayers, long failed wars based on lies, wasting lives and 3 trillion... www.whitehouse.gov www.congress.gov Speak out Hammer them till they listen
Well said Millions agree
Thom,
I keep hearing these Republicans talk about the "job-creators". Can we just have an accounting of the number of jobs these "job creators" have created over the last thirty years?...compared to how many jobs they've eliminated...or sent overseas?...and how much money they've stashed in their pockets from the tax cuts and benefits they've been given over the same time-span?
C'mon Democrats! Start talking about this!!!!
Obama appears to have began to comprehend what a mistake it was to continually cave to the Republicans on debt ceiling and Bush tax cuts. Die has been cast now. REpublicans will not help him on anything. They appear to be winning the battle of convincing Americans they had absoulutely nothing to do with creation of the deficit problem, George W. Bush was a Saint, and Obama alone is the problem. The problem in this country is that it is heavily populated with dumb asses who believe FOX news is the news and Republicans are incapable of lying. I have fought the fight to try to educate friends and neighbors but I'm growing weary. Sometimes people need to get exactly what they ask for. The only problem is it will not only be them that will experience the second Great Depression and the destruction of our way of life. I'm inclined to walk away but the cost simply would be too great. The Democratic Party is in serious need of culling. It is our job of doing this. In the future it is you are in are you are out. It is time to go to war and the only chance of winning is to wake up the minorities and younger voters who stayed at home in 2010. If we don't take our govt. back from Corporate America in 2012 the average American has no futute. The Democratic Party will be no help. It remains to be seen if Obama has learned he has been his own enemy. The press and news media won't help. We must do it.
" Politics of hate by which Republicans intend to divide and conquer us from within......" , is exactly what these scoundrels are doing with groups like the Tea- Party. "Pit the needy against the needy to benefit the greedy." The mass media is the real weapon being used to facilitate all this treachery.
I will also vote for Pres. Obama in 2012 with hope he gets the house of reps. back. I heard he came to his senses on Soc.Sec., a good sign.