GOP leaders steering for the iceberg
U.S. Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind. (AP photo)
Mike Pence, Republican of Indiana, is chairman of the House Republican Conference and is the third highest ranking Republican in the House. Yesterday, in a visit to Florida, he discussed his plans should the GOP take control of the House of Representatives.
TAMPA – Indiana Congressman Mike Pence, a likely 2012 presidential contender, told a gathering of local Republicans Thursday night that Republicans will refuse to compromise with the Obama administration on health care, the economy or anything else if they win the House majority back Nov. 2.
Pence also told the crowd of several hundred Republicans that the nation’s future is at risk, and the country could become a failed power if Republicans don’t win….
“The last Republican Congress didn’t suffer from too little compromise, it suffered too much,” he said. If they retake the majority, he said, there can be “no compromise that allows more borrowing, more spending, more deficits and more debt … no compromise on stopping their government takeover of health care.”
“If I didn’t make myself clear, no compromise,” he said. “We didn’t come this far to … seek consensus with the political liberal elite in Washington.”
Pence’s comments about “no compromise that allows more borrowing, more spending, more deficits and more debt” are particularly interesting, given that sometime next spring, Congress will be required to raise the nation’s debt ceiling or face a shutdown of the government.
I think it’s pretty clear where we’re headed, which is directly into the iceberg. In fact, a good portion of the GOP seems downright giddy at the prospect of hearing the popping of rivets, the shearing of metal, the inrush of water and the cries of those trapped below deck.
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Scout
October 22nd, 2010
12:33 pm
Bumper Sticker
“Liberals are the Redcoats of 1776″
williebkind
October 22nd, 2010
12:33 pm
jewcowboy
October 22nd, 2010
12:31 pm
Outstanding resources! Hey if they had heard anything from Biden and Pelosi I would have been worried.
stands for decibels
October 22nd, 2010
12:34 pm
Palin and Newt?
well recently, sure.
jcb, I only skimmed the thousand-plus comments in the Juan Williams thread, but I suspect nobody bothered to address what’s really the most irksome issue that NPR has had to deal with for many years now, to wit, that Fox News presents these individuals implicitly as a “liberal” balance. That’s reason enough for NPR not to allow their employees to draw pay from FNC.
RGB
October 22nd, 2010
12:34 pm
Any discussion lately on how Obama is keeping his campaign promise to lower the sea level?
I’m not kidding. He promised. During his first term.
What if Sara Palin had promised to lower the sea level?
md
October 22nd, 2010
12:36 pm
“MD they are doing it with fear, and wages that would starve you & me.”
Yes they are…..but they are still kicking our butts………our labor costs are unsustainable in the global market……..as is out standard of living…………the other few billion out there want theirs now.
Scout
October 22nd, 2010
12:36 pm
11 DAYS !!!
chuck
October 22nd, 2010
12:36 pm
Jay, I’m not sure what your point is. Do you mean that they are running the COUNTRY into an iceberg or the REPUBLICAN PARTY? I would contend that you are wrong whichever way you meant it. Shutting down this government for awhile would be a GREAT THING. Had they done that in 2005, they would never have lost control of Congress. Instead, they compromised with the dems to get the budget passed and look where that got us.
No Jay, this is a good thing for the country and for the party. There may be a rough patch, but if we get our fiscal house in order it will strengthen our country and return us to our glory days.
RGB
October 22nd, 2010
12:36 pm
“My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you’ll join with me as we try to change it.” [Barack Obama]
(He was telling the truth.)
Jay
October 22nd, 2010
12:36 pm
“If the government is not producing the results or has become destructive to the ends of our liberties, we have a right to get rid of that government and to get rid of it by any means necessary,” Broden said, adding the nation was founded on a violent revolt against Britain’s King George III.
Watson asked if violence would be in option in 2010, under the current government.
“The option is on the table. I don’t think that we should remove anything from the table as it relates to our liberties and our freedoms,” Broden said, without elaborating. “However, it is not the first option.”
I remember when the delightful and since departed NRB would entertain us all with such posts. In this case, however, the speaker is the GOP’s candidate for Congress from the 30th congressional district in Texas.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/DN-broden_22tex.ART0.State.Edition1.33278a9.html
jewcowboy
October 22nd, 2010
12:37 pm
Lil’ Barry Bailout,
“Too bad about that whole “separation of church and state thing”
I just find someone complaining about about having to pay taxes b/c the want to give money to an organization that is tax-exempt rather amusing.
Southern Comfort
October 22nd, 2010
12:38 pm
Do you call a ten year old a baby or infant. Then why do you call it tax cuts instead of tax raises? Just wondering how long something has to be gone before its replacement is considered new.
I call a ten year old an adolescent pre-teen, but that’s just me. I called it tax cuts because that’s how it was enacted in legislation. Letting the “tax cuts” expire simply returns the tax code to it’s previous form. It doesn’t matter how long those cuts were in effect.
@@
October 22nd, 2010
12:38 pm
Getalife:
Which party is making every effort to send new blood to Washington?
jewcowboy
October 22nd, 2010
12:40 pm
williebkind,
“Outstanding resources! ”
Certainly always fact based, those two are.
“Hey if they had heard anything from Biden and Pelosi I would have been worried.”
If one is forming ones thoughts based on what a politician says, then one is setting them self up for disappointment and frustration.
Bosch
October 22nd, 2010
12:41 pm
“But hope springs eternal in the human breast.”
I’m going to make a tshirt out of that one.
Eric
October 22nd, 2010
12:41 pm
And then we’ll come for you!
Those of you who took the Mark of the Obamination… put us in this mess..I see you everyday in your drivaways.. scraping off the childish “change” stickers .. but we know.. we remember.. and you WILL be held accountable.
NEVER AGAIN!
jewcowboy
October 22nd, 2010
12:42 pm
@@,
“Which party is making every effort to send new blood to Washington?”
Do witches have blood?
getalife
October 22nd, 2010
12:42 pm
@@,
The tea party are controlled by the koch brothers so they will not change anything.
Independent
October 22nd, 2010
12:42 pm
Any discussion lately on how Obama is keeping his campaign promise to lower the sea level?
I believe he’s partially kept that promise.
I think his strategy is to remove all drilling rigs and reduce the number of fishing boats allowed in the waters thus dropping the sea level. Fewer things in the water will drop the level.
Union
October 22nd, 2010
12:44 pm
Left wing management
October 22nd, 2010
12:18 pm
Union: “left wing management – (nice oxymoron btw) they would go to the states for retirement accounts..”
“Ah but wouldn’t that violate your whole volunteerist principle by forcing these accounts? Nah, let’s just drop that idea and stick with the taxes that stick it to the financiers.”
you dont think taxes are forced? as with any tax.. always passed down the pipe to the person that can least afford it..
jewcowboy
October 22nd, 2010
12:44 pm
“but we know.. we remember.. and you WILL be held accountable.
NEVER AGAIN!”
Here we have yet another example of a “conservative” drama queen. With their penchant for costumes at rallies, I suggest again that the these”conservatives” need to participate in their local community theater rather than the political process.
Bosch
October 22nd, 2010
12:44 pm
“Those of you who took the Mark of the Obamination… put us in this mess”
Really. How DO people who think that tie their shoes, much less type.
AmVet
October 22nd, 2010
12:45 pm
jcb, not sure but you could ask their fiscally conservative vampire friends…
jewcowboy
October 22nd, 2010
12:45 pm
Independent @ 12.42,
AmVet
October 22nd, 2010
12:46 pm
you dont think taxes are forced?
I see that verb used a lot.
Do you advocate that taxes be voluntary?
Southern Comfort
October 22nd, 2010
12:47 pm
Bosch @ 12:44
@@
October 22nd, 2010
12:47 pm
Getalife:
The TP candidates are letting it be known that they belong to no party. I’d be willing to give ‘em a chance.
“But hope springs eternal in the human breast.”
I’m going to make a tshirt out of that one.
Is that because you’re still nursing, Bosch?
jewcowboy
October 22nd, 2010
12:48 pm
AmVet,
“not sure but you could ask their fiscally conservative vampire friends…”
You mean the ones that suck?
Soothsayer
October 22nd, 2010
12:48 pm
The excessively low interest rates put in place by the Federal Reserve created a housing bubble that led to the “creation” of 1 million new construction jobs between 2002 and 2006. Of course, the bubble burst has led to the loss of 2 million construction jobs since 2007. What the myopic pundits on CNBC don’t realize, because they aren’t programmed to think, is that the Greenspan Housing Bubble “created” millions of other jobs that had no chance of being sustained. The number of realtors grew from 750,000 in 2000 to 1.3 million in 2006. We needed hundreds of thousands of new mortgage brokers and appraisers to falsify documents and not conduct proper due diligence. Wall Street needed to hire thousands of new MBA shysters to create fraudulent packages of toxic mortgages and the rating agencies needed to hire thousands of Burger King level thinkers to stamp AAA on the packages of toxic mortgages. These were just the direct jobs created by Easy Al. Home Depot, Lowes and a myriad of other home retailers built thousands of stores to service the needs of all these new “homeowners” and hired hundreds of thousands of clerks, installers, and cashiers. Once the delusion really got going, the “equity” from the homes generated jobs at car dealers, restaurants, cosmetic surgery centers, cruise lines, and yacht retailers.
“Friends, you say you have no job, no income and no assets? Well, come see me–Easy Al–down here at Greenspan’s New Home Lot. No credit, poor credit–it doesn’t matter. Everyone’s approved.”
If you want a real assessment of our economy and our near term prospects for recovery you owe to yourself to read this article.
andygrd
October 22nd, 2010
12:48 pm
From the Wall Street Journal…….
The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees is now the biggest outside spender of the 2010 elections, thanks to an 11th-hour effort to boost Democrats that has vaulted the public-sector union ahead of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the AFL-CIO and a flock of new Republican groups in campaign spending.
The 1.6 million-member AFSCME is spending a total of $87.5 million on the elections after tapping into a $16 million emergency account to help fortify the Democrats’ hold on Congress. Last week, AFSCME dug deeper, taking out a $2 million loan to fund its push. The group is spending money on television advertisements, phone calls, campaign mailings and other political efforts, helped by a Supreme Court decision that loosened restrictions on campaign spending.
“We’re the big dog,” said Larry Scanlon, the head of AFSCME’s political operations . “But we don’t like to brag.”
Lil' Barry Bailout
October 22nd, 2010
12:49 pm
“You are the ones we’ve been waiting to vote out of office”
AmVet
October 22nd, 2010
12:50 pm
jcb, maybe he’s a fellow MOT!
Nah! As a rule, we don’t frighten that easily.
I think they need to stick with the tried and true: Obama is a socialist and we have to take our country back!
larry
October 22nd, 2010
12:51 pm
This is an interesting read. Maybe we are headed down the same path no matter who controls congress.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2026961,00.html
Lil' Barry Bailout
October 22nd, 2010
12:52 pm
During the 2008 campaign I was of the opinion that the Idiot Messiah was “Hillary without the hate”. I was so wrong–Hillary only hates HALF of America.
jewcowboy
October 22nd, 2010
12:54 pm
“I was so wrong–Hillary only hates HALF of America.”
And we have yet another example of a “conservative” drama queen.
larry
October 22nd, 2010
12:55 pm
There have been more private sector jobs created this year alone than in the eight years of the Bush adminsitration. And the Repubs want us to give the keys back to them . I dont think so. They drive us back in the ditch , we might not get out.
Mick
October 22nd, 2010
12:57 pm
md
**Don’t look now, but the biggest communist country out there is kicking our ass in labor costs**
Oh thats a good one, so what are you proposing communistic capitalism?
Bosch
October 22nd, 2010
12:58 pm
larry,
“There have been more private sector jobs created this year alone than in the eight years of the Bush adminsitration.”
But, but, but they are waiting to HIRE them until the Congress gets all GOPey again, cause then everything’ll be different!
~~~~~~~~~~~
@@,
Go hump something else today — my leg is sore from all your and jm’s yesterday.
larry
October 22nd, 2010
12:59 pm
http://newsjunkiepost.com/2010/10/08/its-official-more-private-sector-jobs-created-in-2010-than-during-entire-bush-years/
Lil' Barry Bailout
October 22nd, 2010
12:59 pm
larry: There have been more private sector jobs created this year alone than in the eight years of the Bush adminsitration.
—————
Then kindly explain why unemployment in every month of the Idiot Messiah regime was higher than at any point of our President Bush’s eight years. Thanks in advance.
RB from Gwinnett
October 22nd, 2010
12:59 pm
Does anybody have any rational reason why the feds fund NPR anyway? What national purpose does it serve?
larry
October 22nd, 2010
1:00 pm
But, but, but they are waiting to HIRE them until the Congress gets all GOPey again, cause then everything’ll be different!
GOPey, ewwwwwwwww!!
jewcowboy
October 22nd, 2010
1:02 pm
stands for decibels @ 12.34,
It begs the question if these people realize the Corporation for Public Broadcasting board (which controls NPR and PBS) consists of 4 D’s and 4 R’s and 1 Independent.
Or that the current CEO, Patricia Harrison, was once the co-chair of the RNC and was a political appointee in the State Dept in the Bush Administration.
larry
October 22nd, 2010
1:03 pm
Then kindly explain why unemployment in every month of the Idiot Messiah regime was higher than at any point of our President Bush’s eight years. Thanks in advance.
It happens when you create jobs in a bubble, i.e, the housing bubble. Such as there was.
@@
October 22nd, 2010
1:04 pm
Not gay, but I’m gonna borrow this quote from Obama:
“You are not alone. You didn’t do anything wrong. You didn’t do anything to deserve being bullied. And there is a whole world waiting for you, filled with possibilities.”
Speaking from a “not so gay” perspective about the country’s uncertain future, I’d have to say he’s right.
Americans haven’t done anything wrong, nor did we deserve the left’s bullying tactics.
Yes….the possibilities are endless without the uber left running the show.
Lil' Barry Bailout
October 22nd, 2010
1:04 pm
I think you learned your math in a bubble.
All those jobs created, and unemployment is higher now than at any point in our President Bush’s administration?
Southern Comfort
October 22nd, 2010
1:05 pm
Then kindly explain why unemployment in every month of the Idiot Messiah regime was higher than at any point of our President Bush’s eight years.
If you shed millions more jobs than are created, unemployment will be higher no matter how many jobs you create. It’s simple math. If you start at 0 and subtract 3 million. If you add 1.5 million, you’re still in the negative.
larry
October 22nd, 2010
1:05 pm
When the air was let out,of the bubble, real estate agents, mortgage underwriters , those in the construction idustry all lost jobs.
Bosch
October 22nd, 2010
1:06 pm
RB,
Do you not listen to Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me? I mean, that show alone is worth the 18, 19 million or so the feds cough up alone.
getalife
October 22nd, 2010
1:06 pm
@@,
“The TP candidates are letting it be known that they belong to no party. I’d be willing to give ‘em a chance.”
I will give them a laugh because they are funny.
Atlantan
October 22nd, 2010
1:06 pm
Obama created $3trillion in new debt over the past 20 months. If the Republicans win in a landslide then why should they compromise with Obama. It will be clear the country wants to move in a new direction.
larry
October 22nd, 2010
1:07 pm
This is the 9th straight month of private sector job growth in the midst of a devastating recession that has put a serious strain mostly on the poor and middle class. There has been a total of 863,000 private sector jobs created in 2010, exceeding the total created under the Bush/Cheney regime.
Lil' Barry Bailout
October 22nd, 2010
1:07 pm
Come on folks, larry’s not up to the job, so help a brother out. More jobs created in 2010 than during our President Bush’s two terms in office, and yet unemployment is higher now than it ever was during His eight years. What gives?
Doggone/GA
October 22nd, 2010
1:07 pm
“Should republicans not vote on their fundamental principles?”
to me…that’s the wrong question. First we have to ask: do Repulicans HAVE fundamental principles?
Bosch
October 22nd, 2010
1:07 pm
RB,
And Car Talk? I mean, come on.
Bosch
October 22nd, 2010
1:09 pm
“Obama created $3trillion in new debt over the past 20 months.”
Now, correct me if I’m wrong, but is that because he put the war budget on the books, or is that interest?
I mean that’s like saying he got funky with the credit card and I must’ve missed that.
Anyone?
Southern Comfort
October 22nd, 2010
1:09 pm
LBB
You’re trying to compare pure numbers to a percentage. The two are not directly comparable.
Atlantan
October 22nd, 2010
1:09 pm
Jay, as one famous author eloquently stated,
“That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it,…”
Soothsayer
October 22nd, 2010
1:09 pm
U.S. President George W. Bush, saying “our entire economy is in danger,” urged Congress to approve his administration’s $700 billion bailout proposal.
“We’re in the midst of a serious financial crisis, and the federal government is responding with decisive actions,” Bush said in a televised address Wednesday night from the White House.
Bush pointed out that the collapse of several major lenders was rooted in the subprime mortgage market that thrived over the past decade.
He said passage of the $700 billion bailout proposal was needed to restore confidence in the market.
Corey
October 22nd, 2010
1:10 pm
Getalife, the American people are plain delusional. They see evidence all around them that it’s the system, but they still believe a party lable is the cure all end all.
Lil' Barry Bailout
October 22nd, 2010
1:10 pm
Let’s see, $800 billion in stimulus divided by larry’s 800,000 new jobs…that’s about a million bucks a job.
Heckuva “job”, Idiot Messiah!
RB from Gwinnett
October 22nd, 2010
1:10 pm
Jay, just curious… Why do you think changing the direction of this nation by force is out of the question?
Bosch
October 22nd, 2010
1:11 pm
Atlantan,
So are you suggesting a coup or an all out revolution?
Bosch
October 22nd, 2010
1:12 pm
RB,
By force? What kind of force? And to whom?
@@
October 22nd, 2010
1:12 pm
Bosch:
Who first addressed whom yesterday, and how did that who (you) go about it?
Was it addressed directly to me? NO!
I think @@ secretly hates women — equating rape with sexual escapades. Unbelievable.
It was one of those girly snipes for which you’ve become so well known.
If I was into discussing popcorn and puppy poop, we could have a civil exchange, but I’m not so we never will.
Understood?
larry
October 22nd, 2010
1:13 pm
LBB, Can the Housing implosion mean i rise of 3% or more in the unemployment rate ?
Yes.
RB from Gwinnett
October 22nd, 2010
1:13 pm
Also, Jay, your post within the shools debate the other day was good except for one major issue. The lower class you keep protecting does not have a work ethic that will sustain them as they once did. They are being fed a line of crap by you and other socialists that you will take care of them in exchange for their vote and they don’t need to do anything on their own to change their lot in life. The reason people hire illegals is simple. They work. They show up every day, work all day, and don’t steal your crap on the way out the door. And to many employers, that’s worth the risk over the alternative. And no, they shouldn’t be here, but that’s a different issue.
If many of them worked as hard at work as they do at working the system, they’d actually do pretty well for themselves.
jewcowboy
October 22nd, 2010
1:13 pm
@@,
“Speaking from a “not so gay” perspective about the country’s uncertain future, I’d have to say he’s right.”
I think it’s very warped and in extremely bad taste to try to turn a message meant to keep kids from killing themselves into a self-indulgent invective on the political process.
Jay
October 22nd, 2010
1:13 pm
Barry, I’ll explain it once again.
If, under Party A, the unemployment rate rises from 1 percent to 10 percent over a decade — an increase of 1000 percent — the average unemployment rate for those years under Party A will be 5.5 percent.
If Party B then takes office with the unemployment rate at 10 percent, but it succeeds in cutting the rate in half to 5 percent over 10 years, the average unemployment rate under its tenure will be 7.5 percent.
But the thing is, you already know this. You simply cling to this claim because it shields you against having to accept reality.
Bosch
October 22nd, 2010
1:13 pm
@@,
I was making a personal observation and gave an opinion — you and jm spent the rest of the afternoon and into the evening hurling insults.
Understand?
John Galt
October 22nd, 2010
1:14 pm
However we got here, we must take drastic action sometimes soon or we will look just like Greece and France today. What do you think the moochers of society will do if the public trough is no longer filled for them?
Do you want to be in Atlanta when that happens? We better have some grownups regain control of the government.
Soothsayer
October 22nd, 2010
1:14 pm
The simple fact is that Obama inherited a federal deficit of $1.2 trillion on the day he was sworn in last year. Barely two weeks earlier, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office issued its regular “Budget and Economic Outlook” document, stating:
CBO, Jan. 2009: The federal fiscal situation in 2009 will be dramatically worse than it was in 2008. Under the assumption that current laws and policies remain in place (that is, not accounting for any new legislation), CBO estimates that the deficit this year will total $1.2 trillion, more than two and a half times the size of last year’s.
That $1.2 trillion projected deficit — the result of bills signed by Republican President George W. Bush — grew substantially after Obama signed his stimulus bill and submitted his own budget. But even so, by the time the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, the actual deficit was $1.4 trillion, CBO said.
So, the deficit under Obama only increased by $200 billion from what he inherited from George W. Bush.
Not My Real Name
October 22nd, 2010
1:14 pm
When is Obama gonna comment on the NPR/Juan Williams drama?
Even the ombudsman for NPR says it was handled badly. Too late.
Juan is hosting O’Reily’s show tonight at 8pm. Go get ‘em Mr. Williams
Mick
October 22nd, 2010
1:14 pm
**Heckuva “job”, Idiot Messiah!**
It’s that type of name calling that devalues the debate, unless of course you are a fifth grader?
Lil' Barry Bailout
October 22nd, 2010
1:15 pm
But larry, you claim the Idiot Messiah singlehandedly created 800,000 jobs this year (note that our President Bush was President at no time during this period). Why is unemployment still higher today than at any point during President Bush’s administration?
Mick
October 22nd, 2010
1:15 pm
rb
**Why do you think changing the direction of this nation by force is out of the question?**
Talk about sore losers….
larry
October 22nd, 2010
1:15 pm
Let’s see, $800 billion in stimulus divided by larry’s 800,000 new jobs…that’s about a million bucks a job.
Heckuva “job”, Idiot Messiah!
Then why did these Republicans say that it would create jobs ?
http://washingtonindependent.com/100992/republicans-who-bashed-stimulus-lobbied-for-funds-argued-money-would-create-jobs
@@
October 22nd, 2010
1:16 pm
Getalife:
You’re down on the dems and reps. Who do you plan on voting for?
williebkind
October 22nd, 2010
1:16 pm
I see the progressive liberals lambasting the conservatives online and through tv ads. They sure are funny. There are 3 or so here that are real funny too. I never hear them talking about the democrat platform! Why is that? Hey what is their platform? Has Obama told them yet?
Lil' Barry Bailout
October 22nd, 2010
1:17 pm
Soothsayer: So, the deficit under Obama only increased by $200 billion from what he inherited from George W. Bush.
————————–
Did you vote for the Idiot Messiah so that he could continue President Bush’s policies? Oops, he didn’t just continue them, he proposed trillion-dollar deficits for the next decade.
Lil' Barry Bailout
October 22nd, 2010
1:18 pm
Here in Georgia they don’t even admit they’re Democrats in their ads.
jewcowboy
October 22nd, 2010
1:18 pm
williebkind,
“Hey what is their platform?’
And how are the Republicans going to pay for tax cuts and balance the budget?
Lil' Barry Bailout
October 22nd, 2010
1:19 pm
Red herring, larry. Maybe you should ask them about their statements. I’m asking you about yours.
Cue the chirping crickets.
Lil' Barry Bailout
October 22nd, 2010
1:19 pm
Typical libbtard, didn’t even consider the spending.
Jay
October 22nd, 2010
1:20 pm
Nice justification for employers’ breaking the law there, RB.
To borrow a phrase, “what part of illegal don’t you understand?”
Furthermore, if I could paint with a brush as broad as the one you use to describe poor Americans, I could do my whole damn house in three swipes.
If only life were as simple as you and others like to believe….
getalife
October 22nd, 2010
1:20 pm
Corey,
Yes, their mindset is hard to change but we are getting closer to finally admitting the problem.
jewcowboy
October 22nd, 2010
1:20 pm
john Galt,
“However we got here, we must take drastic action sometimes soon or we will look just like Greece and France today.”
Why? What proof to have the United States has to take drastic action sometime soon…verifiable proof from a non-partisan source.
williebkind
October 22nd, 2010
1:20 pm
larry
October 22nd, 2010
1:15 pm
Once it was approved against their will, they needed to make sure their states got their fair share just like the blue states. Hey, just using common sense. Have you tried it?
JohnnyReb
October 22nd, 2010
1:20 pm
Jay@12:06 – thanks for the correction on the 1% finanical transaction tax, I will take it up with my email chain buddies.
Can you refute the realestate tax that was put in the healthcare bill? Or, the $154 billion more for Fannie/Freddie Obama has not announced?
md
October 22nd, 2010
1:20 pm
“Oh thats a good one, so what are you proposing communistic capitalism?”
Just stating a fact……..take it however you want, but know it is there……….
@@
October 22nd, 2010
1:21 pm
Cowboy:
Bad taste?
I think my gay friends…many conservative…would disagree with you.
Together, we share.
Pablito
October 22nd, 2010
1:21 pm
The Associated Press
COSTA MESA, Calif. — A California woman who befriended a homeless woman and let her sleep in her car told police she didn’t know where to turn when the woman unexpectedly died — so she drove the body around for months along with a box of baking soda to hide the smell, authorities said Thursday.
Will baking soda cover up the stench of Obamacare too?
williebkind
October 22nd, 2010
1:22 pm
jewcowboy
October 22nd, 2010
1:20 pm
Common sense is a non-partisan source. But what do you know about a non-partisan source?
chuck
October 22nd, 2010
1:23 pm
Larry, if you think that your statement about private sector jobs is true, then you have obviously lost your mind. Obama has lost around 2 million jobs this year. In 8 years the Bush administration gained over 3 million jobs. Chew on that for awhile moron.
Harry Callahan
October 22nd, 2010
1:23 pm
AmVet…seriously…you are the biggest fool I have ever seen post on this blog. Your corporate conspiracy theories are absolutely, positively, the ultimate in paranoid gobbledygook.
Why don’t you tell us what you would like to see government do to rein in these irresponsible corporate monsters? This ought to be really, really, humorous. My guess, though, is that you’ll take the Kamchak route and decline to post anything in your own words, choosing instead to bore us with a 5,000 word cut-and-paste of complete nonsense, and then declare that, due to your obvious (in your own mind) intellectual superiority, it would be a waste for you to explain any of this to the masses.
larry
October 22nd, 2010
1:24 pm
LBB, if you are not going to read the links then fine dont.
And if you can not understand that the housing crisis cost this country raised unemployment by 3%, then i am no help to you at all.
Mick
October 22nd, 2010
1:24 pm
md
Thats a cop out but not a surprise considering your infamous hair splitting. In some parts of the world slavery is there, should that be considered also?
RB from Gwinnett
October 22nd, 2010
1:24 pm
“And how are the Republicans going to pay for tax cuts and balance the budget?”
If it’s not by cutting some of the goverment spending crap they won’t be in office very long.
I’ll tell you one of my fears with the R’s. The ralley of the TP’s is going to put some new blood in office, hopefully with a conservative mindset, but if they get to Washington and are unable to overcome some of the McCains (RINO’S) of the old guard R party, they will fail miserably. Michael Reagan is not running this show and I’m not sure he knows it.
williebkind
October 22nd, 2010
1:26 pm
jewcowboy
October 22nd, 2010
1:18 pm
You answered a question with a question? Not really an answer is it. I will give you part one….stop spending
Union
October 22nd, 2010
1:26 pm
“White House Inconsistent on How Many Jobs it has Created” no kidding.. so all this job created.. is hogwash. so paint your house with that.. what happens when there is not another stimulus injection to save all the govt jobs next year? just curious..
Harry Callahan
October 22nd, 2010
1:26 pm
AmVet
October 22nd, 2010
12:50 pm
“I think they need to stick with the tried and true: Obama is a socialist and we have to take our country back!”
A challenge to you, Mr. AmVet…instead of merely mocking that statement, why don’t you either;
A) Tell us why we’re wrong on declaring Obama a socialist, or
B) Tell us why socialism is something we should embrace
Thanks in advance.