Sequester will test GOP’s cut/cut/cut strategy
Unless Congress comes to an unlikely and very quick agreement, most domestic federal spending must by law be slashed by an immediate 8.2 percent on March 1, with only Social Security, Medicaid and veterans’ benefits exempted.
According to estimated from the Office of Management and Budget, defense spending will have to be cut by 9.4 to 10 percent, depending on the category. Payments to Medicare providers — doctors, hospitals, etc. — will be cut by 2 percent.
And because the law dictates that the cuts be across-the-board, rather than targeted, the impact is some areas could be severe. Agency directors have very little if any leeway in trying to protect particular programs.
James Clapper, director of National Intelligence, has warned that “the sheer size of the cut will create an immediate national security crisis situation” in the CIA, FBI and other agencies. Border Patrol agents will be laid off, as will federal prosecutors and airline security officers. (If you’re flying, you might want to double the time needed to get through security.)
On the social-spending side, to cite just a few specific examples, some 10,000 Americans will be cut off from the AIDS drugs that keep them alive; 70,000 children will be pushed off Head Start; 373,000 seriously mentally ill people will no longer have a means of treatment. The list goes on and on.
The overall economy will likely suffer as well. According to the Congressional Budget Office, that reduced federal spending will dampen growth and cut job creation by some 750,000 through the end of the year.
Unfortunately, there appears to be little to no hope in Washington that such cuts can be avoided, at least at first. Our leaders have come to the conclusion that no matter how much pain these reductions cause the American people, the political pain they themselves would suffer by having to compromise would be greater still. So instead of acting, they are preparing to blame each other when the outcries come.
The Republicans are basing their PR strategy on the claim that the sequester was actually President Obama’s idea, and they are correct: The Obama White House did propose the idea of a sequester back in 2011, believing that if the required budget cuts were painful enough, both sides would be compelled to compromise in order to avoid them.
However, the sequester — or “Obamaquester”, in the GOP’s strained terminology — was made necessary in the first place because House Republicans had made it quite clear that without a mandatory mechanism to slash spending, they would refuse to raise the nation’s debt ceiling, potentially sending the country into a disastrous default. That was back before the election, when House Republicans were so full of themselves that they seemed fully capable of doing just that.
(Just to refresh your memory — these artificial fiscal crises do tend to blur into one another by now — this particular confrontation in 2011 is the one that convinced Standard & Poors to lower the nation’s bond rating.)
In other words, the record shows that Republicans forced the crisis, and now want to blame Obama for proposing an escape hatch. I don’t believe the tactic is going to work, in large part because once again, the GOP has put itself into a position of trying to sell a hard argument. In this case, after stomping their feet, holding their breath and generally making public fools of themselves demanding harsh spending cuts, they are going to try to put the blame for spending cuts on Obama?
Good luck with that.
Paul Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee and the GOP’s spending guru, is on record back in 2011 as lauding the sequester, and his fellow House Republicans voted 174-66 in favor of it. (House Democrats split right down the middle, with 95 supporting it and 95 voting against it). In addition, Ryan has promised House conservatives that he will soon produce a budget that will balance the budget within 10 years, and do it without new taxes. The magnitude of spending cuts required to make that happen will dwarf those being implemented under the sequester.
The sequester, in other words, can be seen as a mini test drive for the GOP’s overall fiscal policy. What happens to government services when we implement just a fraction of the massive spending cuts that the GOP is demanding? What happens to the economy when federal spending falls by a relatively minor $85 billion between March and the end of the fiscal year in October?
By already trying to put the blame on Obama, the GOP is in effect predicting that the results won’t be pretty.
– Jay Bookman
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TiredOfIt
February 19th, 2013
12:58 pm
It’s way pass time to pull an Iceland on the wall street banks or are they to big to be nationalized. And since oil is a national security issue same goes for them.
Doggone/GA
February 19th, 2013
12:58 pm
“We’re talking individual efforts and percentages”
No, WE are not. And YOU never stated it as such. How about some relevent numbers to prove your assertions.
Joe Hussein Mama
February 19th, 2013
12:59 pm
Vet — “Democrats hated Bush just like Republicans hate Obama..”
Rejected.
I don’t think very much of President Bush at all, but you’ll never see me calling him a name like our conservative friends and associates do on here.
That Black Guy
February 19th, 2013
1:00 pm
Dharma Bum
February 19th, 2013
10:59 am
Dems/Libs and Reps/Cons spit in each other’s faces everyday and you guys wonder why there is no compromise? How about we drop the incendiary rhetoric and stop referring to Tea Partiers as “American Al Qaeda” and Liberals as “Communists?” That might be a start.
_________________________________________________
You must be new here.
It’s all the dems/repubs fault.
If the dems/repubs would get out out the way and let the dems/repubs handle things, we would be in great shape.
The dems/repubs have ALL the answers.
The dems/repubs are destroying the country and only the dems/repubs can save it.
Dems/repubs are stooped, unpatriotic, unAmerican, poopyheads.
getalife
February 19th, 2013
1:00 pm
I would love to make 4 trillion.
We are not broke vet.
Christian Conservative
February 19th, 2013
1:00 pm
Peadawg
“And multiple people told you that your opinion is irrelevant”
Besides you just now, how else said that? Using ‘ctrl f’ to search the blog, I see irrelevant used 4 times, and only 1 (you just now) said it to me.
You’ve been debunked many times… Scroll up and take a look… Your buffoonery is laughable…
barking frog
February 19th, 2013
1:01 pm
Joe Hussein Mama
I’m sure the organizations I donate to each month will be troubled to hear that they aren’t actually charities.
………………………………………………………………………………………………
but i’m sure they would be glad to be recognized as not being
affected by ‘Christian charity’
Doggone/GA
February 19th, 2013
1:01 pm
“Clearly atheists would not be charitable as they are
not affected by ‘Christian charity’”
It isn’t clear to ME that they would not be as charitable. Maybe they just don’t brag about their giving like too many “Christians” do.
Itchy Finger
February 19th, 2013
1:02 pm
The idiots of the left…
http://nation.foxnews.com/rosario-dawson/2013/02/19/rosario-dawson-slams-keystone-pitches-hemp-oil-alternative
Joe Hussein Mama
February 19th, 2013
1:02 pm
C. Conservative — “You’ve been debunked many times…”
Well, so have you, but you still keep jabbering.
UNCLE SAMANTHA
February 19th, 2013
1:02 pm
TAX REFORM!!!
LIBERALS AND REPUBLICANS are ignorant…….. tax cuts and tax raises are not the answer………. THEY ARE WHAT CAUSED THE PROBLEM
getalife
February 19th, 2013
1:02 pm
tiredofit,
You are a socialist.
Butch Cassidy (I)
February 19th, 2013
1:02 pm
USinUK – “capitAl letters, on the other hand, that I know how to do.”
I find it ironic that we keep getting lectured on intelligence by someone who can’t spell, debate, or even validate their claims. Then again, the moniker does explain it.
getalife
February 19th, 2013
1:03 pm
Calm down crazy uncle sam.
w blew out the budget then collapsed our economy.
Saving a depression is not cheap.
Joe Hussein Mama
February 19th, 2013
1:03 pm
B. Frog — “but i’m sure they would be glad to be recognized as not being
affected by ‘Christian charity”
Oh, I imagine that christians donate to most of the same causes I do; I just don’t make it a habit to donate to overtly religious charities of any sort.
USinUK - former Girl Scout
February 19th, 2013
1:04 pm
“I find it ironic that we keep getting lectured on intelligence by someone who can’t spell, debate, or even validate their claims”
more evidence of “those who can, do … those who can’t, lecture”
barking frog
February 19th, 2013
1:05 pm
Joe Hussein Mama, Doggone/GA
“Clearly atheists would not be charitable as they are
not affected by ‘Christian charity’”
Try as you might you are not going to be able to make
that into a serious statement…………
Christian Conservative
February 19th, 2013
1:05 pm
USinUK – former Girl Scout
“In my own time.. Hmmm.. Your intelligence must have sprung a leak…..”
yes.
your
own
time.
stay out of our schools.
stay out of our government.
Someone’s panties are in a wad….
Peadawg
February 19th, 2013
1:06 pm
“You’ve been debunked many times… Scroll up and take a look… Your buffoonery is laughable…”
Do you have specific post (time, who)?
Jack ®
February 19th, 2013
1:06 pm
Bookman’s liberal heart bleeds for those he calls ‘poor’. He doesn’t mention the fact those born poor can stay poor and enjoy it if there’s enough federal and state hand-outs to go around. Being born poor offers more incentives unless the parent encourages the child to live on the dole. We did get aid, though, when I was a child: my grandfather would bring wheelbarrows filled with coal from across the village and my dad was allowed to work for the WPA.
Joe Hussein Mama
February 19th, 2013
1:06 pm
B. Frog — “Try as you might you are not going to be able to make
that into a serious statement…………”
I’m giving it the benefit of the doubt.
getalife
February 19th, 2013
1:07 pm
cons pretend to be intelligent because Americans keep calling them stupid.
Americans are right.
cons are a lost cause without party flailing in the wilderness.
Christian Conservative
February 19th, 2013
1:07 pm
USinUK – former Girl Scout:
Poor gal. You remind me of my dog barking out into the darkness with absolutely no clue what your barking at….
barking frog
February 19th, 2013
1:08 pm
Joe Hussein Mama
B. Frog — “Try as you might you are not going to be able to make
that into a serious statement…………”
I’m giving it the benefit of the doubt.
………………………………………………………..
Proceed Governor….
Itchy Finger
February 19th, 2013
1:08 pm
CC
USinUK – former Girl Scout:
Poor gal. You remind me of my dog barking out into the darkness with absolutely no clue what your barking at….
That’s the liberal mindset. They are clueless…
USinUK - former Girl Scout
February 19th, 2013
1:08 pm
“Someone’s panties are in a wad….”
I’m so sorry to hear you’re in discomfort – I suggest boy shorts – I think they’re very comfy.
комиссар (Occupation)
February 19th, 2013
1:09 pm
getalife: “You are a socialist.”
There’s one under every bed.
getalife
February 19th, 2013
1:09 pm
“You remind me of my dog barking out into the darkness with absolutely no clue what your barking at”
If you go outside and listen, you will hear another dog barking.
Joe Hussein Mama
February 19th, 2013
1:10 pm
B. Frog — “Proceed Governor….”
Shrug.
I’ve said what I have to say on the topic. If you want more out of me about that, you’ll have to give me more to go on.
barking frog
February 19th, 2013
1:10 pm
Can ‘panties in a wad’ actually be a good thing ?
Steve
February 19th, 2013
1:11 pm
How are liberals clueless when liberals tend to be more educated, have better jobs hence smarter than the 8th grade edumucated Confederate conservatives in here? Truly, you need to get a grasp on reality.
Blue states have all the best colleges. I know that’s hard for feeble minds to grasp, but…
USinUK - former Girl Scout
February 19th, 2013
1:11 pm
“Poor gal. You remind me of my dog barking out into the darkness with absolutely no clue what your barking at….”
aw, puddin’ … just because it’s above your head doesn’t mean that it’s without substance. it just means you’re too dense to understand.
Doggone/GA
February 19th, 2013
1:11 pm
“You remind me of my dog barking out into the darkness with absolutely no clue what your barking at”
Just because YOU don’t know what your dog is barking doesn’t mean your dog doesn’t know.
Itchy Finger
February 19th, 2013
1:11 pm
Hows that obama jobs council going?
barking frog
February 19th, 2013
1:11 pm
getalife
If you go outside and listen, you will hear another dog barking.
…………………………………………………………….
that might be a frog…
getalife
February 19th, 2013
1:11 pm
“Proceed Governor….”
That response was the highlight of the debates.
SwamiDave
February 19th, 2013
1:11 pm
Jay:
“For the rest of us, however, it doesn’t exactly spread the pain around, now does it?”
This point being the key point assuming that our tax code or budget should “spread pain”. It ignores the question of whether or not these “good” things are even justifiable roles of the federal government and assumes that (since they “are”) the federal government has the authority to confiscate that which is owned or earned to fund them. By failing to address the primary issue that these aren’t legitimate roles for the federal government, we further wander down the slope assuming that we can by democratic action steal that which belongs to someone else based upon “need”.
-SD
Uh Huh.......The GOP are like angels dancing on the head of a pin
February 19th, 2013
1:12 pm
@0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 19th, 2013
12:09 pm
Uh Huh…….The GOP are like angels dancing on the head of a pin :
Thank you. Good verses !!!
By the way ………. you don’t know who I am or how much I give.
Only God does.
P.S.
Do you believe the miracles that Jesus did in feeding the thousands from just mere small baskets of food ?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
“feeding the thousands from just mere small baskets of food”
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
Matthew 4:19
And he said to them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.
getalife
February 19th, 2013
1:13 pm
“Hows that obama jobs council going?”
Your party are job killers.
Steve
February 19th, 2013
1:13 pm
Since the GOP hates America, they will hate this:
“All three [stock] indexes are up between 6% and 7%, with the Dow just 1.2% shy of its all-time high, hit in October 2007. The S&P 500 is about 3% below its record high, also set in October 2007.”
Christian Conservative
February 19th, 2013
1:13 pm
USinUK – former Girl Scout
February 19th, 2013
1:11 pm
“Poor gal. You remind me of my dog barking out into the darkness with absolutely no clue what your barking at….”
aw, puddin’ … just because it’s above your head doesn’t mean that it’s without substance. it just means you’re too dense to understand.
LOL.. Poor poor soul…
zeke
February 19th, 2013
1:14 pm
Medicare not Medicaid should have been exempted! Contributory programs like SS and Medicare should not be cut! Medicaid is a redistribution agenda program and if necessary it must be cut! And all government spending other than SS, Medicare and Defense must have actual cuts, NOT JUST A REDUCTION IN THE ANNUAL INCREASES! The debt is now well over 70% of the GDP! Do not you have a problem with that? Try to get a home mortgage with a debt load above 40%! Yes, I know that is a different ratio, but, FOR ONCE USE COMMON SENSE! NO ONE’S TAXES SHOULD EVER BE OVER 10%! EVERYONE SHOULD PAY THE SAME % OF TAX REGARDLESS OF INCOME, AND, THE NATIONAL DEBT SHOULD NEVER, NEVER, UNLESS OF WAR, BE ABOVE 25% OF GDP!!!!
barking frog
February 19th, 2013
1:14 pm
itchy finger
Hows that obama jobs council going?
…………………………………………………..
I believe that would be out the door as any recommendation
given would be useless when presented to an obstructionist
house of representatives…….
Itchy Finger
February 19th, 2013
1:15 pm
Steve
Since the GOP hates America, they will hate this:
“All three [stock] indexes are up between 6% and 7%, with the Dow just 1.2% shy of its all-time high, hit in October 2007. The S&P 500 is about 3% below its record high, also set in October 2007.”
This is really refreshing to the poor and lower middle class suffering under obama with high energy costs, rising grocery prices, and lack of jobs….
getalife
February 19th, 2013
1:16 pm
The first question about the sequester is how many jobs will it kill.
Keep in mind, the fed will keep easing until full employment so the gop focusing on cuts is dead wrong.
The gop will own bad unemployment and ruining our recovery.
Your move turtle.
Steve
February 19th, 2013
1:16 pm
So Itchy, you’re saying that corporations should start hiring stop hording money? How is this Obama’s fault?
Itchy Finger
February 19th, 2013
1:17 pm
barking frog
Hows that obama jobs council going?
…………………………………………………..
I believe that would be out the door as any recommendation
given would be useless when presented to an obstructionist
house of representatives…….
Oh so his jobs council failure is because of the GOP… Wow. Just wow….
USinUK - former Girl Scout
February 19th, 2013
1:17 pm
“LOL.. Poor poor soul…”
yes, you are, but we don’t hold it against you.
we just mock you for it.
JamVet
February 19th, 2013
1:18 pm
Today’s rhetorical question regarding America’s Christians.
Why is it that the percentage of self-professed Christians in American prisons is higher than the percentage of self-professed Christians in American society?
If they actually lived what their religion preaches it seems that it would be WAY less, no?
Maybe the Christians here have a convincing answer…
Dekalb comments
February 19th, 2013
1:19 pm
Somehow people think the labels “liberal”, “progressive” or “socialist” are bad. They are not. They are terms used to express people that hold to specific beliefs just like Christian, Jew, Muslim, Hindu or, heaven forbid “conservative” are.
The right has been successful in vilifying the labels of those “left-of-center” but they think by throwing those terms around they are denigrating those people? Hardly. I consider anyone who uses the label of “conservative” suspect of low intelligence and inability to reason…but I don’t use that term negatively.
JamVet
February 19th, 2013
1:19 pm
This is really refreshing to the poor and lower middle class suffering under the past five administrations with high energy costs, rising grocery prices, and lack of jobs….
Take the long view, itchy.
It will help greatly with your arguments…
Madmax
February 19th, 2013
1:20 pm
Seperated at birth Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter – a common creed – those who can lead, lead; those who can’t, whine except Jimmy at least tried. Barack on the other hand has played the blame game since day 1 and I suspect he will continue doing it until he is placed in his grave many years hence.
Escaped from Email Purgatory
February 19th, 2013
1:21 pm
“You just can’t stand two black guys acting like they are important while you and your big hat no cattle crowd have to sit on the sideline put in your place.”
@GT
For me, that’s not the case. Accept or refute that claim at your discretion.
Your statement is, however, a tactic often used by many in defense of Obama. That is to discredit the motive of the critic rather than address the merit (or lack thereof) of the criticism presented.
It’s a shield that serves Obama supporters well.
Not to disparage your viewpoint – you may actually suspect I’ve got issues with black men occupying powerful positions.
At some point – long after I’m gone – race will stop being the only issue in a dispute when it can be included as an issue at all. If we are truly a diverse society – and a meritocracy – then eveybody’s got to be able to accept criticism of their job performance at face value.
I’m comfortable with my opinion of Obama. He’s not Satan or a tool of Globalists or a black nationalist. He is however, one crazy-liberal social reformer and a decidedly mediocre leader.
Itchy Finger
February 19th, 2013
1:21 pm
This is sick… And for this to be happening in our bright red state of Georgia…. Somebody better be fired!
http://www.therightscoop.com/propaganda-georgia-elementary-school-class-verse-obama-ranso-our-children-could-fly/
barking frog
February 19th, 2013
1:22 pm
itchy finger
Oh so his jobs council failure is because of the GOP…
……………………………………………………………………….
I didn’t say his jobs council failed. just that their recommendations
had no chance of becoming programs due to the obstructionist
House of Representative Republicans. President Obama
usually does not waste time or money.
Itchy Finger
February 19th, 2013
1:23 pm
I’m glad obama feels our pain…
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/02/19/Obama-Spends-8-Hours-with-$1000-hr-Golf-Coach?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BigGovernment+%28Big+Government%29
That Black Guy
February 19th, 2013
1:23 pm
GT
February 19th, 2013
11:30 am
Southerngent the Republicans always end in the same place no matter the movement of their lips. – What place is that?
This is why you will soon not have a GOP any more. You can only live on lies so long. Is there one thing you think your party has done wrong? – Is there “one” thing they have done right? Is there “one thing democrats have done wrong?
Maybe this is your biggest lie, you are never wrong in your own mind. – Are you telling him (someone you have NEVER met) or asking?
I can tell you I don’t like our policy on Wall Street of letting big banks off the hook criminally and having a license to break the law. – Doesn’t the Obama administration control the Justice Dept? but it’s repub fault?
Now surely there is something you can find wrong with your party. – Can you with yours?
Steve
February 19th, 2013
1:23 pm
Comparing Obama to Carter is like comparing Reagan to George W Bush. Lame, and wrong, and just stupid.
Obama was elected TWICE and the economy is improving as we dig ourselves out of a Republican great recession. Obama also clearly has had foreign policy success (ie – Bin Laden). Carter was elected once and failed on foreign policy.
getalife
February 19th, 2013
1:23 pm
corporate media gives the gop a free pass for their obstruction but the majority does not.
corporate media giggle at the gop’s behavior but the majority does not and will hold the gop accountable.
Steve
February 19th, 2013
1:24 pm
So interesting to watch folks in here complain about Obama’s three day golf vacation when their previous leader took more vacation time as President than anyone before or after him.
getalife
February 19th, 2013
1:25 pm
itchy,
Just post drudge . com hack.
barking frog
February 19th, 2013
1:25 pm
JamVet
Why is it that the percentage of self-professed Christians in American prisons is higher than the percentage of self-professed Christians in American society?
………………………………………………………………………………………
Prisoners see it as a way to release and a venue to a job through
Chuck Colson’s Prison Ministries….
Steve
February 19th, 2013
1:27 pm
Calls to several Presidential libraries reveal that President Obama’s predecessor, George W. Bush, was on vacation more — 1,020 days — than any U.S. President since Herbert Hoover and possibly more than any other President in history.
President Bush spent 32% of his presidency on vacation.
http://politic365.com/obamas-vacations-of-any-president-bush-racked-up-the-most/
Granny Godzilla
February 19th, 2013
1:28 pm
Rosa walked…so Martin could walk
Martin walked ….so Obama could run
Obama ran…so our children could fly
.
.
.
.
Gee whiz Itchy…what’s your problem with that? I think it great inspiration for kids.
Did you bi-zitch about Abraham, Martin and John too?
barking frog
February 19th, 2013
1:28 pm
itchy finger
I’m glad obama feels our pain…
………………………………………………..
you just don’t like the pain Obama has visited on
Republicans and we know where your pain is
located but that doesn’t mean we feel it….
Erwin's cat
February 19th, 2013
1:29 pm
If they actually lived what their religion preaches it seems that it would be WAY less, no?
Maybe the Christians here have a convincing answer…
I’d expect a lot of them found religion while being incarcerated, and not before…but you didn’t ask me
Itchy Finger
February 19th, 2013
1:29 pm
Steve
Comparing Obama to Carter is like comparing Reagan to George W Bush. Lame, and wrong, and just stupid.
Obama was elected TWICE and the economy is improving as we dig ourselves out of a Republican great recession. Obama also clearly has had foreign policy success (ie – Bin Laden). Carter was elected once and failed on foreign policy.
Steve is a great example of an uninformed voter….
Steve
February 19th, 2013
1:30 pm
Wow, you sure done did got me there, partner! ??
Sagegirl
February 19th, 2013
1:30 pm
The idiots on the right…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/18/mary-sue-mcclurkin-baby-largest-organ_n_2712812.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
MiltonMan
February 19th, 2013
1:31 pm
“How are liberals clueless when liberals tend to be more educated, have better jobs hence smarter than the 8th grade edumucated Confederate conservatives in here? Truly, you need to get a grasp on reality.”
APS, DeKalb, & Clayton – bluest of the blue around here & the schools are the worst in the state.
JamVet
February 19th, 2013
1:31 pm
If Obama is such a liberal, why is he droning the Moozlims to hell? And American citizens?
If he is such a liberal why did he surge into Afghanistan?
If he is such a liberal why is Osama bin Laden at the bottom of the Indian Ocean?
If he is such a liberal why did he lead and then continue to participate with bombing missions into Libya?
If he is such a liberal why has he deported more than 1.4 million undocumented immigrants?
If he is such a liberal why has he done nothing to really regulate the financial industries or prosecute Wall Street criminals?
If he is such a liberal why did he oppose single payer insurance for all Americans?
If he is such a liberal why has he opened up huge expanses of ocean to drilling on the Atlantic coastline and the eastern Gulf of Mexico and opened up more drilling in the Arctic?
It is clear that most Fox-fed, Limbaugh-led Republicans can no longer even make intelligent arguments about what constitutes conservatism and liberalism, much less socialism, capitalism and Marxism…
Half Century Dawg
February 19th, 2013
1:31 pm
“Why is it that the percentage of self-professed Christians in American prisons is higher than the percentage of self-professed Christians in American society?”
perhaps they found Christ after going to prison
getalife
February 19th, 2013
1:32 pm
The second question about the sequester is how low will your 401k’s drop.
mm
February 19th, 2013
1:32 pm
I see our friends on the right have pretty much run out of new talking points. So sad that if they only googled, they would see they are mostly lies.
Steve
February 19th, 2013
1:33 pm
@miltonman – you really think that pointing out poor black urban areas as where the only liberals live? Have you not forgotten about the progressive northeast, with it’s very blue but wealthy and educated suburbs??
Itchy Finger
February 19th, 2013
1:35 pm
Granny Godzilla:
obama doesn’t deserve to be in that group. That’s the problem. He’s done absolutely nothing to make life better for Afro-Americans……
Erwin's cat
February 19th, 2013
1:35 pm
The second question about the sequester is how low will your 401k’s drop.
who looks at their 401k in the short term?
Thulsa Doom
February 19th, 2013
1:36 pm
(If you’re flying, you might want to double the time needed to get through security.)
Well we could probably solve that problem by doing what San Francisco did. Get rid of that incompetent TSA and go to a private firm that moves people through more quickly and efficiently, does it at a cheaper cost, and most importantly is better at detecting threats than the bozos at TSA who are busy patting down grannys and babies.
“In other words, the record shows that Republicans forced the crisis, and now want to blame Obama for proposing an escape hatch.”
In other words its always the Rs fault. Its probably still W’s fault too isn’t it?
JamVet
February 19th, 2013
1:36 pm
Liberals institutions of excellence – Harvard, Princeton, Cal Berkeley, Yale, Stanford, Columbia, UCLA, Chicago University, MIT, Duke, Northwestern, John Hopkins, USC, Brown, Michigan, Cornell, Notre Dame, Georgetown, Emory, and on and on and on.
Conservative institutions of non-excellence – Liberty University and Bob Jones University.
Madmax
February 19th, 2013
1:37 pm
Steve – nobody said Obama is not a great campaigner so winning twice is not an accomplishment in terms of the American people – unfortunately, we need a leader, not a campaigner. All he does is whine much like JC did. Bush is gone. Hello Mr. President, you are our leader now – so Lead! And Steve, his” successes” have come at a great cost because he didn’t lead. He wasted so much time, capital and energy on Obamacare that much of the obstruction has been self inflicted. Don’t confuse bullheadedness for strength or leadership.
OBIWAN
February 19th, 2013
1:37 pm
Seems like it is Obozo who is crying not the GOP…
barking frog
February 19th, 2013
1:38 pm
getalife
The second question about the sequester is how low will your 401k’s drop.
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that is really a big question since much of the stock market
is based on military industrial complex corporations and one
more reason the obstructionists will walk away from sequestration.
our President is a tricky man.
Itchy Finger
February 19th, 2013
1:38 pm
Steve
How are liberals clueless when liberals tend to be more educated, have better jobs hence smarter than the 8th grade edumucated Confederate conservatives in here? Truly, you need to get a grasp on reality.
Blue states have all the best colleges. I know that’s hard for feeble minds to grasp, but…
I suppose you can back that ridiculous claim up……
Granny Godzilla
February 19th, 2013
1:38 pm
Itchy Finger
February 19th, 2013
1:35 pm
Granny Godzilla:
obama doesn’t deserve to be in that group. That’s the problem. He’s done absolutely nothing to make life better for Afro-Americans……
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and you know that from all the time you spend in the hood right?
snicker
ATL Tiger
February 19th, 2013
1:38 pm
Sequester will cut $85 billion in spending…on a annual federal spending of $3.5 trillion or 2.4% reduction in spending
Hyper-exaggerate much?
barking frog
February 19th, 2013
1:40 pm
Erwin’s cat
who looks at their 401k in the short term?
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those who want to cash out…
Itchy Finger
February 19th, 2013
1:40 pm
JamVet
Liberals institutions of excellence – Harvard, Princeton, Cal Berkeley, Yale, Stanford, Columbia, UCLA, Chicago University, MIT, Duke, Northwestern, John Hopkins, USC, Brown, Michigan, Cornell, Notre Dame, Georgetown, Emory, and on and on and on.
Conservative institutions of non-excellence – Liberty University and Bob Jones University.
I’d like to see some stats to back that up… Oh wait. You have none… Just empty talk….
Joe Hussein Mama
February 19th, 2013
1:41 pm
Doom — “Well we could probably solve that problem by doing what San Francisco did. Get rid of that incompetent TSA and go to a private firm that moves people through more quickly and efficiently, does it at a cheaper cost, and most importantly is better at detecting threats than the bozos at TSA who are busy patting down grannys and babies. ”
FWIW, it was private security that missed the 9/11 hijackers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argenbright
Thulsa Doom
February 19th, 2013
1:41 pm
“Obama ran…so our children could fly”
Granny,
Um. Children and especially black children aren’t doing so well under Obama. There’s more of them and their families on food stamps than ever before and by a wide margin. And in terms of employment the situation is also bleak and especially for black people. But don’t let the empirical data get in the way of the Obama worship.
Tom( Viet Vet-USAF)
February 19th, 2013
1:42 pm
Everyone(well, almost everyone) on this blog applauded when the High-Achievers were forced to pay more in taxes.You said they should PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE! Now when some programs for Low-Achievers stand to be eliminated, do you still think the PAY YOUR FAIR SHARE applies? The only way out of this mess in for everyone and I mean everyone(high, medium and low income), has to pay something into solving this problem. You cannot spend more than you take in. What happens if China refuses anymore loans and you cannot put anymore IOU’s in the SS and Medicare Trust funds(that you took out and put into the general fund). Cmon people, think of your children/grandchildren’s future and stop thinking of yourself only. Living only for today is so selfish!
Erwin's cat
February 19th, 2013
1:43 pm
those who want to cash out…
If anyone is that concerned they just move their money out now into something low to no interest and no risk…then reinvest after the dust settles
Itchy Finger
February 19th, 2013
1:43 pm
Obama garnered 39% of the white vote yet libs think the dem party is the party of smart people. LOL…
St Simons - he-ne-ha
February 19th, 2013
1:43 pm
“daddy, what was a republican?” – my 3yr old, in a few years
JamVet
February 19th, 2013
1:45 pm
…perhaps they found Christ after going to prison…
Interesting possibility, half.
Which begs the question, do they then become Recidivist Criminals for Christ!
Itchy, you really have NO idea that those are the most prestigious universities in America????? Do the names even ring a bell? LOL!
Itchy Finger
February 19th, 2013
1:45 pm
JamVet:
Oh here’s a link in case you may be interested….
http://www.cnn.com/election/2012/results/race/president
Erwin's cat
February 19th, 2013
1:45 pm
FWIW, it was private security that missed the 9/11 hijackers.
that’s hardly fair..before 9/11 there was little to no security at any airport any where
комиссар (Occupation)
February 19th, 2013
1:45 pm
JamVet 1:31,
Those are the questions alright!
Thulsa Doom
February 19th, 2013
1:45 pm
“FWIW, it was private security that missed the 9/11 hijackers.”
Yes. I know and was doing business with the CEO of Argenbright at the time. Sucks for them but I seriously doubt the TSA would have caught them either given the incompetence that we repeatedly see from this agency.
Chip Shirley
February 19th, 2013
1:45 pm
Sequester Solution
1/2 budget cuts and 1/2 ending tax breaks for the rich…done
http://chipshirley.blogspot.com/2013/02/sequester-solution.html
getalife
February 19th, 2013
1:46 pm
“James Clapper, director of National Intelligence, has warned that “the sheer size of the cut will create an immediate national security crisis situation” in the CIA, FBI and other agencies. Border Patrol agents will be laid off, as will federal prosecutors and airline security officers. (If you’re flying, you might want to double the time needed to get through security.)”
Cue the ads on the gop are soft on national security.