Both the White House Office of Management and Budget and the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office predicted the budget deficit this year would swell to nearly $1.6 trillion, a record, and far above the then-record 2008 budget deficit of $455 billion.

Did you get that? Bush’s last budget produced a deficit of $455 billion. One year of this insane radicalism and our deficit tripled. The deficit is the difference between the intake of money and the out take. WHY IS THIS BUNCH OF FACIST SO INTENT ON DESTROYING THE CREDIBILITY OF OUR ECONOMY? And for what? A train that goes from Vegas to Disneyland? Pork and pork and then lets have some more pork? It is insanity that anyone could attempt to defend this administration. It is blind insanity that anyone would now complain about anything that Bush did.

Folks, we are so scr*ewed.

He was wearing a very nice suit I’m sure his taylor made a profit from that suit. So according to his and the dim outlook, the government should have sold him that suit at no profit. Yes, it would be of horrible quality and the taylor would be working for bureaucrats, deciding the color and fit of the suit, but it would be cheaper.

The computer that everyone is reading this on was made to make a profit for the manufacturer and the retail store. Let’s turn that over to the government. Yes, technology would stop. But we would all have a computer, bought with no profit going to one of those nasty old stock holders, so dims would be happy.

Cars? We could buy them for a fraction of what they cost now. They would all look like a Volga, have the dependability of a Yugo, but they would be “green cars” that would weigh nothing, be made from styrofoam and be rolling coffins for anyone driving on the same roads with 40 ton 18 wheelers, but they would be cheaper.

We are at a crossroad. We need to decide whether we want to be a socialist country or remain a capitalist country.

If advancements in medicine has gone as far as you want it to go, continue to vote for the party that is pushing a government takeover of the industry that makes a profit from saving lives and advancing medicine. American Drug Companies rarely make their latest products available to countries with socialized medicine. Those governments simply won’t and can’t pay the prices required to recoup the development and marketing of new drugs. Once we go socialist, who will pay for the advancements? Anybody out there got a few billion laying around they want to give away? The government will be even more broke then they are, so again, who will pay for the advancements?

I have seen the nasty public health clinics in England. I have seen the disposable hypodermic needles being sterilized and used again and again. I have seen the packed waiting rooms where most of the people will return home that night without treatment, after being turned away from the substandard nasty little clinics.

Capitalism works. It takes advantage of greed. Socialism doesn’t work. There’s still greed, but that greed only serves the purpose of the despots and criminals that hold selected office.

If our country can survive this onslaught of radical socialism, we will all have a decision to make in November of next year. Right now, Obama’s job approval ratings is a full 12 points lower than Bush’s was at this time in his administration. I know a lot of liberals will say : well of course, he didn’t do anything.

Well, duh? America wants to be left alone. Stay away from our children, Washington. Stay away from our jobs and stop raising taxes on our employers. They don’t pay those taxes, we do.

I pray every night that Obama fails. I pray that the radicalism that most Republicans knew about and the rest of the country is finding out about will not be successful. I pray that this is not the end of our country as we know it. But I have to be honest, with these Fascist in power, most of Americans are powerless to stop them. They want to change the rules so less of a majority can win on major issues. That proves that the law means nothing to them and many of their less intelligent followers.

Just like so many countries have done in the past, we have made a horrible mistake, based on thin promises of pie-in-the-sky, gov’ment goin’ to give me something, political campaigns.

Obama is toast. No one can recover from those kinds of approval failings. He has a guaranteed demographic, but that demographic is not going to be large enough to save him. He will be lucky to get through his first and only term without being impeached.

But I guess if you had any stones at all, you wouldn’t want the government to control every aspect of your life. Some of us can actually support ourselves, buy our own health insurance and form opinions that are not dictated by the likes of Paul Klugman. I saw that little liberal princess on ABC’s This Week on Sunday. Man, what an imbecile. And what were they discussing? The crashing of Obama’s approval numbers.

Check out Bush’s approval ratings in august of his first year in office:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/custom/2006/02/02/CU2006020201345.html

Obama is not even in the same league.

So keep blathering the dim talking points. I’m sure you will continue to ignore the facts and the hard numbers. Fortunately, people like you only have one vote. I can’t wait until November 4, 2010. How about you? It’s time to send Pelosi back to home and more plastic surgery and Harry Ried back home in disgrace.

“It comes down to what Baucus, and more importantly Harry Reid, are going to do. (Note, Sen. Reid has some serious problems of his own back home, problems that being the person who made real healthcare reform happen would go a really long way toward solving.) Baucus knows that a public option will be the key to keeping the insurance industry honest, and Reid should understand the political necessity of doing so.

The solution seems clear. Baucus has made his all-too good faith effort to make this bipartisan. If the Baucus Debacle doesn’t end by its deadline of Sept. 15, thank Senators Grassley, Enzi, and Snowe for their time, and move on with reconciliation, where the chair of the Finance Committee might actually be able to get his mojo back from the Conrad and Grassley, who’ve hijacked it. More importantly, force the likes Kent Conrad and Joe Lieberman to put their votes where his mouth is, with the Republicans and the health insurance companies. The voters will love that.”

If it is, indeed, DOJ’s plan to release all the other torture documents save the OPR report, it will have the effect of distracting the media with horrible descriptions of threats with power drills and waterboarding, away from the equally horrible description of lawyers willfully twisting the law to “authorize” some of those actions. It will shift focus away from those that set up a regime of torture and towards those who free-lanced within that regime in spectacularly horrible ways. It will hide the degree to which torture was a conscious plan, and the degree to which the oral authorizations for torture may well have authorized some of what we’ll see in the IG Report tomorrow.

If it is, indeed, DOJ’s plan to release the IG Report and announce an investigation without, at the same time, releasing the OPR report, it will serve the goal of exposing the Lynndie England’s of the torture regime while still protecting those who instituted that regime.

Once the IG’s report was released, the prosecutor announced and the OPR report withheld, Wheeler’s assessment didn’t change: “And thus the whitewash starts.”

the biggest story of the day may be the other long-awaited report that was not released. That’s the report by the Justice Department’s Office of Responsibility, the one “which, it has long been reported, concluded that the DOJ lawyers who authored the torture memos (at least John Yoo and Jay Bybee) violated their ethical duties by producing legally fallacious conclusions — i.e., they issued those memos in bad faith.”

That’s Glenn Greenwald, writing today. He goes on to argue out that “withholding that OPR Report today is critical because it focuses attention on the flamboyant sideshow of the more extreme cases of CIA abuse, while obscuring the fact that it was high-level DOJ lawyers who, in bad faith, authorized a knowingly criminal torture regime.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/opinion/24krugman.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print

Number two, the economy was actually doing quite well until the Pelosicrats took over congress in 2007. Numbers don’t LIE

They don’t but you don’t have the capacity to understand them and you lie all the time. That’s why you have no power and we’re going to pass public option via 51 votes with Reconciliation without the Grassley morons g and the Blue Dogs whose wives take hundreds of thousands sitting on inhsurance boards like Susan Bayh. How about those facts?

You can yammer on and on–but it’s impossible to argue with someone who makes it up. It’s like arguing with a dining room table or the disrupting Palinistas at town halls.

As long as you keep pushing delusions, we’ll bury you at the polls where it matters. Your party has slipped into the teens as a voting block now–full of extremism, hate, and stupidity.

Bush was really on vacation, and so far over his head he was out to lunch the entire time. When he finally trie d to Buck the draft dodging Cheney, it made Cheney apoplectic, and now he has little Dick the daughter out to make him look stupid.

The Bush administration caused those housing losses and the economy to be at the brink of depression and we’re pulling it back as fast as we can. We’ve had the White House for 7.75 months to be exact.

Our country had 3 trillion and growing wasted in Iraq that is an instable clusterfaux as in clusterfaux news by Bush according to the only Nobel Prize winner who has written a detailed book following the money.

The people who manage my auto tags are the state in part, and the county where I live. I might have an edge in health care since I’ve provided it all my adult life and like to think I know a little about it. Except for being hamstrung by Republicans in 2003 who take millions of bucks from pharmaceutical companies and insurance companies, and about 10% fraud, mostly from device manufacturer billg ing, Medicare works pretty well. Printing money is what insurance companies do when they issue policies that they’ll use byzantine maneuvers not to honor, banking on the fact that the 1% of pro se appeals are going nowhere without the expertise and the court nohow to execute them with any efficacy.

Knowing how the laws and courts work helps an MD win battles with them a lot more frequently than patients do and they still treat physicians like dirt and waste a lot of our time.

From that vantage point, I’ve watched insurance companies rip off countless patients, and behave like scumbags with no check on them.

What you have misnamed competition among insurance companies doesn’t exist. In 94% of this country, we have only TWO insurance companies to choose from.

I don’t expect anything from this guy but exactly what you said. The arrogance of the ignorant is entertaining, but sometimes they do need to be checked (as in hockey).

He posted the ignorant little prose and said: “Sung to Deutschland, Uber Alles:” That’s the German National Anthem. it’s an absolutely beautiful tune and has been used for many purposes including a protestant hymn. I think what made me mad was his use of a song by Hayden to promote his ignorance. I’m sure he has no idea that the song was actually written to inspire Austrian troops against Napoleon. It was later adopted as the German National Anthem. Hayden is one of my very favorite composers.