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Post by Chicago Jake on Sept 13, 2012 22:58:29 GMT -6
I'd be happy to pay $10 a gallon for the next couple of months, if it will help get Borat Obama out of the White House. Jake I don't think that gas prices are going to get Obama kicked out of office. Unemployment and the lack of available credit are the two big economic issues in this erection.
Just my thoughts. Fair enough. Then I'd be happy to see 25% unemployment, 12$ gas prices, and zero credit for ANYONE for the next few months if it gets Borat Obama out of the White House.
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Post by Merlot Joe on Sept 13, 2012 23:31:29 GMT -6
I think all that you mention may be coming.
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Post by New Mama on Sept 14, 2012 9:18:34 GMT -6
I'd be happy to pay $10 a gallon for the next couple of months, if it will help get Borat Obama out of the White House. Jake I don't think that gas prices are going to get Obama kicked out of office. Unemployment and the lack of available credit are the two big economic issues in this erection. Just my thoughts. (A liitle spelling correction there) ;D ;D I still think O will win. Too many people already live off the government. They don't want ch-ch-change. We're doomed. Like an addict, we have to sink even lower before we face the pain of weaning ourselves off the government tit.
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Post by Chicago Jake on Sept 14, 2012 9:46:28 GMT -6
That's a sad thought, Anita. But I can't find any way of arguing against it.
We're at about page 500 of Atlas Shrugged. It gets a lot worse before it gets better.
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Post by New Mama on Sept 20, 2012 10:53:16 GMT -6
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Post by Chicago Jake on Sept 20, 2012 13:26:26 GMT -6
Please don't refer to Chicago or Illinois as his home. He's a Chicagoan the same way Hillary is a New Yorker.
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Post by Merlot Joe on Sept 20, 2012 14:37:42 GMT -6
Yeah but you get him back when he gets out of the white house.
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Post by Chicago Jake on Sept 20, 2012 14:48:00 GMT -6
As scary as that sounds, let's hope it's sooner rather than later.....
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Post by New Mama on Sept 28, 2012 8:22:12 GMT -6
Forward! www.heraldnet.com/article/20120926/BIZ/709279967I just don't understand how anyone would want more of Obama's leadership. The only thing he has accomplished is the unpopular and costly ObamaCare. Washington has never been more divided. He can't even get his own party to propose a budget. His proposed budget didn't get one vote. A refresher.... We’ve added over $6 trillion in new debt in the last four years -- and the deficit tripled since Bush's last full year in office. Our borrowing is now estimated at $3.5 billion a day. Millions of Muslims continue to hate the U.S.A notwithstanding Obama’s bowing and apologetic ‘soft’ approach. Gasoline prices in January 2009, $1.84 per gallon. Gas prices through the roof over $4 per gallon and the nation has no coherent energy policy. We will see gas in double digits per gallon and still ‘hope’ for some economical alternative. A record 46.7 million on food stamps double the amount 4 years ago, 1 in 7 American's on food stamps. (That's at least 23 million that sure aren’t better off today than 4 years ago.) Unemployment stood at 7.8 percent when Obama entered the White House. We’ve had 42 months of 8+ unemployment, not counting the new part time workers or the ones that have stopped looking since he took office. If the labor force participation rate was the same as when Obama took office in January 2009, the unemployment rate would be 11.2% Median income when the President took over was about $55,000; now, $51,000. The US credit was downgraded for the first time in history on his watch. Look for further downgrading. Obama’s answer for the future….more stimulus. If you don’t think we are going the way of the EU you don’t understand history.
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Sept 28, 2012 9:57:01 GMT -6
He's not Romney
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Post by New Mama on Sept 28, 2012 13:48:25 GMT -6
What don't you like about Romney?
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Post by Chicago Jake on Sept 28, 2012 15:21:23 GMT -6
What don't you like about Romney?Romney is a successful businessman. Everyone knows that is tantamount to being the devil incarnate in Obama's America.
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Sept 29, 2012 6:33:23 GMT -6
What don't you like about Romney? I feel under no obligation to go any further than that given the lack of positives that people on this board have presented. Other than being a flip-flopping hypocrite (i.e. the Republican John Kerry)?? If he was the Romney of 5 or 6 years ago, I might be for him. But he has to appeal to the Tea party element of the Republican party to have a chance to win. So either he is lying to all of you and will revert to "Willard the Moderate", come inauguration day, or he is "Willard the Rabid Conservative" who is against every social advance of the past two generations... sorry I wont take that chance.
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Sept 29, 2012 6:34:55 GMT -6
What don't you like about Romney?Romney is a successful businessman. Everyone knows that is tantamount to being the devil incarnate in Obama's America. Not at all, I would vote for William Buffet, or any number of other wealthy individuals in a heartbeat.
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Post by Chicago Jake on Sept 29, 2012 8:46:08 GMT -6
Romney is a successful businessman. Everyone knows that is tantamount to being the devil incarnate in Obama's America. Not at all, I would vote for William Buffet, or any number of other wealthy individuals in a heartbeat. Who the hell is William Buffet?
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Sept 29, 2012 9:01:22 GMT -6
Sorry, Warren Buffet... multitasking crossover
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Post by New Mama on Oct 1, 2012 12:58:18 GMT -6
What don't you like about Romney? I feel under no obligation to go any further than that given the lack of positives that people on this board have presented. Other than being a flip-flopping hypocrite (i.e. the Republican John Kerry)?? If he was the Romney of 5 or 6 years ago, I might be for him. But he has to appeal to the Tea party element of the Republican party to have a chance to win. So either he is lying to all of you and will revert to "Willard the Moderate", come inauguration day, or he is "Willard the Rabid Conservative" who is against every social advance of the past two generations... sorry I wont take that chance. Sorry I forgot; Romney is a flip flopper but Obama has 'evolved': Keeping Guantanamo open Marriage is between a man and a woman No ask, no tell Bringing back military tribunals for terror suspects Continuing renditions of terror suspects Ordering military action in Libya without seeking Congressional authorization Dropping Third Site missile defenses in order to appease the Russians Letting Sudan off the hook for the Darfur genocide Backing a federal Europe after defending national sovereignty Dumping Mubarak in Egypt after calling him a "stalwart ally" Killing the NASA manned space program Obama became the first major-party candidate to reject public financing for the general election after earlier promises to accept it. He not only embraced but promised to expand Bush's program to give more anti-poverty grants to religious groups, a split with Democratic orthodoxy. He objected to the Supreme Court's decision outlawing the death penalty for child rapists, even though he has been anti-capital punishment.
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Post by New Mama on Oct 1, 2012 14:07:56 GMT -6
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Post by New Mama on Oct 17, 2012 15:06:58 GMT -6
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Post by Chicago Jake on Oct 17, 2012 15:49:29 GMT -6
It's like the Three Stooges episode where they were exterminators, but first they had to seed the houses with bugs and vermin before they could sell their services.
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Post by New Mama on Jan 8, 2013 9:04:13 GMT -6
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Jan 8, 2013 14:57:30 GMT -6
Come back when the Republicans in Congress can present a cohesive proposal that they feel they can pass. There are so many factions on the right, the nation cannot wait for them to decide which direction they want to go. In the mean time lead, follow the Pres, or get out of the way.
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Post by New Mama on Jan 8, 2013 15:39:58 GMT -6
Come back when the Republicans in Congress can present a cohesive proposal that they feel they can pass. There are so many factions on the right, the nation cannot wait for them to decide which direction they want to go. In the mean time lead, follow the Pres, or get out of the way. The President is getting everything he wants. Isn't it working out grand!
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Post by New Mama on Jan 8, 2013 15:47:54 GMT -6
Come back when the Republicans in Congress can present a cohesive proposal that they feel they can pass. There are so many factions on the right, the nation cannot wait for them to decide which direction they want to go. In the mean time lead, follow the Pres, or get out of the way. How many times did the Senate bring a Congressional budget up for a vote between 2009 and 2012? How many budgets were proposed by Congress between January 2009 and November 2010?
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Jan 10, 2013 11:02:48 GMT -6
Please, inform me
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Post by New Mama on Jan 10, 2013 13:32:26 GMT -6
You don't know? By LAW the Senate must pass a budget by April 15 of each year. A budget recommended first by the POTUS. Each year since April 2009 the House has proposed a budget to the Senate. The leader of the Senate; Harry do nothing Reed has refused to bring it to the floor for a vote OR propose his own budget (which the Senate has a right to do). If you recall the 2009 budget had unprecedented spending in the form of stimulus. That budget established a baseline for spending. Since Reed would not vote on a new budget he forced the House to extend the 2009 budget each year. Had Congress not extend the 2009 budget each year such inaction would in fact shut down our government. Next showdown is the debt ceiling which we clearly will reach in a few months. Congress wants a budget passed that reduces our spending and the Senate wants another increase of the debt ceiling. Obama wants an open checkbook IOW no limit. This will be a BIG showdown. Short answer the House has passed 4 budgets the Senate 1; back in April 2009. Why no consequences for breaking the law by the Senate? Reid should be arrested and tried for breaking the law.
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Jan 11, 2013 6:50:51 GMT -6
Well... what has happened. Would the budgets that were sent to the Senate by the House significantly different than the way the money is actually being spent?
If the issue is with Reid, why is it in this thread rather than a new thread?
What is the real beef here?
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Jan 11, 2013 7:57:44 GMT -6
You know Anita, I wouldnt mind this rant half as much if you were equally upset about the House bottling up Obama appointments to the judiciary and elsewhere. Should they pass a budget. Yes.. hell yes. But you have to admit that NEITHER side has a clean record when it comes to the legalities of running government.
That is why I ask what the real beef is here. Is it because one person is doing something criminal.. fine, I can point to dozens of others that are guilty of the same crime.
If the point is because he's a Dem and you dont like Dem's, then I am not going to waste my time, I already know that.
So much print is wasted on why teachers should be paid based on performance. fine, but if that is case, we should have Congress held to the same standard.. Paid based on performance.
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