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How do the GOP think that they can blackmail us by obstructing passing any jobs bill to help us, then blame Obama because of low job numbers. Pass a bill B!T(#! I'm tired of hearing the same stupid s#!t about all the American people out of work, and Obama's failed policies. Pass a bill B!t(#! They won't pass the transportation bill or the jobs bill, blackmailing us for more money. We could of been working. How stupid do they think we are? Congress and the GOP need to check themselves!!!
Jill - You Got that RITE - Their Actions Are Nothing Other Than TREASONOUS !!!!!!
About 43% of the country is stupid according to recent polls.
Jill~ They need to get their keisters voted out of office and I think after the response to the convention, that may happen. It would be beyond great to have the House, Senate AND the Presidency!
posted on September 6, 2012 by Philip Hodges
Democrat Election Fraud in Arkansas is Tip of the Iceberg
Arkansas State Representative Hudson Hallum, a Democrat, pleaded guilty Wednesday of conspiring to commit election fraud with his dad, a city councilman and a cop. Hallum had won a seat in Arkansas' 54th district as a result of a special election in May of last year. The seat was vacated because Fred Smith, the representative that held it previously (another Democrat), was convicted of theft. Hallum was investigated amid election fraud accusations by Hallum's opponent Kim Felker.
"Prosecutors said Hallum and his father, Kent, tasked Carter and Malone with obtaining absentee ballot applications for certain voters and assisting voters in filling out the ballots, 'actually completing absentee ballots in some instances without regard to the voter's actual candidate choice.' The ballots were typically placed in unsealed envelopes before being mailed to local election officials. 'If a ballot contained a vote for Hudson Hallum's opponent, it was destroyed,' prosecutors said in a bill of information filed with the court."
In a letter, Hallum apologized for his actions and took full responsibility. Arkansas GOP Chairman Doyle Webb stated that "the voters' constitutionally guaranteed right to a fair election was stolen by an Arkansas Democrat who was more concerned with winning than upholding the public trust and being a true public servant."
I wish election fraud were investigated this way on a national level, but I fear that if it were investigated, the evidence for fraud would be so insurmountable and far-reaching that it would result in a war, similar to the "Battle of Athens" in 1946.
An NAACP leader has been accused of voter fraud in Mississippi
that's the American Taliban for you.
HEY TROLLS KEEP DREAMING WITH LIES AND NO FACTS.
RobUs - Has Been Accused of Voter Fraud .......................
Billie
No facts
Tell that to the People that got arrested and the law enforcement said that
"Democrat Election Fraud in Arkansas is Tip of the Iceberg"
Voter fraud is a very real REPUBLICAN phenomenon.
did you leave out Arkanas intentionally???
Did you leave out that the Ark voter fraud was done with absentee ballots and voter ID would not solve that type of fraud. Funny how you tea bagged republicans are more worried about illegals voting, never happens, then you are about crooked election officials, unless its a democrat when its the GOP doing voter tampering then you ignore it, IOKIYAR.
The only hope Republicans have is to destroy the economy by November.
The GOP is not promising things will get better if they are voted into office.
The GOP is claiming that Republicans will do everything they can to make it worse if the DON'T get voted into office.
How sick and twisted is that political platform?
So the Job Bill Would have created jobs?
Shovel-ready jobs were supposed to be a staple of Obama’s Recovery Act. It was a big justification for spending the money involved in the legislation. But soon after using the phrase to sell his recovery plan, word started leaking out there there was no such thing as a shovel-ready job. Obama himself admitted that.
Just think if the racist gop thought of the American people instead of their wallets that their johns, the corporations are doling out to them. We would have those shovel ready jobs in action and our economy would be healing.
The gop are nothing but traitors as far as I'm concerned. They turned their backs on their country by turning their backs on the American people who lost their jobs compliments of the gop deregulating everything. My job included five years ago. It went to China.
At this point, Obama smiled and interjected, “Shovel-ready was not as … uh .. shovel-ready as we expected.” The Council, led by GE’s Jeffrey Immelt, erupted in laughter.
Yup The GOP IS OUT TO KILL US !!!!!!!!! ROBME Won't Fail ANN ROBME TELLS everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What she is not telling You Is That Is That He Won't Fail To Destroy the MIDDLE CLASS and the POOR and People With Disabilities !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If I recall corectly, every job from the stimulus plan cost something like $400,000 each. But, in Obama's defense, that was a better investment than Solyndra and the other Solar Panel investments...
While your at it rusty, calculate the cost of the one trillion dollars bush borrowed from China to pay for his tax cuts that netted only three million jobs in eight years. Funny, never heard a thing out of you CONservatives back then....
It's also funny, tex, that china still remains as one of the biggest purchaser of treasuries. I have to believe, though, that they are now 2nd. Next to internal buying from they'd fed. The humor is Obama is selling bonds to Bernanke.
And at some point, don't we have to start calling them the Bush/Obama tax cuts, since under Obama, the biggest percent of lost revenue was made permanent, and the smaller percent was extended? Is that fair? Well, I've yet to hear a democrat call for a re-instatement of tax levels to the Clinton rates. They've asked for rates on a very few people to be increased. When they push for an entire repeal, I'll take you seriously.
I don't need a 'lesson' on China, I just asked you a question you refused to answer. The only reason we still have the bush tax cuts is because you teabaggers held the middle class hostage by refusing to extend unemployment benefits at Christmas mind you, unless the bush deficit disaster tax cuts where extended. But we won't have to worry about that after jan 1, 2013 now will we. Taxes going back to 39% for the Kock bros will help this country out, just ask Bill Clinton.
Tex, you made a statement and put a question mark behind it. It wasn't a serious question, now was it? (see, I just did the same thing). You put a math problem out there that only requires a calculator as such. Why don't I ask you to calculate the number of families destroyed by lbj's war on poverty? (see, did it again). You know, the war that encouraged fathers to leave spouses and children in order to allow for them to get welfare checks? (see, once again- a statement with a question mark). Do you really think Biden is ready to lead? (ditto).
Biden is still better to take over the presidency then the last 3 republicans people like you put into office. Reagan was mentally insane, that is the definition of a person suffering from dementia is because they are unable to tell whats real and what is a delusion made up in their mind. You then elected daddy Bush who had no convictions to stand behind anything he said followed by GWB the village drunk, so your belief that you can say who is or who isn't ready to be president is laughable when you look at the people you elected to that office.
One thing we have to give the righties. We will never hear them talk about the obstruction their elected officials have used to stop everything. Even bills the GOP wrote, sponsered and co-sponsered. As soon as President Obama said "let's give it a try" not one GOP vote. Their own damn bill. Only ONE reason for that kind of BS.
It is called Democracy and thank god we have some elected officials willing to stand up to Reid - Pelosi and OBama who are pushing higher taxes - big government and more taxpayer funded social programs for liberals.
Larry- numerous libs have posted a cut and paste on these blogs that depicts all of the success Obama has had. Sort of makes your post look foolish. Which is it- can't get anything done because of GOP, or manages to get a lot done?
Then how do you explain the record number of filibusters? Look how much the president has gotten done without any help from the teabaggers. Why are you teabaggers anti-American?
Do I have to quote Mitch McConnell again?
Tex, please continue with the double argument that Obama has done more that any president and that Obama hasn't been able to do anything because of the republicans.
Ps, I can just see Larry sitting there scratching his head wondering what is going on.
Obama hasn't done more than any other president, just more than Reagan, Bush Sr. and Jr. combined, and did it without any help from the anti-American Teabaggers. But thats what a leader does. I can post up all the major bills that were filibustered and would have created jobs ie; the American Jobs Act that would have been fully paid for or ending tax breaks and welfare for corrupt corporations, but you've seen them before, correct?
And Larry was 100% on the money. You just refuse to except facts, hell thats no surprise.
Sorry rusty. I'm still wondering why you righties hate this country so much. Why you will blame Obama for everything and not acknowledge the do nothing GOP congress. And as far as those 33 "jobs" bills, more tax cuts for the top 1% and deregulate. It's worked so damn well. The anti-american teaparty want to bring this country down. The want another revolution. And they just may get one.
Then we shouldn't hear complaints about the republicans blocking his efforts. As the leader you depict, he is getting it done and doesn't need help. Which means you and Larry should quit carping.
Leave it to rusty to not understand anything more then Fox news tells him or the GOP or anyone else that agrees with rustys delusions.
Larry,
I hope after two years of you being unemployed under President Obama you found
yourself a job and are not one of the 360,000 that left the job markets last month,
giving the unemployment rate a poor reason to go down to 8.1%
My employment staus is none of your business, but I'm doing fine. But God forbid you righties ever acknowledge you GOP obstruction to even their own ideas as I stated above. I'm real glad you enjoy paying you congress people their high salery and benifits to stop this country. I would like to know: What the hell makes you hate this country and it's people so much? And don't give me this @!$%# that you don't.
Do you ALWAYS ask a Question to someone then answer it ALSO???
Larry
You do understand the Country is Divided and half the Country AGREE with you
and THE OTHER half the Country OPPOSES your opinion
The Congress has a responsibiity to do what's best for the country. Not just their big money doners. How is 144 votes on womens healthcare "good for the country"? How is a budget that has been grades to the point that says it will cost jobs and add $1trillion to the deficit good for the country. How is lower taxes on the 15 and higher tax on the 995 good for the country? How is dirty water and air good for the country? How are unsafe work places good for the country? How are no child labor laws or minimum wage good for the country? The country is not a corporation. It is not a business. That's the Romney/ryan plan. They've already been trying to get some of the legislation through. Thank god for people like Reid.
That is because the other half of the country are to stupid to know that they are voting against their own interests.
Larry
Are you as angry that the Democratic Senate has not created a budget in
over 110 years????
Are you as angry that over the last 4 years President Obama has ADDED
OVER
1 TRILLION PLUS per year !!!
Whom
How do you know "other half of the country are to stupid to know that they
are voting against their own interests." are the President Obama
supporters????
Last but not Least
Senator Harry Reid has been in office how long Larry???
Representing a state that has the highest Forclosures, Highest
Unemployment and Highest Bankruptcy Rate
Yes Senator harry Reid is doiung a great job
The Ryan plan failed miserably. Where's your plan B?
There plan B is more plan A.
patty. It's not up to the Senate to pass a budget. ALL spending bills must originate n the House. The house hasonly passed Ryan bankrupt America budget. TheGOP don't want a budget. The like the :spending appropriation" route. That way they can under fund the agencies they don't like. And they've done a very good job of it. I still would like to know why you righties hate this country enough to bankrupt it. Why You're so self-centered and greedy, you don't want "your" tax money helping anybody. The right wing have become the anti-american taliban.
You do the typical liberal thing since you don't have facts on your side. You make a personal attack.
Billie ----Sure she did, Sowers received a five-year prison term for each of the 10 counts, but Circuit Court Judge Charles Webster permitted Sowers to serve those terms concurrently, according to the Tunica Times, the only media outlet to cover the sentencing. April a Tunica County, Miss., jury convicted NAACP official Lessadolla Sowers on 10 counts of fraudulently casting absentee ballots. Sowers is identified on an NAACP website as a member of the Tunica County NAACP Executive Committee And you Lib complain on Voter suppression. WOW and you call this a Lie.
people that are BLIND are this site can NOT see what is before their own eyes
What should they believe what they hear or what they see with their OWN
EYES!!!
patricahayes - Remember you said it. That is exactly why this country is so far in debt. Bill Clinton made an absolute fool out of himself. He started this whole mess from the very beginning. I can bring more of his screw ups than you can accomplishment.
You clowns believe Fox Lies. We at least check thing out. We know the obstructionists in congress. We know the racist on the right. We know The right hates this country and anybody that disagrees with them. We know Robme even called this country a corporation. Even many lifelong Republicans will not vote republican again. The Republican party is no more. It's the tea party heady for another revolution. That's what they want. They may well get one.
Larry
Once again I feel the need to correct you
The right does not Hate this country they HATE what is happening to this country
under President Obama
No you hate everything about the country and you made up your own version of the country not based on any historical fact but rather myths created for TV for entertainment that you try to use to rewrite history.
Ed says Obama lit it up - the only thing Obama has lit up is his crack pipe. The respected political analysts all say Obama fell flat and that was before the bad jobs report.
FOS much OneEyedWilly?
We Are Better Off Part II Choose That Future!
I saw the top ten political speeches of my lifetime at the Charlotte Democratic Convention and if you STILL don't think we are better off than four years ago then remember this...'W' was still 'the president' four years ago! Nuff said!
Not only did the Democratic Party prove with facts and figures that we have begun to fix the horrendous mess the Republicans had put us in, but the Democrats proved it with body and soul as well! If you weren't inspired by Lilly Ledbetter then you're crazy! If Gabby Giffords didn't make you cry and determined to fight hate and bigotry then you're heartless! And while the Democrats put our brave members of the Armed Forces in center stage of their convention, the Republicans forgot they existed!
And if you didn't see a great president and vice president with the most perfect spouses and families for our times...sorry, but I think you're lying!
LONG LIVE AMERICA! FOUR MORE YEARS! FIRED UP, READY TO GO!
TheDixieDove
I'm Just wondering does anyone On here have a home they bought or just bought well you can kiss that mortgage tax credit goodbye because Robme will kill that !!!!!!!! People will not buy homes because there is no incentive to buy one Robme get that !!!!!!!!!!!
What happens when the corporations who fired everyone (so their CEO's would continue to show large profits) start to tank? This is the "fix" from Wall Street; as a business major I know the exchange is its own bubble right now; small business is the true engine at the moment (seen by the job numbers).
kutlass --- Don't forget the $1000 child tax credit, that should go as well. I raised four children with out it, so can you. That will get the other half of the country to pay their fair share. This will solve many problems on the national debt.
392 hemi are you Rich I'm just wondering
KUTLASS
What is your explanation that all the polls show this country ALMOST evenly
divided
Do you think that the approximatel 50% of the country that is behind
Governor Romney are ALL PART of the 1%???
Liberals - mostly deranged still support Obama by about 88% but Obama has never gotten above 46% in overall support - nothing close to 50%. Romney recently is running around 48% and the remainder are undecided. Generally people that make a decision in the last few days go against the incumbent so Romney needs to do good in the debates and he wins.
Check it dumbass...52%... The Fake news parrot strikes again!
I am so tired of hearing about the "government" like it is some gray, alien monolith eating everything in sight. The government is "we the people." It is "of the people and by the people." This is what the Republicans really want to get rid of...the people...leaving just a privileged few to reap all rewards. The times are so like they were before WWII, with "isms" rising everywhere and scary neocons scapegoating everybody they hate. I worked for civil rights and women's rights in the 60s and I am not going back and I will not be silent. I am battling heart disease, but my mind still works and my mouth still screams and I will shout about injustice until my dying breath.
I have a very very serious question:- Is it too extreme to believe
the Republican leaders in the Private business sector are, and or have
been actively delaying hiring, or even posting needed jobs till after
this presidential election. As republican party leaders have championed
obstructing job creation, has this mandate or mindset been conveyed and
received by Republicans in the private sector. As an engineer with an
intimate knowledge in the Oil, and Mineral Resource industry, and it's
needs,..every international company is those sectors are searching and
have thousands of job listings, for skilled and unskilled work!
Here's why, $8 trillion in tax hikes and spending cuts scheduled to begin taking effect Jan. 1, 2013. If the country goes off that cliff, economists say and I agree, we’ll plunge right back into recession. At midnight on Dec. 31, the Bush-era tax cuts are due to expire, raising income tax rates across the board to levels last seen in 2001. President Obama’s 2 percent payroll tax holiday will end, too, along with a host of other business and investment tax breaks. All told, four out of five U.S. households would face an average of $3,701 more in taxes next year, according to the Tax Policy Center; the federal government’s tax haul would increase by $399 billion. Some have dubbed this threat to the fragile economic recovery. At the same time, the first $100 billion in automatic cuts to defense spending and domestic programs such as Medicare will kick in, under an agreement reached last summer by a congressional supercommittee. Together, these measures would squeeze more than $600 billion out of the economy next year alone. Obama is planning a 4 to 6 percent tax increase on $250,000 like they need more burden. Your best indicators that I know of is Gold. The price goes up dramaticly it tells me investors are seeking other alternatives. Which makes me believe a major recession has arrived.
The only tax "hikes" going into effect are the GWB tax CUTS expire. 10 years too late.
Clinton was right, they do live in an alternate universe Larry.
I keep wondering that instead of President Obama sitting in that chair ,that it was really Clint talking to himself and after figuring out what an empty suit Romney really is , that it was he who wanted Romney to go F__k himself
You know what they say about opinions.
Kutlass-- No I don't consider myself rich. I have a degree in Economics from the University of Missouri. I'm self employed, and I pay my fair share in taxes. I employ 16 wonderful individuals with full benefits. I believe if you want something, go out and get it. Anything else.
You should get your money back Pancake. Still think the Dems did all the filibustering these past four years?
Skippy the Punk. I can expect that from fifth grader.
Just stating facts Pancake. You know, the kind that come back and bite you on the a$$?
Skippy the Punk, you want , what you can't get. Your just not smart enough!
The cons say Dems are trying to get rid of the 4th amendment right. What they don't notice is the limiting of 100,000s citizens who are currently not going to be able to vote.
BTW... anybody else support the millionaire paying lower taxes than the middle class
I'm still surprised that I seem to be the only viewer who caught what flashed behind John Oliver during his street-corner segment (Stonewall St. in Charlotte) on Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show" the other night.
The following gasoline prices were plastered on the side of a large truck van:
Bill Clinton photo on left, underneath: $1.46
GW Bush photo in middle, underneath: $1.82
Barack Obama photo on right, underneath: $3.72
Hmmm, I seem to remember in 2008 under GW Bush that gasoline prices in the U.S. skyrocketed past $4.00 a gallon ($5.00 a gallon on the coasts).
The only reason gas prices plummeted from record highs in 2008 under GW Bush was because the stock market crashed and oil futures trading was disrupted. However, the speculators got bailed-out, so they're back. And since many of them hate President Obama, especially the Koch brothers, it wouldn't surprise me to learn that they're rigging and jacking-up the oil futures market again (thus nearly $4.00 a gallon at present) just so they can run ads (or drive truck vans by) blaming President Obama for what they're actually doing.
And rising fuel costs drives up food costs. Are Republicans (especially oil futures speculators) deliberately buying up oil futures stock in an attempt to drive up fuel costs so they can run smear ads attacking President Obama, claiming he's responsible? Maybe someone in the Obama administration realized this might be happening a week or so ago, when President Obama said he would release millions of barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserved if necessary to rein-in rising fuel (and food) costs? Was this the Obama administration's shot across the anti-Obama oil futures speculators' bow? Are there anymore of these Republican truck vans roaming the streets of America with this lying "gasoline price comparison" plastered on their sides?
the oracles
what the signs were trying to state that if you look at what the price of
gasoline was on the day President Obama took office on January 20, 2009
It was $1.84!!!
It has since DOUBLED since President Obama has been in office!!!
Also look up for your own education that this past labor Day had the
HIGHEST gasoline prices for ANY Labor day in History!!!
It set a RECORD!
As long as you ignore that under GWB gas was at $5 a gallon until the economy crashed which caused oil prices to drop meaning speculators were unable to rig oil prices. Poor lemmings clueless on how the oil market works and not understanding that today as we speak oil companies are exporting more oil then ever in fact the US number 1 export is oil.
Parricahayes::: Your crazy, the gas prices has nothing to do with Obama, Bushman or any others but the oil company's, you see dunb, dumb, they do as they please becasue there isn't one republican in office that doesn't get big bucks from them.. You had better get your facts straight nuts-O..
It is imperative that Democrats talk constantly about the GOP's endless obstructionism in the Congress. The GOP in the Senate has filibustered over one hundred bills this session of Congress alone. The GOP House with its "jobs, jobs, and more jobs" agenda has failed to pass President Obama's American Jobs Act that would have created or saved over two million jobs. The GOP in the Senate has filibustered the Small Business Tax Credit bill that would have created over one million jobs. Three million jobs have failed to have been made because of "do nothing" GOP obstructionism in the Congress. Three million jobs would have left us with an unemployment rate at 6%.
The GOP House has failed to pass the Senate's Farm Bill that is desperately needed by our ranchers and farmers who are facing the worst drought since the 1930's Dust Bowl. The GOP/Tea Party decided it was more important to go home and campaign than to pass the Farm Bill that President Obama wanted to sign before the August recess. September has very few days that will allow the Farm Bill to pass the House and conference committee. So much for the GOP/Tea Party House caring about Main Street businesses in the Midwest that depend on farmers and ranchers for much of their business. This GOP Congress has been totally pathetic in getting the business of the American people done.
If you vote for the GOP/Tea Party with Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan you are simply a brain washed ideologue whose actions will help destroy Medicare and the American middle class. Many people in the middle class rely on government programs to get student loans, Pell grants, Food Stamps/SNAP, Medicare or Medicaid, and a host of other programs that the federal government supports that are essential for middle class people and working poor people to better themselves. Romney/Ryan wants to cut $5 trillion from mostly domestic programs over the next decade but insists on making the Bush tax cuts permanent and increasing tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires. The Romney/Ryan ticket wants to turn America into a plutocracy where elections are sold to the highest special interest bidder. The Romney/Ryan budget is a Frankenstein monster that will slay the middle class, destroy Medicare, and make America a plutocracy where only the rich elite matters and all the rest are on their own. What a nightmarish vision for America and our kids. Vote Obama/Biden 2012 and a straight Democratic ticket because doubling down on trickle down is economic suicide.
Did you forget Harry Reid runs the Democratically controlled Senate? Oh, thats right, reality doesn't exist in your world.
PS--Please try to come up with something original. Your regurgitation of MSNBC talking points is lame.
Total lack of leadership! THE THRILL IS GONE
CM GOP jerk off: Harry Reid does a fine job while your man Mitch McConnell is nothing but a traitor to working class and middle class families. Why bother writing anything original when just writing the facts will do? The GOP House failed to pass the American Jobs Act last year that cost us two million jobs. The Small Business tax credit bill was filibustered in July by the GOP in the Senate. Three million jobs urinated away by the "do nothing" GOP Congress. The Farm Bill was supposed to be passed before August recess but the GOP/Tea Part felt that is was more important to go home and campaign. The GOP is more concerned that the richest Americans get their tax cuts while millions of Americans languish in unemployment through no fault of their own. President Obama's infrastructure bills and jobs bills have sat in the Speaker Boehner's calender going no where. The GOP is not only despicable but are nothing but puppets being manipulated by the plutocrats. Vote Obama/Biden in 2012.
Corrupt doesn't know anything about Senate rules. Hey corrupt, it takes 60 votes to end a filibuster. It takes 60 vote to pass procedural. Last I knew, the Dems don't have 60 votes and haven't for several years. Harry Reid says what come to the floor. That's about it. Try learning something before making a bigger ass out of yourself.
You guys are great at making excuses. The only thing obama has been doing for the last year and a half is to campaign for reelection. He does't meet with his cabinet or his jods counsel and certainly not with any Republican leadership. He's useless!
Total lack of leadership! THE THIRLL IS GONE!
Also, resorting to name calling is adolescent behavior resulting from a lack substantiated facts or a logically defendable argument.
CM: The GOP filibusters have numbered over one hundred just this year alone. The GOP obstructionist Congress has involved the filibuster continuously. These articles discuss this in detail. The GOP blocks everything that President Obama tries to get through Congress.
Here is an article talking about the GOP's blocking of the American Jobs Act that would have created 2.1 million jobs:
"...//www.ohio.com/blogs/mass-destruction/blog-of-mass-destruction-1.298992/purposely-killing-job-growth-1.332713"
Here is a article from the Nation, that talks about the GOP filibustering the American Jobs Act in the Senate last year.
"...//www.thenation.com/blog/163926/senate-votes-obama-jobs-bill-gop-filibusters-it"
Here is a quote from a 2012 CNN story written by Professor Julian Zelizer, that sums up GOP obstructionism in a couple of sentences.
"But the number of filibusters by Republicans has escalated, and they have been far more willing to use the tactic than their opponents. Since 2007, the Senate Historical Office has shown, Democrats have had to end Republican filibusters more than 360 times, a historic record."
Source: Julian Zelizer. May 21, 2012. "Gridlock in Congress? Blame the GOP. CNN. "...//www.cnn.com/2012/05/21/opinion/zelizer-congress-polarization/index.html."
Here is a quote from a bill that was filibustered in the Senate by the GOP this July, 2012. This bill would have provided for allowing tax breaks for companies that "insource" plants from oversea to the U.S. that provide jobs for American workers.
"Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked the No.1 item on the president's congressional "to-do-list," refusing to allow a vote on a bill that would give tax breaks for companies that "insource" jobs to the U.S. from overseas while eliminating tax deductions for companies that move jobs abroad."
Source: Ted Barret. July 19, 2012. "GOP Senators Block Top Obama Jobs Initiative." CNN. "...//articles.cnn.com/2012-07-19/politics/politics_senate-bring-jobs-home-bill-blocked_1_gop-senators-senate-republicans-jobs."
Here is an article at Politico entitled: "Mitch McConnell blows up at Harry Reid over filibuster rules." by Manu Raju on July 18, 2012. This article discusses the GOP abuse of the filibustered creating a logjam of legislation in the Senate.
"...//www.politico.com/news/stories/0712/78665.html"
Here is an May, 2012 from Ezra Kline's Wonkblog that discusses the history of the filibuster that is being used in record numbers by the GOP this session of Congress:
"...//www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/the-history-of-the-filibuster-in-one-graph/2012/05/15/gIQAVHf0RU_blog.html"
Here is a quote from Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman that says that Bill Clinton got it right when he said that the Obama administration is cleaning up the horrible economic mess he was left by the Bush Administration. President Obama's next four years will in economic terms be much better than the first term that had to deal with the Great Recession of 2008:
"..But, that said, Mr. Obama did push through policies — the auto bailout and the Recovery Act — that made the slump a lot less awful than it might have been. And despite Mitt Romney’s attempt to rewrite history on the bailout, the fact is that Republicans bitterly opposed both measures, as well as everything else the president has proposed.
So Bill Clinton basically had it right: For all the pain America has suffered on his watch, Mr. Obama can fairly claim to have helped the country get through a very bad patch, from which it is starting to emerge."
Source: Paul Krugman. September 6, 2012. "Cleaning up the Economy." New York Times. "...//www.nytimes.com/2012/09/07/opinion/krugman-cleaning-up-the-economy.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss."
John of Texas oops I mean Skippy the Punk ---- Punk Kid, If this is what Ed has to offer, Skippy individuals like you. Romney has NO problem Winning
Keep living in fantasy land.
There goes Ed, lying and spinning again. No Republicans are "giddy" about bad job numbers. They are concerned as should be the dems. The way Ed Schultz portrays how we feel is pathetic. What else can he do? Every bad thing he accuses the GOP of doing, his own progressive lefties are doing 10 times over. It is hilarious.
Have you heard the latest Ed? The liberal head of the Department of Transportation has been telling his employees if they vote for Romney, they may lose their jobs....if they vote for Obama...they won't lose their jobs. TALK ABOUT DESPERATION!!!
Barack Hussien Obama will do ANYTHING to get re-elected.
You guys are a sad bunch...resorting to threatening people...lying....spinning....thank goodness we only have to put up with it for only a few more days.
Have a great day.
We never hear a good response to why the GOP failed to pass the American Jobs Act and the Small Business Tax Credit Bill that would have saved or created a total of three million jobs? The GOP filibustered or obstructed both bills plus other infrastructure and jobs bills that would have created hundreds of thousands of other jobs or saved many others because state governments and local governments have been cutting teachers, police, fire, and other public sectors all across America. The GOP does not give a damn about the United States and the middle class that lives in it. Why didn't they pass President Obama's reasonable jobs and infrastructure bills? The answer lies in hatred of President Obama, racism, and radical right winged ideology that puts GOP political gain at the expense of American families. The pathetic GOP has become the party of right winged extremists who despise the welfare of the country and the people that live in it. The pathetic GOP is subservient to the plutocrats that want to take over this country.
Rex - I might add that he hasn't had to veto any such legislation because of the Republicans. They can't very well say it's Obama's fault, he can only finish the job theCongress starts, but Congress isn't even getting off the ground.
Rex, I would decline this Bill as well, It's all government related. Instead if $16 trillion we would be $16.5 trillion. My god man when are we going stop. With credit dropping from AAA to AA. We are definitely heading for A rating. This includes the devaluing our dollar which more inflation is on the horizon. You must get the Private sector up and running or were heading to hell fast.
In total the legislation includes $253 billion in tax credits (56.6%) and $194 billion in spending and extension of unemployment benefits (43.4%).
It would extend unemployment benefits, which are too long already.
It would just be another stimulus package (remember all his shovel ready jobs,which he even admitted where not shovel ready)
It would be a pay off to his teacher and public safety union buddies.
It is just another of his redistribution of wealth ploys.
Total lack of leadership! THE THRILL IS GONE!
I am glad we all can agree that the GOP shamelessly filibusters and obstructs three million jobs. So GOP bitching, complaining, and howling about the lack of jobs created in America rests on the shoulders of the obstructionist GOP not President Obama. Its important to clear the air on this point because the GOP could of offered compromise bills that Democrats could have worked with them on had the GOP not been so belligerent and bellicose. Spending bills originate in the Congress not with the President. So the GOP has been out to get the middle class and out to get working class people all so the rich can get more tax cuts. When it came time for the GOP to help create or save three million jobs the GOP chose partisan politics over the welfare of the country. This is a pathetic statement about placing partisanship ahead of job creation. Here is an article that talks about the GOP's sabotaging of job creation:
Here is a rundown of GOP obstructionist policies that has stalled job growth:
1. Killing the American Jobs Act.
2. Failing to push for more monetary stimulus from the Federal Reserve.
3. Blackmailing the government over increasing the debt ceiling.
4. Cutting domestic discretionary spending during the debt ceiling deals.
5. Cutting domestic discretionary spending in the budget.
"...//thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/07/06/511940/5-ways-republicans-sabotaged-job-growth/"
Romney/Ryan want to make permanent the Bush tax cuts. The Romney/Ryan budget will seek to cut $5 trillion mostly out of domestic entitlement programs. Medicare as we know will be voucherized and destroyed by the Romney/Ryan budget. Romney/Ryan does all of this so that millionaires and billionaires get more tax cuts while Seniors can pay more than $6,400 for their Medicare. The Romney/Ryan budget plan seeks to increase military spending while giving more tax cuts to the wealthy. Here is a quote from the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities website from Robert Greenstein:
"“The new Ryan budget is a remarkable document — one that, for most of the past half-century, would have been outside the bounds of mainstream discussion due to its extreme nature. In essence, this budget is Robin Hood in reverse — on steroids. It would likely produce the largest redistribution of income from the bottom to the top in modern U.S. history and likely increase poverty and inequality more than any other budget in recent times (and possibly in the nation’s history).”"
Source: Robert Greenstein. March 23, 2012. "Ryan Roundup: Everything you need to know about Chairman's Ryan Budget." Off the Chartsblog, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. "...//www.offthechartsblog.org/ryan-2/"
Do you realize that Harry Reid voted against the jobs bill?
Our government spending more money than it takes in is not good for our country and no excuses you can come up with can refute that!
Total lack of leadership! THE THRILL IS GONE!
Rex-- the bottom line. Print more money, Where are you going to raise the money. You First have to get our House in order. Saying it in simple terms. WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO KEEP THIS COUNTRY RUNNING. Now we have to set a Budget. This is exactly why Obama is a Lunatic, and Biden drinks too many Cocktails. THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT OUR TRUE EXPENSES ARE. IF THEY DID, THEN WHY HASN'T HE TOLD US. They say 3.8 trillion and our take in is 2.9 trillion, this is not good.
Our top 25 tax paying Corporation are at $133 billion per year. Oil companies paying the highest at 45% before expensive. Their net is about 5.7%, that's running on very short margins. That would scare the hell out of me being a business owner myself.
Raising the taxes on $250,000 income level which is about 4 million individuals 7% from 35 up to 42% would bring in an estimate of if average out $800,000 per individual including Capital gains would bring in an additional $230 billion. And I can assure you as a business owner I don't make that. On top of that Obama want to increase Corporate Taxes toward the same level covering the spread for Obama Care and that's not including what the additional taxes he'll hit the Pharmaceutical and Health Care Companies, and I haven't brought in the inflation factor.. You wonder why commodities, like gold, oil, land and certain currencies are going up. People are moving out of stocks for the fear of the big BANG. Stocks are up now, you watch within the next 3 weeks.
If you get rid of the Child Care Tax $1,000 and College deduction of $1500 per student you'll raise an additional $100 billion. But again I'm a SOB if we dare bring up that deduction. You Liberal will take but are you willing to sacrifice beside me and help get the house in order. My 16 employees, there health insurance which is PPO is paid by the company. And talking with our health provider when this Obama care goes into full swing my rates will go up next year 13%. I do 3 things, including the Corp. tax increase. a) I'll let them go on Government Health care which I'll save money . b.) let them pay the 13% c) start laying off. Obama gives me some pretty good choices. I might just shut my doors down and let Obama take care of them. I can go on and on and on about this, and I know you'll say Bush did it, or some type of bull crap that just doesn't make since. Something going to give or will all stand in bread lines. Obama is out of his league on this. The problem is much deeper
wow obama, is this what I have to deal with'
Republicans always seem to find plenty of money to print for wars and tax cuts for the wealthy. So far they are responsible for more than $6 trillion in additional debt and much more long term. I am glad that we all agree that the GOP has filibustered the American Jobs Act and the Small Business Tax Credit bill that would have created three million jobs. So the GOP is responsible for failing to create GOP policies are completely to blame for our budget deficits. Let's take a look trickle down policies that fail America even more:
1. Bill Clinton left President Bush with a $150 billion SURPLUS and a national debt of $5 trillion in debt back in 2001. When President Bush left office in 2009 his fiscal 2010 budget had a $1.3 trillion budget deficit and a national debt of over $11 trillion.
"...//www.huffingtonpost.com/lanny-davis/bill-clinton-obama_b_1860923.html?utm_hp_ref=elections-2012"
"...//www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/jun/02/steny-hoyer/steny-hoyer-says-george-w-bush-inherited-56-trilli/"
2. The Obama Administration was left with two ongoing shooting wars that the Bush administration had started. Long term these wars will cost $4 trillion dollars. These wars are a major reason for our trillion dollar deficits to this very day. Professors Linda Bilmes and Nobel prize winning economist Joe Stiglitz.
"....//threetrilliondollarwar.org/"
"...//www.voanews.com/content/report-iraq-afghanistan-wars-cost-us-nearly-4-trillion-124716249/141514.html"
3. The Bush tax cuts cost at least $2 trillion from 2001 until 2012 including the extension. These continue to be a drain on the budget today along with the Bush wars. Go to this Center on Budget and Policy Priorities article that discusses the Bush wars in Iraq and Afghanistan plus the Bush tax cuts are major drivers of the long term budget deficits.
"...//www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3036"
4. The GOP sponsored Prescription drug bill or Medicare Part D, added $395 billion to $500 billion to the national debt when President Bush signed it into law.
"...//www.amcp.org/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=11196"
5. The GOP has a penchant for deregulation that directly caused $16 trillion bailout loan guarantees in actions by the Federal Reserve in 2008. The 2008 Great Recession happened when the GOP insisted on the repeal of the Glass-Steagal Bill of 1932 by the GOP sponsored Graham-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999. Lax regulatory oversight of the big Wall Street investment bank by an underfunded Securities and Exchange Commission led to the problems of the "too big to fail" banks that required $16 trillion in loan guarantees and other actions by the Federal Reserve. TARP and many other bailout actions were originally started under the Bush administration and Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson. The bundled mortgage back securities were highly leveraged and sold on Wall Street overseas and when these went bust large firms like Bear Stearns went bankrupt. The whole U.S. financial system would have went bankrupt had it not been for the Federal Reserve bailouts. Canadians kept their banks highly regulated and had no Canadian taxpayer bailouts for their banks. Canadians are much smarter than GOP supply sided economists. Checkout this Forbes 2011 article discussing the $16 trillion bailout by the Fed caused by the repeal of 1932 Glass-Steagall act by the 1999 Graham-Leach-Bliley Act.
"...//www.forbes.com/sites/traceygreenstein/2011/09/20/the-feds-16-trillion-bailouts-under-reported/"
Read the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Report that castigates the deregulation of Wall Street investment banks, the reckless greed of corporate banks, and lax SEC oversight, and lax Congressional oversight where the GOP assured everyone that the "market would regulate itself." This GOP supply side belief was a $16 trillion mistake.
"...//www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-FCIC/pdf/GPO-FCIC.pdf"
" These continue to be a drain on the budget today along with the Bush wars" I thought the Savior got us out of Iraq.
The Romney/Ryan ticket wants to repeal the Dodd-Frank financial reforms. We know that the "too big to fail" banks played a major role in the 2008 financial crisis resulting in $16 trillion in Federal Reserve loan guarantees. We should look at this quote from Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Richard Fischer about these "too big to fail" banks:
"We don’t feel that we should have institutions that are ‘too big to fail. We don’t think we should allow a system that gives big institutions a subsidy over you of 20 to 100 basis points on their cost of borrowing. …What I’m very worried about is that you can reach a size of complexity that risk management becomes a mathematical modeling exercise and you losetouch with your customer. What concerns me here, without referencing that bank, is … at what size do you not realize what’s going on underneath you? If you’ve gotten to that point, you’re too big. Period."
"...//247wallst.com/2012/05/11/dallas-fed-president-repeats-call-for-smaller-banks-jpm/"
The big banks, like JPMorgan Chase, have become too large to manage. It is impossible for a CEO to know everything that is going on below him in such a large complex institution. This is why Mr. Fischer calls for breaking up these large Wall Street investment banks into much smaller units through federal antitrust actions in federal court. The five largest Wall Street investment banks own 60% of the consumer business in the U.S. from mortgages, to consumer loans, to credit cards. The Romney/Ryan repeal of the Dodd-Frank bill would make it much more likely for another financial meltdown again when Wall Street get rich quick money swindling schemes go bust that U.S. taxpayer gets stuck with the bill. The only difference this time is that we could all end up with another Great Depression II. Voting for Romney/Ryan is like riding a kamikaze making its final plunge off of Okinawa, only the whole U.S. middle class gets to go down with the ship into another Great Depression II. This almost happened in 2008 and it will happen again if we repeal the Dodd-Frank Act. Vote Obama/Biden 2012 and a straight Democratic ticket for your state and local elections.
During a period of economic uncertainty and staggering debt and deficits, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has estimated that, by this time next year, the budgetary cost for Dodd-Frank will exceed $1.25 billion, which has the effect of siphoning off resources that might otherwise have gone toward deficit reduction or private sector job creation.
Another 4 years of "I can't get anything done because GOP is obstructing me and I need more time"....and WE ARE SUNK!!
.......all the while blaming everything negative on Bush and taking credit all by himself for anything positive. No leadership qualities at all!
The GOP is obstructing everything that President Obama tried to have passed. Over one hundred bills including the American Jobs Act was filibustered. A typical sniveling bitching cynical conservative response. We need to understand that while President Obama is the president, no president could have magically fixed the problems of a $1.3 trillion budget deficit, the doubling of the national debt in eight years, two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan plus the failing economy that lost nearly nine million jobs plus hemorrhaged up to 40% of its net wealth and homes for the middle class.
The middle class lost much more than the upper classes and have recovered little of their lost wealth which is only slowly improving. Millions of Americans are upside down on their mortgages. These underwater mortgages are a huge deadweight on the middle class that is not their fault. The Bush tax cuts cost over $2 trillion over the last ten years. The two Bush wars cost $4 trillion long term. Tack on the GOP Prescription Drug bill that created Medicare Part D and you come up with around $500 billion more. All of this was added to the national debt with borrowed money from China and other overseas creditors. Why did the GOP give tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires when they also started two wars? Unbelievable stupidity that will take at least a generation to fix, not just President Obama first term.
The GOP under Bush butchered the middle class and our nation's finances. The two wars and tax cuts guarantee we will have trillion dollar budget deficits for much of President Obama's entire presidency, including his second term. Its all part of the GOP plan to shrink government down to the size of a bathtub by raising the national debt. Here is a good analogy for the GOP. A son takes and shoots his mother and father killing them. The son now complains that he is sitting in prison and he should be getting his inheritance. No rational person would feel very sorry for the son would they? No rational person should feel sorry for the GOP that obstructs all Democratic bills and refuses to raise taxes on millionaires and billionaires despite the costs of a decade of two wars and two huge tax cuts neither one that we could afford. No excuses for the pathetic GOP and President Bush. You vile, rotten, conservatives have butchered our economy and screwed up American finances and economy by design and on purpose.
Its not President Obama's fault that we have trillion dollar budget deficits it the Republicans and George Bush. Romney/Ryan want trillion dollar deficits too because they want to make the Bush tax cuts permanent and increase military spending. The CBO has scored the Ryan Budget and it will leave us with an ocean of red ink just like the cynical GOP wants it too. Vote Obama/Biden 2012 so we can rebuild our country and the middle class again.