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White House hopes to snap a losing streak in today’s Bennet-vs.-Romanoff primary in CO… Also in the state, it’s Norton vs. Buck, as well as McInnis vs. Maes… In CT, it’s Lamont vs. Malloy in the Democratic gubernatorial primary, and it’s Fedele vs. Foley in the GOP race for governor… In MN, it’s Dayton vs. Kelliher… And in GA, it’s Handel vs. Deal… Haley Barbour drops mail in IA… The House votes on the $26 billion in state aid this afternoon… Profiling CO-4… And Bill Clinton stumps for Sestak.
*** White House tries to snap a losing streak: Since winning the White House, President Obama hasn’t experienced much success when he’s dipped his toes into the electoral waters. Last year, the two Democrats he campaigned for, Jon Corzine in New Jersey and Creigh Deeds in Virginia, both lost. In January, another Democrat he tried to save in Massachusetts’ special Senate election, Martha Coakley, met a similar fate. And in May, the Democrat he was backing in Pennsylvania’s Senate primary, Arlen Specter, went down to defeat. (Even when the White House tried to distance itself from a Democrat it thought was about lose, Blanche Lincoln, she pulled off the upset and won.) Individually, each of these losses was explainable and not really a White House responsibility. Still…
*** Bennet vs. Romanoff: That’s why today’s Democratic Senate primary in Colorado between incumbent Sen. Michael Bennet (whom Obama has endorsed) and former House Speaker Andrew Romanoff (whom Bill Clinton has endorsed) is important for the White House. Simply put, they NEED a win, and that’s why Obama has campaigned for Bennet and why he called into a tele-town hall for the senator last week just days after polling showed Romanoff was surging. The other reasons why the White House and the DSCC want Bennet to win is because he has more money and organization -- Romanoff, after all, had to sell his house to finance his campaign -- and because a Romanoff win would allow the Darrell Issas of the world to resuscitate the White-House-offered-Romanoff-a-job-to-keep-him-out-of-the-race storyline.
*** Norton vs. Buck and McInnis vs. Maes: But perhaps the best -- and most competitive -- Senate primary in Colorado today isn’t on the Democratic side. Instead, it’s the GOP race between establishment favorite Jane Norton and opponent Ken Buck. The C.W. is that the race is now even, after a series of gaffes by Buck (like saying that Coloradoans should vote for him because he doesn’t wear high heels). The party in DC wants Norton and sees her as the more electable candidate and the one most prepared for the fall campaign. Buck, like Romanoff, is playing the role of the insurgent. The other Republican primary in Colorado to watch is the gubernatorial contest between former front-runner Scott McInnis, who’s been plagued by a plagiarism scandal, and Dan Maes, who has warned that programs boosting bicycle riding are a threat to freedom. Privately, we’re hearing that Republicans want McInnis, so they could potentially switch horses to find a stronger candidate to face Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper (D) in the fall; a Maes victory dashes those smoke-filled-room plans. Most balloting in Colorado is done by mail, and those ballots must be turned in by 9:00 pm ET.
*** Lamont vs. Malloy and Fedele vs. Foley: The other states holding key contests today are Connecticut, Minnesota, and Georgia. While Linda McMahon’s campaign is receiving much of the national attention in Connecticut, she’s expected to cruise to victory in the primary. But the real competitive races are the ones for governor -- the Dem contest between 2006 Senate nominee Ned Lamont and former Stamford Mayor Dan Malloy, and the GOP primary between (among others) former Bush ambassador to Ireland Tom Foley and Lt. Gov. Michael Fedele. A final Quinnipiac poll showed Lamont at 45% and Malloy at 42% among likely primary voters, while it had Fedele at 38% and Foley at 30%. Polls in Connecticut close at 8:00 pm ET.
*** Dayton vs. Kelliher and Handel vs. Deal: Meanwhile, the Democratic gubernatorial primary in Minnesota -- featuring former Sen. Mark Dayton and state House speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher -- is a big test for the new leadership at Emily’s List, which is backing Kelliher. The organization under its previous leadership had a terrible track record in primaries, but a wholesale change in staff and philosophy has since taken place. A Kelliher victory would be a BIG feather in the cap of the new team. That said, Dayton has spent an ENORMOUS amount of his own money so it won't be easy for Kelliher. The winner of the Democratic field, which also features former state House leader Matt Entenza, will take on presumptive GOP nominee Tom Emmer. In Georgia, there’s the gubernatorial run-off between former Secretary of State Karen Handel (whom Palin campaigned for yesterday) and former Rep. Nathan Deal. Polls in Georgia close at 7:00 pm ET, and they close at 9:00 pm ET in Minnesota. *** CORRECTION *** We said above that Emily's List has had a terrible track record in primaries. That is not correct; we should have said it has had a terrible track record in some key general election contests.
*** Barbour drops mail in … Iowa: Politico’s Martin reports that Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, the chairman of the Republican Governors Association, is dropping mail introducing himself to Iowa Republicans. “The piece encourages recipients to sign up for updates on Barbour’s website, a means of building a list. The governor is planning to raise money later this year in Iowa for GOP gubernatorial candidate Terry Branstad and, officially, the piece is only aimed at 2010. ‘We can't wait until 2012 to start taking our country back,’ Barbour writes on the mailer. ‘We need to elect conservative governors and members of Congress in 2010.’” You can look at the emerging GOP 2012 field this way: the establishment (Romney, Barbour), the new faces (Pawlenty, Daniels, Thune), the evangelicals (Huckabee and Santorum), and the cable TV personas (Palin and Gingrich). The Republican who is best able to own two or three of these categories will probably be your 2012 Republican nominee.
*** The House returns: Beyond today’s primaries and speculation about 2012, the House -- after coming back from its interrupted recess -- today votes on the $26 billion in state aid that the Senate passed last week. Per NBC’s Luke Russert, the vote is slated to occur between 1:00 pm ET and 3:00 pm ET. After the likely passage, the legislation will go to President Obama’s desk for his signature.
*** 75 House races to watch: CO-4: The Democratic candidate in this race will be one-term incumbent Betsy Markey, and her GOP opponent will be state Rep. Cory Gardner. McCain grabbed 50% of the vote in this district in ’08, and Bush got 58% in ’04. As of July 21, Markey had $1.5 million in the bank, and Gardner had $734,000. Markey voted for the stimulus, cap-and-trade, and health care. Cook rates the race as a Toss Up, while Rothenberg has it Lean Republican.
*** More midterm news: An American Crossroads poll, conducted by GOP pollster Glen Bolger, shows GOP candidates on in 13 key Senate contests leading their Democratic opponents by a combined 47%-39% margin… In Kentucky, the Paul campaign has threatened legal action against GQ, Greg Sargent reports (but the campaign has yet to deny what’s in the GQ article)… And in Pennsylvania, Bill Clinton today stumps for Joe Sestak.
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Just another bid for votes by the dems as if they really care about people, or should I say sheeple.
Obama the famous jockey has drawn another 50 to 1 long shot to ride. Place you bet.
Keep drinking the cool aid Beverly, you are one of many sheep being herded by big gov.
President Obama.
President Obama.
President Obama.
It's like garlic for vampires for those who still can't believe that they are not running the show! :o)
Yes We Can.
Yes We Did!
The CHANGE is impossible to ignore!
You can whine, you can cry, you can lie . . .
But you cannot deny . . .
President Barack Hussein Obama is the Leader of the Freee World!
He is HANDLING his BIZNESS and it is DRIVING some folks CRAZY!
I'm loving it . . . beautiful First Lady being a wonderful ambassador for this country and mom's everywhere in Spain with her beautiful little daughter . . . intelligent President facing the real problems of this country instead of the phony problems manufactured by the media.
I really could NOT ask for MORE!
And no amount of "nontroversy" is gonna change that . . . sorry folks . . . I KNOW for SURE that President Obama is working EVERYDAY for the American people.
And I am thrilled.
President Obama never said he would be perfect . . . just damn good.
So far, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
Poll that.
You are on fire today, Nash. And I agree 100%--I may not agree with everything the President does but I have every confidence that he studies every issue, listens to his advisors and makes his own decision based on his judgment of what is right for the country. I trust that judgment--that is why I voted for him.
Don,
I know such unbridled positivity and enthusiasm does seem strange . . . but get used to it . . . somebody has got to tell it . . . might as well be me! :o)
P.S. Thanks for the kind words Steeler fan.
Does that mean you've sworn off Fox and quit listenting to the teabagging republicans Don? I doubt it you nuts like deception.
Don, before you get too attached to that thought I'd suggest going here http://www.gallup.com/poll/124922/Presidential-Approval-Center.aspx and clicking on the pictures of the Presidents to compare polling. I'd suggest GW Bush, Bill Clinton, and Ronald Reagan. You can only go 3 at a time, but you can always reload and try George HW Bush.
You'll see that Barack Obama's polling numbers are actually typical for a President at this point in his first term.
What's he lying to me about, Don?
Do you have anything to offer other than insults?
And don't get me started on Bush administration lies...........
AverageJoe-2019754
Keep drinking the cool aid Beverly, you are one of many sheep being herded by big gov.
It's a lot better than Hater-aid and weak tea. FYI: without gov you have ananarchy and no infrastucture.
Put your own fires out, police your neighborhoods, build your own libraries , parks, and highways etc. In other words, let China keep eating your lunch.
Bev, I do police my own neighborhood. And my response time is a lot quicker than the Deeeeeetroit Police dept. Average response time 35 mins Fire dept 45 mins to an hour EMS try near an Hour.
Puckie your lies are starting to trip over each other. If you do as many things as you say you do, how is it you have time to be on here all day?
President Obama is the "Spinal Tap" president..."It isn't that he isn't popular...it's just that his appeal is becoming more selective"
He's at over 50% disapproval on average, worse when you look at the individual issues (the economy, the war in Afghanistan) facing the nation, and steadily trending downwards.
This is the reality.
What do democrats do to staunch the bleeding? I don't think the "things would have been even worse than they are now..." battle cry is going to gain much traction. What about running against Bush? that may have some limited appeal in some areas, but as a general strategy, it's a lot like the scene in Spinal Tap where in discussing the cover of their latest album "Smell the Glove", a particularly disturbing image of a naked oiled-up woman on a leash with a black leather glove in her face, their manager remarks, "You should have seen the one they WANTED to do!"
Right or wrong, the the state of the economy to a large extent determines the perception of an administration's competency. Our economy is in bad shape, and it probably won't recover by November.
Could someone tell me why we are fighting over 26 billion and cutting food stamps when we still have almost 400 billion in the stimulus and that is what it was intended for? One other thing that bothers me is the non teaching personnel in our local school system. What do all these people do and are they in the teachers union as well?
Boy your lies are really flying this morning Don. Your listening to way to much Fox these days, you need to take break, your beginning to sound as nutty as Beck.
"it will be to pay reparation to blacks"
Don,
Lay off the stupid and if you insist on spouting nonsense back it up with a little more than thinly veiled racism. Your comments are baseless and shallow. You have been dismissed.
P.S. Sorry Nash, it just feels right.
I dislike the greed in corporate america as much as anyone, i have to live in it everyday. However most of the staunch liberals on here do not grasp something very fundamental. It is their right to be greedy, regardless how we feel about it.
All of the blame doesn't fall on the rich though. It also falls on the people of the united states...the shareholders of these companies who demand more and more profits with each quarter. The mindset is who cares that you have made 10 billion dollars in profit this quarter. You made 10 billion last quarter so you should've done 10.5 this time around!!
Another problem many don't seem to grasp is that you can not force businesses to hire people, you can't legislate private jobs into existence! No matter how much you scream and fuss, it's not going to happen.
Also, the only thing that is going to happen by raising taxes on the rich is that you will just piss them off and they will in turn tell you to go jump off a cliff. The bottom line is that these rich people, though greedy and selfish they may be, are the only real way out of our economic woes. Their money will decide whether we sink or swim. It doesn't really matter whether you or I like hearing that, but it's the truth and the sooner we acknowledge that the better off we will be.
So the only real chance that we have is to make the environment as welcoming as possible for investment into the economy to try and convince those rich people that they will not be throwing their money away by pumping it into business deals and other investments.
For example, you don't tell your guide to stick it where the sun don't shine in the middle of an unfamiliar jungle simply because he is a jerk. Why? Cause that "jerk" is the only chance you have in getting out of the jungle in one piece.
We have got to get out of the mindset that the rich are the enemy, the dems or repubs are the enemy. Stop whining about who did the most damage. The bottom line is that we all got into this mess together, democrats and republicans. You can't get out of a mud pit if you don't work together to form some kind of human ladder. So it's time we join together and work towards getting out of this mess and stop being so darn petty!!
Greed is not a right and especially if it that wealth is made at the expense of the poor uneducated people all over the world. If you think that it is okay to ship jobs to another country so you don't have to pay a livable wage or to avoid OSHA standards than you and your kind are the problem.
Your argument is silly and your comparisons ridiculous without the slightest connection to reality.
I wouldn't be too sure about the rich and their absolute power over everyone. You cannot continue to be wealthy if no one can afford your products or services and they are also outnumbered. It's a bluff they need everyone to play their game for it to actually work. What is wealth anyway? It seems like some imaginary numbers in a made up system. What is the U.S. dollar actually backed with?
(:^D Just some food for thought.
It is most certainly their right to be greedy. There is nothing in the constitution that demands a rich person to give money to others. All the constitution does is grant you the right to life, liberty, and the persuit of happiness. It doesn't do anything to guarantee what kind of lfe you will have.
My comparison is very much reality. All you have to do is look around and see who is doing the spending and how it is affecting the economy. As Government spending goes up the economy tanks. Private sector spending goes up and the economy improves. That is just how it works in the real world.
There is not a single thing the government can do to change it eithe. Now as I said i believe that it is absolutely wrong to be greedy in such a way, but it is still their right.
By your standard of thinking slavery should be legal here in the U.S. because of their right to greed.?!?
The economy was bad before the so called "spending" began. You are completely stupid and you justify the bully pushing you around because "that's just the way it is".
Do you listen to yourself talking?
You have been dismissed.
Wow, classy, very classy.
Actually, Prezken covered the non sequitur slave comparison with the words "life, LIBERTY, and the pursuit of happiness."
No, people were using that phrase when we still had slaves. That's OK, we can haggle over where the line is drawn. Child labor? No minimum wage? We already have millions of working poor who make so little that they qualify for welfare and Medicaid so presumably you're OK with your tax dollars supporting those companies. What's OK with you?
Once again I see the huge amount of lefty nutbags on here blathering thier "rich" is bad shtick. How about "taxes" are bad. We are overtaxed, in every phase of our lives. And why are we overtaxed? because every time the Government decides they need more..they create/increase another one. I don't care how rich someone is or isn't..It isn't MY money, it is THEIRS. We have created through our political processes an ENTITLEMENT that says we can take something from you anytime we feel it is necessary. The "death tax" is a prime example of this...why the hell should the Government profit off a citizens death? One argument I heard on this blog was that it "only" effects 2 percent of the pop, SO? Glad that you and Big Brother the Govt can decide to pick on 2 percent of the Population and consider it "fair", I call it theft by politics...
All you idiots on here foaming at the mouth saying the rich can afford it, why not tax them more...well, what happens when the Government still needs money (because the rich alone can't keep our government greed going) and they decide to come for some of YOURS next?
There is a new article in the New York Times about Politicians getting around the earmarks for profits pledge...some of you should read it. Start questioning where your tax dollars are going to. Start at your local politicians, then state, then federal, then your party...before you research the opposing party.
Considering how much of our bloated government is waste and outright abuse by our dear elected "criminals" you should be more worried about gettting more of your tax dollars back than taking someone elses to continue to pay for the Government excess.
Way to piss off both sides
He only pissed you teabagging republicans off puckie. Us liberals stoped listening to ckster along time ago.
Hey Navy
Today the House will be voting on the State Aid Bill, sometimes referred to as the Teachers or Food Stamps Bill. This bill is paid for. Most of the money is going to come from cuts in the loop holes that pay Corporations for farming our jobs overseas. The argument that it add to the deficit is bogus. These 100,000 plus jobs will allow people to keep putting money back into the economy and keep them off unemployment.
Really, what loopholes? So are we going to do this every year? This is just a bribe to buy the teachers unions.
The Tax Cuts argument is still in the news. Over the weekend several republicans (Boehner, Kyl, etc) were asked point blank if cutting taxes for the richest 2%; 1) Pays for itself and 2) Do they create jobs. No republican answered this question, instead they went to their talking points even though pressed to answer the question. Where is Rachael when we need her?
Check out the revenues that came into the treasury after the tax cuts. Check out the increase in employment after the tax cuts.
The more articulate Republican advocates argue that the top tax brackets chiefly affect small businesses. Actually, fewer than 2 percent of small businesses fall into these brackets, according to the Tax Policy Center in Washington. And much of those are business income, partnerships and royalties from billionaires, athletes, lawyers and entertainers. There are few mom-and-pop corner stores or job- creating little ventures. That is 2% of 2%. You do the math.
Oh my, another lib lie. According to the SBA, companies with 500 or less employees are considered small businesses. Do you know how many companies in the US have from 100 to 500 employees? Look it up before making such a false statement.
Tax Cuts for the richest 2% do not pay for themselves, and they do not create jobs. They will add about $800 Billion to the deficit though. Putting holds on bills that support the middle class just so the republicans can give tax breaks to the richest 2% of the people is just wrong. These are the people that need the cuts the least. The top 2% during the past few years have gotten about 67% of the new wealth. The lower 95% got about 17%.
Hmm.. $800 billion to the deficit. Now please try to explain to all of us how you got that number? Do you mean that since we are in a recession and revenues are down due to people being out of WORK that the 3 Trillion Debt will increase by $800 Billion because the top 2% didn’t have their taxes increased? Do you mean that when these RICH people pull out their investments and jobs are lost the deficit will increase by $800 Billion? Please tell us all why you have such a problem with people accumulating wealth.
When the CEO from GE got his $115,000 tax break (or what ever the number was), he did not run down to the local unemployment office looking to hire somebody. This is just crap.
Do you mean Prez Obama’s friend?
Wake up America; you are being sold a bill of goods from the republicans that you cannot pay for.
Further proof of what these guys want to do.
Last week, Alex Seitz-Wald noted that Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-MN) wants to pay for an extension of the Bush tax cuts for the rich by repealing the stimulus package. In addition to there not being anywhere close to enough money to cover the $830 billion cost of extending the cuts for the richest two percent of Americans, this means that Pawlenty is willing to raise taxes on the middle class in order to cut them for the rich.
My another lib fib. Pawlenty never mentioned a tax increase for the middle class. Are you talking about the same stimulus package that allocated 1% of the funding to small business who create 60 to 70% of all new jobs? Or the same stimulus that has created more government jobs than private sector jobs?
But in the same interview, Pawlenty actually doubled down on his desire to cut taxes for the very wealthy at the expense of working families. Seconds after saying that lawmakers need to get “serious” about cutting entitlements like Social Security and Medicare, he said that the estate tax — which only affects the richest 0.25 percent of households — needs to be lowered or eliminated, adding that a cut in the tax proposed by Sens. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) was not “reasonable enough or low enough”:
Oh you Demrats are so sly. Isn’t the new health bill going to cut 585 Billion from Medicaid? Oh, by the way just to inform you libs/marxists how this health bill is going to benefit the employees at ATT. ATT pays $2.1 Billion a year for health care insurance for their employees and it is a good policy. Thank to you Demrats ATT by paying the $3000.00 fine for each employee will save $400 MILLION dollars. Guess what, do you think the employees are going to get as good a plan under the marxists system you like? I don’t think so.
No, I think the estate tax should be lower than that. I don’t think that’s reasonable enough or low enough…There’s an argument to be saying ‘let’s just eliminate the estate tax.’ I mean, why do we even have it? The notion that the government’s going to reach into your pocket at the time of your death. Watch It:
The Kyl-Lincoln plan to cut the estate tax would cost $91 billion over ten years, with more than 99 percent of the benefits going to the already ultra-wealthy. Repealing the tax entirely, as Pawlenty suggests, would cost $784 billion over ten years, relative to current law, while costing $273 billion more than President Obama’s proposal to permanently set the tax at the 2009 level of 45 percent, with a $3.5 million exemption.
Oh such envy. Lenin would be proud of you.
At the 2009 level, 62.5 percent of estate tax revenue comes from estates worth more than $20 million and another 35 percent comes from estates worth between $5 million and $20 million. These are the households for which Pawlenty thinks a huge tax cut is warranted, while programs that the middle-class counts on need to go under the knife.
Earlier this year, Pawlenty wrote in a Politico op-ed that “we need to admit our addiction to the illusion of government ‘free stuff’ and demand that spending be cut in almost all areas.” But evidently by “all areas,” Pawlenty means all areas that help the middle class, while the very-rich should be exempt from paying their fair share in taxes.
You really are a good propagandist but the truth always wins in the end. Just inform your fellow marxists that the bottom 40% of eligible taxpayers do not pay any federal taxes at ALL. Your leader Obama is going to change that. Isn’t life grand?
Afloat, if I could vote for your post 50x I would. Excellent rejoinder to the fountain of misinformation and
half truths that the NAVY VET loves to spew. This guy and his liberal coterie on this vine have nothing on Michael Moore and Joan Walsh. Go get em!
Odumba is a one term screw up.
Keep telling yourself that saynotochange, you will just be disappointed in 2012.
Hey Mo have you paid any attention to the polls lately? Im thinking not.
Obama will be a one term president if the Democrats retain control in November. The reason he's leading Democrats so badly is that he wants to be Bill Clinton.
Bill Clinton went on to two terms and left office with record high approval ratings. In spite of Republicans wasting $200M on a witch hunt called Whitewater. And at this point in his first term his approval ratings were almost indistinguishable from Obama's. Just sayin'.
President Obama’s total lack of experience is showing up by the boat load everyday. He filled his cabinet with political crooks liars and tax cheats. His lied about his vision for an open and transparent Govt and has implemented nothing but back room deals swapping political favors for bailouts and votes. The Obama’s administration has no plan for fixing the economy he is in over his head and his only agenda is spending (money we do not have) on expanding entitlement programs.
Back to the lack of experience are we c parrish. Run out of ideas? Oh that's right you teabagging republicans don't have any ideas, my bad.
It is 2010 in America . . . people are complaining that 40% of America is too poor to pay income tax . . . while bemoaning that the richest 2% should have to pay anything at all.
But the media topic dujour?
Should the First Lady be allowed to travel overseas.
And then folks wonder why our country is falling behind. . . priceless.
Nashville
Always remember the audience.
Actually, I prefer that the First Lady AND the First Gentleman travel overseas.
A lot.
Prezken-1973483
I dislike the greed in corporate america as much as anyone, i have to live in it everyday. However most of the staunch liberals on here do not grasp something very fundamental. It is their right to be greedy, regardless how we feel about it.
There is a huge difference between greed and exploitation!!!!!
We have got to get out of the mindset that the rich are the enemy, the dems or repubs are the enemy. Stop whining about who did the most damage. The bottom line is that we all got into this mess together, democrats and republicans. You can't get out of a mud pit if you don't work together to form some kind of human ladder. So it's time we join together and work towards getting out of this mess and stop being so darn petty!!
It's the PARTY of "NO"(that'd be Republicans) which refuses to work with the Presiden't Party. That's why I can almost guarantee you are merely preaching to the choir and that the Republicans will soon become a relic.
It doesn't matter how you pr I feel about corporate greed. That is how America is set up. The rich person offers a wage, you either take it or you don't. They are under no obligation to pay you more than what someone else will accept.
That being said, I disagree whole heartedly with that way of doing business, but it's our own fault it has come to this. It is the shareholders who drive the bus, not the rich CEO's. Sharholders demand more profit it is the CEO's and boards job to make it happen.
Again, don't blame the republicans alone. When they do come up with ideas they are for the most part ignored. As I have said before, I can't stand either side of the aisle, so I have no dog in the fight, but at least the republicans are saying no to spending without paying for it first. The democrats made the pledge and then have pretty much ignored it ever since. Even if the repubs are doing it purely for political points, I applaud someone for pointing out the cliff that we are driving towards and saying you know we may want to slow down and find another route cause this car doesn't have wings to fly us over the canyon.
Beverly in Chicago
Sorry, but you have it wrong. You equate success with greed. Exploitation? Do you mean requiring people to work for their money?
The party of No is not the Republicans it is the marxists in the Demrat Party. Think about how a few individuals in the Demrat Party have caused this country to go into such a financial downward spiral. When you punish creators of wealth you punish the middlw class. Well Karl Marks did writhe that the middle class is the number one enemy of marxism.
The Demrat Party will go down in flames in November 2010 and 2012.
afloatinasea
Sorry, but you have it wrong. You equate success with greed. Exploitation? Do you mean requiring people to work for their money?
The party of No is not the Republicans it is the marxists in the Demrat Party. Think about how a few individuals in the Demrat Party have caused this country to go into such a financial downward spiral. When you punish creators of wealth you punish the middlw class. Well Karl Marks did writhe that the middle class is the number one enemy of marxism.
The Demrat Party will go down in flames in November 2010 and 2012.
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No, exploitation is working your fingers to bones just to get a a few crumbs fom the lavish tables of the big corporations' table. Most working people can barely make ends meet while the Robber Barons live in multimillionare mansions.
Keep dreaming the Democratics are not going down.
Bev:
I agree. BTW
I think afloatinasea's rubber boat has sprung a leak.
What the hell kind of rubber room to you two reside in.
Hey ,
Here's an idea, How about throwing JOBS at us instead of worthless money ?????????????
Thinking Americans no longer trust this president. They clearly recall how he stood at that podium and promised that he would never force Americans to buy health insurance and that his opponent Hillary Clinton would. He lied. Mr. Obama and the dem's could have extended Medicade to working Americans and simply rased the 1.4% witholding tax on higher earners. This would have truly spread the wealth around. Instead the dems and Obama issued an unconstitutional mandate ordering Americans to buy a product from a mopolistic cabal in which the average CEO salary among the ten largest members is over $10 million per year. Obama lied. It's just that simple.
What is the difference between lying and changing your mind?
Either we want a President who will make the best decision he can given the "situation on the ground" or we want an idealogue who will stick by his "beliefs", even when he sees it ain't working.
I want a President who is gonna do what he thinks is BEST for AMERICA, not just what is best for his (or her) politics.
So maybe President Obama is a liar maybe he isn't . . . but he explained the reason he changed his mind.
Just the fact that he is willing to change his mind is progress in my humble opinion.
Nashville: Well you hit the nail on the head. "IT AIN'T WORKING".
Nash, another good post today, the rest did you good. LoL
I see nothing wrong with one changing their mind and have no idea when that became a sin. Really, any rational person, who is honest and trying to do the right thing, can and should change their mind without being villified.
This is a typical insult that comes from the right and as usual tries to make something out of nothing. It is not a character flaw to change one's mind, it does not make one a liar to do so, circumstances change and we sometimes have to reverse a decision or pledge. Grownups know this, stop with the pettiness.
What I'm wondering is if any of you who are smearing the tax cuts ever got a job from someone who was poor. I am employed and the head of the company is what you all would call rich. Our annual income is less than $40,000 and I am doing everything I can to make sure our company is successful. It is in my best interest to do so. I absolutely do not want to depend on the government to keep me. I served in the Navy during Vietnam and have worked since I was 16. The attitude of some of the posters here sickens me.
How ya gonna pay for the tax cuts?
Cut government workers salaries across the board.(average pay is more than twice what my wife and I live on) Cut congressional pay across the board.( they make way too much now) Stop moneywasting trips by federal officials including unneccesary travel by White House personnel and relatives, to mention a few. (the First Lady's vacation to Spain is a recent example) Governmental waste has been going on for as long as there has been government. If the president and congress can't do this, fire them regardless of their popularity or party affiliation. Better to see government personnel get by with less than to have 9.5% unemployment.
Dave,
It would be great if you could prove all of the things you typed off the top of your head, but of course you can't.
I would love to see you as President for the day . . . love to see your "talking point" solutions in action . . . love to be there when you realize that people who work for the "guvment" are not any more corrupt than anyone else . . . that one person's "waste" is another person's "necessity" . . . that adding up everything you listed would not even pay for one year of tax cuts for the wealthy . . . let alone the whole thing.
Then perhaps you would be more receptive to reality.
YOU asked how to pay for the tax cuts and I gave you some starting ideas. Taxes are necessary because the government costs money. I am not in the government, so I do not have all the intimate details of what gets spent where. However, I do know that the average government worker makes over $70,000 per year. I do know that the First Lady's trip to Spain was over the top expensive. I do know that for the actual amount of time that congress spends on the peoples business the amount they are paid, plus benefits is exorbitant. I have first hand knowledge that in September of each year, workers in various government agencies are ordered to spend all the remaining budget so that next fiscal year the money will be there in the same or larger amounts.
So, you with your enormous brain, exceptional talent, and street savvy ought to be able to come up with enough to offset the tax cuts.
If you just want to punish the rich, then just admit that you are a socialist and get it over with right now.
Dave,
I am sure the rich sleep better at night knowing they have you there to fight for them. I don't hate the rich, I'm just not willing to mortgage my future to give them a tax cut they don't even need.
Silly me.
Dave,
Socialist?? really?? There is nothing socialistic about wanting a fair and equal opportunity to live a comfortable life. You have a very narrow and narcissistic view of the world. You lack all the facts in your assertions about government spending.
You are boring and irrelevant...dismissed.
Hey Nash and Dave, Do3s fair and comfortable mean, that because Ive worked all my life to save and PAY for my homes that I now have to share them with you. I hardly think not. My considerable arsenal of weapons makes my houses my castles. I have 3 things to cement my life long bedrock on.
1. My 10 years of service to this country, a willingness to give my life to preserve your constitutional rights
2. My family, who i have worked tirelessly to make sure will have everything THEY need to survive in this great country.
3. A belief that whats mine is mine, I will share what I want to share WHEN I want to share it. Not when someone comes along changes the rules and wants to take what I DONT want to share.
Who's telling you to share your home? Maybe you should come live in the reality-based community. You'll still have 3 houses and you can be less angry.
This bill only saves more government jobs, won't do anything to help the current unemployed, will hurt them because instead of making schools make needed cuts and layoffs and possibly finally breaking the teacher unions once and for all, the dems and Obama are giving them a bail out at us ones who works exspense. 2012 cant come face enough-obama and the dems must go!!
So now even teachers are just worthless government bureaucrats. THAT is why our educational system is failing. It isn't because of "Liberal indoctrination". It isn't because we "don't focus on the basics." It isn't because "we don't hold teachers accountable." If you've spent any significant amount of time inside a school building in any except the richest districts you'll know it isn't because "they just waste all our tax money."
No, it's because too many of us believe that education IS a waste. We starve them for tax dollars until materials, curricula, facilities, get run down so badly they can't possibly do the job properly. We expect highly educated people, many with Masters or Doctoral degrees to work for as little as HALF what others with a similar level of education make. By doing so we ensure that many of our best and brightest will never consider education as a career. Our children see all of it and learn the lesson that education isn't important, isn't to be taken seriously, and the results bear that out.
Then we point, stamp our feet, and cry "See? The schools are a FAILURE!" They're a failure because we MADE them a failure. We've done everything imaginable to make them substandard, then when it comes to that we start to build a new movement to end public education entirely. Congratulations Conservatives, you've brought us to the edge of total destruction of one of the keys to our strength. I hope you don't succeed. If you do I hope you live long enough to rue the day.
Too bad they did not start cracking down before the 2X drunk illegal alien drunk driver killed the nun in VA.
Maybe you can Educate yourself & findout that, this person was released in 2008(Before President Obama)& his case has been in Immigration Court since.
O well, it's easier to put the Blame on BO, aint that right?
Bob V: Here's another idea. Why don't we throw all democrats (that we can) out of work this November. Then in 2012 throw this imposter out of the WH. I say imposter because yes it has become clear he does not have a clue. Nor do the majority of the people in his administration. His wife has been clueless her entire life. "Dreams from My Father". A story of a great Marxist/Communist. Not to mention father to half a nation. If anyone will be honest with themselves this man is a failure on a grand scale. Arrogance comes from stupidity. These people don't even see how stupid they are. That is the arrogance.
And if you would be honest with yourself, Jim, you would have to admit that this President has more major legislative accomplishments than any other Prez in recent history.
But don't let the facts blind you or anything.
Dolt!
Does it matter that the majority of Americans didnt want them passed.
Double dolt.
Go ahead Chucky. Keep spinning your narrative. But it is odd that even as you tell us how much people are distending them selves from the President, his fund raisers are a sold out. Will he do well with your redneck buddies? I doubt it. But he and democrats will do just fine with the American middle class.
Patrick
The middle class or what's left of it will vote Republican.
Patrick: I guess you've been a sleep. That's ok. Let me get you caught up. Being President will certainly allow you to raise campaign funds for your party. There is no-way around that. However, in-order get those "sold out" fund raisers they have been dropping the price significantly. Of course the MSM only reports the sold out part. To be honest both parties are worthless. Our entire goverment has a corrupted, arrogant attitude. But, just as progressives have learned, you have to take things a step at a time and keep spewing the lies. The Democrats have got to be defeated this November or this country is going to be in serious trouble. Then in 2012 start getting the Republicans. I, and I'm sure many people are tired of the vote along party lines BS. We need congress-people who vote what is right and not just a party vote.
Fortunately for the Democrat candidates, fund raisers are generally $1000 plate functions which draws only a parisan crowd and usually out of sight. On the other hand, being seen in public hugging Obama is a death wish. Independents who decide elections gave Obama a 38% job approval rating based on Gallup.
Vote both party's out and end up with even worse then what we have? ( Angle/Paul ) No thanks, I will stick with the people who at least have a semblance of humanity and try to do what is best for average American as opposed to those who put corporate profits first. Progressives are not perfect, but they are Americas best hope for the future. It is just plain silly to suggest that because someone calls himself an "independent" his judgement is any better then that of a democrat or a republican. As Shakespeare said best, a name does not change character.
Patrick,
Are you serious? We could stick a bunch of middle schoolers in there and be better off than we are now. At least they understand you can't spend more than you have in your pocket. I'm sorry, but it can't get much worse than the yahoo's that currently run things.
Prezken-1973483 = blah blah blah nonsense
Wow, i must really get under your skin since you feel the need to troll my comments with such enlightening and well thought out replies.
Dan was just paraphrasing. Accurately, I might add.
Wow, and another one. I must be doing something right around here.
Houston is right-third world status is on it's way if the Republicans get THEIR way! Cheap labor, all the benefits going to the top (themselves). Look at their platform-tax cuts at the top, capital gains, estate tax and business taxes going to zero, all in exchange for a promise to "create jobs". Isn't that what we heard back in 2001? How has that worked out? Why are some of these candidates spending tens of millions of dollars to get elected if there is no prospect of a payback? COME ON! Wake up folks! Stop supporting politicians who couldn't care less about YOU!
Looks like the first black president is more popular than the first half-white president. Maybe between now and November 2, Obama should go overseas for 12 weeks so the voters won't connect the Democrat candidates with him. It may help the economy, too, while he is gone. He can do what he does best, apologize.
Road Warrior-1005773
Looks like the first black president is more popular than the first half-white president. Maybe between now and November 2, Obama should go overseas for 12 weeks so the voters won't connect the Democrat candidates with him. It may help the economy, too, while he is gone. He can do what he does best, apologize.
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The President is more popular here and abroad than the Republicans. FYI: the President didn't apoligze. Although, it would be nice if the neo-cons would apoligize for destroying the global economy and commiting crimes against humanity in the Middle East.
afloatinasea
What's left of the middle class is the reason republicans will be still a minority in 2010 and 2012; plus the middle class have suffered too much in the backwards thing and eploation of the repubs.
Beverly,
Even if that is true, Republicans don't decide elections. Independents do. 69% of independents voted for Obama in 2008. These same independents are giving him a 38% job approval rating today. You just keep denying like you did in August 1994.
Road Warrior,
No matter the ethnic background or race,
President Barack Hussein Obama is running the place!
Your snide remarks, won't stop the pain -
America chose Hussein over McCain!
(I'm a poet, and I didn't even know it . . . maybe I should apologize! lol)
Nashville,
Thanks for the update. I wasn't sure WHO was running the place the last two years.
Bev, I would love to see you spouting your propaganda to a few of those special Taliban people that were so understanding to those poor humanitarians in Afghanistan. I spent 4 years in Saudi and several in Lebanon. I talked with many "moderate" people, the one thing that still sticks with me is being told that all Americans are scum and that American women are all whores, not worthy of introducing to their families. You really should get out of Chicago for a while. Go to Saudi and talk with a few people see what they think of you. It should be a requirement all young Americans live in another country, just to see what its like. Whining and crying will not keep them from tossing you in a hole and stoning you to death.
No Class: Obama Attacks Bush at TX Fundraiser
President Barack Obama attacked the economic policies of his Republican predecessor George W. Bush in Bush's home state on Monday as evidence of the way Republicans would operate if given power in Nov. 2 U.S. congressional elections.
At a fund-raising event for Democrats in Dallas, where Bush now lives, Obama said the former president's "disastrous" policies had driven the U.S. economy into the ground and turned budget surpluses into deficits.
Obama defended his repeated references to Bush's policies, saying they were necessary to remind Americans of the weak economy he inherited from Bush in January 2009.
"The policies that crashed the economy, that undercut the middle class, that mortgaged our future, do we really want to go back to that, or do we keep moving our country forward?" Obama said at another fund-raising event in Austin, referring to Bush's eight years as president.
In reminding voters about the policies of the unpopular Bush, Obama is trying to protect his fellow Democrats' majorities in Congress and limit anticipated Republican gains.
I believe when the history books are written about the the Bush era presidency they will sound much like President Obama's speech yesterday!
Maybe he'll come up with a new schtick in his second term.
Or maybe AFTER his first term when he goes on the rubber chicken circuit.
Still hoping for change.
John Bohlman:
Yes, John, you're probably right. That's how it works on the animal farm. Obama good. Bush bad.