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STRUTHERS, Ohio -- Vice President Joe Biden paid a visit Monday to an aluminum-manufacturing plant in Northeast Ohio to lend a hand to Gov. Ted Strickland. The vice president told a crowd of several hundred gathered here that the Obama administration needs partners like Gov. Strickland in the states because "states are the incubators of progress."
“We need Ted,” Biden exclaimed. “The stakes matter.”
Biden’s visit to the Buckeye State was his second in two weeks, and it comes at a time when polling shows the governor’s race is tight. Last week, a CBS/New York Times poll had the race between Strickland and former congressman John Kasich essentially tied with Kasich up 43%-42%.
Kasich has been attacking Strickland’s record on job creation and taxes. Strickland, Biden argued, is responsible for balancing two budgets without raising taxes and creating thousands of jobs. “He’s done it all while dealing with this God-awful recession that his opponent’s Republican policies helped create," Biden said.
Biden also took the opportunity to tout some of the administration's latest successes, such as the new health-care reforms that took effect recently, and hit Republicans on their latest governing blueprint. He said the GOP’s “Pledge to America” was “the exact same thing they were doing before.”
“This is not your grandfather’s Republican Party,” Biden said. “This is the Republican Tea Party. This is the party of ‘repeal and repeat.’”
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VP Biden is out there "Telling It Like It Is".
Just what All Democrats should be doing!
Empty words don't create jobs. Commerce creates jobs and businesses are showing a lack of confidence in the federal government. Biden can talk all day but it won't result in squat for the unemployed.
Left-wing panic attack.
Oh tell us Joe, Bore us with more big government failed programs, pork, and less jobs. Taxs the rich and make them poor. That will show them. Tax big business so they move out of the country and take their jobs with them. Take care of us big Joe!
Enough! 2 years of waste and pork, time to fire the staff and hire a new one! Every election should be based on "You Failed, Your Fired, Good by" Time to run Washington like a real business, and we the share holders need to make good choices and fix the bad ones! One term is the only chance they should get to do it right, keep the ones who really show results, for a life time for all I care. Just get the working people in and the talkers out!
Maybe you should pass the message on to Boehner, Cantor and McConnell. They ARE talking all day and not getting any results for the unemployed.
My favorite part of your argument is the part where you basically state big business' stance...
"GET RID OF THESE GUYS OR WE WON'T GIVE YOU ANY JOBS!"
Hardly a confidence builder.
Biden is an idiot!
Speaking of "repeal and repeat", it appears that the Republican party wants to repeal the recently passed health care bill - then re-introduce virtually all of the provisions of that health care bill in an attempt to take credit for it!
CM-???? NOT! Michel Moore fan club "Sicko" information! But health care is a good example of trickle down taxes! Obama Klan added big taxes to the big insurance companies and in return our rates are going up to cover the cost! The extra cost is to cover the poor who already had government insurance! Then steal from Medicare to pay for the poor who already had government insurance! Then put a solid one year "health care spending account" time limit, so the 6 month extra to use your money is gone! Use it or lose it, and who gets it? The IRS or better put, The Obamas and His Democrats! The Republicans don't want to take credit for something so stupid. Steal money for peoples health care account is just plain wrong! But from the democrat party, the ones who wants to keep death row inmates alive and back up pro-choice to let the innocent die, real don't have much to run on!!! Bashing and old scare people politics are the only thing democrats have left, they used the "vote for change and hope" and they have a pure total failure to deliver to cover up. Just go ask anyone that is out of work and looking for a job!
That's true. It is in their Pledge to America. Repubs in denial, try reading what your GOPTPers have in their plans.
I am feeling you Vice President, tell it like it is!
GOP on Biden tellin it like it is; Dumber than a box of used kitty litter and the party of no hope and change for the worse. Ramming through an unwanted HCR bill signed by Karl Marx.
Man up Joe...you and the illegal muslim are finished in 2012 and the rest of your ass kissers are done in November...get used to the idea.
Fst Ede...you are pitiful I really feel sorry for you.
The GOP was voted out in '06 and '08. The Dems had a great opportunity to right the wrongs, unify the country, listen to the electorate and rebuild and economically strong USA. What did they actually do? Play bully boy majority party BS. So divide the country as to spur the silent majority, specifically the "Tea Party" into a political force neither party is comfortable with, but that they have to recognize and try to appease. Ignore the will of the people and force through terribly written, overly expensive, Health Care legislation opposed by 60%+ of America. Spent money on Stimulus jobs bills that have accomplished nothing to date. All the spending, all the pork and all the borrowing (.41 cents of every dollar) has put America deep in a ever growing deficit hole. Grade for the congress and Obama administration: F- And we all prayed things would be different and better.
Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) gets on FOX News to talk about job and economic problems like he has all the answers. And just when you think he’ll reveal the meaning of life… he falls back to snidely insinuate it’S all the fault of Obama/Biden and the Democrats.
John Boehner is a representative…but not of the American PEOPLE. What he represents for most Americans is the epitome of a bold-faced LIAR! Boehner also represents the pitiful morons who fall for the lies
Boehner wants Americans to believe if only Republicans had one more chance it can work? The very definition of insanity, isn’t IT? Over and over AGAIN! Just separate yourselves from the Bush/Cheney disaster… bull$#!~ MISINFORMED people into believing they’re part of a NEW Conservative Movement.
In OTHER WORDS Republican Party talking points are based on the ignorance of their constituents. They revise history and LIE because they CAN… because morons who vote for Republicans DON’T KNOW THEIR OWN HISTORY!
NO solutions, NO rational stance, clear agendas or common sense policy… JUST Sarah Palin/Glenn Beck groupies parroting talking points!
Have you ever LISTENED to the average right-wing fanatic? It’s like every Conservative in America is auditioning for a spot on the FOX News channel. (News Corp owned by Saudi Royals)
COME ON, are you Republican voters #*~/‘n INSANE? Am I missing something here? Didn’t Conservatives just have 8 YEARS of Bush/Cheney and Republican controlled Congress (1994-2006) to put their warped ideology into practice? AND IT ALMOST DESTROYED THE GREATEST NATION ON EARTH!
Let me give you brainwashed tards a clue. This ain’t NO Tea Party… this is a CLASS WAR! Do I miss George W. Bush? #*~/ NO! Waste, fraud, abuse, scandal, sexual deviancy, corruption, lies, incompetence, job outsourcing, off-shore tax evasion, reckless economics, welfare for the rich, deregulation, war profiteering, Constitutional violations AND a Corporate Crime Wave of epic proportions…. The WORST looting of a nation’s wealth and resources in the history of MANKIND!
Where was the Tea Party anger THEN? #*~/ ignorant hypocrites.
I blame the news media most for all these pathetic displays of election time politics. Really now, if jerks like Boehner thought hosts/anchors would act like true journalists… do you think he would LIE?
Ask Joe Scarborough about such lies. Morning Joe successfully crossed over from Congress to the news media without ever telling the truth about the Republican controlled Congress of 1994 to 2006. While Scarborough, Gingrich, Delay, Gramm, Boehner, etc… were busy masturbating to Monica Lewinski testimony behind the scenes the sold out American workers.
If Conservative or Tea Party voter had any BRAINS they would be capable of going back and check out the legislation that came from a Republican controlled congress. Intelligent Americans already know such things. We know how the Republicans took their pants down and bent over for their corporate masters…. AND THEY LIKE IT sooooo much, they allowed foreign Corporations to come to America to #*~/ over the PEOPLE!
They gave subsidies, expatriate clauses, tax breaks and insured the venture of industry that moved our jobs to Asia. Vile, greed stricken predators like Tom Delay went around the world setting up slave/child labor shops to replace American Union shops. They laid the groundwork for Corporations to fulfill dreams about the greener pastures of authoritarian controlled labor and unregulated toxic waste dumping.
And what was the result of their pandering. Lead based toys for our children, poisoned pet food, toxic toothpaste and sheetrock, brittle metal fittings for our cranes and bridges…. On & On & ON! Good plan, way to stick to your sworn oath m#*~/ers.
THANKS FOR NOTHING Republican Party. If you traitors keep this BS up… And if the Justice Department remains to scared to prosecute… THEN we’re going to chop you #*~/’n aristocrats up and feed you to the poor! Jeez, it’s like the FBI never heard of the R.I.C.O. Act…
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Progressives will be SLAUGHTERED
Sounds like Boehner is using the same excuse that Obama uses. Blame someone else, but not my fault. Sounds like every kid is school. When is someone going to stand up and take responsibility for their actions.
I will, I work hard, pay my bills, not always on time, take care of my family, have gotten my own education, made mistakes along the way. I believe somewhat what the Tea Party says, also believe in giving second chances, but there is no moderator in Washington, just those that have, and those that don't. If we don't take back our government, then we get what we deserve.
BTW, "Progressives" are in both the Republicans and Democrats.
Such short memories, When the republicans were in power they used the bully boy tactics as you call them quite a few times. Now dahly, I want you to respond and denie that they did , then I'll respond by telling you about the patriot act , data mining of all cell phone conversations of american citizens , Justice Sam Allito , Chief Justice John Roberts , largest tax cut for the wealthy ever ,largest expansion of an entitlement program ever, two wars , one illegal , the other really mishandled bad .Need I go on . So , you respond back to me on this and deny that these things never happened.
The GOP was voted out in '06 and '08. We gave Washington to
Obama and the dems to fix things and "do the right thing." They have failed miserably and further divided the country and compounded our debt situation. "Washington Politician" is now considered the lowest form of life.
Gee, I was hoping to never hear the name John Kasich again.
Dahly, John and Sue, you three are some of the lamest minds I have ever read from. And I think that you know very well the differance between what is good and what is bad for America. Yet you sit and spew out words that are contrary perhaps even to your own beliefs. I would say to you that you would deserve everything that you ask for, if the rest of America didn't have to receive the same.
Who the "H" are you? I believe in a smaller, limited government, whose representatives actually represent the majority of people in their districts. I do not believe in the GOP or the Democratic parties. I believe in very limited social services, reserved for the mentally and physically incapable. I believe if you are to tax anyone, you tax everyone who earns a wage. Most of all, I believe in Self Responsibility as no one owes anyone else a damn thing. I volunteer 5-10 hours each and every week for the past 30 years, donate greater than 10% of my earnings to Charity and challenge YOU to do likewise.