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Subscribe to RSSRepublican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus charged today that President Obama is long on speeches and short on follow through.
“We'll probably be talking in another in six months before another 'great speech' from the president who is in love with the sound of his own voice,” Priebus said this afternoon on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports.
Congress is expected to vote tomorrow on a continuing resolution that would keep the government funded through September. But when that expires, observers are expecting another fight over the 2012 budget.
“He's in love with giving speeches,” Priebus continued, “but he's not really in love with following through with his promises and his rhetoric.”
Priebus noted that Obama had a chance to rein in entitlement spending, when he rolled out his 2012 budget, but didn’t do so. “His time of embracing reducing debt came in his budget, which he didn't do anything about,” he said.
The RNC chief rejected the idea of any potential tax increases – even for the wealthy, equating that to “tax hikes for people with small businesses.” That was an argument Republicans made during the 2010 debate over the expiring Bush tax cuts.
He then repeated a GOP talking point that is being hammered all over the airwaves: “We don’t have a revenue problem in this country,” Priebus said. “We have enough money coming in. The problem in this country, and the president has said himself over and over, is that we are addicted to spending in Washington and that's where the focus needs to be.”
Priebus isn’t the first to make the political charge Obama is long on speeches, but short on substance. Hillary Clinton took to using the “Speeches not Solutions” slogan in attacking candidate Obama during the bitter 2007-2008 Democratic primary. John McCain charged that Obama used “empty words.”
The White House and Democratic National Committee would argue that the president won the primary, the general election and got health care passed with a similar approach.
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What a Slacker - he forgot to toss in the teleprompter for good measure! lol
I don't know about the rest of you, but, if I had a quarter for every time I've had to endure listening to this nonsense, I would be looking at a early retirement right about now...
Just because you keep repeating it like good little drones, won't make it magically become true!
What a repetitive bunch of parrots!
And you are just an Idiot........
Well, after listening to President Obama's address, at least he (finally!) acknowledged the dimensions of the nation's debt crisis.
However, the speech was surprisingly partisan, given the need for a bipartisan solution to the problem...and he's going to need bipartisan votes both to raise the debt ceiling, and to pass any final legislative package addressing the debt long-term.
President Obama devoted a great deal of time to attacking specific elements of the Ryan plan. He spent virtually no time defending his own debt reduction proposal.
But then...no one's actually seen President Obama's proposal, have they?
I can't understand that "we don't have a revenue problem"!
Does that mean that we are NOT broke, as The Weeper of the House screamed!
Priebus is obviously an inarticulate hater (of course) of The President!
Priebus couldn't attack the content of our President's speech. So he does what GOP/TPers do best, make a personal attack on the delivery of the speech. How lame is that?
LOL
chum... chum... chum...
Anything to provoke the tea baggers! ;o)
Repubs never attack an issue.......name calling, insults, and personal attacks to cue up the rabid base of TeaDrinkers!
Several significant points of the President's address - and his relatively specific, for him, policy proposals - stand out:
Consider - President Obama noted that the GOP/TP proposals targeted only 12% of the Federal budget for their "machete" whacing at deficits - and that 12% addresses the nation's health and safety, especially among those least able to fight back.
It was a brilliant move to contrast the Ryan budget focus with making the entire Federal apparatus open to defecit reduction options. And the President was absolutely RIGHT to declare flatly he will not let the Bush tax cuts on top barckets be renewed.
It's typical that the chair of the RNC would pass this all off as just some hot air. The President's position is the most serious threat to public support for the ultra-right yet.
I loved his speech. President Obama said he is refusing to extend the Bush cuts again. REFUSING.
I like his vision a lot more than I do the Republican's vision, which is no vision. Who the hell wants that for our children? His mood was uplifting, visionary and pin point as to how we got here and steps he would like to see to improve ourselves.
He didn't use the old tactic of scaring people. Instead he talked about being responsible, about reforming programs, which we know has to be done. He talked about continuing to invest in education, in healthcare, in infrastructure, clean energy; he talked about making sure our elderly do not carry the burdens that the GOP would like them to carry.
This is a man who believes in America and its people. We talked a lot yesterday about having his back. Well, you know what?
This man, this President - has our backs.
Congress, it's up to you now. Show some leadership, vision, maturity.
You have fans Feisty. Congrats!!
Giggidy
(:^p)
Oh!
THEM?
I prefer to think of them as deranged stalkers who have nothing to contribute other than fling immature personal attacks!
When you intimidate the cr@p out of someone - it kinda goes with the territory! ;o)
Usually, gets much uglier as the day wears on! lol
Giggidy! lol
Pat:
It was indeed a great speech. The 2012 campaign just began.
Actually Pat I wasn't too worried. When you mix compassion, prudence, pragmatic optimism and a good delivery, you have President Obama. A social contract with the American people. All Americans.
Pretty sad, Priebus. It is axiomatic, when you have nothing to say, attack personally rather than substantively. Shameful.
Folk, we all failed to comment on what may actually be the most important policy point of the President's proposals: How to cut health care costs.
He essentially said he wishes to unroll the Reagan-era "reforms" that turned every medical action, from dispensing a bandage to accounting and billing, into an individual profit center. Because Medicare and medicaid payment systems literally dictate the practice of medical economics, and are usually followed by private insurance payment schedules, this amounts to a major overhaul of the national medicl care system.
In the long run, his proposal on health care cost reduction will do more for the nation than anything else.
AND, John A.-
The President acknowledged the crisis, and outlined its likely consequences.
Doesn't sound like a "manufactured crisis" when President Obama talks about it, does it?
Progress.
Can't wait to see the details, instead of a broad outline, of his plan to deal with the nation's debt.
Great speech. Obama shows why he is President.
Steve,
It looks like you and your friends have that Idiot market cornered.
Steve, in fact in practical terms, the President DID acknowledge that the kind of "crisis" claimed by the GOP/TP is manufactured. He took a much more measured approach to the issue and his forecasts cited at the outset of the speech placed the issues in a longer time frame than the righties are claiming. He rejected out of hand the Ryan budget plan and its mad rush to destroy the fundamental social compact.
From the President's speech:
Go back to your little dark room, Snidely.
John A.-
Ryan's plan would hardly balance the budget overnight...sometime after 2040, I believe.
What on earth are you talking about?
Do you know?
And...
If the President wants the "...support from our leaders in both parties now"...he'd better come up with a proposal that both parties can endorse.
Today's offering didn't move us too far in that direction.
And...pay attention, John A.
I'm MB...he's Steve.
lol
People from Wisconsin, like this GOP buffoon, were known for being very honest and hard working and politically correct. Now they are known from extremes, middle class hatred, election stealing and disrespecting the president.
Wisconsin! What's up! Get rid of all these buffoons from your midst. The recalls are a nice first step but you have a long way to go before you regain the respect these buffoons have taken away from you. Obama 2012.
Mixed Bag - I don't think Obama needs to be any more bi-partisan. I think the Republicans need to learn to compromise. They preceded the speech with a "Raising Taxes is a Non-Starter" spiel. The Republicans are not being bi-partisan!
Actually, when using real numbers and factoring in all of the consequences and requirements under the Ryan plan, it never balances the budget and actually makes things worse.
When the CBO scored his plan last year, they were told what numbers to use and what assumptions to make by Ryan. Of course that score came out they way Ryan would want you to believe.
BUT, they also did another look at it using REAL numbers, ALL economic factors and REALISTIC economic assumtions and that scoring showed that the raises the poverty rate, destroys Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, plan NEVER balances the budget.
Mixed Bag, you wrote, "Doesn't sound like a "manufactured crisis" when President Obama talks about it, does it?"
The debt and deficit is real and is acknowledged. Last weekend the Right wing pushed us repeatedly to the edge of a government shutdown. They flat out refused to negotiate on the bare bones budget issues. Remember, they wanted to defund women's health and the EPA in exchange for keeping the government open?
That, is what you call manufacturing a crisis.
(As for Priebus' remark, we've heard more intelligent remarks from elementary school children.)
PS Double apologies to our wonderful and amazing children everywhere.
What I meant to say about Priebus was that I have heard more intelligent political commentary from elementary school children.
Joe Biden said he found the speech "Riveting" and he is to be the lead White House negotiator?
What I heard was ObamaCare+Tax the Rich+Slash Defense Spending+form a committee to iron out the details while he goes out campaigning.
At least everyone is talking about $4 trillion in revenue increases and spending cuts, that bodes well for my nine year old son who is already deeply in debt without ever making a serious financial choice in his life.
You libs are all from another planet. In case you haven't noticed, he has done nothing he claimed in 08 he would do. And he can't refuse Bush tax cuts, he doesn't have the power. Congress does.
You people are still so giddy and deluded, you can't or won't refuse to see the truth. He is all about specches with no substance. The best thing he does is campaign, which he will now do for the next 22 months.
Mixed Bag,
Exactly. The President acknoweledged that there is a debt problem..........And no details. What's his plan???? Good question....again, no details. Very good at generalizing, (and of course blaming Bush), but ....no details. This is kind of his modus operendi isn't it?? Don't give out any details that he could be called on later. (What does "is" mean) LOL
"You libs are all from another planet. In case you haven't noticed, he has done nothing he claimed in 08 he would do. And he can't refuse Bush tax cuts, he doesn't have the power. Congress does."
Spoken like the true idiot you are. Seriously.
When I hear someone say that someone else is in love with the sound of his own voice, the first thing that pops into my head is "Who said that?". Then, "The lady doth protest too much, methinks".
The President gave a speech and voted Present. 572 more days.
Spinners Incorporated:
The...speech....yesterday....was ....part... of...a...discussion.
It ...laid ...out... parameters ...and ...guidelines... for... the... Budget.
The White House has established a formal committee to come up with the Plan, which it is hoped will be developed by the end of June.
NO DETAILS YET !!!!!!!!
The GOP Chief loves the President's voice. Go figure. Envy and evil all wrapped in one package.
Giggidy
(:^))
They wish they had someone that was half as good as him.
Half as good at what? Adding another couple trillion to the deficit with the next couple of budgets?
Let's re-elect Obama and just spend ourselves into oblivian. By the time it all comes due, we'll be dead.
Party Hardy.
They did, indeed, have someone HALF as good. It was W. And he was almost precisely HALF of the man in values, intellect and ability to formulate a cohesive thought. The only thing that wasn't halved was his ability to spend. Yes, that's right, W spent like a drunken sailor in Saigon. Used the Chinese Express card to do it - and then cackled that goofy face with a jolly, "No harm, No Foul". What was it he said, precisely? Oh right, "I'll be long gone before anyone knows what happened in this office." Perhaps I am paraphrasing, Feisty, I know you have the exact quote.
What I don't understand is why they miss him so much? Personally,...Having a President that is TWICE the man of the previous one is a step in the right direction.
But I don't want to bore everyone with facts and fractions.
(LouisJ - pardon me; but I need to borrow):
giggidy!
I'll tell you a secret, but you mustn't tell the Republicans. I might have chosen Hillary in the 2007 primary if she hadn't gone negative on Obama. If she had been more queenly and "above the fray" I might have decided it was her time. But she didn't and it wasn't.
The Republicans have made the same mistake. Couldn't take the high road could they? Had to go with the personal attacks? They don't deserve the Presidency and they aren't going to get it.
Amy,
You are so hypocritical.
How is this a 'personal attack'? “He's in love with giving speeches,” Priebus continued, “but he's not really in love with following through with his promises and his rhetoric.”
Priebus noted that Obama had a chance to rein in entitlement spending, when he rolled out his 2012 budget, but didn’t do so. “His time of embracing reducing debt came in his budget, which he didn't do anything about,” he said.
Amy, you and the lefty posters here daily do personally attack Republicans and call them names..
Like the Republican Governor of Maine, for example.
You want hypocrisy, Bob?
Listen to Amy's rants about the collapsing of posts at First Read.
Very, very sincere...as long as we're talking about the collapsing of posts by lefties.
lol
Hillary queenly?? LOLOL
You mean the facelift queen?? That Hillary??
no comment
sorry, Pat, I know you supported Hillary. Well, she is a great secretary of state!
Nice love fest going on here, but I didn't support Hillary. She was too manish and full of division. Also, Hillary has a tendency to have anger attacks, especially when someone praises Bill Clinton instead of her.
I believe former President Bill Clinton would be one of President Obama's cabinet members right now, today, if it weren't for Hillary holding him back because she wants to be the star.
We are definately losing the contributions of the greatest President in recent memory, I think, because of Hillary.
Cm'on,
Your worship of those two Arkansas hillbillies makes me want to gag.
Hillary had no foreign policy experience. She is a political Obama appointee. They could have promoted a seasoned diplomat into that post, but no. Get the facelift queen into it, and maybe she will just get out of politics altogether.
Wow! were did this clown Priebus come from? He sounds even dumber than Steele. Look if all you GOP/TP idiots can do is come up with slogans.
Then you are still as worthless as you were when Steele was the so call GOP chief. Whenever, the GOP don't have a clue or a solution to anything of major importance- the first thing they do is try dry humor at the President.
Priebus - it sounds like SPEECHES to you GOP/TP idiots because you guys wouldn't give him a chance to save your own lives - you are bias right from the on set...and guess what we already know how you guys will respond and it's no surpise and it will have no meaning.
One thing I do know as well as most sensible Americans and that is President Obama doesn't give speeches..he informs! The sooner you GOP/TP idiots understand that - the sooner you idiots can grow up and begin to listen to him and work for the America people and not your rich Slave owners.
TRUTH - NOT CRAP
The only things the GOP/TP will have to offer America is more of the same.
CRAP!!!
Thank you and GOD BLESS AMERICA
Not much was said, Obama spent the first half talking about how we got here. Everyone not living under a rock didn't need to hear this again. Que excerpts from the state of the union and the speech last friday praising the budget cuts.
Obama rightly laid out the reasons why the Ryan plan isn't what Americans should agree to. However, it seems what he is proposing, not sure what he is proposing, is pretty close to it. The left wailed at the Ryan plan, rightly so for slashing 5 trillion over 10 years. Now will the reasonable ask what is the difference if Obama wants to slash 4 trillion over 12 years and the draconian Ryan cuts? Not much of a difference in my book. Ryan's cuts are being honest, uncompassionate but honest. Obama is still trying to spin things showing his compassion but at the same time he is not being realistic about what his cuts will do.
I heard nothing; nothing specific. Only heard what he wouldn't cut. How can he claim to keep all of those programs and defend the america he knows and still propose $4 trillion over 12 years. Originally his 2012 budget proposed 1.1 trillion over ten years, or $110 billion a year. Now he is willing to cut almost $330 billion he tripled down.
Again he praises the rich for doing their fair share in taxes and contributing to the country. He makes it sound as if they shouldn't pay taxes but are doing it out of the goodness of their patriotic hearts. No they should pay because they use the services that this country provides for them.
In closing he said, I don't expect the budget to be exactly as I've laid my plan out today. Of course not, the GOP will use your starting point as a low bar claiming it is unreasonable and push it to within a hair's breath of the Ryan plan.
Obama can not negotiate. I'm done.
YellowDog, you sum up Obama's speech quite nicely. The man isn't governing, he's campaigning. The poliitcal winds said he need to address the budget debt/deficit, and now he's achieved that goal by giving an empty headed nonsense speech that did nothing to help the situation. Is there any Democratic legislator that can propose anything in Congress based on the "plan" Obama laid out today? Except for "Raising taxes on the rich", a standard Liberal belief, there wasn't any thing new.
joannasmith 1.....obviosly you and yellow dog were not listening. it's sad. i bet if i put you and yellow dog on truth serum we would find that you were against obama before he spoke one word. you two are exactly whats wrong with america........like they said during bush's term.........love it or leave it.
dji-
JoAnnaSmith1 and Yellowdog-Mark D couldn't be more different.
The fact that they agreed to a significant degree on the substance in the President's address is interesting.
Darned near amazing.
I think YellowDog made a reasonable summary of the speech. Does anybody find it credible that Medicare can continue to be funded in the same way when "the Baby Boomers are retiring and will live longer and consume more expensive medical care". How? The $500B in waste and fraud is shell game. Where are actual proposals from HHS to attack this problem? HCR is a year old. An office of consumer protection has been set up for financial services. Where is the office of waste and fraud for Medicare?
The issue with this is that for all the President and many on this board want Medicare to continue in its current form, nobody, including the President has come up with a credible method of funding it.
BTW I also heard that Brazil is investing in energy and bio-fuels. I'm just curious but what is the equivalent of Medicare in Brazil and how does it compare to the US?
truth serum - Nope, I don't belive in torture.
I am not against Obama, but am still looking for some fortitude to see if he will back up his beliefs with his policy. Haven't seen it that often.
Although I rarely EVER agree with JoAnna Smith, she stands and believes in things that I would guess she wouldn't disavow on the whims of polling.
If you think we are alike though, I'll turn the other cheek for you brother.
Ryan's "plan" wasn't ever meant to be the end all of our fiscal planning, but merely a starting point to get the discussion going, and to tread on some sacred ground that was previously off limits.
He is to be commended for being forthright in his recommendations. Now we can get started on the details. Every dollar we save through cutting some unneeded practice or redundancy is another dollar that can be used where it is sorely needed and will take the place of raising taxes on the people who really create the jobs in this country. This is why cutting the spending is so critical. Our current debt is unsustainable. The interest is $5 Billion per day. Thats 1.825 trillion per year in just interest.
Can't keep it up. We are way beyond broke.
Those of us in Wisconsin know this is typical Priebus.
Rather than say what he and the GOP are for, he whines about someone else.
Priebus, it's time you admit you, your Wisconsin friend (Ryan), and the rest of the GOP don't believe American seniors who work for 50 years paying taxes deserve Medicare. Nothing like spending 50 years building this country, only to have the GOP shoving us into coffins without so much as a thank you.
I think Priebus is in love with the sound of his own flatulence. How else can you explain the garbage that he keeps spewing. Too bad the rest of us have to smell it!
So that is the new Mantra, we don't have a revenue problem we have a spending problem. Well they are correct for the most part, the only problem with that is, most of the spending in not really optional, unless you can classify defense spending as optional, I guess you can count SS Medicare/Medicaid as optional. My question is WHY no new taxes, I mean the current tax rate is the lowest it's ever been, especially at the top. On the cover of this weeks Bloomberg Business week it has "How Not To Pay taxes. It lays out the top 10 tax loopholes and some of the richest people who use them. For you conservative out their, all I say is, Do you really believe it's a good thing when a billionaire is paying less tax percentage than you are, and it's not because he's investing it either. Pick up the magazine, you might be surprised.
I also have a secret. I thought this speech was to lay out a plan to reduce the debt. I seem to have missed the plan. I think he said he will get yet another group to start in May and then the can gets kicked until 2014 if that doesn't work.
What did I miss?
What did you miss? From your comment, at least 75% of the speech. Try listening to it again without your Rush Limbaugh ear filters on.
12 Tax-Dodging Corporations Spent $1 Billion To Influence Washington Over The Last Decade
As ThinkProgress has been reporting, while Main Street Americans are having their services gutted and public investment is being slashed, some of the country’s most profitable corporations are getting away with paying little to nothing in taxes.
A new report by Public Campaign examines how these major corporations have influenced Congress to craft a tax code that lets them get away with making so much money and paying so little taxes in return.
In its report, “The Artful Dodgers,” Public Campaign juxtaposes the limited tax liability of dozen major corporations with the companies’ campaign contributions and lobbying expenditures, which amount to more than a billion dollars over the last decade:
EXXON MOBIL:
The oil giant that was the world’s most profitable corporation in 2008 has spent $5.7 million in campaign contributions over the last ten years and $138 million in lobbying expenditures.
Its federal corporate income tax liabilities for 2009?
Absolutely nothing.
Not only did it pay nothing,
but it also received a tax rebate the same year of $156 million.
CHEVRON:
Chevron spent $4.4 million in campaign contributions and $91 million in lobbying expenditures over the last decade.
It received a tax refund of $19 million in 2009
while making $10 billion in profits and
$324 million in government contracts in 2008.
CONOCOPHILLIPS:
The Texas-based gasoline giant spent $2.5 million in campaign contributions and $63 million in lobbying expenditures over the last decade.
It received “$451 million through the oil and gas manufacturing deduction,” a “special tax break,” between 2007 and 2009,
despite $16 billion in profits over the same period of time.
VALERO ENERGY:
Valero spent $4.1 million in campaign contributions and $4.8 million in lobbying expenditures from 2001 to 2010.
It received a $157 million tax rebate in 2009 despite $68 billion in sales during the same year.
It received “$134 million through the oil and gas manufacturing deduction” over the last three years.
BANK OF AMERICA:
Bank of America employees contributed $11 million to federal political campaigns from 2001 to 2010 and spent $24 million lobbying over the same period of time.
It made $4.4 billion in profits in 2010
while receiving a tax refund of $1.9 billion.
CITIGROUP:
Citigroup employees contributed $15 million to federal political campaigns from 2001 to 2010 and spent $62 million lobbying over the same period of time.
It made $4 billion in profits in 2010
while paying absolutely nothing in federal corporate income taxes.
It also received a $1.9 billion tax refund.
GOLDMAN SACHS:
The mega-bank Goldman Sachs, which is often called “Government Sachs” in insider circles because of its clout over Washington,
spent $22 million in campaign contributions and
$21 million in lobbying over the last decade.
It paid an ultra-low tax rate of 1.1 percent in 2008,
while also receiving $800 billion in government loans to help weather the financial crisis.
BOEING:
The aviation and defense contractor giant gave $10 million in contributions and $115 million in lobbying expenditures over the last decade.
It “Paid a Grand Total of Nothing in Federal Corporate Income Taxes in 2010 and
“Received a $124 million Tax Refund.”
FEDEX:
FedEx spent $8.7 million in campaign contributions and $71 million in lobbying expenditures from 2001 to 2010.
It paid a .0005 percent effective tax rate recently,
actually spending 42 times as much on lobbying Congress as it did paying taxes.
To do this it utilizes 21 tax havens.
CARNIVAL:
The cruise line paid $1.7 million in campaign contributions and $1.6 million in lobbying over the past ten years.
Despite the relatively low amount of money it spent influencing Washington, it has gotten away with a “Super-Low Tax Rate.”
Over the past five years, its Federal Corporate Income Tax Rate has been an effective 1.1 percent.
VERIZON:
Verizon spent $12 million in campaign contributions and $131 million in lobbying expenditures over the past decade.
It “Paid Absolutely Nothing in Federal Corporate Income Taxes over the past two years
and $488 million in government contracts in 2008; in 2010,
it made $12 billion in profits.
GENERAL ELECTRIC:
General Electric spent $13 million in campaign contributions and $205 million in lobbying expenditures over the last decade
while “Netting a Tax Refund of $4.1 Billion” over the past five years.
It made $26 billion in profits over the same time period.
The amount of money that taxpayers are losing from the tax dodging by these major corporations is enormous.
For example, if five of the nation’s biggest banks paid their taxes at the full rate,
we could “Re-hire Every Single one of the 132,000 Teachers Laid Off during the Recession — twice
Between These Tax Evaders and getting Billions for Paying No Taxes or very little and the Trillion of Dollars of Tax Cuts to the Rich, we would not be having these Deficit Conversation.
But Republicans say we simply don't need
Revenues just Debt to balance the Budget, Republicans Lack of Educational Skills Are Showing , actually no.................................Just Greed!
A day without a June , FL cut and paste is like a day without orange juice. Thanks
Hi June. Great Information.
I agree, Job1, good information, June. Looks like ol' Rocco-<numbers> couldn't attack the facts so he decided to attack the messenger. Typical right wing tactic.
"and the president has said himself over and over, is that we are addicted to spending in Washington and that's where the focus needs to be.”
Hey Liberals, did you read that???? We have a spending problem. THE PRESIDENT SAID SO !
We also have a revenue problem!
It's called 'selective hearing' California Girl 12345. It is closely related to 'proof texting' where you take words out of context so that their meaning is changed to support your view. Both are indicators of a weak argument.
Leona,
No, they didn't hear that part. they don't want to hear about cutting anything. Our taxes are used to buy their votes. And someone wants to cut off their milk supply?? Forget that.
Great Speech Mr. President. Now, please don't give the Republicans -Tea Baggers an inch. Sir, you are the Boss. So, please put push through what you and the American people want.
Remember Speaker John Boehner won his seat with less than 120,000 votes.
President Obama won with 69,456,897 votes in the 2008 presidential election.
Job1,
Are you comparing a House of Representatives race with a presidential election?? I don't see the comparison here. what's your point???
For all you Obama Haters out there....Grow up!!!!
You have failed at just about everything you've attempted in the last ten years and you want us to TRUST you with running our Government...Not on your life.
In your eyes, the Presisdent can do NOTHING right. And guess what? In our eyes, neither have you! Now there, see how that works? hehehe
In your eyes, the President can do NOTHING wrong.
Especially because he represents the Government, your Sugar Daddy, who sends you checks in the mail every week for doing nothing!
That right Bob, nothing to say, so anyone in your book that agrees with the President is a dead beat.
Your party is full of people that could care less about others and all you and your kind want to do is hate.
Another "Gross Odd Person" (GOP) is having a comprehension difficulty of what the President is clearly stating. The President was very clear on what he wants, and what he will not accept. Maybe this GOP individual has a Cognitive Disability? Maybe this GOP spewer has difficulty understanding what is read and said to him? It appears that this very disturbed individual does not have the intellectual capacity To follow a President who carefully thinks things out before he speaks. Maybe this GOP individual has no ideas of his own?? So saying absurd things about the President. Will help this individual thinik that he is smarter than he really is?? What a joke America!!
Progressive: GREAT
Progressive,
Doesn't really matter wht Obama wants anymore. He is a lame duck. Lost his power in November, and anything he gets will have to be paid for with something the Republicans want, or, no deal. (quack quack)
Watch out for the Obama terminology on the campaign trail: 1. improve infrastructure= payoff to unions
2. invest in the future = SPEND/raise taxes
3. invest in education = pour MORE money into poorest neighborhoods only.
4. Green energy = GE gets rich & pays NO taxes.
5. alternative fuels = GAS prices soar
Versus the Republicans:
1. Create jobs - reduce taxes for the wealthiest people and increase contributions to elections
2. Reduce deficit - take funding from those who need it (poor, old, disabled)
I would rather go Obama's route. I stand a greater chance of getting a job!
Republican healthcare:
Take old, poor, disabled and liberals and put on an ice floe and leave them there!
well, we all know know that dom is the fan favorite of the FR libs and knows how to trip their triggers. Wonder if these FR libs amuse him as he stirs the pot
Hey dom, wanted to email a comment to you all on the new format. It sucks, to much time spent on going from article to article. The old way was faster, you know random access beats sequential access.Are you guys and gals ever going to fix the slow scrolling as the number of posts increase?
When Obama took office, the deficit was barely over 1 trillion $$$. In his two years in office, the deficit is now over 4 trillion $$$. If you can't see this or understand what's going on, you need to study and read what's going on in the white house and congress. Its very sad and America can not afford another 4 years of OBAMA don't care!!!
Seriously?!?! You make those statements and then say everyone else has an understanding problem? Really?!?! That is just too precious.
Well pipofan, we certainly can't stand for the Republicans to come back with their terrorist friends attacking the United States and being lied into another war, not to mention the GOP's inability to consult with Nobel Prize Winning Economists but instead crash the United States economy like the terrorists wanted.
Then we have the GOP's attack on the middle class, too many tax breaks and tax loopholes for the rich, the GOP's insistance that millions of Americans remain uninsured, and, Oh My God, the GOP trying to steal all our Social Security because they don't want to bother with paying us back our retirement money they borrowed from us and sent to Iraq.
Oh mercy no! The United States has not healed enough to withstand another Republican attack on the American Working People.
Pay no attention, Matthew, to all of the spending that never hit a budget. Oh, it increased the debt; but it was NEVER part of a deficit.
Magic accounting worked out really well for Enron, too. Oh wait, nevermind.
Actually, republican healthcare fails to even take care of its own! Those who are not affluent and republican will suffer along with everyone else.
So should read take the poor, old, disabled AMERICANS and put them on an ice floe. The republican party has its share of poor, elderly, disabled, and (in the eyes of the republican party) social undesirables.
In the end all of this draconian fiscal posturing will be for naught. Lets get a show of hands
1. how many here are 65 and still working? (i.e. not drawing social security, not living off of a trust fund or an investment fund, not having any sort of health care other then what you can privately afford or your work provides?)
2. How many believe that even if our economy recovers to pre-recession unemployment rates that there are in fact jobs for people 65-70 in the existing market?
3. How many people believe that Agism does not exist in the work place! How many people believe that employers actually want to employ the elderly in large numbers?
Look to the fabulous 3 and their proposal to increase the retirement age to 70 over the next two decades. Look to Ryan who wishes to reduce medicare and medicaid.
There are many ways to work our way out of our countries debt. Gutting our countries infrastructure and social support networks while giving more money to businesses and the health care industry is NOT a winning solution nor is the only solution.
NO ONE ON CAPITAL HILL HAS A GOOD SOLUTION! Time for them to actually work rather then posture.
All of this pie in the sky draconian cut now legislature will end up being undone when the very people that voted for the politicians that passed it start addressing their own retirement prospects and the status of the economy in 10 years. The legislature will be repealed so fast heads will spin.
Ha! Republicans would be lucky if they could find someone who can count, and who's not out on bail.
So this is Reince Preibus? I was wondering when we were going to hear from him. Quite an impressive intellect....that one. His first sound bite was just so profound....so gripping....so abysmal. I wonder if he'll even make as RNC chairman through the 2012 election.
Considering that federal income tax revenue as a share of the economy is at the lowest point in 50 years thanks to irresponsible ideological conservative fiscal policy over the past 30 years, and considering that the Ryan plan calls for lowering the top tax rate to the lowest point since the 1920s - coincidentally the time right before the Great Depression - it is laughable on its face to say that the debt and deficit have nothing to do with a revenue problem.
If Republicans were really serious about the debt and deficit, they would not have voted lock-step for a trillion dollar tax cut, then 2 unfunded wars, then an unpaid for entitlement expansion and then completely ignore the revenue side of the equation. The fact the explicit Republican strategy is to purposely increase the debt and deficit whenever they are in power, with the express purpose of forcing massive cuts in services at a later date.
In my entire life, the only egos I have encountered that are as runaway as Obama's are Oprah and the redheaded goof who shags baseballs outside Wrigley Field.
I don't think its an ego issue with Obama. Further, I don't find him to be arrogant as the GOP claims. What I do find is one who is intellectually superior to virtually all his critics and also one who simply doesn't give a damn what his detractors like Preeee-bus and Baaay-ner think, say, or do. Nothing is more infuriating in the world of politics than to rattle the utensils of dissent yet be totally ignored by your adversary.
They love cheap politics and here is cheap response. Their talking point has been that they love grandchildren and Democrats don't, so they are acting to save the grandchildren. We too are grandchildren of a past generation that probably spent heavily for the sake of fixing some problems on our behalf and now we were able to inherit the benefits of their spending.
What we are learning from Republicans is that whenever you are in deep crisis that requires you to spend to get out of it, do not spend to fix the crisis. Just stare at the crisis and it will miraculously go away. Keep your money intact in the bank.
When part of your roof is blown off by wind, please do not spend; do not go to the bank to borrow money that you want to fix your damaged roof. Spending is bad. Borrowing to fix the problem is bad for your children and future grand children according to Republicans. Just leave a written note which your grandchildren will read when they grow up explaining to them that the house was never fixed because you did not want to be in debt. The irony is that the house will no longer be there to be inherited by your grandchildren because you let it collapse due to the unfixed damage. Your grandchildren will then read your letter and will wonder how foolish you were for not fixing the house.
If FDR never spent to fix the mess caused by the great depression, for the sake of not leaving “grandchildren” in debt, I wonder if America would still be the great America that we have today. FDR’s New Deal followed by massive spending in preparation for the WW II got America out of the depression. Republicans said the same things they are saying now to FDR. Republicans’ policies have never worked.