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Four potential Republican presidential candidates stopped in New Hampshire today to address an Americans for Prosperity Tea Party rally in Concord.
Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R), in his third visit to the state this year, told the crowd, “We’re here today to send the message -- to the big government, big unions, big business, what I'd call the triangle of greed, the bailout businesses, big government, big unions. Let’s send them this message: Don’t tread on me!”
In his seventh swing through the Granite State since January, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum (R) said he was happy to be back. “No better place to be than, to talk about the overburden of taxation than the place that stands up and fights for limited government more than the great state of New Hampshire. So it's great to be here,” he said.
Outside the New Hampshire statehouse, Herman Cain told key constituents, “One of our biggest crisis is we have a deficiency of leadership in the White House.” This was his fourth trip to the state this year.
Former Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer (R) explained to the group gathered how his campaign would be financed and how it would make him a better president than any of the other potential candidates. “I accept no contribution great than $100,” Roemer said, “I take no PAC money. I report all monies given to me and I am free to lead a rising America.” This was his first time in the state this year.
The stop in New Hampshire is a must-do for those seeking their party’s nomination for president. The first-in-the-nation primary state has a long history of evaluating an meeting all prospective and declared candidates. The Tea Party, which the presidential hopefuls addressed today, is a growing constituency that will be important in the 2012 presidential race.
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Man, I just can't help but like that Roemer guy. Too bad he has no chance.
He is refreshing. I wish he had a better chance.
If Roemer thinks so-called 'campaign finance' reform is important, he should run as a Democrat ! It is a phony issue. Obama claims he wants reform, whilst he fattens up his 1 billion campaign chest.
Ease up Bob-1887910, you must be about ready to break the blood pressure machine. Yours Truly, A Moonbat
I cannot wait to hear the comments of the post NH from MSNBC. Will there be a positive comment, or all nuclear?
But Obama is still sending a thrill up the leg of MSNBC and the Keyboard Queens.
David in California....you said a mouth full. May this country will realize that the Dems are not to blame for all the Chaos in the country. You have to buildup the economy and tax those that can afford to be taxed more to do so. Warren Buffet has been saying this forever.
Grammy in Des Plaines
What a fine Socialist you are Grammy. Who decides to say they can afford to be taxed more than somebody else?
Tim Pawlenty: "Now in fairness, I do have to give President Obama credit on at least one thing. He's proven that someone can deserve a Nobel Prize less than Al Gore. ... Now to restore America's promise, we need a president whose going to keep the promises that they make to America. Unfortunately, we had candidate Obama say one thing and President Obama do another. He's broken his promise to our country." Meanwhile all the Republican and TEA paarty members are on the same hymnal singing the same song, same verses, all in Acapella.
Buddy Roemer: "The American Revolution was about a tea party, wasn't it? The American Revolution was a protest against taxation without representation. I think it's time for a second revolution." Meanwhile the revolution the TEA party started morphed into loud-mouth bigots carrying gun on their hips. It looks like they want to start a war at home.
Rick Santorum: "What's at stake right now is a group of people who want you to believe that you need them, that you need to be taken care of, that you need to be provided for. ... It takes a tea party and generations to re-establish those burning, founding principles that made America that shining City on a Hill. The battle for freedom fundamentally in America right now is right here." Meanwhile the Republican and TEA party will throw grandma, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, lower and middle class under the bus, while the top 2% laugh all the way to the bank!
Hermain Cain: "We don't need someone to try to rewrite the Declaration. How about just live the Declaration of Independence? We don't need to rewrite the Constitution. How about just enforce the Constitution of the U.S. of A?" Mean while the Constitution says "Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness", but not at the expense of grandma, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, lower and middle class under the bus, while the top 2% laugh all the way to the bank!
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. No where does it state at the expense of grandma, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, lower and middle class under the bus, while the top 2% laugh all the way to the bank!
Didn't Bush swear to defend America against all enemies, foreign and domestic? He failed on 9/11/2001...........shouldn't he have had to resign or be impeached for his failure to heed the warnings and take protective counter-measures?
Well Paul,
You will never hear about it, but various American agencies tasked with stopping another terriosts opportunity have, several times. Since it did happen on the Obama watch, should he too resign? Or would you perfer to see the details on MSNBC before you would believe it? Publishing the documents would enable a change in future capture of these bad guys.
Obama hasn't allowed 2979 American civilians to be killed by identified "terrorists"...........Bush did.
Paul, I have absoutely no Aloha for Bush, but your comment to safecracker was well below the belt.
Paul,
Tell me son, how can you make your 6.3 statement? Please explain in great detail.
By your logic, if I believe I understand your logic, how many have been lost since Obama escalated both wars under his watch? Stupid argument, but so is yours.
When in doubt, lash out with liberal bruhaha. Keep it up Paul and you will also be there with the Keyboard Queens in your civility.
Summertime: I can only suspect that your erroneous belief is based on an enormous amount of ignorance as to how 9/11 was accomplished.
safecracker: No American civilians on American soil have been killed in any mass casualty attack that I can recall where the President was given specific warnings by his CIA briefer and the PDB. Nor has Obama ever told his CIA briefer ,"Now that you've covered your ass, I'd guess you can go."
I repeat. The only strategy that the republican leadership has ever had over the past forty years IS to gut the middle class and create a rich-poor society - one that they will CONTROL. They start by going after entitlements and, of course, unions. They want to decimate the middle class and create an oligarchy of rich and powerful leaders. They sit back at E-Street, smoking cigars, and musing about how nice it would be if the U-S could model its system after Saudi Arabia - a close society with a rich aristocracy at the helm. They admire the very forms of government now under attack by pro-democracy rebels. DONALD TRUMP FOR DICTATOR!
Unions exist to protect the working man, they give the little guy a voice, a representative to look out for his interests and to collectively bargain. A union means every member has skin in the game, not just some imaginary "big union boss". The corporations sure come to the negotiating table armed with their high priced lawyers looking out for their interest. Why face that alone?
The republicans talk a good game about hard work, earning your own way, and respect for families, but their policies never really support that. Actually their policies make a chump out of the honest working man.
Whether you mop floors or you are a construction foreman, and everything in between there is nothing more honorable than showing up every day and doing your job. What more can you give than the very hours, days, weeks, years, of your life, I don't know why many don't seem to respect or value labor anymore. They worship some guy that makes millions pushing phony paper on wall street for a few hours a month. They demonize a guy for trying to collectively bargain so his family can see a doctor when needed. He is called greedy if he bargains for a pension benefit so his family won't be on the street when he is older and his body is broken down from spending his life going to work and doing his job every day.
When will republican policies start benefitting working people, and their families? They haven't yet. Who does it really benefit if collective bargaining rights are outlawed? Does Donald Trump and people like him need to be protected from the greedy ladies that clean his hotel rooms.
Forrest .. one would think most ordinary people have no issues with unions or collective bargaining. It works fairly well for private companies and their work force. The rub is with public sector unions. May I suggest you draw a distinction between the two. There is no comparison between collective bargaining for a private workforce and that of an elected official.
Forest = And boy does the little guy ever need representation now. Our voice isn't being heard by the House of Representatives.
Run Forrst run! Why do you require the services of a union? Government today has several agencies to protect workers rights, wouldn't you agree? what does a union due for you other than hold up the employer for issues to the extreme? sorta of like a Jesse Jackson hold-up.
The government agencies of which you speak are often sabotaged by political appointees, kinda like Minerals Management at the department of the Interior. Read "The Wrecking Crew " by Thomas Frank, you might learn some things about our "reality".
The 11 non union oil workers killed on BP's oil rig, and the 29 non union miners killed in Massey's mine could well have used some representation on the job. By the way both companies were cited for hundreds of safety violations by the government agencies that were supposedly protecting the the workers and the general public.
You know what they needed on that oil rig? A great big "union thug" threating to throw some managers ass in the ocean if things are not being done right. No better protection for these workers than a union rep on site who goes into that mine every day with the crew. Not an excutive, who sits in an office and says oh the mine is safe. When a union rep says it is safe, he then goes in and works alongside his crewmates.
These yahoos are gambling and I predict the retired folk, who worked their whole lives for what little they get, will get their stomach's full. If lawmakers fail to raise the ceiling this year, they will have two choices: They could either cut spending or raise taxes by as much as $738 billion just to cover the period from April 1 through September 30, which is the end of the fiscal year. Or they could acknowledge that the country would be unable to pay what it owes in full and the U.S. could effectively default on some of its obligations. Fiscal fighting has always been round. Throwing the elderly, retired and middle class under the bus is the TEA parties action. The Tea party and the Republican party are going to try to protect their mega-corporation and the super rich. The TEA party has shown their colors and the Republican party will feel their wrath first. The taxes paid by the general public is not fair across the board. The middle class footed the bill for the bailouts while the top 2% took it to the bank. President Obama hold your ground! These Republican and TEA party members are hell bent to derail your programs. Taxes on the richest 2% should be increased. Corporations should be taxed on their gross income instead of their net income and all corporate subsidies cancelled or reduced to effect a wider spreading of the tax burden. As it stands now President Obama must resist any GOP tactic or attack towards the entitlements the retired have earned. It was Congress through the past thirty to forty years who borrowed monies from Social Security and left IOU's in place. I agree with President Obama! Anyone making over $250,000.00 should pay more taxes! The lower and middle class have enough pressures on them to have to support the richest 2%. All companies should be taxed on Gross Income generated world-wide and the mega- rich 2% should be taxed on gross earning if in excess of $1,000,000.00.
Rudy - The wealthy I know are realistic. They expect to pay more taxes and can't believe that they are so low. I too hope Obama holds his ground. Enough of this pandering to special interests and wealthy corporations. It is evident that the unfair and ruthless proposals that are coming forth from the Republican party are of abolutely no benefit to the majority of the American people and the land. So who are they benefitting?
Review of All 2000 Florida Ballots Statewide (Never Undertaken)
Review Method Winner Margin of Victory
Standard as set by each county Canvassing Board Gore 171 votes
Fully punched chads and limited marks on optical ballots Gore 115 votes
Any dimples or optical mark Gore 107 votes
One corner of chad detached or optical mark Gore 60 vote
So the "Carnival of Clowns" of the GOP/RNC are on the road. Again! The "Super Spewers" loaded up their economic circus tents, and are in NH. The "Gross Odd People" (GOP), and the "Really Not Competent" (RNC) now have different inidividuals in name only however, their "Economics of Evil" remains the same. They can use different words at different times but politically they are slaves to the "Gods of Greed." Critically think America as you hear these clowns on the big top spew. They have no new ideas, no new policies, no new thoughts, and they have no clue about the many struggles that 95% if Americans are going through. They play their carnival music, and put on other animal tricks. That's if "Puppet Palin" does not shoot them all! Remember to pay attention carefully America, and make all your votes count possitively for all citizens.