President Obama invoking St. Reagan?

Why that's blasphemy!

Isn't it? lol

You know, Pat- there is a pattern here. . .

Whenever you are faced with proof that Obama is a lame duck- never mind that he is corrupt, and, generally speaking, a complete and utter failure-

The more hateful your posts get.

Why is that?

The more hateful your posts get.

That's rich coming from First Reads very own Queen of Mean!

YOU of all people shouldn't be talking about a pattern Leona Hemsley...

Run along now and plug yourself in - your bile is backing up again...

no joe, no bo,

Pat is not the hateful one on this post no joe. If the shoe fits . . .

I wonder if Obama included jobs for "Zombies" in his Jobs Bill? There are a bunch of them on Wall Street today looking for work.

Hey, No Jo... Pat is one of the most intelligent and kindest posters on here... And you are the rudest! Your home life must be fun...

But they would still SAY that Jesus is on their side.

No joe -- Lyn and Ana and Feisty are right, and you're totally out of bounds.

Cantor and the House will get their chance to work on the President's American Jobs Act just as soon as Senate Democrats change their votes in that chamber in favor of the President. But it may never happen.

Reid is sitting on the President's American Jobs Act in the Senate, not allowing the Bill to be voted on in the Senate as called for by the Republicans, to save the President and the Democratic party of the embarassment of a public display of mutiny among his Democrats.

Mr. President, what part of the word "mutiny" don't you understand?

Invoking Reagan in a Texas speech is a lame effort at smokescreening.

It seems ironic to me that our first black president has done more to split the country and create hatred than at any time since the civil war and the repeal of slavery.

Bill Maher by his own admission knows nothing about Jesus. So not a very good analogy. Since 16 Democratic Senators have now voiced their reservations about voting for this jobs bill, I suggest the President get the votes from his own party first. Nice try Mr Obama, change the subject from your own party. Why would you expect the Republicans to vote for legislation you can't get your own party to pass.

Obama is such a joke with his jobs bill. Screams and hollers that we need to pass this bill. Yells at Repugs to vote for his jobs bill and when the Repugs say O.K. lets take the vote, The Dems won't take the vote because they can't even get enough votes from their own party. But yet Obama whines like a little kid that it's all the Repugs fault. That the Repugs don't want you to have a job. BLAH BLAH BLAH.

Obama can't get out of office fast enough. New I should of voted for Hillary............

Feisty Redhead Roselle, IL

Hey red I noticed that you are the first poster on almost all these threads, do you not have a job up there in Il. U R a 47% who pays no fed tax?? or a union thug teacher maybe. must be nice to do nothing but be the first to spew DNC BS all day.

Mixed Bag

President Obama needs to lobby Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to schedule a vote on his jobs bill.

Presumably the President has more influence with Harry Reid than with Eric Cantor.

Although...maybe not.

lol

Yea Mixed Bag,

Maybe the video below might do it

Reagan--No Loopholes For Millionaires

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cgbJ-Fs1ikA

Is it any wonder Mr. Mixed 'Smug' Bag is all alone again this evening trolling First Read? lmao

Know what's funny, MB?

I Googled that quote, supposedly by Reagan, today. All I found were a lot of far left fringe sites quoting it.

Seems strange, does it not?

I do remember a speech wherein Reagan said he thought it was ridiculous that ANYONE pay more than 25% of his or her income in taxes. I don't remember that quote- and I trust the YouTube "proof" as much as I trusted the picture from a little while ago where Obama had his hand in front of some other head of state's face.

That is to say- not at all.

Somebody want to tell Obama he's a lame duck? All he's doing is embarrassing himself- and the dwindling number of inhabitants of Hopey Changey land.

Now, now, Feisty.

My presence is just a gentle reminder that First Read isn't "your house"...whatever you might imagine.

But of course they think you are all alone MB. but you said it best. Being on the same page and all there is just no reason for us to Chime in and tell you what a wonderful post it was........

Oops. did i just do that..........

Yawn Popcorn. Notice that my Yawn and Popcorn are without Quotes. . there is a reason...

no joe-

It all goes back to the 2008 campaign when candidate Obama insisted that he wanted to be a "tranformational" President...as he said Ronald Reagan was. That really ticked off Bill Clinton, because the slight to his own two-term Presidency was obvious. I'm guessing President Clinton is going to have the last laugh on this one.

Because...

It certainly appears that President Obama will indeed be a "transformational" President.

I sincerely doubt that the current state of the union was the sort of transformation he had in mind though.

You and I, MB. There are a lot of people, (my husband among them), who believe he set about to deliberately cause this destruction.

My argument? If he had wanted to destroy the nation, and did this deliberately, he would have ameliorated much of it- in order to get reelected.

The guy is just inept.

The only exception? His Dollars for Donors program. He knew he was giving tax dollar to his donors- tenfold- but even I will grant that he actually believed they would be successful.

They had to be smart, right? After all, they supported HIM, did they not?

There are people, ex Treehouse, who think that Obama reads this board. I don't believe it.

If he did, he'd get a really good picture of who his supporters truly are- and he'd give up, now. Or six months ago.

no joe, haven't you noticed? President Obama came in to an already destroyed nation. Or did you forget that? Remember Iraq & Afghanistan? And go read some newspapers.

Your party wants him to fail.

The same party who already destroyed our nation.

Republicans are sell outs to the working people in this country.

How you and your fellow Republican supporters can support the TP, Boehner and McConnell and Cantor is mind boggling.

Nice that you have the back of the working people. There was a time when everybody did.

But they're Democrats for the most part. Soooooooooooooo - we have to throw them overboard.

We must protect the wealthy.

Hopefully the Yankees will lose tonight.

Pat, unemployment was 7.6% when Obama took office. It would be 14% today, if so many people had not been unceremoniously dumped out of the labor force- driving the civilian labor force down to 1983 levels.

All those people did not hit the lottery, Pat.

Want one single example of Obama's ineptitude making matters worse? Take housing.

If he had stayed out of it, the housing market would have bottomed out in early 2010- and would have been on the upswing for more than a year. Instead, he has PROLONGED the foreclosure mess- and, believe me, all this "paperwork" nonsense has made things worse, not better, because the people behind in their mortgages are, still, going to lose their houses-and thatnhas stalled the recovery.

It's like nasty tasting medicine with lousy side effects- take it all at once, deal with the taste, deal with the side effects, and get well- or take it in dribs and drabs, deal with the taste, and deal with the side effects, for a longer period of time.

Either way, these houses are foreclosed. Obama's way, it takes longer, the housing market is still in the dumpster, and recovery is far on the horizon. So far, most people can't see it.

Adding a trillion to the debt in his Dollars for Donors program has not helped, either. Those donors whose companies have not gone belly up created jobs in foreign countries- China, Finland, the UK- and those that did go belly up?

We're holding the bag, with nothing to show for it.

Face facts, Pt. By any objective measure, Obama has been a disaster. I know you will vote for him- you've said, before, that you are a democrat first, American, somewhere thereafter- but, a lot of people disagree with you.

They'll be voting for whoever the republicans nominate.

In droves.

It actually goes way way way back, before the wars.

Remember David Stockman?

Think Progress:

The second unhappy change in the American economy has been the extraordinary growth of our public debt. In 1970 it was just 40 percent of gross domestic product, or about $425 billion. When it reaches $18 trillion, it will be 40 times greater than in 1970. This debt explosion has resulted not from big spending by the Democrats, but instead the Republican Party’s embrace, about three decades ago, of the insidious doctrine that deficits don’t matter if they result from tax cuts.

It is not surprising, then, that during the last bubble (from 2002 to 2006) the top 1 percent of Americans “” paid mainly from the Wall Street casino “” received two-thirds of the gain in national income, while the bottom 90 percent “” mainly dependent on Main Street’s shrinking economy “” got only 12 percent. This growing wealth gap is not the market’s fault. It’s the decaying fruit of bad economic policy.

Well, the bold-face identification of the problem is right, but a major reason we have hollowed out the larger American economy is that the GOP have succeeded in blocking almost every major progressive effort to increase investment in infrastructure and R&D and other key aspects of a 21st century economy when Democrats were in charge, and they cut funding in those crucial areas when they were in charge. This effort will only intensify in the coming years.

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Republicans. They have destroyed everything they touched.

And now the poor, the elderly and the out of work will have to pay the bill.

And Republican supporters will continue to vote for them.

Un huh. That would explain rising median income, right? You do know what "median" means, don't you? Half make more, half make less?

That argument lacks merit. I know you believe it- but it is not true.

Keep up, do, with the class warfare. Americans do not, haw not, and never will, buy it. It's not in our DNA.

As I see it, the Dems are already treating BHO as a lame duck. He has influence with NOBODY.

He can rant all he wants about "Pass This Bill Now" and gets no reaction from anyone. Except some Redhead from Ill.

ABO 2012

I have to read her stuff. It is always good for a morning laugh.

Nothing like the disillusioned to get my day going. And I cannot wait for Nov 2012 to see how her posts read (if her head does not explode first).

The idea that they think BHO has even the slimmest chance give me a chuckle.

ABO 2012

Wow Nate, how do you really feel? When people are scared it's easy to make them angry and it's easy to divide them with abortion, Sharia Law, and all the things Teapublicans are so good at. It would probably help if you'd turn off FAUX Noise and Hate Radio, and maybe drink decaf.

Obama has coined the term the Buffet Rule, but in fact this was originally from Reagan. In addition to the 1985 quote from Reagan is this:

Reagan also told an Illinois crowd about a letter he had received from a man who said that tax loopholes allowed him to pay a lower tax rate than his secretary. “He wrote me the letter to tell me he’d like to come to Washington and testify before Congress as to how that’s possible for him to do and why it is wrong,” Reagan said.

Sound familiar to what Buffet said? Well now you know where it came from. In the meantime the president has put together a reasonable, viable, bipartisan jobs plan, and he is correct to keep the pressure on Congress to pass it. Also in the meantime Dems have been reviewing the president's job plan and working on ways to pay for it.

What ARE the Teapublicans doing? What don't they like about the plan? Will they filibuster or allow a simple majority vote of 51 in the Senate, and will they bring the bill up for a vote in the House?

The many American people who are suffering cannot wait 14 more months for something to be done. These Americans are taking to the streets, because they are tired of Teapublican political stunts.

See Irate??

People are beginning to see through the libbie B.S.

This is why Libbie attack ads will not work for Obama this time. Since he has no real record to run on, and his planned attack ads will be ineffectual, what exactly is he going to use in his sorry campaign?? Slogans?? Bumper stickers??

$1 BILLION sure can buy a lot of bumper stickers.

"Reagan said gov is the problem not the solution. Obama should embrace that!!!"

You seem to forget -- Reagan increased gasoline taxes (and other taxes) to pay for highway construction and called it a "JOBS BILL". It helped did us our of a recession in 1982 -- a recession with a higher unemployment rate than we have today.

You right wing people have a very selective memory of Reagan. He wouldn't even be welcomed in today's Republican Party. He would be viewed as some kind of left wing radical by the crazies in charge of the 21st century Republican party.

Charlie-1915998

Hey dummy, Reagan also had a top business tax rate of 28% you know didn't you see obama lie about 3 wks ago telling the idiots in the crowd that his taxes are lower then when Reagan was president.

guess in obama's world 28% is higher then 35%

Reagan's top rate on businesses is what got the economy going they small businesses had more money to reinvest back into to their businesses.