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Subscribe to RSSThree differences between Romney’s and Hillary’s campaigns … Newt vs. Mitt turns negative, but Gingrich pens letter to staff, surrogates urging them to stay positive, but he reserves the right to respond to fire with fire (like hitting Romney over Bain) … Obama trails in swing states … a new NBC-WSJ poll out tonight.
*** Why Romney might not be following in Hillary’s footsteps: Yesterday, we wrote about the some of the parallels -- right now -- between Mitt Romney’s campaign and Hillary Clinton’s, circa mid- to late-December 2007. (Politico follows up today with some interesting interviews with ex-Clinton staffers.) But it’s also important to point out three key differences: (1) Romney doesn’t appear to be spending the amount of money that Clinton did. Remember, after Super Tuesday, the Clinton campaign essentially ran out of money (in large part, because it didn’t anticipate a contest past then). But Romney’s team has hoarded much of its cash. In fact, the main entity bombarding Iowa airwaves is the pro-Romney Super PAC, not the campaign. Team Romney has LONG planned for the LONG nomination fight; (2) Romney’s camp isn’t “all in” in Iowa, the same way Clinton’s was four years ago. That’s why Clinton’s loss in the Hawkeye State was so devastating and why her victory in New Hampshire a week later was so surprising; And (3) As we mentioned yesterday, Newt Gingrich’s operation isn’t Obama’s from 2007-2008, whether it’s in fundraising or organizing.
*** The GOP race turns negative: But one comparison is certainly true: Romney and Gingrich are engaging each other like Clinton and Obama did in the winter and spring of 2008. Romney started it; He hit Gingrich on a number of fronts. But the first response from Gingrich elevated the spat and created this narrative. As Politico writes, “Presaging a brutal final stretch before voting begins, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich traded mocking insults Monday that veered into the personal and made clear that any restraint between the two was all but gone. In the sharpest and most personal negative turn yet of the Republican presidential campaign, the two leading contenders jabbed one another over how each got rich. Romney portrayed Gingrich as a Beltway fixer who cashed in on his access. The former House speaker returned fire by painting the one-time Bain executive as a reckless corporate titan who lined his pockets by killing jobs -- the first time a Republican opponent of Romney has [hit] him that hard for his private-sector work.” And it continues today from Team Romney. In the first attack of the day, the campaign released an email once again hitting Gingrich over Freddie Mac (something it did yesterday also). This close to actual votes taking place, the Romney camp knows it has to blunt any momentum Gingrich might gain from the early states. And Romney yesterday acknowledged that Gingrich “right now” is the front runner.
The Iowa caucuses are less than a month away, and the Republican presidential frontrunners are stepping up their attacks on one another. NBC's Chuck Todd reports.
*** Newt pledges to stay positive, but…: But Gingrich, who everyone knows has a thick and dusty oppo file on him, is trying to guilt Romney into not attacking him. Gingrich late last night issued a letter to staffers and surrogates, urging them to remain positive and notes that both sides should run a “positive solutions-based campaign,” because, “It is critical the Republican nominee emerge from this primary campaign un-bloodied, so that he or she can make the case against President Obama from a position of strength.” And Gingrich used a quote from Romney that seemed more like a throw-away line to us: “I’m not going to say outrageous things that can be used to hang [a GOP opponent] down the road.” But that doesn’t mean we’re suddenly going to enter a kumbaya mode of this primary. Gingrich did, after all, write in a self-defense clause: “I have reserved the right to respond when my record has been distorted.” This little move by Gingrich has all but guaranteed Romney will have to own the idea that “he went negative first” something Gingrich is counting on backfiring with primary voters.
*** It don't mean a thing if you ain't got that swing-state strength: Turning the general election, a new USA Today/Gallup poll of swing states “finds the number of voters who identify themselves as Democratic or Democratic-leaning in these key states has eroded, down by 4 percentage points, while the ranks of Republicans have climbed by 5 points. Republican voters also are more attentive to the campaign, more enthusiastic about the election and more convinced that the outcome matters.” More from the poll: “In the swing states, Obama now trails former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney among registered voters by 5 points, 43% vs. 48%, and former House speaker Newt Gingrich by 3, 45% vs. 48%. That's a bit worse than the president fares nationwide, where he leads Gingrich 50%-44% and edges Romney 47%-46%.” Caveat: It’s striking to see this kind of discrepancy between the swing-state and nationwide numbers. So a bit of caution… By the way, today President Obama does a round of local news interviews -- three of four in swing states -- in Norfolk, VA, Pensacola, FL, Colorado Springs, CO, and Seattle.
*** NBC/WSJ poll day! Meanwhile, our national NBC/WSJ poll is released beginning at 6:30 pm ET. Who is leading the GOP horserace? What are the general election head-to-head numbers? How do Americans view Congress? Be sure to tune into NBC’s “Nightly News,” or click on to msnbc.com, starting at 6:30 pm.
*** On the 2012 trail: Romney raises money in Massachusetts… Paul holds a town hall in New Hampshire… Santorum makes multiple stops in Iowa… Huntsman appears on “The View”… And while Gingrich is down today, Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal holds a press conference to unveil Gingrich supporters.
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Sooooooo.... Newt says he wants to maintain a positive campaign with respect to Romney??????
Maybe he has more to loose on negative issues. Go figure.
So if he and Romney are civil and Romney just rolls over and lets Gingrich take the nomination that means that Obama and the Democrats will do the same?
Wake up Newt, you are unelectable.
they are both mormons and no one believes either one of them so why be negative to each other save it for the muslim in november
SO IN 21 DAYS NEWT WINS iOWA AND THEN RAPS UP the nomiantion by feb and the white house in a double digit landslide in november taking like 45/48 states
Any nut can win in Iowa, but they can't win the national
Keep in mind conservatives ran Newt out of Congress in disgrace & tossed on a $300,000 fine on top of that ---- He hasn't changed
Hahaha...first time I've ever agreed with the Rush.
But, I am a bit surprised. Isn't The Newt the Thinking Man's Limbaugh?
limbaugh has basically told everyone to vote for newt so hes our next president easily
If you truly believe that we need someone like Newt in the white house, you are beyond hope! He is an adulterer, a liar, full of hypocrisy {see having an affair with a congressional aide while trying to impeach President Clinton for having an affair) a lobbyist, although he calls it consulting, AND he was fired by his own people. The only reason he started to run this time was to sell books! Grow up and look at the real situation! We cannot afford another Reputeabagger in office. We need to vote out every Republican who is running so maybe we can get something going for the rest of us!
Stone,,,, The Thinking Man & Newt do not get along well
The "Thinking Man" can remember him getting kicked out of Congress & why
theresa you could just remove the name newt and replace it with clinton and no one would know the difference, and actually clinton made a decent president
Hope so...perhaps, I should have written: The Newt thinks he's The Thinking Man's Limbaugh?
Romney Has Many Advantages BUT ONE Disadvantage?
Hes a Mormon!
His biggest fault is that he won't deal with it up front and personal -- If he did-- it would be behind him and All the Others!
Why he cant Just Do It ? - Is why folks still don't trust him!
His angels aren't their angels maybe?
They say he's not conservative enough, but they also say Newt isn't either
newt is a mormon too, he just tries to keep it hush hush because hes not as proud of it as romney is
This the field the republicans have to offer. Fascinating. Horrifying but fascinating. Newt couldn't was the dirt off of him with a brillo pad and five tons of soap. Republicans don't like Romney. I guess we can go back to Herman Caan or Michelle Backmann. Of course, one of them got the Qualye endorsement. What a prize.
newt is winning big despite his reputation, a little mud never hurts someone who looks like the newt why he will landslide obam and bring us a gop senate with a supermajority come november
If conservatives had listened to liberals a long time ago they wouldn't be left with a difficult choice of picking between the lessor of the most evil fraudulent Reagan Conservative posers in the race & a Millionaire Mormon with a mansion in every state
Barack Obama is still the only Ronald Reagan running in 2012
Jim I think you mean ronald mc donald, please dont ever mix the two up again
Nope, I said what is real & in everyone's face..... Ronald Reagan has been shouting from his gave that today's conservatives are "crazy"
Barack Obama is the Ronald Reagan conservatives failed to find among their own,, Many of Obama's policies conservatives have voted against are Reagan's policies
No Rush,you are thinking of Donald McRonald Trump...Hey how's his "two and a half men" debate lookin'....???
The Limbaughs of the world are screwed !!! This is Newts shining moment for sure,but peel back the facade and take a good look. Newt has no ground game,no major staff nationally,limited funds (by today's standards),and he peaked waaaaay to early. Steady old Mitt will hang,and believe it or not,due to the lack of excitement over there choices,Rick Perry...YES ...That Rick Perry,may even have one last flourish left in him. But in the words of the most evil politician ever known to mankind,Dick Cheney,"the gop is in its dying throws,and the leaders are all dithering around dazed and confused"....
they said the same about mc cain last time and he beat romney anyhow
All this arguing is meaningless. Anyone but obama in 2012 to save our nation!!!!
How are any of the Republican candidates going to save the nation?
nick nack mcpaddywack...give yer dog a bone....
So, you want to give it back to the people who screwed it up in the first place? George Bush used executive powers to screw us over whenever possible. If the Democrats tried to stop legislation, he used executive powers. If President Obama tries the same things, you say it's wrong! Do you have a clue as to what the Republicans have done to this country every time they have power? Look it up! They have NO track record on the econmy! They have NO track record when it comes to keeping us out of unnecessary wars! No track record for helping to maintain our infrastructure! No track record for keeping our schools at the top! They do not care anymore about real people! They care only about corporations! Period! ANYBODY BUT A REPUBLICAN IN 2012! We can't afford another Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld, disaster!
*Please, ponder the following: Obama promised genuine change; however, what did we get? Basically a continuation of GWB's core policies with only a few superficial modifications. A 'toothless' anemic financial reform bill, Guantanamo didn't close. The Affordable Care Act will result in massive windfall profits the medical insurance industry. Meanwhile, it does little to curb the rapidly increasing cost of health care.
Obama surrounded himself with Wall Street alumni such as Ben Bernanke. The corruption that resulted in the financial disaster in 2008 continues in Europe with "Banksters" masquerading as 'reform' politicians encouraging speculation attacks. E.g., Controllers of large hedge funds try to start a stampede of selling, to drive down the value of bonds of a given country. When bond values decline, their interest rates go up.) Hedge funds do this by finding ways to bet against those bonds. To accomplish this, they can sell bonds they own, they can sell bonds that others own (shorting), and they can buy default insurance (swaps) to bet against the bonds. And they create many toxic combinations of the above, using massive amounts of borrowed money to amplify their "negative' bets. Consequently, the hedge fund elites "earn" billions." Meanwhile, the economies of countries like Greece, Italy, Ireland, Spain, France, England, etc., collapse. Immediately the hard push for austerity and the elimination of social programs begins. After all, the speculators have to be repaid somehow!? Sound familiar?
Previously our Democracy was already under siege with big money influence over our political/ governmental institutions. Nevertheless, the Supreme Court Citizens United 5-4 decision in January, 2010 ignored 100 years of legal precedent. Opening the flood gates for unrestricted billions of non-disclosed corporate dollars. Hundreds of millions $ to create Super-Pacs in any state necessary to virtually elect or 'dethrone' any politician they choose.
Moreover, we don't have elections in the US. We have selections from two political parties whose representatives are bound by the 'donations' of corporate millions. I.e. the money that dictates who receives the necessary funds to run for office and remain in their highly beneficial 'comfort' zones. Enjoying exclusive advantages of 'legal' insider trading. In addition, the convenient loopholes that allow the pervasiveness of extravagant donations and perks from corporate lobbyists, that is clearly legalized corruption by any standard.
In order to begin the long hard process of rescuing our Democracy from this stranglehold by the avaricious, financial elite .01% we must be cognizant of the genuine issues that have resulted the steady economic decline of the 99%.
• 61 percent of Americans "always or usually" live paycheck to paycheck, which was up from 49 percent in 2008 and 43 percent in 2007.
• 66 percent of the income growth between 2001 and 2007 went to the top 1% of all Americans.
• 36 percent of Americans say that they don't contribute anything to retirement savings.
• A staggering 43 percent of Americans have less than $10,000 saved up for retirement.
• 24 percent of American workers say that they have postponed their planned retirement age in the past year.
• Over 1.4 million Americans filed for personal bankruptcy in 2009, which represented a 32 percent increase over 2008.
• Only the top 5 percent of U.S. households have earned enough additional income to match the rise in housing costs since 1975.
• For the first time in U.S. history, banks own a greater share of residential housing net worth in the United States than all individual Americans put together.
• In 1950, the ratio of the average executive's paycheck to the average worker's paycheck was about 30 to 1. Since the year 2000, that ratio has exploded to between 300 to 500 to one.
• As of 2007, the bottom 80 percent of American households held about 7% of the liquid financial assets.
• The bottom 50 percent of income earners in the United States now collectively own less than 1 percent of the nation’s wealth.
• Average Wall Street bonuses for 2009 were up 17 percent when compared with 2008.
• In the United States, the average federal worker now earns 60% MORE than the average worker in the private sector.
• The top 1 percent of U.S. households own nearly twice as much of America's corporate wealth as they did just 15 years ago.
• In America today, the average time needed to find a job has risen to a record 35.2 weeks.
• More than 40 percent of Americans who actually are employed are now working in service jobs, which are often very low paying.
• or the first time in U.S. history, more than 40 million Americans are on food stamps, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture projects that number will go up to 43 million Americans in 2011.
• This is what American workers now must compete against: in China a garment worker makes approximately 86 cents an hour and in Cambodia a garment worker makes approximately 22 cents an hour.
• Approximately 21 percent of all children in the United States are living below the poverty line in 2010 - the highest rate in 20 years.
• Despite the financial crisis, the number of millionaires in the United States rose a whopping 16 percent to 7.8 million in 2009.
• The top 10 percent of Americans now earn around 50 percent of our national income.
A.) In order to over turn the Supreme Court's 5-4 Citizens United decision. We must provide massive grass root support for the Constitutional Amendment introduced this week in the Senate by Independent Bernie Sanders (I-FL). The 'Saving American Democracy Amendment'. A companion bill to Rep. Ted Deutch (D-FL) H.J. Res 90.
B.) Recognize the fact that the 'powers that be' much prefer that we, the masses, remain distracted sparing over divisive partisan issues.
C.) Be conscious of the fact that the establishment’s preference is for us to remain apathetic and disengaged to facilitate and perpetuate the grossly inequitable system they've designed over the past 30 plus years.
D.) The corporate owned and controlled mas media will routinely filter any information that would expose the noxious agenda of the financial elite. As responsible citizens, in order to be truly informed of the realities that have lead to the above, we need to rely on nonpartisan, media sources. They are numerous and relatively easy to locate on the web
You make a some very good points,however,for me,I have to TRUST the person I vote for to do the right thing...not the RIGHT thing...that just hasn't worked. We are just starting to shed those policies and we must continue in that direction. So....TRUST....thats what it will be about at the end of the day...and I do TRUST our President !!! Just one point about Newt...in the last debate he said he was an outsider and the whole place,including the candidates erupted in laughter....TIP OFF !!!
I am with you on this. I trust the president to try to do the right thing. I even think Bush was trying to do the right with by invading Iraq, but look how that ended up.
The only thing is America,I think Cheney actually pushed the whole war idea,and GW went along.Another reason I say that is that at the end of GW's term,he and Cheney were not hardly speaking. I know the Scooter Libby thing was part of it,but GW no longer trusted Cheney..and the yellow uranium lie didn't help things either.....
I do think that GW went along because he thought he was doing the right thing. Just like Obama went along with health care because he thought it was the right thing. I think that the Affordable Care Act will be as bad for our country as the Iraq war decision. I hope that I am wrong, but as more and more information comes out, it reinforces my hypothesis. By the way, I don't trust Newt at all, but I do trust Romney to at least try the right things.
Obama "says" he wants to do the right thing with healthcare. What's reality is that he wanted the health insurance companies' kick-back money for his next campaign. I don't trust most politiacians, but I guess, in this case, it's gonna have to be Romney. This coming from a single, working, Democratic mother. Sorry, but Obama is a hypocritical liar and it makes me sick that so many are fooled by him.
What Reagan and Obama have in common is that while they both had/have support from the extreme wings of their own Parties, and have directed considerable rheotric toward them, they were/are reasonably pragmatic in their actions. The key to a successful Presidency politically, and especially in gaining a second term, is to hold the base, while governing from the center.
Just ask George H.W. Bush and/or Jimmy Carter.
Stone,,, You need to study their policies, they are real similar
Barack Obama is the Ronald Reagan conservatives failed to find among their own,, Many of Obama's policies conservatives have voted against are Reagan's policies
Stone,, Look, you said the Republican party is destroying itself.... That is why, there isn't a Ronald Reagan in the bunch
I prefer to use the term "pragmatic," rather than liberal or conservative. I don't think the majority of Americans are ideologues.
I think we go through wide swings in the political spectrum. Reagan was the reaction to The Great Society, which began with FDR and was taken a "bridge too far" by LBJ. Obama was the reaction to laissez-faire capitalism or the Ownership Society, which began with Reagan and was taken a "bridge too far" by GW.
I think Obama understands that. Affordable Health Care was a screw-up, but the opportunity to move on a Democratic issue that had been around for so long was too tempting. And, the main point, which Obama made time and time again, was the fact that we pay too much for health care to be competitive in the global marketplace. The rest was just a bad economy and a curious mixture of Friedmanite politices at the Fed and Keynesian policies at Treasury. Since the job difficulties go back a long, long way, the recovery hasn't been all that bad.
Wow Jim, stop drinking the cool aid. Those two are so different form each other, how can you say such a thing. Reagan was nicked named the Cowboy by Hispanics, because he shot form the hips. No PC there. While our President Obama, apologizes for the sun coming up.
Oops! That's Milton Friedman type policies at the Fed. Friedman believed that a tight money policy at the Federal Reserve led to making a normal business cycle recession the Great Depression. Bernanke, a conservative economist, follower of Friedman, and academic expert on the Great Depression, has been careful not to make the mistake Friedman saw.
On jobs...before posters begin correcting me and pointing to GW's wonderful job record, about 2/3rds of all job growth during the Bush Administration were due to the housing bubble and government. Start to finish, Bush had the worst record on job creation of any President since WW II. Remember, even Herbert Hoover had one great year. Without the housing bubble, GDP growth would have been between 1% and 2%...i.e. constantly verging on recession.
I am not sure Ronald Reagan would be following Reaganomics today. Maybe, but the world economy has changed enormously since Reagan's time...some of it due to Reagan himself.
The two big changes have been the advance of technology and the end of communism. The personal, desktop computer revolution didn't get going until the late eighties and early nineties...and that changed American manufacturing, the necessity to hold inventory, etc.
And, the end of communism approximately doubled the global workforce and opened enormous new potential consumer markets.
Add to that, our own demographic problems...an aging population coupled to social programs designed for shorter life spans and younger populations...well, it all adds up significantly even BEFORE one starts arguing ideologies.
Very broadly, both Parties, from different perspectives, saw globalization as the answer to our problems...wealthy investors making money off new foreign markets, plus a post-industrial society that evolved from manufacturing into becoming the world's banker. It failed from both perspectives.
didnt any of you libs read the article, Obama is losing to newt and romney in all the swing states when gas goes to 5/6 bucks a gallon next summer as planned and the economy really dumps it will be a huge gop landslide at every level
It doesn't matter,,, Romney is the one conservatives love to hate & Gingrich's own record will destroy him
Let's face it dude,,, Conservatives are the ones who led us into 2 endless wars & failed to stop our economic collapse ---- Americans will never forget that
Fairy DUST RUSH !!!!!
The Limbaughger doesn't want us to get too complacent, in face of the current Ship of Fools of Republican candidates.
I finally agree with Paul Ryan on something....Newt is a steaming pile.......
I like how people talk about the ecomony - stuff like "the dollars is losing it value, too much of it's being printed, etc!
But yet millionares and billionares are being made from the stock market! Energy companies gaing over 400 Billion DOLLARS in profit; half of the TARP should I remind you!
Total BS - greed is killing the ecomony and making the middle class poorer - $3.50 gallon gas and other high energy prices is making oil companies and stock holders wealthier... regular middle class Americans poorer!!
America's economy is going into high unfair energy cost...it's draining America's wealth!!!
Stop the lies - you greedy bastards!!!
TRUTH - not CRAP
Thank you and GOD BLESS AMERICA
AMEN !!!
the oil compoanies hate obama , they will make sure gas is 5/6 bucks a gallon come next summer so no way obama wins next november
How good an economy do you think we would have if that wasn't happening. The bottom line is that the rich were also hit very, very hard during the financial meltdown. Very few are as wealthy now as they were before. You say greed is ruining the country and use gas prices as an example is silly. How much of that $3.50 is profit for the company? If you were to use the I-Phone you might have a point, but not gas prices. Our energy companies are way too small to be affecting the price significantly and they make a small margin on a whole lot of volume. This is my point, you are blaming the energy companies for greed when that is not the problem. By the way,I am not sure you are right about the $400 billion profit for energy companies with half being from Tarp. Do you have evidence for that, I would be happy to see it.
Limb.....Our oil companies don't have the power to do that. They might be able to tweak things about 10-20 cents. Quit blaming the wrong people.
If that is the case they should be tried for treason! Price gouging is illegal! And, although you would like to think so, the American people are already seeing through this tactic! I don't care if gas goes up to ten dollars a gallon! We all know who's fault it is. The people that defend multimillionaires and take cheap shots at those who aren't are on their way out. Keep dreaming Limbaugher, when you wake up after the election, I hope you can convince your party to start doing something for all of us and not just their own pockets!
Haaaa!!! TRUMP just fired himself from TRUMPAPALOOZA !!!!!! Yet another proud moment for the GOP clown show !!!!! I DEMAND he show his CLOWN CERTIFICATE !!!!
Is a vote a Poll?
-Darla Rockefeller, "OUR GANG".
Can a Pollock vote?
Archie Bunker, "All in the Family".
So Gingrich is going to make Romney feel guilty so he won't ask questions? hmmm
So we have a type A beating up on a type D and making him stutter and say weird things - dang.
We already knew Gingrich was a dirty rotten scoundrell, oh the humanity of it all.
These flipper billies want to be president, no - no and no.
I'll bet ya $10,000 that Mitt doesn't win.........
You can't be too hard on politicians about flip-flopping. 1. That is what they do (all of the them) 2. People should change as more information becomes available. Now the one you really need to be scared of is the one that doesn't take a stand on an issue.......or just votes "present".
The Affordable Care Act is Working
This is what Republicans want to repeal:
Here is where we have problems.....Your definition of working is not my definition of working. It looks like your definition of success is simply more people being insured. I have a stricter definition of success, than simply passing a law that requires people to participate and gives them money to particpate. First, while more people are participating, it is also making things more expensive, above and beyond the normal increase. Second, I am against all the "tax credits" regardless of what they are for. Things like that are all these loopholes that corporations get that you keep complaining about. These tax credits are temporary. This is just the start. The big issues haven't even taken effect and we are already paying more. By the way, do you know how many businesses will not hire more people because of this law? How can we figure that out?
Put,,,, Maybe you will listen to the The Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law
They say The Affordable Care Act Is Working! Turning Back the Clock Would Hurt Millions of Americans
http://www.theshriverbrief.org/2011/01/articles/health-care-reform-1/the-affordable-care-act-is-working-turning-back-the-clock-would-hurt-millions-of-americans/
There are many business sources that prove it's working including Forbes
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2011/05/23/more-solid-proof-that-obamacare-is-working/
Jim.....Like I said before, you goal and my goal is different. Yes, turning back the clock would hurt millions. I don't want to turn back the clock, but I want to repeal "Obamacare". I think it is a disaster and it will get worse as time progresses. There are some good provisions, but 50-75% of it is junk and should never have been passed. We should repeal it and start over with the things we do agree with.
I just showed you it's not the disaster you or conservatives have claimed ---- It's actually working & will get even better in 2014
Opposing just because conservatives tell you too simply isn't honest or Christian ----- It was the same thing conservatives used to defeat Hilary Care
Jim.....It will be. The "disasters" we see with the bill won't happen overnight. We are looking 20 years down the road. We are already seeing some things happening that are going to cause problems in the future because of this bill. It also wasn't the same thing that defeated Hilary Care. It was proposed, but conseratives far and wide didn't accept it and the republicans had to pull back from their porposal.
Now, ask how many have had to stop insuring their own child (like me), because the cost of health insurance has more than DOUBLED in the last two years. (The only reason I still have insurance for myself, is because my employer pays for it) So much for the AFFORDABLE health care act!! Please, and now I'm going to have to risked be fined for not being able to afford health care. Please tell me how this is supposed to be a good thing....
PutAmericafirst - you are absolutey wrong!!! Energy cost is the culprit of our failing or slow ecomony recovery!!!
Think about it!!! If one has to saved the little money he makes to buy price gouged gas and oil. Or companies have to add cost to off set energy cost in products and services - how in the hell can you say that doesn't affect U.S and the ecomony.
I am talking 400 Billion in profits, PROFITS!!!! that crazy. When a family of 4 is living off of minimal wages and spending a 1/3 of that earnings on gasoline!!!
I don't give a damn - that is wrong!!! Gasoline is a necessity!!! people can't just walk away from it!
Such product and services need to control and regulated by the Government that supposed to be protecting it's people from enemies - foriegn and domestic!!!
Yes when a money war is being waged against people ... the culprits are enemies of the people.
TRUTH - not CRAP
Thank you and GOD BLESS AMERICA
Put,,,, Also keep in mind that this involves trillions in commerce.... It is constitutional under the Commerce Clause
The Supreme Court stood on the side of federal government on smaller issues of state's rights,,, They definitely will on this which involves trillions in commerce
You are right that energy costs do create a slowdown in the failing and slow economy. The problem is that you simply don't understand profit margin. Everything else aside, how much do think that an energy company should make as profit on $3.50 gas? Also remember that most of that $400 billion in profit goes to companies that are controlled and regulated by the government. We are talking about huge companies and a major part of our economy, so of course there is going to be a huge number in profit.
I wondered how long it would take for good ole Mitt to show his true mean streak. Not long.
PutAmericanFirst - profits are fine - unfair practices to get them is criminal!!! That's the difference!
Oil companies were making profits ...way before they decided to hike up the prices. I am not just talking gas at the pumps...I am talking energy as a whole.
They just dumped the supply and demand concept ... now they just fix the price and bet on it!!! A win win.
Do you see the average American - guessing what they should pay at the pump and then paying it?
of course not - so why do oil companies and wall street get to do it. It's BS and no amount of double talk will change that!!!
They are robbing U.S. because there is no "police" to stop them. Plain and Simple!!!
Seriously - a 2 year old child would understand exactly my point!!!
TRUTH - not CRAP
Thank you and GOD BLESS AMERICA
Romney's fortune was made by robbing the poor and laying people off. I'm not sure anyone can wave flags promoting this record. Romney is a flip-flopper extraordinaire. Gingrich is right to call Romney's bluff. Call Romney at his game.
Romney is not a trustworthy person. He has no position on any issue.
March Madness,
That's not true, Romney has at least two positions on every issue.
Can't you just hear him stuttering in a debate with Obama. The thought sends chills
down my spine. Not tingles, chills.
We need a Bulldog and Gingrich is it. He will chew off Obama's legs at the knees.
The theme? Socialism vs American's deep set standards. No more of his phony "hope and change" crap, I can hardly wait. Get ready to rumble!!!!
The ongoing problem is that BOTH sides continue to squeeze every nickel out of the middle. The Dems and Repubs on this post play into the hands of those at the top. They blame and whine only about the other side. The 'facts' are twisted or ignored. With the sole exception of Ron Paul there is no difference in ANY Democrat or Republican. It is probably too late to change course in any easy way. Unfortunately we will have to blow-up or crash and then re-build. The failure of both sides to see that they are half the problem, will ensure the problem continues. Shame on us for not using any critical thinking.
These are possibly the 5 best sentences you'll ever read: Unfortunately, most voters don't know this.
1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealth out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them; and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work, because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.
These are possibly the 5 best sentences you'll ever read: Unfortunately, most voters don't know this.
1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealth out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them; and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work, because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.
Obama will definately pull through. Democrats and any smart independent won't allow a wussy moron like Romney to get the presidency, and Gingritch has ZERO chance. Repugs can hope all they want, but if it wasn't enough for Kerry, it won't be enough for Romney or Gingritch
MSNBC is praying that Romney prevails in the DOP race because (a) he is the poster boy for the 1% of Americans and (2) contrary to what is written, he is an unimaginative debater. They really don't want to have to face Gingrich who, although having a shady past, has a first class mind.