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“President Obama has message for Wall St. — I will not demonize you, just Mitt Romney and his ties to you,” the New York Daily News writes.
“The White House struggled Wednesday to contain the growing uproar over its birth-control mandate, with Democrats peeling off one by one in what has become an increasingly divisive election-year controversy,” The Hill writes. “Pressure to roll back the new contraception policy mounted quickly as the day wore on, driven by divisions among Democrats, mixed messages from President Obama’s advisers and a constant drumbeat from the GOP.”
“White House press secretary Jay Carney accused House Republicans of ‘caving to pressure from Wall Street lobbyists’ by removing a provision from upcoming legislation that would require political intelligence firms to be registered as lobbyists,” The Hill writes. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s office defended the move, while Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley criticized the House GOP for it.
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Well since Goldman sacs, JP Morgan & chase, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley, GE are top campaign donors for POTUS I would guess he would not be demonizing wall street....at least not if he wants to get the same kind of money he recieved from all these entities in 2008. Kind of like the reversal on Super pac's.... it is immoral unless it helps the campaign.
Freaking liar...first PAC money now comming to NYC for a $38,000 per plate fundraiser. Libs are so stupidly blind... if they didn't exist we'd have to invent them.
Mr. President, brilliant move. This is why I hired you. You're smart and the singing is a pleasant bonus.
Which move is brilliant? Making it look like he is for Main Street and not Wall Street or coming clean and taking even more money from Wall Street than he did in 2008? Or continuing to try to play both sides?
Which ever he wishes. In fact I would think a man with a brain would not turn his back on either.
I should hope he takes notes from replblicans on how to play both sides like a fiddel. Afterall they are the experts.
If it were not for Wall Street, there would be no Republican Party. Moreover, it was the financial sector of Wall Street that brought down the economy and Republican deregulation, permissiveness, dereliction of duty, and naivety that made it possible.
Unfortunately, money talks and for Obama to campaign, he needs to be heard, especially after four years of Republican nonstop propaganda, distortions, smear, pretense, obstruction, and lies.
Why did he pretend in the first place? There are many republicans that play both sides of the fiddle but not all, same with the Democrats. We must be diligent and research who is a liar and who is not also what an individual stands for. There is little differences between Dems and Repub parties today both want more wars and expanded government, are for Wallstreet and the military complex, anyone claiming to belong to either party displays lack of independent thinking that's why "independents" are growing in numbers every day. People are waking up and starting to pay attention. They are starting to realize it is silly to be loyal to a party that constantly screws you, take your pick, both are corrupt.
BTW both parties are engaged in stripping our liberties as well in case you haven't noticed. It is also quite obvious Obama has learned well how to play both sides of the fiddle. Where he learned it is irrelevant, two wrongs don't make a right so arguing it is OK becuase the other guys did it is ignorant.
PTNY,
You hope he learns how to lie to voters better if it gets him elected is what you basically said. People like YOU are why this country is in trouble and why we have such trash to choose from in an election.
run dems run, but hope its not the womans vote which puts you in office? so much for convictions?
Twenty-six states already have the requirement that contraception is to be included in insurance policies written for health care. Houses of worship are exempt from this requirement in providing employee health care. Educational, business, and health care institutions are not exempt. In other words, half the states in the country have had such requirements for many years.
Roman Catholics, by a great majority, approve of and use contraception in America, in spite of Vatican reaction to the advent of "the pill." Male prelates determined that women should play sexual roulette and be open to the threat of cervical cancer, on the behalf of their being God's voice of opinion.
Why is this such a radical issue right now? Why is it now a "war against religion"? It's an election year and the same instructions already in effect in reality are part of women's health insurance requirements in national health care law being rolled out. Suddenly, women's health care is all wrong and President Obama invented it in order to attack religion! The fact that Obama is a born-again Christian is denied on the theory that only Republicans are Christians. Jesus suffered and died for the Republican Party members exclusively.
This brouhaha is similar to the Bush, Sr. election issue that the flag, whether cotton, rayon, or nylon needed a Constitutional amendment that superseded the first amendment. The "flags are more important than people" issue stirred up the political pot and diverted attention from real issues to hyper-patriotic hysteria for a few wingers. In 1960 the issue was, Should we go to war with China if they took over the offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu? War!!!, said the right wing.
When the Republicans want an issue, they create one, full of hyperbole and gut wrenching emotion, but signifying nothing. So let it be with employee contraception insurance. The church's one foundation is Jesus, not medicine. If churches preach against contraception or blood transfusions, they are free to do so. If affiliated institutions that serve the public and hire workers, they need to obey the law like anyone else. That is democracy and the Constitution is democratic, not ecclesiastical. America is not the Vatican, Mecca, or Jerusalem.
If you throw glitter at a candidate, you are fined and jailed. If you throw the economy into a disaster, you get Republican defense and millions of bonus dollars. If you agree with Glen Beck who said about the OWS movement members, "These people will drag you out of your house, and they will kill you", Republicans will let it go. If you say that Wall Street is greedy and unethical in many cases, Republicans will claim that you are anti-capitalist.
Capitalism is an economic system. It is implemented by Americans, Russians, Iranians, the Chinese, Canada, Britain, Mexican drug cartels, and most of the rest of the world. What makes America different is not capitalism, it is the Constitution. Republicans see no problem in being anti-government and adding unwarranted amendments to limit freedoms, such as marriage, health care, civil rights, free speech, and the balance of power between government branches.
So, capitalism rules and the Constitution and the government are the problem with America. Republicans are strict reconstructionists.