You paid $5 a gallon in 2008 Spanky. You live in California. Remember? That was good old W. Want him back? Elect a Republican and watch another great depression happen.

need to get some of that fantastic $4.25 per gallon gas.

Thanks Obama, you are just great.

Stop blaming Obama for paying that much in oil. The reason why we are paying that much is because of the fluctuating markets. The markets fluctuate every time that asinine people like Santorum or Rommney threat to put troops in Iran. That is what the stock market does: acts on events around the world or RUMORS.

On the other hand, Big Oil has NO REASON to be charging us that much. That A****E Paul Ryan not only protects them to death. He gives the subsidies and they only pay 22 % in taxes as a corporation, the same as small business that do not get subsidies.

Do your homework and stop writing lies and blasting Obama as a hobby. Bowling is much better.

Hey Spark -- remember that $5.25 gas when Bush was in office?

I think you should just "GO"

The high gas prices are a result of Iran, not Obama,,, More of a fault of religious conservatives & neocons

Decades of right wing threats & today's "Israel 1st, America Last" conservatives are pushing for Israel to attack them only made things worse

Blaming the gas price increase on Obama is more right wing dishonesty & electioneering rhetoric that just doesn't float

spanky you know as well as I do that the President has no power over the market. Drill baby drill is a lie. What oil thats produced here in America goes to the world market. So why the snide remark about Obama? Did that make you feel good to post that. When the thats not true. I don't have a lawyer edumakaction but I did know from grade school that a President can't control the market. The problem is the laws that were passed to allow oil speculation.

Maybe you can explain this in small words so a moron such as I can understand? We park the fifth fleet off the shores of Iran and shut down Iranian oil exports. Oil markets react by raising the price of crude. Cause and effect, I think this would justify a conclusion that whoever parked the fifth fleet off the coast of Iran caused the price of oil to go up. No?

Spanky, it seems that lying comes to you very naturally.

Gingrich is a plus for the Republicans -- compared to Santorum.

Or should I say, less of a negative.

It looks like Obama/Biden in 2012.

The GOP candidates are idiots.

What happened to the GOP?

No way, an idiot like Santorum or Gingrich can get more than maybe 40% of the vote in the general, and that is being generous.

Romney could come a lot closer, but the GOP is so messed up, they can't hold their nose long enough to nominate him.

The GOP is dead. I think the Tea Party had more to do with their death than anything else.

Last Summer, when they were willing to destroy the economy over stupid things like taxing the rich, they signed their own death warrant.

Now that the dialog has become birth control, they are, what did the Munchkins say? " ...morally, ethically, spiritually, physically, positively, absolutely, undeniably, and reliably- dead!"

RIP the GOP. Tea Party bigots, you lose.

And Spanky, is that the best you can do? You are representative of most conservative bloggers these days -- all out of gas, with nothing intelligent to contribute to the debate.

No John, Our fleets have been there before many times,,, Don't let anyone tell you differently

Decades of crap from our right wing combined with more ignorant rants from the right supporting Israel has amplified the situition ------ Our conservatives with their stupid attacks against Islam made matters far worse.... Conservative candidates promise to attack Iran

Obama's sanctions against Iran I'm sure had some bearing on it, so did the UN oppositon to Syria, however because of his sanctions no bank will lend to Iran & they can't maintain the embargo. And you can't deny that our conservatives haven't been stirring the pot making things far worse

Why is SPANKY so dumb??

Why does SPANKY think that PRESIDENTS control the HOT MONEY INVESTMENTS of INVESTMENT BANKS, HEDGE FUNDS AND THE MEGA WEALTHY??

Oh yeah, that's right, SPANKY IS A GOP/MORON who hasn't the foggiest.

And SPANKY AND HIS GANG are going to vote for POPE SANTORUM AND THE BEDROOM POLICE,

or is it OFFSHORE ROMNEY AND THE DETROIT PISSE DONS, or is it the serial PHILANDERER WITH DELUSIONS OF RELEVANCE NEWT GETRICHER??

Who knows....

...yeabut...yeabut...yeabut...Newt wants a "moonbase"...now THAT'S gotta be woth it, right?

I don't think those were simple enough words.

It is a simple if, then statement.

I think the answer in this particular situation is an undeniable "yes".

To Bob and Rob,

Sorry, your guys are going down.

The GOP is dead.

Mr. Gingrich:

If you still refuse to recognize that this President has made us safer by ending the war in Iraq, drawing down Afghanistan, weakening AQ, bumping off Bin Laden, elevating and restoring America's standing in the world after President Bush decimated it;

If you are still in denial that this President has created the conditions for our economy to recover (making our country safer) WITHOUT ANY HELP FROM GOP CONGRESSIONALS;

Then - you Mr. Gingrich who is so wildly misinformed- have not the qualifications nor standing to make remarks about US foreign or domestic policy.

It is you that threatens our National Security, Mr. Gingrich.

It is YOU and your extreme & distorted views that have to be defeated.

Backhouse

Pulling out of Iraq was done on a timetable that Bush put in place. THis is part of the problem, that a new President is subject to follow what a former President signed.

What is truly crazy is that Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich make Dr. Ron Paul look sane and actually make Mitt Romney look good.

I can't believe that Newt Gingrich is actually saying that the President in charge of getting Osama Bin Laden dead. The President in charge of using Predator drones to kill US Citizens (accused of being terrorists) abroad without trial. The President who signed the authorization to have the military take and keep US Citizens abroad in custody indefinitely. THAT PRESIDENT is the one that Newt Gingrich is saying is the one who is making America less safe ?

Are Republicans gullible or are they just truly incredibly stupid ?

[Oh yeah, that's right, SPANKY IS A GOP/MORON who hasn't the foggiest.]

For the record: He is a "conservative"...this week...

Iraq is only one part of American foreign policy, and President Obama is handling it extremely well.

I wonder why it's so difficult for the die hard republicans to realize that the majority of Americans like the president.. they may not agree with his policies, but they respect him... so when virtually every contender from the right is trying their hardest to be the Obama smeearer, they lose their way and get more votes to president Obama. Thanks GOP...the "stupider" you get, the easier you make the case for the president's re-election.

To Bob and Rob,

Sorry, your guys are going down.

Tragically, if Obama wins a second term .... America is going down.

bob-1805084, the reason gas prices tanked DURING the election in 2008 is because the Big Oil Companies were trying to influence the presidential election. They figured if they slashed gas prices it would make republicans look better and get them elected. It backfired and right after the election they started raising the prices and haven't stopped.

I expect Big Oil to try and influence the election AGAIN by raising gas prices in the hopes people will blame Obama and no re-elect him.

If Obama doesn't win a second term the Republicans WILL FINISH the job of DESTROYING AMERICA. They almost did it under Bush and want to complete it.

Bob many numbers,

Tragically, you don't realize, that Obama has saved your butt.

spanky you know as well as I do that the President has no power over the market.

Uh..are you sure about that? lol

"Because the fact is, he is incapable of defending the United States."

People with Alzheimer's shouldn't run. He forgets that Obama killed Osama B., not Bush.

Grandapa Gingrich! Get your sleepers and go to bed. Take your viagra.

What is it with these simple-minded right-wing liars? Folks, just type this into a search block: U.S. oil production.

You will find that oil production has increased during the Obama Administration to the extent that the U.S. is a net EXPORTER.

That is why you have an "ignore" option. Neither Spanky nor Bob 180 can be trusted. Don't waste your time with them.

Tunde Akins

What you state is factually inaccurate, in fact, 39% strongly disapprove while only 26% strongly agree. And registered Democrats have dropped from 37% to 33% in the last three months.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll

We can do it

The fact of the matter is that the President owns your butt.

http://www.infowars.com/obama-administration-demanded-power-to-indefinitely-detain-u-s-citizens/

Only in the USA could someone lead off with a post that illustrates our inherint ignorance. The President of the US (just like when Georgie boy was Prez) has NOTHING HE/SHE can do to affect the price of oil and gas. Period. You can be childish and blame the figurehead in office, but it only shows how much like a child you can be. Oil prices are the greatest "drug sell" going. No one I know can explain how the prices rise and fall. The bottom line is, between Obama and whomever gets elected over the next few decades, it will be important for the USA to release itself as much as possible from the OIL BOOB. its flammable crack!

THis is part of the problem, that a new President is subject to follow what a former President signed.

John, you are sooooo off base with the RNC/TEA talking point of the day.

If this statement you made were true, then dubya would NOT have decimated Clinton's balanced budget and the U.S. would NOT have the economic problems we've dealt with these past ten years.

Now, if you make such un-true mis-statements and present such a skewered GOP-Tea take of the situation, then we must assume ALL your positions are the same way. Thus, no one can believe the things you are posting against the American President.

Bush won the war in Iraq. I guess I missed that one, after killing a hundred thousand Iraqis, allowing Al Qaeda into the country and creating a civil war where police can't even go to training without being bombed is a strange interpretation of winning. Maybe you are talking about the oil we get. It's news to me that we are out of Afghanistan also, but since Obama killed Osama we should be. Bush II has always been overly friendly with the muslims, why do you think they were able to do 911?

What you all seem to be missing is the fact that local, state and federal tax on gas. This "TAX PROFIT" is far larger than any of the oil companies and are the single highest cost to be associated with the price of gas. Fuel Tax Reform with lower taxes would do more than any other item in lowering the cost of gas.

Oh my - you all are funny. Or is it you just can't read? My comment specifically recalls '08, or did you all miss that part?

Do I know the pres. is not responsible?

Why is that not the funniest part of all - see this here is the You Tube age. I have seen 50 videos of Pelosi, Schumer and other big brained libs doing nothing but blaming Bush in '08.

So what's different now?

THat's right - just the color of the pres. Blue now, so it's all good. But, boy howdy, when it was red?

Oh my.

john many numbers,

A Foxmussen poll AND an InfoWars link...in one post? You sure did blow your load on that one...you should have stretched out your ignorance over a few posts...that would have been the gift that keeps on giving.

Gas at $5.00 plus means Obama is toast.

Again - 'member all the way back to '08? I do - messed up gas prices and tanking housing.

Let's see housing is way worse now [good old Obama has only made it worse] and now oil is 'skyrocketing.'

You all are familiar with that word, right? Yep, it is exactly what Obama wanted our energy costs to do.

Way to go Obama, mission accomplished.

So we all going to go get us Fisker Karma or Volts? At least President 'Skyrocket" is looking to get some some more hybrid subsidies.

Man - I just read my pal Mark c's comment at #1.3.

Impotent libby rage, or you think life's just got him down?

Plus, like so many other above he either cannot read, or lacks reading comprehension skills.

Yo MarkC - see how I harkened back to '08? Yeah, guess not.

So if I have dog @!$%# for brains, what must that say about you, my precious, if very violent little friend.

Bob, bob, troll bob;

You've done it again.... completely amazed me!

Name a friend.

Pakistan? Saudi Arabia? Egypt? Libya? Iraq? Israel? Russia? China? Canada? UK? Mexico? Poland? Chech Republic? ....... Who repects the US under Obama? And why would they?

Why, they ALL do, why do you ask? Oh! "And why would they?" I will answer for you: Because Obama is President, and NOT Bush. Simple!

Heck .... Bush is even more popular among Muslims of the world than Obama - FACT.

We all know that bob. The Muslims are HIS friends. He even sneaked Bin Laden's family out of the country safely after the 9/11 attacks, remember? But hold the phone! I thought you and your RWNJ RNC-Tea friends were trying to spin it that President "Huesin" Obama was the Muslim supporter.....

You guys truely need to get your lies straight before spouting them. You all get too confused.

Not as stupid as yo uthink

The withdrawal of American military forces from Iraq has been a contentious issue within the United States since the beginning of the Iraq War. As the war has progressed from its initial 2003 invasion phase to a multi-year occupation, U.S. public opinion has turned in favor of troop withdrawal. As of May 2007, 55 percent of Americans believed that the Iraq war was a mistake, and 51 percent of registered voters favored troop withdrawal.^[2] In late April 2007, the U.S. Congress passed a supplementary spending bill for Iraq that sets a deadline for troop withdrawal, but President Bush vetoed this bill soon afterwards.^[3][4] All US Forces are mandated to withdraw from Iraqi territory by December 31, 2011 under the terms of a bilateral agreement signed in 2008 by President Bush. The U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq was completed on December 18, 2011 early Sunday morning.^[5] Immediately, following the departure of American soldiers in Iraq, on December 19th, an arrest warrant was issued for the Sunni Vice-President Al-Hashemi. He has been accused of involvement in assassinations and fled to the Kurdish part of Iraq.

Apparently I am not as stupid as you think, plus I know how to read.

Oh My goodness... There is more crap flying around here from Bob and Rob, that I need Roto Rooter to come to my rescue.... You guys MUST be paid operatives of Rove or something. You spout totally false numbers, statements and provide absolutely NO proof. It was over $4.30 (more in places) in 2008 until the world crash happened in the Fall, so I WILL give Bush credit for the decline in prices as he was partially responsible or at least under his term, for the crash.

Bush won the war? -laughable. Mr. "Mission Accomplised"

Negotiate a presence in Iraq? The Govt always said we were not going to stay. Obama pulled us out. Iraq did not want us there. I guess you guys think we should have just done what we wanted.

Loss of lives greater than Bush?-again laughable. Please check total deaths under each prez

Housing....If you guys are dumb enough to think ANYONE could turn housing around in 3 short years, then drink more kool aid.... it will take years to unwind the damage done by the free credit (caused by both sides).

How could he have done worse? Taliban back in charge? Let's see... we have killed almost all of their top people. They haven't been able to do anything other than blow up other middle easterners. Oh wait, we did just stop an attempt to bomb Washington. But gee... Obama can't protect us....

Back to topic. Newtie is going to lose..... he is now saying ANYTHING possible to get attention... he is a sad, despicable, immoral in EVERY way man who needs to fade away into the sunset and continue collecting his fees for being a "Historian" for big companies.

Finally, you guys who want us to bomb Iran... God save us from you people. They will turn right around and nuke Isreal, then we will get into the war because we HAVE to protect Isreal no matter how much trouble they cause. Then Russia and China will fight for Iran and we will have WWIII. Then I would love to be worried about $4.50 gallon..

By the way.. you pathetic winers about gas... Canada-our good neighbor who exports more oil than imports- is currently paying about $5.30 a gallon and their economy is doing well....

AND the US now is a net exporter so your idea the pipeline buys us security is just absolutely laughable.

Is there some point to this post john?????????????

What exactly are you trying to say (if anything.)

You: "Bush is even more popular among Muslims of the world than Obama - FACT."

Don't make any bets - if this is your best 'FACT".

We have a 'president in training', who hasn't learned the job, and never will! Most employers would have fired him before now... It is really the country's misfortune that many government dependent voters want to give him another ride! This is insanity! Shouldn't we have someone in this position with practical experience!

What Reagan said many years ago running against the 2nd worse president in history Jimmy Carter: "Are we better off now, than we were 4 years ago? Definitely not! We needed a change in 2009, 2010, 2011... and we can get it done in 2012! ABO, more than ever and before it is too late!

Spanky-

Gas at $5.00 plus means Obama is toast.

And what or who is going to replace him? one that will attack Iran for its oil just like the previous one?

I think most people who blamed Bush for high oil prices was because in 2002 he said that if we went into Iraq oil prices will come down and that the war would be paid by it. What happened? the price oil went almost to 5 dollars and we are still paying for the war and every year will keep adding to the debt.

The only reason they came down is because oil consumption here and all over the world went down because of the recession.

Not as stupid as yo uthink

It was in reference to one president being subject to the policies of his predecessor.

So alex cali - Obama and his sec. of energy said they want energy costs to go up. In fact Chu said he wanted our gas to cost what it costs in Europe, which at the time was $8.00 per.

Sounds fantastic, right?

Bye the way - demand for gas is way down right now. Yet costs are up.

Ready for Depression, part II? $5.00 is flat out unsustainable.

Me, I can afford to fill up for $100 per. But what about the 2 million that have left the job market cause there are no jobs?

See ya, Obama.

Replying to idiotic right wingers on this vine is a waste of time, their already brain dead so why bother. I will however respond to Gingrich claiming that President Obama "is incapable of defending the United States". Well Newt baby have you forgotten about the thousands of the terrorists that have been blown away since President Obama took office; or do you just like making S#$% up..............Oh BTW, As Joe Biden recently stated. " GM is alive and Bin Laden is dead " so chew on that for awhile you old phony P(*%#@ . I guess we'll just have to forgive Newt after all he is close to a hundred years old and he forgets things.

But at least Vegas was rocking last week, eh Big Al?

Yeah, if only you all could get you housing issues solved.

So Big Al - GM makes all it's coin off of big old cars, trucks and SUVs. Not the 200 - 500 Volts it sells per month.

So care to predict how it'll do now that gas is at PLUS $4.00?

YEP, gonna get downright nasty.

bob-1805084 negotiate a presence in Iraq ? They wanted their frickin country back period, complete without any foreign presence and no President could have convinced the Iraqi government or it's people to settle for any less.

Drawing down in Afghanistan ? That country hasn't been able to be be conquered for centuries, what makes you think that the US is any different than all of the other countries that have tried and failed ? Besides, I believe even the US commanders in Afghanistan concurred and recommended the withdrawal. Did you not learn anything about fighting an un-winnable war from the Vietnam fiasco ? I also remind you that the PRIMARY purpose of going into Afghanistan was to get Bin laden and weaken Al Qeada, NOT to colonize and occupy the country forever. So Bin Laden is dead and Al Qeada is severely weakened and it's time we withdrew. Returning Taliban is now the Afghan governments problem, not ours !

Elevating and restoring the US world standing ? The Bush administration pretty much ruined that for us long ago and it will take decades of good foreign policy to ever regain that standing again. You can't expect respect or ellicit trust from the rest of the world when it has been proven that the Bush and Cheney Administration blatantly lied about WMD's to facilitate the invasion of Iraq. Global corporations, with many based in the US have also had a hand in turning other countries of the world against the US by spreading their greedy neo-imperialistic expansion worldwide, usually with economically devastating results to the populations of those countries. The present world economic crisis has been largely precipitated by the US and European banking systems selling derivatives and toxic assets to countries who were stupid enough to believe that the investment deal was on the up and up, only to find out that the US banking industry knew well in advance that what they were selling would ultimately fail ! Those countries bought fraudulent investments from crooks, US crooks ! The fact is, is that most people of the world no longer Trust the US political system (even many US citizens question it's democratic integrity) and any threat of a possible GOP presidency will only weaken confidence in the US. Most of the people I talk to visiting from foreign countries tend to overwhelmingly favor and trust USA Democrats over Republicans. Of course many are from democratic socialist countries, you know, the ones that have universal healthcare, longer paid vacation times, a higher standard of living and upwards mobility (in spite of paying higher taxes), better education, subsidized college tuition, better retirement, and have a higher happiness/well being index ranking than the US !

Bush more popular in Muslim countries than Obama ? fact ? Prove it, name a credible source and Fox news doesn't count as being credible !

IMO, you have failed in every one of your statements which appear to be much the same repetitive song we will unfortunately hear from all of the GOP candidates for the next 10 months leading up to the 2012 election. I can't wait for it to be over and see what the GOP's next move will be after they are wisely and deservedly rejected by the voters.

Spanky-

So alex cali - Obama and his sec. of energy said they want energy costs to go up. In fact Chu said he wanted our gas to cost what it costs in Europe, which at the time was $8.00 per.

Sounds fantastic, right?

Bye the way - demand for gas is way down right now. Yet costs are up.

Ready for Depression, part II? $5.00 is flat out unsustainable.

Me, I can afford to fill up for $100 per. But what about the 2 million that have left the job market cause there are no jobs?

Demand hit its lowest in 2008 and it has come up every year after that... Another LIE from you...

And you thin that just because oil will hit 5 dollars a gallon somehow Obama its not worthy of reelection?

I think its the opposite, they know that under a republican it surely means war for oil.

Bottom line is US consumption is down and supply is up, we are selling gasoline abroad, supply demand in the US has nor effect on US gas prices so maybe some free market expert can explain that to us. I guess you want Obama to suggest who the oil companies can sell their oil to, if you think he is responsible for US gas prices. Electric cars baby that's the future, face it, embrace it, gas will never do anything but go up, it can't possibly do anything else.

Ahhhhhh, Mr. Obama stated: "I deserve to be re-elected." Based upon WHAT ? His FAILED domestic and international policies ? Or his receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize ?

Just love the moderator ignoring the Liberal posters' comments below and not collapsing the posts or terminating the posters for a week or more:

• blow the dog sh1t that passes for your brains......
• GOP candidates are idiots…idiot like Santorum or Gingrich…Tea Party bigots.....
• SPANKY IS A GOP/MORON.....
• Republicans gullible or are they just truly incredibly stupid.....
• Thanks GOP...the "stupider" you get....
• You sure did blow your load on that one...you should have stretched out your ignorance over a few posts....

However, this is the TYPICAL mindset of the Liberals~Progressives and those who want Mr. Obama to finish his "Transformation of America" and continue his "Destroy America" agenda.

Watch.....5...4...3...2..1...and this comment will be COLLAPSED.

Spanky-

Ready for Depression, part II? $5.00 is flat out unsustainable.

Somehow i sense happiness in you saying this????? Another Patriot American willing to see the country fail in order to defeat the President.

Remember that the president has authorized drilling in our oil reserves how long till this run out?

IMAGINE THAT!!! DRILLING OUR RESERVES!!!! I NEVER THOUGH I WILL SEE THAT DAY.

This makes me very sad.....

BUT!!! with this president hes leadership and wisdom im very sure he will lead us to a better America a more energy independent America.

Obama 2012!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Someone ask Osama bin Laden if Barack Obama is capable of defending the United States.

Oh, wait...

John B, Des Moines, IA

It might be more important to ask yourself if Mr Obama is capable of his oath to protect your rights in the Constitution.

http://www.infowars.com/obama-administration-demanded-power-to-indefinitely-detain-u-s-citizens/

john-737278

John B, Des Moines, IA

It might be more important to ask yourself if Mr Obama is capable of his oath to protect your rights in the Constitution.

http://www.infowars.com/obama-administration-demanded-power-to-indefinitely-detain-u-s-citizens/

You are providing a link to infowars??? No way man!! have you ever read the comments of the people who go there? Most of them are not American and speak ill of us. Are you sure you want to add that link on here??

Naa alex - Obama said he wants the cost of gas to go up, just incrementally.

Oh and why did we go to war in Uganda and Libya again?

But see, here in the libbie paradise that is Cali - it has jumped about $.30 in about two weeks.

Not super incremental, right?

Nope, Obama has defeated himself. Oil, unemployment and of course rampant deficits.

So Forrest - Volt or Karma? Pruis? You do have an electric by now, surely. I can call you shirley, right?

Me, I'd settle for a budget. But we all know that'll never happen on Reid's watch. Now why is that?

john, I can see that you have no answer for my question based on your immediate attempt at deflection to a site with headlines including;

"Former CIA boss says Iran will attack the Stature of Liberty"

"Troops march on White House in support of Ron Paul"

and "Government resurrects plan to monitor all calls and emails"

So why don't you just pull your tinfoil hat on a little tighter and tell us if Osama thinks President Obama has the ability to defend the United States.

spanky You can afford a 100 dollars for a gallon of gas or a 100 dollars for a tank full. Which one is it? Or both?Just rub it in our faces. The 1% speaks! Thank You!

Spanky-

Naa alex - Obama said he wants the cost of gas to go up, just incrementally.

Oh and why did we go to war in Uganda and Libya again?

But see, here in the libbie paradise that is Cali - it has jumped about $.30 in about two weeks.

Not super incremental, right?

Nope, Obama has defeated himself. Oil, unemployment and of course rampant deficits.

So Forrest - Volt or Karma? Pruis? You do have an electric by now, surely. I can call you shirley, right?

Me, I'd settle for a budget. But we all know that'll never happen on Reid's watch. Now why is that?

war in Libya and Uganda??? when, how, what??

Can you provide a link to where Obama said he wants the cost of gas to go up????

You LIE again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If Obama has defeated himself, then the republican party has committed suicide by now!!

On rampant deficits, Obama has lowered the deficit from 1.42 trillion under the worst recession in the last 100 years. And we will see it below 900 billion by next year.

Its funny how you don't like California... You have probably lived here all your life and the only thing that's left for you to say is that you don't like it. Remember that California once was the sixth largest economy in the world, it has gone to 9th place, but as a proud Californian i will always love my state. Too bad you might get to be buried here.

Wall Street speculation? Follow the money, you will find the answers. We pay, they profit. Maybe thier are to many regulations in place, and that's why oil is sky-rocketing.

So alex - you don't know about the 'kenetic military' event we just ended in Libya, or our current adventures in Uganda?

Really? Come on my man, ignorance is not bliss.

But sure is amusing.

Obama said our "energy costs will necessarily skyrocket." Again chief you can google, yes?

Cali is great, cause we are killing the whole global warming thing. Hey, just for fun google Germany and global warming. Seems they are totally backing off. Odd, right?

But it's ok alex - I got a very nice house in Arizona. Gas is always at least $.40 cheaper and buying guns is easy. God's country that. :)

Smitty - I meant $100 per tank, so far. Per gallon? Seems like that's what Chu wants.

Newt Gingrich said Monday a Republican win in November is "a duty of national security,"

Speaking the obvious won't convince the many sheep who have drunk the koolaid of government handouts, courtesy of the annoited one!

One should always remember two truths:

1) There is no such thing as a free lunch, someone is paying for it

2) and when you begin to think that having your government provide for you and make your decisions is ok, realize that you've also given up the freedom that goes with making your own choices.

Too many people today prefer the handouts to having real freedom.... our country is going down the toilet! We're becoming the Argentina of the modern era.

"Can you provide a link to where Obama said he wants the cost of gas to go up????"

A quick search would have provided you with the following links.....starting with Mr. Obama's media blitzes during the 2008 Presidental campaign:

1. http://www.usmessageboard.com/politics/209121-obama-has-seen-one-of-his-wishes-come-true-higher-gas-prices.html
2. http://theblogprof.blogspot.com/2011/03/flashback-2008-obama-says-he-wants-gas.html
3. http://news.investors.com/article/601510/201202161851/obama-likes-high-gasoline-prices-.htm
4. http://www.wnd.com/2012/02/obamas-gas-attack/
5. et al.

Oh, don't forget.....Mr. Obama said that energy prices would skyrocket during his watch.....and the reason....he needs something to promote his "Go Green" initiatives sucking the $$$ from the taxpayers.

Spanky-

So alex - you don't know about the 'kenetic military' event we just ended in Libya, or our current adventures in Uganda?

Really? Come on my man, ignorance is not bliss.

But sure is amusing.

Obama said our "energy costs will necessarily skyrocket." Again chief you can google, yes?

Cali is great, cause we are killing the whole global warming thing. Hey, just for fun google Germany and global warming. Seems they are totally backing off. Odd, right?

But it's ok alex - I got a very nice house in Arizona. Gas is always at least $.40 cheaper and buying guns is easy. God's country that. :)

Smitty - I meant $100 per tank, so far. Per gallon? Seems like that's what Chu wants.

You said WAR... a war is one that costs 5,000 American LIVES and trillions of dollars.

In Libya we used 500 tomahawk missiles a few airplanes and one billion dollars.

Thats not war, i call that a minor fart.

"energy costs will necessarily skyrocket." you are right Obama does want the price of oil to go up.

especially when he said that speaking about hes cap and trade bill, which it never did happen. It was never even brought up in congress.

he even said this before he was elected president. Now tell me what steps he has taken to make this possible??? I dare you to show me a few examples???? jajajaja!!!!

Oil production has gone way up under Obama.

pipeline?? No way...ask yourself why Democrats want to add an amendment to the pipeline bill asking for all the oil produced by the pipe to stay in the United States?????

Seriously that's all you got LIAR???????

ldo

"Can you provide a link to where Obama said he wants the cost of gas to go up????"

A quick search would have provided you with the following links.....starting with Mr. Obama's media blitzes during the 2008 Presidental campaign:

1. http://www.usmessageboard.com/politics/209121-obama-has-seen-one-of-his-wishes-come-true-higher-gas-prices.html
2. http://theblogprof.blogspot.com/2011/03/flashback-2008-obama-says-he-wants-gas.html
3. http://news.investors.com/article/601510/201202161851/obama-likes-high-gasoline-prices-.htm
4. http://www.wnd.com/2012/02/obamas-gas-attack/
5. et al.

Oh, don't forget.....Mr. Obama said that energy prices would skyrocket during his watch.....and the reason....he needs something to promote his "Go Green" initiatives sucking the $$$ from the taxpayers.

Those are all Links to opinion pieces.

Show me some real facts of Obama saying that he wants oil prices to go up.

Where do you come up with this bizarre and misleading facts alex cali? From California? Perhaps you're a staff member of Gov. Moonbeam? That would explain a lot, lol!

Pride and Joy

Where do you come up with this bizarre and misleading facts alex cali? From California? Perhaps you're a staff member of Gov. Moonbeam? That would explain a lot, lol!

lol????? are you serious???

Show me something that seems like a fake fact??

They are about to recall the 3rd Governor in the last 50 years in Wisconsin and you come here and attack Governor Brown??? At least he will still have a job after the summer.

ldo ... can you actually provide a NON-BIASED link or is that asking for too much trouble? ALL of the links you've provided have a conservative slant. Just because Fox "News" and WND claim to be "fair and balanced" doesn't mean that they ARE. Just a QUICK perusal of the sites hosting those links shows how UNBALANCED they really are. But you go ahead and get your news from sources that only agree with you and knee-jerk your way away from listening to anything the "opposing side" has to say. People who do so tend to move our country AWAY from being "UNITED" States and back towards a Civil War.

Oh, so killing bin Laden made us less safe??? By eliminating most of al-Qaeda's chain of command with unmanned drones, trying to offer negotiations with the Taliban to make post-war Afghanistan more stable, helping Libyans overthrow a dictator who was responsible for the Lockerbie bombing, and using diplomatic and economic coercion to settle matters without sending the F-18s is making us unsafe??? What the hell are you smoking, Newt??? You are a historian; and yet you fail to understand how Obama's foreign policy is securing U.S. interests without endangering American lives or wasting trillions on stupid foreign adventures. There is no doubting it; the dumbing down of the GOP is complete.

Oh and to all those oil price ranters (I'm talking to YOU, Spanky), the President has relatively no control over oil prices, unless he were to dictate it as a socialist leader; oh no wait, you Teapublicans already think that. Oil production is up, so that leaves drill baby drill obsolete and the law of supply and demand out of the cause of this increase. The real factors are the growing fuel consumption in America thanks to the recovery and foreign events. Maybe I can convince you, Spanky; or maybe not...

Let's talk recovery. At the end of Bush's administration, gas prices were $1.86, mainly because of slackened demand. As the economy was weak, consumption was down to save money. But after the stimulus took affect and jolted the economy people began to feel more confident consumer-wise and began to consume more fuel. Gas prices rose due to increased demand, and so we have gas prices hovering (or used to hovering) around $3.80.

Now let's discuss foreign affairs. In 2008, there was no major foreign event at the forefront; it was solely the economy. But after the economy improved, and gas prices gradually went up, new tremors in the gasoline futures market emerged, mainly having to do with Iran's nuclear program. As tensions grew between the West and Iran, and the Iranian navy threatened to cut off the strait of Hormuz (like they did in 2008, which pushed gas prices past $4.25), through which 20% of the world's oil passes, oil went up. The second foreign event that pushed up costs was the Arab Spring. As protests occurred in oil-producing nations or countries near the major oil producers, investors got even more scared and pushed up prices. Eventually, the Arab Spring began to die down, with Libya overthrowing Gaddafi, Tunisia removing Ben Ali, Egypt taking out Mubarak, and other movements securing reforms from their governments.

The problem with Republicans blaming the President for higher gas prices is that A. Obama has nothing to do with prices and B. the GOP's policies of tougher policies against Iran (and the threat of an Israeli preemptive strike) would send gas prices easily past $4.50. And the GOP could provoke a war with Iran, sending prices as high as $6 a gallon.

Oh and Newt (and other insane right-wingers), American security has become stronger and safer as law enforcement have cracked down on terrorist plots from the underwear bomber to the Times Square bomb plot to bombs that threatened Jewish synagogues all across America to the threatened assassination of the Saudi ambassador. Plus Obama decimated al-Qaeda's chain of command and did so without endangering American lives. Combine that with his common sense foreign policy that uses diplomacy and economics first and force as a last resort, Obama has made America more respected AND more secure. If that ain't safety than I don't what is.

OBAMA BIDEN 2012

DEMOCRATS 2012

AMERICA 2012

DEATH TO THE FASCIST RIGHT-WING GOP

The RepublicaCrimeCartel Oil Executives, EACH ONE OF THEM a card carrying RepublicamCrimeCartelMember, are deliberately inflating gas prices terribly. The oil companies are "awarded crude oil offshore drilling fields" Which are PROPERTIES OF THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER. The Oil Companies get their fill and sell AMERICAN CRUDE on the world Spot Market, making a MegaKilling in profit. American gas prices are "tuned " to flowing American Crude Supply with these OilCompany CROOK'S Ears open to the middle east for excuses to INFLATE gas prices. 40% of OUR AMERICAN CRUDE MUST BE Refined for our Domestic Gas and Oil Market so that Americans SHOULD PAY NO MORE Than $2.75P/G for Gas and Home Heating Oil. This InflatingScam is a FRAMEUP ON Prez O to intentionally stop his American Economic progress; Notice? Just In Time For mudslinging and November Elections. This Whole VERY UGLY Gas/Oil disaster Is the Creation of The RepublicanCrimeCartel/Party to destroy PrezO's image and votes in November. Really, TheRepublicanCrimeCartel IS JUST THAT. These "men" belong in prison. There IS No More Threat to American Security Then The likes of MittTaxPittanceRommel, The Foul SelfEntitledGasBagTHEGangren and the "Wholesome looking Boy" The Vomitorium. These guys are Incompetent and RepublicanCrimeCartelSoldiers. let US get Rid of Them In November.

I see the liberal 'truth squad' has collapsed Spanky's comment!

And where have we heard about 'truth squads' before? Creeping socialism leads to erosion of freedom..... live at FR.

Many of the 'liberal' comments in this thread are in violation of FRs code of ethics, and should have been collapsed but weren't! What Spanky said was no worse than what you hear on msm any day without penalty.... ahh the hypocrisy and vindictiveness of the left is getting stronger every day!

alex cali

The link I gave was to infowars but more to video of Carl Levin a Democrat refusing to take the blame for what the white house wanted mandated. This video is all over the web. Not just at infowars. There are also many, many lawsuits pending stating that the President and Congress are both guilty of "abuse of authority". Clinton was impeached for getting a BJ, yet you are trying to justify this President violating our Constitutional rights. What king of patriot are you?

john-737278

alex cali

The link I gave was to infowars but more to video of Carl Levin a Democrat refusing to take the blame for what the white house wanted mandated. This video is all over the web. Not just at infowars. There are also many, many lawsuits pending stating that the President and Congress are both guilty of "abuse of authority". Clinton was impeached for getting a BJ, yet you are trying to justify this President violating our Constitutional rights. What king of patriot are you?

were you this pissed off during the Bush and cheney administration?

How do you explain that the patriot act was on of the most massive bills ever to go trough congress and it was done in 20 days from start to finish???

Go to their front page right now and read the story about how they have info on Iran trying to attack the liberty statue... Sometimes they have all these weird stories just to sell you more dvds and books.

OHH and they love ron paul and every week they have stories on how the US electorate is stealing the primaries from ron paul. Crazy!!!!

"If you're actually stupid enough to think that presidents have control over the price of oil then you should do the gene pool a big favor and blow the dog sh1t that passes for your brains out right now."

Markc-Well in 2008 you Liberals thought that, what changed now?

We have reached a crossroad in our Government..The articles and topics are getting more freakish,the feuding is getting worse, solutions are scarce..I'd rather have my head buried in the sand.

alex cali

As far as Bush-Cheney, In the beginning I liked Bush. I couldn't imagine that he wanted his Presidency to be about war. And then 8 months in 9/11. I also agreed with Iraq because it made a better killing field than Afghanistan, and a lot of radicals went there to have a chance to kill Americans.

Personally, I think we went about it wrong though. We should have carpet bombed Afghanistan with fuel air explosives and wiped out all the oxygen. Any supposed innocents were complicit and accessories because they did nothing about the bad element in their society. If we had done this it would have done two things. It would have ended it quickly with very few American casualties, and it would have sent a warning to anyone else thinking about attacking us. Mess with us and we will take out your entire family.

In the beginning of his second term, I started to feel the same way I do now about what we were losing because of the paranoia created by a few for profit.

Correction: there was a major event in the summer of 2008. Iran threatened to block the Strait of Hormuz because of threats to its nuclear program. Had they done so, gas would have gone up to over $250 a barrel, and over $7 a gallon.

the country is at risk "someday in your lifetime of losing an American city" from a terrorist attack.

Um, isn't he describing Bush? I believe he is the only president that allowed grand scale terrorist attacks on American soil.

Feisty: You have to factor in the clarity of his view (from the moon)and the lack of air might have something to do with what he sees.

Red, Yes, 9/11 took place while Bush was President and I believe he took the blame. However, remember he had only been President for a little over 8 months. He could have, and IMO, should have blamed the Clinton Administration. (Remember the independent commission put more blame on Clinton than Bush.) During Clinton's Presidency there were 7 or 8 terrorist strikes against American property and people.

But since Bush was President and it was on his watch you want to blame him. Well and good, so we can blames Obama for the high unemployment rate, high price of gasoline, more people on welfare and food stamps, more American soldiers killed in Afghanistan than under Bush, the killing of American soldiers at Ft Hood, TX by the Muslim shrink, because they all happened on Obama's watch.

Bob,

President Obama has kept the country safe...and its an achievement that we haven't been sucked into other wars with everything that's going on in the middle east.... if a GOP was in the white house (with their every chicken hawk mentality)... we would probably be fighting Iran or Libya or Syria right now....

The fact that we actually have a president who thinks means that we've made significant strides in foreign policy improvement over the last administration.

And lastly, when did you GOPers start discounting killing bin-laden - oh I c, when you couldn't kill him and you had 7 FLIPPING YEARS....and somehow ending up in Iraq.

Remember, President Obama said "If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf won't act, we will," .... he was chided by the GOPers and even some dems... and he did exactly that...prophetic enough for you.... if not enough, listen to his stands against the Iraq war in 2002...if you dont get good bumps wrt that, I'll help you look for something else.

I like my president, the "GENTLE WARRIOR" - no finger wagging, chicken hawk big talk - just get the job done and move on.

As for your belief that he was "sitting on the floor watching videos of his glory days"; Bin Laden was still directing AQ affairs when located.

Reviewing BL's tapes and computers: has allowed the U.S.A. to identify successfully dozens of his Associates & underlings who threaten(ed) the safety of Americans and citizens of the whole world.

However, remember he had only been President for a little over 8 months.

So what are you saying here?

Would that be the same President Bush who went to clear brush on his ranch EVEN though he had been briefed of an imminent attack on U.S. soil?

Like 'W' told them - you have covered your ass now leave...

I'm positive that brings comfort for all of those who lost loved ones on 9/11! *snark off*

But since Bush was President and it was on his watch you want to blame him.

I will continue to blame that POS until my last breath!

He was warned & IGNORED IT!

Try reading the 9/11 Commission Report.

Been there and done that!

Your remark is so stupid it doesn't even deserve a response.

Except Gomer - you little buddy, couldn't help yourself! lmfao! Here is a refreshing IDEA - why don't you practice what YOU preach?

Pull your head out of your fat rear end and do something constructive instead of waiting for your Obama talking points

Here is a better idea - why don't you go down to the corner and blow one of your buddies? It would bring not only YOU but your victim some much needed relief! Bottoms UP GOMER!

EPIC FAIL for you & the rest of the right wing nitwits! ☺

PS: My ass if MIGHTY fine & I thank you for your interest... Begging for any more of my attention is going to cost you Gomer!

According to rumors around wall street, many mid eastern camels are suffering from a really bad case of the runs. Many are not expected to pull through. A lot of oil field workers are standing by their animals rather than going to work. Stands to reason, this worries speculators. They rightly fear this could result in a decline in crude production, therefore they are raising prices in nervous anticipation of a shortage at some time in the future. Makes as much sense to me, at least, as anything Gingrich or any other goddamn republican says.

I saw Newt and Big Bird on tv today ..spouting that same old crap ..that says nothing !

HEY - Gomer - where did yo go?

Me? Gomer ? lol ;-)

sfcret

Fiesty the fat one,

I'm waiting for you to show me in the 9/11 commission report where it shows Bush knew exactly where and when the attack was going to take place. Link the page that shows your accusation, if you can't produce facts, no bother to reply. Just stay in your mothers basement with your head up your butt.

BTW, thanks for playing.

That is the post of a coward bully hiding behind hes computer.

Thanks for playing???? WTF!!! YOU THINK THIS IS A GAME?

Feisty, They all sound like "Gomers" to me when they try to support the GOP!

This November vote every GOP incumbent out of the House and Senate!

sfc ... are you really going to sit there an believe that Bush didn't have DAILY National Security Briefings? That he didn't have those National Security Briefings BEFORE he hit the Oval Office in January 2001? That he didn't have those briefings before he was elected? I got NEWS for YOU ... BOTH candidates start receiving National Security Briefings months before the election. They receive the SAME DAILY briefings as the outgoing President and continue to receive DAILY briefings once sworn into office. Bush GOT the warnings MONTHS in advance and DID N O T H I N G.

But maybe you're just effected by the ole NCO blindness. NCO's don't get briefings ... but your COMMISSIONED Officers sure did. THEY were the ones coming up with strategy because they are trained for it ... whereas NCO's are N O T.

Maybe that's why you don't know that Bush had been getting National Security Briefings for over a Y E A R before that beautiful Tuesday morning on the 11th of September, 2001.

Maybe it's just that you live nowhere N E A R either NYC or DC so you really have no freakin C L U E about what actually happened and how it impacted the lives of those of us who do. (I still live in the DC Metro area, my father - a retired AF COMMISSIONED OFFICER was supposed to be IN the Pentagon that morning and I used to work in Northern NJ and had friends who D I E D in the WTC collapse)

Amazing how they love to sling the mud, and simultaneously play the role of victim when it comes to 9/11. Bush did it again and again with the, "How was I suppose to know?". SF cretins have a world view that the mid-east crisis started in 1979 with the deposition of the Shah. They can never look further beyond to the establishment of Israel as the powder keg build up. This limited view shows how they can support the current candidates - they are the epitome of CLUELESS!

sfcret

Fiesty the fat one,

I'm waiting for you to show me in the 9/11 commission report where it shows Bush knew exactly where and when the attack was going to take place. Link the page that shows your accusation, if you can't produce facts, no bother to reply. Just stay in your mothers basement with your head up your butt.

BTW, thanks for playing.

The Clinton Administration did in fact warn the Bush Administration when they were switching over that Osama bin Laden and al Queda were an imminent threat to our national security. The Bush Administration didn't believe it, did nothing about it, and almost 3,000 citizens of the United States of America died for it.

Check out the YouTube vid 3L2513JFJsY

Robin Steele

Frankly, it does not matter anymore that the Bush administration was complicit in the 9/11 attacks. The fact is that Obama was brought in to finish the job that Bush started - to weaken the country, dismantle our defense, destroy our economy, and strip all citizens of their rights, jobs and homes. Stupidity can be best defined here as insisting that if one is bad, then the other must be good. That's what the congress, reviled by any real American with remaining brain matter wants us to think, but it is that divisiveness that is the backbone of their operation to sell off our country to our enemies in order to line their pockets. This is a crisis like the bay of pigs, we are a country without a functioning government - at least in the constitutional sense. Cash for clunkers, the healthcare reform law, the Gibson raids, all blatantly unconstitutional. A president who turns his back on Israel, destroys 3 decades of reasonably good relations with Russia and goes on an a$$ kissing tour of the Arab world. Forget about parties. They both suck. They both think we are here to make them wealthy and then die. If you are so blind as to think anything else, you shall reap as ye sow. A true look at our history tells us the good old days really weren't all that great, but at least we were secure in our jobs and possessions, the only monopoly we had to deal with was the phone company, and we were not on the brink of world war three.

WTF!!!!!!! You just wasted a few kb of space on the internet.

Red, Yes, 9/11 took place while Bush was President and I believe he took the blame.

Believe what you will, but he DIDN'T take the blame. What he did was react in the worse possible way and start two meaningless wars. This is fodder under the bridge, but apparently, you still believe the war in Iraq was about 9/11. Really, after 10 years, this is still what your believe? No wonder you support a conservative, for this is your xtreme boogeyman. The conservatives of today still believe in McCarthy communists living under the bed or sofa. You haven't changed in 50 years, you can't sh(olive)t or move off the pot. Thankfully, the rest of us do.

The Nation needs a new bumper sticker:

GIVE NEWT THE BOOT [again]

I woke up this morning with a big ugly zit on my nose, and my car wouldn't start either. Damn you, Obama! If only a Republican were in the White House my skin would have been clear and God would have protected my car's battery.

The basic fact is that George Bush trusted the Afghanistans & Pakistanis to help the US capture Bin Ladin in 2001-2002, but bin Ladin managed to slip out of Tora Bora, probably with the help of the same people he trusted. Obama knew better, and thus told absolutely nothing to the Pakistanis about the mission to take out bin Ladin--and it was accomplished.

Then, when the US could have used all its energies and resources on finding and capturing bin Ladin, Bush decided to focus on Iraq, under the mistaken premise that Iraq's pursuit of WMD's made them an even bigger threat. He did so in defiance of much of the world. If the US had spent as much energy and lives in Afghanistan as they did in Iraq, perhaps bin Ladin would have been taken out before Bush left office.

...when the US could have used all its energies and resources on finding and capturing bin Ladin, Bush decided to focus on Iraq, under the mistaken premise that Iraq's pursuit of WMD's made them an even bigger threat.

I agree. I think a large part of the reason things dragged on for nearly 10 years was a diversion of resources to Iraq in the middle of the ongoing war in Afghanistan. Rumsfeld was clearly incompetent in his job but Bush refused to replace him.

The reason bin Laden was not captured or killed during Bush's years is because he lost focus. Bush's focus shifted from punishing the perpetrators of 9/11 to punishing Saddam. The three biggest reasons that Bush touted for invading Iraq were all false: there were no WMDs, Saddam had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks and Al Quaeda had no presence in Iraq until we destroyed Saddam's regime.

Bush also chose his allies poorly, giving $Billions to Pakistan in return for their aid on the war on terror. When bin Laden was finally found he had been living for 5 years near Pakistan's most prestigious military academy.

Frankly, I just don't see how Obama could do much worse than the Bush comedy of errors!

Bob#######....you need to get someone to look at that short term memory loss, it leads to hoof in mouth in most cases.

Just so you remember Obama ran on a platform of ending the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq....he won in a LANDSLIDE against a War Monger (who now wants to go to war in Syria still trying to make up for the 5 planes he crashed in his distinguished career) and Stupid Sarah......he is half way to obtaining exactly what the overwhelming majority (including myself) voted him in to do. You do remember Of The People, By The People, For The People......don't you ..... ending the wars is what the majority want... that's the way this whole democracy thing works.

If you want to know what would happen if the Republicans win the presidential election....look at Portugal. They are the "poster child/ren" of what the Republicans say will save us. They are doing all the things that supposedly would help our economy.

Guess what? ....They are getting worse, not better.

Guess what else? ...The U.S.A. is improving and might have improved a lot faster had Congress not stood in the way of jobs creation in this country.

if you refuse to stop your program, long before it is completed you are going to get hit

That'll work if we can equip the moon base with a time machine.

Bottom line is republicans are incapable of rational thought, or thought in general.. I've given up even trying to discuss anything with these cretins...

I can only hope that those who claim to be moderate realize the far right wing represents the death of America

The only national security imperative is making sure Gingrich is NOT President!!!

Hey Newt referring to the sitting President as a threat to national security is a borderline treasonous statement. You talk mighty big, but, as usual, you're just a big noisome ball of hot air. You might want to step away from the spotlights: the heat might make you pop! Step away from the light Newt.

yes mr. gingrich, because your party did such a wonderful job the first time around.

if i were obama i would have cut off bin laden's head and put it on a pole above the white house so that people never forget.

The ole Newtster had to come up with some outrageous right wing comment to get a little attention back on himself. That's all he's doing here. He isn't even buying what he says.

Newt, you are no longer the GOP flavor this month. Get used to it, buddy...your friend Ricky will be the next to go.

Gingrich: “No American can second-guess an Israeli prime minister on the matter of survival”

Gingrich is a traitor and a stooge for Israel.

"President Obama has done more to protect the United States in 3 years then 'W' managed in 8...He just doesn't have to spend trillions of dollars and thousands of lives in the process..."

You are incorrect in your assumptions, but understandable since we have a President who lies regularly to us, and VERY controlled news we are ALLOWED to hear. He has killed more wars in three years then the last two presidents combined. But YOU will have to research that to find it out. The lies spoken and control of information causes your problem with knowing what is really going on. Feel free to check the news of a few foreign nations that do reports on the USA.

About Afghanistan, Senior ranking U.S. military leaders have so distorted the truth when communicating with the U.S. Congress and American people in regards to conditions on the ground in Afghanistan that the truth has become unrecognizable. This deception has damaged America’s credibility among both our allies and enemies, severely limiting our ability to reach a political solution to the war in Afghanistan." Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis, a 17-year Army veteran recently returned from a second tour in Afghanistan.

Actually how can anyone defend Obama putting Special Operations in over 140 foreign nations, Bush (who was a war monger had Special Operations in 60 foreign nations over 8 years. Obama more then doubled that amount in 3 years (actually less then three years when it hit 140).

Can we say "Media Blackout"?

"When the London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism released a report Sunday claiming that U.S. drone strikes have killed dozens of civilian rescuers and mourners in Pakistan, the American media scarcely noticed. "A New York Times story (which included an anonymous U.S. official smearing the researchers as Al-Qaeda sympathizers) might be the only story in the mainstream media;...". In other words, when the L.A. Times is talking about a media blackout, they're talking about themselves too.

Pretty sad when American citizens have to go to foreign news to get any true reports about what is happening here in America. Even rt.com has better coverage ,, and not "fluff" stuff meant to sidetrack and occupy US citizens attention like one does when using a mobile in a crib for a a baby.

“It’s ----- that our country’s main source of news is owned by a few large corporations that have a GLARING conflict of interest in providing us with accurate, honest information. They have an agenda both in downsizing news rooms as well as promoting certain political views. It’s time for us to hold them to account and demand a true separation of corporation and government, both in the running of and in the reporting of.” Elizabeth Moore.

Americn citizens may not realize it, but WE own the airwaves. Plus The Supreme Court stated in Red Lion v. FCC in 1969: “It is the purpose of the First Amendment to preserve an uninhibited marketplace of ideas in which truth will ultimately prevail, rather than to countenance monopolization of that market, whether it be by the Government itself or a private licensee. It is the right of the public to receive suitable access to social, political, esthetic, moral, and other ideas and experiences which is crucial here. That right may not constitutionally be abridged either by Congress or by the FCC.”

Yet, it is and once again, we are allowing it. Why?

Let me see, I accused Obama of lying to us, let me back that up. (And Gingrich is no better) I'll start with an easy one, NDAA. He lied about that he was going to veto it because the indefinite detention of US citizens on American soil part in it. While he was saying that to us, he was fighting to be able to have that "power" put into the NDAA, making sure that it was available to him via those he orders and not just the military. Senator Carl Levin (D-Mich., left), co-author of the bill, says that the Obama administration in fact heavily lobbied to have removed from the bill's language that would have PROTECTED American citizens from some of the bill's provisions, such as indefinite detention without trial. He does lie well, but that is because his speech writer is so good, and all he has to do is read it.

"Senior ranking U.S. military leaders have so distorted the truth when communicating with the U.S. Congress and American people in regards to conditions on the ground in Afghanistan that the truth has become unrecognizable. This deception has damaged America's credibility among both our allies and enemies, severely limiting our ability to reach a political solution to the war in Afghanistan." Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis, a 17-year Army veteran recently returned from a second tour in Afghanistan."

On September 8th, 2011, General William Shelton told lawmakers during a highly classified briefing. The four-star general is in charge of Air Force Space Command. According to the Daily Beast, "Pressed by members, Gen. William Shelton said the White House tried to pressure him to change his testimony to make it more favorable to a company tied to a large Democratic donor."

Democratic Nominating Committee (DNC) language does NOT include language stating Obama is Qualified, while the Republican Nominating Committee (RNC) document DOES. This shows a direct difference trying to establish that the DNC MAY possibly have known that Obama was not qualified. Department of Homeland Security is the third-largest government agency, after the departments of defense and veterans' affairs. Not including the billions the federal government spent on its own agencies, it has also disbursed many billions more to various state and local police agencies, ostensibly for the purpose of fighting the terrorist threat.

DHS created new surveillance opportunities for non-terrorist activity. In one notorious case from 2006, it was revealed that Homeland Security had given the remote Alaskan village of Dillingham (population 2,400) $202,000 to purchase surveillance cameras in order to track alleged terrorist activity.

Dillingham is not on any known terrorist's target list, so the only people the surveillance cameras were watching were the citizens. But surveillance wasn't the end of it.

He violated the law and the provisions of the Constitution by seizing control of GM and Chrysler without proper authorization from Congress.

Although his unlawful cronies in Congress granted him the authority after the fact, his action to seize corporations was a violation of the law at the time it was implemented. The fact that the U.S. Supreme Court allowed this atrocity is no matter. Thomas Jefferson said it best when he articulated a key principle of liberty--any government that willfully violates the rule of law and encroaches on the rights of the people ceases to be a legitimate government.

The first promise, Oath he broke was the Oath to " Preserve, Protect, and Defend the US Constitution as the "job he applied for" when he ran as a candidate (plus having been a Constitutional Professor, right?) requires of him, or anyone else who wants to occupy that office.

Nor has he uphold and enforce US laws as required: New Hampshire State Representative Harry Accornero has charged Obama with treason for failing to uphold federal immigration law and allowing illegal immigrants to not only remain in the country, but also to obtain work permits via executive fiat.

Taking care of foreign nations people before and above American citizens when sworn to represent America and American citizens: The Republican in charge of doling out foreign aid wrote to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressing "grave concern" over cash payments to Pakistan and asked they stop. Rep. Kay Granger of Texas, who chairs a subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee responsible for foreign aid, is singling out $190 million in "assistance for flood victims who lost their homes" in Pakistan the day after turning down American citizen assistance to those who lost 1000's of homes due to fire here in the US.

Fast and Furious - but I have posted that information here so many times you must remember it.

Putting the USA under UN laws that directly go against the US Constitution and the guaranteed Rights from our government: Gun Rights Free Speech: Internet

Warrantless gathering of information on American citizens

Contempt of the judicial branch

Contempt of the legislative branch - Obama essentially said that the judicial branch has no power over him. He ordered his attorneys to stay away from the hearing. He didn’t petition a higher court in a legitimate attempt to stay the hearing. Instead he showed complete contempt for the entire judicial branch and for the rule of law. Rather than respecting the legal process Obama went around the courts and tried to put political pressure directly on the Georgia Secretary of State. When that failed, he simply ignored the judicial branch completely. (and got away with it, even Nixon did NOT ignore the Judicial Branch of our gov.)

Warrantless searches

His use of ACORN as a campaign vehicle is a violation of the law. Entities such as ACORN are prohibited by the Federal Government from engaging in partisan political activity

Suspension of Constitutional Rights

Overreaching the executive branch powers

Using our military for UN war efforts

He broke a law that he himself pushed and helped pass as a Senator that provides protections for Inspectors-General who do their jobs by investigating corruption, waste, and fraud in government programs.

Refusal and arrests made for practicing 1^st Amendment Rights: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances”

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. We have not had a free press in about 30 years.

Stopping Religious Freedom

Those of you who compare Bush and Obama are on the right track. The problem is that it is a comparison of "good" vs "bad" while the truth of the matter is that Obama took every bad thing Bush did and extended and or added to it: Patriot Act, extended and added to it. Attacking our Rights as the Constitution guarantees that no one in our government can do - Warrantless searches, warrantless tracking devises, warrantless information gathering on all of us, collecting all cell phone information on us, collecting all internet information on us, hindering our movements around within our own nation; "Ordered U.S. Army active duty combat troops into the small civilian community of Samson, Alabama, USA"; etc

The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances. No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than that any of its provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government. Such a doctrine leads directly to anarchy or despotism." The Supreme Court of the United States, 1866

The Constitution of the United States specifies that an officer is to be impeached for "high crimes and misdemeanors"; experts agree that impeachment is permitted for noncriminal misconduct (e.g., violation of the Constitution), experts pointed out that federal judges had been removed from office for perjury. They further argued that a president had taken an oath to uphold all the laws and he had violated his duties as the nation’s chief law enforcement officer.

The framers wrote the United States Constitution, which delineated a constitutional federal republic. It would consist of three separate but equal branches which were not only designed to perform separate and distinct duties, but to keep each other in check, preventing one from gaining arbitrary power. All of these branches were to be checked by the standard of law set forth in the Constitution, which each officer of the government must swear to uphold. If those officers should fail to keep their oath of office, then it is not only the right but also the duty of those who chose those officers to remove them. The success of this form of government depends heavily upon the vigilant and attentive execution of these duties.

The definition of maladministration is wide and can include:

• Delay
• Incorrect action or failure to take any action
• Failure to follow procedures or the law
• Failure to provide information
• Inadequate record-keeping
• Failure to investigate
• Failure to reply
• Misleading or inaccurate statements
• Inadequate liaison
• Inadequate consultation
• Broken promises

"Perjury" – “lying under oath about a material matter", "violation of an oath".

“Bound” – “Being under legal or moral obligation; To constitute the boundary or limit of; To set a limit to; confine”

Treason – “The Constitution defines treason in Article 3, Section 3, Clause 1:Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court”.

“misapplication”: “To administer or manage inefficiently or dishonestly “, “A wrong application”. “Wrong, often corrupt use: abuse, misappropriation, mishandling, misuse, perversion”

Solemn: “marked by the observance of established form or ceremony”, “legally binding, Common legal phrase indicating that an agreement has been consciously made, and certain actions are now either required or prohibited”, “The other requirement for an agreement or contract to be considered legally binding is consideration - both parties must knowingly understand what they are agreeing to”. (America fully expected a president who followed the US Constitutional definition of how our government operates. Part of his “why he was better candidate” brought up many times while running was that he was a “Constitutional Professor”. )

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Is this the same republican (Roberts) controlled 9/11 commission who found nobody accountable for anything in respose to 9/11..wouldn't investigate white house manipulation of intelligence .. found the info used in every speech the bush adminidtration cited in the case for war saddams WMD that came from Chalabi and his merry band of defectors didn't have anything to do with anything ...that nothing was wrong at Norad ... that lied about Wilson .. and that brought us this gem ..that republican controlled whitewash committee are you talking about...

9/11 Commission Report Confirms Administration's Views of al-queda

A 9/11 Commission staff report supports the Bush Administration's longstanding conclusion that there was no evidence of "collaboration" between Iraq and al-Qaeda on the 9-11 attacks against the United States Qaeda/Iraq Ties

Okay, who am I talking about. I'll give you all three guesses...

Self grandiose, blow hard, who bears a stricking resemblence to the Pillsberry Doughboy.

No, it's not me, guess again...

Kine,

You do know that simply listing assertions doesn't prove your point right? You didn't explain as to HOW Obama has done any of that, except for maybe NDAA, which I agree with you is bunk.

Than all you did was list quotes without any real context and definitions. If you're making those kinds of assertions against the President, you should explain yourself a bit better.

You said what you're accusing him of, but not why you're accusing him. List the elements of those crimes, than your evidence as to how Obama's actions meet those elements. Otherwise you just sound paranoid.

Plus, some links as to the source of your information would be nice. Those are some serious accusations, I need more than your word.

To..Knine"""

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"""the Obama administration in fact heavily lobbied to have removed from the bill's language that would have PROTECTED American citizens from some of the bill's provisions, such as indefinite detention without trial. He does lie well, but that is because his speech writer is so good, and all he has to do is read it.""""

Wow ...and to the rest of your silliness haven't got the time right now... and talk about lies and isn't "New Hampshire State Representative Harry Accornero" a birther...

For Immediate Release

December 31, 2011

Statement by the President on H.R. 1540

The fact that I support this bill as a whole does not mean I agree with everything in it. In particular, I have signed this bill despite having serious reservations with certain provisions that regulate the detention, interrogation, and prosecution of suspected terrorists. Over the last several years, my Administration has developed an effective, sustainable framework for the detention, interrogation and trial of suspected terrorists that allows us to maximize both our ability to collect intelligence and to incapacitate dangerous individuals in rapidly developing situations, and the results we have achieved are undeniable. Our success against al-Qa'ida and its affiliates and adherents has derived in significant measure from providing our counterterrorism professionals with the clarity and flexibility they need to adapt to changing circumstances and to utilize whichever authorities best protect the American people, and our accomplishments have respected the values that make our country an example for the world.

Section 1021 affirms the executive branch's authority to detain persons covered by the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) (Public Law 107-40; 50 U.S.C. 1541 note). This section breaks no new ground and is unnecessary. The authority it describes was included in the 2001 AUMF, as recognized by the Supreme Court and confirmed through lower court decisions since then. Two critical limitations in section 1021 confirm that it solely codifies established authorities. First, under section 1021(d), the bill does not "limit or expand the authority of the President or the scope of the Authorization for Use of Military Force." Second, under section 1021(e), the bill may not be construed to affect any "existing law or authorities relating to the detention of United States citizens, lawful resident aliens of the United States, or any other persons who are captured or arrested in the United States." My Administration strongly supported the inclusion of these limitations in order to make clear beyond doubt that the legislation does nothing more than confirm authorities that the Federal courts have recognized as lawful under the 2001 AUMF.

Moreover, I want to clarify that my Administration will not authorize the indefinite military detention without trial of American citizens. Indeed, I believe that doing so would break with our most important traditions and values as a Nation. My Administration will interpret section 1021 in a manner that ensures that any detention it authorizes complies with the Constitution, the laws of war, and all other applicable law.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/12/31/statement-president-hr-1540

In my opinion, Newt is a sociopath that will say or do anything regardless of the effect on others. Medical caregivers say sociopaths are unable to change.

Some witch turned him into a Newt, and he didn't get better. "No American can second guess an Israeli Prime Minister?" (but it's okay to call a professed Christian American President a Muslim and second,third,fourth guess every other thing he does). He's wrong in saying Barack Obama is the most dangerous president, clearly Newt is off by 4 years. Of course one highly expensive, unnecessary, destructive war in the middle east is not enough for these "defenders of America", lets start another one and call anybody who disagrees a traitor, anti-Christ, Islam loving Kenyan. I expect separation of Church and State in this country, and that includes Judaism, Catholicism, Islamism, or any other ism religion saying we got to invade another country and blow it up so the rest of Ya'll can get ruptured. InSanetorum, eye of Newt, and now Graham, Robertson, the Bishops, AIPAC, why do you hate government of the people, by the people, AND FOR THE PEOPLE?

alex cali

Robin Steele

Frankly, it does not matter anymore that the Bush administration was complicit in the 9/11 attacks. The fact is that Obama was brought in to finish the job that Bush started - to weaken the country, dismantle our defense, destroy our economy, and strip all citizens of their rights, jobs and homes. Stupidity can be best defined here as insisting that if one is bad, then the other must be good. That's what the congress, reviled by any real American with remaining brain matter wants us to think, but it is that divisiveness that is the backbone of their operation to sell off our country to our enemies in order to line their pockets. This is a crisis like the bay of pigs, we are a country without a functioning government - at least in the constitutional sense. Cash for clunkers, the healthcare reform law, the Gibson raids, all blatantly unconstitutional. A president who turns his back on Israel, destroys 3 decades of reasonably good relations with Russia and goes on an a$$ kissing tour of the Arab world. Forget about parties. They both suck. They both think we are here to make them wealthy and then die. If you are so blind as to think anything else, you shall reap as ye sow. A true look at our history tells us the good old days really weren't all that great, but at least we were secure in our jobs and possessions, the only monopoly we had to deal with was the phone company, and we were not on the brink of world war three.

WTF!!!!!!! You just wasted a few kb of space on the internet.

Do you have any argument or are you just one of the easily convinced?

BTW that was just a couple hundred bytes.

Robin Steele

Frankly, it does not matter anymore that the Bush administration was complicit in the 9/11 attacks. The fact is that Obama was brought in to finish the job that Bush started - to weaken the country, dismantle our defense, destroy our economy, and strip all citizens of their rights, jobs and homes. Stupidity can be best defined here as insisting that if one is bad, then the other must be good. That's what the congress, reviled by any real American with remaining brain matter wants us to think, but it is that divisiveness that is the backbone of their operation to sell off our country to our enemies in order to line their pockets. This is a crisis like the bay of pigs, we are a country without a functioning government - at least in the constitutional sense. Cash for clunkers, the healthcare reform law, the Gibson raids, all blatantly unconstitutional. A president who turns his back on Israel, destroys 3 decades of reasonably good relations with Russia and goes on an a$$ kissing tour of the Arab world. Forget about parties. They both suck. They both think we are here to make them wealthy and then die. If you are so blind as to think anything else, you shall reap as ye sow. A true look at our history tells us the good old days really weren't all that great, but at least we were secure in our jobs and possessions, the only monopoly we had to deal with was the phone company, and we were not on the brink of world war three.

WTF!!!!!!! You just wasted a few kb of space on the internet.

Do you have any argument or are you just one of the easily convinced?

BTW that was just a couple hundred bytes.

Notice how nobody else responded to your post??? Nothing to arguement... move along...

Where is your proof that Obama was brought in to finish the job??? Everywhere we look in our economy things are improving, not at the rate that we may want, but it is. Military??? Ending the wars is a responsible thing and will only benefit us to start paying down our debt.

Deborah, outstanding statement at 2.29. Portugal (and some of the other EU nations) is practicing EXACTLY the sort of austerity measures the Right claims will put us on the mend. It isn't. Europe is dropping back into recession instead while the US economy continues to grow.

John B.

Actually for the US to go on an austerity program would put the entire world into a global depression, not just another recession.

Yes it would, yes it would.

Watchers of the world economy have long said that when the American economy sneezes the rest of the world gets a cold. While that's not quite as true now as it was thanks to emerging economies like Brazil, India, and China, putting ourselves into a new recession through the destructive policies of the Right would create years of new pain.

Yes where were the adults with little things like debt and deficits and entitlements. I do believe the adults were outvoted by the republicans who just had to have tax cuts because our country was doing so well.

Then we were pushed into two wars and did the adults raise taxes like every time in our history? No they were once again outvoted by the republicans who after starting two wars just had to give even more tax cuts for the richest in our nation.

Meanwhile the debt and deficits were growing under the republican leadership that outvoted the adults. All the entitlements for the rich and the oil companies and the corporations have been keep in place as an excuse for the republicans to take from the poor.

So where are the adults? We are still trying to wrestle power from the republicans who always vote for the 1% over the people in this country.

Return the adults to power

Obama/Biden 2012

Spanky,

"Where are the 'adults' when it comes to the silly little things like debt, deficits and entitlements?"

Santorum does not fit the bill?
He is leading right now with the voters who are going to the primaries.

Nice to see you back on FR.... at least you believe in science, womens rights, and don't throw around the word theology, right?

14 of the 15 worst deficits in recent history were under republican presidents. Our last three republican presidents have accounted for almost all of our national debt.

["Where are the 'adults' when it comes to the silly little things like debt, deficits and entitlements?"]

Some think Newt is the adult...but I think they probably read "adulterer"...

But he does want a very cool "moonbase"...and he also lifted Bat@!$%# Backmann's idea of $2/gal. gasoline...

Best. Candidate. EVAH!

Let's all just step back a few paces and do some simple math. Supply and demand determines market value in commodities (plus a little jolt of spec. capital). As people use more, prices increase. It is the economics of growth. Let's be real folks, high energy prices are here to stay. A little perspective..You think you would be able to buy Gold @ $400/oz again? Probably not. Smart money will hedge higher energy costs by "Buying" domestic energy stock, rather than playin the casino of multinational trading. Buy American. Smile alot, and take care of yourself, family, and friends. Those always be around. Peace out.

Mickey, NY I agree with you (assuming you were being sarcastic) that Newt would be the best candidate to insure an Obama victory. My wish is that once he is fully rejected by not only the american public, but by even his own party, he will just fade into a quiet obscure life, never to be heard from again. In my fantasy mind, he is a close second to Dick Cheney as someone that needs to be punched squarely in the face by a top tier MMA fighter !

Northstar - I was in Vegas all week.

I'm an atheist, believe global warming is a crock o' @!$%# and an all for equal rights. Fact is, it is likely that Ms. Spanky will out earn me yet again. At least that's the hope.

God bless her sweet ass.

So Pat - Obama is in for $5 trillion of the debt, yet the last three rep are responsible for 'almost all of it?

What percent of almost all is $5 trillion?

So, umm, Pat - math not your strong suit, eh?

Spanky-

So Pat - Obama is in for $5 trillion of the debt, yet the last three rep are responsible for 'almost all of it?

What percent of almost all is $5 trillion?

So, umm, Pat - math not your strong suit, eh?

Bush left a 1.42 trillion deficit, remember that deficits add to the debt. He left an economy on the verge of total collapse -9% gdp and 750,000 jobs loss when he left.

458 billion deficit for Bush in 2008 per cbo

500+ billion lost in revenue in 2008 per cbo

Medicare part D will keep on growing every year because Bush and co made sure it did not have price controls on drugs being provided. The drug company can raise prices and there isn't anything we can do about it. The government would just pay for it. Frankly i think this was done on purpose to destroy medicare. The Ryan plan will kill medicare and Ryan also voted for part d.

Wars were being paid trough appropriations, Obama made sure they were added to the deficit .

Why do i have to repeat this everyday??????

Remember that next year the deficit is going to be below 900 billion. So he would have cut 520 billion from the deficit and all of this while growing the economy, creating almost 4 million jobs(till now), investing billions into energy that will creates millions of jobs and get us off foreign oil.

I could go on and on and still your @$#@ @$$ would not understand it.

Dear Spanky,

Learn the truth about the anatomy of our deficit. Most of it is from W.'s rear-end.

@ Spanky #3.8: Amen! Again and again, amen!

You Alexi and Jon - Obama's brand new budget calls for another $1.35 Trillion in debt.

Now correct me if I am mistaken, but did Obama not say he'd CUT the deficit by now?

Yeah, he sure did. Of course he also said unemployment would be at 5.3%.

Dude just can't seem to get it right. Nope, he isn't even close.

Bye bye Obama.

Spanky-

You Alexi and Jon - Obama's brand new budget calls for another $1.35 Trillion in debt.

Now correct me if I am mistaken, but did Obama not say he'd CUT the deficit by now?

Yeah, he sure did. Of course he also said unemployment would be at 5.3%.

Dude just can't seem to get it right. Nope, he isn't even close.

Bye bye Obama.

It calls for new spending in infrastructure, education, and energy.

Next year is going to be below 900 billion. A 500+ billion cut.

he'd CUT the deficit by now?

Show me where he said that??? i dare you, you LIAR!!!! Now if i remember correctly he said he would cut the deficit in HALF. But when did he say this? Was it before or after cbo came out with with the 1.42 trillion deficit for 2009???

Trough out the campaign he kept promising to cut the deficit in half... But what was the deficit in 2008???

458 billion

They did not account for the deficit to be at more than 1 trillion WHEN HE CAME IN because of the 500+ billion lost in revenue in 2008.

Do you know what were the projections for the deficit in 2009 and 2010 after bush??

Have you even cared to look what they were going to be?

Medicare part D will just keep growing and adding to our deficit.

Also the wars were being paid by appropriations, those never get added to the deficit they go straight to the debt. LOOK IT UP!!!

Now lets get back to the deficit that Obama would magically disappear, 458 BILLION YOU CUT IT IN HALF AND YOU GET 229 BILLION. OBAMA DID CUT MORE THAN THAT IN HES FIRST TERM. LOOK IT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Spanky someone promised 5.3% unemployment? Your lies are getting more outrageous.

Provide a link or admit you are lying.

I am beginning to fear for your stability when Obama becomes President for 4 more years.

AF and Alex - really? You all just need to take a gander on You Tube. Or google Obama's projections for 'success of stimulus.'

You two are fantastic. Christ I have seen the clip of Obama promising to cut the deficit in half before the end the first term at least 50 times since his crap budget came out.

Come on you two - it's already been made into an RNC ad. You are familiar with google, right guys? Of course you are.

And yet it is apparent that alex and math just do not see eye to eye. Another $1.35 trillion in this budget is not magic or unicorns my man.

But hey, thanks for the laughs. And that'd be at you, not with you, but I suspect you get that a lot.

Spanky-

AF and Alex - really? You all just need to take a gander on You Tube. Or google Obama's projections for 'success of stimulus.'

You two are fantastic. Christ I have seen the clip of Obama promising to cut the deficit in half before the end the first term at least 50 times since his crap budget came out.

Come on you two - it's already been made into an RNC ad. You are familiar with google, right guys? Of course you are.

And yet it is apparent that alex and math just do not see eye to eye. Another $1.35 trillion in this budget is not magic or unicorns my man.

But hey, thanks for the laughs. And that'd be at you, not with you, but I suspect you get that a lot.

Read my post 3.14 when did he promise to cut the deficit??? you said he promised to cut the deficit not cut the deficit in half. That's your first LIE!!

Now you are going to say that since the RNC put out a clip that it make the timeline in where it was said true.

I cant believe you just said for us to go look at a republican ad on what the real facts are.

Obama did say he was going to cut the deficit in half in the campaign, where the deficit was 458 billion according to cbo. 229 Obama has to cut from the deficit.

It does not take into account the revenue lost and future deficit projections.

Obama said again in March of 2009 that he was going to cut the deficit in half, but i ask you again when the cbo report on the deficit for 2009 came out?

REVENUE

REVENUE

REVENUE

Look, Obama could have cut the deficits if the GOP had been a bit more cooperative in the debt ceiling talks, but no, they had to stick to their guns. And we got downgraded. THANKS A LOT.

This is my deficit reduction package; please comment on it.

I. Reduce the debt by $8 trillion over 10 years.

• $750 billion in defense cuts: cut waste in private contracting; reduce investments in new military projects to more sustainable levels; reduce active military personnel by about 8%; demolish 200 bases to save over $55 billion a year; prioritize investments for drones, efficient weapon systems, and cyber-defense systems.
• $1.25 trillion in entitlement savings: Raise payroll cap to 90% of income; reinstate COLA; reinstate estate taxes; raise premiums for beneficiaries who make over $250,000; progressive indexing.
• Cut $1.5 trillion from discretionary spending except from NASA and Department of Education. Find ways to remove waste, trim costs, etc.
• Save $2.8 trillion by repealing Bush tax cuts but retaining about $700 billion for the middle class.
• Institute Buffet Rule and save $500 billion.
• Reform tax code: decrease about 70% of all tax expenditures unless they are PROVEN to promote a significant amount of growth. Close loopholes, lower corporate tax rate to between 20-25%. Eliminate all corporate welfare. Approximate savings=$ 737.1 billion a year.
• Reduce subsidies to oil companies, farmers, and ethanol producers by $100 billion.
• Total savings=~$13 trillion plus perhaps trillions more in interest.

I am not joking. Check (http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3472). Just removing 90% of our tax code's loopholes and tax expenditures would save $947 billion a year. Maybe we ought to do that and simply reform entitlements and we'd have practically no debt by the mid-to-late 2020s.

II. Economic Recovery Package

• Education reform. Increase funding for Department of Education, adopt RAND education policy and further Head Start programs.
• Create Department of Tourism with $36 billion budget to support 150,000 employees to speed up process for foreign tourists to apply for visas to US and make system more efficient.
• $90 billion in infrastructure bank to leverage capital for infrastructure repairs to employ millions of Americans.
• Incorporate policies of Obama's Jobs Bill.
• Offer incentives for businesses to buy US-made equipment and to employ people in America to the tune of perhaps $2,000-$3,000 per head; includes only people earning the median salary that the companies provides for its workers.
• Increase duties and tariffs for Chinese goods to 35% until China appreciates its currency and lowers subsidies; place more cases on Chinese fraud and stealing,
• $60 billion in incentives and federal loans and grants to green technology.
• Regulatory overview to decrease unnecessary regulations for economy and add regulations were needed.
• Reinstate Glass-Steagall.
• Lift moratorium on offshore oil drilling and open up certain areas for energy exploration WITH safety and environmental precautions and insure safety.
• Invest $40 billion in new R&D projects.
• Offer more scholarships and Pell grants; prioritize scholarships to promote getting degrees in engineering, technology, etc.
• Negotiate lower tuition deals with private institutions in return for aid and invest more money public higher education. Negotiate with states for a state education surtax to pay for public universities.
• Help housing market: tighten regulations on housing and financial markets, reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac; create partnership programs between the government and the private sector to buy houses and rent it out to former owners; persuade banks to write off parts of underwater mortgages; quicken time for foreclosures; demolish old buildings to open up to construction projects.
• Increase federal gasoline tax to $.225/gallon and use extra revenues to revamp infrastructure.
• Extend payroll tax cut.
• Reform Post Office. Eliminate 60,000 payrolls through early retirement, increase stamp costs to $.51, cut administrative salaries and budgets, pay freeze, adopt methods that FedEx and UPS do, transition to an energy-efficient postal fleet and turn postal buildings "green," and find more ways to trim costs.

Freshieee, On january 1, 2013 the obama (bush) tax cuts and the bipartisan passed payroll tax cuts will expire. That should just warm the cockles of everyone to know that more revenue will soon be flowing into the US treasury coffers, right?

Don't you find it interesting that obama and congress talk about tax reform but refuse to do anything about it?

Did I just read that Spanky loves Bayer aspirin because it protects Ms. Spanky's ass? Spanks has short term memory disorder. He doesn't remember the cause of electricity shortages in Cali. He doesn't remember spikes in Cali in gasoline. All that nasty-spunk remembers is that these issues arise when a democrat comes into power. Amnesia hits him when he asks why it occurs. Well, let me tell ya Spanks, it happens when Enron controls the power grid that republicans sold to them. It happens when Cali gas producers tell you we can effen charge you whatever we want, whenever we want. Spanky, the epitome of the OC life, loves to bitch about high gas prices, but will unfailingly support the idiots that raise the price of gas. Gas-bag dijour is a Spanky.

Fresheee, please let me surmise for those who appreciate brevity: You suggest we throw millions of Americans out of work and tax the living fu(k out of the hardest working of the bunch, scuttle our defense, while we shore up the trillionaire sick care industry, and maintain a half trillion dollar drug war while our citizens pay 6 times as much as Canadians for drugs we sell them. Your suggestions sound like the Obama playbook, in case you hadn't noticed, his policies have all but destroyed this country in the last three years. And if like his other disciples, you still blame Bush, three years on, then it's about time you acknowledge that this clown has no business in office. As to foreclosures, it's high time to make the banks pay for their crimes.

RedDevPS

Did I just read that Spanky loves Bayer aspirin because it protects Ms. Spanky's ass?

jajajajajajajaja!!! i don't think the California resident Spanky is going to be happy about this comment.

Robin Steele

Fresheee, please let me surmise for those who appreciate brevity: You suggest we throw millions of Americans out of work and tax the living fu(k out of the hardest working of the bunch, scuttle our defense, while we shore up the trillionaire sick care industry, and maintain a half trillion dollar drug war while our citizens pay 6 times as much as Canadians for drugs we sell them. Your suggestions sound like the Obama playbook, in case you hadn't noticed, his policies have all but destroyed this country in the last three years. And if like his other disciples, you still blame Bush, three years on, then it's about time you acknowledge that this clown has no business in office. As to foreclosures, it's high time to make the banks pay for their crimes.

You must be on of those millionaires, because it offends you to much what he wrote.

or do you plan to be rich in the near future???

You just happen to know that in the last 3 years the country is being destroyed... YEAH RIGHT MAN!!!!!

Since Ronald Reagan they put this country towards destruction.

When Reagan became president, the national debt was less than $1 trillion.

He and Bush Sr. promptly quadrupled it, passing a $350 billion annual deficit on to Clinton.

Clinton eventually balanced the budget, thanks primarily to the Deficit Reduction Act of 1993, which not one single Republican in Congress voted for.

We were on a path toward eradicating the national debt altogether when Bush Jr. became president.

Bush took the projected surpluses and turned them into nearly $6.1 trillion in additional debt, handing a failed economy and a $1.42 trillion (actually more) annual deficit to Obama.

Virtually all of the debt incurred since then (we're past $15 trillion now thanks to Reagan Republicans) has been due to: the effects of the Great Recession, the two botched Bush wars, Medicare Part D (not paid for under Bush), and the two Bush tax cuts.

The Recovery Act REDUCED deficits after it was enacted (see the Blinder/Zandi report).

Get a clue Republicans or you will continue to ruin your own country. Let the smart people continue fixing the mess that Bush and the Republicans made.
For the last 3 decades the rich have bombarded us with propaganda saying that the "next" tax break was going to rescue the country. Thirty years later we have falling infrastructure, failing schools, rampant joblessness, broken social programs, etc.. And the only thing that's changed is millionaires became billionaires.

It makes more sense to look at deficits as a percentage of GNP. If you do THAT, you discover that Reagan was the fumb ducker who spent money the US could NOT pay back - but just gave an illusion of prosperity.

Pat Boston MA.

.....Stay out of things you know nothing about. Let the grown ups handle foreign policy.

How About Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is she an adult?

“It is a very inspiring time—that you have overthrown a dictator, and that you are striving to achieve a genuine democracy,”

She goes on.......

“I would not look to the U.S. Constitution, if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012,”

“It really is a great piece of work,” Ginsburg said, referring to the South African document. As for America’s Constitution, it’s just too old, she told her Egyptian interviewers.

Here, check out what the "ADULTS" have to say about the Constitution to other countries.....

U.S. Constitution Too Old, Ginsburg Says

Interesting for a Supreme Court Justice to be trashing the US Constitution, the document she is supposed to be upholding? Don't ya think?

"Defeating Barack Obama becomes, in fact, a duty of national security," Gingrich told a crowd of about 4,000 people on the campus of Oral Roberts University. "Because the fact is, he is incapable of defending the United States."

HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHAHAAAA oh my, I thought I was watching the Comedy Channel when I saw this.

POINT #1: Newt Gingrich is the threat to National Security because he talks out of his as*hole and all that comes out is poo-poo. The defacto Neo-Con Gingrich, would have this country going to war on 3 fronts, and trying to defend the comments that come out of his mouth, if the people were to even consider this KOOOK as a real Presidential candidate.

POINT 2: Obama is the real defender of the United States. His record of military actions, raids, terrorist and somalia pirate eliminations, ending wars, and over all knowledge by sometimes going against his advisors with his own judgement is just what we need as Commander In Chief. Don't be fooled by the carnival barker Gingrich who would just bomb everyone that didn't side with him. There is a reason he got thrown out of Congress; He's a radical who believes he has all the ideas and you should fall in line with them or you are the enemy. The truth is Gingrich is the enemy to everyone and himself, and Calista, please do something with that hair. You look like you're going to fall over!!

OBAMA/BIDEN 2012

Alex, you my friend are welcome to smoke all the crack you want but Reagan created a time of massive expansion in this country. Corporate cronyism and a criminal congress killed the golden goose. If you think democrats are the smart party, well, I guess that tells your life story in a nutshell.

Robin Steele

Alex, you my friend are welcome to smoke all the crack you want but Reagan created a time of massive expansion in this country. Corporate cronyism and a criminal congress killed the golden goose. If you think democrats are the smart party, well, I guess that tells your life story in a nutshell.

Fine... but it wasn't a responsible one... 30 years later we have a 15 trillion debt and will be 20 trillion by the end of the decade.

TRICKLE DOWN DOES NOT WORK!!!!!!!

He could have cut the deficit in half in George Bush didn't hand him the beginnings of a modern day depression, starting with the auto industry when the Bush Ad. asked the Obama team and McCain team to come to the White House with no answers except to say, one of you poor SUCKERS will inherit this, then the mortgage crisis, default home loans right around the corner. This was beginning back in 2006 when the Bush administration with congress cut us a check from the treasury for $1425 and sent a letter before the check arrived with explicit directions to GO OUT AND SPEND IT ON CONSUMABLES, because the Bush administration knew then the economy was beginning to slow down. Guess what? 65% of Americans took that check and instead of spending it like their patriotic duty required of them, they paid credit cards and put it in savings. That was the beginning of the deep recession/depression, whatever you prefer to label it as. Americans at a all time saturated debt level was the major engine that sucked the life out of this economy.

Thank you for the cover, alex cali.

baldeagle, what a difference between this Administration and the last one. Night and day. Now if we could just get the pundits to back off. They are in no position to tell President Obama anything. They've proven it time and time again.

Great post.

baldeagle11.

Clearly you have no clue. I mean really, your last sentence? People aren't that stupid? Uh, yes they are. The only reason we have our representatives in such a state of stupor is that they accurately represent their constituencies. You'll just have to live with the fact that you're an elitist baldeagle. Normal is stupid. Get over it.

rrobeson: clearly YOU have no clue. Newt's BASE is that stupid, yes, but you can't win national elections on stupid. He's moved from stupid to just out and out fear mongering...and anyone with a brain is "elitist" compared to the pitch fork crowd newt is playing to.

Stupid may be normal for a Republican, however, over 60% of voters do not identifiy themselves as Republicans.

dirp101,

I would be more concern about the independent voters.

thetotas,

They need to be concerned about their Democrat voters.....

New Hampshire Democrats
Scroll to the bottom....
http://www.sos.nh.gov/presprim2012/DemSummaryPres.htm

and explain to me again why Dr Paul will not pull democrat votes....

yeah, but now he gets to write a new book.

Newt, return to your crib. The adults are getting tired of your crying.

You can get Newt's books on the FREE shelf at any Thrift Store. From there you can take them to where they belong . . . hanging from a nail in the outhouses of the nation. There the thoughts of an azzhole can be regularly read and sagely commented on by any azzhole.

What a great idea!!! I love that..tape a penney to their idiot surveys....I will be doing that!!!

Newt is the GOP "Chicken Little"! Hey everyone "The sky is falling".

It used to be that Newt was "A stupid man's idea of what a smart person sounds like."

Now he just out and out sounds like a stupid man.

Newt needs to give up idea of being POTUS. But he is right about Obama.

The Association of the Bar of the City of New York argued that a President could be removed “for conduct amounting to a gross breach of trust or serious abuse of power” and that these are “not limited to criminal offenses” but refer to acts that undermine the integrity of the government, whether technically criminal or not.

(The Constitutional Convention) A President is not necessarily charged with a criminal offense but with improper conduct in performing the duties of his office. They specified instead that the only grounds for impeachment were “Treason, Bribery, or other High Crimes and Misdemeanors.” These terms referred to the abuse of power, misapplication of public funds, corruption, criminal conduct, or violating the separation of powers mandated by the Constitution, not keeping the oath of office.

A President may also be held responsible for the conduct of his subordinates. He may be charged with a cover-up if he knowingly conceals information regarding a violation of the law or if he fails to remove such officials from office when evidence of their offenses comes to his attention. He may also be charged with failing to see that the laws are faithfully executed, with failing to institute procedures so that officials will act lawfully, or with a conspiracy to see that the laws are violated. A President who testifies falsely in a judicial proceeding may be charged with perjury or obstruction of justice.

1998 the House agreed articles of impeachment on charges of lying

Newt's favorite outdoor activity is getting a b.j. in the front seat of a rented Lincoln from the underage daughter of one of his supporters. He calls it patriotism.

Saul Alinski was neither a fear mongerer, a communist, nor a liar. Newt qualifies on two of the three, and one of his favorite lies is no doubt his one about who Saul Alinsky was.

Saul Alinski once had his group eat a bunch of under cooked beans and then attend a Los Angeles Philharmonic concert to make some point or other. He didn't scream, and he didn't throw bombs, but he did have imagination.