"You know this week, the president is traveling the country and the taxpayer's dime..so says the part-time Weeper of the House, drawing full time pay!

So, he takes another cheap shot at the President before the House goes on a week long vacation!

Said Boehner as he gets ready to embark on yet another Taxpayer Funded week Vacation X 544 other Members!

Can you say 9% Approval !

You Betcha !

Occupy SoggyBottom!

The only problem with Obama winning another term is that we would have to put up with the Republican Side Show for 4 more years. Let's hope they come to terms with there grieve and put there pettiness aside.

Just another GOP "Racist Cracker "!

Michael and Palm Springs.

There is nothing racist about that remark. Look up it's origins.

This from the biggest ham in Congress? Please John, your drunken tears and screaming and shouting fits make you the LAST person to criticize Obama for "theatrics". Get out your golf clubs and bottle of Bourbon and get off the stage.

Let's fix the problems for young Americans and leave the campaign theatrics for the fall,

says the guy that cries when he watches Lassie...

Boehner .. is a drama queen and is hormonal

@ Feisty:

Hi Fesity....Is good to read your funny comments again...Always have a great time reading them...

"You know this week, the president is traveling the country on the taxpayer's dime, campaigning ...

So if Willard is President, he will not travel or campaign on our dime?

Suspend Boehner for trash talk!

Why don't Republicans just come out and speak the truth, that Republicans don't care about Student Loan Interest Rates doubling because the ONLY people Republicans care about are The Rich, of course The Rich don't need Student Loans.

The New Mantra for the Republican Party: If you're Poor, you gotta pay more!

That's what it is, and that's all it is. For Republicans to say anything else on the subject would just be a blatant lie.

Obama / Biden 2012

If anyone knows campaign theatrics it would be the Republicans. Remember the theatrics that failed to do any debt reduction last year? That was the House Republicans who wouldn't listen to Boehner. What about the theatrics of telling women they can't use birth control, or that they have to have intrusive vaginal ultrasound procedures? All Boehner is doing is creating his own theatrics.

Nice goatee Michael...you mom trim that for you?

Do you remember when Obama made Boehner cry during his STOU address? Well, at that vary moment, Johnnie Boy became Obama's bitch, and all of Johnnie's colleagues and the world saw it happen. Very telling moment. Johnnie is trying in vain to hold onto his job as Speaker Weeper of the House, and will do anything.

Obama owns Boehner, and Boehner knows it.

Nice goatee Michael...you mom trim that for you?

Actually Mickey - I think it's a photo from his perfectly mans-caped 'other end'...

Just sayin...

Always have a great time reading them

Thanks Irespond - good to see ya! It's been awhile! Hope all is well!

TO: Deponent who wrote:

"You know this week, the president is traveling the country on the taxpayer's dime, campaigning ...

So if Willard is President, he will not travel or campaign on our dime?

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Deponent, Williard is ALREADY travelling on our dime and has been for months now, ever since Williard got that brand new socialist Security Detail to protect Romney while he's on the campaign trail.

Republicans are such incredible hypocrits, it's just plain outrageous!

Obama / Biden 2012

campaign theatrics

What is this moron talking about. What about the theatrics the six clowns who were running for the Republican nomination put on. Mr. Speaker, with all due respect . . . Look at your own party first. Then when you have a chance, go to hell.. with all due respect.

TO: Sean-1439217 who wrote:

"The only problem with Obama winning another term is that we would have to put up with the Republican Side Show..."

Not if we ALL vote a straight Democratic Ticket and haul as many GOP obstructionists as we can right out the door, this November!

I would much rather have Republicans OUTSIDE of the Oval Office door than anywhere else! Just wait until the General Election heats up, and all the ugly details of the "Ryan Plan" and "Grover Nordquist Pledge" both of which ALL Republicans signed on to, come to light!

Obama / Biden 2012

@ Feisty,

Yeah! I was out for a good while..Thanks for asking! It's ok, just tough! -I blame the Republicans :o)-

Just tell Boner to STFU.

House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) accused President Obama of campaigning on taxpayer funds in response Wednesday to the president's goading of lawmakers to act on a bill to extend low student loan rates.

So the problem is not that Romney also supports extension of low student loan rates on the campaign trail, but whether it is done on the taxpayer dime. I mean because what the heck does the POTUS do for a living, talk about issues that concern the citizens of this country?

And speaking of Romney, has he goaded you Boehner? Or will your unpopular Teapublican House take all the heat while Romney "pivots" toward the center?

Mickey, NY -- That was hilarious.

Roger-785733 -- Theatrics, when you get Boehner out of the tanning booth and a few drinks in him, then you'll see some theatrics!

Another 'manufactured' issue to get his base excited, since they have long since drifted away.

Both sides agree on extending the lower rates - Just how to pay for it.

Obama wants his usual 'Deficit financing', and the Republicans want it paid for.

"theatrics"? Boehner???

Awww.....g'wan, git outta here!

(I mean, wouldn't that be like invoking someones 'Waterloo' or something??

Or letting the tears well up on cue or something?)

Hey, Vagie-Bob- I know! Let's change the subject to Feisty's posts or something. Quick, man! DO IT!

I hear the SSPSF has been frozen until after the Election, why not pay for the bill with that money....

(Secret Service Prostitute Slush Fund...incase you were wondering)

What I really hate is when you attack someone who is right

If all you have too say is they are wrong and I am right (you dumb-ass)

Then you have nothing...just stupid

I worry about why there are so many stupid people ( I am a rocket scientist )

Good-luck Stupid

ROY WILSON-336103 -- Yeah, how do you feel about Cantor's latest push to help small businesses defined as Paris Hilton, Oprah, and Donald Trump -- And it's NOT paid for?

Roy, actually the article says the dem version proposes a tax to fund it (I don't know what it is, but....it's not unfinanced)

Did you see the message I posted on your diatribe about which president has ruined the finances of the country? You claimed Reagan/Bush were tame compared to Obama. I disagree. R/B went from $1T to $4T. That's QUADRUPLE. Obama only increased in by what, 50%? And R/B had some positive economic cycles there. Obama hasn't had that luck (yet).

You might check out this: http://zfacts.com/p/318.html

Does it not strike anyone as strange that we have just found out the Romney is referred to as Bishop within the Mormon church. And the only thing Boehnerhead can talk about is trying to hide the fact President Obama call them on trying to screw the youth of American again.

I heard that Bishop Romney has more wives down in Columbia and was upset one of them might be caught up in that secret service issue.

OBAMA/BIDEN 2012

If the House just passed a clean bill stating that interest rates will not be raised, then Obama would not have this issue to campaign on. But no, they are going to attach the Keystone Pipeline and tax cuts for Big Oil, Big Pharma and Wall Street and then whine that the Senate won't vote on their bill.

And where was Boehner when Bush took a fighter jet to an aircraft carrier (while the rest of his staff took a helicopter with plenty of room for George) so that he could have his big "Mission Accomplished" campaign stop Presidential Speech? It's okay for Repubs but not Dems?

wow ret_Msgt, let me ask you, you Air Force? Just wondering. For someone that served in the military why would you make fun of someone's religion? I find that really odd.

If the country would just get rid of some of the no, no, no republicans in congress come November, the next 4 years will go a lot nicer.

Mr. Boner. You, sir, are the cheap theatrics magician. You say you agree with keeping student interest rates low... but then require that it be paid for by deballing PPACA.

I may not like higher taxes, but the truth is that when you compare the tax rates we pay compared to other first class economies, we pay one of the lowest tax rates on average per citizen. Personally, if it means that I have to sacrifice a little bit to get better educated kids, a health care system that makes sense, more cash injected into the economy to grow small businesses and better protection for our environment, then it's a tax I'm more than willing to pay.

At least the President is straightforward about what he's doing. The Republicans - certainly - can't say the same.

@tired

You made me giggle, touting the EU tax policy, while forgetting they are worse off than we are...yes we should raise taxes so we can beat Greece to the drain...too funny...maybe we can be like Africa and save the rain Forest

I don't hear Mr Obama or his MSN lapdogs complaining that Harry Reid is holding up the Senate version of the same bill (S.2051).

Funny you say that, NH, since it was a (D) who proposed the bill Jan. 31, 2012, THEN the Bill was referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions where it hasn't been heard YET. Nice try pointing that stubby finger and deflecting, though.

Boehner keeps Himself too close to being drunk to be making public statements. He is kinda likeable for a republican who wears makeup and lipstick, but still, He needs to be cited by the "House Sergeant at Arms" for "unattempted legislating while drunk". Damn Sot!

You know the sayin', you can take da brotha outa da hood , but can you take da hood outa da brotha ?

TruePatriot-445959

Listen up nation, the GOP/TP plans to pass extension of lower rates on student loans, but want to pay for it by taking money from the ACA for preventive medicine such as immunization and breast and cervical cancer screenings.

WTF? They would be better off just saying they don't care about students loans! And what's with PAYGO but only when it's not a hand-out to the rich or corporations? Remember Cantor wanting PAYGO for emergency disaster relief? But it's OKAY to give tax breaks to small businesses defined as Paris Hilton, Oprah, and Donald Trump and NOT pay for it? Teapublicans are mental!

As for you knuckleheads getting you panties in a wad about the president campaigning, especially so successfully on TV shows, according to Romney you should congratulate the president for being successful! Oh wait, that's right, success is not the cop saving a life or a teacher preparing a child for the future. Success is only about the amount of $$$$$ you amass!

Holy friggin' cow, if you think Romney seems unbearably entitled now, imagine how he would be if he was POTUS. He'd probably put up statues and photos of himself everywhere, and the peasants would need to bow when he passed by.

@Feisty...Michael is right, you need to stop your racism bigotry toward Orange people.

We are no longer a first class economy.....and hence your comments regarding paying lesser taxes than other first class economies is moot. We have been downgraded at least once during this administration and if rumors prove true, it will happen a second time before we reach the national election. Secondly, I would like you to define "other first class economies" Just who are you comparing? Right now, everyone on the planet seems to be in the same boat, all waiting for the United States to rally, so that their economies can profit from ours. And can we please focus on getting our spending and debt under control instead of looking at even more new ways to spend more money that we do not have.

Sue: Just look at how well austerity is working in Europe. So if they are sinking...that too is PRESIDENT OBAMA's fault? WTH?????

Where were you when spending spiraled out of control under Raygun and W???

I am not blaming Europe on anyone other than Europe...the Euro and standardization of currency was not in the best interest of all the nations that signed on, but in a world economy, which is collapsing under the stress of entitlements (not just here in the United States, but Greece, Italy..even the metropolitan areas of the UK)...fewer and fewer working, less taxes collected, more expenditure for programming You can only pour so much out of a bucket before the bucket is empty. Just as we need to reign in our spending, so must the Europeans, and we should be looking at the European crisis as an example not to emulate. But....if Europe's economy is toasted, then they cannot buy American goods and services, so our balance of trade does not improve which in turn hurts American production, employment etc. And if you consider Europe's attempts at austerity to be foolhardy and non-workable, then why are you constantly pushing for us to be more like them????? I blame Obama for being in charge of a situation that resulted in one credit rating loss, and because the course has not changed, one bit, from what caused that downgrade, it appears that we will be downgraded yet again. That is not leadership. And as has been repeatedly demonstrated with links ad nauseum, all previous Presidents combined have not come near spending what our present POTUS has managed to spend....So your yelling at me about spending spiralling out of control has no merit when compared to what is actually being spent every minute of this presidency....And where was I? Right where I am now, trying to work, trying to make a living, trying to save for retirement, be responsible , honor my debts, teach my kids to "not expect everything be given to them merely because they exist" Unfortunately, the difference between then and now is that then, I was managing to keep my head above water and now, I am drowning. My retirement savings-Gone! My home value-Gone! My earnings, consistently has gone down each and every one of the past three years while my expenses have increased across the board. I do not qualify for any of these wonderful "helps" that stimulus was supposed to fund. My husband has lost two jobs in the past three years, both due to downsizing and each job paid less than the previous with no benefits whatsoever.....so that is where I was....What about you?

<pinches Sue>

Wake up, sweetie. It's reality calling.

Please tell me you're seriously not going to blast the President for something that the Congress (and very specifically, the House) screwed the pooch on.

We were downgraded, not because the President failed to take action, but because the Obstructionist Party - er, sorry... Republican Party - couldn't corral their nutball TeaPukes into action. We were downgraded because we failed to take decisive action. Last time I checked, the Executive Branch didn't have the power to tax and spend. That power resides with Congress.

What the tax rate is... and what it's spent on are moot. Here we are with one of the lower tax rates for our citizens. Some would argue we spend taxes on too much crap. Others, like me, think we leave too much to private enterprise. Set that aside. Europe is fairing about as well as we are. I wonder why that's the case. Duh. Global economy. You want our companies to have access to foreign markets and be able to compete without having unGodly protectionist practices in place that make our companies unable to compete? This is the price you pay. We could, of course, readopt an isolationist policy economically - but I think you'd find we can't because corporate America and their Republican stooges won't allow it.

Again... the President doesn't have the power of the purse - that's Congress. And if you want to compare who has proposed the most "damaging" cost outlays of recent Presidents, let's do - please.

The cost of the America Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 ("Obama's" stimulus package) was initially pegged to be $787 billion. But as is the case with the President, he lied horribly. The revised cost is now said to be $831 billion.

President Bush was a saint. The final cost of the way in Iraq by the time it's all said and done? $1.9 trillion.

I won't blame Bush for Afghanistan - although, he certainly didn't do anything to "draw down" our forces there by any means. Neither do I excuse Obama for the costs incurred in Iraq and still being incurred in Afghanistan. But add those numbers in there. The combined wars will end up costing us $2.7 trillion by 2017.

And by the way... I am sorry to hear about your difficulties. Truly, I am.

Unfortunately, to compare my situation to yours probably is not very useful. I have a masters degree and 15 years of experience (working for 3 different companies) in my profession. My wife has a bachelors degree and her professional accredidation and has worked for the same company for 15 years.

I have two children who are the light of my life and I teach them that you have to work hard for everything you have - but we have to remember that, oftentimes... what we achieve is only through the hard work of other people, too. We're lucky in a way that other people have not been. My son has no farther to look than my own parents who busted their asses for 50 years. What do they have to show for it? They're right back where they started from - living in a trailer in a small town in Pennsylvania. My mom has 4 bulging disks in her back and 2 ruptured ones - arthritis all up and down her spine and has a hard time walking. My father is a Vietnam Vet who - thank God for the VA - has been able to keep his two aneurysms monitored.

So who am I supposed to thank? Corporate America? They're the ones that saw him moving about eight times over the course of ten years because of jobs. Or do I thank the government who at least provides social security and medicare benefits to keep my parents alive. "Corporate America" up and disappeared like farts in the wind when he needed help. During yesteryear, employees were an asset. Too often, today, they're viewed as expenses. If you need proof of that... ask yourself why "pensions" are gone and have been replaced by 401(k)s. Pensions meant the company had a stake in taking care of you for all the years you took care of them. 401(k)s are an employer's way of saying... time to take care of yourselves.

No thanks. I'll trust the government before I'll ever trust the greed of the typical American company.

As for my wife and I... we do fairly well. We have enough income to meet our expenses - thanks in part to not "overdoing it". My 401(k) took a dive during the economic collapse, but unlike my dad who took everything out of his 401(k) about 2/3rds of the way down to the bottom of the crisis - and lost about 40% of his total savings - I left my money right where it was. I'm glad to say my 401(k) has recovered to the level of pre-crash values because I wasn't panicing when things bottomed out. We recently refinanced our home to take advantage of the low rates so I know that our home has lost some of it's value. We're down about 2.1% which is not bad - mostly because the city in which we live didn't have nearly the "price collapse" than many other areas have had.

I don't rely on the government to "take care of me". I just pray they continue taking care of my parents - and if they can do that - and social security isn't there for me... so be it. I've never assumed it would be and have socked money aside into my 401(k) at every chance I could.

So again - I don't think it's very useful to compare life stories. But one thing I know for certain. To blame the President is pretty useless. There's plenty of blame to go around - but he's certainly not where the lion's share belongs.

Thought this would be a fun drinking game.

Any time Feisty descends into her favorite place, the gutter, and accuses The Speaker of the US House of being a drunk, down a glass of your favorite alcoholic beverage.

Bob in Virginia-5210392

Thought this would be a fun drinking game.

Any time Feisty descends into her favorite place, the gutter, and accuses The Speaker of the US House of being a drunk, down a glass of your favorite alcoholic beverage.

I'd much rather be called an alcoholic than a Communist, wouldn't you old Bobby??? Or a foreigner; or anti-American. Remember what your teacher told you: what comes around goes around. You call Obama a damn foreign Communist, and we get to have some fun with those Fascist Tea Baggers in Congress. Not to mention you're namesake governor of Virginia, who actually supports penetrating young women. Seems like rape to me. What happened to the Constitution, you hypocritical bastards???

OBAMA BIDEN 2012

campaign theatrics

What is this moron talking about. What about the theatrics the six clowns who were running for the Republican nomination put on. Mr. Speaker, with all due respect . . . Look at your own party first. Then when you have a chance, go to hell.. with all due respect.

TO: Bob in Virginia-5210392 who wrote:

"... Any time Feisty ... accuses The Speaker of the US House of being a drunk, down a glass of your favorite alcoholic beverage."

Boehner is a drunk, and a cry-baby, those are two simple FACTS. That's how Boehner's family made their money, they own(ed) a liquor store, and Boehner is NOT ashamed to admit he drinks.

Obama / Biden 2012

Michael1969 -- No need to be scared. Nothings going to happen because Boehner and the Teapublican House work only two weeks for every week off. And the only thing that gets Boehner revved up is to ask him about his golf game. Calm down.

@ Michael1969

What part of Waynes' post is ("retarded").....nevermind 'cause I'll bet you can't say!

Glad that you really like those part-time House members still drawing full-time pay and benefits. Heck, they aren't even part-time, they're more intermittent civil service employees!

No doubt in my mind members of Congress and their kids live in a privileged world, one that the rest of us peons won't see. We really need to get rid of the millionaire career politicians just as much as we need to unload the socialists.

Obama is full of promises, but the only thing students get is higher tuition, stop the demagogy ask your pales to lower the tuition , make some sacrifices also , I bet NOT YOU CAN'T.

House Speaker, that's the crying man saying that about The President? Are you kidding me? I bet he had a hankerchief by the corner of his eyes when he said it!! What a "DRAMA QUEEN"!!

So, the dems pass a bill that cuts the student loan interest in half and as part of the bill they provide that the interest rate will automatically go back to the original rate on a certain date before political conventions and it's the repubs fault that the dems provided that the interest rates are to double automatically? Good grief! Are people this stupid? Well, if anyone believes Obama they apparently are.

EVERYTHING for the POTUS is a campaign stop. He gave up actually governing (if he ever did) about a year ago and entered full time campaign mode. It's been like three years without a president, but with a full time TV personality and republican/fox basher...

Listen up nation, the GOP/TP plans to pass extension of lower rates on student loans, but want to pay for it by taking money from the ACA for preventive medicine such as immunization and breast and cervical cancer screenings.

WTF? They would be better off just saying they don't care about students loans! And what's with PAYGO but only when it's not a hand-out to the rich or corporations? Remember Cantor wanting PAYGO for emergency disaster relief? But it's OKAY to give tax breaks to small businesses defined as Paris Hilton, Oprah, and Donald Trump and NOT pay for it? Teapublicans are mental!

As for you knuckleheads getting you panties in a wad about the president campaigning, especially so successfully on TV shows, according to Romney you should congratulate the president for being successful! Oh wait, that's right, success is not the cop saving a life or a teacher preparing a child for the future. Success is only about the amount of $$$$$ you amass!

Holy friggin' cow, if you think Romney seems unbearably entitled now, imagine how he would be if he was POTUS. He'd probably put up statues and photos of himself everywhere, and the peasants would need to bow when he passed by.

OMG! Reading some of these comments is funny. Especially the lack of truth that comes through. Some of you must work for the DNC. Wasserman does'nt have anymore room in her mouth for all the things she said lately. Talk about Hoof and mouth disease. Stop your whinning and make something happen for yourselves, and stop looking for the government to take care of you. The people of this country made it what it is. We just let the wrong Syndicate (the government is a legalized syndicate) in power. If things (presidents) don't change, December 21st wont look so bad. (myan calender)

True Patriot,

Oh wait, that's right, success is not the cop saving a life or a teacher preparing a child for the future. Success is only about the amount of $$$$$ you amass!

Love it - very well said! And the answer is yes. People like Romney value others by the size of their bank accounts (=successful). The firefighters running into your home or the police officers responding to a crime are just lazy people who didn't want success.

What do you call a man with blood shot eyes, who staggers around, slurs his words and crys a lot?

GOP HS better known as a lazy barfly

It's Speaker Bonehead not Boehner. :-)

please dont even go there about Clinton-nless u want 2 talk about Swartz@!$%#,who slept with the uglyest house maid n there home,made a baby,and ruined california-where did that money go-oh-secret child support

The Weeper says the House will vote on the measure on Friday....pay for it from 'slush fund moneys' around the ACA.

I think Boehner caved (somewhat) 'cause Willard said he supported it...but he still has to deal with the TeaPeople in the House.

What in the world is the 'slush fund'?

You remember. The people in Detroit lined up a couple of years ago to get housing assistance and said the money was coming from "Obama's stash".

Romney claims to support the extension of the low interest rate on Stafford loans, but he's a proponent of the Ryan budget which essentially eliminates all government aid to college students.

Start spinning, Mittens.

Because Obama stole it from the private sector in the Healthcare bill. What a place to legislate education funding. A healthcare bill. But as Pelosi said "we have to pass it to see what's in it".

"Because Obama stole it from the private sector in the Healthcare bill."

Wow Hand!.......How'd he do that?

LOL, my first thought was the pot calling the kettle black and I come to the comments and it already is the first comment. After all the Republican demagoguery over that past few years I would suggest that Boehner simply shut up.

This particular "slush fund" comes from money set aside in the ACA specifically for immunizations in low-income communities. Because it's okay for the poor to get sick with easily preventable diseases so that Medicaid can pick up their treatment tab down the road? Can someone please explain that rationle to me?

Can't you people stop picking on Willard and the Weeper and just get along??

Chilled - It was part of the "healthcare" bill that the government would subsidize all education debt. They took mine over and the bank (Wachovia at the time) was taken out of the picture.

Talk to the Hand

Because Obama stole it from the private sector in the Healthcare bill.

Stop repeating the lies that Blunt is spreading. Originally the lowered rates were paid for with money saved from getting rid of the middlemen banks, which was passed with bipartisan support in 2007 during Bush.

Blunt is confused, and meant to say it the other way around. The GOP/TP now intends to pay for the lower rates by taking money from the ACA for preventative medicine such as immunizations and breast and cervical cancer screenings.

What needs to be taken out of the picture is the Tea Party House of Representatives, and taken back over by sane responsible leadership like Pelosi! Obama/Biden - 2012!

Romney will be an excellent president. He has an MBA and JD from Harvard. He's amassed a 250 million dollar fortune. He's been faithfully married to the same woman since his 20's. He doesn't smoke, drink, curse, use common terms to describe people he disagrees with, etc. In other words, he's a gentleman, hard working, and proven. That's why he'll win. Obama enjoys campaigning. Romney will run the country like an executive and let his record be his campaigning. Obama can't run on his record apparently, because all he mentions is what a the Republican aren't doing.

Rob, don't bogart, pass that over.

Nothing in your bucket list will create jobs or help improve the lives of the middle class. Mitwit earned his millions by being a great salesman, aka being able to lie with ease. He didn't get rich by making the pie bigger, he got rich by taking a larger piece. We've seen the work of the Bain's of this country. Move in, lay off workers and then hire them back at less pay with no benefits...while taking millions for themselves. You say "run the country like an executive." That means cutting jobs, not creating them. Let Romney run on his record. How many people in this country would vote for their CEO?

We have a clown in the White House. Easy cheap money was the housing enticement, and when that bubble burst the entire economy almost collapsed. Now we having a ballooning student loan debt through cheap easy money, and the vast majority is coming from the federal government. Which means taxpayers are on the hook.

Liberals just don't seem to grasp, or maybe they just don't care about the financial condition of the country. Taxpayers are already shouldering debt they cannot afford, and a collapse is imminent with the reckless behavior of the Obama administration.

The real problem is not going to be solved by Obama giving cheap easy money to college students, when the real problem is the cost of a college education skyrocketing? Nothing being done holds the universities in line, and with the fed handing money to students like its free lunch time, the universities are making out like bandits. Wait until Obama decides to forgive the Federal Student Loan debt and stick taxpayers with the tab, because that day is coming.

Rob-365490

Romney will be an excellent president.

He was an awful Governor-people of Mass did not want him for 2nd term and they sure don't want him for president!

He has an MBA and JD from Harvard.

Bush graduated from Yale, and then went on bankrupting two companies and the United States...

He's amassed a 250 million dollar fortune.

Yes, with Bain. And Romney did not want to go into what made him the money. He was too scared...Romney was given ALL possible ways out if he failed so he had NOTHING to lose. He is not a good businessman. He's just lucky.

He's been faithfully married to the same woman since his 20's.

That's what you people consider a prereq to be a good president?

Romney lies all the time, and about everything. He knows that if he does not distort everything, he has no chance of winning. SAD!SAD!SAD!

Rick-3416939

Easy cheap money was the housing enticement, and when that bubble burst the entire economy almost collapsed

Bush was the president when that happened - not Obama.

Wait until Obama decides to forgive the Federal Student Loan debt and stick taxpayers with the tab, because that day is coming.

You mean like giving $800 billion worth of blank checks that had no strings attached to banks? So the CEOs could give themselves big bonuses?

Do you realize that education is what makes a country great? Do you realize that without education, this country will fall even more behind because it will be surpassed by other countries that do invest in their citizens?

Hey bayllie, typical liberal. Lets not try and control the cost of an education, lets just give more money away. What a bunch of hand out gimme gimme gimme entitlement babies society has raised. If liberals are any indication as to the quality of an education these days, then we have wasted enough.

It was Fannie and Freddie that started the financial collapse, and they were being overseen by Barney Frank and Chris Dodd. Both Democrats just in case you had forgotten. As if Obama cronies have not been well taken care of through bailouts and the stimulus scam. But we know liberals can only point fingers and assign blame, no mirrors in a liberal household.

Romney will be an excellent president. He has an MBA and JD from Harvard. He's amassed a 250 million dollar fortune. He's been faithfully married to the same woman since his 20's. He doesn't smoke, drink, curse, use common terms to describe people he disagrees with, etc. In other words, he's a gentleman, hard working, and proven. That's why he'll win. Obama enjoys campaigning. Romney will run the country like an executive and let his record be his campaigning.

Romney won't be president. Americans won't vote for him because he's:

...a flip-flopper

...an elitist

...a job destroyer

...a war-monger

...a liar

...a Mormon

...a professional campaigner

...a plutocrat

...a stuffed shirt

...a Republican.

Need I go on?

OBAMA/BIDEN 2012

Rick-3416939

Hey bayllie, typical liberal. Lets not try and control the cost of an education, lets just give more money away.

Student loans are not handouts - they get repaid. Unless you are Christine O'Donnell who, not only defaulted on them, she was one of the Fiscally-Irresponsible-Republican-Party candidates for Congress.

It was Fannie and Freddie that started the financial collapse, and they were being overseen by Barney Frank and Chris Dodd

No, the financial collapse was caused by derivatives: AIG was the major culprit in that. AIG exploited a huge gap in the regulatory system and allowed no oversight of their financial product division - exactly the AIG Financial
Products - and sold hundreds of billions of credit protection in the form of CDs
without having to put up any real money as collateral. When the $hit hit the fan, AIG had no money to pay out and almost dragged most of the banks in the world down with them.

Fannie & Freddie contributed to the crisis, but were not a primary cause - predatory lenders (and that includes all major banks/mortgage companies + AIG that insured CDS's) were the real issues; they gave mortgages to undocumented immigrants, as well as to those who did not qualify incomewise. No one forced any of these companies to give out predatory mortgages - they did it on their own and laughed all the way to the "bank."

There was an epidemic in mortgage fraud, and a credit risk of nonprime mortgage lending,

By the way, if you are so worried about the taxpayer, look up what happened during the S&L crisis - Bush One was the president. He, too, bailed out banks. Runs in the family, I guess.

I suggest you read up a little before you get into a conversation and start criticizing someone for something you have no clue about.

Don't confuse them with facts jack.

It was overwhelmingly approved by both houses of congress. His vote was not needed either time because Democrats and Republicans used to agree on some things. And it was during the campaign season. None of which, I am sure, matters to you anyway. Just clarifying for others.

if it was a good idea then, why aren't the republicans supporting it now? This used to be a bipartisan issue, but as soon as Obama supported it the republicans started crying "Socialism"

"And it was during the campaign season."

Campaign season was 2008 and if he didn't care to vote on it in 2007, why would he now care? We now why he cares right?

Obama is buying votes with more borrowed money. This nation has a skyrocketing student loan debt, and in a large part because it is easy to get and cheap. But since most is backed by the Federal government, this will be next bubble to burst as the taxpayers get stuck with yet another failed Washington scheme. Fannie and Freddie started the housing collapse, and taxpayers are still not off the hook.

Taxpayers, I mean future generations that will be forced to pick up the tabs of our hand out gimme gimme gimme entitlement babies society has raised. They don't care about the condition of the country, they just want more free stuff from the government. Obama is just tapping into their personal greed and making promises this country cannot afford and should not be making.

Controlling the skyrocketing cost of a college education should be the focus, but at the rate they are a turning out liberal entitlement babies, Obama is more then willing to pick up the tab. Why should universities even consider controlling costs when students can get federal money for free. Then the universities can teach them how to stick their hand out to the government. Personal responsibility, morals, ethical behavior, not in the liberal dictionary.

Nope that title is and will be for a very long time held by former President Bill Clinton of I did not have sex with that woman.

@Don in MO: Ah hell Don! Bill and Monica didn't have real raw sweaty sex. They just indulged in a little petting while creatively learning new ways to light cigars. I think it was kinda cute. Damn shame that jealous "Tripp" woman had to stick her finger in It.

Wow-

You guys had to go back to THAT? A really proud moment for our country- Newt and his cohorts completely occupying the President's time and energy defending what was at the very worst a brief interlude of poor judgment.

Maybe if President Clinton hadn't been busy defending himself against a witch hunt, he could have done more with Bin Laden. We already had a very strong economy, he should have been focussing more on national security.

Come to think of it, I blame Newt for 9/11.

So, Boehner and the GOP conveniently tell their carefully edited version of the truth. No wonder Congress has a 9% approval rating. Come on guys, quit blaming every negative thing that enters your head on Pres. Obama and actually do some work. Both sides are guilty. What is sad are the Dems that can't figure out if they are with Pres. Obama or not.

i thought i was the only one who thought boehner was a drunk an a cry baby--he really is

They don't like to be called blacks anymore. It would be "the pot calling the kettle African-American".

We already have a surplus of college grads with sociology, general studies, women studies and numerous other liberal arts degrees. If they want money for college then they should be getting degrees that the real world needs!

Exactly Don. They take the easy way out with their "education" which is really now indoctrination, and expect the jobs to come to them no matter what the degree is in. We have a guy at work in his low thirties who has a degree in Geology who is working as head of our in process inventory. He couldn't find other work and the owners knew the family and hired him at a lower wage than he could have possibly gotten 15 years ago. Just no call for it. While I understand this may not be one of those easy degrees, goes to show that not all degrees "pay off".

yankee17, i,m vrey sorry for you.your statement was (shipped all the jobs offshore in favor of lower paid help.) so instead of blaming everyone that you disagree with for causing the problem, how about accepting a job that pays a little less than you want, to do your part to give BIG BAD BUSINESS a reason to want to keep the jobs here. where eventually you can maybe work your way up the ladder to become the sucess that you now think you deserve as a matter of course

you know the sayin', you can take da brotha out of da hood, but can you take da hood out of da brotha ?

These comments are so typical of teabagger thinking. Back when our country was great and the manufacturing leader of the world, a college education was looked upon as finishing off one's education before entering the job market. The thinking was that a college graduate was a well-rounded person with skills in analytical thinking and problem solving.

Today, if you can't put a 7-figure value on how much that piece of paper will let you earn, an education is worth nothing.

Please, everyone, get out and vote in November. We've got to prevent these teabagger nutjobs from dragging us back to the 18th century.

Bar hoping Boehners at it again!!

In a drunken rage and it's making his orange face glow even brighter!

Chris, this is an easy one ... as everyone from Ulysses Grant to Lyndon Johnson to Richard Nixon to John Edwards can tell you, with many notable exceptions ... the average American voter is just not all that bright *sigh*

TO: chris-3123869 who wrote:

"How do people like this guy and how did he make it so far in his career?"

Some crazies in Ohio used to believe Boehner's lies.

I have a feeling those days are over now.

Obama / Biden 2012

American Girl right on. I'll even go further watch voter sentiment regarding the attack on womens issues. Voters will be hard pressed to believe this was a random agenda. I'd bet most voters will equate those actions with that of the national party agenda.

Alex, I especially like your closing sentence .... go figure, then go vote (and please, in that order :c) ... well said!

Thank you good sir or maam "Doom" ;-)...

the low aproval rating went as low as it is in the first 2 years that this man was in office. you know , when his party was in control of 2-out of three branches of the government. come on,... surely you can remember the good ol days,when the democrats had control of the house, senate,and the office of the pres. and they all had one track minds,one track votes and one agenda. there could have been something done then to help out the economy,but they didnt have time to tend to anything as trevial as the lives of the american people's economic well being. they were too busy, conviencing some of you that you giving up your futures is well worht what you would recieve today. sounds kind of shortsighted if you ask me. also why dont you fight for you own future, stop acting as tho the world owes you some thing. take control of your own lives,stand up for yourself. and stop blameing someone else for the failures in your world

aomize, You are absolutely correct in this assessment, insofar as it applies to the Democratic party. When the Democrats have full control of the branches they wander off on their own agenda and do a miserable job of everything except spending money like water, creating new beaurocracies, and making sure they stay in power.

When the Republicans had full control, they did? ... the same thing. Control of either party is not the answer.

We have for some years held the opinion that the only time Washington is not hell bent on ravaging the country is during those times when power is split so that neither party can push through their base's agenda. We still believe this.

Our Republican friends think us a liberal Democrat and our Democrat friends think us Republican. We are neither. We are a citizen of the United States of America, and we place the welfare of our nation far above the welfare of any political party, and are of the same mind as George Washington (refer to his farewell address to the nation) in this matter :)

Don't ever forget that promising is not the same as fulfilling.....(and all the rest) can and will promise ANYTHING just to get someone's vote

And you have to include Obama in this one.

Nope, gonna be a year. That gets EVERYONE (that means both sides for you liberal progressives) through the election nicely.

TO: Talk to the Hand who wrote:

"Nope, gonna be a year. That gets EVERYONE (that means both sides for you liberal progressives) through the election nicely."

The Rich don't need Student Loans so why should they care if the interest rates double? Answer: They don't because it doesn't affect them.

The only thing that helps get ME through the election year nicely is knowing that Republicans are gonna lose and lose big!

Obama / Biden 2012

Ahhh I see. Just like your picture, you live in fantasy land.

You may talk TO the hand, but you talk FROM the A$$. Where do you get such incorrect information. Do you have a direct line to FOX news?

Oh brother!

Can't wait for the libertards to find their mailboxes empty on food stramp and welfare check delivery day. They will deserve what they get. And I will be LMAO!

Reality Check

Food stamps are replaced with a EBT card in Minnesota...direct deposit to their account, no more middle man. Instant food buying for the needy. So..Reality Check, you find it funny when the poor are starving? You find it funny when children have no food to eat because their parents lost their job and many losing their homes because of the greedy rich that you repubs want to give all your money to? You find it funny eh? You can tell what political party kids are in and they should be punished huh?....The disabled who can't work or can't work at a high enough paying job to survive anymore...funny huh that they need food stamps?........perfect example of the 1% like Mitt. You need a reality check...and soon. That's why.....Obama/Biden 2012

Specially taking into account that most of the welfare recipients are people in the so called "Red" states... you know, the ones voting Republican...

Obama the great divider.

Steve; What are you smoking? If the Reps. just keep on being their selves, they will self destruct. They just can't help their selves, and show their true colors, blue bloods. I'm surprised they don't say let them eat cake.

you forgot the bears...

Yes, this seems to be the case, Obama is running hard to keep his job. This not what Republicans do, especially the freshman republicans, they seem to think that blocking budgetary requirements, derating the country's credit rating, and siting on their hands while not producing one shred of job creating legislation will automatically get them re-elected. Unfortunately one has to work, which is what Obama and the democrats have been trying to do despite all the opposition. Wish the republicans had obstructed Bush before he enacted Medicare Part D and started his nation building bull@!$%#.

The only U.S. President and Congress to ever cut taxes during a time of war. Not only cut taxes, but put the whole wareffort on the cuff ( Republicans, this means on the bar tab). Yep them republicans are damn patriotic.!

The Bush tax cuts were passed in 2001 before Afganistan and IRAQ war started in 2003.

Blaming Republicans for all credit rating is nuts. Democrats swept their own deficit commission report under the rug and could have prevented the budget debate even getting to the point that it did.

To say all the deadlock is on republican is nuts. Obama is the most partisan president ever and the senate never considers bills passed by the House.

Medicare Part D. If Democrats feel that was so horrible, why did Obamacare add on an expensive addition to it ?

Why did the idiot start those wars?

Trying to hold the demogogue leftylibdems to facts is a Sisyphean task. Their usual response is to mock, ridule, call names, and generally just be ignorant. Their political correctness shackles them to endless try to pick up a turd from the clean end.

BO campaigned on being different from Bush yet he keeps the DoD secretary, the tax cuts, claims credit for gasoline production Bush enabled, allowed the Afghan surge, kept Gitmo open, etc. etc. He started off by blaming Bush, calling McCain Bush and will end up in January 2013 still blaming. Such a little man at the head of a little party.

Laura, that is why President Obama got the job. The Majority voted for this man, and, will be doing it again. Obama/Biden 2012.

Stevo buddy...try some facts, and we are wondering how many times it took you to pick up a turd from the right end for you to know it existed?

Fred, you can't make the statement that Obama is the most partisan President ever, when the Weeper of the House walks up to a mic and says, 'We' (as in the GOP) got 98% of what WE wanted. The only 'BILLS' the House has written as 'Jobs Bills' that are stalled in the Senate, are mostly deregulations to let manufactorers do what they want as to the release of toxins in the air and water, i.e. mercury, coal dust, asbestos, just to name three, without having to cleanup after themselves, or be liable for such contaminations. 'The 'additional expense' you referring about, Fred, would that be next year’s budget proposal plan requiring Big Pharma to give an additional $156 billion in drug rebates over the next decade, which the Pharmas are screaming to the GOP over? THAT added expense? As far as the tax cuts, Bush did them THREE times, bypassing the normal procedures by running the bills through the reconciliation process, which goes for TEN years, and the CBO couldn't foresee how it would effect the economy until after the TEN years. NOW the GOP are yelling not to stop the tax cuts and blaming the Dems for wanting to raise taxes. This is a litmus test. It's not Democrats who are trying to pass the largest tax hike of all time, but Republicans who are calling for the largest increase in the deficit in memory. Read about it, understand it, deal with it.