Waawaaawaaa, why did you have to be so honest Rubio. Honesty isnt the liberal way, we lie to each other and give medals for failure, just ask Nobel and Obama.

I am aRepublican but the whine coming out of my party is disgusting. When GW was President, his attitude was my way or the highway. sounds to me like our party only worried when it is other Party's leadership doing what we have done every time we get the Presidency. Guess whatr Republicans and listen up. America elects a President to lead. so get over it unless you are just a big fat racist that would make Lincoln ashamed of you.

When will the red voters acknowledge their Party is the problem and stop trying to take us down to their level

All the Republicans are missing is plain honesty

Honesty isnt the liberal way, we lie to each other and give medals for failure, just ask Nobel and Obama.

Republicans hang banners on carriers proclaiming "mission accomplished" and then 4,000 US military and over 100,000 civilians die. Just ask Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld.

Republicans hang banners on carriers proclaiming "mission accomplished" and then 4,000 US military and over 100,000 civilians die.

That's called a war that was sanctioned by the democratic senate and house. Oh snap, the truth must hurt.

That's called a war that was sanctioned by the democratic senate and house.

Hatched on lies of cache's of WMD's, and sold by the president himself. It's was Bushes war, lock, stock and barrel. He, Cheney and Rumsfeld should be sitting in prison for it.

It's was Bushes war

psst, i know you libs arent too bright, and feisty is the first dope to do this, but 'bushes' means multiple of a bush, what you mean is bush's. Aywho, besides the lesson all you dopes need in english.

So really he duped all of congress and the senate? Wow youre stupid.

i know you libs arent too bright, and feisty is the first dope to do this, but 'bushes' means multiple of a bush

Wow youre stupid.

and so are you. It's you're. But thanks for the grammar lesson.

Trudat,

As opposed to a spelling lesson you might occasionally put out a verifiably true statement. The Iraq War Resolution was not sanctioned by the Democrats, it is a GOP/Right wing myth. The Democratic House voted 82 AYE and 126 NAY 1 NO VOTE out of 209 votes they got 82 this hardly seems like an endorsement. The Democrats in the Senate Voted 29 to 21 for but only after party leadership told them that the President, Secretary of State and the CIA Director guaranteed that they had incontrovertible evidence of weapons of mass destruction including an active nuclear and biological program and were working with terrorist and were a Clear and Present danger to the continental US. The problem with this was the guarantee was almost entirely fabricated or cobbled together using extremely suspect data and sources. With access to actual sourcing few if any Dems. would have voted for it. Almost all said as much as soon as it became obvious that they had been snookered. Left up to the Democrats it would have never gotten out of the House where they voted against by over a 50% majority. Just another historical rewrite by your GOP.

jkh

Brad Woodhouse, YES, this is what Americans need to hear, and they need to hear it repeatedly over the tedious, deafening talking points on FOX Noise. And that goes for the "apologies" President Obama has NEVER made, and the jobs the president NEVER killed, and on and on.

Consider yourselves put on notice, Rubio, Romney, Hannity, and who ever spews such lies, you will be called out!

Thanks to President Obama, his administration, his policies,

in America could the people who believe in balancing the budget
and sticking by the country’s Constitution be thought of as “extremists.”

in America could we have had the two people most responsible for
our tax code — Timothy Geithner, the head of the Treasury Department and
Charles Rangel who once ran the Ways and Means Committee — turn out to be
tax cheats who are in favor of higher taxes.

in America could the rich people who pay 86% of all income taxes
be accused of not paying their “fair share” by people who don’t pay any
income taxes at all.

in America could the government collect more tax dollars from the
people than any nation in recorded history, still spend a trillion dollars
more than it has per year for total spending ($7 million PER MINUTE), and
complain that it doesn’t have nearly enough money.

in America would we make people who want to legally become
American citizens wait for years in their home countries and pay tens of
thousands of dollars for the privilege while we discuss letting anyone who
sneaks into the country illegally just become American citizens.

in America could people claim that the government still
discriminates against black Americans when we have a black President, a
black Attorney General, and a federal workforce that is roughly 18% black
when the black population is only 12%.

in America could you need to present a driver’s license to cash a
check or buy alcohol, but not to vote.

in America could politicians talk about the greed of the rich at a
$40,000-a-plate campaign fund raising event.

Please always remember, when you are blaming Democrats because you are having a bad hair day:

That the Right wing on the Supreme Court passed "Citizen's United" - now dividing our people with grossly giant $million/billions of corporate undisclosed monies to run false Lying ads --- in this Presidential election, for the first time in American history.

Those members of the Supreme Court had it in the TANK for domestic and foreign dirty money, with the purpose of buying up our Government and putting corporations in control of the American people.

You think the Party of the People - the Democrats - will just take it lying down?

Dream On.

If Rubio says that President Obama is the most divisive figure in American history, then he has either never heard of Nixon, Boehner, McCarthy, and the Civil War or he is simply lying through his teeth. I'm going with him being a liar. Honesty, integrity, and moral courage are not principles that are embraced by Republicans, unfortunately.

Three things that cause divisiveness:

1) Gerrymandering to make districts either very red or very blue, and more importantly non-competitive. This creates a Congress filled with members that do not need to compromise, and that do not need to worry about re-election so are there forever. All states should have neutral committees draw districts.

2) The 24-hour Cable News that began in the 1990s (not so long ago) -- Most notably FOX Noise, which actually received their talking points from the Bush/Cheney White House, thus State News. And related to propaganda outlets like FOX is the failure of our education system to teach research methodology, critical thinking, and logic. The Tea Party is a result of FOX Noise (also Hate Radio and websites like WorldNetDaily, NewsMax, Drudge, etc.), which we must remove from Congress.

3) MONEY in politics, which is now worse than ever before thanks to the right-leaning Robert's SCOTUS and the Citizen's United ruling that overturned a hundred years of precedence by saying corporations are people. WTF were they thinking?

Rubio is merely exposing his lack of experience and gravitas yet again.

To Feisty Redhead Roselle, IL

who wrote: KUDOS to the DNC! We're not going to take it... anymore! Touche!

Girlfriend, please be more original than that. You just took the Reps line "we are not going to take it anymore" Hey, Fox has Obama up by 7 points, but oh I forgot Fox lies according to you.

Not even FOX can conjure up a lie big enough to hide the fact that President Obama is steamrolling the GOP's #1 loser, Mitt "Etch-A-Sketch" Romney.

Hey Sailcat,

Did you read correctly? Obama is up by 7. What is it with you guys that don't even understand good news for the Left of Left, lol. You are incredible.

Hey Concerned Dimwit. I was responding to the previous post in which FOX was mentioned in a specific context. If you cannot keep up with the conversation I would suggest remaining silent. Your meaningless posts are embarrassing for you and tedious for the rest of us.

I love the fact that when both sides start to state facts, the other party conveniently "forgets" or tries to "redirect" the conversation to something else that benefits them. The sad part is the republicans have been doing a lot of that in recent months and this article is only the starting point. Now I will give the republicans credit that they have somewhat succeeded in making the President look like he has made any progress on the economy but they are the main reason why. The ONLY thing the president did wrong in my opinion is continuing to reach across the isle and "accommodate" the republican antics that are continually against him.

If I was a strategist, I would continue to use this as an argument for the slow growing economy and the fact that congress is bent on putting politics in front of policy to get the "Great Divider" as the republicans call him out of office.

Please don't ignore the fact that Simpson-Bowles and the Gang of Six both required increased revenues. Simpson-Bowles was framed as tax reform, but the end result was that the affluent would pay more. Until the GOP moves to this side of the field there is nothing to discuss. Obama should have been more supportive of Simpson-Bowles, but he got bad advice. But then when he supported the Gang of Six, Sen. Coburn high-tailed it back to his GOP caucus when it was perceived that he would support revenue increases. I don't hear Romney supportive of either plan. He like the rest of the GOP believes in the flat earth, unicorns, spending cuts (but not defense) and tax cuts.

Is Rubio auditioning for the attack dog role for Romney"s vp?

If not this junior senator is full of hyperbole....

The party of NO is the source of the obstruction , that all they got NO, NO, all in lockstep as tea party parrots.

He's full of truth anyhow, i dont know what your definition of hyperbole is, but mine isnt speaking the truth.

Oh DEAR!

Someone left the troll bridge unattended...

They sure have a tendency to crawl out at night!

Kind of pitiful when you think about it!

The RWNJ's see it all slipping away from them and are impotent to do anything about it... lmao!

Amazing how belligerent the RWNJ's become when faced with the TRUTH!

However, not suprising, for 50 years they are used to playing the bully card - shame for them us loony, lefty. libruls have decided to hit back! ;o)

that all they got NO, NO, all in lockstep as tea party parrots.

Northstar,

Toss em a cracker - doesn't take much to please them!

And yet mouthy, errr i mean feisty, didnt say anything to refute the truth, just her usual unsubstantiated jibberish. I wish i could work for a liberal blog, then i could be stupid and still get paid.

didnt say anything to refute the truth,

See, my little pet, this is where you're confused.

Had you said anything which was factaully true - I could of refuted it...

In you're case, you failed... EPICALLY! ;o)

Keep trying junior, maybe some day you'll earn a seat at the adult table!

BTW - Given your comment history, you wouldn't recognize the truth if it smacked you in your face!

YAY for the junior tea-bagger!

trudat,

Hyperbole is exaggeration for the sake of effect. That is what Rubio's "divisive " remark was.

I memorized that definition in 5 grade English writing class taught by the nice nuns. :)

trudat6445

He's full of truth anyhow,

Sorry trudat6445 but what he - and you - are full of is NOT truth...

Awww, its so cute when all the blind libs defend themselves and their idiocy, but everything Rubio said is true.

Trudat,

Again as to be expected bad information from your quarter.

jkh

Thats okay Jim...

Anyone with half a brain knows Rubio is a lying idiot.

Look at his crdit card expense theft that he go caught for - then couldn't adequately "explain" it away.

Onlyother idiots would listen to him IMO.

But they sure get their panties twisted when faced with facts don't they....

listen to them on this board. Typical RWNJ's mistaking sh!t for truth --- says alot about the tea/gop doesn't it....

ROTFL!

Rubio is trying to be Romney's lapdog. Integrity and intelligence have no place in a Romney administration!

convenientliesyoubelieve - talk about believing lies!!! You clearly believe every lie the right wingers feed you. And, you are going to be sooooooo disappointed in November.

Your hatred of anyone not like you - ignorant and classless - is obvious. Luckily you are unimportant.

Obama/Biden 2012

See American First, in June 2009 Obama said the recession was over. If you want to understand Independents, it would be best to let them think for themselves. See Independents like both ideas of the D and R. As of right now more I's are liking where Mitt is going. It doesn't take 3 years to recover no matter who you want to blame. It's easy to place blame, it takes a leader to take responsibility. For the last 3 1/2 years all we hear is blame and it's really getting old. My question is why won't the Democrats talk about the economy? You want to win I's over, talk about what's important, not smoke screens.

Paul,

By any economic definition of recession the president was 100% correct. He also warned that we had an enormous hole to dig out of and that we were on a path to recovery but that there were still a lot of difficult times ahead and that the recovery was extremely fragile. For purely political purposes the GOP attempted to derail recovery including forcing our credit rating to be lowered over an economic housekeeping issue, the raising of the debt ceiling. If we had allowed the Ryan Plan to be implemented we would be in worse shape than Europe who implemented a European version of his plan.

jkh

This is the problem with Obama and the Democrats

They describe the 16 trillion dollar debt as a "economic housekeeping"

At least they acknowledge it... For the Bush years it was all "deficits don't matter"... Sure we'll raise the debt limit for you Georgie. No muss no fuss. Fast forward a couple years and its all bluster and fake anger... The fact that people actually have that short memories is pathetic, almost as pathetic as the hypocrisy republicans exhibit on a daily if not hourly basis. Shame on you for believeing their outright lies. YOu want to think for y ourself? Then look at the facts and not the Fox News talking points and make your own decision as to who is actually working to better this country, and not just trying to get that black man out of the White House.

Paul-Florida, I was agreeing with you up to your third sentence, then you went right. As an independent and retired veteran, I can't in good conscience vote for Mitt for the simple fact that his ONLY ambition is to be president. It's almost like it a bucket list item for him. If you listen to him talk, he has no substance, no identity or stance when it comes to well........ANYTHING. Independents ARE fed up with Obama, this is true HOWEVER, the majority of us will not vote for someone that simply proposes talking points as a solution to everything. Eventually Mitt is going to have to present some kind of plan or policy that will get the economy instead of the same narrative he has used while working at Bain Capital. That may work for a business but not a government. I personally don't want to go back to the same nonsense that created this mess in the first place and for you to "assume" that we could have replaced 23 million jobs in less than 3 years, you really don't know economics. As for the President, he has taken responsibility for the anemic growth of the economy AND the democrats are talking about the economy, just no one is listening. I wonder why...........

Joseph

Gas prices are down two bits. Did you miss that tidbit on FOX news? Maybe you should broaden your news sources.

Do me a favor, look up socialism. I'm getting weary of educating the Teapublican commentators who cannot properly use the English language. Please report back on the definition of socialism.

Gas was $1.78 when Obama took office.

They are now $3.45

And democrats say . . . "Gas prices are down"

Is this the same math that they use for the national debt . . . answer? YES

Joseph E. Parent - your ignorance and your hatred are pathetic - but nothing we don't expect from you. See, intelligent people are not threatened by what others do in their bedrooms. But, those who have questions about their own sexuality are.

And, if I were a Republican, I wouldn't say the word "whorehouse" too loud. Your guys pandering the Romney can't be called anything but whores!

Obama/Biden 2012 To keep sanity in the White House!

Reid is a mormon, fire away.

ditto, let's talk about it.

Tru,

Reid's not running for president.

jkh

don't attack religion or you violate 1st amendment right you dum dum stupidhead

Convenient,

Please try to write complete sentences I for one have difficulty understanding what the hell you are talking about.

jkh

Wm, so flying the flag is a bad thing? No body is making anybody flying the flag, a little confused on where you're going with this.

My view, I feel pride and honor in flying the flag, just a thought.

I'm saying that patriotism is more than just flying the flag. It's more than wearing a lapel pin. I see too many in the GOP treating patriotism much the same way as strict Calvinists see faith. They know they have it and they know you don't.

As libs would say "its bushes fault dude, all bushes fault"

libs blame plant life.

Concerned Citizen et al ,

The presidents performance can not be viewed in a vacuum. Performance is relative to how others have performed the same job. The European economic situation was far better than ours in 2009 and they pursued the course advocated by Paul Ryans GOP and now Romney is doubling down on the same policies proven to be a disaster wherever they have been tried. Romney advocates a 20% across the board federal tax cut as well as a 10% drop in corporate taxes and the elimination of the inheritance tax. This would shift unheard of cash out of the Treasury and into the pockets of the top 10% who really don't need it. The top 10% pay 70.4% of taxes and would receive 70.4 % of the cash.The inheritance tax requires a joint estate of $10 million or 5 million single after allowing a $10 million joint or $5million single gift to children. Clearly only applicable to the top 5% as the Corporate tax drop of 10% will put 95% of proceeds into the pockets of the top 1% of earners.

Romney is proposing an approximate tax cut of $240 billion dollars of which the bottom 90% of earners will receive $60 billion in reductions while the top 10% will receive $180 BILLION. This will be the quickest redistribution of national wealth in US history.. Under republicans income is distributed upward in amounts that are almost unthinkable. Through the 60s and 70s the bottom 80 had been steadily increasing in wealth and political power. Their wealth and family incomes increased by almost 100% while the top 10% saw an increase of 25%. Since then the bottom 90% have seen a 10% increase while the top 10% have seen a 185% increase. By the end of the 70s the bottom 80% had acquired about 11% of the financial wealth of the nation. By the end of the Reagan/Bush I years it sat just above 6% by the end of the Clinton years it had risen to 9.7% by 2009 it was again reduced to 7%.

The policies advocated by Romney would make the Era of the Robber Barons look benign. This doesn't even touch on the repeal of healthcare and the privatization or end of social security.

jkh

jeez it sounds like he is bailing out the middle class! If anyone know's how to do it , it's Mitt! He knows who to cut and what is profitable, we need a business man and a negotiator............I'm an independent btw so no one can call me names

super-1286077 - you're no more an Independent than I am a man (and I'm definitely not). You're a Republican who clearly doesn't understand the economy.

Conv.,

Believe and interpret as you wish but Lugar's loss now makes the seat possible for the Democrats. Browns Massachusetts seat is deadlocked Florida Nelson leads Mack by 8.4% and all others by double digits. The only Democratic seat that looks really likely to change is Testers in Montana and either a Brown or a win in Indiana offset the loss. It will probably take a huge Romney win to flip the Senate and the GOP appears more likely to lose the House than the Dems. the Senate. The last two years have brought about a lot of buyers remorse. Union households gave McCain 39% 0f the vote and Hispanics gave him 31% and Romney won't get either of those totals.

That's actually pretty funny.

But honestly if you really don't think Bush has any blame and Obama should get all of it you really are deluding yourself. It's not like Obama came into a great situation and turned it into a disaster. Bush did do that. But the die was cast long before that with the repeal of the Glass-Steagall act under Clinton's watch. He should take a lot of blame for the financial crisis, but after the whole failed impeachment thing he's the darling of the democrats. I can't believe no one has taken Clinton to task for that.

Curious - what is the "standard for what a president should be"?

Failed to produce? He inherits an economic collapse created by Consertative anti-middle class policies, he strings together more job growth in 3 years than Bush-Cheney did in 8 years. He inherits the war Bush/Cheney lied to get us into and he ends it.

2.5 million more people have health insurance now than before he was president and he have unprecedented protections from insurance companies when they try to rip off their customers or deny sick people decent affordable health care.

Maybe the GOP should do like that Facebook guy and continue with your unpatriotic rumblings in Singapore...since you don't want to do your patriotic duty and pay for the wars our soldiers so bravely fought.

Yak Yak Yak. Over 8 % unemployment for 4 years. Goodbye Obummer.

leftsux - in your dreams.

Obama/Biden 2012 Hillary 2016

Republicans - not again until they grow some brains!

AbnRanger'84 - you are a pathetic little man who clearly isn't comfortable with his own sexuality. Don't worry - it's okay. Intelligent people won't judge you!