Rick Perry on Obama's 2008 election: 'Oops'

GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Saturday had only one word to describe the 2008 election of President Obama.

"Oops."

Speaking at the North Carolina Republican Convention here, the former presidential candidate turned comedian in referencing his debate flub when he could not recall the three government agencies he wanted to eliminate. It became known as Perry's "oops moment" and effectively ended his campaign. But the one-time front runner in the GOP presidential primary said the country suffered the same kind of moment a few years earlier.


 "Three and a half years, nearly 100 rounds of golf. Barack Obama has exploded the debt in this country. He has passed a stimulus program that grew government and not the economy. He socialized health care and he armed Mexican drug cartels. Admit it, America, 2008 was our national 'oops' moment," Perry said.

He spoke for less than 10 minutes at the convention, where Tim Pawlenty and Donald Trump also took the stage.  And though the speech was short, Perry did not hesitate to spend it making light of his failed run.

"People ask me, what was it like to run for the presidency of the United States? And I tell them, I say, 'Let me tell you, I was the frontrunner for a while and it was the the three most exhilarating hours of my life,'" he joked.

Republicans will continue to be drawn to North Carolina because of its importance as a swing state in November. Each of the three speakers at the convention this weekend talked about how essential it was for Republicans to win the state.

"Whether you are Tar Heel blue or Blue Devil blue, we all agree that this next election, we need North Carolina to be Wolf Pack red," said Perry. "Let’s get it right, let’s win this election. Let’s go do everything that we have to do to deliver North Carolina for Mitt Romney and the Republican Party."

Though he enthusiastically expressed his support for Romney, how much of a role Perry will play for the nominee seems unclear.  The governor of the Lone Star State seemed unaware that Romney would be campaigning there next week when asked if he will be making an appearance with his former rival.

"I got lots of great people helping Mitt out ... I'll be campaigning with him lots of places," said Perry.

 

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Oops you can do better than that, Rick. How about the biggest disaster this country has ever had. Oops is when you stub your toe, hell we cut off our head, both legs and both arms. We are a torso floping around. This idiot makes Jimmie Carter look like President Djor. Oops, the only people saying that are the low life moonbats that elected this pos. Everyone else is screaming WTF happened.

  • 5 votes
Reply#1 - Sat Jun 2, 2012 9:49 PM EDT

idiot two pea heads

  • 1 vote
#1.1 - Sat Jun 2, 2012 10:45 PM EDT

washed-up...

not funny at all...too late for another disaster

  • 4 votes
#1.2 - Sat Jun 2, 2012 11:22 PM EDT

Rick Perry is the "Oops". What is he talking about. The idiot could not even remember the agencies he wanted to eliminate. Ick Perry is the biggest disaster TEXAS has even seen. He makes GW look like a Rhodes scholar.

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#1.3 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 1:46 AM EDT

Who in their right mind would allow Rick Perry to stand up and talk to anyone??? Again, this is one of the BEST the GOP has? 'nuff said!

Obama/Biden 2012

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#1.4 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 3:17 PM EDT

How exactly could 2008 be a problem? The Phillies won. Year of change. Change feels good, doesnt it?

    #1.5 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 4:31 PM EDT
    Reply

    Barack Obama has exploded the debt in this country.

    Hey ignoramus:

    What do you think Dubya did for eight years, and how do you describe what Reagan did for eight years?

    Where is your poutrage at them, hypocrit?

    Please!

    • 22 votes
    #2 - Sat Jun 2, 2012 9:56 PM EDT

    Hey stupid - how quickly you forget the promises of Obama. He said he was going to balance the budget within his first 4 years. Now since he has never even made that attempt, leftists like you want to point the finger at everyone else. Obama has spent more, and placed more debt on this country than all presidents since WWII. How about answering that charge instead of trying to blame everyone else. Do you think you can do that for once in your pathetic blaming life?

    • 6 votes
    #2.1 - Sat Jun 2, 2012 10:23 PM EDT

    notice how they skip right over clinton in their blame game?

    • 3 votes
    #2.2 - Sat Jun 2, 2012 11:32 PM EDT

    "People ask me, what was it like to run for the presidency of the United States? And I tell them, ....

    and I tell them, Oops, is that what I was running for?

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    #2.3 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 12:03 AM EDT

    Brian B

    you are a liar....but you already know that!

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    #2.4 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 2:15 AM EDT

    Brian,

    What Senator Obama promised, while campaigning and before the financial collapse, was to cut the deficit in half by his 4th year.

    We all know he didn’t keep that promise and we all know why. He never said that again after the October financial collapse.

    • 11 votes
    #2.5 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 10:05 AM EDT

    We also all know about the Republican/Tea obstructionism & collusion designed to prevent the President from attaining that goal at the expense of the lower and middle class citizens. E.G. McConnell's statement of the primary reason he is in the Senate [to "insure Obama is a one term President"] and Boehner's admission during last summer's budget-debt ceiling negotiations [ "We held the nation hostage and got 90 % of what we wanted."]

    Agree Dennis... We voters DO know why, and we know where the blame belongs for the failure. When we have obstructionist representatives who refuse to do their job and legislate, what can be done? Still, the President HAS had many numerous successes in spite of the efforts to prevent success by the GOP/TEA.

    Just imagin how successful he will be in the second term after we oust the assinine obstructionists who are harming this nation!

    • 16 votes
    #2.6 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 10:13 AM EDT

    So Dennis, how many times did he tell us about those shovel ready jobs? Or that if we gave him the stimulus, he get unemployment down. In fact Dennis, his prediction was that with the stimulus unemployment would be at 6% now.

    Shoot Dennis he said Obamacare would reduce healthcare costs. Dennis my man, it passed two years ago.

    Bottom line Dennis - he has basically been wrong across the board.

    You hire a plumber, and doctor, and accountant that keeps getting things wrong and you do not rehire that person.

    And we will not.

    Oh and Stupid - you assertions fail for many reasons, one of which is the approximate two year period he had with HUGE majorities in both the HOuse and Senate. So what you are calling for is a return to 2009. Tell us Stupid, just what did they get done then? What did they do to fix the economy?

    Why didn't they do anything then Stupid, and since they did not do anything then why do you think they would do anything now?

    That's just Stupid, but I suspect you already know that.

    Failure is failure. You all cannot sugar coat it.

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    #2.7 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 10:54 AM EDT

    There is plenty of blame to go around for the ineffectiveness of both parties in congress and the White House. However, I keep hearing the democrats complaining that Obama INHERITED this mess from Bush. No one died and dropped this in Obama's lap. Obama wanted this job, he promised he would get things under control and unite the country. Obama stated that if the economy did not turn around in his first term he did not deserve another term as President. Obama has shown a lack of leadership, a lack of knowledge of politics in Washington despite his time in the Senate and continued to campaign for most of his first term. Obama got what he wanted in his first two years with arm twisting and back room deals, then the people said "whoa, where's the jobs, where's the tax revision, where's all these campaign promises", so the people needed to put the brakes on the liberal Washington government, so we voted in a Republican controlled House, and just missed a Republican controlled Senate. (Just like the voters did in 2006 when they kicked out the Republicans and voted in a Democrat controlled congress).

    Obama said he was up to the job, and could do the job that he applied for and given by the voters, he has failed and like he said if I fail I do not deserve a second term.

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    #2.8 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 12:04 PM EDT

    Shoot Dennis he said Obamacare would reduce healthcare costs.

    --------------------------------------------------------------------

    Gee Spanky, you mean you don't believe the Heritage Foundation's 1989 health care plan was a good idea? Well, I agree, but I'm surprised to hear you or any other conservative admit it.

    • 8 votes
    #2.9 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 12:25 PM EDT

    Shoot Dennis he said Obamacare would reduce healthcare costs. Dennis my man, it passed two years ago.

    Gosh, golly, gee .. many American's are seeing refunds on their insurance premiums. Blue Cross/Blue Shield is giving 73k insured a refund in Tenn. $36M in refunds in Arizona. An estimated 1.3b nationwide (excluding California). Boy, if that translates to Obama care sucks, I would hate to see what good Obama care looks like to a conservative. Proof positive, conservatives want fiscal failures, not good policy.

    http://timesfreepress.com/news/2012/jun/01/blue-cross-refund-premiums-73000-policy-holders/?breakingnews

    http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/business/articles/2012/05/24/20120524health-insurance-refunds-on-way-arizonans.html

    http://www.nationaljournal.com/healthcare/-1-billion-refund-coming-from-insurers-20120426

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    #2.10 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 1:08 PM EDT

    Simple minded as they are the uber right only sees the world in black and white, right or wrong, my way or the highway. Obama, like all Presidents before him made campaign promises, some happened some didn't. When Republicans in Copngress have as their only goal to unseat him at any cost he couldn't be expected to fulfill as many promises. None of those Presidents fulfill ALL their campaign promises.

    Those same teapublicans don't understand that cuts alone will not improve the situation. We need both REVENUE INCREASES and accross the board cuts, including the Pentagon.

    Bush inherited a SURPLUS from Clinton and in less than a year the surplus was gone. War costs that are not on the budget (especially for an unnecessary war) ate up revenues like crazy. The 1%ers who were greedy sent American jobs off shore where they thought they would rake in scads of money but quality problems and cost of transportation has caused them to rethink that move. Slowly the economy trickled down the sewer and now that is where it is. We are coming out of it and it should take more time. Romney criticizes Obama, and that's okay for the opposition to criticize the incumbant but not without a viable alternative plan. Other than tax breaks for the greedy and uberrich and cuts on everything in sight but the Pentagon what plan does Romney have?

    My complaint with the Affordable Healthcare Act is that Obama didn't do a good enough job in "selling" it. Also I really don't like the mandate part of it. That can be changed without scrapping the whole thing. I would have those who opt out of insurance, either private or public, is that they declare on penalty of contempt that they will be fully responsible for all medical costs for him/herself and dependants including losing their home, cars, flat screen tee vee and everything but the clothes on their back. Gamblers may or may not win and without insurance the individual is gambling.

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    #2.11 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 1:38 PM EDT

    Spanky, you are a tea/gop shill...

    Does the RNC pay you by the word or by the post?

    Are you truly as uninformed and ignorant as you appear on here?

    You and your guy Willard are blaming President Obama for the unemployment numbers this week; but just a few months ago you guys insisted it wasn't anything the President has done that affects jobs - is your memory really that short? Allow me:

    Ever since the news broke last Friday that our economy added 257,000 new private-sector jobs in January, Mitt Romney has been grasping for a way to morph the positive news about our economic recovery into something that will benefit him politically. In his Nevada caucus speech this weekend, Romney said:

    “[H]e's been trying to take a bow for 8.3 percent unemployment. Not so fast, Mr. President ... We welcome any good news on the jobs front, but it is thanks to the innovation of the American people in the private sector, not to you.”

    Far from taking “a bow,” President Obama has been clear about the fact that we still have a long road ahead of us.

    You ask,

    " Tell us Stupid, just what did they get done then? What did they do to fix the economy?"

    The answer is, " A LOT!" but you already know that. You are simply pretending stupidity in order to prmote the RNC/TEA talking points, spin, and platform planks, aren't you rascal...

    When President Obama took office in January 2009, we were shedding nearly 800,000 jobs a month. His immediate, decisive action to stop the bleeding reversed the trend. We’ve now seen 23 straight months of private-sector job growth, creating a total of 3.7 million jobs.

    But, hey spankster; put on your big girl panties, suck it up, and accept that President Obama is doing a much, MUCH better job that Dumbya ever did in his eight years, and than Mittens could ever have done over the past three years.

    Why, heck - we voters KNOW Romney would have bankrupted the auto industry AND the United States had he been in the White House in 2009. You know that too, don't you. [Statement, not a question.]

    Why didn't they do anything then...

    "There are NONE so blind as those who will not see...."

    Get the mascarra out of your eyes spanky and come back to reality.

    BTW = notice that since the President came down on the energy/oil futures investors and the price of gas at the pumps has started falling that you have abandoned your 2nd favorite gripe about the Obama Administration. Makes us believe you may be a HYPOCRIT spanky...

    But don't worry... there is a possible hurricane begining to form in the Carribean that you can blame President Obama for causing...

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    #2.12 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 2:16 PM EDT

    Barack Obama has exploded the debt in this country.

    Hey ignoramus:

    What do you think Dubya did for eight years

    Debt under presidents

    Reagan (1981-1988) - $1.339 Trillion / 8 years; $167 Billion per year

    Bush 1 (1989-1992) - $933 Billion / 4 years; $233 Billion per year

    Clinton (1993-200) - $320 Billion / 8 years; $40 Billion per year

    Bush 2 (2001-2008) - $2.006 Trillion / 8 years; $251 Billion per year

    Obama (2009-2012) - $5.33 Trillion / 4 years; $1.333 Trillion per year

    http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Historicals

    In case you are are not any better at math than the truth, increasing Bush's spending by a factor of FIVE just might qualify as "exploding" the debt.

    In case you are going with the latest Obama lie - the "rate" of growth stain doesn't wash either.

    The nut that put that lie out, Rex Nutt, failed to acknowledge that Bush's $154 billion in TARP relief was a loan - that $146 billion was paid back with interest by 2011.

    How can loans paid back with interest add debt .... they can't .... just another liberal deceit.

    And this is in addition to the fact that in 2009, the stimulus was not in Bush's 2009 budget, Obama was the one begging for the stimulus that accomplished nothing - not Bush.

    Sorry, Obama owns the debt disaster.

    Why do you guys intentionally, knowingly lie .... why do you you try to protect and defend abject failure?

    • 2 votes
    #2.13 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 2:24 PM EDT

    RedDevPMS-

    You might want to read your references ... the refunds have nothing to do with the actual rising cost of health care.

    Kinda like insurance increasing your rate $7,000.00 and missing the calculation ... and then refunding $172.00 out of the new additional $7,000.00.

    Heck of a deal, huh.

    Nice effort to distort reality though.

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    #2.14 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 2:31 PM EDT

    Bob, nice try but you know full well that there are some very important issues you are missing when you look at those numbers. First, The Bush administration did not include any of the costs of the 2 wars into their budget numbers. They kept that all off of the books where the Obama administration counts those costs. The second thing to remember is that the Bush adminstration passed the Medicare drug benefit which adds $650 Billion each year to the debt. President Obama has spend quite a bit of money to stave off an economic meltdown but that money would have been more helpful if the Republicans in Congress didn't decide it was more important to win an election than to do their job and help the American people.

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    #2.15 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 2:37 PM EDT

    Horse Hockey!

    Not accurate Boob - but just like spanky, you already know that.

    See:

    http:/ /www.snopes.com/politics/politicians/nationaldebt.asp

    You will have to remove the space between the //, but the true chart is here.

    Reagan increase: 189%

    Dumbya: 86%

    H.W. Bush: 55%

    Clinton: 37%

    Obama: 35%

    Our President is not nearly so bad as you RWNJ's attempt to portray with your RNC/TEA lies, spin, and talking point garbage.

    But you guys KNOW that. You are simply allowing your partisanship to harm this nation, and I call that VERY unpatriotic!

    but you know THAT too...

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    #2.16 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 2:41 PM EDT

    bob-180,

    Since a lot of expenditures under Bush 43 were off budget you need to look at the actual National Debt increase which was 4.3 trillion dollars.

    http://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/histdebt/histdebt_histo5.htm

    • 7 votes
    #2.17 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 2:42 PM EDT

    I give you Obama's Office of Management and Budget as a reference and you cite "Snopes" as a rebuttal?

    Not only that, you fail to address the TARP reality, the stimulus reality, Obama's inflation ......

    Your devotion to idiocy is commendable.

    off budget

    I gave actual outlays not budget numbers.

    Sheesh .... if you went by budgets ... Obama has spent nothing the last few years because he doesn't even have budgets!

    • 1 vote
    #2.18 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 3:14 PM EDT

    You might want to read your references ... the refunds have nothing to do with the actual rising cost of health care.

    Gosh Bob lotsa lying numbers - it is already established on this blog you have no credibility with numbers you post, and the numbers you have posted mean absolutely nothing. For example, if your insurance premium increased from $6828 to $7k, but you then received a refund of $176, then your insurance premium has not increased. If your insurance premium increased from $6999 to $7k, and you got a refund of $176, your insurance decreased.

    If so inclined, I could pull out thousands of posts from Obamacare complainers crying and sobbing that their premiums increased under Obama care, meaning that is the judge by which most measure rising health care costs. Most all conversation about rising health care costs are centered around rising premiums. Yet for all that pissing and moaning, what we are seeing is exactly what Obamacare promised - to reduce medical costs to consumers in the form of curbing rises in insurance premiums.

    Now go ahead and play your silly game of re-writing the discussion to the cost per stitch. It isn't going to fly.

    • 5 votes
    #2.19 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 3:19 PM EDT

    Adled -

    We need both REVENUE INCREASES and accross the board cuts, including the Pentagon.

    Yea, we need the 20 million unemployeed and underemployeed working and paying taxes, we need business to have confidance and grow their companies .... we need the revenue from gas and oil leases .... in other words -as soon as Obama is gone we can turn things around.

    Taxes on the rich ... Buffett Bull .... even Obama knows that doesn't work (admitted it to Charlie Gibson in an interview.)

    Regarding Pentagon spending, Obama's cuts are a disaster according to his own guys.

    Bush inherited a SURPLUS from Clinton and in less than a year the surplus was gone.

    Another libbie lie ... The debt went up every year and by definition - you cannot have a surplus when the debt increases.

    There was a budget surplus, a paper surplus not an actual surplus. This was a result of the dot.com boom where people were making big unexpected money, were paying more in to Social Security which gave unexpected cash while at the same time ringing up a new obligation / debt. (Probably above your blog level to understand.)

    The reality ... not only did Bush not inherit a surplus because of the intragovernmental holding thingy - Bush inherited the dot.com bust and recession.

    Nice distortion of reality though.

    RedDevPMS-

    As the great David Walker even notes ... some people are just too stupid to realize they're stupid.

    Thanks for the example.

    • 1 vote
    #2.20 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 3:19 PM EDT

    Golly Bob--

    How did you find that alternate reality you reside in?

    That is okay... you will be able to sober up eventually, and get rid of those D-T halluncinations.

    • 3 votes
    #2.21 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 3:30 PM EDT

    bob-180,

    You have no creditability around here.

    You don’t even understand how to apply a reasonability test to what you say.

    Take inflation out of the mix by comparing the Debt as a percentage of our Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

    In 1945 our National Debt was at 125% of GDP. Today it is at 100% of GDP.

    Between 1945 and 1980 we paid the debt down to 37% of GDP but by 1992 it had nearly doubled to 69% of GDP. By the time Bush 43 took office it was down to 57% of GDP and when Obama took over it was back up to 77% of GDP, the highest level since the end of the Truman administration.

    http://www.supportingevidence.com/Government/fed_debt_as_percent_GDP_over_time.html

    http://zfacts.com/p/318.html

    • 4 votes
    #2.22 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 3:50 PM EDT

    Bush inherited the dot.com bust and recession.

    Inherited the dot.com recession did he? How do you claim that when Bush took office in January 2001, and the dot.com bubble collapsed in March, 2001? It occurred under his watch. Now was he responsible for it - not even a liberal would make that claim. You should note, many leading economists claim this would not have been labeled a recession, except combined with the economic decline in response to the 9/11 attacks, both were responsible for this brief-short recession (lasting 8 months). Note also, it is the smallest recession ever recorded, with a GDP decline of a whopping -.3%, which is hardly worth mentioning. Compare that to the Obama inherited mess of at least -5.7%. Boy, poor Bush sure had it tough, didn't he.

    Now, what did Bush spend to get us out of his baby recession, why a paltry $1.3T? Talk about monumental spending for a little ole GDP decline of .3%. Gee, why couldn't republicans give Obama the same leeway? Could it be because republicans wanted Obama's stimulus to fail. Me thinks so.

    The Republicans who now call the $800 billion recovery package “too big” jumped on the Bush bandwagon claiming his $1.35 trillion in tax cuts were just what was needed to jump start a sluggish economy:

    http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2009/02/07/35902/recovery-v-bush-tax-cuts/

    • 5 votes
    #2.23 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 4:24 PM EDT

    Dennis -

    Obama's deficit spending as a percentage of GDP is 3.75 times Bush's.

    Give up the insanity dude.

    RedDummyPMS -

    The Republicans who now call the $800 billion recovery package “too big” jumped on the Bush bandwagon claiming his $1.35 trillion in tax cuts were just what was needed to jump start a sluggish economy:

    And they were right. Here are the revenue numbers for those tax cuts ....

    Revenue in 2001 was $1.991 trillion.

    Revenue in 2002 was $1.853 trillion.

    Revenue in 2003 was $1.782 trillion.

    Tax cuts

    Revenue in 2005 was $2.153 trillion – UP 17%

    Revenue in 2006 was $2.406 trillion – UP 26%

    Revenue in 2007 was $2.568 trillion – UP 31%

    Revenue in 2008 was $2.524 trillion – UP 29%

    [Source was OMB, Historical Tables, Table 1.3, 25-MAR-11]

    Bush had revenue in 2007 of $2.568 trillion with spending of $2.728 trillion for a deficit of $160.7 billion.

    Obama had revenue in 2011 of $2.173 trillion with spending of $3.818 trillion for a deficit of $1.645 trillion – 10 TIMES Bush’s deficit!

    And really ..... thinkformeprogress as your dumbass source!

    • 2 votes
    #2.24 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 5:08 PM EDT

    When Obama was making those promises during the 2008 campaign, he assumed that, as has happened in the past, Congress would work with him. He assumed that, as has usually been the case, the congress had the best interests of the country at heart. There is no way he could have known that, just because of who he is, congress would conspire to sabotage anything he tried to do. I think it was very difficult for someone like President Obama to come to accept that the congress would rather let the country go down the tubes than to allow him to succeed at anything. That's why it took him so long to give up trying for compromise. He couldn't believe they would actually go that far.

    • 7 votes
    #2.25 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 6:26 PM EDT

    Not as,

    Keep talking, you are quickly removing any doubt that you are.

      #2.26 - Mon Jun 4, 2012 8:57 AM EDT

      Heartlight,

      Sorry...comment 2.25 is BS, but you know that.

      Democrats controlled House and Senate, including Super Majority for 2 years. NOTHING happened, OH...except a Healthcare Bill that will cost me several thousand dollars more annually, because my employer can't afford to keep the plan we had. Ditto to my Mom's plan...Thanks Obama...

      19 JOBS bills have been presented to Senate for review and vote since Republicans took House in 2010 mid-terms...Senate Majority Lead (Harry Reid) REFUSED to allow a vote and refused to allow open floor discussion.

      Now, before you state these bills were "Conservative." OF COURSE they were...but, the "compromise" comes when Senate floors it, allows discussion and/or provides alternatives...THEN there is compromise, but instead, Reid REFUSES and Obama won't compromise at all, PERIOD.

        #2.27 - Mon Jun 4, 2012 9:02 AM EDT
        Reply

        Our company is not hiring at all.They are afraid Romney will get in and destroy everything.He left the people of Massachusetts jobless and pension less..And we are afraid he will loot the treasury and sell of the USA 's assets ! That was his history in Mass !


        • 16 votes
        Reply#3 - Sat Jun 2, 2012 10:16 PM EDT

        What great fiction. Have you ever considered a career as a fiction writer? I understand if your books get sold, you can make a good living. Just a word of encouragement from a conservative that thinks you may have a good career ahead of you.... well, that is if you didn't copy and paste that piece of fiction... and if you did... forget what I just said.

        • 4 votes
        #3.1 - Sat Jun 2, 2012 10:28 PM EDT

        Gosh I wonder PalmSprings - what if anything do you know about hiring?

        do you own a business and and employ people?

        Do you have any knowledge, skill or training in economics or business.

        Have you ever read any portion of the tax code?

        Me, I'm looking at the huge uncertainty with the impending tax increases, issues with healthcare regulations, and the poor general economic conditions.

        No way I will hire until at least early next year. By then at least the tax situation will be addresses. Too bad Obama refuses to lead.

        More mindless prattle from the uninvolved.

        • 5 votes
        #3.2 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 10:59 AM EDT

        Brianb-999431

        What great fiction.

        Not as good as the fiction Mitt Romney's hacks dream up for him to spew forth, like the fiction that Solyndra was some sort of cronyism on Obama's part when the truth is that Bush big-money corporate donors were also investing in Solyndra. Or that Obama is secretly plotting to impose a state religion of secularism (an oxymoron some moron on Mitten's campaign staff dreamed up for him to mouth). Or Romney's infamous "Pants-On-Fire" award-winning lie about Obama's nonexistent "apology tour." When it comes to fiction, nobody can beat Romney, at least in the category of hateful lies.

        • 9 votes
        #3.3 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 11:28 AM EDT

        Me, I'm looking at the huge uncertainty with the impending tax increases, issues with healthcare regulations, and the poor general economic conditions.

        Oooga-boooga - all those scary uncertain economic decisions that play into increasing the size of staff from 1 to 2. Get a life - I dare say the only thing holding you back is you can't drum up the business to support that extra employee.

        • 2 votes
        #3.4 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 3:28 PM EDT

        The liars on the right, including the biggest liar of ALL, Mitt Romney are syaing that candidate Obama in 2008 promised to balance the budget in 4 years. Never said it, never happended.

        The MSM allows the Republicans to say just about anything and never call them on it.

        Pathetic.

        There is widespread malfeasance on the part of the MSM and our country in going to hell in a handbasket.!!1

        • 1 vote
        #3.5 - Mon Jun 4, 2012 2:25 PM EDT
        Reply

        There he goes again! 'Ol Rick Perry, king of the "Mental Lackadaisical" and prominent due to his "Deer in the Head lights" crash and burn phenomenon. This wild eyed "Texas Streaking Turkey" suffered from "Oops-ville Syndrome" and now he says the president has had some oops? Obama cannot be saddled with the economy. The Congress is responsible for legislating jobs production, Tax legislation and approving the presidential appointments - Chapter one of any government book unless changed by the Texas textbook commission and used across the entire nation. Legislative achievements are the anal droppings of Congress, and no guilt belongs to Obama. Just think how much would be accomplished if the Congress would work with the president. North Carolina is a toss-up state and thinking people with any education will remember the Congress is responsible for legislating jobs production, Tax legislation and approving the presidential appointments. Every educated thinking person person in America should remember Romney's words:

        "Corporations are people my friend"


        "I like being able to fire people"


        "I'm not concerned about the very poor"


        "I have some great friends who are NASCAR owners"



        Everyone should remember Tea candidates are using (R) rather than (T) when they run for office. They are well funded and organized at the local level, where they have better control over monies, infrastructure decisions , rules and regulations. This elite fringe have made inroads into control and power through local elections and state elections and if allowed will shut down the America we know today. Rick Perry is a Treacherous Adversarial Egotist(TEA) party member in a TEA party run state.

        TEA-Republicans want to shut down Entitlement Programs like:
        Home Mortgage Interest Deduction
        Hope or Lifetime Learning Tax Credit
        Student Loans
        Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit
        Earned Income Tax Credit
        Social Security--Retirement & Survivors
        Pell Grants
        Unemployment Insurance
        Veterans Benefits
        G.I. Bill
        Medicare
        Head Start
        Social Security Disability
        SSI--Supplemental Security Income
        Medicaid
        Welfare/Public Assistance
        Government Subsidized Housing
        Food Stamps

        • 11 votes
        Reply#4 - Sat Jun 2, 2012 11:28 PM EDT

        Shut it all down?

        Golly, I'd like to at least cut into the $4billion per day we add to the debt.

        But see, economic reality always wins. Those programs, and so much more will collapse if real reform is not implemented.

        Or you could start voluntarily contributing a lot more money. You do pay extra for all those great programs don't you?

        Sure you do.

        • 3 votes
        #4.1 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 11:02 AM EDT
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        This election might just be one of the biggest mudslingin contest we've ever seen. Can't wait till the debates start!

          Reply#5 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 12:04 AM EDT

          Let me save the libbies some time and anguish.

          Walker will stay in office.

          The GOP will retain control of the House.

          The GOP will gain control of the Senate.

          The SCOTUS will repeal Obamacare this month.

          Unemployment will get even worse this summer under Obama.

          Mitt Romney will win the general election by a huge landslide this November, and remain our beloved President and righteous leader for the following eight years.

          The Democratic Party will become a joke. (Obama being the punchline)

          It will become politically incorrect to even call anyone a Democrat. Same as calling them an idiot.

          • 7 votes
          Reply#6 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 12:57 AM EDT

          One of these days I am going to visit this site and find a Republican using some facts to make a point. Not today apparently. As bad as things are, Obama is still likely to end his term with GDP growth equal to Bush's average, more private sector jobs created (Bush's net gain was due to 1.8 million new government jobs) and Obama will have waxed Bush in the growth of the DJIA (again, down not up under Bush). Right now Obama's job creation numbers beat Bush's at the same point in Bush's first term. (Check it out.) Want to talk about creating debt -- here's a factoid for you -- Bush and Republican's wonderful move to buy some voters via the Medicare Part D drug plan represents over a $15 trillion unfunded liability. Don't read much about that do you? We can't even calculate what the wars will cost because the PTSD and traumatic brain injury outyear costs are unfathomable. I could go on and on, but why bother. It's simple --we need to remember the old adage, "want to live like a Republican, vote Democratic." There are 60 years of data that proves it's true. Unfortunately, since the top 1% has seen their share of our nation's wealth go from 23% to 40% due to Republican tax cuts, they will try to buy another election. Their day will come. As even Pat Buchanan says --sooner or later the streets are going to be full of folks with pitchforks. Since we currently have less upward mobility than even Great Britain, I hope it's sooner, for the good of the country.

          • 16 votes
          #6.1 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 3:08 AM EDT

          b dune put your big boy drawers on and tell Brian B what he lied about. Your not boy enough are you. He didn't lie but you think you can say that BS and get by with it. b dune you are a punk but you are are proud of that

          • 1 vote
          #6.2 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 9:57 AM EDT

          Isn't that special? Daydreaming again? Well we will see.

          • 2 votes
          #6.3 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 1:41 PM EDT

          Jan 21, 2013 -- Pres. Mittwit calls in his buddies from Bain, the Koch Brothers and a few others and arranges a leveraged buy-out of the US government. First, they drain all the pension plans except for Congress's and then Social Security and all the rest, move the money to the Cayman Islands and declare bankruptcy. Romney then resigns the job to Vice Pres. Trump, takes his hundred Billion dollar golden parachute and flies away after selling what's left to China.

          • 2 votes
          #6.4 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 5:07 PM EDT

          Mitt Romney will win the general election by a huge landslide this November, and remain our beloved President and righteous leader for the following eight years.

          I swear I just hurled on my screen. Hmmmm Joseph ... wondering if you get your own planet too?

            #6.5 - Mon Jun 4, 2012 6:35 PM EDT
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            navy;

            Obama is still likely to end his term with GDP growth equal to Bush's average. (very unlikely)

            That, my good man is impossible... "Not Gonna do it"

            Spew fallacies elsewhere please. Need to swab your deck mate.

            Ditto, what joseph said.

            Vote nobama

            • 6 votes
            Reply#7 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 9:14 AM EDT

            Obama hasn't lowered unemployment rate to worst of Bush years

            A May 23 letter from John Ciccarelli utilized the Obama method of prevarication to state a fact that is not a fact. The president and his followers seem to believe in the old axiom that "a lie repeated often enough will become a fact in the mind of the liar and those stupid enough to believe him."

            For example, Ciccarelli writes that unemployment dropped from 10.3 percent when Obama took office. In fact, unemployment was 7.7 percent when Obama took office, and had averaged 5.3 percent during President George W. Bush's term.

            After Obama promised to keep unemployment below 8 percent, it never fell below 8 percent. In fact, unemployment rose from 7.7 percent to a high of almost 10 percent under President Obama. Recent unemployment figures are still over 8 percent and do not reflect the hundreds of thousands who are out of work and have given up trying to find work. What a sorry record when you view the facts.

            Obama has to go.

            Vote Nobama

            • 4 votes
            Reply#8 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 9:36 AM EDT

            Republicans like to think they are so smart, and yet they are willing to vote for the same policies that caused another recession in England. Yes, policies like the Ryan/Romney budget are the very reason England is having a double-dipped recession.

            I know you hate President Obama, but is that really a reason to vote for Romney whose plan is guaranteed to bring another recession to America?

            I know you hate President Obama, but is that really a reason to vote for Romney whose plan is to take away women's rights to choose about her own body?

            I know you hate President Obama, but is that really a reason to vote for Romney whose plan is to destroy all the new regulations put in place to keep Wall street from robbing us again?

            I know you hate President Obama, but is that really a reason to vote for Romney who will end medicare as we know it for more tax cuts for himself.

            I know you hate President Obama, but is that really a reason to vote for Romney who will kill the EPA? Of course your grand-kids don't need clean air to breathe or clean water to drink?

            I know you hate President Obama, but is that really a reason to vote for Romney who will push us into more wars while Romney increases the deficit while giving more tax cuts to himself. Never mind that Romney has hired back bush's old war monger staff.

            I know you hate President Obama, but is that really a reason to vote for Romney who plans on killing planned parenthood where millions of women get their health care?

            The republicans plan of destroying America for the 1% job creators is as stupid as it gets.

            Don't forget that in 2010 the republicans were promising jobs, jobs, jobs. No jobs, but they sure want to blame President Obama for what the republicans did not do when they were elected last time.

            LOVE AMERICA....VOTE FOR A DEMOCRAT 2012

            • 11 votes
            Reply#9 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 9:56 AM EDT

            Ah AmericansFirst so much typing by you when this is so very simple.

            We hate that GDP, real estate, and the economy in general is in the toilet.

            We hate that Obama has been able to do nothing about it, despite making big promises.

            And those are the reasons to vote for anyone but Obama.

            Why I bet you would not continue to be treated by a doctor who always gets it wrong.

            Am I right?

            Of course I'm Right.

            • 6 votes
            #9.1 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 11:07 AM EDT

            occupy america first

            Really?

            You say hate allot. I can not speak for anyone but myself TBS, I do not hate President Obama hate is a self consuming emotion however, I vemently dis agree with his ideology and policies also I do not believe he is Honest and forth coming He is very divisive, not like he portrayed himself at all in 2008 campaign.

            Sorry, He can not be trusted to lead this Nation any longer because of his record thus far % trillion over 3.5 yrs. Just won't do

            Your erudite deity god-man with the help of David Axelrod is imploding his own campaign. His landslide moment is scheduled for November 6th 2012. Sorry if the liberal loss of the house in 2010 and the up and coming loss of the Senate majority & the change in the Executive dept. in January causes you any mental distress or anguish. However our country Can not and will not allow this Falsehood & Destruction of the Great American Dream to continue. Not to worry though there will be programs in place to help you mitigate the feeling of betrayal that you will inevitably experience from the realisation of how you have allowed yourself to be deceived

            At this point it is most likely that you are unable to rid yourself of your own ignorance, that's a pity. Therefore just trust that your future will be positively effected by the Sane & Conservative people in America that really care and feel empathy for the desperate situation you are experiencing now.

            Vote nobama

              #9.2 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 1:53 PM EDT

              You act like our economy got in the toilet when President Obama was elected instead of the economy he inherited.

              Then after the republicans voting on purpose to destroy our economy with wars and tax cuts and then more tax cuts for the richest then you want to blame the democrats while the republicans obstruct anything in congress that would help create jobs.

              I have heard the rhetoric President Obama had the nerve to be elected so the economy is all his fault now.

              I know we are not allowed to talk about the fact that the republicans inherited a good economy with low unemployment and a surplus looking to pay off our entire debt by 2010. Instead the republicans decided to for the first time in history to give tax cuts during war time. In the past our people during war time became patriots and gave more because they loved America.

              With both of those great decisions in 8 short years created the largest deficit in our history. Then you want to convince us that only smart people like you would vote our country into a recession on purpose while the rest of us are dumb because we won't believe the same lies you have bought into.

              If you are so smart spanky, then why would you vote on purpose to go back to the very same policies that we are still trying to recover from?

              Then you have the gall to complain that with republican obstruction President Obama has not been able to fix the country fast enough for your approval.

              Spanky, if you could see the truth, then you could see that a party that is trying to make women into second class citizens by not allowing her freedom of choice about her own body, a party that is suppressing the vote and illegally purging mainly democrats and independents off the voters rolls is not a party that is concerned about your freedom or anyone else for that matter.

              If you didn't have so much hate you could see that voting for a republican is voting to end democracy as we know it.

              • 2 votes
              #9.3 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 9:54 PM EDT
              Reply

              It's just amazing all the lies the tea people Koch republicans keep telling day after day. You are right Bob Jones and Brian B, you tea people Koch republicans lie, the sad thing is I think you nuts are beginning to believe your own lies.

              • 9 votes
              Reply#10 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 10:13 AM EDT

              mo

              Aren't you scheduled for a flag desecration in zucoti park

              vote . Nobama=lies

              • 3 votes
              #10.1 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 1:56 PM EDT
              Reply

              Darn. I missed the Three Stooges Go Into Politics show. All they did was repeat fact checked to death Republican talking points, normally called lies. OOPS is Old Outlandish Prevarication Stupidity.

              • 3 votes
              Reply#11 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 1:10 PM EDT

              Oops is right! Probably the most important characteristic a good president must have is the ability to create consensus and harmony among the different factions in government, and in the country as a whole. Obama has been a total failure at bringing people together.

              Heap blame and scorn on whomever you now consider to be your mortal enemy: GOP, Liberals, Tea Party, Rich, Poor, it doesn't matter. It is the very fact that we are so divided that must be laid at Obama's feet.

              He has driven our country apart.

              And that is a bigger failure than any "oops" can possibly express.

              • 3 votes
              Reply#13 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 2:13 PM EDT

              Kannin - As everyone knows, your post is entirely lies. Our President did not tear the country apart. The group of dowdy old men who got together the day after our President was elected and swore they would do everything they could - including destroying the country - to make sure he only served one term, THEY THE GOP LEADERSHIP (if anyone is stupid enough to call THAT leadership) is who tore our country apart. And, buffoons like you continue the job!

              Obama/Biden 2012

              • 4 votes
              #13.1 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 3:23 PM EDT

              Seeking - "dowdy old men" "buffoons like you" Perfect examples of the point of my post!

              JFK, despite his faults, was probably the last president we have had that was truly capable of shrugging off the inevitable attacks, calming the conflicts, and inspiring all Americans to put their differences aside and work toward common goals.

              By contrast, Obama has fought bitterly against those who would criticize him, ignited conflict, and emphasized the differences among us.

              Even MSNBC has reported: "In 2008, Barack Obama, as a presidential candidate, made changing that culture (of divisiveness) a signature objective; if anything, it has grown more dysfunctional during his presidency."

              • 3 votes
              #13.2 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 3:43 PM EDT
              robersonDeleted

              Republicans call the President divisive when it is they who got togaether in January 2009 and declared that Barack Obama would be a one term president and that it would be guaranteed because they would vote no on all of his initiatives.

              That is the height of insanity.

                #13.4 - Mon Jun 4, 2012 2:29 PM EDT
                Reply

                _ick Perry has already gleefully and willfully seen to it that low income women in Texas have NO women's health provider to turn to. Women WILL die because of his tiny man ego and he is perfectly fine with that. So WHY does it suprise anybody that this Napoleonic turd would make stupid blunder after stupid blunder? Don't you just ASSUME that the fart you smell in the room is just _icky Boy's cerebral cortex firing up for another round of soulless policy making?

                • 3 votes
                Reply#14 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 2:26 PM EDT

                Current Republicans are the most disgusting examples of Americans that I have witnessed in my 40yrs of voting. I will never cast a vote for this current republican party. They are pure evil. THE WORST.

                • 4 votes
                Reply#16 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 3:19 PM EDT

                Justmy53andme - correct! Every word you've written is 100% correct!

                Obama/Biden 2012

                • 2 votes
                #16.1 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 3:24 PM EDT
                Reply

                how exactly was 2008 bad, again? Phillies won. Change feels good, does it not? GO PHILTHY... clean up

                  Reply#17 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 4:35 PM EDT

                  Once a man is attacked by an attack cayote. He will never be the same.

                    Reply#18 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 4:47 PM EDT

                    I guess Rick never learned that what is in Texas should stay in Texas.

                    • 1 vote
                    Reply#19 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 4:52 PM EDT

                    I have to laugh at you 4ward folks, Your erudite deity god-man Barak Obama with the help of his lapdog David Axelrod is imploding his own campaign. His landslide moment is scheduled for November 6th 2012. Sorry if the liberal loss of the house in 2010 and the up and coming loss of the Senate majority & the change in the Executive dept. in January causes you any mental distress or anguish. However our country Can not and will not allow this Falsehood & Destruction of the Great American Dream to continue. Not to worry though there will be programs in place to help you mitigate the feeling of betrayal that you will inevitably experience from the realisation of how you have allowed yourself to be deceived.
                    \
                    Obama has to go.
                    Vote Nobama

                    • 1 vote
                    Reply#20 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 4:52 PM EDT

                    Republicans are doing a good job of cutting up Obama for what He promised.

                    They never promise anything, and You only find out what they are going to ruin after they get elected.

                    • 1 vote
                    Reply#21 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 4:57 PM EDT

                    We can't blame the Forefathers or the Constitution.

                    They never dreamed we would be dumb enough to let Republicans be in our Government.

                    • 1 vote
                    Reply#22 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 5:01 PM EDT

                    It has taken a long time, but finally Republicans have got Mormonality.

                    • 1 vote
                    Reply#23 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 5:03 PM EDT

                    Now that's a laugh J C B

                    Who do you think they were ?????

                    NOBAMA 2012

                      Reply#24 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 5:04 PM EDT

                      You have the illusion that they were Republicans I guess.

                      Well How come no Republican has ever had a good idea since then.

                      You would think if They were Republicans. They would have continued what they started instead of trying to ruin all of it.

                        #24.1 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 5:14 PM EDT
                        Reply

                        Plutocrats believe that the RICH should Govern and rule the masses.

                        They are trying to get Romney elected to make that come true.

                        • 1 vote
                        Reply#25 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 5:06 PM EDT

                        The best part of all of this is watching Republicans tell us how bad Obama has been, forgeting we lived through their guys eight years before Him.

                        DUH!!!!!! It's like we have forgotten Tricky Dicky, Stumbling Ford. Reagan the Jelly Bean man, The whinny GHW Bush, and Sonny Boy Bush.

                        Republicans Moto. Never take credit for Your guys, and blame the other guys for Your failures.

                        • 2 votes
                        Reply#26 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 5:23 PM EDT

                        America's mistake is treating Republicans as just nice guys with different ideaology.

                        When in truth they are like an opposing army of terrorists trying to distroy America in every way they can.

                        They are doing what Osama Bin Laden dreamed of. Ruining America financailly.

                        • 1 vote
                        Reply#27 - Sun Jun 3, 2012 5:31 PM EDT
                        robersonDeleted
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