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Subscribe to RSSThe New York Times: “President Obama and Congressional Republicans pressed ahead on Monday with politically charged proposals on tax cuts and health care, in competing efforts to frame the election-year debate. But each risked opening fissures in their own ranks, as lawmakers played up alternatives to the aggressive approaches of their leaders... The divisions underscored the stakes for the president and the Republicans as they battle for control of the political debate — each choosing as their weapon a complex public policy issue with broad ripple effects. With four months left until Mr. Obama and Congress face the voters, these choices have become even more fraught, as lawmakers worry about alienating people who like expanded health coverage or tax cuts.”
“Barack Obama promised voters four years ago that he would work to slow the outflow of American jobs to other countries, proposing to revamp a federal tax code that encourages companies to maintain overseas operations,” the Washington Post reports. “Obama as president has continued to call for rewriting the rules that allow U.S. corporations to avoid paying taxes for a time on income generated overseas. But the tax changes have not happened.”
The Des Moines Register: “The American Future Fund, the Iowa-based super PAC supporting Republican political candidates, is out with a new 1-minute web ad, timed to coincide with President Barack Obama’s visit to Cedar Rapids on Tuesday. The ad offers a harsh assessment of Obama’s term in office, criticizing several of his policy efforts — like the economic stimulus package, the auto-industry bailout and health-care reform — as expensive, ineffective and potentially harmful. But it does not support any specific Republican candidates or even reference the upcoming election; rather, it instructs viewers to call the White House to tell Obama to “stop the spending.”
“While the Romney campaign and the Republican National Committee begin their counteroffensive on outsourcing today, Team Obama is continuing to grind away on the issue of Mitt Romney’s personal finances,” Politico reports.
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I'd prefer to say progressing ahead.
Let the class war begin!
In Obama's world penalizing one group means you are supporting another. What a joke this clown is.
The most divisive president ever.
All he knows is how to divide people in this country. Black against white, poor against rich, liberal against conservative.... the list goes on.
This country cannot afford to have a president that will further divide the people. It only hurts America!
Stop this clown now!
Hitler blamed the jews.
Obama blames the rich. You tell me what the difference is?
RedSoxRule and rukidding, do either of you have a thought of your own? You both look foolish.
Yeah, we should follow the lead of the trust fund babies:
We may look it but you truely are foolish if you support the current administration in any way shape or form.
Sorry, I do not want to go back to Bush on steroids. I also want to see the estate tax fully reinstated so that we have fewer wannabe Kardashians born on 3rd base and thinking they hit a triple.
This President is the worst to date. He has no understanding of basic economic principles. He has to be defeated or we are in serious trouble.
What economic principles were you referring to?
Tax this bammy. I see the little league news is reporting a dead heat between bammy and Romney. Bad news I guess bammy is catching up, oh wait he was in the lead from the beginning. Bwaaa haahaahaahaa. Take that moonbats. Your boy is losing ground the more he trys to take in taxes the more we will cut beginning next year. Squirm bammy squirm, Willard is taking your job slowly but surely.
You call that bad news Bob Jones? You did read the part of the poll that showed 58% of those polled said President Obama will win reelection, while only 34% said Romney would win. That sounds like bad news for Romney to me.
Just four more months of diluting yourselves and feeling good tea people, then it all comes crashing down in November.
Yawn, wake me up after Labor Day about the polls. I think Kerry was ahead of W about this time in 2004.
Ah we'll let you sleep Al. Then you won't have to go through the disappointment of four more years of President Obama. Unless you vote for President Obama, in that case we'll wake you.
Yea Mo spin this election like 2010 when no way was the Tea Party going to win the House, lol. You can spin it anyway you want until the morning after. But I'm sure you have a free morning after pill to take. Enjoy all the freebies while you can. We in the Tea Party will be putting your azz to work starting next year, lol.
I continue to find it interesting how the unthinking conservative lot always exaggerate things. President Obama is not blaming the rich. He--and many, many Americans--rightly blame Wall Street for the 2008 economic collapse, which, let us please not forget, was caused by the policies of the previous President, GW. And let's remember that the economic collapse was huge, not something that the U.S. is going to recover from anytime soon. It's remarkable how much better things have actually gotten, thanks to the President's policies. Imagine what would have happened, had Romney been President in 2009. We'd have lost several American car manufacturers + all the jobs and the small businesses tied to that industry. We'd still have a housing depression. Oh, but the top 1% in wealth in the nation would be making billions in profits. And given that job creation was the least it's been since the Depression under the Bush Presidency, we know that there is absolutely, positively no trickle-down of wealth. The rich just get richer. The middle class decreases in numbers. And let's please not make any more Hitler analogies. Obama isn't Hitler. Neither is Romney or Boehner. And let's also remember that President Obama had real trouble getting any economic stimulus through the "NO"-to-everything Congress.
Hmmm...some Democratic hedge fund zillionaire, from Seattle, explained it well last night on Lawrence O'Donnell's show, "the true Job Creators are the middle class."
The most important issue of the 2012 election is how to bring back a large and prosperous middle class. The basic differences are Obama argues for spending to improve infrastructure, broadly defined from roads to education and health care and a shift in the economy's focus from financial services to manufacturing and trade balances. Romney argues for more tax cuts for the wealthy, reduction of social programs, and a continuing reliance on financial services - i.e. a basic continuation of Bush The Unmentionable's policies.
The major issue is the economy and the major debate is between Democratic Keynesian's and Republican supply-siders and how to position the United States in the global economy.
To bad the rest of the media doesn't realize or want to report the consumer is the real job creator, not the rich or corporations. But as long as their getting citizens united money they'll keep using the tea people talking point, "job creators" without explaining just who the real job creators are. Our media has become so pitiful cowering down to citizens united money.
Hey Jerry tell that to your Wisconsin union buddies that failed to recall Scott Walker because the majority that voted to keep him as govenor believe what your putting out is BS, which it is. What you will find is how much Romney can accomplish as POTUS, like it or not. You see Jerry your problem is you spout BS that makes your boy a liar in 2008 and people remember what is said he was going to do. He didn't deliver, LMFAO. So he is going to be fired in November, just remember Bob Jones told you so, heck Jerry I am not going to be easy on you losers be here on Wednesday Nov. 7 2012 and I will tell you myself, lol
Romney 2012
Jerry,
The economic collapse you refer to started long ago, during the term of the FDR New Deal.
Progressives have since then created this great divide, only this administration is forthright in getting it to the front, not hidden as before.
Wait until you do feel the ACA costs, oh, they're taxes, no they are a penalty. All will contribute to the cost.
So jerry, what's wrong with being rich? Or is your complaint only that you are not one of the 1%?
Nothing wrong in being rich, if you are investing back into this country and its workforce, which creates a growing middle class. If, on the other hand, you are simply expanding markets globally, and helping promote new middle classes within those foreign markets, while neglecting the American work force...then we have to have a little talk.
retiredceo, when did I ever say there was anything wrong with being rich?! As Ronald Reagan once famously said, "There you go again." Don't put words in my mouth. My complaint is not with anyone being rich--or even outrageously rich. My complaint is with rich people thinking they are entitled to privileges that the middle class and the poor don't have. Yes, the rich have privileges the rest of us don't have. But they aren't automatically entitled to them just because they have wealth. They, like the rest of us, should pay for those privileges. Taxation is a good example. Why should millionaires pay less tax than their secretaries? And please, don't tell me that it's because they give so much to charities. Is that why they give to charities? Is that really the motivation we want for giving to charities? If it is, we as a culture are really, really, really screwed up. I'd much prefer to think that if Bush tax cuts on profits over $250,000 a year were eliminated, folks making over $250,000 would continue giving to charities. And please, the economic collapse of 2008 did not start with the New Deal. And the so-called "great divide" you mention began in the 19th Century with the robber barons. And don't call the effort to extend Bush tax cuts for profits up to $250,000 a year class warfare. Go back and read your 19th- and early 20th-Century economic history. There was class warfare. And the New Deal was FDR's successful effort to save the country from the Depression. You have read about the Depression, haven't you? Some of us had and still have parents and grandparents who lived through it. Many did so, thanks to FDR. And as for the ACA, please, get it right: it involves a penalty tax--yes tax but a PENALTY tax!--only on those who refuse to buy the mandated health insurance, only about 4% estimated. And that penalty is there to encourage people to buy health insurance so that the rest of us don't have to pay for their healthcare. I mean, come on, this was a Republican idea in the first place. Nixon wanted to pass it. Reagan supported the idea. The Bushes supported the idea. Romney put in place in Massachusetts. Now, all of a sudden--and I mean, really suddenly--it's socialism? It's time for you to stop simply repeating the lies the conservative Tea Party and talk radio goons make up. Read the economic history of the U.S. Read what economic experts say. Stop being an uninformed idiot.
If the tea people Koch republicans didn't have words put in their mouths by Fox, Limbaugh, Rove and the other tea people lords, they wouldn't have anything to say. It's obvious they can't think for themselves.
Yes, he promised many things that he has since failed at. He promised, for example, "I will cut the deficit in half by the end of my first term."
Obama has done many things that have harmed the country. Most of the time one can't be sure whether they are done out of lust for power, or just plain incompetence. It is said that you should never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. I, therefore, usually tend to go with the incompetence explanation.
Did you forget Kannin about Boehner and the other tea people Koch republicans promise in 2010 to focus on job creation. What have they done in the last two years. Focused on abortion, taking away women's rights, repealing the ACA and many other meaningless bills, but not one bill or even any discussion on jobs. Where's you outrage Kannin? Oh that's right their republicans that doesn't count.
Mo - I was posting on this particular article and thread. Since yours has nothing to do with it, you should have posted on the "Meaningless Drivel" thread instead.
This President has done more with less than any President in the 20th or 21st century has. With the exception of the health bill, most of it has been alone. This congress and its drunken Speaker of the House has put in a very poor showing of governing. Sorry GOP'ers, go build your damm somewhere else.
Military Members, Veterans, Military retirees;
please note that Swiss Bank account Romney PROMOTED THE DRAFT during the Viet Nam War,
then skipped out to France for extraordinary length of time when church missionary tours were limited.
When Romney came home, he sided with his dad that the whole Viet Nam War was a scam and that he was against the war.
Promoting the draft, while Americans were dying, he skipped out, then says he wishes he could have participated. His whole life has been a lie.
Romney is a COWARD, Lying, Draft Dodger, who promoted someone else to die for him, that is his way of management.
Some may want anyone but Obama, but this guy ranks with Jane Fonda and should not be given anything or elected for anything.
For those who are not old enough to remember the military draft, it was a mandatory commitment for two years that was implemented during the Viet Nam War. If your number was called, you went and served like it or not. Young people may say, I wouldn't go and they can't make me, think again.
This is what Romney promoted as if he were a "responsible citizen", then he left his fellow citizens to serve and some died for us and him. I am ashamed of him as I am retired military member, and forget about representing our country Mr. Romney.
I am one of the Military members who are against Romney, and against his bid for the presidency.