"Twitter GOP Trick or Treat" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Maybe the President just needs to grow up, learn to work with the elected Senators and Representatives and quit trying to being the "Sham-Wow" salesman that he seems to be. He was re-elected. Maybe now it is time to do some real work and quit CAMPAIGNING !

Grow a pair Obama ! The Congress consists of men amnd women who were elected as well. Deal with the opportunities that exist and show some leadership for a change !! Our country is a Republic and you must LEARN to work with Congress .... BOTH House and Senate !!!!!!!!!

Obama needs to put his big boy pants on and LEAD! A leader adapts, he overcomes he convinces the oppostion to try it.

Empty suit. 4 more years of nothing. Where is the budget?

Obama seems to be "allergic" to budgets. We are now $16+ trillion in debt ... and he's never had one.

Actually he has had several, the republicans refused to agree with anything he proposed hoping he wouldn't get reelected. Big surprise, now everything blew up in their face and they are forced to deal with what they should have been dealing with all along. Bone head had one agenda, get rid of Obama and he failed.

Dick - the Republicans have shown they are incapable of any kind of leadership. I think 2014 will be a rude awakening for many of them as they find themselves jobless!

Correct, @Jim.

Emotional IQ of a 15 year old.

And people are still falling for it ,

tempusfugit1 - it's unfortunate you have a problem with a leader who actually keeps up with technology. Just another reason the Republicans are so far behind the rest of the country!

Jim - you call it "campaigning," but the under 40 crowd call it communicating with the American people about issues that affect them.

paladim

The president Won a big majority in the elections based on what the Majority of this country want him to do. He always said what he wanted to do AND the majority of Americans Agreed. Make the wealthy Pay there Fair share. Cut spending (think the Blotted military) and go after the corporate welfare bunch (think big oil, corporate farms owned by Non-farmers)

SOooo who needs to stop whining and pull Up there BIG BOY pants and do what the Majority of Americans said in Nov....Loud AND Clear.

The brats that are the GOP (think Teabaggers) will l lose a whole lot more in the mid-terms.

We go "Over the Cliff" 85% of the public will (and rightly so) blame the GNOP.

So take your hate and anger and petty-ness and get OVER it. The Majority WON like it Or not.

Twitter?

You.Have.Got.To.Be.Kidding.

Welcome to 2012 WCA, republicans were lining up at Harvard to hear Axelrod tell how they were able to use social media to help with a win. While Romney was busy spending billions on television commercials people skipped over on their DVR's the democrats used a room full of genius's from all kinds of tech commercials and they won big.

Scoff at technology to the demise of the GOP, as if I want the bedroom police in control.

Oh and the giant secret to Obamas success, the united states census. Republicans are so outdated its actually funny.

Now am I understanding this right? This president is actually smart enough to use tools? I knew there was a reason to vote for him. His intellect is far superior to any stinking republicans today. The party of inbred idiots don't like it when they are shown the way to the door. But the door is what they need, they also need to regroup, slam the tea party and move to the middle. Other wise, buh bye, 2014. By 2020 white people will be a minority and people of color will rule this country and I say its about time.

you better not work.
you better not try.
you better not earn.
I'm telling you why.
Obama Claus is coming to town.

He sees you when you're building.
he wants what you all make.
he'll tell the 47 per cent.
that being rich is a mistake.

oh you better not work.
you better not try.
you better not earn.
I'm telling you why.
...
Obama Claus is coming to town.

he’ll tell you to be thankful.
to bow down and give thanks.
or he’ll send you to a FEMA camp.
to get your thinking “straight”.

oh you better not work.
you better not try.
you better not earn.
I'm telling you why.
Obama Claus is coming to town.

he'll give you a free cell phone.
say Obamacare is great.
he'll tell you being a success.
is something you should hate.

oh you better not work.
you better not try.
you better not earn.
I'm telling you why.
Obama Claus is coooming tooo tooown!

This is something we probably wouldn't have seen had Romney won the election - I mean, Mitt the Twitter? Really?

He is Mitt the Twit - not Mitt the Twitter.

I heard he just bought a German car to get even with Americans for not electing him.

Jan, several thoughts...

First, have you read a news feed online since 11/6? The stalemate continues, nothing has changed. I'm not sure that, "they won big", is anything more than math since it has apparently affected zero change for the people.

Second, Only the stupid people in the "under 40 crowd" believe that complex issues such as the budget of the United States can be reduced to 140 characters. From another article this morning, here is one of the "president's" tweets - "Less revenue=more cuts to education." Millions of liberal drones will be spouting that as the gospel according to Obama for the next several days, while less revenue does not NECESSARILY mean more cuts to education. Its just the thing that "Obama" could say that would make the liberal elite afraid and hate the republicans more.

Third, Only the stupid people in the "under 40 crowd" actually believe that the President of the United States is sitting there tweeting; pictures notwithstanding.

Jim, whom I'm sure voted republican,
is trying his best to have a say even after his party got crushed during this years election.
Jim, your party said what they had to say this year and lost.
Now, just sit back and watch Obama ram his way down the throats of the Republican good Old Boy Party.

The People hath spoke!!!!

"DON"T TOUCH ENTITLEMENTS"

But, Go After those who have been trying to take advantage of the American people and their funds.

WE VOTED FOR OBAMA BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT HIM TO NEGOTIATE WITH THOSE WHO ARE GREEDY & WHO TAKES FROM THE NEEDY!!!!!

PLAYA...

Well when you reduce twitter to twit, if does fit liberals to a tee. It takes a twit to believe that raising a paltry 86 billion in tax revenue is a serious attempt by Obama to address the fiscal crisis facing this nation. Meanwhile Obama continues to run up massive trillion dollar annual deficits, and is on pace to add more to our national debt then every previous president combined. But the twits on twitter are all in favor of raising enough tax revenue to run the federal government for 8 days, and then declaring problem solved. Keep kicking that can you twits, and eventually it will be your turn to pay.

Taking his position to twitter won't get him a lot of respect, except from gangstas maybe! Sooner or later he's going to half to work with lawmakers if he really cares to work during this term rather than play the entertainer... what a narcisstic rat ba$tard we have for president!

Thus far, President Obama’s answer to the fiscal cliff has been a proposed $1.6 trillion in tax hikes plus new stimulus spending—and expanded power for himself to raise the debt ceiling without congressional approval. He suggests only magnifying the policies that brought us to the fiscal cliff in the first place.

Stop campaigning and get back to f'n work Barry, your adoring acolytes will still be there in the morning!

tempusfugit1 - it's unfortunate you have a problem with a leader who actually keeps up with technology. Just another reason the Republicans are so far behind the rest of the country!

seeking (in)sanity.... you don't seem to get the fact that we have a leader who can't lead, but would rather spend time getting laughs on late night talk shows and tweet nonsense to acolytes who don't pay taxes and never intend to. It is the Republicans and Independents that are provinding revenue to the Fed. not you and your pals who haven't opened their eyes to the real truth!

Thus far, President Obama’s answer to the fiscal cliff has been a proposed $1.6 trillion in tax hikes plus new stimulus spending—and expanded power for himself to raise the debt ceiling without congressional approval. He suggests only magnifying the policies that brought us to the fiscal cliff in the first place.

George Hayduke.... excellent point! Obama seem incapable of ever offering a solution to the problem! Only the non-taxpayers think he's cool! The rest of us are sick of 'cool'!

Holy Sh!t is this for real? Twitter? Really? Is this how decisions get made now?

Stop going on TV & playing on your computer for 5 fu&k!ng minutes and meet with Congress for hells sake. Lets get this thing figured out before your dumba$s goes on a 3 week $4 million vacation to Hawaii on our dime. Really shows how devoted you are to the American people...

The SPENDING has to be dealt with. The Government sucks at managing anything they touch, so I don't get why you Dems so eager to give them more money and more power to do a bad job.

We bitch about Bush all the time, about how he spent too much, so I don't get why you guys don't hold Obama's feet to the fire for spending a TRILLION more EVERY SINGLE YEAR of his presidency than even Bush spent.

OBAMA, Democrats, Republicans, For Fu*)'s sake STOP SPENDING!!!

OMG!!! Hey Mr. President, it's the House you need to be working with, not your moon-bat, inbred, halfwit supporters. Your "mandate" was a whole 1-2% of the voting public, that could just as easily have pulled the lever for Mitt Romney. You are a wimpy little puke. You wanted the job 4 years ago but showed almost no ability or desire to actually do it. You blamed Bush/Republicans for everything thats wrong, that may have played in 2009 but it won't score points in 2013. Lead GOD DAMIT LEAD!!!!!

Very intelligent and thought provoking commentary..................what genius!!

You can Twitter Bonehead at the 19th hole !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Speaking of boneheads .... and then I see a post, in bold letters as usual, no substance as usual.

Heartlight: And collapse the housing market even further? Good call Sherlock...........

The Tea Loonies in Congress are a terrible obstruction to our recovery, who voted these Clowns In ?????????

Heartlight3 - I'm in the mortgage industry and what you are proposing makes total sense. It is not going to hurt those with 2nd or vacation homes and would have little or no impact on the market.

And, home sales in November were up to the highest level in 5 years. It's a sign of the economy recovering.

Heartlight: And collapse the housing market even further? Good call Sherlock...........

WHAT - an entitlement that a conservative wants to keep. Quick, someone hit me with a blast of oxygen. Ah reading further, they want to keep mortgage deductions on 3rd and 4th mansions and penthouses, but voucher-ize Medicare and Social Security. Whew, breathing back to normal.

RedDev: You obviously don't understand how an economy works so let me educate you. The reason this economy is stagnant and never recovered from the recession is the uncertainty and punishing the "wealthy" policies of this administration.

When you want an economy to recover the FIRST thing you do is change as little as possible to give businesses and consumers certainty as to what the future holds. Of course this president made drastic changes and is the reason this economy is not recovering AND we have unemployment near 8% (and rising).

I NEVER said the interest deduction should not be removed - I said RIGHT NOW is not the time to make yet ANOTHER change that further disrupts the economy. Let the economy recover THEN Congress can SLOWLY remove the interest deduction over several years to let the housing market price in that change SLOWLY so as not to drastically disrupt the markets.

We have homes here in the south (Florida) that are worth 50% of what they were worth just 5 years ago. Quickly removing the interest deduction without any advanced notice would be catastrophic and collapse the housing markets.

In case you aren't aware this president is responsible for the WORST economic recovery in United States history due directly to his complete lack of understanding of how an economy works. Now is not the time for drastic "shoot from the hip" policy ideas and changes. My point was clear and completely supported by economic theory and economist around the country. Making a change like the one proposed by Heartlight was done without thought or logical understanding of what would happen. It would collapse the already damaged housing market.

ProBusiness - you might want to do some reading about the depression that started in 1929. Might help you cut down on your stupid statements about this being the worst recovery in history. And I know you will say that this wasn't a depression - but it was damn close. Check the drops in GDP in 2008.

A couple of classes in economic would help you and you can even take them on the Internet now. And maybe a political science class or two would be good too.

Before you can educate other people, you need to educate yourself.

Jim, if you are so smart and understand economics so well, why not provide a little insight instead of just sniping at ProBusiness?

That's not your dime Scotty, that's our dime and I have no problem with my half !!!!!!!

scotty -

He's having trouble selling his BS to his own party, so he has to go to the idiots who voted for him.

Tammy - the top 10 states in education voted for Obama by wide margins. The bottom 10 states in education all went for Romney except Nevada.

I know what your problem is but it's nice your husband lets you come on here and post your comments. Not many republican women are so lucky.

Great Jim, and the cities with the highest murder rates also voted for Obama...

Obama could-not lead a horse to water..

dixie girl - darlin if you can't find your own way, you're in trouble!

Hey dixie girl, I thought the South was in a drought !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why don't you take your case to WASHINGTON D.C. rather than acting like a 14 year old with a Twitter account

Duh - you use twitter to reach the GOPTP twits in D.C.

I have my own proposal for this fiscal cliff: Let's cut benefits for all members of congress; hold their paychecks until this mess is cleared up; make pay raises and benefit changes for all members of congress voted on by the taxpaying public; never allow members of congress to give themselves a higher rate of pay increase than they allow for taxpayers on disability, social security, or any other form of assistance; roll back pay raises and benefits increases that were implemented without public notice or approval; always make them vote in a balanced budget, or hold their pays until they do; take away all expense accounts and taxpayers paying for trips, meals, golf, and all other forms of cheating the public out of funds, make all members pay into the same retirement accounts and social security as the general public. I believe these changes will free up lots of cash to lower the deficit and speed up the process of budget proposals and perhaps even get rid of partisanship!! Everyone would be on an even keel! Finally, put all Americans on a flat tax based on all earned income. Close all loopholes for the rich. No need for deductions of any kind for anyone! You pay based on all income earned. Period. (Tax forms would be so easy, we could drastically reduce the number of IRS agents and support staff, thus further reducing the deficit).

So presenting his case to the American people and informing them what is going on is being a baby?!? I don't think so. It's called 'transparency in government' and 'involving the people in the decision making process.' It's making the people that vote DIRECTLY aware of waht is going on and where the President stands on this issue.

And calling President Obama a baby for using is twitter is hypocritical, ProBusiness. Unless you believe the Republicans are all babies too. http://twitter.com/gop

Yes, Matthew, that's exactly what it's called. No wonder the rw hate it. :)

pro bussiness & dixie girlie

He is doing this Because the people Are what matter...it is OUR country. We Voted for him (majority)

The baggers are getting Ugly...who would have thought? Bad Losers Both.

ProBusiness, are you still naive enough to deny the power of social media? If I was a republican I would be wanting them to be doing negotiating not media driven over inflated power places like Boehner has done. Like it or not the tax breaks end January first and the only one that can stop that is Obama, stop acting as if republicans have some invisible power in this. They can make this easier on themselves with compromise, suggesting Romneys plan that was rejected by the voters doesn't do it.

In case you didn't notice but republicans lost seats in both the senate and house. They only kept the house do to redistricting, they would be better off being smart about this and not just ego driven. Obama has nothing left to lose, he has his second term. You might want to hold back on that power trip a little, the republicans just don't wield it right now.

The president is supposed to be a leader. If Obama had met with all parties every day for two weeks without success THEN I could understand Obama going into "campaign" mode. But Obama had YET to meet with the respective parties having a detailed discussion and compromise.

No, Obama is a bully. Obama is a thug. Obama is a wimp. Obama is useless. A leader does NOT play golf when the country is less than a month away from a collapse. A leader does NOT use whining and complaining and kicking the dirt like a little baby because he doesn't get the baby rattle he wants. This president is about as useless as I have ever seen. I didn't think I would EVER see such a useless president as Jimmy Carter but Obama makes Carter look like Albert Einstein.

BTW, Matthew did you REALLY say 'transparency in government' and 'involving the people in the decision making process.'? Really? Did you NOT see the Affordable Care Act process? Did you NOT hear Obama making deals with the Russian president when he thought the microphone was off? Did you NOT follow the "Fast and Furious" investigation? Were you NOT aware of the Benghazi situation? Were you NOT aware of the GSA scandal?

This president has been the most NON-TRANSPARENT president since FDR. This president is hateful, divisive, incompetent, and useless. Doesn't say much for the unintelligent that reelected this scum.

When in 2008 he stayed in Washington and worked out the ACA in closed-door meetings, it was "lack of transparency". When he involves the American People in the conversation, he is "Campaigner-in-Chief".

It was watching just this kind of two-faced hypocrisy from the Republicans in dealing with this President that turned me from an Independent in 2008 to a Democrat in 2012.

Give the right wing crazies 10 to 20 more years to understand Facebook, Twitter etc. At least they can get on the Internet and find this board. The ones with IQ closer to 100 anyway.

amphiox, you nailed it. Certain folks wish to condemn and reject no matter what President Obama does. And they ignore recent history. President G. W. Bush and his adminstration were FAR less transparent and deliberately promoted lies that got thousands of Americans killed, yet four dead in Benghazi is called "murder" and "treason."

Hah Transparency!? Yea thats why he's doing it Matthew. He knows that the only thing he has to do is sell the idea to you dopes with a bunch of clever lines, a flashy dumbed down ad, some pretty speeches on TV, or 140 itty bitty characters on Twitter. Doesn't take much to rope you guys in. What a throng of idiots.

Seriously such a joke.

You gripe about Bush all the time, about how he spent too much, so I don't get why you guys don't hold Obama's feet to the fire for spending a TRILLION more EVERY SINGLE YEAR of his presidency than even Bush spent.

You better make sure you wash your hands ! Obviously, you pulled those percentages out your a$$ !

By the way, do you realize that Obama has already raised taxes on the middle class through Obamacare ?

Hey jimbo, some-buddy got to pay for "W's" F..K ups, two unfunded wars and a Bushwacked depression + P-D !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jess

Most decent patriotic people would do the right thing. It is not the money..its the Power Game...just like Mitt & Co. Sad

jess -

What are you smoking? Even the IRS website says that the wealthiest 2% pays better than 50% of all income taxes.

By the way, what do you consider 'fair'?

Is it 'fair' that 47% of the 'taxpayers' pay zero income taxes?

The majority of the middle class either favor Obamacare or want something even more comprehensive. So even if you want to call it an "increase" in taxes, it is one levied with full consent of taxed, and there is nothing wrong with that.

Exactamundo - It's just nonstop whining, bitching, and moaning. You can't argue with 'em, so all you can do is wish them well and hope they know what they're doing.

notatallfunnygirl - you prove every day that you have no concept of finance. My guess is you're still getting an allowance from mommy and daddy, right?

The idiotic post about government takeover of people's 401(k) shows how low your intellect is. But, you'll spread the nonsensical GOP talking points hoping some poor fool will fall for them. The only fool falling for anything is you!

Your final sentence says everything about you - crude, classless - the perfect Republican and certainly all we've come to expect from gutter trash like you!

ifungirl

You of all people on here would know all about "leg HUmping"

You are one d *mb troll. the teabaggers...as U are lost...get over it toots.

Oh, so Seeking Sanity, one of the original Obama leg-humpers attempts to project me as still on the allowance system from mommy and daddy. Let's talk about running P&L's there old girl. Use your Duke background and your supposed corporate background and let's talk fiscal policy.My P&L is $250M; what's yours super star?

You creatans talk and talk about continued program spending, but never understand the fiscal issues of your spending. Where do you believe the funding will come from Seeking? Surely not from the 1% who you continually demonize. That money will be gone in a week. Where will the borrowing come from Seeking and at what cost?

As for praysalot: a dumb troll that is lost? Don't understand - I am here. Get over what there prays? Now how would I know all about leg-humping? I don't pray at the alter of the Liberals.

Let's put it this way, 1funnygirl, by posting something as ridiculous as the government taking over one's 401k, you demonstrate that you have zero competence in anything remotely related to economics, regardless of who you are.

I'm with funnygirl! The stupid liberals don't even understand how the government can cut their income by 20%, increase expenses by 2 trillion dollars and reduce the national debt at the same time. Intelligent people know that when you get in debt, you need to cut your income and increase your expenses. Why is that so hard for democrats to understand?

This is gold...GOLD I tell ya!

Sanity - pot meet kettle?

ifunnygirl....Love your post. To liberals what she stated about your 401k's is spot on try to read the bill...oh sorry you didn't do that I forgot. I am a small business owner with 96 employees. On January 1st all of my full time employees will be cut to part time employees so I will not have to pay either the $2000 penalty...er sorry tax per employee or get health care for them. They are all mad as hell but so be it. They are all perfectly free to go find other employment. Actually one did quit when I informed them all of what was going to happen. It took just 27 minutes to replace that worker. The rest sadly are still mad but except that I have to do what I have to do.

Gruntersdad

thats what he is saying to the 2%....Get a life & pay your fair share and the revenues can get back to where they were before Bush's reign of terror. U just don't get it do U? Time to tune out Rush, Hannity grover boy and go take a history Class or two.

Do you understand that regardless of the upper tax bracket level, the wealthy like Buffet, and the other super wealthy in Hollywood, and Silicon Valley, will never pay that level? They have good accountants to research and move profits that will keep their income in capital gains and such, that Obama does not want to increase much, because it hurts his donors. The independent business owners and managers of small and medium business will be hit with this tax, thus raising prices, lowering new employment, and reducing wages for their employees.
Those that support Obama, will see their taxes go up on payroll, healthcare, local school tax, local infrastructure, as Obama cuts back on state funding and builds his empire.

It's Americas way or the highway, the American people Spoke !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They sure did that is why the GOP controls the house and the purse strings.

dixie girl & aunt anna

You are right...he can't work with THIS congress (think House) But mark my words He will be able to work with the New congress in 2014. The country Voted on what Obama said he would do. Now he is going to DO what the majority of Americans voted for. Get over it OR get out of the way.

Aunt Anna - Although the Republicans won 55 percent of the House seats, they received less than half of the votes House members. More than half-a-million more Americans voted for Democratic House candidates than for Republicans candidates. Partisan gerrymandering got them those seats. In Pennsylvania there were almost 100,000 more votes for Democratic than Republican candidates for the House, partisan gerrymandering enabled Republicans to 12 of the 18 seats in the House of Representatives. The people did not speak when it come to the House. The GOP actually "kinda of cheated".

That is some impressive projection you've going there, dixie girl. Obama agreed to give Boehner 98% of what Boehner himself said he wanted, back before the election, and the Republicans spat in his face. When someone claims that offering 98% of what the other side wants is "my way or the highway", you pretty much know that that person doesn't live in reality.

The President is in charge. It's the Congress that is supposed to work with him and the majority, not the other way around. Republicans, even though they lost, still have the majority and elitist attitude. By saying "Obama got us in to this mess", you prove to anyone reading that you haven't been getting good information for the last 10 years. Might want to try anything but Fox or Rush and the likes. Anyway, time to eat some humble pie and ride in the back for a loooong time, maybe forever.

No one every said it was the solution to ALL problems. Why not go examine Obama's actual proposal?You'll notice that the tax rate raise on the top 2% is only a small part of it. It doesn't even make up the entire $1.4T revenue increase.

amphoix....the money raised by increasing the tax rates is immaterial...It won't cover much. The cuts he proposed is an additional 400B cut on top of the 716B over the next ten years on the elderly and their benefits. I will not call them an entitlement as they/we have paid into that system for over 50 years. They are an earned benefit. And he thinks that he is hurting the rich...that in itself is just laughable.

I guess that he beleives that the elderly doesn't deserve those benefits....correct?

Nice rah-rah speech Alice. Let's see if I can simplify. This country is in debt for 16 Trillion and counting. We have two ways to address this - cut spending and/or increase revenue. Any administration would have us believe that we should simply take out another credit card than FIX the problem. Why would anyone be OK with giving more money to something when you've proven time and again your irresponsibility to manage what you have.

Why is there NEVER any accountability as to how it's spent. I don't have a problem with paying for those things that are necessary, but to absolutely waste millions on you name the department, then ask me for more or lay the burden on those who have made a success in this life for those who have never contributed anything because they know they can get a handout is hardly what I would call fiscal responsibility. Don't care what party you're from

Alice this is not KINGDOM. We do not elect a king we elect three branches and the american people have elected the repuks to controll one of those braches.

They elected the Republicans to control the House, but TOOK AWAY EIGHT OF THEIR SEATS THERE. That's a clear message that although they want a compromise, they expect the Republicans to compromise more. They want the final deal to be closer to the position the Democrats campaigned on than to the position the Republicans campaigned on.

Even if you retain your majority, when you LOSE SEATS, that does not constitute a mandate to dig in on your current position, or move even more rigidly towards your base, as Boehner is currently doing.

It was the year 2000. The national debt was 5 trillion, we had a budget surplus and a projection of retiring the national debt over 10 years. What happened? Our new republican president thought that massive increases in government spending along with tax cuts would be a good idea. Republican economics and we will be paying for that mistake for a long time.

Pay your taxes! Refuse the handouts

Alice....We are the DEMOCRATS! WE ARE THE REAL PEOPLE'S PARTY. (For the people, of the people and by the people-NOT SOME....Unless of course your a republican...Got it

I think some of it ha to do with them being some of the poorest states in the country. Especially places like South Carolina. And i dont think SC will be red for too long. Many people that i know that will be able to vote in the next election (most o them are 17 or 18 now) are showing a large percentage of democrat support.

And since they are supporters of republicans (who like lower taxes) that could also be a reason.

Are you suggesting that higher taxes inflate the cost of living and increase the likelihood of state indebtedness?

ant anna

go away you lost, get your knickers pulled out and face it. It will be ok...just lay off the TEA!

And if we go Over the cliff, the Majority of Americans already say it is the Republicans/Baggers FAULY.

So good luck with that. Cut your nose off...to spite your Face. WOW

Quoting the dead nasty trolls site Breitbart really doesn't score points. That is like quoting Limbaugh, it lacks credibility.

Boehner offered up Romneys plan, that by the way was rejected by the majority of the voters. Even Eric Cantor has given up his allegiance to Grover Norquist, it would probably more convincing that he isn't controlling the GOP if he would stop going on television to advertise it.

If the spending cuts happen it will be because it was part of the debt ceiling deal last year that republicans demanded. Now they are crying because what they demanded in the deal is actually coming true. If you have the memory of a gnat you will blame all of this on Obama. Then again that is the republican M.O. screw the country then blame Obama for it. For people who are always saying Obama blames Bush too much, you all spend more time blaming everything up to and including the crucifixion of Jesus on Obama.

I don't know that Obama has answers, but I do know that republicans have offered nothing that involves real change.

cut and paste much??? Spout faux garbage much?

Stimulus spending is good and exactly what this economy needs in the short term. Any competent economist can tell you that. In the short term the economy needs more jobs, and the fastest way to produce more jobs is stimulus. Only in the medium term does the deficit need to be reduced, and only in the long term does the budget need to be balanced. Only in the VERY longest term does entitlements like Social Security and Medicare need to be reformed.

A rational, nonpartisan, apolitical plan would be to do stimulus spending right now and deficit finance it (adding $50 billion to a $4 Trillion pre-existing deficit doesn't significantly change the total deficit at all), then once the jobs economy is on safer footing, with more people employed and thus playing income tax, you get revenue increase without even having to raise rates. THEN you work on deficit reduction, dialing back your initial outlay of investment, and after that you slowly work your way back to a balanced budget.

What you must not do, of course, is increase spending when times are good (which is a trap democratic governments frequently fall into, due to the short term exigencies of trying to win votes in election cycles), as that will send you into a deficit spending death spiral that will destroy your economy eventually (though if your economic fundamentals are strong you can go many decades like this before things get really bad). You have to steel yourself and keep your self-control.

But right now, when the economy is weak, interest rates for borrowing are at all-time lows. Now is the best possible time to borrow a small amount of money for stimulus. You get the best bang for the buck if you do it now.

It is a right wing lie that the stimulus failed. It WORKED. Every independent economic analysis of it showed that it WORKED. And it was a Republican idea originally too, championed and started by Bush, and continued by Obama because he agreed with it. And the stimulus would have worked even better if they had continued with a second round immediately after the first round, but of course now that it was Obama's idea the Republicans automatically opposed it. If that second stimulus had been done, the economy would have been in full normal recovery by 2011.

Amphiox...awesome post..you get it. It shocks me how many economically illiterate, supposedly intelligent people, we have in this country. Robert Reich had an excellent article a few weeks ago stating that spending and the deficit isn't our issue, lack of jobs is the issue. He is 100% correct, but the Teapublican party doesn't comprehend such a common sense issue.

Robert Reich had an excellent article a few weeks ago stating that spending and the deficit isn't our issue, lack of jobs is the issue

That is about as @!$%#ing STUPID and generic as it gets. YET, the drones eat it up as if he just discovered the perpetual motion machine.

Lack of jobs the problem? No @!$%#ing kidding.

Let me take it to reality level. Know what is required to achieve balance?

WW3 with lots and lots of casualties.

That's PRESIDENT Obama to you.

Any person who accepts a Nobel Peace Prize and the $1.4 million in prize money then tells the world that he neither earned it nor deserved it and there were others who put their lives at risk for peace that deserves it more won't get me calling him President. I respect the title too much for lay that disrespect on it.

The problem is just like the Nobel Peace Prize, you Obama supporters reelected him even though he neither earned it nor deserved it and this country deserved better.

Obama has a self created debt crisis on his hands and instead of working with Congress to solve it, Obama is spending his time crying to his supporters trying to sell the idea that increasing our national debt will make this country stronger.

You all cried like babies when the Bush/Bernanke team added $5.1 trillion to the national debt in 8 years, yet you hail the Obama/Bernanke team that has added over $6 trillion to the national debt in less than 4 years.

You've all so confused that you've lost touch with reality to the point you need professional help. Obama had the power to implement his tax reform in 2009 & 2010 and didn't even propose his tax reform to his democratically controlled Congress. DUH!

What did Obama do instead of implementing his tax reform? He pushed for and got the Bush tax cuts to the rich extended in 2010. DUH!

I used to think you Obama supporters pretended to be stupid, but now that you've reelected him, I know you just plain stupid. Start buying your tissue paper, you're going to be crying like babies when you realize that your paying for Obama's debt as the cost of it get passed on to you in everything that involves your daily lives. Your standard of living is shrinking and you don't even know it.