Gee Mitt, it's almost like YOU ARE HERE. Your party took your 47% comment and are going with it. Congratulations!

Your 20 grandchildren aren't going to suffer. And that's just the way you and your fellow rich friends want it. Screw everybody else.

btw, anything to say on Adelson? How about the conservative journalists in the Malaysia debacle?

What a disgrace today's Republican Party is. An absolute disgrace.

Romney also allowed he made some mistakes during the course of his campaign.

Gee, ya think!! Would one of those mistakes be lying?

Mitt is the male gender version of Sarah... he's a verbal train wreck.

Hey Romney, President Obama will be meeting with President Putin in September. Remember this?

MOSCOW—Russian President Vladimir Putin said the re-election of President Barack Obama could improve relations with the U.S., but that he was also prepared to work with Mitt Romney, calling the Republican candidate's tough stance on Russia "pre-election rhetoric."
In contrast to what had been viewed as a chilly attitude toward Mr. Obama, Mr. Putin called his U.S. counterpart (Obama) "a genuine person" who "really wants to change much for the better."

“I’m not going to disappear,” he said. “I care about America my rich friends. I care about the people that can’t find send jobs overseas.”

And that's why you got your butt handed to you Romney. And please, don't disappear. Keep the lunacy alive and well until you and your party are extinct like the dinosaurs.

Jim Silver demonstrates his lack of objectivity and lack of originality by dragging out the very tired of "Hussein" reference.

The Republican party of "NO" would suddenly work with Mitt and "gift" the rich with capital gains tax of 0% (and voucherize Medicare, privatize SS, and "gift" the Miltiary Industrial Complex with $2 trillion more) to miracuously end the fiscal cliff??

Only on the Planet of T Bag where alternate realities abound. Hey, on that planet Mitt is still ahead by 7 points. Lol.

Mitt, millions of us wish you were there instead of the obummer!

Millions more didn't. Five to be exact. That's a lot of people, Jim.

Worst President in history: Barack Hussein Obama George Walker Bush!

There, corrected it for you. You're welcome.

Jim, then you obviously know nothing about history. Your opinion notwithstanding, most presidential historians agree the bottom is occupied by Buchanan, Harding, Grant, Pierce, and W. O is getting middle of the road scores so far.

Good God: Romney's arrogance knows no bounds. He is "surprised" that the health care plan was attractive to low income voters. Of course it was you moron, they finally have a chance at getting insurance. Those "little people" that you and Queen Ann dislike so much would like to be able to see a doctor.

Romney had no plans for this economy except the further rape and plunder of the Federal treasury for the robber barons, his corporate masters.

America lucked out. La Jolla, on the other hand, is stuck with him and his neurotic narcissistic wife.

La Jolla, you have my sympathy, but my gratitude that Romney is there and not in the White House.

You weren't credible in November and you aren't credible now.

You lost, Mittens. Get over it.

Romney also allowed he made some mistakes during the course of his campaign. One issue that plagued him at the end of his run was the release of a secretly recorded video showing him speaking at a fundraiser, in which he said that 47% of Americans would vote for the president no matter what, as they were “dependent on the government.” He told Wallace that the statement was “very harmful” and “not what I believe.”

“There’s no question that hurt and did real damage to my campaign,” Romney admitted.

So why did you say it, Romney, if it wasn't what you believe?

What DO you believe - and when do you believe it?

Fade away and quit wasting our time.

Your opinion notwithstanding, most presidential historians agree the bottom is occupied by James Buchanan, Warren Harding, and W.

But you gotta understand that in Jim's world, US history started with the Founding Fathers and then miraculously fast forwarded 200 years later to Ronald Reagan. Big gap that doesn't matter to teabags.

Robme.. "I wish I was there, I never said I wanted to be there, I was there, and... oh I could have been there if.. I'm looking forward to your memoirs".

Did your last check from the Koch's brothers clear the bank RobMe?

Meanwhile, enjoy Hope and Change.

I have and will hopefully continue to do so. You see, back in late 2008, my investments lost nearly half of their value due to the policies of the Bush/Cheney administrations. Under the Obama/Biden administration, they've fully recovered and have started to gain nicely despite the best efforts of the Republicans to thwart them. It's not solely about Romney, but really, you guys couldn't have sent a worse candidate than him. Well, I guess you could have (lol).

Mitt is a disaster. No better or worse than the rest in Washington. Both parties are to blame.

He made "mistakes" during the campaign... jeeeez! He "underestimated" the desirability of an affordable health care plan for the poor! This guy is emotionally tone death! That and his winy wife has a sense of entitlement that gives a whole new meaning to being special! Honestly, these people are a whole new kind of pathological...

Romney, please return to Kolab.

Or the Cayman Islands or Switzerland.

Bye.

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He also hid his own financial dealings, even when asked. That sure went over well with the electorate! Mitt, the guy who has bank accounts all over the world wanting to get involved with US government funds! Disasterous!!!

Glenn - Those who currently state they are "conservative" usually are not, at least via any historical definition. I am one of the last Eisenhower Republicans left alive, and what's going on now in the Republican party more resembles the John Birch Society of my younger days. We certainly never approved of "wars of adventure" back then as we believed in warring against real threats, not fabricated ones. (And ALL administrations have lied at one time or another.) We had high tax rates on the wealthiest, and were going through one of the most prosperous economies in American history. We certainly didn't let our legislation be governed TOTALLY by lobbyists. But that was another era, when REAL conservatives like Dirksen, Rayburn, and Nunn were playing the game. While we also had retrogrades in both parties, those Republicans knew how to govern, unlike the current bunch.

Yo Mittens; Give it a rest, you lost, you weren't wanted for the job & you aren't wanted now.

He made "mistakes" during the campaign... jeeeez! He "underestimated" the desirability of an affordable health care plan for the poor! This guy is emotionally TONE DEATH! He is as emotionally superficial as his good looks are deep... he is incapable of introspection, empathy for others, humility, proportion, self questioning, knowledge of the real world. HIS MIND LIVES IN GATED COMMUNITY ALL ITS OWN! That and his whiny wife has a sense of entitlement that gives a whole new meaning to being special! Honestly, these people are a whole new kind of pathological...

Hey Mitt you and your ego are ineffective and in consideration that you stash much of your funds outside of our borders to avoid paying taxes on personal gains------you happen to be one of the Most UNAMERICAN WANNA BE POLITICIANS THAT I HAVE HEARD SPEW THEIR CRAP IN OVER 50 Years and you can bet I have heard much crap.

Go away, you were ineffective in your campaign filled lies and your attempt to enter into this sequester is just a posturing stance while standing far below the surface!

laughingcat;

Loved your post, wished I could vote it up more than once.

How easy for this MORON to speak from the sidelines. Get used to it!

YOU ARE NOT THE PRESIDENT!!! AND YOU NEVER WILL BE

Tax returns, Mitt?

Would have been a good start.

BillT of USA - yea, well us "low information voters" were smart enough to see through the lies of Romney!! I have never seen such sore losers!!

and told Fox News Sunday that he’s still very much stung by his defeat.

THE REAL TRUTH: he is still 'HURT" WAAAAA!!!!! I DESERVED to be President because I am Mitt Romney!

pathetic and stupid: He will die hating President Obama for the rest of his pathetic existence, Just like McCain!!!

TOO BAD HE IS NOT A COW TO GIVE SOUR CREAM!!!!

"I'm happy to blame the media," Ann said through laughs

How ironic coming from the "entitlement queen" herself. No honey, it wasn't the media that's to blame. That excuse is as old as your hubby's money. This time, it's all on you.

yeah, laughingcat (#1.30),

U R right. I like Ike.

Eisenhower didn't want to lower top marginal tax rate and used the budget surplus to fund a interstate highway system (initially for military mobility in fighting with the Soviets, but ending up as a great venue for interstate commerce). Many of his wealthy supporters were disappointed for not getting a handout in tax cut. That's called leadership. Look at today's GOP leaders who surrender to these wealthy donor at every turn, cut taxes, force a sequester, and drain the national treasury

Eisenhower warned us against a 'military-industrial complex.' But recently Cheney went to Iraq war to benefit Haliburton.

Eisenhower kept social security intact, further disappointing those of his supporters who wanted a repeal with Ike the first GOP president since 1932. Eisenhower believed that social security helped the old to stay out of poverty after having worked their entire life. Ike didn't think social security was class warfare, Ike actually believed that social security minimized class antagonism. Today's GOP leaders only know one class warfare - their perceived war by the poor against the wretch.

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I like Ike

All kidding aside, Barry Obama, is ruining this once great country bit by bit, until we will resemble any other socialist run country (argentina, greece, portugal....etc) bankrupt and decayed!

Why don't you READ THE NEWS?????? ARE THESE THE NEWS OF A SOCIALIST OR COMUNIST COUNTRY???

Banks See Biggest Returns Since ’03 as Employees Suffer

By Christine Harper
& Michael J. Moore - Dec 19, 2012 10:04 AM ET

Scott Eells/Bloomberg

Christmas decorations and U.S. flags are
displayed outside of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York.

For employees at the biggest Wall Street banks, 2012 brought a
humbling post-crisis reality of job cuts, lower pay and tarnished reputations.
For investors, it was a happier story.

Blankfein, 58, who was awarded a record- setting $67.9
million bonus for fiscal 2007, received $12.4 million in compensation for 2011.

Blankfein, 58, who was awarded a record- setting $67.9 million
bonus for fiscal 2007, received $12.4 million in compensation for 2011.
Photographer: Peter Foley/Bloomberg

Jim Silver

"Worst President in history: Barack Hussein Obama!"

Jim, I know you are just trying to save George W Bush's legacy, but no matter how many times you post this drivel, no matter how you try and spin it, no matter what President Obama does from here on out, nothing you can do, nothing you can say will ever change the fact the George W. Bush will be looked at by history as "THE WORST PRESIDENT IN HISTORY!" He is the man who took a half trillion dollar surplus and turned into a 3 trillion dollar deficit. He is the man who started a war for oil and then didn't even get the oil in the end. He is the man who allowed 19 men with box cutters to kill 3000 Americans AND THEN ATTACKED TWO COUNTRIES THAT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. He is the man who lied repeatedly about Iraq's WMD and cost the lives of 5000 American soldiers AND OVER 1 MILLION INNOCENT IRAQI CIVILIANS. He is the man who nearly destroyed the worlds economy with his incompetence and greed. GEORGE W. BUSH IS, AND ALWAYS WILL BE KNOWN AS......THE WORST US PRESIDENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD!

Sorry Mitt...

The Eagles wrote a song that's perfect for yours and Ann's feelings about losing the race for the Presidency.

It's called "Get Over It".

Not to worry, though...after all, YOU were invited to speak at the upcoming CPAC along with other Republican losers like Sarah Palin, Rick Santorum, and Allen West...the list is too long to list individually. You'll be in similar company and familiar territory.

Will someone please tell me what Romney said was a joke, go back to your Cayman Islands and don't forget your kids !!!

ROY WILSON, Quit shouting. Hey Roy! To help control ABORTIONS all REPUBLICAN MALES will be CASTRATED. Roy you want to control something or someone START with yourselves. Thats WHY you all LOST.

Starman

President Obama won on a platform of BALANCED SOLUTION TO DEBT REDUCTION. I clearly stated that no one was going to escape some sacrifice. The fact that you bought the fictitious Republican lied about the "freebies" only shows that you are a low information voter ..... completely biased and a willing dupe for the failed policy positions of the failed Republican Party.

What roy wilson fails to explain is that all of that net job loss under President Obama happened within the first few months of his term when we were still in the grips of the Bush recession. Since then we have had 35 months of consecutive job growth in the private sector, more than at anytime during the Bush Administration. http://www.dpcc.senate.gov/?p=blog&id=172

Irespond You do recall that the government gave the same people that vaporized trillions in 401k and stock market/bond investments bail out money to give those bonuses.. Those retired and working Americans that lost that money will never get it back.. If you track the index number and compare it to the debt and inflation numbers you will see it is a phony gain.. I hope you are ready for the socialist/communist subsistence level lifestyle that is just over the horizon.. If the debt drags down this country I will wait and see if you are still laughing and pointing a finger.. Millions of people getting social aid will have to start planting crops and learn how to survive like our ancestors did.. Work or die, ask people who lived under the Communist way what happened to people who did not pull their weight or complained..

I notice that those who are allegedly "conservative" in their views here only attack, get snarky, or run down O, while NEVER addressing the issue about how the economy got to where it was in 2008 and how it's better by every metric since then. They are not responding to the issue about wasting trillions on wars with countries who never attacked us, creating a huge deficit. They will not address the issue concerning the specifics of the magical economic plan that Republicans allegedly have to fix our problems. They will not answer the question as to why, if Mitt actually has a plan, he doesn't share it with Congressional Republicans.

They attack socialism while still using the public roads, public utilities, public parks and fire and police departments, all of which are socialist constructs. We all pay, but only use as needed. That's socialism. And none seem to have an answer to why we had as high as a 90% tax bracket for many years on the wealthiest and still achieved the most prosperous economy in human history in the 20th century. If high taxes are a job killer and hinder the economy, then why did we do so well for so many years despite them being so high? Modern day Republicans seem to be "low information" people with very little historical perspective.

Like you laughingcat, I would have voted for Ike if I had been old enough at the time. I was only 8 y/o when he was first elected. He is the ONLY (outside of Teddy maybe) GOP president since Lincoln worthy of having been president.

BTW, I've been a GDI since '69, and only active in the Dem party during the '68 campaign when I was the student co-ordinator for the candidate trying to defeat the lying Delbert Latta.

I wish I were there.

Hmmm...sounds not-so-strangely like Mitt's earlier caterwauling flip-flop on his views about serving in the military during the Viet Nam era.

But zut alors! The provincial life in the French countryside beckoned instead...and off he went.

Enough of this Mittens nonsense, have you people not heard of the disaster in Dumbarton, Scottland with the Chivas spill & thousands of gallons running into the sewer. Rumney why aren't you there lapping it up. Do something worthwhile for once in your life.

Starman, you made us this way with LOW wages NO benefits, keep going to CHURCH and believing your SPECIAL. Who is blaming Bush for anything? Cheney ran the Show!!

I notice that those who are allegedly "conservative" in their views here only attack, get snarky, or run down O,

I noticed they family values freaks are back from church and spreading their message of love. peace and tolerance! lmao

rat bastard, baldfaced liar, anti-business, anti-american, abused husband (lol), confused, idiot, no clue, narcissistic, egomaniac, did I mention liar?, illegal alien, dictator wannabe (Mooshell prefers Emperor), thin-skinned, vindictive koolaid dispenser to the sheeple, acts like Alfred E Newman and loved by low information voters.... the list goes on and on.....

Romney lies because his faith excuses his lies; it's as simple as that.

No better analysis of the Mormon propensity for redeemable deceit exists than Jon Krakauer's "Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith" (Doubleday 2003).

It is incredible to think that even as the words of the inaugural oath might have been leaving his mouth, a President Romney understood that he was afforded by his faith the right, nee the duty, to forsake those words were he to believe that they in any way conflicted with church doctrine.

While the rest of us fretted over the increasing power and influence of the 1%, Romney ultimately knelt before an entirely different altar.

In short, you never truly knew the man, nor shall you....and that is the way they wanted it all along.

@MMos. You need to get your facts straight. Obama HAS presented his budget to Congress ever year ON TIME, except for this year, when the administration requested a time extension to complete the budget due to the current sequester stand-off. CONGRESS has rejected the president's balanced budget approach each of those years because BOTH parties objected to his elimination of much of their pork in those budgets.

leftisfuzzy, that's exactly your problem. I'm one of the last truly conservative people I know, having been an original Eisenhower Republican. Take your "libbie" stuff and park it where the sun doesn't shine. You still haven't addressed why you think we're ruined when markets are up, profits are up, hiring has been up, housing has been up, and from every metric the economy has been on the mend. Not great, but on the mend. I'm all for cuts to the waste and fraud in the Pentagon and their contractors. I'm all for making big pharma bid on their Medicare drug monopoly. And I'm all for scaling back or eliminating altogether the DHS/TSA which is bloated, inefficient, and corrupt. The last two belong entirely to big spender W.

And anyone who uses "lol" after an extremely poorly constructed sentence probably cannot be taken very seriously. You may be just too young and undereducated to know much about much. You certainly show that in your post.

deprogrammer "What roy wilson fails to explain is that all of that net job loss under President Obama happened within the first few months of his term when we were still in the grips of the Bush recession. Since then we have had 35 months of consecutive job growth in the private sector, more than at anytime during the Bush Administration."

We also had job losses under Bush resulting from the 9/11 attacks which resulted in 1,964,000 jobs lost in the following 24 months.

Once the economy started turning around after the job losses from 911, a total of 8,123,000 net new jobs were created under Bush in the following 52 months - an average of 156,000 jobs per month.

The average number of jobs created under Obama over the last 36 months is 152,000 jobs per month.

Anti trust,

Your absolutely right. The budget went through the house and disappeared into the ozone of the senate. Hold on, isn't the senate controlleds by your party?

laughingcat, you just don't get it!

gm Fuzzy! I see you've been acquainted with laughingcatstock, the resident fool! But not alone among the many libretards here. They're all in denial.... even the polls are starting to reflect the country's changing attitude for Barry the blunderer... but the hard core libbies just cant remove their blinds to the truth! Too bad they can't discuss issues, preferring name calling to sharing facts, eh?

Romney was a loser from day one because he had no new ideas just the same old tired GOP cant that has failed.

But their biggest problem, then and now, is they do not work for the American people. Right now all they have are the super international rich and the right wing nuts. Bad choice.

anti-trust proponent@MMos. "You need to get your facts straight. Obama HAS presented his budget to Congress ever year ON TIME,"

That is correct, and the Republican House has also passed a Budget ON TIME each year the Republicans have been in control. The roadblock has been Harry Reid in the Senate, who refused to even debate the Republican Budget passed by the House so it can be amended if desired.

UNCONSCIONABLE.

I'm convinced that the country is better of with the sequestration than we would have been with Romney...

Well Robme, 51% of the voters are glad you're not there.

Jim Silver

Worst President in history: Barack Hussein Obama!

Nope. Far from it. Far from being the worst in just this century in fact. He would have to surpass ignoring a CIA Intelligence Brief that, had Dumbya acted upon and raised threat conditions, might have saved 2,997 lives. See Dumbya even knows how many he failed to protect. President Clinton doesn't have the number of lives saved when he responded to CIA Intelligence reports concerning New Year's 2000 and increased the threat conditions which were directly responsible for the capture of the not-quite-so LAX bomber because Ahmed Ressam didn't get to do it. Of course Dumbya continued to ignore CIA warnings and instead focused on foreign reports called incorrect or dubious by CIA concerning Iraq. After the deaths of over 4,000 American military personnel, over 30,000 "officially" wounded American military personnel, and estimate of more than 100,000 civilians in Iraq and proven non-existence of WMD or any links to Al Qaeda he still thinks he "did the right thing." President Obama would also have to surpass losing a net-growth annual budget to the biggest deficit in US history just so he could play Army since he just went AWOL from the Air Force in the early 70's. And Dumbya put it on a hidden credit card to hide his spending to let the next guy worry about the cost and the true deficit number Dumbya created.

If the Grotesque Obstinate Parasites had actually worked for the country instead of making their one goal that President Obama would not get re-elected, we'd probably be out of this mess by now. Everything the Repugs have demanded is exactly the opposite of what has successfully pulled the US out of previous recessions, and they know it. They just don't give a damn.

BTW, please change your name. You're embarrassing to the knowledgeable and intelligent Jim's of the world.

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As for Starman-2398642,

Got any other ridiculous and, for you, embarrassingly asinine superfluous drivel?

skyparrot " didn't failed running mate, Ryan, state that "Sequester, isn't supposed to happen," didn't that dolt say that?"

And didn't 'that dolt', Barack Obama also say "It WILL not happen"?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/10/23/obama-said-the-sequester-will-not-happen-that-doesnt-change-anything/

lol

Why not take this a step further.. We have a huge resource of unemployed people and people receiving aid due to being in the poverty pit.. Instead of giving them free stuff healthy people from these groups can work at government factories making medicines and building low income housing, volunteering at hospitals, helping the elderly and many more things like that for credits that would pay for their food and shelter.. Oh I forgot all these US socialists want things they do not have to work for or contribute to.. That kind of socialism is bad !!!!!! Imagine how much money the government would save on medication and food alone, not to mention welfare and unemployment.. Government farms and government factories for all..

Jim Silver - Starman and the like would gladly give up their SocialSecurity and Medicare .. to keep the rich from having to contribute to our country .. when this type of person pretends that the GOP has a solution that will benefit anyone but the rich it makes me wonder where they were educated

And so Mark from Tahoe, who seems to be vastly undereducated and lacks critical thinking skills, offers his hateful and nasty take on things, contributing nothing but calling names while telling others that they "prefer name calling to sharing facts." I've offered a lot of facts from my historically conservative view. Got facts, or just name calling?

The Republicans should just stick to two simple messages and keep repeating them;

1 - The skyrocketing Debt will be devastating to the future of our children.

2 - The massive increases in the money supply to fund the Deficits will result in massive Inflation, high Interest Rates, and more Unemployment.

These are simple messages that even the 'low information voters' will understand, and there is no doubt that we will have to deal with these problems in the near future.

Obama's own 2013 Budget projections show that the National Debt will increase from $9.986 Trillion at the end of fiscal 2008 to $20.392 Trillion at the end of 2016 (Obama's last year) - but President's budget projections are notoriously 'optimistic' - it will likely be closer to $25 Trillion in 2016. The Interest cost alone will be devastating.

The Chinese are no longer buying our Debt - in fact, they have quietly 'cashed in' about $200 Billion of their loans to us over the last year (they know inflation is coming), and the Federal Reserve has had to replace that money by effectively 'printing new money' - along with about $1 Trillion in new money to finance the Deficit. The money supply (M1) has increased from about $1.4 Trillion in 2009 to about $2.5 Trillion now. Every responsible economist will tell you that this is highly "INFLATIONARY" - ala the 14% Inflation and 18% Interest Rates under Jimmy Carter in 1980.

Even the far-left Liberal outlet The Huffington Post recognized this;

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sheldon-filger/federal-reserve-begins-ma_b_677483.html

Mittens here is some georgespeak for you.

Defeat me once shame on you.

Defeat me twice - uhhh ... you cant defeat me twice because no chance GOP will nominate me again.

Roadrunner0 "Why not take this a step further.. We have a huge resource of unemployed people and people receiving aid due to being in the poverty pit.. Instead of giving them free stuff healthy people from these groups can work at government factories making medicines and building low income housing, volunteering at hospitals, helping the elderly and many more things like that for credits that would pay for their food and shelter.. Oh I forgot all these US socialists want things they do not have to work for or contribute to.. That kind of socialism is bad !!!!!! Imagine how much money the government would save on medication and food alone, not to mention welfare and unemployment.. Government farms and government factories for all."

I like your idea.

The socialist dream is "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need".

While we have a lot of people who have a 'need', not many of them are willing to use their 'ability' to contribute to society. I guess it's more fun to watch Oprah and Jerry Springer and complain about the 'rich not paying their fair share', even though they pay over 70% of the income taxes.

"The socialist dream is "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need"."

Yep. I read that in my history book. Now that we know no one on the left has proposed this, let's see if we can find, in those same history books, who decided "if we can get labor cheaper overseas, the hell with our own people"? Who's dream was that, anyway- St Reagans?

But... I did thouroughly enjoy the Mitt and Queen Ann interview this morning. Made my euphoria over November 7th, 2012 come rushing back in waves!

Anti-trust, I will stand corrected if you will. As I rechecked my facts, I find that the President did turn in a budget once on time, his second year. All the rest were late, including this year. I'll cut him some slack because the cliff business delayed it. Still, the Constitution makes it clear on when that budget has to be ready and his record shows he's not on time.

As to the "pork" that both sides didn't like, I agree. Congress needs to get out of the pork business and get into the issues this country faces. Elections should not be based on what someone will receive as a thank you for the vote. It should be what is the best for the country.

Romney would have just filed for Bankruptcy and cashed out, isn't that what he does? So what all the creditors lose their shirts, and as far as socialism maybe this is their way of sticking it to the loud mouths that think they Sh-t gold, yep get those lazy RICH people off their azzes and do an honest days work for them. Don't blame them one bit. Maybe if they were paying a living wage people would actually work instead of collect, there is always TWO sides to a coin. If they get more than they would working why would they, see the problem, so don't cry about people not working better look at why the don't.

WHY the HELL is McNasty and that damned-dumb Lindsey Grahm on my TV AGIAN today? Are either of these two supposed to be someone? Is FTN that poor that they can't get real, relevant, people on for interviews??

WTF??

(OR....is it a "lamestream media' plot to let these screwballs shoot their party in the feet every Sunday in front of the whole nation?? Benghazi? Really?? What about flouride in our water, you guys- didja forget about THAT nasty, commie-plot bizzniz??)

Fuggin' bone-heads!

MMos#'s

Let's keep passing the blame around instead looking at the realities.

According to our Constitution, the President is to write up a budget sometime between the first week of January and the first week of Feb and it shall be for the following year.

Would you please site the Article and Section of the U.S. Constitution to back up your statement.

Don't bother it does not exist.

There's 20 more of them?

"...Romney's supporters are the producers.... a huge distinction there you obama acolytes! A point lost on the sheeple!"

Correction, there, Eva- Romney supporters are the EXPORTERS. You know the 'rest of the story' as Mr Harvey would say.

"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy" - Alexander Fraser Tytler

What fools the liberal posters are here today.

Romney's plans may have or may not have worked, but we all know that obama's and the democrat controlled senates plan HAVE NOT WORKED.

I wonder who the bigger fool is romney or the libs posting on this non issue.

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roy wilson...

nice rebuttal to drive by.

Oh boy. Mitt, so now you didn' mean that 47% comment? Was that a flip or a flop? Unbelievable. Time to write on the board 100 times - "President Obama isn't a failure, Mitt's a failure..

BTW, Tagg said that you didn't really want the job but now you do. That a Flip or a Flop?

*Ann*, the American people have seen enough from "you people". Think a little more transparency might have helped?

laughingcat

You ask all of the sixty-four thousand dollar questions. If you ever find any answers to those questions, please, oh please, share them with us. And in the meantime I, for one, hope to see you around much more in these politically-themed forums.

Exit0 "MMos#'s According to our Constitution, the President is to write up a budget sometime between the first week of January and the first week of Feb and it shall be for the following year....Would you please site the Article and Section of the U.S. Constitution to back up your statement."

Article 2 - The Executive Branch
Section 3 - State of the Union, Convening Congress

"He (President) shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient"

That has traditionally included the President proposing a spending Budget as 'necessary and expedient'. It was formalized in The Budget and Accounting Act of 1921, and the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 which required that the President propose a Budget each year.

I suppose your next criticism will be "Well, the Constitution didn't have the 'exact wording' that MMos#'s used".

Romney is the biggest fool, idiot, moron, etc...Hands down....Every time he shoots his mouth off, it just proves it...He needs to go on another mission from his mormon church...As he obviously did not learn anything on his first one...Hope that clears things up...

Just like the marginally educated Sarah Palin, Romney will fade from the spotlight in American politics. It really goes to show that Republicans have no credible leadership. They keep nominating people with extreme views who are miles away from understanding the the will of the American public. And the kicker is: they keep doing the same thing. What, Eric Cantor or Paul Ryan are the next wave of Republican leadership? More extremists. Seriously, Republicans will not see the White House again for a very long time if they continue down the same path again and again. But it doesn't appear that they have figured anything out. But just like a drowning rat, they will cling and drag down the country as they fade into obscurity.

Man, the fourth reich bunch is pretty loud today. Too bad their post read like the objective KOS, Huffington Post, Media Matters sites.

Jim Silver "Worst President in history: Barack Hussein Obama!"

The 'jury' is still out on that because we have 4 more years to judge, but if we use the 'Misery Index' as a guide (combined Inflation and Unemployment Rates), we have to give the modern title to Jimmy Carter, with his average Index of 16.26% and a peak Index of 21.98% in 1980.

Interestingly, G W Bush has the second BEST average record in the last 40 years at 8.11%, very close to Clinton's record of 7.8% (lower is less 'misery').

Obama's current Index is 10.75%, but we have not had massive Inflation - YET, but the huge increase in the money supply to finance the Deficits WILL cause Inflation to flare soon.

Here's a link;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misery_index_%28economics%29

It's time to find something else to do - Bye, and have a nice day :)

As for Romney he looks more ridiculous than ever, he lost to McCain who lost badly to Obama, so why would anyone assume he could beat Obama, even with republicans he was never anything but a consolation prize of a candidate, he was damaged goods from the begining, Ann Coulter tried to explain that to her own party but they did not listen, although given the field of republican candidates what choice did they have left. He lost badly, he did not carry a single swing state that was supposed to be within reach. He did make the number 47% fairly famous though.

For those of you that want to continue to denigrate our president and make claims that he is the worst president in history well I would say that speaks volumes about Mitt Romney and the republican body politic. How bad must you be if you lose the oval office, seats in the senate, and seats in the house, when you claim the other side had the worst president in history at the top of the ticket. Fact is republican polling numbers are the worst in history, Boehners house is polling behind STD's.

SteveH.... I love it! What a perfect name for the 2nd term: ARE YOU SICK OF US YET!

Do nothing, yet be everywhere spending others money! I bet Barry lowers his handicap a couple points, the trouble is, that will cost the taxpayers million$ for his million dollar lessons, lol!

Mr. Romney and Ann.... I too wish you were there! The Oval office is screaming for a little class and efficient leadership!!!

I see all the liberals are out with their educated opnions. All I have seen so far is the same old BS from all of you. You people have no idea what is coming down the pike, but fortunately it is going to hurt you left wing nuts as much as everyone else. The country's opinion about the present White House occupant is slowly but surely changing. The january tax increase was only the beginning of things to come. Wait until gasoline goes up to five-six dollars a gallon. Don't think it won't happen. It will happen sooner than you think. Milk and bread are already becoming unaffordable and that also is just the beginning. Obama is getting us deeper and deeper into debt. Wait until inflation happens, because they are printing more money than you can imagine. All you highly educated left wing liberals have no idea what makes a country great. You won't be able to buy food for your family, because we will lose more and more jobs. Employers won't be able to afford to hire additional employees. Keep on with your left wing liberal wet dreams.

“I look at what’s happening right now -- I wish I were there,” Romney told Chris Wallace, in a taping conducted last week in California. “It kills me not to be there, not to be in the White House doing what needs to be done.”

...cow-towing to the teabaggers and being a yes-man to the republican party.

I'm glad we have someone to STAND UP to those a$$wipes.

I wish I were there

Well that makes one of you. /S

Sure thing Mutthead. You wish you were there sucking up to the rich. Go see a shrink. The country said "NO". Get it???????

The majority of the posts here remind me of one of the biggest problems in government today - liberals blaming consertatives, Republicans blaming Democrats, on and on we go; each "side" digging in behind their respectives stances, and pointing the finger of blame. A country divided ---.

Last I looked each faction had some good ideas that were worth exploring, but aparently it's not a good idea unless it comes from your party, whatever that may be -- huh - seems like people would wake up and realize that this division thing isn't working, aka, be a part of the solution.

Just a thought, rather than moan and groan about the other side, come up with some solutions, like, I donno, a through analysis of wasteful governmental spending and elimination of.

EvaPeron - You're taking quite a leap by stating that everyone who voted for Obama are takers and everyone who voted for Romney are producers. I work every day and so do my friends. We all voted for Obama. That would be like me saying that everyone who voted for Romney is stupid and everyone who voted for Obama is smart. But, of course, I would never say that.

It would also be like calling all Democrats Communists or Nazis like Caesar and DB do and calling all Republicans Fascists, bigots, religious extremists and red necks.

Romney, if you want to be helpful, draft a proposed compromise acceptable to both sides.

YOU NOW GOT WHAT YOU VOTED FOR !

Enjoy it you fools . . . while it lasts. This country is on the edge of total collapses . . . that means all of us are going to feel the pain. You voted for this dictator and now you have to pay the price. When it hits home and your own little worthless world crumbles . . . BLAME YOURSELF.

Hi Fisty, I am glad to see you. I was wondering when the DNCNBC would plug in their favorite robot.

here's the only acceptable proposal...give all that money to me...don't waste it...

WOW Jim Silver.. not only do you show why the reps lost (by using tactics like the "Hussein" title)but you also show your lack of ability to actually check your FACTS before posting... OB ratings are HIGHER than they have been before... going UP... not "sinking"... lol what a laugh you are. You and Mitt can't get over the fact the race was yours to LOOSE... and THAT you did.... Get over it.. Move on... we sure did when Dubya won the second time... and look how well you guys did with THAT one... :-)

This place is AWESOME! For every ONE stupid thing that Mitt and his Magic Underwear says -- ROY WILSON says TEN!

So, Mitt -- what woul you and your Magic Underwear have done? Just jump on the sinking GOP ship with the rest of the PARTY OF NO lowlifes, and really stuck it to the American people? You think DUMBYA BUSH didnt do enough damage during his EIGHT CALAMITOUS YEARS?

Honestly -- how can one man be so goddam stupid...

Doug: Romney, if you want to be helpful, draft a proposed compromise acceptable to both sides.

Since when did that lowlife mormon cultist ever wish to be helpful?

In fact, since when has he EVER drafted a proposal or compromise aimed at solving ANYTHING?

NEVER!!

Seeing this loser again reminds me of how lucky we all are that he lost.... Crawl back to Utah Mitt and shut the hell up.

I don't wish he was here. Nobody I know wishes he was here. Nobody I know cares where he is and frankly just want him to disappear. What a loser.

tigerlover-4113331 post 1.24

Man you really hate black people don't you....... You and Romney have much in common, both of you wouldn't know the truth if it bit you in the.........

Mitt Romney is a proven loser "Twice", we need to say no more !!!

Mitt Romney lost because he is an IDIOT...Plain and simple....Shooting his mouth off at every opportunity...And at countless other things he knows nothing about....As for working for a living...Since when did he work?...Other than the past 30 years to TRY and get elected...And that pretty much says it all....Guess he needs to change his magic underwear....And his job selection...I heard McDonalds is hiring...Maybe he can work the drive through....But then again, you need a grade 12 education..

Mitt, we are soooo GLAD you aren't tbere. Now, crawl back into the hole you climb out of and stay there.

These two are classless. Mitt lost the election, fair and square. Monday morning quarterbacking is hardly being classy losers. They aren't. Our fiscal conditions, despite the sequester mess, has improved and many people are becoming more confident about our futures. Truth, even when they lost, is lost on these two.

No to anything Obama brings forward, it is better to bring the country to its knees then to make a deal with an socialist. No No No. Obama is addicted to attention and worship with these above fore mentioned liberals drooling over themselves to grovel before your feet. But soon the gravy train will come to an end and companies will outsource all of the jobs to Mexico, India and China and lets see where you will get your freebies from them. To the Food Stamp president.

If conservatives "businessmen" dislike government giving so many hand-outs to poor people, the easiest solution is to start paying your employees more! If hardworking people are no longer "poor" then they won't need handouts, geniuses! If hardworking people make more, then they might make it into higher tax brackets, which would "broaden the tax base"! If regular people make more money, they spend more which is THE reason the economy isn't recovering! When people spend more, you need to hire more people to fit demand!

Businesses, give your employees raises! As much as you can! Before long, people won't be on food stamps, welfare, or unemployment unless they really actually need to be, which is what they're there for in the first place.

Face it Romney, your irrelevant .

To be fair to Romney ,all of what he does and advocates may not be wrong. His wrongness's only a problem in that he firmly believes in an Oligarchy with him at his head.

Congress and the rest of the wealthy fat cats in Washington never put their own pay and benefits on the table. If you just cut Congress's pay by $50,000 a year, that be a savings of $17.5 million dollars a year. And how about their health benefits? They're millionaires, why do they need an 88 year old woman's taxes to go to pay their medical care while at the same time they are making cuts that same woman's medical care? Why don't military retirees have 100% medical care like their millionaire bosses in Washington do? The military risk and sacrifice much more and on average, spend more time serving the country than these rich politicians do. A military member has to spend at least 20 years in the service to get their measly 47% retirement pay. President Obama will retire with full pay and full medical coverage after only 17 years of government service - and he and most of those Congressmen never spent years living on a battlefield, hell most of them don't even spend 3 days a week at work. You know, in the military, if something happened on a Friday, like let's say Maine got invaded, they don't get to go home for the weekend and say, "We'll just take care of it on Monday. Oh, wait, Monday is a Holiday, so make it Tuesday." But that's exactly what these millionaires who run our country do.

"One issue that plagued him at the end of his run was the release of a secretly recorded video showing him speaking at a fundraiser, in which he said that 47% of Americans would vote for the president no matter what, as they were “dependent on the government.” He told Wallace that the statement was “very harmful” and “not what I believe.” "

I have to wonder after reading this statement just who then Romney was lying too..the wealthy donors that were there handing him money..or the citizens , voters, of this country...can not have it both ways..he was surely lying to one or the other. And that being the case..what else would he ly about ? He complained about China..yet did business with them in the name of profits..

Wait, wait.... Mitt who???

Why does that name ring a distant bell?

One thing to remember about Mitt, he wanted to pass legislation that would have allowed the top wealthy in America (including himself) to instead of paying 17% or so in taxes to only pay .98% or so in taxes. So, with that, to clear the debt in the USA, that means all that money would have had to come from someone else. Hmmm, who? Ah yes, all the peons!

"OMG the 47% is out in force today."

Ha I love it when they quote the very thing that put the final nail in Romney's campaign coffin. I love it, because they know it, we know it, and even Romney knows it, of course now he says he did not mean to say or really believe what he was saying (what's new) even though he went to great lengths to say it, and to say it earnestly at his campaign fundraiser event. Hell say it some more, 47%, 47%, 47%, Ha, the sound of Romney's campaign coming to a screeching halt never gets old!

Tell the truth for once Mitt, what you didn't mean for, or believe, is that so many people would ever hear you say it. Nothing is more satisfying than a habitual liar like Romney cooking his own Goose, the guy that always thought that he could just say anything that suited the political moment, destroyed himself with his own words, in one political moment. It is so cool, because he so deserved it.

yo starman - you still trying to spread SH IT AGAIN? RWNJs are out in force today, eh?

Here's a clue for the Stupid, if Obama could use his ideas and it failed then I'm sure everyone would blame him but since he can't even tie his shoe without Congress giving the go ahead the blame is placed on the controlling factor, but that might be a to advanced concept for the ignorant ..

Romney wishes he could be lowering his tax rate again, down to 0%. It'll create jobs. Riiight.

Romney's presidential defeat: The Gift That Just Keeps On Giving!!!!!

laughingcat ---- Presedent Eisenhawer was my frist C in C , THANK YOU . He was a GREAT presedent.

Odd? Same thing one hemorrhoid told it's partner just after both had been degassed by a dose of Preparation H. "Oh, wish I was there". "Hurts so much".

"I look at what's happening right now -- I wish I were there," Romney told Chris Wallace, in a taping conducted last week in California. "It kills me not to be there, not to be in the White House doing what needs to be done."

==Mitt Romney
March 3, 2013

Mitt Romney didn't want to be president, anyway.

That's what Tagg Romney, Mitt's oldest son, told the Boston Globe for its big post-mortem on his father's failed presidential bid published on Sunday.

"He wanted to be president less than anyone I've met in my life," Tagg Romney told the paper. "He had no desire to ... run. If he could have found someone else to take his place ... he would have been ecstatic to step aside.

==Tagg Romney,
December 23, 2012

OK, Someone LYING!!!!!

Lets face it, Romney was a bad candidate and republicans have a bad message and more American voters knew that. If you had run, maybe a Jon Huntsman, perhaps you would have had a chance to win. But Huntsmen was too middle for most of you up the scrumps and you lost big time. Deservedly so. You suck, your conservatism consist of me, me, me and nothing for the good of the country and most Americans are patriotic enough to come to her aid in troubled times and conservatives are not.

The democratic pledge is to the middle class and poor. There are more of us then their are of you, enough to over come some in the middle class that are too stupid to vote for their own good. I contend the real takers are those that are rich that don't want to give enough to their country to fund the good things that government does, Social Security and a health care plan for seniors are good things, most people know this and vote to keep it by keeping republican and now even worse tea bag hands off of it.

What I want to know is what Romney thinks is the solution to the problem that Boehner thinks is not solvable. C'mon Mittens, you still have your right to Free Speech. Tell us what you propose. Guess you think the majority of Americans who did not buy what you were selling might not buy shipping all our jobs to China and eliminating all tax on capital gains!

OK, Someone LYING!!!!!

Mosh,

Thank you for elaborating on my comment above @ #1.6, it's Sunday so I'm posting on the fly! ;o)

Citizen Romney appears incapable of learning... or just plain, old dense.

After acknowledging to Chris Wallace that his "47% remark" pretty much torpedoed his campaign, he goes on to postulate to Mr. Wallace:

"At the same time, however, Romney said that the 'attractiveness' of the president’s health care plan was 'a feature that we underestimated, particularly among' low-income voters."

Citizen Romney: Not the sharpest needle in the sewing box, if you get my drift...

After acknowledging to Chris Wallace that his "47% remark" pretty much torpedoed his campaign

Post election we now all know that Mitt Romney was spot on correct in that remark... ironic isn't it!

It's tough to fight against 'Obama gifts' in this day and age, but it is the sad truth!

Regardless of who is in the White House now, WE are all in this mess together. Just think about, most of the news we get comes from the bias media. Instead of allowing any religious message on Sunday morning, it is all the Nasty, Blaming talk from Both sides. Lindsay Graham you come from a state, were proverty is wide spread, Your State is trying to sequester the vote, Your State does not want to build new schools, Your STATE , Your State, Your State!!! Try going back to Your State and doing something to help Your State. I can and do respect NJ Governor Christy, because regardless of party, He was for His State. He stood up and said Shame on your Congress. Mr.
Boehner or should I say Ms. Boehner (Men acting like a Woman Shorned) you would rather try to bring down President Obama than to help the Country who say you love. If we think President Obama is not leading, then what do we consider Boehner & Mitch McConnell are doing. Is this leading!!! Yes, WE re-elected President Obama, we the crazy, We the lazy, We the non-tax payers, and the only ones who get entitlements. Well let me enlighten....We do pay taxes, we work, WE want the Same entitlements You want. WE want to feed our families, We want a JOB, We want Healthcare just like Yours, We want our children to go to college, We want homes, and we want a Government to support us the same way YOU wanted the
Government to BAIL you out of a mess the Well educated and greedy put this wonderful country in. CEO's are rewarded with cars, luxury homes, Ivory league education for their children, hugh bonuses,( even though they were are earned) and great vacations. WHO IS IT AGAIN THAT WANT ENTITLEMENTS!!!. Let's get real and re-unite around America vs Dems or Reps. We are Americans 1st and foremost. Let's all start acting like it!!!!

Hey Mitt --- you were a LOUSY candidate(even Republicans didn't like you all that well) with LOUSY ideas who picked a LOUSY VP then had LOUSY convention and ran a LOUSY campaign. It's interesting to note you LOST the state where you were governor by more than 20 points, you LOST the state where you grew up, you LOST the state where you now live, and you LOST the home state of your VP. It seems the people who know you and your VP the best wanted NOTHING to do with you.

"The country's opinion about the present White House occupant is slowly but surely changing."

Yes it is changing. President Obama's favorable numbers are going UP and Republicans are at a 45 year low.

There are only a few repetitive arguments I see here from the liberal community: 1) They think Mitt is selfish, 2) they think he's dishonest, and 3) they think he is only interested in making money, not improving the country. While all of these arguments were derived from ill-researched or rather, biased, reporting organizations, none, once again NONE of them have any hard proof to back them up, and here's why: It's based on a biased, hateful report, when they can't find dirt, they fling it and point. But let's assume they were right, here's how you entertain a biased reporter.

1) Mitt said that he'd work as President without pay, I've never heard that from Obama (which sounds more selfish to you?)

2) Obama said if he didn't fix the economy, he would be a one-term president. Yet he runs again, what's that? Just telling the people what they want to hear? (Why isn't that dishonest in his intent?)

3) Can't say whether Obama cared much about the 10 millions made from selling his books, but one thing is certain: he doesn't want America to have her foundational freedoms any longer: freedom to choose her own health care plan (Obamacare), freedom to defend home and family (firearms), and freedom to free speech (doesn't even allow comments on his Youtube channel. Mitt's did! So what does that tell you about Barry?)

You can't have it both ways, Obama was not a more selfless, honest, or better candidate for America. He was simply reported to have received more votes, that's why he's still in office. No other reason.

Emotion is not knowledge
Having free stuff is not having freedom
And a divided country is not a victory

Do the best you can, be responsible for yourself and your community, and hope for leadership that unites the country with not only pretty words and good ideas, but action and a history to back it up.

"George W. Bush will be looked at by history as "THE WORST PRESIDENT IN HISTORY!"

• It's probably a little soon to say for sure that Bush was the worst of all times but he will finish in the bottom 3 for sure.

Here is what you get when Googling "obama budgets submitted":

Obama's Budgets No Worse than Sequester

PolitiFact | Romney says Obama failed to pass a budget

Obama criticized for not submitting budget on time, again | The Daily ...

2013 United States federal budget - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Obama misses his 4th budget deadline - Washington Times

President Obama's Missed Budget Deadlines | Budget.House.Gov

White House tells Paul Ryan it won't meet budget deadline ... - The Hill

Obama Blows Legally-Required Budget Deadline—Again

Yes, Obama submitted the 2013 budget (and 2010-2012 too) | Some ...

Here is the Budgets Subitted by Romney as President:

.................zip...................

Not only did he never offer up anything CLOSE to an actual nor factual semblence of the Budget that he, Romney, would have submitted, he, Romney, is now coming out from under the carpet(but a very delicately weaved one with gold threading and rubies) to claim with zero substance ever presented in the Best Interests Of Americans to verify he never had anything to add. A REAL American Patriot would have stepped away from his own ass-whipped pride to commit to this imaginary "magic" solution's Public Disclosure in order to actually prove his fierce superiority over the incumbent President.

He can't.

Now, besides the fact that nobody on the left will even admit that in reality that President Obama has been not much more than a continuation of his predecessor, continuing to implemet the TARP Program, War Deadlines(or not) to remove Our Troops from Illegal and Misrepresented Invasions of Sovereign Countries which had NOTHING to do with the attack on 9-11 anymore than the US Flight Schools where they only wanted to learn how to control a jet(not land nor takeoff), the myriad Countries in Europe where the alleged 9-11 Highjackers trained, or the Countries of Their Origins, we see that the Left/Right Paradigm, both in DC and in US Homes/Populace is so blinded by the MSMBC and Fox Parroting Networks, chattering out the DittoHead Talking points rarely observing the Context in which these "News Stories" constructed primarily to satisfy a Target Audience while ignoring the Corporate Influence and Law Writing/Appointments which continue to foment their Ever-Increasing Profits while the Middle Class continues to be wiped out due to the Largest Wealth Disparity ever witnessed in These United States of America.

So...

Get your Heads out of your asses, Follow The Money and begin to actually admit the Failures of Our Demigod Agents of Corporate Profits and Offshoring Jobs which are ultimately and even Currently bringing this formerly Great Nation to break down into a Lower Standard of Living for more Americans while reducing or freezing wages and benefits from those labors while Demonizing those that support keeping a strong Middle Class without saying a peep about the actually amazing clone This President has ultimately preserved as he has morphed into a Campaigner in Chief rather than a President able to start Uniting Us.

Bushbama is that Morph.

Don't like it? We should have stopped it before he got in based on how deep we already were in the @!$%#.

And Neither Party is going to Step Up and Save America from Itself. Too much to lose for those K Street Shills we call Our Elected Officials, where Insider Trading and Approval of Earth-Killing Profit Machines(Energy Extractors and Related Industries such as Military Wares & Support Industries) such as Keystone XL and Shell Drilling in the Artic and Iraqi Oilfield Rape for China.

It goes on and on. And so does the Blameless Arguing from Both Sides. Now THATS a Sheeple Populace!

545 People Responsible For Country's Problems

It did NOT just pop up under W or Obama. Forget Your History and You are Damned to Repeat It.

I got cut off in editing, so am adding that if you open those linkds above, remember to differentiate which are Facts, and which are Opiniated Pieces by those looking for a distortion to share with their eager beaver nonsense buyers that have little or no ability to ascertain The Truth and underlying basis of those Truths becoming Reality.

Next Post starts now.

Ike was Our Last Great Leader, and we never heeded his warnings. JFK may have died for trying to try to.

Perhaps we deserve to be where we are at.

I Love My Country, and Dare Others to Offer Solutions rather than Partisan Arguments based on Emotional Influence Alone. And there are several here that see this and do so.

For now, the Sequester is doing that for us, albeit in an absolute manor.

Keep It Real, People!

Peace, for now...

Feisty Redhead Roselle, IL

OK, Someone LYING!!!!!

Mosh, #1.157 - Sun Mar 3, 2013 6:42 PM CST

Thank you for elaborating on my comment above @ #1.6, it's Sunday so I'm posting on the fly! ;o)

No problem, when I saw your post I remembered I had his son's remarks saved!! ;-)

It's so downright hypocritical, and such a lie. Romney was out the scene for almost 4 months pumping his own gas, his son makes "his" statement, and now Romney want's to re-appear and say:

"I wish I were there," Romney told Chris Wallace, in a taping conducted last week in California. "It kills me not to be there, not to be in the White House doing what needs to be done."

And to think people believe and support this hypocrite is unbelievable!!

Well it matters not really who is in the White House it appears. We need to cut spending and the sequester was a great way to start...it is the one thing I give obama credit for doing right...although it should have been for more.I hope they leave it in place for the whole ten years. Now I just hope the hold up the debt ceiling increase as well until they get real spending cuts in place as part of the deal. After that is done then work on the tax code...which really needs to be fixed but as a deal all by itself. Fix the spending problem before you beg for more money from anyone.

"I still see a lot of 'Bush Bashing' still going on,"

Whenever I hear that “stop blaming Bush” line, I chuckle at the very short memory you Republicans have. From 1976 to 1992 you whined and cried, moan and groaned and complained and complained more and bitched, carried on and on and blamed President Carter of everything wrong in the entire universe. Some of you even blamed him for the housing crash in 2007 even though he left office more than a quarter of a century earlier. Then from 1992 to 2008 you whined and cried, moan and groaned and complained and complained more and bitched, carried on and on and blamed President Clinton for everything that was wrong in the entire universe. You blamed Clinton for 9/11, for the housing crisis, even for the massive deficits of the Bush administration. So – using the standard you set – the left has another 29 years to blame Bush for everything just to pull even with you.

Hi laughingcat,

I think you deserve some answers. If you want a 90% marginal tax rate because you think that is what leads to great prosperity (or at least doesn't hinder it) then I would be willing to work with you. But, don't you think, we would also need the deductions in the tax code at that time, as well as the competitive marketplace the USA found itself in at that time too? See, the fact that the USA was the last major industrial power left intact following a world war, and that we also entgered the post-war period with the largest and most powerful military, has to count for something. So would it be your goal to reduce to rubble all of our major competitors so that we can once again have that economy? I hope not.

I think it is always a mistake to think that we should have only one aspect of a previously good time back in place as a way to recreate those good times, don't you? It's like when people say we only want to get back to the Clinton-era tax rates, but then ignore the Clinton-era spending rates. Would that really work? My education in economics says your comprehension of economics isn't all I would hope it to be.

Here are a few ideas...

End (not just reduce) the business tax at the federal level. It is a pass-through in every case, in one way or the other anyhow. It's either lower wages, higher prices, lower quality, lower employee benefits, less supply, or lower share prices, that will result. Or some combination of two or more items. However it works out, you will end up paying.

Install a flat tax on incomes and eliminate all other federal taxes on individuals, from whatever source. Excise taxes are regressive in any event and so a liberal like you should want to eliminate them. But it was always a mistake--one made by Republicans btw--to remove from the tax rolls tens of millions of people. If everyone has a stake in paying, then we should expect wiser voters on election day as they compare what they want to how much it will cost.

And how about we compel the authors of every bill in Congress to simply identify where in the constitution their idea is authorized. If they can't do it, then how can it be considered constitutional, and so it should fail on those grounds alone.

Personally I would cut NOTHING before reforming the tax code. It is my sincere bet that the various programs supported today which are both unconstitutional (or extraconstitutional) and ineffective/inefficient would be eliminated as voters demanded less of them. Congress and presidents only do what voters want over time. So the solution is to get voters to be more educated and wise. We do need to cut, and to cut many hundreds of billions in spending, but without this educational feature of people actually paying for the government they want, voters will continue to demand to live beyond their means. Always on someone elses dime too.

Lastly, and this is where Mr. Obama is the greatest failure in our lifetimes, bar none, we need to pursue pro-growth economic policies. More tort reform, less regulation. Just the tax reform concept alone would transfer about a half trillion dollars spent on trying to plan/avoid paying taxes into more productive activities.

First, I'm not a "liberal." As an original Eisenhower Republican, I believe in what made this country great. Each pays what they can to ensure to social contract, while not bleeding money where it doesn't need to go. Your tax stuff is fine. I believe the banksters can pay a little for the privilege of playing with taxpayer money, which I believe is not necessary, but somehow people believe the banksters get that privilege. I disagree, and believe they should pay for the that privilege.

Flat tax? No. I believe to whom much is given much is expected. I am a traditional Republican. If you've made a lot then you'll pay a lot, since to live in this society offers many opportunities to make a lot. Taxes are what we all pay to maintain a reasonably civilized society. Those who cannot pay should have to improve themselves. While I agree they should get training, they are not "takers," in the sense that most are not parasites. Many, due to whatever reasons, are not able or willing to pay what they should. That's been true since Rome. So what? I may be conservative, but I'm not heartless.

I agree that Congress should "establish" by what authority they do whatever. Tax code should be "reformed," but lobbyists control the process, so I cannot agree that the present parasites should be allowed to re-write it to suit themselves. As for your final misguided and shortsighted statement about our current preznit, he rescued the world economy from W's disaster through selling his soul to the banksters. Failure? Its name is Bush. And we'd get plenty by taxing the $700 trillion bankster HST/Derivatives casino game like other capitalist countries do. End of deficit.

Romney....Show us your taxes!

As hard as Roy spins them, Roy's numbers still don't add up. You can't pick and choose for the benefit of your lie and make any since out of it.

Max from Scottsdale "As hard as Roy spins them, Roy's numbers still don't add up."

For example?

Yes.. yes.. Romney comes in and gave the old "ha-ha I told you so."

But here's the sad truth America. The election was a choice of "the devil you know" vs "the devil you don't know." And we picked the lame duck we already knew was a failure.

Can Romney be able to avoid the fiscal cuts? Would he had been able to be more successful with the economy? The only answer we have is speculation. He could've done worse... or could've done better. BUT we will never know.

Obama? We already know he failed.

This is the price we pay for picking the "safer" choice.

well said Jeff, What horrible people you lib's are picking on a man that has never harmed you in anyway, yet you praise a man in the W.H. who screw's you over and over and over again. you all really sick sick people.

So ol 47 percenter finally says he's not over being the loser. Probably not after the big fire works display he had set up and ready to go,lol. Bet he did feel like a horses ass when it was over. He thought sure he had it in the bag. The old broad he's married to is even delusional. A unfair campaign,lol. On which side? Tagg ( what a name ) said he would like to take a swing at Obama.Why didn't the secert service pay that little tweerp a visit? They would have average Joe.Don't get me wrong. Obama is no better but Romney would have been even worse. The repubs and him would have gotten what ever they wanted from each other. It would have been a reverse Robin Hood role then. Rape the poor and give to the rich. So hey Romney,suck on it Buuuuuudy.

Mitt would have been a much better president than Obozo. Sorry, but people on here are just too stupid to realize it. I guess when the USA goes bankrupt, then people will wake the hell up and realize that Obama was the wrong way to go. Obama is incompetent and doesn't know what the hell he is doing. Sad, sad, sad.

And in regard to his 47% comment: He should have not put a number on it, but the fact of the matter is if you are dependent on government assistance, and one party (the Democrats) increase the handouts more than the other, then you are much more likely to vote for them than you are to vote for another party that may cut your benefits. It's just the honest truth. Anyone that doesn't see it this way is only fooling themselves.

AAhh but in THIS country, Mitt you must 1st WIN the election to get into the White House. Something you and your Tea Party cronies are having a hard time accepting. In other words, YOU LOST, so go away!

Gee, so what was Romney going to do since he is the Bankruptcy King. Since would not be able to file the US government under chapter 7 or 11 Cry with Boner people need to get back to reality everything comes down to the Fault of the GOP, if Obama actually did what ever he wanted and failed YES blame Obama but since We all know that the GOP has blocked all Obama's attempts they own this mess rather the flock likes it or not. A person can't be held accountable if he does not have the controls in his hands get it.

Romney's right, if he were in office there would be no gridlock, after all when Bush was in the Whitehouse with a GOP dominated house, he got everything he asked for, mostly. Just think, if Romeny had won, we would be headed to war and destroying the economy all over again!!!!! Yeah thats the ticket, only old white guys need apply!!

BigAl Las Vegas

tigerlover-4113331 post 1.24

Man you really hate black people don't you....... You and Romney have much in common, both of you wouldn't know the truth if it bit you in the.........

Why are you sinking to race-baiting? Are you a racist as well as a bigot? Ducking content and introducing skin color into the debate is irrelevant, obfuscates the truth, and appears intended to again foster a false perception that conservatives who disagree with the current administration's actions and policies are racist. It is not getting old but remains untrue.

Well, frankly, there is a damned good reason Romney is not there!

The only budget numbers we got from Romney during his campaign were:

1. 20% across the board tax cut. Tax receipts in 2012 were ~$2.5T. 20% of that is $500B.

2. $200B per year increase in the Defense budget.

Now, he also promised to end deficit spending but not one word where he would specifically cut $700B per year in government spending. My guess is he wouldn't have cut anything, depending instead on "voodoo economics" to create enough new tax revenue to dig him out of the hole in 4 years, just like George W. Bush. It didn't work for Bush and it wouldn't have worked for Romney.

So, if Romney had won, we would be looking at $2T deficits and not $1T. The American people saw through his bullcrap and refused to put him in control.

Go away, Romney - You lost!

What Pathetic Excuses the Obama Slaves offer, Blame blame blame everyone else but there Traitorous actions against the United States and the American People, all for there Lord and Master Obama, who has No clue other that the Dreams of his Father on how to Destroy the Nation, its so shameful how they blindly follow this Con Man and Traitor to Free People of the world, Disgusting, just plain Disgusting..

DMorgan...

When someone,YOU, has to resort to highlighting and commenting on undergarments, it just goes to show the lack of class, knowledge, and intelligence and an empty head who voted for an empty suit.

From the article:

Romney criticized President Obama’s handling of the budget showdown engulfing Washington, saying, “We don’t have to have gridlock settings one after the other, on issue after issue.”

I agree Mr. Romney, we DON'T need to have gridlock on one issue after another. SO TELL THAT TO YOUR OWN FREAKING PARTY SO THEY STOP GRIDLOCKING EVERYTHING!!

Seriously. Since 2010, we'd have 5, count 'em, FIVE (5) almost shutdowns, fiscal defaults, and budgetary Armageddons after having almost NONE for the previous 230+ years of our nations history (to be fair, we did have a shutdown in the 90's, and look how that turned out).

Routine items that have previously never elicited major partisan debate, like raising the debt ceiling and passing simple budgets, have become filibuster-worthy and come complete with threats to shut down the government and default on our sovereign debt. The American public pays more attention than the GOP give them credit for, which is why the GOP is tanking in terms of public perception right now...

Gee I voted for Obama twice now, I still have not gotten any free stuff from the government whatsoever, I still pay ridiculous amounts of my earned income for health insurance as I have for the last thirty years to help cover republicans in right to work for less, and less, and less states that have to use the ER like a clinic because they have no insurance, and I still pay a higher percentage of my income in taxes than Mitt Romney does. Nine of the top ten welfare states as measured by what they pay in federal taxes and receive back from the fed in welfare are solid red republican voting states, maybe Mitt lost so badly because he offended his base with those 47% comments. Nobody depends more on federal welfare than so called fiscally responsible republican voters mainly in the south, nobody pays less taxes than people in states like Texas where the median income is a pathetic $11.20 an hour, I made more than that in 1982, with benefits, working in a grocery store. Republicans in the south make up a huge part of the 47% they like to complain about, they just hate to acknowledge that fact. Mitt said a lot of the 47% would never vote for him and a lot of them didn't republicans abandoned him and did not carry him in even one single swing state, they must like free stuff, right Mitt.

Go crawl back in the hole you came out of Romney. Americans weren't buying the fascist utopia you were selling.

Worst President in history: Ronald Reagan Barack Hussein Obama, may he continue to rot in hell!

“I look at what’s happening right now -- I wish I were there,” Romney told Chris Wallace, in a taping conducted last week in California. “It kills me not to be there, not to be in the White House doing what needs to be done.”

It ought to be clear that this administration hasn't a clue about the sequester for if they did we'd have a plan put into action. Romney may not have been any better but at least he shows a passion to do something about it!

George Obama wishes his brother Barack will come home and support his campaign for Governor in Kenya..... millions of Americans are hoping you go too! (google this, it is true!)

Go home Barry, haven't you damaged America enough?

Thank the Good Lord that Romney didn't make it into office...Because, among other various obvious reasons, rest assured, it would be the Mormon church running the Country in the long run.

del...123

well said Jeff, What horrible people you lib's are picking on a man that has never harmed you in anyway, yet you praise a man in the W.H. who screw's you over and over and over again. you all really sick sick people.

#1.179 - Mon Mar 4, 2013 12:43 AM CST

Exactly, I never could understand how you people re-elected a man, along with his VP, and cabinet, who flat out lied to you about WMD in Iraq just to start an illegal war AND put it on America's credit card for Halliburton to make a ton of money,and have your children and grand children pay for.

Aww, the Parrot, Piggy and Fisty are all here spewing their hatred. Awesome to see you libtards out in force on this. Tell us all how wonderful your King Hussein is. tell us how he is reaching across the aisle to reach a compromise, instead of telling the Republicans he would veto any bill they came up with. Tell us why we are having this issue when your King promised befoire the election that it would never happen. Tell us, tell us, tell us... Stoopid libtard sheep. obaa-baa-ma gimme my obamaphone!! Idiots.

And Romney would be doing so much better?....Now THAT'S funny...Romney is nothing but a BLOWHARD/JOKE/ARROGANT/SELF SERVING/WANNABE...Romney has shown his true colors, time and time again...Shooting his mouth off at every opportunity....And disrespecting people of all cultures....Yes, this is who should be President....LOL!!!...Mittens has been in politics for the past 30 years...At the least...And has achieved ABSOLUTLY NOTHING...That pretty much says it ALL...Loser...In every way, shape, and form...Guess his magic underwear is not working for him. Maybe the mormon church and the repubs can knit him a new set for his next venture....Obviously, politics, is not his Forte...But KIA is looking for a new spokesman/woman....

HAHAHA tinbasher, Same old tired racist hateful talking points you libtards keep spewing. What an ignorant, racist, hateful libtard sheep you are. obaa-baa-ma gimme my obamaphone!! Moron. And I see you actually got someone to give you a check. Must be piggy or fisty, or some other ignorant taker who feels proud to have helped elect King Hussein. HAHAHAHAHA - the joke's on you. Too bad the joker's on the rest of us.

He wishes he were there? Didn't his son say that Mitt didn't really want to be POTUS, in fact Romney wanted to be President "less" that anybody?

Well, I can tell you Mitt, I'm glad you're not here, and we did all we could to make sure you weren't.

Mr. 1%er!

TO: ProFreedom-5130956 who wrote:

"It ought to be clear that this administration hasn't a clue about the sequester for if they did we'd have a plan put into action. Romney may not have been any better but at least he shows a passion to do something about it!

Republicans don't do too well in the "look and listen" categories.

Speaker of the House, John Boehner, has already told you folks that he can't get the Teagaggers to do anything he tells them to do.

Whatever Boehner says, the Teabaggers do the opposite.

Hi laughingcat,

You can call yourself anything you want. It's fine with me. But Republicans, Eisenhower-type or not, generally don't paraphrase Karl Marx. I can quarrel with most everything you wrote, but I'd rather focus on just two things. First, any tax, whether it's imposed upon bankers or industrialists or computer engineers--as a business tax--will be paid by you in one of the forms I mentioned. So you can demand that bankers pay a tax, but in what way won't you actually pick up the tab? I think in terms of economics your concept is anything but Republican in the traditional sense.

Second, you use a phrase which if true validates every leftist complaint about economic liberty made. Hardly a traditional conservative view either when you think it through. Can you please name for me who was given much, as opposed to who earned much? I think the vast majority of wealthy people have earned their wealth. No one gave it to them. It's such an offensive remark to make because it feeds the class warfare ethos we have in the USA today while at the same time being completely false. That they have done better than you, or me, isn't their fault, and so it's not a reason to punish them unless your goal is to have fewer people do better than you, or me. This doesn't mean they should not pay more. A flat tax would do exactly that. The more you make, the more you pay. But more importantly, a flat tax would put back in front of the wagon the very people who are voting for more free stuff while riding that same wagon. Eisenhower knew this. It surprises me you don't.

Though he didn't favor a flat tax--who would've in the aftermath of WW2?--he did favor each American paying as much of his own way as possible.

Tinsbasher...

You sure about that? The Mormons would be running the country? Yeah, just like the Catholics ran the country when Kennedy was President. Or has any President's religious affiliation ever ran the country under their member's Presidency. Could we have anyone worse running the country (into the ground) than the racist America hater we have now? A cohort of and an advisor who is an unapologitic subserveris who tried to blow up the Pentagon; a bunch of convicted criminals from the Chicago Political Machine; mentored at the knee of a pornographer Communist, and whose pastor and father figure for over 20 years was Rev. Wright. Ranting racist, hater, who wants God to damn America!!

His wife, Ann Romney, conceded that she was not fully over the election defeat.

Sorry sweetie, it wasn't your turn.

Must be tough living on the beach in a mansion Anne. You turned out to be quite the liability during the campaign. Michelle Obama was the one the nation wanted as their First Lady. Not you.

So go on and blame the liberal media instead of your husband's cold heartless policies.

That is so true, Pat. I wonder if the idea that Queen Ann had as much to do with sinking that campaign as the honesty of the "47%" video has ever been discussed by the two of them.

Wait, that would require honesty and insight.

So that will NEVER happen.

Hi newday. As unlikeable and snobbish as Ann presented herself, no I don't think she sunk the campaign. What she didn't do was help it though. Neither did the sons. Once one of them asked for the whereabouts of the president's birth certificate, they were pretty useless going forward. No one wanted to hear from them.

But in the end, it was Romney himself.The "it" factor just wasn't there, from beginning to end. He just couldn't connected. A quite forgettable candidate really. Plastic.

MS Ann doesn't have a cue what is needed beyond her social circle. ANd how could we have respected her as First lady when the same lady drugged her horse prior to a sale!

ANd how could we have respected her as First lady

That would've been tough considering this is a person used to cutting in line to get to the front.

Willard "Flipper" Romney proved the old adage of how can you tell when he is lying? His lips are moving.

Three points: First, Who cares what Flipper thinks?

Second: The sequester was the darling of the republiClowns. Of course, they conveniently forget Weeper of the House Boner's statement after trying to hold the country hostage and forcing the sequester: "When you look at this final agreement that we came to with the White House, I got 98 percent of what I wanted. I'm pretty happy," Boehner said in an interview with CBS News."

Third: Who cares what Flipper thinks? (I know it's the same as the first point but it is so important that it was worth stating again!)

sillyshrinks: as a horseman, what she did offended me beyond words. And to sell that poor horse to a friend that way.

Pat: could just be my reaction to Queen Ann. I started off being sympathetic toward her, but that quickly changed. I don't think she appealed to the voter.

Ann and Mitt will never FORGET that they are NOT the the President and the First Lady. Can you imagine what it would be like right now with those two in the white house?

They probably would turn it into a Mormon Temple, with RESTRICTED ENTRANCE TO ANYBODY THAT IS NOT WHITE AND RICH

I don't know if Romney could have done any better, but he sure couldn't have done any worse. Still, maybe no solution really is better than a bad solution; only time will tell.

@ Pat Boston,

Must be tough living on the beach in a mansion Anne. You turned out to be quite the liability during the campaign. Michelle Obama was the one the nation wanted as their First Lady. Not you.

I believe she is entitle to ,she has a husband that provides that luxury with his class and brain. Wait and see your results in 2016 ...you are still linger in HOPE & CHANGE.

You are such a miserable individual ,why not be happy with your choice /vote and leave the rest to have their right to speak their minds ......My God!!! What a qualified bully you are ....

the budgets that were passed on a party line vote in congress and presented to the senate were not realistic budgets ..they were ultimatums that would have gutted SS- Medicare-veterans benefits and programs that provide health care for women and children ..Reid had nothing to consider and was right to throw those so called budgets in the toilet wher they belonged ..Boehner claiming he has passed budgets with out any input from democrats show how being speaker has turned him into nothing but a talking head for the right wing Fascist in this country

bambi, dear, when did Pat say you could not speak your mind?

Or is the bully YOU!

laughingcat, really excellent posts. I wonder how many who claim to be conservative know what an Eisenhower Republican is, or what the John Birch Society is?

They are fools.

Luckily the majority of voters wished you weren't there.

Mitt and his little woman Anne along with Palin are like a really bad rash that just won't go away.

332 to 206, Mitt

Hey Mitt says,

Romney: 'I wish I were there' as fiscal standoff continues

Sorry to give you a brutal reminder, Mitt - you are not here..because majority of voters didn't trust you with the stewardship of the country.

Mitt is suffering from memory loss...having forgot his defeat at the hands of 47% plus.

Pigotry....the majority of voters were stupid to put Obama in again as our president. He did NOT deserve to be re-elected. He had a terrible record and our unemployment and the lack of JOBS are still staring us in the face. YOU sheeples have screwed up, just like the majority screwed up when they elected Jimmy Carter. Obama IS RUINING this nation. I wonder if we can ever get back to the glory that WAS once the U.S.A.! I just hope we can survive Obama. God help us.

“It kills me not to be there, not to be in the White House doing what needs to be done.”-----------

Yo Mitt,

I, like millions of others, are glad you are not there handling this.

++++++++++++++++

eg.ltnm

Pigotry....the majority of voters were stupid to put Obama in again as our president. He did NOT deserve to be re-elected

@eg.....

Everyone is entitled to his/her opinion, even the village idiot. BTW---your village called. I have a sneaking suspicion you are one of those who helped put this country on the path it is on by voting for bush twice. Now that was stupidity at it's finest.

Ann said that they had given all that the peons were going to GET...

so wolfie - who would have made a better candidate - Mr VULTURE (with his VOUCHER BUDDY?)

The Oval Office is screaming for a First Family with class and skillful leadership.... the current occupants are not close to being qualified! Yet the 47%, dependent on 'obama gifts' disregarded that cry and choose to get freebies! A sad state of affairs for our great nation!

Mr. and Mrs. Romney would have satisfied the qualifications of that office!

George, racist much?

"The Oval Office is screaming for a First Family with class... Mr. and Mrs. Romney would have satisfied the qualifications of that office!" Really?

eg.ltnm

Pigotry....the majority of voters were stupid to put Obama in again as our president. He did NOT deserve to be re-elected. He had a terrible record and our unemployment and the lack of JOBS are still staring us in the face. YOU sheeples have screwed up, just like the majority screwed up when they elected Jimmy Carter. Obama IS RUINING this nation. I wonder if we can ever get back to the glory that WAS once the U.S.A.! I just hope we can survive Obama. God help us.

You can't call over half the nation stupid.

.the majority of voters were stupid to put Obama in again as our president. He did NOT deserve to be re-elected. He had a terrible record and our unemployment and the lack of JOBS are still staring us in the face.

• September 2008 – 432,000 jobs lost
• October 2008 – 489,000 jobs lost
• November 2008 – 803,000 jobs lost
• December 2008 – 661,000 jobs lost
• January 2009 – 818,000 jobs lost
• February 2009 – 724,000 jobs lost
• March 2009 – 799,000 jobs lost
• April 2009 – 692,000 jobs lost
• May 2009 – 361,000 jobs lost
• June 2009 – 482,000 jobs lost
• July 2009 – 339,000 jobs lost
• August 2009 – 231,000 jobs lost
• September 2009 – 199,000 jobs lost
• October 2009 – 202,000 jobs lost

Add it up! That's more than 7 million jobs in 12 months at the end of Bush's two terms in office.

Under President Obama's leadership, the economy has added private sector jobs for 34 straight months. During this span, 5.8 million private sector jobs have been created.

Oct 8, 2010 - It’s Official: More Private Sector Jobs Created In 2010 Than During Entire Bush Years

That terrible record you speak of belongs to Bush!

Americans wish all that money you stashed offshore to avoid paying taxes were here during the 'crisis'. But we don't care about The Bishop being there.

What I don't understand is that if Mitt has the answer, all he has to do is call up his friends in the House and Senate and give them his magic key to fixing all of America's fiscal problems. Great thing for a citizen to do. Why wait? Certainly he wouldn't hold back the magic answer to our problems just because he didn't win?

(Cheney) "Deficits don't matter", especially when Mitt wanted to "gift" the rich with a capital gains tax of 0%, as well as "gift" the Military Industrial Complex with an additional $2 trillion of taxpayer's money. Haliburton can only dream of no-bid blank-check contracts now - Cheney was incredulously Mitt's senior Defense advisor (Wow!).

Laughing,

Let's see, Mitt calls Boener and gives him advice. Boener introduces a bill and get's it through the house. They send it to the senate. Reid promptly mistakes it for tissues and it winds up in his trash can. But it's the Republicans fault? Don't you ever get tired of making excuses for the senate or the President. WAIT! It's the Republicans fault.

Boy, Ann Romney is really appalling. I am so glad she is not our first lady. Think we have had enough of snobs and elitists.

Paul, no excuses, but some questions. I'd accept what you say except that Mitt never did spell out the specifics of what he would cut. Without specifics, then there's nothing to take to the House. So your hypothetical never could exist, since it would have to begin with specific numbers put on paper for legislative consideration. And you'd make your case stronger if you could point out one budget that didn't have nonsense built into it AND was something the Senate could stomach. We have two parties, but one doesn't have a plan for governance.

As I noted earlier, when I was young in the 50s and 60s we had real conservatives in both parties who could negotiate with liberals and middle of the roaders in each party to create a functioning government, not this neo-John Birch bunch who have no plan except to destroy the government as soon as possible. So far not one Republican has been able to explain to me why, if so many current Republicans hate government and wish it not to exist, why should we traditional conservatives believe that anything they offer is in good faith? They don't want to fund a government that exists for the benefit of the US nation; they don't want to fund any government functions at all except those that kill.

Laughing,

Do you have any idea how the budget process works? When the house sends a budget to the senate,if the senate doesn't like it they change it and send it back to the house. then it goes to a reconscilliation committee to try and come up with a compromise. Two of those steps worked. It got to the senate and DIED. So who is now the obstructionist? Senator Reid! You say we used to have politicians who could negotiate. We will never know if as you all claim , Boener can't negotiate because YOUR senator Reid NEVER sent a senate passed budget back to the house. It's extremely hard to negotiate with anyone when the won't listen or talk to you.

I don't care if the house sent up a budget that just said "Cut Spending". It is still the senate responsibility to send something back to the house even if it's just NO! But they didn't even do that.

The part you're ignoring is the Obama seems to have done his job. The house seems to have done their job. The senate didn't do their's. You asked why mitt just didn't contact the house with his plan. To what end? It might have been right, it might have been wrong, but it would wind up sitting on Reid's desk anyway. And while we're at it where are all of Obama's specifics about how to fix the sequester? Ive heard "fair and balanced" but I haven't heard a plan. What I did see was that he finally flew back into town on the day the sequester took place and conducted a 1 hour meeting.It seems you are like Obama where you can Point out why Mitt is sooo wrong but you ignore everything else.

First thing, let's close all of the loopholes the Romneys used. Well, even before that, Mitt, let us have your tax returns.

AlexG#3....spot on don't forget that Cheney also said they don't care what American people think. I guess the American people are irrevelant to the GOP which explains their ideology. Says it all.

Roadrunner.#1.87...respectfully please support your supposition. I tend to support my assertations to be certain I'm not adding conjecture. The recesssion has not impacted the entire nation equally some areas were hit harder than others. For your review....

"When the recession began, workers in every category lost jobs, but those in the middle and higher wage groups lost more of them.

And when the jobs started coming back, the lower-wage jobs came back stronger. That means that, while the nation has replaced lost jobs, many of those new jobs pay less than the old ones did."

I obtained the above from the following link. Areas hit the hardest is outlined in the second link below.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/03/politics/fact-check-jobs-economy

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/21/great-recession-took-deep_n_1615829.html

Roy Wilson 1.92....respectfully if your resource is Opra or Jerry Springer the celebrity has no relationship with ordinary citizens. You might be surprised to know that those hardest hit by unemployment are not habitual free loaders. They are hard working fellow citizens who cannot find a job where they live. As you know this recession has not hit equally the entire nation. Those who are college grads or near retirement continue to be the hardest hit. Older workers either experienced downsizing or are unable to find a job in their given area. I posted a link supporting this below for your review. Regarding your post at #1.106 pertaining to the presidents budget timing I'd urge you to view the 2nd link. You might note that the delay is due to the extended discussion of the "Fiscal Cliff," into late last year. Spending and taxes factor into the budget thus the delay. Reference your post #1.39..Your argument regarding President Obama's election win was due to increasing dependancy on government is skewed. I urge you to view the last link. President Obama did not create government dependancy rather the need for it was created by an historical economic recession. FYI post 1.112....Wikkipedia is not considered a credible resource by any teacher or professor. You obviously are not aware but anyone can add their own information for any topic provided by Wikkipedia. We all can quote sources or statistics but in the end it's how the American public view their government understands their issues and concerns.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/03/business/americans-closest-to-retirement-were-hardest-hit-by-recession.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

http://www.nado.org/president-obamas-2014-budget-and-the-debt-ceiling/

http://money.cnn.com/2012/06/22/news/economy/obama-spending/index.htm

Doug.....if Mitt had done anything wrong on his tax returns, then the IRS would have brought it to our attention and he would have been fined. No such thing happened. We do have a president,however, that has no public record of his college writings nor ANY of his grades in ANY school he went to. Why are you not concerenced with this. What are the democrats and Obama afraid of? What's the BIG SECRET? The leftist media has PROTECTED YOUR man for years and years and that is WHY he got elected in the first place.

eg., while taking the IRS tax amnesty wasn't illegal, the public would have thought it stunk. And the reason he didn't disclose 2008-2009-2010 was because he took homestead exemption in CA while "retroactively" claiming MA residency for voting purposes. That's voter fraud, not IRS fraud.

Paul, am quite aware of the legislative procedure. That said, the Senate gets to make its rules. They did when Republicans controlled the Senate, and they do when the Dems control the Senate. Harry does not have to bring what he considers a bad faith bill to the floor. That's why he was elected, and why he's the head of the Senate. They can change it, which they have, but if the House negotiates in bad faith, after a while why bother? The House voted over and over to repeal the ACA than vote on actual legislation that would fix problems. Dozens of times.

The majority of the American public voted overwhelmingly for a Dem preznit, a Dem Senate majority, and by popular vote, Dems got more House votes than Republicans. But for 2010 gerrymandering, Dems would own the House as well. And I am not a Dem, I am a traditional Conservative, and don't like what W or O have done to our Constitution. But House Republicans act like they want to destroy the government rather than do what other capitalist countries are already doing, and that's put a tax of a few cents on each buck traded in the $700 trillion HST/derivatives casino game. That would make for no tax hikes on small businesses and individuals, would leave the estate tax intact, the cap gains tax intact, and all the other taxes that Republicans say they don't want.

One small tax on those who gamble with taxpayer money would seem a small price to pay to keep everything funded. And of course, cut the Pentagon, their contractors, the DHS/TSA, and make big pharma bid for their Medicare drug monopoly. End of deficit pdq.

And I'll still remind you of a fundamental question - since most modern Republicans say high tax rates are job killers and bad for the economy, then why, when I was much younger and Ike was president, did we have tax rates at 90% and still had the greatest economy in history? Those rates certainly didn't kill jobs then, nor did they create a situation where the rich all left and stopped creating jobs. We had very high rates AND the most prosperous economy in history. If Republican tax opinions were wrong then, why aren't they wrong now?

awww - how can you be so MEAN to Ann? I mean can't you let them eat CAKE?

eg.itnm/If Romney was just another person he would have not been able to get away with the fiscal,wheels and deals that he does. We liberal Democrats are not afraid of the former actions of the P.O.T.U.S. If we rightly ignore the defamatory vomit from the Rep.T.P. Supporters we consider that he was the best choice that either party offered us. I know that you Rep.P.T. supporters can't understand why but it is because ,fortunately for this country you choose the worst person that you R.W.voters had to offer.

I don't pay a lot of attention to politics these days..... (high blood pressure).... but it seems to me that not too long ago I heard that Romney didn't really even WANT TO BE PRESIDENT...... and now, he's saying what a good place we would all be in if he were in the White House today, "fixing" all these problems we have in Washington....... Did I miss something here? or, is this another "flip" from the "flop" ? Wonder what his next trick will be?

Now he has all this time to ride his car elevator up, and down, and up, and down....

Unless it's occupied by Ann's dancing horses.

Mitt and Ann have had enough time to think about the fact that they are NOT in the news every day. She probably felt that she was going to be the second Jackie Kennedy, and he the Republican version of John Kennedy

What a pair of jackasses!! They deserve each other!

Well, I am a lot better off then I was when Reagan was President and I am 100 X better off then when Georgie was President. GET OVER IT!!!!!!!!!

What a pair of jackasses!! They deserve each other!

Yes they do .....while you are still waiting for ......HOPE AND CHANGE !!!

Tom,Yreka.....I wish you were here Mitt, you could not have possibly been any worse than what we have now and probably a whole lot better. At least YOU had JOBS in the PRIVATE SECTOR unlike MR. GOVERNMENT. Who doesn't understand ANYTHING about the private sector that creates our taxes that you Mr. Obama waste.

RWNJs are out in force - just remember - OBAMA is president for the next roughly 4 years. GET USED TO IT

Bruce .. good going! Glenn you are an underinformed fool with a keyboard, nuttier than squirrel sh1t.

Glenn,

Uninformed? Just who do you think defeated Romney if it wasn't the poor and middle class? Why do you think they didn't vote for him? Because they didn't like his physical appearance?

Romney made it pretty clear where he stood with the poor and middle class. Sure he said he cared about them, but he knew better than them about what was good for them.

WHAT middle class--the one in history books?

out of sight out of mind.

Why do you think he's resurfacing? Doesn't want to be out of the spotlight. He's about as bad as has- been actors on celebrity rehab.

Why is Romney worried about his 20 grandchildren in this economy? The man is so phoney.

What he can't get over is that his $$$ has always been able to buy him and Annie what ever they want and this time, it didn't work.

OH.....OBAMA is REALLY helping the middle class, huh? Our incomes have shrunk to a 20 year low....HOW'S THAT FOR YOUR CHANGE!

You do realize that middle class real incomes have been stagnant or on the decline starting with the Reagan Presidency and only making a slight uptick during the Clinton administration.

But the good news is that during that same period the incomes of the upper class has grown dramatically. Any day now it should start trickling down.

You can't blame Obama for the decline in wages, the biggest hit came during the Bush Administration when job export was at its highest. Obama has tried to raise minmum wages a couple times now, which in the long run actually take wages of the middle class up too. Every policy that Obama has tried to initiate to create decent paying middle class jobs, has been blocked by Republicans. If you want to learn something about the decline of the middle class, watch this. http://billmoyers.com/episode/full-show-taming-capitalism-run-wild/

Only on the Planet of T Bag where conspiratorial alternate realities abound. Hey, Mitt is still 7 points ahead on that Planet. Lol.

and you love the party of "NO" HOPE AND CHANGE!

Exactly. if everybody didn't listen to that big mouth Obamas mouth again and get suckered into his B.S. and we had an experienced business man to run things it would be different than having some no nothing that just wants to make a name for himself. now the people that he suckered in and the ones that knew better have to put up with his stupidness for 4 more years. i would like to see the people throw his ass out of there. just fire the arrogant S.O.B. . Romney isn't half as big a lire as Obama. try to find somebody That's not a lire anyway. they all are. just some a lot less.

royal.....did you speak that way about Kerry or Gore? They are WAY richer than Romney. Just wondering. Hypocrites.

nah royals just an Obamatard he cant help it

Tough talk from fans of a losing party. 21-3 i win.

Love it Gboy.

hahaahaah good one gboy

Getting awfully hard to keep McCain awake these days let alone take his meds on time.

McCain blew an easy win when he went far right and chose Palin. Had McCain stayed essentially independent and picked his old buddy Lieberman, he would have won the middle on both sides of the aisle. These two old farts would have cluelessly taken us into a depression before reacting late in the game with big spending plans to help us recover. They would have got Congress to play, but we would have been in a much deeper hole too. The only positive that would have come out of a McCain Presidency, had he played it correctly, would have been the destruction/isolation of the Tea Party lunatics. They would no longer be a part of the Republican Party and Democrats would have swept both Houses of Congress in 2010.

The country would have been in disastrous shape, but the stimulus you would have seen in 2010 would have been enormous and the turnaround would only now be beginning. Either Clinton or Obama would have had a landslide victory in 2012. As ugly as things are today, we are still better off than we would have been.

Rob, its Sir, Mr. President, Sir to you. Your mother must be proud of her sons, lack of RESPECT. TRY GROWING UP!!!! You don't have to be a LOSER your whole LIFE!!!!!

Rob is just another snarky cracker, why change now?

Michelle has become our First Lady Celebrity. I just want a little bit of class in the White House.

Mitt had the answer. The same answer the Republicans are still pushing. Mitt seems to think he could have somehow convinced Democrats in the Senate to "see the light". What an arrogant idiot. We'd still be having the very same debate.

It would have looked different because Mitt would have been pushing for more tax cuts that he wouldn't get. We would not have gotten the moderate increase in revenues we now have. He would have vetoed it even if Congress had still passed it. He would have managed to give away a couple hundred billion to his rich cronies by now and we'd be talking about eliminating minimum wage as a way to put people back to work. Even if he had tried to find middle ground, the Tea Party would about now be calling for his impeachment. Bottom line is we'd still be looking at gridlock, just from a slightly different perspective.

Arrogance is personified by OBAMA!

No you're wrong. Arrogance is defined by the GOP in the persons of George (The LOSER) Romney and John "Bonehead" Boehner. You should be smarter than to say Obama is arrogant.

From Rob, an authority on the subject.

Democrats are bankrupting this country.

YO douche bag! in case you haven't heard Your daddy Obama is Filthy rich too you IDIOT

I agree EDH - this is all the Republicans and Bush's fault. No way a Democrat is to blame for even a single dollar of the National Debt (almost $17 Trillion) and deficit (over $800 Billion).

What color is the sky in your world?

Obama @!$%# green

If the "States" were divided between Red and Blue States and people are given a choice of living in either a Red or Blue State I would definitely want to live in a Red State where people pull their own weight and the government runs on a balanced budget unlike the BS the Dems. are making us live under now. Seems like every "Blue State out there now that is run by Dems. is in very serious financial trouble. It would make for a very interesting experiment IMO.

What are you talking about? The only "red" state that is a "giver" is Texas. Every other red state gets more from the Feds than they pay in. If the blue states could stop transfering wealth to the red states thru the feds, the red states would be bankrupt!!

Read you sentence then go learn English.

seeker6

Read you sentence then go learn English.

Hahaha!

Read YOU sentence?

What a demonstration of intelligence.

Let the liberals live . They will find out in the end. Obama the biggest liar there is. No clue how to run a country.

DUH!

Obama the biggest liar there is.

Just where are those pesky WMD's anyway?

No clue how to run a country.

...the numbers for Bush's last three months. Between October and November, 597,000 jobs were lost; between November and December, 681,000 were lost; and between December and January, 741,000 were lost.

Under President Obama's leadership, the economy has added private sector jobs for 34 straight months. During this span, 5.8 million private sector jobs have been created.

DJIA Dec 26, 2008 8515
DJIA Mar 1, 2013 14089

Dec 29, 2008 (Bloomberg) - U.S. corporate earnings probably fell for a sixth-straight quarter, the longest streak in at least 20 years, as consumer spending on automobiles, homes and retailers collapsed.

May 11, 2012 Fortune magazine released its ranking of the 500 biggest US corporations Monday, which showed that they received a record-breaking $824 billion in combined profits in 2011, up 16 percent from 2010.

No, the one without a clue how to run a country was George W. Bush.

I second that.

Oh you forgot, Mitt was not going to take a salary as President

No Mike, he would have used his Cayman Islands address so he would not have been punished by a 15% tax rate !

He was going to work free as President

I am just taking a guess here mike, but I am sure that Romney has paid substantially more in taxes than you will ever make in a life time.

He has also paid more in charity than this guy has ever made... Plus not taking a pay check to be president! With all the amount of REAL TIME obama has put in working----HE should not take a pay check!!!

HE just polutes the air running around in Air Farce(yes farce!!) One politicing and playing golf with Tiger***Who I see screwed up his golf game by being around obama which made him think he didn't have to work at his job either***!!!!!!!!

Yes Mitt come to the White House and do some work, maybe we won't all starve because of obama's sequestration bill if someone in the white house does more than politic!!!!!!

Willbefree I get it, you aren't very smart and are not able to correlate fact from fiction from the debt ceiling debates to the sequester. I will try to simplify it, the tea party is very much taking credit for the sequester.

Now I am an independent that firmly believes that spending cuts and revenue increases are needed. If you are not a republican who believes in spending cuts, I don't know what is wrong with you.

I know this much, this was done by a butcher not by the refined skills of a surgeon making cuts. You aren't going to starve do to the sequester, unless you are just too lazy to get off your butt and start working. Obama did suggest the sequester when it came down to the very last minute and we were about to go into government shutdown. The sequester is a concession by Obama and moderate republicans to the tea parties holding the country hostage with their demands. We lost our credit rating during that little fiasco, and I will blame everyone on capital hill for not getting things done but you are just being ignorant.

The GOP will pay for this in 2014, because this last election they were able to fool people into believing Mittens had a shot at the white house but it became pretty evident that the republicans were lying even to themselves for a long time. Not everyone is stupid enough to continue to be duped by them so they have lost much of their support.

Mittens would not be doing any better than Obama in the white house, he would never get anything past Harry Reid. For him to get on TV and make any other claim is his overinflated ego that allowed him to think he had a shot at winning.

Now, stop being a drama queen and suck it up. The world is not going to end because of the cuts. We spend too much money, and I will grant you that the haphazard job they did is stupid but there is plenty of blame to pass around on this but in all fairness the only ones that weren't just governing in front of the media were the senate dems. They actually did propose bills, bills that didn't get through or Boehner shredded. If you are that unhappy with these cuts, at least grow a brain and stop blaming the president, he does not hold the purse strings.

Sure he was (going to work free) just like he was going to create jobs and make America great again... well at least for the top 2%

Get over it Romney,

I choose not to work, and I choose to gladly accept SSI which pays my rent and utilities, food stamps which pays for more food than I could ever eat, and soon the free health care. And the capitalists in this country can pay for it.

I may not live as well as the Upper class, but I can't complain, as I don't have to do anything to get by.

There is a system in this country for having all of your needs met. All you have to do is sign up. The rich have taken advantage of the poor for too long.

Reginald Brown-2497088 please get a clue. You don't get SSI without doing anything. But I understand--you just like to whine.

Mike you do not know how to think.