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dale450 Wrote: Sep 08, 2010 9:56 AM

ECONOMY

Mr. Obama loves to use analogies

The economy is like a car going down the mountain with no brakes
Mr. Obama says keep the car in (D) for Democrat!
The truth is - no matter what Gear you put the car in your - screwed!
Ride it out and hope you don’t crash at the end and pray!

Like his predecessor George Bush, Mr. Obama paid more attention to the war effort than the American economy! He practices TRICKLE DOWN ECONOMICS give to the RICH and let it trickle down to the poor.
Well Mr. Obama the rich are not spending so the Buck stops there. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer! Millions lose homes and live on the streets!

The problem with trickle down politics is the next president enjoys the Benefits. George senior did...

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dale450 Wrote: Sep 08, 2010 9:55 AM

POLITICIANS

they all promise the sun, moon and stars and then get to Washington and are bought off with big contributions special interest groups

the repubs are ticked because they are missing out on all that money! and that is the real reason they do nothing!~

BIG DADDY WAR BUCKS Obama who promised change - what a joke!

billions for rich wall street (stimulus bailout)
for rich bankers for rich auto companies
178 billion for war surge
50 billion for Pakistan

For the American people? ---- 0 -------

we need to vote them out ,The Repubs are not any better

SO WHAT IS LEFT BUT INDEPENDANTS AND NOT REPUBS OR DEMS WHO HAVE SWITCHED and became independent To save their worthless hides.

this...

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homer noble Wrote: Sep 07, 2010 11:03 PM

"I don't care whether you're driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you're headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That's what the American people called for in November, and that's what we intend to deliver."
~Barack Obama

Due to the non-existent driving skills of Obama, we are going off the edge of the cliff.

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albert henry Wrote: Sep 08, 2010 12:11 AM

vlad is dam proud he helped design the express lane to said cliff.

There still spending as if that is the missing ingredient to prosperity.

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Dan840 Wrote: Sep 07, 2010 9:18 PM

"The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry
capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency.

-- Author Unknown

This is the link to the REAL beginning of this quote:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Danger-to-America-Is-Not-Barack-Obama-but-a-Citizenry-Capable-of-Entrusting-a-Man-Like-Him-With-the-Presidency/116213011731117

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NeoConScum Wrote: Sep 07, 2010 8:55 PM

My'O'My'O'My...Chip Reid looks kinda peculiar with an actual 'set' sighting. It cannot last. No way. He'll sleep it off.

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cottoneyed Wrote: Sep 07, 2010 7:03 PM

Today, Abu Mazen reiterated that they would not recognize the State of Israel. Hey, obama, that would be "game, set, and match" for your so called "peace talks". Stick a fork in em", tonight while ya' eat your $180 a lb. Koby Beef!

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DocForesight Wrote: Sep 07, 2010 6:43 PM

Didn't the Republicans offer several options before Stimulus I was enacted that would've reduced red-tape, bureaucracy and redundant regulations; cut taxes where most effective; and given incentives for productivity and innovation that all would've cost a fraction of what Stimulus I is going to cost us? And in doing this, they would've relied on the historical evidence that their ideas lead to greater overall gains in economic output than the statist, one-size-fits-all approach favored by the class-warfare Kings and Queens, the Dems.

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albert henry Wrote: Sep 07, 2010 6:30 PM

moderate guy

I really love how you stated it;

VLAD, YOU IGNORANT RUSSIAN PEASANT

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albert henry Wrote: Sep 07, 2010 6:20 PM

vlad

If we got rid of Obama tomorrow, we would still have you. isn't that the point of the author unknown article?

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Sic Semper Tyrannis! Wrote: Sep 07, 2010 5:28 PM

"The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry
capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will
be easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency
than to restore the necessary common sense and good
judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man
for their president.

“The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr.
Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails us. Blaming the
prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast
confederacy of fools that made him their prince.

“The republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all,
merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such
as those who made him their president."

-- Author Unknown

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vladimir estragon Wrote: Sep 07, 2010 5:53 PM

"-- Author Unknown"

The "author" is whoever wrote the right-wing chain email that said (falsely) the quote was from a Czech newspaper.

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Rob 782 Wrote: Sep 07, 2010 6:05 PM

It doesn't matter who the author is. The words are correct. The people do the voting or not voting. In 2006 the majority that voted went stupid, in 2008, they went deranged.

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vladimir estragon Wrote: Sep 07, 2010 6:11 PM

"In 2006 the majority that voted went stupid, in 2008, they went deranged."

But in 2004 they were measured and wise?

Remind me again, next time Town Hall tells me how liberals hold the voters in contempt.

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Rob 782 Wrote: Sep 07, 2010 7:24 PM

Nah, before 2006 they were dumb for a very long time. All the years that they believed any politician who told them that government was the solution.

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vladimir estragon Wrote: Sep 07, 2010 5:58 PM

Spam from a right-wing chain email.

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rescuedogsgirl Wrote: Sep 07, 2010 5:15 PM

This president has ONE GOAL. Collapse the economy of the United States. Keep on spending when we KNOW you are taking your cues from the Coward and Pliven playbook. He is a TRAITOR to this country and must be stopped before doing any more damage than he already has done. Oh, that`s right, it`s Bush`s fault. TAKE some responsibility for what YOU have done for the last (almost) two years! The blame game is over! YOU OWN IT! November WILL tell the story!

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cottoneyed Wrote: Sep 07, 2010 5:43 PM

Well stated, "girl", but was the misspelling of Cloward purposeful? If so, "Coward" works for me, too! If there is one operable word for the leftist, socialist, statist male it would be "coward" with a capital "C". He's not called "estrogen" for the heck of it! Of course, he use ta' go by, "lucky pozzo" until he was shown the door at Powerline. Serial lyin' bein' the main offense. Be careful though, to not disturb his very delicate sensibilities while he remains here. Which might not be that much longer. The blowout come this November should finish "lucky pozzo" here as well!

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arch16 Wrote: Sep 07, 2010 8:57 PM

Cotton is right about Vlad! I witnessed it all when I posted on powerline. Vlad got banned for dissing a fallen troop nephew of one of the members on powerline! He returned under the sock puppet Lucky Pozzo and got caught by his own stupidity. He claimed a post by Vlad that was two years old was his while posting as Lucky Pozzo The dumba ss forgot that he was posting under his sock puppet moniker, Lucky Pozzo and was nailed to the wall by a genius of a man named Roy Rogers! Vlad is a filthy degenerate liar!

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Thomas5413 Wrote: Sep 08, 2010 10:10 AM

Cognitive Infiltration.

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vladimir estragon Wrote: Sep 07, 2010 4:47 PM

* Republicans criticize Obama for not cutting business taxes.

* Republicans criticize Obama for cutting business taxes.

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Eichendorff Wrote: Sep 07, 2010 5:05 PM

Republicans don't criticize Obama for cutting business taxes per se. They criticize him for proposing tax cuts at a time when he knows these cuts won't be implemented because the present Congress cannot possibly pass anything before the election. That makes it possible for Obama to pretend he is for cutting taxes when anyone with two brain cells to rub together knows he's against cutting taxes.

If Obama really wanted to provide tax relief to businesses, he would propose to extend the current tax levels (i.e. the Bush tax cuts) permanently, and then he would also propose drastic spending cuts. But, of course, everyone knows Obama has absolutely no intention of doing anything so intelligent.

You moron.

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vladimir estragon Wrote: Sep 07, 2010 5:19 PM

When did they put time limits on when a bill could be passed? And who besides this reporter says nothing can be done in the fall of an even-numbered year?

"anyone with two brain cells to rub together knows he's against cutting taxes."

Really? I have at least two (last I counted) and I know that Obama's first stimulus bill was one of the largest tax cuts in American history. How do you explain that?

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NOTW Wrote: Sep 07, 2010 5:36 PM

Stimulus = Tax Cut?

We borrowed money we didn't have in order to keep the protected class employed (and those two or three in a room in San Diego studying how Africa votes). That's not a tax cut vladdie.

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moderateGuy Wrote: Sep 07, 2010 5:43 PM

Vlad, you ignorant russian peasant, If you think Dopey BO's "stimulus" was a "tax cut", you can't count as high as two.

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vladimir estragon Wrote: Sep 07, 2010 5:55 PM

The Obama stimulus bill cut taxes for 95% of working Americans. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/jan/28/barack-obama/tax-cut-95-percent-stimulus-made-it-so/

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NOTW Wrote: Sep 07, 2010 6:23 PM

Loosely defined tax credits for various categories. Considering people that didn't even pay income taxes got money "back". It was more of a one time giveaway in those categories that made people feel good. A nice "high" if you will, but hardly lasting (as everything is coming down off its high shows).

I know people that were perplexed as to why the govt wanted to give them money when they didn't pay in? The answer is not that hard (below)...

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
Alexis de Tocqueville

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vladimir estragon Wrote: Sep 07, 2010 6:45 PM

What was it you said about zeroing in on minutiae? Obama cut taxes, plain and simple. I know you think that only Republicans cut taxes, so you're going to have to construct something to deal with that dissonance.

Oh, and deToqueville is just like the Bible: a source for any argument that anybody wants to make.

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NOTW Wrote: Sep 07, 2010 7:03 PM

Again, one time herion hits. Woopee. Now what? Listen to the GOP? Seems to what he is doing since his way failed. Right?

Plain and simple is across the board reductions. It doesn't get any simpler than that. Of course thats not the 'progressive' way. Not enough control over the minions.

Funny you don't see the danger of the Toqueville statement. California is close to imploding because the public pension etc. All thanks to years of voting in Dems that (over) promised what was not sustainable. And now we are a state full of "protected class" selfish pigs that want to perpetuate that. And if they vote in Brown, then the above "unkown author" statement is that much more relevant. A State full of fools diggin their own...

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cottoneyed Wrote: Sep 07, 2010 7:15 PM

"Really"........LOL........................................................proving that you don't have 2 ta' rub ta' gether..................you wouldn't know a real tax cut if it came up and hit ya' over your "lucky pozzo" head. Tax cuts work, every time they're tried. But they have ta' be real tax cuts. And socialists have no clue as to what precipitates a real tax cut. Because not a damn one of ya' have ever owed and run a small business. Punch in, punch out, that's you and yours!

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socalcon Wrote: Sep 07, 2010 7:17 PM

Vlad,
Politifact's bias and flasehoods have been revealed (May 28th 2009). Try and find more reliable analysis.

http://spectator.org/archives/2009/05/28/polifacts-fixers

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BK22 Wrote: Sep 07, 2010 7:26 PM

There is nothing in this bill that would help small business or to create an environment to increase employment.

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BK22 Wrote: Sep 07, 2010 7:27 PM

Except it's not true!

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NOTW Wrote: Sep 07, 2010 7:28 PM

Hmm, just like last week when he thought a Newsweek article was relevant. Heard that very day it was bankrupt and sold for a dollar recently. No wonder since they are a propaganda rag.

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moderateGuy Wrote: Sep 07, 2010 5:09 PM

What is it a "three glasses of vodka day" today?

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DocForesight Wrote: Sep 07, 2010 5:17 PM

Vlad,
It's style over substance. Team Obama could have done the right thing 18 months ago to unleash the economy but they had other priorities. After slogging thru Stimulus I, HCR, Capn'Tax, Cash for Clunkers and other distractions they now think they can remake themselves as 'pro-business'? Please.

You can't in one breath berate the business community for not hiring while in the next breath saying how important the business community is for the health of our country. Talk about mixed messages!

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socalcon Wrote: Sep 07, 2010 5:20 PM

Don't worry folk, Vlad lives in a fantasyland and doesn't grasp the concept of politics.

He'll be out of his misery come Nov 2nd, after his skull implodes.

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vladimir estragon Wrote: Sep 07, 2010 6:00 PM

Here's a little insight for all your journalists and commentators: everything the president of the U.S. says and does is political. He's a politician.

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albert henry Wrote: Sep 07, 2010 6:25 PM

vlad;

He suppose to uphold the constitution, not the unions. He is suppose to at some point do something that would profit the economy, in more ways than you imagine inside the little fantasy land you have constructed in your brain.

The economy is still shedding jobs like my golden retriever.

When stimulus fails, try business tax cuts. or tax credits if you prefer.

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NOTW Wrote: Sep 07, 2010 6:29 PM

Actually he is more of a perpetual campaigner as once again seen in his speech yesterday.

Considering he has no other higher office to attain, its time he became a leader instead of a perpetual political campaigner. Its really getting redundantly and stale to hear the same lines over and over again. Blah, blah blah...and then the tv gets turned off (heard it all the day before).

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socalcon Wrote: Sep 07, 2010 7:19 PM

So, can you provide the political objective in Bill Clinton's diddling Monica with a cigar?

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cottoneyed Wrote: Sep 07, 2010 5:48 PM

It's because it wouldn't really cut small business taxes, idiot! I should know since, I'm one and you're not! A small business owner, that is.

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BK22 Wrote: Sep 07, 2010 7:28 PM

cotton...ya just got to accept that the socialists ( er democrats) are not really capable of being intellectually sound in economic matters........they never made it to 101.

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BK22 Wrote: Sep 07, 2010 7:25 PM

No, we continue to criticize him for not cutting taxes. He has yet to propose it or to do it.

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