Another year of lies and the Democrats playing the Bush Card.

[code1211]

As they have in so many years past, Republicans have spent the first year of Obama's administration distorting the issues. With control of the media, well-funded supporters and a willingness to lie it was easy. Recent election results prove it was effective. Obama has to do something to counter the deceptions. For America's sake, let's hope he's successful. The fate of the American People rests on Obama's ability to clear the air of the fog of Republican lies.

Have you been in a coma?

The stock in trade of the Big 0 is deception and deciet. He hates the ideas of the Reverand Wright, right? Why did he attend services every week for all those years?

He supports Healthcare for all and will provide it at no additional cost by eliminating waste, opps! By eliminating waste and taxing the wealthy. OOPS! By those two things and taxing Cadillac Plans. OOPS! Not the Cadillac plans of the unions. OOPS!

Yes, those plans, too. What? No, not those plans, too. My bad.

By those few things and reducing Medicaire and veterans benefits and cutting funding to support free care from doctors for the uninsured. And taxing drugs, drug makers, medical supplies and equipment and anything else that moves, breathes or lies motionless.

Getting an idea of what is happening here? He has no idea how to do anything. He's an incompetent boob with a great oratorical gift. If I had been given the Trillion dollars to stimulate the economy, we'd have 4% unemployment right now. If the Big 0 had gotten it, we'd have rich Democrats right now. How many new jobs do you see?

Even you will start to appreciate what's happening soon. The Dems in Congress have seen the light and I didn't think that would ever happen. Wonders never cease.

Now if Scott Brown can only keep the pair he grew a couple weeks ago...

 

[Joe Steel]

I live in the here and now. You're description of this reality as fantasy is quite telling.

Read and learn:

Barack Obama promised change during his White House campaign last year and ran on a distinctly liberal platform of comprehensive health care reform, investing in new energy and good jobs, ending the Bush-era tax cuts for the very wealthy, and ending the war in Iraq. Obama won more votes than any other candidate in American history, and his victory capped off several years' worth of sweeping Democratic electoral wins.

Yet almost within hours of Obama's victory, portions of the political press corps insisted America remained firmly planted on the "center-right" of the political spectrum. "This country, even with the election of Barack Obama last night, remains a very centered country, or maybe even center-right in a lot of places," NBC's Tom Brokaw announced less than one day after Obama claimed victory. Brokaw later added, "We still remain a centered country or a center-right country when you look at the geographic distribution."

Soon Newsweek editor Jon Meacham insisted that to govern successfully, Obama had to become a center-right leader in order to match America's "instinctively conservative" streak. (The center-right press push actually began shortly before Election Day, with the late-October Newsweek cover story "America the Conservative.") And The Washington Post's David Broder warned that too many victorious Democrats in Congress had "ideas of their own about what should be done in energy, health care and education." Broder ignored the fact that surveys indicated most American favored many of those Democratic ideas.

From the press' perspective, the broad Democratic wins last November did not signify a sea change in American politics, which was how the media treated big Republican wins in 1980 and 1994. Instead, the Democratic wins last year unfolded in spite of voters' natural conservative leanings.

America: A Center-Left Nation

While some reporters and media staff may be liberal, the media's themes are overwhelming conservative.

You back up your argument with media matters?

No wonder no one takes you seriously.

What difference does it make? You didn't read it. If you had you would have seen the link to a study which includes quite a bit of validation from other sources including those used by Conservatives.

 

[rightwinger]

The damage done by George Bush will last a generation. I see no reason for letting him or his supporters off the hook after one year.

What ever happened to the Conservative principle of accepting responsibility for your actions?

 

[Annie]

The damage done by George Bush will last a generation. I see no reason for letting him or his supporters off the hook after one year.

What ever happened to the Conservative principle of accepting responsibility for your actions?

The damage done and further attempted in the last year will go on for several generations. I guess liberals do it better.

 

[Joe Steel]

Obama has to do something to counter the deceptions.

Have you been in a coma?

No.

The stock in trade of the Big 0 is deception and deciet. He hates the ideas of the Reverand Wright, right? Why did he attend services every week for all those years?

Maybe Obama is a politician and wanted to be seen in a neighborhood church by his constituents.

He supports Healthcare for all and will provide it at no additional cost by eliminating waste, opps! By eliminating waste and taxing the wealthy. OOPS! By those two things and taxing Cadillac Plans. OOPS! Not the Cadillac plans of the unions. OOPS!

Yes, those plans, too. What? No, not those plans, too. My bad.

The House and the Senate did what the House and Senate had to do to pass their bills. Obama may have wanted one thing or another but he's not the Speaker of the House or the Senate majority leader.

By those few things and reducing Medicaire and veterans benefits and cutting funding to support free care from doctors for the uninsured. And taxing drugs, drug makers, medical supplies and equipment and anything else that moves, breathes or lies motionless.

You're distorting the issues. To the extent any of that happened, it happened as the result of comprehensive policy analysis and not by the whim of the President.

Getting an idea of what is happening here? He has no idea how to do anything. He's an incompetent boob with a great oratorical gift. If I had been given the Trillion dollars to stimulate the economy, we'd have 4% unemployment right now. If the Big 0 had gotten it, we'd have rich Democrats right now. How many new jobs do you see?

Nonsense. The economic problems created by decades of conservative policy bungling aren't going to be solved in a few months by whatever gets by Republican obstruction. It's going to take years of hard work and dedication to fix the economy. Obama has made good progress, certainly enough for reasonable persons.

Even you will start to appreciate what's happening soon. The Dems in Congress have seen the light and I didn't think that would ever happen. Wonders never cease.

Now if Scott Brown can only keep the pair he grew a couple weeks ago...

Politics is mostly perception. The Democrats have perceived badly and are overreacting. So have you. Brown is a fluke, the product of low turnout at the polls and a high level of propaganda.

 

[PatekPhilippe]

As they have in so many years past, Republicans have spent the first year of Obama's administration distorting the issues. With control of the media, well-funded supporters and a willingness to lie it was easy. Recent election results prove it was effective. Obama has to do something to counter the deceptions. For America's sake, let's hope he's successful. The fate of the American People rests on Obama's ability to clear the air of the fog of Republican lies.

Your out of touch Stalin.....and 63% of America agrees with me.

I suppose you're trying to parlay hack polling into reality but it just ain't so. While many Americans describe themselves as conservative, on the issues, they're progressive. Put simply, Americans love big government and that's anathema to Conservatives.

Ya...it's hack polling when it doesn't support your communist views right Stalin? 63% of Americans will tell you to shove that progressive bullshit where the sun doesn't shine.

 

[Joe Steel]

Your out of touch Stalin.....and 63% of America agrees with me.

I suppose you're trying to parlay hack polling into reality but it just ain't so. While many Americans describe themselves as conservative, on the issues, they're progressive. Put simply, Americans love big government and that's anathema to Conservatives.

Ya...it's hack polling when it doesn't support your communist views right Stalin? 63% of Americans will tell you to shove that progressive bullshit where the sun doesn't shine.

Like the trash heap of conservative ideas?

CONSERVATIVE RHETORIC GONE FLAT

As the Republican Party undertakes an internal debate on how to reverse its electoral fortunes, two schools of thought have been at odds. One says that the party needs new ideas to win voters back, while the other says that the party needs to stay true to its core principles of social and economic conservatism. While the latter school ‐‐ which essentially argues that the party’s traditional appeals are the right ones ‐‐ has many vocal adherents, evidence suggests that core conservative positions are deeply unpopular.

We have already seen that the conservative arguments against government are not garnering majorities of voters. Two of the other areas that have proven electorally fruitful in the past ‐‐ allegedly high taxes and culture‐war issues ‐‐ also seem to have lost much of their persuasive punch.

Read the report.

 

[PatekPhilippe]

I suppose you're trying to parlay hack polling into reality but it just ain't so. While many Americans describe themselves as conservative, on the issues, they're progressive. Put simply, Americans love big government and that's anathema to Conservatives.

Ya...it's hack polling when it doesn't support your communist views right Stalin? 63% of Americans will tell you to shove that progressive bullshit where the sun doesn't shine.

Like the trash heap of conservative ideas?

CONSERVATIVE RHETORIC GONE FLAT

As the Republican Party undertakes an internal debate on how to reverse its electoral fortunes, two schools of thought have been at odds. One says that the party needs new ideas to win voters back, while the other says that the party needs to stay true to its core principles of social and economic conservatism. While the latter school ‐‐ which essentially argues that the party’s traditional appeals are the right ones ‐‐ has many vocal adherents, evidence suggests that core conservative positions are deeply unpopular.

We have already seen that the conservative arguments against government are not garnering majorities of voters. Two of the other areas that have proven electorally fruitful in the past ‐‐ allegedly high taxes and culture‐war issues ‐‐ also seem to have lost much of their persuasive punch.

Read the report.

MediaMatters!!!!!!

You've been outted LIBTARD!!!!!

 

[Joe Steel]

Like the trash heap of conservative ideas?

CONSERVATIVE RHETORIC GONE FLAT

As the Republican Party undertakes an internal debate on how to reverse its electoral fortunes, two schools of thought have been at odds. One says that the party needs new ideas to win voters back, while the other says that the party needs to stay true to its core principles of social and economic conservatism. While the latter school ‐‐ which essentially argues that the party’s traditional appeals are the right ones ‐‐ has many vocal adherents, evidence suggests that core conservative positions are deeply unpopular.

We have already seen that the conservative arguments against government are not garnering majorities of voters. Two of the other areas that have proven electorally fruitful in the past ‐‐ allegedly high taxes and culture‐war issues ‐‐ also seem to have lost much of their persuasive punch.

Read the report.

MediaMatters!!!!!!

Focus.

Read the report.

Try to discuss the issue on it's merits instead of hiding behind talking points and those little cartoons.

 

[PatekPhilippe]

The damage done by George Bush will last a generation. I see no reason for letting him or his supporters off the hook after one year.

What ever happened to the Conservative principle of accepting responsibility for your actions?

The Democrats threw that principle out.

 

[PatekPhilippe]

Like the trash heap of conservative ideas?



Read the report.

MediaMatters!!!!!!

Focus.

Read the report.

Try to discuss the issue on it's merits instead of hiding behind talking points and those little cartoons.

You have presented a biased opinion piece to back up your article.....try again.

 

[Zoom-boing]

As they have in so many years past, Republicans have spent the first year of Obama's administration distorting the issues. With control of the media, well-funded supporters and a willingness to lie it was easy. Recent election results prove it was effective. Obama has to do something to counter the deceptions. For America's sake, let's hope he's successful. The fate of the American People rests on Obama's ability to clear the air of the fog of Republican lies.

I suppose you're trying to parlay hack polling into reality but it just ain't so. While many Americans describe themselves as conservative, on the issues, they're progressive. Put simply, Americans love big government and that's anathema to Conservatives.

No, they don't. America is center right and Barry came a riding in from the left on his horse named Bush promising to fundamentally change America. America doesn't want to be fundamentally changed, America wants government to stop digging us deeper and deeper and deeper into the hole. How do I know this? With the election of Scott Brown - an R in the most liberal state of MA?? lol - America just told Barry to shove his fundamental transformation, big government takeover. And if he doesn't get that now, he never will. I don't think Barry is capable of governing from the center. Then again I don't think he's capable of governing, period.

 

[rightwinger]

The damage done by George Bush will last a generation. I see no reason for letting him or his supporters off the hook after one year.

What ever happened to the Conservative principle of accepting responsibility for your actions?

The Democrats threw that principle out.

Then you have no problem with holding Bush accountable for his poor decisions. Crashed economy, two wars, torture.....

 

[PatekPhilippe]

The damage done by George Bush will last a generation. I see no reason for letting him or his supporters off the hook after one year.

What ever happened to the Conservative principle of accepting responsibility for your actions?

The Democrats threw that principle out.

Then you have no problem with holding Bush accountable for his poor decisions. Crashed economy, two wars, torture.....

Just as we will hold Clinton and Obama responsible for the exact same things. Why not?

 

[Zoom-boing]

The damage done by George Bush will last a generation. I see no reason for letting him or his supporters off the hook after one year.

What ever happened to the Conservative principle of accepting responsibility for your actions?

The Democrats threw that principle out.

Then you have no problem with holding Bush accountable for his poor decisions. Crashed economy, two wars, torture.....

Past eight years? 7 of George, 1 of Barry. Yep.

 

[Oddball]

The damage done by George Bush will last a generation. I see no reason for letting him or his supporters off the hook after one year.

What ever happened to the Conservative principle of accepting responsibility for your actions?

You wanna play that, then we can blame the gubmint debt on Wilson, Socialist Insecurity crashing on FDR and Medicare/Medicaid bankruptcy on LBJ.

Deal?

 

[Toome]

Bush certainly gets the blame for the economy. That's what being President is all about: The Buck Stops Here.

That being said, Congress needs to also absorb some of the blame, and that includes then-Senator Obama. The Bush tax cuts in 2001 as a remedy for the Clinton era dot-com burst was lukewarm at best. Hard to tell because 9/11 changed everything and had a telling impact on the economy just as it was struggling to recover. The post 9/11 Bush tax cuts were more effective, and that's when the jobless rates dropped, deficit dropped and housing boomed. The problem is that lenders relaxed their rules in order to cash in on the boom and the bottom fell out on or about 2007. Here is where the Bush administration screwed up: if it worked once, twice, then it should work again, except along with the next round of tax cuts came the TARP financing to help out the bankrupt lenders. And this is where the Bush administration failed to fully understand the complexity of the situation. Just as a reminder, Democrats and Republicans were in on this, too. The President can't pass squat. Congress does that. The responsibility still rests with the President, but let's not take the Congress critters off the hook. They had a big hand in this, and that extends to Obama as well as McCain.

While Obama can certainly point the finger at Bush, that only remains a valid argument for a limited time. Obama has had plenty of time to change the direction; perhaps not recover but at least point it in another direction. Instead, he's worsened it. Obama went after capital gains and other dividends, which is a true economy killer, especially for small businesses. Corporations may find ways to negotiate through the legal obstacle course, but the mom-and-pop businesses certainly cannot, and this is what has a direct effect on consumer buying habits. It certainly wreaks havoc among investors. Obama has snowed us by portraying the economy as worse than it actually is because that paved the way for Pelosi's huge spending bills, and we swallowed it hook, line and sinker.

So, yeah, look for Obama to play the Bush card, this time saying that it was so bad that even though he gave it his best during his first year, he's going to need more time and more spending to fix it. And he's going to claim that voting in a Republican will only encourage us to return to the bad policies that put us here in the first place. Never mind that the Democrats had the perfect opportunity to avoid gridlock and fix the economy. They essentially locked the Republicans out of the room. THIS ECONOMY IS A DIRECT RESULT OF THE DEMOCRATS. But they will SUCCESSFULLY play the Bush card because everyone loves a scapegoat.

Again, not saying that Bush is without blame. Just saying that neither is Obama.

 

[rightwinger]

The Democrats threw that principle out.

Then you have no problem with holding Bush accountable for his poor decisions. Crashed economy, two wars, torture.....

Past eight years? 7 of George, 1 of Barry. Yep.

Sounds fair

 

[rightwinger]

The damage done by George Bush will last a generation. I see no reason for letting him or his supporters off the hook after one year.

What ever happened to the Conservative principle of accepting responsibility for your actions?

You wanna play that, then we can blame the gubmint debt on Wilson, Socialist Insecurity crashing on FDR and Medicare/Medicaid bankruptcy on LBJ.

Deal?

Deal...

Three quarters of our existing debt can be attributed to Republican spending

Social Security, Medicare and medicade are great programs which provide a safety net for millions of Americans.

 

[The Rabbi]

The damage done by George Bush will last a generation. I see no reason for letting him or his supporters off the hook after one year.

What ever happened to the Conservative principle of accepting responsibility for your actions?

You wanna play that, then we can blame the gubmint debt on Wilson, Socialist Insecurity crashing on FDR and Medicare/Medicaid bankruptcy on LBJ.

Deal?

Deal...

Three quarters of our existing debt can be attributed to Republican spending

Social Security, Medicare and medicade are great programs which provide a safety net for millions of Americans.

Actually three quarters of our existing debt come from social programs like SocSec etc.
And over half of the debt to be incurred in the next 4 years comes from BarryO and his cast of clowns.