Like rats off a sinking ship...

[Ragnar]

... in this case, the S.S. Obama.

CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - More Democrats break with Obama on tax cuts - Blogs from CNN.com

Washington (CNN) – Thirty-one House Democrats, most of whom face tough re-election bids this fall, have signed a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer urging them to extend expiring tax breaks for all income levels, including the wealthy.

Pelosi and other House Democratic leaders have made it clear they support President Obama's proposal to vote on a bill that only renews tax breaks for those making $250,000 and under. But with the midterm elections less than two months away, leaders have not yet decided whether they will schedule a vote on the legislation before voters go to the polls.

The letter–written by Utah Rep. Jim Matheson, Illinois Rep. Melissa Bean, Virginia Rep. Glenn Nye and Michigan Rep. Gary Peters–states that after listening to economists, small businesses and families over recent weeks they are concerned that "raising any taxes right now could negatively impact economic growth."

Wha-HUH? Raising taxes... raising taxes mind you, "could negatively impact economic growth"? Well duuuuuuuuuh. What kind of rat bastard anti-socialist psudoeconomist told them taking people's money leaves them less money? Bah humbug.

I bet I know who it was...

Bitch.

 

[Darkwind]

Its too late. Now it only has to be brought to the peoples attention that they are doing this as a last minute attempt to save their power and riches. Dicked around for nearly two years and now you want to fix it? bwaaaaahahahahahahaha.....

 

[LordBrownTrout]

First they rammed the titanic into the iceberg, then they backed that bitch up and rammed it from behind.

 

[RDD_1210]

First they rammed the titanic into the iceberg, then they backed that bitch up and rammed it from behind.

If there is one thing republicans are familiar with, it's ramming from behind.

 

[Ragnar]

On the plus side, it's nice to see a growing bipatisanship in Washington.

 

[Ragnar]

Also of note, the first Democrat to sign the petition to repeal Obamacare is ready to jump ship...

Why Did Democrat Rep. Taylor Sign ObamaCare Repeal Petition?

...

What’s interesting is that Taylor is not one of the most endangered House Democrats. Real Clear Politics has his district, Mississippi 4, listed as “Likely Democrat,” while Charlie Cook rates it as “Solid Democrat.” Neither Larry Sabato nor Stuart Rothenberg even list it in their breakdowns of the House.

So why did Taylor sign?

...

If Taylor was motivated by election concerns rather than principle, we should expect to see more vulnerable Democrats put their signatures on the petition in the next few weeks.

Something tells us Taylor won’t be the last to sign.

Hmmm

On edit:

http://michellemalkin.com/2010/09/16/dems/
**Written by Doug Powers

When President Obama signed the “big f-in deal” health care law in the spring, he hailed it as “reforms that generations of Americans have fought for and marched for and hungered to see.”

Those “generations of Americans” obviously don’t include a great number of this generation of congressional Democrats who voted to pass the law. Politico reports that Democrats are spending at least three times more money on ads distancing themselves from the health care law as they are taking credit for it:

Since the beginning of Congress’s August recess, Democratic candidates have poured $930,000 into ads deriding the health overhaul but just $300,000 in pro-reform spots, according to Evan Tracey at Kantar Media.

 

[skookerasbil]

LOL........had to throw this gem in for shits and giggles..................


US workers’ poverty reaches 50-year high
By Robin Harding in Washington

Published: September 16 2010 18:21 | Last updated: September 16 2010 18:21

Poverty among the working-age population of the US rose to the highest level for almost 50 years in 2009, as the human cost of the deepest economic downturn since the Great Depression was laid bare in new census data.

Poverty among those aged 18 to 64 rose by 1.3 percentage points to 12.9 per cent – the highest level since the early 1960s, prior to then-president Lyndon Johnson’s “War on Poverty”. The overall poverty rate rose by 1.1 percentage points to 14.3 per cent, the highest since 1994.

EDITOR’S CHOICE
Fall in US jobless claims offers hope - Sep-16.In depth: US mid-term elections - Sep-15.Editorial Comment: Obama should do more - Sep-07.Lex: Fiscal policy and economics - Sep-09.US industrial production slows in August - Sep-15.Rising US retail sales lift consumer hopes - Sep-14..The rise in working age poverty was driven by the jump in the unemployment rate to 10 per cent during 2009. It is a bitter blow to Barack Obama, US president, who campaigned on a promise to cut poverty, and the data may further harm the already difficult prospects for Democrats in November’s mid-term elections to Congress.

“The overall message is that we’ve erased all of the gains in poverty that were made in the 1990s,” said Elise Gould of the Economic Policy Institute, a left-of-centre Washington think tank.


http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2c34e206-c1b4-11df-9d90-00144feab49a.html










Everybody except the k00ks are jumping ship these days. Who knew Jimmy Carter would look good in my lifetime!!

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Hell, I'd vote for Jimmeh right now.

 

[Ragnar]

CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - Pelosi Sends Mixed Messages on Tax Cuts, Clarifies Her Position - Blogs from CNN.com

...

But responding to a question about whether there is any chance the top tax bracket tax cuts will be renewed, she appeared to not rule it out. "The only thing I can tell you is that the tax cuts for the middle class will be extended this Congress."

Republicans immediately seized on her comments, criticizing her for both sides of the argument.

House Minority Leader John Boehner claimed Pelosi was "wavering" on her previous position and called on her to "allow an honest, up-or-down vote before Congress adjourns on legislation that would stop all of the coming tax hikes."

...

Pelosi aides worked to clarify her comments. Her spokesman, Nadeam Elshami told CNN, "She is not open" to extending tax cuts for the wealthy.

Pelosi flirted with sanity but sanity recoiled and she fell back into the abyss.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

TL ^2

TLTL

Too Little Too Late

Dems tied themselves to the anchor of Obama's Marxist Ideology because they're Marxists, not because Obama made them.

 

[Baruch Menachem]

Ron Wyden is advertising very heavily on You tube. (He is the psycho senator from OR) and he is playing it both extremes against the middle. Given Oregon's recent history, he shouldn't look that worried.

But I wouldn't cry if he looses. It is unlikely, but it could happen.

He is way distancing himself from TARP and he is on a jihad against big business in general.

 

[Ragnar]

Desperation...

Hot Air Donnelly: Maybe I’ll vote for someone else for Speaker!

It seems as though Joe Donnelly’s big campaign secret has surfaced: he’s a … Democrat. The Congressman in Indiana-02 has tried mightily to hide that fact from voters this cycle, spending more time running against Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama than some Republicans in other districts. Now that the secret is out, Donnelly has fallen back to an alternate strategy, one perhaps even less convincing than the Name That Party plan:

U.S. Rep. Joe Donnelly has voted for Nancy Pelosi to be speaker of the House during both of his terms in Congress.

But Donnelly, D-Granger, also has distanced himself from the Democratic speaker in two of his campaign ads this year. One ad highlights his differences with party leaders on immigration policy — he says he doesn’t work for “the Washington crowd” — and another calls cap-and-trade legislation “Nancy Pelosi’s energy tax on Hoosier families.”

So will Donnelly vote for Pelosi to be speaker for another two-year term if he’s re-elected in November?

Donnelly wouldn’t even commit to a course of action:

“Well, I don’t know who the choices are going to be. I’ll take a look at that at the time,” he said at the South Bend Fire Department Central Station during a breakfast to benefit the Community Oriented Policing Leadership Council.

“I don’t know if she’ll run for re-election (as speaker), I don’t know if there will be somebody else,” he said, “so I don’t want to make any pre-judgments on that issue.”

Dumb dumb DUMMMMM.

(more at link, including more links)

More rats... sinking ship... etc etc

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

Obama's toast. The great Marxist revolution has petered out now that the American people see it for what it is. Although the loony Marxists on this board will remain, their days are over. Of course we will be left to clean up after the Obamunists....

Sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up. YAY!!!

 

[Ragnar]

Michelle Malkin Dem Candidate Urges Pelosi to Step Aside

Brett Carter, the Democrat nominee to fill the 6th District seat in Tennessee for the ougoing Bart Gordon — a seat once held by Al Gore — is trying to fulfill his lifelong dream of waking up next to the severed head of a horse.

From Fox News:

Imperiled candidate Brett Carter, who’s running for Congress in a conservative district in Tennessee, sent a letter to the California Democrat Thursday urging her to publicly announce that she will not seek the speakership next year.

Carter, according to a copy of the letter posted online, bluntly explained that the voters of the 6th Congressional District in Tennessee just don’t like her and that she should step aside so Republicans can stop using her leadership as ammo against Democrats.

“Pelosi flight”

Democrats seek separation from Nancy Pelosi - Alex Isenstadt and John Bresnahan - POLITICO.com

Some of the Democratic Party’s most endangered lawmakers are taking steps to distance themselves from Speaker Nancy Pelosi in an attempt to inoculate themselves from charges that they are beholden to the unpopular House leader and supportive of the ambitious national Democratic agenda.

Three vulnerable Democrats from conservative-oriented districts are already running TV ads spotlighting their defiance of Pelosi. One freshman incumbent recently joked about the possibility of Pelosi not being able to take up the gavel next year because she might pass away. Another member from a tough district suggested he might run for speaker himself.

The roster of Democrats currently playing six degrees of separation from Pelosi spans the map, from the Northeast to the South and across the Midwest to South Dakota.

All of these rats a fleeing Pelosi/Obama and the numbers of them just keeps growing. The loudest message to Obama/Pelosi/Reid from Democrats in 2010 is... "don't stand so close to me"!

 

[Ragnar]

Senate Democratic candidates backing away from President Obama's tax plan - TheHill.com

At least seven Democrats in battleground states say they support or could support extending tax breaks for families who make more than $250,000.

Obama has called on letting tax cuts for those families expire at the end of the year.

Ohio Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher (D), who is running to replace Sen. George Voinovich (R), has suggested a one-year extension of current tax rates for families earning between $250,000 and $1 million.

Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and North Carolina Secretary of State Elaine Marshall (D) have also said they are flexible about extending tax cuts passed under President George W. Bush for families earning above $250,000.

Even the stalwart liberal Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) has not ruled out an extension of tax relief for wealthier families.

This group falls between candidates in Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri and West Virginia who have called for an extension of all of the Bush-era tax cuts and Democrats in Connecticut, Delaware, New Hampshire and Washington state, who are lining up behind Obama’s tax plan.

How's that for "change you can believe in"?

 

[The Rabbi]

Front page article in WSJ yesterday about how Democrats are running against Pelosi because she is so toxic.
Yeah, they see the tidal wave coming but it's waaayyy too late. The Dums will be soundly spanked for all their stupidity.

 

[Mad Scientist]

 

[LibocalypseNow]

Socialism/Communism doesn't work. I think most Americans understand this. Time to show the Democrats the door. However i'm not sure much can be done to fix the awful mess the Democrats have left for so many future generations. It is very sad.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Now we have to make sure we repeal Obama's entire term

 

[The T]

Socialism/Communism doesn't work. I think most Americans understand this. Time to show the Democrats the door. However i'm not sure much can be done to fix the awful mess the Democrats have left for so many future generations. It is very sad.

The very first step is to get government the hell out of the way.Second is to wean those on welfare that are able to work OFF of it and get them to be productive members of this society instead of being burdens and moochers.