Why republicans should like Obama

[Billy000]

Cabinet

President Obama’s cabinet has included both Republicans and conservatives, including Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, Army Secretary John McHugh, and Jon Huntsman, the former Governor of Utah, who was chosen to be the U.S.’s Ambassador to China.

Tax Cuts

In February, 2009, Obama signed the American Recovery and Investment Act, which included $288 billion in tax cuts, arguably the largest tax cuts in American history. These cuts included a payroll tax credit of $400 per worker and $800 per married couple in 2009 and 2010, and an extension of revisions in the Alternative Minimum Tax, which saved middle-class Americans $70 billion. Additionally, the legislation included over $30 billion in tax cuts for American businesses.



Under President Obama, the private sector has added jobs every month since April, 2010.

Despite repeated claims by his Republican opponents, growth in federal spending under President Obama is slower than that under Reagan, Bush I, Clinton and Bush II. In fiscal 2013 — the final budget of Obama’s term — spending is scheduled to fall 1.3%, to $3.58 trillion.

Obama's First Term | Republicans for Obama

 

[HenryBHough]

Slow growth is still growth.

The lawn needs a good mowing.

 

[Mr. H.]

Amazing what $17 trillion of debt will buy you.

 

[Stephanie]

anyone can buy a site and call it Republicans for Obama...

I mean REALLY you people will fall for anything to make him more than he is to the American people today

His approvals are in the crapper and his likable is more people now DISLIKE him than like him

you might need to deal with someday

 

[Billy000]

anyone can buy a site and call it Republicans for Obama...

I mean REALLY you people will fall for anything to make him more than he is to the American people today

His approvals are in the crapper and his likable is more people now DISLIKE him than like him

you might need to deal with someday

Well facts are facts, why is the conclusion drawn from these facts above wrong?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

That's Jake Starkey's website

 

[Stephanie]

anyone can buy a site and call it Republicans for Obama...

I mean REALLY you people will fall for anything to make him more than he is to the American people today

His approvals are in the crapper and his likable is more people now DISLIKE him than like him

you might need to deal with someday

Well facts are facts, why is the conclusion drawn from these facts above wrong?

those aren't facts they are DNC made up pipe dreams...

and he's added so many jobs a month unemployment hasn't dropped below 7% in SIX YEARS

you need to come into reality or not

 

[percysunshine]

I am going to wait for DemocratsforCruz.org to gain some traction.

 

[Stephanie]

I am going to wait for DemocratsforCruz.org to gain some traction.

 

[Avorysuds]

That's Jake Starkey's website

lolz

 

[whitehall]

Pretty funny stuff, the "national commission on fiscal responsibility" released it's final report a month after the GOP won a landslide congressional election. Do they still get paid? Republicans should admire the Hussein administration because he appointed a handful of former republicans? How absurd.

 

[TemplarKormac]

Are you crazy?

 

[The Rabbi]

When Dems have to lie about how much Republicans love Obama then they're really truly desperate. Prior to that it was "The GOP hates Obama because he's black."
You wonder if falling poll numbers play into it.

 

[TemplarKormac]

anyone can buy a site and call it Republicans for Obama...

I mean REALLY you people will fall for anything to make him more than he is to the American people today

His approvals are in the crapper and his likable is more people now DISLIKE him than like him

you might need to deal with someday

Well facts are facts, why is the conclusion drawn from these facts above wrong?

The only conclusion I have:

Obama's a big spending liar. What good is the rest of his 'accomplishments' compared to that?

 

[Stephanie]

Pretty funny stuff, the "national commission on fiscal responsibility" released it's final report a month after the GOP won a landslide congressional election. Do they still get paid? Republicans should admire the Hussein administration because he appointed a handful of former republicans? How absurd.

yes it is
and pretty pathetic for anyone not just Republican

 

[Billy000]

Why am I not surprised none of cons are addressing the facts in the article.

 

[The Rabbi]

Why am I not surprised none of cons are addressing the facts in the article.

There were no facts?

 

[Billy000]

Why am I not surprised none of cons are addressing the facts in the article.

There were no facts?

Why do you kid yourself? It does nothing to convince me of anything.

 

[The Rabbi]

Why am I not surprised none of cons are addressing the facts in the article.

There were no facts?

Why do you kid yourself? It does nothing to convince me of anything.

Billy, nothing is going to convince you of anything. That's the point. You're too fucking dumb and liberal to have your opinion changed by facts. That's all there is to it.

 

[ScienceRocks]

Cabinet

President Obama’s cabinet has included both Republicans and conservatives, including Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, Army Secretary John McHugh, and Jon Huntsman, the former Governor of Utah, who was chosen to be the U.S.’s Ambassador to China.

Tax Cuts

In February, 2009, Obama signed the American Recovery and Investment Act, which included $288 billion in tax cuts, arguably the largest tax cuts in American history. These cuts included a payroll tax credit of $400 per worker and $800 per married couple in 2009 and 2010, and an extension of revisions in the Alternative Minimum Tax, which saved middle-class Americans $70 billion. Additionally, the legislation included over $30 billion in tax cuts for American businesses.

In December, 2010, President Obama signed a $858 tax cut bill into law, after almost equal numbers of Democrats and Republicans voted in support of the legislation. The package extended tax cuts signed by President Bush, cut payroll taxes by 2% for a year, and extended unemployment benefits for 13 months. Of the tax cuts, Obama stated, “I know there are different aspects of this plan to which members of Congress, on both sides of the aisle, object. That's the nature of compromise. But we worked hard to negotiate an agreement that's a win for middle-class families and a win for our economy."

Bipartisan Budget Commission

In February, 2010, President Obama signed an executive order creating the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. The Commission’s purpose was to identify "…policies to improve the fiscal situation in the medium term and to achieve fiscal sustainability over the long run.” The Commission included both Republicans and Democrats, including former Republican Senator Alan Simpson, current Republican Senators Judd Gregg, Tom Coburn and Mike Crapo, and current Republican members of the house, including the Chair of the House Budget Committee, Paul Ryan.

After meeting for several months, the Commission released its final recommendations in December 2010.

Health Care Reform

Throughout the health care reform debates of 2009 and 2010, President Obama refused to commit to either a single-payer health care system, favored by liberal Democrats, or a government-sponsored public option-- the favored choice among other Democrats. Instead, the President focused on enacting legislation that would cover the vast majority of Americans and lower health care costs, even if it was not the first choice of liberal activists.

On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the law will cut the federal deficit by $138 billion over 10 years.

The Affordable Care Act has been compared to the health care law Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney enacted four years earlier when he served as the Governor of Massachusetts. Romney’s law created exchanges designed to increase competition in the purchase of health insurance and included a requirement that every individual purchase health insurance.

Early in Obama's first term, Mitt Romney urged the President to enact healthcare legislation similar to that which he signed into law in Massachusetts.

The Affordable Care Act has been compared to health care legislation co-sponsored by 19 Republican Senators in 1993, including current Republican Senators Chuck Grassley, Orrin Hatch and Richard Lugar. Mitt Romney supported this legislation.

The 1993 Republican bill called for government subsidies to low-income individuals and families to help them purchase their own health coverage, and included a requirement for individuals to purchase health insurance. Both of these provisions are supported by 2012 Republican Presidential Candidate Newt Gingrich.

Said former Republican Senator from Minnesota David Durenberger soon after the Affordable Care Act passed, “the legislation which President Obama signed is the best we can do as a nation… right now. It is historic. The commitment to universal access to health care through universal insurance coverage is the law of the land.”

Included the in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 are provisions which:

Eliminate lifetime limits on insurance coverage
Prevent health insurance companies from denying coverage because of a pre-existing condition
Allow young adults to remain on parents' insurance until age 26.
Provide subsidies for individuals and families and are not covered by an employer to purchase their own insurance.
Creates healthcare exchanges for uninsured people to purchase coverage at competitive rates.
Gives people on Medicare new access to free preventive services such as screenings for cancer and diabetes.
Closes the "doughnut hole" gap in Medicare Part-D by 2020.
Slows spending increases for Medicare beneficiaries to 2% per year, from the current rate of 4% a year.

In January, 2010, President Obama accepted an invitation to speak at the GOP House Issues Conference in Baltimore, answering questions from the GOP leadership and offering to work across the aisle to help solve the nation’s most pressing problems.

In February, 2010, President Obama signed the “Pay-Go” rule into law, restoring a requirement that the federal government spend only what it can afford. That June, the President directed federal agencies to develop plans for disposing of unneeded real estate and eliminate unnecessary or non-economical lands and properties.

President Obama has called for the repeal of the capital gains tax for small businesses, has proposed a three-year freeze on federal discretionary spending beginning in 2011 and is in the process of cutting 120 federal programs identified as either wasteful or unnecessary.

In his 2011 State of the Union Address, President Obama called for investments in the nation’s infrastructure, a call that was applauded by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

During the first three years of the Obama Presidency, the number of government employees dropped 2.6%-- a record reduction, and a larger decrease than that overseen by President Reagan during his first three years in office.

In January of this year, President Barack Obama proposed consolidating six trade and commerce agencies within the federal government, a measure that would further reduce the number of federal employees and cut costs.

Under President Obama, the private sector has added jobs every month since April, 2010.

Despite repeated claims by his Republican opponents, growth in federal spending under President Obama is slower than that under Reagan, Bush I, Clinton and Bush II. In fiscal 2013 — the final budget of Obama’s term — spending is scheduled to fall 1.3%, to $3.58 trillion.

Obama's First Term | Republicans for Obama

1. Yep, certainly has put some pretty extreme democrats in power...BUT I'll give him credit.
2. Just to turn to shit.
3. Good for him
4. Some of it is good reforms..Needs more work.
5. Good. The more the better.