Is the GOP intentionally preventing a recovery?

[Wry Catcher]

Radical Republicans manufactured the debt ceiling crisis; It is not an accident that this occured, this crisis is a direct result of the power and influence of Grover Norquist and those who support or control him.

 

[Full-Auto]

Radical Republicans manufactured the debt ceiling crisis; It is not an accident that this occured, this crisis is a direct result of the power and influence of Grover Norquist and those who support or control him.

Need another saltine?

 

[Wry Catcher]

Radical Republicans manufactured the debt ceiling crisis; It is not an accident that this occured, this crisis is a direct result of the power and influence of Grover Norquist and those who support or control him.

Need another saltine?

If you want to be taken seriously you'll need to forego idiotgrams and posting emoticons and offer something of substance. If not continue to be seen as a fool.

 

[kaz]

Radical Republicans manufactured the debt ceiling crisis; It is not an accident that this occured, this crisis is a direct result of the power and influence of Grover Norquist and those who support or control him.

Need another saltine?

If you want to be taken seriously you'll need to forego idiotgrams and posting emoticons and offer something of substance. If not continue to be seen as a fool.

If you want to be taken seriously you'll need to forgo calling anyone who disagrees with you a racist and offer something of substance. If not continue to be seen as a fool.

 

[saveliberty]

Radical Republicans manufactured the debt ceiling crisis; It is not an accident that this occured, this crisis is a direct result of the power and influence of Grover Norquist and those who support or control him.

It was manufactured by Democrats how turned down roughly the same bill for six months.

 

[Wry Catcher]

Need another saltine?

If you want to be taken seriously you'll need to forego idiotgrams and posting emoticons and offer something of substance. If not continue to be seen as a fool.

If you want to be taken seriously you'll need to forgo calling anyone who disagrees with you a racist and offer something of substance. If not continue to be seen as a fool.

Aren't you the guy who posted, "You're a dick"?

I don't call everyone who disagrees with me a racist, though some with whom I disagree are clearly racists. Posting that I do is a lie.

I have offered substantive threads, and will continue to do so as appropriate. The facts speak for themselves, many who post on this message board are (my term) callous conservatives, many too are willfully ignorant and some demonstrate no more intelligence than one hears from a parrot.

IMHO only a liar or a brainwashed fool argues our current crisis was not planned. It was clearly a gambit employed by the radical Republican fringe, putting both RINO's and Democats in a bind. It also may have fucked over the American people given the news that our credit risk has been lowered (and if the American people are lucky dug their own political grave).

If all you've got is to call me a dick save yourself some time. There are too many fools for me to bother with. Though some on the right are able to offer sensible arguments and policy ideas and it is those who make posting here both challenging and fun.

Sadly there are too few. Most are of the CrusaderFrank, Willow Tree, Odd-dude, Tank, Daveman, etc. variety - best usually ignored. You choose how you want to be evaluated.

 

[daveman]

One line idiotgrams provide nothing of substance, Todd, and being thanked by Kaz shouldn't give you the sense your post was anything near substantive or a successful retort to my premise that the Republican Party is actively working to slow recovery for political advantage.

The fact is Obama has been under attack by the New Right because he is not white, attended a black church, and spoke of reform; the power elite in our country does not want reform. They will and have protected the Golden Goose of the Old Boy's Network via hate, fear and demoagoguery. Had Hilary Clinton secured the Democratic nomination and been elected she too would have felt the wrath of the leaders of the New Right as did her husband, President Clinton. The New Right does not want reform, they fear change and are not partriots by any stretch of the imagination.

Avarice, bigotry and a callous disregard for the average citizen is the creed of the New Right. That they are able to delude many average Americans is sad and reprehensible. If you really are a patriot Todd, engage in some critical thinking and stop parroting the bull shit.

Ironic.

 

[kaz]

The fact is Obama has been under attack by the New Right because he is not white, attended a black church, and spoke of reform

You're just a dick

Name calling makes you ... what?

My bad, you're not a dick, you're a clueless dick.

Wrycatcher: racist!

Kaz: Dick!

Wrycatcher: Name calling!!!! OMG!!!!!!!!!!!

Dick.

Sorry, clueless dick.

 

[daveman]

Radical Republicans manufactured the debt ceiling crisis; It is not an accident that this occured, this crisis is a direct result of the power and influence of Grover Norquist and those who support or control him.

Need another saltine?

If you want to be taken seriously you'll need to forego idiotgrams and posting emoticons and offer something of substance. If not continue to be seen as a fool.

Are your posts "substance"? Why do you think so?

 

[daveman]

I don't call everyone who disagrees with me a racist, though some with whom I disagree are clearly racists. Posting that I do is a lie.

"The fact is Obama has been under attack by the New Right because he is not white, attended a black church, and spoke of reform..."

It's not a lie. I suppose now you're going to play The Liberal Didn't Say What He Said.

 

[kaz]

Aren't you the guy who posted, "You're a dick"?

And you're the one who posts that people who disagree with you and your messiah are racists. Then you bury it in a bunch of crap and try to say you cut a fine line, the only one you conned was yourself. You're an idiot who can't defend your views because they are stupid, so you just go straight to the race card. You're a dick.

 

[bripat9643]

The fact remains, the Pubs love racist policies (in effect), and the Dupes don't bleat.

What "racist policies" are those?

 

[daveman]

The fact remains, the Pubs love racist policies (in effect), and the Dupes don't bleat.

What "racist policies" are those?

Oh, you know...the ones that don't give priority to Democrat special interest groups.

 

[bripat9643]

The fact remains, the Pubs love racist policies (in effect), and the Dupes don't bleat.

What "racist policies" are those?

Oh, you know...the ones that don't give priority to Democrat special interest groups.

I was expecting him to say "cutting welfare" or "cutting federal spending."

 

[Neotrotsky]

IRS: Not enough rich to cover the deficit

Soak the rich, eh?

They do not have the money.
A report from the Internal Revenue Service found that the rich — 8,274 people with incomes of $10 million per year or more — earned a total of $240 billion in 2009.

Even of you confiscated every dime they earned, you would barely have enough money to cover government spending for 24 days.

Of course, about a quarter of that money already goes to the federal government for federal income. So make that 18 days.

Another 227,000 people earned $1 million or more in 2009.

Millionaires averaged taxes of 24.4% of their income — up from 23.1% in 2008.

They, too, did not earn enough money to come anywhere close to covering the annual deficits that are $1.5 trillion a year.​

ndividual tax collections totaled $1,175,422,000,000 in 2009 — or 15.4% of all income.

Doubling federal income taxes for everyone would still leave us $400 billion or so shy of balancing the budget.​

 

[BDBoop]

Some people are saying no, see the 'argument' against, here:

Schumer's conspiracy theory: GOP sabotaging recovery | David Freddoso | Beltway Confidential | Washington Examiner

The evidence suggests Schumer's on to something. The House of Representatives has offered no debate on the issue of unemployment and has passed only 18 bills since taking control in January. 15 of those bills were passed to name federal buildings after someone. This do-nothing congress sees no urgency as millions of Americans are out of work, work one or two or three part time jobs simply to pay rent or the morgage on a home underwater.

The GOP leadership in both houses of congress has opposed all efforts by the president, and even turned down an offer by President Obama to reduce the payroll tax for businees. It seems ideology is only an excuse, the real reason is their lust for power.

Is the GOP intentionally preventing a recovery?

Yes.

Ya couldn't say that four pages ago ....

>.>

 

[kaz]

The fact remains, the Pubs love racist policies (in effect), and the Dupes don't bleat.

What "racist policies" are those?

Remember how nice we were to white liberals like John Kerry, Bill Clinton and Al Gore? I mean we hardly opposed them at all and the bit we did was more in jest then serious. The Left realized how we were actually OK with them. Then suddenly Obama comes and we are actually against him. Sadly wrycatcher and his race baiting brethren actually do remember it that way. I suppose it's why they fight so hard for government checks, even they know they don't have the brainpower to earn it in a competitive market.

 

[Wry Catcher]

The fact remains, the Pubs love racist policies (in effect), and the Dupes don't bleat.

What "racist policies" are those?

Remember how nice we were to white liberals like John Kerry, Bill Clinton and Al Gore? I mean we hardly opposed them at all and the bit we did was more in jest then serious. The Left realized how we were actually OK with them. Then suddenly Obama comes and we are actually against him. Sadly wrycatcher and his race baiting brethren actually do remember it that way. I suppose it's why they fight so hard for government checks, even they know they don't have the brainpower to earn it in a competitive market.

A better post than simply calling me a dick, kaz, yet still no substance to your post.

I regret not saving some of the overt racist posts I've had the misfortune to read, the ones you must have missed (or are too dishonest to acknowledge). That aside, do you also deny the New Right has proudly and loudly hoped (and worked) to make President Obama's first term a failure?

Do you deny the Red Baiting which has been on-going since President Obama recieved the nominaitoin? Calls of "Socialist" and "Marxist" and "Commie" not only from the intellectually challenged who frequent this MB, but from the mouth of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Republcians elected to national office?

 

[bripat9643]

Do you deny the Red Baiting which has been on-going since President Obama recieved the nominaitoin? Calls of "Socialist" and "Marxist" and "Commie" not only from the intellectually challenged who frequent this MB, but from the mouth of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Republcians elected to national office?

So calling someone a Marxist is "racism?" And opposing the left-wing policies of a Marxist president is racist?

Who knew?

 

[Wry Catcher]

Do you deny the Red Baiting which has been on-going since President Obama recieved the nominaitoin? Calls of "Socialist" and "Marxist" and "Commie" not only from the intellectually challenged who frequent this MB, but from the mouth of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Republcians elected to national office?

So calling someone a Marxist is "racism?" And opposing the left-wing policies of a Marxist president is racist?

Who knew?

No genius, calling someone a "Marxist" is Red Baiting.