November, 2010

[RetiredGySgt]

Same campaign Dems ran on in 06 and 08: We're not the other guys!

But then again Dems lied about everything they said they would do (fiscal discipline, lower gas prices, close Gitmo, end the wars and so on and so on and scoobie doobie doobie...)

Lied? Sure CF, whatever you want to believe. Don't let the political realities of governance get in the way of what you WANT to believe.

Obama and the Dems have lied consistently since assuming power. The dems in Congress started lying in 2006 and Obama started in 2008. You know it, more importantly most of the US Voting public KNOW it.

 

[Wry Catcher]

Same campaign Dems ran on in 06 and 08: We're not the other guys!

But then again Dems lied about everything they said they would do (fiscal discipline, lower gas prices, close Gitmo, end the wars and so on and so on and scoobie doobie doobie...)

Lied? Sure CF, whatever you want to believe. Don't let the political realities of governance get in the way of what you WANT to believe.

Obama and the Dems have lied consistently since assuming power. The dems in Congress started lying in 2006 and Obama started in 2008. You know it, more importantly most of the US Voting public KNOW it.

No, I don't know it. But as I suggested to crazy frank, believe what you want. I wonder, do you still believe we invaded and occupied Iraq because of WMD's?
That was and is a lie, not a result of the political reality faced by Obama and the D's since November 2006.

 

[PatekPhilippe]

Lied? Sure CF, whatever you want to believe. Don't let the political realities of governance get in the way of what you WANT to believe.

Obama and the Dems have lied consistently since assuming power. The dems in Congress started lying in 2006 and Obama started in 2008. You know it, more importantly most of the US Voting public KNOW it.

No, I don't know it. But as I suggested to crazy frank, believe what you want. I wonder, do you still believe we invaded and occupied Iraq because of WMD's?
That was and is a lie, not a result of the political reality faced by Obama and the D's since November 2006.

The funny thing is that most democrats would have disagreed with this statement in 2002 when they passed the Iraq use of Force Resolution that authorized Bush to go to war. Then they still fund that war to this day....Hmmmmmmm....I say hypocrite.

 

[toomuchtime_]

So, what will the Republican Party propose in their effort to gain a majority in the Congress come November?
Of course they will oppose gays, gun control, abortion and taxes, but, what else?

If I were writing the national platform, they would campaign to keep the Dem's health insurance takeover from causing health insurance premiums to skyrocket, to keep it from causing the deficit from exploding and to keep Obama and Pelosi from raiding the Medicare trust fund to pay for their ill conceived takeover of the US health care system. They would campaign against coercing responsible, tax paying citizens who would rather pay for their own medical expenses into spending thousands of dollars a year to buy health insurance they neither want nor need or face fines or imprisonment, in effect, from criminalizing self reliance and personal responsibility.

In place of the Obama-Pelosi plan for disaster they would propose federal assistance to the states to develop and implement their own plans to increase affordable access to health care and to slow the increase in health care costs.

They would campaign in support of encouraging oil exploration on shore and off shore and the building of more clean coal plants while at the same time supporting research to control pollution and develop alternative energy sources in order to bring energy costs down and secure America's energy independence while behaving in an environmentally and economically responsible way.

They would offer federal assistance to job seekers in the form of easily accessible information about job availability locally and elsewhere for those who are willing to relocate and expedited financial assistance for those who enter training for jobs for which there are shortages of trained workers and who are willing to relocate for employment if necessary.

They would campaign against earmarks and against amendments to bills that are unrelated to the core issues of the bill. Want to build a bridge in your county? Propose a separate bill that will stand or fall on its own merits or pay for it with state funds.

To help spur recovery from the recession and thereby help bring down the deficit, set up a program under which the Treasury would make direct loans to credit worthy businesses and consumers who had been turned down by private financial institutions and have the program administered by these financial institutions according to rules established by the Treasury.

There are, of course, additional national and homeland security issues and foreign policy issues, but this election will be mainly about domestic issues.

 

[Si modo]

Winning platform for the GOP: "We're not Democrats"

 

[toomuchtime_]

Winning platform for the GOP: "We're not Democrats"

Of course, they will be running against a lot of Democrats who will be saying, "We're not Obamacrats."

 

[NYcarbineer]

The Republicans will do what they normally do, campaign on some vague, platitudinous mush that they'll dress up with a bunch of meaningless references to Ronald Reagan,

and then,

even if they win, they'll pretty much follow through on none of it, except perhaps, if they can, they'll cut taxes some more, with no attendant reduction in government spending, and drive us even deeper in debt.

 

[Si modo]

The Democrats will do what they normally do, campaign on some vague, platitudinous mush that they'll dress up with a bunch of meaningless references to JFK/Clinton/whoever,

and then,

even if they win, they'll pretty much follow through on none of it, except perhaps, if they can, they'll cut taxes some more, with no attendant reduction in government spending, and drive us even deeper in debt.




Same shit, different election.

 

[GilbertArizona]

The Republicans will do what they normally do, campaign on some vague, platitudinous mush that they'll dress up with a bunch of meaningless references to Ronald Reagan,

and then,

even if they win, they'll pretty much follow through on none of it, except perhaps, if they can, they'll cut taxes some more, with no attendant reduction in government spending, and drive us even deeper in debt.

I'll disagree, as long as there is a Democrat in the White House the GOP will stick to conservative ideals. Only when they're enpowered will that power corrupt those ideals, as it did when they held both the Presidency and Congress.

 

[boedicca]

Winning platform for the GOP: "We're not Democrats"

It's going to take more than that.

The GOP needs to articulate a set of Fiscally Conservative policies to reduce spending, deficits, and debt - and to reform the looming insolvency of entitlement programs.

 

[Avatar4321]

Lower taxes, cut spending, increase jobs in the private sector.

 

[toomuchtime_]

Winning platform for the GOP: "We're not Democrats"

It's going to take more than that.

The GOP needs to articulate a set of Fiscally Conservative policies to reduce spending, deficits, and debt - and to reform the looming insolvency of entitlement programs.

Maybe even more than that. They need to campaign on an affirmative program to stimulate the economy and create jobs - perhaps by loosening credit - which will create new tax revenues to lower the deficit while at the same time controlling spending, and they need to campaign on promises to keep the Obama-Pelosi health care takeover from forcing insurance premiums and the deficit to increase and to prevent the Dems from raiding the Medicare trust fund.

The only ways to save Medicare and SS from bankruptcy in their present forms is to raise taxes or raise the retirement age, and the Republicans probably don't want to talk about either during the campaign.

 

[mudwhistle]

Winning platform for the GOP: "We're not Democrats"

It's going to take more than that.

The GOP needs to articulate a set of Fiscally Conservative policies to reduce spending, deficits, and debt - and to reform the looming insolvency of entitlement programs.

That's what they've been saying....you're just not listening.

 

[mudwhistle]

Winning platform for the GOP: "We're not Democrats"

It's going to take more than that.

The GOP needs to articulate a set of Fiscally Conservative policies to reduce spending, deficits, and debt - and to reform the looming insolvency of entitlement programs.

Maybe even more than that. They need to campaign on an affirmative program to stimulate the economy and create jobs - perhaps by loosening credit - which will create new tax revenues to lower the deficit while at the same time controlling spending, and they need to campaign on promises to keep the Obama-Pelosi health care takeover from forcing insurance premiums and the deficit to increase and to prevent the Dems from raiding the Medicare trust fund.

The only ways to save Medicare and SS from bankruptcy in their present forms is to raise taxes or raise the retirement age, and the Republicans probably don't want to talk about either during the campaign.

Can't raise taxes in the middle of a recession.

The best way to strengthen the economy is eliminate the Capital Gains tax.

 

[toomuchtime_]

It's going to take more than that.

The GOP needs to articulate a set of Fiscally Conservative policies to reduce spending, deficits, and debt - and to reform the looming insolvency of entitlement programs.

Maybe even more than that. They need to campaign on an affirmative program to stimulate the economy and create jobs - perhaps by loosening credit - which will create new tax revenues to lower the deficit while at the same time controlling spending, and they need to campaign on promises to keep the Obama-Pelosi health care takeover from forcing insurance premiums and the deficit to increase and to prevent the Dems from raiding the Medicare trust fund.

The only ways to save Medicare and SS from bankruptcy in their present forms is to raise taxes or raise the retirement age, and the Republicans probably don't want to talk about either during the campaign.

Can't raise taxes in the middle of a recession.

The best way to strengthen the economy is eliminate the Capital Gains tax.

Longer term, perhaps, but in order to speed our recovery from the recession, we should attempt to provide easier access to credit for credit worthy businesses and consumers.

 

[The Rabbi]

The first thing they should run on is "we hear you". The Dems have governed this country like Soviet Commisars. Everything they promised from '06 on was a lie. And people know that.
Their platform needs to be:
We work for you, not vice versa.
It's your money, not ours.
First do no harm.

Fiscal restraint. Strong foreign policy. Scaling back or eliminating absurd gov't programs. No funding for Obamacare.
All of these are winners.
Remember, spending bills must originate in the House, which has the power of the purse. Time to start using it.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Lower taxes, cut spending, increase jobs in the private sector.

Congress can not increase jobs in the private sector except by lessening restrictive and expensive legislation on Businesses and lowering taxes.

 

[WillowTree]

Just another San Francisco wuss. Shithole of a city if there ever was one.

 

[WillowTree]

Just another San Francisco wuss. Shithole of a city if there ever was one.

You ever been there, cupcake?

yep, and he's right.. Sf has pelosi and newsome, not much more information needed.. oh and they refused in deporting criminal illegals resulting in the gunning down of an entire family on the streets of sf,, while newsome got married and went on his honeymoon, the widow buried her husband and two sons,, shithole of hell.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Winning platform for the GOP: "We're not Democrats"

It's going to take more than that.

The GOP needs to articulate a set of Fiscally Conservative policies to reduce spending, deficits, and debt - and to reform the looming insolvency of entitlement programs.

I don't know they do that after they demagogued the so-called Medicare cuts in the healthcare debate as if they'd been anointed the supreme protectors of Medicare forever.