“Did the Cronkite School honor Bob Costas as a sports caster or political commentator? The school should be embarrassed about his injecting his political opinions into sports.”
“If the hundreds of millions or closer to billions of dollars given to campaigns and super PACs would have been spent on improving the needs of this society instead of power grabs, the GOP may have fared better after the election. Now, when the Bush tax cuts expire, they will still be around for years, but known as the GOP epitaph.”
“The Bush tax cuts have to go. The greedy covet them as though they were a golden calf. The middle class embraced them for years as a gift but now see them as a Trojan horse that has breached the walls of our financial security.”
“Obama’s attempt at an additional power grab, unilateral ability to increase the debt ceiling, is not only unconstitutional, but after watching Morsi’s attempt at a power grab in Egypt, it’s perhaps a little unwise.”
“The federal government should pass a 90 percent tax on all lottery winners. It would help reduce the budget shortfall and the winners would still be ahead of their $1 or $2 investment.”
“Raising taxes on those that have the resources to hire people, invest in new businesses and grow their own businesses is like the pioneer that eats his seed corn. He will not have anything to grow next year. Obama intends to and is demanding to prevent the economic growth of our country by taking our seed capital so there’s little or nothing for next year. And he’ll get it done. His programs are set to make the 1930s look like the good times were here again and we will all be dependent on government control and regualtions. Depression by order.”
“The Republicans claiming that the president’s plan on fixing the budget issues isn’t serious need to remember that the American people are serious and they voted for the president’s plan, not the GOP plan.”
“Now let me get this straight. We have marijuana being sold in the states but federal law declares that it is illegal to sell marijuana for any reason. Obama has given green cards to illegal aliens up to age 30 but federal law declares that all aliens who have entered the U.S. illegally are to be deported. What the heck is going on? If we are not a nation of laws, then let’s save billions and billions of dollars and close all the courts and disband all law enforcement agencies and get rid of lawyers.”
“To the Venter who is a ‘vocal critic of the light rail’ but is now proudly ‘a cheerleader for the Metro,’ did you happen to witness all the slugs who copped a free ride on the system? I’ve watched many non-payers aboard who watched their arrivals at successive stations to detect police (who should never be enlisted to write tickets — let Metro Light Rail do its own policing) and just deboard to keep from getting caught. They merely climb on the next car for free. According to published Metro Light Rail accounts, the honest riders pay for only one-fourth of the cost of transportation, the taxpayers pay through the nose for the rest, including the freeloaders and sandbaggers who scam the system big-time.”
truth posted at 2:16 pm on Sun, Dec 9, 2012.
Republicans: We got shellacked in the November election because too many high- profile conservatives sounded like "an aging, white, bitter , and angry rump of the electorate," full of bile and contempt. The talk show host and conservative hero Rush Limbaugh called law student Sandra Fluke a "s##t" who wanted "to be paid to have sex," because she adovacated for subsidized birth control. Ann Coulter insisted on using the term "raghead" for Muslems. Opponents of gay marriage likened homosexuality to bestiality, while Senate candidate Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock "confirmed every wavering women's suspicion of pro-life conservatives" when they spoke dismissively about rape victims. Republicans "must choose." Do they want to ever win the votes of young people, women, and minorities? Or will they continue to serve as Limbaugh's "ditto heads," guffawing when he palys a song called "Barack the Magic Negro"? TheAtlantic.com
truth posted at 2:32 pm on Sun, Dec 9, 2012.
Filibuster Reform: Originally used only as a last resort, the filibuster once required "nonstop speechifying" on the Senate floor to block a vote. But nowadays, all the minority party has to do is file a "hold." And the Republican Party has used this locking tactic unprecedented 386 times since 2007, requiring the Democrats to amass a 60-vote super-majority to end filibusters on virtually every bill and nomination. Just 2.8% of all bills introduced in this Congress have passed, a "record low in modern times"' This kind of obstructionism is not that the Founders envisioned
The Los Angeles Times
Americans are moving overseas to find work. Some 6.3 million U.S citizens. are now studying or working abroad, the highest number ever recorded.
The Washington Post
Taking Politics to seriously, after a Kentucky high school teacher wrote on the blackboard of her psychology class, "You can't be a Democrat and go to heaven.
bubba posted at 2:50 pm on Sun, Dec 9, 2012.
Venter #6 says: "Raising taxes on those that have the resources to hire people, invest in new businesses and grow their own businesses is like the pioneer that eats his seed corn."........That farmer doesn't have any plans on planting his "seed corn". He's stashed it away in Cayman silos to consume by himself. It's enough to last him and his family for 10 generations or more. This "seed corn" was harvested from middle class and will likely never make it back into this economy again.
Accuracy posted at 4:15 pm on Sun, Dec 9, 2012.
Venters, as it relates to the tax issue….
President Obama is making the panic about the “fiscal cliff” deal his threat to Republicans – with Obama’s tax increase loom; an enormous, unprecedented tax increase that will fall on American taxpayers starting on January 1, 2013.
Incomes up to $8,700 from 10% to 15%, incomes $85,651 to $178,650 from 33% to 36%, and incomes $388,351 or more will increase up from 35% to 39.6%. Taxes on dividends could go from 15% to 43%.
President Obama's insistence over higher taxes – and that the tax cuts for the wealthiest 2% be allowed to expire. Democrats, you elected him.
DonMey posted at 10:05 am on Mon, Dec 10, 2012.
Vent#2 - You do realize Obama raised MORE money than Romney, right? So why are you lamenting the GOP and giving Obama a pass? (we all know the answer)
larry who cares posted at 8:28 pm on Mon, Dec 10, 2012.
To the person who suggests the Government tax lottery winners 90% on their winnings, I say a better idea would be to tax this fellow 90% on his income tax for such a idiotic statement. Doesn't he/she yet know that all lottery monies come from private sources...and that the Government does not need to keep taxing its citizens to death, because the Government is a wasteful spender and is too stupid to cut expenditures and balance our national debt. Wake up friend!
Arizona Willie posted at 7:56 am on Tue, Dec 11, 2012.
larry who cares --- you are laboring under a misconception.
GOVERNMENT doesn't spend one thin dime.
CONGRESSMEN spend the money.
Yep, your beloved conservative right wing Congressmen are the guilty parties because they spent 8 years during the Bush administration BORROWING AND SPENDING all the while preaching fiscal restraint -- to everyone but themselves.
Republican politicians love to label Democrats as TAX AND SPEND -- but at least that way the bills get paid and you don't build up a huge national debt that is an albatross around the neck of the economy.
BORROWING AND SPENDING and refusing to pay taxes to pay the bills is far far worse.
PatrioticPerson posted at 11:05 am on Tue, Dec 11, 2012.
AZ Willie - Congressmen are the government. The voters put them there. The National Debt has been growing for 53 years in a row. That is both Democrat and Republican.
smartvoter posted at 12:20 pm on Tue, Dec 11, 2012.
AZ WILLIE -- Wrong again, the democrats were in control, remember Nancy Pelosi you know the speaker of the HOUSE. She got there because the dems had the majority.
You can only blame Bush for singing all the spending bills that the Dems put forth not the Republicans.
Now that I'm thinking about it wasn't it Obama that said it was unpatriotic/unamerican to take out the credit card of China and spend more money.Blameing Bush. And ever since Obama was elected all he has done is use the credit card of China.
That wonderful stimulus package worked well didn't it. Obama gave hundreds of millions of dollars to these so called green companies just so they could go bankrupt and now China coming in and buying those companies.
That Obama is one smart cookie. Maybe better put him back in the oven for a while because he's half baked. Not only do we have to pay back China for the loan but they now own the co. we borrowed the money to build. Real smart!!!
Arizona Willie posted at 2:28 pm on Tue, Dec 11, 2012.
PatrioticPerson and smartvoter --- I did not get into parties.
I said Government doesn't spend a dime because people are always talking about the ephemeral " government " but our government is divided into 3 branches remember?
The Judicial System branch has not spent our nation into debt.
The Executive branch has indeed initiated spending but most of it was APPROVED BY CONGRESS.
Congress is the branch that actually spends the money. If I remember correctly all spending bills originate in the House. Either from proposals ( legislation ) by a Congressperson or at the request of the President.
People we elect over and over again despite the fact they have voted for these spending bills and included sweetheart deals for various corporations and wealthy individuals who have greased their palms with " campaign contributions ".
It is hardly correct to rage about out of control spending when you voted the person doing the spending into office time after time.
Congressmen of BOTH parties are guilty. This is not a partisan issue.
truth posted at 3:30 pm on Wed, Dec 12, 2012.
smartvoter, when Bush was president, under his first 6 years the federal government was under the control of the republican party ony in the last 2 years congress was under the democrats control.
PatrioticPerson posted at 5:08 pm on Wed, Dec 12, 2012.
AZ Willie,
Thanks for the history lesson on the branches of government.
I'm glad you agree with me that Congress is elected by the voters and that both parties are guilty. And I'm sure you will agree with me that voting the same people into office with the expectation that things will change is the definition of "insanity".
Masterrogue666 posted at 7:54 pm on Wed, Dec 12, 2012.
Bob Costas is a moron! Did human start killing other humans BECAUSE the gun was invented? Gee, Bob, let's outlaw: Knifes, baseball bats, hands, cars, and anything/everything else that has be used to kill another human being. Only then will we be safe! YEA RIGHT!
smartvoter posted at 4:35 pm on Thu, Dec 13, 2012.
Truth-- thanks for the stats.
I didn't intend for anyone to think the Dems were in control for all 8 years.
I guess what I should have said is the debt and the economy didn't start going up & down respectivly, until after the dems took control of the purse strings, but we can blame Bush for signing the pork bills. A lot of us conservitives were not happy with him for not vetoing some of them.