If the Senate gets a Republican Climate Denier as he would be worst than the un-covicted felon Fast & Furious witch hunter, Darrel Issa.

Here's what the non partisan Congressional Research Service has to say about cutting taxes to increase income. (Summary below)

Throughout the late-1940s and 1950s, the top marginal tax rate was typically above 90%; today it is 35%. Additionally, the top capital gains tax rate was 25% in the 1950s and 1960s, 35% in the 1970s; today it is 15%. The real GDP growth rate averaged 4.2% and real per capita GDP increased annually by 2.4% in the 1950s. In the 2000s, the average real GDP growth rate was 1.7% and real per capita GDP increased annually by less than 1%.

There is not conclusive evidence, however, to substantiate a clear relationship between the 65-year steady reduction in the top tax rates and economic growth. Analysis of such data suggests the reduction in the top tax rates have had little association with saving, investment, or productivity growth. However, the top tax rate reductions appear to be associated with the increasing concentration of income at the top of the income distribution.

The share of income accruing to the top 0.1% of U.S. families increased from 4.2% in 1945 to 12.3% by 2007 before falling to 9.2% due to the 2007-2009 recession. The evidence does not suggest necessarily a relationship between tax policy with regard to the top tax rates and the size of the economic pie, but there may be a relationship to how the economic pie is sliced.

Since Romney's whole platform is refuted by these findings, Senator Mitch McConnell (R) blocked the release of the Report. It surfaced again in the Nov 1 2012 New York Times.

Ed, I read the report, too... reveals trickle down economics as nothing more that rhetoric. there's not a shred of evidence that supports it.

trickle-down economics is really 'market tyranny' - the rich always fare better when the market crashes (in Great Depression and great Recession). But the poor who didn't do anything wrong have alway got stuck in poverty created by corporations and their Republican minions.

So good ole Mitt and his supporters, what will they do after they lose the election? Will they have a Come to Jeebus Meeting about their failed platform?

Maybe how giving a fertilized egg the same full rights as a living breathing woman so that all abortion and some contraception is illegal is a bit too fringe?

Maybe Republicans suppressing the non-partisan CRS Report showing tax breaks for the rich DON'T help the economy, and in fact only creates increased inequity? ED-2874315 -- Thank you for providing more details.

Maybe how the Romney/Ryan ticket is the WORST ticket ever in regard to foreign policy credentials? Mitt, you knew you wanted to be POTUS -- You should have served in the military, you should have studied more topics than ways to rip off other people including GM.

Maybe how the economy has managed to improve despite nonstop Republican obstructionism? Oh, you can just see McConnell and Boehner's butts burning as the economy continues to improve.

FORWARD - Obama/Biden - Four More Years!

Here's the address for the full report.

http://dbcc.senate.gov/files/documents/CRStaxesandtheeconomy%20top%20rates.pdf

Updated for Noon EST on Saturday, November 3, 2012:

*** Spoiler alert: The overnight numbers from both RCP and FiveThirtyEight broke quickly, repeatedly, and decidedly in President Obama's favor.

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Real Clear Politics (RCP) consistently has been the "go-to" source for accurate averaged daily polling data for both FOXNEWS and NBCNEWS. With only 60 hours left to go in the 2012 presidential campaign, RCP continues to report that Obama holds increasing leads in eight of their 11 toss-up states while Romney clings to smaller and more static leads in the remaining three.

In descending order of 'percentage of lead' in favor of Obama, followed in ascending order of 'percentage of lead' in favor of Romney, here are the published averaged numbers from RCP as of Noon EST together with the most recent FiveThirtyEight election night probabilities of victory for either candidate:

In WISCONSIN, with 10 electoral votes, Obama's lead has risen to 5.4%, up from 5.0% on Friday. FiveThirtyEight currently gives Obama a 94.2% chance of victory here, up by 0.9% overnight and by an astounding 8.5% since Tuesday.

In PENNSYLVANIA, with 20 electoral votes, Obama's lead is holding at 4.6%. FiveThirtyEight currently gives Obama a 96.6% chance of victory here, up by 0.5% overnight and by a respectable 2.5% since Tuesday.

In MICHIGAN, with 16 electoral votes, Obama's lead has risen to 3.5%, up from 3.0% on Friday. FiveThirtyEight currently gives Obama a 98.6% chance of victory here, up 0.2% overnight and by 0.5% since Tuesday.

In OHIO, with 18 electoral votes, Obama's lead has risen to 2.9%, up from 2.6% on Friday. FiveThirtyEight currently gives Obama an 83.8% chance of victory here, up by 3.1% overnight and by an astonishing 10.5% since Tuesday.

In NEVADA, with 6 electoral votes, Obama's lead has risen to 2.7%, up from 2.4% on Friday. FiveThirtyEight currently gives Obama an 88.7% chance of victory here, up by 1.5% overnight and by an astounding 9.0% since Tuesday.

In IOWA, with 6 electoral votes, Obama's lead has risen to 2.0%, up from 1.3% on Friday. FiveThirtyEight currently gives Obama an 80.7% chance of victory here, down interestingly by 0.9% overnight but up overall by a substantial 6.8% since Tuesday.

In NEW HAMPSHIRE, with 4 electoral votes, Obama's lead has risen to 1.8%, up from 1.3% on Friday. FiveThirtyEight currently gives Obama an 80.4% chance of victory here, up by 1.7% overnight and by an astonishing 10.1% since Tuesday.

In COLORADO, with 9 electoral votes, Obama's lead has risen to 1.0%, up from 0.9% on Friday. FiveThirtyEight currently gives Obama a 67.9% chance of victory here, up by 2.2% overnight and by an astronomical 12.5% since Tuesday.

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In VIRGINIA, with 13 electoral votes, Romney's lead has fallen to 0.3%, down from 0.5% on Friday. Interestingly, FiveThirtyEight increased Obama's chance of victory here (and not Romney's) to 67.0%, up 2.2% overnight. Nate Silver must be seeing something...

In FLORIDA, with 29 electoral votes, Romney's lead has risen to 1.4%, up from 1.2% on Friday. FiveThirtyEight currently gives Romney a 54.8% chance of victory here, but this margin is actually down a stunning 9.9% from Tuesday.

It should be noted that RCP's average in Florida does appear to have been hyper-inflated by two recent outlier findings in favor of Romney, the first a 6.0% margin today from the unapologetically right-leaning Mason-Dixon Group with localized results for only the two cities of Tampa Bay (site of the 2012 RNC) and Miami (Marco Rubio stronghold), the second a 3.0% margin from Gravis Marketing, a polling firm funded in large part by BAIN Capital, and an appreciably older finding by The Sunshine State News, an ultra-conservative website/blog which had Romney leading by 5.0% on October 24. Minus the influencesof these extreme outliers, Romney's true lead is likely well under 1.0% and quite possibly closer to that of dead heat. Ah, Florida....

In NORTH CAROLINA, with 15 electoral votes, Romney's lead is holding at 3.8%. FiveThirtyEight currently gives Romney a 79.6% chance of victory here, down 0.3% overnight.

So...

In order for Obama to win re-election the least complex route would be through maintaining his current lead in the five toss-up states where his existing margins are widest (Wisconsin at 5.4%, Pennsylvania at 4.6%, Michigan at 3.5%, Ohio at 2.9%, and Nevada at 2.7%). Doing so would bring his electoral vote total on Election Day to 271. In this scenario, Obama could still surpass 270 while failing to hold Iowa, New Hampshire, and Colorado.

However, should Obama fail to hold the strategic prize of Ohio, the loss could effectively be neutralized by any of the following combination of wins from states where FiveThirtyEight is currently forecasting Obama victories:

Path #1: Obama loses Ohio but holds the remaining three states where he presently leads, New Hampshire, Iowa, and Colorado resulting in 272 electoral votes.

Path #2: Obama loses Ohio but steals Virginia while also taking only one state from among New Hampshire, Iowa, or Colorado resulting in 270, 272, or 275 electoral votes, respectively.

Interestingly, with Romney's lead having diminished significantly in Florida over the past two weeks and with Hurricane Sandy forcefully highlighting the stark contrast between the candidates regarding the value and necessity if not the mere existence of FEMA in a state which has perhaps the greatest dependence on federal storm relief efforts in the nation, a 3rd path has now emerged which could provide for some interesting election night television:

Path #3: Obama comes from behind at the wire to win Florida. This scenario would require only that Obama win the three states in which his present leads are widest (Wisconsin at 5.4%, Pennsylvania at 4.6%, and Michigan at 3.5%), resulting in 276 electoral votes.

For Romney to unseat Obama, he not only would have to hold the three states in which he presently leads, Florida, North Carolina, and Virginia bringing his electoral vote total to 248, but also steal victories in both Colorado where Obama's lead rose Friday to 1.0% and in either Ohio (where Obama's lead today is 2.9%, up from Friday's 2.6%) or in Pennsylvania (where Romney's campaign suggested earlier this week that Obama's significant lead of 4.6% may be vulnerable). By so doing, Romney's electoral vote total would reach 275 or 277, respectively.

Romney's newfound "Pennsylvania Strategy," however, may be a highly-marketed feint designed to counter Obama's anticipated re-allocation of campaign resources to a quantifiably softening political landscape in Florida.

In any event, should Romney fail to steal either Ohio or Pennsylvania he could overcome this shortfall by capturing the four other states in which Obama's current leads are smallest (Colorado at 1.0%, New Hampshire at 1.8%, Iowa at 2.0%, and Nevada at 2.7%) resulting in an electoral vote total of 273.

FiveThirtyEight this morning estimates the chance of Election Day victory for each candidate as follows: Obama 83.7% (up markedly from Friday morning's 80.9%) and Romney 16.3% (down markedly from Friday's 19.1%).

FiveThirtyEight now also projects that on Election Day the final electoral tally will be as follows: Obama 305 (up 6 from Wednesday's 299) and Romney 233 (down 6 from Wednesday's 239).

Lastly, although it makes no difference in terms of the final result which can only be determined by the Electoral College, FiveThirtyEight currently predicts a national popular vote distribution on Election Day as follows: Obama 50.6% (up from Thursday's 50.4%) and Romney 48.4% (down from Thursday's 48.6%).

With only 60 hours of campaigning left, and with Friday's published October jobs report playing to predictably mixed reviews (economy adding more jobs than expected; unemployment rate ticking up one tenth of one percent to 7.9%), holdout voters may now be left to nothing more than the proverbial 'feel in their gut' as Tuesday approaches.

Mow the yard and stock up on popcorn today, people....Tuesday night is gonna be a whirlwind!

RCP (Average of polls) for the Senate as of 11/03/2012
**Casey in PA moves back to Tossup @ +5
Tossup: [Tied in 2] + [D leading in 7] + [R leading in 3] = 12
Dem.: Not-up/Safe 37 + Likely 7 = 44 + Lean 1 = 45
Rpub: Not-up/Safe 42 + Likely 0 = 42 + Lean 1 = 43

Let's make sure that Mitt only 47 votes. 47% of what he says are lies He was 47th in creation jobs and the Democrats will gain 47 seats in the House of Representatives.

Goodbye MITT see you again in 2047.

Ed, I borrowed your regarding the Congressional Research, hope you don't mind? Want to upset some folks that are ranting and gnashing their two good teeth they have left over the polls and still touting Romney's economic plans as the best thing since sliced cheese.

Obama 2012

This is what happens when you let the Tea Klux Klan take over your party. Once upon a time there were moderate, SANE Republicans, but no more. Now we have a competition to see who can nominate the most extreme, right-wing nutjob. I feel like I'm watching an episode of the Twilight Zone everytime I see Republican candidates appear on television.

Romney is toast. The GOP is secretly admitting defeat.

Mitt is just going through the motions before he shuffles off the stage.

Obama 2012

Here's an excerpt to remind voters before they go to the polls -- Be on the right side of history, and reject Mitt Romney and the Republican Party all the way down the ballot:

Perhaps it seems obvious that if you care about your family's future, you must also care about the planet your children will inhabit.

Yet critics argue that concept was lost on the audience at the Republican National ConventionThursday night, as they cheered GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney as he declared:"President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans," pausing for the audience to laugh at the absurdity, "and to heal the planet. My promise ... is to help you and your family."

Some defended Romney's statements as a simple jab at President Obama's exaggerated rhetoric, which Romney closely paraphrased.

Back in 2008, Obama remarked in his nomination acceptance speech that if willing to work for it, "We will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment ... when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal."

Yet many were infuriated Thursday night by Romney's seeming indifference to -- or mocking of -- efforts to combat climate change and alleviate growing pressure on the planet's resources.

Critics took to Twitter to voice their outrage, among them former State Department spokesman Philip J. Crowley, who tweeted: "So I guess we won't worry about #climate change in a #Romney administration." Climate scientist Michael Mann tweeted, "Romney's cynical denial of climate change is the real threat to our families, to our children & grandchildren's future."

On air, MSNBC's Chris Matthews charged, "How narrow-minded, how small and insular and piggish can you be about this country, to say, 'We don't care about the planet we live on,' which is getting hotter, climate change has manifested all over the world ... and he's mocking it."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/31/mitt-romney-obama-climate-change_n_1846440.html

To the rightwing and Flat Earth Society -- Once again you are on the wrong side of history. Sandy will reinsert climate change, science, innovation, and the importance of government into our politics.

@Pigotry - I just realized that Mourtand is also running for his congressional seat...as is Joe Walsh. I highly suspect that Akin as well. Would be so great if they were completely blown out of the political spectrum.

Skyparrot,

You're welcome. Uncommitted voters need to know.

Its tragic how the Republican's true policies were discovered by voters.

GOP candidates Richard Mourdock in Indiana and Rep. Todd Akin in Missouri inflicted what may be politically fatal wounds to their campaigns

Yeah. They were honest about themselves and the Republican Platform: quite simply, they hate women, they hate anyone who doesn't have a BuyBull crammed up their butt, and they hate most Americans.

This isn't a surprise to anyone!

DB Akron: Warning. If the polls are skewed as many say, The Republicans will not only win the White House, but also the Senate and increase their numbers in the House

Yeah -- and if your Mom could fart out her nose, you'd finally smell good in comparison.

But, like what you're yapping about, it just ain't gonna happen.

Look at it this way, DB-A. Mitt can always go back to Smallpenis, Wyoming, and run for Mayor, and he could help you get a seat on the City Council. And the two of you could sit around together and hate on people all day long. You could probably both be President and VP of the Wyoming Flat Earth Society together!

Geez!! Think of all the fun you two could have together!!

Warning. If the polls are skewed as many say, The Republicans will not only win the White House, but also the Senate and increase their numbers in the House

...and if the polls are reasonably accurate, as many more say, then Obama will gain a strong electoral victory, and the Democrats will retain control of the Senate.

Election Projection shows Obama winning the President right now, but he also has taken the time to eliminate the complained about "skew" in the polls.

Say what, DB Akron? Obama has eliminated the skewed polling results, and in the "unskewed" polls, Romney is in the lead?

Is that what you are saying?

How noble of Obama to correct the "skewage" [as long as we're inventing words, here's one more], and predict his own political demise.

...hmmm.

All satirical and rhetorical questions aside, my gut instinct tells me that Obama will win a narrow popular plurality, and a solid electoral victory. Also, I'm not bragging, buy my instincts accurately predicted the results of the last 4 presidential elections, even when I really didn't like what my gut feelings were telling me.

Four more years, baby!

Brown, Akin, and Mourdoch handed the DEMS three seats if not more.

Electing Republicans to the Senate insures continued gridlock. That sorry punk McConnell hasn't backed off his stance to destroy the Presidency - and if necessary - this country one inch. He has abused the filibuster beyond belief and his lockstep cronies will continue this destructive behavior.

Vote G.O.P. - Suicide by Republican

No...GOP will have no shot at taking senate,

Yes.

actually the DEMs have a chance of retaking the House

No they don't.

Faux Republicans are sticking shoes in their mouths and yes, they only have themselves to blame if they lose.

Of course, let's see....if Obama wins, the Senate is Democratic and the House Republican...expect more stupidity.

Democrats will make sure that the economy isn't the top priority.

Republicans will make sure the economy isn't the top priority.

It will be the biggest waste of money in history...oh wait...the bailout....

U will soon will be finding out, you tea bagger U. I hope we do abandon Israel, they are not our problem.

What is a stake if Obama is re-elected is, total disregardof the Constitution, total disregard for the military, effective disregard of either congress or senate, realignment of the supreme court, total abandonment of Israel, complete destruction of the U.S. economy. Everything you hear about his aid to the middle class is a lie, total lie and you reelect him and hell will be on this earth.

Yeah....right.....

What has the GOP done to help the economy and increase employment the past 4 years?

1. Birth control legislation/personhood

2. Tired worn-out attempts about the President's birth certificate/college transcripts

3. Extend the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy

4. Create a fictitious "war on religion" to stonewall Obama's Healthcare efforts

5. Destroy the unions by using overworked GOP catchphrases: Socialism, Marxism, Saul Alinsky

6. Destroy the environment by using the "job creation" smokescreen

7. Try to repeal Affordable Health Care so it doesn't cut into their insurance company cronies' profits

8. Punish women for being raped

9. Attempt to repeal the Dodd-Frank Act so Wall Street can steal from the American people again

10. Take away food stamps from the elderly and poor

11. Filibustering Obama more in the past 4 years, than all of the past 50 years combined

kip360 -- You forgot one thing that is at stake if Obama is re-elected: He will order all kittens and puppies to be crushed by a steam-roller.

U will soon will be finding out, you tea bagger U. I hope we do abandon Israel, they are not our problem.

Thats right....US taxpayers are giving israel $8.2 million a day...its time for israel to start paying its own bills...they can afford it.

I frankly can't see why anyone would want to vote for Obama unless they were collecting some kind of govt. service. Those who have to work for a living would not put up with the crap of him taking money from those who work hard and giving it to those who don't.

Why can't the President fix the economy? That's a good question. It's because he knows he can't and is just waiting out his term ( or terms).

If you vote for Obama be prepared to spend the next four years in huge debt with Washington dropping the ball on everything from the Benghazi incident to higher unemployment.

This is the GOP agenda of which they are so proud:

1. Tax Policy: Tax poor and working people but not the rich;

2. Wage Policy: Encourage wages in the U.S. to fall to third world levels;

3. Trade Policy: Pass trade laws that make it easy for companies to send jobs overseas;

4. Healthcare Policy: Pass laws that enable only insurance companies to control who gets health care (including seniors) and who doesn’t

5. Education Policy: Replace public education with out of pocket private schools and home schooling;

6. Infrastructure Policy: Refuse to invest in crumbling public infrastructure such as highways, bridges, and sewer systems;

7. Environmental Policy: Pass laws and weaken regulations that enable companies to pollute the environment;

8. Energy Policy: Pass laws that enable gas and oil production and prices to be controlled by a few large companies; Make sure that there is no longer any research or work on alternative energy sources; Keep defense spending high to protect non domestic oil production;

9. Civil Rights Policy: Repress rights for women and minorities and repress voting participation;

10. Social Policy: Divide the American people on cultural issues (religion, sexual orientation, gun rights, etc);

11. Political Method: Instill fear in the American public through manufactured crises and created "boogeymen". Then attack political opponents by claiming to be more "patriotic" and the better keeper of "American Values" than they.

12. Voter Suppression: making it more difficult if not impossible for literally millions of ELIGIBLE voters to cast their ballots, which is flagrant vote tampering and corruption.

Why do you support the GOP?

Remember!!!

Rasmussen…...was the same bunch that GUARANTEED a McCain win by 6 points only 3 days before the election and then "magically" switched their prediction to Obama AFTER the polls closed on the East Coast ON ELECTION NIGHT!!

LOLOLOLOLLLL!!!!!

This is what the republicons have done in the last 2 years. Gonna do a copy and paste, sorry.

In the over 400 days since Republicans took control of the House, the GOP hasn’t passed a single job creation bill, but has passed bills that would kill 7.4 million jobs.

House Democrats has proposed 31 different bills to create jobs since Republicans have taken over, and all of them have been defeated.

Here is a partial list of some of the job creation bills that the GOP has said no to (via: Democratic Leader Pelosi):

An American jobs effort to end government contracts rewarding corporations that ship American jobs overseas. [Vote 19]

A measure to discourage outsourcing by denying the bill’s pro-corporation election rules for companies that ship American jobs overseas and leveling the playing field for workers in union elections. [Vote 868]

A measure that places a priority on keeping jobs in America, protecting the authority of the National Labor Relations Board to order an employer to maintain or restore jobs in the U.S. that would be otherwise outsourced to a foreign country. [Vote 710]

Build America Bonds to Create Jobs Now Act – leveraging public dollars to strengthen the private sector, growing our economy by rebuilding America’s schools, hospitals, and transit projects, supported by American businesses, the construction industry, mayors and governors. [Vote 38, Vote 30, Vote 189]

American Jobs Matter Act – to give preference in federal contracts to U.S. manufacturers that create jobs here at home. [Vote 257]

National Manufacturing Strategy Act, to demand a clear plan to help manufacturers compete, invest in innovation, and put Americans back to work, which passed the House in 2010 with overwhelming bipartisan support. [Vote 279, Vote 721]

A measure to promote jobs and innovation at home, by prioritizing patent applications from entities that pledge to develop or manufacture their products and technologies in the United States. [Vote 490]

Advanced Vehicle Manufacturing Technology Act to help ensure the cars of the future are built here in the U.S., by investing in a broad range of near-term and long-term vehicle technologies to improve fuel efficiency, support domestic research and manufacturing, and lead to greater consumer choice of vehicle technologies and fuels. [Vote 310]

A measure to support American Manufacturers by giving priority to any company that uses materials made in America for the construction and renovation of school facilities. [Vote 693]

A measure to protect at least 10,000 American manufacturing jobs and provide disaster relief to families and business owners: approving bipartisan disaster aid passed by the Senate without slashing Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing loans that put people to work producing cleaner cars and investing in innovation. [Vote 715]

Currency Reform for Fair Trade Act to provide our government with effective tools to address unfair currency manipulation by countries like China, which could help create 1 million American manufacturing jobs by leveling the international playing field for American workers and businesses. [Vote 9, Vote 199, Vote 780, Vote 821, Vote 854] This bipartisan bill has 230 co-sponsors including 63 Republicans, yet the Republican leadership has blocked it. Democrats have launched a process to force consideration of the measure; that petition has 178 of the 218 signatures needed.

A measure to ensure that American materials, rather than those imported from abroad, are used in the construction of new or existing structures for coal ash storage. [Vote 792]

A Make It In America measure that prohibits the Coast Guard from purchasing textiles or apparel that are not grown, reprocessed, reused, or produced in the United States. [Vote 829]

A measure for middle class families, directing the Joint Committee on Deficit Reduction to eliminate subsidies for the five largest oil and gas companies and corporate jet owners, before gutting education initiatives that create jobs, spur growth, and invest in our future. [Vote 676]

A measure to protect jobs for returning veterans by preventing incentives for small businesses to hire returning veterans from being swept away by GOP deregulatory efforts. [Vote 879]

A measure to allow Congress to make job-creating investments, instead of automatically freezing funding for Pell Grants and education programs for students, job benefits for veterans and job training for all Americans, and life-saving health research. [Vote 31]

The Republicans refusal to create jobs is just one side of the story. John Boehner and company are also on a mission to reverse the course of the recovery and deepen the recession. House Democrats estimate that the GOP has killed 2 million jobs since they have taken over, and an analysis by Political Correction finds that the House GOP has tried to kill 7.4 million jobs in 400+ days. The House GOP’s ambitious plan would kill double the jobs in the Obama administration has created in the last 23 months by 2016.

One of the first acts of the Republican controlled House was to pass a bill to kill Obamacare. If this bill became law, it would kill 250,000-400,000 jobs a year. House Republicans passed a bill that would disband and defund the IRS, which would kill more than 107,000 jobs. The House passed the Cut, Cap and Balance Act which would kill 700,000 jobs. The House also passed a bill to 285,000 federal government jobs, but the biggest job killer of all is the Ryan Budget, which would kill 2-3 million jobs over 5 years.

The House Republicans claim that they have passed 27 bills that would create jobs, but are stalled in the Senate. However, a quick look at the list of “job creation” bills reveals that the legislation is nothing more than extreme budget cuts and an attack on all regulations, specifically environmental regulations. Interestingly, the House GOP also claims that their opposition to net neutrality will create jobs. There is not a single dollar spent in any of the Republican passed bills on direct job creation.

At the 300 day mark, House Republican had voted to kill 4.2 million jobs. If Republicans would have supported even part of the Democrats job creation agenda, millions of jobs would have been created. The American Jobs Act alone would have created an additional 1.9 million jobs and reduced unemployment by a full point. If the American Jobs Act would have become law, we could have anticipated an unemployment rate falling towards 7.3%, with no other economic growth included.

Despite their best efforts to prolong this recession the economy is recovering and growing again, but this list demonstrates that House Republicans are going to do everything in their power to derail our economic recovery before the presidential election in November.

If House Republicans continue on this path they’ll get their wish, but the jobs they kill will be their own.

(30) In 400+ Days The GOP Has Created 0 And Tried To Kill 7.4 Million Jobs | Digg Topnews

http://www.policymic.com/articles/17986/presidential-polls-2012-obama-will-ride-electoral-college-advantage-and-key-endorsements-to-victory-on-tuesday/268812

All anyone nrrds to know.

Mitt Romney talks about working together. Obama, on the other hand, told attendees at a campaign rally in Springfield, Ohio on Friday that “voting is the best revenge”. Since when is leadership of the country about REVENGE? What a hate-filled, angry and divisive president!

Watch Mitt Romney. See what he's actually saying. Don't let the malicious Democratic propaganda machine control your mind. Watch the unfiltered Mitt Romney and do your own thinking. You won't find a more decent American leader than Mitt Romney!

The entire GOP is a self-inflicted wound.

And, Steve - don't you remember Romney saying in the debate that we'd have to wait until after the election to see what's in his tax plan?

Not a wound I'm going to inflict on myself, thanks.

Gold Bars

Rasmussen…...was the same bunch that GUARANTEED a McCain win by 6 points only 3 days before the

WRONG!

Rassmussen showed Obama 6 points up the day before the election and 5 points up 8 days before the election!

You need to quit smoking some of those left win websites!

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/us/general_election_mccain_vs_obama-225.html#polls

AhadHaamSheni #1.36:

What a bunch of B.S.!!! After what Republicans have done to sabotage EVERYTHING Obama planned/tried to do during the past four years to get this country moving again? Do you REALLY think Repulsican Romney would try to work with Democrats? If you do, you're full of it. Obama has tried to work with Republicans. It hasn't been the other way around! Where the heck have you been these past few years??????????? AhadHaamSheni, I strongly suggest YOU not let the malicious Repulsican propaganda machine control YOUR mind.

Actually, it looks like it's way too late for you................what a shame.

db Akron - you don't really believe the numbers Rasmussen puts out, do you?

Or maybe you also believe that FOX puts out "news" and not "entertainment" (their statement to the contrary notwithstanding?).

Here you go:

From FiveThirtyEight.com:

This election cycle:

Rasmussen Reports, which has had Republican-leaning results in the past, does so again this year. However, the tendency is not very strong – a Republican lean of about 1.3 points.

If you are used to looking at Rasmussen Reports polls, your impression may be that their partisan lean is stronger than that. This is not wrong, actually. However, some of the difference results from the fact that Rasmussen is polling likely voters, while many other polling firms are polling registered voters.

And from 2010:

Every election cycle has its winners and losers: not just the among the candidates, but also the pollsters.

On Tuesday, polls conducted by the firm Rasmussen Reports — which released more than 100 surveys in the final three weeks of the campaign, including some commissioned under a subsidiary on behalf of Fox News — badly missed the margin in many states, and also exhibited a considerable bias toward Republican candidates.

Rasmussen’s polls — after a poor debut in 2000 in which they picked the wrong winner in 7 key states in that year’s Presidential race — nevertheless had performed quite strongly in in 2004 and 2006. And they were about average in 2008. But their polls were poor this year.

The discrepancies between Rasmussen Reports polls and those issued by other companies were apparent from virtually the first day that Barack Obama took office. Rasmussen showed Barack Obama’s disapproval rating at 36 percent, for instance, just a week after his inauguration, at a point when no other pollster had that figure higher than 20 percent.

Rasmussen Reports has rarely provided substantive responses to criticisms about its methodology. At one point, Scott Rasmussen, president of the company, suggested that the differences it showed were due to its use of a likely voter model. A FiveThirtyEight analysis, however, revealed that its bias was at least as strong in polls conducted among all adults, before any model of voting likelihood had been applied.

Some of the criticisms have focused on the fact that Mr. Rasmussen is himself a conservative — the same direction in which his polls have generally leaned — although he identifies as an independent rather than Republican. In our view, that is somewhat beside the point. What matters, rather, is that the methodological shortcuts that the firm takes may now be causing it to pay a price in terms of the reliability of its polling.

With the polls as they are today, there is no one predicting Democrat gains in the house. In the Senate the predictions vary from even to the loss of two. That only holds true if the current polls are accurate to the voter partisan mixes as used in the polls.

Here's the problem Rasmussen favors Republicans on average by 1 point. The Gallup historically favors Democrats by 1 point. The rest of the Polls that are being used for the most part lean democrat anywhere from 2 - 6 points. The current turnouts for the 2012 elections say this democratic favor could be between 8 & 12 points.

Can't believe the Republican tea party is fielding some wacko nit witts to the senate Mourdock and Akins need to be resting in senior retirement house not in the House. Sending those two to the House is a grave mistakes make their lives easier by sending them into a senior retirement place. where they can mumble jumble about rapewith each other.

And the one sided partisan bickering rises to a crescendo and the fact remains that most of you have ignored the lack of movement in the Congress. So President Obama may win and we lose again. Why because he has proven to the world one-upmanship is more important than actual leadership in his administration. Not one policy that reduces the deficit or debt. Not one policy that make Americans safer from the bold faced attacks on the Constitution. And no ability to reach across the aisle to those he has continually snubbed and kicked to the curb. You call that leadership then you deserve what you vote for.

If we get the same Congress we just had with the same President do you actually think things will improve? Then you are quite insane and you deserve what you vote for.

Four more years and the country will be unrecoverable period.

Next

I apologize for this lengthy post.

I believe I was a fairly bright child growing up in the early 60's attending what we now call middle-school and later high school. I remember getting cold chills down both my arms and entire torso when hearing the The Star-Spangled Banner or when reciting The Pledge of Allegiance(at times, I still do). My childhood thoughts and concerns were great with the very real threats of a nuclear WW3, Civil Rights racial riots and an ever escalating Vietnam war of that day.

Yet, I was absolutely fascinated by studying American history and recent world history starting with The American Revolution. The steadfast resolution, bravery and political compromise of 13 tiny colonies to stand as one against the mightiest empire in the world (of that day) must enthrall any young adventurist.

The American Civil War was a hard pill to swallow. The horrors of Americans turning guns on fellow Americans; fathers killing sons, sons killing fathers, brothers killing brothers depending on living in the north or south still seems unimaginable. Regardless of the issues, this was the darkest era of American history(no pun intended).

America's entrance into WW2 and subsequent victory was a source of great pride. I actually had uncles that served and survived that war. I somehow understood the participation of the empirical and religious fanatics of Japan. They were nuts. The good German people that allowed an insane Hitler and his Nazis to lead them into WW2 puzzled me for years. Youthful inquiries to my teachers and other adults left me with answers that didn't make a lot of sense. What could prompt good people to accept leadership of a madman?

I believe I have finally reached the proper conclusion. I could be wrong and I'm more than willing to stand corrected with reasonable debate. My latest quest for a reasonable and logical answer to a present dilemma is this; Why do millions of Americans consistently and willingly vote against their own self-interest? Is it a noble gesture to place the interest of the nation above their own well-being? I don't think so.

I'm old enough to trace this back to 1979 from memory. The Moral Majority started in 1976 by the Christian Right. By 1979, the Republican party embraced this concept and literally ran with it full steam. The Moral Majority represented the first attempt to strongly determine religious beliefs as the basis for future American policy and law. Republican President Ronald Reagan was elected on these principles.

If the Republican party was truly representative of the Moral Majority, where did that leave the rest of us? Did all of the Democrats and Independents suddenly become the immoral minority? What about we non-partisan voters that always voted for the best candidate regardless of his party affiliation. We became part of the immoral minority in Republican eyes unless we voted a straight Republican ticket.

I leave with you with these thoughts. Why did the good German people allow a madman to lead them into world war? Hitler taught them that the fair-haired, blue-eyed Germans were the superior race. Why did the south go to war with the north to fight an American civil war? The wealthy plantation owners taught the white southerners that whites were the superior race to black slaves. Why do millions of Americans vote against their own self-interests? Republicans taught them that only Republicans represent the superior Moral Majority.

All others are inferior and immoral minorities. Is it any wonder that our first black President that happens to be a Democrat is so hated by those on the right, despite his being an exemplary husband, father and leader of the free world?

With Bail out number 3 in full swing, and the banks getting more Free money, Obama is thinkking his odds of winning might just pay off. After all Americans are to stupid to look up stuff on there own and buy the main stream media hook line and sinker !

Benghazi and Youtubegate, Obama at the UN stump talking about our Freedom of speech needs limits so we don't offend ??

Fast and Furious , Obama at the stump talking with Mexico's President, saying out 2nd amendment rights need to be taken...

Obama 2012 Cradle to the Grave ! Give me your Money , Give me your Freedoms !

Help him finish taking what he started, Help him Finish America !

Republican righteous wingnut book thumpers are currently studying sharia muslims current policy for offering redemption to a woman's rapist if he marries his victim. Mitt Romney supports this legislation as it will revive multiple marriages in cases of serial rapings and falls more in line with his own religious beliefs..

If everybody who was eligible to vote actually voted, there would be no need for any of the argument and name calling. If every one voted the GOP (Greedy Old People) Party would very nearly cease to exist. The Tea Party is hastening it's demise with the right wing lunacy and illogical embracing of their corporate masters.

We need a sane Republican Party to keep the Democrats honest but that is not to be seen anytime soon.

O&Joe 2012

Romney/Ryan=TOAST

I have a prediction that the current libertarians are much more in line with the true republican party and in time will become the future second choice on the democrat/libertarian ticket as the true republicans have for the most part, already abandoned their party to these teaterrorists.

Yep, pull the race card. That's all you have. Millions of Americans vote FOR their interests. Sorry you think your interests are the only right ones. And...JFK was a democrat and if you had a clue, would be considered a Republican now. Google his speeches...they sound very Republican. BHO may be a great father and husband, but he is not an "exemplary " leader of the free world. Your post is ridiculous and proves you are partisan.

All Along and Quietly, Good Feelings have been coming about how the Election is going for Prez O And The American People. The fools of America will NOT be able to elect these Thieves of America; Here is a Very Helpful Post which is tried and Proven True: And For the Very Few NAIVE American voters who are thinking of voting for Mitt Tax Pittance Rommel and Lyin'Ryan out of desperation and hope that THESE
TWO MONSTERS will rescue your life, Better look AT THE FACTS. CountDracula and EdddiMunster are going to keep the bush TAX EVASION BONUSES FOR THE EVIL
RICH In Effect: with TheCount's Crappy excuse? "I won't LOWER the taxes on
the Rich!!!!" Well, Thanks Count, as you 1-10% and Corporate
rich
already pay the Lowest taxes in American History and taxes are
REALLY on the Backs of Working Americans @37%. AND!!! WE DO NOT Even Get A
Universal HealthCare System Like THE SANE Countries Have; Instead We GOT SCREWED By KingGeorge THE VacuumBrained and his republicanCrimeCartel "WMD" Wars. Gas and Oil Prices????,
What a Sucker Punch AT Voters!! The Count and EddiMunster PERSONALLY Dreamed
up the $4.00p/g at the pump to blame it on Prez O, Like their pals in the
House Of Reptiles STALLING Prez O Legislation to Create Meaningful Jobs and
Careers. AND! AND!! AND!!! JUST WHO do you voters think
sets Gas& Oil prices, "Healthcare" policy prices, Hiring, Job/Career Outsourcing,
Burger Flipping pay for NET $4.50p/hr while TheCount and HIS
republicanCrimecartel Soldiers are SUCKING YOU DRY for
$4.00p/gal gas and oil,
$1100.00p/m for "healthinsurance",
while mind you!, Rommel's FRIEND, the ceoVampire
at united healthcare, took home
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YOU KNOW PhantomBeast IS NOT
BSing You, While the Crook Paid No taxes with capital Gains
LoopHoles, Thanks to The republicanCrimeCartel which Perverted the tax laws FOR
THE EVIL RICH, LEAVING
WE American TaxPayers to Pay HIS Taxes. These Clowns are
aristocrat decendents of the Plantation and Slave Owners who were the ruling
idiots who
started the civil war and ran the south into ruination; SOUND
FAMILIAR? AND
in 2010?, These republicanCrimeCartel gonifs (CROOKS) convinced NAIVE voters to
vote them into controlling the House Of Representatives, PROMISING Renewed
republicanCrimeCartel power to be used to
Create jobs and Government services. What A Cruel Laugh!, FOOLED YOU AGAIN!! These
republicanCrimeCartelPoliticos have
used the House of Reptiles to BLOCK EVERY
HELPFUL Bill and Law Prez O has created and backed Creating Meaningful jobs and helping WE
AMERICANS. And Some of
you are STILL considering voting for THIS EVIL And VILE GROUP?, Who will use
your vote to Hurt YOU And Your Family AND
give it ALL AWAY to themselves and the 1-10% and Evil Corporate Rich While THEY RAPE America AS THEY DID during The King's NOTORIOUSLY SHAMEFUL Shrubber Reign 2001-2008.
Here Is a
Very VERY Helpful Link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og35U0d6WKY&feature=player_detailpage

And as we speak Romneys vulture business Bain Capitol which he is still a huge shareholder is dismantling and shipping American jobs from a profitable U.S. company(Sensata) to China. Romney is the most ruthless and despicable type of business man in our country and the right wants him to be our president. I hope all you conservatives are willing to move to China if you still want your job.

On the day before an election that's supposed to hinge on jobs, taxes and the middle class, Bain Capital, the company Mitt Romney founded, will close the doors of a factory in Freeport, Illinois, and ship 170 good, high-tech jobs to China.

The employees of Sensata Technologies were forced to train their Chinese replacements, and the American flag that long flew over the factory was reportedly removed while the Chinese engineers were visiting the site. A group of workers have set up camp across from the factory -- calling it “Bainport” -- and some supporters have tried to block the trucks hauling equipment out of the plant. According to Dave Johnson, there have been several arrests.

Sensata workers have asked to meet with Mitt Romney and hoped to enlist his help keeping their jobs in the United States, but he has refused, instead remaining on the campaign trail where he speaks often about “getting tough” with China.

The most important part of the story is that Sensata Technologies is profitable operating in Illinois. Net income last year was $355 million, up 16 percent from 2010. The company reported total revenues of $1.8 billion in 2011, up almost 19 percent from the year before. According to a company financial statement, “both 2011 net revenue and adjusted net income represent record levels for the company.”

So this has nothing to do with “making hard choices” in the process of turning around a failing business, which is how the Romney campaign describes Bain's corporate raiding. Bain's partners are looking for a modest boost in profits by locating the plant closer to the booming Asian automotive market (Sensata makes high-tech automotive parts). They'll get a small tax break for relocating the plant – the one Mitt Romney insisted did not exist during the first debate – and possibly defer taxes on some of the income the company generates.

I personally do not believe that the die-hard republican voters in the United States of America don't know that the republican party thinks they are the scum of the earth. Just about everything republicans tell them is a lie, everybody know they're lying, even die-hard republican voters, yet they lie to themselves and everybody else that republicans are telling the truth.

If someone lies to you constantly, tries to force women to undergo unneeded medical procedures, want to take medicare from seniors and give them vouchers, want to privatize social security knowing it will cause it to go bankrupt, telling you that the government programs you need to live on will be cut so they can have the money to give rich people that much needed tax break, because they are the job creators. How can you possibly think these people have any respect for you??

You are proving to them beyond any shadow of doubt that you are very stupid and very racist, that you would vote for someone that you know will nail your ass to the wall and not the person that's fighting them to give you a better life. To be that stupid, to them, you don't deserve to be respected, and who could blame them, they have an entire voting bloc that it doesn't matter what they do or say to them, if the truth is not there, they will make up their own lie to defend voting republican.

I don't respect you, and I stand to gain nothing and can do nothing to you, so what do you think republicans, armed with that same knowledge and can hurt you is going to do??

Find a fool, bump his head

The GOP Tea FleaBaggers in Congress did nothing - but Sabotaging this Nation and Destroying our Economy, Now they want the Senate, these people are beyond insane losers !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Most democrats on this site are racists. Why else do you think they would constantly bring up race? ( topane25). As for the rest of us, the numbers don't lie....... The President has made it really hard for people to immigrate to this country legally while at the same time allowing illegals to come in without any problems and all by paying 465 dollars. ( And yes, when you have relatives waiting to come to this country, we can see through the President's willingness to buy votes).

With 15% of Americans relying on food stamps ( the highest its ever been) you have to wonder if the President is doing a better job now or if we were better off 4 years ago.

As for the economy, Clinton handed Bush a recession, which he turned around in spite of 9-11. Remember, the 2004 election had nothing to do with the economy.

Job growth under Obama has been stalled because of his policies, not in spite of them. Fact's are that Obama is presiding over the most impotent "recovery" of modern time.

As with most people on this site all the democrats can offer in defense of their record is lies and distortion about the other candidate. They know that sheep like you will take up the talking points.

G W Bush average unemployment = 5.3% (8 years)

W J Clinton average unemployment = 5.2% (8 years)

B H Obama average unemployment = 9.2% (3.6 years)

The source? The USA Department of Labor.

So tell me what has the President got to run on? Only liberal fools keep hitting a nail with their heads, hoping it will become a hammer.

All a Republican Senate has to offer is war, a transfer of wealth from working to upper class, and a hot, crowded, toxic America. Vote them out!

Isn't it funny?...headlines "Republicans struggle to get senate"

Where is the headline "Democrats struggle but have no chance to get house"?

At least the GOP has a fighting chance to take the senate...may even pull it off. Democrats have already conceded the house...apparently!

If the democrat agenda was so good for the country...why is it dems won't control the house and could lose the senate???

Things that make you go, hmmmmm....

Romney/Ryan 2012! Vote against democrats like your life depends on it!

Who in their right mind would ever vote for Liz "Fauxcahontas" Warren???

No more Marxists in the Senate, please!

Hmmmm... Mr Unhappy...boo hoo hoo.

"

So whatever caused the 2007-9 recession had to have resulted from policies that the Bush administration was responsible for – either by initiating them or failing to act against them.

Space prohibits a full discussion of these issues, but certainly one factor had to be the squandering of budget surpluses that resulted from the policies of the Bill Clinton administration and their replacement by huge deficits under President Bush.

Mr. Bush inherited a budget surplus of $236 billion from Mr. Clinton in 2000, which fell to $128 billion in 2001. By 2002, the federal government ran a budget deficit of $158 billion, which rose to $377 billion in 2003, and $413 billion in 2004. The deficit fell to $318 billion in 2005, $248 billion in 2006, and $161 billion in 2007, then shot up to $459 billion in 2008.

It should be noted as well that the fiscal 2009 budget was submitted to Congress by Mr. Bush in January 2008 and took effect on Oct. 1 of that year – almost four months before President Obama took office.

Thus the government was running historically large budget deficits long after the end of the 2001 recession."

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/14/blaming-obama-for-george-w-bushs-policies/

FACTS are FACTS : ( but hey... don't let those get in the way of your lies ). Courtesy of POLITIFACT.COM

There was a net increase of 44.7 million jobs created during the Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, Clinton and Obama administrations, compared to a 23.3 million figure during the Nixon, Ford, Reagan and both Bush administrations.

Just sayin' ....

Mr. Bush inherited a budget surplus of $236 billion from Mr. Clinton in 2000, which fell to $128 billion in 2001.

Gemini618: You are obviously very young. Why did Clinton have a budget surplus? Let me explain the facts to you. The federal debt was NEVER erased. There is a HUGE DIFFERENCE between a budget surplus and federal debt. Social Security taxes were raised on the wealthy ( or in today's time, the middle class) and Clinton made sure to take money from Social security to balace the budget.

Same way a person transfers debt from one credit card to another.

Anyone who think that Bush inherited a surplus and then blew it is lying to themselves.

Just saying.....

Kip I prefer an O'bama "hell" to a "Romney,Ryan" heaven any day.

If the democrat agenda was so good for the country...why is it dems won't control the house and could lose the senate???

Why did the Republicans lose both houses in 2007?

People vote with their pocket book, and the results have little to do with which party's agenda is best for this country.

Obama or Romney, Republican or Democratic control of Congress: either way our country is facing difficult problems and I don't believe either side is possessed of a magic wand [or magic bullet] which will fix everything.

Same way a person transfers debt from one credit card to another.

Anyone who think that Bush inherited a surplus and then blew it is lying to themselves.

Unhappy, your remarks are partially true. The vaunted balanced budget of the late 1990s, was in fact only balanced if you do not count the borrowing from social security.

However, even if the balanced-budget of the 1990s was only a near miss, it was still a vast improvement over what preceded it and what followed it.

George W. Bush chose to implement temporary tax cuts in two budget busting moves, and he too borrowed from Social Security. Simply put, the Clinton years brought a balanced budget tantalizingly close to reality. Bush tossed all of that into the hopper, and we haven't been close since.

dman...

And you see how fast the voters corrected their mistake, didn't you? We'll be correcting another big-eared mistake in about 2 days...

Romney/Ryan 2012!

Unhappy, when I wrote that die- hard republican voters make up their own lie to defend voting republican, what you wrote is just what I was talking about.

A republican or another die-hard republican voter gave you those figures.

Republicans said, we don't have to worry about the voters because our voters believe everything we say. Either you made up that lie you wrote about, or somebody thinks you're an idiot and fed it to you. was the person that gave you these facts a republican?

Republicans as a whole are not racists, but, the over-all majority of die-hard republican voters are. Republicans are only cashing in on the racial hatred so many of their voters have.

Republicans don't care if you're black, white, red ,yellow, blue, or green, the only things that matter to republicans is money and getting your vote.

Divide the segments of society, pit one against another, while they stand in the middle secretly plotting our slow demise. Make no mistake about it, the poor and middle class have a common enemy, the republican party. We should not fight each other because we all have the same problem, the republican party.

Look at all different news stations, listen to what everybody has to say, then a different picture will start to emerge about the republican party, what you once though was true will be proven untrue when you hear many different versions of the same story.

The choice is your's, find out the truth, or be content to live in ignorance.

dman...

And you see how fast the voters corrected their mistake, didn't you? We'll be correcting another big-eared mistake in about 2 days...

...only in conservative-speak would the span of time from 2006 to 2010, be called fast.

As to your presidential election prediction, I think you are fooling yourself.

Most of the polls show your boy, Mitt[ens] trailing slightly in the propable popular vote, and trailing badly in the probable electoral result.

But who knows, maybe the promised news bombshell promised by that ultimate attention whore, Donald Trump, will turn things around.

Maybe.

dman...

One more day...you are right, we'll see won't we! LOL!

Are you going to move to Canada like some of the other libbies I've heard from WHEN Romney wins??

Romney/Ryan 2012! Vote against the Big-Eared Bandit and his laughing sidekick like your life depends on it!

Cantakenomore, The election can go either way. Even now so don't be so cock sure Romney and Ryan are going to win. And even if Romney and Ryan do win, a Democrat control senate will protect O'bama care and O'bama's other achievements in office.

I was the essential 10 yr. old geek in 1960. Much smaller(physically) and much poorer than my contemporaries. I was raised by a single mother deserted by a dead-beat dad that sought greener pastures and shorter skirts. My mother was only 16 years older than me while trying to raise 6 rugrats all on her own. At a that very young age, I was forced to become the man of the house to care for her and my siblings. I absolutely hated the restrictions and public shame of collecting ADC and commodities(welfare) that barely kept us alive.

I busted my young ass to pick berries, glean corn, sell Grit and beg a tab at local grocers to feed my family. Digging thru the snow for pieces of wood to feed our brick-less coal stove in the freezing early morn instead of ordering an ample supply of coal was my norm. Carrying 5 gallon lard cans of fresh water from a kindly old lady down the street with running water instead of a solidly frozen hand-pump allowed us to bathe for school. My sister and I both left hefty portions of our skin on those handles after we carried them home.

I hated our lot in life and struggled hard for a good education to escape our poverty. Good teachers and adequate funding for public schools made all of that possible. I excelled in school despite all of the hardships. I successfully managed several businesses before starting my own to fulfill the American dream. The Romney dream is person-hood of every great corporation that denies individual leadership and success. The Obama dream is to allow all of us to reach our full potential without sacrificing first to corporate greed. God bless America.

Commonsense...

Funny as hell! You must join your other libbie friends in the circle-jerk singing Kumbuya!!!

But get used to calling Romney...President Romney!

Romney/Ryan 2012! Vote against Big-Ears like your life depends on it!

Wade...

Achievements? Now, that's funny. The only thing this POS POTUS has done is divide the country...you know, 1/2 of us are His enemies...

Oh yea, vote to get "revenge"

What a complete Piece of SH*T Obama is...one big-eared POS! This country cannot have 4 more years of this narcissistic A-HOLE!

Romney/Ryan 2012! Vote against Obama and his mindless sidekick like your life depends on it!

Insults do not impress me. You are reduced to meaningless mindless drivel CTNM. If big money was to sink O'bama, why is the race so close? I expect more angry trash talk from a person convinced that only he or she is correct. You won't disappoint me will you CTNM, I want to use you as a source for my writing. Let's see the best you got.

cantakenomore, we will see who sings last. Just like a Romney fan to easily dismiss a huge population of the American people. You deserve each other in mental breakdown when such a despicable effort results in utter failure. Ann will be there to comfort her broken kingmaker. Who will comfort you as the loser of the second degree?

Are you going to move to Canada like some of the other libbies I've heard from WHEN Romney wins??

Thank-you, cantakenomore, reading your simple minded references and taunts reinforces my belief that Romney represents the party of the ideology-clouded and the easily fooled: those for whom loud rhetoric masquerades as thought.

We'll talk again tomorrow, perhaps. Whatever the result, I plan on still residing in the U.S. Perhaps it is you who'll be contemplating immigration.

I just can't wait to hear all the excuses you libbies will have...

You just can't stand the thought of real professionals taking control of this miserable economy of Barry's.

Talk about simpletons...just listen to the likes of you, Feisty, Jodi, Beverly, and Dorr the bore. All MSNBC goons with nothing to say.

BWAHAHAHAHA...you got nuttin'...honey!

ROMNEY/RYAN 2012! Vote against Big-Ears like your life depends on it...and it does!

I just can't wait to hear all the excuses you libbies will have...

As a quasi-libbie, I have to admit I cannot think of a single excuse.

Help me out here, cantakenomore.

What happened?

4 more years baby!!!!!!!!!!

"BWAHAHAHAHA" ...and the Internet echoes with the lost laughter of conservatives ghosts.

...and no response from cantakenomore. Must be contemplating his new life... in Paraguay.

BWAHAHAHAHA!!!

It IS amazing the dumb things that the Rwing has done to damage their own image: don't forget witch-hunting and killing their own by replacing moderate Republicans (some of whom I supported) that would reach across the isle and replacing them with slobbering-at-the-mouth tea baggers that have nothing but their own religious agendas on their tiny minds. I know less R's now and a lot more Indies because of that. Lots of my previous 'R' mates are sporting an 'I' for this election and are "voting for revenge" against the extremists that high-jacked their previous party. Sounds like what the President said, only my mates have been saying it for the last three months.

Alex, I agree. In the interest of balanced politics I sincerely hope that this election marks the beginning of the demise of the TP extremists and other nut jobs with their paranoid delusions about how "liberals" in government are taking away their freedoms by passing regulations against pollution, etc. Reality is a whole lot bigger than what fits in the tiny mind of a fanatic.

I'm in Indiana, and I wouldn't be surprised to see Mourdock win. I don't have a lot of faith in polls, and that one comment aside, that 60 seconds of blunder, Mourdock had a surprisingly good debate. We will just have to wait and see.

Sheila -

Women aren't stupid! They know that if one or two or even three REPUBs are saying these stupid anti-women things then there are other's thinking them but not stupid enough to say them.

We cannot let REPUBs get away with putting us back into the 1950's!

I hope they do lose, it will make them remember what they did end of 2010 and all of 2011. I'm even voting against my family member thats running for senate. He isn't bad, but I don't want the country to get more messed up then it is. I just saw a ad here on teachers, the republicans were the ones that dropped funding for schools here. However, the teachers are supporting republicans in the ad. They have to be actors, the governor didn't hide doing this. I hope it is actors, if the teachers are that dumb. They don't need to be teaching at all.

Any woman with any sense at all, WILL NOT vote for ANY republican running for ANYTHING, ANYWHERE! The fact that these pasty, ultra-religious men seem to think that a pregnancy resulting from, RAPE is "GOD'S WILL", or that a woman's body "defends itself" against a rapist's sperm, to prevent pregnancy, should scare the CRAP out of them !! No woman in her right mind, would really believe that BS, would she ?? I fervently hope that the women in these states, realize just what is really going on, that these Idiots want to take women's rights back to 1950s or WORSE, the 1920s !! Women... DON'T LET IT HAPPEN !! VOTE TO KEEP THE RIGHTS WE HAVE FOUGHT SO HARD FOR !!!!! Keep the Neanderthals OUT of Washington D.C.!

What Akin and Moudock have said has been in the republicon platform since 1976. They are truly dumbfounded by all of the uproar their statements have caused.

And women aren't as dumb as they seem to think. 44% of Obama's money has come from women.

blueinut49

Amen! I voted early and give even unopposed GOP candidates the satisfaction of my vote.

You guys party while the country burns...Nice.

And the one sided partisan bickering rises to a crescendo and the fact remains that most of you have ignored the lack of movement in the Congress. So President Obama may win and we lose again. Why because he has proven to the world one-upmanship is more important than actual leadership in his administration. Not one policy that reduces the deficit or debt. Not one policy that make Americans safer from the bold faced attacks on the Constitution. And no ability to reach across the aisle to those he has continually snubbed and kicked to the curb. You call that leadership then you deserve what you vote for.

If we get the same Congress we just had with the same President do you actually think things will improve? Then you are quite insane and you deserve what you vote for.

Four more years and the country will be unrecoverable period.

Next

Yes, things will improve, and it took the first debate to make the president realize that he head to get in the face of the GOP's candidates or elected officials and prove how either duplicitous or ignorant they are. Mitt couldn't even do 4th grade math, so as to understand that what he was saying about offsetting tax rate reductions with the loss of deductions form taxable income, and that somehow it ended up being a push. He lied and the president finally followed up in the second debate and called Mitt's bluff about unsupported assertions. In his first four years, the president tried to work with Republican opponents in a professional and personable manner. What he didn't understand was that spproach would not work when your opponents are acting and talking in bad faith. When that happens, you have to hit them over the head with an oil-soaked 2x4, because that's the only way you can get their attention. Anyone who ever attended a high school consisting primarily of students from blue collar families, as I did, will know what I mean; sometimes you have to get down in the gutter and push back physically.

When he is re-elected, the president should be more confrontational, not less. Appealing to the "common sense" of radicals will not work - because they don't have common sense, they just have idology.

Re-elected President Obama will do exactly that. He has no political ambitions other than being recorded as a strong and historical American leader. All of the Republican opposition face political pressure to assure their future in Congress by getting re-elected to office. Today's lowest Congressional approval ratings reflect the stubborn obstructionism of the Republican leadership.

2013 promises to be their Waterloo or abrupt turn-around to support the President when his policies promise a rapid recovery or finally go to work establishing policies that hold even greater promise. No more resting on their laurels by opposing every proposal(even when they represent their own previous proposals such as mandates) merely to cripple the Presidency and American progress.

The clowns will be forced to exit their clown cars in mass to finally do their jobs or be turned away in 2014. That is as it should be. A 2nd Obama term will keep them honest. Electing Romney/Ryan will only assure that that the three ring circus called the Republican Bush revival will soon be visiting a town near you once again. Don't count on a safety net to soften the blow this time. Your only hope will be a swift blow to the head to put you out of your misery.

• The fatherly Matthew McConaughey is a Republican.

So many people are voting republican for reasons unknown to me. Seniors planning to vote republican after they said they want to privatize social security, knowing that doing so will bankrupt it, and they want to give seniors a voucher for medical services, knowing the voucher won't be enough to buy the coverage they need, forcing seniors to pay the difference, yet they plan on voting republican anyway.

People that their only source of income, comes from SSI or disability voting republican even after Romney called both programs welfare and said he will end both of them.

These are only two reasons why I don't believe this election has anything to do with President Obama's policies.

President Obama's policies does not end programs the poor and middle class need to live on. To make the republican planned policies work, all of them have to be cut. If you notice, none of the republican policies require the rich to have any government program cut that they use, their government programs will be enhanced under republican rule while the rest of us pay for it.

Is having your way of living destroyed, losing your home, your job, if losing any of these things don't matter to you as much as helping republicans make Obama a one term president, then you should vote republican. Just remember one important fact, President Obama is already rich so you might think you're hurting President Obama but you are really hurting yourself, also think about this, since Obama is rich, some of the money republicans take from you, leaving you homeless, will go to him.

Lugar would have been a sure thing next Tuesday ... but Tea Potty has to beat itself up (self-defeating) ... TEA Potty-gone-wild, that is. Republicans should be 'a-noid."

As much as I favor the voice of the people in the primary process, you can better believe that if the nominees were chosen by party leaders, they almost certainly would not have been dumb enough to have chosen such inexperienced and politically toxic candidates as much of the Tea Party crop from 2010 and 2012. They would have gone with the more well-known candidates who at least are smart enough to know how to appeal to the moderates.

As a result, on multiple times in the last two years, Republicans have managed to snatch defeat at the hands of victory. O'Donnell was a bit too odd to be a Senator, Angle too mean, and now Murdoch and Akin, way too misogynistic. Republican voters will only have themselves to blame if they fail to retake the Senate.

On the other hand, they'll probably keep the House as the numbers game is just too great. To win 25 seats it would take a wave of Democratic support, and it just isn't there, especially since House members generally win 90% of the time when they run for re-election. About the best the Democrats will be able to do is to get symbolic victories by picking off a few notable right-wingers such as Bachmann and Alan West.

Michael, in California we have a new Open Primary system where voters can vote for candidates of either party, with the top 2 vote getters running off in the general election. We have several democrat vs. democrate house races, and even a republican vs. republican. The beauty of this system is that it tends to favor moderates over highly partisan, except in highly partisan districts. There would nother better for the health of this country than to diminsh the effect of partisanship on our government.

As a Washingtonian, I have had the great displeasure of knowing Mr Rossi in a non-political setting. He is about a genuine as a used car salesman, as slimey as cooked okra and is about as trustworthy as Mitts & Lyin. I am so very thankful that the good citizens of Washington knew better than to put him in office and sent Patty Murray back. This year Maria Cantwell will have a cake walk over her GOP challanger. Heck... I dont even know who he is.

Its time to send the party of NO a message "NO MORE T/GOP!"

AMEN EMDF -

As a fellow Washingtonian I couldn't agree more. Lets stop the teaparty candidate McKenna as well.

It would be a great symbolic victory if the people of Wisconsin kicked Paul Ryan to the curb.

Thats how I feel, I feel even worse I have to lie who i'm voting for. I've been nagged all week by family, make sure you vote for your uncle Tuesday. His ad for senate saying we don't need people that will do what the president wants. It made it clear he doesn't need to be in senate, we don't need the person running the country begging. Republicans keep saying we need people to work together. Do they remember what happened the last two years?

Most of the stuff I see them saying Obama has done. It's most of the stuff they have done, its stuff I got to see some bragging about. Sandy, that just made it clear that Romney doesn't need to touch the white house. I never thought of what could happen without the programs weather wise. Once I saw what could happen that way. It made me feel 100% Obama has to get back in and Dems have to get Senate and Congress. If a Sandy happens anywhere else, it doesn't just effect the poor and middle class.

It effects everyone that lives in those places, we really need to stop looking at it as one group. I know lots of people that don't have the money to up and leave a state or the country. We are all in this together and we don't need people that look at it as each its own. The ones that are saying only the people that get gov't help want Obama. If you are not rich and do not have a companies overseas. Your in the same shape as all the people in the US. If their is no demand for things sold here, your income only comes from work done here.

You can lose everything and a business, just like my family friend did. People need to stop blaming Bush or Obama for the jobs getting shipped over. This started before Bush, my family started shipping businesses overseas in 1995. When the materials started getting created overseas, they started moving the factories to where the materials were. That's the only thing that makes me pissed with Romney. He wont tell people why allot of the jobs went overseas. Allot of the jobs got to expensive to ship material back here. Bush only made it easier for people to ship their companies over.

For jobs to completely come back to the US. Materials have to start being made back in the US. So they can build the items here in the US. People don't seem to understand Walmart, Mc,Donalds all the little things they think are just American. Those are overseas now too, Walmart makes its items in poor countries is why they are so cheap. People are fussing about things and aren't not fussing about the places that are doing the same thing. That's because they feel its not making good money and its a low wage job the people are working.

That 3rd debate made me see Mitt is running for oil companies. Just like Bush was, thats what made me more scared of him. Because of lot of my family has to go overseas because of businesses. I don't want the old hate America across the world to come back. Most people don't even realize at one point you had to lie about being American. During the Bush Jr years, it was scary having to go overseas for business. Obama made it that you at least didn't have to be scared to say where you come from.

One thing I will say that Obama lied about, the currency still isn't doing well. He sat their and said i'm making the currency back great again. The rich are getting richer here, the money is still becoming garbage to them. Thats the thing that scares me if things don't get better. We wont be able to buy goods from other countries anymore. If that happens America will end up becoming another Rome.

EDMF and Suzq,

I can hear the shrill cry of the Great Northwest Seattle Democrat Loons in their voting rituals. Your blind partisanship is the problem not the solution

And our current governor has been so great...left a surplus by Gary Locke...and overspent in the first budget cycle. Now our state has the highest taxes on fuel in the country and some of the highest fuel prices. She ran off Boeing's Corporate headquarters to Chicago. You are quite insane if you think that is great leadership...I understand why you vote for party instead of capable individuals. You both lack the capacity to understand cause and effect. Great job...continue to party while the nation and our state burns.

If we vote in the same individuals who got us here in the first place how do you expect better government? Patty Murry is the poorest excuse for a Senator I have ever seen. She co-chaired the committee that left us the fiscal cliff. Great leadership don't you think? She could not ever help me with the needs of a homeless Washington Veteran who died on the streets in Idaho because she and her ilk turned a blind eye to this Veteran's needs. She is the reason we have inept leadership in the Senate period.

Next

Great whine, Bob. Let's get back to the "pre-existing condition" denials and 20% annual premium inflations pre-ACA.

Face it, your vote for a lying, pandering, flip-flopping 1%er has everything to do with your hatred of President "Black-n-Stein". Remember, you're just a "47% Loser" to your candidate.

That man Willard Romney lies so much, it's hard to imagine anyone voting for him and dismissing all of his repeated lies on every position. It sure bothers me and millions others, that this man a talking lying buffoon, is fooling so many.

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JOB1

I agree with you, but I figure that Catholics, among others are against abortion and will not even look at other issues. I, too, am anti abortion, but I am a realist as well. If abortion is outlawed, we will go back to back alley abortions and the health issue is not included in those.

My husband, who has been living a Catholic life for 67 years, is strongly considering changing religions due to the pulpit "orders" to vote repub because of abortion.

There is a lot more to being President than getting rid of legal abortions.

Romney-Ryan-Akin not what this country needs.

Obama - Biden and all Democrats in 2012

The reduction to medicare funds is from eliminating the Medicare Advantage program, which is a subsidy to private insurance companies. To get Republicans to agree to Medicare when it was created by Congress, the Advantage program was added. It gave seniors the choice of government-run Medicare policies or Advantage policies, in which the coverage and payment to providers is identical, but private insurance companies get to tack on a 15% mark-up to the billing for handling the claims. Obamacare puts and end to the Advantage program, which was nothing more than a subsidy to private insurance to play the role of unnecessary middleman.

Job 1: the people he is fooling are the same fools that gave us GWB for 8 years and destroyed our economy.

Everyone needs to read this, especially the undecided voters, this is what this country will be under Romney, God help us all.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/02/13/grover-norquist-speech-cpac.html

annie

He eliminated the popular senior's "bridge" insurance to save about 150 Billion. Then, when he realized that the program ended on october 1, 2012 with no actual replacement for it in the ACA, he reappropriated $30 billion from Fiscal 2012 that was designated to pay for free womens contraception, to create a "Trial Program" to replace the senior Bridge insurance that ends in January, with no plans for either extending the temporary program or replacing it with another program that was not budgeted.

While he did eliminate expenditures for drugs, it was from eliminating drug choices that cost more.

While he did cut some outdated medical procedures and replacing them with more cost effective treatmetns at a cost savings, most of the cuts was an additional cut of 15% to doctors and Hospitals. Before this cut they were already being paid less than what those services actually cost.

You should talk to the doctors and pharmacists about what was and was not done, not the left wingers or the Repbulican.

You like the AMA deal with Obama. The AMA represents ONLY 15% of all Doctors. Of those members over half are retired or simply academics that don't have any clue as to what practicing medicine today actually costs.!

You like the agreement with the AARP that it is supposed to be good for the Seniors. Do you not know that a large part of the AARP's business is selling additional insurance to Senior Citizens.

If you have grand kids, get their social security number and use it to borrow a bunch of money. Then go spend that on yourself.

And the increasing concentration of income and wealth at the top is a trait that the US is beginning to share with third world countries.

Progressive --

That was kind of funny, but you don't need to stoop to such a low level ("Witnesses reported that they were all drunk, and each had a 'lady of the night' under each arm").

The true story speaks enough to the act of treason that did hurt our country. It doesn't need to be added to. Just making stuff up is currently a Republican thing, not a progressive one.

I like the image. Gingrich shopping for a newer model.

Well said.

They might be a minority, but their hatred compels their vote.

All the leftist vitriol here is fascinating. Herre's the issue folks: to most Americans, "progressive" is a very objectionable term when used in the political context. It implies a European, un-American approach to both economic and social agendas. More importantly, the progressives can't force those policies down our throats, try as they might.

By the way, could even one of you lefties answer one simple question? If the king of the progressive movement is re-elected and the national debt continues to soar and the ratings agencies slash the nation's credit ratings and the Fed necessarily raises interest rates and the value of the dollar collapses and inflation goes through the roof (affecting primarily the poor and middle class), wil the "four more yeaars" mantra ring true for you people?

Hey relayer- what level of education do you have? I would have to surmise not very much. Progressive policies started in the US in reaction to the richest people in 1890's America screwing their workers and making children work. Progessivism was the answer to 16 hour work days and 6 day work weeks. Progressivism, through Theodore Roosevelt ( a Republican, I might add) set up our National Park System and broke up the monopolies.

Know of which you speak before you open your ignorant mouth.

Well said, Ed!

JK, people have the ability to twist their perception of reality to fit the conventional wisdom of whatever group they belong to. That's why people in Boston all see how the Yankees cheat and people in NY see how the Red Sox cheat. It's why partisan democrats think republicans are all pawns of the rich and parisan republicans think democrats are all looking for a government handout. It's how people can accept the theory that Jesus' mother was a virgin. It's why teenagers walk around with their pants falling off. Peer pressure. While I don't advocate doing anything to affect people's freedom to believe what they will, or dress the way that makes them feel comfortable within their group, I do believe there is a legitimate interest in reducing the power of peer pressure (i.e. partisanship) in government.

People will get what they vote for and many do not know what they are voting for!

the worst president???? Really??? Did he start two unfunded wars???? Did he lower taxes even though we were fighting two wars??? Did he do away with lots of regulation causing the economic disaster??? If not, then I don't think he is the worst president...just saying

what happened: I'd be more concerned about providing therapy for Ted Nugent this week... I have a feeling he's going to need it.

jp -- remember how when Bush W started those two unfunded wars they were telling us that, as Americans, the best thing to do to support the troops and stimulate the economy was for everyone to go shopping?

and make sure you charge all that shopping to your Visa, which is backed by borrowed money from China, where the actual money goes for the cheap crap that your bought.

I hope Nugent picks the most powerful gun in his arsenal and blows his ignorant brains out right after Romney's concession speech.

Vote this GOP cult out.

read the two comments above and repeat and read again. thank you

I'm hoping and praying all the TeaPublikkkans will INBREED themselves out of existence. The entire GOP needs to go the way of the DoDo bird.

Well I find reading these comments today much more encouraging. I guess the intelligent people decided to comment on this board for a change because the ones that cannot see through Romney just leave me dumbfounded. I have really followed this campaign more than others because we here in Canada will be left to deal with an idiot President if Romney gets in. I wonder if the people voting for him realize how it will affect the whole world if Romney wins. We took a poll here of small businesses and 60% of them dont want anything to do with Romney. And the people here feel much the same. But we have done what the US is doing right now too. We elect someone to clean up a mess that the last administration created and we expect them to do it in record time and if they dont we want them out - right now. Obama was saddled with 8 years of what the Bush administration did and people expected him to have it all fixed in 4 years with a Senate that wouldnt assist Obama at all in what he wanted to do. So with tunnel vision they just want Obama out and they dont care who gets in and what they will do. Well I will tell you first hand what will happen - you will be in for the biggest shock of your life when you change Presidents and watch your country being turned upside down. The plus we have here is that we can get a Prime Minister out long before 4 years if they are really corrupt or just plain awful but you guys are stuck with Romney for 4 long years. And yes I am concerned because what happens in the US definitely affects us. The only thing Romney is smart about is buying companies, ripping them apart and selling them and then firing hundreds of people. The rest of him doesnt have a brain in his head. He knows how to be corrupt but he doesnt know how to be humane. He could care less about the people of the USA - all he cares about is himself. I wasnt sure how I felt about Obama when he got in - he was very inexperienced but this is a no contest in this election. Obama needs to be given another 4 years and Romney needs to be put in the Caymen Islands with all of his money and bankers. I sure hope people are really thinking through everything that has been said by Romney and not just use a hip reaction that you hate Obama so out he goes. I have been listening and it has been scaring me that he could get in and be not only President of the US, but Commander and Chief of the US Army cause he likes wars (he has no clue how to fight a war - but he likes them) - he wants to leave the troops there longer when Obama says they will be out by a certain date. Can you imagine Romney running a whole Country and what is worse, should something happen to him can you imagine what Ryan would be like as President of the Country. Scarey stuff. But by reading these boards it has uplifted me into thinking Obama has a chance and that there indeed are some intelligent people in the USA. If Romney gets in we may all be looking for other countries to live in because he will destroy relations with many a country cause he doesnt care about the countries - he just cares about money and power and himself!!!

SHar, You wrote a powerful realistist letter, to bad it's going to fall on a lot of deaf ears. I also didn't understand why so many people believed and plan to vote for Romney, until I realized, they are not voting FOR Romney, they're voting against Obama. They know Romney is going to be worst than Bush, he will totally destroy everything, create a war of his own, end government programs that so many people need to live on.

None of the horrible things Romney is going to do is as important to them as getting rid of a Black president.

They hear only what they want to hear, Republicans told them over and over what they are going to do to them, they didn't hear them say that, republicans said, President Obama did this or did that, even tho they know it's a lie, that, they heard and pretend it's the truth, even making up their own lie to make it sound like it is the truth.

A lot of people lost their homes and jobs under Bush and the republicans, President Obama is slowly building things back up, yet, for a lot of people, they don't seem to mind losing these things all over again if it will get that black man out of the White House.

Huh? Paragraph one contradicts paragraph two. Please clarify - did you mean "Never" in paragraph one or do you think women are stupid?

I can read and I can hear. I know exactly what Mourdock said. It's offensive. No excuses. Can't hide behind God.

by creating a never ending ever growing debt crisis that has turned our country into the Greece of the America's?

Well, that's just BS! You are giving Obama credit for the debt? Why not put credit where it is due? For that never ending debt crisis you can thank George W. Bush, aided and abetted by Republican majorities in both houses of Congress for 6 out of 8 years. As for "ever growing", the truth is, Obama was handed a HUGE increase in spending as George W. Bush left office:

From factcheck.org:

Fiscal 2009 began Oct. 1, 2008. That was before Obama was elected, and nearly four months before he took office on Jan. 20, 2009.

President Bush signed the massive spending bill under which the government was operating when Obama took office. That was Sept. 30, 2008. As The Associated Press noted, it combined "a record Pentagon budget with aid for automakers and natural disaster victims, and increased health care funding for veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan."

Bush also signed, on Oct. 3, 2008, a bank bailout bill that authorized another $700 billion to avert a looming financial collapse (though not all of that would end up being spent in fiscal 2009, and Obama later signed a measure reducing total authorized bailout spending to $475 billion).

On Jan. 7, 2009 — two weeks before Obama took office — the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office issued its regular budget outlook, stating: "CBO projects that the deficit this year will total $1.2 trillion."

CBO attributed the rapid rise in spending to the bank bailout and the federal takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – plus rising costs for unemployment insurance and other factors driven by the collapsing economy (which shed 818,000 jobs in January alone).

Another factor beyond Obama's control was an automatic 5.8 percent cost of living increase announced in October 2008 and given to Social Security beneficiaries in January 2009. It was the largest since 1982. Social Security spending alone rose $66 billion in fiscal 2009, and Medicare spending, driven by rising medical costs, rose $39 billion.

Do you get that? All of this spending was beyond Obama's control. All of it was set up by Bush. The spending increases in Bush's last budget (a 17% increase, the largest since 1970's). Bush's 2008 budget was $2.9T - his 2009 budget was $3.5T!!! The fact that he trashed the economy with his stupid mortgage initiatives and removing any regulation or control from mortgage lenders decreased revenue (less people working = less tax revenue) and increased costs (more people on unemployment = more unemployment payments) to current levels. And he left all of this for Obama to deal with. Bush and Cheney rode off into the sunset to collect massive thank you's from Halliburton!

If you want to blame anybody for our current spending being out of control, blame Bush! You can also blame the damned obstructionist Republicans that simply refuse to let any revenue increase happen to offset the effects of a trashed economy which was their fault in the first place!

What happened What the h are you talking about. You are not thinking rationally or are incapable of such. Clinton even said that it could not be fixed in4 years. Your star Romney said that it would take him at least 8 to 10 years for him to fix it. Your accusations are nothing more than repeating the republican lies in this campaign. The republicans in congress are to blame for the failure not the president. You need to start thinking logically instead with your emotions.

Too bad Harry Reid is not up for re-election this year, he's obstructionist #1.

Too bad! Not going to happen!

Tammy, I would pray that something does keep them out or to a min. Otherwise, you will have them having a tantrum and taking their little votes and going home again. How stoopid of them to really hold American's hostage so they can win an election. It appears repub/tea potties(I heard someone call them) would rather everyone go down than to work with the President. What has this world come to.

Romney and the LDS church are always bragging on how they provide disaster relief blah blah blah and are the first ones to respond and that they are willing to help ANYONE out. Did you hear ANYTHING about the LDS church providing ANY help for Sandy victims or anything from MITT calling on his church to help ?

NOPE... not a frigging peep.

gemini618, that's because if you are not mormon, you don't count. And honestly, the repub/teabaggers will deserve Rmoney and his little friend IF they get elected. You have to now, you gonna have to be in the fold for help. Keep this post. You can't be the biggest god unless you get more people in the fold than anyone else. Rmoney has a plan for that. Mark my words.

I do believe real Birth Control Education (NOT abstinance only) is the key here.

Wordist45 -

Good points ALL.

Unfortunately people with deep religious views see only black or white. They want any conception to be given the right to live.

If the mother's are drug addicted which of you will adopt those babies?

What would they do with all the babies born who will be beat or starved or raped due to the fact that not all women are prepared in ANY way for parenting? I personally would rather the women have an early abortion than put the infant or child through these horrific lives so many of them suffer.

Where is the compassion?

It's saddening that people think that making something illegal will stop it. The war on drugs is a great example. Repealing Roe v Wade will not stop a single abortion, it will kill many women and create a larger prison population..... All so some religious types can sleep better, knowing they made abortion illegal.

LOL Pro-Lifers can be a real hoot....got an aunt who is a dyed-in-the-wool pro-lifer, one of those people who used to stand in front of Planned Parenthood clinics back in the day and scream at the women going inside...calling them "baby killers" and "wh-res" and other unprintable names....made her mad as a wet hen when the courts said they had to stay off the property...anyway, she remains militantly pro-life today, believes that abortion should be illegal for ANY reason, thinks women who claim their "life is in danger" are nothing but filthy liars...said she will vote for Mitt Romney because she believes he will make sure that Roe v. Wade gets overturned and abortion is made completely illegal...or at least she did, until her daughter came home from college with a new boyfriend, who just happens to be Samoan, and informed mommie dearest that she's got a little bi-racial bun in the oven...now all of a sudden Ms. Pro-Life Uber-Alles is begging her daughter to "get rid of" the pregnancy, to "do something" before "it starts showing." She has gone from begging and pleading with her daughter to have an abortion, even offering to PAY FOR IT, to intimidation and threats, telling her daughter that she'll be cut off from the family if she does not have an abortion or give the baby up for adoption....and my poor, sad, confused cousin does not understand why her mother is treating her this way, she's just doing what mommie always told her to do, to give "every baby a chance at life." Apparently that chance doesn't apply when faced with the prospect of having an illegitimate brown grandchild ....LOL it's kinda pathetic, actually....

GOP... the party of DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO.

These MORONS think that by making abortion illegal it will END abortion and all will be fine and dandy. In reality... not only will the women who want to get an abortion STILL find a way to get one, we will, in many instances lose TWO lives now instead of one. The fetus will still be aborted and a good number of the women will also die thanks to the complications of back-alley abortions. Yep...that's PRO-LIFE alright. These people need to be LOBOTOMIZED.

Howitis,

You've just described every tea publican, pro lifer out there.

Howitis, I find it really amazing how the very deeply religious pro-life people can suddenly change their religious belief when they or their daughter become pregnant out of wedlock.

A few years ago, here in Michigan, one of the leaders of the pro-life movement got pregnant, she quietly slipped off to minnesota and had an abortion, came back and resumed here position as head of the pro-life movement, until her little secret came out.

Theo...House of Representatives = "equal representation"

Senate = Control by the Oligarchy. What's so hard to understand. The powers that be will always attempt to protect their power. That's why the US Constitution was amended to limit this power of the rich. We will have a hard time changing that.

I think it is about what the republicans have done since they were elected to the house and senate. And that would be nothing but obstruct. The congress has the lowest approval ever so people will rush to put more of the obstructors in office? Has America lost its mind. I would like to see inside some republicans minds. What in the world are they voting for? Not why are they voting. What do they think they are voting for. Have they not been paying attention to what the senators, the representatives and Romney and Ryan have been saying and doing. What do they doing that they would vote for. Some ambiguous pie in the sky idea that hasn't been around for years. That must be it. Nothing else makes any sense whatsoever.

I guess i could add that if Romney says everything at different times then maybe everyone thinks he believes what they do. They don't realize the next day he changed that and said he was for something else. I have never seen the like. I wonder if he starting to make ice cubes yet?

Really? you believe that? Lets check the facts....Obama allowed Americans to get killed while he talked on the phone....He has lied and let islamic countries think they are better than us.....He is the liar....check the facts.

Jimminy....no wonder 33% of our Nation are fools like you. Dont regurgitate what you hear on the TV and radio.....DA......God Bless our Nation .....inspite of our fools......:))))

you a liar, hater and racist, according to one German magazines, almost 130 countries in the world believed far rights/GOPS are noting but "LIARS", they just don't want black in white house period.God bless America.

Anita, Saying what you believe is not always a good thing. You believe God intended for a woman to be raped and impregnated keep it to yourself, everybody else will think you're nuts. Saying you don't care about 47% of American voters, keep it to yourself. You're running for office, you want my vote, then you tell me you don't care about me or my family. 47% of American voters, he's talking about all of the people that's going to vote for him, except the rich.

That old saying, if you don't have anything good to say, don't say anything. If republicans had to live by that code of conduct, they would never say anything.