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U.S. President Barack Obama discusses the automatic budget cuts scheduled to take effect next week, while in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in the White House complex in Washington February 19, 2013.
President Barack Obama reached out to the Republican leaders of the House and Senate on Thursday, the first sign in weeks that the two sides could be willing to work on a bipartisan solution to the potentially devastating spending cuts set to take place March 1.
White House spokesman Jay Carney announced the president had reached out to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker John Boehner to address the automatic $85 billion in cuts set to kick in next month. Carney described the calls as “good conversations” but provided no more details.
McConnell’s office said it was the first time Obama has reached out since New Year’s Eve when Congress struggled to come to an agreement on the across-the-board spending cuts known as the “fiscal cliff.”
And while there was no official readout of the meetings, sniping on Twitter between Carney and Boehner Press Secretary Brenden Buck may be an indication that both sides have a ways to go.
Carney tweeted at Buck a USA Today/Pew poll showing American support for the president’s deficit reduction plan, ending his post with the hashtag “GOPoutOFTouch?”
Buck mockingly tweeted back, “What do you say we show up here every afternoon, say 4:00ish? Talk it out?”
And both parties are still accusing the other of not wanting to come to the table to negotiate. During an appearance on Al Sharpton’s radio show on Thursday, President Obama remarked, "At this point, we continue to reach out to Republicans and say this is not going to be good for the economy, it's not going to be good for ordinary people."
"But I don't know if they're going to move and that's what we're going to have to keep pushing over the next seven, eight days," he told Sharpton, who also hosts a show on MSNBC.
Obama will keep pushing by continuing to take his case to the American people next week. On Tuesday he’ll visit Newport News, Va., an area where the automatic spending cuts, known as sequestration, would hit hard.
Carney said the president plans to “highlight the fact that there will be real-world impacts to the implementation of the sequester … if Republicans choose to allow that to happen.”
Republicans have tried waging a public campaign of their own trying to place the onus on the president, especially when it comes to national defense. And Pentagon officials from Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta down have warned that sequestration could severely inhibit national defense, a responsibility that would rest on the head of the nation’s military.
“As the commander-in-chief, President Obama is ultimately responsible for our military readiness, so it’s fair to ask: what is he doing to stop his sequester that would ‘hollow out’ our Armed Forces?” Boehner said on Wednesday.
On Thursday, Carney said the president does feel responsible but rejects what he described as Republicans' “my way or the highway” approach to negotiating.
"My sense is that their basic view is that nothing is important enough to raise taxes on wealthy individuals or corporations and they would prefer to see these kinds of cuts that could slow down our recovery over closing tax loopholes," Obama told Sharpton. "That's the thing that binds their party together at this point."
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This following headline is way too familiar now -
Well, there is an adult in the room - the President of the United States. His policies (Obamacare & DACA), his charm and his re-election victory have really put the GOP in a bad situation.
When the Republicans refuse to cooperate, the GOP loses big, in November 2012, for example (losing the White House, and seats in both House and Senate); When the GOP cooperates (not yet), the President will be seen as the deal-maker who has made it happen, and the DEMs will soar in prestige and chances in consolidating the Senate and taking over the House in 2014.
Either way, the GOP loses.
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FORWARD.
P.S. (my pig @!$%#):
Hey, Mitch McConnell, your plan (of destroying US economy) has worked, but the second goal of making the President a one-term in your plan didn't work.
Time to have a new plan...if you have any.
Hey, John Boehner The Weeper of the House, the Orangeman, you have broken the promise of creating jobs you made when you became the Weeper in January 2011, Now time to go away, or the voters will do that in November 2014.
corrections to #1.1:
P.S. (
mypig $hit):Close the loopholes Obama. But you'll never do that or make the effort.
There are your new tax revenues in the billions.
All for it.
-Moderate Republican
James, I salute all moderates, including Moderate Republicans - if U R indeed a moderate. But you said -
Don't you think the House is in charge of initiating all revenue bills (read the constitution). Ending loopholes should depend on the House Majority (GOP?).
Pigotry -- the president hasn't yet presented his budget proposal to Congress. The Senate hasn't passed one in over four years, and yet, Congress has. So your point is???
fsteph - As I have said, the House is in charge of initiating all revenue bills. The GOP controlled House should take initiative.
piggy- the House did their job and sent a bill last year to the Senate. The Senate should hold an up or down vote on instead of lying about the House not doing it's job.
Well, when the self-interested banks don't lend and invest (due to instability), and when people are suffering without enough spending to boost demand in the marketplace, the only option left is for the gov to increase gov spending and boost demand to get the economy to move again. Sequester will be austerity that is going to hurt the economy and hurt the GOP.
But I know it's impossible to relate this to the well-fed well-off conservatives who don't feel the pain of those who have lost jobs not for the fault of their own but as victims of collateral damages from the recession that started by bankers and mostly GW Bush.
Obama has done nothing but put this country in debt., made it weaker , and Americans are starting to see the mistake made voting for him and his left wing agenda.
Did President Obama get all his fingers back? The only thing the republicans supported that Obama suggested was the sequester. The only reason they supported it was they mistakenly thought Obama would be a one term president and the Senate would turn red. Back in November and December last year the Pentagon cut back on spending and the economy contracted. Republicans were quick to point out this little fact. Now the want to uphold the sequester and force major government spending reductions. Economists are talking about how it will set back the economy by 4 years. Look to France and England, they both went with Austerity (big cuts in gov spending) their economies are tanking and unemployment is rising.
reg......
Please put some facts out there to support your claim. Name your source or web site.
Fox business news.... budget deficit shrinks for 2012.
Hey Reg, who are these "...Americans (that) are starting to see the mistake made voting for him and his left wing agenda". That story certainly isn't being supporting by current polling. The President's approval ratings are higher, across the board, now, than they've been since early in his first term. Sounds like "wishful thinking" on your part, to me, rather than an answer to a "neo-con, wing-nut's" prayers. He won, so the majority of Americans won, and you lost, buddy! That's why it's called democracy! So why not stand-up, "man-up", get over it, and move-on, for the good of the country? Wallowing in self-pity and hatred won't help; because it's unattractive, unhealthful, and a total waste of time, at this point, anyway. So, "chill-out" and take a break from Rush and Fox News, for a while, why don't you? I'm "just sayin..."
No reg-3071362. It isn't Obama's policies/programs getting us in debt - it is GWB's. Obama has REDUCED the deficit as much as possible. His hands are tied for the most part, however, thanks to the republican House.
The poll in USA-Today shows that 76% - SEVENTY SIX PERCENT - of Americans agree with what President Obama has been proposing ALL ALONG . . . even a majority of ReThuglicans polled agree with President Obama's BALANCED APPROACH.
BTW, here is one way of thinking about our economy:
if your checkbook was overdrawn, and your credit cards were maxed, would you quit your job???
NO, of course not . . . but that is what the ReThuglicans have been trying to convince of us FOR YEARS.
We do NOT presently have a deficit problem . . . President Obama has already reduced the deficit to ~5% of GDP, down from 7+% of GDP.
We have a JOBS problem, a "JOBS DEFICIT" problem . . . if employment went up, the deficit would go down; if minimum wages went up, the deficit would go down.
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WE NEED JOBS . . . Mr. Boehner, where are the JOBS?!?
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FORWARD! :-)
Mr. President:
Why are you 'reaching out' (yet again) to those who have been very vocal in announcing that they're your enemy and proud of it?
In a manner that gives new meaning to the word "Treason" the right wing traitors first announced they'd do "whatever is necessary" to be certain you would be a one term president. The end result was the GOP traitors holding America's economy hostage, among other treasonous acts.
Then, last November, America spoke loud and clear: We want YOU in charge. We want YOU making the decisions. We want YOU directing the direction of our country, not those self serving, billionaire owned, lying, underhanded scum sucking GOP traitors.
So, again I ask you, Sir: Why are you reaching out, unless it's to grab the drink out of Johnny Boner's hand?
Stop the billions of dollars wasted on defense spending!
The Republican hamster continues to run ever-so-furiously in the fixed spinning wheel, amusing the rest of us to no end. What the Republicans fail to grasp is that the wheel never leaves the cage.
Consider this, obama signed this pig into law, has stated he will veto any attempt torepeal it, WHY? If sequester goes into effect, does obama really care? He sure does, cause then he gets to choose what programs will be trimmed and those to be saved and I'm sure many programs important to Republicans will go by the wayside and the programs the democrats like will be saved. Guess what is done with the money saved? He will spend it on his social programs. Me thinks he play mind games and the Republicans are not picking up on it.....Will be interesting to watch.
Don't you poor, mindless demlib automatons get tired of spouting the same old moronic drivel. The Bozobama STILL does not have a clue, even after bungling and failing his way through the last four years. Sad.
I can see it now. Both sides will refuse to compromise until the very last second where they will hash out some BS plan that delays the spending cuts. They aren't going to do the right thing and cut the budget. They are going to kick the can. Yeah the spending cuts will hurt the economy in the short run but we need them for long term growth and solvency. The government and federal reserve need to stop interfering and let the economy restructure. We have too much debt financed consumption and not enough savings and production.
The 'Sequester' Was A Brilliant Idea And Obama Should Be Proud Of It
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-sequester-was-a-good-idea-2013-2#ixzz2Lcf68YpF
Do people realize that every mayor of Chicago since 1931 has been a Democrat? I understand that Democrats would have people believe they are the party of the people and Republicans are the party of the rich, but what policies have the Democrats so consistently done that promotes the poverty and pain that so many people in Chicago suffer? I don't think that to be a Democrat makes you a bad person, but the party has had about 82 years in power to mold the city and they end up with places like Cabrini-Green. Would someone please explain how one party could create this type of suffering and call themselves the party of the people. There must be some type of new definition for "people".
BTW, don't ever let anyone tell you that Rahm Emanual doesn't have a sense of humor, he is listed as "unaffiliated" according to Wikipedia's list of Chicago mayors.
@kraussk
What's truly sad is that some pathetic loser would trash the opponents of your reich wing gestapo and talk about Obama as a bungler and failure and yet your zombies couldn't defeat him. So if he's a bungler, I guess you guys opposing him are true basket cases. I'd ask if you studied basket weaving in college except you clearly got thinned from the herd in high school.
Usually when someone is filmed doing something they can be held accountable. Such as it goes in a court of law, via surveillance cameras at your local convenient store robbery. Obama has been shown numerous times inventing and touting this whole mess. Yet a year later it's the Republicans fault. Then when the obvious is questioned all you Bamaheads say " oh thats not what he ment". Well thats exactly what he ment. He means to screw everything up for everybody. He sucks and those who support him suck. By the way, how many times did you vote?
Can both sides just be honest about one thing. These are not cuts. This is just a reduction in the aprox 8% increase in spending caused by base line budgetting. Reducing 85 billion from what we spend and have others lend us is a drop in the bucket
"My sense is that their basic view is that nothing is important enough to raise taxes on wealthy individuals or corporations and they would prefer to see these kinds of cuts that could slow down our recovery over closing tax loopholes," Obama told Sharpton. "That's the thing that binds their party together at this point."
Republicans are more retarded than we think folks and they keep getting worse with time.
Sigh, cant do much with a bunch of retards that are glued to Faux News for most of their lives!!
You have better luck forcing an ass to drink water than forcing these Neanderthals to think outside the box
The best we can wish for since ya cant nukem is to let Natural selection take its course...you cant watch Faux News in a hot trailer for too long
Pig, you dipsh1t, the only place you ever see that headline is on MSNBC.
DocHolliday-2979123,
So are you saying taxes were not raised on the wealthy as part of Obamacare or in the tax deal in January?
Did you forget the alternative proposal to close tax loopholes instead of raising taxes suggested by the Republicans but shot down by the President?
Regarding the Sequester, where is the Senate's budget they promised and agreed to as part of the debt limit increase? Still waiting...
Simple solution here. If you are a dem, then make sure that line 54 on your 1040 is 0 and add a line after line 61 that multiplies line 61 times 2. Then you'll be happy!
maybe if the dems actually had a plan to present the gop could work with them
This will never get resolved the right way, it'll continually get kicked down the road because neither party has the @!$%#ing balls to do what needs to be done.
1. Big money cronyism in defense bloats the budget, fix that. It isn't so much the number of soldiers we have, it's the billions wasted through big defense business. The billions lost on the 'rebulding' of Iraq is good enough proof of that.
2. Medicare/SS : The HAS to be fixed. Keep nailing the fraud, and find some way of saving these programs so that those of us that put money in these Ponzi schemes actually get something back out (this includes our current retired folks).
3. Welfare : Wow, this right here is the big point on the downfall of our country. Rein this in so only those TRULY in poverty get any government assistance. Stop allowing 'poor' people to live better than middle class working folks on the working folks dime. Rein in foodstamps (disallow red bull, chips, candy, etc), get rid of the cell phones (and soon free smart phones). Get rid of gas vouchers, cash assistance. Clamp down BIG time on medicaid. If people want a middle/upper class life style, FORCE them to EARN it.
The problem of this country is we have politicians from both parties that are too worried about re-elections, campaign donations, etc. They are all ballless pansies that have zero concern about the working citizens of this country.
Of course they do. Even though the President has reached out to them, Boehner, McConnell, and the rest of the GOP Obstructionists have shown numerous times they have no plan to work with this President. Their OEO (Oppose Everything Obama) is still in place, in play, as they are stilled controlled by their rich lobbyists .
With W. Bush leading the pack of worst President ever, Boehner, and his ill crew of mis-fits "hero," are trying their best to destroy President Obama since January 20, 2009, so that they can replace W. Bush with President Obama. You know damn good and well, they don't want a black President to look better than their buddy.
There are MANY BIG name republican supporters making tons of money from wars, and everything associated with wars, those people are running Boehner and his ill-crew, they won't give up. They want war, they know how easy it is to make money off dead American Soldiers.
Time to give everyone on Capitol Hill a big raise for a job well done!
You know damn good and well, they don't want a black President to look better than their buddy
You brain dead liberal skin bags don't have any excuse for how bad of a president obama is so you have to always resort to racist claims. The sad part about it is it's your party that is the racist party with keeping minorities in poverty and dependent on the government.
I'll fully admit that Bush was a horrible president, but Obama isn't any better. At least republicans can admit he was horrible, you libs are blind as a bat though and have your messiah up on a pedestal.
Even though the President has reached out to them, Boehner, McConnell, and the rest of the GOP Obstructionists have shown numerous times they have no plan to work with this President.
If you mean reaching out like putting forth pathetic plans that he KNOWS won't go through, then you're right. Take a look at his 'immigration plan' that got 'leaked' to the public by his administration. No border enforcement, no attempt at making them follow resident rules like no government assistance for five years, all he wants to do is give them blanket amnesty with no enforceable rules.
Hell, even the majority of the democrat party voters are against a free amnesty.
I don't know much about Rubio, but even with me being in the 'deport them all' group, I like Rubio's plan far better than obama's.
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That right there tells me you're a FOLLOWER, and a racist, LOL!! (deport them all). They have promenaded this idiot Rubio in front of you, told you who to like, and like a true follower, you have already jumped on board. If, and it's a BIG IF, Rubio even gets close the republican nomination, his past will eat him and people like YOU alive.
Don't say I didn't warn you. The rest of your posted garbage above, well, it's just garbage. Have a good day garbage man, (in response to your "You brain dead liberal")
Would have loved to be a fly on the wall for that call.
Obama: "Hey John, it's Barrack!"
Boehner: "Can I help you Mr. President?"
Obama: "No. Just calling to tell you thanks for compromising your values and giving me my tax hikes a couple months ago, but after 4 years you should know that it's still my way or the highway. I'm not going to compromise one bit. BTW...sorry you're going to have to take the blame that I'm going to heap on you for this...NOT. You know I'm pretty good at that pointing the finger thing, right?"
Boehner: "Yes, Mr. President, we are aware."
Obama: "OK, so in review: I'm not going to compromise an inch...I have no real concern at all about our out of control spending, in fact I approve of it...and I'm going to blame you for the whole thing. Got it? Good luck with the polls! So long, sucka!"
Boehner: "Goodbye, Mr. President. Hopefully you'll see fit to not wait another year to contact us like this last time."
I am shocked again. Every time I think the Liberals have hit bottom they keep digging. Reading the posts of Pig and Mosh and their like I am just amazed but liberals can get dumber. At some time one would think some sort of realization of there utter incompetence would make them stop but they just keep digging.
Twits and Dimwits want you in the Democratic party. The party of true silliness.
PATHETIC.
Then why is it Republicans are ready to allow the sequester when defense contractors take -- by far -- the biggest financial hit? They will LOSE tons of money in the sequester. Can't have it both ways. You can't argue that Republicans are in the defense contractors' pockets while they are on the verge of forcing cuts that cost those contractors a HUGE amount of money. In fact it's the Democrats who are arguing that the defense budget -- and all the dollars that go to defense contractors -- needs to remain untouched.
Speaking of DUMB, boy, did you just open yourself up!! LOL!!
You know, sometimes it's ok to act "silly," it really is, it's human, but being a part of the "Stupid Party," as you are, now that's PATHETIC!!
Your people will do anything to make this President look bad. Your republicans are fighting against military cuts, so by doing this, they hope to make the President look bad, it's easy, try to keep up. Your people don't want Hagel to become Def-Sec, because he's not a war-monger, so come on, try to keep up.
Wouldn't it be More Productive if Our Elected Leaders Started Working Together as AMERICANS for AMERICANS and AMERICA, instead of just bickering, stalling and posturing for the next election as democrats and republicans! The American People have had it with this unproductive BS! The way that both parties having been operating for years just stinks! Neither party has really been looking out for the best interests of the US Citizens who elect them and who they're supposed to represent.
Both parties have sold out the bulk of the American citizens, who they're supposed to represent, by allowing the "out-sourcing" floodgates to open wider and wider without taking any sensible measures to stem the tide.
It shouldn't be all about Democrats or Republicans! It should be about Americans, especially our elected officials, doing the right thing for our country and its citizens. All the single-minded, left versus right, ideological one dimensional bull has got to go!
Both parties need to start working together and actually start doing something to fix the real problems in our country like "out-sourcing", illegal immigration, the out of control costs of health care insurance and our reliance on foreign fuel. If they don't start working together and actually start making progress by the next election, then American citizens should run a nation-wide campaign to vote out all incumbents regardless of party to send the message.
The ONLY REAL FIX is to Raise Revenue, by Bringing Back Jobs to US Citizens who Pay Income Tax.
Massive cutting just puts more people on unemployment, which just depresses the economy even further.
Returning private sector jobs to American Citizens will provide income tax revenue to OUR Government versus our government having to pay unemployment benefits to those who would be jobless instead. We need our elected officials to Start Protecting American Jobs and do whatever it takes to bring back the jobs they let go. We need leaders who will actually stand up for the American people.
The bottom line is that “Our Government” has to protect domestic industry and the jobs that those industries provide. If they do that, the rest will take care of itself.
We may have to pay a bit more for products made here in the USA by US citizens, but at least we'll still have jobs and a future for our children.
Tell me were I'm wrong : Sequester does NOT mean CUT — it means SLOWED GROWTH IN SPENDING. We will have the SAME AMOUNT of SPENDING PLUS MORE with or without sequester.
We're talking $85 Billion here folks...... 1.2 PERCENT of the budget......
If 1.2% puts us over the edge, then we are already over the cliff......
Great point King Fish. It just means there will be a smaller explosion in spending.
protectamericanjobs: Well, at least both parties are working together. Unfortunately, it hasn't been in America's best interest. Ever since FDR the dems have been pretty much running the show. Reagan was the one bright spot. Then there was the Contract with America that worked well initially, until they forgot about it. Now we've got government involved in everything and the debt is going up and up. We keep throwing more and more money at our educational system and the kids get dumber and dumber. We keep throwing money at poverty and more and more people are finding themselves in poverty. We're spending over a trillion dollars a year more than we did just 5 years ago (all of it borrowed) and Obama and the repubs are arguing over nickels and dimes. Even now, they aren't talking about reductions in spending, just reductions in the amount of increase in government spending (which is like going out to buy a house where you look at one for $2 million and end up buying one for $150 thousand, and claim that you saved $1.85 million).
The concept of fiscal responsibility is now foreign to both parties. I understand the dems because the leaders of that party are socialists and want to turn the country into the Soviet Union. But, the repubs are a puzzle. It seems that the socialists have actually been more successful than imagined. They seem to have taken over the republican party. but understand that there has to be some foot stomping to give it credibility
“As the commander-in-chief, President Obama is ultimately responsible for our military readiness, so it’s fair to ask: what is he doing to stop his sequester that would ‘hollow out’ our Armed Forces?” Boehner said on Wednesday."
I was under the impression that our constitution called for the house of reps to build a budget to submit to the congress...they, the republicans , have laid all the blame on Obama for their not doing their own job...if Obama is to make up the budget..and then pass it..what do we need any of the republicans..or congress for that matter ? MAny of the ideas that Obama did hand to the house republicans were tjeir own ideas which they then turned down...this is nothing but a play on poplitics with this nation having to pay for the games both houses of congress are playing...mind you..they never talk of cutting thir pay or benefits or any thing that concerns them..only those of the middle class or poor are placed in the cross hairs of all cuts. ANd lets not forget that most all of congress are millionaires....yet they still put in for their pay raises while cutting those for anyone else.
Obama's idea or reaching out is to extend his hand and when the other side extends their's he pulls his away or slaps them. Then he goes around crying that the other guy refuses to shake his hand. And now he is trying to pull the old "The sky is falling the sky is falling" routine, when all that is about to happen is there will be a very slight decrease in the rate of increase in deficit spending, but actual spending will still increase. A minor blip on the radar and he is trying to make it out like a national disaster of major proportions. I guess what is really bothering Obama is that he will now be forced to actually sit down and do some work to figure out what 'cuts" he will have to make to comply with the legislation he negotiated and signed into law. Poor fella, he is actually going to have to do some work. Cry me a river, he won't have time to appear on the View.
To all the republican so-called geniuses...sequestration came about, forced by the republicans because of defense cuts they do not want!!!!
How hard is it for the "Stupid Party," (Gov Bobby Jindal, Rep., LA) to understand this?
The problem for current republicans in congress is, they know if cuts to defense occur, their sad asses will probably be kicked out come 2014.
Fear tactics by the republican obstructionists, as usual. Programs such as Social Security, Veterans Programs , Medicare, Medicaid, and help for the poor will not be affected, BUT, that's not what republicans want. About half the cuts will come from defense, that's the problem the republicans don't want. Their handlers, the lobbyists are demanding they do not cut defense, so republicans are demanding poor people are cut. Another point. Congress will continue to receive their $170k+ salaries while furloughing those in their offices who make substantially less, so, for the people who actually do their (Congresses) work, they will be laid off, furloughed, while their bosses continue with their lucrative salaries. Bringing up the fact, how much does it take to pay these @!$%#s in congress, salaries and all their benefits? Somewhere north of $703 million a year.
How's that for a useless group of do-nothings!! This is all about republicans in congress keeping the defense wheel greased for their buddies and lobbyists.
do you people see what's really going on we have no leadership "Spend Spend Spend and Give Give Give" I really hope we make 2014. I know I can run the gov. better but people aint going to like what is real and the truth. It's not hard" it's like we have ordered food at a table and then find out we can't pay for it so we keep ordering so people wount find out we are broke. hey have more childern you can't afford don't work the Gov will take care of you. everybody else is doing it, so why not you, blame the rich give money to countries so they can be our freinds. don't let states run their own state. this is whats wrong. I say no more fed gov was never intended to fix every state's problem and never intended to keep growing
and pig you are dumb
Mosh the sequestration came about as an idea of Obamas. Nobody forced him to do that. You claim republicans are using fear tactics? Who is the one running around telling everyone that will listen every conceivable bad thing except locusts coming out of the sky will happen? ... Obama! R's aren't demanding poor programs be cut, there are already cuts to social programs in there.
You say the R's are do nothings? Who has passed 2 bills to change the sequester? The house, controlled by republicans. What did the Senate do? Did they make ammendmants to it and try to work it out in conference committee? NO! Did the Senate pass its own Bill to deal with sequester? NO!
How in the heck can you say the R's do nothing when they have indeed passed 2 Bills the Senate won't even bring up for discussion. And the same Senate does nothing but throw bombs. How do you NOT rationalize the Senate as do nothings? The same Senate that hasn't passed a budget in 4 years.
Through legislative debate and compromise, the U.S. Congress makes laws that influence our daily lives. It holds hearings to inform the legislative process, conducts investigations to oversee the executive branch, and serves as the voice of the people and the states in the federal government.
Congress is the legislative branch of the federal government that represents the American people and makes the nation's laws. It shares power with the executive branch, led by the president, and the judicial branch, whose highest body is the Supreme Court of the United States. Of the three branches of government, Congress is the only one elected directly by the people.
Article I—the longest article of the Constitution—describes congressional powers. Congress has the power to:
Presidential role:
1. Chief of State
Roles: This role requires a president to be an inspiring example for the American people. In some nations, the chief of state is a king or a queen who wears a crown on special occasions, celebrates national holidays, and stands for the highest values and ideals of the country. As the American Chief of State, the president is a living symbol of the nation. It is considered a great honor for any citizen to shake the president's hand.
Examples of Behavior in Roles:
2. Chief Executive
Roles: The president is "boss" for millions of government workers in the Executive Branch, deciding how the laws of the United States are to be enforced and choosing officials and advisers to help run the Executive Branch.
Examples of Behavior in Roles:
3. Chief Diplomat
Roles: The president decides what American diplomats and ambassadors shall say to foreign governments. With the help of advisers, the president makes the foreign policy of the United States.
Examples of Behavior in Roles:
4. Commander-In-Chief
Roles: The president is in charge of the U.S. armed forces: the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines. The president decides where troops shall be stationed, where ships shall be sent, and how weapons shall be used. All military generals and admirals take their orders from the President.
Examples of Behavior in Roles:
5. Chief Legislator
Roles: Only Congress has the actual power to make laws. But the Constitution gives the president power to influence Congress in its lawmaking. Presidents may urge Congress to pass new laws or veto bills that they do not favor.
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6. Chief of Party
Roles: In this role, the president helps members of his political party get elected or appointed to office. The president campaigns for those members who have supported his policies. At the end of a term the president may campaign for reelection.
Examples of Behavior in Roles:
7. Chief Guardian of the Economy
Roles: In this role, the president is concerned with such things as unemployment, high prices, taxes, business profits, and the general prosperity of the country. The president does not control the economy, but is expected to help it run smoothly.
Examples of Behavior in Roles:
Congressmen-women are elected by the people, not by the electoral collage.
You gotta love it. obama comes up with the idea of sequestering the budget so that it makes it so unpalatable that neither party will like the outcome. Now obama realizes that he has $H!T in every American's bed. The republicans are the ones saying they don't like it and the democrats are unusually quiet during it all. They must really think that obama's $H!T doesn't stink and really enjoy wallowing in his output.
Reaching out to the republicans to compromise? Why isn't he reaching out to the democrats also? They also agreed to the sequester that OBAMA made into law.
Obama is Lucy and GOP is Charlie Brown. Football practice out back at 4 pm.
President’s plan only saves 1800 billion over 10 years. (180 billion per year in savings). The
DEFICIT is over 1300 billion per year.
1300 -180 = 1120 billion in DEFICIT spending per year. WHAT A JOKE.
Whitehouse dot gov/sites/default/files/docs/deficit_reduction_table_bucketed_r8.pdf
ProFreedom-5130956
maybe if the dems actually had a plan to present the gop could work with them
#1.32 - Fri Feb 22, 2013 6:03 AM PST
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ProFreedom,
For you or anyone else to claim that the Democrats haven't presented any plan to the Republicans to work with, is incredibly ignorant.
According to the U.S. Congressional Record, there were, as of this date, nearly 2000 officially documented bills and proposals put forth by both the Senate and the House, regarding the economy, parts of the economy and related matters, ever since Barack Obama officially became President of the United States, on January 20, 2009.
There are thousands more in the Congressional Record, if you want to get back even farther than that.
What's also on the Congressional Record -- ever since the Dems won a majority in the Senate on January 4, 2007 -- the GOP filibustered their proposals a record-setting 375 times, for anything proposed by the Dems to fix the economy that was going downhill during the last year of the Bush Administration (and later, by the Obama Oval Office).
11 of these GOP-engineered filibusters out of the 375 the GOP Tea Party imposed on Congress, was created to even block any possibility of placing any such proposals to a vote.
The latest filibuster from the GOP was to block one of their own, a war veteran and as of late, a Republican moderate, from getting nominated as head of the Department of Defense, because all the right-wing echo chambers assumed that Hagel must have been cutting deals against Israel, for he was associated with the sarcastic joke created about the non-existent, "Friends of Hamas."
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query
USA Today Poll: GOP losing sequester blame game
On issues, public is more aligned with Obama than GOP
Now just 22% of Americans, nearly a record low, consider themselves Republicans.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/02/21/poll-pew-obama-gop-guns-energy-immigration-sequester/1934233/
Keep telling yourself that as you click your ruby slippers together...it won't matter. The Republican party has a few days to get it's act together or become a side note in history. It looks to me like the Republican Party is going the way of the Whigs and the Dodo Bird.
GOP, End the Sequester NOW.
Or you Republicans will be the ones that will be set aside, sequestered, sequestrated, and then castrated.
Put the public good first, before your party's selfish interests. Then, only then will the GOP surge FORWARD again.
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FORWARD.
GOP, START the Sequester NOW
Early we can save more!
The sequester will hurt the economy, and Americans will blame the GOP who will lose more in November 2014 and 2016 elections.
Please explain how raising spending over FY2012 by 188 Billion is hurting the economy in the liberal view?
I agree it hurts the economy to continue spending more which is why we should cut the budget by 1 Trillion immediately
OK, Larry, where would you cut $1 Trillion from the current budget? Bear in mind that you will never be reelected if there are people starving in the streets or building Hoovervilles on the Mall.
cutting 1 Trillion from the Budget merely takes us to spending at the FY2008 level.
Add to previous- I would personally like to see the budget cut by about 2 Trillion and not in 10 years but in 1 year.
Instead of expanding socialism and totalitarianism in this country, let's try the Constitution and expanding liberty. We need representation in Congress and the White House that is committed to following the Constitution.
It should be the priority of good govt to repeal the 16th amendment and end corporate and individual income taxes, and the Estate Tax. They violate the principles of liberty our nation was founded upon
We need to abolish the Depts of Education, Energy, Health & Human Services, Labor, OSHA, EPA, Transportation, phase out SS & Medicare, abolish the Federal Minimum Wage, abolish the FCC, FDA, FTC, NLRB, return student loan programs back to private lenders, end all Food Stamp programs, Federal welfare, Federal unemployment insurance payments, Obamacare, and a host of other unconstitutional programs. These are all unconstitutional programs that promote a socialist totalitarian state. We need to get rid of the Federal Reserve and take back control of our monetary system.
Taking some of the steps above would reduce our deficit to near zero and reduce the debt by trillions
We need to institute a national sales tax like the Fair Tax proposal, and renegotiate all of our Trade Agreements and associations allowing for a renewed system of tariffs.
We need to remove ourselves from the UN and ask them to relocate to another country
We need to sell off some of the 245 million acres of Federal Lands. There are 10's of millions of acres of Federal lands that lie dormant and are not used for anything (I'm not referring to National Parks or Forests). In some states like Nevada, the US Govt is the largest landowner. Use that money to pay down our debt. Selling off this land would provide cash to the govt for debt reduction and would result in massive economic growth.
The Federal Govt needs to stop meddling into issues of drugs, alcohol, or tobacco. Those are issues to be determined by the States
We need to promote energy independence through development of our own oil and gas resources. With the elimination of corporate taxes and the heavy hand of Washington which stifles business development, there is more capital available for both increasing use of our current natural resources and development of alternative energy technologies.
Other technologies like recycling waste into energy which is done in Scandinavia but opposed by the radical left environmental extremists would also increase energy independence, create jobs and help the environment that these leftists claim to love.
We can reduce defense spending by approx 15% through technological advancements and greater use of drones and special forces. This should also include removing the stupid ban on assassinations. While we have closed a number of bases in Europe, we could probably close the remaining bases in Germany without affecting national security.
And that is just a start to what a more Constitutionally run, liberty promoting US could accomplish. It would lead to entrepreneurship which is the ultimate form of job creation.
Well Larry, you've made it plain that you're tea-party through and through.
I do support the efforts of the Tea Party, but I've been a libertarian for over 40 years. I left the Republican party in 1970 because they were too socialist, especially Nixon and Rockefeller,
Larry..if that is your picture, thank you for your service to your country. You must know, deep down, that none of what you suggest will ever happen. I'm sure you're aware that this is no longer the country of the 40's and 50's or even the 70's.
What are you going to do? And how will you live with such hatred in your heart? There is much good to be found amongst your fellow Americans. Democrats and Republicans and yes Libertarians. But you can't turn back the clock.
I hope you find some peace in your life and take the time to explore your heart.
Pig, by now we thought you would have drank enough cool aid, guess not, hope you don't drown in it.
There are NO solutions that will reduce the budget deficit by trillions of dollars in one year. Whatever you're smoking... please stop. George Bush managed to accumulate a good portion of this deficit with his manufactured war in Iraq and his tax breaks to the wealthy. President Obama inherited an economy that was circling the the drain from G. Bush and was forced to spend money to keep major US economy players afloat until the crisis passed. He has been crucified by the GOP for that effort. This is one area where a little cooperation from the GOP will go a long way. The GOP may have to actually serve their country instead of obstructing it by not favoring their 1% campaign contributors, the super wealthy. And all the GOP lemmings who don't seem to realize that their pensions and their jobs are being destroyed by the very party they support.... well, as the man said... "You can't fix stupid". Go middle aged white guys!
A lot of the debt isn't even put on the books. The government spending more money that it didn't have to try to prop up our phony economy is only compounding the problem. The Democrats and the Republicans are part of the problem. The government is the problem.
Sadly You choose to be devisive instead of constructive. President Obama and his team created the problem with "Our way or the highway, and it's all the Republican's fault nonsense". Truely Sad because now the Republicans feel that the highway is the only option left to them. The Democratic approach of give us just this little thing and we will work with you later ploy is now dead, dead, dead. If we are to believe that the sky will fall with sequestration, then given the Overwhelming support for President Obama the majority of the financial hurt will fall on those that voted for the Democrats! Good on ya, you will get what you so richly deserve!
Yeah the libs say they want a 'bipartisan' agreement on a plan that hasn't been presented yet to avoid the sequester. All they want is assurance that everyone will say 'yes' up front and just pass any bill. No arguments allowed- that's their idea of 'working together. As long as we agree on our plan then we can have a plan.
So what's the plan? "We don't know, we have to pass it in order to know what's inside". There is no plan- only a weak prayer. Their plan is to feint their ideas, wait for the gop to reject it (as any rational body would) and then play the blame game so they can look like heroes.
If either party were serious about the American people they would cut all money going overseas to support foreign countries if you have to give them money they are not democratic nations but parasites
Shouldn't you give proper "quotation" to your posted report at #2.6!
This is how you can tell that the liberals are full of hot smelly air first thing is the tea party is a union that do or don’t pay union dues! As s they claim to be for unions but bash them, so the Demarcates are no more than Hypocrites!
Second the republicans are so anti union they think all union members are all big bosses yet republicans and democrats are all about Big business that stomp out small business when given a chance, yet embrace the tea party which is totally against their nature!
I still haven’t figured out how the ACLU got control of the unions in the first place the ACLU should be considered a monopoly and divided up so union members can decide where their dues go instead of fighting the ACLUs battles on God and one Individuals right on what movies should be Ban of course the republicans will never see any donations because they are controlled by or are big business, as are the Demarcates but the Democrats play that game very well! As sheep we must be feed and fatten up and lead to the next step in the possessing process!
Barry 'Suess' O'bama:
On Pennsylvania Avenue, right near the end, there lived a President who wanted to spend.
He knew spending meant power, so hour by hour, he thought up more spends from his Washington tower.
“I’ll spend without limits; I’ll spend without blame! Raising taxes to pay—that’s the name of the game.”
Down the street, though, a House filled with thriftier folk had a budget to pass, or the country’d go broke. “We can’t spend all day; we’ve got bills to pay! Let’s keep deficits and higher taxes away.”
The Senate next door to the House just refused. “We don’t like your budget. We’ve got some bad news: The President says we can spend all we want, and we’ll simply raise taxes whenever we choose.”
So they spent and they spent and they borrowed some more. And when all that was spent, they spent same as before.
But not everyone thought the spending was nice. In the House and the Senate, some spenders thought twice. “We’ll cut down on spending. We have a bad feeling…” then—SMACK!—right on schedule, they hit the debt ceiling.
Then the President’s office, confronted with debt: “If it’s cuts they want now, then it’s cuts they shall get. We’ll threaten such cuts that NO one would take, and show them that cuts are not smart to make.”
“This will make Congress move. We’ll just float out a tester… broad, haphazard cuts that we’ll call the sequester.”
The Senate and even the House said, “Okay! That will motivate us to find a good way. We’ll figure this out and stave off those cuts—to allow them to happen, we’d have to be nuts.”
So the deadline was set, but the spending went on. A year and a half had soon come and gone. The House passed a budget; the Senate said no; the President very much enjoyed the show.
“Spend higher! Spend faster! Grow the welfare rolls! Soon, love for the spending will show up in the polls.” He even raised taxes, but it wasn’t enough—the levels of spending grew too fast to keep up.
“Don’t you mind the sequester,” he told Capitol Hill. “You said you would fix it, and I’m sure you will.”
But they could not agree on ways to cut spending, and before they knew it, the sequester was pending.
“Oh no!” they all cried. “We can’t let these cuts stand!”
And the President said, “WHO thought of this terrible plan?”
They didn’t remember his plan all along. He distracted them with his spending-cut song. Now he returned to save them from harm, and to keep them forgetting all but his charm.
So the President said with a glint in his eye, “You tried to cut spending. I saw how you tried. But it’s just too painful—I’m sure you can see. From the beginning, you should have listened to me.”
“I’ll save you all from the spend-cutters’ axes. You see, the solution is just to raise taxes.”
We don’t know yet how this story will end. Will Congress raise taxes and continue to spend? We need a balanced budget with smarter cuts—reforming entitlements will take guts.
- Amy Payne, The Heritage Foundation, 2013 (nice job!)
Obama lies, the economy dies..... I've never been so ashamed of a President in my adult life!
Obama has spent more time hanging out with Tiggerhold then talking to any of the GOPS
STOP SELLING HIS CRAP AND GO AND FIND YOURSELF A REAL JOB DUDE.
1.2 trillion over ten years is ain't @!$%# we need more.
Why should I put quotations around something I wrote over two years ago? It reflects the modification of a paper I wrote in 1983 and sent to President Reagan and the RNC at a time when I had hopes of the Republican party becoming conservative.
Whaaaaat? Mr. Obama reaching out to Republicans ? You have to be kidding me.
Is Mr. Obama finally over HIS "My way or the highway" and "I won so get over it" attitudes ?
Nah....must be all smoke and mirrors so he can get his way again.
Double Nah....he will just use Executive Orders or have his Progressive Cabinet Members change regulations. Wait a minute.....he House controls the purse strings......but that won't stop Mr. Obama since he circumvents the Constitution anyway.
4 more years of just holding on.
In Obama's America it's ok to dream just not to big.
Obama doesn't care about the budget, deficit, or any of that crap.... his only goal is to stymie the Republicans however he can! And the sad part is that America has so many 'low information' voters who have drunk obama's koolaid that it will be very difficult for sane minds to prevail in this crisis!
Obama is a master manipulator, I'll give him that! Too bad he's also clueless as a leader!
some people love to point at spelling and proper english but miss the whole point just like americans worried about what it looks like rather than fixing the real problem, we have become me me me nation and our leader is the worst
Pig, how does a party end something that has already been signed into law? Obama already said he would veto anything that tried to stop it so how exactly are they to end it?
I love it! O'bummer wants Americans to think that the whole world will fall apart if he doesn't get his way. But wait! He got his way. He is the the that proposed sequestering the budget. Now he doesn't like it. He got his wish of tax increases and now he doesn't want to give up his tax cuts. The increases result in $185 billion and the sequester will result in only $85 billion. The cuts are less than 2.4% of the budget and obama doesn't like it because of what it will cut. There goes all of his social programs that he promised would not be affected.
What's he worried about? He can't run for office again anyway so pandering to the entitlers won't gain him anything.
Yesterday there was a news item, " America's Most Miserable Cities ". I looked up the cities listed, and checked their populations and areas. The most miserable cities comprise 15,694,928 people, or roughly 5% of the nation's population. If you gave each of these individuals $1000, that would be 15 billion dollars. The majority of these cities were in the Great Lakes region of the country, the North Atlantic coast area, or California. These are areas where there is high crime, urban decay, lack of employment opportunity, poor education and associated social and medical ills.
Will $15 billion help these people out, or will $15billion dollars prolong their misery? That is the question. $1000 per person a year in these areas, is roughly 3 dollars a day. I'm inclined to believe that the false hope of happiness cannot be found at 3 dollars a day for miserable people in miserable communities. Can the false hope of happiness be had for $6 a day ( or 30 billion ) for these 5% of the population? Again I think not. So the math here is leading me to the question for these 5%, are they going to be significantly more miserable with $0 a day, than the false hope at $3 a day?
Wealthy Republican Tea Partiers, living in their ivory towers, simply do not believe that mega-billions in across-the-board spending cuts would be a hardship on the rest of the nation.
They want the Sequester to happen because a Democrat of a mixed-race, was re-elected to serve as the Chief Executive of this country, by a majority of American voters. They also see this as a blind and massive political opportunity to shrink the size of the public sector -- no matter what the cost to the nation's citizens, its economy, the nation's public and private health care, the cost in lives of our most vulnerable children and the handicapped, the sick and elderly, the damage it will do to all the job markets, and the neglect it will officially impose on the entire physical infrastructure of our nation, begging for repairs, or its handicapping effects it will have on our national security's efforts to guard the homeland from outside threats.
After all, why should they care? They got theirs.
From the news -
Of course Americans support the President, as I mentioned in Comment #1 (copied and pasted below). the people supported the President and the DEMs in 2012, and will do it again in 2014.
@ Pig
Do you have a link to this poll? Because the last poll you dems posted said most Americans agree with the president had only 1000 people in the poll.
I think you Dems do polls with 1000 people and cry most Americans. I don't know about you but 1000 people don't make up most Americans.
You dems have done nothing but post half bake truth.
I was reading an article that said Obama on Al's show said 75% of American Agree with raising taxes more but come to find out only 19%.
So next time you look at a poll look at the number of people in the poll because if it is less than 300,000,000 people than the poll is rigged.
I never received one call on any of these polls you DEMS post so to me polls are bias..
You know Pigotry - posting the first 3 comments and then answering/replying to yourself shows you have WAY too much time on your hands.
@ Gboy
No she answer herself because she is the only one that believes it..
This was confirmed in a poll 99% of America agrees....
hey lasertroll, of #3.3,
Give me the link to this poll.
what a troll!
Wasting life away with your meaningless posts.
@ Pig
Is that your link to that so called poll you talk of?
Just like a dem call them out and they respond with name calling...
I don't think Republicans should talk too much about polls. Ask Carl Rove and Fox, and by the way we all know why suquestration happened. Remember the Debt Ceiling, it wasn't all that long ago. You can remember it, come on try real hard.
No, pig is only playing the same smoke & mirrors her party of spend spend spend plays with the public. By making the poll look like some big deal the intent is to recruit people into thinking the same limited way they do. These 1000 people are all probably dems anyway so its biased and not a valid sampling.
lastertroll - you obviously do not know anything about the science of statistics. 1000 people is more than enough to project where the opinion of Americans. If you want an example, the polling that was done before the election clearly pointed out the victor, and yet the conservatives, right up to Karl Rove trying to fry the Fox statistician on national TV, denied it to the end. Polling does give an accurate picture of how the majority feel. Just because you are not in the majority, does not not mean the poll is incorrect. It means that the majority of people feel differently.
@bigotry- "wasting life away with your meaningless posts"
Boy, pot calling the kettle! And your posts are useful how? lmao! You must be getting paid to spread the hate-filled propaganda you espew. Can I have an application please?!
Great post P&J (#2.20), more entertaining and truthful than any of pig's useless posts!
Tell me were I'm wrong : Sequester does NOT mean CUT — it means SLOWED GROWTH IN SPENDING. We will have the SAME AMOUNT of SPENDING PLUS MORE with or without sequester.
Here Piggy Piggy Piggy......
Wait a minute......
Here Progressive Progressive Progressive
Both one and the same.
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King Fish....
We know that (except for the Progressives). This issue is only being highlighted by the Obama administration to ATTEMPT to make the Republicans look bad and to again use their Class Warfare agenda. And this will continue with other issues such as RAISING THE NATIONAL DEBT LIMITE. That is the plan since Mr. Obama has very narrow vision.
That Boehner guy sure is a real joke. A very bad joke. The republicans just can't stop themselves from destroying our country, just to please their corporate masters. What poor excusses for humans they are.
Obama left out the part in regard to the Repubs wanting polluted air and water as well as throwing granny off the cliff. He also left out the part where Repubs are inherently evil and simply do not have a differenced of opinion in the face of Obama's proven failed economic policies.
Time for the the Obama Sequester to take place. This is what we voted for and he committed to veto any effort to repeal it. I support this position.
Obama is the president.
If this depression gets any worse will he still play the blame game?
All the while Obama plays this game of destroying America, the American people are the ones suffering.
Every time Barry does something to "help the American people" it cost me MONEY.....
I can't tale any more of his help.....
Here's my question: Obama invented the 'sequester' in the summer of 2011 to avoid having to deal with America's spending problem. So why now does he rage against it and attempt to blame Republicans for something he created? I'm dumfounded at the audacity of the most divisive President in recent history.
Because he's FOS
Obama "invented" the sequester?
You need to take some advise from one of the high priests on the right, Mr. Karl Rove.
Mr. Rove says the minimum amount of time that must pass after an event before you can effectively re-write the event's history is five years.
So, you're kind of jumping the gun trying to re-write "history" from only two years ago.
Incidentally, Mr. Rove was referring to being effective re-writing history for the general public at large, not just the right wing. For the right wing, you can re-write "history" the next day. Fox does it all the time.
Obama's massive spending spree has devalued this currncy to the point of looming collapse.
The sky is falling, the sky is falling. Put on your aluminum foil hats!
Every republican expert that worked for prior administrations, yes those moderates, all say the current GOP leaders are wrong in their approach of only wanting cuts and no revenue increase through cutting loopholes for rich in taxes and subsidies for oil companies, etc.
Basically, Grover Nordquist has one of the GOP leaders' nuts in one hand squeezing it and La Pierre/NRA has their other nut in their hand and squeezing it. Grover and La Pierre must be squuezing so hard they are cutting off the blood flow to the brains of the GOP leaders.
It might be cutting off the blood to the brain, but it sure gives them a nice, rock hard Boehner.
A rock hard, throbing, well tanned, drunken Boehner.
Middle Class America has been pinched since before Bush left office while the rich just got richer. It's time to spread the pain. We know that middle-class America can stand it. We've survived the worst the Republican's have for us. Now let's see how the rich handle it.
All this talk about the massive budget cuts to be triggered by the "sequester" on March 1 is complete bluster and B.S. by the Republican Party trying to scare the American people into accepting cuts in Medicare and Social Security. Now that their bluff has been called, what every thinking person already knew is coming out. The federal budget being talked about today is money that will be spent in 2014 and beyond. As long as the Republicans are voted out of their Do-Nothing Jobs as the majority leaders in Congress in the next election there is plenty of time for the new Democrat controlled Congress to put together the funding to keep everything running like clock-work. However, if the Republicans aren't voted out of their majority in Congress the full weight of the sequester will come to pass before the 2016 Presidential elections when the Republicans know they will be held responsible for once again devastating our economy. In the unlikely event that the Republicans hold onto their majority in Congress and win the next Presidential election they'll be left with an economy in shambles that they created.
The President should stand firm and let the sequester happen. Bottom line it'll get our budget into line and our deficit reduced quickly as is needed.
Obama is lying again eh???
@Bigbear: Maybe your tyrant in chief can get his stones out of Moochelle's purse long enough to man up to the mess and divisiveness he's created in America then work with BOTH parties to fix it. He put the sequester in the bill and passed it and said he would VETO any efforts to repeal it -- what is so difficult even for you drooling kool-aid drinking lapdogs to understand. HE OWNS THIS and the DEBT and all he's doing is tooling around the country like he's a rock star on the taxpayer money. Time to get to work or is that a dirty 4 ltr word only afforded to us little hardworking taxpayers.
Barry could beat Michelle and the kids with a broom on the White House lawn, with the entire world watching, and his faithful would claim he was just brushing the dust off their clothes.
BigBearcatBill, so let's have the names of "all the republican experts that worked for prior administrations" you are quoting.
Obama he's a reach - Alright.......
Obama "reached out to the Republicans". Wow, what a great President for "reaching out" to the House and Senate. He really knows how to bring both parties together. Clearly a President who "reached out" must have some sort of compromise to introduce. The headline for this story should be in bold, and headlined on top of NBC's website for everyone to gloss over, and get a good feeling about their President, without doing any research of their own.
I don't see McConnell or Boehner "reaching out" to the President. We do need to get closer to a balanced budget but you can't do it with a meataxe.
okie -
They reached out to Obama when they gave him the tax increase he asked for. It's his turn to reciprocate.
What I find facetious about the way he did this is that police and firefighters are paid for out of local and state budgets, not out of federal monies. But then, what can one expect out of the liar that claims to be President?
typical pigotry rant.The fact is Obama will go down as the worst President in the countries history.Obama is even more incompetent then Carter and that is saying something
my new alias is iPIG, or P.S. (Pig $hit, not pigskin). More than 50% of the great American voters voted for the President twice, and ......... about the worst the president (GW Bush is the undisputed choice)
Wow....the worst in our 'countries' history??
How many countries do we have anyway?
How is INCREASING the budget $188 BILLION over FY2012 is going to negatively affect the economy?
this is the lying spin put out by the Marxist Democrats and their shills the MSM. And brain dead liberals swallow it without even a glass of water.
Conservatives want the sequestration to go through because it's the ONLY way to force Washington to even reduce the rate of growth in spending.
The Sequestration still gives the US Govt an increase over FY2012 of $188 BILLION dollars to the Budget. Obama and the media are lying as usual. There is NO CUT in spending from the sequestration
We need a budget cut of 1-1.5 Trillion this year to actually show they are serious about fiscal responsibility.
A 1 Trillion dollar cut would put the budget back at the FY2008 level. That's how much Obama and the other marxist Democrats have increased spending.
And then we have this quote from the Liar in chief
http://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchia/2011/11/21/obama-i-will-veto-attempts-to-get-rid-of-automatic-spending-cuts/
The Rethuglicans created this mess. They want to use this mess to scare everyone into cutting medicare and social security. They are still fighting battles with FDR. Close loopholes by having an upper end cap to deductions. Close loopholes by having the top 500 corporations pay taxes on their outrageous profits. Close tax loopholes that allow MIT and thousands of others hide their billons in off shore accounts. Close loopholes and tax subsidies for oil companies and corporations who take their buisnesses over seas. Get rid of the upper end cap that rich people stop paying into social security after 125,000 of income which would fund social security for a thousand years. Want to solve the deficit, go to where all the money went and is and make those rich SOB's pay their fair share. Problem solved.
ReThugliCons...haha..a good one....good laugh...thanks
Democraps is also a good one! LOL
tea -
Just because you believe the propaganda that Obama puts out does not make it true. If you have any actual proof, I'll listen, but to continue to call names merely shows how childish you and many of your liberal friends are.
Grow up! Get a life! And take care of yourself without depending on the federal government to take care of you!
Oboma can't blame this on the Bush Administration, although he will no doubt attempt to do! He caused this, and he can remedy it by ignoring it! Impeach this lying SOB!
This mess?
But, little Johnny Boner said he got "98% of what I wanted".
Actually, that could be accurate; I'm sure Johnny Boner and his band of goosesteppers did indeed want a mess. They just don't want the blame for the mess.
What a shame it backfired on their treasonous asses.
They will find a way to point fingers this is all they do with name calling included..
The GOP should just put out the TV ads: Obama, we gave you what you wanted - sequester. Now deal with it. If you want something else, stop by and we will tell you what we can do to balance the budget you never created in five years. The people don't want incompetent Presidents without budgets. Screw you!
Wow.....is that really the crapola they're feeding you goosesteppers over at fox?
And while we're on the subject, you haven't the first clue what "the people" want or don't want. It was "the people" who gave Obama four more years. It was "the people" who began weeding the right wing out of the House and Senate.
Just how far removed from reality does fox have you anyway? Do you still think Romney's going to win in a landslide?
John Boehner - "I am pretty happy, I got 98% of what I want".... Problem with republicans they got the half of their brain that has any logic and rational thinking lobotomized by some billioniares who must have snuck their androids into their offices to do the brain removals.
Well Obama, make sure your Generals and Admirals get their pay, along with their troops - you can bet repubs may try to buy them off and have a military coup overthrow the government installing Dictators Mitch and John, because they all want Repubageddon/Repubapocolypto/Repubarapture.
whoever is feeding pigotry the lead paint chips, knock it off, it's not funny anymore, you're causing brain damage.
LOL not paint chips..starbuck's. Must type 140 wpm. You go, Piggy.
Just curious. Why exactly is the GOP so dead set against closing loopholes? Can they make it any plainer that they live to serve their corperate masters above the U.S. and all else?
Probably their slush fund for their homes in China and their private militaries they plan to take over the country and next the world with - Repub Leaders = Goldfingers.
Facts always confuse the dickens out of people like you. But I say in your defense you cannot help being stupid as you can only work with the (&%# fer brains you were born with.
The GOP told Obama again and again they were not willing to raise the tax rates, but in compromise they were willing to raise taxes by taking away loop holes, only to have deluded neurotics like you fail to grasp this simple fact, shove your head up your ass, and spin yourself stupid making crackheads 4 weeks into a 3 week binge sound bright and educated
Gee, Boozer, with such wisdom, wit and reason as you display, you've sure made a believer out of me. How COULD I ever had such foolish thoughts?
So, work yourself into a nice stroke, or go hide in your bunker with your pleasant thoughts and your own feces.
Didn't Mitt run on a "closing loopholes" promise? where is it now GOP? I never believed him on this point.
if we can just borrow enough money from future generations, raising taxes on the unborn, we can have a thriving liberal economy today. all you have to do is think like a thief, and behave like a social parasite. Liberalism, logic retarded cousin.
This administration is dividing the US. I've been a centrist, but Obama has me leaning more toward conservative republican than a democrat of any type. Take a stance Obama, stop pretending you are just "trying to fight the power" while lying to us tax payers. I'm done with you.
Obama is in a tough spot. His lies have come full circle and he is having a problem with his message. No one can explain it includiing him. So there lies the problem.
If this is the only way to cut spending, then I guess it will happen because Obama refuses to cut one dime of spending. What an addict. Our children will wonder why we let this President have everything he wanted and where all the money went.
I think he has to keep up spending because can you imagine the true numbers without manipulation? I am telling you after 8 years the country may not be able to recover and then the pain will really start. I am not sure if we can last 4 years though. It may happen sooner and then he will go down in history of the fall and crash of the American economy. Which may be what he wants recall Dreams of my Father.
what do I think of your post?
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Pig, your comments on this thread from the start have read quite arrogant and condescending.
Just sayin (and the truth in my inference; i'm sensing that's what you were continually implying in all your posts).
Obama isn't trustworthy IMHO. He suckered me into voting for him in 2008, only to see many "changes" that didn't seem to be anything like he was relaying to the masses in his campaign. Obamacare is and will become a huge disaster, as it does nothing to CURB COSTS-- the crux of the healthcare crisis.
Democrats spend, spend, SPEND. Truth runs deep for decades.
The House does initiate financial bills, yes. BUT THE FACT REMAINS, the Senate chooses (under Democratic leadership) to sit and do nothing. Call a spade a spade. No budget from them...still.
Obama has flip flopped on a couple issues since 2008. I don't precisely recall them anymore, but I noticed it in 2009 and 2010 and thought WTF to myself, and helped me determine there's no way to vote for him again.
I don't trust him; and I cannot understand why the media lauds him as a political peacemaker and "compromiser." This a**hole states in early January to the effect of "my way or highway, Republicans" and demands only his agenda...and now he's all reasonable again? Snake, manipulater, two-faced, etc.
I, as a taxpaying AMerican citizen, of legal age, have a legitimate opinion on our president. It's clearly not as rose-colored and accentuated by the reefer many of my hell-bent-on-being-Democrat compatriots.
Compromise
President Obama: Here is my plan what do you think?
Republicans: We like many parts of your plan but would like to incorporate these ideas.
President Obama: So you don't want to compromise.
This is how is has been for almost 4 years, I don't think President Obama knows what the definition of compromise is.
It's the President who has made most of the compromises to the GOP in the last 4+ years in the best interests of the nation. Americans voters gave him credit and voted for him again with 51% of the vote.
Name the compromises. Please be specific. 51% quite a victory, one that only a 14 year old would be celebrating.
So...you have not followed news, then ..... what's the point to even help you on your question?
You know so much how about listing them, please be specific.
so...instead of just posting your stuff, do some reading, or maybe just do some 'googling' to find out for yourself....self-help is the best help
Face it you don't know what you are talking about.
Bohner said he got 98% of what he wanted on the sequester deal. If that isn't compromise then I don't know what the @!$%# is. Many democrats were not happy with Obama about it either.
Obama has time and time again offered the olive branch only to have his hand slapped away by the do nothing GOP. He's even sided with some Republican ideas such as cap n trade, but as soon as obama (who apparently has cooties or something) supports them, the GOP are suddenly against it.
What the GOP is doing should be considered treason imo.
@ Pig
51% of the votes LOL have you not seen the video of the black lady where she said she voted 6 times for Obama?
I am sure if we take out all the illegal votes he would have lost by a landslide.
But you believe what you wish..
RTypo, I like you, frog! You look deliciously froggy. Thanks for your post #20.7.
51% of the vote (thanks to his Latino friends whom still are awaiting their 'payment')
46% approval rating. If this was a grade on a test that is below an "F"
Nat'l debt today: $16.558 trillion and growing!
Obama "reaches out" to Republicans? Reaches out? What he did was contact his political opposition and urge them to accept his terms for avoiding his sequester. This non-story is blatant media spin on behalf the President, without whose combative radical ideology this conundrum would not have occurred.
The President is reaching out to the Republicans and giving them the opportunity to compromise.
Combative radical theology? He is doing what the American people want, what he was elected for. How does that make him radical? Unlike the right who doesn't give a crap what Americans want, only what is good for them. Get a grip.
FORWARD...
Reach out? Rubbish. Just another ploy to make it seem he's being cooperative when all he wants is to raise taxes on everyone and spend spend spend. he's a sleazy rascal and this country would be so much better off without him and his high spending fat assed wife
the pipe piper,
Divide and conquer
Germany allover again
The Sequester will hurt more innocent and vulnerable Americans who have already suffered.
It is President Obama's idea so it must be a good idea. Oh wait he said it was not smart, he must have been acting stupidly when he thought of it.
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Pigotry, your responses are thoughtless. I'm so sick of reading your childish responses and name-calling on all of these articles. You never answer the hard questions posed to you. You are the epitamy of the uninformed voter. Get off the kool aid.
Republicans claim to be a party of family values, but families across the nation have suffered. Instead of making sure to boost the economy and helping out, the GOP has wanted to cut vital services to the poor who have suffered not for their own fault but due to GOP deregulation.
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Where are your values, GOP?
What deregulation are you referring to? Please be specific.
so...you haven't followed these things..it's almost useless to even try to enlighten you...there have been so many... just google - with keywords republican deregulation recession....you won't be disappointed for sure.
Thank you for the list. 0
@ Pig
GOP has wanted to cut vital services to the poor who have suffered not for their own fault
Not their own fault? That is just the dumbest thing I heard so far today.
The GOP did not tell 11 million illegals to come to this country did they?
I never seen a ad where the GOP told black people to have multiple children even if you don't have a job the government will pay.
You are a joke...
11million illegals who came to this country ,lured by US employers who wanted cheap labor for hard jobs when the housing boom and US economy was in full swing.Those employers were, by in large, members of the GOP. So to answer your "DUMB" question,yes,the GOP,through it's members, issued cheap labor invitations to illegals to come to this country to dig ditches,mow lawns,be maids,dishwashers,roofers,hang drywall,paint,sweep floors....every hard and lousy job you can think of...in order to maximize profits. They could have paid a living wage to American workers,but what Republican...like you LASERTROLL... would ever want to do such a "socialistic" thing like that,when you could break the law by hiring an illegal to increase profits?
@ earsport
My my, GOP really if I had time to find the link where 4 Dems had illegals working for them I would but you are not worth my time. To blind even if I gave you a link you still would be blind to it...
And sorry but some how you have been misinformed I am not a republican or Democrats.
Like the cap name calling living up to the Dems real nice I see.
Can we talk about what your Jesse Jackson and wife did? Or are you blind to that as well?
And I think you need to wake up. I have work for Dems and they don't pay very well just saying..
But you can believe anything you want..