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Fiscal Cliff Pork

By Larry Johnson on December 29, 2012 at 9:59 PM in Current Affairs

Think the Democrats are worried about America? Think again. They are only thinking about themselves and feeding their clients at the pork barrel. Received the following from a friend who was privy to a briefing by some Democrat lobbyists in the last couple of days:

I just spent an hour on a conference call with some scumball Democrat lobbyists who described how they were going to load the fiscal cliff legislation with pork that they needed to then dispense to various companies, with a hefty cut for themselves, of course. One of the lobbyists was actually laughing about how the hurricane Sandy victims actually got very little of the recent relief funding that Congress appropriated for them.

That’s how the Democrat controlled Senate rolls.

If the Democrats are smart (and evil), they will try to peel off House Republicans by trying to toss some of the crumbs of this deal to them as well. That is the corruption that is Washington.

  • HARP2

    TERM LIMITS !!!!!

    • Deapster

      NO – please, we tried term limits in California and that is when we really went over the cliff – a stupid, know nothing group of short-timers rely 100% on what lobbyists tell them to do. Law of Unintended Consequences.

      First two year term – really, really dumb
      Second two-year term – they are now senior members
      Third two year term – they are just phoning it in and trying to set up their next move.

      Meanwhile lobbyists are wining and dining the staffers who are doing the grunt work for the short-time idiots so it is purely pay to play.

      NO to term limits. You have to get change the old fashion way – throw the bums out on your own.

      • http://noquarterusa.net Larry Johnson

        I think you are right. I understand Harp’s well intentioned desire. But, as you correctly note, unintended consequences.

      • KenoshaMarge

        Okay, I need to think on this some more. I was in complete agreement with Harp on this one. Now, perhaps I need to rethink some. As you say, unintended consequences. Most politicians being the scum that they are, it is more than conceivable that they would scurry to get as much as possible for themselves and their pals if they only had a short time.
        How do you throw the bums out when far too many voters are too stupid to do it? They know someone is corrupt but vote for them anyway if the have the right gender, color skin or letter following their name.
        Then you have the scumbag, corrupt media picking and choosing who they want and the idiot voters follow along like good little sheeple. Is there any answer anymore or have we gone past the point of no return?

        • getfitnow

          This o/t but when I saw “unintended consequences,” it reminded me of what I read the other day — hybrid/electric cars in accidents putting first responders at great risk. The size of the batteries on these vehicles have the ability to cause explosions/fires.

          I read some months ago about some of these cars catching fires, but didn’t think about possible emergency workers being in more danger.

          I read that law in CA was written to finally get rid of Willie Brown in Sacramento, but he just went to SF and did the same crap for 2 terms.

          Voters need to wake up.

        • elizabethrc

          Likewise, but there must be a way to accomplish holding politicians’ feet to the fire. A state by state referendum which makes it illegal for any politician to get or give taxpayer dollars to anyone in exchange for anything? If they violate the law the result would have to be complete expulsion/removal from office, immediately. And all those lovely perks which follow most politicians throughout their lives would need to cease at the same time.
          Why reward cronyism when it’s been shown to have done so much harm to us. They conveniently don’t remember us? We’re the ones who put them into office, pay their salaries and all of those perks, yet we’re the ones who suffer from their compulsion to find the easy way, the self-indulgent way, the self-enrichment way.

          • elizabethrc

            Another thought: Perhaps a law which disallows any ‘add ons” like pork or entitlements to a presented bill.
            Just vote on the damned thing as it is and let it stand or fall on its own merits. Stop muddying the waters with stuff that should be presented on it’s own. Let it, too, stand or fall on it’s own merits.

        • BettsAZ

          I have Dimocrat friends and family members who I have decided not to “debate” issues with anymore. They either just don’t care(low information voters) and just vote anyone with a D after their name. They are “educated” dummies(school teachers, nurses, Captain of our fire dept.(my brother!) They believe that NPR and CNN are politically neutral, and would NEVER watch “that far-right” Fox news or any talk radio other than NPR/PBS. Never check out Drudge.

          Then there are those who, if they saw with their eyes, Obama commit a horrendous crime, they would deny it really happened.

          And worst of all, there are those who would applaud and support the crime if it was Obama who did it…(fortunately, I don’t personally know anyone that far gone…that I know of, in this last category)

          Really…what do we do? I generally speak my mind when dealing with idiots, and I don’t like the twinges of resignation I’m feeling knowing that the truth doesn’t matter.

          • KenoshaMarge

            No point in debating with fools. I not only don’t debate them, I avoid any conversation/interaction with them at all. Why bother.

            To say that some family member or former friend is a “nice” person but that they support Oblahblah and the Dims is an oxymoron IMO.

            Or as my friend Katmoon says, a boron, someone who is stupid and a bore.

    • TexMexSoup

      This is a damn if you do and damned if you don’t kind of situation. Seriously how do you win? CA will prove their stupidity no matter what they do so either way, they are a total FUBAR.

      Why not try term limits or the reality is stop the lobbying.

      • elizabethrc

        Time will take it’s toll on the Obama parasites. We’ll unfortunately have to live under dire straits for quite awhile before those people start feeling the pressure on their freebies and their rights. It is inevitable that, at some point, every dictator is overthrown, when the people’s suffering becomes too great. I know that’s an extreme statement, given that we still live in a democracy, tenuous though it seems, but even the most fervent believer in Obama will be faced with the same rising costs of commodities that the rest of us will. They will have their freedoms restricted and regulated as well and given our national historical personality, that won’t be acceptable.

        • TexMexSoup

          I hope you are right. Yestereday’s headlines stated Obama’s top priority is ‘gun control’. They take away our guns, throw is in FEMA camps, how do we defend ourselves?

  • HARP2

    We have listened to the Dems for 10 years, telling us how we can`t afford the Bush tax cuts, but now with another 6 trillion debt we can magically afford them for 98% of the people.

    Do we hear this from Republicans……Hell no. No wonder people are pissed off.

    • KenoshaMarge

      The GOP, except for a few, very few, brave souls seem afraid to say anything. The media has them completely cowed. Thus we are now a one party nation.

      IMO only the Tea Party stands between us an complete disaster. And the Republicans are scurrying to pull their teeth lest the media and assholes like Chris Van Holland attack them for allowing the Tea Party any voice at all.

      Too extreme they blather. While the extreme left welfare, give-away party leads the country to destruction.

      • foxyladi14

        Well said Marge

  • TheRealMrNatural

    “Al Qaeda Disbands; Says Job of Destroying U.S. Economy Now in Congress’s Hands”

    WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)— The international terror group known as Al Qaeda announced its dissolution today, saying that “our mission of destroying the American economy is now in the capable hands of the U.S. Congress.”

    http://tinyurl.com/cawaf4g

    (- via The Borowitz Report)

  • Dave L.

    Nikita Krushchev , quote ( Does this ring any bells?)

    Rember his speecch at the UN, Banging his shoe on the table.
    ” Your children’s children will live under communism. You Americans are so gullible. No, you won’t accept Communism outright; but we’ll keep feeding you small doses of Socialism until you will finally wake up and find that you already have Communism. we won’t have to fight you; WE’LL WEAKEN YOUR ECONOMY, until you fall like overripe fruit into our hands.” Nikita Krushchev, 1959.
    ARE WE THERE YET ?

    • getfitnow

      And I’ll add:

      ***********************

      “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only
      exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the
      public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the
      candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result
      that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by
      a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been
      200 years.”

      ― Alexis de Tocqueville

      • Hokma

        If you go back to the early days of the New Deal history could mark that time as the beginning of the collapse of our federal republic. FDR sought and accepted socialist doctrine as the foundation of the early New Deal. From that point forward, the federal government grew exponentially in size and power and their will was forced on Americans to make sure more and more people and industries would become reliant on the federal government.

    • Hokma

      Krushchev had already witnessed FDR taking advice from Stalin for ideas to resolve the bad economy he inherited. FDR was a failed businessman and had no faith in the free market – only in government. Some of his closest early advisers had journeyed over to Russia to learn how socialism worked and what we could learn from it. Many of the early New Deal ideas were rooted in socialist doctrine.

      So what Nikita was stating was simply existing fact.

    • foxyladi14

      YES we are

    • FloridaFI

      Sadly, to invoke Godwin’s Law, most Americans under the age of fifty believe that WWII in Europe was started by German Industrial Capitalists.

      They are often shocked and dismayed when I explain that NAZI is a German language abbreviation for National Socialism. Which is exactly the type of government our current president supports.

      Folks, we have some dark times ahead.

      • Fred82

        Well,

        I think there is a lot to be said for Josef Stalin’s Icebreaker strategy.

  • getfitnow

    What never ceases to amaze me is that the average
    voter thinks that you can target the very rich or the successful
    and none of that will devolve onto them. The truly wealthy have their
    money hidden, tied up, or banked in another country. Therefore, the taxing will have to fall on the middle class.
    The corporations pass on the cost of taxes to their customers. Prices
    go up and the poor and middle class pay them. And yet the majority of
    voters have not figured out this long standing fact, or the historic
    fact that when taxes go up, federal revenue goes down and the economy
    suffers. None of the above are new ideas.

    Perhaps the most distasteful part of this is, on top of everything else, the federal government giving themselves all nice raises and bonuses with borrowed money. Didn’t the republicans pass something recently to freeze gov salaries? Did That One bypass Congress on this? This should not stand.

    • KenoshaMarge

      The average voter, having been dumbed down to the point of stupification by the Unionized Education system has no clue about what is going on.

      Many can’t read, or what’s worse, don’t read, and the rest are too busy sitting like potted plants in front of their wide screen televisions watching intellectual trash like Honey-Boo-Boo.

      You can’t get blood out of a turnip and you aren’t going to get smart votes from dumb people.

      • http://www.facebook.com/margaret.maree Margaret Maree

        Marge, I believe you are correct. The dumbed- down ed is key to how we have slipped, and I’m astounded by the ignorance I see. Can’t help thinking we’d not have declined so with an intelligent and informed public. Of course, importing huge numbers of various underclasses all voting in their own self-interest hasn’t helped.

    • elizabethrc

      getfit: you have committed an unpardonable sin: you have used reason, logic and common sense to describe the problem. How could you?!!!!!

  • no_longer_a_democrat

    So, I see the argument these bastards called dimocrats make,

    1) raise the rate to clinton tax rates and all will be better, have these dimocrats loser ever used a calculator? we are accumulating 1.3 trillion in debt EVERY year since Soetero got in, raising rates will bring in only about 60 billion more in revenue per year. These jerks act like raising rates is going to solve everything, IT IS NOT!
    and guess what they are using as “spending cuts”, monies “saved” from the Iraq war, sooooo I see, not spending monies is “saveed money” to be used for budgeting purposes. what the hell kind of crappy thinking is this??

    2) it will NEVER be enough, they will come after middle income families next, they can confiscate all the “evil” rich people’s monies, and that will pay for 1/2 of 1 year’s worth of bills, what then? seriously, who in their right minds will work hard, create new wealth, so the socialist dimocrats can then spread that wealth around!

    We are already over the cliff, we spend way too much and bring in way too little, as of now, the difference is made up by Uncle Ben’s printing press, which in turn is making the US dollar worth even less and less, which guess who it affects?? the very middle class the dumb dems say they are on the side off.

    I used to think repubs are bad, dems are a million times worse!! liars, racebaiters, ignorant scumbags, all of them!

    Let this go off this “cliff”, 45 cents on the dollar of those tax breaks are borrowed. Either the rates go up and everyone or no one, and none of it, until there are spending cuts. My family and I live pretty frugally, its high hell of a time that the US federal govt do so!

    http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2012-12-29/government-dependents-outnumber-those-private-sector-jobs-11-us-states

    in 11 states, govt dependents outnumber the private sector, seriously, how long do the dims think this will last, they are killing the golden tax paying goose

    “A broken safety net is NO safety net at all!”

    • KenoshaMarge

      The Dims have lost the ability to see beyond the end of their nose. With a lapdog media that protects them they know they can do or say anything they want and suffer no consequences.

      With an idiot public that votes based on color, gender or ethnicity they don’t have to worry about most voters worrying their pointy little heads about issues. Or understanding them. After all these are Unionized Education recipients. They not only don’t know what to think, they don’t know how. The Honey-Boo-Boo/Jersey Shore generation!

      • no_longer_a_democrat
      • exmaple

        But funnier are the Repub. supporters who think their pols are any different. Heck, Bushonomics enabled Obama’s even grander plans. But Bush tested the limits of our good credit rating. Obama does not want that, initially, but will go for the boondoggles. What is Larry’s friend complaining about, his clients didn’t get their share??

        • GVS_fan

          No, Not funny, at all.

  • no_longer_a_democrat

    unrelated to this topic… but check this out…. lefty facebook banning things they don’t agree with!

    http://www.naturalnews.com/038484_Gandhi_quote_Facebook_censorship.html

  • Popsmoke

    Its time for major reforms. Ethics, lobbying, campaign finance and term limits. 10 years for the house and 12 years for the senate…

    • Hokma

      In Eisenhower’s farewell speech he warned against government control:

      “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”

      The New Deal and WWII led to the massive growth of the federal government. The federal government is a beast that is fed with tax dollars and now debt and use it to keep itself in power and grow that power.

      The way they keep themselves in power is create programs to force people and companies to be dependent on the government.

      So what we have is a socialist democracy although some could argue that it is an socialist oligarchy controlled by two symbiotic political parties.

      The priority of a congressman or senator is first to their donors, second to their political party, and a distant third is to their constituents but usually when election time comes.

      There is not a single congressman or senator who will introduce a bill to limit their own power through term limits.

  • foxyladi14

    Throw the bums out. but the voters are too stupid to do it?

    this last election proved that.

  • HARP2

    President 666 will totally own this miserable economy now.

    • TexMexSoup

      He’s President 444 the precursor to the 666 whom he will help usher in

  • HELENK2

    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/12/30/Obama-blames-Republicans-for-fiscal-cliff-mess

    it is all the republican’s fault per backtrack

    no budget for 3 years dem control senate

    budgets passed by republican controlled house, die at democratic controlled senate

    those damn republicans they ruin everything

    • KenoshaMarge

      The only thing the POTUS POS is any good at is blaming someone else for everything. Evidently that’s the left’s idea of leadership.

  • HELENK2

    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/12/30/Obama-On-Gun-Control-There-Will-Be-Resistance

    per backtrack there will be resistance to gun control.
    ya think???

    • Hokma

      What he figured out is that the best way to undo the second amendment is for the government to take all control of all guns out of the hands of citizens and into the hands of government.

      • KenoshaMarge

        Because…

  • HELENK2

    way off topic

    http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/12/al-qaeda-offers-bounty-on-american-ambassador.php

    al qaeda offers bounty on American Ambassador or American soldiers.

    well why not they got away with it in Benghazi

  • Deapster

    Local writer set out reasons she was a Republican which had nothing to do with the current Democrat party salacious characterizations of such:

    Her best line was:

    “But mainly, I have very little faith in our government’s ability to do much of anything very well, so why would I vote to have them do more?”

  • Deapster

    NewsFlash: The Democratic Party voted to officially change their name to the Demagogue Party.

    The donkey is out and will be replaced by an 8 tentacle octopus, embracing and squeezing the life out of any thing with in its voracious reach. BTW: all 8 tentacles are card-carrying union members.

    • BettsAZ

      Or like the Blue Meanie in Yellow Submarine that voraciously devours everything in sight until the only thing left is itself, and sure enough…it then devours itself.

  • HELENK2

    http://weaselzippers.us/2012/12/30/obama-picks-his-12-favorite-photos-of-2012-11-feature-him/

    backtrack’s 12 favorite photos of 2012. guess who is in them

  • HELENK2

    US Senate leaders still have no ‘fiscal cliff’ deal and with time
    running out, it’s uncertain if they will get one: senior aide – @Reuters

    put on your safety belt, here we go

    • KenoshaMarge

      Hell of a way to start a New Year. But better, IMO, than capitulating to obama.

  • HELENK2
    • KenoshaMarge

      Actually there is no “debt ceiling.” Because if there was the debt would stop at the ceiling. What we have is a debt elevator that just stops at a certain floor for a time.

  • HELENK2
  • HELENK2

    http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/budget/274813-from-democrats-fiscal-fallback-plans

    odd democrats have a plan for after we go over the fiscal cliff.
    wonder why there is not one to keep us from going over the cliff

  • HELENK2

    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151398771663132&set=a.431162418131.220637.206080093131&type=1&theater

    best idea I have heard all year.

    stolen from a commenter at the crawdad hole

  • HELENK2
  • HELENK2

    US Senate majority leader: Democrats not in position to make
    counteroffer to latest Republican proposal in ‘fiscal cliff’ talks – @Reuters

    • KenoshaMarge

      What kind of a thing is that for the Majority Leader of the Senate to say? Damn for the party that the young are so in love with they sure have a lot of stupid old fools!

  • Hokma

    This Reuters’s writer has it partially right with a headline that says: “In 2012 American’s Greatest Economic Weakness Was Its Government”

    http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/12/in-2012-americas-greatest-economic-weakness-was-its-government/266702/

    The only problem is that he only focuses on the fact that decisions are not made.

    But he does speak about gerrymandering which is why there is so much gridlock.

    What is missed is that this is by design by two political parties that believe this gridlock is in their personal best interests so they play a game of footsie to make their opposition to each other look good.

    What should be learned from this is that the founding fathers were all right in being fearful of too much power being placed in the hands of the central government.

  • MG6
  • HELENK2
  • foxyladi14

    Watching the show on C-SPAN NOW!!!!!

  • HELENK2

    McConnell reaching out to Biden, Reid not responding

    • no_longer_a_democrat

      LOL. Biden?? reallly?! Biden?

      repubs are relying on Drunk Joey Biden !?!?!?!

      Dimocrats truly are scumbags, they can tax the hell out of everyone they want, and that money won’t be enough. I’m sure they’ll blame the repubs for that too!

  • HELENK2
  • HELENK2

    Update: Senate adjourns with no ‘fiscal cliff’ deal; will reconvene Monday – @USATODAY

  • HELENK2
  • Fred82

    Let’s see……..

    These politicians cannot………

    Win wars,
    Balance Budgets,
    Do their jobs,
    Be decent people.

    The hell with the whole scuzzy lot. Somebody vote these bums out already.

  • HELENK2

    Hillary Clinton admitted to hospital with blood clot following concussion http://t.co/RychRaE8

    • HELENK2

      http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/12/breaking-hillary-clinton-admitted-to-hospital-after-discovery-of-blood-clot/#comments

      read the comments

      one of the sad things that Hilary did to herself by joining the backtrack bunch is she lost a lot of credibility. As a woman who wanted her to be president, I am saddened by that

    • elizabethrc

      Two things: This sounds like a stroke to me. Why else keep everything so hidden?
      Second: What is with this incessant need to keep the public in the dark about her health? If she lives or dies, is it going to impact America in any way vis a vis world peace?
      Washington does love creating intrigues and then tantilizing the public with it.
      I’m so done with Hillary.

      • getfitnow

        I found it strange she wasn’t under medical observation at the beginning of this. She’s a top administrator of this country, for goodness sake.

        It may be coincidence, but she has not looked well for years, imo.

      • KenoshaMarge

        I’ve been done with the Clintons for some time.
        Since neither of them have any character or honesty it’s hard to believe anything coming from them or their camp. Depends on what the definition of clot is I suppose.
        They probably want to keep this quiet so that when she runs for POTUS in 2016 no one suggests that she’s brain damaged. But that didn’t seem to bother obamavoteridiots when they voted for Joe Biden on the Dem ticket.

  • HELENK2

    Hugo Chavez not recovering. 2 weeks after 4th operation in #Cuba remains delicate. new respiratory complications #Venezuela

  • HELENK2

    http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBAMA_SURVEILLANCE_LAW?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-12-30-17-49-22

    behind closed doors backtrack signs extended warantless wire tap . but it is all bushes fault

    • KenoshaMarge

      It is only wrong when done by a Republican President during a Republican Administration. Once a Dim is in the saddle it’s off to the races.

      Funny how that works cause when I was a kid, back in the dark ages, we were taught that when something was wrong it was wrong.

      Oh and my mother would never let us get away with an argument that started with what someone else did. So much smarter my Mom that all the media pundits combined. Sorry Mom, that ain’t saying much.

  • MG6
  • HObama HObamanana

    Doctors for Secretary of State Clinton blame the sudden onset of the blood clot on an obscure anti-Mohammed video. Susan Rice offers to testify for Sec Clinton. Again. Victoria Nuland explains that Sec Clinton will remain under a doctor’s care until they are all quite certain that the Benghazi clot (can’t look out of touch) no longer sticks to her and that all traces and connections to it have been safely dissolved.

    Predictions for 2013

    Republicans will do some good things over the coming year. Democrats will do their best to convince us that good things are bad things. What they can’t hide they will take credit for.

    Obama will scratch his ass. Intergalactic Obot journalistas will translate the cosmic order as some divine revelation while the rest of us try to find our place at the appropriate government handout line.

    As if such a thing is even possible, expect the depravity of what is considered journalism to mutate into unrecognizable depths of desolation. You Ain’t Seen Nothin Yet!

  • MG6

    Quote of the day:

    “The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work instead of living on public assistance.” – Cicero , 55 BC

    So, evidently we’ve learned nothing in the past 2,067 years.

  • getfitnow

    That One’s description of
    four murders in Benghazi.
    (Sunday’s Meet The Press)

  • MG6
  • HARP2

    Liberal math.

    Look at all the spending we cut by not continuing the war of 1812.

  • HELENK2
    • foxyladi14

      So do I

  • HELENK2

    #BreakingNews President Obama delivers remarks regarding the Fiscal Cliff at 1:30. Watch LIVE on ABC7 and 7online http://t.co/hGINmZh4

    I just know everyone is waiting with baited breath for this speech on how mighty mouse backtrack saved the day

    • HELENK2
    • Hokma

      I am listening to this piece of garbage who bull shited and lied his way into the oval office LECTURING and MOCKING the GOP while they are trying to get this done.

      He is not even fucking involved!!!!! Biden is.

      All he is doing is trying to set himself up to take credit for something he does not have a fucking idea about in the first place. Who the hell is he talking to? Does anyone really care?

      This SOB could not negotiate himself out of open jail cell.

      • getfitnow

        He spiked the football, overtly insulted Republicans and Congress, and laughed that he is on the verge of getting what he wants. Either he
        wants to nix any deal, or he’s actually just enjoying his victory but is emotionally incapable of being presidential about it.

        Everything you ever wanted to know about our dysfunctional government was on display.

        http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/12/in-your-face-republicans/

        • HELENK2

          GMTA I posted the same thing

  • HELENK2

    entative ‘fiscal cliff’ deal contains no new spending cuts; senior GOP aide tells @Reuters

    • HELENK2

      rgNews tweeted:

      FLASH: Income tax increase threshold said to be $450,000 for families #fiscalcliff

    • getfitnow

      I wish this dog and pony show would just end already. We have ten Obama aides saying different things, five Pubs saying other different things, and the MSM speculating how much this will help Obama and hurt the GOP. As if anything is going to be different.

      We don’t have a government in Washington. It’s one big nursery school.

      Ed Henry @edhenryTV

      Officials confirm NO NEW SPENDING CUTS in emerging fiscal cliff “deal” — how
      did exercise in “deficit reduction” result in no spend cuts?

      • HELENK2

        it is like giving a lecture to your teenager on overspending and then instead of cutting up the credit card you raise the limit on it

  • HELENK2
  • HELENK2

    President Obama: ‘If we’re going to be serious about debt reduction, it’s going to be through shared sacrifice’ – live video

    notice how many miles he is away from meeeeschele when he makes that statemant

  • HELENK2
  • HELENK2

    http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/12/in-your-face-republicans/

    backtrack’s insulting speech. he is no class and low class

    • getfitnow

      Ryan Grim

      ✔

      @ryangrim

      House GOP leadership is livid over Obama’s speech, threatening to blow everything up, source says.
      *********************************

      They need to stopping threatening and DO IT!

      • Hokma

        I hope they at least go public by demeaning this maggot in the WH

  • HELENK2
  • HELENK2

    uskCNN tweeted:

    Sen. Corker on Obama remarks: “I know the president has fun
    heckling Congress. I think he lost probably numbers of votes with what
    he did”

  • HELENK2

    On Senate floor, John McCain, R-AZ., calls Pres Obama’s statement “a message of confrontation to Republicans.”

  • HELENK2

    BREAKING NEWS: McConnell Says Deal Reached on Taxes http://t.co/wnGq6H62

  • HELENK2

    In reading the news, it looks like backtrack went out of his way to screw up any deal.
    He would screw up a one car funeral

  • HELENK2
  • MG6
    • Hokma

      The only policy we should have had was to remove all Christians and other non-Muslims and then let the SOBs kill each other off without getting involved.

      There us no winning side for the U.S. in this revolt.

  • HELENK2

    #BreakingNews Congress won’t meet Monday midnight deadline on voting to avert ‘fiscal cliff.’

    Gerimo get your parachutes ready, here we go

  • HELENK2

    adelphia tweeted:

    #BREAKING: No House vote tonight re: the fiscal cliff, economy already damaged: http://t.co/UycHdSZJ

    • Hokma

      One has to wonder how much of this has to do with Obama’s deplorably childlike behavior today. As you noted the GOP was livid of Obama’s reckless theatrics.

  • HELENK2
  • HELENK2

    http://thehill.com/homenews/house/275039-nation-heading-over-fiscal-cliff-at-least-for-few-hours

    no house meeting on fiscal cliff.
    will meet for a couple of hours 5PM Monday to discuss Hurricane Sandy bill

  • Hokma

    Not sure if it is prophetic but of all days, SyFy channel has had Twilight Zone reruns all day which personifies what is going on inside the Beltway.

    By the way, these shows really are tremendous after all this time and even in b/w.

    • getfitnow

      Yep, I watch it every year. The scripts and acting are so good, you don’t even have to watch. You can just listen—like old radio programs.

      • getfitnow

        I’m watching the “It’s a Good Life” episode. I wish I could put That One and all his enablers in the corn field.

  • HELENK2

    Boehner reminds via Tweet that House has passed legislation to avert
    fiscal cliff yet with just hours to go, Senate has yet to act.

  • HELENK2
  • anon
  • HELENK2

    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/12/31/obama-scuttles-fiscal-cliff-deal

    backtrack scuttled the fiscal cliff deal, promises never ending tax hikes

  • HELENK2
  • HELENK2

    Breaking… Democratic aide: Fiscal ‘cliff’ deal reached http://t.co/71Bh8c43 #BreakingNews #wkyc #breaking_news

    fiscal cliff deal reached says dem senators and wh.
    will ever have any congress critter with enough backbone and balls to really represent the American people?

    by

  • HELENK2

    http://weaselzippers.us/2012/12/31/top-progressive-group-emails-all-senate-house-dems-demanding-they-oppose-fiscal-cliff-deal/

    progs e-mail dems demanding they oppose fiscal cliff deal.
    not taxing the rich enough

  • bbf

    SOCIAL SECURITY UNDER ATTACK BY OBAMA

    blackagendareport.com/print/content/obama%E2%80%99s-historic-assault-social-security

    A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford

    After four years of maneuvering, President Obama finally has his White Whale, Social Security, within harpooning distance. “Obama has largely neutered Social Security’s traditional congressional defenders, who know perfectly well
    what their president is up to, but will not directly oppose him.”

    Obama’s Historic Assault on Social Security

    “He can accomplish what Republicans only dream about.”

    President Obama and his Republican partners in austerity have choreographed a kind of bi-partisan ballet, in which the dancers reach out to each other in slow motion, their fingers almost touching, teasing the audience. These cheap and transparent theatrics are designed to transmit a soap
    opera-like sense of drama: “Can the two parties come to a compromise for the sake of the country?” But, the fact is, Obama and the Republicans reached most of their grand bargain more than a year ago, when they slashed $1.7 trillion out of domestic spending over a decade. As liberal
    Obamite Robert Kuttner, of Demos, points out, there’s very little left to cut except Medicare and Social Security.

    Social Security has always been Obama’s Great White Whale; he’s conspired with Republicans and right-wing Democrats to harpoon the mother of all New Deal programs since the very start of his presidency. But Social Security is not an easy mark. George Bush found that out in his second term, when he suffered his worst domestic defeat in attempting to privatize the program.

    It would take a Black Democrat, fresh from a near-landslide election, to put Social Security on the chopping block, as Obama did in January of 2009. But before he could move in for the kill, Obama and his allies had to convince the
    public that Social Security is a major contributor to the federal budget deficit – which is a lie. Social Security runs on its own stream of revenues that go into the Social Security Trust Fund, totally separate from general taxation and debt. However, by endless repetition of the Big Lie – that Social Security adds to the federal deficit – Obama and
    other corporate Democrats and Republicans succeeded in program into the austerity debate, where it does not belong.

    “Social Security runs on its own stream of revenues.”

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