I was listening to Rush and a woman caller asked Rush and was wondering where are all of the children's letters written to Obama where the kids are writing Obama and asking why their fathers don't have jobs? Good point.

"we all bundle"

Brilliant !!
Submissive Stepford Democrats

A self-reliant, self-sufficient individual is a Democrat’s worst nightmare

OneDayatatime, every truth I've posted of Republicans vs. Democrats show how the Democrats steretype, box groups, use a crisis, and exploit.

I'm asking you to prove the statements false. Your only response to me is criticism. What a validation of everything I just listed.

You can't stand opposition to your opinion and you don't offer statement of your own that I'm wrong.
You have merely adding to my truth.
Thank you!

fordfan..no these cuts won't close the whole gap but its a start. Also should means test for Medicare, with a sliding scale, in addition to having work projects for welfare and unemployment.

donnaw - I like most of your thoughts for cuts. Will the cuts you mentioned solve the deficit problem? How much will be left if it does not close the gap completely?

Completely true one day - can you debate it?

Liberals remind me of the Stepford wives...

"we all bundle"

thatwaseasy
Jan 16, 2013 at 9:40 a.m.
A self-reliant, self-sufficient individual is a Democrat’s worst nightmare

Spot ON! Individual being the key word there.

@ thatwaseasy...stereotype much?
Pretty wide paint brush for such a narrow mind

Well done Thatwaseasy!

Wasn't it Obama as Senator say "Raising America's debt ceiling is a sign of leadership failure"

The other day Obama said "Not raising the debt ceiling would be aburd and irresponsible"

So many on the left called Romney a "flip-flopper" during the campaign.

What NOW do you call Obama?

Chick-fil-a acknowledged a repugnant lifestyle in America that they don't believe in and I commend them. In truth it was Dan Cathy's personal view and not being said corporately but the news media spun it out of control as usual.

If you’re a Republican who doesn’t use a lot of salt or drink slurpies, you just don’t use them.
If you’re a Democrat you ban them from restaurants and shrink the serving size.

If you’re a Republican who doesn’t agree with a business (Dick’s Sporting Goods) for stopping the sale of guns, you just stop shopping there. It is their right as a business.

If you’re a Democrat who doesn’t agree with a business (Chick-fil-a) for excising their 1st amendment rights you boycott and vandalize them for not agreeing with your ideology.

I really could do this all day but I am not being challenged as the truth lives.

And that's why Libs don't want you to prove you are one vote one person. Did we really get the government of the people? Low approval ratings before and after election is a clear indication someone or something isn't on the up and up.

Obama can and will continue to blame Bush, Boehner and those evil repiublicans that stand in his way. 3 equal separate branches of govt is something this "constitutional attorney" does not understand.

We all get the govt we vote for. It is politics.

WOW, no one ever said Bush was Conservative. But let's see, 4 tril for Bush in 8 years which according to the libs contained 2 wars that received Democrat support in Congress.
vs.
6-1/2 trill for Obama in 4 years which includes kick backs to unions, billions in fails green energy, work out of welfare and skyrocket poverty in America....mmmmmmm

dustyd, I like what Adrian Rogers said, "What's this wing stuff?, I just know right from wrong".

At last! An admission that Bush was not a conservative saint! Maybe you can convince some of your cohorts on these posts that Obama is not the only reason that the debt is as high as you say. Now, if you can also convince them that calling for spending cuts, without saying exactly where those cuts should come from, attention Republicans, is hypocritical, maybe we will get someplace on taming that debt.

Tell us all what isn't true in what I posted.

Lame for a liberal because it's true. No other answer offered is lame.

thatwaseasy: It certainly is easy to copy and paste cutesy right-wing chain mail onto this blog. How lame.

In 2006 according to Obama, Bush was an irresponsible failure for raising the debt ceiling. Republican.

Today Obama Democrat calls it responsible.

If your house fills up with crap from a backed up toilet, do you clean out the waste or raise the roof of your house?
Democrats

If he isn't willing to balance the budget like Clinton than it really doesn't matter when $.40 of every dollar goes to maintain the debt. Bush = Obama.

http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials...

pharm, how many of the 16.4 trillion reasons do I need to point out for you to give it up that Obama is no better than Bush?

thatwaseasy, Also if you disagree with democrats they say you hate, if democrats disagree they say they are loving.

A self-reliant, self-sufficient individual is a Democrat’s worst nightmare

If a Republican doesn't like guns, he doesn't buy one.
If a Democrat doesn't like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.

If a Republican is a vegetarian, he doesn't eat meat.
If a Democrat is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for everyone.

If a Republican is homosexual, he quietly leads his life.
If a Democrat is homosexual, he demands legislated respect.

If a Republican is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation.
A Democrat wonders who is going to take care of him.

If a Republican doesn't like a talk show host, he switches channels.
Democrats demand that those they don't like be shut down.

If a Republican is a non-believer, he doesn't go to church.
A Democrat non-believer wants any mention of God and religion silenced.

If a Republican decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it.
A Democrat demands that the rest of us pay for his.

"The real domestic savings in Bowles-Simpson came from building on Obamacare’s steps to save money by holding down the growth of health-care costs and to cut defense spending by pretty steep levels. But these turned out to be ideas that alienated rather than satisfied Republicans. So basically it turned out to be impossible to find real spending cuts that Republicans wanted.

It’s true that Paul Ryan’s budget plan had some deep cuts. But none of those cuts touched Medicare for the next decade or Social Security at all. Ryan just kicked the crap out of the poor. So, that provision aside, if you’re not willing to inflict epic levels of suffering on the very poor, there just aren’t a lot of cuts to be had out there."
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/201...
Ask Obama for specific cuts, yet they are afraid to propose them.

donnaw: Spending bills orginate in the House of Representatives. The Republican-controlled House can put forward and pass bills doing exactly what you are suggesting. They can offer specific cuts to Medicare and Social Security in their budget plan. Why don't the Republicans just do it (a rhetorical question)? Because Americans like and depend on these programs, and Republicans don't want ot take the blame for cutting them. It's a lot easier to just say "Obama bad."

fordfan....you mean to tell me Obama can't find any other areas to cut spending? Come on...how about those raises for congress and federal workers he signed into law. How about cutting some from foreign aid? Do we really need to support t all these other countries, even the ones that hate us? How about raising the age for social security one or two years gradually? How about raising the cap on wages for soc sec deductions a little bit? How about all that pork that increases everything? How about all the poverty programs that are being abused and the overlap? How about the military? They are already talking about cutbacks there cause they know it can't keep going like it is. Obama doesn't know how to say no to any socialistic program...it's what he wants. We should be in extreme efficiency mode in our govt but Obama flying back and forth on expensive vacations to Hawaii doesn't much set the stage for that kind of thinking. Don't tell me there aren't efficiencies in every single govt program. The Education building in DC takes up an entire city block...any Turing back there? How about just cutting back on projected INCREASES in spending?

Eagle, spit through your nose all you want, by the end of fiscal 2013 the deficit will have been cut 33% since 2009. Failure to realize this makes you one of your uninformed partisans.

donnaw - you should like that, as the ultimate position of the Republican Tea Party is to stiff the elderly and anyone else that needs government assistance or that the Republicans can steal from. They just want to force Obama to be the one to say/do it and he is saying "do it yourself". Of course the Republicans, being the cowards that they are, they are afraid to publically state their yearnings and goals. If more revenue is off the table, where are you going to get the money to close the deficit gap so you can feel free to increase the debt limit? You are afraid to say and you will not say.

Obama continues to scare the seniors and vets with threatening to stop their check to get his way. Oh no, we can't cut spending. What about all the other entitlement programs and the checks to congress and other countries? So we stiff the seniors and vets but keep checks going to foreign countries? Come on Obama grow up!

Eagle1...where are those candidates?

Eagle1 - Where did I say that I am a Democrat or that you were a Republican? Now, I see little difference in your positions from some of the Republican neo-cons out here but I never said you were a Republican did I? I know you try to pass yourself off as being for neither party...but then how would anyone know?

(916wi – please let me know if you see any spelling errors or incorrect grammar usage.)

fordfan oh and thanks to you too for being a dem that sees only what they want in my posts and labeling me as a republican, brilliant.

fordfan, why would I become a part of something that I think is the root of most of the problems this country faces? Not very logical is it? Plus my past is not exactly squeaky clean so I am sure that wouldn't become an issue at all. I am just waiting for candidates that put country before party, as long as enough blind partisans continue to support them I guess I will be waiting a long long time.

These truthers can be one of your running mates!

http://news.msn.com/us/sandy-hook-%e2%80...

Why are we not seeing 916wi, Eagle1 and some of these other genius types running for some level of public office? Surely they would be elected with their great ideas, high intellect, superior abilities in grammar and punctuation and overall great personalities that will lead to taking Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security away from the elderly so the elderly will have the opportunity to start being more productive citizens (like joining the military, perhaps?). It is a no lose election for them all!

(916wi – please let me know if you see any spelling errors or incorrect grammar usage. It is like getting a free education from such a bright person as you!)

sorrry 916 I willtry to due beter

poobah, the fact you can't figure out my political ideology shows you are too blind to see it when it is so obvious.

poobah, I don't care if they do or not I am pointing out the failures of people like you and and your blind partisan support, I realize that might be a bit too difficult to wrap your head around but it's a basic concept, I was once like you but then I had so much evidence sitting in front of me it was unavoidable, open your eyes it's very liberating. And btw thanks for proving my point! :)

donnaw: correct..the Democrats voted against Obama's budget. I believe the votes in both the House and Senate were unanimous, but that its has more to do with procedure than substance. My point is that the President does submit a budget every year, and Congress votes it down because they want to do it themselves (but don't).

Eagle1, do you really think anyone cares what your political ideology, if anything, is? Get over yourself.

I predict the partisans will only see what they want to see in my last statement and I will be labelled as a Republican by dems and a Democrat by the GOP lovers. It will be entertaining.

Lowering the bar I see like true partisans. Good Lord it is really shameless the way people will defend Obama but blast Bush or defend Bush but blast Obama. There isn't much difference between them folks, that's a fact. What was really shameless was when Clinton allowed himself to be pimped out at the DNC last summer and portray Obama as being just like him, nothing could be further from the truth. Clinton was not the government expander either Bush or Obama have been and he was in favor of balancing the budget, because he did it. Clinton’s best asset by far was his ability to be a manager and not rock the boat, he played the middle brilliantly, he talked leftist rhetoric (and sucked in the clueless dems) but always governed as a moderate. He was the first politician that I learned to watch what he does not what he says, that lesson has become very valuable. But just because he has a ‘D’ after his name, he knows there are enough people that don’t pay attention that will buy the partisan spin he played last summer, it looks like it continues to work for the blind. I have to thank pharm for making me spit water out my nose by stating Obama has had huge deficit reduction, I am not sure what type of calculator you are using but I think the amount of money added to the debt would contradict that statement.

A trillion dollar deficit out of three and a half trillion dollar budget is not spending twice what is collected, and deficit reduction under Obama has been huge. Trillion dollar deficits were built into the budget before Obama was elected, McCain would have had them also. The article cites what legislation, and the effects of that legislation, that Obama has signed. Spending under Obama is rising less than under either of the Bushs, Ford, Reagan, Nixon.
Better factcheck whoever is telling you these things.

Fordfan.......First of all, please work on your spelling and punctuation. Second, it's not a matter of Obama "kissing up to the Republicans", it's a matter of making tough decisions in an effort to get the nation's fiscal house in order. Obama is pandering to an audience with legislation that will make him popular in the short term, while compromising the long term fiscal viability of this country. Can you not understand this?

pharm......So we aren't running trillion dollar deficits and our federal government isn't spending twice what it is collecting? I was told that these were facts, please provide evidence to the contrary......

How can any of you think either party is worth the ballot their names appear on? Neither of them have kept their word on the biggest issues they got elected on. Hello GOP when are you going to cut spending? Hello Democrats when are you going to close Gitmo and pull out of Afghanistan? The increased drone activity says not in the near future. It's a joke that 80% of the population blindly follows one of these two groups of clowns.

916, a fact filled article presented to you, and you don`t want to believe it. I understand, you won`t be swayed by facts, just rhetoric. Like the Romney campaign, no facts allowed.

Omama is a Muslim. Obama was born in Kenya. Our number one goal is to make Obama a one term president. If he fails on health care we cna break him - it will be his Waterloo. Oabam does not know what it means to be an American. We will refuse to give the president a single win in the legislature. Let's make fun of the physical appearance of Obama's wife. Obama waon twice with over a 50% majority and the Democrats won more aggregate votes than the Republican's in the House (thank you Gerrymandering)but we will refuse to recognize that the Democrats won.

I don't know why Obama does not kiss up to us after we have been so nice to him.

LOL - Obama is doing a great job in spite of the congressional right wing.

"That doesn’t mean there is no more work to be done, but it does show we’ve come a long way already."
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You seriously have to be delusional! Under the current administration we have run and are projected to continue to run trillion dollar deficits for the entirety of this administration. Instead of cutting spending during the fiscal cliff negotiations, spending programs were actually introduced. The country is spending twice as much as it is bringing in. You response to this is a progressive puff piece that pats the big 0 on the back under the pretense that there is "more work to do"......ya think!
You should be a comedian pharm!

"Since the start of fiscal year 2011, President Barack Obama has signed into law approximately $2.4 trillion of deficit reduction for the years 2013 through 2022. Nearly three-quarters of that deficit reduction is in the form of spending cuts, while the remaining one-quarter comes from revenue increases. (see Figure 1) As a result of that deficit reduction, the projected rise in debt levels from today through 2022 has decreased by nearly 10 full percentage points of gross domestic product. In fact, under today’s policies, debt levels in 2022—as a share of GDP—will be only slightly higher than they are expected to be by the end of next year. That doesn’t mean there is no more work to be done, but it does show we’ve come a long way already."
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/b...

dusty..so his own party didn't like his budget?

Fire them all.Useless.

donnaw: here's a link where you can download the President's entire 2013 budget. It was rejected by both the House and the Senate.
www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/13/budget...

No leadership, just misuse of execute orders which mirrors a dictatorship.

It's about time Obama gets a backbone. Now that he has and is showing leadership the right doesn't like that either.

Conservatives are still whining over Republican Congressional leadership having backed themselves into a corner and caved in to practicality.

dusty...where is Obamas budget? He has been POTUS for FOUR years! He made all kinds of promises...you can keep saying its Bush fault until you are blue in the face. It's time the buck stopped on Obamas desk! He spent his honeymoon capital on cramming the health care bill down our throats. If he had been minding the store (our economic situation) instead of pushing his socialistic agenda, maybe we wouldn't haven't accumulated such high debt during his four years so far. He said, "oh, just vote to raise taxes to avoid the fiscal cliff and then I pass spending cuts." Congress was stupid to believe him. He has no intention of cutting any spending. He is a political slimmy toad. As are most of the other members of this administration and congress. Republicans and democrats.n

FYI: The Energy Department’s loan-guarantee program, enacted in 2005 with bipartisan support, has backed nearly $38 billion in loans for 40 projects around the country. Solyndra represents just 1.3 percent of that portfolio.

The stimulus was voted for by the US Congress, and it worked. The loans or grants to wind and solar companies are an EXTREMELY tiny portion of this problem, and came from a program that began during the Bush administration that was also funded and approved by Congress. The recession began before Obama took office.

dust... Wow, non of this 16T+ debt is Obama's fault? Failed stimulus, Jobs, Wind and solar $$ squandered by this admin takes the cake.Increase in food stamps and rising poverty is his legacy. Yesterday Obama threatened Social Security and Veterans by claiming they would not be paid if the debt ceiling was not raised. That is the usual threat imposed by this prez to scare old people ect. How about we withhold paying congress, the prez, federal and other cabinet members until they reach a deal instead of threats against the citizens.

Someone needs to make note of the fact that the President can't "write checks" and spend government money. Congress APPROVES ALL GOVERNMENT SPENDING. The entire debt of the United States was voted for by Congress. The current national debt is due to spending they have already approved (i.e. voted for). The vast majority of the increase in federal debt over the past 5 years is attributable to the Bush tax cuts, unfunded wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a depressed economy (which has greatly reduced income tax revenue), and increases in Medicare costs, which Republican legislators and voters broadly support and have voted for. Republicans, including Paul Ryan, voted for the TARP bank bailout. Furthermore, if the Republican majority in the House doesn't vote for additional government spending, it won't happen. So, the wingnuts in the Republican Party need to stop lying about how Obama is spending us into the poorhouse.

In the paragraph before the last sentence I think he means high unemployment, not employment?