So declares the DNC poodle Wasserman-Schultz.
QuoteDemocrats are ready to take responsibility for the state of the economy and they deserve credit for putting it on the right track, the party's chairwoman, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, said on Wednesday.
"We own the economy. We own the beginning of the turnaround and we want to make sure that we continue that pace of recovery, not go back to the policies of the past under the Bush administration that put us in the ditch in the first place," Wasserman Schultz told Mike Allen...
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0611/57025.html#ixzz1POUyD65e
Man is Obama going to be hacked off at her. There goes 90% of his speech content.
But Guido, there's still so many things we can pin on Bush. Two wars. Using the Constitution as a floor mat. Guantanamo. Cheney. Tax cuts to those least in need of them and least deserving of them. Turd Blossom. Global warming. Lunar eclipses. Dogs and cats sleeping together. The list is endless!
He did teach us all one very important lesson - reality is overrated.
Quote from: Ed W on June 15, 2011, 08:48:28 PM
But Guido, there's still so many things we can pin on Bush. Two wars. Using the Constitution as a floor mat. Guantanamo. Cheney. Tax cuts to those least in need of them and least deserving of them. Turd Blossom. Global warming. Lunar eclipses. Dogs and cats sleeping together. The list is endless!
He did teach us all one very important lesson - reality is overrated.
That there is funny smile!!
Good article.
Wow, she's a walking cliche' machine.
Quote from: Conan71 on June 15, 2011, 09:46:47 PM
Wow, she's a walking cliche' machine.
A politician talking about politics using sound bites and network terminology? NFW.
Quote from: Townsend on June 15, 2011, 09:49:52 PM
A politician talking about politics using sound bites and network terminology? NFW.
YFW.
Global warming...ah, gotta love it...
Here is the Vostok ice core data. Record of over 400,000 years of earth history for CO2 and temperature. It has been shown that temperature is leading CO2. Kind of reverses the logic to the whole discussion. There is not doubt that human activity can influence nearly global climate. We proved that with the dust bowl of the 30's. That was the direct result of human stupidity in the way agriculture is performed in this country and happened in about a 40 year time - roughly 1890 to 1930. So we know it is possible. By the way, we pretty much did it the same way now, we just planted a few trees to slow the wind a little. And we do things with the aquifer that are much worse than what was done then.
But that ain't what has happened with this phenomenon in the past 400,000 years. So what is the real deal?? We are clueless.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vostok_420ky_4curves_insolation.jpg
This one shows a little more detail with different ways of showing the raw date.
http://icecap.us/images/uploads/CO2,Temperaturesandiceages-f.pdf
Quote from: Conan71 on June 15, 2011, 09:46:47 PM
Wow, she's a walking cliche' machine.
Don't sugar coat it Col. West, give it to us straight.
QuoteThe full email:
From: Z112 West, Allen
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 04:48 PM
To: Wasserman Schultz, Debbie
Cc: McCarthy, Kevin; Blyth, Jonathan; Pelosi, Nancy; Cantor, Eric
Subject: Unprofessional and Inappropriate Sophomoric Behavior from Wasserman-Schultz
Look, Debbie, I understand that after I departed the House floor you directed your floor speech comments directly towards me. Let me make myself perfectly clear, you want a personal fight, I am happy to oblige. You are the most vile, unprofessional ,and despicable member of the US House of Representatives. If you have something to say to me, stop being a coward and say it to my face, otherwise, shut the heck up. Focus on your own congressional district!
I am bringing your actions today to our Majority Leader and Majority Whip and from this time forward, understand that I shall defend myself forthright against your heinous characterless behavior......which dates back to the disgusting protest you ordered at my campaign hqs, October 2010 in Deerfield Beach.
You have proven repeatedly that you are not a Lady, therefore, shall not be afforded due respect from me!
Steadfast and Loyal
Congressman Allen B West (R-FL)
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0711/Allen_West_tirade_WassermanSchultz_viledespicablenot_a_Lady.html
And Rep Wasserman-Shultz's reply to his email
Quote"I was unfazed by his email. It's not surprising that, given the pressure Republicans are facing. They're defending Medicare as we know it. Congressman West represents thousands of senior citizens, which is what I was pointing out. They would face significant increased costs due to the Republicans Medicare plan and the CCB bill. So it's not really surprising that he would crack under the pressure of having to defend that.
"As a constituent of mine – he actually lives in my district... I think it's important for him to understand that, when we're in debate on the House floor, members are going to go back and forth. If he feels that concerned and gets that churned up over having to defend his position then he probably should reconsider his position....
"Republicans like him are under a tremendous amount of pressure. They have about the worst position you could have when it comes to making sure that we protect seniors and ensure that their costs don't go up. What they're doing, which is championing the protecting millionaires and billionaires tax breaks...
"There's a little bit of heat that was applied in debate on the House floor yesterday and he doesn't appear to be able to deal with it. He should reconsider his really unacceptable position, particularly when you represent thousands of South Florida seniors like we do so that maybe next time he won't react so defensively."
Wasserman Schultz, though, avoided an Andrea Mitchell question about cutting Medicare as part of a debt deal
"What we need to do is make sure that we can solve this big problem with a big solution. And Democrats have put our sacred cows on the table – including Medicare, including Social Security," Wasserman Schultz said just before adding that Democrats are trying to "protect Medicare, protect Social Security benefits."
Read more: http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2011/07/debbie-wasserman-schultz-not-surprised-allen-west-would-crack.html#ixzz1SfmryGLW
Is it just me or does anyone else think she's got a box of Crayons in her top desk drawer?
She does Conan. And she's a dumb@ss to boot.
I thought she was sniffing magic markers.
And check out this moronic "journalist":
Quote from: guido911 on July 20, 2011, 03:09:00 PM
And check out this moronic "journalist":
Awesome.
"Do
you have a degree in economics?" Remind me to ask Nate that the next time he starts regurgitating Krugman or does triple back flips explaining how Obama hasn't contributed to the deficit like Bush did.
Conan,
You really don't understand the ongoing Baby Bush tax cuts are what started this whole avalanche?? (Without the accompanying elimination of those breaks as the economy got better in the early 2000's.)
Really???
Quote from: heironymouspasparagus on July 21, 2011, 08:37:46 AM
Conan,
You really don't understand the ongoing Baby Bush tax cuts are what started this whole avalanche?? (Without the accompanying elimination of those breaks as the economy got better in the early 2000's.)
Really???
Knock off the "Baby Bush" crap. You sound like a complete libtard.
FWIW, we are talking about the economy in this thread, not deficit spending, nor the national debt which would be a proper reference for the Bush tax cuts.
And yet, you didn't answer the question...
Ok...that leads to the next question...do you really think the economy is disconnected from deficit spending or the national debt or the Bush tax cuts?
The economy is in very good shape. If you are one of the rich. And for many others in that top 5% of income bracket. Good to be blessed, isn't it?
What the economy has evolved to over the last 3 decades, and in particular since 2001, is socialism for the very rich and rugged free market individualism for everybody else.
And since the richest 1 or 2% or so control well over 50% of the wealth here, I guess that actually does make us the largest socialist economy the world has ever seen.
Enough "economy thread" for ya'?
As far as Baby Bush...well if he had reformed his drunken ways and wasn't mauling German Chancellors in public or any of the other ignorant baby stuff he did, then maybe he would graduate to just plain old grown up Stupid Bush. Don't see it happening, though...
Chastisement about Baby Bush; the "tragically hip" dysplasia of the NeoConTard. You wouldn't be channeling guido, would you?
Quote from: heironymouspasparagus on July 21, 2011, 12:22:58 PM
As far as Baby Bush...well if he had reformed his drunken ways and wasn't mauling German Chancellors in public or any of the other ignorant baby stuff he did, then maybe he would graduate to just plain old grown up Stupid Bush. Don't see it happening, though...
Chastisement about Baby Bush; the "tragically hip" dysplasia of the NeoConTard. You wouldn't be channeling guido, would you?
It cheapens your argument and makes you look like another Huff-Po or Dailykos parrot ergo- libtard follower. It also demeans the office of President. President Obama is not one of our better leaders and there's all sorts of epithets I could hurl his way or former President Carter, yet I almost always refer to him as "President Obama" not "Curious George", not "the bumbling idiot in the White House". I was brought up better than that by a very patriotic father who insisted people be addressed by proper title regardless of what I thought of them personally.
Would you take me serious if every time I brought something up about President Obama I referred to him with a common epithet?
Quote from: Conan71 on July 21, 2011, 01:00:44 PM
It cheapens your argument and makes you look like another Huff-Po or Dailykos parrot ergo- libtard follower. It also demeans the office of President. President Obama is not one of our better leaders and there's all sorts of epithets I could hurl his way or former President Carter, yet I almost always refer to him as "President Obama" not "Curious George", not "the bumbling idiot in the White House". I was brought up better than that by a very patriotic father who insisted people be addressed by proper title regardless of what I thought of them personally.
Would you take me serious if every time I brought something up about President Obama I referred to him with a common epithet?
Conan, give the kid a break, he's 12. . .I think?
http://truth-out.org/its-not-default-obama-jail-gop-deadbeats-debt-crisis/1311268412
"For eight years, Bush spent like a drunk monkey. "
"So, let Hu Jintao and King Abdullah stick a collection agency on Cantor and the other Republican shirkers. Repossess their limousines or send The Boys around to remind Cantor what happens when you don't pay what you owe."
"The president should say to Hu, the Sheik and Goldman-Sachs:
"I have identified $3 trillion in Treasury notes issued between 2001 and 2008 which were lent to fund President Bush's expenditures. Unfortunately, those who borrowed your money don't want to pay it back. You made a bad investment - but that's how the free market works. Therefore, I am suspending payments on these Treasury notes until we can round up the deadbeats and make them live up to their commitments.
"As president, I have the constitutional duty to pay the bills of the Veterans Administration, the Social Security fund, and other vital services already voted and appropriated by Congress. Military pay before banker pay. Get used to it."
"Default lies with the Republican spendthrifts, Mr. President. So, I suggest you issue an executive order creating a new wing at Guantanamo: a debtors' prison for trillion-dollar deadbeats."
Greg Palast rocks....
Quote from: dbacks fan on July 20, 2011, 02:27:38 PM
I thought she was sniffing magic markers.
Here is another look at DWS.
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201107210025
Quote from: Teatownclown on July 21, 2011, 02:17:06 PM
http://truth-out.org/its-not-default-obama-jail-gop-deadbeats-debt-crisis/1311268412
"For eight years, Bush spent like a drunk monkey. "
Add a crack pipe and trillions more. . .and here we are in just 2.5 years!
Quote from: Conan71 on July 21, 2011, 01:00:44 PM
It cheapens your argument and makes you look like another Huff-Po or Dailykos parrot ergo- libtard follower. It also demeans the office of President. President Obama is not one of our better leaders and there's all sorts of epithets I could hurl his way or former President Carter, yet I almost always refer to him as "President Obama" not "Curious George", not "the bumbling idiot in the White House". I was brought up better than that by a very patriotic father who insisted people be addressed by proper title regardless of what I thought of them personally.
Would you take me serious if every time I brought something up about President Obama I referred to him with a common epithet?
I take everything you say seriously. Wouldn't make any difference to me what reference you use for Obama. There are plenty used around here for him and Bush and Billy Bob (my own Clinton favorite). Don't always agree with what you say, but do respect your thoughts and always pay attention to them. Just like I do with Gaspar. (You would likely be surprised on how many things we agree completely.)
Not as much guido, who, whilst having his occasional lucid moment, is so over the top and often delusional. And never addresses a question directly or any other way. (His 'nouveau riche'-ness is just getting in the way entirely too much.)
As far as President, nothing I can say or do cheapens the office. It is the man occupying it that does that. And we have had an amazing array of Presidents that do exactly that for many decades. And Baby Bush is the leader of the pack. Billy Bob certainly has to be second. Perhaps tied with Tricky Dick. (Caution; Breadhead may take some vicarious pleasure here and make one of his sexual advances.)
LOL! The CEO of Home Depot's comments on the president yesterday:
"His speeches are wonderful. His output is absolutely, incredibly bad. As he speaks about cutting out regulations, they are now producing thousands of pages of new ones. With just ObamaCare by itself, you have a 2,000 page bill that's probably going to end up being 150,000 pages of regulations."
"I'm not sure Obama would understand anything that I'd say, because he's never really worked a day outside the political or legal area. He doesn't know how to make a payroll, he doesn't understand the problems businesses face. I would try to explain that the plight of the businessman is very reactive to Washington. As Washington piles on regulations and mandates, the impact is tremendous. I don't think he's a bad guy. I just think he has no knowledge of this."
Interviewer: Why don't more businesses speak out?
"They are frightened to death — frightened that they will have the IRS or SEC on them. In my 50 years in business, I have never seen executives of major companies who were more intimidated by an administration."
http://zfacts.com/p/1170.html
Definitely one to send to YOU wingnuts!
Avoid the rush, send it today!
or, you can go into the way back machine and realize this from Woody Wilson....but I think more damage was done by the war/fear mongers of the past decade.....
In 1916, three years after its inception, President Woodrow Wilson denounced the Federal Reserve System:
"I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world, no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men."
Quote from: guido911 on June 15, 2011, 07:42:23 PM
So declares the DNC poodle Wasserman-Schultz.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0611/57025.html#ixzz1POUyD65e
Man is Obama going to be hacked off at her. There goes 90% of his speech content.
The poodle yapping again, this time on the absence of an increase in unemployment since Barky took over.
We just need a few million more to stop looking and the numbers will look great!
Quote from: Gaspar on December 12, 2011, 01:50:11 PM
We just need a few million more to stop looking and the numbers will look great!
I wonder if I'm considered unemployed since I voluntarily left the law firm practice.
Quote from: guido911 on December 12, 2011, 01:59:07 PM
I wonder if I'm considered unemployed since I voluntarily left the law firm practice.
No, you are not. And no matter how long you are unemployed and without income, you will never be eligible for food stamps. (You "own" a house.)
Quote from: heironymouspasparagus on December 12, 2011, 02:26:58 PM
No, you are not. And no matter how long you are unemployed and without income, you will never be eligible for food stamps. (You "own" a house.)
Not correct. My mother owns a house and IS eligible for them.
Quote from: Hoss on December 12, 2011, 03:26:37 PM
Not correct. My mother owns a house and IS eligible for them.
How did that happen? I talked to them several times during extended time off, and got the same 'no' every time!
Quote from: heironymouspasparagus on December 12, 2011, 03:54:58 PM
How did that happen? I talked to them several times during extended time off, and got the same 'no' every time!
A lot of other factors are weighed. Firstly, she's disabled (permanently; subdural hematoma) and on fixed income. Second, she was awarded the house as part of divorce proceedings in 2005. She's been on SSI/SoonerCare since that, and now on Social Security. They would analyze her every year, and this is the first she's been eligible for SNAP assistance.
Quote from: Hoss on December 12, 2011, 04:05:27 PM
A lot of other factors are weighed. Firstly, she's disabled (permanently; subdural hematoma) and on fixed income. Second, she was awarded the house as part of divorce proceedings in 2005. She's been on SSI/SoonerCare since that, and now on Social Security. They would analyze her every year, and this is the first she's been eligible for SNAP assistance.
That's the difference. Condolences to her.
Most very successful retired people smart enough to shelter their assets in a trust are counted as impoverished, because the way the government makes those assumptions is archaic, but won't be changed because it serves politicians well.
According to the government my parents are well under the poverty line, and starving.
Quote from: Gaspar on December 12, 2011, 04:10:16 PM
According to the government my parents are well under the poverty line, and starving.
I consider my self to live in Poverty (a town within Bixby City Limits) because I cannot afford a new paint job and upgraded instrument panel for my airplane. ;D
The view from the 1 percent
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/the-view-from-the-1-percent/2011/12/06/gIQAdbbYaO_story.html?wprss=
"Now that the financial industry and major corporations have successfully lobbied Congress to make more people poor and to keep them that way, they are discovering the downside of unbridled greed: people are too broke to buy their products."
We suffer from the constant decisions by Bush and his brain made based on re election and not what was in our Nation's best interest.
Don't stop blaming the GOP/Teabaggers excreted by SCOTUS/Bush Years onto all of us.