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Obama Address the Nation on the government shutdown.

Finally, Obama calls it like it is: a bunch of rightwing lunatics trying to undertake a coup by imposing their discredited policies on an electorate that rejected their weirdness.

Republicans, you lost. Get used to it. There's more of it coming!

I am so going to love watching you disappear after the people wake up, and you get trounced at the polls...I bet crickets will be louder.
 
They gave up on defunding obamacare. They went from giving absolutely nothing for Obamacare to extending the implementation for 1 year, just as Obama himself has done for so many provisions of the law.

Again I ask, what have the Dems compromised on? Nothing. Their stance is still all or nothing. Well looks like they have nothing right now doesnt it? No continuing budget resolution to fund the government and no funding for Obamacare.

But yet they are still blaming the Republicans for it.

What were the Republicans offering the Democrats in exchange for repealing, defunding, or delaying?
 
For the sake of discussion, what's the difference between blackmail and terrorism?

One obvious difference is that blackmail doesn't necessarily mean violence. Terrorism ALWAYS includes violence.
 
It hasn't even taken effect and yet you still make stuff up and think you know? 800,000 Govt. employees went without pay today. What did they do to you?

I'm not making anything up. It is a fact that Obamacare WILL cost me money that I ordinarily would not have HAD to have paid out. Either through the fine via the IRS or through payments to some insurance company. That is plain fact. It is also plain fact that Obamacare is directed at everyone of age in the US. What did those millions of people do to you?
 
What were the Republicans offering the Democrats in exchange for repealing, defunding, or delaying?

What are the Democrats offering for the Republicans to roll over and play dead?

The Democrats are the ones refusing to budge on this...its everything or nothing with them.

Obama was speaking from the Rose garden today blaming Republicans for not wanting to institute Obamacare now with all its flaws...he said we can fix them as we go...then why did he delay implementation on portions of the bill that werent ready?

Why is his administration exempt from Obamacare?

If Obamacare and the exchanges are so wonderful and fantastic, why are they not forced to participate in them the same as we are being forced to?

Why does Congress have to be subsidized to participate in it? Why are unions and some large companies getting waivers from this disaster?
 
Over three more years of this! It's hard to believe.
I know dude. It feels like this guy have been POTUS for like 10 years. Im so tired of hearing his mouth and even more tired of watching him stare at teleprompters.
 
I'm not making anything up. It is a fact that Obamacare WILL cost me money that I ordinarily would not have HAD to have paid out. Either through the fine via the IRS or through payments to some insurance company. That is plain fact. It is also plain fact that Obamacare is directed at everyone of age in the US. What did those millions of people do to you?

I have received 2 refund checks totaling over $1600 due to the ACA. That's a REAL fact not something you read on a right wing looney website. You are fooling no one.
 
I have received 2 refund checks totaling over $1600 due to the ACA. That's a REAL fact not something you read on a right wing looney website. You are fooling no one.

Wow, you were really getting screwed by your insurance company. I think you should change insurance providers. My two checks totaled less than $250.
 
Really? We have a word for dictators that act like fascist too - its called obama and he has no business representing the people who elected him when we'll talk to leaders of a nation that stone gays to death but not his own elected body's. His actions are no different then mubaraks and she should suffer the same political fate - I look foreard to the day he's tried for war crimes or murder by drone. He deserves a 5-8 cell for his audacity of failure.

As I feared, you and your side has decided that America's form of Govt. is not for them. We have a word for those types and it is not pretty.
 
I have received 2 refund checks totaling over $1600 due to the ACA. That's a REAL fact not something you read on a right wing looney website. You are fooling no one.

You obviously don't live in Indiana but then again I always wondered what the Obama Administration paid those pumpers of the program, thanks for confirming the amount. Why else would anyone tout this program?

Advance Indiana: Health Insurance Rates Expected To Spike 72% For Individuals In Indiana Next Year

Have you figured out yet that you don't pay for the uninsured in TX and the people of TX don't pay for the uninsured in Florida under the existing system and without the ACA?
 
You obviously don't live in Indiana but then again I always wondered what the Obama Administration paid those pumpers of the program, thanks for confirming the amount. Why else would anyone tout this program?

Advance Indiana: Health Insurance Rates Expected To Spike 72% For Individuals In Indiana Next Year

Have you figured out yet that you don't pay for the uninsured in TX and the people of TX don't pay for the uninsured in Florida under the existing system and without the ACA?

Next year I'm "expecting" to make double what I made this year. We all have "expectations"...they are worth NOTHING.
 
Wow, you were really getting screwed by your insurance company. I think you should change insurance providers. My two checks totaled less than $250.

I have Golden Rule through my Fathers company and yeah it sucks. but it is at least nice to see that someone has noticed the overcharging. How much did they pocket BEFORE the cap on overhead was installed?
 
Not screwed up at all. Terrorists often take hostages to try to negotiate things that they don't have a right to negotiate. This is exactly what the Republicans are trying to do here.

And Fascists force laws that a country doesn't want passed. Guess what a Democrat controlled congress and White House did a few years ago.
 
No, terrorists use violent acts to try and get what they want. Where is the violence being done here?

Not always....sometimes they engage in extortion tactics like the teabaggers here.
 
Next year I'm "expecting" to make double what I made this year. We all have "expectations"...they are worth NOTHING.

Fantastic, looks like the Obama Administration is giving big pay raises which of course meet your expectations. Hopefully meeting those expectations you will spread your income around to all those unemployed/under employed Americans as well as those on food stamps. I do hope you will also be donating more money to the Treasury to pay down the Obama debt

It does sound however like your expectations are very similar to the Obama projections, worthless
 
That is where you are wrong, both sides have every right to negotiate. Obama caused the shut down by refusing, in advance, to negotiate, a terrible character flaw of his, and we are all paying for it.

There's nothing to negotiate. The teabaggers have tried every angle to stop implementation of the ACA and have failed. Now they want to hold the American public hostage? I don't think so. Negotiating with extortionists is never a good idea. Now if they want to go through the normal, professional democratic legislative process, that is a different story.
 
And Fascists force laws that a country doesn't want passed. Guess what a Democrat controlled congress and White House did a few years ago.

If you hadn't noticed....the country is pretty evenly split on the ACA and when the specifics of the ACA are asked, an overwhelming majority favor it. The good thing is that as the ACA is implemented those who have bought into the GOP lies and propoganda are going to see that they were misled. This is a win/win situation for Democrats. The public is seeing right through their gamesmanship and they aren't buying it.
 
Not always....sometimes they engage in extortion tactics like the teabaggers here.

Don't you ever get tired of embarrassing yourself by making dumb statements like you do? Guess hiding behind a computer screen is a real benefit to you but do realize that you are giving the people of California a bad name and reputation. Your comments are inflammatory, racist, and ignorant at best.

I know civics isn't a strong suit of yours but the reality is the "People's House" is made up of districts from all over the country and are representative of the population. It is controlled by Republicans who are doing what they were sent to D.C. to do. Calling anyone that disagrees with you a teabagger is a badge of courage and should be worn with pride.
 
If you hadn't noticed....the country is pretty evenly split on the ACA and when the specifics of the ACA are asked, an overwhelming majority favor it. The good thing is that as the ACA is implemented those who have bought into the GOP lies and propoganda are going to see that they were misled. This is a win/win situation for Democrats. The public is seeing right through their gamesmanship and they aren't buying it.

Where exactly do you get your information?

RealClearPolitics - Election Other - Public Approval of Health Care Law
 
Don't you ever get tired of embarrassing yourself by making dumb statements like you do? Guess hiding behind a computer screen is a real benefit to you but do realize that you are giving the people of California a bad name and reputation. Your comments are inflammatory, racist, and ignorant at best.

I know civics isn't a strong suit of yours but the reality is the "People's House" is made up of districts from all over the country and are representative of the population. It is controlled by Republicans who are doing what they were sent to D.C. to do. Calling anyone that disagrees with you a teabagger is a badge of courage and should be worn with pride.


LOL....sorry if I give your "criticisms" the level of respect that they deserve. Anyone who has been on this site long enough knows that you are a GOP apologist to the extreme and still believe that GWB led this country to economic Utopia....so you don't need to convince us of that any longer.
BTW....the vast majority of Republicans are NOT teabaggers.....unfortunately, they don't have the backbone to stand up to the teabaggers that have highjacked their party. It is an interesting situation though....many have forecasted the impending Republican civil war, although not many thought it would manifest itself this soon. The reasonable Republicans need to decide once and for all whether they are going to take back their party from the wacko teabag extremists...or whether they are going to continue to cave in. I for one, hope that they continue to cave in, because it will spell destruction of the GOP as a national party which is good news for liberals, democrats, moderates and independents. As long as the GOP is not a viable alternative party, it is good news for the country...and the Teabaggers are helping us reach that goal.
 
Don't you ever get tired of embarrassing yourself by making dumb statements like you do? Guess hiding behind a computer screen is a real benefit to you but do realize that you are giving the people of California a bad name and reputation. Your comments are inflammatory, racist, and ignorant at best.

I know civics isn't a strong suit of yours but the reality is the "People's House" is made up of districts from all over the country and are representative of the population. It is controlled by Republicans who are doing what they were sent to D.C. to do. Calling anyone that disagrees with you a teabagger is a badge of courage and should be worn with pride.

and the democrats in the "peoples house" can end this shutdown without having to touch the affordable care act. ever hear of a discharge petition?
 
LOL....sorry if I give your "criticisms" the level of respect that they deserve. Anyone who has been on this site long enough knows that you are a GOP apologist to the extreme and still believe that GWB led this country to economic Utopia....so you don't need to convince us of that any longer.
BTW....the vast majority of Republicans are NOT teabaggers.....unfortunately, they don't have the backbone to stand up to the teabaggers that have highjacked their party. It is an interesting situation though....many have forecasted the impending Republican civil war, although not many thought it would manifest itself this soon. The reasonable Republicans need to decide once and for all whether they are going to take back their party from the wacko teabag extremists...or whether they are going to continue to cave in. I for one, hope that they continue to cave in, because it will spell destruction of the GOP as a national party which is good news for liberals, democrats, moderates and independents. As long as the GOP is not a viable alternative party, it is good news for the country...and the Teabaggers are helping us reach that goal.


Aw, yes, the old GW Bush diversion all because you cannot defend the Obama record. Still waiting for the data to warrant that support but doubt I will ever see it from you. You know so little and yet spend so much time here posting partisan bs. It is interesting that the "People's House" doesn't reflect your view that the Republicans are being destroyed. You buy the spin of the left and never look at the big picture. Pretty simple question, are the majority of the Congressional Districts in this country represented by Democrats? If not then the insignificant party is the Democrat Party.
 
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