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9-Year-Old Girl Writes Letter to Congress Telling Them to Grow Up

solletica said:
The GOP is the other side. On the one side, there are freedom-loving individuals who want to cut taxes for current and future generations.

And on the other (GOP) side are the lackeys (like boehner) who want to spend the country into bankruptcy by waging stupid trillion dollar wars and dolling out billions in oil co. and bank subsidies/bailouts, and then foot that bill on the middle class.
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Is the GOP really the other side?

I thought he was the President for everyone?

At this point Obama should be doing what is right for the country and not what is right for his party, or trying to destroy the Republican party.
 
Not only that, I'll head for your websites and start going after the House races, especially when these Neugebrauers criticize uniformed female National Park rangers, just doing their job. I've been begging Dem groups to have a convention next summer, especially in St. Louis, so as to not repeat 2010.
Perotista said:
I guess I could, but I haven't been that interested in the governor's races. If I would do something like that, I would have two blogs each month. One for the senate which really interests me and one for the governors. Perhaps it might be better for you to concentrate on the govenors and I'll take the senators and we can help each other.
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After all the stuff Repubs and their Limbaugh leaders have shoved at Obama, now you want to talk.
You guys should have thought about that the last 45 months of private sector job growth, which is now in peril with this shutdown.
You think Dems want to hurt that? It's about time Dems got a spine.
Mason66 said:
Is the GOP really the other side?

I thought he was the President for everyone?

At this point Obama should be doing what is right for the country and not what is right for his party, or trying to destroy the Republican party.
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NIMBY said:
Not only that, I'll head for your websites and start going after the House races, especially when these Neugebrauers criticize uniformed female National Park rangers, just doing their job. I've been begging Dem groups to have a convention next summer, especially in St. Louis, so as to not repeat 2010.
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I think before this government shutdown shenanigans over the ACA, 2014 had the potential of switching the senate back to GOP control. A long shot for sure, but a creditable chance. Everything would have had to go right and no more Aikens or Mourdocks. I was checking the party affiliation site, the Republicans are down to 22%. a drop of 8 points since November of 2012. The Democrats are at 31%, down from 35% from November of 2012, they too lost members. Independents are the big gainer here as it seems most Americans are becoming fed up with each party. I probably said this yesterday, but I think most Americans outside the party faithful now view the Democrats as the least worst party or the lesser of two evils. neither is liked all that much anymore.

That in a way makes me very happy.
 
What would really make me happy would be to energize "every" citizen eligible to vote.
Sorry for the nonpartisanship my fellow Dems expect.
It is up to posters and bloggers like you to excite the electorate on "every" race.
4-1 Braves, you and my Dad are smiling
Perotista said:
I think before this government shutdown shenanigans over the ACA, 2014 had the potential of switching the senate back to GOP control. A long shot for sure, but a creditable chance. Everything would have had to go right and no more Aikens or Mourdocks. I was checking the party affiliation site, the Republicans are down to 22%. a drop of 8 points since November of 2012. The Democrats are at 31%, down from 35% from November of 2012, they too lost members. Independents are the big gainer here as it seems most Americans are becoming fed up with each party. I probably said this yesterday, but I think most Americans outside the party faithful now view the Democrats as the least worst party or the lesser of two evils. neither is liked all that much anymore.

That in a way makes me very happy.
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NIMBY said:
What would really make me happy would be to energize "every" citizen eligible to vote.
Sorry for the nonpartisanship my fellow Dems expect.
It is up to posters and bloggers like you to excite the electorate on "every" race.
4-1 Braves, you and my Dad are smiling
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As the man who stepped off the roof of a twenty story building, around the tenth floor he was heard to say, "So far, So good. Just for the heck of it, I went back to the 1996 election after the last government shut down to see the effect it had there. In a year in which Clinton beat the pants off of Dole, the Republicans lost 4 seats in the House and gained 3 senate seats. That was a year when the shutdown was totally blamed on congressional republicans.

The shutdown didn't mean a thing when election time came around. Perhaps we or I am over blowing this whole situation. Especially if today's poll is to be believed 25% blame Republican congress, 24% Obama and 20% everybody.
 
I believe the mid-term census remaps, which crushed the Demnads in 2010, also did them in in the 1990's.
Remember when Texas sent the State Police after their legislative Democrats? That was the remap from Texas that got the AG on their case.
Perotista said:
As the man who stepped off the roof of a twenty story building, around the tenth floor he was heard to say, "So far, So good. Just for the heck of it, I went back to the 1996 election after the last government shut down to see the effect it had there. In a year in which Clinton beat the pants off of Dole, the Republicans lost 4 seats in the House and gained 3 senate seats. That was a year when the shutdown was totally blamed on congressional republicans.

The shutdown didn't mean a thing when election time came around. Perhaps we or I am over blowing this whole situation. Especially if today's poll is to be believed 25% blame Republican congress, 24% Obama and 20% everybody.
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Perotista said:
As the man who stepped off the roof of a twenty story building, around the tenth floor he was heard to say, "So far, So good. Just for the heck of it, I went back to the 1996 election after the last government shut down to see the effect it had there. In a year in which Clinton beat the pants off of Dole, the Republicans lost 4 seats in the House and gained 3 senate seats. That was a year when the shutdown was totally blamed on congressional republicans.

The shutdown didn't mean a thing when election time came around. Perhaps we or I am over blowing this whole situation. Especially if today's poll is to be believed 25% blame Republican congress, 24% Obama and 20% everybody.
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Good evening, Pero. :2wave:

There was an interesting article on Yahoo today :Jack Lew's dilemma: Which bills to pay and when IF Congress fails to raise the debt ceiling by October 17. Add that to the shutdown, and it makes me wonder more and more why we can't seem to avoid lurching from one crisis to another, and I include all of DC in this, on both sides of the aisle! The world is watching! :thumbdown:
 
NIMBY said:
I believe the mid-term census remaps, which crushed the Demnads in 2010, also did them in in the 1990's.
Remember when Texas sent the State Police after their legislative Democrats? That was the remap from Texas that got the AG on their case.
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Yeah, that seems like it was so long ago.
 
polgara said:
Good evening, Pero. :2wave:

There was an interesting article on Yahoo today :Jack Lew's dilemma: Which bills to pay and when IF Congress fails to raise the debt ceiling by October 17. Add that to the shutdown, and it makes me wonder more and more why we can't seem to avoid lurching from one crisis to another, and I include all of DC in this, on both sides of the aisle! The world is watching! :thumbdown:
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I do not know what the official reason is or what all the political pundits say about it. I believe it is party over country. Each party is trying to use every little or big situation to enhance their power or seats or office holders. The House does things and passes things that they know the senate will never approve and the senate tables most things from the house in order to avoid a vote that would rouse up some constituents to vote against its incumbents. Give and take has become a thing of the past. It is said politics is the art of the possible, but both sides want the impossible.

One could say the republicans hold a mighty big grudge against the democrats for the the election of Obama and the democrats hold a mighty big grudge for the republicans taking back the house. If these were the early 1800's there would have been a bunch of duels by now.
 
Perotista said:
I do not know what the official reason is or what all the political pundits say about it. I believe it is party over country. Each party is trying to use every little or big situation to enhance their power or seats or office holders. The House does things and passes things that they know the senate will never approve and the senate tables most things from the house in order to avoid a vote that would rouse up some constituents to vote against its incumbents. Give and take has become a thing of the past. It is said politics is the art of the possible, but both sides want the impossible.

One could say the republicans hold a mighty big grudge against the democrats for the the election of Obama and the democrats hold a mighty big grudge for the republicans taking back the house. If these were the early 1800's there would have been a bunch of duels by now.
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Interesting to contemplate! Too bad we're much too grown up for that, isn't it? :lamo:
 
Excon said:
Someone needs to inform that little lady that there are times when you don't compromise.
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When you've already lost?

The no compromise silliness is not something that is appropriate here. This is where you stop being childish and go to work.
 
solletica said:
What's even more sad is the no. of male Senators and Congressmen that will write her back asking for pictures of her in summer outfits.
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I can't believe you posted this. Or that someone "liked" it. :3oops:
 
polgara said:
Interesting to contemplate! Too bad we're much too grown up for that, isn't it? :lamo:
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What was it that someone told me a while back. What is the use of being a grownup if you can't act like a kid once in a while. Something like that.
 
Perotista said:
What was it that someone told me a while back. What is the use of being a grownup if you can't act like a kid once in a while. Something like that.
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I think it could also be referred to as "thinning the herd?" :lamo:
 
Kobie said:
I didn't say blackmail. "Do what we want or we shut down the government" is extortion. "Do what we want or we crash the economy" is blackmail.
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I am not quite sure. But I heard the President had used the B or E word. I know public German radio said he had accused the Republicans of extortion and I believe I read it in either the NYT or Washington Post, but I did not hear the speech.
 
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Grant said:
All we have to know is that Obama is granting waivers of the law to some groups and not to others. Is it the right of a President to allow some groups to escape the law of the land and charge others?

There doesn't appear to be an easy answer to this.
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Such as what groups?
 
Bronson said:
Democrats once again relying on children as propaganda props

#smh
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As opposed to WW2 vets in wheelchairs. Nevermind that the vets won't get their "meals on wheels" because of the Republican shut down...but hey, they sure do make a good props for photo ops in front of the veterans memorial, don't they?
 
Boo Radley said:
When you've already lost?

The no compromise silliness is not something that is appropriate here. This is where you stop being childish and go to work.
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And the liberals are standing in the way from that happening.
 
Mr.Nick said:
I don't think it takes a libertarian to realize government abuses its powers...

It would be only a matter of time before government picks winners in losers in industry using regulations to do it and using Obamacare as an excuse..... The best part is people like you would support it..... When the federal and state government starts taxing anything they deem "unhealthy" like cigarettes that will only kill the economy and make more government depended -- which is exactly what the elitists in government want and the typical lazy ass progressive communists want...

Yeah - this is how you destroy capitalism and create a communist nation - with the systematic destruction of the capitalist machine.

Let me ask you this. What doesn't contribute to your health? everything contributes to your health - government knows this which they will use to their advantage in an attempt to destroy capitalism..........
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Wow, you sure have a warped opinion of this country. Maybe you should go elsewhere.
 
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