Was Senator McConnell Correct...

NIMBY said:

Just exactly who on this board are you accusing of being a partisan hack with the way your rightie friends are acting right now, Kal.
As lying GOP Senators now take credit for the Obama economy after damning it for six years.

It's your GOPs not taking credit for the disaster they left us with decreased revenues and the resulting increased deficits.
And lying about Obama losing those 2.2 million jobs his first three months
And then your strawman going back to several Presidents--lame at best.

And why no discussion of decreased revenues left from the Bush administration or any other specific points I made?
I won't hold my breath for a nonpartisan/bipartisan response from you .

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You still don't get it do you? 1: I'm not associated with the GOP in any way shape or form. 2: Whether you like it or not BOTH sides have the same amount of blame. 3: Yes, I'm calling anyone that blindly supports their side and ignores the negatives of their own side partisan hacks. That is after all what being a partisan hack is all about. 4: There is no strawman going on because my post did not claim that anyone said that. Quite the opposite in fact. 5: The rest of your points had nothing to do with anything except to make excuses. That is why they were ignored.

Kal'Stang said:

You still don't get it do you? 1: I'm not associated with the GOP in any way shape or form. 2: Whether you like it or not BOTH sides have the same amount of blame. 3: Yes, I'm calling anyone that blindly supports their side and ignores the negatives of their own side partisan hacks. That is after all what being a partisan hack is all about. 4: There is no strawman going on because my post did not claim that anyone said that. Quite the opposite in fact. 5: The rest of your points had nothing to do with anything except to make excuses. That is why they were ignored.

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Do you know anything about 'dynamic scoring' that the GOPs are about to use to help bring this economy to a stall.
It's a CBO gimmick to count future revenues because of tax cuts to the rich--better known as 'voodoo' economics.
Nothing partisan so far.

So you dismiss the loss of revenue due to huge job losses at the end of Bush and the start of Obama?
Which you know caused the huge deficits in Obama's first two years.
Still nothing partisan.

And because McConnell is now taking credit for the Obama economy, you blame both sides for being partisan hacks?
You call that partisan on my part for pointing out GOP hypocrisy in THIS thread?

And while I'm talking to you, how do you feel about GOP Senators and posters tying Obama to the French massacre?
Talk about GOP partisan hack jobs .

pbrauer said:

when he said this:

"After so many years of sluggish growth, we’re finally starting to see some economic data that can provide a glimmer of hope the uptick appears to coincide with the biggest political change of the Obama administration’s long tenure in Washington: the expectation of a new Republican Congress."​

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What a maroon. (McConnell) :roll:

pbrauer said:

when he said this:

"After so many years of sluggish growth, we’re finally starting to see some economic data that can provide a glimmer of hope the uptick appears to coincide with the biggest political change of the Obama administration’s long tenure in Washington: the expectation of a new Republican Congress."​

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He is an idiot... and only idiots believe what he says.

pbrauer said:

Perhaps you should learn the Senate Majority Leaders name.:roll:

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You mean his real name, turtleman?



Why in the world would anyone watch or listen to someone who filibustered their own bill? :lamo

Redress said:

You are correct that it is entirely possible that he meant only that they happened the same time. He would be wrong about it, but that is entirely possible that is what he meant. I suspect he was trying to imply that the reason for the upswing was the expectation, but he did say "coincide". It is irrelevant to the accuracy of his statement, since in fact they do not coincide however.

Edit: and for pb...this is why you should never overstate your case. Fiddy is correct in stating he did not claim it as a cause, and imply requires reading his mind. If you stick to what is simply verifiable, then you do not give people this legitimate complaint about what you said.

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LOL I did not overstate anything, I said basically what you wrote in the first paragraph(underlined) and the keyword is expectation. Why did he use the word "expectation?"