Re: Eric Cantor is Gone
..........that you fail to give him credit for anything good that he's done over his tenure as president. Being blind on both counts is not "amusing," it is quite sad in fact.
Name ONE substantial Obama accomplishment.
Extremism is the Tea Party banner.
Nonsense. Tea Partiers disagree with Obama's policies and for that, have been judged as " extreme " by the left wing apologist who put ideology before Truth.
Is this where the Republican Party is headed in 2016?
Hyperbolic nonsense.
I told this forum back in 2000, that the republican party has just destroyed itself long-term and that it would fracture - this was before the emergence of the Tea Party
A critique on responsibility from a guy who just posted a video about a tsunami as a ridiculous attempt to forecast the GOPs chances in 2016....lol
Why am I so hard on republicans? The had 20 of the past 34 years to set this nation on good footing and failed to do so. Period.
And your'e ignoring the last 6 years of incompetence and failure and lies from the Democrat party for what reason ? Because your " objective ??
No, because you're no different than the supposed partisan hacks you criticize.
If you take a look at where this country has fallen down since the election of Bush 41, we've had nothing but perpetual wars for oil, a declining middle class (excepting the Clinton years where wages and middle class growth was actually in recovery), outsourcing of middle class jobs, the destruction of our manufacturing base, the exodus of corporate capital, the flight of foreign capital, a perpetually unstable dollar, an inherently unstable economic base, a new wave of increasing poverty (which began in earnest with Reagan), rising consumer prices, increased deficit spending, a degradation of public services and a ballistic rise in national debt (now approaching some $17 trillion).
Wars for oil ?? What Oil ? Where's all the Iraq oil ??
Sorry, but plenty of Democrats knew Saddam had WMD's..
"We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction."
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Sen. Bob Graham (D, FL), Dec. 8, 2002
"Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction ... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real..."
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Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Jan. 23. 2003
Clinton's " affordable lending '' initiative set off a huge time bomb in the form a Sub-prime bubble that was so systemic it's collapse caused Capital Markets all around the world to tank in 2008.
He co-opted the GSE's into buying a increasing amount of low quality and risky loans and then appointed his own Democrat criminal buddies to run them into the ground.
Hey, you can be proud the Democrats bankrupted to iconic American institutions. And Fannie Mae was 70 years old.
Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending - NYTimes.com
Testimony: Accounting Irregularities at Fannie Mae (Chairman Christopher Cox, June 16, 2006)
" Trickle Down ' ( a leftist mis-characterization of Conservative economic principles ) actually WORKS. Texas is a great example, and the GDP explosion that happened under Reagan.
But I suppose you think stimulus and 6 Trillion in new debt with a GDP contraction 6 years into a Progressive presidents tenure is better than a REAL RECOVERY.
And if your'e so concerned about the " exodus of corporate capital ''how about you support tax incentives that would bring that capital back.
So, I'm only paying homage where homage is due. I'm calling a spade a spade. When you occupy the White House for 58.823% of the time since 1980, and we STILL don't have our act together, then I'm going to call your party on the carpet for it in the aggregate. Both Democrat Presidents were coming off the heels of a completely mismanaged domestic scene and both Democratic Presidents found a way to right the ship. The economy was stagnant at best when Clinton took office and eventually saw the largest economic improvement in world history - not just American history - which included a projected multi-hundred billion dollar surplus that was immediately spend down the toilet with the election of Bush 43..
No, your'e just perpetuating tired and warmed over talking points, nothing else. And you can thank Clinton's Republican Congress for that " surplus ''. The House writes the budget and Clinton threw a hissy fit 5 times before signing it.
Oh, and the Debt grew anyway and there IS NO current recovery, and NO it's not Bush's fault or the GOP's fault.
It's actually people like you who are at fault. You voted and now your'e too proud to eat crow.
THAT is why I come down so hard on the republican party. To whom much is given, much is expected.
20 Year Republican Party Executive Report Card: C
20 Year Republican Party Congressional Report Card: D
14 Year Democrat Party Executive Report Card: B-
14 Year Democrat Party Congressional Report Card: D-
You come down on the Republican party because your'e a low information American. Who's apparently highly susceptible to platitudes and false narratives.
People like you are the reason we got landed with Obama.
THAT is probably the absolutely truth of the matter at this point - like it or not. The reasoning for the B- on Executive for Democrats is that no one can deny the economic boom during the Clinton years. Many socioeconomic boats were lifted (if you wanted to lift it) during that cycle. I remember when Silicone Valley could not fill all the jobs they had, literally. I remember seeing empty office space, offices and floor space just waiting for employees to be hired but not enough candidates to fill all the positions. I was in some of those offices at the time and saw how bizarre it looked and how hopeful the leaders of companies were about filling its empty floor space.
AND Obama made it ALL worse. Poverty rates are way up, labor participation rate is at a record low, 20 million more people are dependent on food stamps and disability has doubled.
There are 40 Jobs bills sitting in the Senate from the House waiting for a vote that will never come. What's Obama done ? Proven every right wing American right on the money as he sets his legacy AND the Legacy of the Democrat party in stone for the next 20 years as the party of corruption, lies and incompetence.
