Dems: Don't get 'fooled' again

More bad news on the Obama/Dem economy yesterday, with the announcement that new unemployment claims rose to a nine-month high of 500,000. The media, as usual, labeled this bad news "unexpected".

And remember how Obama promised that the "stimulus" would keep unemployment from rising above 8%?????

Left-wing economic policies don't work. Surprise, surprise....

Unless your a millinoaire or billionaire, the republicans could care less about you. They are out to ruin the working and middle class American worker. This goes back to Ronald Reagan and his union busting binges, and has continued with Bush #41 and Bush #43. The republicans have no plans. Millions of jobs have been outsourced and will not be coming back ever.
We are in the economic mess largely because of republican policies which favor the rich and wealthy and large corporations.

I was fooled, along with many others, when I thought that Obama was a centrist. Instead he is a far left politician.

It shall not happen to me a second time!

Yes, jobless numbers have been going up and up and up during this "Summer of Recovery," and yet despite weeks of rising unemployment the media always does label it "unexpected."

In 2005, Barney Frank said the housing market was strong and there was no bubble. In 2008, Barney said that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were sound, one month before their collapse.

It is the Democrats and their housing philosophies that drove this country into the ditch. And now it the Democrats under Obimbo who are are driving us off the cliff.

Yes, the American people WILL NOT be fooled again (well, the smarter, nonDemocratic ones, that is).

President Obama would have been able to share in the rewards of his predictions, had the obstructionist Republicans, in our Senate, cooperated and given him the stimulus package that he asked for, to stem the Bush's kill-off of jobs. America would have ben grateful to both Parties for their cooperation. No, the obstructionists wanted the economy to get worse, so they could fool the voters into thinking, it was our new President, President Obama, who crashed our economy. While at the exact moment he was taking his oath of Office, to our Presidency, in January of 2009, nearly 800,000 jobs were killed by the Bush&Cheney's lack of a sensible economic policy. There is a very definite paper trail, any reasonable voter can follow and see of what, I type. Given that fact, the Republican-Libertarian-T.Baggers want to lie, distort, confuse and lie some more, hoping their Party of No will not be continually blamed for the mess we are slowly getting out of, thanks to the efforts of President Obama, Vice-President Biden, Speaker Pelosi and Senator Harry Reid. America doesn't need another Bush-whacking!!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.

OH YEA!!!
Let's move "forward" with the dummycrats to higher unemployment, higher debt, higher taxes and while we're at it...let's build a mosque at ground zero.
Say NO to these losers.

Paulo

Yes democrats, keep repeating the same message because the people of this country really buy into it. NOT!
The only ones that believe it any longer are the sheeple libs that don't know any better.

How about we ask Jimmy Carter, Larry Summers, the Clintons, Rahm Emmanuel if people can be fooled again, and again, and again.

The media has failed the American people by covering up lies of this administration and candidate Obama.

By the way, is Gitmo closed? Are we out of Afghanistan? What's the unemployment number? It's 9.5% and holding. You got free healthcare? I believe a VAT tax would be a tax on everyone, not just those the make over $250,000. Obama is a Marxist that loves socialism, but really would like total government control. How's that website coming for posting bills 5 days before they are signed?

Is there ANY transparency? No, not unless Fox news exposes it. The rest of the media is like a big stupid lapdog for Obama.

I can see from all the Posts from those on the Left and those on the Right blaming each other for all the country's ills that "Silly Season" has officially begun. But the Democrats and Republicans and their staunch supporters on these Posts do have something in common. Both blame the other side, and neither the Democrats or Republicans have a concrete plan to get the country out of this financial mess. With leadership like this no wonder the country is in trouble. I forgot the third thing they have in common. Let the blame game and name calling begin!

The philosphy behind this campaign approach is an insult to every voter in America. An ultimate single party system is by definition communism.

I believe a VAT tax ...

Posted by: Free To Watch the Liberal's Summer Meltdown
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I actually would support a VAT tax . . .to replace the income tax system and get rid of 3/4 of the IRS. But that is not what BO et al. want. They want it in addition to all the other taxes we pay. They don't have the courage to propose it and take political responsibility for it; they will hide behind the debt commission. The debt commission, who conveniently won't release any findings until after November elections. It's nice that the rest of the country is now becoming familiar with how things are done in Illinois - that shining beacon of transparent politics and fiscal responsibility.

Donnie Fitznuttie, sorry, but Obimbo DID GET the stimulus package he asked for!! And, in the Senate, then Republican Arlen Specter went along with it as did the Maine Republican sensators. The $800 BILLION, er $1 TRILLION with interest, was what Obama wanted.
Donnie, 20 months into the Epic Obama Disaster Movie, the job losses and weakening economy are all his and no one else's!
Man, Donnie Fitzwhacky, you really do live in a weird surreal alternative reality world, huh??

DON'T GET FOOLED BY THE EXTREMIST REPUBLICAN PARTY AGAIN. PEOPLE

Fox News finally made it official. They are part and parcel of the Republican Party. They are now the largest donors to the Republican Governors Association, having given them $1 million dollars. They also employ three out of the top four Republicans in the Iowa Caucus Poll for GOP presidential candidates.

As is explained here, now that Fox News has come out of the closet, it's hard to distinguish where Fox News ends and the Republican Party begins:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lftVkbbMoBk

They don't just have a perspective, they have an agenda. And they drive that agenda until their political goals are met. So, they don't just do the so-called Ground Zero Mosque story on one or two shows randomly depending on the host's interests. They all do it. Their talk show hosts do the story. Their so-called news anchors do the story. They do it 24-7 until it spreads to the other cable news stations, and then thereby spreads into the whole media.

That's not a coincidence, that's a well thought out strategy. And it works like a charm. So, for example, people are confused as to why the Democrats always seem to get slammed in the summers. That's because Congress is in recess, there is a news void and Fox fills that void with whatever propaganda they have decided will incite fear and loathing at that time. So, last summer it was death panels and Tea Parties. This summer it's the "Ground Zero Mosque."

And next summer it'll be something else, but here are the elements that are guaranteed to be there - a story that is covered non-stop, an incendiary topic that gets people talking, something that either stokes fear and/or hatred and involves a charge based on almost no facts. That's the formula. Watch, come back to this article next August and you will see that's exactly what happened again. The rest of the media is putty in Fox News' hands. So easy to manipulate and control.

This happens year around, too. It's just that the summer is their killing fields because of the dearth of other political stories.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plh0WmoLbk8

If the Extremist Republican Party actually believes that Americans are dying to return to their TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH/WAR-MONGERING failed policies, then they're dumber than we thought they were.

Poll: Americans More Unhappy With Republicans Than Democrats:

http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/08/12/poll-americans-unhappy-with-dems-way-more-unhappy-with-gop/

"Democrats who have pulled the country out of the ditch"
Really???
What planet are they on?
What this ad fails to say is... Opps the Dems have had control of Congress the last 4 years, and now look where we are.
"This Fall, will be the fall from power of the Socialist in power.

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Despite repeated propaganda from the Right Wing Noise Machine and the conservative loving Corporate Media, Pres Obama will easily be relected in 2012. The Repugs, as usual, don't have any decent policy propasals of their own to run on and they don't have a single credible candidate who can come close to beating Obama.

Hmmmm, now, let's see. Who has emerged in the past 12 months as the leader of the GOP to take on Pres Obama in 2012?

Sarah "Quitter Queen" Palin? Nah, she cut and ran from political office in favor of siphoning money her gullible followers don't have, on a book they didn't read, and speeches they can't remember. Michael Steele? Please...don’t make me laugh. Orange John "the economy is an ant" Boehner? No. Chance. Whatsoever.. Mitch "No Neck" McConnell? Nope (see Boehner, John). John McCain? Excuse me...John McWho? Hmm... How about Crazy Glenn Beck? Nope. His ratings are tanking. It seems that even the most gullible of his Wingnuts followers are finally figuring out that his rodeo clown act is nothing more than a non stop sales schtick for himself. Bobby "Gilligan" Jindal, Haley Barbour, Tim Pawlenty? Larry, Curly, Moe? Mike Huckabee? More like Mike Ain't-to-Be. Mitt "Flip Flopper" Romney? Heh, he's about as exciting as watching paint dry.

So for now it looks like proud racist Druggy Rush Limbaugh remains the de facto leader of the Republican party, seeing as no one has "emerged" to steal his mojo. But I'm sure there's a Saint Ronny Reagan lurking out there somewhere (TV Fred Thompson was supposed to be the next "Great Republican Communicator" in '08...unfortunately he kept falling asleep during his own speeches).

Congrats on your 2012 re-election Pres Obama!

Doogie,

Abe Lincoln once said "Better to remain silent and thought to be a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt". You should try his advice. Please point me to one Regan, Bush41, or Bush43 policy mess that has put us into our current economic situation.

PFUTZ,

BO had a filabuster proof Senate and a large House majority, there was nothing the GOP could do to object to his rearendrammer policies.

On a related note and dumb democratic policies, even Brothel Barney is seeing the light regarding Fannie and Freddie, he states "They should be abolished" Can I get an Amen?

http://online.wsj.com/article/NA_WSJ_PUB:SB10001424052748703649004575437574151872544.html

Hey liberals can you hear it? It's getting louder! Tick tack

I find this to be a lot like the boy who cried "Wolf" one too many times. I truly believe the the American people are smarter than that. Also, could the Dems be whistling in the dark.

How does the "WHO's" song go?

"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."

I'm fed up with ALL of them. Don't be fooled by the "TEA PARTY" either. Just a bunch of "different" politicians who also only care about their own narrow interest. And NOT the good of the American people.

"Left-wing economic policies don't work. Surprise, surprise...."

Posted by: Equal time | August 20, 2010 7:34 AM
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Here's proof that the stock markets do BETTER when there's a Democrat in the White House:
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http://money.cnn.com/2004/01/21/markets/election_demsvreps/

Does getting the Republicans back in control of Congress mean we get 5% unemployment back, too?

Obama OWNS THIS ECONOMY !!!

Time to "man up" Obama, and not keep pointing the finger of blame elsewhere when you spent 750 Billion on a stimulus/porkulus bill meant to create jobs but which you used to reward your union buddies.

Keep in mind the Congress controls the spending and the Democrats have controlled the Congress since the 2006 elections !!!
That's 4 years-----not just 18 months. Do you think everyone out here is a mind numb robot drinking Obama Kool Aid---hardly. We are angry he wasted 10 months trying to Socialize Healthcare INSTEAD OF CREATING JOBS FOR AMERICANS !!!!

THAT'S THE ISSUE FOR YOU TO CONSIDER ON YOUR 6TH VACATION THIS YEAR OBONEHEAD!

MSM you suck. You know you do. Your only hope of survival is to have a government media, like California has proposed. That's a great idea. No separation of church and state, but the state will control the non-sectarian population. You know, if you don't believe in something, you'll believe anything.

We are in a corrupt era in America. What does the media report? Nothing. No expositions. No reports of liberal and union corruption. That is the story of the last 25 years. You want to actually report something. That's your story.

The former speaker has been cleared of charges. Any report on that. NO. Lies, lies and bigger lies. You Suck.

Are the Dems aware that Bush isn't running? And suddenly the "bad" days under Bush, with that horrid 4% unemployment rate are looking pretty darn good.

The lies about the economy are so laughable that this actually works in the GOP's favor.

Before CommonSense,

Funny your chart starts at 1927, back that chart up to 1921 and include the boom years of Harding & Collidge. Also, there have been Dem presidents that have acted economically conservative (JFK's supply-side tax cuts) and GOP presidents that have acted liberal (Nixon's wage & price controls).

Much of that growth came during the Clinton years, mainly caused by the technology/internet boom, but politically, the growth during the Clinton years happened when the GOP took control over Congress and reigned in those $200 billion deficits for as far as the eye could see.

Fact is, when conservative ideas are tried, the economy grows much better than when large gov't and its centralized command and control methods are used.

"Free to watch", you're right, it's curious how the regime-friendly Swamp has blacked out mention of Tom DeLay's acquittal.
The Swamp ran no less than 50 articles on DeLay, most focusing on the charges against him. And on Dec. 20, 2006, the Swamp's Mark Silva proclaimed the DeLay charges one of the top ten stories of the year.
You'd think with all this focus, a Swamp journalist would at least mention that DeLay's been cleared. But as we know, the Swamp isn't about journalism. Instead, it's about attacking conservatives. And writing things that please the Obama regime.

I really don't think that George Bush, or Dick Cheney, is running for anything, this time around.

But if this is your best plan, then, by all means ...

Hey, " Free to watch..." 1/2 brain cell, in action, quit being so "intelligent" in your posts. You never now, you keep that low-level commentary going and you may make some sense, some day!!

" Ferry "

Filibuster-proof with Nelson of Nebraska and Lieberman of Connecticut? What, have you lost the little bit that God gave you? So, how does President Obama get the programs he wants for America, he has to tailor his measures in order for several obstructionist Republicans to go along. Your were right though, as far as the filibusters go, America lost and the obstructionist Republican won. What a hollow victory. Now, go out tell some more lies about that Islamic Cultural Center that your gang of bomb throwers, who have been inciting the voters of New York and wherever else there are reactionary voters, instead of reasoning voters !!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.

Teabagger Terri,
Bush#43 tax cuts to rich and wealthy has added $1,350,000,000,000.00 to the deficit.
You mispelled Ronnie's last name also. Shame on you!!

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Fact is, when conservative ideas are tried, the economy grows much better than when large gov't and its centralized command and control methods are used.

Posted by: Terry | August 22, 2010 11:08 AM
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Tinkled On Terry - can you post a link to any article that backs up this claim? I'd like to see the facts that you believe in.

"Democrats who have pulled the country out of the ditch and Bush Republican era policies which put us there."
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The Democrats are pulling something alright. It's called a fast one on the American Taxpayer. Nobody is buying this garbage anymore except Fitz & Rob. Who controlled congress the last 4 years?

the democrats are sheep, too dumb to be fooled, they just vote they way they are told to get free stuff from the goverment. It's the independents that will not be fooled again with promises of change and childishly blaming others constantly.
To the democrats that cried "bush lied" endlessly, well - your boy seems incapable of telling the truth. Why no worries about your little lieing chicago politician - I guess the real change is that democrats really don't mind lies - just who tells them
Change is coming in November! I hope the
demcrats run their ads on the comedy channel - it'll sure be fitting and probably more entertaining than anything on this channell I think it was Clinton that could give obama some advice - IT'S THE ECONOMY STUPID!!!!!!!

Terry,
You are so right about Harding and Coolidge. Harding ran for the presidency in 1920 on the message of a “Return to Normal”. After the last 2-3 years of Wilson, America very badly needed that.

Coolidge was quite conservative in fiscal affairs and practically everything that he did. I do seem to recall that he had some surpluses in his budgets during his 5 years as president.

Harding gets beat up by Historians because he chased the ladies and because of the Interior Department leasing scandals and of course, he was a Republican. Coolidge gets the bad treatment because he did not have the need to weigh in on everything that had a pulse, like someone we do know, and of course, he was a Republican.

If we had Calvin Coolidge, a Republican, right now, or Warren G. Harding, another Republican, for that matter, we would be light-years better off. This is not likely to be something that democrats of the Jeremiah Wright School of Revisionist History would know very much about.

"conservativemaster ", you can't pass the mustard. You know as well as high school students in a civics class, know: You don't control the governing processes, if you don't fully control our Senate, with a filibuster-free majority. Try telling the entire picture, sometime, then maybe some one would believe you are a master of something!! " conservativemaster ", then, maybe, someone would believe your erroneous billing!!
Who was controlling the White House for the last four years? I know the Bush&Cheney occupied it for 30 months of those 48 months, but whether they had the ability to control it! If we look at their last 2-3 years, I would say, nobody was in charge, but the Greedy Corporations and the obstructionists Republican-Libertarian-T.Baggers. Look at the mess they left and we are still trying to get out of the depression, the Bush&Cheney crater, in which America was left.
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.

Bush#43 tax cuts to rich and wealthy has added $1,350,000,000,000.00 to the deficit.
You mispelled Ronnie's last name also. Shame on you!!

Posted by: Doug R. | August 23, 2010 8:11 AM

The entire deficit was only 800B when Obama took office? Even if all of that was tax revenue related ( it couldn't be)...what nasty place did you pull the $1.3T out of?

Hey Don, Bush & Cheney have been gone for some time now. Maybe you missed that. Mr. Hope & Change is running the spending show now. And the more things change the more they stay the same. Kind of like you. Don, you are a master of something around here though. Your rants are very amusing. You have mastered blind support for the Obama agenda and have a PHD in blaming Bush & Cheney.

Before CommonSense,

Here's a couple of articles:

http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/MarginalTaxRates.html

http://www.house.gov/jec/fiscal/tx-grwth/reagtxct/reagtxct.htm

Do you have any articles that show raising taxes on job producers has a positive effect on economic growth?

Rearendrammer Doogie,

Fact is, after the Bush tax cuts, deficits got smaller thru 2007 until the effects of the democratic housing policies caused the recession. The $162 deficit in 2007 was smaller than the amount spent on the War on Terror for that year.

PFUTZ,

Still don't have the cajones to say what you mean? I used to use this for Before CommonSense, but you have earned it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKss2pBYQ6Y

BO has 59 senators, all he needs to do is bribe one of the two Maine turncoats. President Bush had to deal with only 55 senators in his own party.

" Ferry ",
I always say what I mean, evertime I post, " Ferry ". By the way, what is your recent interest in my cajones? What's going, you have some kind of personal problems? Is that what happens to you, Bush-whackers, after telling too many lies?? All of a sudden you come up with personal problems. What's that, you can't keep your lies straight!! My suggestuon. Quit the lying and a lot of your personal problems will disappear, including this weird interest you seemed to have in my cajones. Your stupity continues to amuse me.Keep it up, so everyone can see a true representative of the Republican-Libertarian-T.Bagger puppet.
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.

Forbes had an article on the impact of the Reagan and Bush tax cuts. While the deficits did get larger under Reagan, they began a turnaround and were decreasing each year until the Dems took Congress 4 years ago.

And the deficits aren't entirely (or even mostly) from the war. Check out this article http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Little-known-fact-Obamas-failed-stimulus-program-cost-more-than-the-Iraq-war-101302919.html

Yup, Obama has spent more on the stimulus in 2 years than the Congress approved war cost in 6 years.

Facts are stubborn things.

The R tax cuts caused a slight increase in the deficit, but the gap was closing until the Dems took Congress and spending went crazy.

According to this article, Obama has spent more in 2 years on the Stimulus (which did nothing but enrich his friends) than the Congress-approved war cost in 6 years.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Little-known-fact-Obamas-failed-stimulus-program-cost-more-than-the-Iraq-war-101302919.html

I've retyped this because the Swamp insists I've posted too many times today.

Tinkled On Terry - your first link from econlib.org provides no substance to your opinion that the economy does better under Republican administrations than under Democratic ones. My link shows that I have it correct.

Your second link is about Reagan's overhyped tax cuts. You DO remember that Reagan RASIED taxes THREE times during his 8 years in office, don't you?

PFUTZ,

So when you address me as "Ferry", you are calling me a big boat that carries cars accross the water?

Interest in your cajones? How can I have interest in something that doesn't exist?

Before Common Sense,

What your link provides is a correlation, no reason for cause and effect.

I do know that during the Reagna years, the top tax rate went from 70% to 28%. Tax rate decreases for teh job creators as an incentive to earn the next dollar and therefore expand their business. Gov't revnues increased about 80% during the Reagan years.

Do you have that economic theory that shows raising taxes increases economic activity?