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Dycel
said, 3 months ago
Funny thing Jerry never mentions the repubbies failure to pay the current bills then holding the taxpayer hostage for the Bush tax cuts that created this whole sequester BS fiasco!
4my10851cs said, 3 months ago
Yea, O had nothing to do with it…
wmconelly said, 3 months ago
“John Boehner wants tax cuts. Says that tax cuts under Reagan actually raised revenues. He’s a government “expert” by any standard. Seen every document, heard every argument.
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But…we had $12 trillion in debt as a result of Reagan tax-and-spend policies.
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We have $4 trillion more debt left by his disciple, Junior Bush, that the Tea Party won’t let us clean up.
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Reagan was wrong. His “experts” were clods.
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He did not increase revenues. He simply spent more.
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Who says so? CBO, whom some call experts. And that was during their own Republican administration."
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Hey, who you gonna call?
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With a nod to Joseph O’Shaughnessy, Illinois
AussieDownUnder said, 3 months ago
We could send you our PM but lets face it, with all your problems you don’t need more.
TJDestry
said, 3 months ago
Are you kidding me? Don’t you follow the news at all, Jerry? Do you have no idea how the sequester came about? None?
This is like a sportswriter saying a quarterback scored a home run.
Respectful Troll said, 3 months ago
In July 2011, Obama & Boehnor held intense negotiations to end the “crisis” of that time, the debt ceiling debate. The result of that debate had Boehnor saying he had gotten “98% of what I wanted, I’m happy.”, Obama was furious, and a bipartisan committee started its work to find further cuts/revenue. That committee, famously including Paul Ryan, failed to produce legislation and fell apart.
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Along comes 2012, and in order to prevent the next financial crisis, Boehnor and Obama again negotiated but that failed. McConnall came up with “Plan B”, but that failed. With another financial hurdle facing citizens, Gene Sperling, a senior WH aide, suggested this “Unacceptable Consequence” to force the parties and the W.H. to work together to find intelligent targeted ways to prevent more suffering than was necessary. Obama and Boehnor reluctantly agreed since it would put off the next impending disaster and perhaps the election results would make “cooperation” less necessary.
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Here we are in 2013 and Unacceptable consequences are no longer unacceptable if it makes the other party look worse. Mr. Boehnor is upset he’s not going to get 98% of what he wants this time. Mr. Reid is.. frankly…useless and an impediment to progress- why won’t he pass a budget, why hasn’t he introduced the cuts the President says he has offered?
Mr. Obama is trying to get Americans to contact legislators but the average American does not trust either party to work on their behalf. We need to see these people walking the walk, not just talking the talk. It is time for Mr. Obama to lead some cameramen into Capital Hill and knock on some doors. He needs to actively lobby for his policies and show Americans he is actually doing so, and to see the people who are closing the door in the President’s face. Will this demean the office of the Presidency or the Congress? Can either of those branches of gov’t be much further demeaned? These tribal mindsets are making Americans angry, divided, and something must be done. This nation needs a leader, and it needs lawmakers willing to work together.
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Mr. Holbert’s cartoon needs to spread the blame.
Respectfully,
C.
Harleyquinn
said, 3 months ago
@Respectful Troll
That committee, famously including Paul Ryan, failed to produce legislation and fell apart. "…
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Could not get past this lie to read the rest of the rant. Let me ask you one simple question. Who has past a few budgets and pasted them on time. And who has not?
Jase99 said, 3 months ago
@Harleyquinn
“Who has past a few budgets and pasted them on time. And who has not?”
A pharmaceutical could repeatedly submit rat poison for FDA approval as an influenza treatment and it would be repeatedly rejected. You would then blame the FDA for rejecting an influenza miracle cure. Just because the Tea Party/Republican controlled house passes a highly partisan budget along party lines, that doesn’t mean the Senate should approve it.
Respectful Troll said, 3 months ago
@Harleyquinn
Don’t reply to comments you don’t read.
C.
Zipi said, 3 months ago
@Jase99
President Bush signed a budget every year (as required) even though both houses of Congress were controlled by the Democrats. He did it by compromising. Obama seems to think that since he was given the White House he shouldn’t have to compromise anything. He is the obstacle, not the GOP in the House.
ossiningaling said, 3 months ago
@Harleyquinn
What would your attitude be if there was a Democratic House and it passed [sic] a budget that a Republican Senate didn’t like?
fredgold said, 3 months ago
@Respectful Troll
Amen!
TheTrustedMechanic said, 3 months ago
@Harleyquinn
Harley – prove what you claim is a lie is indeed a lie. Facts and history are not on your side on this one. Either put up or shut up. You are not part of the solution, you are the problem.
cfortunato
said, 3 months ago
Are you idiots STILL trying to spread the bullshit that the Sequester wasn’t a Republican idea – even though THEY PROPOSED IT AND VOTED FOR IT?
Wake up – the days when you right-wingers could make lies stick just by repetition are OVER.
TheTrustedMechanic said, 3 months ago
@HOWGOZIT
Um, it is you who are off topic not to mention ignorant of the topic. During reagan’s reign the sequester was initiated but never allowed to take effect because of creative bookkeeping, so the lone Democrat sponsor, Ernest Hollings, of the reagan era sequester asked that his name be removed and it became known simply as the Gramm-Rudman act. So invoking reagan was on topic of the sequester. The sequester was a result of the failed negotiations between House republican “leader” John Bohner and President Obama. Bohner did state he got 98% of what he wanted, and that included the current sequester. Saint ronnie’s policies and voodoo economics are a direct predecessor of the current economic woes of this country and baby bush did “double down” on the republican mantra “give massive tax breaks to the rich and they will altruistically pass that on to the poor.” Ten years of study have proven that wrong. King george gave massive tax breaks to his rich friends and party campaign buyers calling them tax breaks for “job creators.” Ten years of history have proven beyond any shadow of a doubt that those “job creators” didn’t and therefore the tax break experiment is a failure. All of this results in the massive debt we have now and the sequester that resulted from the republicans single minded (one mind among all combined) laser focus on protecting the wealthy from paying even an equal share in taxes to the percent of the national wealth they collectively own. So wmconelly was very on topic, just too complexly connected for a simple weak-mind like you to understand.
Oh a,d by the way, the abbreviation for cartoon is ’toon, not “tune”. Further demonstration of your level of intelligence? A result of that “high quality” republican education you received no doubt.