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   ConserveGov said, 3 months ago

   Chicken Little and The Boy That Cried Wolf
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   mickey1339 said, 3 months ago

   It amazes me that politicians in Washington are so out of touch to think that us “regular folks” don’t realize that we are totally aware how full of crap they are. Somehow they think we are so naive as to believe all the absolute lies and double talk they put out on a regular basis. It is pathetic.
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   masterskrain said, 3 months ago

   It’s gotten to the point where the only difference between the parties is whether you have a *D, or an *R after your name in the news reports detailing your latest scandal/press conference/denial/announcement…
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   bhinkle said, 3 months ago

   Like the Sequestration is something that is happening to Obama?? Wow, is this guy a real PhD of rotation.
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   russell5419 said, 3 months ago

   It dropped a few years back, now we have to get rid of obummer and try to lift it back up.
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   edinbaltimore said, 3 months ago

   Yeah. The Pres has nothing to do with a better economy, but everything to do when it’s in the tank. Stock market all time high, housing and manufacturing recovering, low interest rates, unemployment coming back. Remind me again how we got here?
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   ansonia said, 3 months ago

   We’ve become desensitized to the series of Barackalypses.
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   ansonia said, 3 months ago

   @edinbaltimore

   Last week during Obama’s press conference on sequestration, he said that any negative economic numbers that may come out in the next week, next month, next two months, next three months, next six months would clearly be the fault of the Republicans He made that prediction. I guess he didn’t expect “good” numbers hahaha.
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   So, responding to your request of how we got here: the President says “Republicans.”
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   Mneedle said, 3 months ago

   Term limits would fix this. Senate should have two terms and the house should have only three terms. Then they go home and try to make an honest living.
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    pdchapin said, 3 months ago

    @Mneedle

    Then, without institutional memory in Congress, the bureaucrats run the government. Sequestration will be like an avalanche. It starts slowly and builds. And once started, its a bugger to stop.
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    mikefive said, 3 months ago

    @edinbaltimore

    Although we should be interested in how we got here so that those errors are not repeated, those errors are of no current importance. What is of importance is getting to where we want to be. The Congress and the President are not doing a very good job of getting us there. By implementing the policies they have, they have kept unemployment at 7.8% or 7.9% for the past five months (February numbers not yet published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics). GDP growth rate for the fourth quarter of 2012 was 0.1%. The housing recovery numbers are deceitful because those numbers are being driven by big investors turning properties into rentals, not regular people buying housing.
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    The simple minded stupidity of the currently elected Washington officials in believing that the parameters set in the Budget Control Act of 2011 ((Pub.L. 112–25) would never come into effect is unconscionable . Well, now they are all scrambling to say "I actually opposed sequester and thought sequester would never happen so I voted for it anyway. " Kind of like “I think I’ll stand on the edge of this cliff. A gust of wind will never blow me over the edge!” Sequester as a contingency plan was witless.
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    mikefive said, 3 months ago

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    ▲That comment is just….plain…lame.
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    edinbaltimore said, 3 months ago

    Agree with Mikefive to a certain extent. More should have been done by both sides for the economy when Obama first took office. But it was still the Republicans who said their object was not to help the country recover, but to make sure Obama was a one term President. They’ve backed themselves into a corner, with no good way out, so they blame Obama for helping them get there.
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    ansonia said, 3 months ago

    @edinbaltimore

    “But it was still the Republicans who said their object was not to help the country recover, but to make sure Obama was a one term President.”
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    I keep calling you out on this. Please quote the Republicans that said their object was not to help the country recover.
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    masterskrain said, 3 months ago

    @ansonia

    The actual Quote by Turtle-Boy McConnell is
    here…
    http://politicalwire.com/archives/2010/10/25/bonus_quot…
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