The part I find most humorous it the entire inability of Democratics to understand that this is the way the founders wanted our government to work, to make it very hard to pass unpopular legislation. This is why they set it up this way. The only change I would make is to make filibusters follow the actual rules created and have the blowhards stand up there and talk to stop a vote, not just say, “we have enough votes for a filibuster so it exists, now we’re headed to the bar, coming Ted?”
What I find truly frightening about the Democratic Agenda is their whole-hearted embrace of agendas that take money away from those who earned it so that they can redistribute those dollars as vote buying largess to their base.
I’m not a libertarian – I like: Roads, Schools, Research facilities, defense, parks, military to a lesser extent then we have now, hospitals, etc. I don’t like government programs that take money from one group and GIVE it to another – like: Social Security (Especially the disability portion), Medicare, Medicaid, Unemployment for more then a quarter, etc.
I’m also Sick of the Regulations – I work for a large multi-national corporation and we will be subjected to enormous costs under the frank-dodd act because of the conflict mineral clause. This is the part where businesses are expected to figure out whether or not their component chemicals (Tungsten, Tantalum, Tin and Gold) come from areas of Africa where the people may have been exploited. This doesn’t improve the lives of Americans 1 whit but it will cost billions of dollars from domestic corporations that have to comply. Since their foreign competition don’t have these same requirements, we will be placed at a competitive cost advantage.
But Obama never had to work in business so he doesn’t understand how global competition works. One more reason we need to get rid of this bozo and find someone who understands the struggles we (the employed and invested) are facing.
@gricks – Absolutely!!!! He’s run a business and owned companies (He’s part of the invested too). He knows how regulations harm the bottom line and how that reduces jobs.
He’s had to make hard decisions about his own money knowing that if he chooses incorrectly he could be out of business.
Compare that to Obama who likes to take other peoples money (Placing people in chains for his own personal gain) and give it out to anyone who will vote for him while patting himself on the back for being a humanitarian.
Romney has been affected by these policies and knows how destructive they are. Obama lives in a bubble where he can give away 100s of millions to a company like Solyndra and leave the taxpayers on the hook when it goes sour.
When the SEC first received the Frank Dodd act. They went to the Secretary of State and asked them to tell them where abuses were occuring. The SoS admitted that they couldn’t tell the difference between civil war and slavery but they were sure that companies would be able to figure it out.
Instead of going back to congress and saying this is unenforcable – They just plowed ahead and issued a 1200 page set of rules for how to enforce just this piece of the legislation.
We have to stop being the policeman for the whole world. When the Africans are tired of their warlords and dictators they will band together and rise up against their oppressors like every advanced nation has been forced too. Instead, the US is going to force their will on these people at the expense of working people and businesses. It is the worst form of hidden tax because it costs jobs, reduces investor wealth, decreases productivity, increases government oversight and doesn’t benefit Americans at all.
I disagree Gricks – Workers in other countries act just like American workers when they get a job: They buy American products (Cars, Ipods, etc.), they send their kids to American Colleges, they demand roads and hospitals and other public services that require American manufacturing. You are dead wrong on this point and it is your lack of understanding about the Global Economy that makes you far from qualified to speak on this subject.
The POTUS, as you like to put it, should be interested in making American workers qualified to do a job more effectively and efficiently then their foreign competitors. We all benefit when the person who can do the job for the least cost does the job.
Wow what a brilliant argument you make there Freddy. So what makes me a troll? Am I a troll because I don’t agree with your politics? Am I a troll because a point out the idiocy of the Conflict Minerals clause?
Or are you calling me troll because you really can’t effectively counter what I’m saying.I do happen to know what I’m talking about. I’m busy trying to make sure my company complies with these laws and can still make a profit to reward our workers and our shareholders. What are you doing?
Do a little research and stop calling people trolls just because you don’t like what they have to say. You don’t diminish the people you accuse and you embarrass yourself.
the gop said that they were about jobs…really it was abortion and voter suppression. wi walker promised 250k jobs. they also had usa’s credit rating downgraded, and almost defaulted on our debt. they say an unionized teacher who makes 30k a year is too expensive, but paying an “adviser” to a governor 250k is to retain talent. gop says they would balance their budgets, but texas has 26 billion in the red. without the stimulus(fed aid to states), in would be in the red by 1 billion. they say anyone getting state money has to have drug testing, but the governor who gets paid with state money won’t take a drug test. and, they think that rape will not result in pregnancy. and, 8 years to get bin laden and wouldn’t go into pakistan to get him.
That’s “’bated breath” — a short form for “abated breath” — meaning breath that is being held in anticipation. “Baited breath” probably smells pretty unpleasant.
Radish, that was a fine post! I used to be a republican too, until it got too radical. I will never go back. The party has become changed and is run by the most extremist “Christians” and the most radical "patriots"who have been the group that has done the most “acts of terror” than any other groups.
I’ll start by asking you what you would do with the people detained in GitMo. No one in the GOP has an answer other than the status quo.Minus “The Stimulus”. which was mainly tax breaks and and an extension of unemployment benefits, where do you think the economy would be now? Dodd-Frank is not enough. We could replace “Too Big Too Fail”, with “Too Many Too Fail”, what we need to do is put hard restrictions on what bank can do with FDIC backed deposits. Separate speculation from deposits.Obamacare is the conservative alternative to a real government takeover over healthcare. Liberals are angry at Obama for not pushing through Single Payer. In 10 years, Republicans will be campaigning as defenders of Obmacare.
All of the idiots talking about how the Democrats controlled Congress for two years need to look at the attempts to engage the Republicans, followed by the need to appease the Blue Dog Democrats.Liberals are disappointed with Obama for being naive enough to think the GOP would ever play ball, but we aren’t giving up!
Let’s quit with the idea that the Dems controlled congress for two years. Out of those two years, they had more than 60 votes (to vote cloture) for exactly two months (counting blocked senate seats and members too sick to show up on the floor to vote cloture). Should they have gotten more done? Maybe, but one party filibustering every single bill was unprecedented, and they foolishly thought that the GOP would be willing to go along with things that every one knew would help America, like jobs bills, private-sector based health care reform, and infrastructure improvements. The GOP proved that partisanship trumps patriotism every time.
alcors3 over 11 years ago
Somebody has to slow the destruction process.
archimedeslives over 11 years ago
The part I find most humorous it the entire inability of Democratics to understand that this is the way the founders wanted our government to work, to make it very hard to pass unpopular legislation. This is why they set it up this way. The only change I would make is to make filibusters follow the actual rules created and have the blowhards stand up there and talk to stop a vote, not just say, “we have enough votes for a filibuster so it exists, now we’re headed to the bar, coming Ted?”
Mephistopheles over 11 years ago
What I find truly frightening about the Democratic Agenda is their whole-hearted embrace of agendas that take money away from those who earned it so that they can redistribute those dollars as vote buying largess to their base.
I’m not a libertarian – I like: Roads, Schools, Research facilities, defense, parks, military to a lesser extent then we have now, hospitals, etc. I don’t like government programs that take money from one group and GIVE it to another – like: Social Security (Especially the disability portion), Medicare, Medicaid, Unemployment for more then a quarter, etc.
I’m also Sick of the Regulations – I work for a large multi-national corporation and we will be subjected to enormous costs under the frank-dodd act because of the conflict mineral clause. This is the part where businesses are expected to figure out whether or not their component chemicals (Tungsten, Tantalum, Tin and Gold) come from areas of Africa where the people may have been exploited. This doesn’t improve the lives of Americans 1 whit but it will cost billions of dollars from domestic corporations that have to comply. Since their foreign competition don’t have these same requirements, we will be placed at a competitive cost advantage.
But Obama never had to work in business so he doesn’t understand how global competition works. One more reason we need to get rid of this bozo and find someone who understands the struggles we (the employed and invested) are facing.
Mephistopheles over 11 years ago
@gricks – Absolutely!!!! He’s run a business and owned companies (He’s part of the invested too). He knows how regulations harm the bottom line and how that reduces jobs.
He’s had to make hard decisions about his own money knowing that if he chooses incorrectly he could be out of business.
Compare that to Obama who likes to take other peoples money (Placing people in chains for his own personal gain) and give it out to anyone who will vote for him while patting himself on the back for being a humanitarian.
Romney has been affected by these policies and knows how destructive they are. Obama lives in a bubble where he can give away 100s of millions to a company like Solyndra and leave the taxpayers on the hook when it goes sour.
Mephistopheles over 11 years ago
When the SEC first received the Frank Dodd act. They went to the Secretary of State and asked them to tell them where abuses were occuring. The SoS admitted that they couldn’t tell the difference between civil war and slavery but they were sure that companies would be able to figure it out.
Instead of going back to congress and saying this is unenforcable – They just plowed ahead and issued a 1200 page set of rules for how to enforce just this piece of the legislation.
We have to stop being the policeman for the whole world. When the Africans are tired of their warlords and dictators they will band together and rise up against their oppressors like every advanced nation has been forced too. Instead, the US is going to force their will on these people at the expense of working people and businesses. It is the worst form of hidden tax because it costs jobs, reduces investor wealth, decreases productivity, increases government oversight and doesn’t benefit Americans at all.
cjr53 over 11 years ago
Congress, 33 symbolic votes to repeal health care for Americans. Not much else accomplished.
ninety_nine_percent over 11 years ago
Great ’toon Jim!! So true.
retpost over 11 years ago
Change the hat to read CONGRESS instead of GOP and I will agree with MORIN!
Heavy B over 11 years ago
Jim Morin MUST be telling the truth, look at how the righties freak out.
Mephistopheles over 11 years ago
I disagree Gricks – Workers in other countries act just like American workers when they get a job: They buy American products (Cars, Ipods, etc.), they send their kids to American Colleges, they demand roads and hospitals and other public services that require American manufacturing. You are dead wrong on this point and it is your lack of understanding about the Global Economy that makes you far from qualified to speak on this subject.
The POTUS, as you like to put it, should be interested in making American workers qualified to do a job more effectively and efficiently then their foreign competitors. We all benefit when the person who can do the job for the least cost does the job.
Mephistopheles over 11 years ago
Wow what a brilliant argument you make there Freddy. So what makes me a troll? Am I a troll because I don’t agree with your politics? Am I a troll because a point out the idiocy of the Conflict Minerals clause?
Or are you calling me troll because you really can’t effectively counter what I’m saying.I do happen to know what I’m talking about. I’m busy trying to make sure my company complies with these laws and can still make a profit to reward our workers and our shareholders. What are you doing?
Do a little research and stop calling people trolls just because you don’t like what they have to say. You don’t diminish the people you accuse and you embarrass yourself.
vwdualnomand over 11 years ago
the gop said that they were about jobs…really it was abortion and voter suppression. wi walker promised 250k jobs. they also had usa’s credit rating downgraded, and almost defaulted on our debt. they say an unionized teacher who makes 30k a year is too expensive, but paying an “adviser” to a governor 250k is to retain talent. gop says they would balance their budgets, but texas has 26 billion in the red. without the stimulus(fed aid to states), in would be in the red by 1 billion. they say anyone getting state money has to have drug testing, but the governor who gets paid with state money won’t take a drug test. and, they think that rape will not result in pregnancy. and, 8 years to get bin laden and wouldn’t go into pakistan to get him.
lonecat over 11 years ago
That’s “’bated breath” — a short form for “abated breath” — meaning breath that is being held in anticipation. “Baited breath” probably smells pretty unpleasant.
pam Miner over 11 years ago
Radish, that was a fine post! I used to be a republican too, until it got too radical. I will never go back. The party has become changed and is run by the most extremist “Christians” and the most radical "patriots"who have been the group that has done the most “acts of terror” than any other groups.
Uncle Joe Premium Member over 11 years ago
I’ll start by asking you what you would do with the people detained in GitMo. No one in the GOP has an answer other than the status quo.Minus “The Stimulus”. which was mainly tax breaks and and an extension of unemployment benefits, where do you think the economy would be now? Dodd-Frank is not enough. We could replace “Too Big Too Fail”, with “Too Many Too Fail”, what we need to do is put hard restrictions on what bank can do with FDIC backed deposits. Separate speculation from deposits.Obamacare is the conservative alternative to a real government takeover over healthcare. Liberals are angry at Obama for not pushing through Single Payer. In 10 years, Republicans will be campaigning as defenders of Obmacare.
Uncle Joe Premium Member over 11 years ago
All of the idiots talking about how the Democrats controlled Congress for two years need to look at the attempts to engage the Republicans, followed by the need to appease the Blue Dog Democrats.Liberals are disappointed with Obama for being naive enough to think the GOP would ever play ball, but we aren’t giving up!
ggauss Premium Member over 11 years ago
I wonder about someone who spends so much time on a comics page espousing their political views. Time to get a life?
ARodney over 11 years ago
Let’s quit with the idea that the Dems controlled congress for two years. Out of those two years, they had more than 60 votes (to vote cloture) for exactly two months (counting blocked senate seats and members too sick to show up on the floor to vote cloture). Should they have gotten more done? Maybe, but one party filibustering every single bill was unprecedented, and they foolishly thought that the GOP would be willing to go along with things that every one knew would help America, like jobs bills, private-sector based health care reform, and infrastructure improvements. The GOP proved that partisanship trumps patriotism every time.