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| Obama's fading coalition | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jul 15 2010, 08:31 AM (708 Views) | |
| Mikhailoh | Jul 15 2010, 08:31 AM Post #1 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Axtremus | Jul 15 2010, 08:50 AM Post #2 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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It's OK, man. In his 18 months in office, he has saved the country from financial Armageddon, passed two landmark reform legislations (healthcare and financial), and appointed 2 Supreme Court Justices. Many Presidents could not achieve half as much in two full terms. |
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| Mikhailoh | Jul 15 2010, 08:54 AM Post #3 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Riiiight. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Axtremus | Jul 15 2010, 08:55 AM Post #4 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Glad you agree.
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| JBryan | Jul 15 2010, 08:55 AM Post #5 |
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I am the grey one
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Oh, brother. |
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"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it". Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody. Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore. From The Lion in Winter. | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Jul 15 2010, 09:54 AM Post #6 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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First, appointing Supreme Court justices is a matter of necessity, not ambition. Second, I don't think anyone is capable of giving Barry credit for saving us from or placing us in financial Armageddon unless he or she has actually read more than 1% of the ARRA bill and can articulate its consequences. Third, if he's doing so great how do you explain his drop in popularity? |
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| Renauda | Jul 15 2010, 09:54 AM Post #7 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Gee, all he needs to do now is invade Libya and Ethiopia and link up with the wrong side in some foreign civil war. ![]() h/t to the Duke of D'Ohshire for the designer portrait |
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| Larry | Jul 15 2010, 02:48 PM Post #8 |
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Mmmmmmm, pie!
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BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA!!!! |
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Of the Pokatwat Tribe | |
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| Copper | Jul 15 2010, 03:58 PM Post #9 |
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Shortstop
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You forgot the Nobel prize. And during that time he has reduced friction in the gulf (of mexico not persian) and lowered his golf handicap. |
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The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy | |
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| JBryan | Jul 15 2010, 04:06 PM Post #10 |
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I am the grey one
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I think "lowered his golf handicap" is as far as we can safely go thus far. We really don't have any documentation as to his former golf handicap much like many other perhaps more important things we don't know about. |
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"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it". Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody. Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore. From The Lion in Winter. | |
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| Larry | Jul 15 2010, 04:20 PM Post #11 |
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Mmmmmmm, pie!
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Obama: Illegal alien living in government housing....... |
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Of the Pokatwat Tribe | |
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| Copper | Jul 15 2010, 04:33 PM Post #12 |
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Shortstop
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This made me wonder if you could lookup a USGA handicap. As you know golf scores used for handicaps are dependent on the honesty and integrity of the golfer. Each keeps and reports his own score. So I Googled and came across this site: http://www.myscorecard.com/cgi-bin/peerreview.pl You have to be a member to participate, but the interesting thing is that a home of the District of Columbia is not an option. I wonder if this is because of the "honesty and integrity" requirement. Maybe I missed it but I couldn't find it on that dropdown list. |
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The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy | |
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| George K | Jul 16 2010, 05:22 AM Post #13 |
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Finally
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Obama's next act By Charles Krauthammer Friday, July 16, 2010; A19 In the political marketplace, there's now a run on Obama shares. The left is disappointed with the president. Independents are abandoning him in droves. And the right is already dancing on his political grave, salivating about November when, his own press secretary admitted Sunday, Democrats might lose the House. I have a warning for Republicans: Don't underestimate Barack Obama. Consider what he has already achieved. Obamacare alone makes his presidency historic. It has irrevocably changed one-sixth of the economy, put the country inexorably on the road to national health care and, as acknowledged by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus but few others, begun one of the most massive wealth redistributions in U.S. history. Second, there is major financial reform, which passed Congress on Thursday. Economists argue whether it will prevent meltdowns and bailouts as promised. But there is no argument that it will give the government unprecedented power in the financial marketplace. Its 2,300 pages will create at least 243 new regulations that will affect not only, as many assume, the big banks but just about everyone, including, as noted in one summary (the Wall Street Journal), "storefront check cashiers, city governments, small manufacturers, home buyers and credit bureaus." Third is the near $1 trillion stimulus, the largest spending bill in U.S. history. And that's not even counting nationalizing the student loan program, regulating carbon emissions by Environmental Protection Agency fiat, and still-fitful attempts to pass cap-and-trade through Congress. But Obama's most far-reaching accomplishment is his structural alteration of the U.S. budget. The stimulus, the vast expansion of domestic spending, the creation of ruinous deficits as far as the eye can see are not easily reversed. These are not mere temporary countercyclical measures. They are structural deficits because, as everyone from Obama on down admits, the real money is in entitlements, most specifically Medicare and Medicaid. But Obamacare freezes these out as a source of debt reduction. Obamacare's $500 billion in Medicare cuts and $600 billion in tax increases are siphoned away for a new entitlement -- and no longer available for deficit reduction. The result? There just isn't enough to cut elsewhere to prevent national insolvency. That will require massive tax increases -- most likely a European-style value-added tax. Just as President Ronald Reagan cut taxes to starve the federal government and prevent massive growth in spending, Obama's wild spending -- and quarantining health-care costs from providing possible relief -- will necessitate huge tax increases. The net effect of 18 months of Obamaism will be to undo much of Reaganism. Both presidencies were highly ideological, grandly ambitious and often underappreciated by their own side. In his early years, Reagan was bitterly attacked from his right. (Typical Washington Post headline: "For Reagan and the New Right, the Honeymoon Is Over" -- and that was six months into his presidency!) Obama is attacked from his left for insufficient zeal on gay rights, immigration reform, closing Guantanamo -- the list is long. The critics don't understand the big picture. Obama's transformational agenda is a play in two acts. Act One is over. The stimulus, Obamacare, financial reform have exhausted his first-term mandate. It will bear no more heavy lifting. And the Democrats will pay the price for ideological overreaching by losing one or both houses, whether de facto or de jure. The rest of the first term will be spent consolidating these gains (writing the regulations, for example) and preparing for Act Two. The next burst of ideological energy -- massive regulation of the energy economy, federalizing higher education and "comprehensive" immigration reform (i.e., amnesty) -- will require a second mandate, meaning reelection in 2012. That's why there's so much tension between Obama and congressional Democrats. For Obama, 2010 matters little. If Democrats lose control of one or both houses, Obama will probably have an easier time in 2012, just as Bill Clinton used Newt Gingrich and the Republicans as the foil for his 1996 reelection campaign. Obama is down, but it's very early in the play. Like Reagan, he came here to do things. And he's done much in his first 500 days. What he has left to do he knows must await his next 500 days -- those that come after reelection. The real prize is 2012. Obama sees far, farther than even his own partisans. Republicans underestimate him at their peril. |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| jon-nyc | Jul 16 2010, 05:30 AM Post #14 |
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Cheers
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Krauthammer seems to agree with Ax. |
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| George K | Jul 16 2010, 05:32 AM Post #15 |
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Finally
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That's why I posted it. |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Dewey | Jul 16 2010, 05:35 AM Post #16 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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That was the funniest line I've read here in a long time. Brilliant, Copper!
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"By nature, i prefer brevity." - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, p. 685. "Never waste your time trying to explain yourself to people who are committed to misunderstanding you." - Anonymous "Oh sure, every once in a while a turd floated by, but other than that it was just fine." - Joe A., 2011 I'll answer your other comments later, but my primary priority for the rest of the evening is to get drunk." - Klaus, 12/31/14 | |
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| Copper | Jul 16 2010, 07:30 AM Post #17 |
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Shortstop
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Oops I thought I was going to get away with that. |
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The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy | |
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| Kincaid | Jul 16 2010, 07:41 AM Post #18 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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And some think Obama is not smart. I'm convinced more than ever that he's crazy like a fox. I have serious doubts that any Republican in the house is smart enough to counter him and stop him in 2012. |
| Kincaid - disgusted Republican Partisan since 2006. | |
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