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Jerk
1/23/2012, 06:03 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gw8up1te0Y&feature=player_embedded

badger
1/23/2012, 08:25 AM
President Obama has much to answer for during his past four years, yes.

1- Why did you lose your filibuster proof majority in the Senate?

2- Why are Dems no longer in charge in the House?

3- Why is Guantanamo still running despite your pledge to close it?

4- About that BP oil spill...

5- Why are housing prices down...

6-... the unemployment rate still high...

7- ...energy prices high for many...

8- ...higher education costs skyrocketing waay above inflation...

9- ...K-12 schools funding slashed everywhere...

10-...and infrastructure issues abound?

There's so much more, but it's a start.

soonercruiser
1/23/2012, 09:03 PM
LOVE IT!!!
:very_drunk:

ictsooner7
1/23/2012, 09:38 PM
President Obama has much to answer for during his past four years, yes.

1- Why did you lose your filibuster proof majority in the Senate?

2- Why are Dems no longer in charge in the House?

3- Why is Guantanamo still running despite your pledge to close it?

4- About that BP oil spill...

5- Why are housing prices down...

6-... the unemployment rate still high...

7- ...energy prices high for many...

8- ...higher education costs skyrocketing waay above inflation...

9- ...K-12 schools funding slashed everywhere...

10-...and infrastructure issues abound?

There's so much more, but it's a start.

I have covered most of the this with all of you before. Try to learn.

1. Franken was sworn in to the Senate on July 7, 2009, 246 days after the November 2008 election.

In May 2008, Ted Kennedy was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor which limited his appearances in the Senate. He died on August 25, 2009.

So he had a veto proof majority for all of 54 days, with one of them dying of brain cancer so he couldn't be in the senate that much.

The operation and follow-up treatments left Kennedy thinner, prone to seizures, weak and short on energy, and hurt his balance. Kennedy made his first post-illness public appearance on July 9, when he surprised the Senate by showing up to supply the added vote to break a Republican filibuster against a bill to preserve Medicare fees for doctors.
By the end, Kennedy was in a wheelchair and had difficulty speaking, but consistently said that "I've had a wonderful life."

2. mainly because of off year elections are always lower turnouts than presidential elections and low turnouts always helps republicans, second, well funded teaparty groups convincing working people to vote against their own best self-interests.

3. republicans screams about where they would put them, not on US soil. He is wrong on this and should have closed it.

4. He caused it how?

5. two reasons, housing bubble started in the bush years and high unemployment also starting in the bush years. economy in too bad so shape to come back this quickly, but it is on its way back.

6. again started under bush on its way down, having everything he wanted to do to drive the economy being brought to a half since the last election. check the gdp per quarter since 2006.

7. a lot of it has to do with speculators:

Dan Dicker, who wrote the book "Oil's Endless Bid," estimated that the financial market for oil is 15 times greater than the amount of actual oil being traded. CBS' "60 Minutes" quoted hedge fund manager Michael Masters to the effect that, in 2007, 27 barrels of crude were being traded every day on the New York Mercantile Exchange for every one barrel of oil that was actually being consumed in the United States. Both of these figures are measures of how many times speculators buy a shipment of oil before it reaches its true market. This ran crude oil prices to over $140 a barrel before the economic collapse of 2008.

To correct these abuses, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Act in 2010. This act contained provisions to bring energy futures trading clearly under control of the CFTC to correct speculative abuses. The implementation rules are being crafted by the CFTC now. The 60-day comment period from the public ended March 28. These rules are not finalized or published and may be weaker than Congress intended.

8. has been for years, republicans in states wanting to cut spending

9. republicans in states wanting to cut spending

10. really? seriously? you have a super short memory, you don't recall the huge massive fight over the stimulas plan? How about the republicans killing the infrastructure bank?

Making the case once again for a federal infrastructure bank, President Obama spoke on Wednesday at Key Bridge, which spans between D.C.'s Georgetown neighborhood and Arlington, Va. The speech is well-timed, given that the Senate is expected to vote on Obama's infrastructure bill Thursday, but it is unlikely to garner any more congressional support than the president's last bridge speech.

The 60-vote threshold that sunk the last two efforts by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., to pass the president's jobs plan (in full or in part) may doom the infrastructure proposal as well. Republicans oppose the regulations that a national infrastructure bank may attach to its loans and the immediate $50 billion investment the bill requires. Even reauthorizing federal transportation expenditures at the status quo was a challenge.

soonercruiser
1/25/2012, 12:18 PM
"Yawn"......zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

TitoMorelli
1/25/2012, 02:30 PM
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TitoMorelli
1/25/2012, 02:52 PM
President Obama has much to answer for during his past four years, yes.

1- Why did you lose your filibuster proof majority in the Senate?

...So he had a veto proof majority for all of 54 days, with one of them dying of brain cancer so he couldn't be in the senate that much.


ict's response about the actual number of days in which the Senate had a filibuster-proof majority misses the point. Had Massachusetts voters chosen a Democrat for Kennedy's seat, that majority would have been preserved. Instead voters of one of the more liberal states chose a Republican to fill the seat.


2- Why are Dems no longer in charge in the House?

2. mainly because of off year elections are always lower turnouts than presidential elections and low turnouts always helps republicans, second, well funded teaparty groups convincing working people to vote against their own best self-interests.



Actually, the 2010 elections brought out more voters than any other off-year election in history. Over 90 million Americans voted, and they voted overwhelmingly against the out-of-control Dems.

Furthermore, it's only logical that those who do take the time to vote in off-year elections are much more likely to be issue-oriented voters, and more likely to be better informed politically, than those who only come out every four years.

Incidentally, over 80 million voted in 2006 (making that the old record), when Democrats made major gains in both houses, but ict apparently believes that off-year elections are only skewed when conservatives benefit from them.



3- Why is Guantanamo still running despite your pledge to close it?

Most likely because once he actually took office, those in the know explained to Obama just why his promise to close Gitmo, no matter how popular, was hare-brained.



I have covered most of the this with all of you before. Try to learn.

We've learned never to take your tirades on here seriously. Does that count?