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Re: President Barack Obama - Term 2 Thread

Postby slucero » Fri Jan 17, 2014 8:57 am

interesting picture...

What you see below (in the case) is the 2013 Federal Register, containing over 80,000 pages of new rules, regulations, and notices all written and passed by unelected Washington bureaucrats.

The small stack of papers on the top right had side of the case are the laws passed by elected members of Congress and signed into law by the president.


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Re: President Barack Obama - Term 2 Thread

Postby Boomchild » Fri Jan 17, 2014 10:51 am

slucero wrote:interesting picture...

What you see below (in the case) is the 2013 Federal Register, containing over 80,000 pages of new rules, regulations, and notices all written and passed by unelected Washington bureaucrats.

The small stack of papers on the top right had side of the case are the laws passed by elected members of Congress and signed into law by the president.


I am not surprised by this at all. Guess this is the new system of government. Where laws are created and put into effect by the regime instead of democratically elected officials.
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Re: President Barack Obama - Term 2 Thread

Postby slucero » Fri Jan 17, 2014 10:55 am

Boomchild wrote:
slucero wrote:interesting picture...

What you see below (in the case) is the 2013 Federal Register, containing over 80,000 pages of new rules, regulations, and notices all written and passed by unelected Washington bureaucrats.

The small stack of papers on the top right had side of the case are the laws passed by elected members of Congress and signed into law by the president.


I am not surprised by this at all. Guess this is the new system of government. Where laws are created and put into effect by the regime instead of democratically elected officials.



oh it's not new.. this is how its been done for a long time..

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Re: President Barack Obama - Term 2 Thread

Postby Boomchild » Fri Jan 17, 2014 6:07 pm

slucero wrote:oh it's not new.. this is how its been done for a long time..


Doesn't surprise me either. But, seems to me that we now have a President in the Whitehouse that would rather have a dictatorship then a democratic government. I wonder what the numbers are for prior years of laws written and enacted in by non elected officials to the elected ones.
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Re: President Barack Obama - Term 2 Thread

Postby steveo777 » Fri Jan 17, 2014 6:54 pm

Boomchild wrote:
slucero wrote:oh it's not new.. this is how its been done for a long time..


Doesn't surprise me either. But, seems to me that we now have a President in the Whitehouse that would rather have a dictatorship then a democratic government. I wonder what the numbers are for prior years of laws written and enacted in by non elected officials to the elected ones.


It's going to get worse. He threatened America that he has a pen and a phone and is prepared to use both to circumvent congress. This guy is hardly worthy of president. The next 3 years are going to be a rough ride. What kind of idiots would elect a man like that?
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Re: President Barack Obama - Term 2 Thread

Postby slucero » Sat Jan 18, 2014 3:36 am

Boomchild wrote:
slucero wrote:oh it's not new.. this is how its been done for a long time..


Doesn't surprise me either. But, seems to me that we now have a President in the Whitehouse that would rather have a dictatorship then a democratic government. I wonder what the numbers are for prior years of laws written and enacted in by non elected officials to the elected ones.


like I said.... it's been done for years..

Pages added to the Federal Register each year:

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Congressional legislation enacted as a percentage of bill introduced..

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Re: President Barack Obama - Term 2 Thread

Postby Boomchild » Tue Jan 21, 2014 11:45 pm

Interesting tidbit about Michelle Obama's birthday bash. Maybe the Obama's don't want the public to know who of the "rich and powerful" their rubbing elbows with due to B.O.'s focus on income inequality.

"What Wasn’t Allowed at Michelle Obama’s Top-Secret, Glitzy Birthday Bash"

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/01/20/what-wasnt-allowed-at-michelle-obamas-top-secret-glitzy-birthday-bash/
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Re: President Barack Obama - Term 2 Thread

Postby Boomchild » Thu Jan 23, 2014 1:09 pm

Fact Finder wrote:Wall Street advisor: Actual unemployment is 37.2%, 'misery index' worst in 40 years

http://washingtonexaminer.com


This information is all well and good. The problem is the general public (which are the bulk of voters) take for granted the numbers that the Federal Government puts out.
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Re: President Barack Obama - Term 2 Thread

Postby Boomchild » Tue Jan 28, 2014 8:59 pm

According to a the latest NBC poll, American's don't have a bright outlook for America. So much for the faith in "hope and change". Maybe the bubble is finally beginning to burst.

"According to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, 63% of Americans believe the country is headed in the wrong direction, compared to just 28% who think we’re headed in the right one."

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/poll-america ... d-downhill
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Re: President Barack Obama - Term 2 Thread

Postby slucero » Wed Jan 29, 2014 4:28 am

the State of The Union Address is tonight...

There'll prolly be a change in the polling numbers after His Eminence speaks..

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Re: President Barack Obama - Term 2 Thread

Postby steveo777 » Wed Jan 29, 2014 2:57 pm

The SOTU was full of all the familiar rhetoric and crap. It had a couple good moments, namely when that injured soldier who is making a recovery got a standing ovation and more applause than anything else. Still, the shitbag liar was just spewing more promising shit than he will ever deliver on.
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Re: President Barack Obama - Term 2 Thread

Postby Boomchild » Wed Jan 29, 2014 7:54 pm

steveo777 wrote:The SOTU was full of all the familiar rhetoric and crap. It had a couple good moments, namely when that injured soldier who is making a recovery got a standing ovation and more applause than anything else. Still, the shitbag liar was just spewing more promising shit than he will ever deliver on.


Except for circumventing Congress by making laws through executive orders. Not surprising from someone that would love to be a dictator.
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Re: President Barack Obama - Term 2 Thread

Postby Boomchild » Wed Jan 29, 2014 7:58 pm

slucero wrote:the State of The Union Address is tonight...

There'll prolly be a change in the polling numbers after His Eminence speaks..


Is this the event where the Fuhrer gives a speech to an audience of clapping seals?
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Re: President Barack Obama - Term 2 Thread

Postby slucero » Sat Feb 01, 2014 5:44 pm

Chicago Grassroots React to State of the Union

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7mYg6Gt15o#t=293

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Re: President Barack Obama - Term 2 Thread

Postby Boomchild » Sun Feb 02, 2014 9:58 pm

Pelosi gets laughed at while on the John Stewart show when discussing the problems with the healthcare.gov website.

“Why is it so hard to get a company to execute that competently?” Stewart said.

“I don’t know,” Pelosi said, prompting peals of laughter from Stewart’s audience.

“Oh, well, let me get the House minority leader here, I can ask her. Hold on — what do you mean you don’t know? How do you not know?” Stewart asked.

“That’s not my responsibility,” Pelosi said. “But I will say this, we worked very hard to honor our responsibility to pass the bill that honors the vowels of our founders: life, a healthier life, liberty to pursue your happiness.”

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/01/31/watch-nancy-pelosi-actually-gets-laughed-at-during-her-interview-with-jon-stewart/
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Re: President Barack Obama - Term 2 Thread

Postby Boomchild » Tue Feb 04, 2014 10:56 pm

Interesting interview with B.O. and Bill O'Reilly. When discussing healthcare reform, he touted that 3 million have signed up through the website and that the they have 6 MILLION signed up for Medicaid (aka FREE coverage). B.O. stated that the website is working like it should but dodged the question about a recent poll that people are still having lots of issues with the enrollment process. B.O. also continued to gloss over the repeated "if you like your coverage\doctor you can keep it" pledge. When it came to Benghazi, he still is claiming that he called it a terrorist attack the following day and glossed over the claims that it was due to a uprising over the anti-Muslim video. B.O. also claimed that they were focused on "doing everything they could" to protect the people at the embassy, but then back peddled that everything wasn't. The most interesting thing for me was how he down played his statements about wanting to "fundamentally transform America". At first he tried to dismiss that he has been saying that. All of this is really nothing new and just reinforces that B.O. won't take responsibility for anything that goes wrong.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/02/02/not-even-a-smidgen-of-corruption-its-obama-versus-oreilly-during-interview-that-got-downright-contentious-at-times/
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Re: President Barack Obama - Term 2 Thread

Postby slucero » Wed Feb 05, 2014 2:08 pm

the CBO just tossed Obamacare under the bus... I wonder who they pissed off..

Obamacare’s scorekeepers deliver a game-changer
By Dana Milbank, Tuesday, February 4, 5:12 PM

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ ... story.html

For years, the White House has trotted out the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to show that Obamacare would cut health-care costs and reduce deficits:

“CBO Confirms Families Will Save Money Under Health Reform.”
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2009/11/30/cbo-confirms

“CBO Update Shows Lower Costs for the New Health Care Law.”

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/03/ ... h-care-law

“CBO Confirms: The Health Care Law Reduces the Deficit.”

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/07/ ... es-deficit


Live by the sword, die by the sword, the Bible tells us. In Washington, it’s slightly different: Live by the CBO, die by the CBO.

The congressional number-crunchers, perhaps the capital’s closest thing to a neutral referee, came out with a new report Tuesday, and it wasn’t pretty for Obamacare. The CBO predicted the law would have a “substantially larger” impact on the labor market than it had previously expected: The law would reduce the workforce in 2021 by the equivalent of 2.3 million full-time workers, well more than the 800,000 originally anticipated. This will inevitably be a drag on economic growth, as more people decide government handouts are more attractive than working more and paying higher taxes.

This is grim news for the White House and for Democrats on the ballot in November. This independent arbiter, long embraced by the White House, has validated a core complaint of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) critics: that it will discourage work and become an ungainly entitlement. Disputing Republicans’ charges is much easier than refuting the federal government’s official scorekeepers.

White House officials rushed to dispute the referee’s call — arguing, somewhat contradictorily, that the finding was both flawed and really good news if interpreted properly.

Press secretary Jay Carney quickly issued a statement saying that the CBO report was, by its own admission, “incomplete” and “does not take into account” some favorable effects of the law.

Carney postponed his daily press briefing, then arrived with Jason Furman, head of the Council of Economic Advisers, who argued that the Affordable Care Act couldn’t possibly be a job killer because 8.1 million jobs had been created since it became law. This is true — but irrelevant to the CBO finding.

Meanwhile, Gene Sperling, Obama’s top economic-policy adviser, walked to the White House lawn and told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that he rejected the finding. “When you have two parents and they’re both working full time to provide health care and they don’t feel they’re there to do homework with their kids and this allows one of [them] to work a little less because they have health care, that’s not costing jobs,” Sperling argued.

Sounds nice, except the CBO said its more pessimistic workforce view had been shaped by recent studies, “in particular” those looking at “expansions or contractions in Medicaid eligibility for childless adults.” In general, the CBO explained, phasing out subsidies to buy health insurance when income rises “effectively raises people’s marginal tax rates . . . thus discouraging work.”

There was some good news about Obamacare (and about shrinking deficits) in the report: Premiums are lower than expected, and there “is no compelling evidence” that employers are shifting to part-time jobs in response to the law. The law will give health insurance to an additional 13 million people this year and 25 million in 2016 and beyond.

But it was immediately clear that the government’s green eyeshades had bestowed a big gift on the law’s Republican critics.

Fox News put up a breaking-news banner: “Bombshell CBO report predicts 2.3 million jobs will be lost under Obamacare.” Rep. Darrell Issa (Calif.), one of the law’s fiercest foes, did a celebratory interview with Fox. “There are other surprises yet to come,” he promised. Republicans went to the Senate floor to tout the findings. For a brief time, the CBO Web site went down; online traffic surges aren’t usually a problem for the agency.

In the White House briefing room, Furman navigated a river of skeptical questions. “Doesn’t just the sheer idea of losing 2.5 million jobs over 10 years have a negative economic impact? . . . You’re saying it may be a good thing if there are 2 million fewer workers? . . . How do you answer Republicans who now have this evidence that they can wave to say, ‘Aha, the ACA is bad for the economy’?”

Furman attempted to dispute the report (“I haven’t accepted the number”) without disparaging the authors (“We cite CBO all the time”). Delicately, he said the report “is subject to misinterpretation, doesn’t take into account every factor, and there’s uncertainty and debate around it.”

But there’s only so much White House officials could do. Obamacare has been undermined by the very entity they had used to validate it.

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Re: President Barack Obama - Term 2 Thread

Postby steveo777 » Wed Feb 05, 2014 3:35 pm

Slucero, where is the link to what you quoted. It's kind of important. ;)
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Re: President Barack Obama - Term 2 Thread

Postby slucero » Wed Feb 05, 2014 4:22 pm

steveo777 wrote:Slucero, where is the link to what you quoted. It's kind of important. ;)



ya.. can't for get that.. (its fixed)

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Re: President Barack Obama - Term 2 Thread

Postby Boomchild » Wed Feb 05, 2014 9:21 pm

slucero wrote:the CBO just tossed Obamacare under the bus... I wonder who they pissed off..


So on the one hand this is bad news for the B.O. administration. On the other hand if your goal is to create situations that put more people in a position to rely on the federal government through needing support through entitlement programs then this is good news. I have always felt that these failures are not by accident. Not when your goal is to make people more beholden to the government.
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Re: President Barack Obama - Term 2 Thread

Postby slucero » Thu Feb 06, 2014 8:05 am

Bombs away....


Email: IRS’s Lerner, Treasury Department secretly drafted new rules to restrict nonprofits
http://dailycaller.com/2014/02/05/email ... onprofits/

The Obama administration’s Treasury Department and former IRS official Lois Lerner conspired to draft new 501(c)(4) regulations to restrict the activity of conservative groups in a way that would not be disclosed publicly, according to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

The Treasury Department and Lerner started devising the new rules “off-plan,” meaning that their plans would not be published on the public schedule. They planned the new rules in 2012, while the IRS targeting of conservative groups was in full swing, and not after the scandal broke in order to clarify regulations as the administration has suggested.

The rules place would place much more stringent controls on what would be considered political activity by the IRS, effectively limiting the standard practices of a wide array of non-profit groups.

“Don’t know who in your organizations is keeping tabs on c4s, but since we mentioned potentially addressing them (off -plan) in 2013, I’ve got my radar up and this seemed interesting…,” Treasury official Ruth Madrigal wrote in a June 14, 2012 email to Lerner and others obtained by Ways and Means and provided to The Daily Caller.

Ways and Means chairman Rep. Dave Camp blasted the off-the-record plan during a hearing Wednesday with IRS commissioner John Koskinen, and called for the administration’s newly proposed 501(c)(4) rules to be halted until criminal investigations into the IRS targeting scandal are complete.

“If Treasury and the IRS fabricated the rationale for a rule change it would tend to raise questions about the integrity of the rule-making process,” Camp said.

“I want to be perfectly clear – this committee will fight any and all efforts to restrict the rights of groups to organize, speak out and educate the public, just as unions are allowed to do so. We will get to the bottom of this, and I expect the IRS to produce – quickly – the outstanding documents the committee has requested,” Camp said.

“I believe the IRS has a long way to go in restoring its credibility. But, you can take a first step by complying with this committee’s request and stopping all action against 501(c)(4) groups until the appropriate investigations are completed.”

The new rules define more previously acceptable activities by nonprofit groups as prohibited “candidate-related political activity.” Communications and activities including voter registration drives and publishing voter guides, among others, are now classified as political activity. Grants and donations that 501(c)(4)’s give to other nonprofits are now subject to new record-keeping and increased scrutiny to prevent the money’s use for broadly-defined political activity.

The rules were “drafted in a manner, in my view, to shut down tea party groups” Rep. Camp said earlier this week.

New IRS commissioner Koskinen said that the rules should “put to rest all of the issues surrounding applications for tax-exempt status.”

But Madrigal’s email to Lerner proves that the regulations were being developed long before the IRS needed to publicly put anything “to rest.”

At least 292 conservative groups were subjected to unfair targeting between 2010 and 2012, against six liberal groups that were allegedly given similar treatment.

“They are both over-broad and under-inclusive,” said Foley & Lardner LLP partner Cleta Mitchell on the new rules.

“They’ve taken everything that 501(c)(4) organizations do in the normal course of business and proposed to convert that all to candidate-related activity, even if a candidate is never mentioned.”

Mitchell said that the rules are being “rushed through” for political purposes.

“The objective is to get the rules in place before the 2014 election,” Mitchell said.



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Re: President Barack Obama - Term 2 Thread

Postby Boomchild » Fri Feb 07, 2014 11:03 pm

So the state of Delaware which is where I live just released an update on the number of people that have signed up for coverage on the states' healthcare exchange. It's up to 5000. Now here's the kicker, they also reported the number of new people enrolled in Delaware's Medicaid program. That was 6400, which is more then the amount of people that signed up for coverage on the exchange. This is coming on the heels of B.O. quoting the numbers for healthcare.gov and the number for people signed up for Medicaid nationwide which was higher. Anybody seeing similar reports for their home state?
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Re: President Barack Obama - Term 2 Thread

Postby tater1977 » Tue Feb 11, 2014 4:52 am

President Obama's Half-Brother Reveals Relationship in New Book

http://nation.foxnews.com/2014/02/10/pr ... p-new-book


He looks like President Obama, and even has a similar laugh.

Mark Obama Ndesandjo is the president's younger half-brother, but most people probably didn't know he existed.

Now, he's speaking exclusively to INSIDE EDITION, and what he says about his brother the president will surprise you.
Perry's good natured bonhomie & the world’s most charmin smile,knocked fans off their feet. Sportin a black tux,gigs came alive as he swished around the stage thrillin audiences w/ charisma that instantly burnt the oxygen right out of the venue.TR.com
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Re: President Barack Obama - Term 2 Thread

Postby slucero » Tue Feb 11, 2014 3:13 pm

Lest we forget: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_off ... Government

Transparency and Open Government
Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies

SUBJECT: Transparency and Open Government

My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government.

Government should be transparent.
Transparency promotes accountability and provides information for citizens about what their Government is doing. Information maintained by the Federal Government is a national asset. My Administration will take appropriate action, consistent with law and policy, to disclose information rapidly in forms that the public can readily find and use. Executive departments and agencies should harness new technologies to put information about their operations and decisions online and readily available to the public. Executive departments and agencies should also solicit public feedback to identify information of greatest use to the public.

Government should be participatory.

Public engagement enhances the Government's effectiveness and improves the quality of its decisions. Knowledge is widely dispersed in society, and public officials benefit from having access to that dispersed knowledge. Executive departments and agencies should offer Americans increased opportunities to participate in policymaking and to provide their Government with the benefits of their collective expertise and information. Executive departments and agencies should also solicit public input on how we can increase and improve opportunities for public participation in Government.

Government should be collaborative.
Collaboration actively engages Americans in the work of their Government. Executive departments and agencies should use innovative tools, methods, and systems to cooperateamong themselves, across all levels of Government, and with nonprofit organizations, businesses, and individuals in the private sector. Executive departments and agencies should solicit public feedback to assess and improve their level of collaboration and to identify new opportunities for cooperation.

I direct the Chief Technology Officer, in coordination with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Administrator of General Services, to coordinate the development by appropriate executive departments and agencies, within 120 days, of recommendations for an Open Government Directive, to be issued by the Director of OMB, that instructs executive departments and agencies to take specific actions implementing the principles set forth in this memorandum. The independent agencies should comply with the Open Government Directive.

This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by a party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

This memorandum shall be published in the Federal Register.

BARACK OBAMA



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Re: President Barack Obama - Term 2 Thread

Postby steveo777 » Tue Feb 11, 2014 3:31 pm

slucero wrote:Lest we forget: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_off ... Government

Transparency and Open Government
Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies

SUBJECT: Transparency and Open Government

My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government.

Government should be transparent.
Transparency promotes accountability and provides information for citizens about what their Government is doing. Information maintained by the Federal Government is a national asset. My Administration will take appropriate action, consistent with law and policy, to disclose information rapidly in forms that the public can readily find and use. Executive departments and agencies should harness new technologies to put information about their operations and decisions online and readily available to the public. Executive departments and agencies should also solicit public feedback to identify information of greatest use to the public.

Government should be participatory.

Public engagement enhances the Government's effectiveness and improves the quality of its decisions. Knowledge is widely dispersed in society, and public officials benefit from having access to that dispersed knowledge. Executive departments and agencies should offer Americans increased opportunities to participate in policymaking and to provide their Government with the benefits of their collective expertise and information. Executive departments and agencies should also solicit public input on how we can increase and improve opportunities for public participation in Government.

Government should be collaborative.
Collaboration actively engages Americans in the work of their Government. Executive departments and agencies should use innovative tools, methods, and systems to cooperateamong themselves, across all levels of Government, and with nonprofit organizations, businesses, and individuals in the private sector. Executive departments and agencies should solicit public feedback to assess and improve their level of collaboration and to identify new opportunities for cooperation.

I direct the Chief Technology Officer, in coordination with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Administrator of General Services, to coordinate the development by appropriate executive departments and agencies, within 120 days, of recommendations for an Open Government Directive, to be issued by the Director of OMB, that instructs executive departments and agencies to take specific actions implementing the principles set forth in this memorandum. The independent agencies should comply with the Open Government Directive.

This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by a party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

This memorandum shall be published in the Federal Register.

BARACK OBAMA



BTW.. someone needs to tell BO we're a Republic... not a democracy..


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Re: President Barack Obama - Term 2 Thread

Postby Boomchild » Wed Feb 12, 2014 6:52 pm

Just more proof that the Republican party does not have a backbone. Approving to raise the debt ceiling without demanding spending cuts of any kind. To me this just further supports Michael Savage's theory of "we have a one party system that is playing two card monte". I guess the next thing we will see them cave on is immigration reform.

"House Republicans backed away from a battle over the government's debt cap on Tuesday and permitted President Barack Obama's Democratic allies to drive quick passage of a measure to increase the government's borrowing cap without any concessions from the White House".

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101393329
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Re: President Barack Obama - Term 2 Thread

Postby conversationpc » Fri Feb 14, 2014 2:18 pm

"Republicans Allegedly Asked Senate Clerks Not to Announce Names During Debt Ceiling Vote So They Could Secretly Switch"

What a bunch of freaking scumbags. This just further cements my belief that politicians in both parties just don't have a freaking clue.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/02 ... ly-switch/
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Re: President Barack Obama - Term 2 Thread

Postby steveo777 » Fri Feb 14, 2014 5:07 pm

We the people have the option of voting the scumbags out. We are the ones without spine, when we continue to allow what is happening to go on. Make these elections have consquences. Americans know what to do, but will they? It starts this year!
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Re: President Barack Obama - Term 2 Thread

Postby Boomchild » Sat Feb 15, 2014 2:14 am

steveo777 wrote:We the people have the option of voting the scumbags out. We are the ones without spine, when we continue to allow what is happening to go on. Make these elections have consquences. Americans know what to do, but will they? It starts this year!


You also have the issue of election manipulation and fraud as well. Add to that the large number of citizens that don't even bother to vote. The Constitution should be amended to add term limits to Senate and Congressional positions.
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