Everyday something new from the GOTP....Disenfranchising every segment of our population, except the rich or those who wish to be rich threw deregulation....

If voters can re-elect Obama they can also take away the Obstructionist Rep#blican majority!

They should have a new name. How about the sleeze party.

They can, ArmedLiberal, but they probably won't. Even if Obama wins[ :)], there are enough religious fanatics, Second Amendment extremists, and white supremacists to keep the House Republican.

THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN!!! Come on EVERYBODY...WAKE UP. And please let your friends, family, co-workers, worship associates, etc know that our President can do VERY LITTLE if he has to keep dealing with a Republican congress. They have to be voted out and POTUS given a MANDATE to straighten this country out. We ALL know that the ONLY reason he hasn't done all he could do is THE RUPUBLICANS HAVE BLOCKED EVERYTHING. In your federal Congressional & Senate races for your states, vote for the candidate that will most help the POTUS..that means a Democrat.

Greedy Old Pigs, the GOP!

Terry Danley, please enlighten me as to what "hubris" President Obama performed or did during his first two years. I missed something. Politicians of both parties make me sick but Republicans seem to have the upper hand in obstruction and lies.

Terry, It would have been better to edit the word Fuhrer out. I see this is your first post. I disagree that the President alienated anyone in Congress. Most already decided not to work with him.

http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2010/11/04-obama-galston

They should have a new name. How about the sleeze party.

How about: Worthless Filth.

Terry is right! Mean ole Barack FORCED the Republicans to phuk the veterans! The poor, innocent Republicans! It isn't like they have been plotting how to undermine Obama since before he was sworn in!

In Romney World, men and women serving in the United States Armed Forces are the worst of the moochers, beggars, takers, parasites who burden the real makers in this country.

Military personnel, as we can clearly see, truly feel "entitled" and place repeated demands on our government to provide food, shelter, even clothing--including really useless stuff like helmets and kevlar vests.

These military moochers get to vacation in wonderlands like Iraq and sunny Afghanistan (not one of Romney's favorite spots, but), and still demand that the government provide non-essentials such as transportation and bottled water.

And then these military malingerers have the audacity to ask the government to provide--get this--WEAPONS. Talk about not taking personal responsibility for your own life. The gall of THOSE PEOPLE not providing their own weapons in a combat zone.

When asked why US military personnel return for 3, 4, 5, and sometimes 6 deployments into that combat zone, Romney responded, "they keep going back so they won't get taxed on their combat pay. They have no shame. I mean, everybody should WANT to pay taxes."

Romney continued, "THOSE PEOPLE feel so entitled that even after they're killed in action, they still want stuff. I mean, they die and expect the government to ship their corpses home and pay for funerals. They don't understand how America works. No ability or desire to develop a sense of personal responsibility."

Notice that when Romney spoke at that fund raiser, he referred to the 47% as THOSE PEOPLE.

And Ann--yeah, you remember Ann, pointing her finger at and glaring into the TV camera yelling YOU PEOPLE. You know who YOU PEOPLE ARE. That's us folks who Ann Romney believes are more disgusting than the dirt on the soles of her shoes.

Yeah, Mitt--you forgot to mention the troops in your convention speech. Now we know why--they're just part of that 47% who just keep taking from the government. Mitt always talks about the military as in the Military/Industrial Comples. He never talks about the troops, never considers those who serve and those who have served. Members of our Armed Forces pay low or no taxes, owing to their meager income or combat status. Therefore, they're not American. They're parasites.

Nice going, Mitt.

Lady Cat wrote:

They should have a new name

Their current name - Rape-Public-CON Party - fits them perfectly, IMHO.

Terry Danley spewed, including:

give in order to get

Stupid troll (but I repeat myself)! Learn to read (or at least to comprehend):

The bill was fully paid for, and entirely bipartisan -- Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) had his own set of ideas for the bill, and Murray incorporated all of them into her legislation.

And yet, all but five Senate Republicans voted to kill it anyway, 48 days before a national election. Even Burr sided with his party to defeat the bill, and it was filled with his provisions.

BTW, the two Senators who didn't even bother to vote: Inhofe and Kirk, Rape-Public-CONs from OK and IL, disrespectively. Complete jackasses, QED.

Vulture/Voucher 2012 Rape-Public-CON Senators
Proving Two Far Too Many More than Two Rights DO Make a Wrong!

;-(

Pretzelogic, I agree with the disappointment over this vote. So sad. The Republicans gained control of the House and a few more seats in the Senate in 2010 because they ran on a program of job creation. What we got was an obstructionist Congress and severely rights-constricting state legislatures. Hopefully we voters will fix this in November. However, I would point out that Illinois' Mark Kirk suffered a debilitating stroke last January and has been in rehab ever since. That is the reason for his not voting. I would have liked to see how Kirk would have voted since his claim to fame is that he is a champion of our troops and vets. I have the feeling, though, that he would have voted Nay since he has never in the past broken GOP ranks. His term lasts until 2016. I don't believe he will ever resign since that would give Dem Gov Pat Quinn the opportunity to appoint a replacement. While I wish Sen Kirk a complete recovery, I'd like to see a time limit of a year set for his resignation decision. Citizens of Illinois deserve to have BOTH their Senate votes exercised.

Fair enough - I stand appropriately chastised and corrected and I'll admit to (if you'll pardon the expression under the circumstances) enough of a brain-fart this evening myself that I'd actually momentarily forgotten Sen. Kirk's medical condition. Thanks for the corrective.

No excuses for James Mountain Inhofe, though - he's definitely just a jerk.

So, Terry's Facebook page is pretty easy to find and guess what? It's wide open because conservatives for some reason have no grasp of internet security:

https://www.facebook.com/terry.danley.9

(Seriously. When you see someone spouting off about lib lemmings or some such, follow their Facebook profile. 8 out of 10 will have no security on their account whatsoever. This is hubris at best and ignorance at worst.)

Anyway, there's a bunch of dumbass stuff on the wall, as one would expect, but this is my fave: A photo of Reagan with the text "In 1986, when he was president, Libya killed Americans. He bombed their leader's house. Libya was quiet for almost 25 years. Then somebody apologized."

Let me rephrase a little and take down some of the Fox-worthy white washing:

In retaliation to the killing of Americans in the Lockerbie bombing Reagan orders a few dozen bombs heaped on Tripoli. They miss Qaddafi entirely and only manage to damage his residence and kill one of his daughters. This type of action is apparently good enough to crow about for two and a half decades.

Flash forward to 2011. The current POTUS orders a coalition air offensive in support of Libyan resistance fighters until Qaddafi's army is scattered, decimated and Qaddafi himself is cornered in Sirte and ass-knifed to death by his own people. No Americans are killed or even injured.

Hmm. The truth makes Ronnie Raygun sound a like a whimpering pussy in comparison to Obama. What in the hell is going on in your head Terry that allow you consume this Reagangod tripe? And you know what else you dingbat? In spite of everything I wrote above I absolutely hate the fact that we got involved in Libya at all. Smacking down with jets, drones and Navy Seals is the kind of stuff your leaders should be doing, if they lived up to their own bullsh1t.

The really creepy part of Terry's FB page is the dialogue that mentions the number of friends he has (666) and the suggestion to copy the storyline in Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" and eliminate one of his friends. Creepy.

You people are so easy to lead around by the nose, and Democrats do it each and every day. Don't any of you nitwits wonder why Republicans would block a political no brainer? And no, it's not just because they're mean.

http://www.policymic.com/articles/15164/veterans-jobs-bill-shafted-why-politics-not-the-gop-is-to-blame-here

Shooter...just had to thank you for that bit of sanity. Before I read that article, I thought...bet they didn't pass it for a fiscal or logical reason and the dems turned it around for political gain. YEP.

This insanity of partial truths and innuendos from both sides is sad. No respect for the American people. Other posters who just feed into the lies and spins are guilty as well.

Yes, of course it was Obama's fault. Just ask Bob Woodward. Fox not needed.

It is amazing how one man (Obama) can be responsible for Everthing that is wrong in World. How did he get so lucky? Fox news is not a NEWS show, it is an Opinion. A Biased Opinion! Why do you wait for Fox news? Do you not have a working mind?

I think Paul S. Campbell was being facetious . Silly

It is amazing how one man (Obama) can be responsible for Everthing that is wrong in World.

That's easy. He's STILL black.

That's all that matters to republicans/teabaggers.

Obama should wear a tee shirt with a pic of his mom on it for the next 6 months straight , just to piss off the kkk t gop

right--and that's what I would like to hear more often--and not just from Bill Clinton. "The people" need to be reminded emphatically that this is at least the 41st jobs bill killed by Republicans.

Indeed, we don't need another "Obama" ad. We need an ad to remind voters just who makes laws....or stops them: The Houses of Congress. So if you want something... anything... done, be sure to vote for Dems as Reps and Senators, because the GOP is clearly the do-nothing party.

But when the Dems controlled both houses, they still couldn't get anything passed.

Obamacare?

Of course they couldn't get anything done with the GOP throwing every roadblock known to man!

@janedit,. All 188 days of democratic control. Do some research. The rethuglicans have blocked EVERYthing.

Yes Janedit, you really need to wean yourself off Fox News. It makes you stupid.

24 working days... wow, yeah, amazing that they couldn't change the world.

Don't make me whip out the detailed timeline... I'll do it too!

@Janedit: It pisses me off that Obama and company couldn't manage to twist enough arms to get things done when they had congress. But take a look at this graph:

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/01/the-rise-of-cloture-how-gop-filibuster-threats-have-changed-the-senate.php

Filibusters and clotures nearly doubled from any previous record highs. Hard to get things done when the legislation is so effectively carpet-bombed.

Brown (MA) and Heller (NV) are in that category. Murkowski and Snowe are in the lame duck category. And Susan Collins is, well, something else.

Forgot about the lame ducks actually voting their conscience.

Susan Collins will soon be the only moderate Senator in the Chamber. She was elected by the same moderates who will be electing Snowe's replacement--King, who had to run as an independent. That's Maine for you.

I think Collins is brave for standing up to her caucus. But she also knows that Mainers will remember votes like this when she does come up for re-election.

And Brown, while far from perfect, has shown that he will cross party lines...unlike his democratic opponent, Elizabeth Warren, who just scares the bejeezus outta me.

Kathy-531928 - You scare the bejeezus outta me. Consistency isn't a crime. Hypocrisy is.

And Scott Brown drives a pick-up truck and meets with kings and queens!! Which almost makes up for the fact that he's dumb as a bag of hammers.

However, somehow Brown can't decide whether he supports Obama or Romney. Too similar? Or too uninformed?

Apparently not.

Shame? What's that? Who? What fox? Ain't nobody here but us chickens!"

These guys are going to get whacked soooooooo bad.....

That's a rhetorical question, right?

All anyone has to do to answer the question of whether Republicans have any shame is consider the Romney campaign is built on nothing but manufactured lies (of commission).

Republicans have had no shame since 1993. None. But the conundrum is: it's gotten worse.

Hey, Disgusted, that would make a great party motto: "Republicans - No Shame Since 1993" -- catchy, easy to remember and true!!

Damn skippy, damskippy!

Hey Sick, sad part is that many in the military vote GOTP cause of the snow-job called "Support for our military". Hope this get's emphasized to every military base how much "support" they get from Congress!

Republicans are betting they will get the vet votes even if the bill is filibustered because they presume most vets are very conservative and see Obama as not American. That may be true for older vets, but I don't think it will hold for the younger vets who are more numerous. They see Obama has worked to get more mental health counselors and increase vet benefits. These younger vets also see Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden working for vets and their families. I expect to see a backlash against the Republicans.

I'm an older vet and I hope Obama kicks Romney's entitled patrician ass! My Dad's an even older vet. I won't repeat what HE thinks of Mr. Romney since there may be women and children present!

Thanks! Your comment made me laugh out loud!!

ummm, did you see the ACA? that legislation is pretty much all republican ideas because liberals wanted a single payer system...

this is standard for the conservative movement now.

It's just amazing to see them attacking their own legislation.

You just tuned in?

Seriously...why isn't a bigger issue? Do they not care at all about this country or our veterans who are fighting wars their administration started? It's crazy.

The GOP are traitors to this country and are doing everything that they can to destroy not only the income of the people ,but also the country. They want to set up the government policies the way that they want without partisan vote in congress or senate, nor the vote of the people..

When will the people realize that the GOP is in the process of destroying our Democratic process guaranteed to all through our Declaration of Independence and the Bill Of Rights...GOP is in the process of a take over of our government as we know it...The process of the take over is very similar to those of dictator governments...The shooting just has not began in our homeland.

When you can control the bread on a man's table you can control the man. Destroy the peoples wealth and turn the country upside down politically and then you can control the country.

Sheilanwp, it's called FACISM - where corporations are the controlling hands behind the puppets that they've installed into office. Think Mussolini during WW II.

It's been years in the making, slick, seductive, diverting the people's attention away via trinkets (think reality tv), fearmongering (esp. after Sept.11), just wait it gets worse unless WE all come together to beat the barbarians back behind the gates where they belong.

It's been years in the making, slick, seductive, diverting the people's attention away via trinkets (think reality tv), fearmongering (esp. after Sept.11), just wait it gets worse unless WE all come together to beat the barbarians back behind the gates where they belong.

Sadly, what you are saying Zora is so true.
Just started reading Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco, "Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt". "They wanted to show in words and drawings what life looks like in places where the marketplace rules without constraints, where human beings and the natural world are used and then discarded to maximize profit."

Very interesting read so far. Sad thing is people are not paying attention to what is happening around them.

Not to be too much of a pimp, but also just read 1st chapter of "The Fine Print: How Big Companies Use "Plain English" to Rob You Blind " by David Cay Johnston.
He lays out all the small things that corporations are doing through the legislatures to rig the game for themselves.

I think there's a way to change Senate rules without 67 votes but I don't know it. Is there?

on the first day the majority party may enact rues as they see fit and this includes changing the rules on the fillibuster. Such changes only require a simple majority-51 votes.

Reid has already stated that he made a mistake not changing those rules on the first day of the current congress in January 2011. Given the opportunity, he will not make that mistake again.

That's why it is important to keep at least 50 seats (assuming Biden tiebreaker).

Although it would be comical if the GOP gets 51 seats and kills the fillibuster itself in order to be able to push through legislation for Obama to veto.

Thanks, Jim. I remember hearing something about the beginning of the session, but couldn't remember precisely what it was.

@Mike: it would not be comical if Romney won and the GOTea took the Senate because the first thing McConnell would then do is kill the filibuster and we could then kiss the 20th century good-bye.

If Republicans kill the filibuster, they cannot go back when the Dems control the Senate. Assume Obama wins and the Congress is controlled by the Republicans. They won't have enough votes to override a veto and Obama will continue to make recess appointments. In 2 years, more Republicans than Dems in the Senate will be up for reelection. Republicans are not going to kill the filibuster if they face the prospect of losing control after two years. Second, Obama gets to whip a Republican Congress for two years for failing to do its job or passing radical legislation.

Mike in Michigan; A republican Senate is NOT an option we can live with.. They would then be able to kill the affordable care act via reconciliation, which is only a simple majority vote and cannot be filibustered. Killing ACA would devastate millions of Americans and that is NOT acceptable..

I AM my brother's keeper... and he is mine.. It is long past time this government acted in the best interests of We The People.

DisgustedWithItAlll

<<Thanks, Jim. I remember hearing something about the beginning of the session, but couldn't remember precisely what it was.

@Mike: it would not be comical if Romney won and the GOTea took the Senate because the first thing McConnell would then do is kill the filibuster and we could then kiss the 20th century good-bye.

<< Keep The MEME Alive Sparky http://youtu.be/A3b9gOtQoq4 They aren't too bright it should be easy.

Thanks for being a loyal @masnbc propaganda contributor with the rest of the peanut gallery. Together you will move VORWART with Media Matters and @msnbc

What a great glimpse into the propaganda machine and the false premises of the leftist rejects and hacks that populate msnbc. And since sparky won't be able to get ANY talking points from media matters about 'filling the amendment tree' to address Harry Reid's conduct since this statement in the Senate he will ignore it.

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CREC-2006-02-28/pdf/CREC-2006-02-28-pt1-PgS1522-4.pdf#page=2 Read Harry Reid's Quote on the Senate Procedure called "filling the amendment tree"

Of course even a good bill can be improved. That is why we have an amendment process in the Senate. The junior Senator from Wisconsin has tried to offer a small number of relevant amendments that I believe would make this bill even better. I am disappointed
that he has been denied that opportunity by a procedural maneuver known as ‘‘filling the amendment tree.’’ This is a very bad practice. It runs against the basic nature of the Senate. The hallmark of the Senate is free speech and open debate. Rule XXII establishes a process for cutting off debate and amendments, but rule XXII should rarely be invoked before any
amendments have been offered. There is no reason to truncate Senate debate
on this important bill in this unusual fashion. I will vote against cloture to register my objection to this flawed process.

According to the Congressional Research Service (CRS), Majority Leader Reid has employed this tactic a record 59 times. He has used it to block minority input into legislation 50 percent more often than the past five Majority Leaders combined. The minority’s only option under these circumstances is to oppose ending debate on legislation (known as “invoking cloture”) in order to convince the majority to allow it to offer amendments to the legislation and thereby represent the interests of their constituents.

That's right. Harry Reid opposes free speech and representation of the people AFTER he assumes power. So does sparky!!

Pad those filibuster and cloture stats, and don't allow the minority party a chance for representation. Leftists love tyranny, and so does Sparky!!

Then get a group like media matters and msnbc to push the BIG LIE. Vorwart Sparky!!

That requires a propagandist spammer to feed the halfwit progressives and act like he made a point. Hey, that is sparky!

Nice work sparky. I knew media matters wouldn't let you down when it came to lame propaganda. Really. you do parrot well. But that still doesn't change the fact that........

It couldn't get 60 votes and was a tax increase and spending increase in violation of an existing agreement 7 weeks before election pushed by the Democrat Senate Majority Leader.

Military Vote Seen As A Key To Capturing Virginia http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/09/20/161417655/military-vote-seen-as-a-key-to-capturing-virginia

The only thing that your propaganda campaign proves is....

YOU and

Democrat Hack Harry Reid are using soldiers as props 7 weeks before an election.

Feign that outrage at the evil Republicans with your PROVEN PROPANDA

Guns, Sex, And MSNBC: Daily Caller Publishes Media Matters Exposé

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/guns-sex-and-msnbc-daily-caller-publishes-media-matters-expose/

McConnell warns of attempts by Obama, Media Matters to silence critics
http://dailycaller.com/2012/06/17/mcconnell-warns-of-attempts-by-obama-media-matters-to-silence-critics/#ixzz274n7qxNa

Inside Media Matters: Sources, memos reveal erratic behavior, close coordination with White House and news organizations
http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/12/inside-media-matters-sources-memos-reveal-erratic-behavior-close-coordination-with-white-house-and-news-organizations/#ixzz274nMFSAY

DisgustedWithItAlll <<<Yes Sparky, your propagandist talking points backing the FRAUD Harry Reid playing games instead of conducting the peoples business, he was all Party Business. So push the BIG LIE and your MEMES and pretend you have something to say. You are a fraud by ANY and EVERY measure. Article 1 sec 7.

Military Vote Seen As A Key To Capturing Virginia http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/09/20/161417655/military-vote-seen-as-a-key-to-capturing-virginia

Back to the real subject:
"The bill was fully paid for, and entirely bipartisan"

It couldn't get 60 votes and was a tax increase and spending increase in violation of an existing agreement 7 weeks before election pushed by the Democrat Senate Majority Leader.

Military Vote Seen As A Key To Capturing Virginia http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/09/20/161417655/military-vote-seen-as-a-key-to-capturing-virginia

The only thing that your propaganda campaign proves is....

YOU and

Democrat Hack Harry Reid are using soldiers as props 7 weeks before an election.

Feign that outrage at the Republicans.

Feign that outrage at the evil Republicans with your Media Matters PROPAGANDA and keep pushing the Mitch McConnell MEME

having just seen the "Death and the Civil War" documentary on PBS, this quote echoes even louder for me. Romney has no respect for people who have served or how are serving now. He only thinks about how much defense contractors make and how he can squeeze more out of those who are already paid too poorly for what they do.

The people who serve are in the 47% - too poor to go to college or unsure how to get a job or hell, just patriotic, so they join the armed forces.

If there were a draft, you would see a drastic change in congress and in the general mindset of people.

And, don't forget, if you are actively serving, and in a war zone, you are legally exempt from paying Federal income tax... damn 47% moochers! /sarc

Vulture/Voucher 2012
Proving Two Rights DO Make a Wrong!

;-)

the problem is that they do not care about a smaller government at ALL. They're all for larger government if it's to restrict the rights of people they do not agree with. They do not care about "further belt tightening" either, not with their insistance of saddlign the military with projects it does not want.

they do want smaller government - they want many smaller governments, enough to inject one into every woman's uterus (probably based on the mrap - to be iud proof). and some more for shoes - to make sure women don't wear any. and those electric dog collar things to keep women in the kitchen.

veteran women too. or probably, especially.

Oh look, another NEW troll! Just joined today to come on here and post more right wing drivel!

How cute! Well really, not cute, but rather disgusting, but hey I was trying to be nice about it.

Another idiot who got a screenname just to troll us.

Let me tell you something, JERK! This is NOT ABOUT OBAMA - it is about OUR VETERANS!! You know - those people who go to places you can't even find on a map and go into harms way because our government tells them to??? Those people who know what it really means to sacrifice to be an American - unlike you???

All of us who got our little tax cuts and live our lives like there is no Afghanistan or Iraq owe a BIG DEBT to those people who put their lives on hold, who lost limbs, who lost their health, who DIED, while we were eating our pizzas and watching Snooki on TV and bitching about how "high" our taxes are!!

Now run back to the rest of the anti - veteran Amercun ilk on Fox and while about how you were beat up by a bunch of libruls!!!

And while you are at it, salute the flag and brag to everyone how you are so supportive of our country, a$$hole!!!

Some folks are born made to wave the flag,
Ooh, theyre red, white and blue.
And when the band plays hail to the chief,
Ooh, they point the cannon at you, lord,

It aint me, it aint me, I aint no senators son, son.
It aint me, it aint me; I aint no fortunate one, no,

Yeah!
Some folks are born silver spoon in hand,
Lord, dont they help themselves, oh.
But when the taxman comes to the door,
Lord, the house looks like a rummage sale, yes,

It aint me, it aint me, I aint no millionaires son, no.
It aint me, it aint me; I aint no fortunate one, no.

Some folks inherit star spangled eyes,
Ooh, they send you down to war, lord,
And when you ask them, how much should we give?
Ooh, they only answer more! more! more! yoh,

It aint me, it aint me, I aint no military son, son.
It aint me, it aint me; I aint no fortunate one, one.

It aint me, it aint me, I aint no fortunate one, no no no,
It aint me, it aint me, I aint no fortunate son, no no no.

John Fogarty

Donna J. Edmond 'Oh look, another NEW troll! Just joined today to come on here and post more right wing drivel!

How cute! Well really, not cute, but rather disgusting, but hey I was trying to be nice about it."

oncearepublican <<< not even worth quoting

Pure Progressive PABLUM

Way to bring your 'A" game. Typical progressive-intellectual LIGHTWEIGHTS suffering from a cranial-rectal inversion.

Shoo - scoot back to Fox or Redstate!

Your rant means absolutely nothing. No facts, just out of the blue allegations and name calling. That stuff is just radio static. Why do you bother?

oncearepublican

Shoo - scoot back to Fox or Redstate!

Yes, I will leave you to your baseless arguments so you can continue your propaganda circle-jerk with your fellow Obamabots.

The bill's sponsor, Patty Murray of Washington, said that shouldn't matter, since the bill's cost was fully offset by new revenues

The Leftist Lies:

"The bill was fully paid for, and entirely bipartisan"

NEW REVENUES is INCREASED TAXES

What else would you expect from a bunch of NO-Budget Barry supporters. Hide behind the crooked chauvinist Harry Reid.
You really mean it is a bill sponsored by Bill Nelson and the Dems need Florida.

Who makes the Senate Rules ? Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid , Why Not a simple majority Vote to pass this? Yes, it was a real serious bipartisan bill and not a cynical election ploy exploiting Veterans for Obama 2012. Did MMFA help you write this?

jvmusicandart

"Your rant means absolutely nothing. No facts, just out of the blue allegations and name calling. That stuff is just radio static. Why do you bother?"

What were your specifics, or 'facts' again there sparky? Why do you even bother?

Oh look! The new troll is REALLY trolling now! LOL!

BTW: Doofus, er, Daniel, your A game sucks.

Just saying.

But keep posting, though. It just shows how desperate the right is. Which makes EVERYONE here happy to see!

OBAMA/BIDEN 2012

This is going to be another immediate "ignore" lister for me.

Anyone using the term "sparky" has to be ignored on that alone.

I have one thing, though. US JOBS would increase revenue without raising taxes, so we should at the very least have some Rethuglicant support, but noooooo…….

Don't put it on ignore, flag it early and often.

Doofus,

You have no facts. You are full of @!$%#. Keep trying, oh ignorant and desperate troll.

EntropyRules

Don't put it on ignore, flag it early and often.

Yes, bring on the tyranny. It sure beats a fact-based argument. Yes, flag it. There will be zero dissent. Flag IT for pointing oout the obvious

Shoo, troll. Run home to mommy!

We are used to dealing with REAL trolls here - mindless amateurs like you are JUST TOO EASY!! Run back to your rwn blogs and get some hints!

Flag it for being a verbal vomit spewing troll. The aggressively malicious deserve no better.

Hey, what's up? He didn't go on ignore, but it IS a fact that more jobs in the US would increase revenues without raising taxes, so… you obviously deserve to be ignored for arguing a fact is almost a fact…

oncearepublican

Shoo, troll. Run home to mommy!

We are used to dealing with REAL trolls here, not mindless amateurs like you!

Doofus,

Yes, the hard-hitting and fact-based progressive braintrust. You really put me in my place with name-calling.

"the bill violated a cap on spending agreed to by Congress last year"

A cheap political trick using veterans as an election year prop 7 weeks before the election. Go BamaBots

You have no facts. You are full of @!$%#. Keep trying, oh ignorant and desperate troll.

I've noticed how trolls are capable of simultaneously being insufferably arrogant and wallowing in self-pity.

Sandy,

To make the ignore function work, I have to get out of the blog completely. Yea, this child is just to boring to play with - he's just another "repeater". Ignore is the best route for him.

sandyc954

Hey, what's up? He didn't go on ignore, but it IS a fact that more jobs in the US would increase revenues without raising taxes, so… you obviously deserve to be ignored for arguing a fact is almost a fact…

You should learn to ignore yourself. If the wages created are low and exemptions like the EIC are used, the bottom wage earners actually receive more than they pay in, called a negative tax rate. So you see, you have yet to be right. But as a leftist, you dont dwell in rules or facts.

Maybe read the part again about it violates the spending agreement...

For daniel Kerr...

Did you serve in the military?

I'm guessing not...

You're probably one of the 99% of the American population that got to sit back and enjoy your freedoms paid for by the blood of the 1% that DID serve...

The childish name calling and insults are fine for the Jr. High playground, but really serves no purpose here other than make you look foolish...

You've succeeded in doing just that... You may find that the Redstate site is a little more to your liking... Rachel's crowd tends to be a little much for the typical Right-wing screamer, as you are discovering... Rachel's crowd has little things like History and facts to back up their claims... What have you got?... Name calling and Fox News/Newsmax talking points...

You should just say "Thank you" to the Veterans, and then quietly go away...

PEACE! or ELSE!

oncearepublican

Sandy,

To make the ignore function work, I have to get out of the blog completely. Yea, this child is just to boring to play with - he's just another "repeater". Ignore is the best route for him.

EntropyRules

I've noticed how trolls are capable of simultaneously being insufferably arrogant and wallowing in self-pity.

Yes, the hard-hitting and fact-based progressive braintrust. You really put me in my place with name-calling. I really learned my lesson. You brought ZERO FACTS Great job at thesaurus.com. Frauds.

"the bill violated a cap on spending agreed to by Congress last year"

A cheap political trick using veterans as an election year prop 7 weeks before the election. Go BamaBots

Keep it up, Doofus.

All bull@!$%#. No facts.

Once again proving that those on the right have little or no use for objective reality and only care about Ideological Soundness/Theological Correctness. But hey, this is AMURRICA, where those on the right have special rights.

HighValor

For daniel Kerr...

Did you serve in the military?

I'm guessing not...

You're probably one of the 99% of the American population that got to sit back and enjoy your freedoms paid for by the blood of the 1% that DID serve...

The childish name calling and insults are fine for the Jr. High playground, but really serves no purpose here other than make you look foolish...

You've succeeded in doing just that... You may find that the Redstate site is a little more to your liking... Rachel's crowd tends to be a little much for the typical Right-wing screamer, as you are discovering... Rachel's crowd has little things like History and facts to back up their claims... What have you got?... Name calling and Fox News/Newsmax talking points...

You should just say "Thank you" to the Veterans, and then quietly go away...

PEACE! or ELSE!

Great letter, So touching and full of crap. I love the freeze and isolate technique. Yes, I am the one not stating facts for my argument and you dwell in truth and history. You engage in civil discourse and enlightenment. Question my facts when yours are a false premise at best? Great job on the disinformation and I really like the "or Else!" part. Real nice touch. Such High Valor. Well. High anyway.

Thanks once, it's working now. But the new comments show up and if I read them, some of his are there. Oh well, sometimes I like to read the other posts despite the trollery.

And Thanks to High Valor, you make excellent points.

Mr Kerr..

So, you DIDN'T serve... That's what I thought...That tells me you know NOTHING about military service or the problems Veterans face when they return home...

You opinion is without merit, and therefore, null and void...

*sandy*! Thanks for the kind words... Much appreciated!

HighValor

Mr Kerr..

So, you DIDN'T serve... That's what I thought...That tells me you know NOTHING about military service or the problems Veterans face when they return home...

You opinion is without merit, and therefore, null and void...

Yes, my facts must be without merit and couldn't equal that of your "opinion" because it was all about the soldiers, the unicorns and the baby seals. Let's make this about me again, my favorite propaganda/disinformation technique preferred by you leftist FRAUDS.

I am choking back the tears right now. Okay, I am better now. Yes, thanks for making it about the issues and your SUPERIOR knowledge that trumps law and the budget agreement. Thanks for clearing that up for me, and I am going to go back to crying some more so I can vote Obama.

"the bill violated a cap on spending agreed to by Congress last year"

A cheap political trick using veterans as an election year prop 7 weeks before the election. Go BamaBots.

Feign that outrage at the Republicans.

I notice that he (?) doesn't actually deny that he did not serve. I did encounter people (?) like that when I was in the military. Yuck!

EntropyRules

I notice that he (?) doesn't actually deny that he did not serve. I did encounter people (?) like that when I was in the military. Yuck!

I love the freeze and isolate technique. I noticed you have ZERO facts and openly support Democrat Hack Harry Reid using soldiers as props 7 weeks before an election.

"the bill violated a cap on spending agreed to by Congress last year"

Feign that outrage at the Republicans.

Heh heh. His (?) pompous arrogance is something I saw all too often, but he still bloviates and avoids the issue of whether or not he was in the military.

EntropyRules

Heh heh. His (?) pompous arrogance is something I saw all too often, but he still bloviates and avoids the issue of whether or not he was in the military.

What a smack-down on me sparky!! You just reign supreme on this comment board. I love the freeze and isolate technique. The issue must be whether I was in the military. Stick with that theme and propaganda. I will go with the facts. I noticed you have ZERO FACTS and openly support Democrat Hack Harry Reid using soldiers as props 7 weeks before an election.

"the bill violated a cap on spending agreed to by Congress last year"

Feign that outrage at the Republicans.

scoot back to Fox or Redstate

Redstate, or Breitbart, maybe... even Fox won't let these numbnuts post comments anymore.

Vulture/Voucher 2012
Proving Two Rights DO Make a Wrong!

;-)

Pretzelogic in Philly, PA

scoot back to Fox or Redstate

Redstate, or Breitbart, maybe... even Fox won't let these numbnuts post comments anymore.

Vulture/Voucher 2012
Proving Two Rights DO Make a Wrong!

<< <So much proof. You do prove that being wrong again just isn't right. I sense a recurring theme of ZERO FACTS in the peanut gallery.

Stick with that theme and propaganda. I will go with the facts. I noticed you have ZERO FACTS and openly support Democrat Hack Harry Reid using soldiers as props 7 weeks before an election.

"the bill violated a cap on spending agreed to by Congress last year"

Feign that outrage at the Republicans

I think you have to admit this new shhit-for-brains troll has an excellent point! This is just Republicans worried about deficits and debt as they have been since Ronald Reagan (and especially since W and his fiscally responsible actions). You can see just how Republicans have been concerned about deficits and debt by taking say just a few of these following items and reading them. (For the lazy, just take the 2nd chart and see how conservative Republican economic ideas and policies have really reigned in the fiscal profligacy of the those rascally Democrats.) So I say, way to go shhit-for-brains troll!; you really got a great point that it's certainly worth raising a tacky point of order for a bill that would add practically nothing to the Republican debt pile. That's major consistency. And it's certainly a great time and issue on which to make and wage such a meaningfully fiscal responsibility point!!!

And for your reading pleasure on Republican fiscal responsibility and effective stewardship of the country's fiscal matter, enjoy:

PolitiFact | Viral Facebook post says Barack Obama has lowest spending record of any recent president

Off the Charts Blog | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities | What’s Driving Projected Debt?

Economic Downturn and Bush Policies Continue to Drive Large Projected Deficits — Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

CHART: Spending, Taxes, And Deficits Are All Lower Today Than When Obama Took Office | ThinkProgress

How the Deficit Got This Big - NYTimes.com

Sources of the Budget Deficit - NYTimes.com

The Truth About Federal Spending

MarketWatch Column On Obama's Spending Restraint Stands Up To Attacks | Media Matters for America

Obama spending binge never happened - Rex Nutting - MarketWatch

The myth of Obama's spending binge - The Plum Line - The Washington Post

Obama Presided Over a Tax Revenue Drought, Not a Spending Binge | Crooks and Liars

Who's to Blame for the Deficit Numbers?

Bush-Era Tax Cuts Projected As Largest Contributor To Public Debt [CHART]

Mitt Romney Debt Speech Ignores Key Facts

Right-Wing Media Ignore Bush Effect On Debt To Suggest Obama Criticism Is Hypocrisy | Media Matters for America

Despite Being Warned, Right-Wing Media Buy Into The "BS" Claims About Obama's Spending Record | Media Matters for America

Simply Orthogonal to the Facts

If You Want Another Debt and Spending Binge, Vote GOP

DisgustedWithItAlll <<<< More Progressive Pablum NOT worth quoting.

Trying to build a little STRAWMAN for yourself. I like the change up in propaganda technique. Kudos. Did this get escalated to supervisor of propaganda? I sure hope so. I like to think of your post as a Strawman Argument made from red herring. I wishi I could draw it for you. Real nice try to act like you know something. Confidence really is everything. The disturbing part is ......

I noticed your Strawman Argument and YOU openly support Democrat Hack Harry Reid using soldiers as props 7 weeks before an election.

"the bill violated a cap on spending agreed to by Congress last year"

Feign that outrage at the Republicans

Absolutely not, shhit-for-brains troll. I was just commending you on reminding everyone about the rock solid GOTea consistency on fiscal responsibility and that that dedication to GOTea fiscal responsibility absolutely must be what is behind your Team's insistence on a tacky point of order to derail a bill for veteran's jobs! I can tell you feel very strongly about this fiscal responsibility and we all understand that that is why you are here to chastise anybody that would support spending even a penny more than is necessary to make a Republican political point. And I'm sure when that sinks in everybody here will be convinced of your sincerity.

Now, you DO understand all about ROCK SOLID Republican fiscal responsibility, right? Just in case you missed them, here they are again. Like I said, if you're short on time (or brains) just take a look at the pretty pictures in the second link.

PolitiFact | Viral Facebook post says Barack Obama has lowest spending record of any recent president

Off the Charts Blog | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities | What’s Driving Projected Debt?

Economic Downturn and Bush Policies Continue to Drive Large Projected Deficits — Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

CHART: Spending, Taxes, And Deficits Are All Lower Today Than When Obama Took Office | ThinkProgress

How the Deficit Got This Big - NYTimes.com

Sources of the Budget Deficit - NYTimes.com

The Truth About Federal Spending

MarketWatch Column On Obama's Spending Restraint Stands Up To Attacks | Media Matters for America

Obama spending binge never happened - Rex Nutting - MarketWatch

The myth of Obama's spending binge - The Plum Line - The Washington Post

Obama Presided Over a Tax Revenue Drought, Not a Spending Binge | Crooks and Liars

Who's to Blame for the Deficit Numbers?

Bush-Era Tax Cuts Projected As Largest Contributor To Public Debt [CHART]

Mitt Romney Debt Speech Ignores Key Facts

Right-Wing Media Ignore Bush Effect On Debt To Suggest Obama Criticism Is Hypocrisy | Media Matters for America

Despite Being Warned, Right-Wing Media Buy Into The "BS" Claims About Obama's Spending Record | Media Matters for America

Simply Orthogonal to the Facts

If You Want Another Debt and Spending Binge, Vote GOP

DisgustedWithItAlll <<<< You really must be legit with media matters and politifacts links. Thanks for the great laugh. Glad to see you really are "deep" in the facts and figures. Yes, you care about the soldiers and the mean Republican's caused all the woes and evil Republicans want to push granny off the Cliff. It had nothing to do with the fact that .....

I noticed your Strawman Argument and YOU openly support Democrat Hack Harry Reid using soldiers as props 7 weeks before an election.

"the bill violated a cap on spending agreed to by Congress last year"

Feign that outrage at the Republicans

Oh no, no, no, shhit-for-brains troll. (Now don't you be yet another of those low-quality wingnuts who think it's enough just to dismiss sources that you don't like. After all, I can tell you made through the first week of intro logic and know you wouldn't go all in for the argumentum ad hominem. So I know you would tackle all those sources you don't like head on. That is, unless you are unprepared.) And I know that you, being a high-quality shhit-for-brains troll, wouldn't try to change the subject just like you just did. Oh wait...

But let's forget that. Let's concentrate on that ROCK SOLID GOTea fiscal responsibility which is the reason those stand-up wingnut Senators decided to rely on a tacky point of order to derail a veterans jobs bill. Otherwise, we know that nothing matters more to the GOTea than taking care of the people who fight the nation's wars and we know that the GOTea has the nation's best interests at heart and always has when it's come to dealing with legislation among other things these last four years, don't we? That consistency is something we can both agree on, can't we shhit-for-brains troll?

DisgustedWithItAlll

That is, unless you are unprepared.) And I know that you, being a high-quality shhit-for-brains troll, wouldn't try to change the subject just like you just did. Oh wait...

Try reading the 2002 Fannie Freddie Report by Stiglitz and the Orszag Brothers. Go to page 6 conclusion. Screw you and your amateur propaganda sources. You better escalate this to David Brock,. There is a nugget that more than smacks-down your misdirection. It still doesn't matter though, because...

YOU openly support Democrat Hack Harry Reid using soldiers as props 7 weeks before an election.

Feign that outrage at the Republicans

Inside Media Matters: Sources, memos reveal erratic behavior, close coordination with White House and news organizations

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/12/inside-media-matters-sources-memos-reveal-erratic-behavior-close-coordination-with-white-house-and-news-organizations/#ixzz26z0FaEFi



Pavlich: DOJ using Media Matters to cover up Fast and Furious

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/18/pavlich-doj-using-media-matters-to-cover-up-fast-and-furious/#ixzz26z1B0ViC

Awwwww...., I have to admit that I'm a little disappointed in you shhit-for-brains troll. Apparently you aren't prepared to defend that ROCK SOLID GOTea fiscal responsibility. Even worse, you went all in for the argumentum ad hominem. That's very bad shhit-for-brains troll. Very, very, very bad, indeed shhit-for-brains troll. You should aspire to be more than just another low-quality wingnut trolling Know Nothing. But hey, cie la vie. It's your decision to be all you can be. Or less.

We can get into CRA, Freddie, Fannie, and all the other wingnut myths later -- and I'd really like that -- but FIRST, we need to look at this latest solid upstanding Senate GOTea move supporting the folks who defend the nation. Like I said, we know that nothing matters more to the GOTea than taking care of the people who fight the nation's wars! Right? And we know that the GOTea has had the nation's best interests at heart and has been nothing but absolutely consistent on that every day of the last four years, hasn't it. Right? Especially when it's come to dealing with legislation, this and the last GOTea Senate session (and the last House session) has had nothing but the nation's interests foremost in its concerns hasn't it? We can agree on this clear and obvious fact, can't we shhit-for-brains troll?

Now stick to the matter at hand, shhit-for-brains troll. I know I can depend on you because you aspire to be more than just that person you revealed in that last post. You're better than that.

http://dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/MMFA-donors-THE-DAILY-CALLER.pdf

FOUNDATION DONORS TO MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA (TOTALS)

DisgustedWithItAlll

We can get into CRA, Freddie, Fannie, and all the other wingnut myths later..

<<Now that we have established that you are full of sh@t and a propagandist, it really doesn't matter what you say. You better escalate this to Brock, you are out of your league sparky. Nice try on a budget debate or pretending you know something based on facts. Really, sparky, the debate is over. You and your strawman bullsh@t can't take away from the fact that...

YOU openly support Democrat Hack Harry Reid using soldiers as props 7 weeks before an election.

Feign that outrage at the Republicans

No, no, no, shhit-for-brains troll. That's not good enough. 1) You have to stick to the topic, and 2) you have just doubled down on another logical informal fallacy with that penultimate post. (Extra credit: what's the name of the informal fallacy you just indulged in?)

Now, back to the topic at hand: Before we break off into other various wingnut myths, FIRST, we need to look at this latest solid upstanding Senate GOTea move supporting the folks who defend the nation. Like I said, we know that nothing matters more to the GOTea than taking care of the people who fight the nation's wars! Right? And we know that the GOTea has had the nation's best interests at heart and has been nothing but absolutely consistent on that every day of the last four years, hasn't it. Right? Especially when it's come to dealing with legislation, this and the last GOTea Senate session (and the last House session) has had nothing but the nation's interests foremost in its concerns hasn't it? We can agree on this clear and obvious fact, can't we shhit-for-brains troll?

Now stick to the matter at hand, shhit-for-brains troll. I know I can depend on you because you aspire to be more than just that person you revealed in those last several posts. You're better than that.

DisgustedWithItAlll << The only myth is that you have something to say. Make sure you say troll and wingnut. You hit me in my mind with aspiring to be a better person. Nice touch sparky, it will make you seem almost sincere or believable. So go pretend to have something to say somewhere else because,, it is DISGUSTING that

YOU openly support Democrat Hack Harry Reid using soldiers as props 7 weeks before an election.

Feign that outrage at the Republicans

wow, Daniel Kerr is hyper delusional. Why would a bipartisan bill be filibustered by the Republicans if it was a Dem ploy....and a ploy for what? For Vets to vote Dem? Seriously? This administration has done more for Vets than any in the last ....well, since Nixon ended the Vietnam war. Vets historically vote Repub so why would the Repubs NOT pass the bill? Because they're Tea Partiers who are running on debt and deficit busting....although not sure how that reduced taxes for the rich while taxing the middle and lower classes plan fits in with debt and deficit busting....but we all know the hypocrisy in that. Anyway, poor deluded Daniel, I see you must be disappointed that the Fast and Furious thing was a scam and the AG was found innocent...that must've messed up your day, in addition to Romney's alienating another 47% of the population, but really, provide proof that this was somehow a Dem ploy and that Reid could've fixed the rules...for this vote. It's a stretch, but I'm listening.

Ohhhh..., you have really descended into just another low-quality wingnut ignoramus shhit-for-brains troll, and you don't know how disappointed I am in you. But I know you can do better!! After all, why let all that false bravado and impotent bluster you throw out go to waste? So man up, shhit-for-brains troll!!

Before we can continue on to other topics, we're just going to have to work together and settle the original differences. So here's where we were:

FIRST, we need to look at this latest solid upstanding Senate GOTea move supporting the folks who defend the nation. Like I said, we know that nothing matters more to the GOTea than taking care of the people who fight the nation's wars! Right? And we know that the GOTea has had the nation's best interests at heart and has been nothing but absolutely consistent on that every day of the last four years, hasn't it. Right? Especially when it's come to dealing with legislation, this and the last GOTea Senate session (and the last House session) has had nothing but the nation's interests foremost in its concerns hasn't it? We can agree on this clear and obvious fact, can't we shhit-for-brains troll?

Let me handle this finite.

Finitewisdom << Nice More delusions from the peanut gallery. I have already dealt with enough of your strawmen and propaganda and you have ZERO FACTS ON SUBJECT TO OFFER. You should be proud of the fact that over 70 percent of the TOTAL U.S. casualties and deaths in Afghanistan have happened on Obama's watch. You should be PROUD. That is great for soldiers and ambassadors too. I am sure George Bush caused all the problems because all you have are diversions and excuses and now YOU and

Democrat Hack Harry Reid using soldiers as props 7 weeks before an election.

Feign that outrage at the Republicans

No, no, no shhit-for-brains troll. Now make sure you answer the questions so we can move forward. And maybe, just maybe, you'll actually put forward one of the millions of facts you're loaded up with.

Now read again, and do the assignment:

Before we can continue on to other topics, we're just going to have to work together and settle the original differences. So here's where we were:

FIRST, we need to look at this latest solid upstanding Senate GOTea move supporting the folks who defend the nation. Like I said, we know that nothing matters more to the GOTea than taking care of the people who fight the nation's wars! Right? And we know that the GOTea has had the nation's best interests at heart and has been nothing but absolutely consistent on that every day of the last four years, hasn't it. Right? Especially when it's come to dealing with legislation, this and the last GOTea Senate session (and the last House session) has had nothing but the nation's interests foremost in its concerns hasn't it? We can agree on this clear and obvious fact, can't we shhit-for-brains troll?

DisgustedWithItAlll <<< Such a compelling and nonsensical argument. They will give you a cookie for your effort I am sure. Now go to bed and reread 'dreams of my father' again and you will drift fast asleep. Hope, change, dreams and the BIG LIE. That isn't nice when you think about it, because that would mean that ........

YOU and

Democrat Hack Harry Reid are using soldiers as props 7 weeks before an election.

Feign that outrage at the Republicans

Well, I must tell you shhit-for-brains troll, you have disappointed me so much again. Here I thought I was dealing with a high-quality wingnut ignoramus and it turns out that, at least to now, you're nothing but the garden variety low-quality wingnut ignoramus that everybody just dismisses because of its itty bitty brain and small genitals. And to prove the existence of your itty bitty brain, you make another logic error in your last "post." (Another extra credit chance: pin-point your logic error and give the proper name. You can do it shhit-for-brains troll because,..., well, I guess because you really need the points at this juncture.)

But I know you can rally. I can tell this because of your chest-beating impotent bluster. Impotent bluster like that can't be let go to waste. So let's not disappoint me again, small man. Let's move this FORWARD. Now I know at this point those facts you've been saying are loading down your itty bitty shhitty brain are just busting to get out in the open like the alien in Alien. So let's not keep them hidden any longer like you have. So tell me and the audience a few things:

1) How much did the Veterans bill cost?

2) Where was the money coming from?

3) What's the national debt held by the public?

4) I'm adamant that GOP fiscal responsibility has been ROCK SOLID. Do you agree?

5) We both know that nothing matters more to the GOTea than taking care of the people who fight the nation's wars! Right?

6) We both know that the GOTea has had the nation's best interests at heart and has been nothing but absolutely consistent on that every day of the last four years, hasn't it. Right?

7) Especially when it's come to dealing with legislation, this and the last GOTea Senate session (and the last House session) has had nothing but the nation's interests foremost in its concerns hasn't it? We can agree on this clear and obvious fact, can't we shhit-for-brains troll?

Those are very easy answerable questions and, because of the uncountably infinite number of rock solid facts you burden yourself with, you should have no trouble answering.

So let's have your answers, shhit-for-brains troll?

Well, Disgusted..., I'm sure you know you will just get sfb "answers". :-) The sfbt is obviously totally oblivious to his (?) own irredeemable failings.

He knows he's trapped.

Last night I was just having a bit of fun watching him slowly, gradually dissolve into the diminishing little ignoramus he is (that he attempted to hide with his ridiculous bluster and use of lame pejorative tactics like calling someone "sparky"). You can tell the Know Nothings immediately when they come bursting on to the scene acting like King Kong on steroids. That's when fun can happen.

But, like I said, he knows he's trapped, and deep down, he knows he's an ignoramus.

EntropyRules << Yeah, you really showed me lumpy. Damn you are sharp.>>

DisgustedWithItAlll "Let's move this FORWARD"<<<< VorWart! Vorwart!

The same message and propaganda style. Perfect. Vorwart! Vorwart!

<<Another fact-filled post from an obamabot. It is entertaining to observe cognitive dissonance in almost real-time as you and your comrades can only resort to name-calling and mmfa propaganda when confronted with the fact that you support the total bullsh@t written at @msnbc and have yet to make a truthful point.

Yes, no facts for you. One thing we do know....

"the bill violated a cap on spending agreed to by Congress last year" But those are just words, like in the Constitution. Yes, that is progress. Forward, my dear fascist Vorwart!! Learn Forward propaganda Minister. Vorwart!!
http://youtu.be/HjRPk5UCyaQ

so it really shouldn't be a surprise when when it turns out the leftist propaganda means that......

YOU and

Democrat Hack Harry Reid are using soldiers as props 7 weeks before an election.

Feign that outrage at the Republicans

Oh nooooooooooo, no, no, no, shhit-for-brains troll. These argumentum ad hominems from you are just not getting it done. And oops, yet more logical informal fallacies. Bad, bad, bad. But let's turn that bad FROM you into an opportunity FOR you: you can earn extra credit points by pinpointing your logical fallacies and naming them. Now that's taking a lemon and turning into a lemonade stand, and that's exactly what a bootstrappy kind of guy like you will be interested in! And when you realize that, at this point, you've made so many, you'll also realize just how many extra credit points you can rack up!!

Now once you're satisfied you've solved your logical fallacy problems and secured the extra credit, we're really going to have to establish some facts before we move forward. Let's not delay any longer on that. Yes, we've established the tacky point of order long, long ago. So we can move on from that. And don't forget, those facts in your itty bitty shhitty brain are just BUSTING to be relieved from the cramped and restricted confines of your itty bitty shhitty brain. So let 'em out, shhit-for-brains troll:

1) How much did the Veterans bill cost?

2) Where was the money coming from?

3) What's the national debt held by the public?

4) I'm adamant that GOP fiscal responsibility has been ROCK SOLID. Do you agree?

5) We both know that nothing matters more to the GOTea than taking care of the people who fight the nation's wars! Right?

6) We both know that the GOTea has had the nation's best interests at heart and has been nothing but absolutely consistent on that every day of the last four years, hasn't it. Right?

7) Especially when it's come to dealing with legislation, this and the last GOTea Senate session (and the last House session) has had nothing but the nation's interests foremost in its concerns hasn't it? We can agree on this clear and obvious fact, can't we shhit-for-brains troll?

Those are very easy answerable questions and, because of the uncountably infinite number of rock solid facts you burden yourself with, you should have no trouble answering.

So let's have your answers, shhit-for-brains troll?

Isn't this a revenue bill?

DisgustedWithItAlll<<

Nice handy work repeating your propaganda. The joys of cut and paste must help you in your disinformation campaign. Keep that strawman alive sparky! http://youtu.be/_Vj092UgKwQ

DisgustedWithItAlll "Let's move this FORWARD"<<<< VorWart! Vorwart!

The same message and propaganda style. Perfect. Vorwart! Vorwart!

Another fact-filled post from an obamabot. It is entertaining to observe cognitive dissonance in almost real-time as you and your comrades can only resort to name-calling and mmfa propaganda when confronted with the fact that you support the total bullsh@t written at @msnbc and have yet to make a truthful point.

Yes, no facts for you. One thing we do know....

"the bill violated a cap on spending agreed to by Congress last year" But those are just words, like in the Constitution. Yes, that is progress. Forward, my dear fascist Vorwart!! Learn Forward propaganda Minister. Vorwart!!
http://youtu.be/HjRPk5UCyaQ

so it really shouldn't be a surprise when when it turns out the leftist propaganda means that......

YOU and

Democrat Hack Harry Reid are using soldiers as props 7 weeks before an election.

Feign that outrage at the Republicans

*facepalm*

Oh, shhit-for-brains troll! You have now so diminished yourself from the confident, omnipotent wingnut ignoramus that came on so strong yesterday that I hardly know you from that King Kong bada$$ threatening to blow out liberal world with your onslaught of facts. What an impotent little man you've turned out to be. And so far, no facts.

But I have faith in you shhit-for-brains troll!!! I know you can do it. You can be the high-quality wingnut ignoramus you aspire to be instead of that pathetic little pile of idiocy you are!! But you have to know that you're going to have to up your game. The opportunity for getting extra credit points for those previous informal fallacies has been rescinded, so you're going to have to earn points the old-fashioned way from here on out.

So beings you've shown yourself to be little more than the typical FEWI ADD victim (Fox-educated wingnut ignoramus with Attention Deficit Disorder) who has to continually either change or avoid the subject , I'll help you out with a few answers, and then, I'll graciously turn your assignment back over to you. That's just the way I roll, shhit-for-brains troll. I'm a helluva guy, and I like you. I really do. So let's get a few questions and facts out of the way, and then it'll be your turn:

1) How much did the Veterans bill cost? Answer: $1 billion

(http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/250391-gop-kills-veterans-jobs-bill-with-budget-vote#disqus_thread)

(Let's be ridiculous. Let's assume it would cost ten times as much. $10 billion.)

2) Where was the money coming from? Answer: Costs covered in part with fees on Medicare providers and suppliers who are delinquent on their tax bills. But let's be generous to your absolutely ROCK SOLID fiscally responsible GOP conservatism: let's assume it would not be paid for at all.

3) What's the national debt held by the public? Answer ~$16 trillion.

Now, it's your turn, shhit-for-brains troll. And how could it be much easier for you -- the following are simply yes-or-no questions!!!

4) I'm adamant that GOP fiscal responsibility has been ROCK SOLID. Do you agree?

5) We both know that nothing matters more to the GOTea than taking care of the people who fight the nation's wars! Right?

6) We both know that the GOTea has had the nation's best interests at heart and has been nothing but absolutely consistent on that every day of the last four years, hasn't it. Right?

7) Especially when it's come to dealing with legislation, this and the last GOTea Senate session (and the last House session) has had nothing but the nation's interests foremost in its concerns hasn't it? We can agree on this clear and obvious fact, can't we shhit-for-brains troll?

Those are very easy answerable questions and, because of the uncountably infinite number of rock solid facts you burden yourself with, you should have no trouble answering.

So let's have your answers, shhit-for-brains troll?

DisgustedWithItAlll<< Imagine a government program that costs money that we don't have and agreed not to spend with a party in power that has never passed a real budget. You know, responsible and serious men of their word. No, as a leftist you wouldn't know about reality, honor or integrity. Article 1 sec 7 You are a proven fraud and I am not delving into your misdirection bullsh@t. Go back to media matters and get some new talking points sparky.

Nice handy work repeating your propaganda. The joys of cut and paste must help you in your disinformation campaign. Keep that strawman alive sparky! http://youtu.be/_Vj092UgKwQ

DisgustedWithItAlll "Let's move this FORWARD"<<<< VorWart! Vorwart!

The same message and propaganda style. Perfect sparky. Vorwart! Vorwart!

http://youtu.be/HjRPk5UCyaQ

Back to the real subject:
"The bill was fully paid for, and entirely bipartisan" It couldn't get 60 votes and was a tax increase and spending increase in violation of an existing agreement 7 weeks before election.

The only thing that this proves is....

YOU and

Democrat Hack Harry Reid are using soldiers as props 7 weeks before an election.

Feign that outrage at the Republicans.

Very disappointing shhit-for-brains troll. Very disappointing, indeed. You're going to have to pick up the pace. There's things that need to be given the light of day here, and you're just the pathetic little idiot to get it done! So let's go!!!

Here's a reprise to remind you of what needs getting done.

1) How much did the Veterans bill cost? Answer: $1 billion

(http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/250391-gop-kills-veterans-jobs-bill-with-budget-vote#disqus_thread)

(Let's be ridiculous. Let's assume it would cost ten times as much. $10 billion.)

2) Where was the money coming from? Answer: Costs covered in part with fees on Medicare providers and suppliers who are delinquent on their tax bills. But let's be generous to your absolutely ROCK SOLID fiscally responsible GOP conservatism: let's assume it would not be paid for at all.

3) What's the national debt held by the public? Answer ~$16 trillion.

Now, it's your turn, shhit-for-brains troll. And how could it be much easier for you -- the following are simply yes-or-no questions!!!

4) I'm adamant that GOP fiscal responsibility has been ROCK SOLID. Do you agree?

5) We both know that nothing matters more to the GOTea than taking care of the people who fight the nation's wars! Right?

6) We both know that the GOTea has had the nation's best interests at heart and has been nothing but absolutely consistent on that every day of the last four years, hasn't it. Right?

7) Especially when it's come to dealing with legislation, this and the last GOTea Senate session (and the last House session) has had nothing but the nation's interests foremost in its concerns hasn't it? We can agree on this clear and obvious fact, can't we shhit-for-brains troll?

Those are very easy answerable questions and, because of the uncountably infinite number of rock solid facts you burden yourself with, you should have no trouble answering.

So let's have your answers, shhit-for-brains troll? Or I'll just have to take over the proceedings.

DisgustedWithItAlll<< The repeating Strawman. That is even a new low even for the likes of you.

DisgustedWithItAlll<< Imagine a government program that costs money that we don't have and agreed not to spend with a party in power that has never passed a real budget. You know, responsible and serious men of their word. No, as a leftist you wouldn't know about reality, honor or integrity. Article 1 sec 7 You are a proven fraud and I am not delving into your misdirection bullsh@t. Go back to media matters and get some new talking points sparky.

Nice handy work repeating your propaganda. The joys of cut and paste must help you in your disinformation campaign. Keep that strawman alive sparky! http://youtu.be/_Vj092UgKwQ

DisgustedWithItAlll "Let's move this FORWARD"<<<< VorWart! Vorwart!

The same message and propaganda style. Perfect sparky. Vorwart! Vorwart!

http://youtu.be/HjRPk5UCyaQ

Back to the real subject:
"The bill was fully paid for, and entirely bipartisan"

It couldn't get 60 votes and was a tax increase and spending increase in violation of an existing agreement 7 weeks before election by the Democrat Senate Majority Leader.

Military Vote Seen As A Key To Capturing Virginia http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/09/20/161417655/military-vote-seen-as-a-key-to-capturing-virginia

The only thing that your propaganda campaign proves is....

YOU and

Democrat Hack Harry Reid are using soldiers as props 7 weeks before an election.

Feign that outrage at the Republicans.

I'd like to see the source for number 2 - that'd be great!

*extended facepalm*

This is truly a sad state we find ourselves in. shhit-for-brains troll has proven to be one of the lowest quality wingnuts that we've had around here. And that's saying something. So I guess, your honor, we'll just have to proceed assuming the best possible sequence for shhit-for-brains troll as we can. That's of course being very generous on my part, but hey, that's the kind of helluva guy I am. And I really feel sorry for shhit-for-brains troll. Now I've already given shhit-for-brains troll the answers to the first three questions, and was hoping shhit-for-brains troll would be at least competent to provide yes-or-no answers. For some reason the impotent little man hasn't done that. So like I said, let's give him the best possible interpretation.

So here's the best possible answers shhit-for-brains troll could possibly give as his argument to take to the jury:

1) How much did the Veterans bill cost?

Answer: $1 billion

(http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/250391-gop-kills-veterans-jobs-bill-with-budget-vote#disqus_thread)

(Let's be ridiculous. Let's assume it would cost ten times as much. $10 billion.)

2) Where was the money coming from?

Answer: Costs covered in part with fees on Medicare providers and suppliers who are delinquent on their tax bills. But let's be generous to your absolutely ROCK SOLID fiscally responsible GOP conservatism: let's assume it would not be paid for at all.

3) What's the national debt held by the public?

Answer ~$16 trillion.

Now, it's your turn, shhit-for-brains troll. And how could it be much easier for you -- the following are simply yes-or-no questions!!!

4) I'm adamant that GOP fiscal responsibility has been ROCK SOLID. Do you agree?

shhit-for-brains' answer: Yes.

5) We both know that nothing matters more to the GOTea than taking care of the people who fight the nation's wars! Right?

shhit-for-brains' answer: Yes.

6) We both know that the GOTea has had the nation's best interests at heart and has been nothing but absolutely consistent on that every day of the last four years, hasn't it. Right?

shhit-for-brains' answer: Yes.

7) Especially when it's come to dealing with legislation, this and the last GOTea Senate session (and the last House session) has had nothing but the nation's interests foremost in its concerns hasn't it? We can agree on this clear and obvious fact, can't we shhit-for-brains troll?

shhit-for-brains' answer: Yes.

I mean, shhit-for-brains troll's answers really couldn't be "No" on any of those last four questions, could they? Of course not.

Well then, let's see about all that….. And we will when the court returns from a recess given so that the jury can get a break from all the shhit-for-brains troll's nonsense.

DisgustedWithItAlll<< The repeating Strawman. That is even a new low even for the likes of you. You shouldn't have switched to Generic Medications. Keep supporting NO BUDGET BARRY!! KOOL-AID, OH YEAH! http://youtu.be/nBeUGqeYsQg

Imagine a government program that costs money that we don't have and agreed not to spend with a party in power that has never passed a real budget. You know, responsible and serious men of their word. No, as a leftist you wouldn't know about reality, honor or integrity. Article 1 sec 7 You are a proven fraud and I am not delving into your misdirection bullsh@t. Go back to media matters and get some new talking points sparky.

The joys of cut and paste must help you in your disinformation campaign. Keep that strawman alive sparky! http://youtu.be/_Vj092UgKwQ

DisgustedWithItAlll "Let's move this FORWARD"<<<< VorWart! Vorwart!

The same message and propaganda style. Perfect sparky. Vorwart! Vorwart!

http://youtu.be/HjRPk5UCyaQ

Back to the real subject:
"The bill was fully paid for, and entirely bipartisan"

It couldn't get 60 votes and was a tax increase and spending increase in violation of an existing agreement 7 weeks before election pushed by the Democrat Senate Majority Leader.

Military Vote Seen As A Key To Capturing Virginia http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/09/20/161417655/military-vote-seen-as-a-key-to-capturing-virginia

The only thing that your propaganda campaign proves is....

YOU and

Democrat Hack Harry Reid are using soldiers as props 7 weeks before an election.

Feign that outrage at the Republicans.

Well, it is clear the quiver of little shhit-for-brains troll is out of arrows, and equally clear little shhit-for-brains troll has already made his summary argument to the jury.

But we're not done shhit-for-brains troll. No, sir. Now that we've provided shhit-for-brains troll the best possible answers for his side of the case, it's time to examine them the consequences.

For questions 1 - 3, we see a bill that would add for each $1600 dollars of current debt, one more dollar. But that's way, way too generous to the shhit-for-brains troll. In actuality it would be 1-to-16,000. Now what the jury (and shhit-for-brains troll) should do is take a look at the graph in the 2nd link above in those links exposing GOP fiscal irresponsibility and try to imagine a pencil thin enough to put that extra debt in that graph. Here's what would happen: you couldn't see it. And so, what we have here on the debt complaint from those GOP Senators that have just recently become aware and concerned about the debt they caused is just a stream of transparent crocodile tears.

So, the GOP hasn't been concerned about the massive amounts of debt they've been responsible for in the past, nor are they concerned about the massive amounts of additional debt a Romney-Ryan Administration would add to the current debt, and nobody is stupid enough to believe they're worried about the debt that would be added because of a $1 billion dollar veteran jobs bill. They are simply lying when they claim to care about it.

And when we get back from recess, we'll examine just how the jury is going to look at the claims in questions 4 - 7. For a review, here are those questions:

4) I'm adamant that GOP fiscal responsibility has been ROCK SOLID. Do you agree?

shhit-for-brains' answer: Yes.

5) We both know that nothing matters more to the GOTea than taking care of the people who fight the nation's wars! Right?

shhit-for-brains' answer: Yes.

6) We both know that the GOTea has had the nation's best interests at heart and has been nothing but absolutely consistent on that every day of the last four years, hasn't it. Right?

shhit-for-brains' answer: Yes.

7) Especially when it's come to dealing with legislation, this and the last GOTea Senate session (and the last House session) has had nothing but the nation's interests foremost in its concerns hasn't it? We can agree on this clear and obvious fact, can't we shhit-for-brains troll?

shhit-for-brains' answer: Yes.

I mean, shhit-for-brains troll's answers really couldn't be "No" on any of those last four questions, could they? Of course not.

DisgustedWithItAlll Too bad you cant even read sparky, but keep the spam up. You post is boring and not very well constructed. It makes you appear that you are arguing something on topic, so congratulations are in order I guess. Sorry I cant keep it at the level of mindless personal attacks supported by your media matters Cliff Clavinoids.

The repeating Strawman. That is even a new low even for the likes of you. You shouldn't have switched to Generic Medications. Keep supporting NO BUDGET BARRY!! KOOL-AID, OH YEAH! http://youtu.be/nBeUGqeYsQg

Imagine a government program that costs money that we don't have and agreed not to spend with a party in power that has never passed a real budget. You know, responsible and serious men of their word. No, as a leftist you wouldn't know about reality, honor or integrity. Article 1 sec 7 You are a proven fraud and I am not delving into your misdirection bullsh@t. Go back to media matters and get some new talking points sparky.

The joys of cut and paste must help you in your disinformation campaign. Keep that strawman alive sparky! http://youtu.be/_Vj092UgKwQ

DisgustedWithItAlll "Let's move this FORWARD"<<<< VorWart! Vorwart!

The same message and propaganda style. Perfect sparky. Vorwart! Vorwart!

http://youtu.be/HjRPk5UCyaQ

Back to the real subject:
"The bill was fully paid for, and entirely bipartisan"

It couldn't get 60 votes and was a tax increase and spending increase in violation of an existing agreement 7 weeks before election pushed by the Democrat Senate Majority Leader.

Military Vote Seen As A Key To Capturing Virginia http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/09/20/161417655/military-vote-seen-as-a-key-to-capturing-virginia

The only thing that your propaganda campaign proves is....

YOU and

Democrat Hack Harry Reid are using soldiers as props 7 weeks before an election.

Feign that outrage at the evil Republicans in a questionnaire

The shhit-for-brains troll turns to the jury and says "I got nuthin. My quiver is empty. So just let me repeat my Hitler stuff and ..., well, I got nuthin else."

And when we get back from recess, we will continue to expose the shhit-for-brains troll for the empty-headed vessel he is.

That means you actually read a post. Good for you sparky! You are starting to get a hang of this now. I even used an NPR link for your propaganda pleasure to make my on subject point. You should try it some time. Something other than the media matters propaganda machine would be a great start.

DisgustedWithItAlll You must be thirsty after filling out your STRAWMAN questionnaire. I have a link for you. Keep supporting NO BUDGET BARRY!! KOOL-AID, OH YEAH! http://youtu.be/nBeUGqeYsQg

Go back to media matters and get some new talking points sparky now. Old habits die hard, I know. The whole cognitive dissonance thing is something a weak mind like yours should be able to overcome. Your parroting abilities seem above average.

The joys of cut and paste must help you in your disinformation campaign. Keep that strawman Alive ! http://youtu.be/_Vj092UgKwQ

VorWART Sparky!!

Back to the real subject:
"The bill was fully paid for, and entirely bipartisan"

It couldn't get 60 votes and was a tax increase and spending increase in violation of an existing agreement 7 weeks before election pushed by the Democrat Senate Majority Leader.

Military Vote Seen As A Key To Capturing Virginia http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/09/20/161417655/military-vote-seen-as-a-key-to-capturing-virginia

The only thing that your propaganda campaign proves is....

YOU and

Democrat Hack Harry Reid are using soldiers as props 7 weeks before an election.

Feign that outrage at the evil Republicans in a questionnaire

He has probably been the one hitting the up arrow on his drivelposts.

EntropyRules

He has probably been the one hitting the up arrow on his drivelposts.

Flag it for being a verbal vomit spewing troll. The aggressively malicious deserve no better.

< Let me guess, you cant win an argument so you flag mine. The only thing you have offered is an attempt at snark. Check the thread. Besides, DisgustedWithItAlll told you he would win the argument, and he doesn't even know how to start. So either you are his sockpuppet or his bitch so you best move along, there is only facts to see here.

Yes lumpy, my drivel posts cant compare your name calling. Such wit!

Back to the real subject:
"The bill was fully paid for, and entirely bipartisan"

It couldn't get 60 votes and was a tax increase and spending increase in violation of an existing agreement 7 weeks before election pushed by the Democrat Senate Majority Leader.

Military Vote Seen As A Key To Capturing Virginia http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/09/20/161417655/military-vote-seen-as-a-key-to-capturing-virginia

The only thing that your propaganda campaign proves is....

YOU and

Democrat Hack Harry Reid are using soldiers as props 7 weeks before an election.

Feign that outrage at the evil Republicans in a questionnaire

Ahem... Now where were we?

Ahhh yes, our impotent and quickly diminished little man shhit-for-brains troll had just finished his flimsy summation to the jury consisting of a) a tacky point of order that was easily addressed and remedied, and b) appeals to Hitler so common to those who have drank the Tea.

I had begun my summation and, due to Little Man Syndrome shhit-for-brains troll decided he needed to repeat his flimsy summation to the jury. It was as lame the 2nd time as it was the first. Essentially shhit-for-brains troll has no defense for his treasonous and grasping client.

But now that the recess is over we can continue. The jury has been shown Exhibit A in which we have shown there has been absolutely no concern for fiscal responsibility by the GOP/Tea over the 30+ years. If the GOTea can shrug its shoulders at trillions of added debt, then why should we believe it gives on whit over $1 billion, whether or not it's paid for, partially paid for, or not paid for at all. They wouldn't. They don't care about debt. So we know that the excuse is a lie. Plain and simple. A lie to hide the fact the GOTea is simply interested in denying Democrats and the President a long-stated goal. Fiscal responsibility concerns under these circumstances simply doesn't comport with the GOTea's consistent behavior of a complete lack of fiscal responsibility.

Here is a reprise of Exhibit A:

"For questions 1 - 3, we see a bill that would add for each $1600 dollars of current debt, one more dollar. But that's way, way too generous to the shhit-for-brains troll. In actuality it would be 1-to-16,000. Now what the jury (and shhit-for-brains troll) should do is take a look at the graph in the 2nd link above in those links exposing GOP fiscal irresponsibility and try to imagine a pencil thin enough to put that extra debt in that graph. Here's what would happen: you couldn't see it. And so, what we have here on the debt complaint from those GOP Senators that have just recently become aware and concerned about the debt they caused is just a stream of transparent crocodile tears."

To give the jury and onlookers more context -- a concept unknown in GOTea wingnut circles -- we direct the jury to consider the graph in this link:

Off the Charts Blog | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities | What’s Driving Projected Debt?

and try to imagine the veterans bill would be approximately 1/800th of the width of the "Recovery Measures." That is, you could not see it. And not only could you not see it, even the invisible cost would die out just as the ARRA measures die out (but the W contributions are not dying out so easily).

Now we'll get on to addressing the behavior of the GOTea as it concerns it concern for a nation stuck with problems of the GOTea's making. So let's review those questions we had to answer in the only way we could for shhit-for-brains troll:

4) I'm adamant that GOP fiscal responsibility has been ROCK SOLID. Do you agree?

shhit-for-brains' answer: Yes.

5) We both know that nothing matters more to the GOTea than taking care of the people who fight the nation's wars! Right?

shhit-for-brains' answer: Yes.

6) We both know that the GOTea has had the nation's best interests at heart and has been nothing but absolutely consistent on that every day of the last four years, hasn't it. Right?

shhit-for-brains' answer: Yes.

7) Especially when it's come to dealing with legislation, this and the last GOTea Senate session (and the last House session) has had nothing but the nation's interests foremost in its concerns hasn't it? We can agree on this clear and obvious fact, can't we shhit-for-brains troll?

shhit-for-brains' answer: Yes.

I mean, shhit-for-brains troll's answers really couldn't be "No" on any of those last four questions, could they? Of course not.

Next, as promised to the jury, we show the utter lack of concern the GOTea has had or the country over the last four years, showing our little shhit-for-brains troll had to lie in the answers we graciously gave him in questions 4 - 7.

First we show that the GOTea had absolutely no intention whatsoever of pitching in to help a nation recover from the problems the GOTea caused as soon as it understood the next President would be a man of the opposite party.

So we offer to the jury Exhibit B: Determined and malignant GOTea obstruction intended to make a President fail and give the GOTea campaign issues:

Overview and Inauguration Dinner Meeting :

During the greatest economic and financial crisis since the Great Depression, Republicans were of course primarily interested only in helping the nation recover from the mess they caused by pulling together to aid the newly elected President Obama. And if you believe that, you haven't been paying attention to Republicans for 20 years. Here's what they did:

Via Ron Draper's book " Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the U.S. House of Representatives," we know that on the night of President Obama's inauguration, the following Republicans met in the Caucus Room in DC for a dinner organized by Frank Luntz: Eric Cantor (Va.), Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) , Paul Ryan (Wis.), Pete Sessions (Texas), Jeb Hensarling (Texas), Pete Hoekstra (Mich.), Dan Lungren (Calif.), Jim DeMint (S.C.), Jon Kyl (Ariz.), Tom Coburn (Okla.), John Ensign (Nev.), Bob Corker (Tenn.), and Newt Gingrich.

They steeled themselves to obstruct every initiative of the new Administration. They did this in the hopes of denying Obama any political "victories" in helping the country recover. And they definitely followed through:

Links to information about the dinner:

- http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/06/15/from-day-one.html

- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/25/robert-draper-anti-obama-campaign_n_1452899.html

- http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1451642083

Important Votes:

Republicans followed through on just saying no to everything for political gain and for denying Obama political "victories" and not caring one whit the effect on the country.

GOP Obstruction: S-CHIP (Signed 2/2009)

Senate Vote: 66 – 32; GOP votes: 8

House Vote: 290 – 135; GOP votes: 41

GOP Obstruction: ARRA - Stimulus (Signed: 2/2009)

Senate Vote: 60 – 38 ; GOP votes: 2

House Vote: 246 – 183 ; GOP votes: 0

GOP Obstruction: PPACA (Health Care Reform, ObamaCare) (Signed: 3/2010)

Senate Vote: 60 – 39; GOP votes: 0

House Vote: 219 – 212; GOP votes: 0

GOP Obstruction: Dodd-Frank (Wall Street Reform) (Signed: 7/2010)

Senate Vote: 60 – 39; GOP votes: 3

House Vote: 237 – 192; GOP votes: 3

GOP Obstruction: Extended Unemployment Benefits (Signed: 7/2010) (Can't even extend unemployment?)

Senate Vote: 59 – 39; GOP votes: 2

House Vote: 272 – 152; GOP votes: 31

GOP Obstruction: Small Business Jobs Act (Signed: 9/2010)

Senate Vote: 61 – 38; GOP votes: 0

House Vote: 237 – 187; GOP votes: 1

Next we'll investigate just how universal and malignant this GOTea obstruction turned out to be.

Before we get to Exhibit C, we want to stop and take stock of some of the more revealing quotes from GOTea leaders concerning their intention to step up and work to solve the problems their ideas and policies caused and related to how they were going to work with the new President:

Quotes:

Kevin McCarthy made it clear:

"If you act like you're the minority, you're going to stay in the minority. We've gotta challenge them on every single bill and challenge them on every single campaign." – Kevin McCarthy

Newt Gingrich after the dinner made it clear:

"You will remember this day. You'll remember this as the day the seeds of 2012 were sown." -- Newt Gingrich

Jim DeMint's (R) comment made it clear:
“Our goal is a complete gridlock for the next two years. There is no place for bi-partisanship, compromise, only acceptable outcome is total victory and any politician that disagrees will be treated as a traitor. This is war.” -- Jim De Mint

Mitch McConnell's comment made it clear:
“The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.” -- Mitch McConnell

"I hope Obama fails." – Rush Limbaugh, de facto leader of the wingnut wing of the Republican party

"This is no time for compromise"– John Boehner, after 2010 elections

There will be more.

DisgustedWithItAlll<< The repeating Strawman. That is even a new low even for the likes of you. You shouldn't have switched to Generic Medications. Keep supporting NO BUDGET BARRY!! KOOL-AID, OH YEAH! http://youtu.be/nBeUGqeYsQg

Imagine a government program that costs money that we don't have and agreed not to spend with a party in power that has never passed a real budget. You know, responsible and serious men of their word. No, as a leftist you wouldn't know about reality, honor or integrity. Article 1 sec 7 You are a proven fraud and I am not delving into your misdirection bullsh@t. Go back to media matters and get some new talking points sparky.

The joys of cut and paste must help you in your disinformation campaign. Keep that strawman alive sparky! http://youtu.be/_Vj092UgKwQ

DisgustedWithItAlll "Let's move this FORWARD"<<<< VorWart! Vorwart!

The same message and propaganda style. Perfect sparky. Vorwart! Vorwart!

http://youtu.be/HjRPk5UCyaQ

Back to the real subject:
"The bill was fully paid for, and entirely bipartisan"

It couldn't get 60 votes and was a tax increase and spending increase in violation of an existing agreement 7 weeks before election pushed by the Democrat Senate Majority Leader.

Military Vote Seen As A Key To Capturing Virginia http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/09/20/161417655/military-vote-seen-as-a-key-to-capturing-virginia

The only thing that your propaganda campaign proves is....

YOU and

Democrat Hack Harry Reid are using soldiers as props 7 weeks before an election.

Feign that outrage at the Republicans

The jury has already heard your impotent defense, shhit-for-brains troll. There is no need for you to repeat your inabilities either verbatim or in thinly disguised plagiarized form unless you want to drive home the fact you have nothing but impotent bluster.

DisgustedWithItAlll

Sparky has advanced from Strawman Questionnaires to other forms. Way to reach for the progressive stars. . The Mitch McConnell MEME. Good for you sparky. I knew you wouldn't disappoint.

Mitch McConnell's comment made it clear:
“The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.” -- Mitch McConnell http://youtu.be/heAPA8zkmFE

JOE SCARBOROUGH, HOST: And Bob (Woodward), you talk about this. And you see it time and time again in your book where Republicans give ideas, and every idea is rejected outright. I want to focus, though, on a quote. And I’ve got to admit, just by reading press reports, I didn't know the other side of the Mitch McConnell quote. And I think I, at least, owe him an apology here on the air because we've repeated it a thousand times where Mitch McConnell says, my one priority, my top priority is preventing a second Obama term. But you actually pull out what nobody in the media pulls out, and that's the rest of Mitch McConnell’s statement. What is it?

BOB WOODWARD: And where McConnell says, I don't want Obama to fail, I want him to change. And I agree with you. I think that that's significant. Now, there is a brazenness to the first part of the quote, and as you know, Mitch McConnell is...

JOE SCARBOROUGH: He's tough.

BOB WOODWARD: He’s a hard ass on these subjects, to say the least.

JOE SCARBOROUGH: But McConnell went on to say -- and it's just never been reported -- McConnell went on to say, but if he changes, I want to work with him, and basically that's the attitude of if the guy will meet us halfway -- and I see John Heilemann rolling his eyes around the set, but time and time and time again, republicans offered suggestions, and time and time and time again, the first two years, the president rejected them outright.

Nice work sparky. I knew media matters wouldn't let you down when it came to new propaganda. Really. you do parrot well. But that still doesn't change the fact that........

Military Vote Seen As A Key To Capturing Virginia http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/09/20/161417655/military-vote-seen-as-a-key-to-capturing-virginia

The only thing that your propaganda campaign proves is....

YOU and

Democrat Hack Harry Reid are using soldiers as props 7 weeks before an election.

Feign that outrage at the evil Republicans with your PROVEN PROPAGANDA

Exhibit D in which we show the GOTea shirks its responsibility to work to solve the nation's problems:

GOP Obstruction and Economic Sabotage: ARRA - Stimulus

(Signed: 2/2009)

Senate Vote: 60 – 38 ; GOP votes: 2

House Vote: 246 – 183 ; GOP votes: 0

From http://crooksandliars.com/jon-perr/republicans-unprecedented-obstructionism-by-numbers

"Even before Barack Obama took the oath office, Republicans leaders, conservative think-tanks and right-wing pundits were calling for total obstruction of the new president's agenda. Bill Kristol, who helped block Bill Clinton's health care reform attempt in 1993, called for history to repeat on the Obama stimulus - and everything else. Pointing with pride to the Clinton economic program which received exactly zero GOP votes in either House, Kristol in January 2009 advised:

"That it made, that it made it so much easier to then defeat his health care initiative. So, it's very important for Republicans who think they're going to have to fight later on health care, fight later on maybe on some of the bank bailout legislation, fight later on on all kinds of issues."

That the ARRA was successful is an even more damning indictment against the Republicans intentional economic obstruction and sabotage:

Evidence Stimulus Worked:

http://swampland.time.com/2012/08/30/paul-ryan-and-the-stimulus-part-two-make-him-stop/

http://books.simonandschuster.com/New-New-Deal/Michael-Grunwald/9781451642322

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/congressional-budget-office-defends-stimulus/2012/06/06/gJQAnFnjJV_story.html

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/22/the-big-drag/

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/68965.html

http://cbo.gov/ftpdocs/123xx/doc12385/08-24-ARRA.pdf

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/financial-crisis-and-stimulus-could-this-time-be-different/2011/10/04/gIQALuwdVL_print.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/did-the-stimulus-work-a-review-of-the-nine-best-studies-on-the-subject/2011/08/16/gIQAThbibJ_blog.html?wprss=ezra-klein

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/a-weak-argument-against-the-stimulus/2011/08/25/gIQA1juWXK_blog.html

http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/the-recovery-act-worked-in-a-few-easy-charts/

http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/budget/178109-cbo-finds-2009-stimulus-still-benefiting-economy

http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-chait/94117/the-stimulus-did-not-permanently-increase-the-budget

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/08/holtz_eakin.html

http://www.offthechartsblog.org/new-cbo-report-up-to-2-4-million-people-owe-their-jobs-to-the-recovery-act/

http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3567

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/05/on-the-inadequacy-of-the-stimulus/

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/stimulus-tales/

http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/budget/212113-cbo-stimulus-package-continues-to-deliver

http://www.epi.org/blog/recovery-act-evidence-success-three-year-anniversary/

Exhibit E in which we show the GOTea shirks its responsibility to work to solve the nation's problems:

GOP Obstruction and Economic Sabotage: AJA (American Jobs Act):

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/09/08/fact-sheet-american-jobs-act

Republican obstruction on President Obama's American Jobs Act (AJA) is a scandal that costs another 1 to 1.3 percentage points, according to independent analyses of the AJA. Boehner's GOTea House will not bring the legislation up for a vote.

- Signed: Was not signed.

- House: GOP leadership refused to bring AJA to a vote in the House. 10/11/2011: House GOP leaders Eric Cantor says AJA dead in the House.
- Senate: Filibustered. 10/18/2011: 46 GOP Senators voted not to bring AJA up for debate.

- Independent Analyses of Effectiveness: of the AJA

CBO: http://www.cbo.gov/publication/42641

CAP: http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/09/american_jobs_act.html\

Moody's Analytics: http://www.economy.com/dismal/article_free.asp?cid=224641

WSJ: http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2011/09/08/economists-react-gauging-impact-of-obama-jobs-proposal/

EPI: http://www.epi.org/blog/quick-job-impact-president%E2%80%99s-proposals/

Macroadvisors: http://macroadvisors.blogspot.com/2011/09/american-jobs-act-significant-boost-to.html

Macroadvisors: http://macroadvisors.blogspot.com/2011/09/updated-american-jobs-act-greater-than.html

Bloombert: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-28/obama-jobs-plan-prevents-2012-recession-in-survey-of-economists.html

- Republican Job Plan (Deregulation legislation posing as jobs bills):

Nothing burger – the GOP "plan": http://www.gop.gov/resources/library/documents/jobs/theplan.pdf

No independent analysis of the so-called Republican jobs plans conclude any jobs will be created. These are simply pieces of legislation that are called jobs plans but are simply Republican wish lists of policies Republicans have championed as part of their anti-government ideology.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/24/republican-jobs-bills_n_1687647.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/07/us/politics/obama-says-he-would-accept-a-surtax-on-high-incomes.html?ref=politics&pagewanted=all

Joel Prakken, chairman of Macroeconomic Advisers, said Republicans had “reasonable ideas” but not ones that could be measured by the firm’s forecasting model. He said he believed the proposals “would have little immediate effect relative to a plan that stimulates aggregate demand” — that is, a plan like Mr. Obama’s, with tax cuts and spending programs.

Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, similarly said the Republican proposals “are generally good longer-term economic policy, but they won’t mean much for the economy and job market in the next year.” He continued: “Given the high odds of another recession in the next few months, it is vital for Congress and the administration to provide some near-term support to the economy.” [emphasis added]

A detailed look at the phantom GOP "jobs bills" showing their phoniness:

http://politicalcorrection.org/factcheck/201201240002#jobsidea3oil

- Hypocrisy of the Obstruction:

In 2005: Republican Senate passed $280 billion Transportation bill

In 2011: Republicans filibustered the AJA.

- http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/c0058b18-06df-11e1-b9cc-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1d1KqkrrN

- http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2011114507/meet-problem-25-senators-voted-bridge-nowhere-2005-and-against-building-bridge

DisgustedWithItAlll

Sparky has advanced from Strawman Questionnaires to other forms of STRAWSPAM. Way to reach for the progressive stars. . The Mitch McConnell MEME. Good for you sparky. I knew you wouldn't disappoint. Nothing says red herring like a link to Paul Krugman too. Such enjoyable Propaganda SPAM

Mitch McConnell's comment made it clear:
“The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.” -- Mitch McConnell http://youtu.be/heAPA8zkmFE

JOE SCARBOROUGH, HOST: And Bob (Woodward), you talk about this. And you see it time and time again in your book where Republicans give ideas, and every idea is rejected outright. I want to focus, though, on a quote. And I’ve got to admit, just by reading press reports, I didn't know the other side of the Mitch McConnell quote. And I think I, at least, owe him an apology here on the air because we've repeated it a thousand times where Mitch McConnell says, my one priority, my top priority is preventing a second Obama term. But you actually pull out what nobody in the media pulls out, and that's the rest of Mitch McConnell’s statement. What is it?

BOB WOODWARD: And where McConnell says, I don't want Obama to fail, I want him to change. And I agree with you. I think that that's significant. Now, there is a brazenness to the first part of the quote, and as you know, Mitch McConnell is...

JOE SCARBOROUGH: He's tough.

BOB WOODWARD: He’s a hard ass on these subjects, to say the least.

JOE SCARBOROUGH: But McConnell went on to say -- and it's just never been reported -- McConnell went on to say, but if he changes, I want to work with him, and basically that's the attitude of if the guy will meet us halfway -- and I see John Heilemann rolling his eyes around the set, but time and time and time again, republicans offered suggestions, and time and time and time again, the first two years, the president rejected them outright.

Nice work sparky. I knew media matters wouldn't let you down when it came to new propaganda. Really. you do parrot well. But that still doesn't change the fact that........

Military Vote Seen As A Key To Capturing Virginia http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/09/20/161417655/military-vote-seen-as-a-key-to-capturing-virginia

The only thing that your propaganda campaign proves is....

YOU and

Democrat Hack Harry Reid are using soldiers as props 7 weeks before an election.

Feign that outrage at the evil Republicans with your PROVEN PROPAGANDA

Exhibit F in which we show the GOTea shirks its responsibility to work to solve the nation's problems:

GOP Obstruction and Economic Sabotage: Debt Ceiling Downgrade

- What Happened: In order for Republicans to agree to raise the debt ceiling they demanded cuts in spending for items in the federal budget they are ideologically opposed to, cuts they could not achieve in the way they are supposed to be obtained – through the legislative approach. So it was a hostage-taking situation where Republicans held the credit of the United States hostage to cuts they could not achieve democratically.

From http://www.perrspectives.com/blog/archives/002251.htm

"Bush Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill: As the GOP's post-midterm strategy to extort draconian spending cuts in exchange for the boosting the debt ceiling became clear this spring, O'Neill warned in April:

"The people who are threatening not to pass the debt ceiling are our version of al Qaeda terrorists. Really. They're really putting our whole society at risk by threatening to round up 50 percent of the members of the Congress, who are loony, who would put our credit at risk."

Mitch McConnell essentially confirmed O'Neill's assessment. The only difference among Republican hostage-takers, McConnell seemed to suggest, was that some were more than willing to kill the hostage. As the Washington Post reported:

"I think some of our members may have thought the default issue was a hostage you might take a chance at shooting," he said. "Most of us didn't think that. What we did learn is this -- it's a hostage that's worth ransoming. And it focuses the Congress on something that must be done."

McConnell, the Post revealed, "said he could imagine doing this again." And as he explained to CNBC's Larry Kudlow, McConnell's future hostage-taking isn't a threat, but a promise:

"What we have done, Larry, also is set a new template. In the future, any president, this one or another one, when they request us to raise the debt ceiling, it will not be clean anymore. This is just the first step. This, we anticipate, will take us into 2013. Whoever the new president is, is probably going to be asking us to raise the debt ceiling again. Then we will go through the process again and see what we can continue to achieve in connection with these debt ceiling requests of presidents to get our financial house in order."

- More Information:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-debt-deal-the-triumph-of-the-old-washington/2011/08/02/gIQARSFfqI_story_1.html

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/08/03/286995/mcconnell-admits-to-taking-debt-ceiling-hostage-its-worth-ransoming/

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_08/mitch_mcconnell_hostage_taker031287.php

http://prospect.org/article/choosing-appropriate-inflammatory-metaphor

http://www.nationalmemo.com/mcconnell-admits-republicans-consider-economy-hostage-thats-worth-ransoming/

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/60421.html

http://gawker.com/5827384/mitch-mcconnell-brags-about-ransoming-the-president

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2011/08/defusing-fiscal-risk-0

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=standard+and+poor+credit+downgrade+republican+&oq=standard+and+poor+credit+downgrade+republican+&gs_l=hp.3...785.21541.0.22093.52.43.0.4.4.8.694.10118.0j16j21j3j2j1.43.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.qo16ybb8Gwk&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=16b2c32e8128e4b&biw=1089&bih=664

http://nationaljournal.com/economy/text-s-p-press-release-announcing-downgrade-20110806?page=1

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/08/12/294609/the-downgrade-trifecta-sp/

http://thinkprogress.org/yglesias/2011/08/05/289867/boehners-folly-leads-to-sp-downgrade-of-us-debt/

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/08/05/289771/report-sp-to-downgrade-u-s-credit-will-cite-gop-refusal-to-raise-taxes/

http://www.rollcall.com/issues/57_140/-214751-1.html?zkPrintable=true

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/08/30/in-roves-alternate-reality-gop-obstructionism-d/189675

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20026982-503544.html

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/11/risks-to-boehner-in-debt-ceiling-brinksmanship/

http://mediamatters.org/research/2011/04/13/fox-vs-fox-debt-ceiling-edition/178635

http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-cohn/92539/obama-boehner-debt-ceiling-press-conference-concessions-revenue

http://www.thenation.com/blog/162612/gop-causes-sp-downgrade-republican-candidates-blame-obama

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/12/mitch-mcconnell-debt-limit_n_861180.html

http://www.nationaljournal.com/economy/why-s-p-s-downgrade-is-no-joke-20110806?page=1

http://www.businessinsider.com/sp-does-not-believe-the-bush-tax-cuts-will-get-lifted-in-2012-2011-8?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+businessinsider+(Business+Insider)

Exhibit G in which we show the GOTea shirks its responsibility to work to solve the nation's problems that it caused:

GOP Obstruction and Economic Sabotage: Public Sector Employment

- What Happened: Republicans have, unlike in previous recoveries from recession, failed to maintain government at historical levels or historical growth levels. Republican obstruction at funding the public sector is costing 0.9 to 1.3 percentage points in employment. This is the opposite of what happened in other recessions in 1981, 1990, and 2000 when the federal government helped local and state governments. But Republicans in the House obstruct against dealing with this problem.

From Economic Progress Institute: http://www.epi.org/publication/public-sector-job-losses-unprecedented-drag/

"Since the recovery from the Great Recession officially began in June 2009, private-sector jobs are up by 2.8 million, but public-sector jobs (the combined employment in federal, state, and local governments) are down by 584,000. The figure below compares trends in public-sector employment in the last four recoveries. The current recovery is the only one that has seen public-sector losses over its first 31 months.

If public-sector employment had grown since June 2009 by the average amount it grew in the three previous recoveries (2.8 percent) instead of shrinking by 2.5 percent, there would be 1.2 million more public-sector jobs in the U.S. economy today. In addition, these extra public-sector jobs would have helped preserve about 500,000 private-sector jobs."

From Barry Ritholz: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/06/austerity-at-work/

"So, where Bush had picked up 800,000 State and Local jobs in the first 41 months of his term, Obama has presided over a loss of 636,000. (On a Federal level – which is by far the smallest of the three public sectors – Obama has added a whopping 34,000 jobs, whereas at this point in his first term Bush had shed 21,000.) These lost jobs are our teachers, firefighters, police and other civil servants. This is what austerity looks like. (Mind you, I don’t recall seeing anyone lambasting Bush for public sector job growth on his watch.)"

- More Information:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/jul/12/getting-away-it/?pagination=false

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/02/austerity-american-style/?smid=tw-NytimesKrugman&seid=auto

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/08/11/brookings-without-government-job-cuts-unemployment-would-be-at-7-1-percent/

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/06/austerity-at-work/

http://www.epi.org/publication/public-sector-job-losses-unprecedented-drag/

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/jul/11/paul-krugman/paul-krugman-says-government-jobs-have-fallen-half/

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/05/opinion/krugman-states-of-depression.html?_r=4&hp

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/08/03/foxs-stupid-comparison-of-obama-recovery-to-rea/189115

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2012/07/31/government-cutbacks-separate-this-expansion-from-others/?mod=WSJBlog

http://www.angrybearblog.com/2012/07/private-real-gdp-in-recoveries.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FHzoh+%28Angry+Bear%29

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/31/the-secret-of-our-un-success/

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=krugman%20myths%20of%20austerity&source=web&cd=1&sqi=2&ved=0CFMQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2010%2F07%2F02%2Fopinion%2F02krugman.html&ei=PzbAT7naPIe29QTG3fGjCw&usg=AFQjCNFX9ZZSIfRXy7W3NbhxmEvPbx2kAQ

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/public-sector-austerity-in-one-graph/2012/06/11/gJQAv89NVV_blog.html

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/austerity-defenses/

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/25/american-austerity/

http://www.salon.com/2012/05/03/behind_our_stalled_economy/singleton/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/public-sector-austerity-in-one-graph/2012/06/11/gJQAv89NVV_blog.html

http://mediamatters.org/research/201206100006

http://mediamatters.org/research/201206080017

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505123_162-57367498/gdp-report-austerity-is-stifling-the-recovery/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/fed-chief-warns-congress-against-hampering-growth-while-cutting-debt/2012/02/02/gIQA2YEjkQ_print.html

http://www.businessinsider.com/goldman-on-new-paper-from-delong-and-summers-2012-3

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/06/01/americas-jobs-crisis/

http://www.businessinsider.com/corporate-profits-go-parabolic-2012-5

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/what-part-of-austerity-isnt-working-dont-people-get-20120617

http://www.brookings.edu/%7E/media/Files/Programs/ES/BPEA/2012_spring_bpea_papers/2012_spring_BPEA_shambaugh.pdf

DisgustedWithItAlll

Sparky has advanced from Strawman Questionnaires to other forms. Way to reach for the progressive stars. . The Mitch McConnell MEME. Good for you sparky. I knew you wouldn't disappoint.

Mitch McConnell's comment made it clear:
“The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.” -- Mitch McConnell http://youtu.be/heAPA8zkmFE

JOE SCARBOROUGH, HOST: And Bob (Woodward), you talk about this. And you see it time and time again in your book where Republicans give ideas, and every idea is rejected outright. I want to focus, though, on a quote. And I’ve got to admit, just by reading press reports, I didn't know the other side of the Mitch McConnell quote. And I think I, at least, owe him an apology here on the air because we've repeated it a thousand times where Mitch McConnell says, my one priority, my top priority is preventing a second Obama term. But you actually pull out what nobody in the media pulls out, and that's the rest of Mitch McConnell’s statement. What is it?

BOB WOODWARD: And where McConnell says, I don't want Obama to fail, I want him to change. And I agree with you. I think that that's significant. Now, there is a brazenness to the first part of the quote, and as you know, Mitch McConnell is...

JOE SCARBOROUGH: He's tough.

BOB WOODWARD: He’s a hard ass on these subjects, to say the least.

JOE SCARBOROUGH: But McConnell went on to say -- and it's just never been reported -- McConnell went on to say, but if he changes, I want to work with him, and basically that's the attitude of if the guy will meet us halfway -- and I see John Heilemann rolling his eyes around the set, but time and time and time again, republicans offered suggestions, and time and time and time again, the first two years, the president rejected them outright.

Nice work sparky. I knew media matters wouldn't let you down when it came to new propaganda. Really. you do parrot well. But that still doesn't change the fact that........

Military Vote Seen As A Key To Capturing Virginia http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/09/20/161417655/military-vote-seen-as-a-key-to-capturing-virginia

The only thing that your propaganda campaign proves is....

YOU and

Democrat Hack Harry Reid are using soldiers as props 7 weeks before an election.

Feign that outrage at the evil Republicans with your PROVEN PROPAGANDA

Exhibit H in which we show the GOTea shirks its responsibility to work to solve the nation's problems that it caused:

GOP Obstruction: Dodd-Frank

Signed: 7/2010

Senate Vote: 60 – 39; GOP votes: 3

House Vote: 237 – 192; GOP votes: 3

- What Happened: Holding out by Senate Republicans allowed Dodd-Frank to be significantly waterd down to come to the aid of Wall Street, especially by Scott Brown. The GOP provided precisely 3 votes in both chambers of Congress.

Exhibit I in which we show the GOTea shirks its responsibility to work to solve the nation's problems that it caused:

GOP Obstruction: CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) Sabotage

- What Happened: Republicans attempt to kill the CFPB by simply defunding it. (Just as they try to defund the SEC and other regulatory agencies.). See links for calls by Republicans, especially Newt Gingrich to defund the CFPB.

Mitch McConnell: "It's not sexist. It's not Elizabeth Warren-specific," McConnell spokesman Donald Stewart said. "It's any nominee."

- More Information:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/12/a-republican-doubles-down-on-nullification/249820/

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0712/79214.html

http://www.alternet.org/speakeasy/2012/01/09/will-republican-obstructionism-cause-a-constitutional-crisis

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/06/27/no-i-supported-dodd-frank-more/

McConnell vows to stand in the way:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/gops-mitch-mcconnell-senate-minority-leader-stands-by-vow-to-block-cfpb-nominees/2011/06/09/AG3LcjNH_story.html?hpid=z8

Exhibit J in which we show the GOTea shirks its responsibility to work to solve the nation's problems that it caused:

GOP Obstruction: PPACA and Health Care

- What Happened: Despite health care being the nation's number one problem (there would be no deficit and debt problems if the U.S. health care system were as efficient as other advanced nations' health care systems), Republicans attempted everything possible to prevent health care insurance reform.

- Vote:

Senate Vote: 60 – 39; GOP votes: 0

House Vote: 219 – 212; GOP votes: 0

Signed into law: 3/2010

History and Information of the GOP Health Care Obstruction:

Bill Kristol: "Kill it." http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/07/kristol_kill_it_and_start_over.asp

Inhofe: http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2009/07/23/52383/inhofe-health-huge-gain/

Judd Gregg: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/02/read-it-gop-senator-pens_n_377386.html

List of Senators statements: http://blog.corporateresearchgroup.com/2009/08/20/republican-obstruction-of-healthcare-reform/

Bernie Sanders calls out the GOP: http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/12/sanders-gop-obstruction-of-health-care-debate-is-an-outrage.php

Alexander: http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/03/16/87107/alexander-obstruction-reconciliation/

House Obstruction: http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/countdown-anthony-weiner-gops-obstruction

Enzi: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/19/AR2009081904125.html?hpid=topnews

http://links.mkt2079.com/ctt?kn=4&m=2194474&r=MTA5OTY2MTUyMjUS1&b=0&j=MTU2MjQxNzE1S0&mt=1&rt=0

Kyl: http://www.northcentralohio.com/newsboard/single.asp?Story=36908

Latta: http://www.c-spanarchives.org/congress/?q=node/77531&id=9012430

Pat Roberts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTSl2nkIbgg

McConnell: http://mcconnell.senate.gov/record.cfm?id=315343&start=1

Wicker: http://www.c-spanarchives.org/congress/?q=node/77531&id=9011224

Reps Pence Boustany: http://talkradionews.com/2009/07/gop-congressmen-object-to-obamacare/

John Carter: http://dateline.radioamerica.org/archives/3058

Voinivich: http://politicalwire.com/archives/2009/07/22/politics_driving_opposition_to_health_care_reform.html

Grassley http://mediamattersaction.org/blog/200907060001

Grassley: http://politicalcorrection.org/blog/200907060001

GOP 10-point health care plan: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/24551_Page2.html#ixzz0KU5KKCjn&C

http://crooksandliars.com/jon-perr/republican-10-point-plan-health-care

McConnell: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/01/mitch-mcconnell-uninsured-obamacare_n_1641033.html

McConnell: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/07/mcconnell-coverage-for-30-million-uninsured-not-the-issue.php

McConnell: http://www.aei.org/print/mcconnells-own-words-on-senate-gridlock

Exhibit K in which we show the GOTea shirks its responsibility to work to solve the nation's problems that it caused:

GOP Obstruction: Judicial Appointments:

- What happened:
Of all the areas in which the GOP has engaged in obstruction, judicial nominations have been the most transparent and obnoxious.

From: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/06/02/234775/mcconell-wont-confirm/

"Senate Republicans’ mass obstruction of Obama’s judges stands in stark contrast to the treatment afforded to past presidents. Indeed, the Senate confirmed fewer judges during Obama’s first two years in office than it did during the same period in the Carter Administration, even though the judiciary was 40 percent smaller while Carter was in office.

Successful judicial nominations since 1976: Number of confirmed lower-court nominees under presidents Obama, Bush II, Clinton, Bush I, Reagan, and Carter at this point (June 2011) in their presidencies:

Carter: 62

Reagan: 85

Bush I: 70

Clinton: 126

Bush II: 99

Obama: 60

Disturbingly, much of this obstructionism targeted women and people of color. Although Obama’s nominees are the most diverse in American history, every district court nominee with unanimous Republican opposition in the Senate Judiciary Committee was a woman or person of color."

From: http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/civil-liberties/report/2010/07/30/8040/falling-off-a-cliff/

"Judicial confirmations slowed to a trickle on the day President Barack Obama took office. Filibusters, anonymous holds, and other obstructionary tactics have become the rule. Uncontroversial nominees wait months for a floor vote, and even district court nominees—low-ranking judges whose confirmations have never been controversial in the past—are routinely filibustered into oblivion. Nominations grind to a halt in many cases even after the Senate Judiciary Committee has unanimously endorsed a nominee.

Percent of all nominees confirmed:

Carter: 91.9%

Reagan: 93.1%

Bush I: 79.3%

Clinton: 84.0%

Bush II: 86.8%

Obama: 42.8%

Such tactics are completely unprecedented, and so are their results. Fewer than 43 percent of President Obama’s judicial nominees have so far been confirmed, while past presidents have enjoyed confirmation rates as high as 93 percent. And President Obama’s nominees have been confirmed at a much slower rate than those of his predecessor—nearly 87 percent of President George W. Bush’s judicial nominees were confirmed."

Ridiculous!

The situation has not improved since that was written. See this NYT story: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/18/us/politics/obama-lags-on-filling-seats-in-the-judiciary.html?pagewanted=all

http://www.courierpostonline.com/article/20120815/OPINION03/308150004/Petty-blocks-nominees-must-end

- Courts are backlogged. See where:

http://www.uscourts.gov/JudgesAndJudgeships/JudicialVacancies/JudicialEmergencies.aspx

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/civil-liberties/report/2012/07/09/11914/federal-judicial-emergencies/

http://www.pfaw.org/press-releases/2012/05/pfaw-white-house-meeting-signals-priority-ending-judicial-obstruction

http://www.pfaw.org/sites/default/files/lower_federal_courts.pdf

http://www.feldmanshepherd.com/blog/2012/09/widespread-shortage-of-judges-derails-civil-justice-system/

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/12/09/in-pennsylvania-the-human-costs-of-judicial-confirmation-delays/261862/

Two judges retiring for each new judge: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/07/18/271598/two-retired-judges-for-every-new-one/

More judges needed even if all filed: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/08/04/287679/need-more-judges/

- GOP hypocrisy and the use of the filibuster: http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/05/19/167918/liu-filibuser/

John Roberts chastises the GOP: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/01/us/politics/01scotus.html

- Of course, Fox doesn't tell its viewers about the GOP obstruction:

http://mediamatters.org/research/2012/04/18/right-wing-media-cover-up-senate-republicans-ob/184900

- More Information:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2012/07/why-judges-matter.html

Exhibit L in which we show the GOTea shirks its responsibility to work to solve the nation's problems that it caused:

GOP Obstruction: Legislative Gridlock and Senate Filibusters

- What Happened:

Contradicting any words McConnell might have said to ameliorate his most famous quote probably in his stay in the Senate, we have his actions. Block, block, block. Since 2007 when Democrats re-took the Senate, Republicans have made record-setting use of the filibuster to stop Democratic legislation:

From: http://crooksandliars.com/jon-perr/republicans-unprecedented-obstructionism-by-numbers

"Since House Republicans assumed their new House majority in January 2011, President Obama's agenda has been effectively shut down. But even before their successful hostage-taking of the federal budget and U.S. debt ceiling, Senate Republicans for years had been shattering filibuster records to stop Democratic legislation dead in its tracks.

As it turns out, the Roadblock Republicans started their work when Democrats recaptured the Senate in 2007, only to redouble their efforts when Barack Obama walked into the Oval Office in 2009.
Back in 2007, former Senate Minority Whip Trent Lott explained the successful Republican strategy for derailing the new Democratic majorities in the House and Senate:

"The strategy of being obstructionist can work or fail. So far it's working for us."

And the Republicans of the 110th Congress were just getting warmed up. The Senate GOP hadn't merely shattered the previous records for filibusters. As McClatchy reported in February 2010, the Republicans of the 111th Congress vowed to block virtually everything, counting on voters to blame Democrats for the GOP's own roadblocks:

From: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/02/12/84487/senate-republicans-filibuster.html

As even Robert Samuelson (no friend of Democrats) acknowledged, "From 2003 to 2006, when Republicans controlled the Senate, they filed cloture 130 times to break Democratic filibusters. Since 2007, when Democrats took charge, they've filed 257 cloture motions." The Senate's own records reveal obstructionism is the new normal for Republicans:

Senate Action on Cloture Motions:

Congress: Years | Motions Filed | Votes on Cloture | Cloture Invoked | Minority Party

112: 2011-2012 | 107 | 066 | 35 | Republican minority

111: 2009-2010 | 137 | 091 | 63 | Republican minority

110: 2007-2008 | 139 | 112 | 61 | Republican minority

109: 2005-2006 | 068 | 054 | 34 | Democratic minority

108: 2003-2004 | 062 | 049 | 012 | Democratic minority

107: 2001-2002 | 071 | 061 | 034 | Tie with VP making it Democratic minority

106: 1999-2000 | 071 | 058 | 028 | Democratic minority

The Republicans didn't merely eviscerate the old mark for cloture motions and filibusters after their descent into the minority in 2007. As Paul Krugman detailed, the GOP's obstructionism has fundamentally altered how the Senate does - or more accurately, doesn't do - business:

The political scientist Barbara Sinclair has done the math. In the 1960s, she finds, "extended-debate-related problems" -- threatened or actual filibusters -- affected only 8 percent of major legislation. By the 1980s, that had risen to 27 percent. But after Democrats retook control of Congress in 2006 and Republicans found themselves in the minority, it soared to 70 percent.

Earlier this year, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow put those numbers of threatened or actual filibusters into an easy-to-read chart so simple that even John McCain could understand it:

1960: 8%

1980's: 27%

2007-2009: 70%

- History of Senate Filibusters: http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/reference/cloture_motions/clotureCounts.htm

- More Information on Republican Filibusters:

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/11/chart-day-republicans-and-filibuster

http://www.ourfuture.org/fact-sheets-briefs/record-breaking-republican-obstructionism

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/01/the-rise-of-cloture-how-gop-filibuster-threats-have-changed-the-senate.php

http://www.ourfuture.org/obstruction

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/12/a-republican-doubles-down-on-nullification/249820/

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/01/the-silenced-majority/307230/

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/11/chart-day-republicans-and-filibuster

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/01/the-rise-of-cloture-how-gop-filibuster-threats-have-changed-the-senate.php

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/12/111th-senate-breaks-one-filibuster-record.php

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_12/unprecedented_obstruction_and033982.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+washingtonmonthly%2Frss+%28Political+Animal+at+Washington+Monthly%29

http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-cohn/98333/senate-republicans-block-cordray-consumer-cfpb-nomination-obama

http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-cohn/92167/cordray-warren-cfpb-obama-republicans-nomination

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/12/a-republican-doubles-down-on-nullification/249820/

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_12/berwicks_brilliant_tenure_cut033908.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+washingtonmonthly%2Frss+%28Political+Animal+at+Washington+Monthly%29

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/10/chronicles-of-false-equivalence-chapter-2-817/246667/

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/12/111th-senate-breaks-one-filibuster-record.php

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_12/unprecedented_obstruction_and033982.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+washingtonmonthly%2Frss+%28Political+Animal+at+Washington+Monthly%29

http://www.ourfuture.org/filibuster-flip-flop

http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-cohn/92167/cordray-warren-cfpb-obama-republicans-nomination

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_12/gop_kills_qualified_judicial_n033935.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+washingtonmonthly%2Frss+%28Political+Animal+at+Washington+Monthly%29

http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-cohn/98333/senate-republicans-block-cordray-consumer-cfpb-nomination-obama

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/02/12/84487/senate-republicans-filibuster.html

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_12/berwicks_brilliant_tenure_cut033908.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+washingtonmonthly%2Frss+%28Political+Animal+at+Washington+Monthly%29

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/10/chronicles-of-false-equivalence-chapter-2-817/246667/

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1211/70047.html

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_12/senate_gop_kills_consumer_watc033990.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+washingtonmonthly%2Frss+%28Political+Animal+at+Washington+Monthly%29

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_12/are_recess_appointments_still033996.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+washingtonmonthly%2Frss+%28Political+Animal+at+Washington+Monthly%29

http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=082d33b8e8e2ea0a0c1c170dc7fb0407

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_12/senate_gop_blocks_payroll_tax033997.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+washingtonmonthly%2Frss+%28Political+Animal+at+Washington+Monthly%29

http://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2011/12/recess-review.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-denounces-senate-vote-to-block-cordray-at-consumer-watchdog-agency/2011/12/08/gIQAlx0bfO_story.html

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_12/its_going_to_be_pointless034007.php

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_12/a_radical_embrace_of_nullifica034050.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+washingtonmonthly%2Frss+%28Political+Animal+at+Washington+Monthly%29

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_12/why_mari_carmen_aponte_was_blo034074.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+washingtonmonthly%2Frss+%28Political+Animal+at+Washington+Monthly%29

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_12/first_step_towards_recess_appo034128.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+washingtonmonthly%2Frss+%28Political+Animal+at+Washington+Monthly%29

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/obama-nominates-2-for-labor-board-despite-gop-threat-to-block-any-appointments-to-the-agency/2011/12/14/gIQADO2nuO_story.html

http://newsok.com/senators-block-oklahoma-city-federal-prosecutor-from-judge-post/article/3633139

DisgustedWithItAlll

Sparky has advanced from Strawman Questionnaires to other forms of STRAWSPAM. Way to reach for the progressive stars. . The Mitch McConnell MEME. Good for you sparky. I knew you wouldn't disappoint. Nothing says red herring like a link to Paul Krugman too. Such enjoyable Media Matters Propaganda SPAM

Mitch McConnell's comment made it clear:
“The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.” -- Mitch McConnell http://youtu.be/heAPA8zkmFE

JOE SCARBOROUGH, HOST: And Bob (Woodward), you talk about this. And you see it time and time again in your book where Republicans give ideas, and every idea is rejected outright. I want to focus, though, on a quote. And I’ve got to admit, just by reading press reports, I didn't know the other side of the Mitch McConnell quote. And I think I, at least, owe him an apology here on the air because we've repeated it a thousand times where Mitch McConnell says, my one priority, my top priority is preventing a second Obama term. But you actually pull out what nobody in the media pulls out, and that's the rest of Mitch McConnell’s statement. What is it?

BOB WOODWARD: And where McConnell says, I don't want Obama to fail, I want him to change. And I agree with you. I think that that's significant. Now, there is a brazenness to the first part of the quote, and as you know, Mitch McConnell is...

JOE SCARBOROUGH: He's tough.

BOB WOODWARD: He’s a hard ass on these subjects, to say the least.

JOE SCARBOROUGH: But McConnell went on to say -- and it's just never been reported -- McConnell went on to say, but if he changes, I want to work with him, and basically that's the attitude of if the guy will meet us halfway -- and I see John Heilemann rolling his eyes around the set, but time and time and time again, republicans offered suggestions, and time and time and time again, the first two years, the president rejected them outright.

Nice work sparky. I knew media matters wouldn't let you down when it came to new propaganda. Really. you do parrot well. But that still doesn't change the fact that........

Military Vote Seen As A Key To Capturing Virginia http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/09/20/161417655/military-vote-seen-as-a-key-to-capturing-virginia

The only thing that your propaganda campaign proves is....

YOU and

Democrat Hack Harry Reid are using soldiers as props 7 weeks before an election.

Feign that outrage at the evil Republicans with your Media Matters PROPAGANDA

Are the Democrats "using" veterans for political purposes. Well, if so, then so veterans sure don't mind being used. Just listen to them.

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(http://iava.org/blog/iavas-statement-senates-failure-pass-critical-jobs-legislation)

“This Congress let partisan bickering stand in the way of putting thousands of America’s heroes back to work. Lowering veteran unemployment is something both parties should be able to agree on – even in an election year,” said IAVA Founder and Chief Executive Officer Paul Rieckhoff. “Election politics should never stand in the way of creating job opportunities for our nation’s veterans, especially with an official 10.9% unemployment rate. We hope constituents, veterans and their families across the country will hold the Senate accountable for this failure.”

“The blockage of the Veterans Job Corps Act, a bipartisan effort authored by Senators Murray, Burr, Boozman, Heller and Toomey, should outrage all Americans. This bill was smart bipartisan policy that would put veterans back into service for their communities as policemen, firefighters and first responders. The result of today’s vote creates tremendous doubt that this Congress will be able to pass any additional veterans legislation in 2012. Iraq and Afghanistan veterans should not have to wait until 2013 for critical support from Congress.”

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(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jackie-ostfeld/gop-blocks-passage-of-vet_b_1898082.html)

Stacy Bare, an Iraq veteran himself (and the Director of Sierra Club's Mission Outdoors program) said "I am deeply disappointed that politics has gotten in the way of supporting veterans. This legislation would have eased the transition of our service men and women coming home by placing them in positions where the skills they learned in combat and the military can easily translate into continued service to our Nation."

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(http://www2.wsav.com/news/2012/sep/20/reaction-blockage-vets-jobs-corps-bill-ar-4590263/)

But Tom Tarantino, from the non profit group Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America had a different take. He says the group has about 200,000 members, vets who he says should be watching this issue.

Tarantino said the bill was revenue neutral and he's unclear why republicans blocked its passage. "I think veterans who are paying attention should pay attention to who voted to kill this bill, You know vets don't care about obscure Washington procedural tricks, they don't care about campaign or partisan politics. They care that the Senate has their backs. We went to war and fought for our country and our Senators should be there to take care of us," he said.

You should have realized by now that nobody's interested in convincing you of anything, shhit-for-brains troll. You're too fu king stupid to worry about.

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(http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57517160/senate-gop-blocks-veterans-jobs-bill/)

The advocacy group Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America denounced the vote.

"This bill was smart bipartisan policy that would put veterans back into service for their communities as policemen, firefighters and first responders," the group's founder and chief executive, Paul Rieckhoff, said in statement. "The result of today's vote creates tremendous doubt that this Congress will be able to pass any additional veterans legislation in 2012. Iraq and Afghanistan veterans should not have to wait until 2013 for critical support from Congress."

Summary to the Jury:

And so ladies and gentlemen of the jury, we have established:

We know that our little man shhit-for-brains' case is simply a) a tacky point of order that is easily addressed, b) a transparently nonsensical concern for fiscal responsibility that the GOP hasn't shown in 30+ years, and c) repeated claims that Mitch McConnell really, really was ready to work with the President (which is contradicted by the filibuster record on everything from all kinds of legislation to judges). That's it. And he can't himself.

FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY?

A) the GOP hasn't given a rat's a$$ about deficits or debt in 30+ years And they want us to believe these fiscal profligates are concerned about an amount you couldn't sniff out with the best accountants because of a technical rule that could easily be waived. The consistent behavior of the GOP has been fiscal irresponsibility and it would be inconsistent for them to be acting out of fiscal responsibility all of a sudden.

==> GOP consistent fiscal irresponsibility exposes them as lying hypocrites when they claim to be worried about the nation's spending problems, especially when the sum is dwarfed by their spending fiascos of the last decade.

GOP has shown complete disregard for helping the country solve the problems caused by them over the last four years. ==> the only consistency we see here is the GOP YET AGAIN acting not for the people it represents but to deny the President a "political victory."

B) the GOP has done everything in it's power to obstruct the country from solving problems it itself caused in order to deny a President of the opposite party a political victory or to give itself issues for the next elections. And they want us to believe the vote against the veterans bill is nothing more than fiscal responsibility or adhering to easily amended technical rules when their consistent behavior has been to deny the opposite party any of its legislative wishes. GOP exposed again as hypocrites and only caring about party and political advantage in Exhibit B.

D) Concern only about party and political advantage did not stop when it came to helping the nation recover from the economic damage GOTea ideas and policies caused. Shown in Exhibit D. We see the GOP cared only about politics and not about the country it has nearly destroyed. It didn't stop at attempting to crush the recovery.

E) Exhibit E: Concern only about party and political advantage didn't stop when it came to solving the nation's unemployment problem which we showed as it refused to address the President's AJA.

F) Exhibit F: Concern only about party and political advantage didn't stop when confronting the possibility of causing a worldwide economic calamity by threatening to default on the obligtions of the U.S and resulting in the first debt ceiling downgrade. The GOTea did this in an attempt to achieve ideological goals it couldn't achieve legislatively.

G) Concern only about party and political advantage didn't stop when confronting public sector unemployment. Exhibit G.

H) Exhibit H: Concern only about party and political advantage didn't stop when it came to the attempt to reign in the casino that is Wall Street.

I) Exhibit I: Concern only about party and political advantage didn't stop when it came to staffing the CFPB. An attempt at nullification.

J) Exhibit J: Concern only about party and political advantage didn't stop when it cam to solving the nation's number one problem: health care.

K) Exhibit K: Concern only about party and political advantage didn't stop when it came to its obligations to staff the nation's courts.

L) Exhibit L: Concern only about party and political advantage didn't stop when it came to making the Senate an undemocratic institution with record-setting use of the filibuster.

So in the case of the veterans jobs bill it is not plausible – simply unbelievable – that a concern for fiscal responsibility is a reason for their action. And it has been shown that the GOP has not acted with the nation's interest in mind since the beginning of the Obama Administration. In fact, it has, in every area acted to deny the President any political "victories" regardless of whether those particular policies were to the benefit of the country. So we can conclude the GOP would no hesitate to act this way towards veterans if it would deny the President legislation that he has long wanted.

Concern only about party and political advantage simply didn't stop at denying a jobs bill for veterans. The GOP simply didn't care about the country and the citizens it is supposed to represent. When put up against their desire to deny a political victory to a political opponent, veterans meant nothing to the GOP. Nothing whatsoever. It simply didn't matter that these are the people who fight the nation's wars. It's beyond sad. It's disgusting.

DisgustedWithItAlll

Sparky has advanced from Strawman Questionnaires to other forms of STRAWSPAM. Way to reach for the progressive stars. . The Mitch McConnell MEME. Good for you sparky. I knew you wouldn't disappoint. Nothing says red herring like a link to Paul Krugman too. Such enjoyable Media Matters Propaganda SPAM

Mitch McConnell's comment made it clear:
“The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.” -- Mitch McConnell http://youtu.be/heAPA8zkmFE

JOE SCARBOROUGH, HOST: And Bob (Woodward), you talk about this. And you see it time and time again in your book where Republicans give ideas, and every idea is rejected outright. I want to focus, though, on a quote. And I’ve got to admit, just by reading press reports, I didn't know the other side of the Mitch McConnell quote. And I think I, at least, owe him an apology here on the air because we've repeated it a thousand times where Mitch McConnell says, my one priority, my top priority is preventing a second Obama term. But you actually pull out what nobody in the media pulls out, and that's the rest of Mitch McConnell’s statement. What is it?

BOB WOODWARD: And where McConnell says, I don't want Obama to fail, I want him to change. And I agree with you. I think that that's significant. Now, there is a brazenness to the first part of the quote, and as you know, Mitch McConnell is...

JOE SCARBOROUGH: He's tough.

BOB WOODWARD: He’s a hard ass on these subjects, to say the least.

JOE SCARBOROUGH: But McConnell went on to say -- and it's just never been reported -- McConnell went on to say, but if he changes, I want to work with him, and basically that's the attitude of if the guy will meet us halfway -- and I see John Heilemann rolling his eyes around the set, but time and time and time again, republicans offered suggestions, and time and time and time again, the first two years, the president rejected them outright.

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CREC-2006-02-28/pdf/CREC-2006-02-28-pt1-PgS1522-4.pdf#page=2 Read Harry Reid's Quote on the Senate Procedure called "filling the amendment tree"

Of course even a good bill can be improved. That is why we have an amendment process in the Senate. The junior Senator from Wisconsin has tried to offer a small number of relevant amendments that I believe would make this bill even better. I am disappointed
that he has been denied that opportunity by a procedural maneuver known as ‘‘filling the amendment tree.’’ This is a very bad practice. It runs against the basic nature of the Senate. The hallmark of the Senate is free speech and open debate. Rule XXII establishes a process for cutting off debate and amendments, but rule XXII should rarely be invoked before any
amendments have been offered. There is no reason to truncate Senate debate
on this important bill in this unusual fashion. I will vote against cloture to register my objection to this flawed process.

According to the Congressional Research Service (CRS), Majority Leader Reid has employed this tactic a record 59 times. He has used it to block minority input into legislation 50 percent more often than the past five Majority Leaders combined. The minority’s only option under these circumstances is to oppose ending debate on legislation (known as “invoking cloture”) in order to convince the majority to allow it to offer amendments to the legislation and thereby represent the interests of their constituents.

Nice work sparky. I knew media matters wouldn't let you down when it came to new propaganda. Really. you do parrot well. But that still doesn't change the fact that........

Military Vote Seen As A Key To Capturing Virginia http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/09/20/161417655/military-vote-seen-as-a-key-to-capturing-virginia

The only thing that your propaganda campaign proves is....

YOU and

Democrat Hack Harry Reid are using soldiers as props 7 weeks before an election.

Feign that outrage at the evil Republicans with your Media Matters PROPAGANDA and keep pushing the Mitch McConnell MEME

The Senate is a unique legislative institution, designed to guarantee that the minority party – and the large block of Americans it represents – has a voice. Traditionally, this body functions well when the majority party works to find consensus with the minority party on the process and substance of legislation. Consultation and compromise with the minority party historically has been the rule, not the exception it has become in recent years.
Senator Robert Byrd understood the importance of allowing for a full debate and amendment process in order to preserve the Senate as a unique institution in our democracy – “the one place in the whole government where the minority is guaranteed a public airing of its views.” The Senate, he taught, “was intended to be a forum for open and free debate and for the protection of political minorities.” Indeed, “as long as the Senate retains the power to amend and the power of unlimited debate, the liberties of the people will remain secure.”
Allowing the minority to debate and amend legislation has given way to the Democrats’ election-year political strategy of blaming Republicans as obstructionists. Majority Leader Reid has done this by preventing Republicans from amending pending legislation, ending debate before it starts, and by-passing the committee process.

Democrats Have Blocked Input on Legislation

Majority Leader Reid has made a habit of squelching the voice of the minority by curtailing its ability to amend legislation. The Majority Leader is always the first to be recognized on the Senate floor. He can use that power to offer a series of Democratic amendments to pending legislation in a way that prevents Republicans from offering any of their ideas. This is called “filling the tree.”

Majority Leader Reid once insisted that the practice “runs against the basic nature of the Senate.” By the way the Senate operates today, however, it is clear that he has abandoned that assessment.
According to the Congressional Research Service (CRS), Majority Leader Reid has employed this tactic a record 59 times. He has used it to block minority input into legislation 50 percent more often than the past five Majority Leaders combined. The minority’s only option under these circumstances is to oppose ending debate on legislation (known as “invoking cloture”) in order to convince the majority to allow it to offer amendments to the legislation and thereby represent the interests of their constituents.

Democrats Have Shut Down Debate Before It Even Starts

In the Senate, the majority can end debate on any matter by a procedure known as cloture. Majority Leader Reid has indicated his lack of interest in deliberation by moving frequently to shut down debate the very day measures are first raised on the Senate floor. According to CRS, Majority Leader Reid has done this 99 times, not counting same-day cloture filings on motions to proceed. Of these, 82 were during the 110th and 111th Congresses. In comparison, during the two preceding Congresses Majority Leader Frist employed this tactic 30 times.

The False Narrative of Republican Filibusters

Republicans have been accused of abusing the filibuster to thwart Democratic legislation. This claim is based on the incorrect equation of filibusters with the number of cloture petitions filed or the number of cloture votes taken. In short, a cloture petition does not a filibuster make. A filibuster, however, happens when an attempt to end debate fails. Successfully ending debate is the opposite of a filibuster.
It only takes a quick glance at the count of cloture votes, however, to realize that Republicans are not obstructing with the filibuster. In fact, the percentage of cloture petitions withdrawn or vitiated has increased to 43 percent this Congress.
This is significantly higher than the average for the previous four decades, and the highest for any Congress in 25 years. Additionally, the percentage of cloture votes passing – that is, invoking cloture – is also rising. The 53 percent success rate for passing cloture votes in the 112th Congress is the highest in the last 40 years. These figure show that any increased incidence in cloture filings is due to the Majority’s impulsiveness—its preference for filing cloture first and asking the Minority to work with it later—rather than an unwillingness of Senate Republicans to work with Senate Democrats.

Democrats Short-circuit the Committee Process to Block Debate

In the Senate, legislation generally is referred first to a committee of Senators with specialized experience in the matter at hand. The committee process typically involves hearings and legislative “markups” where a small group of Senators can discuss proposed legislation in detail and consider a wide range of amendments. This process can allow for significant minority party participation. However, the current majority has completely eliminated the committee process for important matters. According to CRS, Majority Leader Reid has bypassed the committee process 50 percent more than his predecessor during a comparable period of time.

Democrats Change the Rules and Ignore Precedent to Shut Out Republicans

Last fall, Majority Leader Reid went so far as to change the rules of the Senate in order to empower himself to shut out Republicans entirely from the legislative process. He did so by using the so-called nuclear option to change Senate procedures with a simple majority vote, despite his commitment earlier in the year not to use this tactic. Specifically, during consideration of the China currency bill last October, the Majority Leader filled the amendment tree in order to prevent Republicans from offering any amendments before cloture was invoked. Once cloture was invoked, Republicans tried to exercise their rights under the Senate’s rules to express themselves by offering motions to suspend those rules—motions that the Senate Parliamentarian ruled were proper. The majority simply changed Senate rules by establishing a new precedent that any such motions offered post-cloture would now be out of order. As a result, the Majority Leader was able to squelch completely the voice of the minority on issues of importance to its constituents.
The Majority Leader again ignored recent precedent earlier this year when President Obama recess appointed nominees to executive branch positions, despite the fact the Senate was in pro-forma session to prevent such appointments. In 2007, the Majority Leader pioneered the practice of keeping the Senate in session on a pro forma basis to prevent President Bush from making recess appointments. At the time, Majority Leader Reid insisted these pro forma sessions were necessary “to block the President from doing an end run around the Senate and the Constitution with his controversial nominations.” By switching positions once President Obama was in the White House, Majority Leader Reid unfortunately chose to ignore Republican concerns and to disregard the Senate’s constitutional role in the nominations process.

When Allowed, Republican Input Improves the Process and Legislation

When Democrats have chosen to stifle debate and block the amendments, legislation goes nowhere. When they agree to a reasonable amendment process, however, the record of accomplishment shows that Republicans can help clear a path forward. For example, just this week, Majority Leader expressed his pleasure with Republican cooperation in moving forward with the FDA legislation. He shouldn’t have been surprised – when he consults with Republicans and allows them to participate in the legislative process, there have been several legislative accomplishments this session alone. When Democrats agreed to allow amendments on the Export-Import Bank bill, the Senate was able to complete this important legislation. This year alone, Republican cooperation has led to passage of:

• Export Import Bank Reauthorization;
• Trade Adjustment Assistance;
• Patent Reform;
• FAA Reauthorization;
• Highway Bill

A Hyper-Partisan Senate is Not a Serious One

Rather than create hyper-partisan conditions by impulsively filing cloture on measures, bypassing the committee process, and blocking Republicans from offering amendments, Majority Leader Reid should work with Republicans. The record is clear: simply allowing the minority to participate in the process leads to consensus and accomplishment. This should remain the rule, not the exception.

DisgustedWithItAlll

Sparky has advanced from Strawman Questionnaires to other forms of STRAWSPAM. Way to reach for the progressive stars. . The Mitch McConnell MEME. Good for you sparky.It is my favorite I knew you wouldn't disappoint. Nothing says red herring like a link to Paul Krugman too. Such enjoyable Media Matters Propaganda SPAM and you make such a great poser. Here is the Mitch McConnell MEME that this propagandist LOVES > DisgustedWithItAlll

Mitch McConnell's comment made it clear:
“The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.” -- Mitch McConnell http://youtu.be/heAPA8zkmFE

JOE SCARBOROUGH, HOST: And Bob (Woodward), you talk about this. And you see it time and time again in your book where Republicans give ideas, and every idea is rejected outright. I want to focus, though, on a quote. And I’ve got to admit, just by reading press reports, I didn't know the other side of the Mitch McConnell quote. And I think I, at least, owe him an apology here on the air because we've repeated it a thousand times where Mitch McConnell says, my one priority, my top priority is preventing a second Obama term. But you actually pull out what nobody in the media pulls out, and that's the rest of Mitch McConnell’s statement. What is it?

BOB WOODWARD: And where McConnell says, I don't want Obama to fail, I want him to change. And I agree with you. I think that that's significant. Now, there is a brazenness to the first part of the quote, and as you know, Mitch McConnell is...

JOE SCARBOROUGH: He's tough.

BOB WOODWARD: He’s a hard ass on these subjects, to say the least.

JOE SCARBOROUGH: But McConnell went on to say -- and it's just never been reported -- McConnell went on to say, but if he changes, I want to work with him, and basically that's the attitude of if the guy will meet us halfway -- and I see John Heilemann rolling his eyes around the set, but time and time and time again, republicans offered suggestions, and time and time and time again, the first two years, the president rejected them outright.

Your filibuster folly is gone and the rest of your Media Matters sources and arguments are as laughable. Keep pushing the Big LIE and the MEMES. It really is your style. Vorwart Sparky!

I knew media matters wouldn't let you down when it came to new propaganda. Really. you do parrot well. But that still doesn't change the fact that........

Military Vote Seen As A Key To Capturing Virginia http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/09/20/161417655/military-vote-seen-as-a-key-to-capturing-virginia

The only thing that your propaganda campaign proves is....

YOU and

Democrat Hack Harry Reid are using soldiers as props 7 weeks before an election.

Feign that outrage at the evil Republicans with your Media Matters PROPAGANDA and keep pushing the Mitch McConnell MEME and the BIG LIE

And shhit-for-brains troll makes his final plea to add to the other dim-witted flimsy pleas: he wants people to think the filibuster as practiced by Mitch McConnell is something the nation should be happy about. There's only one thing to say to that idiocy: Noted. The prosecution is very happy to let this jury consider this belated stupidity.

Here what you don't understand shhit-for-brains troll: nobody gives a rat's a$$ if you are convinced of anything. You too fu king stupid to worry about. You think it doesn't matter what you post as long as it contains some sort of idiotic pejoratives (sparty, lumpy, …) that expose your complete unseriousness and that would end up getting you simply thrown out of a classroom. Anybody can go through this and see that you just got your a$$ handed to you not only logically but as a human being. It's very simple: you suck.

I have to give credit for one thing, though, shhit-for-brains: you really hung in there like an impotent little man is supposed to during an asswhole surgery and ball-crushing like you just got. I mean, you sitting around just repeating the same ridiculous nonsense while under the knife was like watching Barney Fife biting on a rag when somebody pulls the bullet out after he shot himself in the foot with the only bullet Andy would let him have.

But here's another thing shhit-for-brains troll: you were such an easy victim that I was doing this with one arm behind my back. Hell I was debating on just how drunk I could get and still perform the operation. Unfortunately for you, I forgot just which sort of asswhole reconstruction I gave you.

But rest assured it'll be one of two major designs, each of which have tell-tale signs. The way you'll be able to tell is by the shape of the turds you produce from now on. If it comes out shaped like a football, I gave you a mangina. If it come out shaped like a belt, I gave you a bacon-maker. Now I trust your smart enough to know that if it's a mangina you'll need to be careful not to do anything that'll get you thrown in jail. You know what happens in jail to little impotent men with manginas, don't you? And if you got a bacon-maker, just make sure that, no matter how tasty it looks, don't eat it. It could be your brains.

One more thing, shhit-for-brains troll. If you find yourself in this neck of the woods again make sure you treat my friends with some courtesy and respect. Lose the false bravado and impotent bluster, little man. Nobody's fooled.

DisgustedWithItAlll

>> Sorry you can't read Sparky. Besides I bet you think this song is about you. http://youtu.be/b6UAYGxiRwU

The Senate is a unique legislative institution, designed to guarantee that the minority party – and the large block of Americans it represents – has a voice. Traditionally, this body functions well when the majority party works to find consensus with the minority party on the process and substance of legislation. Consultation and compromise with the minority party historically has been the rule, not the exception it has become in recent years.
Senator Robert Byrd understood the importance of allowing for a full debate and amendment process in order to preserve the Senate as a unique institution in our democracy – “the one place in the whole government where the minority is guaranteed a public airing of its views.” The Senate, he taught, “was intended to be a forum for open and free debate and for the protection of political minorities.” Indeed, “as long as the Senate retains the power to amend and the power of unlimited debate, the liberties of the people will remain secure.”
Allowing the minority to debate and amend legislation has given way to the Democrats’ election-year political strategy of blaming Republicans as obstructionists. Majority Leader Reid has done this by preventing Republicans from amending pending legislation, ending debate before it starts, and by-passing the committee process.

Democrats Have Blocked Input on Legislation

Majority Leader Reid has made a habit of squelching the voice of the minority by curtailing its ability to amend legislation. The Majority Leader is always the first to be recognized on the Senate floor. He can use that power to offer a series of Democratic amendments to pending legislation in a way that prevents Republicans from offering any of their ideas. This is called “filling the tree.”

Majority Leader Reid once insisted that the practice “runs against the basic nature of the Senate.” By the way the Senate operates today, however, it is clear that he has abandoned that assessment.
According to the Congressional Research Service (CRS), Majority Leader Reid has employed this tactic a record 59 times. He has used it to block minority input into legislation 50 percent more often than the past five Majority Leaders combined. The minority’s only option under these circumstances is to oppose ending debate on legislation (known as “invoking cloture”) in order to convince the majority to allow it to offer amendments to the legislation and thereby represent the interests of their constituents.

Democrats Have Shut Down Debate Before It Even Starts

In the Senate, the majority can end debate on any matter by a procedure known as cloture. Majority Leader Reid has indicated his lack of interest in deliberation by moving frequently to shut down debate the very day measures are first raised on the Senate floor. According to CRS, Majority Leader Reid has done this 99 times, not counting same-day cloture filings on motions to proceed. Of these, 82 were during the 110th and 111th Congresses. In comparison, during the two preceding Congresses Majority Leader Frist employed this tactic 30 times.

The False Narrative of Republican Filibusters

Republicans have been accused of abusing the filibuster to thwart Democratic legislation. This claim is based on the incorrect equation of filibusters with the number of cloture petitions filed or the number of cloture votes taken. In short, a cloture petition does not a filibuster make. A filibuster, however, happens when an attempt to end debate fails. Successfully ending debate is the opposite of a filibuster.
It only takes a quick glance at the count of cloture votes, however, to realize that Republicans are not obstructing with the filibuster. In fact, the percentage of cloture petitions withdrawn or vitiated has increased to 43 percent this Congress.
This is significantly higher than the average for the previous four decades, and the highest for any Congress in 25 years. Additionally, the percentage of cloture votes passing – that is, invoking cloture – is also rising. The 53 percent success rate for passing cloture votes in the 112th Congress is the highest in the last 40 years. These figure show that any increased incidence in cloture filings is due to the Majority’s impulsiveness—its preference for filing cloture first and asking the Minority to work with it later—rather than an unwillingness of Senate Republicans to work with Senate Democrats.

Democrats Short-circuit the Committee Process to Block Debate

In the Senate, legislation generally is referred first to a committee of Senators with specialized experience in the matter at hand. The committee process typically involves hearings and legislative “markups” where a small group of Senators can discuss proposed legislation in detail and consider a wide range of amendments. This process can allow for significant minority party participation. However, the current majority has completely eliminated the committee process for important matters. According to CRS, Majority Leader Reid has bypassed the committee process 50 percent more than his predecessor during a comparable period of time.

Democrats Change the Rules and Ignore Precedent to Shut Out Republicans

Last fall, Majority Leader Reid went so far as to change the rules of the Senate in order to empower himself to shut out Republicans entirely from the legislative process. He did so by using the so-called nuclear option to change Senate procedures with a simple majority vote, despite his commitment earlier in the year not to use this tactic. Specifically, during consideration of the China currency bill last October, the Majority Leader filled the amendment tree in order to prevent Republicans from offering any amendments before cloture was invoked. Once cloture was invoked, Republicans tried to exercise their rights under the Senate’s rules to express themselves by offering motions to suspend those rules—motions that the Senate Parliamentarian ruled were proper. The majority simply changed Senate rules by establishing a new precedent that any such motions offered post-cloture would now be out of order. As a result, the Majority Leader was able to squelch completely the voice of the minority on issues of importance to its constituents.
The Majority Leader again ignored recent precedent earlier this year when President Obama recess appointed nominees to executive branch positions, despite the fact the Senate was in pro-forma session to prevent such appointments. In 2007, the Majority Leader pioneered the practice of keeping the Senate in session on a pro forma basis to prevent President Bush from making recess appointments. At the time, Majority Leader Reid insisted these pro forma sessions were necessary “to block the President from doing an end run around the Senate and the Constitution with his controversial nominations.” By switching positions once President Obama was in the White House, Majority Leader Reid unfortunately chose to ignore Republican concerns and to disregard the Senate’s constitutional role in the nominations process.

When Allowed, Republican Input Improves the Process and Legislation

When Democrats have chosen to stifle debate and block the amendments, legislation goes nowhere. When they agree to a reasonable amendment process, however, the record of accomplishment shows that Republicans can help clear a path forward. For example, just this week, Majority Leader expressed his pleasure with Republican cooperation in moving forward with the FDA legislation. He shouldn’t have been surprised – when he consults with Republicans and allows them to participate in the legislative process, there have been several legislative accomplishments this session alone. When Democrats agreed to allow amendments on the Export-Import Bank bill, the Senate was able to complete this important legislation. This year alone, Republican cooperation has led to passage of:

• Export Import Bank Reauthorization;
• Trade Adjustment Assistance;
• Patent Reform;
• FAA Reauthorization;
• Highway Bill

A Hyper-Partisan Senate is Not a Serious One

Rather than create hyper-partisan conditions by impulsively filing cloture on measures, bypassing the committee process, and blocking Republicans from offering amendments, Majority Leader Reid should work with Republicans. The record is clear: simply allowing the minority to participate in the process leads to consensus and accomplishment. This should remain the rule, not the exception.

Guns, Sex, And MSNBC: Daily Caller Publishes Media Matters Exposé

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/guns-sex-and-msnbc-daily-caller-publishes-media-matters-expose/

McConnell warns of attempts by Obama, Media Matters to silence critics
http://dailycaller.com/2012/06/17/mcconnell-warns-of-attempts-by-obama-media-matters-to-silence-critics/#ixzz274n7qxNa

Inside Media Matters: Sources, memos reveal erratic behavior, close coordination with White House and news organizations
http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/12/inside-media-matters-sources-memos-reveal-erratic-behavior-close-coordination-with-white-house-and-news-organizations/#ixzz274nMFSAY

Yes Sparky, your propagandist talking points and the FRAUD Harry Reid playing games instead of conducting the peoples business instead of Party Business. So push the BIG LIE and your MEMES and pretend you have something to say. You are a fraud by ANY and EVERY measure. Article 1 sec 7.

Military Vote Seen As A Key To Capturing Virginia http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/09/20/161417655/military-vote-seen-as-a-key-to-capturing-virginia

Back to the real subject:
"The bill was fully paid for, and entirely bipartisan"

It couldn't get 60 votes and was a tax increase and spending increase in violation of an existing agreement 7 weeks before election pushed by the Democrat Senate Majority Leader.

Military Vote Seen As A Key To Capturing Virginia http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/09/20/161417655/military-vote-seen-as-a-key-to-capturing-virginia

The only thing that your propaganda campaign proves is....

YOU and

Democrat Hack Harry Reid are using soldiers as props 7 weeks before an election.

Feign that outrage at the Republicans.

Feign that outrage at the evil Republicans with your Media Matters PROPAGANDA and keep pushing the Mitch McConnell MEME

DisgustedWithItAlll

What a great glimpse into the propaganda machine and the false premises of the leftist rejects and hacks that populate msnbc. And since sparky won't be able to get ANY talking points from media matters about 'filling the amendment tree' to address Harry Reid's conduct since this statement in the Senate he will ignore it.

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CREC-2006-02-28/pdf/CREC-2006-02-28-pt1-PgS1522-4.pdf#page=2 Read Harry Reid's Quote on the Senate Procedure called "filling the amendment tree"

Of course even a good bill can be improved. That is why we have an amendment process in the Senate. The junior Senator from Wisconsin has tried to offer a small number of relevant amendments that I believe would make this bill even better. I am disappointed
that he has been denied that opportunity by a procedural maneuver known as ‘‘filling the amendment tree.’’ This is a very bad practice. It runs against the basic nature of the Senate. The hallmark of the Senate is free speech and open debate. Rule XXII establishes a process for cutting off debate and amendments, but rule XXII should rarely be invoked before any
amendments have been offered. There is no reason to truncate Senate debate
on this important bill in this unusual fashion. I will vote against cloture to register my objection to this flawed process.

According to the Congressional Research Service (CRS), Majority Leader Reid has employed this tactic a record 59 times. He has used it to block minority input into legislation 50 percent more often than the past five Majority Leaders combined. The minority’s only option under these circumstances is to oppose ending debate on legislation (known as “invoking cloture”) in order to convince the majority to allow it to offer amendments to the legislation and thereby represent the interests of their constituents.

That's right. Harry Reid opposes free speech and representation of the people AFTER he assumes power. So does sparky!!

Pad those filibuster and cloture stats, and don't allow the minority party a chance for representation. Leftists love tyranny, and so does Sparky!!

Then get a group like media matters and msnbc to push the BIG LIE. Vorwart Sparky!!

That requires a propagandist spammer to feed the halfwit progressives and act like he made a point. Hey, that is sparky!

Nice work sparky. I knew media matters wouldn't let you down when it came to lame propaganda. Really. you do parrot well. But that still doesn't change the fact that........

It couldn't get 60 votes and was a tax increase and spending increase in violation of an existing agreement 7 weeks before election pushed by the Democrat Senate Majority Leader.

Military Vote Seen As A Key To Capturing Virginia http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/09/20/161417655/military-vote-seen-as-a-key-to-capturing-virginia

The only thing that your propaganda campaign proves is....

YOU and

Democrat Hack Harry Reid are using soldiers as props 7 weeks before an election.

Feign that outrage at the evil Republicans with your PROVEN PROPAGANDA

Those on the right always pretend that their worthless, Ideologically Sound claptrap propaganda somehow constitutes "facts".

EntropyRules

Those on the right always pretend that their worthless, Ideologically Sound claptrap propaganda somehow constitutes "facts".

< Is that the best DisgustedWithItAlll 's sockpuppet or bitch can come up with? You mean you STILL have nothing to add and ZERO FACTS. Thanks for being a loyal @masnbc propaganda contributor with the rest of the peanut gallery. Together you will move VORWART with Media Matters and @msnbc

What a great glimpse into the propaganda machine and the false premises of the leftist rejects and hacks that populate msnbc. And since sparky won't be able to get ANY talking points from media matters about 'filling the amendment tree' to address Harry Reid's conduct since this statement in the Senate he will ignore it.

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CREC-2006-02-28/pdf/CREC-2006-02-28-pt1-PgS1522-4.pdf#page=2 Read Harry Reid's Quote on the Senate Procedure called "filling the amendment tree"

Of course even a good bill can be improved. That is why we have an amendment process in the Senate. The junior Senator from Wisconsin has tried to offer a small number of relevant amendments that I believe would make this bill even better. I am disappointed
that he has been denied that opportunity by a procedural maneuver known as ‘‘filling the amendment tree.’’ This is a very bad practice. It runs against the basic nature of the Senate. The hallmark of the Senate is free speech and open debate. Rule XXII establishes a process for cutting off debate and amendments, but rule XXII should rarely be invoked before any
amendments have been offered. There is no reason to truncate Senate debate
on this important bill in this unusual fashion. I will vote against cloture to register my objection to this flawed process.

According to the Congressional Research Service (CRS), Majority Leader Reid has employed this tactic a record 59 times. He has used it to block minority input into legislation 50 percent more often than the past five Majority Leaders combined. The minority’s only option under these circumstances is to oppose ending debate on legislation (known as “invoking cloture”) in order to convince the majority to allow it to offer amendments to the legislation and thereby represent the interests of their constituents.

That's right. Harry Reid opposes free speech and representation of the people AFTER he assumes power. So does sparky!!

Pad those filibuster and cloture stats, and don't allow the minority party a chance for representation. Leftists love tyranny, and so does Sparky!!

Then get a group like media matters and msnbc to push the BIG LIE. Vorwart Sparky!!

That requires a propagandist spammer to feed the halfwit progressives and act like he made a point. Hey, that is sparky!

Nice work sparky. I knew media matters wouldn't let you down when it came to lame propaganda. Really. you do parrot well. But that still doesn't change the fact that........

It couldn't get 60 votes and was a tax increase and spending increase in violation of an existing agreement 7 weeks before election pushed by the Democrat Senate Majority Leader.

Military Vote Seen As A Key To Capturing Virginia http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/09/20/161417655/military-vote-seen-as-a-key-to-capturing-virginia

The only thing that your propaganda campaign proves is....

YOU and

Democrat Hack Harry Reid are using soldiers as props 7 weeks before an election.

Feign that outrage at the evil Republicans with your PROVEN PROPANDA

This dog is obviously rabid....I can tell by the wild-eyed foaming at the mouth.

EntropyRules

This dog is obviously rabid....I can tell by the wild-eyed foaming at the mouth.

< Is that the best DisgustedWithItAlll 's sockpuppet or bitch can come up with? You mean you STILL have nothing to add and ZERO FACTS. Thanks for being a loyal @masnbc propaganda contributor with the rest of the peanut gallery. Together you will move VORWART with Media Matters and @msnbc

What a great glimpse into the propaganda machine and the false premises of the leftist rejects and hacks that populate msnbc. And since sparky won't be able to get ANY talking points from media matters about 'filling the amendment tree' to address Harry Reid's conduct since this statement in the Senate he will ignore it.

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CREC-2006-02-28/pdf/CREC-2006-02-28-pt1-PgS1522-4.pdf#page=2 Read Harry Reid's Quote on the Senate Procedure called "filling the amendment tree"

Of course even a good bill can be improved. That is why we have an amendment process in the Senate. The junior Senator from Wisconsin has tried to offer a small number of relevant amendments that I believe would make this bill even better. I am disappointed
that he has been denied that opportunity by a procedural maneuver known as ‘‘filling the amendment tree.’’ This is a very bad practice. It runs against the basic nature of the Senate. The hallmark of the Senate is free speech and open debate. Rule XXII establishes a process for cutting off debate and amendments, but rule XXII should rarely be invoked before any
amendments have been offered. There is no reason to truncate Senate debate
on this important bill in this unusual fashion. I will vote against cloture to register my objection to this flawed process.

According to the Congressional Research Service (CRS), Majority Leader Reid has employed this tactic a record 59 times. He has used it to block minority input into legislation 50 percent more often than the past five Majority Leaders combined. The minority’s only option under these circumstances is to oppose ending debate on legislation (known as “invoking cloture”) in order to convince the majority to allow it to offer amendments to the legislation and thereby represent the interests of their constituents.

That's right. Harry Reid opposes free speech and representation of the people AFTER he assumes power. So does sparky!!

Pad those filibuster and cloture stats, and don't allow the minority party a chance for representation. Leftists love tyranny, and so does Sparky!!

Then get a group like media matters and msnbc to push the BIG LIE. Vorwart Sparky!!

That requires a propagandist spammer to feed the halfwit progressives and act like he made a point. Hey, that is sparky!

Nice work sparky. I knew media matters wouldn't let you down when it came to lame propaganda. Really. you do parrot well. But that still doesn't change the fact that........

It couldn't get 60 votes and was a tax increase and spending increase in violation of an existing agreement 7 weeks before election pushed by the Democrat Senate Majority Leader.

Military Vote Seen As A Key To Capturing Virginia http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/09/20/161417655/military-vote-seen-as-a-key-to-capturing-virginia

The only thing that your propaganda campaign proves is....

YOU and

Democrat Hack Harry Reid are using soldiers as props 7 weeks before an election.

Feign that outrage at the evil Republicans with your PROVEN PROPANDA

Kathy as long as food is cheap (and it is) and gas is available, as long as they can watch Honey Boo Boo and Dog the Bounty Hunter, the American people will not bother to vote.

Sorry, but I've seen too many ignorant posts from people during this election - it's frightening how stupid the electorate is.......they will believe what they want to believe. Facts don't matter.

Kathy-531928, it sickens me but you are absolutely correct.

CaptVic - I don't think Kathy-numbers is absolutely correct:

And Brown, while far from perfect, has shown that he will cross party lines...unlike his democratic opponent, Elizabeth Warren, who just scares the bejeezus outta me.

I suspect that when she says "facts don't matter" she, like far too many Rape-Public-CONs, really means it.

Vulture/Voucher 2012
Proving Two Rights DO Make a Wrong!

;-)

kathy Sine

I would start by showing Mitch McConnell's quote, "Our main job is to make Obama a one term President." The American people are not political junkies like those of us on this blog so they need to be informed.

<< We are in trouble then. Please, read on..

<<JOE SCARBOROUGH, HOST: And Bob (Woodward), you talk about this. And you see it time and time again in your book where Republicans give ideas, and every idea is rejected outright. I want to focus, though, on a quote. And I’ve got to admit, just by reading press reports, I didn't know the other side of the Mitch McConnell quote. And I think I, at least, owe him an apology here on the air because we've repeated it a thousand times where Mitch McConnell says, my one priority, my top priority is preventing a second Obama term. But you actually pull out what nobody in the media pulls out, and that's the rest of Mitch McConnell’s statement. What is it?

BOB WOODWARD: And where McConnell says, I don't want Obama to fail, I want him to change. And I agree with you. I think that that's significant. Now, there is a brazenness to the first part of the quote, and as you know, Mitch McConnell is...

JOE SCARBOROUGH: He's tough.

BOB WOODWARD: He’s a hard ass on these subjects, to say the least.

JOE SCARBOROUGH: But McConnell went on to say -- and it's just never been reported -- McConnell went on to say, but if he changes, I want to work with him, and basically that's the attitude of if the guy will meet us halfway -- and I see John Heilemann rolling his eyes around the set, but time and time and time again, republicans offered suggestions, and time and time and time again, the first two years, the president rejected them outright.