Is this somehow controversial or disputable? We were in a recession when Obama took office.

Little Rubio seems nervous…he seems to realize that his Tea Party Hatriots have fucked up royally. 

Obamo inherited a better economy than we have now. These Leftist media Obamo breast-feeders are hell-bent on the ‘inherited’ story line because they want to deflect how bad things are NOW.

Look for Schieffer to be one of the next Leftist Media Hacks to ‘flee’ as he realizes that his beloved Obamo will never give him the joyful reporting he thought he’d be getting.

I relish in the misery of Leftist Media Hacks. I’ll borrow a page from Bill Maher’s book and wish that they all get violently raped.

That’s just Bob being Bob. A Dem shill…. but and even BIGGER Obama shill. CBS hasn’t changed since memogate.

Just nine months in, and 9/11 was all on Bush.  Three years in and Obama still can’t be blamed for anything. 

Obama made it far worse ,Bob .

Rubio was outstanding . Bob defends Obama because he’s on the team .

Hey Bob . Every Dem Senator   ( Obama , Biden , Reid , Schumer ,etc. ) voted against raising the debt limit in 2006 .

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00054
   

Nice to see the little teabagger nut get schooled.

The “inherited Bush’s economy” narrative has just gone beyond stupid now. Nothing bad stick to Obama in their eyes. He’s their god. He could borrow and blow another $800 billion and they’d still be blaming Bush. Apparently they have no concept of how stupid this makes them look.

Dear Congress,
 Just sign the Damned debt limit increase like you have done for 200 years, and be done with this shit. 
signed,
Sick of all you.

What does he mean Obama wasn’t around when Bush was Pres. Technically, Yes he was (even though he rarely voted nor accomplished anything noteworthy as a Senator) … Bush had a Dem controlled senate for the last two years of his presidency- one of the main factors why nothing got done, except complaining,Bush bashing and campaigning for the upcoming election- Hmm…For the Dems nothing much has changed. Maybe Bob should focus on that.

whats president obama’s plan bob? no answer

I agree.  Schaffer’s remark about the prior administration having something to do with the economy seemed out of left field in a discussion about the current budget.  Maybe he made the remark to interrupt Rubio and give himself a chance to think of something else to say.  It made him look partisan, and when Rubio had to correct him on SS “premiums,” he looked a bit bush league.

I like how in the article the writer blamed the increase in defense budget completely on 9/11.  That’s right, completely on 9/11, no unrelated 9/11 wars occurred then.  Nope, not at all.  High quality as usual, Mediaite

“Nor was this current problem present at all– sure, the Bush
Administration increased defense spending astronomically, but they were
also ushered into office by the worst terror attack in the nation’s
history.”

Frances, the financial sector meltdown hurt the economy much worse than the wars and 911.  And yes, it was Bush’s fault.

Let us just post some facts shall we? 2006 deficit was the last deficit attributed to the Republican congress. That deficit was 575 Billion
2007 500 Billion
2008 1,018 Billion
2009 1,887 Billion
2010 1,653 Billion
2011 1,500 Billion estimated

The Democrats taking over in 2007 began to run ever increasing government spending. It is NOT a revenue problem, it is a spending problem.

Oh well, any mathematicians out there? We should just post Joe the idiot Biden’s quote, Now, people when I say
that look at me and say, ‘What are you talking about, Joe? You’re
telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?’. The
answer is yes, that’s what I’m telling you.Real brainiac there!

Bob Schieffer is a shit-for-brains Progressive CBS propagandist, so of course he’s going to blame everything on Bush. What, did you expect Schieffer to actually make an argument based on merit? Like remember that time during the Bush presidency when we had 10% unemployment? Me neither… hell, I don’t remember the time the unemployment rate was over 8% with Bush because it didn’t fuckin’ happen.

But they were talking about what we are going to do about it NOW. Both Obama and Bush spend horrendous amounts of money and now were are stuck with the bill to pay.  Does it make you and Bob feel better to keep blaming Bush and not deal with the problem at hand. Where does that get you. He was even talking to a person who was NOT in office during the Bush years. Bob point was out of left field (except for partisan hacks hacks himself). Do you want me to start going back to Jimmy carter and other history lessons?

Really… he looked nervous correcting Bob about SS premiums??? I guess we saw 2 different tapes.

“Obamo inherited a better economy than we have now.”

Those are the best words I’ve heard so far. Nice job. Sometimes one sentence can say so much.

what is wrong with your thinking,the economy took a nose dive on bush`s watch,911 happened on bush`s watch,deal with it.There is nothing that you RWNJ can say that will change the public`s mind.
Obama will owe the economy when the unempolyment go down to 2007 level,then if it goes back up to 9.2% again then you idiots can blame him,for now it is the fault of bush and his war criminals.

BINGO!!!

So, Geritol thinks ‘inherited’ means making a bad situations worse by epic proportions?

Got it. 

Obama was hired to fix the economy, but instead of fixing it he just keeps on saying that he inherited a bad economy.  This may be an over simplification, but I like the analogy of if I have a leaky faucet and I hire a plumber to fix it and after him tinkering with it for almost two years the faucet is still leaking the last thing I want to hear from the plumber is well yeah your faucet is still leaking, but it was leaking when I got hear.  That kind of response coupled with the inability to fix the problem will get the plumber fired every time.

Are you serious? Rubio was fantastic,as always.I think a great Republican ticket in 2012 has to have him on it.

Obama will always stand in the shadow of George W. Bush. LMFAO!

Exactly.

It’s unfair to just blame Bush for the current financial collapse just like it’s unfair to just give credit to Reagan for the fall of the USSR.  It took many Presidents and persistent right and wrong headed ideals pushed over decades.  Bill Clinton is as responsible for the current financial crisis as George Bush is.

Bush was in office for month’s when 9/11 happened and you won’t blame Clinton one bit.

Obama in office almost 3 years and you still blame Bush for the situation were in now.

Got it. No matter the timing… blame the repub.

Haha, no the rest of the interview where his ignorance on the facts came to light.

Fact: It would have been nice not to have Clinton’s
weak military stance on terror that emboldened the 9-11-2001 tower attacks.
That cost allot of money then Freddy Mac and Fanny Mae collapse because of
Barney Frank, Chris Dodd and Maxine Waters. That caused the major collapse in
economy right after democrats took the house in 2006 and controlled the
spending bills that Bush signed. I almost forgot Clinton’s internet bubble
crash that was a part of growing deficit. Democrats have real selective memory
loss. Now Obama still can’t own his own printed treasury bills, beg for china
loans and the biggest tax increase of modern history the Obamacare tax. All
Bushes fault. No way morons.

Okay, let’s look at the facts:

(1)  When Bush left office, the unemployment rate was 7.3% – and over the course of his eight years in office, unemployment averaged 5.2%.   Under Obama it has risen to 9.2%.

(2)  Gas was $1.61 per gallon when Bush left office.  It has more than
doubled under Obama, and the current national average is $3.65 per gallon. 

(3)  Average annual deficits under Bush where $250 billion, under Obama they are more than $1 trillion.  

(4)  Inflation under Obama is now 3.6% –substantially higher than during the Bush administration. 

(5)  Gold was $849 per ounce when Bush left office, but the easy money policies under Obama have pushed it up close to $1600 per ounce. 

(6)  Under Obama, the percent of Americans living in poverty has risen to the highest level in 51 years. 

(7)  Home prices are still falling.  Car sales are weak.  Health insurance premiums are rising.  Industry after industry is faltering.  

Etc. etc. etc. 

Of course, I can forgive Bob Schieffer for not knowing these facts, since most of them aren’t reported in the mainstream media.  And definitely aren’t covered by CBS News, an organization that sees its main mission as carrying water for the failed Obama administration. 

you dont make any sense,if bush had inherited 911 from clinton,people will blame clinton.
These nightmares did not happen on clinton or obama`s watch,so wake up and quit drinking the cool aid that is been served by fox.

I honestly can’t believe an adult typed that post out

If Obama doesn’t like it then he doesn’t have to run in 2012. The Whiner In Chief.

Fact: Tea Party is for less spending and less government. Dipstick. Get off mama’s tit and get a job and pay taxes it’s allot of fun.

I believe it was the GOP that seems to have been opposed to a “grand compromise” which would have cut $4 trillion off the debt over the next 10 years.

The current GOP is full of SGINO’s. Small government in name only. The party that adamantly endorses the military-industrial complex and an ever-expanding police state does not support small government. Smaller does not equal small.

Bob Schieffer got his “WTF” memo !!!!

It is when the president following Bush was hired to make things much better and instead decided to golf and make things much worse. Indeed, if things were SO bad under Bush, even your typical pot-smoking, hard-drinking, lazy auto ‘worker’ could have made things better.

But, I guess it’s enough to have a **cough** ‘historical **president** after all. Everything is peachy keen just because of that alone, Schieiffer would likely sniff.

Fact: Tea Party is obsessed with Abortion, Gay Rights and giving blowjobs to billionaires, thats why they don’t want to close Oil loopholes.

Even if it’s completely false.

Fact: Which democrat gay boy are you referring too?
Besides the insertion of one man’s sack into another person’s mouth. Used a
practical joke or prank, when performed on someone who is asleep, or as a
sexual act. That is defiantly a democrat defect. Democrats are the teabaggers.

your example is full of holes my friend,you are right it is over simplification,the economy is a different ball game which can not be compared to anything you can think of or understand.Let me over simplify myself,if you hire me to fix your leaking roof,and  you stand on the ground throwing stones and insulting me,i think it will take longer time for me to fix the roof. there i have come to your level,do you get it now?

Dear America: President’s aren’t responsible for everything bad that happens under their watch, nor do they deserve all the credit for all the good things that happen under their watch. The world is much more complex than that.

Signed, Nofuckingshit

And his vote counts as much as anyone’s. There’s no wondering why we’re fucked. We have the governance we deserve.

Fact: Don’t spend anymore money morons just cut spending down below what you earn that’s it! If all don’y get paid we are overspending period!

Fact: Trillions maybe not billions?

Fact: ID OT here re-read it again!

Fact: It would have been nice not to have Clinton’sweak military stance on terror that emboldened the 9-11-2001 tower attacks.That cost allot of money then Freddy Mac and Fanny Mae collapse because ofBarney Frank, Chris Dodd and Maxine Waters. That caused the major collapse ineconomy right after democrats took the house in 2006 and controlled thespending bills that Bush signed. I almost forgot Clinton’s internet bubblecrash that was a part of growing deficit. Democrats have real selective memoryloss. Now Obama still can’t own his own printed treasury bills, beg for chinaloans and the biggest tax increase of modern history the Obamacare tax. AllBushes fault. No way morons.

Are you referring to my numbers? If so> 1,000 Billion= 1 Trillion

All of this, “cut $r trillion off the debt over the next 10 years.” stuff reminds me of the Popeye comics when Blimpie says, “I’ll gladly pay you on Tuesday for a hamburger today!”  When debt cuts were promised in the past, were the promised cuts ever realized?

Fact: I rest my case about democrats being the gay ones!

 I like the way the Grand Old Plutocrats conveniently forget what Bush left for Obama. Bob Schieffer took Rubio to the woodshed.  http://blogs.trb.com/news/opinion/chanlowe/blog/2011/07/chan_lowe_rogue_tea_partiers.html

Is Marcus Bachmann a Democrat?

Is Lindsey Graham a Democrat?

When did Andrew Breitbart turn Democrat?

Matt Drudge is a Democrat?

I never heard any “Tea Party” pronoucement saying anything about not wanting to close “Oil loopholes.”  Can you post a cite?

“I’m on the RED TEAM, and our fight song is the CONSTITUTION!!!!!!11111111111″

Obama has been in way over his head since the unfortunate day he was elected.  He is, without doubt, the worst president in history.  November 2012 cannot get here soon enough.  Time to send the clueless man child back to Chicago.   

Any “analysis” that attributes all blame to one party and none to the other is essentially worthless. I won’t be replying to literally anything else you say for the foreseeable future.

They DON’T want to close oil company tax loopholes.

People who say he’s without a doubt the worst president in history are without a doubt so stupid, with minds so poisoned by partisanship, that their opinions on literally anything else, even topics unrelated to politics, are called into question.

“Asked to rank the presidency of George W. Bush in comparison to those of
the other 41 American presidents, more than 61 percent of the
historians concluded that the current presidency is the worst in the
nation’s history. Another 35 percent of the historians surveyed rated
the Bush presidency in the 31st to 41st category, while only four of the
109 respondents ranked the current presidency as even among the top
two-thirds of American administrations.”

http://hnn.us/articles/48916.html

I thought Rubio was catholic. This church doesn’t look catholic to me. http://www.flickr.com/photos/63622372@N05/5794392008/in/set-72157626753071139
Strange………

Obama has sunk to 42% in the Gallup poll and this is all the media can do to try to save him?

Which OBUMMER promptly made WORSE by giving billions to his union CRONIES instead of CREATING JOBS. Which Obama made IRREVERSIBLE with his COMMIE CARE. Who but a Saul Alinsky demonic disciple bent on DESTROYING AMERICA would SPEND gazillions on commie care at the time of the greatest financial crisis since the great depression? And then when you read the left wing nutbag academics and you EDUCATE YOURSELF on their orgasmic “CLOWARD AND PIVEN” strategy of OVERLOADING THE SYSTEM TO REMAKE IT IN THEIR SOCIALIST LIKENESS, you might actually learn that there is a TRAITOR in the White House.  RIF. Reading is Fundamental.

Fact: He is a phony and Chief. Fake Cert of birth, fake social security card from Connecticut not Hawaii, fake forged selective service card. No one had him in any class remember him? No college records? Wow he is the best thing since sliced bread moron!

Fact: Just admit you are wrong most of the time and leave it at that!

Fact: I voted for Bush not his spending habit! Military endevours I agreed with his actions.

Fact: Your way is good for me it works too.

The most perplexing part of the exchange was Schieffer bringing up the Bush administration during the talks

ReallyFrannie?  Why is that perplexing?  Bobby is a liberal and that’s what liberals do.  He’s trying to protect his own under the guise of journOlism. 

Maybe not the absolute worst… but at least tied with Carter.

Fact: Wrong. what do you not understand when you want less spending?

how low can the rwnj go,they live in a different world folks.

Fact: Not gay!

Fact: Not gay!

Fact: Not gay!

Fact: RINO only.

Fact: RINO only.

Fact: Lots of kids and didn’t have them with a man!

A lunatic-left d-cRAT socialist TOOL at work: “…Schieffer interrupted to defend the President’s credentials…”.

Nov 2010, when Americans threw out the d-cRAT socialist majority in the US House and helped remove crazy pelosi as The Worst Speaker in American History, was a wake-up call to the “Corrupt B-tards” of the lamestream socialist media. They realized then that the American voters were no longer swallowing their lies, distortions, fact-hiding, half-truths and shameless proselytizing for socialist extremism and of the lunatic-left Messiah.

Never forget that “You Lie!” hussein is nothing more than an artificial creation of the lunatic-left socialist media with no more substance or depth than a Daffy Duck cartoon. Wherever there are no mirrors, no cameras and especially no teleprompters (heavy drug use significantly impairs short-term memory), hussein vanishes.

So to make sure that the voters don’t stray off the lunatic plantation in 2012, they will redouble their assault on the truth, the facts and – most of all – reality, to fool the voters back to the brain-washed days of the 2008 campaign when they had them convinced that “hopey-changey” bs would save us all. (Reality: “hope-changey” is actually the lunatic-left “Road-to-Hell”.)

The lunatic-left socialist media has no choice but to continue to try to prop-up their shallow, profane,  arrogant, platitude-spouting, inexperienced, Marxist, drug-addicted, smug, elitist, narcissistic, pompous, flip-flopping, racist, anti-Semitic gas-bag who is so mentally deficient from extensive drug use he even has to plagiarize his hollow platitudes, who hijacked the nomination with fewer votes than Hillary received, and who stole the election with extensive ACORN fraud.

They have nothing else to offer.

Another trenchant response from Publius.  Drawing on all the powers of his intellect, he comes up with the F-word.   Sad to say, this is all too typical of how the American left responds to major policy debates nowadays.

Who is “Schaffer” ?

actually Schieffer is a friend of Bush’s and the fact is as long as partisan media keep blaming everything on Obama and the Democratic party, then they have a right to remind those partisans that all of this in fact, this crisis, is due to the actions of the Bush administration.

Bob Schieffer
Austin, Texas
Texas Christian University

Bob Schieffer moderated one of the 2004 debates, despite the fact that he is a longtime friend of George W. Bush who had previously acknowledged that his personal relationship with Bush made it difficult to cover him. Schieffer’s brother was a business partner of Bush’s before Bush became president — and Bush made him an ambassador.

You could just as easily point out that Bush inherited Clinton’s tech and housing bubble. The media wont do that though. 

Schieffer has been a has been for a long time.

Promises aren’t the same as passed legislation that will allow those cuts.   The fact is a proposal was brought to the GOP, worth an amount near $4 trillion over 10-12 yrs, and they refused to even discuss it.

wow the cons are so desperate on this site it’s cute to watch!  You all honestly have nothing to justify the actions of your party that have come close to destroying this nation, so you pull talking points out of ur azz spoon fed to the throngs by the likes of faux news and right wing radio/blogs.

cute!

But 3 years, four tillion dallars and five JOBS bills later, things should have been turned around looong ago. Or maybe not; These things never work!

Bob Schieffer fails to mention that when Obama took office, we inherited Jimmy Carter’s second term.

Ever notice how the leftist media switches from interviewer mode to partisan Democrat activist mode every time they debate…er…I mean “interview” a Republican?

Schieffer would never have used a similar line of questioning with Obama. Everyone knows it, and that makes Schieffer a joke. He grills a freshman Republican Senator (who cleans his clock, btw), yet he throws softball questions to Obama. Here’s one example

Schieffer is a tool of the democrat party, and the world will be a better place when he passes on.

Rubio cleaned Schrieffer’s clock. Rubio is a very impressive Senator.

Since when was the Bush administration “ushered in by the worst terror attack, etc.”?  I could have sworn Bush was already in office and busy clearing brush at his ranch not long before the attack.

I just listened to that for the first time.
Sounded to me like Senator Rubio cleaned the clock of that washed
up old liberal turd, Bob Scheiffer.

Quinnipiac:

Which president is to blame for the recession?

54% bush
27% obama

It’s not even close.
 

Rick Perry inherited an economy from George Bush too. How’s that going?

Facts are for kids? No, you’ve got that backwards, silly.

You are contradicting yourself. asshat.

I just wish I knew why you libturds keep hating Bush!…..YOU LIBTURDS SHOULD LOVE HIM!!!   We ALL know the numbers….If you LOVE OMoron…Ya GOTTA love Bush..
And that’s why we conservatives didn’t like what happened…Bush ‘Stimulis 1′

HAHAHAHAHAH!  Funny shit, he even admits he’s gay!

HAHAHAHAHAHA!  He was Matt Drudge’s lover dude!

An amount nearly $4 trillion over 10-12 yrs doesn’t sound too specific.  Pass a tax increase and its there, promise to not spend an unspecified amount over an unspecificed period and its just a promise.  I have not seen any specifics with respect to cuts.  When a reporter asked the President what programs he would cut there were also no specifics offered.

Yes, that’s the reason that Obama’s unable to do anything with the economy, despite sinking trillions of dollars into the project. People are victimizing him, the poor thing. Poor, poor President Victim. We’d be in much better shape, if only he weren’t black.

Why does Whitey hate America so much!?!?!!!

This isn’t hard. Bush was a lousy president. Obama is infinitely worse.

Hog wash. Two unfunded and unjustifiable wars, excessive tax cuts and more unfunded drug programs for us seniors. Bush left office with a nation suffering fromrighjt wing cancer  cancer.

That was one of the strongest performances on a Sunday Talk Show that I have ever seen.  Marco Rubio kicked ass and kicked ass hard.

What’s your point, idiot? Of course Obama inherited a bad economy. And now it’s way worse. I can’t believe how stupid you are.

He’s looking infinitely worst cleaning up all the excrement left by Dubya?

ur post history is funy  :)

Do you think encountered any “Impediments” along the way? So before you call me a name…..Do it to my face tough guy.

Do you think encountered any “Impediments” along the way? So before you call me a name…..Do it to my face tough guy.

Unfortunately for all of us, I misread your comment and thought you were saying you wouldn’t be commenting, period.  Well, we can always dream.

In your alternate universe, that is…

Aw gee, looky here, an internet tough guy, one that can’t even seem to formulate a coherent thought. Why don’t you go have an accident with a dumpster full of broken glass, dipshit, so I can urinate on your grave.

Where’s you momma or daddy?  Do you think it be a good thing for me to wish — ill-will upon them? What  piece of work you are.

Can you imagine Steve Jobs taking over Apple in 1999 and whining for 2 years that “I inherited a bad company”?  Or any CEO that came into a mess, e.g., Lou Gerstner when IBM was on the ropes.  In the real world of performance, you get laughed out the door.  I personally took over several ships as Chief Engineer that had been run into the ground.  I brought them back with a lot of work and critically good choices.

Obama is a glib, know-nothing, shallow, con man/pimp.  He is in way over his head, as in underwater.  And he is lower than whale sh#t.

Go ahead, jerk-wad, I wish ill on your entire family, it’s a shame that your parents were allowed to breed.

So does that mean you’ll be doing all these things (urinating) in your dreams. Or  do you and I hook up? F all the internet trash talk — that’s for POOT BUTTS. You know your a empty cannon make a lot of noise. Apparently your one of those chickenhawk cowards.

COWARDCOWARDCOWARDCOWARDCOWARDCOWARDCOWARDCOWARDCOWARDCOWARD.

Go ahead take the challenge. You a man or do you wear PINK PANTIES?

The result of the Bush administration over spending is, taaaahhhhdaaaa – the Obama administration.  Obama threw gasoline on the fire by promptly initiating his so-called stimulus plan which was nothing more than a payback to unions and other special interest groups.  Everyone continues to blame Bush but no one remembers, or chooses to point out that federal tax receipts were at historic quarter century highs in the Bush administration.  It is disingenous to analyze the economy and conclude that taxes need to be increased because spending exceeds income.  We do not have a revenue problem – we have a spending problem. 

“F all the internet trash talk”

Then shut your taco hole, moron. You know, your idiot libtards are always patting yourself on the back for your brilliance and insight, but you’re stupid as hell.

Bottom line Coward…..You don’t want none! Cause I you did you wouldn’t allow me to challenge you manhood (that’s if you’re a Man). Hopefully you don’t head a household as the protector. __itch

For Christ’s sake, what a moron.

Goober W. Bush – screw up without equal.  He took a FY 2001 surplus, pissed it away, averaged $630 billion deficits, left a FY 2009 deficit of over $1.5 trillion, left a 14 year high unemployment rate, left the market at 7900 and it bottomed out only a few weeks after his deparure at 6500, two screwed up wars, one a blunder, the other a screwing of the pooch, record foreclosures —- if it weren’t for fucking up Bush would have done nothing at all.  But Marco Rubio can’t remember it. Someone, please, change his soiled diaper.

Boy my fifteen year old son would defend his honor better than you. Butt Boy.

If you call me another name, your going to hurt my feelings so badly — I just may have to slit my throat. Again your a candy-ass POOT BUTT, with no honor.

Your fifteen year old retard could probably kick your ass, too.

la…di….da…

That’s it I’m killing myself….the name calling is just too unbearable.

So CBS is in the bag for the Republicans now…  haha you guys will say anything..

I’m not going to engage you anymore you’ve proved my point — that your a Chickenhawk coward; a 95lb dripping wet girlie-girlie; or a 500lb overweight redneck.

YEPPER WE FCKING  WERE only prob you ashay’s have is who controlled the congress and the senate form JAN 2007 = JAN 2011  ???? the fcdking dem’s RIGHT ????? 

AND WHO CONTROLL”S THE PURSE ???? o that’s tight the congress well fckwad look at the book’s not the talking point’s the book’s you do know what they are right ?????? GAO GAO GAO YOU FCKING SCUM 

The point is that Schieffer is grasping at straws. 

Obama came to DC to fix the budget, he knew the problems BEFORE he was elected, and so far all he has done is exacerbate the problem with more debt and deficit spending, while deflecting the blame to Bush, and he’s still trying that tactic long after the bulk of the public no longer buys it. 

Obama is acting like a man trying to get out of debt by maxing out his credit cards.  It cannot be done, and the phony excuse that “only government can solve the problem is just that a phony excuse. 

Government has not, even under Obama created a single dime of new wealth all it and he has done is take the money from the tax payers and give it to government employees at a rate greater than if the employees had been in the private sector, and many of those jobs created by Obama are now gone by the wayside, leaving the people he allegedly hired right back where they were before he came to office. 

Meanwhile Obama has also done EXACTLY what he accused Bush of doing, in funneling a great deal of money to the wealthiest people in the country, while doing nothing for the blue collar middle class.  Then he has the audacity to blatantly lie to the poorest of the public in telling them that if the debt ceiling is not raised that they won’t get the Social Security subsistence from the system that they spent their lives paying into. 

Perhaps Obama could pay those Social Security recipients and military retirees if he fired some of the six figure income, unconstitutional, “czars” that he has put on the payroll, in violation of the constitution.

I’ll see your two unfunded wars and unfunded drug program and raise you two additional unfunded “Kinetic military actions”, and an unfunded health care plan which has not yet begun to have its adverse effect on the economy, but will very likely put the US into default in 2013.  Then there is the fact that Obama made the statement in 2008, in regard to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, “As President I will end them.”  Yet the wars go on two and a half years later, along with the two new conflicts which he has entered, neither of  which pose even a remote threat to the US national security.   On top of that you can pile on a non existent national energy policy and unrestrained waste of resources in this administration that took the Bush recession and pushed it very near the abyss of depression, which we have not yet escaped.

The Bush administration made some very bad choices but compared to Obama… Bush is looking extremely competent.

There was a time when a well-informed person watched the Sunday-morning news shows, so he could learn directly from the newsmakers what was going to happen next in Washington.

Now these shows are all moderated by leftwing partisans, the questions are intended to score points on the Republican or to make the Democrat look good. I do not know if Democrats watch the shows or not; but a great many Republicans have quit. And I do not understand why Republican politicians bother to go on these shows.

Strike one was David Brinkley leaving ABC’s “This Week”; Strike Two was the death of Tim Russert; and Strike Three is Bob Schieffer still hosting “Face the Nation”. I know CNN has something similar on their schedule, but who cares? There are other things to do on Sunday morning, and all of them more worthwhile than watching network news shows.

It is rare indeed to see a reasoned response come from progressives as you read the comments on the site..  mostly just insults..  I thought that the whole purpose of the comments section was the exchange of idea and thought, to learn from each other especially those of opposing views….

This is so tiring. America knows that president Bush was not good for the economy. We know what the economy was like when president Obama was sworn into office. But this is nearly two and a half years later and for many Americans nothing has changed, so it’s time for president Obama to do the work and make the changes that get this economy rolling again–for the middle class. Personally, I could care less wether Wall Street and Dow Jones do well or rot in hell. Screw them, it’s time for the middle class to become a class of strength like they once were just a short while ago. Bankers produce nothing, Wall Street produces nothing, and service industry nations produce nothing but serfs and slaves. Come on president Obama do your job.

Weak.

Sorry.  That should be Schieffer.

if anyone watched CBS we’d be compelled to spell it correctly

it has gotten much worse since Obama took office

You have made a GREAT point, namely that Obama has been in office nearly 3 years……AND EVERYTHING YOU JUST LISTED AS ‘BUSH PROBLEMS” HAVE BEEN COMPLETELY PERPETUATED BY OBAMA. If that list you mentioned is the cause of our problems, why is Obama doing anything BUT changing them?
Wouldn’t the course of action he has taken on many Bush policies make him COMPLICIT, and accessory after the fact if you will?

Put on a helmet: I don’t want a mess when you read that and your head explodes.

“the fact is as long as partisan media keep blaming everything on Bush
and the GOP, then they have a right to remind those
partisans that all of this in fact, this crisis, is due to Obama perpetuating the actions
of the Bush administration.”

There, factually corrected that for you.

usually the biggest act of desperation in a debate on policy is to name call. Like. You. Just. Did.

Not 4 trillion in cuts. Well over a trillion in that plan were tax increases. Don’t even start the loophole crap, Bush, whom I dispise left @ 500 billion deficeit, now well over a TRILLION. 

The value of my property doubled during the Bush era. It’s lost 60% of it’s value under Obama. Nothing more to say, really. Numbers don’t lie.

Um, I’m a Tea-Party Independent member who supports closing the oil loopholes, even knowing it will raise gas prices astronomically. Generalizations….listed under the dictionary as never correct.

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/176016/20110707/debt-ceiling-michele-bachmann-twitter-town-hall.htm

Michele Bachmann, leader of the Tea Party caucus, is against oil tax subsidies.

Take responsibility for your party dumbfuck.

and here I thought gay people were normal and to be accepted….UNLESS you can ridicule the husband of a public figure you don’t agree with, yes?
In the spirit of uncleduke, I’d like to state that Obama is probably gay, based on the fact I disagree with his political views. AND unless he wants to look like a hypocrite, Uncleduke has few choices but to agree, because after all I only followed his logic. Could it be that his logic is flawed?

and here I thought gay people were normal and to be accepted….UNLESS
you can ridicule the husband of a public figure you don’t agree with,
yes?
In the spirit of uncleduke, I’d like to state that Obama is
probably gay, based on the fact I disagree with his political views. AND
unless he wants to look like a hypocrite, Uncleduke has few choices but
to agree, because after all I only followed his logic. Could it be that
his logic is flawed?

and here I thought gay people were normal and to be accepted….UNLESS
you can ridicule a public figure you don’t agree with,
yes?
In the spirit of uncleduke, I’d like to state that Obama is
probably gay, based on the fact I disagree with his political views. AND
unless he wants to look like a hypocrite, Uncleduke has few choices but
to agree, because after all I only followed his logic. Could it be that
his logic is flawed?

and here I thought gay people were normal and to be accepted….UNLESS
you can ridicule a public figure you don’t agree with,
yes?
In the spirit of uncleduke, I’d like to state that Obama is
probably gay, based on the fact I disagree with his political views. AND
unless he wants to look like a hypocrite, Uncleduke has few choices but
to agree, because after all I only followed his logic. Could it be that
his logic is flawed?

SO, by what percentage has you property value INCREASED under Obama’s term?

under Bush, the value of my property (land) DOUBLED from 2000-2008. Fact.

under Obama, since 2009 to present, that same land is now worth 60% less than it was in 2000. Fact.

I’m not drawing any conclusions from this data. But should I, I could only say I was much more prosperous under Bush’s term. Unless you see a decade of increase not only lost but reversed in only 3 years as prosperity.

Obama has not stopped those wars as promised, now there his.
Obama signed the tax cut extension, also his.
Had Reid push Obamacare through on procedural grounds-more expensive than Bush’s drug program by far…
I hate bush but I will not lie or buy the standard crap of my party just so Obama can be re-elected

Gee, big surprise that Sheiffer and CBS act basically as PR flacks for Obama…Why would anyone watch CBS anyways??  CBS is strictly part of the Dem spin machine and Sheiffer has been a spinner for Dems for so long he would have not idea about telling the truth or heaven forbid actually trying to be a journalist

And by the way , the economy was fine until the Dems tool over the Congress in 2007, that is when it started to tank..

Republicans ruined America – and they won’t stop until they finish what they started.  The Tea Stooges are useful idiots in the march to ruin.

Bob also left out that the unemployment rate was 5.6 and our debt was 500 billion – NO OBAMA along with the MSM sucked up to the lie – Bill Clinton tried this lie on George H W Bush and was elected and immediately increased taxes – put into place things like a $5.00 tax on every phone that you have – ran up the price of gas by .50 cents just because he could – Then Al Gore told the same lie – then the MSM started this same crap along with Pelosi and the rest of the liberals – they finally got the worst recession since the depression that they wanted – NOW OBAMA and his group are really trying to make it worst by spending trillions more and blaming a very good man – President George Bush.  Lies and liars.

Part if the reason for the 2008 economic collapse is that property values inflated when they shouldn’t have in order to justify higher prices on new construction. That is why property values have decreased while new home prices have barely changed from pre-2008.

Doesn’t the senile, decrepit Schieffer have a big oak tree that he can crash into some night? (the preceding was ‘Bill Maher’ humor; I may not have the timing right, but I’ll keep at it).

Fact injection necessary to counter your drivel:  Goober W left office with a 7.6% unemployment rate, the highest in 14 years to that date, and a already CBO projected $1.2 trillion fy 2009 budget deficit as of 1/8/2009.  Goober W. Bush will go down in history as the worst president in history having added $6.5 trillion to the national debt, more than all other administrations combined..

Taxes are guaranteed, as they will be introduced as law.  Agreements to cut spending are NOT binding from one Congressional session to the next.  113th Congress (elected in 2012) is not bound by anything “agreed to” by the 112th Congress.  Come to think of it, the 111th Congress passed (and the president signed) “PayGo” – which was then immediately ignored.  So I guess even when passed into law, Congress is not bound by it.

Uh, Frances – you said this:

Sen. Rubio was, of course, not around then to shoulder any blame, but neither was President Obama…..

President Obama WAS around, you seem to forget that he was part and parcel to a democrat led house during th elast two years of the Bush admnistration, and if you had the guts, you would remember, that it is congress responsibility to appropraite funds, so yes, Obama was not only around, he is guilty as sin as being part and parcel to the mess we are in.

How strange that you would say that.

As for Bob….not that there ever was a doubt about it, but he is now spewing DNC party lines and has demonstrated he is completely incompetent to hold the position of “anchor” of anything associated with “news”.

poor Bob, just as bad has he precedessor/successor/predecessor/successor…..a liberal to the end.

Discussion may be the purpose of a comments section, but the goal of progressives and other leftists is to inhibit the exchange of ideals. That is why they try to post so much “spam” — to make it so much work to wade through the garbage that people just give up.

I don’t know whether Mediaite will survives as a place for discussion.  If not, then too bad, because I kind of enjoyed what we were doing here. But if people are going to create new identities every day, post a few dozen messages on whatever topics were sent to them by Twitter, and disappear forever, then I won’t waste my time. And the spammers will win.

It was not fine, Rick — it was weak. But it was much better than it is now, and the country could be well on the way to a robust recovery except for Democratic Party policies. In their desire to keep things from getting worse, they have put in place policies that prevent it from getting better. 

It is the nature of the nanny state. The consequences were and are entirely predictable.

Please, please, please tell me you’re joking.

Cute but no cigar.

Schiefer is a (fill in the blank)!!!

Bill, you are forgetting (or ignoring) the fact that Congress is in charge of the budget… that the last budget passed when Republicans were in charge resulted in a deficit of roughly $155 billion… that the Democrats ran Congress when the FY 2008 and 2009 and 2010 budgets were developed, when the deficit went to $450 billion and then over $1 trillion.

You also forget that the Democrats are responsible for the deficit this year, even though it wasn’t passed until almost April 1st. And that Obama and the Democrats insist that spending levels remain sky-high for 2012 and every year afterward. He is also willing to put the government into default on August 2nd, rather than accept any real reduction in spending, because he has plans for a lot more spending if he is reelected and he does not want to accept any limits on how much.

Maybe there wasn’t a debate because the Right has made an assertion that Bill Clinton was responsible for 9/11.  But it all happened on the battle field but airports.

Also, there was a memo.  Too bad Bush can’t read.

Quote: “President Obama WAS around, you seem to forget that he was part and parcel to a democrat led [Senate] during the last two years of the Bush admnistration, and if you had the guts, you would remember, that it is congress responsibility to appropraite funds, so yes, Obama was not only around, he is guilty as sin as being part and parcel to the mess we are in.”

Very good, Tina — you caught that one. Senator Obama was responsible for a great many things that President Obama would prefer to forget.

And Frances missed it entirely.

Yeah, numbers don’t lie, but obviously people who don’t know how to read the number lie to themselves.

I have been in real estate since 1998 and I know exactly why your property doubled in value.

And I know why it lost 60% of its market value.

Jerry, you equate correlation with causation – what was it Demcrats DID to cause the deficit to exeed $1 trillion?  What was it the Democrats DID to cause the greatest decline in revenue since the first Great Depression?  Why do they call the congressionally passed tax cuts the BUSH tax cuts? 

No denying it.  It was over three years ago and its time for us to get something going or give way to someone who will instead of blaming his predecessor.  Like Rubio said to Schaeffer, “When does it get better, Bob?”  And what does any of this have to do with the budget? 

Obama’s second mistake was that he should proclaimed, when he won the presidency, that the economy was in such bad shape that it would take his entire first term to correct it; and then he could have said that he would have to put off all those things he promised in the campaign and do them in his second term.

His first mistake was not running as Hillary’s running mate in 2008. That would have given him eight years of experience to not make all the mistakes he is now making. That way his party could have had 16 years in control of the WH and maybe he could have amounted to something.

ahhhhh the tried and true “who watches that show anyways” when someone challenges some douchebag conservative on a channel that isnt fox news.. I hate republicans 

This Floridian wants nothing to do with Senator Rubio.
Rubio is preferable to Rick (Skeletor) Scott, but that is not saying much. As for Nature Freak, I voted for Charlie Crist.

share with the class!

So Senator Rubio, are you for or against means testing?

If you answered the question I must have missed it.

Nope, it’s the mountains of excrement Obummer dumped on the country that’s making him look like the putz he really is. He’s displaced the peanut farmer as the biggest joke and saddest POS ever to hold the office.

Seconded!

Bill, you raise a good question. I merely point out that the really big deficits began following the Democratic victories in the 2006 election (and note that Senator Obama voted for those budgets). 

I can’t blame the Democrats for the drop in revenues, as that is the nature of a progressive income tax system. When GDP drops, tax revenues drop much faster.

What I can blame on the Democrats is the additional $1 trillion in annual expenditures. Perhaps they could have had the regular budget and then a supplementary budget for special programs. But instead they added 25% or more to every cabinet department, with some agencies like EPA getting far more. So now there is a baseline budget with over $3500 billion in annual spending, compared to about $2500 billion just five years ago.

I like your take on it, but rather the plumber took the faucet off, went to the shop for parts and called two years later to say he’s ordered a repair but your faucet wasn’t working right when he got there, therefore making your plumbing problem worse.
Your’s is great though.

Prisons are full of people who claim they are not to blame and they just had a bad start.

Well in that case, let’s just give Obama a pass on all of his stated policies and a great big shiny participation award.

 Patriot you have so many inaccurate statements in this paragraph. I suggest you read some history then delete this paragraph and reconsider what you just posted here. Also move out of Kansas and get your news from somewhere else besides that 10,000 watt radio station broadcasting religious sermons and rush limbaugh.

Bush screwed up the country for everyone!!

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Inherited?  That is most odd, after all Obama boasted and bragged ad nauseam that he bought and paid for the office of president with his one billion dollar ($1,000,000,000.00) campaign.
 
Did Bush force him to take on the economy?
 
Obama may not be a natural born citizen, but there is no denying that he is a natural born liar.

“HAHAHAHAHAHA!  He was Matt Drudge’s lover dude!”

Really, I thought he was Arrianna Huffington’s paid lover, until he concluded cuddling that beast was not worth it at any price. 

Republicans suffer from amnesia? who wuhdah thunk it. The fact that the economy was losing 800,000 jobs per month in Jan 2008 and is now gaining jobs albeit as a modest rate, somehow equates to ‘things getting worse’. Go figure! 

I never know one could get drunk picking cotton.

No it hasn’t.  The economy was shedding 700,000 jobs his first couple of months in office, and contracting at about 5%.  We’re stagnant right now, but definitely not worse off than when he came in.

Fact: 1 job for every 5 unemployed people.

Hard to get a job when there are no jobs to get!

The housing bubble popped late in 2008.  That wasn’t Obama’s fault.  That problem dates back to the late 90s.

You don’t seem to understand: the debt ceiling is not about future spending.  The correct analogy is you purchasing a car, and then deciding not to pay for it.

Trillions of dollars.  Lets be clear.  The stimulus package was worth around $800 billion.  1/3 for tax cuts, 1/3 for state aid, 1/3 for infrastructure.  The economic hole we were in was $3 trillion.  The White House said it was as big as they could get, while a lot of economists warned them they needed to go bigger.

Now, before somebody brings up that 8% projection, that projection was made before the final bill was passed and it was based on a bigger stimulus being used.  And of course, it’s not a promise, but a projection.

The biggest problem right now is a lack of demand.  Consumers aren’t spending.  Businesses aren’t hiring.  And the government needs to step up and fill that demand.  But we’re focused on deficits, which is a mistake.

Statistical noise most likely.  Gallup is prone to that.  But no question his unemployment rate has dropped over the last month.

Fact: Soon after democrats take majority roles in House and Senate all went to crappers. Go figure!

Fact: Reggie Bush is a football player how could he ruin anything?

Fact: No you have enough to pay for car but you keep paying with credit card and bum from a friend or two and wonder why none of your parents like what you’re doing it because they know in the end that they will have to bail you out again. Solution is quit spending more than you earn. Cut off cable and kill the cell phone and downsize until able to pay your way out of the problem and you will not have to steal from neighbor garage and go pawn his possessions at the pawn shop for payments. Moron!

Fact: Obama’s hope and change is working well right!

Fact: Democrats in charge over the Freddy Mack and Fanny Mae fiasco was Barney Frank, Chris Dodd and Maxine Waters. They single handedly killed the housing market and caused the great down turn.

Schieffer is a wack job. In his closing commentary he said that the Congress was elected to make life better for the American people? I have checked the Constitution and I can’t find that anywhere. LOL.
The problem with libs is that they have no idea what the government is supposed to do.

You say that as if recessions would go on forever if not for a new President. That, of course, is just not so. We’ll be less worse off under Obama when the economy is better than it was when he was inaugurated. He’s got a long way to go and a short time to get there.

Oh, just like Obama is obsessed with installing with Sharia Law! You, sir, are an idiot.

How many of these guys have you been having sex with, uncleduke? You seem to have um…comprehensive knowledge of who smokes pole.

Rubio is the complete package. Big things are in his future.

What comes after “Trillion”?

The public’s mind? Did you see what they just did to the Democrats? I don’t want to change their mind. I want them to do that again.

The biggest problem right now is a lack of demand.  Consumers aren’t
spending.  Businesses aren’t hiring.  And the government needs to step
up and fill that demand.

Yeah, we tried that. How’s it working? (Pssst: The government is broke.)

Well, one thing is for sure with this article – proof positive that Schieffer is a liberal who is willing/able to push the Obama talking points and that Frances doesn’t know her facts.

Why does none of that surprise me?

In an economic downturn, historically employers react to shrinking sales by cutting production. Then they watch what’s happening and if sales get worse then they lay off more people.

In this recession — and I’m going to discuss it as if it’s still continuing, no matter what the NBER says — employers did not react to sales reports. They did not cut the workweek to 32 hours, they did not lay off 10% of workers, they did not close factories for a week or two. 

No, instead they reacted to a financial panic and they anticipated an Obama victory… and they closed factories permanently. They did not wait to see if President Obama was serious about nationalizing health care, or raising energy prices 50-100%, or shutting down oil drilling and coal mining, or raising taxes, or passing CardCheck, or starting trade wars, etc. — they anticipated the worst from Barack Obama when it looked like he might even get a filibuster-proof Congress, and they closed the doors to their businesses permanently rather than wait and see how it would turn out.

Obviously demand for goods and services did not drop to zero, so businesses could not and did not continue closing down at the same rate. They could not continue laying off 600-800 thousand workers every month.

And obviously consumer and business confidence has recovered somewhat, because the results of last November’s election mean Mr Obama cannot do everything he wants. 

But I am afraid the economy won’t bounce back strongly until there is a government that can repeal the worst of Obama’s achievements … that can slow the growth rate of government or better yet to roll it back.

What exactly did Rubio say in that discussion that warrants being called a douchebag?  I don’t hate democrats.  I hate stupidity and your comment, I hate.

Doesnt matter why you know.  People who dont know only knows the fact ramv36 just stated and it will hurt Obama a ton in the next election.  Perhaps it’s not fair but looking at how Obama is handling the economy, I think in the end, it probably is fair.

Not often mentioned, but it should be… there were housing bubbles in countries all over the world, from Greece to Ireland and even some Asian countries. Low interest rates encouraged over-investment in housing nearly everywhere, and property values have crashed nearly everywhere… except China. China is gradually increasing interest rates, trying to engineer a soft landing, but it remains to be seen whether this will succeed.

The housing bubble in the US was the result of easy credit — government agencies like Fannie Mae encouraged lending to borrowers who could not afford to buy homes, and lenders had too much money floating around and had to invest it somewhere. Additionally, the rating agencies said securities made up of bundled mortgages were AAA-rated safe, that even if some borrowers defaulted, most would not.

Anyway, Sportsman, you are right that Mr Obama is not to blame for the housing bubble or the bursting of the housing bubble. But his political party, including his pals Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, is largely to blame. And as a US senator, Mr Obama rode along on the housing bubble until it burst… and then he blamed Wall Street for investing too much of its money in mortgage-backed securities! As if no one in Washington had any responsibility, at the Fed or in the Congress.

Sportsman, you said “Lets be clear.  The stimulus package was worth around $800 billion.  1/3 for tax cuts, 1/3 for state aid, 1/3 for infrastructure.”

That is incorrect. The Congressional Budget Office said the tax cuts totally $82 billion — when money is given to people who don’t pay taxes, CBO calls that spending, not tax cuts.

About $127 billion went for infrastructure and other construction: transportation, military construction, schools renovation, broadband, renewable energy, improvements to national parks, constructing or renovating federal buildings. 

Everything else was some kind of transfer program, either directly to individuals or to states or school districts. or for training programs or Pell Grants. This may have limited the hardships for many  people, temporarily, but it did not create new jobs and I do not see how anyone could possibly imagine that it would.

And now we are left with $820 billion in new debt, plus interest.

Why does cranial-rectal inversion run rampent on this site? You have to be kidding me. Please tell me what has Obama done that makes him more incompetent than GWB? Please list them off.

Obama has tried to change things but the obstructinists GOP has blocked or cut in half all the things he wanted to accomplish. Are you really this blind to see this? Again, how do you think a guy can come into this office and correct something in 2.5 years that it took 8 years to make happen. Do you kow in one month during the Bush years we lost 750,000 jobs. What magic wand do you wave to make those come back. If you don’t vote every Republican out of ofice in the next election you people are crazy.

You’re an idiot… If you are not already, you will be along side the rode with a sign that says, “I’ll give you a stupid opinion for food.” Keep voting Republican, dude. You sound like you are certainly the kind of guy that really benefits from their econmoic policies… BTW… did you graduate from high school or just get a GED?

You’re an idiot… If you are not already, you will be along side the rode with a sign that says, “I’ll give you a stupid opinion for food.” Keep voting Republican, dude. You sound like you are certainly the kind of guy that really benefits from their econmoic policies… BTW… did you graduate from high school or just get a GED?

Yes, your vision is blurred by ink stained eyes…

Obamacare
Porkulus
$400 billion Ominbus bill with 8600 earmarks
Raised federal spending by 28%
$1.5 trillion deficits each of his first 3 years
$4 trillion and counting in new debt in under 3 years
Unemployment stuck about 9%
Gas prices more than doubled
Rising inflation thanks to the Fed printing trillions of dollars
Still in Afghanistan
Still in Iraq
We’re now in Libya and Yemen
Losing Egypt to radical Muslims
Iran about to go nuclear
Operation Fast and Furious
Suing Arizona over illegal immigration
Preventing Boeing from creating 1000 jobs in South Carolina
Using the EPA to shut down coal plants and killing thousands of jobs
Using the EPA to block offshore drilling in the Gulf

And that’s just 2 1/2 years in. Just imagine what he has in store for us as we get closer to Election Day. You can harp on Bush all you want, but a President is judged by his record. And this is the worst record I’ve ever seen by a President in my lifetime. Aside from keeping at least some Bush anti-terror policies in place and ordering the killing of bin Laden(which itself took Obama 16 hours to do), I can’t think of anything he’s done well since taking office.

What did the GOP block? Obama got his stimulus bill passed. It’s been an abject failure. He got his health care bill passed. It’s done nothing to prevent premiums from rising and is now requiring 1500 waivers and counting so millions don’t lose coverage. He got all the spending he wanted in 2009 and has kept it locked in place since the Dems have refused to pass a budget in the 2 years since. He got his auto bailout and the continuation of TARP. Even legislation that never got through Congress like card check and cap-and-trade(which were blocked by Harry Reid, NOT the GOP) are being instituted through executive power with the NLRB and EPA respectively.

The results speak for themselves. 9.2% unemployment, $4 trillion(and counting) in new debt, rising health care premiums, rising gas prices, rising food prices, record foreclosures and underwater mortgages, and now Moody’s and other credit rating agencies are threatening to downgrade the US from AAA regardless of what happens with the debt ceiling. Obama’s been in office for 2 1/2 years and has gotten nearly everything he wanted with no scrutiny from his own party or his adoring fans in the press. If he’s failed(and he has miserably), then it’s on him.

I’ve been to 3 Tea Parties. Social issues never came up. God was mentioned and I know that’s anathema to progressives, but the Tea Party is about reducing the size of government and decreasing spending. Most of them have more important things on their plate than gay marriage or women’s rights to terminate pregnancies.

Really? Where in the non-existent Tea Party charter does it say they’re opposed to that?

No, I’m not joking, everything I listed has occurred under the Obama regime.

Not a thing.

haha Sharia Law, you’re still beating that dead horse?

I watched the interview. Schieffer sounded more like a Democratic Party spokesman than a journalist, and he sounded unsure of himself, particularly when Rubio corrected him on something Schieffer claimed Obama had said. It was pretty said, really.

It’s going to take far more than raising the age limit to save social security. Anyone who has visited a social security office readily sees the problem. The soc.sec. program was designed to be an auxiliary retirement fund for the exclusive use of senior citizens. People this program was not designed for in large numbers, people who never paid a dime into the program are emptying this program. Regulations are going to have to be passed making soc.sec. do what is was originally intended to do.

 wrap it up BOB  ….we dont need any old hacks and schills for the propagandists .seriously ,youve become insignificant ….enjoy  your life,visit the grand kids ..play some golf…maybe Oblah willlet you caddy for him.

Have you run for elected office, Staci?  You seem to be just the kind of candidate the libs are looking for. Good luck with that!

Whoa there, Richard.  You better be careful.  You’re actually making sense there.
Lib heads could explode.

Now tell us where Carter landed on that list and we’ll all have a good laugh.

Don’t forget also that the estimate the plumber gave you was way off base and he’s gonna need a lot more cash to get the job done!

Let’s be clear….Obama is overspending by over a trillion dollars EACH YEAR.  Maybe you’re also not aware that most of that stimulus money is now added to the yearly budget, hence the huge monthly deficits we now have.
Yeah, he’s doing a great job.  Just great.

Actually, it’s like deciding to pay for a car wash instead of the car payment.  Treasury has the money to cover our loans, it’s the rest of the crap we need to cut out.

Historians are like Washington journalists — 97% vote Democratic. 

So the number you quote make quite a lot of sense.

After these historians are dead and forgotten, and another generation comes along that can view this period objectively, I think George W Bush is going to rank fairly high among 20th-century presidents. 

And after the baby boomers are gone, some of the presidents they liked the best will be downgraded by the following generations of historians.

A lot of people seem to forget that Congress was taken over by the liberal tax & spenders in 2006. You can blame Bush all you want for the pre-Obama woes, but the fact is that your party is just as complicit. Furthermore, Obama campaigned on change and all he has done is taken a bad situation and made it a heck of a lot worse. I would give anything to go back to the Bush years when I could afford gas & groceries and still have money left to spend.

A lot of people seem to forget that Congress was taken over by the liberal tax & spenders in 2006. You can blame Bush all you want for the pre-Obama woes, but the fact is that your party is just as complicit. Furthermore, Obama campaigned on change and all he has done is taken a bad situation and made it a heck of a lot worse. I would give anything to go back to the Bush years when I could afford gas & groceries and still have money left to spend.

Just haven’t tasted the best yet jdaboss. No comment from you (worth anything) except hatred. How tolerant of you bossy.

and any number of misguided attempts by Obama (mind you… not ALL of the money went to buy votes from “constituents” (you know the 40% that do nothing but drain the system) or to buy off special interests. My question that I’d like to get a serious worthy answer to is:

Why, when the senate AND the congress were ruled by crazy commies didn’t all of this “time sensitive” stuff didn’t they do any of this? These idiots could have passed (and did, remember the Obama (DON’T) care) a lot of extremely unpopular programs Why not take care of all of this when they could have? Because you can’t take advantage of a “crisis” if you don’t CREATE it. Or control it at least. Well, I don’t have all day to “learn ya” anything (it’s not just that you’re slow, but you’re so stubborn… heard it called, “stuck on stupid” but I won’t “stoop” to the level of the commies) so I’ll be saying my goodbyes

The largest ecological disaster in the history of the US and how he failed in handling the gulf oil spill.
Don’t forget about being on the brink of finanical disaster…
Possible downgrade on the credit rating

All I’ll say is, Its a shame no republicans were elected in 2008 or 2010 to fix the budget crisis we knew was looming.  Its amazing that no other elected official was elected in 08 or 2010 to fix the budget, only Obama.  Obama was elected to do all these things knowing that he would have Republicans threaten a filibuster on everything, and if they do somehow get an up or down vote, its accused of being “an undemocratic process in back rooms” and “crammed down the throats of Americans”.

Its a shame no one other than Obama was elected in 2008, and those elected in midterms in 2010, was elected to fix the taxes, spending, and the looming debt ceiling negotiations.

How could Republicans be obstructionists?  Congress the Senate and he white house were Democratically controlled with super majorities for the first two years.  Why did they not create and sing into law a budget?  The democrats spent 2009 and 2010 putting through bills they didn’t read.  Oh and let us not forget  Cash for Clunkers

Rick Perry also used those stimulus funds everyone seems so down on.

Rick Perry also slashed his firefighting budget, and then sought federal funds for help with wildfires.

Rick Perry also considered secession, or at least spoke of it in a positive light as a governor of a state, then requests federal funds every time a hurricane, fire, or other disaster hits. 

Rick Perry’s biggest qualification is he’s a tea party style politician, who uses governing and complimentary funding from the federal government. How’s that going to work out for ya in 2012?

So that is your response? The “Rate” of job loss has decreased. Such propaganda, you should be so proud. Work for the New Speak bureau of the Ministry of Truth?

Did Bush veto any spending bills? Did he publicly object to any spending? Please refresh my memory on the many times he must have done that to have no blame in this matter.

Oh. Wow! You 10 year-old locution is overwhelming.

You knucklehead.  Until November of 2010, Republicans were POWERLESS.  He had the House and 60 seats in the Senate.  Please remember that until Pelosi and Reid took over both houses of Congress, unemployment was 4-5% which is generally considered full employment.  When Bawney Fwank and Chrissy Dudd refused to reform Fannie and Freddie at the behest of Republicans while there was still time, our goose was cooked.

8 million jobs were created during the Bush admin…how many has Obama created???  The 750K you’re referring to were lost during the Pelosi/Reid debacle.

it took 8 years for Clusterf@ck bush to destroy our nation….the GOP wants a solution in the 2 years that Obama has been in office (w/o GOP cooperation i might add)

The health care plan hasnt taken effect yet genius….and it will work for those of us that cant afford insurance…as for wars- sometimes they are inevitable….the 2 wars clusterf@ck Bush startred were unwarranted…Obama promised he would end the wars with cooperation from the GOP…lol …there’s an oxymoron: cooperation/GOP

how do you stop a war…lol…..he has begun US troop pullout which is wat he promised…if u remember -the party of no (Gop)- wants to stay there til we win….maybe another 4000 american lives lost will convince gop to pull out

why then genius….. when the GOP and  Bush were in power did they not “fix” health care..2 wars..the economy etc etc lol

oh yea the media blame card again…..yea dats it….. the reason the GOP gets nowhere..lol

somebody has been listening to Rush Limpballs and insannity Hannity a liitle too long..pull ur nose out and breath

The Healthcare bill has not taken effect yet?  

Then why has the Veterans Administration issued statements to its patients that under the Affordable Healthcare Act, some medications formerly allowed are deemed to expensive and have been discontinued. 

If the AHCA has not taken effect, why are people already getting notices of premium increases from their insurance carriers? 

If the AHCA is not in effect, Why has the IRS issued a statement that says “Effective Jan. 1, 2011, the cost of an over-the-counter medicine or
drug cannot be reimbursed from Flexible Spending Arrangements or health
reimbursement arrangements unless a prescription is obtained.

As for your idiocy regarding the wars, Obama was supposed to have already ended them, but has instead involved us tn two other wars against countries that pose absolutely NO THREAT to the U.S. 

As for your assertion that he said he would only end them with GOP cooperation, you need to recheck your sources, his actual comment was “It is the first thing I will do…you can take that to the bank”,

http://youtu.be/8VlXfs1K04g

After the dimwit in the White House made numerous statements of condemnation against his predecessor for entering “stupid wars”.  If anyone has put us into “stupid wars”, it is Obama.

His first mistake was not heeding his own advice.  

http://youtu.be/Y2encXLmPDo

This is not disputable, what is disputable is that the Dems
are forgot that Ronald Reagan inherited a horrible economy, double digits
inflation, double digits unemployment, double digits interest rate, double
digits everything, but he FIXED it, to the tune of $ 13.8 Trillion economy, he
did not sit there for 3 years blaming the previous administration. Rubio is
absolutely correct, you will not get anywhere anymore with just plain BLAME
BUSH routine.

You have been watching  the ED Show on MSNBC for all your news. Look up who held Congress from 2008.
I agree somewhat on Bush he was a Globalist and should have run as a Democrate. but, check the fiqures since Dems and Obama have been in power. ONLY 2 YEARS Trillions more in debt and spending.

Obamas gave 100 Billion to the U.N. 700 Billion to the International Monetary fund. Billions to Pakistan and Afghanistan. and Billions more to Soros backed community leader thugs and Global Unions. 
stop blaming Bush. OBAMA OWNS IT NOW.

You have been watching  the ED Show on MSNBC for all your news. Look up who held Congress from 2008.
I agree somewhat on Bush he was a Globalist and should have run as a Democrate. but, check the fiqures since Dems and Obama have been in power. ONLY 2 YEARS Trillions more in debt and spending.

Obamas gave 100 Billion to the U.N. 700 Billion to the International Monetary fund. Billions to Pakistan and Afghanistan. and Billions more to Soros backed community leader thugs and Global Unions. 
stop blaming Bush. OBAMA OWNS IT NOW.

I am a Floridian and am proud to have voted for Mark Rubio. We have to many like you who might hope to gain by looking to Progressives for power over your own people. stopping immigrants from participating in the American Dream as they might say No more Buster we are going to vote for a good man like Mark not your friends like wasserman. 
Florida does not seem to be easily  tricked by Progressive Socialist lies.

I guess you will  like living under Deep Socialism and loosing so much of what our ancestors fought for.
Tax Cuts!!!!??? Sorry they were the same tax’s for all. Thats what America use to be. Until liberals found out they could buy the votes of Democrats.
A Rich man should pay the same tax as anybody making less than 250 thousand a year. Social Justice and ones fair share??????  We will become a nation of sheeple
Progressives brag that they own the Democratic party. they should be forced to start their own progressive party..

Good we hate people who suck our money away too … :)

Depression now, your point?

1000 lives have been lost in Afghanistan since Obama took over. More than in the ENTIRE TIME Bush was president.

What are you going to say now?

Schieffer’s common sense might be impaired by a possible touch of dementia.

Bonehead…..and Obummer started two more whitout congressional approval……waste your money, give me a break.  I earn mine.  Im a maker, not a taker……

Work harder….millions on welfare depend on you……I mean deocrats…

the total lack of facts by the takers.  Barney Frank = Fannie Mae = deocrats fault, they pushed banks to lend to people that cant pay for it.  Loan a homeless person a grand dumb arse…you people are pathetic….MOVE TO GREECE if you love obamas policies so much.

The space shuttle program is over…the waste is over….now we can spend more on Muslin outreach and global warming….

According to Republicans, that recession was caused by Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton forcing banks to lend good money to minorities. The GOP never accepts responsibility for a bad economy. If a recession happens during a GOP administration, it’s because  the Democrats didn’t enact their draconian spending cuts.