Political Reporter, should be in qoutes. This guy is obviously a partisan hack

To continuously crow about what a problem the deficit is while never allowing so much as a tax loophole to be closed in the interest of raising more revenue is disingenuo­us and unconscion­able.

Cutting taxes in wartime under Bush was lunacy. Continuing the Bush tax cuts is insanity.

It is so funny when a so-called journo gets into a “fights” with a congressman/woman….it is always a republican since the journo will ALWAYS take the side of this POTUS and the DNC.

It is the way it is, espcially on MSNBC.

If the GOP hates it, it must be good for the country. 

 Because the Journalist can spot the hypocrisy. 

Nice try – but false.It is because the journalist is a democrat….leans left, and will firght for the left, not the people, but the DNC.  It is what it is and there is no denying it.

So in other words, it was the Obama Press Corp. against Blackburn!

I did say most journalists take the side of sanity… which is 95% of the time “the left”

And there’s plenty of well-reasoned people that see just that, the rest are lagging behind.

I would love to see more  people on the news shows who actually want to find solutions rather than stick to their rigid ideals.

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Your uber partisan posts are starting to get tiring Tina. They used to provide some comic relief to my day but now they are just so predictable. The liberal lamestream is out to get us…blah blah blah….

What’s with the bad manners? 

Is it me or does Soledad get A LOT of coverage of this site. I don’t dislike her but she seems to get more than her fair share of pub on this site.

 lmao… I love it when you republicans have to like your own comments for self confirmation of your own hypocrisy…

carry on.

lunacy is giving more of my (and ours) money to Gov. who pisses it away  while lining their pockets.  Note Obamas personal wealth went from 1 million to 3 in 3 years while Prez.  Same for all Senators and most Congressman.

so the idiot with the Chai icon says.

 You mean the Obama tax cuts.

Interesting that you’ve avoided responding to the Pew study that found that Obama got more critical press than the Republicans. But I guess if I were you and had a hyper-partisan script to stick to, I wouldn’t want to acknowledge it either:

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/10/gop-gets-more-positive-press-than-obama-pew-study-finds/

How is hammering our businesses with more taxes going to help unemployment?

Brownstein? He’s one of the most respected political reporters in America. Deservedly so. Complete objectivity. If you don’t respect Brownstein, you just want talking points which affirm you own views.

#1 This was not MSNB, dear.
#2 Brownstein is as non-partisan, objective as is available in American journalism.

A bridge too far, my dear …. A bridge too far ….

Yes, my dear, there is a great deal of denying it. I am certainly there are no reporters who espouse your radical rightists views, but far from making them partisan and subjective, it make them just the opposite. When you’re the only one in the marching band on your left foot, you’re probably out-of-step.

It’s not a journalist’s job to find solutions. That is for the politicians, and what miserable failures we have in that regard.

Good luck with that link, EGOPM. You know that TinaTeaBag and the rest of the “conservatives” here have already deemed that part of the “Lame Stream Media”, thus unreliable. If doesn’t come from the KurvyKouchKlan, it ain’t true!

Well Ariana, the growth argument applies to dynamic growth-capable industrial, services & manufacturing-centric economies such as China’s and to a lesser extent ours. Does not apply to Greece

One brown lady in a room of two squaking hens and a old rich white guy. I can only imagine where this conversation went.

Yes, but he’s not reading off the day’s GOP talking points, so that automatically makes him “partisan.”

In listening to the clip, my comment is revised, I would have wanted to see an attempt at a balanced budget, regardless of the struggles we are currently in.

Compare job growth in the 1990s with job growth in the 2000s.

Your argument just went into the toilet.

Really hard to listen to.

Everyone making over a million dollars is not a job creator, sorry.  And those that are making over a million a year and creating jobs… obviously if they are making over a million a year their business is successful on it’s own merits and didn’t need a 0% tax rate to do so.  It’s scary to listen to republicans say that millionaires are the “job creator” saviors and we must fund them further to save the economy, it’s a bunch of rubbish. 

We push to have this consumer society where we have the best commercialized goods and services yet act like it’s not the middle class that legitimizes these commodities with how they purchase them.

I don’t see the logic in giving millionaires every break possible, as if putting the pressure on them and saying “Okay you have the max money your business can generate, save this economy!” is going to work.  Republicans are disgusted at the federal gov’t trying to throw money at problems, yet isn’t that exactly what’s happening here when the only tool you’re giving current businesses is a tax break, i.e., more money?

I think the answer is to invest in the middle class, invest in infrastructure, invest in education for our youth.  That is the only way true innovation will occur.  From the poor to the rich, everyone will benefit, and it can be done in our free market economy, and continue to use a free market economy.

For example. have a look at some true innovation that has absolutely created jobs, the “App Economy”

“The App Economy Produces Twice as many US Jobs as there are in Apples Chinese Manufacturing” 

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/02/08/the-app-economy-produces-twice-as-many-us-jobs-as-there-are-in-apples-chinese-manufacturing/ 

America can have the best economy in the world if we just give it the tools it needs, and that sure as hell is not going to happen by back-slapping the rich.  

Instead of pushing money to the top, we need to push it forward.  

Apparently ….

That may apply somewhat to giant corporations like Walmart or Apple with billions sitting in the bank, but small businesses like the one I’m in with <15 employees would suffer under higher taxes.

Only Stupid people believe jobs are created by rich people. It is not a complicated idea. If you have a business the best way to kill your business is to make your customers have no money. You can produce as much as you like but if no one buys your products you don’t make money so you don’t hire anyone.

Silly nonesense.

Truer words have yet to be spoken

The Pew “study” didn’t find that the MSM was more critical of Obama of than of Republicans. The Pew “study” found that Obama got a lot of negative coverage from the “media” — but included in its definition of media was online blogs and the like. Obama continues to get adoring coverage from the mainstream media, but certainly not from the many conservative blogs that are online.

partisan hack AKA speaks “facts” i don’t like. Pffft.

this clown should be married to Bachman, just repeats the same GOP talking points over and over. SAD!

Total US debt 20/1/08 – $9,188,640,287,930.39
Total US debt 20/1/09 – $10,626,877,048,913.08 (day of Obama’s inauguration)

The first annual $1 trillion increase in the national debt happened under Bush. DEAL WITH IT CONSERVATIVES!

http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/BPDLogin?application=np

SoulDad’s ‘dog-whistle:’ “I’ll NEVER get my OBAMO knee-pads unless I silence all dissent to what he wants to do.”

Could you define rich people? How much money must a person earn to be rich?

ariana is the only one who makes sense! greece is being forced by germany into a permanent downward spiral. the only beneficiary is germany, as their debt is gradually paid, but the greek people are forced into further depression to do so! the repubs want the same thing here! have the masses suffer more to pay down debt and don’t touch the top 5%! if there were truly growth policies such as infrastructure spending (not tax reduction) to get the economy growing, government revenue would increase organically allowing the paydown of debt without hurting the masses! then we would be in an upward economic cycle!!!

Here is the definition of “dog whistle.” You’ve used it incorrectly.

“Dog-whistle politics, also known as the use of code words, is a type of political campaigning or speechmaking which employs coded language that appears to mean one thing to the general population but has a different or more specific meaning for a targeted subgroup of the audience. The term is invariably pejorative, and is used to refer both to messages with an intentional subtext, and those where the existence or intent of a secondary meaning is disputed. The term is an analogy to dog whistles, which are built in such a way that the high-frequency whistle is heard by dogs, but appears silent to human hearing.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics

 And Obama added $5 Trillion to it – how many jobs did $5 Trillion get us?
It STOPPED the jobs from being created by expanding an already encroaching government takeover of the free markets.

Democrats are experts at spending OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY!
Let’s see how Democrats pay for their welfare entitlement state when they don’t have the Red States to fund their corruption!

Keep our money out of the corrupt Marxist-Democrats hands.

That’s what happens when a political party buys votes with other people’s money, that runs out – it’s called the Democratic Party here!

btw, Did the jackbooted bigots of the Democratic Left clamp down on any more Religious practices today?
Are they mandating the Church pay for abortions yet, or waiting to see if Obama gets a second term before that?

Ya gotta love this; the GOP candidates are falling all over themselves, and Obama bails them out with the Democrats War On Religion!

The richness is not the issue, although it is a good question. My point is that it is a very serious mistake to believe businesses create jobs. Businesses are not interested in creating jobs. They are there to make money, rightly. However, if there is no demand for their product, their business dies and they clearly can’t create jobs. Jobs are created because of consumption. You can test this by opening an exclusive swim-wear shop in the South Pole. Businesses invest if there is enough demand for their products and services. They are not a charity for creating jobs. The best government policy for businesses is one that fosters an environment where there is a large middle class.

So now you don’t like the tax cuts? When Bush passed them they were great now that Obama extended them you agree with the libs? Pablo ? You need a break

Ya they want to stop priests from sexually abusing young boys. How are you guys gonna fight this?

I disagree with everything you’ve said. And the idea that the government should use policy to build a large unitary class sounds a lot like socialism. 

Ron Brownstein is about as objective as Ezra Klein, David Corn, Eugene Robinson, Howard Fineman, Dana Millbank, Rachel Maddow or Ed Schultz, just to name a few non-partisan and “objective journalists”.

As a Texan, I formally apologize to the nation for Jeb Hensarling.

 Obama: 2013 budget reflects “tough choices”

FYI: here are the lunatic-left d-cRAT socialist “tough choices” – SPEND, SPEND, SPEND and TAX, TAX, TAX America into another high-tax, low-growth, no jobs, failed socialist entitlement state like Greece.

He didn’t say a word about higher taxes for small businesses, in fact he was advocating closing tax loopholes (which, incidentally, the tighty-rightys have been bending over backwards to protect).

The REAL bad politicians are those who have been infected by corruption, due to the fact that they overstayed their welcome by running for and, sadly, winning their posts which only serves the purpose of lining their own pockets.

The best solution for all the problems would be term limits to get rid of any and all dead wood after two terms.

If two terms is enough for the President, it should be enough for all of them.

With your kind of logic, it is plain to see that you never worked a day in your life, or if you ever did, you were hired by a penniless hobo.

No, you don’t understand the issue. True, the guy who owns the business where you work has to have money. But his business would not exist unless his products and services have consumers. Obviously.

Are the football coaches like Jerry Sandusky, priests?

Does anyone need any more proof that liberals/Democrats/progressives, like (CAR) are misogynist and sexist demagogues who see everything through the prism of unbridled racism????

False.

If a higher percentage based tax rate makes your business suffer, it’s not the rate, it’s the fact that your business was never any good in the first place.

$1,000,000 x 15% tax rate = $150,000 tax total = $850,000 profit total

$1,150,000 x 25% tax rate = $287,500 tax total = $862,500 profit total

Do better?

You are oh so right Emma Thomas!

People with jobs are employed by poor people.

Did you put up any resistance when those burly guys in white took you to the Institution?

You disagree that business can’t survive without consumers? That is not an opinion, it is a fact. If no one buys your product, you can’t have a business.

The problem with the involvement of government in economic life is that almost no one realises the massive role governments played in building big rich countries. This has always, without exception, been the case.

Socialism in the US basically means government people don’t like. The same people who love Medicare and Social security complain about socialism. The rich guys who exist because of bail outs complain about socialism. It is a meaningless term. Do I want the government to direct the economy? No. But I don’t want to live a country where governments neglect infrastructure, health care, R&D and environmental protection. If that is socialism, I want to have more of it.

Could she give a number as to what percent would be a FAIR tax?

This was a brawl? I thought folks would be interrupting each other and raising their voices to the high heavens, possible even a red face or two. This just seemed like the normal disagreements we’ve been seeing for quite a while out of the Beltway. Meh.

Woo Hoo: Obama’s new budget even with the tax increases will have the national Debt explode past $25 trillion by 2021. “Democratic Socialists”  sooner or later you run out of other peoples money.

I don’t think you know what profit means. There are salaries/wages, overhead costs, rent, insurance, raw materials, that leave you with a small margin of profit. 

If your profit margin is too small, then sorry, that’s your fault and you deserve to fail. You shouldn’t have started a business that can’t make money.  Isn’t that like business 101?

No, because rich people are stupid! How do you think they got rich?? STUPIDITY!

Ah yes, much like General Motors was never any good in the first place. Right?

Be honest and apologize for Sheila Jackson-Lee.

Using a definite outlier to try to prove your point.  General Motors… LOL!

Nice try!

No but he is a republican!

Business 101 would teach you the difference in a revenue and a profit. 

You guys aren’t extinct? Haven’t heard anyone admit to bein a Tea P’er in a long while. Wonder why? Oh ya the budget debacle!

SNAP DOOOOSH .. You are an IDIOT … Republicans and Bush overspent by 18.6 trillion ..

For 2 meaningless wars and election based tax cuts

TeaParty DOOOOSH … Getoff the Fox News Plantation !

Economic history says the govt has to spend during a recovery … IDIOT !

Look at you trying to poke at my fake numbers as if I’m proposing legislation myself based on my mediaite comment arithmetic.  

You’re pathetic.

The point of my overly simplistic numbers was to show that if the propensity to consume increases in your market, then even with a higher tax rate you will make more money with a slight increase in overall production.

You’ve said nothing to prove as to how your particular business or other business would legitimately ”suffer” by higher taxes.  Nothing at all.

Post some of your own figures if you think you have a point to prove.

Eyes rolling.

Half of the people you’ve listed wouldn’t even call themselves objective journalists, so your argument is pretty hollow.

Brownstein is an excellent, fair, highly respected and completely objective newsman. The fact that you don’t like what he has to say is the problem.

But that’s always the problem with people like you. You and Tina and the others need to be pandered to incessantly.

So you are for the party of women’s rights, diversity, and equal opportunity? But that would make you a Democrat so I don’t understand??

As a Texas, I would apologize for both, and I would add Gohmert to the list.

And the largest unfunded entitlement program in the history of the country. Medicare Part B under Bush didn’t even bother to pay for it. Where were you back then?

I can see the need for several apologies from my state, but Mrs. Jackson-Lee is not one of them. You, on the other hand, there is no excuse for…

 Marsha Blackburn Voted FOR:
Omnibus Appropriations, Special Education, Global AIDS Initiative, Job Training, Unemployment Benefits, Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations, Agriculture Appropriations, FY2004 Foreign Operations Appropriations, U.S.-Singapore Trade, U.S.-Chile Trade, Supplemental Spending for Iraq & Afghanistan, Flood Insurance Reauthorization , Prescription Drug Benefit, Child Nutrition Programs, Surface Transportation, Job Training and Worker Services, Agriculture Appropriations, Foreign Aid, Debt Limit Increase, Fiscal 2005 Omnibus Appropriations, Vocational/Technical Training, Supplemental Appropriations, UN “Reforms.” Patriot Act Reauthorization, CAFTA, Katrina Hurricane-relief Appropriations, Head Start Funding, Line-item Rescission, Oman Trade Agreement, Military Tribunals, Electronic Surveillance, Head Start Funding, COPS Funding, Funding the REAL ID Act (National ID), Foreign Intelligence Surveillance, Thought Crimes “Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, Peru Free Trade Agreement, Economic Stimulus, Farm Bill (Veto Override), Warrantless Searches, Employee Verification Program, Body Imaging Screening, Patriot Act extension., Supplemental Appropriations, Patriot Act Extension.

Marsha Blackburn Voted AGAINST:
Ban on UN Contributions, eliminate Millennium Challenge Account, WTO Withdrawal, UN Dues Decrease, Defunding the NAIS, Iran Military Operations defunding Iraq Troop Withdrawal, congress authorization of Iran Military Operations, Withdrawing U.S. Soldiers from Afghanistan, Libya Troop Withdrawal.

Marsha Blackburn is my Congressman.
See her “blatantly unconstitutional” votes at :
http://mickeywhite.blogspot.com/2009/09/tn-congressman-marsha-blackburn-votes.html
Mickey

 Been bagging wig cleaner?

 She’s blowing someone.

Obviously, to a person of your shrewd acumen. But for those of us possessed of lesser intellect, but already familiar with his work, your first-time observation lacks a certain uh…accuracy.

In other words, you don’t know wtf you’re talking about.