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President Obama Announces Debt Crisis Agreement Between Leaders Of Both Parties

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In what we’ve been led to believe to be the eleventh hour, 59th minute and 59th second before financial meltdown, President Obama announced a compromised deal tonight on a debt crisis resolution that has been agreed upon by party leaders of both chambers. How dire was the debt situation which led to the Sunday night announcement of this apparent resolution? All broadcast networks interrupted prime time programming to air the presidential speech, which you can watch below in its entirety.

“There are still some very important votes to be taken by members of congress” Obama opened before adding “but I want to announce that the leaders of both parties in both chambers have reached an agreement that will reduce the deficit and avoid default, the default that would have had a devastating affect on our economy.” Obama then outlined cuts in domestic spending and announced the establishment of a bipartisan committe to report back by November with a proposal on how best to reduce the deficit.

A compromise or kicking the can down the road to November? This will be the topic of conversation on cable news for the weeks and months to come. Watch the president’s comments below, courtesy of Fox News:

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  • Anonymous

    Get ready for a parade of ‘Me, I, My’ from him.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    There’s no joy in Teastoogeville tonight. The not so mighty Tea Stooges have struck out. And it’s a damn good thing – those idiots would rather a Great Depression II than any real solutions. That’s what you get when stupid becomes a political movement and they push slogans as solutions and cal it ‘tea.’. 

  • Anonymous

    Anyone else just happy that it’s over now?

  • Anonymous

    Barry, ya lost your $800 billion in taxes Boehner agreed to!

    Winning!

    LOL

    Now, please go back under your desk and tweet for help!

  • nancillarypeloslinton

    According to Obama it’s fair to raise taxes on corporations.I think it’s fair to raise taxes on voters who don’t pay taxes.I gotta’ pay taxes. I’m not rich. From now on poor people should pay taxes. Talk about balancing the budget.

  • Terriagatha

    I am done with Obama.

  • Anonymous

    OMG- talk about delusional!

    Barry had Boehner agreeing to $800 billion in new taxes just over a week ago and now??

    $0.00- zero, nada zip!

    LOL

    With losers like you for Barry, this country will indeed succeed!

  • Anonymous

    One term looser

  • nancillarypeloslinton

    Tonight all the Obama-garglers are eaten’ sh!t big-time! LMFAO! heheheheheheheh.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    The disastrous Bush tax cuts expire at the end of 2012, right after Obama is re-elected. You know, those tax cuts that gave us more revenue and cut unemployment such that the economy is healthy now, unemployment is at 2.5%.  Oh, wait……. 

  • Re-Elect Obama 2012

    Bye, Bye Balanced Budget Amendment. 

  • Anonymous

    ****DISCLAIMER – THIS IS ONLY MY OPINION – DON’T GET A BUG UP YOUR ASS!****LOLOL

    Now let’s pick the winners and losers…

    Biggest losers – The Tea Party.  They should be the biggest winners because they started this debate but they ultimately wouldn’t compromise and they stole defeat from the jaws of victory.
    They should be spiking the ball but instead have been marginalized by their own party and won’t be part of the final agreement..  Their poll numbers are WAY down.
    Michelle Bachmann (and King and others) looked especially ridiculous for her head-in-the-sand approach….”Default, what default?”

    2nd Biggest loser -  Boehner.  A weak leader who was embarrassed by his party when he couldn’t get the votes to his own bill.  He will be remembered for walking away from negotiations and then failing on his own when he became the “dogs tail”.

    3rd Biggest loser – Obama – He gave away too much and appeared weak to his own party. He never really held any cards. He was up against a party who was willing to blow up the economy and weren’t bluffing.
    I think this deal will play well with independents though. 

    Winners –

    Reid and McConnell.  They will get credit for brokering a deal, which is kinda pathetic.  To see them gloat now is sickening.

    The American People – Disaster was avoided, although IMO (and Obama’s) they deserved the Grand Bargain.

    Now hopefully someone will show their penis so we can move on to more important things.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    BTW, what happend to that Teastoogelicious Balanced Budget Amendment?

  • nancillarypeloslinton

    Hey country ‘Boy! You still livin’ down there in InBreedingLeadstoInBreeding Falls, AL? How’s your mama, did she get that new tooth yet? Make sure those highfalutin’ idears get translated for ‘y’all now ‘ya hear!

  • Moderate

    You remind me of Egyptians celebrating victory in the war of 1973 when in reality, they got their asses kicked.

  • BLUEBUNNY

    GET READY FOR….WE WON!!WE WON!!! SEE WE HAVE THAT BLACK MAN ON THE RUN!!! RUN TOBY RUN!!!   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjYSuWwT3EM&feature=player_embedded

  • BLUEBUNNY

    GET READY FOR….WE WON!!WE WON!!! SEE WE HAVE THAT BLACK MAN ON THE RUN!!! RUN TOBY RUN!!!   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjYSuWwT3EM&feature=player_embedded

  • nancillarypeloslinton

    The said part for you, he’d been done with you much longer!

  • Anonymous

    BBA vote required after October 1st and before the end of the year.

  • Anonymous

    BBA vote required after October 1st and before the end of the year.

  • Anonymous

    what’s a looser?  Is that the official term for someone who can’t spell?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    Funny, you remind me of Baghdad Bob telling the world Saddam would defeat the American invaders when in reality Saddam was hiding in a spider hole waiting to be hanged.

  • nancillarypeloslinton

    Patience is required, they don’t realize this yet.

  • realheadline

    Progressives lose. Big time!

  • Anonymous

    Ummm…I think it’s part of the trigger and triggers are never pulled because they are too unpleasant to both sides.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    Which one of those Whites from West Virginia are you? The one who thinks shaking the O.C. bottle is a mating call?

  • realheadline

    The despicable cowardice of racial politics. Obama would be so proud.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t 100% agree with you, but I like people posting comments offering analysis rather than the usual pointless name-calling. 

  • Anonymous

    No one political party won. I’m disappointed in the babies in Washington, but I’m proud of the American system tonight.

  • nancillarypeloslinton

    You ate it along with the Obama-Slurpers Captain’s Feast at the Red Neckster seafood buffoons all-you-can-eat-buffet restaurant.

  • Anonymous

    Classy

  • Anonymous

    +1

  • Anonymous

    Cuts only with a Balanced Budget Amendment vote required. 

    The Hobbits have made it out of Moria, next stop Minas Tirith.

    Boehner the gray
    may have be reborn Cantor the white.

  • Anonymous

    Nobody wins. Can kicked down the road again.

  • John

    Kickin the can down the road is exactly what they are doing. When it comes to actual cuts do you really think they will be made. Of course not they only know how to spend and spend some more. God save our country. Default was never really the question, the question was whether they could avoid govt. shutdown. It’s too bad someday the economy will collapse when ther is no other option but to default.

  • nancillarypeloslinton

    Classy? How about this for class?

    Al Sharpton, MSNBC anchor, calling somebody a “Punk Faggot”

    http://www.mediaite.com/tv/rev-al-sharpton-no-longer-calls-people-“punk-fggots”-but-new-documentary-trailer-shows-he-did/

    Which one do you think is classier?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1431811538 Josh Kim

    You don’t have anything to add to the conversation other than insulting people whom you do not know? That says a lot about you.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1431811538 Josh Kim

    It’s fair to raise taxes on those who can afford to pay. Corporations have reaped the benefits from America’s deregulated economy. Corporations reap enormous profits. Corporations take advantage of tax loopholes thanks to the armies of CPAs and attorneys working for them. Poor people don’t have attorneys, nor CPAs, not good ones anyway.

  • John

    The winners are the washingtonians and those seeking govt. bailouts and handouts. The losers are the hardworking American people,the taxpayer. Can anyone say bankruptcy, that’s where we are at.

  • nancillarypeloslinton

    Look you stupid hill-ape, nobody and I mean nobody could’ve figured out Political Correctness and DemoKKKrat politics any better than an inbred, blind, banjo-playin’ country trash from Clintonville, AR to dredge that idea up. I guess all the rest of the DemoKKKrats are too ignorant to understand that, right Country Boy?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    Just wait until talk radio gets a hold of this… KAAAAABOOM

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    Are you talking about MSNBC type classy or Ghetto Thief in Chief classy ?

  • Republicans are Liars

    You’re a racist prick, too!

  • realheadline

    A line has been drawn. The wholesale looting by politicians in general is now under intense scrutiny. Progressives no longer have a blank check to use their Keynsian voodoo. Step 1 complete. Not a win for us, but a loss for progressives in general. The main focus is on the debt now, not on “economic stimulus”.

  • Republicans are Liars

    You can rest assured that isn’t going to pass.

  • Moderate

    Obama kicked budget limit can down the road until after the elections and the TEA party got what they wanted. Progressives lost big.

  • Anonymous

    Even if he isn’t re-elected he will still have enough time left to make sure they expire.

    It’ll be a going-away present to the Right.  :)

  • nancillarypeloslinton

    He’s a DemoKKKrat-that’s the point!

  • Glenn Bovine

    So,

    you idiots got another loan and no way to pay for it.

    Brilliant.

  • Republicans are Liars

    The only thing that needs to be done is vote the lunatic fringe (teaidiots) out of office get the full 60 proof majority in the senate and let America get back to being America. Tax the RICH! Tax the RICH! Tax the RICH!Tax the RICH! Tax the RICH! Tax the RICH! Tax the RICH! Tax the RICH! Tax the RICH! Tax the RICH! Tax the RICH! Tax the RICH! Tax the RICH!

  • Republicans are Liars

    The only thing that needs to be done is vote the lunatic fringe (teaidiots) out of office get the full 60 proof majority in the senate and let America get back to being America. Tax the RICH! Tax the RICH! Tax the RICH!Tax the RICH! Tax the RICH! Tax the RICH! Tax the RICH! Tax the RICH! Tax the RICH! Tax the RICH! Tax the RICH! Tax the RICH! Tax the RICH!

  • nancillarypeloslinton

    No but poor people reap the benefits of Obama and his like. My taxes go to people who sit on their a@@ all day but get the right to vote. That is unfair and everybody knows Obama, right or wrong, is all about fairness. Make the poor pay their fair share for the privilege of living in this country.

  • nancillarypeloslinton

    No but poor people reap the benefits of Obama and his like. My taxes go to people who sit on their a@@ all day but get the right to vote. That is unfair and everybody knows Obama, right or wrong, is all about fairness. Make the poor pay their fair share for the privilege of living in this country.

  • Anonymous

    Won’t be voting for Obama again.  Time for a real 3rd party.  https://secure.americanselect.org/

  • realheadline

    Wow, class warfare on meth, fascinating……..

  • Anonymous

    I have no illusions about its passage, but it is part of this deal. It’s just fun to watch Progressives vote against a balanced budget over and over.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CQWUTBF2KSSVOXCR4PSN66L2PM James

    I agree Sharpton has no class and he is a puck ass … But what does this have to do this topic ?

  • Anonymous

    But you sure do like companies like GE and EXXON/MOBIL paying any taxes.  Let the poor people pay their share.

  • nancillarypeloslinton

    Idiot, BLUEBUNNY is African-American. LMFAO! heheheheheheh!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CQWUTBF2KSSVOXCR4PSN66L2PM James

    I glad something is done. But I don’t like the idea of medcare or Socal Sercurty being on the table. Those the one thing that should not be mess with.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    The deals a joke. Save 1 trillion over 10 years while they spend 8 trillion more…

  • nancillarypeloslinton

    Yes, finally! A liberal with sense. The TEA PARTY!

  • Anonymous

    No we’re talking about you racists classy.

  • Anonymous

    Sorry I have a brain and an education.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1431811538 Josh Kim

    Don’t you see that we have a high unemployment rate? Are you blind? Don’t you see that very few business are hiring right now? Why do you willfully choose to ignore this? I am a Republican. I am a Republican who remembers that Reagan raised the debt ceiling. It was his successor George H. W. Bush who had to agree to a tax raise. That was the responsible thing to do, albeit politically suicidal. Bush 41 paid the price for Reagan’s dumb policies.

    Actually, your taxes go to the military as well. Your taxes go to national defense, emergency services, roads, to corporations. Are you telling me that you’d rather your tax dollars go to bail out people who have lots of money to begin with???

  • qwerty

    make the corporations pay more for getting to do business in this country where useful idiots like you will spend their worthless time defending them

  • Anonymous

    I’ll tie a bow on any going away present.

    2010 was the first wave, wait till the 2012 tsunami
    hits. We’ll roll back everything this delusional progressive has inflicted on
    the people.

     

  • Anonymous

    You really are the most revoting person I’ve read here.  And that’s saying a lot.

  • Anonymous

    Finally this soap opera is over!! Conservatives ended up with a small win and a major blow to liberals… Now they can focus…on the question that´s in everybody´s mind….Where are the jobs? Because is the end, is what really matters…not the political game they had on Capitol Hill…

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    $1 Trillion in savings over the next ten years.

    I am glad they have that legislation to cover the moon with yogurt for $5 Trillion, that way they can cut $1 Trillion off of that!

  • Anonymous

    Most Republican bills never have any chance of passing, they are just for show, so why should this one be any different?

  • Moderate

    GE takes care of Obama and Obama takes care of GE, same way with Unions.

  • nancillarypeloslinton

    Al Sharpton is a cult-like leader of Democratic politics and is an MSNBC legend/star/chief propagandist. MSNBC moralizes about FOX, the Tea Party, Sarah Palin (Obamacare was Palin’d, living proof is the language removed that specified ‘death panels) and to the rest of us on the right. The debt crisis has been deified by the ‘Left by virtue of the fact that the Tea Party made Obama blink once again. Obama all always live in the shadow of the Tea Partiers and GWB-no greatness in history for him. Al Sharpton, the old race-baiting homophobe is going to lecture America about what’s right or wrong? Think not. That’s all.

  • Michelle

    The debt-ceiling deal: Winners and losers
    Tea party: There were major questions coming into the 112th
    Congress about who would blink first — the largely establishment-aligned
    leaders of the new Republican House majority or the tea-party-aligned freshman members. We got our answer to that question late Thursday as House Speaker John Boehner
    was forced not only to postpone his compromise bill but ultimately to
    add conservative sweeteners to get the 217 votes he needed. (He got
    218.) The tea party — inside and outside Congress — will almost
    certainly be emboldened by the result of this fight.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-debt-ceiling-deal-winners-and-losers/2011/07/31/gIQAHl7FmI_story.html

    Why must you libs always be seething with rage?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1431811538 Josh Kim

    What is a KKK? You mean those white supremacists who wear hoods and burn crosses while lynching minorities?

    Is that what Democrats do?

  • Michelle

    Um GE is best buds with Ozero.  Take it up with him, Kitty Kat.

  • BLUEBUNNY

    HARDLY!! JUST POINTING OUT THE CHANT THE REPUBLICAN/TEAPUBLICANS ARE SINGING!! PROOF IS THE REPUBLICAN/TEAPUBLICANS ARE MAKING A LAUGHING STOCK OUT OF OUR AMERICA!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…  

  • Glenn Bovine

    Bu… bu… bu.. the gNOpigs said they were NOT going to agree to raise the debt ceiling!

    I believe them gNOpigs! They stand by their principles.

    Or maybe not.

    I feel sorry for the little gNOpiggies who where here claiming the debt ceiling wouldn’t be raised.

    Maybe not.

  • Michelle

    The debt-ceiling deal: Winners and losers

    Winners

    Mitch McConnell: The Kentucky Republican was like the Mariano
    Rivera of the debt deal. He waited until the game was in its final
    moments, came onto the field and helped close things down (in a good
    way). McConnell
    was also a voice of reason and frankness for Republicans, making clear
    that default would be a huge political loser for the party. In the end,
    he got a deal the way he wanted one — with him at the center of
    negotiations.

    Tea party: There were major questions coming into the 112th
    Congress about who would blink first — the largely establishment-aligned
    leaders of the new Republican House majority or the tea-party-aligned freshman members. We got our answer to that question late Thursday as House Speaker John Boehner
    was forced not only to postpone his compromise bill but ultimately to
    add conservative sweeteners to get the 217 votes he needed. (He got
    218.) The tea party — inside and outside Congress — will almost
    certainly be emboldened by the result of this fight.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-debt-ceiling-deal-winners-and-losers/2011/07/31/gIQAHl7FmI_story.html

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1431811538 Josh Kim

    It’s like he’s been brainwashed by Rush Limbaugh for 20 years.

  • Michelle

    Seething with rage, indeed.

  • Michelle

    She’s one of you, buddy!

  • Anonymous

    Seriously, these kind of posts are so useless.
    Why do you think anyone wants to hear your predictions 16 months before the fact?
    Not just you, both sides do it.

    You would think people would learn to stop making these stupid predictions after they are proven wrong time and time again, by Harry Reid’s recent win or John McCain’s presidential loss.

    Anyway, that’s just me. I don’t make predictions this far out. That’s why I conceded Obama might lose.
    It’s just juvenile bragging.

  • realheadline

    Use it. Prrrr……

  • Anonymous

    Not one jobs bill from the Republican majority in the House.  I wouldn’t count on anything changing.  Blackmail has worked very well for them so far.  Expect it to continue.  It’s what they do best.  Personally, I hope the right can’t get the votes and we do default.  It’s the only way to stop blackmail politics until we can vote in a strong leader.

  • BLUEBUNNY

    YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT COLOR! I AM!! ! FUNNY HOW YOU THINK ALL ARE AFRICAN AMERICAN OR GAY WHO DO NOT AGREE WITH YOU!! FOOLISH COLOR BLIND HUMAN!!

  • Michelle

    It’s in the Dem’s best interest to try to make people believe that they need gov’t to take care of them.  That they are too stupid to make their own decisions.  That they can’t be successful without their help.  It’s sad how many people buy into that. 

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    Congratulations Mr. President.  Higher interest rates would’ve put more of tax a burden on everyone.  But I still think those tax credits for the wealthy should’ve been cut off.  

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1431811538 Josh Kim

    I’m a Republican and I think the rich can afford to pay more taxes. I think calling the rich “job creators” is rather silly because we’ve had many years of lowered tax rates for those job creators and they haven’t created many jobs. Obama extended the Bush era tax cuts for the top bracket of wage earners and that has done literally nothing to better the economy. The gap between the wealthy and the poor is ever increasing, it’s not a capitalism market we’re living in so much as it is a plutocracy. It is un-American.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, the serious business the Republicans like to spend their time and the tax payers dollars on.

  • Michelle

    What % of their income do you think the rich should pay?  Just curious?  70%, 80%, how about all of it?

  • nancillarypeloslinton

    Google Betty Ford for chrissakes! No matter what the poison is that you made that deal with devil with there’s actually help for people like you.

  • Cain

    Stonepark3 – $800 billion would have require Obama to sign on to massive cuts to entitlements. Those cuts would have hurt Obama in the 2012 elections. It wasn’t worth it for him. 

  • Anonymous

    hmmmmmm and all along I thought it was the Republicans who were fighting tooth and nail to make sure corporations don’t pay any taxes.

  • Anonymous

    In what we’ve been led to believe to believe…

    Of all the phrases I’ve read on Mediaite, this is the one that gives me the most hope.

    Nicely done, Colby.

  • Cain

    Doesn’t the CBO have to score this deal? 

  • Anonymous

    Progressive racists typical.

    There are no winners. America is heading the wrong direction and only the Tea Party
    hobbits stand between us and spending oblivion. Obama is just advancing Bush spending
    at an accelerated rate.

  • Anonymous

    Of course that’s what s/he’s saying.  Just as long as poor people pay more taxes .that’s the only thing that matters.  Class warfare waged by the wealthy and powerful in this country feeds right into mindsets like this.  It’s such a useful shiny object to flash at they’re very useful idiots.

  • Anonymous

    “We got our answer to that question late Thursday as House Speaker John Boehner
    was forced not only to postpone his compromise bill but ultimately to
    add conservative sweeteners to get the 217 votes he needed.”

    I would agree with you but those “sweeteners” never made it into the final deal.
    It was a waste of time that impolded your party for no reason and ultimately left the Tea Party losing on their final demands anyway.  No forced BBA passage in exchange for a deal.  And it unleashed the hounds of Righty Hell on the Tea Party with Brooks, Scarborough, McCain, WSJ, Krauthammer, O’Reilly and Kristol etc all turning on them.
    KRISTOL: “an infantile form of conservatism”.

    I’m not surprised you call them winners knowing your history but they could have walked away looking A LOT better then they eventually did.
    If this was Blackjack they asked for one too many cards.   lol

  • realheadline

    Bullsh!t you’re a republican  The term “the rich” wouldn’t be in your vocabulary,  you wouldn’t see the ecomomy as a zero sum game. RINO?

  • nancillarypeloslinton

    A DemoKKKrat is like Al Sharpton. You know the leader of MSNBC. He is a homophobe (and you know what that means!). He is a racist as well.

    A DemoKKKrat is any ‘Left-wing tool that uses any racial epithets towards an African-American who is conservative.

    A DemoKKKrat (Bill Maher, Ed Shultz) is misogynist towards conservative women and feels proud to use disgusting towards them. Of course they’re never that way around their own kind.

    DemoKKKrats are the accepted hypocrites of ‘The Left. ‘Leftwingers that tolerate this are also DemoKKKrats.

    I hope I’ve cheerfully filled you in! LMFAO!

  • BLUEBUNNY

    HOW ABOUT THEY JUST START PAYING THEIR FAIR SHARE FOR THE PRIVILEGE OF LIVING IN THIS GREAT AMERICA OF OURS! HOPE YOU SLOW REPUBLICAN/TEAPUBLICANS NOTICE I SAY “OUR” AMERICA!

  • Anonymous

    Wow who could have guessed this!

  • Anonymous

    I think the term is racist.

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    You sound like a Republican with some common sense. They’re not the job creators, but the job movers!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1431811538 Josh Kim

    Reagan raised the debt ceiling. Even Reagan raised taxes. Go back to bed and let the adults argue.

  • Anonymous

    Only a
    small group in representatives are interested in cutting but we will have an opportunity
    in 2012 to primary the RINOs and put a reformer in the Whitehouse. Perhaps then
    a rollback of the progressive poison can happen.

  • Anonymous

    Take a gander at near-suicidal Paul Krugman and come back and tell us that the Tea Party ‘struck out.’ Leftist radical media hacks like Krugman, Schultz, MadCow (et al) are all in an apoplectic rage, so I very much enjoy witnessing that.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1431811538 Josh Kim

    I missed the days of George H. W. Bush. I wish many more like him may show up and lead instead of the extreme Left and extreme Right that we have today. 

  • Anonymous

    “What % of their income do you think the rich should pay?  Just curious?  70%, 80%, how about all of it? “

    lol…when I read this I hear Sean Hannity’s voice.

  • nancillarypeloslinton

    Good to know you’ll be thinking about me. I’m an American. Why don’t you leave?

  • nancillarypeloslinton

    We also want poor people who vote to pay taxes as well. I’m not rich. I pay taxes. Why don’t they?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1431811538 Josh Kim

    We have corporate welfare and we have public welfare. Both systems have been abused. I like the Chris Christie approach to politics. Stop the posturing and let people know where you stand but also be willing to work with those responsible leaders across the aisle, like the Mayor of Newark.

  • Anonymous

    I always assumed you were blue.

  • nancillarypeloslinton

    “Debt ceiling” is the new racist!

  • realheadline

    Reagan would have hated you progressive thieves, about that there is no doubt. Listen to his first inaugural speech. Your a parrot not a thinker.

  • nancillarypeloslinton

    Poor people like you, you know VICTIMS! You VICTIMS need to get off your poor dead a@@ and start paying taxes if you get the right to vote and the privilege to live in my country. Otherwise leave America for Americans.

  • nancillarypeloslinton

    Reports are Al-Qaeda is sewing bombs up their tooters and DemoKKKrats are surgically inserting their heads up their a@@.

  • Anonymous

    The public perception of the tea party took the biggest hit in all this madness.  They went from conservative darlings to conservative scapegoats. 

  • Anonymous

    Now I’m convinced there is really only one party!
    Rupert Murdoch given $27M no-bid contract from state Department of Education
    Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/education/2011/07/31/2011-07-31_rupert_ripoff_alert_16_firms_were_up_for_27m_doe_deal_murdoch_will_get_bidfree.html#ixzz1Tk08sKuB

  • Anonymous

    over???….did i miss the vote in the house and senate??? what did you win???just a few days ago you repukes voted for a balanced budget amendment that had to be sent to the states prior to raising the debt limit in 6 months…..DID YOU GET THAT ???….NOPE…did you get your cuts upfront like you demanded???…..NOPE…what you got was cuts to medicare providers…DOCTORS & HOSPITALS…now doctors are gonna hate you wingnuts…Did you get to privitize social security???…NOPE AGAIN…youre to stupid to talk from your own mind…BETTER WAIT TILL YOU GET YA MARCHING ORDERS FROM LIMMBALLS TOMORROW B4 YOU ENDORSE THIS PLAN…..PRESIDENT OBAMA SCREWED OVER YOU REPUKES BIGTIME WITH THIS PLAN

  • Anonymous

    Actually, this deal makes higher interest rates more likely than ever. That’s what’s pissing off the left so much about this deal, they know that Obama and the Democrats will be more vulnerable than ever next year.

  • Anonymous

    Where´s your messiah now? Got any hope and change?

  • Anonymous

    Why?  You wouldn’t read it anyway.

  • Moderate

    “It is not yet set in stone, and there may still be time to make it better. But in the end, most Democrats will have no choice but to swallow their fury, accept the deal, and, we hope, fight harder the next time.”

    NYTimes opinion page EDITORIAL

  • Anonymous

    You sir unlike most hobbits have a brain…you know when youre getting screwed…kinda hurts when Obama sticks it in you without the lube…thats what he did

  • Anonymous

    I would call you out for having half a mind or capability to discuss economic policy.

    I am sure that I am wrong on the first half and the latter would mean that you could get your shoelaces right.

    You are the reason scientists invented velcro.

  • Anonymous

    im watching congressman phil gingry from georgia on fixed noise with greta right now….THIS CONGRESSMAN IS DUMBER THAN A BOX OF FREAKING ROCKS…HE THINKS HES GONNA VOTE ON THE BOEHNER BILL AGAIN TOMORROW

  • nancillarypeloslinton

    BAIL OUT? Bail Out? Your president put much more money into the pockets of Wall Street and the Bankers than they had under GWB. Selective memory could be a sign of DemoKKKruptism. Go see your doctor immediately.

  • Anonymous

    Really?  Inaugural speech?  I am sure you always go nuts over Obama’s inaugural speech.

    You are not even worth a parrot.  You do not know Reagan anymore than any moron I see claiming the mantle.

    You have confused Reagan and Harry Potter mantle.  The latter gives you invisibility and you should just spend a few years.

  • nancillarypeloslinton

    The CEO’s of IBM, Cisco, Dell, other tech bellwethers, etc, etc. offered Obama 10 years of free IT support to get rid of fraud and waste throughout Medicare and Medicaid. Obama turned this offer down. You must be crying about this.

  • nancillarypeloslinton

    Reagan raised the debt ceiling 18 times. Obama wants no more debt ceiling raises.

    “I knew President Reagan, and President Obama, you are no President Reagan!” LMFAO!

  • nancillarypeloslinton

    Actually Al Sharpton, the leader of MSNBC and the DemoKKKrats, is a racist homophobe.

    Here’s the link:

    http://www.mediaite.com/tv/rev-al-sharpton-no-longer-calls-people-“punk-fggots”-but-new-documentary-trailer-shows-he-did/

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    Government does NOT create jobs. If you did not realize, this is not a communist country.

    What jobs bill would you suggest? Hmmmm?

    Give me YOUR version of a jobs bill communist_kitty.

    Break it out here for ALL to see, you have the floor, show us your economic acumen.

  • BLUEBUNNY

    SORRY SISTER! I AM NOT AFRICAN AMERICAN,GAY,LIVE IN MY MOMMIES BASEMENT, NOR A POOR PERSON! YOU LIVE IN A VERY SMALL WORLD!

  • Anonymous

    Because they don’t earn enough to pay taxes but it doesn’t mean they don’t work as hard or even much harder.  Let me tell you a story tho I know it won’t matter to you it may matter to someone.

    I used to work for Easter Seals.  I was an Employment Specialist/Job Developer and helped people who had disabilities find jobs and maintain those jobs.  The building I worked in also had a day program for those who were severely disabled and couldn’t work.  Many of them were quadriplegics and had to have their adult diapers changed, had to be lifted with Hoyer lifts into tubs to be bathed.  They had to be dressed and hand fed.  But they also had to be treated with love and respect and with a compassionate heart.  Almost all the caregivers were black women who only got paid $6.00 an hour because that is what our society thinks that kind of work is worth.  It’s grueling work.  And for most of these women they had to also work a second job just to make ends meet.  Yet they never complained.  They just did their jobs and made sure those they cared for were always treated with dignity and gentleness.

    So when someone like you comes along and talks about the lazy poor who don’t pay taxes I can see very clearly into your heart.  People like you couldn’t do the work they do.  Mostly because most Americans ARE just too damn lazy and don’t have the intestinal fortitude.  Yet you think you can look down on them.  My humble opinion is that you aren’t worthy to lick their feet. 

  • dennyf51

    Wow, another one sentence jump from progressive twitty. You haven’t got the brains to put together a thought darling, so we racists will never contemplate the intellect that doesn’t exist behind your one sentence blurts of nonsense. Oh, and Kitty, have someone read you the headlines and the small print in the papers tomorrow, your appreciative “like” for mr. Adkins above will not be so enthusiastic when you find out how bad the pres. sold you out. Thanks, Barry.  

  • Nancillary Peloslinton

    There’s no jobs bill from the Republicans? Kick Obama out, kill Obamacare, high speed rail, green jobs and the unemployment rate goes back down to a George W. Bush-like rate of under 4%. Capiche?

  • Michelle

    No, that’s just another lie you libs tell.

  • Michelle

    Stick a tamale in it, Moochelle.

  • Michelle

    ps, that was for you, Kitty Kat.

  • Michelle

    What % is their fair share.  Answer the question with an actual %.

  • Dflojak

    Patience is a virtue. I am watching the MSNBC late night crowd, it looks like their collective dogs died. The only thing missing in their comments is the name Bush. HEhehehehehe.

  • Michelle

    So who is forcing you to watch FOX, Moochelle?

  • Anonymous

    Cutting and pasting this to the top in hopes that nancillarypeloslinton doesn’t miss it:nancillarypeloslinton asked We also want poor people who vote to pay taxes as well. I’m not rich. I pay taxes. Why don’t they?
    __________________________________________________________________
    Because they don’t earn enough to pay taxes but it doesn’t mean they
    don’t work as hard or even much harder.  Let me tell you a story tho I
    know it won’t matter to you it may matter to someone.

    I used to
    work for Easter Seals.  I was an Employment Specialist/Job Developer and
    helped people who had disabilities find jobs and maintain those jobs. 
    The building I worked in also had a day program for those who were
    severely disabled and couldn’t work.  Many of them were quadriplegics
    and had to have their adult diapers changed, had to be lifted with Hoyer
    lifts into tubs to be bathed.  They had to be dressed and hand fed. 
    But they also had to be treated with love and respect and with a
    compassionate heart.  Almost all the caregivers were black women who
    only got paid $6.00 an hour because that is what our society thinks that
    kind of work is worth.  It’s grueling work.  And for most of these
    women they had to also work a second job just to make ends meet.  Yet
    they never complained.  They just did their jobs and made sure those
    they cared for were always treated with dignity and gentleness.

    So
    when someone like you comes along and talks about the lazy poor who
    don’t pay taxes I can see very clearly into your heart.  People like you
    couldn’t do the work they do.  Mostly because most Americans ARE just
    too damn lazy for this kind of work and don’t have the intestinal
    fortitude for it either.  Yet you think you can look down on them.  My
    humble opinion is that you aren’t worthy to lick their feet.

  • Nancillary Peloslinton

    Progressive Kitty is just a boot-licking politburo member with a taste for riding crops, bondage and freshly squeezed Pruno without a thought in their empty little head. Next!

  • insideguy

     Im not going to kill you on this realheadline. But listen just for a second. They gap between the wealthy and middle class and poor in this country is larger than it has been since the early 1900s I believe. Now whether you think thats ok or not is your opinion and im not going to take that away from you, But in the short term or long term do you think that this is going to work out? maria antonietta famously said “let them eat cake”.  If you don’t see something similar possibly happening down the road if the trend we are on continues I hope you are right. But think about this the cap on social security and this is just one little aspect is around 110,000 dollars a year.  That means a man who makes 109,000 dollars a year is paying as much in to ssn as a man who makes 500 million a year do you think this is ok? Think about that for just a second. Im not talking a percentage here im saying they are paying the same dollar amount, how do you feel about that?

  • Anonymous

    Why are you congratulating someone who proposed nothing and whose only interest seemed to be for the issue to be punted pasted his re-election bid?

  • Nancillary Peloslinton

    You’re boring too!

  • dennyf51

    Kitty, sit down and relax. Four whole sentences at one time. Even though the thoughts are wrong as always, still trying to blame the right for the class warfare, but your brain must be taxed to the max. So relax, sit back and drink some jack. You’ll need the rest. Oh, watch out, your stupid’s showing again.

  • Anonymous

    Still with the racial slurs, Michelle.  You are despicable.

  • Moderate

    NYTimes is not happy

    “It is not yet set in stone, and there may still be time to make it better. But in the end, most Democrats will have no choice but to swallow their fury, accept the deal, and, we hope, fight harder the next time.”

    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/01/opinion/to-escape-chaos-a-terrible-debt-deal.html

  • dennyf51

    Are  you accusing nancil of being a chicago democrat, or was revoting not what you meant?

  • Anonymous

    Now this is some deep thinking here.  Just imagine if all debates on the internet could be be best accomplished with copy and paste copy and paste copy and paste copy and paste copy and paste copy and paste copy and paste copy and paste copy and paste copy and paste copy and paste copy and paste copy and paste copy and paste copy and paste copy and paste copy and paste copy and paste copy and paste copy and paste copy and paste copy and paste copy and paste copy and paste copy and paste copy and paste copy and paste copy and paste copy and paste copy and paste copy and paste copy and paste copy and paste copy and paste copy and paste copy and paste copy and paste copy and paste copy and paste copy and paste

  • Terriagatha

    You are a moron.  Everyone pays taxes…..sales tax, gas tax, property tax, etc.  Also FIC and Medicare.  Some of you people sre really a bunch of idiotys, that’s why this country is going down the tubes.

  • dennyf51

    When you got to “I thought” you lost me.

  • Anonymous

    It was classic watching Obama call out both sides because there weren’t more cuts and they couldn’t be accomplished sooner.
    Somehow he has positioned himself as the Fiscal Hawk.  :)

  • BLUEBUNNY

    YOU NEVER HAVE ANSWERED WHY YOU THINK OUR CURRENT FIRST LADY IS A MOOCH!

  • Anonymous

    Jobs aren’t legislated from congress.  That’s not how it works.

    Just to let you know.

  • Anonymous

    I really don’t understand why Obama is announcing this.  He had nothing to do with the crafting of this bill.   

  • dennyf51

    Let me wipe the tears from my eyes. Again, Twitty has managed to write more than one sentence, and again she’s managed to make no sense whatsoever. What work was the quadripilegic doing? I’m glad you were able to put these people to work to help establish a sense of worth, but sounds like six bucks was a little strong in the pay department.

  • dennyf51

    You hide it well

  • Michelle

    Um, yeah I did butterball.  How is Iris these days?

  • dennyf51

    Interesting, can you post a link for this, I’d love to be able to archive it.

  • Anonymous

    “What work was the quadripilegic doing?”

    I didn’t say quadriplegics worked.  Try reading it again.

    “but sounds like six bucks was a little strong in the pay department.”

    Well thanks for revealing your heart.  Not much I can add to that.

  • Anonymous

    Sorry you won’t attach me to your vile racist remarks.  You swim in that swamp alone.

  • Anonymous

    She calls herself a “Christian”.
    I wonder if she teaches her son to call people names like that or if that’s just for mommy on the internet.

    My guess is she does.  She shouts it at the TV when he is doing his homework at the kitchen table.
    And the cycle of hate continues..

  • Anonymous

    How would you know?

  • Anonymous

    Well he got you to edit!  lol

  • Anonymous

    You go on dreaming about “positioning,” as if his demagoguery on raising taxes no longer exists.  It’s all whistling past the graveyard to me.

    He’s racked up trillions in debt, failed to reengage the economy, and stood on the sidelines without having a leading hand in most major policy decisions of his 4 years – nobody’s going to forget that.

  • BLUEBUNNY

    I’M NOT FAMILIAR WITH IRIS! SHE MUST HAVE PISSED YOU OFF FOR YOU TO HAVE REMEMBERED HER! GOOD FOR IRIS! WHY DO YOU THINK THIS FIRST LADY IS A MOOCH! I AM SURE COLOR OR SEX PREFERENCE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH YOUR ANSWER!

  • Anonymous

    So you believe “moocher” is a racist slur, do you?

    You seem interesting.  Tell me more about yourself.

  • The Dweller Ysul

    You can’t be serious.

  • Anonymous

    I’ll pass.

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for the Righty talking points.
    It’s been like 3 minutes since I last heard them here so I knew I was due.

  • Anonymous

    You’re trying to “position” – you even use the words – and then complain about talking points?

    I responded to exactly the topic you put forward.

  • Anonymous

    Actually what pisses me off is that Obama continues to cave to the blackmail of the right.  Since it’s worked before the right has no reason to think it will not work again, and they were right.  He should not have caved in the past and he should not have caved this time.  The blackmail will continue.

  • BLUEBUNNY

    CONSIDERING MICHELLE THINKS OUR CURRENT FIRST LADY IS A MOOCH! IN MICHELLES EYES  IT IS MEANT TO BE A RACIAL SLUR!

  • Anonymous

    Stellar example for what is wrong in this country. Thank you for sharing.

  • Anonymous

    Stellar example for what is wrong in this country. Thank you for sharing.

  • Anonymous

    Because anything negative said against a black person is obviously racist.

    Got it.

  • realheadline

    Black workers are Americans too Kitty. If you could look into your own heart and see that you are ‘mindreading’ and assigning people behaviors and thoughts based on your own emotions and predjudices. Divisions are easy to cause between large groups. You just need a community organiser. I think I understand what your trying to say but it’s just not true. People don’t usually look down on others for socioeconomic reasons, but they do look down on them for bad behavior. This is 2012 not 1950. Meow.

  • realheadline

    Black workers are Americans too Kitty. If you could look into your own heart and see that you are ‘mindreading’ and assigning people behaviors and thoughts based on your own emotions and predjudices. Divisions are easy to cause between large groups. You just need a community organiser. I think I understand what your trying to say but it’s just not true. People don’t usually look down on others for socioeconomic reasons, but they do look down on them for bad behavior. This is 2012 not 1950. Meow.

  • Harry

    The most significant part of the deal was payment of the debt BEYOND the 2012 election. Remember Eric Cantor asking Obama for a THIRD TIME in the private meeting for a mere six month extension. The Republicans were out for blood wanting to completely hamstring Obama during an election year with this madness. Forget the argument over spending cuts and raising revenue. The debt deal extension through 2012 is the greatest triumph for Obama and the Democrats. Just imagine how difficult the Obama hating teabaggers in the House would have made things in an election year.   

  • Anonymous

    Did you follow this conversation from the beginning?  You know comments about poor people being lazy and that’s why they don’t pay any taxes.  That is what I was responding to.  I WAS responding to they’re behavior having worked with them and witnessed up close they’re work ethic.  

  • Anonymous

    It is what is wrong with this country.  Some of the most important and deeply meaningful work has little value in our society and that truly is a shame.

  • Anonymous

    Well, now, good thing we have an edit function, isn’t that right? 

    Better, for honesty’s sake, for the point to be taken – especially the small ones – rather than the post be retracted, don’t you think?

  • realheadline

    You are a moron sir, and badly in need of psychiatric help. Stupid and crazy ain’t the best thing to look at in the mirror every morning.. Seek professional help.

  • BLUEBUNNY

    SHE SAID OUR CURRENT FIRST LADY WAS A MOOCH! HER WORDS! JUST BECAUSE OUR CURRENT FIRST LADY HAPPENS TO BE AFRICAN AMERICAN IS JUST A COINCIDENCE!

  • Anonymous

    Obama should have simply threatened to invoke the 14th amendment to prevent the blackmail. Most irritating is the creation of the “SuperCongress” and the triggers. I don´t see anything good coming from it. 

  • realheadline

    Just like the dishonest lib coward to edit his post after the response is given. I saw it too. Lies and deceit are the trademark of the hard left.

  • Resident of 0bomberVille

    When the government wins

    -the people lose.

    -0bama – Worst-

  • Anonymous

    If the right only learned one thing these past 2 years it’s that blackmail works with Obama.  Never negotiate with hostage takers.

  • realheadline

    I respect anyone who ‘works’ for a living.  I will go back and read the previous posts.  :)

  • Anonymous

    Paleoconservatarian: “Because anything negative said against a black person is obviously racist.

    Got it.”

    No.  Because Michelle constantly posts her Moochelle comment to POA who is a black man.  Never attempts to dialog with him … never has anything else to say to him.  She just tells him that our FLOTUS is a mooch …. over and over and over again.  Every day.  Every chance she gets.

  • Anonymous

    You’re celebrating kicking the can down the road on our 14.5 trillion dollar debt?  Seriously?

    Hurray Obama!  Hurray Democrats!  Great triumph!  This is good for politics!   Politics over substance!

    Tell us again who the adults were in this debate.  Madness indeed.

  • realheadline

    Look douchebag, bogus emotional appeals based on lies have very little effect on me. Your fantasy senerio is not reality based, just class warfare rhetoric.  How do I “feel” about it? Pretty good actually thanks for asking.

  • insideguy

     Dont count your chickens Harry although I think you are right it was a good  victory this is a was not a single battle. The republicans will be having a battle over the budget in a mere two months.

  • realheadline

    …….and you’re the reason progressives support abortion.

  • insideguy

    ugh its getting late meant to say this was just a single battle lol.

  • Anonymous

    Seriously, Your prediction that he’ll “make sure they
    (tax cuts) expire.”  months before it
    happens makes your “stupid predictions” pomposity, laughable hypocrisy, but “that’s
    just me” Anyway Obama’s poll numbers do support some speculation about his
    re-election chances and the 2010 elections should shed some light on the mood
    of the country, at least to those willing to see.

    I really can’t remember anyone predicting John McCain
    would win the presidency…but believe whatever helps you sleep at night.

  • insideguy

    of course personal attacks do not answer to the question. If you think its a good deal that Rush Limbaugh pays as much into ssn as you do then you are a pawn. If you wish to stay a pawn then thats your choice. Line up for your tea bags because that all you are going to get from your party at the end of the day. A glass of hot tea without the milk.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    Debt Ceiling lifted until at least February 2013.

    Up front cuts to the Defense Budget.

    Did not touch Social Security. Medicare and Medicaid are still intact!

    The Bush tax cuts are being left untouched, meaning they WILL expire December 31, 2012!

    There is NO Balanced Budget Amendment stipulation in the new agreement.

    Not really sure how the Dems. lost that much. Plus now Boehner has a fractured House with the Teabaggers in one corner and the Republicans in the other.

  • Anonymous

    Thanks.  I was responding to all poor people should pay taxes and I was explaining why many poor people work very hard yet don’t earn enough to pay taxes.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    Debt Ceiling lifted until at least February 2013.

    Up front cuts to the Defense Budget.

    Did not touch Social Security. Medicare and Medicaid are still intact!

    The Bush tax cuts are being left untouched, meaning they WILL expire December 31, 2012!

    There is NO Balanced Budget Amendment stipulation in the new agreement.

    Looks like the Dems just won this debate and now Boehner has a completely fractured House caucus. Score one for the Dems.

  • Anonymous

    Could care less about the Democrat Republican thing y’all care so much about. I’m for limited government. Progressives in both parties have spent us into oblivion. The Tea Party is late to this fight but I’ll stand with them.

  • Anonymous

    Could care less about the Democrat Republican thing y’all care so much about. I’m for limited government. Progressives in both parties have spent us into oblivion. The Tea Party is late to this fight but I’ll stand with them.

  • Anonymous

    “I really can’t remember anyone predicting John McCain would win the presidency…but believe whatever helps you sleep at night.”

    lol…Yeah, everyone predicted Obama would win from day one, especially since the Rev. Wright thing dropped.

    Listen, there is a difference between posting what policies you think Obama is capable of changing before his first term ends and the constant “Wait til November, we are going to murderize you guys!!!” posts.
    They are so tiring.
    But *sigh*, have at it if you must.

  • Anonymous

    “I really can’t remember anyone predicting John McCain would win the presidency…but believe whatever helps you sleep at night.”

    lol…Yeah, everyone predicted Obama would win from day one, especially since the Rev. Wright thing dropped.

    Listen, there is a difference between posting what policies you think Obama is capable of changing before his first term ends and the constant “Wait til November, we are going to murderize you guys!!!” posts.
    They are so tiring.
    But *sigh*, have at it if you must.

  • Anonymous

    Perhaps I shouldn’t have been so reactionary.  I’ll now wait and see.

  • Anonymous

    Just clicked on your profile.  Why are you guys so fixated on the anus?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    Like I said politically both sides will clam victory and both sides did win something they can take back to their base, that’s what compromise will get you. The Republicans much larger problem is Boehner’s caucus is broken with the teabaggers on one side and the mainstream Republicans on the other. That is the big takeaway from this whole thing.

  • Anonymous

    response to…

    SHE SAID OUR CURRENT FIRST LADY WAS A MOOCH! HER WORDS! JUST BECAUSE OUR
    CURRENT FIRST LADY HAPPENS TO BE AFRICAN AMERICAN IS JUST A
    COINCIDENCE!

    No, but it’s racist, according to progressive_kitty, and you agreed above. 
    Obviously, “moochers” implies blacks.  Because only black people would
    do something so low as to mooch.  So clearly, to say someone is apt to
    mooch is to express racist sentiment.  No coincidence here.  It’s
    purposefully and

    demonstratively racist.  Don’t let Michelle get off the hook by backtracking.  She said mooch.  In reference to Michelle Obama.  It’s racist.

    We got it the first time.  Let’s not confuse matters.

  • Anonymous

    It’s just hard for me to get past no revenue increases which I think is the greatest insanity in all this.

  • Anonymous

    Too early to declare victory. Lots of crucial issues will be debated in the next months with uncertain outcome. The balanced budget amendment would have gone nowhere anyway. The GOP/Baggers will fight tooth and nails to cut entitlements programs. No tax increases are included in the trigger provisions which gives the Cons a better position. If the Bush tax cuts will really expire remains to be seen.  Imho, they just delayed the big decisions. Yeah, wait and see and hope for the best.

     

  • Anonymous

    In response to…

    No.  Because Michelle constantly posts
    her Moochelle comment to POA who is a black man.  Never attempts to dialog with him … never has anything else to say to him.  She just tells him that our FLOTUS is a mooch …. over and over and over again.  Every day.  Every chance she gets.

    I don’t know personal histories as much as those who post here frequently, but I should think she does it for the same reason Limbaugh does – for she knows it’ll elicit those who view the world through a singularly racial prism to demonstrate it ad nausium, in a sputtering and silly fashion. – see bluebunny.

    Now why she would suspect there would be some people who were bound to perceive any negative appellation directed towards a black person as an attack on that person’s race, and not one directed against their character, is another matter…

  • Darladoon

    if government doesn’t create jobs, then how does the president get paid?

  • Darladoon

    if bush had such a great unemployment rate, then how has obama created more
    jobs than bush?

  • Anonymous

    The big takeaway for me is that the political system is hopelessly dysfunctional. From a formality like raising the debt ceiling we have gone to the brink of a potential economical disaster and have gotten now a “Super Congress”. I don´t like the creation of a “Super Congress” at all.

  • insideguy

     Well in that case pg if the tea party are serious revenue increases will be put on the table so you have hope. Oh im sorry my fault I stated if the tea party were serious lol dumb statement.

  • Anonymous

    “lol…Yeah, everyone predicted Obama would win from
    day one, especially since the Rev. Wright thing dropped.”

    Tilt at windmills much? I never said anything about
    Obma’s 2008 campaign, but I guess if you have no defense for claiming McCains inauguration was fait accompli, then any straw man will do.

    Substantively you predicted a policy change and I
    predicted the policy change would be rolled back then you called predicting
    stupid. The very definition of a hypocrite. But of course you know that, hence the straw man.

    End of line.

  • Anonymous

    Maybe because their development stopped somewhere between being 2 and 4 years old.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    It was a completely manufactured crisis and both sides tried to take advantage of it and play politics, whether it was the Republicans holding our country hostage on something as simple as raising the debt ceiling or Obama and the Dems, scaring senior citizens and the disabled by saying SS checks wont be going out on the 3rd or other scare tactics. Time will tell who came out ahead.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    It was a completely manufactured crisis and both sides tried to take advantage of it and play politics, whether it was the Republicans holding our country hostage on something as simple as raising the debt ceiling or Obama and the Dems, scaring senior citizens and the disabled by saying SS checks wont be going out on the 3rd or other scare tactics. Time will tell who came out ahead.

  • Anonymous

    Me neither. 

    And this is something that may have a real impact in the future. 
    In World’s Eyes, Much Damage Is Already Done http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/01/us/politics/01capital.html?hp

  • Anonymous

    “wait till the 2012 tsunami hits. We’ll roll back everything this delusional progressive has inflicted on the people. ”

    Yeah, this really was a great post and top notch informed prediction. Not mindless cheerleading at all.

    I’m sorry. I guess I’m just upset because I heard 2 planes went down in Alaska and Sarah Palin was on neither of them.

  • Anonymous

    Arrested development during potty training. lol

  • Anonymous

    Sure thing, the political and business elites around the world have been shaking their heads for weeks now in disbelief about this circus. I think there´s already an impact visible.

  • Anonymous

    I believe the held value of equality under the law in all things possible to be a quintessential American value, and a societal good.  It’s the want for just the opposite that’s most resulted in the wage disparity you decry.  Or do you suppose you have access to the same tax loopholes as those who with their paid lobbyists helped design into an overly complex tax structure their own inequality?

  • Anonymous

    There is no win here for America; this is a Progressive
    deal to continue the Progressive spending policies. The “cuts” are off a
    baseline growth of 8% each year. It slows the spending a bit. This however is
    an insignificant change in trajectory. Unless this change continues to build
    momentum then perhaps there is hope to irradiate the Progressive cancer from
    our system. Our only hope as I see it is to primary the RINOs and elect a small
    government executive in 2012.

  • Anonymous

    Obviously they are not progressive enough in the advocacy, as evidenced by your existence, in any atmosphere, let alone the internet.

  • Anonymous

    “I’m sorry. I guess I’m just upset because I heard 2
    planes went down in Alaska and Sarah Palin was on neither of them.”

    Ah, the old wishing death on your political enemy bit.
    You should just admit that you have no argument, gray matter, or whit.
    I predict you will be posting in all caps soon.

  • Anonymous

    “You should just admit that you have no argument, gray matter, or whit.”

    What’s whit?

  • Anonymous

    “Ah, the old wishing death on your political enemy bit.”

    No no, you misunderstand.
    One of the wrecked planes manage to land safely.
    I wish she was on that one.
    I just want to see her shaken up a bit.

  • Anonymous

    errr my one brain cell is overworked by your compelling argument.
    Typo troll much?.

  • insideguy

     naa paleo you can talk complex tax measures all ya want. If you think its a fair deal that a man who makes 100,000 grand a year pays as much into ssn as a a man who makes 50 million you can spin it anyway you want to. You seem happy as the income disparity increases. As the haves have more and the ones who don’t do not. Let them eat cake I say.  Your america is a fantasy land between Lincoln and Roosevelt where men made money paying off corrupt politicians and using the working man for chattel. Teddy Roosevelt didn’t believe in that and put a stop to un regulated big business greedy capitalist who took advantage of the poor stiffs and sent them to the beggars square after they lost a arm or leg in their factories. In your world China is king because they know how to do business. Out law unions, no labor laws pay there people dirt while the capitalist swim in their money. In my world Germany is who we should be looking at, a growing economy and industrial base low unemployment and union representation. We can talk tax reform and I may even agree with you on some of them. I you want to close loopholes I support you 100%. Maybe when congress goes back after the budget in 2 months they will. They should and for the future of the republican party I would say they must. But we shall see because I have no faith that they will.

  • Anonymous

    “errr my one brain cell is overworked by your compelling argument.
    Typo troll much?. ”

    That’s ok. I don’t really give a wit about typos.

  • Anonymous

    “I just want to see her shaken up a bit.”
    Shake her in one crash kill her in another, your original
    post made no such distinction, intentionally. A desire to see you political enemies
    harmed physically shows your state of mind and the depth of you argument.  It’s just you. It’s what you do. For fun.

  • Anonymous

    “That’s ok. I don’t really give a wit about typos.”

    To wit is human to troll for whit then pretend
    to have not is un-devine. The least of my issues with you.

  • http://twitter.com/BarneyFranken Barney Frankenstein

    And democrats claiming “victory” because they got to be able to sweep the debt issue under the rug past the election cycle tells you everything you need to know about their intentions.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZOIMLIPRB2LC2AL5SOURAL4DJ4 Womiktorn Smith

    Obama this statement has brought very crucial opinion for every businessman. I am entirely agree with his decision…

    http://www.viddler.com/explore/Fensieremmy/videos/2/

  • Harry

    How about all of the Republicans in the House such as Martha Blackburn or Eric Cantor who easily allowed payment on the debt when it was 7 TRILLION under Bush. They didn’t have any concerns back then about doing so. But, now all of a sudden payment on the debt can not be allowed. Hmmmmm. It makes me think that this just might have been a manufactured political crisis to damage Obama. Ya think? 

  • Anonymous

    Fact: This is again what was needed to position for
    2012 leftist progressives have thrown their party a defeat in entitlements in
    next round of cuts because built in trigger is a 50 to 50 percent penalty which
    means 50% entitlement cut in case of no agreement. Taxing will not enter in
    these trigger penalties. Hahahahahaha…………..

  • Anonymous

    Fact:

     The Bush tax cuts are being left untouched

    Threw the President under the bus since entitilements will get the ax under the trigger! hahahahahaha……….Win win for the rich.

  • Anonymous

    Fact:

       Kitty said; It’s just hard for me to get past no revenue increases which I think is the greatest insanity in all this.  

    Win for the rich again… hahahahahahahaa…………….

  • Anonymous

    Fact:

      Kitty mumbles in post that;   Thanks. I was responding to all poor people should pay taxes and I was explaining why many poor people work very hard yet don’t earn enough to pay taxes. 

    Still the wackiest form of mooching that I have herd on Mediaite about deservivg a free ride on the backs of others. Pitiful.

  • Anonymous

    Fact:

      Josh Kim says;    I’m a Republican and I think?

    You don’t think because it would hurt to much demarodent! Everything you just vomited on your post was lies!

  • Anonymous

    Could it be her insatiable maw?

  • Anonymous

    Fact:

     Josh Kims BS lies said; Reagan raised the debt ceiling. Even Reagan raised taxes. Go back to bed and let the adults argue.       I’m a Republican and I think the rich can afford to pay more taxes. I think calling the rich “job creators” is rather silly because we’ve had many years of lowered tax rates for those job creators and they haven’t created many jobs. 

    Moron to the bone! hahahahahahahaha………………..

  • Michelle

    Yawn.  You can bet I wouldn’t teach him to mock the death of someones loved one.  When it comes to hate, you are the master.

  • Michelle

    She’s got a sickness.  If she goes 5 minutes without calling someone a racist, she starts to shake.  So basically, everyone who says something she doesn’t like is therefore a racist. 

  • Michelle

    Pale, I said the same thing to her.  She seems to be the racist by implying that to be a mooch, you have to be black.  Now who’s the racist again?

  • Michelle

    Are you saying that everyone that is on welfare or disability is truly unable to care for themselves?  If you are, you are a fool or a liar.  NO ONE is saying that there are some that can’t do for themselves and Conservatives are more than happy to help those people.  But we are sick and tired and doing for those that CAN but WON’T do for themselves.  Get it!!?

  • Michelle

    Yawn, those who disagree with me are terrorists.  Thanks for proving Rubio right AGAIN!

  • Michelle

    I see the Mediaite censors are at it again. 

  • Anonymous

    Well, you see, that’s because you’re comments were racist.  You can mean nothing other than to attack a person for their skin color to have implied someone was a moocher.  Since the act of mooching is associated with black people, evidently.  See, when progressives call a conservative poster a ‘bagger’ when they post in support of lower taxes or the size of government, even if that particular post had nothing to do with tax policy but because the progressive was familiar with such views previously held by the conservative poster, that’s not racist, now, is it?  Because ‘teabagger’ implies a white person.  And when they call a conservative a terrorist for wanting to balance the budget, even if they aren’t saying anything remotely like that at the moment but simply because of views the conservative is known to have said prior in support of debt reduction, that’s clearly in bounds as well, since according to PSA’s my country produces, if one were to go by the visuals, which, of course, wouldn’t be altered out of some wildly obscene and borderline paranoid sense of political correctness run amok, terrorists are white.  But to reference someone as being a moocher, in reference, perhaps, to an earlier conversation the two of you had had in which you might have held divergent views in regards to redistributive policies or some such, clearly you meant nothing other than to call that person out for being black.  Because, as above, mooching implies a black person.

    Mediaite must agree with that view.

  • K0rka

    my thoughts exactly

  • K0rka

    ^^^^^^^^ Reasons why our government doesn’t work…. please see above comments by those allowed to vote in this country…

  • K0rka

    ^^^^^^^^ Reasons why our government doesn’t work…. please see above comments by those allowed to vote in this country…

  • HawkCW4

    You will prob never get to read this BFD because Im going to do something I never do and this trash Mediate wont allow,  but for your statement regarding planes and Palin in Alaska,  You just made it into  my   “you are a sorry no good son of a bitch”  List.    I wish you no harm but hope your life is miserable from this day on.

  • Michelle

    They are nothing, if not predictable.

  • nancillarypeloslinton
  • Anonymous

    But since you see something good coming of dictatorial assumptions by Obama of spending authority not mandated by the constitution, your analysis is worthless.

  • http://twitter.com/BarneyFranken Barney Frankenstein

    7 Trillion was bad. Its almost double now, and reaching critical mass. But notice how Democrats dont really care about Obama’s portion of the debt, because the truth of the matter is, they want the spending! They want the debt! They are the party of big government, big unemployment and big debt. 

    So thank you Harry, for proving my point. Like I said, liberals see this argument through the prism of what is good for them winning elections, not what’s good for the country.

  • HawkCW4

    Corporations do not write tax codes,  CPA’s do not write tax codes unless they are working for the IRS.  Attorneys do not write tax codes unless they are working for the IRS.   If you dont like the loop holes, talk to your congressman/woman.   AND for the record you can not treat one person different from another based on how much money they make.  We ARE talking Legally here as pertains to the law.  You want to raise tax rates fine,  but you cant say because that guy is rich, lets make his rate 75% when you are only taxed at 25% or possibly you pay no tax at all, and maybe you even get a tax credit when you dont pay any to begin with.   What ever you do, It has to be applied equally, and remember,  you are not guaranteed a life equal to Warren Buffet’s.  You are however guaranteed the opportunity..  So quit whinning about taxes unless you are talking rates that apply to everyone.   We do have a graduated rate so the rich do pay more than me,  and  if the IRS has holes in the law the corps can use they will do so until you plug them and lower the rates for us all.

  • Morgan_Said

    Nice suit.

  • Morgan_Said

    There won’t be a third party. They have just demonstrated the impact they can have on our political system by setting the agenda with Republican control of only1/6th of the government. In 2012, they will shift the balance of the Republican Party. The Tea Party won’t be leading the Republican Party by the nose, as the libs claim; they will BE the Republican Party.

  • maryblue

    Why is it that “All” blacks who speak  out aganist injustice are called race baiters, or puck ass??? Martin L. King ,Rosa Parks,and NAACP to name a few, all race baiters. I guess blackes should be more like Herman Cain ,sit at the back of the bus and be quite,to be liked by you…………

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