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Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012 | 2 a.m.
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A letter in Friday’s Sun by Larry Burgess, “Extremism isn’t the way to go,” is dead-on correct. He says “the problem with the present-day GOP is that it’s moved so far to the right that it’s boxed in, scaring away many Republican moderates and independents.”
What he doesn’t consider, however, is that this was caused by President Barack Obama’s actions when he took office. He immediately panic-rushed through a huge “stimulus” bill that increased the debt. And this was done without Congress having been given the time to study it. You talk about extremism!
The GOP constantly has been criticized for not compromising in Congress since Obama took office. How can you compromise when he went so far into debt there wasn’t any wiggle room left to negotiate? They have had no choice but to hold firm.
If we are going to be analytical about one party, let’s be fair and apply it to both.
In reply to Malcolm Telloian; and just what did you do with your stimulus check? Did you mail it back to the federal government with an attached note that said, "No thank you"? I bet not.
Oh, that's right, you took the money for small business and community development purposes like VP candidate Paul Ryan did for his constituents.
EXCUSE ME!!!
Agree with the letter writer. For two years President Obama and the democratic houses of Congress, under the tutelage of Pelosi and Reid, locked out the republicans from the legislative agenda. After the 2012 mid term elections, and the shellacking that the president and the democratic party took, President Obama moved to the left not the center. And, the Senate minority leader made the now famous comment, we [aka the GOP members of Congress] have to ensure this is a one term president. Why? He moved the country barackward not forward.
CarmineD
Mea culpa: Should have typed 2010 mid term elections.
CarmineD
Malcolm,
Actually, the democratic party is actually the party of extremism.
Democrats have lost moderate and conservative members of congress these last few years, from 56 in 2010 to only 10 sure-bets to return next congress. Liberals have tilted the party far-left socialist which makes compromising with a pro-business/free market party next to impossible.
The democrats far left base is the Occupy group which consists of radical teachers/students, socialists, anarchists and unionized workers. These are tax & spend liberals. The Obama 'Change and Hope' didn't ease American's top three concerns which are jobs, the economy and debt/deficit spending.
The Boston Herald's endorsement yesterday put it well:
'What this nation got in Barack Obama was a president who used an economic crisis to further his redistributionist agenda -- and, not surprisingly, failed miserably at restoring American prosperity. Oh, he brought change all right -- to a government-knows-best philosophy that has given us four years of high unemployment, higher gas prices, a $16 trillion deficit, and a job-killing regulatory environment.
And this nation that was once a shining beacon to those around the globe who love liberty, who knew that these United States could be counted on to defend its friends and keep a watchful eye on its enemies, has been relegated by this president to "leading from behind."
The simple fact is that this nation can't afford four more years of Barack Obama, four more years of his divisive class warfare rhetoric, four more years of his Chicago-style eco-cronyism and four more years of an administration that will lie and obfuscate -- even about the death of a U.S. ambassador -- to save its sorry hide.'
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion...
"Obama shoved GOP against wall". Not so! The GOP IS the wall.
In September 2011 President Obama sent Congress the American Jobs Act.
--Moody's Analytics estimated the American Jobs Act would create 1.9 million jobs and add two percent to gross domestic product.
--The Economic Policy Institute estimated it would create 2.6 million jobs and protect an addition 1.6 million existing jobs.
--Macroeconomic Advisers predicted it would create 2.1 million jobs and boost GDP by 1.5 percent.
--Goldman Sachs estimated it would add 1.5 percent to GDP.
House Republicans refused to consider it. Senate Republicans blocked even considering it with a filibuster. Why? Their purpose was to do everything in their power to prevent President Obama from being successful so that they could reclaim the Presidency in 2012.
And while the GOP would have us believe they are wannabe bipartisans, they aren't. They can't come up with a single presidential candidate that would consider $1 in additional revenue for every $10 in spending cuts to work towards a balanced Federal Budget.
Are we this GOD DANG STUPID in this country.
We were on the verge of another FREAKING GREAT DEPRESSION.
Obama and the democrats pulled our fat out of the fire.
There was no spending by business or the so-called job creators. Government had to step in and provide the boost.
We were losing 800,000 freaking jobs a month. Now this idiot wants to complain about job creation is to low.
I could go on with what Obama and the liberal democrats did to save our economy and the free market system again like FDR.
Obama cannot be questioned about his handling of foreign policy. He was able to act without a republicans obstructing what he wanted to do.
But I can question the republicans handling of the economy. If that outfit had just relented and let Obama do what he wanted to do with the economy, it would be in the same position our foreign policy is in.
If Obama had needed republican support for his foreign policy, it would be in the same shape as our economy is in today.
It was republican, conservative policies that got us in this mess. It is republican, conservative policies that is keeping us in the mess.
Get rid of the republicans and conservatives and we will fix our problems.
This letter basically looks back on recent political history and fashions it around to come to some kind of conclusion that didn't happen.
The truth of the matter is that, FROM THE GET GO, the entire Tea/Republican Party, every single one of them in the Congress and the Senate, came up with a plan to not work with President Obama's administration EVER.
And if you take off the fogged up ultra-conservative spectacles, you can easily see that every single vote from that side of the aisle was with that unified purpose.
They chose party politics. Not the people.
But that's okay. I enjoy seeing letters like this published in the Las Vegas Sun.
Because it just adds fuel to the already fired up voters out here to absolutely crush this constant radical and extreme over reach policy the Tea/Republican Party has decided to pursue.
It's coming. Very soon. On November 6, 2012, it's guaranteed there are going to be a lot less Tea/Republicans in power nationwide.
Three things voters need to know about this election: GM is alive, Osama bin Laden is dead, and Mitt Romney is peddaling the same old GOP trickledown snake oil that got us into this ditch.
Why do millionaires and billionaires need yet another huge tax break on top of the Bush cuts that have already ballooned the deficit without creating a single job, much less the millions that were promised?
LastThroes said it just the way it is...
He said:
"Three things voters need to know about this election: GM is alive, Osama bin Laden is dead, and Mitt Romney is peddaling the same old GOP trickledown snake oil that got us into this ditch."
I have ask several right-wingers on this board the same question time after time & NONE of them can give me a logical answer.
The question that I always ask is:
"Where are the jobs that the Bush tax cuts were suppose to create?"
From time to time, one of the right-wingers will attempt to answer the question , but after several long-winded paragraphs he/she will end up blaming President Obama for the lack of jobs and give George W Bush a free pass on job creation...
Yes, Mitt Romney is NOTHING MORE than George W Bush on steroids. George junior took care of his "fat cat buddies"........."mittens," if elected will attempt do the same thing...
Headline CNBC News
"Companies Are Sitting on More Cash Than Ever Before"
This is the tax money we let them keep on the promise of them creating jobs.
We went into debt to finance our government in lieu of these tax breaks. Now, they claim "economic uncertainty" is the reason they won't spend the money and hire people.
In other words, they don't want any risk.
They want guaranteed profits with no risks. This is in direct conflict with free market capitalism.
It is time you so called conservative to admit, you have been fooled for the past forty years. They had me fooled for ten years.
These tea bagging, republicans are nothing but fascists. They see our government as a mere appendage of their businesses to secure more wealth and power.
Y'all better WAKE UP.
I find that most LETTERS TO THE EDITOR seem to take very complex issues and reduce them, through misattribution, into form so simple that no comment could possibly make a convincing argument in any plausible direction. With all due respect, Mr. Telloian's is a perfect example.
So what are you saying?
Obama is the same person that we voted for three year ago.
His and our dreams are still there.
This change can only occur when he is reelected
This congress has been the worst in our entire American history.
What this article should be about the Filibusters and all the obstructionists and the killing of our economic tactics use by the most unpatriotic republicans in congress ever.
Change is still needed!!! But not with the President but with the republicans in congress!!!
If Obama didn't get that stimulus we would all be in soup lines.
The Republicans make it so that stimulus was not enough to correct for the bank and Wall Street and housing collapsed and job loses.
The Article is left handed politics, saying one thing and meaning something else.
Obama did what was required and he did it without help to the other branches,
A fantastic job with the tools at hand!
First we must get rid of these horrible Congress Republicans and blue dog Democrats that rather play politics then to do what's required to put our country back on its feet.
Keep Obama change Congress! Get rid of all obstructionists.
Malcolm.....
Extreme right-wing radical republicans FOOL NO ONE
HERE or anywhere else.
Horrible republicans have never been this extreme
or crazy in their miserable, greedy, heartless
lives.
AND THAT'S THE TRUTH!
Jeez, it looks like the right-wing propagandists posting here under the Sun are petering out...
I wonder if THEY even believe their own lies anymore...
I mean, you keep repeating the same old tired refrain that's been refuted over and over again; don't you get tired of being mocked and ridiculed for posting patently false b.s.?
Well, shilling for Mitt is ad'mitt'edly a tough, tough sell.
November 6, you can 'retire' the repertoire!