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Old 08-31-2011, 01:32 PM
 
Location: Houston
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Note - longest continuous run, not most jobs created. More jobs were created during Bill Clintons two terms than during George W Bush's two terms.
Thank you dotcom bubble!
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Old 08-31-2011, 03:34 PM
 
Location: Houston
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There is a quote out there that sometimes get attributed to Republican Senate Leader Everett Dirksen and sometimes not. The quote is that there two parties in Washington — the stupid party and the evil party. Every once in a while the stupid party and the evil party get together and do something that is both stupid and evil. In Washington, that is called bipartisanship.–Erick Erickson
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Old 08-31-2011, 03:51 PM
 
Location: Neither here nor there
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There is a quote out there that sometimes get attributed to Republican Senate Leader Everett Dirksen and sometimes not. The quote is that there two parties in Washington — the stupid party and the evil party. Every once in a while the stupid party and the evil party get together and do something that is both stupid and evil. In Washington, that is called bipartisanship.–Erick Erickson
That is the best summation of what goes on in Washington that I have ever heard. Two thumbs up for ya!!
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Old 08-31-2011, 03:59 PM
 
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Thank you dotcom bubble!
Care to compare the Recession of 2002 with the Recession of 2008?

Yes, there was a dotcom bubble, but it didn't wreck the economy when it popped.

And BOTH the Democratic President and the Republican Congress agreed on raising taxes AND cutting spending AND instituting Pay-Go rules for the budget during good economic times.

Some say that the deficit was finally going down towards the end of George W's second term - but the thing is that he INHERITED an extremely small deficit and then managed to pile on another 4 trillion in debt.
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Old 08-31-2011, 06:36 PM
 
Location: Unperson Everyman Land
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Because they Tea Partiers did not exist when Bush's policies were failing this country. They started protesting before Obama even took office.

As memory serves me, I remember full employment and declining deficits until Democrats took over the Congress in 2007.

Please list the Bush policies to which you are referring.
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Old 08-31-2011, 06:43 PM
 
Location: Houston
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Care to compare the Recession of 2002 with the Recession of 2008?
Would you like to compare the recovery under Reagan with the stagnant economy of Obama?

Y'all can play your partisan games. The fact is both parties have put us in the situation we are in today.
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Old 08-31-2011, 06:58 PM
 
Location: Houston
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As memory serves me, I remember full employment and declining deficits until Democrats took over the Congress in 2007.

Please list the Bush policies to which you are referring.
How about the subscription drug benefit for seniors? How about that which was not financed along with two unfinanced wars? How about running half-trillion dollar deficits during times of near full employment? Let me say this, ya Keynesians of both parties will never eliminate the business cycle. In times of prosperity ya need to run surpluses.

I have to let both parties share the blame for the housing bubble and its inevitable collapse.

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Old 09-01-2011, 05:53 AM
 
Location: Texas
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Sorry, both videos show Ron Paul rallies, not actual Tea Party Rallies. In neither clip is anyone visible holding a Tea Party sign nor does anyone use the term 'Tea Party'.

There is some symbolic 'tea dumping' in the first clip, but I've seen that done during political libertarian rallies for over 30 or 40 years.

I'll concede that a lot of the people in the clips probably went on later to form or join up with their local version of the Tea Party, but those clips do not prove that the Tea Party existed in 2007.
Classic post. It isn't up to you to decide when it started and when it didn't. The people who where at the events told us it started in 2007. It was "advertised" as a Tea Party. But YOU are the one to make the call if it was or wasn't???? You weren't even there to listen to the speeches. Why should we listen to you?
You'd call a dog, a cat because it wasn't wearing a sign.
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Old 09-01-2011, 06:52 AM
 
Location: Chicagoland
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Rather they discriminate against him.
Do they really? Some of these must be part of the 70% that approved of obama right after his inauguration.

Or perhaps they are part of the Indies and Conservatives who actually voted for obama.

Why obama is losing support across the demographic board is because his policies have FAILED, have made the economy worse and he continues to implement a disastrous regulatory agenda.

It didn't hurt that he shoved obamacare down out throats either.

When will his sycophantic supporters understand it's all about his leadership and radical leftist agenda, his overreach with obamacare and his massive spending increase and expansion of the federal government.

Has nothing to do with his skin color.......how do you explain his high approval at the start of his term?

Just for giggles, not that your premise is correct (it isn't), but give us some concrete examples of how they discriminate against the liar in chief.
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