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SushiSake3
NeverSubmit - "But the average Joe on the Street will be banned from driving, barbecues and heating his house all under the guise of 'protecting the environment'
Complete rubbish.
NeverSubmit - "Al Gore, the founder of the whole global warming movement has two 20-room mansions, but he wants the rest of us to turn off the lights and live by candlelight."
Completely irrelvant illustration. It's the message, not the messenger that counts in this debate.
NeverSubmit - "How about the Carbon footprint of Obama's wife being shuttled around on her shopping tours in a private jet. Obama should curb that gas first."
Another completely irrelvant illustration.
Sheesh, the paranoia! Hey, you forgot one - Al Gore and the other "tree huggers" are making millions from the "global warming myth"! Only problem is, people that make this absurd claim are - strangely - never able to back it up with facts!
What a joke.
Posted in: Obama administration optimistic on climate talks
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SushiSake3
I strongly doubt whether any of the GOP candidates even know where Iran is, let alone who Iran's current king is.....
Posted in: White House says U.S. policy has weakened Iran
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SushiSake3
Incredibly sad....
Posted in: Wrong twin terminated in Australian hospital error
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SushiSake3
DS - "Get rid of the deficit, get spending under control, pass a budget "
The GOP/TP have already clearly shown they won't have a bar of any of this.
Posted in: Republican rivals debate foreign policy
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SushiSake3
What goes around, comes around.
Good to see the U.S. govt. finally seeing this.
Posted in: Medvedev: Russia may target U.S. missile shield
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SushiSake3
This bunch of GOP candidades know squat about foreign policy.
The other day Cain claimed he would have done things differently from President Obama and then admitted he couldn't say how because he "hadn't been briefed."
If that wasn’t illustrative enough of the clumsy, ignorant attitude of this current crop of GOP candidates toward foreign policy, Gingrich initially supported America getting involved in Libya, and then criticized President Obama when he did!
Clueless, and a threat to America’s security if voters are foolish enough to send any of them to the Oval Office.
Posted in: Republican rivals debate foreign policy
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SushiSake3
Sailwind, I added some comments (in caps) to your last post:
The Supercommittee was a hardfought compromise between the Republicans and President Obama and the Democrats in the first place. It was the only way that the debt ceiling could be raised with approval of the Republicans, who were totally against piling on more debt on the national credit card. [THE GOP SPEEDILY AND WITHOUT DELAY VOTED TO RAISE THE DEBT CEILING 13 TIMES UNDER BUSH.]
The Republicans had plenty at stake here for the supercommittee to do the very job it was suppose to do mainly to cut the out of control spending. The Democrats are the ones who had everything to gain and nothing to lose by stalling and never offering any serious proposals to actually cut spending. [WRONG: DEMOCRATS HAVE OFFERED AND MADE THE MOST CONCESSIONS.]
They can demonize the Republicans as favoring the rich [WHICH THEY CLEARLY DO], playing the class warfare card to the hilt [WHICH THE GOP LEADERSHIP QUITE HAPPILY DO].
Bet on the Republicans never agreeing to manditory massive cuts in Defense spending giving the Democrats leverage to not have to cut any programs at all and most importantly paint the Republicans as extremist do-nothings that just can't compromise for the good of country. [REPUBLICANS HAVE SHOWN THIS TIME AND TIME AGAIN]
The Democrats are the reason this failed and are playing crass politics not the Republicans. [NEWSFLASH: PIGS FLY]
Posted in: Supercommittee fails mission to cut U.S. debt
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SushiSake3
Sailwind - "It was the only way that the debt ceiling could be raised with approval of the Republicans, who were totally against piling on more debt on the national credit card."
Strange that, not to mention incredibly hypocritical considering the GOP under Bush voted to raise the debt ceiling something like 13 times.
I wonder how the GOP leadership could explain that?
Posted in: Supercommittee fails mission to cut U.S. debt
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SushiSake3
Anyone ever seen a strata of society as defensive and downright hostile as a conservative defending tax breaks for millionaires?
Conservatives need to wake up – Bush gave you guys everything you wanted – tax breaks, freed up regulations….and look what happened – cowboys in the financial sector took the industry and players for a ride and – boom – they give you a national and global recession.
Let me make that clear – YOU HAVE ALREADY BEEN GIVEN WHAT YOU ARE CRYING OUT FOR NOW: lower taxes and fewer regulations.
You got a global recession to show for it.
You want more?
Posted in: Supercommittee fails mission to cut U.S. debt
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SushiSake3
"Sen. Jon Kyl, an Arizona Republican, said on NBC's "Meet the Press" he believes the Pentagon cuts would be devastating."
Right on pal - America needs to build more aircraft carrier and bomber fleets. Why bother investing in America's human capital, you know, the ones that pay the taxes you guys spend so easily?
The **Republican Dream of dismantling America **continues full tilt and conservative voters are only too happy to give it the green light, especially if it preserves tax breaks for America's dreadfully oppressed and frightfully over-taxed elite.
Posted in: Failure looms for U.S. debt talks
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SushiSake3
It pays never to misunderestimate the indomitable will of a conservative politician to try to cripple America.
Posted in: Failure looms for U.S. debt talks
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SushiSake3
DS – “As to your point about only Americans having valid views on American threads...... sorry but that is plain ignorance. Do YOU restrict yourself\? Do you refrain from commenting on threads about other countries- Japan, Greece, etc? I doubt it.”
LOL! No, you’re right – I agree that it’s ignorant to claim that only Americans having valid views on American threads.
I also agree that name dropping is a dumb thing to do, ay reconstructed? :-)
Posted in: Failure looms for U.S. debt talks
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SushiSake3
unrecenstructed - "Dems had massive majorities from 07. And they squandered the political capital they had on nationalizing one sixth of the economy with ObamaCare."
I guess they were only trying to provide Americans with a level of health insurance that most other civilized countries have. As usual, the GOP wouldn’t have a bar of it.
And as you are clearly not American, what makes you think your view is valid on threads about America?
Posted in: Failure looms for U.S. debt talks
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SushiSake3
DS - "I say cut down on ALL the wars. Obama is following in the tradition of warmonger Democratic presidents. He expanded Afghanistan, illegally bombed Libya, expanded the predator drone campaign, failed to close Gitmo..."
I think you forgot he's closing down the war in Iraq,
A minor point, I know....
Posted in: Failure looms for U.S. debt talks
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SushiSake3
In the long term, I’m confident that future Americans will look back and view this present generation of conservative “leaders” as more destructive than any terrorist.
Posted in: Failure looms for U.S. debt talks
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SushiSake3
unrecontructed - "Oh, so it's Norquist who has duped 50 million Americans to help his super rich buddies in 'Da One Puhcent'?"
It's obviously false statements like this that show you barely have a clue what's going on.
Norquist hasn't done it - he has just duped almost all GOP politicians to sign his no taxes pledge.
They've driven themselves - and the economy - into the corner, and before toolong, probably off the cliff.
But it's folks like Norquist who love folks like you, who actually attempt to defend him while his actions wreck the economy.
Posted in: Failure looms for U.S. debt talks
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SushiSake3
Let's face it : this boondoggle was DOA by the Republicans as soon as it was a zygote in somebody's mind.
With their pledge to King Norquist, no republican who drank his Kool Aid would ever vote to do the job that was supposed to be done.
Posted in: Failure looms for U.S. debt talks
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SushiSake3
wow - great photo.
Posted in: Crimson frame
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SushiSake3
Unreconstructed, you are either willfully or ignorantly misleading other posters.
Five words: Grover Norquist Taxpayer Protection Pledge.
Combine that with conservative voters who will never vote for the other party and – bam – you have probably the main causer of today’s deadlocked Congress.
Posted in: Failure looms for U.S. debt talks
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SushiSake3
No one should expect this latest bunch of GOP presidential candidates to do much to help right the economy.
They’re simply too uninformed, too uninterested, and proud of it.
Posted in: Failure looms for U.S. debt talks