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Other than the loss of the html tags, the way the recent comments don’t update like they used to, and the loss of ability to post pictures, the comment counter on the recent comments section are NEVER accurate, often saying “0 comments and 0 reactions” when there’s lots of comments.

You gotta love those Twitter “reactions”, too. They really add to the conversation. Letting us know they Tweeted is such a comfort.

Do we want to put these kind of conservative changes in charge of government? Oh wait, we already removed them for just this kind of “improvement.”

Of course when the republican-slugs had the wheel they didn’t do SH*T to address health care reform. In fact, premiums skyrocketed after bush took office, accelerating far faster than under Clinton. Why not? It’s not like republicans were going to rein them in!

Boehner: GOP Has Answers on Health Care Reform

Boehner outlined his party’s alternative in the GOP’s weekly radio and Internet address Saturday as Democratic proposals gain momentum in Congress and Republicans scramble for support to try to block them.

The Ohio Republican said there is a choice to be made: “We can come together to implement smart, fiscally responsible reforms to improve Americans’ health care or we can recklessly pursue this government takeover that creates far more problems than it solves.”

Boehner said a number of steps could be taken, such as letting people buy health insurance across state lines, allowing people and organizations to pool together to buy insurance for lower prices and reining in malpractice lawsuits.

Same tired, old “ideas.” All based on failed free market policies that have worked so well in other areas of the economy.

What good are republicans? What have they EVER done that has benefited the people?

NOTHING. NOTHING AT ALL.

I wish we could stop republican voters from benefiting from the programs dems and liberals pass. It’s a crime that republican voters get access to them.

Fox News Poll: Most Blame Bush for Economy

Here’s a somewhat surprising result from the new Fox News poll. Asked which president is “more responsible for the current state of the economy,” only 18 percent say President Obama. Fifty-eight percent say former President George W. Bush. Nine percent blame both of them. Republicans are the only subgroup of voters who blame Obama, and only by a six-point margin of 35 percent to 29 percent.

What’s striking about this is that the numbers have only marginally gotten worse for President Obama in the three months since Fox News last asked this question. In July, it was 16 percent who blamed Obama and 61 percent who blamed Bush. That is, needless to say, not what Fox News viewers hear when they tune into the network. But it’s essential to understanding why the president remains popular and why Republicans are failing to really capitalize on economic gloom.

AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Health Bill to Cut Deficit by $104 Billion, CBO Says

Oct. 29 (Bloomberg)—Health-care legislation released today by House Democrats would cut the federal budget deficit by $104 billion over the next 10 years, the Congressional Budget Office said.

The measure would “slightly reduce” the deficit in the subsequent decade, the nonpartisan agency said.

The bill analysis by the CBO said the legislation would increase the share of Americans with health insurance to 96 percent from the current 83 percent. The bill would leave 18 million people without insurance, about one-third of whom would be illegal immigrants, CBO said today.

Too bad republicans were too busy letting Wall Street f*ck us over when they had the wheel to do anything constructive like reform health care. No wonder the bitter bitches want to stop this. Sore loser a-holes.

The money’s all gone. Down the toilet. Thank Wall Street and the enabling policies of the conservatives who ran the country for the last 30 years.

“Cash on sidelines” less than investors anticipate: Goldman

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investors could be disappointed if they anticipate tons of money waiting to get back into the stock market, since “cash on the sidelines” is much less than estimated, Goldman Sachs analysts said.

Now you have to tell the kids and grandkids that their futures will be dismal because you voted for republicans who gave the rich anything they wanted.

But hey, it was a fun 30 year ride you people had, no? You got to see the rich take off with your retirements and home equity as your reward for supporting conservatives!

Pa. company owner admits not paying $6M in taxes

10 to 1 he’s a republican.

So what’s the utility in the Twitter “reactions”? Does anybody care? Is that supposed to be an enhancement?

The mobile version of the site isn’t compatible with the commenting system as far as I can tell.

The loss of html tags is still a step backward.

Ok, I’m done nagging.

For now.

Why the Economy Needs Spending, Not Tax Cuts

Gems:

Yesterday, Mort Zuckerman, owner of the New York Daily News, exercised his prerogative by publishing an essay in that publication complaining that “Obama’s spending and borrowing leaves U.S. gasping for air.”

This is common criticism among Republicans, who have a vested interest in blaming everything bad that happens on the Democrats. The implication is that if voters weren’t so stupid and had instead elected John McCain to be president then the budget would be balanced, the debt would have disappeared, and the economy would be booming.

According to the Congressional Budget Office’s January 2009 estimate for fiscal year 2009, outlays were projected to be $3,543 billion and revenues were projected to be $2,357 billion, leaving a deficit of $1,186 billion. Keep in mind that these estimates were made before Obama took office, based on existing law and policy, and did not take into account any actions that Obama might implement.

Therefore, unless one thinks that McCain would have somehow or other raised taxes and cut spending (with a Democratic Congress), rather than enacting a stimulus of his own, then a deficit of $1.2 trillion was baked in the cake the day Obama took office.

Now let’s fast forward to the end of fiscal year 2009, which ended on September 30. According to CBO, it ended with spending at $3,515 billion and revenues of $2,106 billion for a deficit of $1,409 billion.

To recap, the deficit came in $223 billion higher than projected, but spending was $28 billion and revenues were $251 billion less than expected. Thus we can conclude that more than 100 percent of the increase in the deficit since January is accounted for by lower revenues. Not one penny is due to higher spending.

It should be further noted that revenues are lower to a large extent because of tax cuts included in the February stimulus. According to the Joint Committee on Taxation, these tax cuts reduced revenues in FY2009 by $98 billion over what would otherwise have been the case. This is important because the Republican position has consistently been that tax cuts and only tax cuts are an appropriate response to the economic crisis.

I continue to believe that the Republican position is nonsensical. Final proof is that the previously cited CBO report shows total federal revenues coming in at 14.9 percent of the gross domestic product in FY2009. According to the Office of Management and Budget, one has to go back to 1950 to find a year when federal revenues were lower as a share of GDP.

See if you can manage to understand any of that, conservatives. I have my doubts.

Healthcare system wastes up to $800 billion a year

So much for the efficiency of the private sector.

I can’t wait to see the conservative, mostly southern states opt-out of the public health care option. They have the highest poverty and citizens without coverage.

Cutting the people off from the public option would then be the death of conservatism.

I’d bet my last dollar the red states won’t opt-out. In fact, I’d bet that same dollar that the highest enrollment in a public plan will be from the red states.

14 Americans killed in 2 Afghan helicopter crashes

Is it time to party? isn’t this good news for conservatives now that Obama is the President? Bad news is good news, right?

How come conservatives don’t have any problem deficit spending to support these useless quagmires? That’s what most of the deficit can be traced to- expensive wars started while drastically cutting taxes for the rich. Never before has the country CUT taxes during a war. That was a republican-led first!

Normally they are raised. Makes sense to rational people. You want to spend a lot of money, you raise taxes.

But not republicans. They’d rather double the debt and raise the debt limit FOUR TIMES IN FIVE YEARS like they did from 2001-2006.

On a related note, can we declare the military a failure now? Say it doesn’t work, privatize it? Zero out its budget?

Time to party, conservatives! More bad news!

Twin suicide car bombs in Baghdad kill 136

Obama declares swine flu a national emergency

Let’s see:

He’s trying to take the spotlight off his falling (Rasmussen) approval ratings?

He’s trying to avoid Afghantistan?

He’s going to inject all the old people with death serum?

He’s going to turn the sick into Kenyan Muslims?

What will it be? What will the outrage be this time? That he’s spending money on public health? That he’s late in responding? Early?

Tell us Goldilocks conservatives, what will be his sin this time? What scandal will you make of it?

This is what happens when white trash mentalities have too much time on their hands and no ideas whatsoever.

Bills to Defund ACORN Face Legal Hurdles, Experts Say

But some legal experts say that the provisions of the bills may be unconstitutional. And the House bill in particular, they say, risks alienating defense contractors, who are longtime allies of Republicans.

There won’t be one defense contractor or for that matter, any corporation LEFT to do business with the government when we get done with them!

I LOVE IT when punitive conservatives have things backfire in their arrogant faces.

Another victory for Issa, the man whose district is suffering enormous foreclosure pain. Couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch of republican scum than Orange County scum!

From March 16, 2006:

Congress Sets New Federal Debt Limit: $9 Trillion

When President Bush took office five years ago, the national debt was at $5.6 trillion; since then, big budget surpluses have collapsed into huge deficits, and the debt has shot up nearly 50 percent.

Where did all that money go? I thought the tax cuts would create Utopia? LOL, and you rubes fell for it!

Inconvenient facts that your kids and grandkids will be paying for over the rest of their lives.

Hello higher taxes, goodbye government services, kids. You’re going to pay for mommy & daddy’s tax cuts!

Well, for their rich friends’ tax cuts anyway.

Enjoy, SUCKERS!